Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of BritaineHolinshed, Raphael
History
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
In this also he and diuers other of his freends continued their times,
in great contemplation and praier, and from hence were translated as
occasion serued, vnto sundrie ecclesiasticall promotions in the time
of Constant. his brother. So that euen by this short narration it is
now easie to sée, that Lucius the king, and Lucius or Lucion the sonne
[Sidenote: _Hermannus Schedelius. Bruschius cap. 3._]
of Chlorus, were distinct persons. Herevnto Hermannus Schedelius
addeth also how he went into Rhetia with Emerita his sister, and néere
vnto the citie Augusta conuerted the Curienses vnto the faith of
Christ, and there likewise (being put to death in Castro Martis) lieth
buried in the same towne, where his feast is holden vpon the third
daie of December, as may readilie be confirmed, whereas the bones of
our Lucius were to be séene at Glocester. That Schedelius erreth not
herein also, the ancient monuments of the said Abbaie, whereof he was
the originall beginner, as I said, doo yeeld sufficient testimonie,
beside an hymne made in his commendation, intituled Gaude Lucionum,
[Sidenote: _Festum Lucionis. Iohn Bouchet._]
&c. But for more of this you may resort vnto Bouchet in his first
booke, and fift chapter of the Annales of Aquitane, who neuertheles
maketh the king of Britaine grandfather to this Lucion. The said
[Sidenote: Emerita martyred in Rhetia.]
Schedelius furthermore setteth downe, that his sister was martyred in
Trinecastell, néere vnto the place where the said Lucion dwelled,
whereby it appéereth in like sort, that she was not sister to Lucius
king of Britaine, of which prince Alexander Neccham in his most
excellent treatise De sapientia diuina, setteth downe this Distichon:
Prima Britannorum fidei lux Lucius esse
Fertur, qui rexit m[oe]nia Brute tua.
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