framed to thēselues new kinds of worshippings, I will recite vnto you one or two histories. [Sidenote: Martinus Polonus.] =Martinus Polonus= Archebishop Of =Consentine=, and the Popes Penitētiarie, writeth in his Chronicles, that Pope =Clement= the fourth did canonize for a Saint at _Viterbe_, one =Eduergia=, Duchesse of _Polonia_, a widdow of great holinesse, who (among many notable things that are written of her) when her canonization had bene many yeares delaied, at length appeared her selfe in a Vision to her Proctor in the Court of _Rome_, being heauie and pensiue about this matter, and certified him, both of the spéedie dispatching of this businesse, and also of the day wherin it should be dispatched. Canonization amongst the Ethnicks, from whence it tooke his originall, is named ἁποθἑοσις, that is, deification, or making of a God. [Sidenote: All soules day whēce it took originall.] [Sidenote: Polydore.] =Ioannes Tritenhemius= Abbotte of _Spanheim_, a man of great authoritie, in his booke of Chronicles teacheth, that the memorie of all faithfull soules, termed All soules day, had his originall obseruation by this meanes: that when a certaine Monke returned from _Ierusalem_, and lodged in a certaine Hermits house in _Sicill_, about the mount _Aetna_, which flasheth foorth fire, hée learned of the saide Hermit, that many soules of the dead were tormented there by fire, out of which again through the praiers of the faithful, they were released, as it was taught him by the testimony euen of the spirites themselues. Hereof also writeth =Polydore Virgil=, in his sixt booke, and 9. Chapter, _De inuentione rerum_, that the feast of All hallowes had the very same originall, whiche they shall finde in _Petrus de natalibus_ his tenth booke, and first Chapter. Wherby thou maist gather, that Feastes were first ordeyned by the tales of spirites appearing vnto men. The like fable is founde in =Damascene=, who writeth of =Macharius= thus: When according to his maner he prayed for the dead, and was desirous to vnderstande whether his prayers did profitte them ought, and whether they receiued any comfort thereby, God willing to reueale so muche to his seruaunt, inspired a drie scull with the word of truth, so that the dead scull brake forth into these words: When thou praiest for the dead, we receiue comfort by thy praiers. [Sidenote: The beginning of the order of Carthusians.] [Sidenote: Polydore.]