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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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Pope Gregory the first,1 of whom we spake before, added the Alleluia to the Mass, and commanded that it should be song all the whole year save only from Septuagesima unto Easter, Plot. Antonin. D. Barns. Nauclerus. Some ascribe it to pope Gelasius. Phil. Bergom, Some say, it was borrowed of the church of Jerusalem, and so brought into the church of Rome in the time of pope Damasus. It soundeth in English. Praise ye the Lord.
Pope Gregorye the fyrst,1 of whom wee spake before, added the Alleluya to the Masse, and commaunded that it shoulde bee song all the whole yeare saue only from Septuagesima vnto Easter, Plat. Antonin. D. Barns. Nauclerus. Some ascribe it to pope Gelasius. Phil. Bergom, Some saye, it was borowed of the church of Ierusalem, and so brought into the churche of Rome in the tyme of pope Damasus. It soundeth in Englyshe. Prayse ye the Lorde.
- 1The Alleluia.The Alleluya.
Pope Sergius otherwise called, pope Swines snout bearing rule, a certain Monk Abbot of S. Gallus, 1called Notgerus or Nocerius made the Sequences: which afterward crept into the Mass rather by use and custom, than by any constitution of the popes. Valent. Vannius. Jacobus. Vuimpheling. Pantal. Notwithstanding some write, that Pope Nicolas commanded them to be song at mass. Chron. Germ. Durand. And forasmuch as there are many and diverse Sequences, they are ascribed to many and diverse authors. Jodocus. Clitoveus in Elucidario Ecclesiastico appointeth many of them to a certain Monk of Paris, called Adamus de, S. Victore. Other are ascribed to S. Bernard, to Thomas Aquinas, &c.
Pope Sergius otherwyse called, pope Swines snoute bearing rule, a certain Monke Abbot of S. Gallus,