Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians…Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians…

This was a biting answer of the King, which the Historian no way liked, and therefore he cries out in a poetical strain, O nimis indignum miseris infer cachinnum. But throughout no mention at all of any Sabbatarian speculation that Fulco was possessed with. Indeed of Eustachius, who was one of his followers, we read afterwards, fol. 457. p. 2. what wondrous works were wrought by him, and what were the effects of his preaching among them, namely, that In London and divers other ⟨p. 27⟩places in England, they would no more presume to make the Lords days their market days. And that in every Church there should be a lamp, or some light burning continually before the Lords body; and that Citizens and others would have an Alms vessel upon their table, to lay aside therein some provision for the poor. And that hereupon the Devil raised up against him some Ministers of iniquity, who said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to put thy sith into another's harvest; to whom he answered, The harvest is great, but the labourers are few. Therefore the foresaid Abbot being thus rebuked by the ministers of Satan, he would no longer trouble the Prelates of England with his preaching, but returned unto his own home in Normandy from whence he came. Seven leaves after this, we find in the same Author, to wit, fol. 466. p. 2. That this Abbot of Flay returned into England, and preaching the Word of God from City to City, forbade all to make the Lords days their market days. For he said that this Commandment for observation of the Lords day came from heaven. So that this speculation of his was dominical rather than Sabbatarian. And the mandate concerning this, is there set down at large, pretended to have come from Heaven to Jerusalem, and to have been found on the Altar of Saint Simeon in Golgotha; which whether it were feigned by him, or by others, and received by him on the faith of others, the Author specifies not. But at the end thereof he shows how that this Predicant coming to York, was there honourably entertained by the Archbishop, and Clergy, and whole people of that City; and albeit these things, you will say, were acted in times of darkness; yet this Prefacer seems to be of another opinion, though little pleased with Eustachius his Sabbatarian speculation.

This was a biting answer of the King, which the Historian no way liked, and therefore he cryes out in a poeticall straine, O nimis indignum miseris inferre cachinnum. But throughout no mention at all of any Sabbatarian speculation that Fulco was possessed with. Indeed of Eustachius, who was one of his followers, we reade afterwards, fol. 457. p. 2. what wonderous workes were wrought by him, and what were the effects of his preaching among them, namely, that In London and divers other