De laude Cestrie - Lucian
Edited by Mark Faulkner
Excerpt 20
[Folio 27r]
Ciuium sit
uidere et prudenter aduertat saltem
literatus habitator
Domini uocem: tu es
Petrus et super hanc
petram
***
edificabo ecclesiam meam (Matt
16:18).
Quanta uerborum consequentia, quanta rerum
euiden
tia infra muros
Cestrie,
magis in occiduis et propius
occidentem
iuxta portam
maris condita sit ecclesia Domini
Saluatoris,
reuera
tanquam firmitas et fundamentum
basilice Petri
apostolorum
principis,
1
ut uidelicet nomen dignatio deriuaret,
racionem rebus osten
deret, oculus solem uideret, suauitatem
operum Dei sensa
tus agnosceret
et excitatis de sompno lectoribus approbata
ueritas
eluceret.
Itaque metientes secundum literam
Pauli
nos
met ipsos nobis (2Cor 10:12) , ut
temporibus uideamur concordare modernis,
quamuis diu modernum esse non possit quod
maris instar
rota mundi uertit ac uoluit,
attestatur et astruit sti
lum
nostrum,
etiam uenerandorum canicies sacerdotum Sacerdotale testimonium.
Walterum
loquor et Andream,
2
quorum unus in edicula
Christi, alter in basilica Petri,
De porta
Petri.
ille decanus diu extitisse dinoscitur,
iste deuotus
famulus apostoli
scitur,
qui longo temporum tractu sacris
altaribus ministrantes, propicio Saluatore,
felici gradu functi
sunt ,
et arras iam, ut uidetur, diuine bonitatis
adepti, la
borum suorum tesauros, ad celestia transtulerunt.
Istis liquet
et ceteris qui norunt
locum et loci situm, quam iocunde luceat
ibidem ueritas
promissorum,
quomodo uelut literaliter pariat et
portet petra Petrum,
quomodo Verum
Principium et Magister Humilitatis
apostoli sui firmauerit principatum, statuerit edificium,
muniens a
mari, et protector contra
portas inferi
Aecclesia
Christi quasi basis ecclesie Petri.
quam benigne fecerit
semetipsum basim
benedictionis oculis intelligentium,
et soli
***
dum apostolice fidei
fundamentum.
Footnotes
- 1.
- Lucian inverts Christ's words by arguing that the church of the Holy Trinity is the base and foundation of the church of St Peter in Chester. Back to context...
- 2.
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These two names are touched with red in the manuscript.
A 'Walter the Priest of Holy Trinity' witnessed a grant of land at Claverton (Ches.) to the Benedictine Nunnery of St Mary c. 1170: abstract in Calendar of the Patent Rolls ... Henry IV, i. 301 (no. 6); for the date Irvine 1907, 95. A Waltero ecclesiae sanctae Trinitatis presbytero ('Walter, priest of the church of the Holy Trinity') witnessed CCALS DVE 1/R1/2 (printed Ormerod 1882, i. 429), a document which records a transaction which occurred shortly after the celebration in Chester of Hugh de Nonant's consecration as bishop of Coventry on 31 January 1188. Taylor 1912, 26 also refers to a document witnessed by 'Andrew, chaplain of St Peters' and 'Walter the chaplain' witness a grant, but, unless the dating of c. 1225 is wrong, this document cannot be relevant: Calendar of the Patent Rolls ... Henry IV, i. 299 (no. 16), Irvine 1907, 98-9.
'Andrew the chaplain of St Peters' witnessed a charter of St Mary's, Chester's Benedictine Nunnery, in c. 1200: Irvine 1904, 16 (no. II).
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