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quidam Bricius abbasTnonasterii S. Patricii in hybernia qui erat
monachus cicestrensis (sc. Cisterciensis) ordinis.
Story of the experiences of a knight (unnamed) in the purgatory in
Henry Il’s time. Related by him to Laurence Bp. of Down and
Walter a monk of Mellifont, and by the latter to Bricius.
The knight endures torments at the hands of a Rex Gulinus and
his ministers.
Ends: Nemo autem sine debilitate aut etiam mentis aliqua alien-
atione ab eo umquam potuit euadere.
Inc. visiones multiplices Ailsi tarn de hoc seculo quam de futuri
seculi penis et gloria, vi ....... 23
Tempore Henrici Regis Anglorum primi contigit uisio non dissimu-
landa cuidam uiro bono et sancto, auo scilicet Petri prioris eccl.
S. Trinit. Lundonie quarti, who records it from his recollection
of what his father Jordanus said. Ailsi told it to Jordanus and he
to his son Peter, then a boy, now ‘fere sexagenarius,’ who records
it but cannot remember it all.
1. Visio Ailsi de hoc seculo et de future.
Vir igitur fuit in cornubia nomine Ailsi. He had a great devotion
to St Stephen and to the Canons of St Stephen who are in
Cornwall. S. Stephen revealed much to him and appeared to
him often. The Canons had entrusted him with the funds and
supervision of the building of the tower of their church.
St Stephen told him how it should be done, and enabled him
to detect the fraud of a man who supplied cartloads of stone
and used to steal the stone brought by others.
2. St Stephen pointed out to him a place where stone for burning
lime could be got, when the work was at a standstill for lack
of lime.
3. He had made arrangements to burn lime near the Canons’
lodgings. They threatened that if the fire injured their buildings
they would throw him into it. Fie was angry and went off.
St Stephen came ‘satis humiliter ’ and promised that he should
find the Canons amenable. The saint had in fact threatened
each of them with his iron-pointed staff. The fire burned
straight up, not blowing to right or left.
4. He saw Stephen preceded by one or more youths bearing candles,
walking round and surveying the progress of the work on the
top of the unfinished tower, and finally blessing him . . 24
5. He had a bad and painful eye : so bad that he left work and
went home reproaching Stephen. “ If I had done as much for
the Earl of Moreton (comiti Moretonie qui modo dominus est
Cornubie) as I have for you, he would have given me great
gifts” and so forth. Stephen came in the night and touched
and healed his eye.
6. He was oppidanus et ciuis ex municipio quod uocatur Dunheuet
siue Lanstaphatonia (sc. Launceston) but had lands outside
and paid tithes to the chapel of S. Mary Magdalene which
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
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quidam Bricius abbasTnonasterii S. Patricii in hybernia qui erat
monachus cicestrensis (sc. Cisterciensis) ordinis.
Story of the experiences of a knight (unnamed) in the purgatory in
Henry Il’s time. Related by him to Laurence Bp. of Down and
Walter a monk of Mellifont, and by the latter to Bricius.
The knight endures torments at the hands of a Rex Gulinus and
his ministers.
Ends: Nemo autem sine debilitate aut etiam mentis aliqua alien-
atione ab eo umquam potuit euadere.
Inc. visiones multiplices Ailsi tarn de hoc seculo quam de futuri
seculi penis et gloria, vi ....... 23
Tempore Henrici Regis Anglorum primi contigit uisio non dissimu-
landa cuidam uiro bono et sancto, auo scilicet Petri prioris eccl.
S. Trinit. Lundonie quarti, who records it from his recollection
of what his father Jordanus said. Ailsi told it to Jordanus and he
to his son Peter, then a boy, now ‘fere sexagenarius,’ who records
it but cannot remember it all.
1. Visio Ailsi de hoc seculo et de future.
Vir igitur fuit in cornubia nomine Ailsi. He had a great devotion
to St Stephen and to the Canons of St Stephen who are in
Cornwall. S. Stephen revealed much to him and appeared to
him often. The Canons had entrusted him with the funds and
supervision of the building of the tower of their church.
St Stephen told him how it should be done, and enabled him
to detect the fraud of a man who supplied cartloads of stone
and used to steal the stone brought by others.
2. St Stephen pointed out to him a place where stone for burning
lime could be got, when the work was at a standstill for lack
of lime.
3. He had made arrangements to burn lime near the Canons’
lodgings. They threatened that if the fire injured their buildings
they would throw him into it. Fie was angry and went off.
St Stephen came ‘satis humiliter ’ and promised that he should
find the Canons amenable. The saint had in fact threatened
each of them with his iron-pointed staff. The fire burned
straight up, not blowing to right or left.
4. He saw Stephen preceded by one or more youths bearing candles,
walking round and surveying the progress of the work on the
top of the unfinished tower, and finally blessing him . . 24
5. He had a bad and painful eye : so bad that he left work and
went home reproaching Stephen. “ If I had done as much for
the Earl of Moreton (comiti Moretonie qui modo dominus est
Cornubie) as I have for you, he would have given me great
gifts” and so forth. Stephen came in the night and touched
and healed his eye.
6. He was oppidanus et ciuis ex municipio quod uocatur Dunheuet
siue Lanstaphatonia (sc. Launceston) but had lands outside
and paid tithes to the chapel of S. Mary Magdalene which