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 gate. And after wards Edward the first kinge of England after the Conquest, beinge a deadlie guilefull and cruell morthering enemie of the Brittaines nobles and princes, to deface the auncient Monument and Picture of Llewellin Drowin Don, caused the armes of England to be drawen on the picture of Prince Lewellin; but bicause of the Nose of Prince Llewellin Drowin Don, which was flatt, they could not alter the Picture, but the Picture of the flatt Nose still remayneth, and is yet to be seene, and that was the Cause whie the Picture was not altered, as more at large yt may appeare in the Englishe Chronicles recorded. But to retorne to the fiftie brethren of Bangor, abouts anno Christi 1220, the said godlie brethren were examined by Comission from the Pope and the Archbishop of Caunterbury, whether they would obey the Pope’s Lawes, Ceremonies and Decrees, or not. The which to doe theis godlie brethren refused to doe, bicause they sawe and well perceived, that those Lawes and Ceremonies, which the Pope mainteyned, were not agreeable, but farre differed from those lawes, which they had learned from theire predecessors, and which theire predecessors had learned of Josephe of Arimathea, who had bin a Disciple of our Saviour Christ, and had bin conversaunt with his Disciples and Appostles, and had learned theire faithe and religion, which did verie much differ from that faithe and religion, which the Pope and his Adherents professed, which was the onlie cause, why they refused to submitt themselves to the Pope’s hereticall Lawes, Ceremonies and Ordinaunces. Upon which refusall of the godlie Christian brethren, one Austen a fryer procured a Comission from the Pope and from the said Archbishop of Caunterbury, for the disolution of theire houses, and to confiscate theire said houses and theire goodes, and to discharge the said godlie brethren of Sallop thence, alleadginge against them, that they were infected with the Pelagian Heresie, which was nothinge soe, but onlie a Cloke to cover the cruell and unjust Dealinge of the Romaines. For the Pelagian Heresie first began in Roome in the tyme of Constantius, Father to Constantine the Greate, who was sonne to the sanctified Hellen, the Brutaine Queene. So that this Heresie beinge begunne