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Thread #122382 Message #3460347
Posted By: Jim Dixon
02-Jan-13 - 10:12 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: White Pater Noster
Subject: RE: Folklore: White Pater Noster
'The popish white pater noster, which I had from my learned frende and antiquarie Mr. John Scott, 1624. This was called The spell of Edmonds Bury.
'Peters Brother where lyest all night? There as Chryst y yod. What hast in thy honde? heauen keyes. What hast in thy tother? Broade booke leaues. Open heauen gates, Shutt hell yeates. Euerie childe creepe christ ouer White Benedictus be in this howse Euerye night. Within & without. This howse rounde about St. Peter att the one doore St. Paule att the other St. Michael in the middle Fyer in the flatt Chancell-op shatt Euerie naugers bore An Angell before.
White pater noster. Amen.'
By this (says Herbert) is seen the darkness that the vulgar lived in.
'White pater noster.
'The lord is our Foster Our ladye is our mother And St. Peter is myne neame Followe Followe that well streame What hast thou in thy right hand The sonne & the moone. What holst thou in thy leaft hande? Gilboone—Gilboone. What holdest thou vnder thy belte? Heauen keyes, heauen keyes. Ope, ope heauen yates, Steike steike hell yates God and St. Beni knyght Keepe me this night From all ill wight Ether within or without Or seauen score miles round about.'
'This last white pater noster I hadd from my learned & most pleasant good frend Mr. John Wrenham, neare to Brandon Ferrey in Norfolke: he told me that he stole it truly from a great papist in those partes, 1637.
'To morrowe is good fryday Weele fast whyle we may Till we heare the knell Of oure lords bell Our lorde stands att his masse With his : 12 : Apostles Fayer lady whats yonder bright? Fayer lady whatts yonder bright? Yonders myne owne deare sonne Nayled to the holy roode tree Through hande through foote Through holy harte roote Through the harde brayne panne Well them that thii frydayes peale can Say it in the morne Seauen times forborne, Say it at noone Seauen times fore doome, Say it in the euen Seauen times forgiuen All the day of our doome than Wells they this Frydayes peale can.'
Sequunt' orōnes sēte Birgitte: dicte xv. o. MS. in the margin.