[Sidenote: _G. Monm. M. Westm. Polychron. Caxton. Leyland._]
_Polydore_ neverthelesse, had great reason to imagine _A. Ambrosius_ famed the restorer of his Countrey (and Bulwark of War, as _Camden_ cals him) worthy an everlasting Monument, _Extat etiam nunc id monimentum in diœcesi_ Sarisberiensi _prope pagum quam_ Amisberiam _vocant, Which monument is yet extant in the diœcese of_ Salisbury (saith he) _not far from_ Ambresbury _Town_: and so was the Churchyard of the Monastery too. He also tels us, _Factum fuisse ad formam coronæ, it was made in form of a Crown_. An elegant expression (I confesse) of a no lesse elegant work, if he meant _Stoneheng_; yet no argument thereby to prove _A. Ambrosius_ or buried, or slain there. For, as touching _A. Ambrosius_ his death, severall Authors, of as good credit as _Polydore_ (his integrity neverthelesse I question not, others have been busie enough therein) affirm, that _Pascentius Vortigerns_ son, with many rewards corrupted a certain _Saxon_ called _Eopas_ (_Clappa_, saith _Caxton_) who, taking upon him the habit of a Monk, under pretence of Physick (_A. Ambrosius_ being then sick) gave him poyson, whereof he died at _Winchester_. And no wonder he was so poysoned, many examples of the like kinde being recorded in History. As in later times, the _Turkish_ Emperour _Bajazet_ the second, under pretence of Physick poysoned by a Jew: also _Conrad_ third of that name Emperour of _Germany_, by an _Italian_: and, in times of old, under the same pretence, _Pyrrhus_ that famous Epirot had been poysoned by his own Physitian, if _C. Fabricius_ the Roman Consul would have enclined to such ignoble resolutions, as _Pascentius_ after put in act against _A. Ambrosius_ in our story.
Amongst other, who relate this disaster of _A. Ambrosius_, _Matthew Westminster_ tels us, The said pretended Monk, _tandem ad Regis præsentiam perductum, venenum ei porrexisse, &c. being at last admitted to the Kings presence, administered poyson unto him, which having drunk, the wicked Traytor advised him to sleep, and in so doing suddenly should recover health! Nec mora, illabente per poros corporis & venas veneno, mortem pariter subsecutam esse. But, ere long, the poyson being dispersed through the pores and veins of his body, death seizes upon him._
