likewise fear that the Animadvertor will lay so much weight of ill words upon me that the profit I shall reap will not countervail the pain I must endure in my rectification Dr. Heylyn Our Author saith Ibid. It would be of dangerous consequence to condemn him by the Canons of forrain Councils which were never allowed any Legislative power in this Land Which words are very ignorantly spoken or else very improperly Fuller Did I not foretell aright that my rectification would cost me dear even the burden of bad words Here I have a dolefull Dilemma presented unto me to confesse my self speaking either very ignorantly or very improperly But might not one of these two VERY's have very well been spared Well è malis minimum if it must be so that my choice must be of one of these let it be rather but Impropriety than Ignorance But Reader I see no necessity of acknowledging either but that my words are both knowingly and properly spoken and now to the triall Dr. Heylyn For if by Legislative power he means a power of making Lawes as the word doth intimate then it is true That the Canons of forrain Councells had never any such power within this Land But if by Legislative power he means a Power or Capability of passing for Lawes within this Kingdom then though he use the word improperly it is very fals that no such Canons were in force in the Realm of England The Canons of many forrain Councells Generall Nationall and Provinciall had been received in this Church and incorporated into the body of the canon-Canon-Law by which the Church proceeded in the exercise of her Jurisdiction till the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the Eighth And in the Act confirmative of that submission it is said expresly That all Canons Constitutions Ordinances and Synodals Provinciall as were made before the said Submission which be not contrary or repugnant to the Laws Statutes and Customs of this Realm nor to the dammage or hurt of the Kings Prerogative Royall were to be used and executed as in former times 25 H. 8. c. 19. So that unlesse it can be proved that the proceedings in this case by the Canons of forrain Councels was either contrary or repugnant to the Laws and Customs of the Realm or to the dammage of the Kings prerogative Royall There is no dangerous consequence at all to be found therein Fuller By Legislative power of the Canons of forrain Councels I understand their power to subject the People of our Nation to Guiltiness and consequently to Penalties if found infringing them Now I say again such forrain Canons though not against but onely besides our Common Law and containing no repugnancy but disparateness to the Lawes of our Land either never had such power in England since the Reformation or else disuse long since hath antiquated it as to the rigid exercise thereof For instance a Bishop I am sure and I think a Priest too is in the old Canons rendred irregular for playing a game at Tables Dice being forbidden by the Canons Yet I conceive it would be hard measure and a thing de facto never done that such irregularity should be charged on him on that account We know it was the project of the Pope and Papall party to multiply Canons in Councels meerly to make the more men and men the more obnoxious unto him that they might re-purchase their innocence at the price of the Court of Rome I believe the Animadvertor himself would be loth to have his canonicalness tried by the Test of all old Canons made in rigorem disciplinae yet not contrariant to our Laws and Customs seeing they are so nice and numerous that Cautiousnesse it self may be found an offendor therein I resume my words That it would be of dangerous consequence to condemn the Arch-Bishop by Canons of forrain Councels which never obtained power here either quoad reatum or poenam of such as did not observe them Dr. Heylyn But whereas our Author adds in some following words That eversince he means ever since the unhappy accident he had executed his jurisdiction without any interruption I must needs add That he is very much mistaken in this particular Dr. Williams Lord Elect of Lincoln Dr. Carew Lord Elect of Exeter and Dr. Laud Lord Elect of St. Davids and I think some others refusing to receive Episcopall Consecration from him on that account Fuller Must the Animadvertor needs add this I humbly conceive no such necessity being but just the same which I my self had written before Church-History Book 10. Pag. 88. Though some squemish and nice-conscienced Elects scrupled to be consecrated by him But I beheld this as no effectuall interrupting of his Jurisdiction because other Bishops more in number no whit their inferiour received Consecration Dr. Davenant Dr. Hall and King Charls himself his Coronation from him Dr. Heylyn Far more mistaken is our Author in the next when he tells us fol. 128. Though this Arch-bishop survived some years after yet hence-forward he was buried to the world No such matter neither For though for a while he stood confined to his house at Ford yet neither this Confinement nor that Commission were of long continuance for about Christmas in the year 1628. he was restored both to his Liberty and Jurisdiction sent for to come unto the Court received as he came out of his Barge by the Arch-Bishop of York and the Earl of Dorset and by them conducted to the King who giving him his hand to kiss enjoyned him not to fail the Councill-Table twice a vveek After which time we find him sitting as Arch-Bishop in Parliament and in the full exercise of his Iurisdiction till the day of his death which happened on Sunday August the 4th 1633. And so much of him Fuller An Historian may make this exception but not a Divine my words being spoken in the language of the Apostle The world is crucified unto me and I unto the world I had said formerly that the Keeper's death was this Arch-Bishop's mortification But from this his Suspension from the exercise of his Iurisdiction he was in his own thoughts buried it reviving his obnoxiousness for his former casuall Homicide so that never he was seen hartily if at all to laugh hereafter though I deny not Much Court-savour was afterwards on designe conferred on him Here I hope it will be no offence to insert this innocent story partly to shew how quickly tender guiltiness is dejected partly to make folk cautious how they cast out gaulling speeches in this kind This Archbishop returning to Croidon after his late absence thence a long time many people most women whereof some of good quality for good will for novelty and curiosity crouded about his Coach The Archbishop being unwilling to be gazed at and never fond of Females said somewhat churlishly What make these women here You had best said one of them to shoot an arrow at us I need not tell the Reader
at this present Fuller It is a sad Truth which the Animadvertor sayeth And here I cannot but remember David his expression when flying from Absalom If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again But if he say I have no delight in thee behold here I am c. If it be coâ—sistent with the good will and pleasure of God in due time he will Boy up again the sunk credit of the Clergy if not all must submit to him whose wayes are often above reason never against right Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 156. Yea this very Statute which gave power to a Bishop in his Diocess to condemn an Heretick plainly proveth that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in Cases of Heresie The Bishops and Clergy in their Convocations had anciently the power of declaring Heresie the Bishops singly in their Consistories to proceed against them by injoyning penance and recantation or otherwise to subject them to Excommunication The Statute which our Author speaks of being 2 H. 4. c. 15. proceedeth further and ordain'd in favour of the Church that the Ordinary might not onely convent but imprison the party suspected of Heresie and that the party so convented and convicted of Heresie and continuing obstinate in the same should upon a certificate thereof made and delivered to the Secular Judge be publickly burned before the People In order whereunto as in a matter which concern'd the life of a Subject the King with the advice of his Parliament might lay down some rules for the regulating the proceedings of the Bishops and other Ordinaries Fuller There be two distinct things which in this Point must be severally considered 1. To declare and define what shall be accounted Heresie 2. To condemne to Death a declared Heretick The Power of the former was in this Age fixed in the Bishops without any competition and is so clear none can question it Yea by the same Power they might proceed against a declared Heretick without any leave or liceence from King or Parliament so far as Church-Censures Suspensions Excommunications c. could extend But as for the latter to condemn them to Death herein the Common-Law began where the Cannon Law ended and regulated their proceedings accordingly Dr. Heylin But certainly it is a sorry piece of Logick to conclude from hence that generally in all cases of Heresie the King with advice of his Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts A piece of Logick shall I call it or a Fallacy rather a Fallacy à dâ—cto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter committed commonly when from a proposition which is true onely in some respect with reference to time place and other circumstances the Sophister inferreth something as if simply true though in it self it be most absolutely false As for example The Pope even in matters of spiritual cognisance for so it followeth in our Author had no power over the life 's of the English Subjects and therefore had then no power to proceed against them in point of Heresie Fuller I intended not nor have I abused the Reader with any fallacious argumentation It is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King and Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie I mean not to decide which were Heresies but to order the Power of the Bishop over declared Hereticks without the direction of the Statute not to proceed to Limb and Life And I believe my words will be found transcribed out of Sir Edward Coke his most elaborate Report of the Kings power in Ecclesiastical matters Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 161. Henry the seventh born in the Bowels of Wales at Pembroke c. some years after plucked down the Partition Wall betwixt them Neither so nor so For first Pembroke doth not stand in the Bowels of Wales but almost on the outside of it as being situate on one of the Creeks of Milford-Haven Fuller Pembroke though verging to the Sea may properly be called in the Bowels of Wales beholding the Marches next England as the outward Skin thereof Bowels are known to the Latines by the name of Penetralia à penetrando one must pierce and passe so farre from the outward skin before one can come at them So is Pembroke placed in the very Penetrals of Wales seeing the Travailer must goe six-score miles from England before he can come thither Dr. Heylin And secondly King Henry the seventh did not break down the Partition Wall between Wales and England That was a work reserved for King Harry the eighth in the 27. of whose Reign there past an Act of Parliament by which it was enacted That the Country of Wales should be stand and continue for ever from thenceforth incorporated united and annexed to and with this Realm of England And that all and singular person and persons born and to be born in the said Principality Country or Dominion of Wales shall have enjoy and inherit all and singular Freedoms Liberties Rights Priviledges and Laws within this Realm and other the Kings Dominions as other the Kings Subjects naturally born within the same have and injoy and inherit And thirdly between the time which our Author speaks of being the 14 year of King Henry the fourth and the making of this Act by King Henry the eighth there passed above an hundred and twenty years which intimates a longer time than some years after as our Author words it Fuller Far be it from me to set variance betwixt Father and Son and to make a Partition Wall betwixt them which of them first did break down the Partition Wall betwixt Wales and England The intentions of King Henry the seventh were executed by King Henry the eighth and all shall be reformed in my Book accordingly Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 168. I will not complain of the dearnesse of this Universitie where seventeen weeks cost me more than seventeen years in Cambridge even all that I had The ordinary and unwary Reader might collect from hence that Oxford is a chargeable place and that all commodities there are exceeding dear but that our Author lets him know that it was on some occasion of disturbance Fuller He must be a very Ordinary and unwary Reader indeed or an Extraordinary one if you please of no common weakness or willfulnesse so to understand my words which plainly expound themselves Dr. Heylin By which it seems our Author doth relate to the time of the War when men from all parts did repair to Oxford not as a University but a place of safety and the seat Royal of the King at which time notwithstanding all provisions were so plentifull and at such cheap rates as no man had reason to complain of the dearnesse of them No better argument of the fertility of the soil and richnesse of the Country in which Oxford standeth than that the Markets were not raised on
Parliament saith he did notifie and declare that Ecclesiastical Power to be in the King which the Pope had formerly unjustly invaded Yet so that they reserved to themselves the confirming power of all Canons Ecclesiastical so that the person or property of Refusers should not be subjected to temporal penalty without consent of Parliament But certainly there is no such matter in that Act of Parliament in which the submission of the Clergy and the Authority of the King grounded thereupon is notified and recorded to succeeding times nor any such reservation to themselves of a confirming power as our Author speaks of in any Act of Parliament I can knowingly and boldly say it from that time to this Had there been any such Priviledge any such Reservation as is here declared their Power in confirming Ecclesiastical Canons had been Lord Paramount to the Kings who could have acted nothing in it but as he was enabled by his Houses of Parliament Nor is this onely a new and unheard of Paradox an Heterodoxie as I may call it in point of Law but plainly contrary to the practise of the Kings of England from that time to this there being no Synodical Canons or Constitutions I dare as boldly say this too confirmed in Parliament or any otherwise ratified than by the superadding of the Royal assent For proof whereof look we no further than the Canons of 603 and 640 confirmed by the two Kings respectively and without any other Authority concurring with them in these following words viz. We have therefore for Us our Heirs and lawfull Successors of our especial Grace certain knowledge and meer motion given and by these presents doe give our Royal assent according to the form of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid to all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and to all and every thing in them contained And furthermore we doe not onely by our said Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in causes Ecclesiastical ratifie confirm and establish by these our Letters Patents the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and all and every thing in them contained as is aforesaid But doe likewise propound publish and straightly enjoyn and command by our said Authority and by these our Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept by all our loving Subjects of this our Kingdome both within the Province of Canterbury and York in all points wherein they doe or may concern every or any oâ— them according to this our Will and Pleasure hereby signified and expressed No other Power required to confirm these Canons or to impose them on the People but the Kings alone And yet I trow there are not a few particulars in which those Canons doe extend to the propertie and persons of such Refusers as are concerned in the same which our Author may soon finde in them if he list to look And having so done let him give us the like Precedent for his Houses of Parliament either abstractedly in themselves or in cooperation with the King in confirming Canons and we shall gladly quit the cause willingly submit to his ter judgement But if it be objected as perhaps it may That the Subsidies granted by the Clergy in the Convocation are ratified and confirmed by Act of Parliament before they can be levied either on the Granters themselves or the rest of the Clergy I answer that this makes nothing to our Authors purpose that is to say that the person or property of Refusers should not be subjected to temporal penalty without consent of Parliament For first before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the 8. they granted Subsidies and other aids unto the King in their Convocations and levied them upon the persons concerned therein by no other way than the usual Censures of the Church especially by Suspension and deprivation if any Refuser prove so refractary as to dispute the payment of the sum imposed And by this way they gave and levied that great sum of an Hundred thousand pounds in the Province of Canterbury onely by which they bought their peace of the said King Henry at such time as he had caused them to be attainted in the Praemunire And secondly there is a like Precedent for it since the said Submission For whereas the Clergy in their Convocation in the year 1585. being the 27 year of Queen Elizabeth had given that Queen a Subsidy of four shâ—llings in the pound confirmed by Act of Parliament in the usual way thâ—y gave her at the same time finding their former gift too short for her present occasions a Benevolence of two shillings in the pound to be raised upon all the Clergy by virtue of their own Synodical Act onely under the penalty of such Ecclesiastical Censures as before were mentioned Which precedent was after followed by the Clergy in their Convocation An 1640. the Instrument of the Grant being the same verbatim with that before though so it hapned such influence have the times on the Actions of men that they were quarreld and condemned for it by the following Parliament in the time of the King and not so much as checkt at or thought to have gone beyond their bounds in the time of the Queen And for the ratifying of their Bill by Act of Parliament it came up first at such times after the Submission before mentioned as the Kings of England being in distrust of their Clergy did not think fit to impower them by their Letters Patents for the making of any Synodical Acts Canons or Constitutions whatsoever by which their Subsidies have been levied in former times but put them off to be confirmed and made Obligatory by Act of Parliament Which being afterwards found to be the more expedite way and not considered as derogatory to the Churches Rights was followed in succeeding times without doubt or scruple the Church proceeding in all other Cases by her native power even in Cases where both the persons and property of the Subject were alike concerned as by the Canons 1603 1640 and many of those past in Queen Elizabeths time though not so easie to be seen doth at full appear Which said we may have leisure to consider of another passage relating not unto the Power of the Church but the wealth of the Churchmen Of which thus our Author Fuller I conceived it Civil to suffer the Animadvertor to use his own phrase parler le tout to speak all out in this long Discourse which although it consisteth of several Notes yet because all treat of the same subject and because a Relative strength might result thereby to the whole I have presented it intire Yet when all is said I finde very little I have learnt thereby and lesse if any thing which I am to alter These my two preparatory Rules as the Animadvertor terms them I have formerly stated and proved and here intend no repetition It is no Beame and but a Moat-fault at most if
by Pope Adrian the fourth b. 3. p. 29. ¶ 49. ALL-SOULS Colledge in Oxford founded by Hen. Chichely Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 4. p. 182. ARROW a small city in Switzerland where a Congregation of English Exiles in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 26. ¶ 41. ALCUINUS or Albinus an eminent Scholar and opposer of Image-worship Cent. 8. ¶ 40. ALFRED the Saxon Monarch his admirable act Cent. 9. ¶ 25. c. foundeth an University at Oxford ¶ 29. c. a solemn Councill kept by him ¶ 42. with the Canons made therein ibidem his death ¶ 44. ALIEN Priors b. 6. p. 33. ¶ 1.2 of two natures ¶ 3. shaken by other Kings ¶ 4. but dissolved by King Henry 5. ¶ 5. William ALLEN Cardinal his death and character b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 12. William AMESE his bitter Sermon against Cards and Dice Hist. of Cam. p. 159. ¶ 41.42 leaveth Christs Colledge for his non-Conformity ¶ 43. AMPHIBALUS so named first by I. Munmoth Cent. 4. ¶ 6. Martyred at Redbourn in Hartfortshire ¶ 7. The fancies about his stake confuted ibidem ANABAPTISTS their beginning in England b. 5. p. 249. ¶ 11. discovered in London b. 9. p. 104. ¶ 12. eleven condemned and two burnt ¶ 13. Lancelot ANDREWS his death and character b. 11. ¶ 46 47 48 49. ANNA King of the East-Saxons happy in his children Cent. 7. ¶ 82. Q. ANNE Wife to King Iames her signal letter to the Town of Rippon b. 10. ¶ 15. ANSELME Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 3. p. 11. ¶ 30. refuseth to lend King Rufus a 1000. pounds ¶ 32. Variance betwixt him and King Rufus p. 12. ¶ 36. c. holdeth a Synod at Westminster p. 16. ¶ 3. the constitutions thereof p. 16 17 18 19. sent to Rome p. 20. ¶ 5. forbids Priests marriage ¶ 7. but dyeth re infecta p. 23. ¶ 18. Io. ARGENTINE challengeth all Cambridge to dispute with him Hist. of Cam. p. 64. ¶ 28. c. ARIMINUM British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. And why they refused to receive a Salary from the Emperour ibidem ARLES British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. ARISTOBULUS fabulously made by Grecian writerâ— a Bishop of Britain Cent. 1. ¶ 8. ARMES la noble Families still extant relating to the Atchievements of their Ancestours in the holy Land b. 3. p. 40 41 42 43. ARRIANISME infected England as appeares by Gildas his complaint Cent. 4. ¶ 21. King ARTHUR a real worthy of Britain though his actions be much discredited with Monkish fictions Cent. 6. ¶ 2. The SIX ARTICLES contrived by Bishop Gardiner b. 5. p. 203 ¶ 17. to the great trouble of poore Protestants ¶ 18. The 39. ARTICLES composed b. 9. p. 72. ¶ 51. why drawn up in generall terms ¶ 52. by those who had been Confessours 53. confirmed by Statute 55. imposed onely on the Clergy ¶ 56. The 20th ARTICLE concerning the Authority of the Church questioned b. 9. p. 73. inserted in some omitted in other Editions p. 74. ¶ 85. defended by Bishop Laud against Mr. Burton ¶ 59. ARTICLES of Lambeth see Lambeth Thomas ARUNDEL when Arch-bishop of York a cruel persecutour b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 42. when Arch-bishop of Cant. active in deposing King Rich. the second p. 153. ¶ 54. visiteth the Vniversity of Cambridge and all the Colledges therein Hist. of Cam. p. 59 60 c. Affronted at Oxford b. 4. p. 164. ¶ 125. but by the Kings help too hard for the Students p. 165. ¶ his wofull death p. 166. ¶ 30. St. ASAPH his pious Expression Cent. 6. ¶ 13. Iohn ASCHWELL challengeth all Camb. Hist. of Camb. p. 104. ¶ 44. his bad successe ¶ 45. c. Anne ASCOUGH b. 5. p. 242. ¶ 44. Plea for leaving her Husband ¶ 45. first wracked then burnt 46. her prose and poetry 47. Mr. ASHLEY his difference at Frankford with Mr. Home book 8. p. 32 33. ¶ 11. The sad consequences occasioned thereby ¶ 12.13 ASSEMBLEY of Divines their first meeting b. 11. ¶ 1. consisteth of four English quarters p. 198. ¶ 2. besides the Scotish Commissioners p. 199. ¶ 3. the reasons of the Royalists why they would not joyne with them b. 11. p. 199. ¶ 5. first petition for a fast p. 200. ¶ 8. troubled with Mr. Selden b. 11. p. 213. ¶ 54. and with the Erasâ—ians ¶ 55. c. shrewdly checkt for exceeding their bounds p. 214. ¶ 58. their Monuments p. 215. ¶ 66. rather sinketh then endeth ¶ 67. King ATHELSTAN his principle Laws enacted at Greatlea Cent. ¶ 9.10 ATHELWOLPHUS Monarch of the Saxons maketh equivalently a Parliament act for the paying of Tithes Cent. 9. ¶ 8. Objections against the validity thereof answered ¶ 9 10. et sequentibus Granteth Peter-Pence to the Pope ¶ 15. St. AUDRE her chastity Cent. 7. ¶ 108. twice a Wife still a Maid ¶ 109. c. her miraculous monument confuted ¶ 111. c. St. AUGUSTINE the worthy Father Bishop of Hippo said to be born on the same day with Pelagius the Heretick Cent. 5. ¶ 2. AURELIUS AMBROSIUS erecteth a monument in Memory of his Conquest over the Britans Cent. 5. ¶ 25. Causelesly slandered by an Italian writer ¶ 28. AUGUSTINE the MONK sent by P. Gregory to Convert England b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 2. by him shrinking for fear is encouraged ¶ 3. mocked by women in his passage ¶ 4. landeth in England ¶ 5. why chusing rather to be Arch-bishop of Cant. then London C. 7. ¶ 1. summons a Synod under his AKE ¶ 2. his proud carriage therein towards the British Clergy ¶ 3. c. his prophesy ¶ 8. arraigned as guilty of murderâ—ng the Monks of Bangor ¶ 10. c. acquitted by the moderation of Mr. Fox ¶ 14. baptiseth ten thousand in one day ¶ 19. his ridiculous miracle ¶ 22. death and Epitaph ¶ 24. without the date of the year ¶ 25. a farewell to him with his character ¶ 26. AUGUSTINEAN Monks b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 67. Colcheâ—er their chief seat ibidem AUGMENTATION court the erection use cause name abolishing thereof b. 6. p. 348 349. AUGUSTINEAN Friers b. 6. p. 273. ¶ 1. The same in Oxford turned into Wadham Coll. b. 10. p. 68. ¶ 30. learned writers of their Order bred in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 30. B. Gervase BABINGTON Bishop of Worcester his death and praise b. 10. p. 56. ¶ 32 33. Roger BACON a great School-man and Mathematician falsly accused for a Conjurer C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 17. many of that name confounded into one ¶ 18. John BACONTHORP a little man and great Scholar p. 97. ¶ 20. BAILIOL COLL. founded by J. Bailiol b. 3. p. 67. and 68. Philip BAKER Provost of Kings an honest Papist Hist. of Cam. p. 142. ¶ 4. John BALE Bishop of Ossory his death character and excusable passim b. 9. p. 67. ¶ 37 38 39. Bishop BANCROFT causlesly condemned for keeping Popish Priests in his house b. 10. ¶ p. 1. his behaviour
ancient evidence we must take his word which whether those of Cambridge will depend upon they can best resolve For my part I forbear all intermedling in a controversie so clearly stated and which hath lain so long asleep till now awakened by our Author to beget new quarrels Such passages in that History as come under any Animadversion have been reduced unto the other as occasion served which the Reader may be pleased to take notice of as they come before him Fuller Because omitted by Arch-Bishop Parker I have the more Cause and Reason to insert it Otherwise had he handled the Subject before the Animadvertor would have cryed out Crambe that there was nothing novel therein Call it I pray The FRINGE of my Book be it but for the Subjects sake whereof it treats my dear Mother the University of Cambridge I live in the same generation with the Animadvertor and I hope shall acquit my self as honest which truly is as wise as himself CHURCH-ROMANCE parciùs ista As I tell the Reader of the burning of those Original Charters so in the same place I charge my Margin with my Author Dr. Caius and thereby discharge my self Doth the Animadvertor now forbear all intermedling therein in this Controversy Why did he not forbear before when setting forth his last Geography some five years since And is it not as lawful for me to defend as for him to oppose my Mother When where and by whom was this Controversie so clearly stated Was it by the Animadvertor himself Such a Party is unfit for a Iudge Or was it stated by the Parliament mentioned by him 1 mo Iacobi when as he telleth us the Clerk was commanded to place Oxford first But it plainly appears it was not then so clearly decided but that the question was ever started again in the late long Parliament with Arguments on both Sides Witness the printed Speech of Sir Simonds D'EWES on that occasion Dr. Heylyn All these extravagancies and impertinencies which make up a fifth part of the whole Volume being thus discharged it is to be presum'd that nothing should remain but a meer Church History as the Title promiseth But let us not be too presumptuous on no better grounds Fuller The Animadvertor's Words mind me of a Memorable passage which hereafter he hath in his Animadversions on my Sixth Book or History of Abbeys The Intruder payeth to the Sequestred Minister but a NINETEENTH part in stead of a FIFTH But if the FIFTH-PART in relation to my Book be here stated to the same proportion for the NINETEENTH yet will not the Animadvertor's measure be reconciled to the Standard of Truth Dr. Heylyn For on a Melius inquirendum into the whole course of the Book which we have before us we shall find too little of the Church and too much of the State I mean too little of the Ecclesiastical and too much of the Civil History It might be reasonably expected that in a History of the Church of England we should have heard somewhat of the foundation and enlargement of Cathedral Churches if not of the more eminent Monasteries and Religious Houses and that we should have heard somewhat more of the succession of Bishops in their several and respective Sees their personal Endowments learned Writings and other Acts of Piety Magnificence and publick Interess especially when the times afforded any whose names in some of those respects deserv'd to be retain'd in everlasting remembrance Fuller I doubt not but the Reader who hath perused my Church-History will bear me witness that therein there is a competent Representation of all these particulars so far forth as the Proportion of the Book will bear Dr. Heylyn It might have been expected also that we should have found more frequent mention of the calling of National and Provincial Synods with the result of their proceedings and the great influence which they had on the Civil State sparingly spoken of at the best and totally discontinued in a manner from the death of King Henry the fourth until the Convâ—â—â—tion of the yeer 1552. of which no notice had been taken but that he had a mind to question the Authority of the Book of Articles which came out that year though publisht as the issue and product of it by the express Warrant and Command of King Edward the sixth Fuller All Councels before the Conquest with their Canons are compleatly and the most remarkable after it represented in my History With what face can the Animadvertor say that I have discontinued the Acts of the Convocation till the year 1552 The Acts of one critical Convocation in the 27 of Henry the eighth 1535. taking up no less than eight sheets in my Book and another in the same Kings Reign imploying more than a sheet Dr. Heylyn No mention of that memorable Convocation in the fourth and fifth years of Philip and Mary in which the Clergy taking notice of an Act of Parliament then newly passed by which the Subjects of the Temporality having Lands to the yearly value of five pounds and upwards were charged with finding Horse and Armour according to the proportion of their yearly Revenues and Possessions did by their sole authority as a Convocation impose upon themselves and the rest of the Clergy of this Land the finding of a like number of Horses Armour and other Necessaries for the War according to their yearly income proportion for proportion and rate for rate as by that Statute had been laid on the Temporal Subjects Fuller I am confident that this is the self-same Convocation which is thus entered in my Church-History Book 8. p. 39. Anno 1557. quinto Mariae The Clergy gave the Queen a Subsidie of eight shillings in the pound confirmed by Act of Parliament to be paid in four years In requital whereof by Poole 's procurement the Queen Priviledged them from shewing their horses with the Laily yet so that they should muster them up for the defence of the Land under Captains of their own own chusing I cannot therefore be justly charged with no mention of the Acts of this Convocation Dr. Heylyn And this they did by their own sole Authority as before was said Ordering the same to be levyed on all such as were refractory by Sequestration Deprivation Suspension Excommunication Ecclesiastical Censures all without relating to any subsequent confirmation by Act of Parliament which they conceiv'd they had no need of Fuller I took the less notice of and gave the less heed to the transactions of the Clergy therein because then they were in their Hufte and Height furious with Fire and Fagot so that all done by them de facto cannot be justified for Legal who sometimes borrowed a point of Law even with intent never to repay it in their proceedings It may be proved out of Mr. Fox that some at that time by a cruell Prolepsis antedated the burning of some Martyrs before the Writ de Haeretico Comburendo came unto them Wherefore all their actions
have thought that to call him an Advocate for the Stews had not been enough But that Doctor was not half so wise as our Author is and doth not fit each Argument with a several Antidote as our Author doth hoping thereby but vainly hoping that the arguments alledged will be wash'd away Some of our late Criticks had a like Designe in marking all the wanton and obscene Epigrams in Martial with a Hand or Asterism to the intent that young Scholars when they read that Author might be fore-warn'd to passe them over Whereas on the contrary it was found that too many young fellows or wonton wits â—s our Author calls them did ordinarily skip over the rest and pitch on those which were so mark't and set out unto them And much I fear that it will so fall out with our Author also whose Arguments will be studied and made use of when his Answers will not Fuller The commendable Act of King Henry the eighth in suppressing the Stews may well be reported in Church-History it being recorded in Scripture to the eternal praise of King Asa that he took away the Sodomites out of the Land I hope my collection of arguments in confutation of such Styes of Lust will appear to any rational Reader of sufficient validity Indeed it is reported of Zeuxes that famous Painter that he so lively pictured a Boy with a Rod in his hand carrying a Basket of Grapes that Birds mistaking them for real ones peckt at them and whilest others commended his Art he was angry with his own work-manship confessing that if he had made the Boy but as well as the Grapes the Birds durst not adventure at them I have the same just cause to be offended with my own indeavors if the Arguments against those Schools of Wantonnesse should prove insufficient though I am confident that if seriously considered they doe in their own true weight preponderate those produced in favour of them However if my well-intended pains be abused by such who onely will feed on the poisons wholy neglecting the Antidotes their destruction is of themselves and I can wash my hands of any fault therein But me thinks the Animadvertor might well have passed this over in silence for fear of awaking sleeping wontonnesse jogged by this his Note so that if my Arguments onely presented in my Book be singly this his Animadversion is doubly guilty on the same account occasioning loose eyes to reflect on that which otherwise would not be observed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 253. Otherwise some suspect had he survived King Edward the sixth we might presently have heard of a King Henry the ninth Our Author speaks this of Henry Fitz Roy the Kings natural Son by Elizabeth Blunt and the great disturbance he might have wrought to the Kings two daughters in their Succession to the Crown A Prince indeed whom his Father very highly cherished creating him Duke of Somerset and Richmond Earl of Nottingham and Earl Marshal of England and raising him to no small hopes of the Crown it self as appears plainly by the Statute 22 H. 8. c. 7. But whereas our Author speaks it on a supposition of his surviving King Edward the sixth he should have done well in the first place to have inform'd himself whether this Henry and Prince Edward were at any time alive together And if my Books speak true they were not Henry of Somerset and Richmond dying the 22 of Iuly Anno 1536. Prince Edward not being born till the 12 of October Anno 1537. So that if our Author had been but as good at Law or Grammar as he is at Heraldry he would not have spoke of a Survivor-ship in such a case when the one person had been long dead before the other was born Fuller Terms of Law when used not in Law-Books nor in any solemn Court but in common Discourse are weaned from their critical sense and admit more latitude If the word surviving should be tied up to legal strictnesse Survivour is appliable to none save onely to such who are Ioint-tenants However because co-viving is properly required in a Survivor those my words had he survived shall be altered into had he lived to survive Prince Edward and then all is beyond exception Dr. Heylin These incoherent Animadversions being thus passed over we now proceed to the Examination of our Authors Principles for weakning the Authority of the Church and subjecting it in all proceedings to the power of Parliaments Concerning which he had before given us two Rules Preparatory to the great businesse which we have in hand First that the proceedings of the Canon Law were subject in whatsoever touched temporals to secular Laws and National Customes And the Laitie at pleasure limited Canons in this behalf Lib. 3. n. 61. And secondly that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie Lib. 4. n. 88. And if the Ecclesiastical power was thus curbed and fettered when it was at the highest there is no question to be made but that it was much more obnoxious to the secular Courts when it began to sink in reputation and decline in strength How true and justifiable or rather how unjustifiable and false these two principles are we have shewn already and must now look into the rest which our Author in pursuance of the main Design hath presented to us But first we must take notice of another passage concerning the calling of Convocations or Synodical meetings formerly called by the two Archbishops in their several Provinces by their own sole and proper power as our Author grants fol. 190. to which he adds Fol. 190. But after the Statute of Premunire was made which did much restrain the Papal power and subject it to the Laws of the Land when Arcbishops called no more Convocations by their sole and absolute command but at the pleasure of the King In which I must confesse my self to be much unsatisfied though I finde the same position in some other Authors My reasons two 1. Because there is nothing in the Statuâ—e of Praemunire to restrain the Archbishops from calling these meetings as before that Act extending onely to such as purchase or pursue or cause to be purchased or pursued in the Court of Rome or elsewhere any such Translations Processes Sentences of Excommunication Bulls Instruments or any other things whatsoever which touch the King against him his Crown and his Regality or his Realm or to such as bring within the Realm or them receive or make thereof notification or any other Execution whatsoever within the same Realm or without c. And secondly because I finde in the Statute of the submission of the Clergy that it was recognized and acknowledged by the Clergie in their Convocation that the Convocation of the said Clergie is alwaies hath been and ought to be assembled alwaies by the Kings Writ And if they had been alwaies call'd by the Kings Writ then
certainly before the Statute of Praemunire for that the whole Clergy in their Convocation should publiquely declare and avow a notorious falshood especially in a matter of fact is not a thing to be imagined I must confesse my self to be at a losse in this intricate Labyrinth unless perhaps there were some critical difference in those elder times between a Synod and a Convocation the first being call'd by the Arch-bishops in their several and respective Provinces as the necessities of the Church the other only by the King as his occasion and affairs did require the same But whether this were so or not is not much material as the case now stands the Clergie not assembling since the 25 of King Henry the eighth but as they are convocated and convened by the Kings Writ only I only add that the time and year of this submission is mistook by our Author who placeth it in 1533. whereas indeed the Clergy made this acknowledgement and submission in their Convocation Anno 1532. though it pass'd not into an Act or Statute till the year next following Well then suppose the Clergy call'd by the Kings Authority and all their Acts and Constitutions ratified by the Royals assent are they of force to binde the Subject to submit and conform unto them Not if our Author may be judge for he tels us plainly Fol. 191. That even such Convocations with the Royal assent subject not any for recusancie to obey their Canons to a civil penalty in person or property until confirmed by Act of Parliament I marvel where our Author took up this opinion which he neither findes in the Registers of Convocation or Records of Parliament Himself hath told us fol. 190. that such Canons and Constitutions as were concluded on in Synods or Convocations before the passing of the Statute of Praemunire were without any further Ratification obligatory to all subjected to their jurisdiction And he hath told us also of such Convocations as had been called between the passing of the Statute of Praemunire and the Act for Submission that they made Canons which were binding although none other than Synodical Authority did confirm the same Upon which premisses I shall not fear to raise this Syllogism viz. That power which the Clergy had in their Convocations before their submission to the King to binde the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than own Synodical Authority the same they had when the Kings power signified in his Royal assent was added to them but the Clergy by our Authors own confession had power in their Convocations before their submission to the King to bind the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than their own Synodical Authority Ergo they had the same power to bind the Subjects when the Kings power signified by the Royal assent was added to them The Minor being granted by our Author as before is shewed the Major is onely to be proved And for the proof hereof I am to put the Reader in minde of a Petition or Remonstrance exhibited to the King by the House of Commons Anno 1532. in which they shewed themselves agrieved that the Clergy of this Realm should act Authoriâ—atively and Supremely in the Convocations and they in Parliament do nothing but as it was confirmed and ratified by Royal assent By which it seems that there was nothing then desired by the House of Commons but that the Convocation should be brought down to the same level with the Houses of Parliament and that their Acts and Constitutions should not binde the Subject as before in their Goods and Possessions until they were confirmed and ratified by the Regal Power The Answer unto which Remonstrance being drawn up by Dr. Gardiner then newly made Bishop of Winchester and allowed of by both Houses of Convocation was by them presented to the King But the King not satisfied with this Answer resolves to bring them to his bent lest else perhaps they might have acted something to the hindrance of his divorce which was at that time in agitation and therefore on the tenth of May he sends a Paper to them by Dr. Fox after Bishop of Hereford in which it was peremptorily required That no Constitution or Ordinance shall be hereafter by the Clergy Enacted Promulged or put in Execution unlesse the Kings Highnesse do approve the same by his high Authority and Royal assent and his advice and favour be also interponed for the execution of every such Constitution among his Highnesse Subjects And though the Clergy on the receipt of this paper remov'd first to the Chappel of St. Katherines and after unto that of St. Dunstan to consult about it yet found they no Saint able to inspire them with a resolution contrary to the Kings desires and therefore upon the Wednesday following being the fifteenth of the same Moneth they made their absolute submission binding themselves in Verbo Sacerdotii not to make or execute any Canons or other Synodical Constitutions but as they were from time to time enabled by the Kings Authority But this submission being made unto the King in his single person and not as in conjunction with his Houses of Parliament could neither bring the Convocation under the command of Parliaments nor render them obnoxiâ—us to the power thereof as indeed it did not But to the contrary hereof it is said by our Author that Fol. 194. He viz. the King by the advice and consent of his Clergy in Convocation and great Councel in Parliament resolved to reform the Church under his inspection from grosse abuses crept into it To this I need no other Answer than our Author himself who though in this place he makes the Parliament to be joyned in Commission with Convocation as if a joynt Agent in that great businesse of Reforming the Church yet in another place he tels us another tale For fol. 188. It will appear saith he and I can tell from whom he saith it upon serious examination that there was nothing done in the Reformation of Religion save what was acted by the Clergy in their Convocations or grounded on some Act of theirs precedent to it with the Advice Counsel and Consent of the Bishops and most eminent Church-men confirmed upon the Postfact and not otherwise by the Civil Sanction according to the usage of the best and happiest times of Christianity So then the Reformation of the Church was acted chiefly by the King with the advice of the Clergy in their Convocation the confirmation on the post-fact by the King in Parliament and that by his leave not in all the Acts and Particulars of it but in some few onely for which consult the Tract entituled The Way and Manner of the Reformation of the Church of England Now as our Author makes the Parliament a joynt Assistant with the King in the Reformation so he conferreth on Parliaments the Supreme Power of ratifying and confirming all Synodical Acts. Fol. 199. The
to a more pleasant tune from barking for food to the blessing of those who procured it Now let any censure this a digression from my History for though my Estate will not suffer me with Job to be eyes to the blind and feet to the lame I will endeavor what I can to be a tongue for the Dumbe Let the Reader judge betwixt me and the Animadvertor whether in this particular matter controverted I have not done the poor Clergy as much right as lay in my power and more than consisted with my safety Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 357. But this was done without any great cost to the Crown onely by altering the Property of the place from a late made Cathedral to an Abbey Our Author speaks this of the Church of Westminster which though it suffered many changes yet had it no such change as our Author speaks of that is to say from a Cathedral to an Abbey without any other alteration which came in between c. Fuller I said not that it was immediatly changed from a Cathedral to an Abbey but that it was changed and that without any great cost to the Crown so my words want nothing but a candid Reader of them Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 359. Nor can I finde in the first year of Queen Elizabeth any particular Statute wherein as in the reign of King Henry the eight these Orders are nominatim suppressed c. But first the several Orders of Religious Persons were not suppressed nominatim except that of St. Iohns by a Statute in the time of King Henry the eighth Secondly if there were no such Statute yet was it not because those Houses had no legal settlement as it after followeth Queen Mary being vested with a power of granting Mortmains and consequently of founding these Religious Houses in a legal way Thirdly there might be such a Statute though our Author never had the good luck to see it and yet for want of such good luck I finde him apt enough to think there was no such Statute Et quod non invenit usquam esse putat nusquam in the Poets language c. Fuller I could not then finde the Statute and I am not ashamed to confesse it Let those be censured who pretend to have found what they have noâ— and so by their confidence or impudence rather abuse Posterity Since I have found a Copy thereof in Sr. Thomas Cottons Library with many Commissions granted thereupon for the dissolution of such Marian foundations Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 369. Jesuits the last and newest of all Orders The newest if the last there 's doubt of that But the last they were not the Oratorians as they call them being of a later brood The Iesuites founded by Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard and confirmed by Pope Paul the third Anno 1540. The Oratorians founded by Philip Merio a Florentine and confirmed by Pope Pius the fourth Anno 1564. By which accompt these Oratorians are younger Brethren to the Iesuits by the space of four and twenty years and consequently the Iesuites not the last and newest of Religious Orders Fuller Writing the Church-History of Britain I herein confined my expression thereunto The Iesuites are the last and newest Order whose over-activity in our Land commends or condemns them rather to publick notice Idem est non esse non apparere The Oratorians never appeared in England save an handfull of them who at Queen Maries first arrival from France onely came Hither to goe hence a few moneths after THE SEVENTH BOOK Containing the Reign of King Edward the sixth Dr. Heylin WE are now come unto the Reign of King Edward the sixth which our Author passeth lightly over though very full of action and great alterations And here the first thing which I meet with is an unnecessary Quaere which he makes about the Injunctions of this King Amongst which we finde one concerning the religious keeping of the Holy-dayes in the close whereof it is declared That it shall be lawfull for all people in time of Harvest to labour upon Holy and Festival dayes and save that thing which God hath sent and that scrupulosity to abstain from working on those dayes doth grievously offend God Our Author hereupon makes this Quaere that is to say fol. 375. Whether in the 24 Injuâ—ction labouring in time of Harvest upon Holy-dayes and Festivals relateth not onely to those of Ecclesiastical Constitution as dedicated to Saints or be inclusive of the Lords-day also Were not our Author a great Zelot for the Lords-day-Sabbath and studious to intitle it to some antiquity we had not met with such a Quaere The Law and practise of those times make this plain enough c. Fuller It is better to be over doubtfull than over confident It had been much for the credit and nothing against the Conscience of the Animadvertor if he had made quaeries where he so positively and falsly hath concluded against me Now my Quaere is answered And I believe that the Lords Day was included within the numbâ—r of holy dayes and common work permitted thereon This maketh me bespeak my own and the Readers justly suspecting that the Animadvertor will not joyn with us herein on this account thankfulnesse to God That the Reformation since the time of King Edward the sixth hath been progressive and more perfected in this point amongst the Rest in securing the Lords-day from servile imployments Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 386. In the first year of King Edward the sixth it was recommended to the care of the most grave Bishops and others assembled by the King at his Castle at Windsor and when by them compleated set forth in Print 1548. with a Proclamation in the Kings name to give Authority thereunto being also recommended unto every Bishop by especial Letters from the Lords of the Councel to see the same put in execution And in the next year a penalty was imposed by Act of Parliament on such who should deprave or neglect the use thereof Our Author here mistakes himself and confounds the businesse making no difference between the whole first Liturgy of King Edward the sixth and a particular form of Administration c. Fuller Iâ— the Reader by perusing this Note of the Animadvertor can methodize the Confusion charged on me I shall be right glad thereof And I wish that the nice distinction of the Liturgie and the form of Administration may be informative unto him more than it is to me The close of this Animadversion whether this Book brought under a Review much altered in all the parts and offices of it be unto the better or unto the worse Leaves it under a strong suspition of the negative in the Judgement of the Animadvertor And now I shall wonder no more at the Animadvertors falling foul on my Book who as he confesseth am not known unto him by any injurie Seeing such distance in our judgements that he conceiveth the
Reformation in the Reign of King Edward more perfect than what was afterwards Let us make us a Captain and return unto Egypt I have too much advantage in my own hand and a principle in my bosome will not give me leave to make use thereof to the utmost Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 404. At last the great Earl of Warwick deserted his Chaplain in open field to shift for himself Indeed he had higher things in his head than to attend such trifles A man may easily discern a Cat by her Claw and we may finde as easily by be scratches of our Authors Pen to what party in the Church he stands most inclined He had before declared for the Dominicans and Rigid Calvinists in some points of Doctrine and now declares himself for the Non-Conformists in point of Ceremonie He had not else called the Episcopal Ornaments particularly the Rochet Chimere and Square-cap by the name of trifles such trifles as were not worth the contending for if Resolute Ridley had been pleased to dispense therein c. Fuller I say not that they were trifles but that Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland counted them so in respect to his high designes to the Crown yea it is more than suspicious that his ambition esteemed greater matters than Ceremonies meer trifles even Religion it self which he so often changed If the Cat hath put in her claw let her put in her whole foot I conceive such vestments comparatively trifles as to things necessary to salvation And thus I prove it I dare wager with the Animadvertor That take the Clergy of England as constituted 1640 that three parts of four did not know what a CHIMERE was Nor is this any diminution to their Learning and Religion seeing they were not bound to take cognisance thereof And therefore I beleeve one may safely call it a trifle without the knowledge of which word and what was meant thereby so many flocks of pious and learned Shepheards have gone to Heaven As for the Animadvertors additory Note which followeth concerning the singing of Psalmes in Churches I am not concerned therein Nor will I here insert his Instances of some fortunate Subjects who married Queens seeing I say not alwaies but often such matches prove unprosperous Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 421. This barren Convocation is intituled the Parent of those Articles of Religion fourty two in number which are printed with this Preface Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi c. Our Author here is guilty of a greater crime than that of Scandalum Magnatum making King Edward the sixth of pious memory no better than an impious and leud Impostor For if the Convocation of this year were barren as he saith it was it could neither be the Parent of those Articles nor of the short Catechism which was printed with them countenanced by the Kings Letters Patents prefixt before it c. Fuller Here is an high charge indeed I believeâ—hat â—hat I am generally believed to have as high a reverence for the Memory of King Edward as the Animadvertor himself The Journals of the Convocation in this Kings Reign I have carefully perused which aâ—e no better than blanck paper containing onely the names of the Members therein daily meeting without any matter of moment yea any matteâ— at all Registred to be performed by them But I wholy refer my self to what I have written in my Church-History of this hard Subject making it there as plain as I could which the Animadvertor hath a mind again to involve and perplex THE EIGHTH BOOK The Reign of Queen Mary Dr. Heylin WE next proceed unto the short but troublesome Reign of Queen Mary in which the first thing that occurs is Fol. 1. But the Commons of England who for many years together had conn'd Loyalty by-heart out of the Statute of the succession were so perfect in their Lesson that they would not be put out of it by this new started design In which I am to note these things first that he makes the Loyaly of the Commons of England not to depend upon the primogeniture of their Princes but on the Statute of Succession and then the object of that Loyalty must not be the King but the Act of Parliament by which they were directed to the knowledge of the next successor and then it must needs be in the power of Parliaments to dispose of the Kingdome as they pleas'd the Peoples Loyalty being tyed to such dispositions c. Fuller I make not the loyalty of the Commons to depend on but to be directed by the Statute of Succession In such Intricacies it was good to have such a Guide to lead mens Judgements in the right And though some male-contents started from their Loyalty the Generality of the Commons of England kept constant unto it Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 11. Afterwards Philpot was troubled by Gardiner for his words spoken in the Convocation In vain did he plead the priviledge of the place commonly reputed a part of Parliament I cannot finde that the Convocation at this time nor many yeares before this time was commonly reputed as a part of the Parliament c. Fuller I onely say that Mr. Philpot pleaded it and that in vaine that it was so reputed as may plainly appear in Mr. Fox so that my words are liable to no just exception Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 27. The Letany Surplice and other Ceremonies in Service and Sacraments they omitted both as superfluous and superstitious Our Author speaks this of the Schismaticall Congregation at Franckford who turn'd the Publique Church Liturgy quite out of their Church fashioning to themselves a new forme of Worship which had no warrant and foundation by the Lawes of this Realm And first saith he the Letany Surplice and other Ceremonies they omitted both as superfluous and supersticious Superfluous and supersticious in whose opinion In that of the Schismaticks at Franckford our Authors or in both alike Most probable in our Authors as well as theirs for otherwise he would have added some note of qualifications c. Fuller This note might well have been spared I appeal to such as knew my conformity in the Colledge Chappel Country Parishes and Cathedrall of Sarum to be my Cumpurgators in this unjust accusation Dr. Heylin Thirdly having laid down an abstract of the form of worship contriv'd by the Schismaticks at Franckford he honoureth them with no lower Title than that of Saints and counts this liberty of deviating from the Rules of the Church for a part of their happinesse For so it followeth fol. 28. This faith he is the Communion of Saints who never account themselves peaceably possest of any happinesse untill if it be in their power they have also made their fellow-sufferers partakers thereof If those be Saints who seperate themselves schismatically from their Mother Church and if it be a happinesse to them to be permitted so to doe our
how neare this second arrow went to his heart Dr. Heylyn Our Author goeth on Fol. 137. My pen passing by them at present may safely Salute them with a God-Speed as neither seeing nor suspecting any danger in the Designe Our Author speakes this of the Feoffees appointed by themselves for buyingâ—in such Impropriations as were then in the hands of Lay-persons I say appointed by themselves because not otherwise authorised either by Charter from the King Decree in Chancery or by Act of Parliament but only by a secret combination of the Brother-hood But secondly this will further appear by their proceedings in the businesse not laying the Impropriations by them purchased to the Church or Chappelry to which they had antiently belonged nor setling them on the Incumbent of the place as many hoped they would That had been utterly destructive to their main design which was not to advantage the Regular and established Clergy but to set up a new body of Lecturers in convenient places for the promoting of the Cause And therefore having bought an Impropriation they parcelled it out into annual Pensions of 40 or 50 l. per annum and therewith salared some Lecturers in such Market-Towns where the people had commonly lesse to do and consequently were more apt to Faction and Innovation than in other places Our Author notes it of their Predecessors in Cartwrights dayes that they preached most diligently in populous places it being observed in England that those who hold the Helm of the Pulpit alwayes steer peoples hearts as they please Lib. 9. fol. 195. And he notes it also of these Feoffees that in conformity hereunto they set up a Preaching Ministry in places of greatest need not in such Parish-Churches to which the Tithes properly belonged but where they thought the Word was most wanting that is to say most wanting to advance their project Thirdly if we behold the men whom they made choice of and employed in preaching in such Market-Towns as they had an eye on either because most populous or because capable of electing Burgesses to serve in Parliament they were for the most part Non-conformists and sometime such as had been silenced by their Ordinary or the High-commission for their Factious carriage And such an one was placed by Geering one of the Citizen-Feoffees in a Town of Glocestershire a fellow which had been outed of a Lecture neer Sandwich by the Archbishop of Canterbury out of another in Middlesex by the Bishop of London out of a third in Yorkshire by the Archbishop of York out of a fourth in Hartfordshire by the Bishop of Lincoln and finally suspended from his Ministry by the High-Commission yet thought the fittest man by Geering as indeed he was to begin this Lecture Fourthly and finally these Pensions neither were so setled nor these Lecturers so well establisht in their severall places but that the one might be withdrawn and the other removed at the will and pleasure of their Patrons if they grew slack and negligent in the holy cause or abated any thing at all of that fire and fury they first brought with them Examples of which I know some and have heard of more And now I would fain know of our Author whether there be no danger to be seen or suspected in this design whether these Feoffees in short time would not have had more Chaplains to depend upon them than all the Bishops in the Kingdom and finally whether such needy fellowes depending on the will and pleasure of their gracious Masters must not be forced to Preach such Doctrines onely as best please their Humours And though I shall say nothing here of their giving under-hand private Pensions not onely unto such as had been silenced or suspended in the Ecclesiasticall Courts but many times also to their wives and Children after their decease all issuing from this common-stock yet others have beheld it as the greatest piece of Wit and Artifice both to encourage and encrease their Emissaries which could be possibly devised If as our Author tels us fol. 143. The Design was generally approved and that both discreet and devout men were doleful at the ruine of so pious a Project it was because they neither did suspect the danger nor foresee the mischiefs which unavoidably must have followed if not crusht in time Fuller The Feoffees being now all Dead save one I may say that in this Suit all the Councell is for the Plantiffe and none allowed the Deâ—endaâ—t Were any number of them still alive probably they might plead something in defence of their Proceedings However I believe this Narrative of the Animadvertor hath very much of Truth therein and seeing it is not Opposite but Additional to what I have written my Answer is not required thereunto Onely the close thereof treadeth on the Toes of my History and that but lightly too the Animadvertor not denying that discreet and Devout men were dolefull at the ruine of so pious a Project And seeing he went so far with my words would he had gon a little farther and added that such Good men were desirous of a Regulation of this Designe it being pitty that so fair a Tree should be rent up Root and Branch for bearing bad which might and would have born better fruit with a little good digging about it and well husbanding thereof Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 148. However there was no Express in this Declaration that the Ministers of the Parish should be pressed to the publishing Our Author doth here change his style He had before told us That on the first publishing of the Declaration about lawfull Sports on the Lords Day no Minister was de facto enjoyned to read it in his Parish lib. 10. fol. 76. and here he tells us that there was no express order in the Declaration when reviv'd by King Charls that the Minister of the Parish should be prest to the publishing of it adding â—ithall that many thought it a more proper work for the Constable or Tithing-man than it was for the Minister But if our Author mark it well he may easily find that the Declaration of King Iames was commanded to be published by order from the Bishop of the Diocess through all the Parish-Churches of his Jurisdiction And the Declaration of King Charls to be published with like order from the severall Bishops through all the Parish-Churches of their severall Diocesses respectively The Bishop of the Diocess in the singular number in the Declaration of King Iames because it principally related to the County of Lancaster The Bishops in the plurall number in that of King Charls because the benefit of it was to be extended over all the Realm In both the Bishops are commanded to take order for the publishing of them in their severall Parishes and whom could they require to publish them in the Parish Churches but the Ministers onely The Constable is a Lay-Officer meerly bound by his place to execute the Warrants and Commands of the Iustices but
Rubrick indeed dyed with the blood of so many of both Nations slaine on that Occasion Our Author speakes this in Relation to the Scottish Tumults Anno 1637. In telling of which Story he runs as commonly elsewhere into many Errours For first those Miseries and that blood-shed was not caused by sending the Liturgy thither c. Fuller Seeing the Animadvertor denies the Liturgy to have had any Causall influence on the Scots War I must manifest my dissent from his Iudgement and here I crave the Reader 's leave to be his humble Remembrancer of the Kinds of Causes so far as they conduce to the clearing of the present Controversie Causes are twofold Solitary or Totall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ioynt and fellow Causes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The latter againe is twofold Proegumena long leading before and inwardly disposing and inclining to Action or Procatarctica called also Causa irritatrix or Primitiva provocans which is outwardly impulsive to Action The former is tearmed by Physitians Causa Antecedens the latter Causa Evidens of a disease Thus in a Feaver corrupt humours bred within and without the Veines are the Antecedent cause thereof whilst being in the hot Sun walking in the South-wind c. stopping the Pores and stirring the ill Humours to heat may be the evident cause of a Feaver I thus apply it The inward discontents of the Scots on severall accounts which follow on the next Paragraph were the Antecedent causes of their War whilst the evident Cause thereof was the Obtruding the Liturgy upon them And so much for my cleare sense in this Controversie Dr. Heylyn The Plot had been laid long before upon other grounds that is to say Questioning of some Church Lands then in the hands of some great Persons of which they feared a Rovocation to the Crown And secondly the manumitting of some poor subjects from the tyranny and vassallage which they lived under in respect of their Tithes exacted with all cruelty and injustice by those whom they call the Lords of new erection Which Plot so laid there wanted nothing but some popular occasion for raising a Tumult first a Rebellion afterwards and this occasion they conceived they had happily gain'd by sending the new Liturgy thither though ordered by their own Clergy first as our Author tells us at the Assembly of Aberdeen Anno 1616. and after aâ— Perth Anno 1618. and fashioned for the most part by their own Bishops also But of this there hath so much been said between the Observator and his Antagonist that there is nothing necessary to be added to it Secondly there was no such matter as the passing of an Act of Revocation for the restoring of such Lands as had been alienated from the Crown in the minority of the Kings Predecessors of which he tells us fol. 192. The King indeed did once intend the passing of such an Act but finding what an Insurrection was likely to ensue upon it he followed the safer counsell of Sir Archibald Acheson by whom he was advis'd to sue them in his Courts of Justice Which course succeeding to his wish so terrified many of those great persons who had little else but such Lands to maintain their Dignities that they never thought themselves secure as long as the King was in a condition to demand his own Thirdly though it be true enough that some persons of honour had been denied such higher Titles as they had desired fol. 163. yet was it not the denying of such Titles unto Men of Honour which wrought these terrible effects but the denying of an honorary Title to a man of no honour If Colonel Alexander Lesly an obscure fellow but made rich by the spoils and plunder of Germany had been made a Baron when he first desired it the rest of the male-contents in Scotland might have had an heart though they had no head But the King not willing to dishonour so high a Title by conferring it on so low a person denyed the favour Which put the man into such a heat that presently he joyned himself to the faction there drove on the plot and finally undertook the command of their Armies Rewarded for which notable service with the Title of Earl of Levin by the King himself he could not so digest the injury of the first refusall but that he afterwards headed their Rebellions upon all occasions Fuller Little opposition against some variation from and more addition unto what I have written is herein contained Which if tending to the Reader his clearer information I am right glad thereof and wish him all happinesse therein Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 163. Generally they excused the King in their writings as innocent therein but charged Arch-bishop Laud as the principall and Dr. Cousins as the instrumentall compiler thereof This is no more then we had reason to expect from a former passage liâ— 4. fol. 193. where our Author telleth us that the Scotish Bishops withdrew themselves from their obedience to the See of York in the time when George Nevil was Arch-bishop And then he adds Hence-forwards no Arch-bishop of York medled more with Church-matters in Scotland and happy had it been if no Arch-bishop of Canterbury had since interressed himsâ—lf therein His stomack is so full of choller against this poor Prelate that he must needs bring up some of it above an hundred years before he was born Fuller What could more calmly be written Perchance some cold flegme but nothing of choller is in the expression I say again It had been happy for King Queen Royall Issue Church State the Arch-bishop himself Animadvertor Author Reader All England Dr. Heylyn Hence is it that he takes together all reports which makes against him and sets them down in rank and file in the course of this History If Arch-bishop Abbot be suspended from his Jurisdiction the blame thereof was laid on Arch-bishop Laud as if not content to succeed he endeavoured to supplant him fol. 128. The King sets out a Declaration about lawfull Sports the reviving and enlarging of which must be put upon his account also some strong presumptions being urged for the proof thereof fol. 147. The reduction of the Church to her antient Rules and publick Doctrines must be nothing else but the enjoyning of his own private practises and opinions upon other men fol. 127. And if a Liturgy be compos'd for the use of the Church of Scotland Who but he must be charged to be the Compiler of it Fuller If all the places here cited are passed already they have received their severall Answers if any of them be to come they shall receive them God-willing in due time that so for the present we may be silent to prevent repetition Dr. Heylyn But what proofs have we for all this Onely the malice of his enemies or our Authors own disaffection to him or some common fame And if it once be made a fame it shall pass for truth and as a truth find place
them ¶ 42 c. Sr. Th. DOCKWRAY Lord Prior of St. Joanes B. 6. p. 359. ¶ 4. and p. 361. in the dedication John DOD his birth and breeding b. 11. p. 219. â— 85. his peaceable disposition ¶ 86. improving of piety p. 220. ¶ 87 c. an innocent deceiver ¶ 90. excellent Hebrician ¶ 91. last of the old Puritans ¶ 92. DOGGES meat given to men b. 3. p. 29. ¶ 46 DOMINICAN Friers their first coming over into England b. 6. p. 270. ¶ 15. after their expulsion set up again by Q. Mary p. 357. the learned men of this order who were bred in Cambrid Hist. of Cam. p. 30. De DOMINIS Marcus Antonius see SPALATO John DONNE Dean of St. Pauls prolocutour in the Convocation b. 10. p. 112. ¶ 15. his life excellently written by Mr. Isaack Walton ¶ 16. DOOMES-DAY Book composed by the command of Will the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 3. DORT Synod b. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. four English Divines sent thither ibidem King James his Instructions unto them p. 77 78. Oath at their admission into it p. 78. ¶ 66. liberall allowance from the State p. 77. ¶ 77. various censures on the decisions thereof p. 84. ¶ 5 c. The DOVE on King Charles his Sceptre ominously broken off b. 11. ¶ 16. Thomas DOVE Bishop of Peterborough his death b. 11. p. 41. ¶ 17. DOWAY COLL. in Flanders for English fugitives b. 9. p. 85. A Convent there for Benedictine Monks b. 6. p. 365. And another for Franciscan Friers 366. DRUIDES their office and imployment amongst the Pagan Britans C. 1. ¶ 3. The DUTCH Congregation first set up in London b. 7. p. 407. ¶ 33. priviledges allowed them by King Edward the sixth ibidem under Queen Mary depart with much difficulty and danger into Denmark b. 8. p. 8. ¶ 13. DUBLIN University founded by Queen Elizabeth b. 9. p. 211. ¶ 44. the severall benefactours whereof Mr. Luke Chaloner a chief p. 212. no rain by day during the building of the Colledge ibidem The Provosts thereof p. 213. ¶ 47. DUBRITIUS Arch-bishop of Caer-lion a great Champion of the truth against Pelagius C. 6. ¶ 3. A DUCATE worth about four shillings but imprinted eight b. 5. p. 196 ¶ 37. Andrew DUCKET in effect the founder of Queens Colledge in Cambridge Hist. of Cambridge p. 80. ¶ 33. St. DUNSTAN his story at large Cent. 10. ¶ 11. c. his death and burial in Canterbury ¶ 44. as appeared notwithstanding the claim of Glassenbury by discovery ¶ 45 46. DUNWOLPHUS of a swine-heard made Bishop of VVinchester C. 9. ¶ 41. DURHAM the Bishoprick dissolved by King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 419. ¶ 2. restored by Queen Mary ¶ 3. VVil. DYNET the solemn abjuration injoyned him wherein he promiseth to worship Images b. 4. p. 150. E. EASTER-DAY difference betwixt the British Romish Church in the observation thereof Cent. 7. ¶ 5. the Controversie stated betwixt them ¶ 28. reconciled by Laurentius ¶ 30. the antiquity of this difference ¶ 31. spreads into private families ¶ 89. A counsell called to compose it ¶ 90. setled by Theodorus according to the Romish Rite ¶ 96. EATON COLLEDGE founded by K. Henry the sixth b. 4. EDGAR King of England Cent. 10. ¶ 24. disciplined by Dunstan for viciating a Nun. ¶ 26. The many Canons made by him why in this book omitted ¶ 29. A most Triumphant King ¶ 30. his death ¶ 34. EDMUND King of the East Angles cruelly Martyred by the Danes Cent. 9. ¶ 22. EDWARD the Elder calls a Councell to confirm his Fathers acts Cent. 10. ¶ 5. gives great Priviledges to Cambridge ¶ 6. EDWARD the Martyr Cent. 8. ¶ 34. Barbarously murthered ¶ 42. EDWARD the Confessour his life at large Cent. 11. ¶ 11 c. King EDWARD the first his advantages to the Crown though absent at his Fathers death b. 3. p. 74. ¶ 3. his atchievements against the Turkes ¶ 4. Casteth the Iews out of England p. 87. ¶ 47. chosen arbitratour betwixt Baliol Bruce claiming the Kingdome of Scotland p. 88. ¶ 49. which Kingdome he conquereth for himself ¶ 50. stoutly maintaineth his right against the Pope p. 90. ¶ 2. humbled Rob. Winchelsey Arch-bishop of Cant. ¶ 4 5. the Dialogue betwixt them 6. his death and character p. 92. ¶ 11. his Arme the standard of the English yard ibid. King EDWARD the second his character b. 3. p. 93. ¶ 13. fatally defeated by the Scots ¶ 14. his vitiousnesse p. 100. ¶ 28. accused for betraying his Priviledges to the Pope ¶ 29. his deposing and death p. 103. King EDWARD the third a most valiant and fortunate King both by Sea and Land foundeth Kings Hall in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 39. ¶ 36. his death and Character b. 4. p. 136. ¶ 12. King EDWARD the fourth gaineth the Crown by Conquest b. 4. p. 190. ¶ 46. Beaten afterwards in Battel by the Earle of VVarwick p. 191. ¶ 31. escapeth out of prison flyeth beyond the Seas returneth and recovereth the Crown ¶ 32 33. A Benefactour to Merton Coll. in Oxford b. 3. p. 75. ¶ 7. but Malefactour to Kings Coll. in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 76. ¶ 19. his death b. 4. p. 199. ¶ 42. King EDWARD the fifth barbarously murthered by his Vncle Richard Duke of York b. 4. p. 196. ¶ 5. King EDWARD the sixth his Injunctions b. 7. ¶ 3. observations thereon p. 374. his severall proclamations whereof one inhibiteth all Preachers in England for a time p. 388 389. his TEXT ROYAL and our observations thereon p. 397 398. c. Giveth an account by letter to B. Fitz-Patrick of his progresse p. 412 413. severall letters written by him p. 423 424. his diary p. 425. ¶ 14. quâ—ck wit and pious prayer ¶ 17. at his death ibid. EDWIN King of Northumberland and in effect Monarch of England after long preparatory promises Cent. 7. ¶ 39 c. at last converted and baptised ¶ 43. slain by the Pagans in Battel ¶ 60. EGBERT Arch-bishop of York famous in severall respects b. 2. p. 101. ¶ 23. his beastly Canons ¶ 24. EGBERT first fixed Monarch of England Cent. 8. ¶ 41. First giveth the name of England Cent. 9. ¶ 5 6. Is disturbed by the Danes ¶ 7. ELEUTHERIUS Bishop of Rome his Letter to King Lucius Cent. 2. ¶ 6. pretendeth to an anâ—câ—enter date then what is due thereunto ¶ 7. sends two Divines into Britain ¶ 8. ELIE Abbey made the See of a Bishop b. 3. p. 23. ¶ 23. the feasts therein exceed all in England b. 6. p. 299. ¶ 11. Q. ELIZABETH proclaimed b. 8. p. 43. ¶ 56. assumeth the title of supream head of the Church b. 9. p. 152. ¶ 4. defended therein against Papists p. 53. ¶ 5 6. c. Excommunicated by Pope Pius quintus b. 9. p. 93 94. Her farewell to Oxford with a Latine Oration b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 7 8. Her well-come to Cambridge with a Latine Oration Hist. of Cambridge p. 138. her