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authority_n	bishop_n	church_n	jurisdiction_n	5,357	5	9.3309	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51029	Mr. Sadler, sadled in the vindication of Mr. R. Cranmer of London merchant: and confutation, of the abominable untruths, and falshoods of Anthony Sadler of Mitcham, Clark; contained in a letter and petition directed to the Right Reverend Father in God George, Lord Bishop of Winchester; and afterwards published to the world in print. By a true lover of truth and justice.	True Lover of Truth and Justice.	1665 (1665)	Wing M2274BA; ESTC R217849	7,665	19

Discourse and incites the whole Congregation to Prayers and Thanksgivings for the same And in like manner the Patron he takes all occasions to expresse his love to the Vicar and restores him by his mediation and example to the former respects of his Neighbours and Parishioners to whose Tables he was again invited after a long estrangment and they began to be again as well open handed as open hearted unto him But what use doth Anthony Sadler make of all this he is lifted up with these kindnesses and respects shewed him and his Jealousies and Apprehensions not being quite extinguisht they take Life and Head again he repairs to his own evil Counselors one Thomas Witherden Cammel-keeper of Mitcham being the chief of them and they hunt together like Bell and the Dragon after al occasions to traduce Mr. Cranmer and gather up all loose reports let them come from any foul mouth whatsoever and how mean and inconsiderable soever the persons be that are the Authors it matters not and with these they Stigmatize him as Treacherous Barbarous and Oppressive both to the Right Reverend Bishop of that Diocess and to the World in Print in that lying Legend of his stiled Strange News from Mitcham in Surty wherein he makes the Churches Jurisdiction and Discipline and the Churches Free-hold and his Preaching up the Regal Authority and Mr. Cranmers Injury and Disobedience to all to be the ground of his Law-Suite and Presentments but this man must needs be reckoned a stout Champion and firm Asserter of the Churches Rights when under his own hand directed to his Procter Richardson he gives him order to withdraw the Cause and to stop all further proceedings upon the Presentments And gives Mr. Cranmer his Bond for the payment of Thirty Pounds for costs of Suite for his unjust Prosecution This is that well known Minister Anthony Sadler who in his Petition to the Reverend Bishop attests Mr. Cranmer to be a publique Oppressor and notorious in Oppression and why Because when he had been in law two years and a half with his Patron about Dilapidations and had there unjustly opprest him as appears by his withdrawing the Cause and giving Bond for Costs and because he was in person to prosecute his unjust Presentments in the Bishops Court against his Patron which afterwards he withdrew his Patron arrested him there as if for M. Cranmers legally and by due course of Law to seek his remedy against Anthony Sadler for the damage he hath sustained by him were to oppress Anthony Sadler and if Anthony Sadler had not taken that opportunity in Prison to make his Attonement with his Patron by securing him that he would leave the Vicarage at the time prefixed It is to be believ'd that Anthony Sadler had long ere this at the Tryal of that Action been convinced that he himself was the Greatest and most Notorious in Oppression That Anthony Sadler was cast into Prison and lay there a day and a night was not his Patrons fault but his own for if he had put in Bayl his person would have been presently discharged and he needed not to have entered the prison door nor have been kept one houre from his Family and Study but that which is the most Stupendious untruth in the whole pack is that Mr. Cranmer his Common Lawyer should cause Anthony Sadler to Subscribe and Seal a Blank paper or papers which paper or papers Mr. Cranmer and his Common-Lawyer report to be a Judgment and a Warrant for the payment of 500l to Mr. Cranmer And thus he would perswade the world that he was consulted against imprisoned and complotted to be ruined the truth of the matter of Fact you have heard before the penalty in the Bond was indeed 500l but conditioned that if Anthony Sadler should deliver up his Presentation by such a day and resign the Vicarage into the hands of the Bishop that so his Patron might freely present another Person and should also by the 10th of April next remove his Wife and Family out of the Parish then the Bond to be void A. Sadler is both able to write and read and knew what he did before he delivered it the other paper was a Warrant of Attorney to confesse a Judgment upon the same bond which A. Sadler did Sign Seal and Deliver in the presence of very many persons Yet this well known Minister hath the Impudence to affirm to the world that to his best remembrance they were Blank papers the world may well think that Anthony Sadler hath lain in bed so long this cold Winter that he hath forgotten what he did Engage to perform by the 10th of April next and now being awakened and finding the day approaching he would willingly cast off all his Engagments by calling them Blank Papers or else does implore Episcopal assistance to enforce that which is against the Laws of the Land for so is his express word in his pretended letter to the Bishop that his Lordship would send for Mr. Cranmer and enforce indeed the next word is Equity but the meaning is his Security from Mr. Cranmer And if that will not do then comes the Petition directed to the same Right Reverend Bishop to implore his Favour to have Mr. Cranmers Security which he calls Papers to be produced before the King and His Council It is a sign that this Anthony Sadler is distracted or quite mad to think that the King and His Council have no more to do then to minde his pitiful stories and wranglings with his Patron Parishioners But all this while we do but contend with a shadow For he declares that his Letter and Petition were directed To the Lord Bishop of Winchester but does not affirm that he sent either and it is believed that he durst not for fear that he should be disowned for a Son of the True Church being so unlike his Mother both in speech and carriage or at least censured for a disobedient Son in not obeying his Mothers commands and unlike his Brothers in those qualifications set down by the Apostle St. Paul to Timothy That they should be blameless sober of good behaviour not given to wine patient no brawler nor no vice nor lifted up with pride That Mr. Cranmer should be injurious to the Churches Freehold is inconsistent with his own interest having purchased the presentation in Fee and is the real Patron of that Vicarage and called Patron because it is his duty to defend the Churches Right and as well his Interest as his Duty Now to injury the Churches Freehold is to make Mr. Cranmer a Felo de se which no man in his wits can well imagine that Mr. Cranmer should be disobedient to the Churches Discipline is as little imaginable when in the worst of times he presented very able and orthodox Divines and such as were most conformable to the Discipline of the Church to the Vicarage of Mitcham witness Dr. San●iland and Mr. Welden and not only favoured such most in his Judgment but was most charitably disposed to the destressed and sequestred Clergy yearly distributing large portions amongst them as is very well known to some Persons now of great Eminency in the Church which is not mentioned by way of vain glory but to take off those aspersions cast upon him by Anthony Sadler To conclude by which hath been already alledged it would be thought Strange News indeed or News with a Witness and a wonder to the World that there should be at Mitcham one Anthony Sadler that stiles himself the Vicar of Mitcham and a Dutiful Son of the Church of England that doth neglect his Ministerial Office and disobeys the Churches commands disturbing the peace and quiet of his Parishioners and by his evil and bad conversation is most likely to corrupt the people to the dishonour of Religion to the reproach of the Ministry to the contempt of the Discipline of the Church of England and yet to be so bold as to appeal to the Learned and Right Reverend Bishop of that Diocess for his 〈◊〉 and Protection Lond●n Printed by Thomas Ma●b at Pauls Whaiff 1664.