no more obnoxious to this Objection than other Authors who set for t New Editions Secondly I hope my Alterations shall not be so many or great as to disguise the second from the first Edition Lastly I will take order God willing for the Printing of a peice of Paper lesse then a Leaf in my second Impression being the Index of Alteration so that the Owners of the First may if so pleased in less then an Hour with their Pens conform their Books to the new Edition which though a little less Beautifull to the Eye will be no less Beneficial to the Users thereof Here let me humbly tender to the Readers Consideration that my HOLY WARRE though for some Design of the Stationer sticking still in the Title Page at the third Edition as some unmarried Maids will never be more then eighteen yet hath it oftner passed the Press as hath my HOLY STATE MEDITATIONS c. and yet never did I alter Line or Word in any new Impression I speak not this by way of Attribution to my Self as if my Books came for that first with more Perfection then other Mens but with Insinuation to the Reader that ti is but equall that I who have been no Common Begger in this Kind yea never before made use of a second Edition may now have the Benefit thereof allowed me especially in a Subject of such Length Latitude Difficulty Variety and Multiplicity of Matter CHAP. VIII The Fifth General Answer That it is no shame for any Man to confess when convinced thereof and amend an Error in his Iudgement THe Knowledge of our Saviour as God may be compared to the Sun all perfect and compleat at once without any accession or addition thereunto whilst his Knowledge as Man like the Waxing Moon was capable of Increase and was though not subject to the least Error receptive of clearer Information and Iesus increased in Wisdome yea it is expresly said yet learned he Obedience by the thing which he suffered Not such the Knowledge of the best and wisest Man which besides a Capability of more Instruction is always attended with an obnoxiousnesse to many mistakes seeing here wee know in part and easy it is for any Man to come on the Blinde Side of another as being better versed and skilled in such particular matters When therefore I find my self convinced in my Judgement of an Error in my Church-History by perusing the Notes of the Animadvertor I will fairly and freely confesse and amend it And I conceive it is no shame at all for a Childe to write a few Lines of Retractation after so good a Father hath set him so fair a Copy thereof In such a case let not the Animadvertor give me any Blowes where I conceive that my own Blush is a sufficient Penance for the same and let him not immoderately insult on such occasions seeing my Iudgement-Faults will be found neither in number nor Nature such as He hath suggested Covetous Euclio in the Comedy complained that his Servant Intromisit Sexentos Coquos had let in six hundred Cooks when they wanted five hundred ninety eight of that number being but two Anthrax and Congrio truely told and though the Animadvertor frequently complaineth that I run into many Errors run into many Errors yet on examination many of those Errors will prove Truths and such as remain Errors will not prove many Besides the Animadvertor is concerned to be civill to me in this Kind seeing in this particular Veniam petimus dabimusque vicissim A mutuall Bargain we may make Pardon to give and Pardon take If I were minded to retaliate and to show that Humanum est errare I could instance in many mistakes in the last Edition of his Geography Some of the best Birth and Brains in our Nation and Travalers in foreign parts as far as India it self proferred me on their accord to detect in several Countryes unexcusable Errors confuted by their ocular discovery I heartily thanked them for that which I refused to accept and did return First that the Book had atchieved a generall Repute and not undeservedly Secondly that it was very usefull and I my Self had reaped Benefit thereby Thirdly that it would seem in me like to Revenge in this Juncture of Time when the Doctor was disadvantaged by some Infirmity Lastly that others might be detremented thereby Yea if we but look into his SHORT VIEW of the Life and Reign of King CHARLES some Faults occur therein which God willing I will calmly discover in our Answer to these Animadversions not with intent to Cloud his Credit but Clear my own CHAP. IX The Sixth General Answer That Prelial Mistakes in Defiance of all Care will escape in the best Corrected Book THe most accurate Book that ever came forth into Light had some Mistakes of the Presse therein Indeed I have heard of Robert Stephen that he offered a great Summe of Money equivalent perchance to five Pounds of our English Coin to such who would discover any Erratum in his Folio Greek Testament dedicated to King Francis the first But sure I am that some of our English Bibles which may be presumed set forth with the best Care printed at London have their Errats and therefore Prelial Faults being a catching Disease no wonder if my Book as well or rather as ill as others be subject to the same Here it will be objected that there is a known and sure Receipt for the Cure of this Disease viz. the Listing of such Faults as have escaped either in the Beginning or End of the Book that so the Reader may if he please amend if otherwise avoid them Such an Index Erratorum or Catalogue of Mistakes is in some sort a STOOL OF REPENTANCE wherein Offenders find their lost Innocence and such faults thus confessed are never charged either on the Author's or Printer's Account It is answered that although such a List of Faults generally followeth as the Impedimentum or Baggage in the Rere of a Book yet seldome or never is it adequate to all the Errata's which are committed therein For first all committed are not discovered neither by the Corrector nor the Author himself who perusing his own Book in overlooking the faults therein Overlooks them indeed and following the conduct of his own fancy wherein He intended all to be right readeth the words in his Book rather as they should be than as they are printed Secondly all faults which are discovered are not confessed Such as the Printer esteemeth small He leaveth to be amended by the direction of the Sense and discretion of the Reader according to the common Speech that the Reader ought to be better than his Book In my Book the Index of Errata's amounts not to above forty a very small number in proportion of so voluminous a Work which with Credit might crave the allowance of twice as many more thereunto The Animadvertor in these his Notes maketh great advantage of some
those who have either Separated from the Church or appeared against it I return to prosecute his Metaphor that I have used as UPRIGHT BOWLES as ever any that enter the Alley of History since our Civil Dissentions I do freely declare my self that I in VVriting my Book am for the Church of England as it stood established by Law the Creed being the Contracted Articles and the 39. Articles the Expanded Creed of her Doctrine as the Canons of her Discipline And still I prise her Favour highest though for the present it be least worth as little able to protect and less to prefer any that are faithfull to her Interest As for pleasing of Parties I never Designed or Endevoured it There were a kind of Philosophers called ELECTICI which were of none yet of all Sects and who would not engage in gross in the Opinions of any Philosophers but did pick and choose here and there what they found Consonant to Truth either amongst the Stoicks Peripateticks Academicks or misinterpreted Epicures receiving that and rejecting the rest such my Project to commend in all Parties what I find praise-worthy and condemne the rest on which Account some Fleer some Frown none Smile upon me First for the Papists though I malice not their Persons and have a Pity as God I hope hath a Mercy for many amongst them yet I do as occasion is offered dislike their Errors whereby I have incurred and according to their principles deserved their Displeasure The old Non-conformists being the same with the modern Presbuterians but depressed and under as the modern Presbuterians are the old Non-conformists but vertical and in Authority do though the Animadvertor twiâ—teth me constantly to Advocate for them take great and general exception at me and it is not long since in a Meeting of the most Eminent amongst them I was told that I put too much Gall into my Inck against them The Independent being the Benjamin of Parties and his Mess I assure you is none of the least taxeth me for too much fieriness as the Animadvertor in his Expression lately cited chargeth me for too much Favour unto them Thomas Lord Coventry when coming from the Chancery to sit down at Dinner was wont to say Surely to day I have dealt equally for I have displeased both sides I hope that I have his Happiness for I am sure I have his Unhappiness that having disobliged all Parties I have written the very Truth Thus I can onely privately comfort my self in my owne Innocence and hope that when my Head is laid low what seems too sweet too bitter too salt too fresh to the present divided Age will be adjudged well tasted and seasoned to the Palate of Unpartial Posterity CHAP. XIII What Good the Animadvertor might but would not doe and what Good by Gods goodness he Herein hath done unto the Author WHen the Animadvertor had perused my Book marking some but making moe faults therein it was in his Power to have done me a Pleasure the greatest he could give or I receive viz. not to paradigmatize me but by Letter in an amicable way to impart my Mistakes unto me that I might amend them in my next Edition Say not He owed me no such thing who would have beheld it not as a Debt paid unto but Alms bestowed upon me I was not wholly without hope hereof having found such favour from some worthy Friends Had the Animadvertor done the like How had he obliged me As the Society of Peter-house do preserve the Pictures of their Benefactors in their Parlour so would I have erected unto him a Monument of Gratitude in my Heart besides my publick acknowledgement of the courtesie But it seems He intended not my Information but Defamation However he hath done to me a great good turn for which because not intended I will thank God viz. He by his causeless Carping hath allayed in me the delight in Writing of Histories seeing nothing can be so unpartially and inoffensively written but some will carp thereat Mothers minding to wean their Children use to put Soot Wormwood or Mustard on the Nibbles of their Breasts God foresaw I might Suck to a Surfet in Writing Histories which hath been a Thief in the Lamp of my Life wasting much Oyle thereof My Head and Hand had robb'd my Heart in such delightful Studdies Wherefore he raised the bitter Pen of the Animadvertor to wean me from such Digressions from my Vocation I now experimentally find the Truth of * Solomon's words of making many Books there is no End Not but that all perfect Books I mean perfect in sheets otherwise none save Scripture perfect have Finis in the Close thereof or that any Author is so irrational but He propounds an End to himself before he begins it but that in making of many Books there is no end that is the Writers of them seldome or never do attain that End which they propound to themselves especially if Squinting at sinister Ends as who is not flesh and blood Such as project wealth to themselves are commonly by unwise managing or casual miscarriage impaired thereby in their Estates Others who designed to themselves with the builders of Babel to get them a Name commonly meet with shame and disgrace Or else when their Books are ended yet they are not ended because though never so cautiously written some Antagonists will take up the Bucklers against them so that they must begin again after they have ended or sink in their credits to write in their own vindication which is my case enough to take off my edge formerly too keen in making multiplicity of Books I confess I have yet one History ready for the Press which I hope will be for Gods Glory and Honour of our Nation This new-built Ship is now on the Stocks ready to be lanched and being a Vessel of great Burden God send me some good Adventurers to bear part of the Expence This done I will never meddle more with making any Books of this Nature It is a provident way before Writing leave us to leave of Writing and the rather because Scribling is the Frequentative thereof If therefore my Petitioning and Optative Amen shall meet with Gods Commissioning and Imperative Amen I will hereafter totally attend the Concernments of my Calling and what directly and immediately shall tend to the advance of Devotion in my Self and in Others as preparatory to my Dissolution out of this state of Mortality CHAP. XIV That the Author is unjustly charged by the Animadvertor for being agreeable to the Times And how far forth such Agreeableness is consistent with Christian Prudence THe Animadvertor is pleased to Charge me to be a great Temporizer and agreeable to the Times In Order to my Defence herein let me premise this Distinction that there is a Sinful and Sinless Agreeableness with the Times be they never so bad It is a Sinful Agreeableness when People for their private profit or safety or both are resolved in
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
However I conceived my self bound in Duty to David's Command Not onely to seek peace but to pursue it though in some sort it fled away from me being now informed that the Doctor was writing against me wherefore finding him in Fleetstreet and following him at his heels to his Chamber at a Stationers house over again St. Dunstan's Church I sent up my Name to him by a Servant of the House desiring to speak a few Words with him the Messenger went to him and return'd me this Answer That the Doctor was very busie and could not be spoken with Thus my Treaty for Peace taking no effect I armed my self with Patience and quietly expected the coming forth of his Book against me CHAP. III. That after serious Debate the Author found himself Necessitated to make this Appeal in his own just Vindication HAving perused the Books of the Animadvertor against me it bare a strong Debate within me whether I should pass it over in silence or return an Answer unto him and Arguments on both sides presented themselves unto me Silence seemed best because I lacked leisure solemnly to confute his Animadversions having at this time so much and various Imployment The Cow was well stocked with Milk thus praised by the Poet Bis venit ad Mulctrum binos alit Ubere faetus She suckles Two yet doth not fail Twice a day to come to th' Pail But I justly feared who twice a Lords-day do come to the Pulpit God knows my Heart I speak it not to Ostentation that I could not suckle my Parish and the Press without Starving or Short-feeding of one Whereas the Animadvertor in his retired Life gives no other Milk then following his own private Studies Secondly I suggested to my self that the second blow makes the Frey and should I rejoyn probably it would engage me in an endless Contest with which my declining age could ill comport I remembred the Man who moved in Chancery for a Gelt Order which should beget no more but knew not when any such Eunuch-Answer should pass betwixt us to put a period to the Controversie Lastly our Saviours counsel came into my mind Matth. 5.39 Resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on the right side turn to him the other also And although some Divines make this Precept but Temporary as a Swadling-cloath to the Church whiles in the Infancy thereof under Persecution yet others make it alwaies Obligatory and of perpetual Continuance On the other side the Distinction came seasonably to my Remembrance of a Mans RIGHTING and REVENGING himself the latter belongs to God alone Vengeance is mine I will repay it the former Men may and in some cases must do in their owne fair defence without Breach of our Saviours Precept lately alledged I called also to Mind how in our Common Law MUTES at the Bar who would not plead to the Indictment are Adjudged guilty and therefore justly suspected I should from my Silence be concluded Cast in the Court of Religion and Learning for such Faults and Errors as the Animadvertor hath charged on me But most of all it moved me that Ministers of Gods Word and Sacraments ought to Vindicate their Credits that so they may be the more Effectual Factors for Gods glory in their Vocation When our Saviour went about to Heal the Mans withered hand on the Sabbath day Mar. 3.4 Is it lawful said he to save Life or to Kill Where I observed that our Saviour accounted not healing to be hurting yea not curing to be killing in that person who had Ability and Opportunity to do it And by the same Proportion not plaistering is Killing of ones wounded Credit and so consequently I should be FELO DE SE and by my sinful Silence be the Wilful murtherer of my own Reputation These last Reasons did preponderate with me and I resolved on two things to return a Plain Full and Speedy Answer and to refrain from all Railing which is a Sick Wit if not the Sickness of Wit and though perchance I may have something tart to Quicken the Appetite of the Reader yet nothing bitter against the Credit of the Animadvertor This my Answer I have here Entituled The APPEAL unto the RELIGIOUS LEARNED and INGENUOUS But before I close with the Animadvertor Comminùs Hand to hand let us first Eminùs try it at Distance and entertain the Reader to his Profit and Pleasure I hope with my General Defences before I proceed to Answer each Particular CHAP. IV. The Author's first General Answere taken from his Title-page and Word ENDEVOVRED MEn may be ranked into three Forms of INTENDERS ENDEVOURERS and PERFORMERS INTENDERS are the first and lowest Form yet so far favoured by some Papists that they maintain That a good Intention though embracing ill Means makes a good Action PERFORMERS are the third and highest rank to which my Thoughts dare not aspire but leave this upper room empty to be filled by Men of better parts and ability The middle Form consists of ENDEVOURERS amongst whom I took my station in the Title-page of my Book The Church-History of Britain ENDEVOURED by Thomas Fuller And as I did not hope that any Courteous Reader would call me up higher so I did not fear that any Caviller thereat could cast me lower but that I might still peaceably possess my Place of an ENDEVOURER For what though I fall short of that which I desire and strive to perform I did neither belie my self nor deceive the Reader who neither was the first nor shall be the last of whom it may be truly said Magnis excidit Ausis The Fate of many my Betters who have undertook to compass high and hard Matters But it may be objected against me that being conscious of my owne weakness with the weight of the burden I should have left the Work for some stronger back to bear and quitted it to those who would not only have endevoured but performed the same I answer first I did hope that what was acceptable to God would not be contemptible to good Men having read If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not Secondly seeing this my willingness was attended with a competencie of Books Records Friends Intelligence Strength Health and Leisure be all spoken not to my praise but Gods glory I did hope something worth the Readers acceptance might be produced Lastly though failing in what I undertook I hoped to perform what might be usefull and advantagious to abler Pens undertaking the same task and to use my owne as who should forbid Expression my Beams might be Scaffolds my Corner Filling stones for his more beautiful Building The premisses encouraged me to undertake my Church-History wherein if I have not done what the Reader expected let him consider with himself whether he did not expect what I never promised Who being unwilling to be Cast by the Verdict of the Ingenuous for laying
my owne Action too high have not farced the first page of my Book like a Mountebanks Bill pretending no higher but to ENDEVOUR CHAP V. The Second Generall Answer That many especially MEMORY Mistakes and Pen-slips must be expected in a great Volume IT is the Advantage of a Small Book that the Authors Eye may in a manner be Incumbent at once over it all from the Beginning to the End thereof a Cause why they may be more exactly corrected A Garden hard by ones House is easier Weeded and Trimmed than a Field lying at some distance Books which swell to a great Volume cannot be spun with so even a Thread but will run courser here and there yea and have Knots in them sometimes whereof the Author is not so sensible as the Reader as the Faults in Children are not so soon found in them by their own Fathers as by Strangers Thus the Poet Verum opere in Longo Fas est obrepere somnum As for MEMORY-MISTAKES which are not the Sleeping bnt Winking of an Author they are so far from overthrowing the Credit of any Book as a speck not paring-deep in the rind of an apple is from proving of the same rotten to the core Yea there want not learned Writers whom I need not name of the Opinion that even the Instrumental Pen-men of the Scripture might commit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though open that window to profaneness and it will be in vain to shut any dores Let God be true and every man a lyer However I mention their judgments to this purpose to shew that Memory-mistakes have not been counted such hainous matters but venial in their own nature as not only finding but deserving pardon I confess when such mistakes become common and customary in an Author they mar the credit of his Book and intollerably abuse the Reader Nothing is lighter in it self than a single crumb of Sand yet many of them put together are the heavyest of bodily burdens Heavier than the Sand on the Sea What is slight in it self if numerous will become ponderous but I hope that Memory-mistakes and Pen-slips in my Book will not be found so frequent and desire the benefit of this Plea to be allowed me but four times in my Answer to the Animadvertor A Number low enough I hope for the Ingenuous Reader to grant though perchance too high for me to request CHAP. VI. The Third General Answer That in Intire Stories of impregnable Truth it is facile for one to Cavill with some Colour at Dismembred Passages therein IT is an Act as easie as unjust for one to assault a naked Sentence as it stands by it self disarmed of the Assistance of the coherence before and after it all Sentences except they be intire and independent have a double strength in them one Inherent the other relative and the latter sometimes greater than the former when what in a Sentence is doubtful is explained difficult expounded defective supplyed yea seemingly false rendred really true by the Connexion We read in the Life of St. Edward that Harold Cup-bearer to the King chanced to stumble with the one foot that he almost kissed the Ground but with the other Leg he recovered himself whereat his Father Godwin Earl of Kent then dining with the King said Now one Brother doth help another to whom the King replyed And so might my Brother have helped me if it had so pleased you Many times when one Sentence in my Book hath had a Casual slip the next to it out of Fraternal kindness would have held it up in the apprehension of the Reader from falling into any Great Error had the Animadvertor so pleased who uncharitably cutteth it off from such support so that one Brother cannot help another whilest he representeth mangled and maimed Passages to the Disadvantage of the Sense and VVriter thereof Thus one may prove Atheisme out of Scripture it self There is no God But what went before The fool hath said in his heart I have dealt more fairly in this my Appeal with the Animadvertor and have not Here and There picked out Parcels and cut off Shreads where they make most for my advantage but have presented the whole Cloath of his Book as he will find so if pleasing to measure it over again Length and Breadth and List and Fag and all that so the Reader may see of what Wool it is made and what Thread it is spun and thereby be the better enabled to pass his verdict upon it CHAP. VII The Fourth General Answer That FAVOVR of COVRSE is indulged to the first as least perfect Edition of Books THe first Edition of a Book in a difficult Subject hath ever been beheld as less complete and a liberty of Correcting and Amending hath been allowed to all Authors of this kind I will instance in his Book whose Books would I was worthy to bear Mr. Camden's Britania His first Edition was a Babe in a little the second a Childe in a bigger Octavo the third a Youth in a Quarto but Map-less the last a Man in a fair Folio first and last differing more then a Gally and Galeas not onely in the Greatness but Perfection every newer Edition amending the Faults of the former Next we will insist in another Author above all exception even the Animadvertor himself who in his Epistle to the Reader before the Second and much altered Edition of his MICROCOSME thus expresseth himself not unhappily either for his owne or my purpose I am not the first of whom it was said Secundae Cogitationes sunt meliores neither is it a thing rare for Children of this nature to be as often perfected as born Books have an Immortality above their Authors They when they are full of Age and Guiltiness can be retaken into the wombe which bred them and with a new Life receive a greater Portion of Youth and Glory Every Impression is to them another being and that alwayes may and often doth bring with it a sweeter Edition of Strength and Loveliness Thus with them Age and each several Death is but an Usher to a new Birth each several Birth the mother of a more vigorous Perfection Had the like liberty of a Second Edition been allowed me which the Animadvertor assumed his pains had been prevented and most of the Faults he hath found in my Book being either derected by my self or discovered by my Friends communicating the same unto me had been rectified Thus in the Latin Tongue the same word SECUNDUS signifieth both Second and Successful because Second Undertakings wherein the failings of the former are observed and amended generally prove most Prosperous But it will be Objected Such Second Editions with new Insertions Additions and Alterations are no better than Pick-pockets to the Reader who having purchased and perused the first Edition is by this new one both in his purse and pains equally abused and his Book rendred little better than Waste paper I Answer First I am
of these un-confessed-Faults and I sometimes plead the mistake of the Press for my Answer though seldome save when some similitude of form in the mistaken letter rendreth it probable for a Prelial Error CHAP. X. The Seventh and last General Answer That an Author charging his Margin with his Author is thereby Himself discharged HIstorians who write of things done at distance many miles from their dwellings and more years before their Births must either feign them in their owne Brains or fetch them from other credible Authors I say credible such as carry worth and weight with them Substantial Persons Subsidie men as I may say in Truths Book otherwise for some Pamphlets and all Pasquils I behold them as so many Knights of the Post even of no Reputation Now for the more credit of what is written and better assurance of the Reader it is very expedient that the Author alledged be fully and fairly quoted in the Margin with the Tome Book Chapter Leaf Page and Columne sometimes seldome descending so low as the Line where the thing quoted is expressed and this done the Author is free from fault which citeth it though He may be faulty who is cited if delivering a falshood Indeed if one become bound as Surety for another he engageth Himself to make good the Debt in the Default of Principal But if he onely be Bail for his Appearance and accordingly produceth his Person in Publick Court He ought to be discharged without farther trouble Semblably if one not onely cites but commends the words of an Authour then He undertakes for him adopts his words to be his owne becomes his Pledge and consequently is bound to justifie and maintain the truth of what he hath quoted But if he barely alledgeth his words without any closing with them in his Judgement he is onely bound for that Author's appearance Understand me to justifie that such words are exactly extant in manner and form in the place alledged easy to be found by any who will follow the Marginal direction This I reserve for my Eighth and last Answer when taxed by the Animadvertor for such things for which I have presented my Author in the Margin In such cases I conceive I should be discharged and if any Fees at all be to be paid I hope the Courteous Reader on my request will remit them and dismiss me without more molestation CHAP. XI That many of the Animadvertors Notes are onely Additional not Opposite to what I have written And that all things omitted in an History are not Defects WHo so beholdeth the Several places in my Book noted on by the Animadvertor hath cause at the first Blush to conclude my Church-History very Erroneous and full of Faults out of which so bigg a Bundle of Mistakes have been collected but upon serious Perusal of these Notes it will appear that a third part of them at the least are meerly Additional not opposite to what I have written so that they render my Book not for Truth the lesse but his for Bulk the greater Herein he seemeth like unto those Builders who either wanting Materials to erect an intire house or fearing so frail and feeble a Fabrick will not stand by it self run it along the side-walls of another house whereby they not onely save Timber but gain strength to their New Edifice The Animadvertor had a Mind to communicate some new Notions he had to the World but he found them not many and weighty enough to fill a just Book for Sale whereupon he resolves to range his Notions against my Church-History that so partly carping thereat and partly adding thereto he might betwixt both make up a Book Competent for Sale Hence it is that sometimes not liking my Language as not proper and expressive enough he substituted his owne with little or no variation of Matter and sometimes adds new Passages some whereof I could formerly have inserted but because I perceived my Book as the Reader is sensible by the price thereof grown already to too great a Volume When Additional Notes frequently occur I conceive my self not obliged in the least degree to return an Answer thereunto as being rather besides than against what I have written However if I have left out any thing it would have been suspected I had omitted that which most had made against me to prevent which Jealousie such Additional Notes are also here verbatim represented To such as object that the Animadvertor's Additions are Suppletory of the Defects in my Church-History I answer that a Defect properly is Absentia debiti adesse the Absence of what ought to be there so that a thing is maimed or lame without it But Additions to an History are reducible to these two Heads viz. either such as they Must without Imperfection be added May without Impertinency be added Few if any of the former some of the latter kind are found in the Animadvertor's Additory Notes And let me tell Him that if He writes Books against all who have written Books and have not written all which may be said of their Subject he may even write against all who have ever written Books and then He will have work enough Let us go no farther then to his own Geophraphy being sure he is too Iudicious to be so conceited of his own pains as to think he hath inserted all that may be said of so large a Subject The Story is well known of Aesop's Master who buying two Servants together in the Market-place demanded of one of them what he could doe He answered that he would doe all things doe all things Then the other Aesop himself being askt what he could doe answered He could doe nothing His Master seeming angry to keep so unprofitable a Servant How can I returned Aesop doe any thing when my Fellow-servant will doe all and leave me nothing to doe If Dr. Heylin hath done all things in his Geography he hath given a Writ of Ease for ever to Posterity who may Despair to merit more of that matter All who hereafter shall write a new Book of Geography must also find out a new World with Columbus as anticipated by the Doctor having formerly completed all on that Subject I presume not to say that I have in my Church-History done all things having written many and most material Passages leaving the rest to others But this I say that all things left out in a History are not wanting neither are all things wanting Defects if not essential thereunto As for some of the Animadvertors added Notes they are no more needful or useful than a sixth finger to a mans Hand as God willing in due time shall appear CHAP. XII That the Author Designed unto himself no Party-pleasing in Writing his Church-History PArtiality is constantly charged on me by the Animadvertor and once with a witness as followeth pag. 257. We see by this as by like Passages which way our Author's Bowle is BY ASSED how constantly he declares himself in Favour of
stiled OUR Catalogues of Honour But more exact Heralds whom it concerns to be skilful in their own Profession do otherwise account them Dr. Heylyn No Richard Duke of York to be found amongst them his Father Richard of Konisburgh having lost that Title by Attainder which never was restored to Richard his Son though most improvidently advanced to the Dukedom of York nor unto any other of that Line and Family Fuller I admire at the Animadvertor's peremptoriness in this point when the no less learned but more modest Mr. Camden speaking of these Earls in the Description of Cambridge-shire saith that after the death of Richard of Conisburgh The Title of the Earl of Cambridge either wholly vanished with him or else lay hid amongst the Titles of Richard his Son who was restored Duke of York as Kinsman and Heir to his Uncle Edward Duke of York What he warily said laid hid is found out by such as since wrote on that Subject Mr. Brooke York Herald and Mr. Augustine Vincent in effect Mr. Camden revised who writing Corrections on Brooke concurreth with him in this particular for Richard of Edward's Brother was after created Earl of that place Cambridge and after him another Richard who was Richard of Conisburgh's Son See Reader what an Adversary I have gotten who careth not to write against the most evident and avowed Truths so be it he may write something against Me. Dr. Heylyn 4. Proceed we in the next place to Verses and old ends of Poetry scattered and dispersed in all parts of the History from one end to the other for which he hath no precedent in any Historian Greek or Latine or any of the National Histories of these latter times The Histories of Herodotus Xenophon Thucidides and Plutarch amongst the Greeks of Caesar Livy Salust Tacitus and Suetonius amongst the Latines afford him neither warrant nor example for it The like may be affirmed of Eusebius Socrates Sozomen Theodoret Ruffin and Evagrius Church-Historians all though they had all the best choice and the most excellent Poets of the world to befriend them in it And he that shall consult the Historyes of succeeding times through all the Ages of the Church to this present day will find them all as barren of any incouragements in this kind as the ancients were Fuller Never had Herodotus given his Nine Books the names of the Nine Muses if such was his Abstemiousness from Poetry Not one of them which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this kind and there are found in Clio the first no fewer than thirty Verses of the Oracles of Pythia As those his Books are fruitful so his Book of the Life of Homer hath a superfetation of them so that if Paose be the Warp Verses are the Woof thereof Whereas the Animadvertor instances in Plutarch open at the life of Theseus and we are presented with Poetry therein But grant no precedent in this nature in these Authors A more free Genius acteth in modern than in ancient Historians manumissed from the Servilities they were tied or tied themselves unto The Animadvertor like another Empson endevoureth to revive the Penal Statutes of History against me so to subject me to fine for the breach thereof which Time in effect hath cancelled Qui Scribit Historicè scribit miserè if enslaved to all puntillo's thereof Let the Animadvertor keep those Steel-bodys for his own wearing and not force them on me What not a Plait or a Ruffle more or less but all must be done in Number Waight and Measure according to Historicall criticisme This is not putting the Book but the Author himself into the Press Tacitus himself here instanced in would be Tacitus indeed if all Politick Sentences and prudential results were deleted in him being trespasses on the preciseness of History confined to matter of Fact But well-fare that Historian who will go out of his own way to direct his Reader We know Pliny Solinus c. in their Topographical description of Countreys are barren of verses Let the Animadvertor on the same account therefore charge Mr. Camden for surcharging his Britannia with Poetry having but three verseless Shires viz. Dorset Bucks and Westmerland in all England and more than fourscore verses apeece in the three severall Counties of Berks Oxford and Somerset Dr. Heylyn Nay whereas Bishop Godwin in his Annals gives us an Epitaph of two Verses only made on Queen Iane Seymour and afterwards a Copy of eighteen verses on the Martyrdome of Arch-Bishop Cranmer he ushers in the last with this short Apology Contra morem Historiae liceat quaeso inserère c. Let me saith he I beseech you insert these following verses though otherwise against the Rule and Laws of History Fuller What if that worthy Prelate was pleased to pass a Complement on his Reader it followeth not that they do want Civility who have less Courtship in this Point than he hath Let us look on his Catalogue of Bishops which hath more vicinity with my Subject and there we shall find the Bulk of the Book considered more verses in proportion than in my Church-History on the token that where I cite but four he quoteth fourteen out of Martial to prove Claudia Ruffina a Britan and a Christian. Dr. Heylyn But what alas were eighteen or twenty verses compared with those many hundred six or seven hundred at the least which we find in our Author whether to shew the universality of his reading in all kind of Writers or his faculty in Translating which when he meets with hard Copies he knows how to spare I shall not determine at the present Fuller If peeces of verses be counted whole ones which in this point is no Charitable Synecdoche and if Translations be reckoned distinct Verses though it is hard that a Man and his Shadow should be accounted two different persons And if the verses in the History of Cambridge be adjected though he who banisheth Poetry out of an University will find Iambicks enough to pay him for his pains And if the verses in the History of Waltham-Abby be cast in though who shall hinder but I will describe my own Parish in Prose or Poetry as I think fit all put together will not amount to the number Besides many of my verses may be said to be Prose in Effect as containing the Religion of that Age and therefore alledged as Evidence thereof before the Norman Conquest and no authority can in Prose be produced which doth so fully and cleerly represent the same Other Verses are generally Epitaphs on some eminent Church-men which could not well be omitted Dr. Heylyn Certain I am that by the interlarding of his Prose with so many Verses he makes his Book look rather like a Church-Romance our late Romancers being much given to such kind of mixtures than a well-built Ecclesiastical History And if it be a matter so inconvenient to put a new peice of cloth on an old garment the putting of so many old patches on a
will acknowledge the common and constant custome in such cases I could instance in many more it being no discretion to play out all I have at once but to keep a Reserve in my hand in case which God forefend I should be provoked to another Answer Dr. Heylyn But nothing does more evidently discover his unfaithfull dealing then his report of the proceedings in the Isle of Wight between his Majesty and the long-Parliament Divines of which he tells us Lib. 11. fol. 235. That his Majesty in the last Paper which he sent them acknowledged their great pains to inform his Iudgement according to their perswasions and also took especial notice of their Civilities of the Application both in the beginning and body of their Reply and having cleer'd himself from some mis-understanding about the Writ of Partition which they speak of puts an end to the businesse The man who reads this passage cannot choose but think that his Majesty being vanquisht by the Arguments of the Presbyterians had given over the cause and therefore as convicted in his Conscience rendreth them thanks for the Instruction which he had received and the Civilities they used towards him in the way thereof But he that looks upon his Majestie 's last Paper will find that he had Learnedly and Divinely refel'd all their Arguments And having so done puts them in mind of three questions which are propos'd in his former Paper acknowledged by themselves to be of great importance in the present controversie without an Answer whereunto his Majesty declared that he would put an end to that conference It not being probable as he told them that they should work much upon his Iudgement whilst they are fearfull to declare their own nor possible to relieve his conscience but by a free declaring of theirs But they not able or not daring for fear of displeasing their great Masters to return an Answer to those Questions his Majesty remain'd sole Master of the field a most absolute Conquerour For though the first blow commonly does begin the Quarrel it is the last blow always that gets the Victory But Regium est cum benefeceris malè audire It hath been commonly the fortune of the greatest Princes when they deserve best to be worst reported Fuller Here I will truely acquaint the Reader with the State of this Matter The posting Press which with the Time and Tide will stay for no man mistaking my Copy compleat and not attending my coming to London that morning from Waltham clapt it up imperfect I must therefore deservedly take all the blame and shame thereof on my self and here in this Sheet do publick-pennance for the same promising amendment to the full God willing in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Nor deals he better with the Church then he does with the King concealing such things as might make for her justification and advocating for such things as disturb her order In the last Book we find him speaking of some heats which were rais'd in the Church about placing the Communion-Table Altar-wise and great fault found for the want of Moderation in those Men who had the managing of that business But he conceals his Majesties Determination in the Case of St. Gregories Novemb. 3. 1633. By which all Bishops and other Ordinaries were incouraged to proceed therein and consequently those of inferiour rank to defend their actings Fuller I have not full twenty Lines on the whole Subject being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference sopited in good measure and as I durst not totally omit so I passed it over with all possible brevity Dr. Heylyn The Chappel of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge is built North and South contrary to the usage of the primitive times and the Church of England with which King Iames being made acquainted he answered as our Author tels us That it was no matter how the Chappel stood so the heart stood aright Which Tale being told by him and believed by others populum qui sibi credit habet Ovid. in Ep. Hysiphil as he is like enough to find many Believers farewell to all external Reverence in the Service of God What need we trouble our selves or others with standing kneeling bowing in the acts of Worship it is no matter in what posture the Body be so the Heart be right Fuller The Speech of K. Iames was no Tale but a Truth when he did not exclude bodily reverence but prefer Soul sincerity in divine Service Parallel unto those Scripture-Instances Psalm 51.26 for thou desirest no Sacrifice that is thou wouldest them not comparatively to cordial Contrition 1 Pet. 4 3. speaking of good women whose adorning let it not be that outward of playting the hair viz. not chiefly therein to the neglecting of inward holiness Nor is the Speech inductive of corporal Irreverence if believed seeing a Mans body may and ought easily quickly and cheaply be contrived into standing bowing kneeling when it requires time and expence to take down and re-build a Chappel which would cost the Colledge five hundred Pounds at the least Dr. Heylyn What need we put our selves or others to the charge of Surplices and Hoods of Gowns and Cassacks in the officiating of Gods Service It is no matter in what habit the Body be so the heart be right There is another Chappel in Cambridge which was never consecrated whether a Stable or a Dormitory is all one to me At which time when some found themselves grieved our Author tells them This others of us great Learning and Religion himself especially for one dare defend that the continued Series of Divine Duties publickly practised for more then thirty years without the least check or controul of those in authority in a place set apart to that purpose doth sufficiently consecrate the same Stables and Barns by this Argument shall in some tract of time become as sacred as our Churches Fuller Had I lived in Sidney Colledge when that Dormitory was first used for a Chappel I would have advised and in my Sphere advanced its consecration accounting the Omission to fall under just reproof But seeing it hath been so long omitted I now conceive it hath no need of Consecration seeing though never solemnly and formally dedicated to Divine Service by the Ordinary or one deputed by him yet hath it had a tacite interpretative Consecration and thereby hath contracted a relative Sacrednesse By the same Proportion it is that Utensils long used in a Family to most civill and generous imployment by degrees acquire to themselves the Reputation in the Apostle's language of vessels of honour as being opposed to such vessels imployed in sordid though necessary Service and of the same metal and matter I doubt not but if this place used for a Chappel now about a Jubilee of years should be turned to a Stable the Animadvertor would behold it and justly too as a piece of Prophanation and this intimates a Sacrednesse therein It is mainly material that Bishop Andrews of Ely
a Reverend Prelate and as knowing as any of his Order in this point of Antiquity knew this to be in his Diocesse yet never manifested the least Regreet at the Chappelizing of this Place As for consecration of Churches and Chappels I say first is no Sacramental action Secondly It is not of Evangelical Institution as Bellarmine himself doth freely confesse no Express for it in the New-Testament De cultu Sanctorum lib. 3. cap. 5. In statu Evangelii non habemus tam expressa testimonia Scripturae Thirdly It is charitably to be presumed that when Dr. Montague and the fellows first entred the Dormitory sequestring that place for a Chappel they by Prayers and a Sermon did solemnly consign it to the Service of God seeing no man of common Principles of Piety will offer to eat meat before he hath said Grace Fourthly Such Prayers did in some sort Dedicate the place wanting no formality save because not done by a Bishop and if this be all the fault can be found therein let the Animadvertor prove probatio incumbit affirmanti that in the primitive Times consecrating of Churches was only an Episcopal Act. Fifthly What was wanting in the consecration at the first hath since sufficiently been supplyed and corroborated by usance thereof to Gods Service only If factious people should in peaceable times against lawfull Authority conventicle in a Barn or Stable their Meetings sinfull in themselves could not derive any Sacrednesse to the place whilst the World lasteth But if Persecution which God of his goodness avert though we by our wickednesse deserve it should invade our Land I conceive Stables are by Prayers and presence of God's suffering Servants and chiefly by God's presence with them at the minute of their entrance thither elevated into Holy places Dr. Heylyn And if the Brethren think it not enough for their ease to be pent up in so narrow a Room t is but repairing to the next Grove or Coppise and that in a like traet of time shall become as holy as Solomons Temple or any consecrated place whatsoever it be Fuller Not the solemnest Consecration can advance our Churches into the same degree of Sacredness with Solomon's Temple which was yea might bee but one dignified when dedicated with God his Glorious Presence 2 Chro. 7.12 Who chose that place to himself for an house of Sacrifice It was the Type of our blessed Saviour perfect in all Points as made by inspired Architects and the utensils in the Holy of Holiest the self same which Moses made according to the pattern in the Mount But I hold English Churches may amount to the Holinesse of the Jewish Synagogues Dr. Heylyn Churches may well be spared pulled down and their Materials sold for the use of the Saints Fuller God forbid The clean contrary followeth from my Position wherein I do offer an Argument for the Sacredness of Places the Register of whose Consecration is lost as Time out of Mind so that now they can no otherwise prove it no Record being extant thereof save by pious Prescription Enough in my Judgement to give Sacriledge a Rap over the fingers if offering to lay hold on such places and buildings and turn them to her private Profit Were it in my power I would have built a Church where I only made my Church-History But the worst is the Animadvertor would then have quarrelled the contriving and adorning of my Church as much as now he doth the matter and making of my Book and therefore I leave it to others of more ability first to do and then to defend their good Actions from his Morosity Dr. Heylyn A Tub by this our Author's Logick will be as useful as the Pulpit unto Edification Fuller This is a Tale for I am sure it is no Truth of a Tub indeed I ever beheld a Pulpit as in some sort jure divino ever since I read Nehem. 8.4 that Ezrah stood upon a Pulpit of Wood. However if called thereunto I pray God I may make but as good a practical Sermon as Iohn Badby effectually preached in a Tub of Constancy and Christian Patience when put into such a Vessel and burnt therein for the testimony of the Truth in the Reign of K. Henry the fourth Dr. Heylyn And that we may perceive that nothing is more precious with him then an irregular unconsecrated and unfurnished Chappel c. Fuller Next to an Heart such as David had made the best Coppy of the best Original after Gods own heart I most highly prize a regular and consecrated Chappel furnished with Matron-like not Meritricious Ornaments Dr. Heylyn Melvin's infamous Libel against the Furniture of the Altars in the Chappels Royall for which he was censur'd in the Star-Chamber must be brought in by head and shoulders out of time and place for fear lest such an excellent piece of Puritanical Zeal should be lost to posterity These things I might have noted in their proper places but that they were reserv'd for this as a taste to the rest Fuller I account not those his verses worth the translating though easie and speak of his censure as well as of his offence I mis-timed nothing having entered this passage near the year wherein he was setled a Professor beyond the Seas Dr. Heylyn Et jam sinis erat And here I thought I should have ended this Anatomy of our Author's Book but that there is another passage in the Preface thereof which requires a little further consideration For in that Preface he informs us by the way of caution That the three first Books were for the main written in the Reign of the late King as appeareth by the Passages then proper for the Government The other nine Books were made since Monarchy was turned into a State Fuller The Animadvertor hath fairly and fully no constant Practice cited my words I request the Reader to take especial notice of those three FOR THE MAIN I presume the Reader conceiveth such a caveat not improper or impertinent but safe and seasonable for my Defence and his Direction especially seeing the like happened not to any English Historian this thousand years that his Pen during the writing of his Book should pass through Climates of different Governments Dr. Heylyn By which it seems that our Author never meant to frame his History by the line of Truth but to attemper it to the palat of the present Government whatsoever it then was or should prove to be which I am sure agrees not with the Laws of History And though I can most easily grant that the fourth Book and the rest that follow were written after the great alteration and change of State in making a new Common-wealth out of the ruines of an ancient Monarchy yet I concur not with our Author in the time of the former For it appears by some passages that the three first Books either were not all written in the time of the King or else he must give himself some disloyal hopes
that the King should never be restored to his place and Power by which he might be called to a reckoning for them Fuller It Seems Multa videntur quae non sunt The Inference is false and forced Titus Livius lived in Imperial yet wrote of Regal Consulatory Tribunitial at Rome without the least imputation of falshood I conceive Monarchical Aristocratical and Democralical truth to be One and the Same It followeth not that two-faced Ianus as beholding two worlds one before the other after the Flood had also two Hearts I did not attemper my History to the Palat of the Government so as to sweeten it with any Falshood but I made it Palatable thus far forth as not to give a wilful disgust to those in present Power and procure danger to my self by using any over-salt tart or bitter Expression better forborn than inserted without any prejudice to the Truth Dr. Heylyn For in the second Book he reckons the Cross in Baptism for a Popish Trinket by which it appears not I am sure to have been written in the time of Kingly Government that being no expression sutable unto such a time Fuller Should I simply and absolutely call the Cross in Baptisme a Popish Trinket my fore-head Signed therewith would give my Tongue the lye and return the Popery in the teeth thereof I behold it as an Ancient and Significant Ceremony but in no degree essentiall to or completory of the Sacrament witness the wisdome of the Church of England which in private Baptism permitteth the omitting thereof But when Ceremonyes shall devour their distance and intrude themselves necessary and essential it is high time to term them Superstititious Trinkets The rest I referr to what I have written when this passage recurreth in the place cited by the Animadvertor Dr. Heylyn Secondly speaking of the precedency which was fixt in Canterbury by removing the Archiepiscopal See from London thither he telleth us that the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike level in their Graves But certainly the Government was not changed into a State or Commonwealth till the death of the King and till the death of the King neither of those Episcopall Sees nor any of the rest were laid so level in their Graves but that they were in hope of a Resurrection the King declaring himself very constantly in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight as well against the abolishing of the Episcopal Government as the alienation of their Lands Thirdly In the latter end of the same Book he makes a great dispute against the high and sacred priviledge of the Kings of England in curing the disease comonly called the Kings Evil whether to be imputed to Magick or Imagination or indeed a Miracle next brings us in an old Wives Tale about Queen Elizabeth as if she had disclaimed that power she daily exercised and finally manageth a Quarrel against the form of Prayer used at the curing of that Evil which he arraigns for Superstition and impertinencies no inferior Crimes Are all these passages proper to that Government also Finally in the third Book he derogates from the power of the Church in making Canons giving the binding and concluding Power in matters which concern the civil Rights of the Subjects not to the King but to the Lay-people of the Land assembled in Parliament which game he after followeth in the eighth and last And though it might be safe enough for him in the eighth and last to derogate in this manner from the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs yet certainly it was neither safe for him so to do nor proper for him so to write in the time of the Kingly Government unless he had some such wretched hopes as before we spake of Fuller I desire the Reader to remember my late words as the Animadvertor recited them FOR THE MAIN I confess though these Books were written in the Reign of King Charles yet after his Death I interpolated some lines and amongst others that of levelling all Bishopricks I raised no dispute against the Kings curing the Evil it being raised before I was born and which I endeavoured to allay referring it to Miracle as to the peruser of my History in that place will appear I tell no old Wives Tale of Queen Elizabeth it being a Masculine Truth from most authentick Authors I derogate not in the least degree from the power of the Church but the Animadvertor doth arrogate unto it more then is due by the Lawes of God and Man maintaining that Church-men may go beyond Ecclesiastical Censures even to the Limbs and Lives of such as are Recusants to their Constitutions WRETCHED and what formerly he said DISLOYAL HOPES I defie and return them in the Teeth of him that wrote the words He had WRETCHED AND DISLOIAL HOPES who wrote that King Iames went to New-market as Tiberius to his Capreae he waved his Loyalty and Discretion together who so saucily and un-subject-like counted how often King Charles waved his Crown Here give me leave to tell the Animadvertor that such whom he slighteth for LOW-ROYALISTS were whilst they had a King in England as HIGH in their Loyalty to him Prayers and Sufferings for him as those HIGH-ROIALISTS who maintain that all goods of the Subjects are at the King 's absolute Dispose and yet since those Kings are departed this life can write of them in so base and disparaging Language that any one of the LOW-ROIALISTS would have his right hand cut off rather then write the like Reader pardon my too just passion when DISLOIALTY is laid to my charge It is with me Either now speak or else for ever hereafter hold your Peace Dr. Heylyn I must needs say that on the reading of these Passages and the rest that follow I found my self possest with much Indignation And I long expected when some Champion would appear in the Listes against this Goliah who so reproachfully had defied the whole Armyes of Israel And I must needs confess withal that I did never enter more unwillingly on any undertaking But beeing solicited thereunto by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by Men of all Orders and Dignityes in the Church and of all degrees in the Universities I was at last overcome by that Importunity which I found would not be resisted Fuller Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height What just cause I have given for so great passion the Reader will judge If I be a Goliah in this point may I have his Success to be conquered killed and my head cut off even with my own Sword If I be none May the Animadvertor be graciously pardoned And it may be he shall never come off any undertaking more unhappily I could mate him with telling him that Men of all Sorts and Sizes their Equals in Number and Quality have likewise importuned me not tamely to sit down but to vindicate my own credit and conscience Dr. Heylyn
under a Stall no Father being found or Mother to maintaine it A Presumption that this Letter of Elutherius is supposititious I confesse this pretended Letter of Lucius hath something in it which doth act and personate primitive simplicity as that passage of Regal power in Church-matters but more which doth practise the Monkish ignorance of later times There were lately false twenty Shilling pieces commonly called Morgans coyned by a cunning and cheating Chymist whose part without the Rind was good Gold and would endure the touch whilst that within was base as but double guilded Brasse Such this Letter of Lucius some part whereof will endure the Test the other not the Monk who made it pretending something of antiquity so to palliate the deceit but having more of the Novelty of the middle age He lived in some six hundred years since May the Reader be pleased to take notice that the Animadvertor hath silently passed by the strongest Argument to shatter the credit of this Letter alledged by me and taken from a phrase unknown in that Age yet used in the Letter even MANU TENERE to Maintain or defend This the Animadvertor slips over in silence and that I believe for nineteen reasons whereof this was one because He himselfe was unable to answer it and knew Criticks would laugh at him if affirming those words in that sense contemporary with Pope Eleutherius Herein He appears like a Dunkerker who delights to prey on poore Marchants Ships passing on in their Calling but meeting an English Man of War He can look Big and fairly give him the goe-By He finds it more facile to carpe an easie inoffensive passage then to confute what hath difficulty and strength of reason therein I resume what I said before and what the Animadvertor hath gain-said to no purpose viz. that this Story of K. Lucius is not to be Refused but Refined and the drosse is to be put from the good Metall or as my own words also are the good Corn therein sifted from the Chaffe and amongst the Chaffe I have cast away this Letter But if the Animadvertor loves to eat both Corn and Chaffe much good may his Diet do him and let Him and Horse feed on their Loafe together Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us fol. 9. that he had ventured on this story with much aversnesse and we dare believe him He had not else laboured to discredit it in so many particulars and wilfully that I say no worse suppressed c. Fuller Can he say worse than wilfully except it be Maliciously Seeing in my conscience I believe the Story of the conversion of K. Lucius though this Letter and some other circumstances seem to me improbable I enter'd on this story with this much aversenesse as finding much difficulty and fearing not to give satisfaction therein to my self and others I see not how it can be inferred from such my aversenesse that I therefore laboured to discredit the story in so many particulars If this be a good consequence I desire the Reader to remember what the Animadvertor hath written in the latter end of the introduction to his Animadversions on my Book viz. I must needs confesse withall that I did never enter more unwillingly upon any undertaking then I did on this May I not then by the same Logick conclude his endeavouring to disparage my Book because he entered thereon so unwillingly Dr. Heylyn The best part of the Evidence in the words of Beda who being no friend unto the Brittains hath notwithstanding done them right in this great businesse And from him take the story in these following words Anno ab Incarnatione Domini 156. c. In the 156. year after Christs Nativity Marcus Antonius Verus together with Aurelius Commodus his Brother did in the fourteenth place from Augustus Ceasar undertake the government of the Empire In whose times when as Eleutherius a godly man was Bishop of the Church of Rome Lucius King of the Brittains sent unto him Obsecrans uâ— per eius mandatum Christianus efficeretur intreating by his means to be made a Christian. Whose vertuous desire herein was granted and the faith of Christ being thus received by the Brittains was by them kept inviolate and undefiled untill the time of Diocleâ—ian This is the substance of the story as by him delivered true in the main though possibly there may be some mistake in his Chronology as in a matter not so canvassed as it hath been lately Fuller I entered a grand Jury of Authors which mentioned the Conversion of Lucius amongst whom Bede is one I expressed none of them as I had no cause in their words at length neither can I properly be said to suppress any of them solemnly giving in their names and their severall Dates which they assigne to that memorable action Dr. Heylyn Now to proceed unto our Author he tells us Fol. 10. out of Ieffery of Monmouth That at this time there were in England twenty eight Cities each of them having a Flamen or Pagan Priest and three of them namely London York and Caer-lion in Wales had Arch-flamens to which the Rest were subjected and Lucius placed Bishops in the Rome of the Flamens and Arch-bishops Metropolitans in the places of Arch-flamens concluding in the way of Scorne that his Flamines and Arch-flamines seem to be Flams and Arch-flams even notorious False-hoods Fuller I would not willingly sit in the seat of the Scorner and if the Animadvertor by his force will thrust me down into it I will God willing rise up againe and leave the place empty to himselfe to stand or sit therein Pro libero suo Arbitrio I say no more nor so much as that Worthy Knight Sr. Henry Spelman so great an Antiquary that it is Questionable whether his Industry Iudgment or Humility were the Greatest hath said on the same Subject Who having learnedly confuted this Report of Geffery of Monmouth concludeth with the cause of his Mistake relying on some supposititious Epistles Sr. H. Spelman de Concilijs Page 13. Gaufrido autem atque alijs qui Flaminum Archiflaminum et Protoflaminum Commento capiuntur imposuisse videtur Gratiani authoritas Epistolis munita S Lucij c. See! He calleth that Commentum which our Dictionaries English a Flat Lye which I have mitigated into a Flamme as importing in common Discourse a Falshood which hath more of vanity then Mischiefe therein Dr. Heylyn And it is well they do but seem so it being possible enough that they may seem Falshoods to our Author even notorious Falshoods though they seem true enough to others even apparent Truths Fuller They seem so also to learned Sr. Henry Spelman lately alledged and to the Reverend Arch-bishop of Armagh and many others Dr. Heylyn And first though Ieffery of Monmouth seem to deserve no credit in this particular where he speaks against our Author's sense yet in another place where he comes up to his Desires he is otherwise thought of and therefore made
the Fore-man of the Grand-inquest against Augustine the Monk whom he enditeth for the Murther of the Monks of Bangor And certainly if Ieffery may be believed when he speaks in Passion when his Welch-Blood was up as our Author words it as one that was concerned in the Cause of his Country-Men he may more easily be believed in a Cause of so remote Antiquity where neither Love nor Hatred or any other prevalent Affection had any power or reason to divert him from the Way of Truth Fuller It is usuall with all Authors sometimes to close with the Iudgments of the same Person from whom they afterwards on just Cause may dissent and should not this Liberty be allowed me to like or leave in Ieffery Monmouth what I think fitting The Animadvertor concurreth with Bishop God-win that the DRUIDES instructed the Britons in the worship of one God yet will not be concluded with his Iudgement when averring the Letter fathered on Eleutherius not to savour of the Style of that Age. Yea when I make for him he can alledge twenty Lines together out of my Book against H. le Strange though at other times when he hath served his Turne of me I am the Object of his sleighting and Contempt Now when as the IN-ANIMADVERTOR for now I must so call him for his Carelesnesse citeth a place in my Book viz. Lib. 2. Fol. 63. that I make J. Monmouth the Foreman of the great inquest against Augustine the Monk he is much mistaken therein For in the place by him cited I Impannell a Grand Iury amongst whom J. Monmouth is neither Fore-man nor any Man of Iudicious Readers consisting of twenty four As false is it what he addeth as if in that Triall I attributed much to the judgment of J. Monmouth who therein is onely produced as a Witnesse and a Verdict brought in point-Blank against his Evidence acquitting Augustine the Monk of the Murther whereof Monmouth did accuse him Dr. Heylyn And secondly though Ieffery of Monmouth be a Writer of no great credit with me when he stands single by himselfe yet when I find him seconded and confirmed by others I shall not brand a truth by the name of falshood because he reports it Now that in Brittain at that time there were no fewer then eight and twenty Cities is affirmed by Beda Henry of Huntington not only agrees with him in the number but gives us also the names of them though where to find many of them it is hard to say That in each of these Cities was some Temple dedicated to the Pagan Gods that those Temples afterwards were imploy'd to the use of Christians and the Revenues of them assign'd over to the maintenance of the Bishops and other Ministers of the Gospel hath the concurrent testimony of approved Authors that is to say Matthew of Westminster out of Gildas Anno 187. Rodolph de Diceto cited by the learned Primat of Armach in his Book De Primordiis Eccles. Brit. cap. 4. Gervase of Tilbury ibid. cap. 6. And for the Flamines and Arch-flamines they stand not onely on the credit of Ieffery of Monmouth but of all our owne Writers who speak of the foundation of the antient Bishopricks even to Polydor Virgil. Fuller I concurre with the Animadvertor in the number of the Citties in Brittain Also I do not deny but that K. Lucius might place Bishops in some perchance half of them which I believe is all which the Animadvertor doth desire Only as to Bishops and Arch-bishops exactly substituted in the Individual places of Flamens and Arch-flamens my beliefe cannot come up to the height thereof I find that Giraldus Cambrensis and other Authors of that age though concurring with J. Monmouth in Lucius his Episcopating of Citties make not any mention of these Arch-flamens Dr. Heylyn Nor want there many forrain Writers who affirm the same beginning with Martinus Polonus who being esteemed no friend to the Popedom because of the Story of Pope Ione which occurs in his Writings may the rather be believ'd in the story of Lucius And he agrees with Ieffery of Monmouth in all parts of the story as to the Flamines and Arch-flamines as do also many other of the Roman Writers which came after him Fuller Nothing more usuall then for forrain Writers with implicite faith to take things on the credit of such who have wrote the History of their own Country But on the Confutation of the Leading Author the rest sink of course of themselves Dr. Heylyn But where both our Author and some others have rais'd some objections against this part of the History for Answer thereunto I refer the Reader to the learned and laborious Work of Francis Mason late Archdeacon of Norfolk De Ministerio Anglicano the sum whereof in brief is this Licet in una urbe multi Flamines that though there were many Flamines in one City yet was there onely one which was called Pontifex or Primus Flaminum the Pope or principall of the Flamines of which kind one for every City were those whom our Historians speak of And for the Archi-Flamines or Proto-Flamines though the name occurre not in old Roman Writers yet were there some in power and Authority above the rest who were entituled Primi Pontificum as indeed Coifi by that name is called in Beda which is the same in sense with Arch-flamines although not in sound All I shall further add is this that if these 28 Cities were not all furnished with Bishops in the time of Lucius for vvhom it vvas impossible to spread his armes and expresse his power over all the South parts of the Island yet may the honour of the vvork be ascribed to him because begun by his encouragement and perfected by his example as Romulus is generally esteemed for the Founder of Rome although the least part of that great City vvas of his Foundation Fuller But whereas both the Animadvertor and some others conceive their Answers satisfactory to such Objections raised against this part of the History I refer the Reader unto Sr. Henry Spelman and to the Arch-bishop of Armagh both as learned and Judicious Antiquaries as ever our Land enjoyed These it seemes were not satisfied with such Solutions as Mr. Mason produceth against those Objections because writing later than Mr. Mason they in their judgments declare themselves against J. Monmouth herein Dr. Heylyn Our Author has not yet done vvith Lucius For admitting the story to be true he disallowes the turning of the Pagan Temples into Christian Churches vvhich he censureth as the putting of new Wine into old Vessels which afterwards savour'd of the Cask Christianity hereby getting a smack of Heathen ceremonies But in this point the Primitive Christians were as wise as our Author though they were not so nice Who without fearing any such smack accommodated themselves in many ceremonies to the Gentiles and in some to the Iewes that being all things to all men they might gain the more as in
the one is called East Swale the other West-Swale I see no reason why we should look any where else for that River Swale mentioned in the old fragment which before we spake of But herein I must submit my self to more able judgements The place agreed on we should next inquire into the numbers but that our Author seems to grant as much as the fragment craveth Fuller I could heartily wish that all the Animadvertors Book had consisted of such matter then had it been greater though less I mean bigger in benefit though smaller in Bulk and more instructive to the Reader thereof I did not before take notice of either East or West-Swale in Kent and now prosesse my self the Animadvertors Convert in this point agreeing with him that this grand-Baptizing if done by St. Austin was done in the place by him specified But this still doth more and more confirm me in my judgement that Austin advanced never into Yorkshire and that the conversion of the Northumbrians was the work of Paulinus and others Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 66. If so many were baptized in one day it appears plainly that in that age the Administration of that Sacrament was not loaded with those superstitious Ceremonies as essential thereunto of crossing spittle Oyl Cream Salt and such like Trinkets Our Author here reckoneth the signe of the Crosse in Baptism amongst the vain trinkets and superstitious Ceremonies of the Church of Rome and thereby utterly condemneth the Church of England which doth not onely require it in her Rubricks but also pleads for it in her Canons Not as essential to that Sacrament the Papists not making Spittle Oyle Cream Salt c. to be essential thereunto as our Author saith but onely for a signe significative in token that the party signed shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his Banner against sin the world and the Devil and to continue Christs faithfull soldier and servant unto his lives end A Ceremony not so new as to be brought within the compass of Popish Trinkets though by them abused For when the point was agitated in the Conference at Hampton Court and that it was affirmed by some of the Bishops that the Crosse in Baptism was used in the time of Constantine Dr. Reynolds the most able man of the opposite party who had before acknowledged it to have been in use in other cases from the very times of the Apostles had not one word to say against it And to say truth no man of modesty and learning could have spoke against it when it was proved so clearly by Dr. Andrews then Dean of Westminster out of Tertullian Cyprian Origen each of which died long time before Constantines birth to have been used in immortali Lavacro in that blessed Sacrament That good old saying of Tertullian Caro signetur ut anima muniatur may serve once for all And therefore when our Author telleth us in the following words that in that age nothing was used with Baptism but Baptism it must be considered as a smack of that old leaven which more and more will sowre the lump of his whole discourse We have already had a taste of it in the very first Book we finde a continuance of it here and we shall see more of it hereafter our Author not being coy in shewing his good affections not onely to the persons of the Non-conformists but their inconformity not to the men onely but their Doctrines and Opinions also And this is that which we must trust to in the whole course of this History Fuller This Objection hath been answered at large in the Introduction and here I intend no repetition onely desiring the Reader to take notice of those my words as ESSENTIAL thereunto Let me add that a Curse is pronounced on those who remove the Land-marks and it falleth most heavy on them who remove the limits in Gods worship as being Boundaries of highest Consequence turn MAY into MUST convenient into necessary Ornamental into Essential I have as high an Esteem for the Cross in Baptisme as the Animadvertor Himself so long as it observes the due distance of an Ancient and Significant Ceremony and intrudes not it self as Essential A Chain of Gold is an eminent Ornament about the Neck but it may be drawn so close as to choak and strangle the wearer thereof And in like manner Ceremonies though decent and usefull when pretending to Essentiality become as Luther saith Carnificinae Conscientiae and therefore justly may we beware thereof Dr. Heylin Having now done with the Acts of Austin we shall not keep our selves to so continued a discourse as before we did but take our Authors Text by piecemeal as it comes before us and making such Animadversions on the same as may best serve to rectifie the story and maintain the truth as namely Fol. 65. Thus the Italian Spanish and French Daughters or Neeces to the Latine are generated from the corruption thereof This is I grant the common and received opinion but yet me thinks our Author who loves singularities should not vouchsafe to travel on the publique Road. Fuller In my passage to heaven I desire to goe in the narrow path and decline the broad way which leadeth to destruction But on earth I love to travel the common and beaten road as easiest to finde and wherein if wrong or at a losse one may soonest finde company to guide and direct him If I should travel over the Animadvertors several at Laceys-Court I have cause to suspect he would sue me for pedibus ambulando And it is hard if also he will not let me goe without carping at me in the high-way or publique road I build nothing on the high-way so to trespasse upon the Lord of the Soil but onely peaceably passe along it I mean I make no inferences or deductions from this received opinion I derive no consequence thence All that I doe is to gain just advantage thereby to honour the Welsh tongue by shewing that it is no Daughter or Neece like the Italians Spanish and French but a Mother and original Language and might justly have expected thanks rather than censure from the Animadvertor for my pains seeing he delighteth to derive himself from British extraction Dr. Heylin For in my minde it is affirmed with better reason by our learned Brerewood That those tongues have not sprung from the corruption of the Latine by the inundation and mixture of barbarous people in those Provinces but from the first imperfect impression and receiving of it in those forein Countries For the Latine tongue was never so generally received in any of the conquered Provinces out of Italy as to be spoken ordinarily by the common people the Gentry and Nobility might be perfect in it for the better dispatch of their Affairs with the Roman Magistrates who had the Government and Lieutenancy in their several Countries And some taste of
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
busie to throw dirt on others Any man may be witty in a biting way and those who have the dullest brains have commonly the sharpest teeth to that purpose But such caâ—nal mirth whilest it tickleth the flesh doth wound the soul. And which was the 〈◊〉 these baâ—â— Books would give a great advantage to the General foe and Papists would make too much uâ—e thereof against Protestant Religion especially seeing an Archangel thought himself too good to bring and Satan not bad enough to have railing speeches brought against him Reader what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal Libels Dr. Heylin For if our Authors rule be good fol. 193. That the fault is not in the Writer if he truly cite what is false on the credit of another they had no reason to examine punctually the truth of that which tended so apparently to the great advantage of their cause and party c. Fuller I say again the Writer is faultless who truly cites what is false on the CREDIT of another alwayes provided that the other who is quoted hath Credit and be not a lying Libeller like these Pasauls If this Rule be not true the Animadvertor will have an hard task of it to make good all in his Geography on his own knowledge who therein hath traded on trust as much as another Dr. Heylin But I am weary and ashamed of raking in so impure a kennel and for that cause also shall willingly pass over his apology for Hacket that blasphemous wretch and most execrable Miscreant justly condemned and executed for a double Treason against the King of Kings in Heaven and the Queen on earth Fuller I appeal to the Reader whether I have not in my Church History wrote most bitterly and deservedly against Him only I took occasion by Hackets badness to raise our thankfulness to God If my meat herein please not the Animadvertors pallat let him leave it in the Dish none shall eat thereof against their own stomacks for fear of a surfeit Dr. Heylin Of whom he would not have us think fol. 204. that he and his two Companions his two Prophets for so they called themselves were not worse by nature than all others of the English Nation the natural corruption in the hearts of others being not less headstrong but more bridled And finally that if Gods restraining grace be taken from us we shall all run unto the same excess of Riot Which Plea if it be good for Hacket will hold good for Iudas and pity it is that some of our fine wits did never study an apology for him c. Fuller Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 214. At Antwerp he was ordained Minister by the Presbytery there and not long after that he was put in Orders by the Presbytery of a forain Nation Here have we Ordination and putting into Orders ascribed to the Presbytery of Antwerp a Mongrel company consisting of two blew Aprons to each Cruel night cap and that too in such positive terms and without any the least qualification that no Presbyterian in the pack could have spoke more plainly c. Fuller It is better to weare a Cruel Night-cap than a cruel heart causelesly cavilling at every man Mr. Travers was ordained Minister or Priest by the Presbytery of Antwerp and never had other Ordination I only relate that it was so de facto and appeal to the Reader whether my words import the least countenance and approbation thereof though the sin had not been so hainous if I had so done Dr. Heylin Only I shall make bold to quit my Author with a merry tale though but one for an hundred and 't is a tale of an old jolly popish Priest who having no entertainment for a friend who came to him on a Fasting day but a piece of Pork and making conscience of observing the appointed Fast dipt it into a tub of water saying down Pork up Pike Satisfied with which device as being accustomed to transubstantiate he well might be he caused it to be put into the pot and made ready for dinner But as the Pork for all this suddain piece of wit was no other than Pork so these good fellowes of the Presbytery by laying hands upon one another act as little as he The parties so impos'd upon impos'd upon indeed in the proper notion are but as they were Lay-bretheren of the better stamp Ministers if you will but not Priests nor Deacons nor any wayes Canonically enabled for divine performances Fuller It is not a fortnight since I heard proclamation against the selling of Porke because about London fatted with the flesh of diseased horses I suspect some unwholsomness in the Animadvertors Pork-story especially as applyed and therefore will not meddle therewith Dr. Heylin But fearing to be chidden for his levity I knock off again following my Author as he leaâ—s me who being over shoes will be over boots also He is so lost to the High Royalist and covetous Conformist that he cannot be in a worse case with them than he is already Fuller If I be lost with the high Royalists and covetous Conformists I hope I shall be found by the low Royalists and liberal Conformists However may God be pleased to finde my soul and I pass not with whom I be lost There are a sort of men who with Dr. Manwaring maintain that Kings may impose without Parliaments what taxes they please and the Subjects bound to payment under pain of Damnation a principle introductory to tyranny and slavery These I term high Royalists and I protest my self as to dissent in judgement from them so not to be at all ambitious of their favour Dr. Heylin And therefore having declared himself for a Presbyterian in point of Government he will go thorough with his work c. Fuller Where have I declared my self for a Presbyterian in point of Government who never scattered sylable and if I did I would snatch it up again to countenance such presumption I confess I said That Mr. Travers was made Minister or Priest by the Presbytery at Antwerp that is made Minister so far forth as they could give and he receive the Ministerial Character who never had it otherwise impressed upon him Suppose a Knightâ— Might not a Historian say such a man was made a Knight by such a power of person not engaging himself to justifie his Authority that made him And by the same proportion I relating Mr. Travers made Minister at Antwerp am not concerned to justifie nor by my expression doe I any way approve their Minister-making if they have no Commission thereunto I cannot close with the Animadvertor in his uncharitable censure of the Ministery of forain Protestant Churches rendring them utterly invalid because ordained by no Bishops Cain as commonly believed is conceived to have killed a fourth part of mankinde by murthering Abel but the Animadvertors cruelty to Protestants hath exceeded this proportion in spiritually killing more than
a fourth part of Protestants according to his own principles For if no Priests in France Low Countries Swisserland c. then no Sacraments then no Church then no Salvation Far more Charitie in those of the former Age. Bishop Andrews when he concurred with others of his own order in ordaining a Scotishman Bishop who as by proportion of time may be demonstrated received his Deaconship and Pristhood from the Presbytery conceived such ordination of validity when done though I beleeve in his judgement not so well approving the doing thereof Otherwise he would never have consented to make a meer Lay man per saltum a Bishop Dr. Heylin First for the Sabbath for the better day the better deed having repeated the chief heads of Dr. Bounds Book published Anno 1595. in which the Sabbatarian Doctrines were first set on foot he adds that learned men were much divided in their judgements about the same Fol. 228. Some saith he embraced them as ancient truths consonant to Scripture long disused and neglected now seasonably revived for the encrease of piety Amongst which some he that shall take our Author for one will not be much mistaken either in the man or in the matter For that he doth approve Bounds Doctrines in this particular c. Fuller The Animadvertor imposeth on me that which is contrary to my Judgemens I am not of Dr. Bounds Opinion who straineth the Sabbath too high yea the Animadvertor when writing against Mr. Le strange maketh use of above twenty lines out of my Book against him I am of the judgement of moderate men as I have clearly and largely stated it in my Church-History and will live and desire to dye in the maintenance thereof And I hope the Animadvertor will allow me to know my own judgement better than he doth I am not of the Animadvertors mind That the Lords day is alterable and of meer Ecclesiastical constitution much less dare I concur with him in his scandalous expression That the late Parliament hath by their Orders and Ordinances laid greater restraints on People than ever the Scribes and Pharises did on the Iews To what followeth in the Animadvertor concerning the Articles at Lambeth I return no other answer save this As a Historian I have written truly for matter of Fact And if as a Divine I have interposed something of my Judgement in those points I beleeve the Animadvertor if writing on the same subject would not appear more moderate Mean time I am sure he differs as much from me as I from him in these opinions and therefore I see no reason of his animositie on this â—ccount Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 179. Queen Elizabeth coming to the Crown sent for Abbot Fecknam to come to her whom the Messenger found setting of Elms in the Orchard of Westminster Abbey But he would not follow the messenger till first he had finished his Plantation The tale goes otherwise by Tradition than is here delivered and well it may For who did ever hear of any Elms in Westminster Orchard or to say truth of any Elms in any Orchard whaâ—soever of a late Plantation Elms are for Groves and Fields and Forests too cumbersom and overspreading to be set in Orchards c. Fuller When a Traveller on the High-way suddenly returns back again surely 't is to fetch some matter of moment which he hath forgotten and left behind him The Animadvertor in this his Note retreats above 50 pages in my Church-History viz. from fol. 233. to fol. 179. And what is this Retrograde motion for Even to carpe at Elmes which I say were set by Abbot Feckenham in the Orchard of the Dean of Westminster citing my Author Reynerius for the same whose words in horto I translate in the Orchard as more proper for Elmes than a Garden Thus have you my Tale and my Tales maker So that this wooden Animadversion might well have been spared THE TENTH BOOK Containing the Reign of King James Dr. Heylin OUr Author proceeeds Fol. 5. Watson with William Clark another of his own profession having fancied a notional Treason imparted it to George Brooks To these he after adds the Lord Cobham a Protestant the Lord Gray of Whâ—ddon a Puritan and Sir Walter Rawleigh an able Statseman and some other Knights In the recital of which names our Author hath committed a double fault the one of omission and the other of commission A fault of omission in leaving out Sir Griffith Markam as much concerned as any of the principal actors designed to have been Secretary of Estate had the Plot succeeded and finally arraigned and condemned at Winchester as the others were Fuller I distinguish betwixt total Omission express Enumeration and implicit Inclusion Sir Griffith Markam cannot be said to be omitted by me because included in that clause and some other Knights Yea this whole treason had not at all sound any mention in my History not being bound to take cognizance thereof save for the two Priests who were engaged therein Dr. Heylin His fault of commission is his calling the Lord Gray by the name of the Lord Gray of Whaddon a fault not easily to be pardoned in so great an Herald whereas indeed though Whaddon in Buckinghamshire was part of his Estate yet Wilton in Herefordshire was his Barony and ancient Seat his Ancestors being call'd LL. Gray of Wilton to difference them from the Lord Gray of Reuthen the Lord Gray of Codnor c. Fuller A fault not so great neither in an Herauld seeing I call him not Lord Gray Baron of Whaddon but of Whaddon and a noble Person may be additioned either from his Honour or his Habitation Besides Wilton in Herefordshire long since being run into ruin those Lords some sixscore years agoe removed their residence to Whaddon in Bucks where some of them lived died and are burâ—ed The Animadvertor made as great an omission in his Short view of K. Charles when mentioning his Tutor Mr. Murrey but quite leaving out Sir Iames Fullerton conjoyned with him in the same charge of the Princes education And a greater fault of Commission is he guilty of when taxing Mr. Murrey as disaffected to the English Church who when made Provost of Eaton took his oath and therein professed his good liking of our Discipline as in the Cabala doth appear To return to Whaddon the Animadvertor might have spared this his Note who in the Postcript annexed to this Book maketh Edward Lord Montagu created Baron of Broughton in Northamptonshire Now though the L. Montagu hath the Manor of Broughton with the appendant Advowson and other considerable Lands therein yet is he Baron of Boughton in the same County A mistake so much the greater in the Animadvertor because done in his Emendation of his Emendations of the faults of another so that he cannot hit it right in this his third endeavor This I had passed over in silence had not his cruelty on my Pen or Presse-slips occasioned me to
of parchment out of his bosome and gave it to the Lord Keeper Williams who read it to the Commons four severall times East West North and South fol. 123. Thirdly the Lord Keeper who read that Scrole was not the Lord Keeper VVilliams but the Lord Keeper Coventry the Seal being taken from the Bishop of Lincoln and committed to the custody of Sir Thomas Coventry in October before And therefore fourthly our Author is much out in placing both the Coronation and the following Parliament before the change of the Lord Keeper and sending Sir Iohn Suckling to fetch that Seal at the end of a Parliament in the Spring which he had brought away with him before Michaelmas Term. But as our Author was willing to keep the Bishop of Lincoln in the Deanry of Westminster for no less then five or six years after it was confer'd on another so is he as desirous to continue him Lord Keeper for as many months after the Seal had been entrusted to another hand Fuller This also is an errour I neither can nor will defend the Lord Keeper Williams put for the Lord Keeper Coventry which hath betrayed me to some consequentiall incongruities I will not plead for my self in such a Suit where I foresee the Verdict will go against me Onely I move as to mitigation of Costs and Dammages that greater slips have fallen from the Pens of good Historians Mr. Speed in his Chronicle first Edition page 786. speaking of Henry eldest son to King Henry the eighth maketh Arch-Bishop Cranmer mistaken for Warham his God-father twenty four years before Cranmer ever sat in that See I write not this to accuse him but in part to excuse my self by paralleling mine with as evident a mistake I hope my free confession of my fault with promise of emendation of It and the Appendants thereof in my next Edition will meet with the Reader 's absolution And let the Animadvertor for the present if so pleased make merry and feast himself on my mistake assuring him that he is likely to fast a long time hereafter Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 122. The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshal of England the Duke of Buckingham as Lord high Constable of England for that day went before his Majesty in that great Solemnity In this passage and the next that follows our Author shewes himself as bad an Herald in marshalling a Royal Show as in stating the true time of the creation of a noble Peer Here in this place he placeth the Earl Marshall before the Constable whereas by the Statute 31 H. 8. c. 10. the Constable is to have precedency before the Marshall Nor want there precedents to shew that the Lord High Constable did many times direct his Mandats to the Earl Marshall as one of the Ministers of his Court willing and requiring him to perform such and such services as in the said Precepts were expressed Fuller My Heraldry is right both in Place and Time The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshall went after the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High Constable though going before him For Barons went in this Royall Procession at the Kings Coronation before Bishops Bishops before Viscounts Viscounts before Earls the meaner before the greater Officers of State Thus the Lord Constable though the last was the first because of all Subjects nearest to the person of the Soveraign It seemeth the dayes were very long when the Animadvertor wrote these causless cavills which being now grown very short I cannot afford so much time in confuting them This his cavilling mindeth me of what he hath mistaken in his Geography For the younger son of an English Earl comming to Geneva desired a Carp for his dinner having read in the Doctor 's Geography that the Lemman Lake had plenty of the Fish and the best and biggest of that kind The people wondred at his desire of such a dainty which that place did not afford but told him That they had Trouts as good and great as any in Europe Indeed learned Gesner doth observe that the Trouts caught in this Lake sent to and sold at Lions are mistaken for Salmons by strangers unacquainted with their proportions It seems the Animadvertor's Pen is so much given to cavilling that he turned Trouts into Carps though none of them so great as this his CARP at me for making the Lord Marshall to go before the Lord Constable at the King's Coronation Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Ibid. That the Kings Train being six yards long of Purple Vâ—lvet was held up by the Lord Compton and the Lord Viscount Dorcester That the Lord Compton was one of them which held up the Kings Train I shall easily grant he being then Master of the Robes and thereby challenging a right to perform this service But that the Lord Viscount Dorcester was the other of them I shall never grant there being no such Viscount at the time of the Coronation I cannot say but that Sir Dudley Carlton might be one of those which held up the Train though I am not sure of it But sure I am that Sir Dudley Carlton was not made Baron of Imber-court till towards the latter end of the following Parliament of Anno 1606. nor created Viscount Dorcester untill some years after Fuller It is a meer mistake of the Printer for Viscount Doncaster son of and now himself the Earl of Carlile whose Father having a great Office in the Wardrobe this place was proper for him to perform All will presume me knowing enough in the Orthography of his Title who was my Patron when I wrote the Book and whom I shall ever whilst I live deservedly honour for his great bounty unto me Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 122. The Lord Arch-bishop did present his Majesty to the Lords and Commons East West North South asking their minds four severall times if they did consent to the Coronation of King Charls their lawfull Soveraign This is a piece of new State-doctrine never known before that the Coronation of the King and consequently his Succession to the Crown of England should depend on the consent of the Lords and Commons who were then assembled the Coronation not proceeding as he after telleth us till their consent was given four times by Acclamations Fuller I exactly follow the Language of my worthy Intelligencer a Doctor of Divinity still alive rich in Learning and Piety present on the place and an exact observer of all passages and see no reason to depart to depart from it I am so far from making the Coronation of the Soveraign depend on the consent of his Subjects that I make not the Kingly power depend on his Coronation who before it and without it is lawfull and effectuall King to all purposes and intents This was not a consent like that of the Bride to the Bride-groom the want whereof doth null the Marriage but a meer ceremoniall one in majorem Pompam which did not make but manifest not constitute but
declare his power over his people So that the King got not one single mite of Title more than he had before this four-fold Acclamation Dr. Heylyn And this I call piece of new State-Doctrine never known before because I find the contrary in the Coronation of our former Kings For in the form and manner of the Coronation of King Edward 6. described in the Catalogue of Honour set forth by Thomas Mills of Canterbury Anno 1610. we find in thus The King being carried by certain noble Courtiers in another Chair unto the four sides of the Stage was by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared unto the people standing round about both by Gods and Mans Lawes to be the right and lawfull King of England France and Ireland and proclaimed that day to be Crowned Consecrated and Annointed unto whom he demanded Whether they would obey and serve or not By whom it was again with a loud cry answered God save the King and Ever live his Majesty The same we have in substance but in fewer words in the Coronation of King Iames where it is said that The King was shewed to the People and that they were required to make acknowledgement of their allegiance to his Majesty by the Arch-Bishop which they did by acclamations Assuredly the difference is exceeding vast betwixt obeying and consenting betwixt the Peoples acknowledging their alliegance and promising to obey and serve their lawfull Soveraign and giving their consent to his Coronation as if it could not be performed without such consent Fuller The hinge of the controversie turneth on the criticall difference betwixt these two phrases Acknowledging their allegiance to their Soveraigne Giving consent to his Coronation The Animadvertor endeavours to widen the distance betwixt them and make the difference vast yea exceeding vast against the will of the words vvhich are well inclined to an agreement there being a Vicinity yea Affinity betvvixt them since such who vvill not acknowledge their Allegiance will not give-consent to his Coronation and such vvho will consent thereunto will acknowledge their allegiance I refer my self wholly in this difference to the Arbitration of Mr. Mills the same Author and Edition cited by the Animadvertor who speaking of the antient form of the Coronation of the Kings of England in reference to this passage thus expresseth himself After the King hath a little reposed himself in the Chair or Throne erected upon the Scaffold then the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall go unto the four squares of the Scaffold and with a loud voice Ask the good liking of the people concerning the Coronation of the King Small I am sure is the difference betwixt consenting and good-liking However the Kings Coronation though following after did not depend on such consent good-liking or acknowledging of Allegiance seeing amongst our English Kings an Vsurper's Title was not the better with nor a lawfull Prince's the worse without such ceremonies of State Dr. Heylyn pag. 202. Nor had the late Arch-Bishop been reproacht so generally by the common people and that reproach publish'd in severall Pamphlets for altering the King's Oath at his Coronation to the infringing of the Liberties and diminution of the Rights of the English Subjects had he done them such a notable piece of service as freeing them from all promises to obey and serve and making the Kings Coronation to depend on their consent For Bishop Laud being one of that Committee which was appointed by the King to review the form and order of the Coronation to the end it might be fitted to some Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England which had not been observ'd before must bear the greatest blame in this alteration if any such alteration had been made as our Author speaks of because he was the principall man whom the King relied on in that business Fuller This proceedeth on the former foundation which being false and confuted the superstructure sinketh therewith Dr. Heylyn But our Author tells us in his Preface that this last Book with divers of the rest were written by him when the Monarchy was turn'd into a State And I dare believe him He had not else so punctually conform'd his language to the State-doctrin by which the making and consequently the unmaking of Kings is wholly vested in the People according to that Maxim of Buchanan Populo jus est imperium cui velit deferat than which there is not a more pestilent and seditious passage in his whole Book De jure Regni apud Scotos though there be nothing else but treason and sedition in it Fuller What I wrote in this point I wrote in my PREFACE that it might be obvious to every Eye viz. That the first three Books of my Church History were for the main written in the Reign of the late King the other nine since Monarchy was turn'd into a State My language in the latter Books forbeareth such personall passages on the King and his Posterity which in his life-time were as consistent with my loyalty as since inconsistent with my safety I will instance in one of them Church-History Book 3. Page 52. Some of whose Offspring King Iohn 's shall flourish in free and full power on the English Throne when the Chair of Pestilence shall be burnt to ashes and neither Tripple Crown left at Rome to be worn nor any Head there which shall dare to wear it But if the Animadvertor or any by him employed can in any my nine last Books discover a syllable sounding to the disparagement of the Kings person or power to any impartiall Ear let me who so long fed on the King's large diet be justly famished for my unthankfulnesse As for Buchanan as I admire his Poetry so I dislike his Divinity especially in this point desiring that his Principles may never come South the River Tweed and if offering it may be drowned in their passage Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 123. Then as many Earls and Barons as could conveniently stand about the Throne did lay their hands on the Crown on his Majesty's head protesting to spend their bloods to maintain it to him and his lawfull Heirs A promise faithfully performed by many of them some losing their lives for him in the open field others exhausting their Estates in the defence of his many more venturing their whole fortunes by adhering to him to a confiscation A Catalogue of which last we may find subscribed to a Letter sent from the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled in Oxford to those at Westminster Anno 1643. And by that Catalogue we may also see what and who they were who so ignobly brake faith vvith him all those whose names we find not in that subscription or presently superadded to it being to be reckoned amongst those who instead of spending their blood to maintain the Crown to Him and to his lawful Successors concurred vvith them either in opere or in voto who despoiled him of it And to say truth they were revvarded as
no Topick so usefull in his Logick as the rule of Contraries Contraria juxta se posi a magis elucescunt Upon which ground the better to set off Bishop Andrews this poor Archbishop must be charged with want of moderation in enjoyning his own private practises and opinions upon other men And here that Bishop Iuxon might appear with the greater lustre the said Arch-bishop with all his passions and infirmities must stand by for a foil He had indeed no such command upon his passions as to be at all times of equall temper especially when wearied with the businesse of the Councill-Table and the High-Commission But as he was soon hot so he was soon cool'd and so much is observed by Sir Edward Dering though his greatest adversary and the first that threw dirt in his face in the late long Parliament who telleth us of him that the roughness of his uncourtly nature sent most men discontented from him but so that he would often of himself find waies and means to sweeten maâ—y of them again when they least looked for it In this more modest then our Author who gives us nothing of this Prelate but his vvants and vveaknesses But of this reverend Prelaâ—â— he vvill give cause to speak more hereafter Fuller There were other Clergy men Privy-Counsellors beside Arch-Bishop Laud Dr. Abbots Neil Harsnet Williams c. And therefore the Animadvertors Collection of my words cannot be conclusive in Reference to Arch-Bishop Laud I confesse else where I do reckon Anger amongst his personall imperfections which a Historian may do without any wrong at all The spirit of God saying Elias was subject to like passions as we are I am confident as angry as Arch-Bishop Laud was He would not have bin angry with me for writing of it as sensible of and sorrowfull for his owne imperfection therein I am much of the mind of Sr. Edward Dering that the roughnesse of his un-court-like nature sweetned many men when they least looked for it surprizing some of them and my selfe for one with unexpected Courtesies But whereas I am accused for giving in nothing of this Prelate but his wants and vveaknesses it vvill not be long before my innocence herein vvill appeare Dr. Heylyn Let us now on unto another of a different judgment his profest enemy Mr. Prin of whom thus our Author fol. 157. Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glostershire c. and began with the writing of some Orthodox Books In this story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings our Author runs into many errors which either his love to the man or zeal to the good cause or carelesnesse of what he writes have brought upon him Fuller If I have run into so many errours it will be charity in the Animadvertor fairly to lead me back again a foot-pace into the truth and then he shall have thanks for his pains alwaies provided he doth not pinch me by the arm as he conducteth me which will turn my thanks into anger But seeing the Animadvertor careth for both alike from my hands let him do as he pleaseth Next we have his tripartite History of my errors which he will have to proceed from one of these three causes 1. Love to the person of Mr. Prin. To whom I professe I have no fondnesse but likeing the Motto of Luther In quo aliquid Christi video illum diligo I must on that account have a kindness for him 2. Zeal to their good cause which I behold as a jeer and treading on the toes of Scripture Galatians 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing 3. Carelesnesse of what I write But seeing now the Animadvertor's hand is in his Arithmetick in counting of causes of my mistakes his charity might have found a â—ourth worth all the other three and imputed my errors to that infirmity which alwaies attendeth human nature However let us proceed Dr. Heylyn Whereas our Author telleth us that Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire Bath is not in Glocester-shire but a chief City in the County of Somerseâ— Fuller These are ANI-MAD-VERSIONS indeed when a Writer's words are madly verted inverted perverted against his true intent and their Grammaticall sense My words run thus Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire where Bath is walled about with a Parenthesis not essentiall to the Sentence thus perfect without it Mr. William Prin was born in Glocester-shire These walls the Animadvertor hath most dis-ingenuously dismantled to lay Bath open and if possible to bring it into Glocester-shire that so he may have something to cavil at me Indeed Bath is not in but within three miles of Glocester-shire and the next eminent place to the Village of Mr. Prin's nativity When Towns stand in the confines of two Counties is it not proper enough to say Such a one was born about London in Surrey though London be in Middlesex or about Windsor in Buckingham-shire though Windsor be in Bark-shire Mr. Fox writing in his own defence against such as traduced him Some saith he do not cavill because they have found fault but do find faults because they may cavill And be it reported to the Reader whether the Animadvertor may be accounted one of them And now the Animadvertor having a little refreshed himself in my Crosse-Bath and somewhat pleased his spirit of opposition he thus proceedeth Dr. Heylyn Secondly whereas he saith that he began with the writing of some Orthodox Books Though I look on Mr. Prin so far forth as I am able to judge by some Books of his not long since published as a man of a far more moderate spirit than I have done formerly yet can I not think his first Books to have been so Orthodox as our Author makes them For not to say any thing of his Perpetuity c. Fuller But I must and will say something of his Perpetuity of the Regenerate Man his Estate as being that which is particularly named in my Margin and chiefly intended by me A Book wherein an usefull necessary and comfortable Truth is learnedly defended A Book which will perpetuate the memory of the Writer who had he proceeded and continued as he began none could have took just exception at or got just advantage against him Dr. Heylyn As for the Books of Mr. Prin entituled Lame Giles his Haltings Cozen 's cozening Devotions and his Appendix to another they have many things repugnant to the Rules and Canons of the Church of England No greater enemy against howing at the Name of Iesus nor greater enemy to some Ceremonies here by Law established In which particulars if our Author think him to be Orthodox he declares himself to be no true son of the Church of England Fuller I confess in this his numerous offspring his younger children were nor so vigorous as his first born termed in the Scripture the might and beginning of their fathers strengâ—h they were of a weaker
in our Author's History though the greatest falshood Tam facilis in mendaciis fides ut quicquid famae liceat fingere illi esset libenter audire in my Author's language But for the last he brings some proof he would have us think so at the least that is to say the words of one Bayly a Scot whom it concern'd to make him as odious as he could the better to comply with a Pamphlet called The intentions of the Army in which it was declared That the Scots entred England with a purpose to remove the Arch-bishop from the King and execute their vengeance on him What hand Dr. Couzens had in assisting of the work I am not able to say But sure I am that there was nothing was done in it by the Bishops of England but with the counsel and co-operation of their brethren in the Church of Scotland viz. the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews the Arch-bishop of Glasco the Bishops of Murray Ross Brechin and Dunblane as appears by the Book entituled Hidden works of darkness c. fol. 150 153 154 c. And this our Author must needs know but that he hath a mind to quarrell the Arch-bishop upon every turn as appears plainly 1. By his Narrative of the Designe in King Iames his time from the first undertaking of it by the Arch-bishop of St. Andrewes and the Bishop of Galloway then being whose Book corrected by that King with some additions expunctions and accommodations was sent back to Scotland 2. By that unsatisfiedness which he seems to have when the project was resum'd by King Charls Whether the Book by him sent into Scotland were the same which had passed the hands of King Iames or not which he expresseth in these words viz. In the Reigne of King Charls the project was resumed but whether the same Book or no God knoweth fol. 160. If so if God onely know whether it were the same or no how dares he tell us that it was not And if it was the same as it may be for ought he knoweth with what conscience can he charge the making of it upon Bishop Laud Besides as afterward he telleth us fol. 163 The Church of Scotland claimed not onely to be Independent and free as any Church in Christendom a Sister not a Daughter of England And consequently the Prelates of that Church had more reason to decline the receiving of a Liturgy impos'd on them or commended to them by the Primat of England for fear of acknowledging any subordination to him than to receive the same Liturgy here by Law establisht which they might very safely borrow from their Sister-Church without any such danger But howsoever it was the blame must fall on him who did least deserve it Fuller I will return to my words which gave the Animadvertor the first occasion of this long discourse Generally they excused the King in their writings but charged Arch-bishop Laud. I do not charge the Arch-bishop for compiling the Book but say The Scots did Nor do I say That what they charged on him is true but it is true that they did charge it on him Had I denyed it I had been a liar and seeing I affirmed no more the Animadvertor is a caviller It is observable that when our Chroniclers relate how Queen Anne Bollen was charged for Incontinency Margaret Countess of Salisbury for treasonable compliance with the Pope Henry Earl of Surrey for assuming the Arms of England Edward Duke of Somerset for designing the death of some Privy Counsellors Thomas Duke of Norfolk for aspiring by the match of the Queen of Scots to the English Crown Robert Earl of Essex for dangerous machinations against the person of Queen Elizabeth Thomas Earl of Strafford for endeavouring to subject England and Ireland to the King 's arbitrary Power That the Historians who barely report these Persons thus charged are not bound to make the charge good it is enough if they name their respective accusers as here I have named the Scots It is also observable that some of the Persons aforesaid though condemned and executed have since found such favour or justice rather with unpartiall Posterity that though they could not revive their persons they have restored their memories to their innocence And if the like shall be the hap of this Arch-bishop I shall rejoyce therein I mean if the Animadvertor's defence of him seems so clear as to out-shine the evidence so weighty as to out-poize all allegations which in printed Books are published against him In testimony whereof I return nothing in contradiction to what the Animadvertor hath written and it is questionable whether my desire that he may or distrust that he will not be believed be the greater Whatever the success be I forbear farther rejoynder To fight with a shaddow whether one's own or another's passeth for the proverbiall expression of a vain and useless act But seeing the dead are sometimes tearmed shaddows umbrae to fall foul on them without absolute necessity is an act not onely vain but wicked not onely useless but uncharitable And therefore no more hereof Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceedeth 167. Thus none seeing now foul weather in Scotland could expect it fair Sun-Shine in England In this I am as little of our Author's Opinion as in most things else The Sun in England might have shined with a brighter Beam if the Clouds which had been gathered together and threatned such foule Weather in Scotland had been dispersed and scattered by the Thunder of our English Ordnance The opportunity was well given and well taken also had it not been unhappily lost in the Prosecution Fuller Grant the Thunder of our English Ordnance had scattered the Scottish Clâ—uds yet by the confession of the Animadvertor there must first be foul weather in England before there could be such fair weather to follow it The Skyes are alwayes dark and lowring even whilst the Thunder is Engendering therein Military preparations in order to a Conquest of the Scotts must needs give our Nation great troubles and for the time un-Sunshine England which is enough to secure my Expression from just exception Dr. Heylyn The Scots were then weak unprovided of all Necessaries not above three thousand compleat Armes to be found amongst them The English on the other side making a formidable appearance gallantly Horst compleaty Armed and intermingled with the Choisest of the Nobility and Gentry in all the Nation Fuller I am much of the mind of the Animadvertor that there was a visible Disparity betwixt the two Armies and the Ods in the eye of flesh on the side of the English They were Gallantly Horst indeed whether in Reference to their Horses or Riders and the King pleasantly said It would make the Scots fight against them were it but to get their brave Cloaths Indeed the strength of the Scots consisted in their Reputation to be strong reported here by such as Friended them and the Scotch Lyon was not half so fierce as he was
one called Sunday no Sabbath the other the Christian Altar No other way to pacifie the high displeasures of the Bishop of Lincoln but by such a Sacrifice who therefore is intrusted to gather such Propositions out of those two Books as were to be recanted by the one and for which the other was to be depriv'd of all his preferments And in this the Bishop serv'd his own turn and the peoples too his own turn first in the great controversie of the Altar in which he was so great a stickler and in which Pocklington was thought to have provoked him to take that revenge The Peoples turn he serv'd next in the condemning and recanting of some points about the Sabbath though therein he ran cross to his former practice Who had been not long since so far from those Sabbatarian rigors which now he would fain be thought to countenance that he caus'd a Comedy to be acted before him at his house at Budgen not onely on a Sunday in the afternoon but upon such a Sunday also on which he had publickly given sacred Orders both to Priests and Deacons And to this Comedy he invited the Earl of Manchester and divers of the neighbouring Gentry Fuller I was neither an Actor in nor a Spectator of that Comedy The better day the worse deed I recount it amongst none of those his Good works wherewith he abounded Dr. Heylyn Though on this turning of the tide he did not onely cause these Doctors to be condemned for some Opinions which formerly himselfe allowed of but mov'd at the Assembly in Ierusalem-Chamber that all Books should be publickly burnt which had disputed the Morality of the Lords-day-Sabbath Quo teneam nodo c. as the Poet hath it Fuller I have been credibly informed that when in Ierusalem-Chamber Mr. Stephen Marshall urged most vehemently for severe punishment on the Authors of those Books Bishop Williams fell foul on the Books moving they might be burned that their Authors might the better escape Let every one betine his share herein Dr. Heylyn But whereas our Author tells us in the following words that soon after both the Doctors deceased for grief I dare with some confidence tell him there vvas no such matter Dr. Pocklinton living about tvvo years and Dr. Bray above four years after vvith as great chearfulnesse and courage as ever formerly Hovv he hath dealt vvith Dr. Cousen vve shall see more at large hereafter in a place by it selfe the discourse thereof being too long and too full of particulars to come vvithin the compasse of an Animadversion In the mean time proceed we unto Bishop Wren of vvhom thus as followeth Fuller I went to Peterborough on purpose in Quest after Information and saw Dr. Pocklinton's Grave on the same token it was in the Church-yard just in the place where so many Saxons were murdered and Martyred by the Danes and there I heard that he enjoyed not himself after his censure Of Dr. Bray though I could I say nothing and shall return an Answer to Dr. Cosins at the end of this Book Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 182. A Bill saith our Author was sent up by the Commons against Mathew Wren Bishop of Ely containing 25 Articles c. That such a Bill was sent up from the House of Commons is undoubtedly true And no lesse true it is that many Impeachments of like nature were hammered at and about the same time against many other Clergy men of good note though inferiour Order the Articles whereof were Printed and exposed to open saile to their great disparagement And therefore I would faine know the Reason why this Man should be singled out amongst all the rest to stand impeached upon record in our Author's History especially considering that there was nothing done by the Lords in pursuance of it the Impeachment dying in a manner as soon as born Was it because he was more Criminall then the other were or that the charge was better proved or for what Cause else Fuller I will give the Reader a true and fairâ— account thereof Many Clergy men as the Animadvertor observeth being then articled against I thought to insert all would clog my Book with needlesse Numbers as to omit all would be interpreted Partiality and Unfaithfullnesse in an Historian I chose therefore the middle as the safest way to instance in four two Doctors Bray and Pocklinton one Dean I. Cosins and one Bishop Matthew Wren conceiving these a sufficient Representation of all the rest Wherefore I cannot see how the Animadvertor can properly say that Bishop Wren was by me singled out except a QUATERNION be a single Man It was not because his Charge was better which for ought I know was not at all proved but for these Reasons 1. He was one of the first in Time Clamoured against 2. He was one of the highest in Dignity Clamoured against 3. He was one that hath longest been a Sufferer for his un-prosecuted Accusation And here had the Animadvertor been pleased as well to take notice of Flowers and Herbs in my Church-History as what he counteth Weeds therein he might have inserted yea with Justice could not have omitted this following passage Bishop Wren his long imprisonment being never brought into a publick Answer hath converted many of his Adversaries into a more Charitable opinion of him Dr. Heylyn Well since our Author will not I will tell you why he singled out M. Wren amongst all the rest And I will tell it in the words of King Iames in the Conference at Hampton-court upon occasion of a needlesse exception taken by Dr. Reynolds at a passage in Ecclesiasticus What trow ye said the King makes these men so angry with Ecclesiasticus By my Sal I think he was a Bishop or else they would never use him so And so much for that Fuller Whether Ecclesiasticus was a Bishop or no I know not this I know that Ecclesiastes was a Preacher The words of Kings are most proper for the Mouths of Kings and Soveraignes may speak their Pleasure to their Subjects which fit nor fellow-Subjects one to another And so much for that My extraction who was Prebendarius Prebendarides and Relation as the Animadvertor knows to Two no meane Bishops my Uncles may clear me from any Episcopall Antipathy I honour any who is a Bishop both Honour and Love him who is a Religious and Learned Bishop Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 174. About this time was the first motion of a new Protestation to be taken all over England which some months after was generally performed What time this was our Author tells us in the margin pointing to Feb. 4. about which time there was no mention of the Protestation nor occasion for it The first mention which was made of the Protestation was upon Munday May the third on which day it was mentioned fram'd and taken by all the Members of the House of Commons excepting the Lord George Digby now Earl of Bristol and
in truth must be confessed viz. That some of the ejected Clergy were guilty of foul offences to whom and whom alone the name of Baal and unsavory Salt did relate Nor was it a wonder if amongst Ten Thousand and more some were guilty of Scandalous enormities This being laid down and yeilded to the violence of the times I wrought my selfe by degrees as much as I durst to insert what followeth in vindication of many others rigorously cast out for following in their affections their preceding Iudgements and Consciences and no scandall could justly be charged upon them pleading for them as ensueth Church-History Book 11. pag. 207. 1. The witnesses against them were seldome deposed on Oath but their bare complaints believed 2. Many of the Complainers were factious People those most accusing their Sermons who least heard them and who since have deserted the Church as hating the profession of the Ministry 3. Many were charged with delivering false Doctrines whose Posiâ—ioâ—s were found at the least disputable Such those accused for Preaching that Baptism washeth away Originall Sin which the most learned and honest in the Assembly in some sense will not deny namely that in the Children of God it cleanseth the condemning and finall peaceable commanding power of Originall Sin though the stain and blemish thereof doth still remain 4. Some were meerly outed for their affections to the King's Cause and what was Malignity at London was Loyalty at Oxford 5. Yea many Moderate men of the opposite party much be moaned such severity that some Clergy men blamelesse for life and Orthodox for Doctrine were ejected onely on the account of their faithfullnesse to the King's cause And as much corruption was let out by this Ejection maâ—y scandalous Ministers deservedly punished so at the same time the Veins of the English Church were emptied of Much good blood some inoffensive Pastors which hath made her Body Hydropicall ever since ill humours succeeding in the room by reason of too large and suddain evacuation This being written by me some ten in the Paroxâ—sm of the Business and printed some four years since was as much as then I durst say for my Brethren without running my selfe into apparent danger If the Papists take advantage at what I have written I can wash my Hands I have given them no just occasion and I hope this my hust defence will prove satisfactory to the ingenuous That I did not designedly â—etract â—â—om any 〈◊〉 Brethren But if this my Plea finds no acceptance and if I must groan under so unjust an accusation I will endeavour to follow the Counsell of the Prophet I will beare the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him until He plead my Cause and execute Iudgment for me He will bring me forth to the Light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Dr. Heylyn But to say truth It is no wonder if he concurre with others in the Condemnation of particular persons since he concurrs with others in the condemnation of the Church it selfe For speaking of the separation made by Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye c. fol. 209. he professeth that he rather doth believe that the sinfull corruptions of the worship and Government of this Church taking hold on their Consciences and their inability to comport any longer therewith was rather the true cause of their deserting of their Country then that it was for Debt or Danger as Mr. Edwards in his Book had suggested of them What grounds Mr. Edwards had for his suggestion I enquire not now though coming from the Pen of one who was no friend unto the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England it might have met with greater credit in our Author For if these men be not allowed for witnesses against one another the Church would be in worse condition then the antient Borderers Amongst whom though the testimony of an English Man against a Scoâ— or of a Scoâ— against the English in matters of spoil and depredation could not find admittance yet a Scot's evidence against a Scâ—t was beyond exception Lege inter Limitaneos cautum ut nullus nisi Anglus in Anglum nullus nisi Scotus in Scoâ—um testis admitâ—atur as we read in Camden We see by this as by other passages which way our Author's Bowl is biassed how constantly he declares himselfe in favour of those who have either separated from the Church or appear'd against it Rather then such good people shall be thought to forsake the Land for Debt or Danger the Church shall be accus'd for laying the heavy burthen of Conformity upon their Consciences which neither they nor their fore-fathers the old English Puritans were resolved to bear For what else were those sinfull Corruptions of this Church in Goâ—erâ—ment and Worship which laid hold of their Consciences as our Author words it but the Government of the Church by Bishops the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church here by law establisht which yet must be allowed of by our Author as the more true and reall cause of their Separation then that which we find in Mr. Edwards Fuller I knew Mr. Edwards very well my contemporary in Queens Colledge who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagernesse of his spirit and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him especially being informed and assured the contrary from credible persons As for the five dissenting Members Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sympson Mr. Bridge Mr. Burroughs to whom Mr. Archer may be reduced they owed not eighteen pence a piece to any in England and carried over with them no contemptible summs in their purses As for Lay-Gentlemen and Merchants that went over with them such as peruse their names will be satisfied in their responsible yea plentifull Estates Sr. MATTHEW BOINTON Sr. WILLIAM CONSTABLE Sr. RICHARD SALTINGSTON Mr. LAWRENCE since Lord President of the Councill Mr. ANDREWES since Lord Major of London Mr. BOWRCHER Mr. ASK since a Judge Mr. JAMES Mr. WHITE And although the last of these failed beyond the Seas a cacching Casually with great undertakings yet was he known to have a very great Estate at his going over Yea I am most credibly inform'd by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein that Mr. Herbert Palmer an Anti-Independent to the heighth being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some false-hoods in one sheet of his Gangrena proffered to have that sheet re-printed at his own cost but some intervening accident obstructed it Dr. Heylyn Nor can our Author save himselfe by his parenthesis in which he tells us that he uses their language onely For using it without check or censure he makes it his own as well as theirs and justifies them in the action which he should have condemn'd Fuller This is an Hypercriticism which I never heard of before and now do not believe In opposition whereunto I return that if a Writer doth slily weave another Author's words into his owne
makes no Truce but a perfect peace never hereafter to let the least disgracefull drop of Inke to fall upon it Dr. Heylyn From the Arch-bishop of Canterbury I should proceed to Dr. Williams Archbishop of York but that I must first remove a Block which lyes in my Way Our Author having told us of the making and Printing the Directory is not content to let us see the cold entertainment which it found when it came abroad but lets us see it in such tearms as wee did not looke for Fuller This Block is no bigger then a Straw so that a flea may leap over it but the Animadvertor is pleased to see all things thorough a Magnifying-Glasse as will appear hereafter Dr. Heylyn Fol. 222. Such saith our Author was call it constancy or obstinacy love or doting of the generality of the Nation on the Common prayer that the Parliament found it fit yea necessary to back their former Ordinance with a second Assuredly the generality of the people of England is much beholding to our Author for making Question whether their adhering to the Liturgy then by Law established were not to be imputed rather to Obstinacy and Doting than to Love and Constancy Fuller It is no Question in my Iudgement or Conscience when it is out of all Question as either never started or soon decided therein but a Question it is in the practise of our distracted age which I behold like the Citty of Ephesus Some cryed one thing some another for the Assembly was confused Till this Tumult be appeased I desire to stand by in silence and give every Man his own Words Some call Constancy and Love which side I doe seem secretly to favour for giving it the upper hand and naming it in the first place Others call it Obstinacy and Doting as they are severally perswaded What is my Offence or where is the Block the Animadvertor complaineth of as if he needed to call for Leavers to remove it Dr. Heylyn The Liturgy had been lookt on as a great Blessing of God upon this Nation by the Generality of People for the space of fourscore years and upwards they found it established by the Law seal'd by the Bloud of those that made it confirm'd by many Godly and Religious Princes and had almost no other forme of making their addresses to Almighty God but what was taught them in the Book of Common Prayer And could any discreet man think or wise man hope that a Form of Prayer so universally receiv'd and so much esteem'd could be laid by without Reluctancy in those who had been so long accustomed to it or called Obstinacy or Doting in them if they did not presently submit to every New Nothing which in the Name of the then disputable Authority should be laid before them And though our Author doth professe that in the Agitating of this Controversie pro and Con he will reserve his private opinion to himselfe yet he discovers it too plainly in the present passage Quid verba audiam cum facta videam is a good rule here He must needs shew his private Opinion in this point say he what he can who makes a Question whether the Adhesion of the People generally to the publick Liturgy were built on Obstinacy and Doating or on Love and Constancy Fuller I concurre with the Animadvertor in his Encomiastick Expressions on the Common Prayer Otherwise nothing new occurs in this which was not in the former Paragraph And therefore the Blow being the same onely layed on with a little more eagernesse I conceive the same Guard will serve to defend it without any further repetition Dr. Heylyn But if it must be Obstinacy or Doating in the generality of the People to adhere so cordially to the Book of Common Prayer I marvell what it must be called in Stephen Marshall of Essex that great Bell-Weather for a time of the Presbyterians who having had a Chief hand in compiling the Directory did notwithstanding Marry his owne Daughter by the forme prescribed in the Common-Prayer-Book and â—aving so done paid down â—ive pounds immediately to the Church-Wardens of the Parish as the Fine or Forfeiture for using any other forme of Marriage then that of the Directory The like to which I have credibly been informed was done by Mr. Knightly of Fawsley on the like occasion and probably by many others of the same Straine also Fuller All this is Nothing to me who am not bound to answer for the Actions of other Men. I know there was in England a Juncture of Time which in this point may be compared to the Evening TWILIGHT so called from TWALIGHT or double Light the one of the Day not wholly gon down the other of the Candle but newly set up Such the Crepusculum vespertinum in our Land when the Day of the Liturgy yet dimly shined and the Candle of the Directory was also lighted a short Candle which presently burnt down to the Socket It is possible that in this Coincidence some in Majorem Cautelam twisted the Liturgy and Directory together as since some have joyned to both Marriage by a Iustice of Peace that so a Threefold Cable might not be broken Let them which best can given an account of their own Carriage herein Dr. Heylyn With the like Favour he beholds the two Universities as he doth the Liturgy and hard it is to say which he injureth most Fuller I injure neither of them But in this passage the Animadvertor onely whets his Sword and I scoure my Shield preparing against his deadly blow in the next Paragraph Dr. Heylyn And first beginning with Oxford he let us know that Fol. 231. Lately certain Delegates from the Univesity of Oxford pleaded their priviledges before the Committee of Parliament that they were onely visitable by the King and such who should be deputed by him But their Allegations were not of proof against the Paramount power of Parliament the rather because a passage in an Article at the rendition of Oxford was urged against them wherein they were subjected to such a Visitation Our Author here subjects the University of Oxford to the power of the Parliament and that not onely in regard of that Paramount power which he ascribes unto the Parliament that is to say the two Houses of Parliament for so we are to understand him above all Estates but also in regard of an Article concerning the surrendry of Oxford by which that University was subjected to such Visitations Fuller When I see a Corslet shot thorough with a Musket bullet and the Person wounded that wore it I may safely say that Corslet is not of proof against the Musket So when I behold the Pleadings of the Delegates neglected and null'd I may say that de Facto they were not of proof against Parliamentary power A passage possibly written by me such my affection to my Aunt Oxâ—ord with more griefe then it is read by the Animadvertor with anger but Truth is truth whether it be
so solemnly setled himselfe in the CHAIR that we should have heard from him some solid Determination which belike he dares not doe and in my Opinion it had been more consonant to Christian charity not to have discussed what he could not decide seeing matters of this Nature are to be hunted down or else it is best they be never started Is this He who so lately professed his aversnesse to meddle with this Arch-bishop and is now so ready to run out against Him on all occasions when he hardly hath half an Errand and rather would than can produce any certainty in his Suggestions Dr. Heylyn But our Author goes on Ibid. He was very chaste in his Conversation And I hope so too notwithstanding the scandalous reports of Weldon the namelesse Author aim'd at in the following words in his Pamphlet called the Court of King Iames and some vulgar fames or hear sayes too much credited by a late Historian But I must needs say that I am not satisfied in the arguments which are brought to prove it Wilson in his unworthy History of the reign of King Iames makes him to be Eunuchus ab utero an Eunuch from his Mother's womb The author of the pamphlet called the Observator observed conceives that Wilson went too far in this expression and rather thinks that he contracted some impotency by falling on a stake when he was a Boy fol 10. Our Author here seems to incline unto this last assuring us from such who knew the Privacies and casualties of his infancy that this Arch-bishop was but one degree remov'd from a Misogynist though to palliate his infirmity to noble Females he was most compleat in his courtly addresses But first the falsity and frivolousnesse of these defences leave the poor man under a worse suspicion than they found him in His manly countenance together with his masculine voyce shewed plainly that he was no Eunuch and the agreeablenesse of his conversation with the female Sex did as plainly shew that he was no Misogynist or Woman-hater And secondly admitting these surmises to be true and real they rather serve to evidence his impotency than to prove his chastity it being no chastity in that man to abstain from Women who either by casualty or by nature is disabled from such copulations The vertue of chastity consisteth rather in the integrity of the soul than the mutilation of the body and therefore more to be ascrib'd to those pious men Qui salvis oculis foeminam vident in Tertullian's language than to the old Philosopher who put out his eyes to avoid temptations of that nature So that if this be all which they have to say for the Bishop's chastity these advocates had shewed more wisdom in saying nothing than speaking so little to the purpose Fuller I am sorry to see the Memory of this Bishop since his decease to fall on a sharper Stake than his Body did in his Infancy even the Pen of the Animadvertors I confesse Chastity cannot necessarily be concluded from naturall debility or casual impotency there being a possibility of a frying heart in a freezing body And we know who hath written ut Eunuchus qui amplectitur virginem gemit The casualty of his Infancy was by me mentioned and cast in as super-pondium or over-weight to confirme such as were perswaded before in his Chastity which was never called into Question by any person of credit As for Aulicus è Coquina the Courtier cut of the Kitchin pretending himselfe such a Master of Defence in all Court-controversies Such as have perused his Book will find cause to say of Him Expectavi Lanistam inveni Scurram Rabulam Lnxam The conversableness of this Bishop with Women consisted chiefly if not only in his Treatments of great Ladyes and Persons of Honour wherein he did personate the Compleatness of Courtesie to that Sex otherwise a woman was seldom to be seen in his House Hence it was that the Palace of this Prelate had more Magnificence than Neatnesse therein sometimes Defective in the Puntillo's and Nicityes of Daintinesse lying lower than Masculine cognizance and as level to a womans Eye to espy as easy for her Hand to amend Dr. Heylyn Our author proceeds Ibid. Envy it selfe cannot deny but that whither soever he went he might be traced by the foot-steps of his benefaction Amongst which benefactions it was none of the least that in both the Universities he had so many Pensioners more as it was commonly given out then all the Noble-men and Bishops in the Land together some of which received twenty Nobles some ten pounds and other twenty Marks per annum And yet it may be said without envy that none of all these Pensions came out of his own purse but were laid as Rent-charges upon such Benefices as were in his disposing either as Lord Keeper or Bishop of Lincoln and assign'd over to such Scholars in each University as applyed themselves to him And because I would not be thought to say this without book I have both seen and had in my keeping till of late if I have it not still an Acquittance made unto a Minister in discharge of the payment of a Pension of twenty Nobles per annum to one who was then a Student in Christ-Church The name of the parties I forbeare he that receiv'd it and he for whom it was receiv'd and perhaps he that paid it too being still alive And possible enough it is that this Pensioning of so many Scholars had not been past over in silence by our Author if he had not known the whole truth as well as the truth Fuller His Pensioning so many Schollers foundeth more to his credit than th◠paucity of their Pensioners to the honour of other Lords and Bishops It was impossible that so numerous Pensions could all issue out of his own Purse without great Impairing of his Estate And therfore no wonder if he was not the Giver but the bare disposer of some of them to Promising Pregnancyes where Worth and Want did meet together in the same person And though such payments were not costly to the Bishop they were no lesse comfortable to such as received them it being all one with the parched ground whether the Water-pot which be-sprinkleth it be filled from the Spring or from the River This was don by him without any appearance of evill with the free and full consent of such Incumbents as Hee presented far from the shadow of Simonia call compliance seeing besides the Statute to this purpose in the reign of King Henry the eighth the Injunctions of Queen Elizabeth do countenance a Bishops assigning five pounds annually out of every hundred pounds of a Benefice to such uses As for many of the Pensions he paied I am since as well assured they were expended out of his own Purse as I am confident the causelesse cavills in our Animadvertor's Book were bred in his own braines without any other 's Suggesting them unto him Dr. Heylyn
Bill of Charges the Church paid the reckoning the Dominican Fryer who translated it being rewarded with a Benefice and a good Prebend as the Bishop himselfe did signifie by letter to the Duke of Buckingham Fuller I have been credibly informed by those who have best cause to know it That it was done not onely by his procurement but at his Cost Though I deny not but that a benefice might be conferred on the Fryer in reward of his paines Thus far I am assured by such as saw it That the Bishop who had more skill in the Spanish then his policy would publiquely own did with his owne hand correct every sheet therein Dr. Heylyn And as for the printing of the book I cannot think that it was at his charges neither but at the charges of the Printer it not being usuall to give the Printer money and the copy too Fuller The Animadvertor so well practised in printing knowes full well That though i◠be usuall to give Money and Copies too for a saleable book which being Printed in our owne tongue is every mans Money yet a Spanish Book printed in England is chargeable meeting with few buyers because few understanders thereof Dr. Heylyn And Thirdly Taking it for granted that the Liturgy was translated and printed at this Bishop's charges yet does not this prove him to be so great an honourer of it as our Author makes him For had he been indeed a true honourer of the English Liturgy he would have been a more diligent attendant on it than he shewed himself never repairing to the Church at Westminster whereof he was Dean from the 18. of February 1635. when the businesse of the great Pew was judged against him till his Commitment to the Tower in Iuly 1637. Fuller One reason why he seldome came to Prayers to Westminster Church was because he was permitted but little to live there after he fell into the King's displeasure being often sent away the day after he came thither On the same token that once Sr. Iohn Cook being sent unto him to command him to avoid the Deanery Mr. Secretary said the Bishop what Authority have you to command a Man out of his owne House Which wrought so much on the old Knight that he was not quiet till he had gotten his owne pardon Dr. Heylyn Nor ever going to the Chappell of the Tower where he was a Prisoner to attend the Divine Service of the Church or receive the Sacrament from Iuly 1637. when he was committed to November 1640. when he was enlarged A very strong Argument that he was no such Honourer of the English Liturgy as is here pretended A Liturgy most highly esteemed in all places wheresoever it came and never so much vilified despis'd condemn'd as amongst our selves and those amongst our selves who did so vilifie and despise it by none more countenanced then by him who is here said to be so great an Honourer o◠it Fuller Though for reasons best known to himselfe he went not to Prayers in the Tower Chappell yet was he his own Chaplain to read them in his own Chamber And let me add this memorable passage thereunto During his durance in the Tower there was a Kinsman of Sr. William Balforés then Lieutenant a Scotish man and his name Mr. Melvin too who being mortally sick sent for Bishop Williams to pray with him The Bishop read to him the Visitation of the sick having fore-acquainted this dying man That there was a form of Absolution in this Prayer if he thought fit to receive it Wherewith Mr. Melvin was not onely well satisfied but got himselfe up as well as he could on his knees in the bed and in that posture received Absolution Dr Heylyn But for this Blow our Author hath his Buckler ready telling us Ibid. Not out of Sympathy to Non-conformists but Antipathy to Arch-bishop Laud he was favourable to some select Persons of that Opinion An Action somewhat like to that of the Earl of Kildare who being accused before Henry the Eighth for burning the Cathedrall Church of Cassiles in Ireland profess'd ingeniously That he would never have burnt the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Hate to that Bishop an Arch-Bishop of Ireland incited that mad Earl to burn his Cathedrall Church And hate to Bishop Laud the Primate and Metropolitan of all England stir'd up this Bishop to raise a more unquenchable Combustion in the Church of England So that we may affirm of him as Tertullian in another case of the Primitive Christians viz. Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum But are we sure that he was favourable to the Non-Conformists out of an antipathy to Bishop Laud onely I believe not so His antipathy to the King did as strongly byass him that way as any thing else For which I have the Testimony of the Author of the History of King Charls publisht 1656. who telleth us of him That being malevolently inclin'd about the losse of the great Seal c. Fuller I will not advocate for all the actions of Bishop Williams and though the Animadvertor beholds my pen as over-partiall unto him yet I know who it was that wrote unto me Semper es iniquior in Archiepiscopum Eboracensem I am a true honourer of his many excellent virtues and no excuser of his Faults who could heartily wish That the latter part of his Life had been like the beginning thereof Dr. Heylyn And so I take my leave of this great Prelate whom I both reverence for his Place and honour for his Parts as much as any And yet I cannot choose but say that I find more reason to condemn then there is to commend him so that we may affirm of him as the Historian doth of Cajus Caesar Son of Agrippa and Nephew to the great Augustus viz. Tam variè se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficiat as my Author hath it And with the same Character accommodated to our Author and this present History I conclude these Notes subjoyning onely this old Saying as well for my comfort as defence viz. Truth though it may be blam'd can never be sham'd Fuller Here the Animadvertor doth Tickle and Pinch me both together yet neither will I laugh nor cry but keep my former composure I will take no notice of a piece of MEZENTISM in his joyning of the Dead and Living together and conceive my selfe far unworthy to be parallel'd in the least degree with his Eminences However I will endeavour with the Gladiators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honestè decumbere that when I can fight no longer I may fall handsomely in the Scene of this Life May God who gave it have the glory of what is good in me my selfe the shame of what is bad which I ought to labour to amend To the Reverend and his Worthy Friend Dr. Iohn Cosin Dean of Peter-burgh SIR You may be pleased to remember
that some two years since being informed by our friend Mr. Davenport that you took some exceptions at what I had written concerning you in my Church-History I returned you an Answer to this Effect That I would make you just reparation either in the next Edition of my History or in another Book which I was about to set forth Of the Worthies of England choosing therein the most proper and conspicuous place which might render it most visible to the Reader This last Book had since been printed had not the unhappy difference between Dr. Heylyn and me retarded it What I wrote concerning your Accusation in the House of Commons I transcribed out of the Manuscript journalls of that House As for your purgation in the House of Lords I knew not thereof which maketh such my omssion the more excusable I am now right glad that you did so clearly vindicate your innocence In my next Edition I will do you all possile right with improvement that my Pen can perform as also God Willing when I come to treat in my intended Book of the Cathedrall of Durham In the mean time joyning with Hundreds more of my Profession in thanks to you for your worthy Work on the Apocrypha and desiring the Continuation and increase of Gods blessing on your studies who do abide the Champion for our Religion in forraign parts know that amongst your many honourers you have none more affectionate than Your humble Servant Thomas Fuller To the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly placed in the front of a Book but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof If you have had the Leisure and Patience to peruse this Book you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed and I do as heartily wish as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee I must now accost thee in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell CONSULT CONSIDER and GIVE SENTENCE Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor please thine owne Conscience though thou displeasest us and adjudge in thy selfe where neither of Us where both of Us where one of Us which one of Us is in the right Onely this I will add for my Comfort and thy better Confidence in reading my Book that according to the received Rule in Law Exceptio firmat Regulam in non-Exceptis it followeth proportionably that Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis And if so by the Tacite Consent of my Adversary himselfe all other passages in my Book are allowed Sound and True save these few which fall under his reproof and how justly I submit my Cause to thy Censure and thy Person to Gods keeping remaining Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller Cranford Moate-House To my Loving Friend Doctor Peter Heylyn I Hope Sir that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us And now as Duellers when they are Both out of breath may stand still and Parley before they have a Second passe let us in cold Blood exchange a Word and mean time let us depose at least suspend our Animosities Death hath crept into both our Clay-Cottages through the Windows your Eyes being Bad mine not Good God mend them both And Sanctifie unto us these Monitors of Mortality and however it fareth with our Corporeall sight send our Souls that Collyrium and Heavenly Eye-salve mentioned in Scripture But indeed Sir I conceive our Time Pains and Parts may be better expended to Gods Glory and the Churches Good than in these needlesse Contentions Why should Peter fall out with Thomas both being Disciples to the same Lord and Master I assure you Sir whatever you conceive to the contrary I am Cordiall to the cause of the English Church and my Hoary Haâ—res will go down to the Grave in sorrow for her Sufferings You well remember the passage in Homer how wise Nestor bemoaned the unhappy difference betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O gods how great the grief of Greece the while And Priams selfe and Sons do sweetly smile Yea all the Trojan party swell with Laughter That Greeks with Greeks fall out and fight to Slaughter Let me therefore tender unto you an Expedient in Tendency to our mutuall Agreement You know full well Sir how in Heraldry two Lioncells Rampant endorsed are said to be the Embleme of two Valiant Men keeping appointment and meeting in the Field but either forbidden fight by their Prince or departing on Tearms of Equallity agreed betwixt themselves Whereupon turning Back to Back neither Conquerors nor Conquered they depart the Field severall wayes their Stout Stomacks not suffering them both to go the same way left it be accounted an Iâ—jury one to precede the other In like manner I know you disdain to allow me your Equall in this Controversie betwixt us and I will not allow you my Superiour To prevent future Troâ—ble let it be a Drawn Battle and let both of us abound in our owne sense severally perswaded in the Truth of what we have written Thus parting and going out Back to Back here to cut off all Contest about Precedency I hope we shall meet in Heaven Face to Face hereafter In Order whereunto God Willing I will give you a meeting when and where you shall be pleased to appoint that we who have Tilted Pens may shake Hands together St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou mightest receive him for ever To avoid exceptions you shall be the good Philemon I the fugitive Onesimus Wâ—o knoweth but that God in his providence permitted yea ordered this difference to happen betwixt us not onely to occasion a reconciliation but to consolidate a mutuall friendship betwixt us during our Lives and that the surviver in Gods pleasure onely to appoint may make favourable and respectfull mention of him who goeth first to his grave The desire of him who remaines SIR A Lover of your Parts and an Honourer of your Person THO. FULLER FINIS To Dr. Cornelius Burges SIR I could have wished that in your book entituled a Case concerning the buying of Bishops Lands with the lawfullnesse thereof c. you had forborn this following expression against me Part. 1. pag. 7. As that flashy jeering Author of the late published History of the Church upon hear-say onely and out of Resolution calumniari fortiter hath falsely reported him Let us go back to the occasion of these words When Dr. Hacket May the 11th 1641. made a Speech in behalfe of the Deans and Chapters of England for the preventing of the alienation of their Lands and revenues you returned an Answer thereunto and about the conclusive Result thereof is our present contest Dr. Burges You say you onely concluded those things unalienable from the Church
which were setled upon it by Divine Right Fuller I Report you concluded Deans and Chapters lands alienable without sin of Sacriledge from that particular Use yet so as that they ought still to be preserved to the Church in generall I confesse I neither was nor might be present in the Parliament and therefore must take it on Hear-say However I distinguish on hear-say which is double Hear-say Common Credible I conceive mine to be of the latter and better sort And I have no other way to defend my selfe than by appealing to many members of the House then present still alive and firmly remembring that transaction Surely Sir the Parliament never brought into question Whether things might be alienated from the Church which by Divine Right were setled thereon It was inconsistent with their prudence amounting in effect to this question Whether Gods or their power were the highest And Sir if you concluded no more than what you say you concluded what was never controverted by any Christian. Whereas you call me a FLASHY WRITER God forbid that in all my Books such a flash of folly and falshood should be found as falls from your Pen in your own praise Part. 1. pag. 32. lin 30 31. Albeit Dr. Burges performeth more service in that Church than any Bishop that ever sat there I read Act. 10.2 of a Cornelius praised by God for his Prayers and Alms but you are the first of the name which publickly in print commendeth himselfe And as for the Bishops of that See Have you forgotten William Barlow who in the Marian dayes exul in Germania inopem vitam ut potuit toleravit Preaching a practicall Sermon of patience and contentednesse to all posterity whilst another usurped his habitation What shall I speak of Sâ—ilâ— Montague c. What proportion I pray doth a petâ—y brook bear to a large LAKE If I be a flashy Writer you should have been so carefull as not to have brought fuell in your Book which I so soon may burn to ashes Part. 1. pag. 20. And that this was the high-way wherein the Popish Clergy of England long before as well as since the Conquest constantly travelled take one Testimony more of that famous Gildas the Elder surnamed Sapiens who being a Brittain Presbyter within the sixth Century or hundred of years after Christ thus chargeth the Popish Clergy of his time who had sacked their Principles from Augustine the Monk sent from Rome on purpose to advance the State and Pompe of the Clergy under Colour of planting the Christian faith in England For thus he saith Britannia habet sacerdotes c. Brittain saith he hath Priests but some of them very dolâ—s very many Ministers but many of them impudent ones Clergy men but very Thieves or Cheaters Pastors as they are termed but in truth Woolves standing to slay and flay the souls of the sheep for that they seek not the good of the people but the Grambing of their owne bellies They have Church houses but they never repaire to them unlesse for their own filthy lucre But know Sir that herein you are much mistaken in your Chronology for Gildas died saith Arch-bishop Usher in his Index-Chronolog pag. 1144. in the year of our Lord 570. Augustine the Monk came not over â—nto England untill the year 596. as â—s notoriously known to all that open a Book I am therefore confident that Gildas his complaint related onely to his Country-men the Brittish Clergy without the least reflection on the Saxon which as yet were unconverted pagans And therefore to say they had sucked in principles from Augustine the Monk is an Anti-Chronism which cannot be justified Respect Sir to your age degree and profession charms my Pen into some reverence unto you and because I hear abler Men are undertaking your Confutation I add no more but remain Your Loving Friend Thomas Fuller FINIS AN INDEX OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSONS and Passages in this BOOK TO THE READER ALthough a Methodicall Book be an Index to it self yet an Index is not to be contemned by the most Industrious Reader Whom we request to take notice of the following Particulars I. C. stands for Century B. for Book P. for Page ¶ for Paragraph II. In the two first Books memorables are ranked onely according to Centuries and Paragraphs but afterwards by Books III. Paragraph without page doth for brevity sake referre to that page which was last named IV. Page without Book on the same reason relates to the last Book that was named V. VVhere no Paragraph is named it sheweth that the page by it self is sufficient notification Lastly know that the discounting of Sheets to expedite the work at severall Presses hath occasioned in the Fifth book after page 200. compleated to go back again to page 153 surrounded in this fashion to prevent confusion AARON a Citizen of Caerlion martyred Cent. 4. ¶ 10. ABBEYS The prodigious expence in building and endowing them Cent. 10. ¶ 40. multitudes of them causeth the Danish invasion ¶ 51. mischiefs done by them b. 2. p. 282 283 284. prime Officers and Officines p. 285 286 287. the civil benefits by them p. 296 297 298. presage of their ruin p. 300. and offers to overthrow them p. 301 302. the lesser which could not expend 200. pounds a year bestowed on the King p. 310 311. and the rest visited with three sorts of Officers p. 314 315. some appear vertuous p. 316. others notoriously vitious p. 317. all resigned by their Abbots unwillingly willing to the King p. 319 c. Rob. ABBOT Bishop of Salisbury his death and commendation B. 10. P. 70. ¶ 53. George ABBOT Arch-bishop of Cant. B. 10. p. 57. ¶ 47. casually killeth a keeper p. 87. ¶ 12 c. befriended by Sir Edward Coke ¶ 15. and Bishop Andrews ¶ 16. mortified by this chance ¶ 17. seven years after severely suspended from his jurisdiction b. 11. ¶ 51. his character ¶ 53. and vindication ¶ 54. 55. Tho. ADAMS Alderman of London foundeth an Arabick Professours place in Cambridge Hist. of Cam. p. 166. ¶ 22. ADELME the first Bishop of Sherborn Cent. 8. ¶ 4. and the first Englishman who wrote in Latin or made a verse ibid. AETHELARD Arch-bâ—â—hop of Cant. calleth a Synod Cent. 9. ¶ 2. with the solemn subscriptions thereunto ibidem AGRICOLA a principall spreader of Pelagianisme in Britain Cent. 5. ¶ 3. AIDAN Bishop of Lindissern his due Commendation Cent. 7. ¶ 70. dissenteth from the Romish Church in the Celebration of Easter ¶ 71. inciteth Lay-men to the Reading of Scripture ¶ 72. St. ALBAN though a Britan how a Citizen of Rome Cent. 4. â— 2. converted to Christianity by Amphibalus ¶ 3. his Martyrdome and reported Miracles ¶ 4.5 his intire body pretended in three places Cent. 5. ¶ 11. Enshrined some hundred years after by King Offa Cent. 8. ¶ 35. St. ALBANS Abbey founded by King Offa Cent. 8. ¶ 38. the Abbot thereof confirmed first in place of all England
in Hampton-Court Conference p. 9. et sequentibus violently prosecuteth Mr. Fuller unto his death in Prison p. 55 56. ¶ 29 30. his death 34. vindicated from cruelty covetousness and Popish inclinations 44 45 46. his crossing a Court project 47. BANGOR the Monks therein massacred b. 2. ¶ 9. Peter BARO why leaving his Professours place Hist. of Cam. p. 125. ¶ 21. different judgements about his departure ¶ 22. William BARRET Fellow of Cajus Coll. his solemn recantation Hist. of Cam. p. 150. BARDS their powerfull practices on the Pagan Britans Cent. 1. ¶ 4. BARNWELL nigh Cambridge the Original of Midsummer fair therein Hist. of Cam. p. 3. ¶ 9. a Priory therein founded by Paine Peverell p. 7. ¶ 16. BASIL Councill English Ambassadours sent thither b. 4. p. 178. observations on their Commission p. 179 180. John BASTWICK his accusation b. 11. p. 151. ¶ 58. his plea 152. ¶ 64. his speech on the Pillory p. 155. ¶ 71. BATTEL ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 1. the large Priviledges thereof ibidem and ¶ 15. Thomas BECKET b. 3. p. 32. ¶ 57. Arch-bishop of Canterb. 58. stubborn in defending the Clergy 59 c. slain by 4 Knights in his own Church ¶ 66 67. the great superstition at his shrine p. 36. ¶ 70. Rob. BEALE Clark of the Councill zealous against Bishops b. 9. p. 47. Arch-bishop Whitgift complains of his insolent carriage ibidem BEDE though sent for went not to Rome C. 8. ¶ 15. yet probably went out of his Cell ¶ 16. why sur-named VENERABLE ¶ 17. the last blaze going out of the Candle of his life ¶ 18. BENNET COLL. in Cambridge the foundation thereof Hist. of Cam. p 43 44 c. Archb. Parker a paramount benefactor thereunto p. 46. ¶ 11. BENEDICTINE Monks b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. most ancient of all orders in England p. 267 268. BERKLEY Nuns all with child at once C. 11. ¶ 19. and b. 6. p. 301. ¶ 2. BERKLEYS their Armes relating to their service in the Holy Land b. 11. p. 43. ¶ 23. their great Benefaction to Abbeys Hist. of Abb. p. 326. sers by their dâ—ssolution 327. The L. BERKLEY Patron to John de Trevisa b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 43. at whose command be translated the Bible into English ¶ 44. BERTHA the Christian Wife of King Ethelbert as yet a Pagan a great Promotresse of Religion b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 9. St. John of BEVERLEY his Miracles C. 8. ¶ 11. Theodorus BEZA his letter to Mr. Travers to crave contribution for the City of Geneva b. 9. p. 136 137. why coldly resented ibid. BIBLE three severall Translations thereof b. 7. p. 387. a fourth and best by the appointment of King James b. 10. p. 45 c. Vide Translatours BIRINUS converts the West-Saxons C. 7. ¶ 65. breaketh his promise yet keepeth it ¶ 66. made Bishop of Dorchester ¶ 67. BISHOPS their judisdictions first severed from the Sheriffs b. 3. p. 5. ¶ 10. BISHOPS in the late long Parliament being charged with a Premunire for making the late Canons b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 6. legally defend themselves ¶ 7. acquit themselves from Feculencie of Extraction wherewith a Lord aspersed them ¶ 8 9. symptomes of their dying power in Parliament p. 184. ¶ 10. being petitioned against p. 185. ¶ 12. and assaulted ¶ 13. twelve of them subscribe and present a protest p. 186. ¶ 16. for which they are imrâ—soned p. 188 ¶ 18. enlarged on bayle p. 196. ¶ 34. BISHOPRICKS when and why removed from small Towns to great Cities b. 3. ¶ 21. Five on the destruction of Abbies erected by King Henry the eighth b. 6. p. 338. ¶ 3. BLACK-FRIERS the dolefull downfall or fatall Vespers thereof b. 10. p. 102. ¶ 29 30 c. Q. Anna BOLLEN hath amatorious Letters written unto her from King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 175 ¶ 49. preserved as some say in the Vatican ibidem her character p. 206. ¶ 20. solemnly divorced from King Henry the eighth p. 207. ¶ 2. Robert BOLTON an eminent Divine his death b. 11. p. 143. ¶ 25. EDMUND BONNER Bishop of London begins to bonner it b. 5. p. 231. ¶ 19. deprived under Ed. 6. b. 7. p. 414. his cruell articles Hâ—st of Walth p. 18. whom all generations shall call Bloudy b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 11. why imprisoned in the Marshalsey b. 9. ¶ 17. traverseth a suite with Horn Bishop of Winchester S. 4. ¶ 1. his Counsells plea in his behalf ¶ 2 3. 4. A drawn Batel betwixt them occasioned by a provisoe in a new Statute ¶ 7. BONNES HOMMES why so called b. 6. p. 273 ¶ 24. Rich Eremites in pretended povertie ¶ 25. BOOKS embezeled at the dissolution of Abbies b. 6. p. 334. to the great losse of learning ibidem BOOKS preparatory to reformation set forth by King Henry the eighth b. 7. p. 375. Gilb. BOURN Bâ—shop of Bath and Wells why milde in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 3. his death b. 9. p. 96. ¶ 26. Theoph. BRAD BURN his Sabbatarian fancies b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 32. Thomas BRAD WARDINE a great Schoolman C. 14. p. 98. ¶ 23. his just praise ibidem afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury BRANDONS Brothers successively Dukes of Suffolk die of the sweating sicknesse Hist. of Cam. p. 128. ¶ 70. Bishop Parkhurst his Epitaph on them ibidem Thomas BRIGHTMAN his birth breeding b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 12. preferment ¶ 13. writings ¶ 14. good life ¶ 15. and sudden death ¶ 16 17. BRITANS their dolefull case whilst Pagans C. 1. ¶ 1. their principall Idols ¶ 2. in vain they crave help of the Roman Emperour against the invasion of the Picts C. 4. ¶ 22. and C. 5. ¶ 14.15 BRITAIN the causes hastning the Conversion thereof before other Countries nearer Palestine C. 1. ¶ 6. why the first Planters of Christianity therein are unknown ¶ 8. not beholden to Rome for her first Preachers ¶ 18. not divided into five Roman Provinces as Giraldes Cambrensis mistakes untill the time of Flavius Theodosiâ—s C. 2. ¶ 10. Christianity continued therein after the death of King Lucius C. 3. ¶ 2. by the Testimony of Gildas Tertullian and Origen ¶ 3. in defiance of Dempster a detracting writer ibid. Why so little left of the primitive Church-History thereof ¶ 6. and C. 4. ¶ 11. BRITISH CLERGIE refuse submission to the Pope of Rome C. 7. ¶ 3. the Dialogue betwixt them and an Anchoret ¶ 6. BRITISH LANGUAGE the commendation thereof C. 7. ¶ 17. vindicated from causlesse cavils ¶ 18. Robert BROWN his gentile Extraction b. 9. p. 166. ¶ 2. deserted by his own Father p. 167. his opinions p. 168. spared when his Followers were executed ¶ 45. the odd occasion of his imprisonment and death ¶ 46. BRUXELS Benedictine rich Nunnery for English Gentle-women with good portions b. 6. p. 363. Martine BUCER called to Cambridge History of Camb. p. 128. ¶ 32 33 34. the various dates of his death p. 130. ¶ 37. belyed
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