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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	archbishop_n	bishop_n	church_n	1,847	5	3.9623	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30641	The humble petitions of Mr. Burton and Dr. Bastwicke presented to the honovrable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6164; ESTC R29166	4,240	14

Short a Papist that maintained the Popes Supremacie the Masse and Papall Religion In which Booke your Petitioner for preventing all misinterpretations of his pious and good intentions therein in his Epistle to the Reader fully declared himselfe that your Petitioner meant nothing against such Bishops as acknowledged their Authority from Kings and Emperours yet because your Petitioner the better ever to shew the Papall usurpation of other Princes therein onely maintained by way of Argument as other Orthodox writers of that Subject usually have done a parity of the said Bishop of Rome or all other Bishops or Presbyters by the word of God denying his and their Supremacie over other Ministers to be by the Divine institution Therupon a Pursevant by Authority from the High Commission Court came into your Petitioners house at Colchester in Essex in his absence and the said Pursevant assisted with the then Bayliffes and Constables of Colchester aforesaid ransacked his said house together with his Chests and Trunks and with great violence broke open your Petitioners Study which was in his Apothecaries house and took and carried away divers of your Petitioners Bookes Writings Letters and what else the Pursevant pleased without making of restitution of them to your Petitioner And then your Petitioner was prosecuted in the said high Commission Court principally for his said Booke where after a long and charitable prosecution he was the 12. of Feb. 1634 fined 1000 li to the King excommunicated debarred to practice Physicke the chiefest means of his liveli-hood his said Booke ordered to be burnt That he should pay cost of suit and be imprisoned till he should make a recantation the which heavy censure was only for the said Book wherin your Petitioner maintained the Prerogative of a King against the Papacy Whereas one Thomas Chawney of Essex lately wrote a Booke in maintenance of the Papall Religion and in defence of the Church of Rome and averres it to bee a true Church the which Booke is dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and was and is patronized and defended by the said Archbishop and the said Chawney never troubled for it After which censure declared as aforesaid all the Bishops that were then present denyed openly that they held their jurisdiction from his Majesty and affirmed that they had it from God only and the Archbishop of Canterbury amongst many other erroneous sayings uttered by him maintained the said Chawneys Booke and maintained that the Church of Rome was a true Church and that it erred not in fundamentals and he and other the said Bishops there defamed the holy Scriptures and abused reverend Mr. Calvin In regard whereof and for the vindicating of your Petitioners innocency in the matters for which he was most unjustly censured as aforesaid your Petitioner published in print another Book in Latine Intituled Apologeticus ad Praesules Anglicanos expressing the truth of his proceedings and speeches of his said censure For which last mentioned Booke and his Booke called the Let any not then in print an information was exhibited against him and others in the Star-Chamber to which your Petitioners answer being drawn and engrossed was only subscribed by himselfe because he could get no counsell to set their hands to it your Petitioner tendred the said Answer first at the Starre-chamber Office and after in open Court at the Star-chamber Bar but it would not be accepted for want of Counsellors hands to it contrary to former Presidents But the Court of Star-chamber tooke the said information Pro confesso and censured your Petitioner 5000 li fine to the King to stand in the Pillory and to loose both his eares and to be close prisoner in Lancaster Castle in Cornewall all which hath been executed upon him with great extremity to the perill of his life After all which extremitie your Petitioner by what order he knoweth it not it being no part of his Censure in Starre-chamber was transported from the said Castle to the Iland of SYLLY a place so barren that it affords not ordinary necessaries where he hath been inclose duration for three years or more and not suffered to have any of his friends come at him his very Wife being prohibited by the Lords of the Counsels order under paine of imprisonment not to set her foot upon any part of the said Iland to enquire of his welfare So that your Petitioner hath beene exiled from his wife and divers small children 3. yeares and more besides the great straits and miseries which hee hath sustained during the said time All which is contrary to the law of God and man and the Liberties of a free Subject and to the utter undoing of your Petitioner his Wife and children May it therfore please this Honourable Assembly to take these pressing grievances of your Petitioner into your considerations and to afford him such reliefe the rein as in your grave wisedomes shall seeme consonant to Justice and equity and to assigne him for Counsell Mr. Atkins Mr. Ludbore Mr. Tomlins Mr. Gurdon and Mr. Randall to assist him in this his complaint and to order that your Petitioner may take out Gratis such Copies of the said Censures Warrants and Orders and other the proceedings in the said severall Courts as shall or may any way concerne this his sad yet most just complaint with warrant from this Honourable house to bring in his witnesse And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray for your prosperities IOHN BASTWICKE