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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39172	A Caveat for the Protestant clergy, or, A true account of the sufferings of the English clergy upon restitution of popery in the days of Queen Mary	Y. E.	1671 (1671)	Wing E45; ESTC R19703	7,731	23

and twenty one Divines were put to death in those days But the particular usage of the Clergy is not so related in any Chronicles I have yet seen It was Dedicated to K. Philip and Q. Mary and all the Estates in Parliament as in a Defence of the Married Clergy whose Author I know not my Book being imperfect and because I think it may be somewhat new unto you as it was to me I designed the sum of it for the Subject of this Letter There were twelve or sixteen thousand Clergy-men turned out in those days at one time and reduced to great poverty this was done and executed to the uttermost and against all Justice upon a number of them even after the charge of the Cure served the Tenths and Subsidy paid N.B. In this relation I generally retain the Language and even the Orthography oftentimes of my Author and they at the point of receiving that which was before laboured for and deserved all was snatch'd out of their mouths by preventions Some were deprived and never convict no never call'd Some call'd that were fast lockt in Prison and yet nevertheless deprived immediately Some deprived without the case of Marriage after Orders Some induced to resign upon promise of Pension and the promise never performed Some so deprived that they were spoiled of their wages for which they had served the last half year before and not ten days before the receipt sequestred from it Some prevented from the half years receipt after charges of Tenths and Subsidy paid and yet not deprived till sir weeks after Nay they stood chargeable in Law for their first Fruits notwithstanding their deprivation Nor were they only divorced from their Livings But the Orders of Bonner are extant whereby they were appointed to bring their Wives within a Fortnight Acts Monuments p. 1334. that they might likewise be divorced from them The Queens Articles sent into every Diocess with Letters writ unto the several respective Bishops were of the same import though in some things better qualifyed than those that were to put them in execution would have regard unto But 't is no nnusual thing in so great revolutions for the Instruments to exceed their Commission and to comply more with their private instructions or intentions than the publick Declarations of their Prince Whatsoever there is of mitigation in them was not taken notice of but such rigour practised as I relate The Articles relating to this Subject were That every Bishop and his Officers Dr. Heylin's History of the Reformation Ann. Reg. Mar. 1. 1553 and all others having Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction proceeding summarily and with all celerity and speed may and shall deprive or declare deprived and remove according to their learning and discretion all such persons from their Benifices and Ecclesiastical Promotions who contrary to the state of their Order and the laudible custom of the Church have married and used Women as their Wives or otherwise notably and slanderously disordered or abused themselves Sequestring also during the said Process the Fruits and Profits of the said Benesices and Ecclosiastical promotions That the said Bishop and other Persons aforesaid do use more lenity and clemency with such as have married whose Wives be dead than with others whose Women do yet remain alive And likewise such Priests as with the consent of their Wives or Women openly in the presence of the Bishop do profess to abstain to be used more favourable In which case after Pennauce effectually done the Bishop according to his discretion and wisdom may upon just considevation receive and admit them again to their former administrations so it be not in the same place appointing them such a portion to live upon to be paid out of their Benifice whereof they be deprived by the discretion of the said Bishop or his Officer as he shall think may be spared of the same Benifice That every Bishop and other Person aforesaid do fore-see that they suffer not any Religious Man having solentnly professed Chastity to continue with his Woman or Wife but that all such persons after Deprivation of their Benefice or Ecclesiastical Promotion be also divorced from his said Woman and due punnishment otherwise taken for the Offence therein In these Articles 't is to be observed that the Queen seems more inclined to call the Wives of the Married Clergy rather Women than any other name and matters were so ordered that not only the Regular Clergy which do vow Chastitie but the Seculars who promise at their Ordination only castitatem colere docere which was the old Form and obligeth them directly no more to refrain Marriage than to teach others so to do were divorced from their Wives and deemed to have made a solemn profession of Chastitie according to those Verses Ordo Sacer vestis professio Religionis Quae sit facta palam factunt solemnia vota The Marryed Clergy were in all places represented as Lewd Fellows Nay it came to that pass immediately as that they were imputed such an unworthy sort of Men that they ought not to be said Ave unto in salutation not fit to come to their Tables or Presence for disteining their Holiness and mystical vows of Chastity Whereas in truth the Secular Priests of the English Church were never under any such Vow nor did our Pontifical oblige them to any such thing as Dr. Redman attested in the Convocation-house professing they were not bound by reason of any Vow which in as far as his Conscience was the Priests in this Church of England do not make But all Pleas were rejected it was in vain for them to say they did nothing but what was warranted by the Laws of the Land the Convocation or Scripture and Fathers they were condemned for breach of Vows as if they had been Ordained by Romish Poutifical and not that of England The Popish Clergy told them that upon the repealing of the Laws in being the old Laws and Canons did ipso facto take place and oblige though there was no express Statute for it and though the Queens Commission was that they should proceed according to Learning and Discretion in this weighty matter and that they should not put any other Canons and Constitutions of the Church in exercise than such as might stand with the Law of the Realm Yet for all this grave and gracious Advertisement divers of the Officials proceeded so far against Learning discretion and Laws of the Realm in most places so that the poor Subjects and Oratours were far otherwise used than one would have imagined considering the trust committed to them In truth it appears that all Pleas were invalid against the Arbitrary proceedings of those times and whatever was alledged out of the Laws and Constitutions of England though never so old and made in the times of Popery and who is safe if such a defence be invalid were defeated by this general assertion of Dr. Martin and others that no Laws bind