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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56779	Sqvare-caps turned into rovnd-heads, or, The bishops vindication and the brownists conviction being a dialogue between time and opinion : shewing the folly of the one and the worthinesse of the other / by H. P.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1642 (1642)	Wing P949; ESTC R427	4,700	10

and ministers are commanded to breach the Gospell Ite praedicate ad omnes gentes c. you know who said then good Opinion have a good Opinion of square Caps I beleeve they never did you hurt except in the high Commission or in the spirituall Court you know about what Op. I am not fo much offended with the Caps as with them that weare them your Lordly Bishops who never did good in Church or common-wealth Ti. Never did good Opinion it is trve if you meane some of your own Clergie who have cast of their leather doublets and aprons and put themselves into long Cassocks with grave Silke girdles hanging to the knees Opinion you are but a novice and are new come from your sliding upon the Ice among Marriners boyes and upon Soldiers your frozen Crafts and Rivers about Amsterdam and Harlem but since the Parliament began but let that passe our Bishops have done more good then you and your abbettors will ever do so long as the world standeth Op. It may be some of them long ago have been good and done good but very few in England Ti. No Who have built more Colledges in our Famous Vniversities more Churches Hospitalls c. in any part of Europe then our Bishops have done in England Op. I have heard some of your Bishops have pulled down Colledges and Religious Houses as you call them but I never heard of any that built them Ti. I pray you what Bishop pulled down any yet I think I know more Opinion then you doe neither is Time ignorant of any thing that hath bine done I doe but only try you to see what you can say O. Did not your great Gor-bellied Cardinall Wolsey pull down forty houses of Religion to found His Colledge in Oxford which He left unfinished Ti. He had finished it if he had liv'd and made it one of the fairest Colledges of the world But since you speak of Oxford and him let me tell you what Bishops have done in Oxferd and Cambridge William Durham was a Bish●p who endowed Vniversitie Colledge with large Possessions having none before Anno. Dom. 1217 Walter de Merton was B. of Rochester Lord Chancelour of England and Counseller to K. H●n 3. and Ed. 1. when He founded Merton Colledge Exeter Coll. was founded by 2 succeeding B. of the same See viz Walter Stapleton and Edmond Stafford brother to Ralph Earle Stafford in the yeare 1035. W. Wikham B. of Winchester Principall Secretary to Ed. 3. L. high Treasurer and Chancellour of England builded that compleat House New Coll. Rich. Fleming who died B. of Lincolne also founded Lincolne Coll. in Oxford Henry Chichley B. of Cant. and Cardinall of St. Eusebius fonuded All-Soles Coll. Anno Heny 6. 15. And it is worthy to be noted how this Henry Chichleys Father being a very poore man dwelling at Higham Ferrers in NORTHAMTON Shire where this Chichley was borne had two sonnes whome being not able to keep at home sent them into the wide world to seek their fortune one of which proved Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and the other Lord Maior of London both at one time William Patten alias de Wainflet in Lincolnshire B. of Winch●ster and Lord Chancelour and England founded that absolute Coll dedicated to Saint Marie Magdalen which like Euxine Sea never ebbes nor flows with more fellows or Schollers then the founder gave and left at the first Brasen-Nose Col. was also founded by a Bishop one W. Smith B of Ely Corpus Christi by R Foxe B of Exeter Bath and Wells Durham and Winchester who was Godfather to King Henrie the eight Anno 1516. And Cardinnll Wolsey whom you so vilifie and disdaine had he liv'd he had perfected one of the most magnificent Colleges in the World which he called Cardinalles College but King Henrie taking the foundation upon himselfe called it Christs Church Princes I must confesse had a greater hand in the foundation of Colledges in Cambridge then Bishops yet these were not wanting there Peter House was Grounded by Hugh Balsham Bishop of Elie iTrnity-Hall by William Bateman Bishop of Norwich Iesus Colledge by Alcock B of Elie and all these Opinion wore square Caps what say you have they beene so bad members of the common wealth as you and your fellowes would make them Nay I can nor must not smother in silence many pious and charitable acts of Bishops of our own times did not that good B. Witgift B of Canturburie found a famous School and hosp●tall in Croidon Did not B Abbot the like at Gilford in Surrey where he was born and was not Saint Iohns in Oxford so repaird and beautified by this now Lord Bishop of Canturburie that it seemeth to have beene new built by him and beyond all the rest what magnificent things hath the now Archbishop of York done late Bishop of Lincolne Op. I never heard of any thing he did Ti. No you were beyond Sea or Opinion unborn if you have not heard what a bountifull benefactor he hath beene to the Church Let me tell you he much repaired and beautified the Church of Westminster where he is Deane he repaired with a great charge the Bishop P●llace of Lincolns where he intended a goodly Library haveing laid out a great summe of money to buy books besides provided timber which but for his troubles hee had finished as also a school and hospital in Wales where he was bor● he builded and gave a goodly librarie to Saint Iohns in Cambridge and another in VVestminster he beautified Lincolne Coll. Chappell in Oxford paveing it with Marble making the D●skes and Seates of Cedar whersoever he was Parson in the Countrie hee gave annuities to the poore he gave Schollerships to W●stminster and I beleeve Schollerships and Fellowships to Saint Iohns in Cambridge but the Master-peece of his bountie I must conceale let it suffize that you are utterly deceived in the name of a Bishop and ignorant of the good deedes they have done Opin If it be as you say I shall have a better conceit of them then I had but in the mean time I am carried with violence in the throng I can doe no ot●er then I doe Time Well Opinion Omnia tempus habent and my comfort is this Nullum violentum diuturnum Nothing violent lasts long So fare you well but be sure to keep a good tongue in your head Op. I warrant you Father FINIS