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A91080 A proposall humbly offered, for the farming of liberty of conscience Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. 1663 (1663) Wing P3705; ESTC R26476 6,999 12

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of all Ordinances 5 0 0 A Preaching assistant 4 0 0 An Elder in Office 3 0 0 A Deacon 2 0 0 A Hearer in Fellowship male or female to all Ordinances 2 0 0 A common Hearer only 1 0 0 A Fifth Monarcher admitted to hold forth 5 0 0 An Elder under the same Administration 3 0 0 A Deacon under the same Administration 3 0 0 A Hearer male or female in Fellowship according to the value of his or her Estate 2 s. per l. per annum       A common hearer male or Female according to the value of his or her Estate 12 d. per l. per annum       A speaking male Quaker 4 0 0 A speaking female Quaker 3 0 0 A common Quaker male or female 2 0 0 A Confessor 6 0 0 A Seminary or Mass-Priest at large 5 0 0 A private Mass-Priest 4 0 0 A Roman Catholick in any other order 3 0 0 A Roman Catholick not in order male or Female 1 0 0 An Officer under any Administration not mentioned in the rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand Conformable to the Church of England 5 0 0 A common person under any Administration not mentioned in the rates aforesaid being a Native of England such only excepted as stand conformable to the Church of England 2 0 0 An Officer under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 10 0 0 A private person under any Administration whatsoever not a Native of England except conformable to the Church of England 5 0 0 Rates to be observed in compounding for Liberty of Conscience in the particulars following viz. For Liberty to assert the Popes Supremacy 10 0 0 For Liberty to write speak or Preach against the Government as they shall be inwardly moved 5 0 0 For liberty to keep on their Hats before Magistrates or in Courts of Judicature 2 0 0 For Liberty to rail publickly against the Bishops and Common Prayer 1 0 0 For Liberty to refuse all manner of Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or in Cases Civil or Criminal 2 0 0 For liberty to deny Tythes and other Church Duties 1 0 0 For liberty to expound the Revelations and the Book of Daniel 1 0 0 For Liberty to disturb any Congregation after Sermon 0 10 0 For Liberty to assert the Solemn League and Covenant 1 5 0 For Liberty to instruct youth in the short Catechism set forth by the Assembly of Divines 0 10 0 That any person or persons gifted for any the Particulars abovesaid may have liberty therein either as an Itinerate in private or Publique at the Rates abovesaid That no person or persons be admitted to compound for Liberty of Conscience until he or they have first taken and subscribed the Solemn Protestation following before the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or their Sub-Commissioners respectively I A. B. do here solemnly protest That I judg my self still bound by the Solemn League and Covenant by the Engagement by private Church-Covenant or by any other Oath which I have taken ever since the year 1641. and that so far as with safety to my person and Estate I may I will endeavour the utter extirpation of Episcopacy and to the utmost of my power will abet and promote all Schism faction and discord both in Church and State according to the best form and manner prescribed and laid open in the Sermons of many of the Grand-Commissioners and Farmers before the Parliament appointed to be Printed and now called the Homilies of the Separated Churches And that I will never by what Conviction or Authority soever whether legall or Episcopall ever consent to the Establisht Doctrine and discipline of the Church of England And I do likewise believe That Liberty of Conscience was a Mysterious yet profitable talent committed to the Churches and that it may be lawfully Farmed out for advantage and improvement That no person within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Barwick may from and after the 25 day of March next use or exercise any manner of Liberty of Conscience except persons standing conformable to the Church of England untill such person or persons shall first take the Solemn Protestation and shall compound with the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers for Liberty of Conscience nor shall he be admitted or permitted to be a Speaker or Hearer in any Meeting or Assemblies whatsoever That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to constitute under the Publique Seal of the said Office a convenient number of Spiritual Gagers who may have and exercise all such Powers Priviledges Authorities as the Gagers for Excize of Beer and Ale have or ought to have and enjoy and may at any time in case of Suspition enter into any house or place publike or private to gage and try the Spirits and Affections of any person or persons and by Praying Preaching or other good Exhortation disswade from Episcopacie and the Common-Prayer the better to fit and prepare them to compound for Liberty of Conscience That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience may have power to fine any person or persons not exceeding the sum of 20 l. for every offence who shall after Composition for Liberty of Conscience and subscribing the Solemn Protestation be present in any Church or Chappel within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick in the time of any part of Divine Service unless at the Funeral of his Father or some other like occasion or if being present at any such occasion he shall either respond be uncovered or carry himself reverently in the time of Divine Service aforesaid That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers of Liberty of Conscience or any 24 of them assembled at the Office aforesaid may have and exercise a Iurisdiction of Appeal in all matters relating to Liberty of Conscience within the said Kingdom of England and shall have a conclusive power in all matters brought before them by way of Appeal as aforesaid That for the better management of all such matters as shall be brought judicially before the said Grand Commissioners Farmers of Liberty of Conscience by way of Appeal the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers shall have power to constitute and appoint Mr. Oliver St. Johns and such others as they judge fit for their said Service to be of Standing-Councel with the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers And the said Mr. Oliver St. Johns being so constituted and appointed under the Publick Seal of the said Office shall and may be exempted and discharged from being in any Publike Office or place of Trust or Profit for the said term of 7 years any thing to the contrary notwithstanding That if any person or persons shall happen to be proceeded against in any of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Bishops of this Kingdome for Contumacy for