and sicker constitution and some passages in them I do not approve I hope to acquit my self so dutifull a son to the Church of England that when in a reverent posture I shall crave her blessing she will give it me in as full and free a manner and measure as to the Animadvertor himself Dr. Heylyn Thirdly the Book called Histrio-Mastix was not writ by Mr. Prin about three years before his last sufferings as our Author telleth us for then it must be writ or published Anno 1634. whereas indeed that Book was published in Print about the latter end of 1632. and the Author Censur'd in Star-Chamber for some passages in it about the latter end of the year 1633. Otherwise had it been as our Author tells us the punishment must have preceded the offence and he must suffer for a Book which was not publisht at that time and perhaps not written But our Author hath a speciall faculty in this kind which few Writers have Fuller The Animadvertor hath a speciall faculty in cavilling without cause My Clock of time strikes true enough but that he is minded not to tell it aright My words are Some three years since which word SOME soundeth an interpretative plùs minus to all ingenuous Ears Besides this is our opposite marginall Note containing the contents of that Paragraph Mr. Prin accused for Libelling against Bishops which accusation was about two years before this his last Censure during which time he was imprisoned And my SOME three years are to bear date in the construction of any impartiall Reader from that his accusation and then nothing is mis-timed but falleth out in due season And now Reader judge where the many errors be into which I have run in the story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings seeing no one mistake can be produced and proved against me And seeing the first Book of Mr. Prin was â—ound in it self in my opinion and his last Books more moderate even in the judgment of the Animadvertor and his midling Books how faulty soever such for which he hath severally suffered let us even take a fair farewell of Mr. Prin and his Books and so proceed Dr. Heylyn Now as our Author post-dateth his Histrio-Mâ—stix by making it come into the world two years after it did so he ante-dates a Book of Dr. White then Lord Bishop of Ely which he makes to be publisht two years sooner then indeed it was That Book of his entituled A Treatise of the Sabbath came not out till Michaelmas Anno 1635. though placed by our Author as then written Anno 1633. for which see fol. 144. Fuller In answer hereunto May the Reader be pleased to take notice of these particulars 1. The revived controversie Lords-Day lasted ten years bandied with books from 1628. till 1638. 2. I was loath to scatter my Book with it but resolved on one intire Narrative thereof 3. I fixed on the yeare 1633. therein to insert the same because the middle Number from the rising to the sinking of the difference then came to the very heat and height thereof 4. Hence my Narrative retreated some years back to 1628. when Bradborn began the difference 5. Hence also it sallied forth to the year 1635. when Bishop White 's book was set forth and beyond it 6. The date of the yeare 1633. stands still unmoveable on my Margin the whole Relation being for the reasons aforesaid entered under it So that nothing is offered to the Reader unjoynted in Time if I be but rightly understood Dr. Heylyn Next unto Mr. Prinne in the course of his Censure comes the Bishop of Liâ—coln the cause whereof we have in our Author who having left a blank fol. 156. for somewhat which he thinks not fit to make known to all gives some occasion to suspect that the matter was far worse on the Bishops side than perhaps it was And therefore to prevent all further misconstructions in this businesse I will lay down the story as I find it thus viz. The Bishop's purgation depending chiefly upon the testimony of one Prideon it happened that the February after one Elizabeth Hodson was delivered of a base child and laid to this Prideon The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such a load of filth and infamy conceived it would invalidate all his testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruine therefore he bestirs himself amain And though by order of the Justices at the publick Sessions at Lincoln Prideon was charged as the reputed father the Bishop by his two Agents Powel and Owen procured that Order to be suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses at length in May 10 Car. procured the child to be fathered upon one Boon and Prideon acquit Which lewd practises for the supportation of his favourite's credit cost the Bishop as he confest to Sir Iohn Munson and others twelve hundred pounds so much directly and by consequence much more Fuller I have concealed nothing herein of Moment the Blank being insignificant and the mere mistake of the Printer and expect no considerable addition from the Animadvertor having in my Book truly and clearly stated the Bishops Cause from the best Records I appeal to the unpartiall Perusers of what I wrote whether by this Note any thing of moment is added to the matter in hand except the naming of a light houswife which I conceived beneath my History the rest being truly by me related before Dr. Heylyn But to proceed the cause being brought unto a censure fol. 157. Secretary Windebank motioned to degrade him which saith he was lustily pronounced by a Knight and a Lay-man having no precedent for the same in former Ages But first it is not very certain that any such thing was moved by Sir Francis Windebank A manuscript of that daies proceedings I have often seen containing the Decree and Sentence with the substance of every Speech then made and amongst others that of Sir Francis Windebank in which I find no motion tending to a Degradation nor any other punishment inflicted on him than Fine Suspension and Imprisonment in which the residue of the Lords concurred as we find in our Author Fuller It is very certain he moved it and I avow it from honourable Eyes and Ears The Animadvertor misguides the reference of those my words having no precedent for the same in former Ages making them relate to the Bishop's Degradation whereof one precedent since the Reformation Unus homo nobis which indeed refer to the Knight's and Lay-man's first mentioning thereof which is unprecedented I am sure that such a person should FIRST make such a motion against a Bishop I confess at Bp. Midleton's Degradation some of the Lay-Privy-Counsellors were present but acted little therein so far from FIRST mentioning of it onely concurring with the Court the matter being chiefly managed by Arch-bishop Whitgift and some other Bishops and Deans the Commissioners as most proper
Commissioners More of this fine stuff we may see hereafter In the mean time we may judge by this remnant of the whole Piece and find it upon proof to be very sleight and not worth the wearing For first the Gentleman could not and our Author cannot chuse but know that a Convocation and a Synod as us'd in England of late times are but the same one thing under divers names the one borrowed from a Grecian the other from a Latin Originall The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury being nothing but a Provinciall Synod as a Nationall Synod is nothing else but the Convocation of the Clergy of both Provinces Secondly our Author knowes by this time that the Commission which seems to makes this doughty difference changed not the Convocation into a Synod as some vainly think but onely made that Convocation active in order to the making of Canons which otherwise had been able to proceed no further then the grant of Subsidies Thirdly that nothing is more ordinary then for the Convocations of all times since the Reformation to take unto themselves the name of Synods For the Articles of Religion made in the Convocation Anno 1552. are called in the Title of the Book Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi convenit c. The same name given to those agreed on in the Convocation Anno 1562. as appears by the Title of that Book also in the Latin Edition The Canons of the year 1571. are said to be concluded and agreed upon in Synodo inchoatâ Lond. in aede Divi Pauli c. In the year 1575. came out a Book of Articles with this Title following viz. Articles whereupon it was agreed by the most reverend father in God the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and other the Bishops and the whole Clergy in the Province of Canterbury in the Convocation or synod holden at Westminster The like we find in the year 1597. being the last active Convocation in Queen Elizabeth's time in which we meet with a Book entituled Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae c. in Synodo inchoatâ Londini vicesimo quinto die mensis Octobris Fuller I request the Reader would be pleased to call to his remembrance a passage of the Animadvertors on my fifth Book relating to the Reigne of King Henry the Eighth I must confess my self to be at a loss in this intricate Labyrinth unless perhaps there were some criticall difference between a SYNOD and a CONVOCATION the first being called by the Arch-bishops in their severall and respective Provinces as the necessities of the Church the other onely by the King as his occasions and affairs did require the same I find my self now in the like labyrinth and can meet with no Ariadne's thread to extricate my self I confess commonly CONVOCATION and SYNOD pass for Synonyma's signifying one and the same thing yet some make this nice difference 1. Convocation which is in the beginning and ending parallel with the Parliament 2. Synod which is called by the King out of Parliament I acknowledge my self a Seeker in this point and will not wilfully bolt mine eyes against the beams of Truth by whomsoever delivered Mean time I crave leave to enter this my dissatisfaction herein seeing the Animadvertor so lately did confess his in a thing of the like nature Dr. Heylyn Our Author finally is to know that though the members of the two Convocations of York and Canterbury did not meet in person yet they communicated their counsells the results of the one being dispatcht unto the other and there agreed on or rejected as they saw cause for it Fuller I am not to know it for I knew it before and nothing in my Book appears to the contrary that the two Provinciall Synods privately did communicate their transactions as they were in fieri in the making and at last publickly viz. when We at Westminster had compleated the Canons by Our subscription thereunto Dr. Heylyn Which laid together shewes the vanity of another passage in the Speech of Sir Edward Deering where he vapoureth thus viz. A strange Commission wherein no one Commissioner's name is to be found a strange Convocation that lived when the Parliament was dead a strange holy Synod where one part never saw never conferred with the other Lastly Sir Edward Deering seems to marvell at the Title of the Book of Canons then in question expressing that they were treated upon in Convocation agreed upon in Synod And this saith he is a new Mould to cast Canons in never us'd before But had he looked upon the Title of the Book of Canons Anno 1603. he had found it otherwise The Title this viz. Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall treated by the Bishop of London President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury c. and agreed upon with the Kings Majesty's licence in their Synod begun at London Anno 1603. And so much for the satisfaction of all such persons whom either that Gentleman or this our Author have mis-informed and consequently abused in this particular Fuller He hath now vapoured out that which by the Apostle is termed even a vapour which appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Being dead the Animadvertor might have spared this expression upon him I believe neither he nor the Author did wittingly or willingly mis-informe any and therefore cannot by any charitable pen be justly condemned for abusing them Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Ibid. Now because great Bodies move slowly c. it was thought fit to contract the Synod into a select Committee of some twenty six beside the Prolocutor No such contracting of the Synod as our Author speaks of There was indeed a Committee of twenty six or thereabouts appointed to consider of a Canon for uniformity in some Rites and Ceremonies of which number were the principall of those whom he calls Dissenters and our Author too amongst the rest who having agreed upon the Canon it was by them presented to the rest of the Clergy in Convocation and by them approv'd And possible it is that the drawing up o◠some other Canons might be referr'd also to that Committee as is accustomed in such cases without contracting the whole House into that small body or excluding any man from being present at their Consultation Fuller I know not what offence the word contracting may give but my meaning obvious to any Reader is this that a select Committee was appointed to prepare matters of greatest importance No member being excluded from being present at but from giving a Vote in that Consultation Dr Heylyn But whereas our Author afterwards tells us that nothing should be accounted the Act of the House till thrice as he takes it publickly voted therein It is but as he takes it or mistakes it rather and so let it go Fuller He might have allowed me the liberty of that modest Parenthesis without carping at it Some things I confesse having since better informed my self passed at the first
but Prudence in me to believe my self above such Trifles who have written a Book to Eternity Fourthly I regreat not to be Anvile for any ingenious Hammer to make pleasant musick on but it seems my Traducer was not so happy Lastly I remember a speech oâ— Sir Walter Rawleighs If any saith he speaketh against me to my face my Tongue shall give him an Answer but my back-side is good enough to return to him who abuseth me behind my back Dr. Heylyn In the next ranck of Impertinencies which are more intrinseall part of the substance of the work I account his Heraldry Blazons of Arms Descents of noble Families with their Atchivements intermingled as they come in his way not pertinent I am sure to a Church-Historian unless such persons had been Founders of Episcopal Sees or Religious-Houses or that the Arms so blazoned did belong to either Fuller I answer in generall Those passages of Heraldry are put in for variety and diversion to refresh the wearied Reader They are never used without asking of leave before or craving pardon after the inserting thereof and such craving is having a request in that kind with the Ingenious Grant it ill manners in the Author not to ask it is ill nature in the Reader not to grant so small a suit Mr. Camden in his description of Oxfordshire hath a prolixe though not tedious poeme of the marriage of Thame and Isis which he ushereth in with Si placet vel legas vel negligas read or reject either set by it or set it by as the Reader is disposed The same though not expressed is implied in all such Digressions which may be said to be left unprinted in Effect to such as like them not their Ploughs may make Balks of such deviations and proceed to more serious matter Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us lib. 9. fol. 151. that knowledge in the Laws of this Land is neither to be expected or required in one of his profession and yet I trow considering the great influence which the Laws have upon Church-matters the knowledge of the Law cannot be so unnecessary in the way of a Clergy-man as the study of Heraldry But granting Heraldry to be an Ornament in all them that have it yet is it no ingredient requisit to the composition of an Ecclesiastical History The Copies of Battle-Abbey Roll fitter for Stow and Hollinshead where before we had them can in an History of the Church pretend to no place at all though possibly the names of some may be remembred as their Foundations or Endowments of Churches give occasion for it The Arms of Knight-Errant billeted in the Isle of Ely by the Norman Conqueror is of like extravagancy Such also is the Catalogue of those noble Adventurers with their Arms Issue and Atchievements who did accompany King Richard the first to the War of Palestine which might have better serv'd as an Appendix to his History of the Holy War then found a place in the main Body of an History of the Church of England Which three alone besides many intercalations of that kind in most parts of the Book make up eight sheets more inserted onely for the ostentation of his skill in Heraldry in which notwithstanding he hath fallen on as palpable Errors as he hath committed in his History Fuller Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments hath done the like presenting the names of such who came over at the Norman Conquest I have only made their Catalogue more complete And seeing it was preserved in Battle-Abbey the very addition of Abbey doth dye it with some Ecclesiastical tincture The Arms of the Knights of Ely might on a threefold title have escaped the Animadvertor's censure First they was never before printed Secondly the Wall whereon they were depicted is now demolished Lastly each Knight being blended or as I may say empaled with a Monk a Moiety of that Mixture may be construed reducible to Church-History As for the Arms of some signal persons atchieved in the HOLY-WAR If the Sirname of WAR be secular the Christian name thereof HOLY is Ecclesiastical and so rendred all actions therein within the latitude of Church-History to an ingenuous Reader Dr. Heylyn For besides those which are observed in the course of this work I find two others of that kind in his History of Cambridge to be noted there For fol. 146. he telleth us That Alice Countess of Oxford was Daughter and sole Heir of Gilbert Lord Samford which Gilbert was Hereditary Lord Chamberlain of England But by his leave Gilbert Lord Samford was never the hereditary Chamberlain of the Realm of England but only Chamberlain in Fee to the Queens of England betwixt which Offices how vast a difference there is let our Authour judge Fuller I plead in my own defence according to my last general Answer that I have charged my Margin with my Authoâ— Mr. Parker Fellow of Caius College in Cambridge one known for a most abâ—â— Antiquary but especially in Heraldry and I thought that he had lighten on some rare Evidence out of the ordinary road but seeing he was mistaken I will amend it God willing in my next Edition Dr. Heylyn And secondly The Honor of Lord Chamberlain of England came not unto the Earls of Oxford by that Marriage or by any other but was invested in that Family before they had attained the Title and Degree of Earls Conferred by King Henry the first on Aubrey de Vere a right puissant Person and afterwards on Aubrey de Vere his Son together with the Earldome of Oxford by King Henry the second continuing Hereditary in that House till the death of Robert Duke of Ireland the ninth Earl thereof and then bestowed for a time at the Kings discretion and at last setled by King Charls in the House of Lindsey Fuller This is nothing Confutatory of Me who never affirmed that the High-Chamberlainship accrued to the House of Oxford by any such match Dr. Heylyn But because being a Cambridge Man he may be better skill'd in the Earls of that County let us see what he saith of them and we shall find fol. 162. That Richard Plantagenet Duke of York was the eighth Earl of Cambridge Whereas first Richard Duke of York was not Earl of Cambridge Fuller He was he was he was as presently God willing will appear beyond all doubt and contradiction Dr. Heylyn And secondly If he had been such he must have been the seventh Earl and not the eighth For thus those Earls are marshalled in our Catalogues of Honor and Books of Heraldry viz. 1. William de Meschines 2. Iohn de Hainalt 3. William Marquess of Iuliers 4. Edmond of Langley D. of York 5. Edward D. of York 6. Richard de Conisburgh younger Brother of Edward 7. Iames Marquess Hamilton c. Fuller Indeed they are thus reckoned up in a late little and useful Book entituled The Help of History made as I am credibly informed by the Animadvertor himself and therefore by him wel
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
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
principal Articles and main branches of it Fuller It is an hard question and yet perchance more dangerous than difficult to answer but the reason I dare alledge is this Even so Father because it pleased thee Let me add that such conscientious observers thereof which have proved unsuccessefull may esteem their losses as Sweet-Bryar and Holy-Thistle and more cordially comfort themselves in such sanctified afflictions than the Infringers of their Charter could content themselves in their successefull oppression I cannot part from this point till I have inserted that Sir Robert Cotton one who had in him as much of the Gentleman Antiquarie Lawyer good Subject and good Patriot as any in England was the Author in his short view of the long reign of King Henry the third who made the observation of those most successefull Kings by whom the Grand-Charter was most conscienciously observed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 88. The poor Jews durst not goe into France whence lately they had been solemnly banished but generally disposed themselves in Germany and Italy The poor Iews are more beholding to our Author for his commiseration than the high Royalists as he cals them in the former passage But poor or rich they might have passed safely into France had they been so minded For though he tell us that they had been solemnly banished out of France before this time yet either such banishment was repealed or temporary only or as I rather think not so much as sentenced Certain I am our learned Brerewood upon a diligent enquiry hath found it otherwise than our Author doth letting us know That the first Countrey in Christendome whence the Jews were expelled without hope of return was our Countrey of England whence they were banished Anno 1290. by King Edward the first and not long after out of France Anno 1307. by Philippus Pulcher. Not out of France first out of England afterwards as our Author would have it Fuller I wonder any good Christians would be offended with me for pittying them by the name poor Iews If any High royalist as I fear there is too many be in low Estate would it were as well in my power to relieve as to pitty them Till when they shall have my prayers that God would give them patience and support them in their deepest distresse The Author will find that though the Great General and Final banishment of the Jews out of France was Anno 1307. under Philip the Fair yet formely there had been Edicts for their Exile thence Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 100. Thus men of yesterday have pride too much to remember what they were the day before An observation true enough but not well applyed The two Spencers whom he speaks this off were not men of yesterday or raised out of the dirt or dunghill to so great an height but of as old and known Nobility as the best in England insomuch that when a question grew in Parliament whether the Baronesse de Spencer or the Lord of Aburgaveny were to have precedency it was adjudg'd unto de Spencer thereby declar'd the ancientest Barony of the Kingdome at that time then being These two Hughâ—he â—he Father was created Earl of Winchester for term of life and Hugh the Son by marrying one of the Daughters and co-heirs of Gilbert de Clare became Earl of Glocester Men more to be commended for their Loyalty than accused for their pride but that the King was now declining and therefore it was held fit by the prevalent faction to take his two supporters from him as they after did Fuller The two Spencers fall under a double consideration and are beheld in History for their extraction either as Absolutely in themselves Comparatively with others Absolutely they were of honourable parentage and I believe the Elder might be born a Baron whose Baronry by the Heir general is still extant in Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland and from the younger House of a Male Heir the Lord Spencer of Wormelayton now Earl of Sunderland doth as I have seen in his Pedigree derive himself Comparatively So were they far inferiour to most of those great persons over whom they insulted being originally Earls and some of them of Royall extraction Again the Two Spencers may and ought by an Historian to be considered as to be 1. Commended for their Loyalty 2. Condemned for their Insolency On the first account they deserve just praise and it is probable enough that they finde the lesse Favour from some Pens for being so Faithfull to so unfortunate a Soveraigne The latter cannot be excused appearing too plain in all our Histories Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 113. The Lord Chancellor was ever a Bishop If our Author by this word ever understands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most commonly or for the most part he is right enough but then it will not stand with the following words viz. as if it had been against equity to imploy any other therein And on the other side if he take the word ever in its proper and more natural sense as if none but Bishops had ever been advanced unto that office he doth not onely misinform the Reader but confute himself he having told us fol. 31. of this present book that Thomas Becket being then but Archdeacon of Canterbury was made Lord Chancellor and that as soon as he was made Archbishop he resign'd that office But the truth is that not onely men in holy Orders but many of the Laity also had attained that dignity as will appear to any who will take the pains to consult the Catalogue of the Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal in the Glossary of Sir Henry Spelman in which appear not onely some of inferior dignity as Deans Archdeacons House-hold Chaplains but many also not dignified with any Ecclesiastical Title or Notification and therefore in all probability to be looked on as meer Lay-men Counsellors and Servants to the Kings in whose times they lived or otherwise studied in the Laws and of good affections and consequently capable of the place of such trust and power Fuller May the Reader take notice that this complaint was made by the Commons in the 11th of Edward the 3d Anno 1336. Now Ever I here restrain to the oldest man alive then present in Parliament who could not distinctly remember the contrary from the first of King Edward the first who began his Reign 1272. so that for full 64. years an uninterrupted series of Bishops except possibly one put in pro tempore for a moneth or two possessed the place of Chancellors This complaint of the Commons occasioned that the King some three years after viz. in the fifteenth year of his reign conferred the Chancellors place on a Layman But it was not long before things returned to the old channel of Clergy-men and so generally for many years continued with some few and short interpositions of Lay-men Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 116. This year viz. 1350.
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
they had deserved the first thing which was done by the House of Commons after the King by their means had been brought to the fatall Block being to turn them out of povver to dissolve their House and annul their priviledges reducing them to the same condition vvith the rest of the Subjects Fuller I behold all this Paragraph as a Letter sent to me vvhich requires no Answer onely I bear the Animadvertor witnesse that it is delivered seeing I was none of the Lords on either Side But I am not altogether satisfied in the Adequation of the Animadvertor's Dichotomy to all the English Nobility That all not subscribing the Catalogue at Oxford must instantly be concluded on the opsite Party believing that upon serious search some Lords would be found in their Minority and not necessarily reducible to either of these heads Dr. Heylyn Footsteps of his moderation content with the enjoying without the enjoyning their private practices and opinions on others This comes in as an inference onely on a former passage in which it is said of Bishop Andrews that in what place soever he came he never pressed any other Ceremonies upon them than such as he found to be used there before his comming Though othervvise condemned by some for many superstitious Ceremonies and superfluous Ornaments used in his private Chappell How true this is I am not able to affirm Fuller The Animadvertor if so disposed might soon have satisfied himself in this point being Beneficed in Hampshire the last Diocesse of Bishop Andrews And though his institution into his Living was since the death of that worthy Prelate yet his information in this particular had been easie from the aged Clergy of his Vicinage Sure I am he ever was inquisitive enough in matters vvhiâ—h might make for his advantage so that his not denying tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter in question Dr. Heylyn I am less able if it should be true to commend it in him It is not certainly the office of a carefull Bishop onely to leave things as he found them but to reduce them if amiss to those Rules and Canons from which by the forwardness of some to innovate and the connivance of others at the innovations they had been suffered to decline Fuller I comply cordially with the Animadvertor in all this last Sentence Only I add That it is also the office of a good Bishop not to endeavour the Alteration of things well setled before This was the constant practice of Doctor Andrews successively Bishop of Chichester Ely and Winchester who never urged any other Ceremonies that what which he found there Now whereas the Animadvertor saith that iâ— this should be true he is not able to commend it in him the matter is not much seeing the actions of Bishop Andrewes are able to commend themselves Dr. Heylyn And for the Inference it selfe it is intended chiefly for the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury against whom he had a fling before in the fourth Book of this History not noted there because reserved to another place of vvhich more hereafter Condemmed here for his want of moderation in enjoyning his private practices and opinions on other men But first our Author had done well to have spared the man vvho hath already reckoned for all his errours both vvith God and the vvorld Fuller He hath so and I hope what he could not satisfie in himself was done by his Savâ—our But first the Animadvertor had done wel to have spared his censure on my intentions except he had better assurance of them Here I must Reader appeal to an higher than thy self Him vvho can read the secrets of my heart before whom I protest That in this passage I did not reflect in any degree on the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury To make this the more probable knovv the Articles of his Visitation vvere observed to be as moderate as any Bishops in England Here let me enter this Memorable and let the Animadvertor confute it if he can There was a designe of the thirty six Dissenters of whom hereafter in the Convocaâ—ion to obtain that these Articles of his Visitation might be precedenâ—tall to all the Bishops in England as being in themselves in offensive and containing no Innovations This was by some communicated to Arch-Bishop Laud who at first seemed to approve thereof and how it came afterwards to miscarry I am not bound to discover I confess this my expression did eye another person related to Bishop Andrewes whom I forbear to name except by the Animadvertor's reply unto me I be forced thereunto Dr. Heylyn And secondly it had been better if he had told us what those private practises and opinions were which the Arch-Bishop with such want of moderation did enjoyâ— on others Fuller They are reckoned up in my Church-History Book 11. pag. 174. parag 47 48. This is direction enough and there one may find more then a good many of such opinions and practises On the self-same token that it was discreetly done of the Animadvertor to pass them over in silence without a word in their defence or excuse I will not again here repeat them partly because I will not revive what in some sort is dead and buried and partly because I charitably believe that some engaged therein and still alive are since sorry for their over-activity therein Dr. Heylyn For it is possible enough that the opinions which he speaks of might be the publick Doctrines of the Church of England maintained by him in opposition to those private opinions which the Calvinian party had intended to obtrude upon her A thing complained oâ— by Spalato who well observed that many of the opinions both of Luther and Calvin were received amongst us as part of the Doctrine and Confession of the Church of England which otherwise he acknowledged to be capable of an Orthodox sense Praeter Anglicanam Confessionem quam mi â— ut moâ—estam praedicalant multa video Lutheri Calvini dogmata obtinuisse as he there objects Fuller I am not bound to stand to the judgment of Spalato who would not stand to his own judgment but first in â—earâ— then in body went back into Aegypt Lay not such unsavoury salt in my dish but cast it to the Dunghill Dr. Heylyn He that reads the Gag and the Appello Caesarem of Bishop Monâ—â—gue cannot but see that those opinions which our Author condemned for private were the true Doctrine of this Church professed and held forth in the Book of Articles the Homilies and the Common-Prayer-Book Fuller He that reads the Answers returned by severall Divines to the Books of Bishop Montague cannot but see that they were rather private opinions than the true and professed Doctrine of the Church of England Here Reader I cannot but remember a passage betwixt two Messengers sent to carry Defiances from severall Armies who meeting in the mid-way though naked and without Swords yet to manifest their zeal to their Cause fought it out with their Trumpets
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
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
by Parsons to die a Jew ¶ 38. his bones burnt by Card. Poole p. 135. ¶ 54. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE paramount for Martyrs b. 5. p. 163. ¶ 2. Dr. Cernelius BURGES his speech against Deans and Chapters b. 11. p. 179. ¶ 73 74. Henry BURTON his character b. 14. p. 152. ¶ 59. cause of disconsent ¶ 60. degradea p. 143. ¶ 68. his words on the Pillory ¶ 69 70. brought back from Exile in Triumph p. 172. ¶ 32. C. Jack CADE his rebellion b. 4. p. 186. ¶ 22. CADOCUS his discreet devotion C. 6. ¶ 7. CADVVALLADER last K. of VVaks foundeth at Rome a Hospitall for the VVelch C. 7. ¶ 104. since injuriously taken from them ¶ 105. CAIUS Colledge in Cambridge founded by Dr. Caius Hist. of Camb. p. 133. ¶ 45. who bestowed good Lands building statutes Name and Armes thereon ¶ 46 47 c. fruitfull with famous Physicians ¶ 52. CAMBRAY a Nunnery therein founded for English women by the Spanish Ambassadour b. 6. p. 363. CAMBRIDGE reported to have received divers privileges from King Lucius C. 2. ¶ 12. her Christian Students reported slain by the Pagan Britans C. 4. ¶ 9. persecuted to the dissolution of the University by Pelagius C. 5. ¶ 2. reputed first founded by King Sâ—gebert C. 7. ¶ 46. Arguments to the contrary answered ¶ .47 c. called Schola which was in that Age the same with an Academy ¶ 54. restored by King Edward the Elder C. 10. ¶ 6 7. mistaken by John Rouâ—e for the founder thereof ¶ 8. renounceth the Popes supremacy in a publick instrument Hist. of Camb. p. 106. ¶ 50. the first generall visitation thereof jure Regio Hist. of Camb. p. 109. ¶ 55. King Henry his Injunctions thereunto p. 112. ¶ 56. Edmund CAMPIAN sent over by the Pope to pervert England B. 9. p. 114. ¶ 41. his journall letter p. 115 116 117. catch'd by secretary Walsingham ibid. falsly pretends to be cruelly racked p. 117. ¶ 117. ¶ 2. is at last executed CANONS made in the last Convocation with the c. Oath therein b. 11. p. 168 169. severall opinions about them p. 171. Mr. Maynard his speech against them p. 180. ¶ 77. the Clergy are judged in a Praemunire for making them ¶ 78. King CANUTUS his cruelty C. 11. ¶ 5. conversion and charity ibidem c. Jo. CAPON Bishop of Salisbury a cruell persecuter under Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 5. the bane of his Bishoprick b. 9. ¶ 21. Nic. CARR his Epitaph Hist. of Camb. p. 141. George CARLTON Bishop of Landaf sent by K. James to the Synod of Dort B. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. dieth Bishop of Chichester b. 11. ¶ 67. CARMELITES their first coming into England p. 271. ¶ 18. great priviledges ¶ 19. most carefull keepers of the Records of their order ¶ 20. a Catalogue of their Provincials p. 272. their first coming to Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 20. ¶ 5. where they would not commence Doctors and why ibid. till Humphry Necton first brake the ice ¶ 6. learned writers of their order which were Cambridge-men Hist. Camb. p. 30. ¶ 27. CARTHUSIAN Monks b. 6. p. 269. ¶ 9. Tho. CARTWRIGHT presents his admonition to the Parliament b. 9. p. 102. ¶ 5. bandying betwixt him and Dr. Whitgift ¶ 6 7. examined in the high Commission on 29. Articles b. 9. p. 198 c. sent to the Fleet for refusing to answer p. 203. discharged the Star-Chamber by favour of Arch-bishop Whitgift p. 204. ¶ 31. groweth rich at Warwick b. 10. ¶ 7. and very moderate ¶ 8. The reasons thereof ibid. His character ¶ 9. dedicates a Book to King James ¶ 18. His strange infirmity and death ¶ 19. his first cause of discontentment Hist. of Camb. p. 139. ¶ 2. clasheth with Dr. Whitgift p. 140. ¶ 3. by whom he is summoned p 141. and banished the University p. 142. John CASE Dr. of Physick b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 45. the great favour done by the University to his Scholars at Oxford ibidem CAURSINES what they were b. 3. p. 59. ¶ 6. the form of their cruell Obligations p. 60. with some notes thereon ibidem why they were called Caursines p. 61. ¶ 8. St. CEDDE his difference from St. Chad C. 7. ¶ 84. St. CHAD his difference from St. Cedde C. 7. ¶ 84. teacheth Wulfade the Christian faith ¶ 86. CHANTEREYES given to the King b. 6. p. 250. ¶ 3. what they were ¶ 5. Fourty seven founded in St. Pauls Church in London p. 351 352 c. vast though uncertain their number in England p. 354. ¶ 18. Free CHAPPELS given to the King b. 6. p. 354. ¶ 15. King CHARLES his solemn coronation b. 11. ¶ 19 c. restoreth Impropriations of Ireland to the Church p. 149. ¶ 45. unwillingly consenteth to the taking away of Bishops votes in Parliament p. 195. ¶ 29 and 30. his severall papers in the Isle of Wight in defence of Episcopacie p. 230 231 c. his death which endeth the eleventh Book CHARLES eldest Son to Kâ—ng Charles hâ—s short life b. 11. p 135. ¶ 1. an excellent Tetrastâ—ck on his death ¶ 2. CHARTER-HOUSE founded by Mr. Sutton b. 10. p. 65. in some respect exceeding the Annuntiata at Naples p. 66. ¶ 21. Thomas CHASE cruelly martyred b. 5. p. 164. ¶ 3. Geffery CHAWCER the famous Poet b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 46. his Parentage Armes and praise p. 152. ¶ 47 48. his enmity to Friers ¶ 49. Student sometimes in Cambridge Hist. Camb. p. 52. ¶ 38. as also in Oxford ibidem CHEALSEY Colledge a large dâ—scourse of the foundation thereof b. 10. p. 51 52 53 c. Sr. J. CHEEK Tutour to King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 422. ¶ 12. restored to health by King Edward's prayers p. 424. ¶ 13. A prime Exile in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 24. his sad return into England ¶ 30. orally recanteth ¶ 31. and dyeth for the grief thereof ibidem vindicated from slandring and mistaking Pens in his Parentage Parts and Posterity ¶ 32. Henry CHICHELEY Arch-bishop of Canterbury foundeth All-Souls Colledge b. 4. p. 181. ¶ 10. soberly returneth a tart jear p. 182. ¶ 11. saveth Abbies by sending King Henry the fifth into France b. 6. p. 205. ¶ 5. CHRIST-CHURCH in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 28 c. confirmed by King Henry the eighth ¶ 30. the Deans Bishops Benefactours c. thereof ¶ 32. John CHRISTOPHERSON Bishop of Chichester a learned man but great persecuter under Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 8. CHRISTS COLLEDGE founded by Margaret Countesse of Darby Hist. of Camb. p. 90. ¶ 55. endowed it with richlands ¶ 56. augmented by King Edward the sixth p. 91. ¶ 7. Their numerous worthies of this foundation ¶ 9. CIRCUMSPECTE AGATIS the form thereof b. 3. p. 79. ¶ 15. both a statute a writ grounded thereon p. 80. a large discourse of the severall branches thereof p. 81 82 83. CISTERTIANS being refined Benedictines b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. exempted by
Pope Adrian the fourth from paying of Tithes and why p. 283. ¶ 4. their freedome somewhat confined by the Lateran Councell ¶ 5. CLARE HALL founded by Elizabeth Countesse of Clare Hist. of Camb. p. 37. ¶ 41. The Masters Benefactours Bishops c. thereof ibidem anciently called Soler Hall p. 38. ¶ 44. ruinous and lately re-edified ¶ 45. Four hundred pounds worth of timber reported taken from it in these troublesome times which the Authour of this Book will not believe ibid. CLAUDIA mentioned by St. Paul 2. Tim. 4.21 probably a British Convert C. 1. ¶ 9. notwithstanding Parsons his Cavils to the contrary ¶ 10. CLUNIACK Monks being reformed Benedictines b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. Elianor COBHAM Dutchess of Glocester accused for a Sorceress by some made a Confessour by M. Fox b. 4. p. 171 c. COIFY a Pagan Priest his remarkable speech C. 7. ¶ 41. COLCHESTER claimeth Constantine to be born therein C. 4. ¶ 18. Augustinean Monks had there their prime residence b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 6. COLLEDGES not in the Universities but for superstitious uses given to the King b. 6. p. 350. ¶ 3 4 5. John COLLET Dean of St. Pauls b. 5. p. 167. ¶ 13. soundeth Pauls School ¶ 14. making the Mercers overseers thereof ¶ 15. out of provident prescience ¶ 16. Tho. COMBER Master of Trinity Colledge in Camb. highly commended by Morinus History of Camb. p. 123. ¶ 20. High COMMISSION arguments for and against it b. 9. p. 183. CONSTANTINE the first Christian Emperour proved a Britan by bâ—rth C. 4. ¶ 15. tâ—e obiections to the contrary answered ¶ 16. richly endoweth the Church ¶ 19. CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS the Roman Emperour and though no Christian a favourer of them C. 4. ¶ 12. buried at York and not in Wales as Florilegus will have it ¶ 13. CONVENTICLE the true meaning thereof b. 9. p. 102. ¶ 4. CONVENTS some generall conformities used in them all b. 6. p. 287 c. CONVOCATIONS three severall sorts of them b. 5. p. 190 191. they complain of erroneous opinions p. 209 210 c. CORPUS CHRISTI COL in Camb. See Bennet Colledge CORPUS CHRISTI COLL. in Oxford founded by Bishop Fox b. 5. p. 166. ¶ 11. called the Colledge of three Languages ibid. the worthies thereof ibid. Masse quickly set up therein in the first of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 8. ¶ 10 11. Dr. John COSEN charged with superstition his due praise b. 11. p. 173. ¶ 34 c. The Scotish COVENANT the form thereof b. 11. p. 201. ¶ 13 c. exceptions to the Preface and six Articles therein 203 204 205 206. never taken by the Authour of this Book p. 206. ¶ 30. Will. COURTNEY Bishop of London his contests about Wickliffe with the Duke of Lancaster b. 4. ¶ 135. ¶ 19. Arch-bishop of Canterbury p. 142. ¶ 24. COURTS SPIRITUALL began in the Reign of King William the first when severed from the Sherifs Courts b. 3. ¶ 10. Their contesting with the Common Law how to be reconciled ¶ 11. Richard COX Dean of Christs Church accused t is hoped unjustly for cancelling Manuscripts in Oxford Library b. 7. p. 392. ¶ 19 20. flies to Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary b. 8. p. 30. ¶ 3. where he headeth a strong party in defence of the English Liturgie p. 31 32. made Bishop of Ely b. 9. p. 63. his death and Epitaph p. 111. ¶ 34. Thomas CRANMER employed by King Henry to the Pope b. 5. p. 179. ¶ 9. to prove the unlawfulnesse of the Kings marriage ¶ 18. thence sent into Germany ¶ 22. made Arch-bishop of Canterbury against his will ¶ 27. defended against the cavils of Papists and Mr. Prin ¶ 28 c. his death b. 8. p. 203. ¶ 32. CREKELADE or GREEKLADE an ancient place where Greek was professed C. 9. ¶ 29. CROWLAND Monks massacred by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 19. Thomas CROMWELL first known to the World for defending his Mr. Card. Wolsey b. 5. p. 177 ¶ 1. as the Kings Vicar in Spiritualibus presidenteth it in the Convocation p. 206. ¶ 21. falls into the Kâ—ngs dâ—spleasure p. 231. ¶ 20. deservedly envyed ¶ 11. his admâ—rable parts ¶ 22. with the History of his death c. ¶ 23 c. Chancellour of Cambridge Hist. of Cambridge p. 108. ¶ 53. Richard CROMWEL alias Williams Knâ—ghted for his valour at a solemn tilting b. 6. p. 370. ¶ 11. giveth a Diamond Râ—ng in his Crest on an honourable occasion ¶ 12. CUTHBERT Arch-bishop of Canterbury by the Kings leave first brings Bodyes to be buried in the Church b. 2. p. 103. ¶ 27. D. DANES their first arrivall in England B. 2. p. 103. ¶ 29. why their countrâ— â—ormerly so fruitfull is lately so barren of people ¶ 30 31 32. the sad Prognosticks of their coming hither ¶ 33. make an invasion into Lincolnshire C. 9. ¶ 18. massacre the Monks of Crowland C. 9. ¶ 19. and burn the Monastery of Medeshamsted ¶ 20 21. why their fury fell more on Convents then Castles C. 10. ¶ 48. after sixty years absence re-invade England ibidem A dear peace bought with them ¶ 50. to no purpose ¶ 52. their Royall line in England suddenly and strangely extinct C. 11. ¶ 10. no hostile appearance of them in England ¶ 13. Thomas L. DARCY beheaded B. 6. p. 313. ¶ 5. his Extraction vindicated from the causelesse Aspersion of King Henry the eighth page 324 325. John DAVENANT sent by King James to the Synod of Dort B. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. made Bishop of Salisbury B. 10. p. 91. ¶ 35. questioned for his Sermon at Court B. 11. p. 138. ¶ 14 15. relates all the passages thereof in a Letter to Dr. Ward ¶ 16. his opinion about the suspension of Bishop Goodman p. 170. ¶ 23. his death p. 176. ¶ 53. St. DAVID a great advancer of Monastick life C. 6. ¶ 4. one of his paramount Miracles ¶ 5. St. DAVIDS or Menevia in Wales once an Arch-bishoprick B. 3. p. 24. ¶ 25. contesteth with Canterâ—ury ibidem but is overpowered ¶ 26. DEANES and CHAPTERS defended in the House of Commons by an excellent speech of Doctour Hackets B. 11. p. 177 178 179. Edward DEERING his death and praise B. 9. p. 109. ¶ 22. Sr. Anth. DENNIE his extraction issue death and Epitaph Hist. of Walt. p. 12 13. DERVVIANUS sent by Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to King Lucius to instruct him in Christianity C. 2. ¶ 8. DEVONSHIRE commotion begun out of superstition heightned with cruelty supprest by Gods blessing on the valour of the Lord Russell B. 7. p. 393 394 c. The DIRECTORY compiled by the Assembly of Divines B. 11. p. 221. ¶ 1. commanded by the Parliament ¶ 6. forbidden by the King to be generally used ¶ 7. it and the Liturgy compared together p. 223 224. DISSENTING BRETHREN B. 11. ¶ 35 why departing the Land ¶ 36. kindly entertained in Holland ¶ 37. their chief ground-works ¶ 39 40. manner of Church-service ¶ 41. Schism betwixt
p. 173 ¶ 35 c. Sr. Tho. SMITH Benefactour generall to all Scholars Hist. of Camb. p. 81. ¶ 37 38. and also p. 144. ¶ 6 7 8. Henry SMITH commonly called the Silver-tongu'd b. 9. p. 142. ¶ 3 4. Rich. SMITH titularie Bishop of Chalcedon b. 11. ¶ 72. some write for others against him Episcopizeth in England b. 11. p. 137. ¶ 7. opposed by Nicholas Smith and defended by Dr. Kelison both zealous Papists ¶ 8 9 c. SOBRIQUETS what they were b. 3. p. 30. ¶ 52 fifteen principall of them ibid. SODOMITRY the beginning thereof in England b. 3. p. 19. ¶ 29. with too gentle a Canon against it ibid. SOUTH SAXONS their Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. converted to Christianity by Wilfride C. 7. ¶ 98 c. taught by him first to fish ¶ 101. SPALATO his coming over into England with the whole story of his stay here departure hence and burning at Rome for a Heretick after his death b. 10. p. 93. unto the 100. King STEPHEN usurpeth the Crown b. 3. p. 24. ¶ 28. by the perjury of the Clergy p. 25. ¶ 29. variety of opinions and arguments pro and con about him ¶ 30 31 c. the Clergy revolt from him p. 27. ¶ 39. appeareth as some say in person summoned to a Synod in Winchester p. 28. ¶ 43. a founder of Religious houses p. 29. ¶ 46. his death p. 30. ¶ 51. STEWES suppressed by statute b. 5. p. 239. ¶ 38. their Original ¶ 39. and Constitution p. 140. ¶ 40. arguments pro and con for their lawfulness ¶ 41 42. STIGANDUS Arch-bishop of Cant. his Simony b. 3. ¶ 2. and covetousness ¶ 4. Simon STOCK living in a trunk of a tree esteemed a Saint b. 6. p. 272. ¶ 21. STONEHENGE the description and conceived occasion thereof C. 5. ¶ 26. Tho. STONE a conscientious Non-conformist discovereth the Anatomy of the disciplinarian meetings p. 207 c. his sixteen Reasons in his own defence against his accusers herein p. 209 c. J. STORY a most bloody persecutor b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 12. with a fine design trained into England b. 9. p. 84. ¶ 20. executed his revenge on the executioner ibid. STRASBURGH the congregation of English Exiles therein in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. Jack STRAW his rebellion b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 18. his rabble of Rebells in Rhythme p. 139. ¶ 19. their barbarous outrages p. 140. ¶ 20. and ruin ¶ 21. See Wat Tyler STURBRIDGE FAIRE the Originall thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 66. ¶ 36. SUBSCRIPTION first pressed by the Bishops b. 9. p. 76. ¶ 66. and more rigorously p. 102. ¶ 3. Simon SUDBURY Arch-bishop of Canterbury why silent in the conference at St. Paul's b. 4. p. 136. ¶ 10. slain by the rebells under Jack Straw ¶ 20. being one hundred thousand ¶ 21. founded whilst living Canterbury Colledge in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 28. Matthew SUTCLIFFE Dean of Exeter his bounty to Chealsey Colledge b. 10. p. 51. ¶ 22. the Lands of that Colledge restored to his heirs generall p. 55. ¶ 27. Richard SUTTON his death b. 10. p. 75. ¶ 15. the severall mannours bestowed by him on Charter-house ¶ 16. the Cavils of Mr. Knot ¶ 17. his constant prayer p. 66. ¶ 20. SWEATING sicknesse in Cambridge the cause and cure thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 128. Edward SYMPSON an excellent Critick Hist. of Camb. p. 123. ¶ 20. enioyned a recantation before King James p. 160. ¶ 44. SYON nunnes their notorious wantonnesse b. 6. p. 318. ¶ 8. T. Adam TARLETON Bishop of Hereford his life and death letter b. 3. p. 107. ¶ 28. thrice arraigned for his life yet escapeth p. 108. Mr. TAVERNOUR high Sherâ—ff of Oxford part of his Sermon preached at St. Maries b. 9. p. 65. ¶ 35. TAVISTOCK in Devon the last mitred Abbot made by King Henry the eighth few years before the dissolution b. 6. p. 293. ¶ 5. TAURINUS how by mistake made the first Bishop of York C. 2. ¶ 1. TAXERS in Cambridge their original Hist. of Camb. p. 10. ¶ 36 37 c. St. TELIAU his high commendation C. 6. ¶ 12. TEMPLES of heathen Idols converted into Christian Churches C. 2. ¶ 11. our Churches succeed not to the holinesse of Solomons Temple but of the Jewish Synagogues b. 11. p. 150. ¶ 51. TENTHS their Original why paid to the Pope b. 5. p. 226. ¶ 1. commissioners being unquestioned Gentlemen imployed by King Henry the eighth to rate them ¶ 2. their Instructions ¶ 3. Tenths remitted by Q. Mary p. 228. ¶ 6. resumed by Q. Elizabeth ¶ 7. in vain heaved at at the present in our state ¶ 8. A TERRIER made of all Glebe Lands b. 3. p. 113. New TESTAMENT severall Bishops assigned to peruse the translation of the several Books thereof b. 5. p. 233. Gardiner gives in a List of Latine words which he would not have translated p. 238. why p. 239. ¶ 35. TEUXBURY Abbot in Glocestershire controverted whether or no a Baron in Parliament b. 6. p. 294. ¶ 12. THEODORUS Arch-bishop of Cant. C. 7. ¶ 95. settleth Easter according to the Romish Rite ¶ 96. the Canons of a Councill kept by him at Hartford ibidem Tho. THIRLEBY Bâ—shop of Ely sent to Rome to reconcile England to the Pope b. 8. ¶ 42. no great persecuter in his Diocess in the dayes of Q. Mary S. 2. ¶ 14. found favour under Q. Elizabeth b. 9. ¶ 18. being a Prisoner to be envied ibidem though reputed a good man wasted the lands of Westminster Church whereof he the first and last Bishop b. 9. ¶ 43. Thomas TISDALE founder of Pembrook Colledge in Oxford b. 11. ¶ 41. TYTHES first given to the Clergie C. 9. ¶ 8 c. by King Athelwolphus The objections against his grant answered c. ibidem confirmed by the Charter of King William the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 12. three orders exempted from payment of them b. 6. p. 283. ¶ 3. THOR a Saxon Idol his name shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. John THRASK censured for his Iudaicall opinions b. 10. p. 76. ¶ 64. George THROGMORTON an Oxford man challengeth all Cambridge to dâ—spute on two questions Hist. of Cambridge p. 104. ¶ 44. the ill successe thereof ¶ 45 c. TOLERATION of Papists set a-foot in the Reign of King James with the arguments pro and con â— 10. p. 106 and 107. resumed and reiected in the Reign of K. Charles b. 11. ¶ 56 57 58. Rob. TOUNSON Bishop of Salisbury his death b. 10. p. 91. ¶ 35. TRANSLATOURS of the Bible their names and number b. 10. p. 45 46. instructions given by King James p. 47. their work finished p. 58. and defended against causelesse Cavils ibidem TRINITY COLL. in Oxford founded by Sir Tho. Pope b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 43. being the first that gaâ—ned by Abbey lands and made a publick acknowledgement in charitable uses ibidem The Presidents Bâ—shops Benefactours c. of that
Coronation ¶ 17. looseth the Keepers place ¶ 37 c. is sued in the Star-Chamber from p. 153 to 158. severely censured there ibidem fined the second time in the same Court p. 165 166. vindicateth his extraction p. 183. ¶ 9. the first and most active in the Bishops protestation p. 187. the brief account of his life and death p. 225 226. WINCHESTER pretends to a Massacre of Primitive Monks therein C. 4. ¶ 9. King Stephen summoned said to be present at a Synod there b. 3. p. 28. ¶ 43 44. a famous School therein founded by William Wickham b. 4. p. 133. ¶ 30. R. WINCELSEY Arch-bishop of Cant. humbled by King Edward the first C. 1. p. 90. ¶ 4 c. why finding no favour from the Pope p. 91. ¶ 7. restored to his Archbishoprick p. 91. ¶ 12. WINE when first permitted to English Monks to drink b. 2. p. 103. ¶ 28. Dr. Thomas WINNIFF preacheth in the convocation b. 11. ¶ 65. WODEN a Saxon Idol his name shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. WOMEN present at a Church-councill C. 7. ¶ 107. WOMENS brawles mens Thralls b. 7. p. 407. ¶ 34. 35. English WOOLS improvement in manufactures B. third but misprinted fourth p. 111. ¶ 6. when the Dutch workmen invited into England ¶ 7 8 c. WOOLFRED Arch-bishop of Cant. kept a Councell at Celichyth C. 9. ¶ 4. the acts thereof ibid. WOLPHERE King of Mercia his cruel murthering of his Sons C. 7. ¶ 86. Thomas WOLSEY Cardinal foundeth Cardinals Colledge in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 27 c. would have his servants serve none but the King p. 171 ¶ 35. falleth into the Kings displeasure dyeth b. 5. p. 178. ¶ 2. c. WOLSTAN Bishop of Worcester the English Janus keeps his Bishoprick by resigning it b. 3. ¶ 22. his death 34. Nich. WOOTTON Dean of Cant. and York his death and character b. 9. p. 81. ¶ 11. Dr. WRIGHT a moderate Visitor in Oxford b. 8. ¶ 9. recanteth and dyeth a Protestant in his perfect senses notwithstanding Sanders Slanders to the contrary ibidem St. Tho. WYAT his rising to hinder the Spanish match b. 8. ¶ 25. how his fool abused the Queens Herauld ¶ 26 27 28. his insolent demands ¶ 30. entreth Southwark and quitteth it ¶ 31 32. retarded in his March ¶ 34. stopped at Ludgate and taken in Fleetstreet ¶ 37. penitent at his execution ¶ 38. Y. A YEAR ill lost and well found in the Saxon Chronologie C. 7. ¶ 62. Ed. YEAR if his name was not Anne his dear Poetry against the Masse wherein every verse cost him a lash b. 8. ¶ 14. YORK Constantius Chlorus buried there C. 4. ¶ 13. layeth claime to the birth of Constantine the Emperour ¶ 18. an Arch-bishops Pall bestowed thereon by Pope Gregory C. 7. ¶ 1. claimeth precedency of Canterbury b. 3. p. 38. ¶ 3. on what Title ibid. the Arch-bishops thereof not satisfied with the Popes nice distinction p. 39. ¶ 45. YORK and Lancaster houses the Battels betwixt them for the Crown Place time number slain and Conquerour b. 4. p. 186 and 187. YORK Clergy though late at last acknowledged the Kings Supremacy b. 5. p. 188. ¶ 49 50 c. Thomas YOUNG Arch-bishop of York lost by gaining b. 9. p. 83. ¶ 14. his death ibidem John YOUNG Bishop of Rochester his death b. 10. p. 39. ¶ 44. Z. Baltazer ZANCHES a Spanish protestant builds an Almes-house for the Eng. poore at Totnam b. 9. p. 234. ¶ 35. he the first his family since the best confectioners in England ibidem Eudo de ZOUCH the first person of honour Chancellour of Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 57. ¶ 62. therefore not exacted obedience of the Bishop of Ely ZURICH the Congregation of English most learned Exiles therein in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. who refuse to joyn with those at Frankford and why ¶ 46. ERRATA Book pag. lin  2 105 12 For Sarisbury read Sherborn 3 25 2 after since the Conquest add which left any issue 4 141 11 12 in these two lines transpose Harpsfield for Alanus Copus  185 22 read it thus of his Predecessâ—ur Wickham or Successour Wainfleet 5 156 15 for Dr. Greenhil read Dr. Daniel Greenwood  187 31 for But He read Be He therefore  196 39 for 8. shillings read four shillings  279 30 for Impunity read Impurity 6 344 15 for Briston read Bruiton  369 21 for St. Iohns read St. Maryes 7 388 15 for the second read the sixth 8 14 39 for Grandchild to Edward the fourth read great Grandchild to Edward the fourth his Father  40 40 for Faithfull read Thankfull Owen 9 70 43 for roasted read wasted  109 21 for Sr. Iames in some coppies not corrected read Sr. Henry  145 32 for Mr. Yeale read Master Beale  167 4 for Anthony read Christopher   8 for Anthony read Christopher  185 22 for Detestation read Detection 10 21 21 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  93 12 for can thereof read thereof can 11 119 39 for he left read fel.   40 for Sisters read Brothers Son  182 16 for greater read lesser  216 53 Prebendarie of Stanford dele Prebendarie  217 1 for Colchester read Glocester  235 28 for Truth is to be read belief is to be Hist. of Camb. 158 41 for Sciarum read Scientiarum  160 30 for Majestic read Majoraltie Courteous Reader I Am sensible of a mistake in the Catalogue of Vice-Chancellours and Proctours of Cambridge besides a needless repetition of two twice betwixt the years 1617 and 1620. inclusively It arose from some difference betwixt the written Coppies I used and such I believe the truer as are since printed I see what not whither to sly who can discover do confesse but for the present cannot rectify the Errour craving the charitable assistance of my Mothers Sons herein The best is all the mistake lyeth within the compasse of three years all officers being right before and after and the Fortunes of Greece the Truth I mean of our Church-History is not concerned therein FINIS ☜ Psal. 34 14. * Virgill Eg. * Rom. 12.19 * 1 Cor. 8.12 * Job 6.3 * Citâ—d in Cam. Romains pag. 241. * Meaning his Brother Alfred whom Godwin had shamefully murthered * Luke 2.28 * 1 Cor. 13.9 * St Augustin * Aulularia Plauti * Page 218 223 and often elsewhere * In Vit. Aesopi * Gen. 43.44 * Page 268. towards the bottom thereof * Amos 5.13 1 Cor. 7 26. Dan. 6.7 1 Tehss 5.17 Psal. 106.46 * Numb 12.14 * Luk. 18.13 * 2 Sam. 20.19 * Esaiah 61.3 * in his Life Page 103. * Esdr. 4.41 * Heb. 11.26 * Psal. 41.8 * Exod. 5.17 Diog. Laert. in vita Chrysippi * Math. 5.10 * As in the 〈…〉 whâ—ch I have seen under the hand of the Animadveâ—â—oâ— * In his