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A67422	Room for the cobler of Gloucester and his wife with several cartloads of abominable irregular, pitiful stinking priests : as also a demonstration of their calling after the manner of the Church of Rome, but not according to Magna Charta, the rule of the Gospel : whereunto is added a parallel between the honour of a Lord Bishop, and the honour of a cobler, the cobler being proved the more more honourable person.	Wallis, Ralph, d. 1669.	1668 (1668)	Wing W619; ESTC R17872	30,594	42

ROOM FOR THE Cobler of Gloucester AND HIS WIFE With several Cartloads of Abominable Irregular pitiful stinking Priests AS ALSO A Demonstration of their Calling after the manner of the Church of Rome but not according to Magna Charta the Rule of the Gospel Whereunto is Added A PARALLEL Between the Honour of a Lord Bishop and the Honour of a COBLER the COBLER being proved the more Honourable Person Printed for the Author 1668. The Epistle Dedicatory To my Dear and Loving Wife WIFE in my Epistles to my two former Books I was very large the Porch was too big for the House you shall have that fault mended in this and I shall only intreat you to accept of the Dedication of it not knowing any Person whom I love more than your self nor any to whom I am more indebted Thus in few words I take my leave and rest Your Assured Loving Husband R. Wallis Room for the Cobler of Gloucester and his Wife WIfe being willing to have a little more discourse with you I think it not amiss if we and our Children sing a Tantrum Wife What do you mean by a Tantrum Husband Husb. Wife I borrow that word of a Welchman who made this request to his wife Market thee go me to Quire Einsome and hear my Poy Ropin sing two three Tantrums from whence in Herefordshire they call Anthems Tantrums To the Tune of Room for Cuckolds It will be thought a strange tune but it will be as suitable to us as the tune of Tory Rory Betty which they plaid upon their Organs at Oxford A sweet Tantrum Room for Prelates here comes a Company Room for Prelates and ev'ry Coat-Card Arcbishops and Bishops Archdeacons and Deans Room for Prelates and for the Black Guard Cathedrals and Chapters with Authems and Raptures And all the Hierarchical Rabble With all of that sort that make as good sport In the Chore as a Fool with his Babble Priests Patrons and Rectors with all such Church-Hectors Which in the wide Synagogue roar it Clerks Curates and Viccars that drink off all Liquors And then bid their Hostesses score it Prebends and Chanters and Choristers Ranters That sing by the Rule of Sol Fa Officials and Doctors and Chanc'lors and Prectors And room for Et caetera Room for the chief Singers that with foot and fingers Do bleat it like Oxen and Calves For Priest and for Clark that grope in the dark And sing all their Catches by halves Those Lack-Latin Drones and Learned Sir Johns That dash it with Blur and with Blot Surrogates Registers Notaries Paritors And all the Knaves of a Knot Bellmen and Sextons with whom we were vext once That live by digging and begging With all the Church-Rabble belonging to Babel That run just like Witches a hagging Exorcists with Crosses which come to our losses And leave poor Souls in the lurch By which men are scar'd to run with the Herd For comp'ny as Dogs go to Church By night and by day at small Games they play Pick Peter-Pence rather than fail Brave Merechants they are of great and small Ware And will deal from the Head to the Tail Room for Physitians of Rome's Inquisitions And all that 's grown over with moss Room for Confession and holy Procession And the Devil that carries the Cross Room for Prelates and for their company Room for Prelates and for their Spawn Room for Dumb Dogs and all Croaking Frogs And Vermin hid under the Lawn Room for Prelates here comes a Company All Brethren o' th' Black Robe and Region That with the Herd run as right as a Gun Like Pigs possest with a Legion Wife Husband you know that you and I have had some Discourses formerly but among others two especially one was by the fire as many times poor folks do the second was when we went to bed for want of Coals and Candles we thought no hurt to any yet you see what came of it you were a Prisoner first in Westminster and brought before Noble Persons at White Hall four Sessions you lay Prisoner in Newgate once in Bristol four Assizes at the Bar in Glocester once before the Lord Winsor and in all Courts of Judicature and persons before whom you have been you have been blamed still for disparaging and disgracing the Kings Clergy and the Kings Ministry I could willingly ask you some Questions privately but I would not have you speak so loud that all England may hear you I would willingly whisper a word in your Ear. Husb. And I shall as willingly answer you Wife provided that you do not ask me any red hot Questions which if you do I shall be afraid to answer you for fear of burning my Lipps Wife Husband I would have you be as careful as I am and then I dare warrant you there will no hurt come of it What was their meaning by saying you did disgrace the Kings Clergy How did you disgrace them Husb. Wife Because I brought some of them upon the Stage for their base fordid Carriage as Drunkenness Swearing Whoring and the like My answer was to them that they did more disgrace the Kings Government by Acting such things then I did by Speaking of it But Wife I can tell you of such a parcel of Fellows which still disgrace the Kings Government and Ministry as they call it Wife In your last Book Husband you told me that you had six times ten which you would Load another time what kind of fellows were they Husb. Wife for your satisfaction I 'll tell you Let the Cart be set nearer We will begin with the Pillars of the Church And First of all with my Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that Titularly Spiritual and Practically Carnal Father and his irreverend unbeseeming words Who when he went to visit a young Lady of his Acquaintance that had been newly Married Addressed himself to her in words to this effect Madam are you with Child She answered No my Lord. The Arch-Bishop replied Then Madam you cannot be saved for Women are only to be saved in Child-bearing But Madam are you willing to be with Child saith the Arch-Bishop Do you do your best in order to it The Lady replies She could be glad of a Child Then said the Arch-Bishop you may be saved God will accept of the Will for the Deed Here is a Cobling piece of Divinity puts me down quite Here my Lord turns Cobler What Metropolitanus primus totius Angliae turn Cobler I could willingly bestow two or three Stitches on him to set him upright But I doubt it will be but lost labour he 's gone so much aside But what will become of all Barren Women in this case Why their comfort is That if they do but desire to have Children they may be saved The Bishop of Worcester at a Visitation in Warwick the last Summer in his Speech to the Clergy affirms That all Children Baptized are undeniably saved And that The presence of Christ in the Sacrament is not symbolical but

Orders makes them first Deacons and then Priests and so puts them into a capacity to become Cu Rats Vicars or Parsons as soon as they can get Livings Which Livings were formerly some at the Popes dispose which in Harry the VIII's time fell to the King and are generally now at the Lord Chancellors disposal some were at the Abbots disposal which were given to the Senior Fellows at Oxford and Cambridge some were at the disposal of the Bishop of the Diocess and so continue still Now if my Lord Chancellor hath a Kinsman or a Friend for whom he hath a favour then 't is his Jure Divino And usually if the present Incumbent lie sick there are two or three like Carrion Crows are ready to seiz upon the Careass of the Living attending the death of the sick man and many times before the breath is out of his Body put foot in Stirrup spur cut and away they ride post as fast as they can and he that the Lord Chancellor finds the best Schollar able to decline the Latin word Bribo Bribe-Ass Bribe-bravely is well qualified and ipso facto inducted If the Bishop of the Diocess hath a Kinsman or a Contemporary or a Daughter then pin the Daughter upon the Parsons sleeve and let them go together If you are ignorant in this Trade go to old Tomkins of Worcester he can inform you how to get Livings a Prebendship and several good Parsonages provided always you have money although as very a Dunce as himself whose stock of Sermons though but small are 〈◊〉 put off without a form of Prayer Indeed he tells the People they shall pray for such and such but never prays himself for any If a man be the Senior Fellow of a house although as very a Dunce as the Vice-Chancellor who is Dunce enough witness his speaking Latine to young Scholars who say he often breaks Pritian's pate and witness that Cringing Bowing Hodg-podge Pie-bald Worship wherein I saw him so busie an Actor when I was last at Oxford in the House of RIMMON and witness also the Discourse he had with a Tanner whose Parts he not being able to deal with confest he admir'd that such Parts should be found in a man of his quality And as the Tanner tann'd him so I could as willingly cobble him for his Worship that I saw in Oxford But his Worship is as good as the Bishop of Oxford Dr. Blanford's Divinity who told William Gregory when he demanded of him why he kept him Prisoner so long That he punished his Body to do his Soul good I would knock my Aules in a post and burn my Last if I left him not as mute as the Quaker-Woman at Witney But to return from this Digression if a very Dunce be Senior Fellow of a house the first Living that falls is his Jure Divino as they account it As is evident in Cox late of Slimbridge a Living worth 250 l. per annum who being Senior Fellow of Mandlin in Oxford and so having that Living fallen into his hands was fain to hire a Rat because he did not love the Trade of Preaching 't was so tedious to him And Dr. Diggle his Successor is as able for the work as Cox was who tells the people before Sermon Ye ought to pray for this and that but cannot pray himself If the Lord of Manner have two Sons he may make one of them a Priest and a Parsonage will be a good Portion for a younger Brother Or if he hath a Chamber-Maid who hath been his Servant divers years the Priest must take her and he shall have the Living for her Portion A Parson may buy the next Presentation of the Patron and if he have no Son that is capable of the place yet he may have a Daughter and though she be a Tapstress or a Sempstress yet she has right to make what Priest she pleases Parson of that Parish If a Papist be a Patron he may present what Priest he pleases So did the old Earl of Worcester who procured Holy Orders for the Clerk of his Iron-works and sent him to Woollaston in Glocestershire where the Earl slit the Parsonage in two pieces making his Clerk contented with fourty and keeping fourscore for himself But 't is conceived the Priest was of his Patrons Religion and only read our English Mass-Book but never attempted to say Sermon in all his Life The present Bishop of Glocester's last Predecessor Dr. Goodman a confest Papist bestowed a Stock of Holy Orders upon his old Servant Charles Harcott who married the Clark of the Iron-work's Daughter and drives a Service-Book Trade to this day The old Lord Windsor being Patrimus to the late Dr. Warmstrey at his Kirsning gave him the Parsonage of Hampton in Glocestershire So that the Doctor had a Call e Cunabulis from his Cradle And such are the Calls to the Ministry of the Church of England which are Romano more after the manner of the Church of Rome Wife But Husband how are Ministers called according to Magna Charta Husb. Wife The least Officer in the Church was not to be made choice of without Prayer though it were but a Deacon which was to look after the Poor When Judas fell by Transgression the Church went to Prayer and cast Lots and the Lot fell on Matthias And so when they had fasted and prayed they laid hands on St. Paul and Barnabas and sent them forth And though Paul had an extraordinary Call he went not forth till the Church sent him away with Fasting and Prayer But Wife I can give you a Book whose business it is to treat of the Discipline of the Churches of the New Testament which will save me a great Labour Wife But Husband that Government wont consist with these times Husb. Wife Must the will of Christ submit to the times or the times submit to the will of Christ I think I have stitch'd you there Wife And is not this the ground of all our present Differences For the Eyes of the Nation being so much opened by the preaching of the Gospel these late years the Worship and Clergy of the Church of England are rendred contemptible in the Eyes of the Common People As may appear by One who coming into the Cathedral of Glocester with two of his Companions and hearing the Organs play fell a Dancing saying Come let 's Dance here 's Good Musick And when the Organs stood still Play on Good Fellows said he I like your Musick well 't is good Musick And they have oftentimes been prodigiously disturbed in their Worship by Hens Magpies Owles Cocks Foxes Piggs Rats and Birds concerning each of which take a relation as followeth I was told in the County of Somerset that a Hen coming into the publick Place flew upon the Common-Prayer Book in the time of their Devis'd Worship At Wilby in Northamptonshire a Hen flew into the Publick Place and sat down checkling upon the Common-Prayer Book And shit upon it and