Law and without iust cause An Action of accompt to call them to an accompt for all their extortions and usurpations both upon the King and Subject An Action upon the Statutes against Ingrossers Regraters and Forestallers for forestalling all good Bookes against their Papall Antichristian Hierarchie Iurisdiction extortion injustice and other Episcopall vertues both at the Presse and Porth and ingrossing them all into their owne Hucksters hands of purpose to enhaunse the prises of them and deprive the Kings good Subjects benefite of them A writt of Conspiracie for conspiring together against the Kings Ecclesiasticall Prerogative and the Subjects Liberties and to set up new Ceremonies innovations and taxes A Contra formam collationis for mis-using their jurisdiction and office and mis-imploying their temporallities and revenues which should be spent in releeving the poore upon their children kindred purchase of greater dignities and preferments or maintenance of their owne pompe pride state luxury venery and lust A copia libelli deliberanda to enioyne them to give coppies of Libells and Articles to his Majesties Subjects beforethey force them to sweare or answer to them A Curia claudenda to cause them to shut up their Consistories visitations and Ecclesiasticall Courts till they have a Patent from his Majestie to keepe them in his name and right alone and grace to use them better and to better purposes then hetherto they have done A Quo warrento to question them by what authority they keepe their Consistories Visitations and make out proces private Articles impose new oathes Ceremonies and Iurisdictions in their owne names upon his Majesties Subjects De custode Amovendo alio admittendo to remoove them from their Bishopprickes and put better and other kinde of men in their places An Ejectione custodiaelig for suspending and ejecting Ministers from their Churches and Cures An Errore corrigendo to cause them to amend their manifold errors both in life doctrine practise and proceedings An essendo quietum de Theolonia to exempt Ministers and people from their intollerable exactions extortions and new imposed Fees and Contributions both in their visitations and Consistories An Excommunicato deliberando To cause them to absolve and free all those Ministers and people they have most unjustly excommunicated An Executione judicij To gett some judgements in Starre-chamber and other his Majesties temporall Courts executed against them and their most unjust proceedings Ex gravi querela To heare the grievous complaints both of Ministers and people against their tyranny Lordlynes pride oppression impietie and other vices their Altars Crucifixes Popish Ceremonies Ex officio and visitations Oathes Articles proceedings and late dangerous Innovations A writt of false judgement For their wrong late unjust Censures Excommunications Suspencions Sentences and determinations both in their Consistories Visitations and high Commission and resolving their Episcopall Lordlynes and Iurisdiction to be Iure Divino contrary to the expresse Acts of 25. H. 8. c. 19. 21. 26. H. 8. c. 1. 31. H. 8. c. 9. 10. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. and other Statutes as 1. and 2. Phil. and Mary c. 8. resolving the contrary De fine Adnullando To anull their severall fines illegally imposed upon his Majesties Subjects in their High Commissions and lately in their Consistories and Visitations where they have gotten a tricke to fine Church-wardens and others contrary to Law as is resolved Fitzh Nat. Brevium fol. 50. P. 51. K. 52. ff 53. A. 14. H. 4. 88. A. 20. E. 4. 10. B. 22. E. 4. 20. 12. H. 7. 22. 23. Artic. cliri c. 4. Cooke 4. Report to 6. 22. Ass. 70. A fieri facies Episcopa To cause them diligently to preach and follow their spirituall Ministeriall functions An habeas corpora homine Replegianda To free the Subjects wrongfully imprisoned by them and their Pursevants An habere facias seseinam possessionem To restore good silenced deprived and suspended Ministers againe to the seisine and possession of their livings and lectures and the exercise of their Ministry An habere facias visum To cause them to shew men their Articles in their Courts and high Commissions before they put them to answer or take an oath An Idemptitate nominis To restore Ministers to their ancient stile and titles of Bishops which they have ingrossed to themselves though the Scripture gives onely to Ministers and Presbyters Acts 20. 17. 28. Phil. 1. 1. 1. Timot. 3. 1. 2. 3. Tit. 1. 5. 7. 1. Pet. 5. 1. 2. 3. and knoweth no other Bishops but them alone of Divine institution De intrusione in hereditatem To shew by what Divine title they have intruded themselves into the Church Christs owne inheritance into temporall Offices imployments and State affaires and into those great Lordships and honors they now possesse Ad Inquirendo de damnis To inquire what great hurt and damages they have done to their severall Diocoese his Majesties Prerogative his peoples Liberties and estates the Ministers and Preachers of Gods word our Religion and to the whole state of England An Inquirendo de vasto To inquire of the great waste and havocke they have made of late amongst the Ministers and Preachers of Gods word and the purity of his Ordinances and thereupon to render treble dammages A Leproso amovendo To remoove these Leopards out of our Church before they have so farr infected it with the leven and leprosy of Rome that she become incurable and to remoove them farr from his Majesties Court no place for Lepers A libertate To free both Ministers and people from their late encrochments visitations Articles Oathes Altars Bowings Ceremonies and unjust Censures and proceedings A libertatibus allocandis To enforce them to allow and no wayes to encroach upon the Subjects Liberties A mandamus To commaund them to give over Lording and Loyetering and sett themselves to frequent and diligent preaching A melius inquirendo To inquire better of their pretended Ius Divinum their oppressions exorbitances lives proceedings and underhand juglings and to certify them into the Starre-chamber or some other Court of Record An Action upon the Statute of Monopolies For engrossing all temporall and Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction the sale of Letters of order lycenses to marry preach keepe schoole c. all grosse Symony into their owne hands A ne admittas To prohibite them to admit any Altars Images Crucifixes Taxers new Articles Ceremonies Doctrines or innovations into our Church A ne injuste vexes To restraine them from all unjust vexations suspentions excommunications and proceedings against Ministers and others A writt of nusans To remoove their late nusances Altars Crucifixes new Oathes Articles Innovations Rayles Ceremonies Arminian and Popish Doctrines out of our Church A non distringas ad respondendum sive breve Regis To force them to summon all their visitations by the Kings writt as they ought 25. H. 8. c. 19. And to make out all proces Citations Commission of
Administration Probat of wills c. in the Kings name and stiâ—e alone and under his Seale according to 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. A non molestando to hinder them from molesting good Ministers Preachers people and other his Majesties Subjects without just cause A moderata misericordia to moderate their illegall and excessive fines and teach these holy Fathers more mercy A writt of false imprisonment for pursevanting and imprisoning men against Law which they have no power at all to doe A writt de odia atia to examine their malicious unjust accusations imprisonments and proceedings of and against his Majesties Subjects A parco fracto for breaking the pales and hedges both of the Lawes of God and the Realme and ruling onely by their meere lusts and wills A perambulatione facienda to bound out the true limites of their Ecclesiasticall and Episcopall Iurisdiction Courts and power and to cause them to give those prisoners they have a long time shut vp and the common Law and course of Prohibitions which they have pent up of late to walke freely abroad A ponendo in Ballyam to enforce them to dischardge and bayle those they have unjustly imprisoned A praeligcipe in capite to render to God and the King those their severall rights Iurisdictions and prerogatives they have a long time unjustly detayned from them as their owne A Prohibition to hinder all their Innovations Oathes Visitations Articles extravagant proceedings fines imprisonments extortions excommunications suspentions encroachments on the Common Law and the like A Pro rata portione to give them onely that power and authority and such competent maintenance as Gods Lawes allowes them and no more A Quale jus to examine their Divine title of their Bishopprickes what right it is A Quare impedit to force them to shew good cause why they hinder Ministers from preaching to their people and prohibit those to heare Sermons abroad who have none at home A Quare incumbravit to shew cause why they have lately incombred our Churches Ministers people with so many innovations Alterations Injunctions Articles Oathes Fees Taxes Rayles Ceremonies Erronious and licentious Bookes and false doctrines and to censure them severely for doeing it A Quare non admisit to shew cause why they permit not Ministers to preach on Lords dayes afternoone on lecture dayes and other occasions or so osten as heretofore and why they resuse to admit those into the ministry or to livings who will not subscribe to their new Innovations and those Articles they secretly tender to them under hand A Quod permittat To permit the Lords table to stand quietly in the midst of the Church or Chauncell without being rayled in and remooved Altar-wise against the wall and to suffer Ministers to preach and people to heare and receive the Sacrament in such manner as they have formerly used A Querela coram Rege consilio discusiendo terminando to bring all these Quaeligres and the complaints of the Subjects against the Bishops and their Officers before the King and his Counsell to be there heard and determined by them A Quo Iure To examine by what Law they have turned Communion Tables into Altars set up Crucifixes silenced our Ministers put downe Lectures and preaching made and printed new Oathes Articles and Injunctions in their owne names c. and by what Law and in what Court they may be punished for them A Restitutione abstracti ab Ecclesia To restore our silenced Ministers and Preachers to their Chruches A salva conductus to suffer his Majesties Subjects to goe peaceably and safely about their busines and Ministers without danger of their Pursevants and Catch-poles A Securitate pacis to bind them to the peace and good behaviour that they may no longer disturbe the peace both of our Church State and people A supersedeas to stay all their Innovations and proceedings in their Consistories and visitations till they have a Patent and Commission under the Kings great Seale to keepe them in his name and right alone A writt of trespase against them and their Pursevants for rifling and breaking vp mens Howses Clossets Trunckes Chests and carrying away their Bookes and Papers violently against Law and Iustice as if they were Felons and Traytors An Action upon the Statute of vagarant Rogues and Vagabonds for wandering abroad from their owne callings Ecclesiasticall Imployments and Diocoeligse into temporall carnall worldly State affaires and following the Court like a company of flattering fawning Beggers hunting after greater preferments and revenues and being seldome resident at their Cures A writt of ventre inspiciendo To inquire after and inspect how many great Bellyes their Lordships with their Officers and servants have impregnated of late yeares and to take the full measure of their Lordships pampered bellyes which they onely feed and take care of which must needs be monstrous great when as their very tayles are so vaste as to require an whole Cathedrall Church to make a seat for them Pauls it self being litle enough to make a Lord Prelates Chayre and two or three sheires scarce able to make up one Diocoeligse or Parish bigge enough for his oversight A vi laica removenda To remoove all lay force and violence out of the Church and take away the temporall power of fining imprisoning pursevating breaking open mens houses c. from their Lordships with all other lay power and Iurisdiction now crept into the Church And A fieri facias For their Lordships to shew cause why they with their oppressing Arch-Deacons Commissaries Registers and other Officers should not forthwith be indicted and convicted in a Premunire and that Ex officio by his Majesties Atourney generall and his Iudges or deepely fined in Starre-chamber for all their severall misdemeners specified in the premises XIV Whether those bloudy Prelates who out of their desperate malice to our Saviour to evacuate the use of this his last Supper instituted purposely by himself to shew forth his death till he come 1. Cor. 11. 25. 26. Coll. 3. 1. which now these Crucifixes must doe as if this Sacrament were not sufficient to doe it no not when it is administred unlesse there be a Crucifixe then standing on or over the Altar and to reduce us backe againe to Rome now crucify him dayly in their new erected Crosses and Crucifixes both in Cathedralls private Chapples and elsewhere and that in the direct opposition to the 35. Article of our Church and the Homilie of the perill of Idolatry which they have prescribed ost times too expresly prohibiting the very making and setting up of Crucifixes and other Images in Churches or Chappell 's as unlawfull and Idolatrous Yea to his Majesties Declarations prohibiting all Innovations and backesliding unto Popery in the least degree To be guilty of perjury to God and disobedience to his Majestie in the highest degree and to be deprived of their Bishopprickes for it by the Statute of 13. Eliz. c. 12. confirming the sayd
Articles of Religion and Homilies And whether their Cathedralls Chappell 's and Churches wherein they have sett up such Crosses to crucify their Saviour owne whose holy paynefull dayly preaching life they have never before their eyes and therefore represent his death in these dumbe Pictures because they are growne so lazy that they seldome or never preach it be not ipso facto forfeited to the King by the Statute of 13. E. 1. c. 33. against setting up of Crosses and Crucifixes and their very Bishopprickes too which they better deserve to loose for this their open insolent erecting of Crucifixes Altars Tapers and other Romish superstitions to usher in Popery then any Godly Ministers to be deprived of their livings for not wearing of a Surpluse or not bowing at the Name of Iesus or not kneeling at the Sacrament or not yeelding to any other late Innovations for which their Lordships against all Law and conscience have deprived and suspended so many of their Godly Brethren more worthy a Bishoppricke and farr more innoxious pious obedient to his Majesties and Gods Lawes then themselves XV. Whether the Prelates for disguising themselves with strangevestments disguises vizors and playe like apparell as Rochetts Copes Stoles Abbies and other massing trincketts to difference themselves from all other men and daunceing cringing and playeing the Mummers with divers new antique gestures piping Organs and Minstrelsy before their new erected Altars hopping limping and dauncing before them like the ancient Pagan Priests about their Idolatrous Altars or like Mummers about a cobloase and putting on a meere vizor of piety gravity on their faces when as they have neither of them nor any other true Christian graces in their hearts and under these disguises doeing greater hurt and mischiefes both in Church and State be not finable and to be imprisoned for the space of three monethes without buyle or mayneprise for every time they shall be thus masked and disguised by the expres words of 3. H. 8. c. 9. intituled An Act against Mummers and Delinquents within that Law And whether the best use these Lord Bishops thus disguised in their Pontificallibus can be put unto be not to make Skarrecrowes in some Cornefeild or other or to stand in the Church-porch to keepe out Dogges from their holy consecrated Temples which would be so affrighted with their mumming vestments and disguises that they never durst come neare the Corne or Church for feare of these terrible Lordly Bugbears and Skarre-crowes XVI Whether by the Statutes of 25. Ed. 1. c. 4. and 34. Ed. 1. c. 5. every Arch-Bishop and Bishop of England ought not personally to read the Statutes of Magna Carta and of the Forest with King Edward the first his Confirmations of them in their severall Cathedrall Churches twice every yeare and upon the reading thereof openly to denounce excommunicated banned and accursed all those that willingly doe or procure to be done any thing contrary to the tenour force and effect of them or either of them by word deed or counsell Whether they ought to be destrayned suspended and excommunicated for not doeing of it with farr greater justice and reason then themselves suspend and silence Ministers for not reading their Lordships Declaration for Sports on the Lords day coulored over with his Majesties Name to dishonor his Highnes and excuse themselves these two Statutes enjoyning them the one in expresse termes and inflicting these Penalties on them for neglecting it but no Law Precept or Canon prescribing Ministers the other nor yet that Booke it self Whether their Lordships both by word deed and counsell infringing Magna Carta these Statutes sundry wayes especially by their imprisoning fining excommunicating suspending and depriving men against Law and by their new invented Taxes and Talleges to pill and poll the Subjects and in procuring Iudges and others by menaces flatery or ill counsell to deny Prohibitions and habeas corpore to doe many things against the tenour and effect of these good Lawes now miserably every-where trampled vnder feet be not ipso sacto excommunicated by divers ancient excommunications fulminated against such desperate infringers and transgressors of those Acts in a most direfull manner by their Predecessors and by the tenour of these Statutes themselves and so altogether Irreguler and to be shut out of all Churches his Majesties Court and Chapple all Christian mens societie and sequestred both from their Office and Benefice till they have done publicke penance and given sufficient satisfaction to the whole Realme of England for their enormious dayly multiplyed crimes under which both Church and Kingdome groane and languish at this present FINIS * See Summa Angelica Summa Rosella tit Simonia * 2. Chron. 6 c. 7. 7. †Exod. 30. 22. c. c. 40. * Summa Angelica Rosella tit Simonia consecratio Ecclesiaelig †Lindwode de Censibus procurationibus where all this is resolved * Lindwode ibid. 23. Eli. c. 1. * 28. Ass. 19. 40. Ass. 40. 43. Ass. 30. Stamford l. 2. c. 60. Fitz. Ca. 27. 30. 36. 51. 53. 56. 58. 71. 72. 191. 218. 225. 233. 283. 359. Br. Pa. 1. 2. 4. 5. 8. 9. 12. 13. 14. 15. 19. * Petition to Q. Eliz. p. 77. * Luke 19. 47. c. 20. 1. c. 21. 37. 38. c. 22. 53. †Acts 20. 20. 21. 31. c. 19. 9. * Regist. par 2. f. 36. Ras. Prohibition 5.