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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29408	A Brief account of the proceedings of the French clergy, in taking away the Pope's usurp'd supremacy, shewing by what steps or degrees the same was effected by way of introduction to the Pope's letter, written to the clergy of France, 11th of Apr. 1682, and their protestarion [i.e. protestation] thereupon, 6th of May following, the letter condemning, and the protestation justifying and ratifying the said proceedings : both which are here published in Latine ... and in English ...		1682 (1682)	Wing B4516; ESTC R14707	15,396	53

without Reason Pretends that he is not Subject to a Council for a Right meerly Temporal doth not own that Authority of the Council alleaged against him but on the contrary His Magisty maintains that his Predecessors could not prejudice his Rights and that if they had reason to suspend the Execution of the Regalia in the four Provinces he had much more reason to revive it there that the Bishops had acknowledged him for their Judge and that having pronounc'd Judgment he is oblig'd to give an account of it to God only Then the Bishop of Troyes another of the Commissioners commended to their Favour and Protection a certain Doctor of the Sorbonne for a Book written by him wherein said he he justifies the Right which we have to decide matters of Faith and Discipline and to oppose the Authority which we have immediately received from Jesus Christ against the novelties which might arise in our Dioceses and Provinces Secondly he demonstrator that the Gallican Church is not departed from the Discipline of the Council of Sardica the Execution of which the Councils and Ancient Popes have so often recommended and according to which the Bishops ought to be tryed first by their Brethren in their Provinces And these two Maxims are Canonical and conformable to the Spirit of the Church and to the Sacred Rules Establish'd by ancient Councils and Authorized by the Holy See When he had ended the Arch-Bishop of Reims continued his Speech and said that the Commissioners had examin'd the Pope's Letters and first that the occasion of those two written to the Nuns of Charonne was thus Their Monstery was founded 1643. By the Duchess of Orleans who desired the Pope that the first Abbess might be continued daring life and it was granted After her decease the King nominates one to succeed her but she dying before she was confirm'd he nominates another who was Established Abbess by the Arch-Bishop of Paris in 1679. That the first Letter of 7th of August 1680. forbids the Nuns to obey this Abbess and commands them to choose another which they did without observing the Rules of Elections which as soon as the Pope was informed of he wrote another Letter to them dated 15th October following by which the defect of Formalities is supplyed and this irregular Election of the new Abbess confirmed That the several Letters which the Pope had written to the Arch-Bishop of Tholouse to the since deceased Bishop of Pomiez and to the Chapter of that Church since its vacancy having been caused by the dispute about the Regalia are to be taken as one ahd the same and that the Dispute happen'd as follows viz. The said Bishop refusing to submit to the Declarations of 1673 and 1675. form'd several Processes against such Clergymen who by vertue of the Regalia possess'd some of the Prebends of his Church which the Archbishop of Tholouse upon the Appeals brought before him made void That on 7th August last the Bishop dyed and the old Canons Regular of his Church Elected after his decease some Officers to govern it That these new Officers continued the Process against the Regalists which the Bishop had begun and the Archbishop of Tholouse made them void complaint whereof being made to the Pope he wrote two Letters one to the Archbishop and the other to the Chapter of Pamiez which are of no moment But by a Letter of 2d October following to the Chapter and Conons Regular of Pamiez the Pope confirms the Officers nominated by the Chapter and engageth to confirm such as shall be chosen he forbids them to own any others he declares null whatever shall be done by Vicars General which shall not be chosen by the old Canons and orders this Letter to be read in the Diocess of Pomiez That a Letter of Newyears-day last confirms a second time the Officers Elected by the Chapter and declares that the Pope will confirm such as this Chapter shall Elect that it Excommunicates with the greater Excommunication which is immediately incurr'd without any other Declaration all such as shall favour the Grand Vicars chosen by the Archbishop and the Canons that are Regalists or shall favour the said Metropolitan and in fine that it Excommunicates the Metropolitan himself In the next place he tells them that the first Parliament of the Kingdome having pass'd a Decree 24th Sept. against the Pope's Letter of 7 Aug. to the Nuns of Charonne the Commissioners were of opinion that it was their Interest to joyn with the Parliament therein tho the said Decree was Condemned by a Letter of 18th December following which forbids the reading of it upon pain of Excommunication and Commands the Bishops or Inquisitors to burn all the Copies of it that can be found c. Then he mentions the reflections of the Commissioners upon these matters some of which are that by the Pope's two Letters to the Nuns of Charonne granted upon their bare Relation and in their own Cause all is vacated that their Archbishop had done without hearing or so much as summoning him That by reason of a Clause Inserted in the second Letter viz. that the Pope hath power to supply all formes that may be omitted even such as are Essential it is pretended that he can supply the want of that very knowledg of a matter which by the Law of Nature is absolutely necessary before a judgment can be given of it That the Proceedings against the Archbishop of Tholouse were contrary to Equity and the Rules of their Profession and also to the Treaty call'd the Concordat which was made between Leo 10. and the Holy See on the one part and Francis 1. and his Kingdome on the other part and being Authoris'd by both Parties is become a Law both in Church and State and consequently cannot in the least be debilitated by any pretended Power from the Pope And having proved these things excellently and at large he proeeeds to acquaint the Assembly with the Resolutions which their Commissioners had judg'd fit to be taken in that conjuncture viz. That a Letter be written to the Pope to represent to him that the business of the Regalia deserved not so much heat as is expressed in his Letters it being look'd upon by the King's Officers as a Temporality and that it is in itself a thing of no great consequence to the Church That by the Letters to the Nuns of Charonne and Chapter of Pamiez the Order of Jurisdictions had been disturb'd and the Right of Ordinaries and Metrapolitans violated that he had been exalted above the Canonical Constitutions and that these Designs against Rules the most Sacred might weaken that Union which the Churches of France ought inviolably to keep with the holy See And lastly that the King be desired to permit the Prelates of his Kingdome to meet in a National Council or to call a General Assembly of the Clergy to consist of two Deputies of the first Order and two of the second in every Province and