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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41314	An ansvver to the articles preferd against Edvvard Finch, vicar of Christ church by some of the parishioners of the same whereunto is added a just and modest reply to a most scurrilous, scandalous and malicious pamphlet, as by the title may appeare, of an uncertaine author / by Edvvard Finch...	Finch, Edward, d. 1642?	1641 (1641)	Wing F930; ESTC R1567	13,997	32

depart the roome and then enjoyned the sicke partie to confesse unto him all her secret sinnes That being so alone with the said woman he demeaned himselfe so uncivelly and used such unseemely gestures towards her that she was faine to cry out for her husband to come in That afterwards for performance of this good service about the said woman he sent for a Fee of three shillings foure pence To these I confest that I was sent for to administer the Sacrament to a dying woman then dwelling at the George in Warwicke lane I confest likewise that I desired two or three women that were there to depart the roome that I might speake one word to the sicke party And it was this If any sin trouble your conscience you shall doe wel to reveale it and I will give you the best comfort I can Shee replyde she thankt God there was none at all whereupon I called in the company immediatly and wee went to the performance of what I came for namely the administration of those holy Misteries of the body and blood of our blessed Sauiour But that I was drunke I utterly denyde it neither was it positively proved but meerely by the threats of some of the Prosecutors as I can make appeare fairely extorted from them and that in a doubtfull and ambiguous sence too The husband and the women acquitted me before the Committee for any ill behaviour or incivility or any outcry made by the Woman Artic. 16. 17. That November 5. 1639. he would suffer no Sermon to bee Preached unlesse out of the Collection for the Poore he might have a Fee of thirteene shillings and foure pence but finding the Collection to be small he tooke ten shillings That this last November 5. 1640. he would neither preach himselfe nor suffer any other to preach To these I answered that I did acknowledge to have received ten shillings for a Sermon on the 5. of November last was Twelumonth from my then Curate master Thomas Risdon who came to me from the Parish as he pretended with an earnest request that I would give way to it and he would preach But from whence the money came I profest ingenuously I did not to that day know nor doe I yet It is knowne in my whole practise for neere upon 11. yeares I have beene more carefull to adde then to diminish from the poore which has causde some differences betweene my selfe and some of the Parish which is still an heart-burning I am afraid As for an instance Master Whales 100. l. mis-imployde contrary to the expresse Will of the Testator the mis-imploiment of which I know has beene out of the Poores way many a summe of money which they feele the smart of I added over and above that in regard of the Commemoration of that blessed and happy Deliverance on the above named day at Saint Pauls Church whither some Reverend and grave Divine is by the right reverend Father in God the Lord B. of London chosen out of one of the Universities my Church being so neere there was never any Sermon there before But the Right Honourable the Lord Major the Aldermen his Brethren with the rest of the grave Citizens of every Parish doe in a solemne manner go thither And the next 5. of November I was never so much as askt If I had I would willingly have given way to it And this year there was one Artic. 18. That he and his wife having for many yeares lived asunder with much obloquie he keepeth company with divers women suspected of incontinency To this I answer'd that I knew not any woman I kept company withall any waies suspected of incontinencie unlesse it were by such scandalizing Pamphleters who first raisde the same and study nothing more then to take away men and womens reputations Besides I have answered those Calumnious aspersions in two severall Courts and beene freed in both viz. In the Arches and upon an Appeale against me in the Court of Delegates Artic. 19. That hee hath since his being Vicar of the said Parish much opposed the Lecture which without intermission hath for many yeares beene continued in the West end of the said Church called the Old or Lower Church early in the morning on the Lords day not suffering any one to preach the same unlesse he the said Vicar might have extraordinary hire for permitting of it viz. about fortie pounds at one time and twenty pounds at another time and divers other summes at other severall times and at this present twenty pounds a yeare and yet not contented therewith he threatens to arrest the present Lecturer unlesse he may have his unjust demands satisfied This I denyde And I wonder they were not ashamed to make it an Article since divers of the Parish know the cleane contrary and others also Nay some did professe to me that I had been very just and earnest in setting it up and had not deluded them as others did And without my paines and zeale in it they had conceived no hopes of it For which they gave me many thankes and said I should find the love of the Parish ever hereafter which you may see and judge by the presenting of these Articles what the requitall of my love shewed to them has found Artic. 20. That he detaineth and keepeth away divers Bookes belonging and appe●taining to the said Church To this I answered that by direction from that Honourable Assembly the Churchwardens received the Booke of the Foundation of H. the 8. and the Register book of Burials Marriages and Christnings which was alwaies accustomably left in the Chest in the Church My selfe having one Key and each Church-warden another according to a Canon in that case provided Artic. 21. That many times in receiving his owne exacted Fees for Burials hee hath also received Duties due to the Church-wardens for the use of the Poore of the said Parish and detained them to his owne use To the last I denyed it But admitted I said I was responsable by Law and when the accounts were brought in by the Church-wardens which alwaies use to be at Easter I would give satisfaction for what could be made justly appeare to be due to them on my part An Answer to the pretended proofs which the Author hath falsly colected and inserted in his Pamphlet THat the Communion Table was removed I grant it but that was no particular act of mine but a command from Authority at a publike Visitation I doe not remember that my selfe set any helping hand to the removall of it but if I did I am sure I used no insolent or proud gesture either at my approaches to it departure from it or passing by it as is falsly suggested but what I did was as in my answer to my first Article That I bow at the Name of Iesus I confesse it induced thereunto by the practice of the Church for many hundred yeares and conceiving it to be due by the Text Phil. 2. 10. Concerning exacting