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A38399	Englands grievances in times of popery drawn out of the canon law, decretal epistles and histories of those times : with reasons why all sober Protestants may expect no better dealing from the Roman-Catholicks, should God for their sins suffer them to fall under the Popes tyranny again / collected for the information and satisfaction of the English nation at this time.		1679 (1679)	Wing E2975; ESTC R16317	37,708	46

in divers Churches thorowout the whole year 7. Moreover Every Friday of the Moneth of March and in the days of the Invention and Exaltation of the Cross saying over the Corona or Beads or the Office of the Cross and upon Good-Friday the Seven Psalms with the Litanies being confessed or having purposed to be confest as soon as they may shall obtain therefore all the Indulgences of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem of St. Cross in Rome of the Holy Chappel in Paris and all the places where any R●lict● be of our Saviour Christ's Passion 8. Item Upon All-souls day saying over the Beads with Contrition and being present at the Service said for the Departed out of thi● Life or at the least hearing a Mass or saying over or causing one to be said shall deliver one soul out of the Pains of Purgatory Every Monday also he that saith over his Beads or Dirige for the Departed out of this Life shall obtain the same Indulgence● which be obtained in Rome for Visiting Holy places for that purpose 9. Item Every Sunday and Friday saying over the Beads for ●he increase of all Orders of Religion of Cathedral Churches Cural and others namely Tramontaines they shall be partakers of all the Prayers and Sacrifices of the same as though they were corporally present with them praying also for the Indans and parts without Europe they shall be partakers of their well-doing which travel in those Countreys in the Vineyard of God 10. Item It is granted That for once or twice an Unhallowed Grain or Bead may be put in the place of an Hallowed Bead or Grain if it be lost or broken and have the same Indulgences The Conclusion is in this manner Laus Deo Virginique Matri Praise be to God and the Virgin-Mother 16. Hereto may be added the Special Pardons and Bulls given to special Places of Pilgrimage and the advancing of new found Miracles and Pilgrimages with new granted Bulls and Pardons There is no Church of note among them no notorious Image to which Men go on Pilgrimage no Author of any new Sect scarce any Re●igious House which is not famous by one or more pretended Miracles If a man will trouble himself to read the Lives of their Saints their Legends and Books of the like nature he shall tire out himself with the Reports of Miracles far more strange than we can read of any in the Scripture Bellarmine glorieth in the daily Tydings of Miracles wrought by the Jesuits which are brought to Rome Large Narrations are of the Miracles of Navierius a famous Jesuite of our Lady of Mountaign of our Lady of Hall in the Low Countries and of many other such Idols Almost a mans life were too little to read over all of this kind and now more multiplied than ever heretofore And we may suspect their Miracles when divers of their own Authors have called in question the truth of them Lyranus saith That people are much deceived by Miracles made by Priests and their Fellows for worldly gain Alexander Hales a great Schoolman saith That they make sometime Flesh to appear in the Sacrament partly Humana procuratione interdum operatione Diabolica by humane procurement and sometimes by the working of the Devil And Claudius Espencaeus sometime Bishop of Paris saith No stable is so full of dung as their Legends are of Fables in this kind And Canus in hi● Common Places saith That in the Legend a man shall read Mons●●● Miraculorum Thus I say The words of divers eminent Men of their own side do make us suspect their Miracles to be but Tales Many of the things themselves in common conceiving are ridiculous as that old Tale of St. Dionysius that carried his Head in his hand after it was strucken off Of Clement the First that when he was cast into the Sea with a Milstone about his Neck the Sea fled three miles from the Shore and there was found a little Chappel ready built in the Sea where his Body was Bestowed I have also read of another who stuck his Staff down by him at the Bank-side which kept the River from over-flowing the Banks and soon after it sprang up and spread it self into a mighty Tree There are a world of such Tales enough to weary any one to recite them And yet even such as these had Bulls and Indulgences granted to them 17. The special Jurisdictions and Exemptions that one Bishop and Abbot procured above another 18. Their providing that no Condemned Clerk might be Executed SECT 23. In this state as hath been expressed this Realm stood for the most part by the space of 300 years after the Conquest The times that followed were somewhat freed from certain degrees of the Popes Tyranny by reason that the Kings of this Realm armed themselves with Laws made in defence of some of their ancient Liberties and Executed others with better Courage than their Predecessors But I doubt if God for our sins should cast us again under his Yoke none of those Laws would save us from the extreamest of all those mischiefs which I have here set down My Reasons are 1. The Popes are no Changelings but were the same after those Statutes and are the same men that they were before and to put us out of doubt made continual claim to their Usurped Authority in the time of the later Princes For in the Reign of King Henry V. Pope Martin the Fifth sent to levy a Subsidy upon the Clergy of this Land for maintenance of his Wars against the Bohemians And he made Henry Beaufort the rich Cardinal of Winchester his Legat for these Wars who did valiantly there for certain moneths together assisted with the foresaid Subsidy until he was re-called by the Pope And two other Subsidies were afterwards required to persecute two private persons of this Realm viz. Peter Clerk Fox Acts and Monuments and William Rus● In the time of King Henry VI. the Cardinal of Winchester notwith●●●nding the Statute against Provision procured the Popes Bull to ●●e again his Bishoprick of Winchester which he had lost by his Car●alship and after obtained a Pardon from the Pope against the pe●ty of the Statute And in the same Prince's Reign Lewes Archbishop of Roan after 〈◊〉 death of the Bishop of Ely had all the Fruits and Revenues of ●t Bishoprick granted unto him during life but was therein re●ed by the King Other Examples there be of like sort 2. In the last Council of Trent Concil Trident. Sess 5. c. 18● there is a special Constitution for ●estitution of all Ecclesiastical Liberties and therein the Emperour 〈◊〉 Kings Princes and States are commanded that they see them ●otected The Title of Ecclesiastical Liberties reacheth to every of the ●ints before touched and therefore we may conjecture what 〈◊〉 are to look for 3. The Pope yearly publisheth one Excommunication which is ●led Bulla de Coena wherein by Name are comprised all that ●any let to such as would prosecute any Suit at Rome or that ●fer not the Popes Bulls Commissions and other Processes ●atsoever to be executed And all that execute any Statutes Degative to the Liberties of Rome be the custom to the contrary ●ver so ancient and such as impose Tenths Subsidies upon the ●ergy or receive them at their hands with good consent ex●ot the Pope allow thereof and those also which force any Ec●●siastical Person to answer before them in Criminal Causes be●●g Lay-Judges c. So saith Martinus ab Azpil in Enchyridion 〈◊〉 27. Which Book was made by the special Commandement of ●ope Gregory XIII The warning given us by Bulls published in ●een Elizabeths Reign assureth us that if he may have place ●ain he meaneth not to dally with us 4. Some of our unnatural Countrey-men in some desperate Books 〈◊〉 theirs long since cast abroad against the Execution of Justice ●●ve not spared to tell us that the Laws made in Catholick ●●es viz. the Statute of Praemunire and some other were bad ●●ws and not to be allowed And again there were found ●on some which came in Queen Elizabeths time to disturb the ●ace of this Realm small Pamphlets containing Directions as ●●ey would have them taken for Mens Consciences wherein they ●●livered many things to trouble those persons whose Consciences were possibly in those Points stayed in confidence of the 〈◊〉 Laws of this Realm and upon some Grants made by the 〈◊〉 himself 5. The Pope hath challenged a Soveraignty over this Realm bestow it where he listeth as feudary unto himself having fo●merly received a Tribute viz. The Peter-pence which was 〈◊〉 times of Popery of every House a penny Whereby B●diu in 〈◊〉 Book de Republica argueth that the Realm of England is not Soveraign Estate not to speak of the yearly Tribute paid unto th● Pope by King John and some other Princes his Successors Th● may serve the Pope for a mean to bridle all the Old Statutes an● the Liberties of our Countrey and to spoil the Prince of all 〈◊〉 Prerogatives We know how he dealt with Sicily and Napl●● long agone wherein it were an hard matter for the proudest 〈◊〉 his side to justifie his Title And that he hath put out and put 〈◊〉 Kings at his will and sometime offered their Kingdoms to sal● And from King Henry the Third by the shadow of a bare Title the Pope got infinite sums of Money to the great exhausting 〈◊〉 his Treasure and impoverishing of the Realm When Stukeley and Fitz-moris were at Rome they and the Po● practiced to give this Realm in Prey as he did the Kingdom 〈◊〉 Navarre and the Empire from the Emperor Frederick and also 〈◊〉 get an Investiture of the Realm of Ireland from the Pope as of Soveraign but they could not agree upon whom the Pope shou●● bestow that Realm FINIS