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A02679	The excommunication published by the L. archbishop of Dublin Thomas Flemming aliàs Barnwell friar of the Order of S. Francis, against the inhabitants of the diocesse of Dublin, for hearing the masses of Peter Caddell D. of Divinity, and Paul Harris priests, is proved not onely injust, but of no validity, and consequently binding to no obedience. In which treatise is also discovered that impious plot and policy of the aforesaid archbishop and his friars in supplanting the pastors and priests of the clergy, thereby to bring all into the hands of the friars, of whose disorders and foule abuses (especially in this kingdome) something is noted. The second edition, enlarged. By me Paul Harris priest.	Harris, Paul, 1573-1635?; Caddell, Peter. aut; Fleming, Thomas, 1593-1666. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 12810; ESTC S116899	71,181	112

viri sanctissimi eos esse ideo voluerunt ut pro dicenda veritate non haberent quod amittere formidarent sed jam possessionatis invidentes procerum crimina approbantes commune vulgus in errore f●ventes utrorumque peccata comedentes pro possessionibus acquirendis qui possessionibus renunciaverant pro pecu●ijs congregandis qui in paupertate perseverare juraverunt dicunt bonum malum malum bonum seducentes principes adulationibus plebem mendacijs utrosqu● secum in dev●um pertrahentes in tant●m etenim illam veritatis professionem suam perversè vivendo maculârunt u● in diebus istis in ore cujustibet bonum sit argumentum tenens ta●de formâ quam de ma●eriâ Hic est frater Ergo m●ndax Sicut illud Hoc est album Ergo coloratum Sed ne videamur livore scripsisse praesentia fate●●ur nos omnes in culpâ emendemus in melius quae scienter peccavimus Deum pacis dilectionis deprecemur attenti●s ut f●at pax veritas in diebus nostris Tho. Walsinghamus in regno Ricardi 2. fol. 266. The same in English It seemeth also unto me the wicked times not onely imputed to those but generally to the sins of all the Inhabitants of the earth including the Orders of the Begging Friars to heap up the causes of these mischiefes who unmindfull of their profession have forgot to what end their Orders were instituted because their legislatours instituters most holy men would therefore have them poore altogether free from the possessions of temporall things that for speaking of the truth they might not have any thing which they might feare to loose But now while they envy such as have possessions approving the faults of great men nourishing the common people in error eating the sins of them both in seeking of possessions who have renounced possessions in hoarding up of money who have sworne to persevere in poverty they call good evill evill good seducing Princes with flattery the people with lyes drawing both of them with themselves astray they have in such sort stayned that their profession of truth by their unhappy living that in these dayes in every ones mouth it is a good argument holding as well in forme as matter This fellow is a Friar Therfore a Liar Even as that This thing is white therfore hath a color But that we may not be thought to have written these thigns of malice let all of us acknowledge our selves to be in fault and let us amend what willingly we have done amisse beseech the God of peace love more devoutly that peace truth may be in our dayes So that holy Monke Tho. Walfingham in the raigne of Richard the 2. fol. 266. He died in the yeare 1440. But because as our Saviour saith In ore duorum 〈◊〉 trium testium stat omne verbum Math. 18. in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word is confirmed made good Hark also gentle Reader what AEneas Silvius who after was Pope called Pius 2. left written to posterity in commentario de rebu● à se gestis of the Avarice of the Mendicants his words are as follow Religiosos ●o●●unquam vidimus quos Mendieantes appellant Auricontemptores videri volunt dum vivendi finem fecissent magnum peculium reliquîsse è quibus unum nouimus qui a●r● nummum septem dece● miilia veteri muro incluserat quae paulatim mendicando plorandoque intervetusas ingenio subtili corraserat We have sometimes scene the Religious whom they call Begging Friars would seeme to be contemners of Gold at their deaths to have left great riches of which sort we have knowne one who had hid 17. thousand pieces of gold shut up in an old wall which by begging weeping amog old wives by his crafty withe had scratched together Of this Author Card. Bell. ● in his Book de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis saith that he was vir doctus prudens a learned a wise man dyed in the same age with Walsingham about the yeate of our Lord 1460. What shall I say of Armachanus otherwise called S. Richard of Dundalk that holy Bishop of Armagh Primat of all Ireland who in his book called Defensorium Curatorum did discover lay open before Pope Innocentius 6. his Cardinals at A●ignion in France their notorious vices of Ambition Disobedience Pride Covetousnesse Lecbery the like which book of that famous Prelat worthy to be written in letters of gold I wonder that to this day it hath not found an English Interpretour Among others of their vices declaring their covetousnes and greedines in begging he hath these words I am enim istis temporibus non poterit magnus out mediocris in cl●●o populo vix cib●m sumere ubi tales fuerint mena●●cantes c. For now in these dayes no man neither great nor little among the Clergy can scarcely take his meat where these beggers shall he not asking at the doore after the maner of poore people ●●bly an almes as S. Francis commanded them in his will Testament taught them to begg but comming into the houses boldly without shame there guesting thēselves albeit not invited they eat drink such as they find neverthelesse carry with them by extorting either Corne or meale or loaves or flesh or cheeses albeit in the house there be no mo● the● two neither shall any body be able to deny them unlesse he abandon all naturall shame I wonder they stand not in awe of Pope Gregory his sentence who in a certain priviledge published thus writes unto the Prelats of the Church For that oftentimes vices do secretly enter under the shew of vertues the angell of Satan doth oftentimes transforme himself into an angell of light we command you by authority of these presents That if any confessing themselves to be of the Order of the aforesaid Friars shall preach in your parts converting themselves to the lucre of mony wherby it shall happen the religion of those who professe poverty to be defamed you apprehend them as counterfeits and condemne them So Armachanus a native of this country borne in Dundalke where also now in S. Nicholas Church his bones rest being translated from Avignion in France where he dyed An. 1360 whose singular learning his Workes this day doe declare Besides the testimony of Trithomius in his Book de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis in these words Ricardus Archiepiscopus Armachanus Primas Hiberniae vir in divinis Scripturis eruditus secularis philosophiae jurisque canonici non ignarus ing●nio 〈◊〉 sermone scholasticus in declamandis sermonibus ad po●●lum excellentis industriae Richard Archbishop of Armagh Primat of all Ireland a man learned in the holy Scriptures and not ignorant of secular Philosophy of the Canon Law of a singular wit a schooleman in speaking of excellent industry in making of sermons unto the

published by ●riars of and within the Diocesse of Dublin to the perdition of many soules TRuely if our Archbishop had bin so tender over his flock so carefull of their soules as in this his Excommunication is pretended knowing that as it is the part of a good Pastour to feed the people committed unto his charge with wholsome doctrine the food of the Sacraments so also to chase away the Wolfes especially those Wolfes which our Saviour foretold should come in Sheepes cloathing which are the most dangerous Wolves of all other I say had these two points bin well considered of by our Pastour he doubtlesse would have bin more diligent frequent in his Sermons and exhortations unto the people as in perswading them unto good life observance of Gods Commandements a doctrin very necessary so in their faith confirming them against all tempests of persecution which may arise If happily he alledge in omission of this duty That he leaves the charge of that office to his Parish Priests to his Fryars I answer with Cardinall Bellarmine in his book entituled Gemitus Columbae lib. 2. cap. 4. It is not to be understood that the assistants should so labour as the principall should be idle do nothing Our blessed Saviour had his Apostles to help him as learned I trow and as laborious as either our Parish Priests or Fryars yet himselfe as the principall Pastour refused no paines or labour to comply with his missionary office of preaching which he had from his Father Luke 4. Spiritus Domini fuper me propter quod n●xit me evangelizare pauperibus misit me The Spirit of God upon me for which cause he annointed me sent me to preach the Gospell unto the poore according to which mission from his Heavenly Father he did so attend his Office of Preaching as the Gospell reports of him That he travailed from Citty to Citty from place to place preaching the Kingdome of God that not only in the Temple of God but in the fields in the deserts in the mountaines upon the sea in private houses sitting at the table walking upon the high-way at all times in all occasions remembring that he was sent to preach So after him the Apostles to whom Bishops succeed they declare that this was their Office The Apostle 1. Cor. 9. Vae mihi si non evangelizavero Woe unto me if I doe not preach the Gospell And admonishing Timothy a Bishop he saith Praedica verbum insta opportune importunè argue obsecra increpa in omni patientia doctrina 1 Tim. 3. Preach the Word be instant in season and out of season convince beseech reproove in all patience doctrine Such was the practise of S. Iohn the Apostle who frequented the Pulpit in his decrepit yeeres as witnesseth S. Hierom in the third Booke of his Commentaryes upon the Epistie unto the Galathians And the same the 4. Councell of Carthage declared teaching that a Bishop should attend unto Prayer to reading to the preaching of the Word of God To which S. Gregory accordeth lib. 2. Epist 39. Episcopi est de praedicationis ministerio ●ogitare It is a Bishops part to thinke of the ministery of preaching And so it seemes that our auncient Bishops did very well understand the same for many ages together Forsomuch as most of the writings of S. Cyprian S. Athanasius S. Basil S. Nazianzen S. C●●ysostome S. Ambrose S. Cyrill S. Augustinus S. Maximus S. Leo S. Gregory and others were nothing else but Sermons preached unto the people And if the same obligation did not alwayes remaine wherfore to this day in putting into their hands a Bible is it said in the Consecration of Bishops Accipe Evangelium vade praedica populo tibi commisso Take the Gospell goe preach to the people committed unto thee And if our Bishops in these dayes were not bound to preach wherefore doth the late Councell of Trent tell us that among all Episcopall duties the office of Preaching is the chiefe Sess 5. 24. But our Bishop will happily say That his talent is not in preaching and making● of Sermons To which I say though he be not able to preach and make a formall Sermon at least why as occasion offereth it selfe doth he not in some short exhortations move the people to good life setting before their eyes the reward of vertue the deformity of vice as also its punishments or at least why teacheth he not the Christian doctrine which in truth is the bestkinde of preaching and most necessary in this kingdome of all other where such ignorance raigneth among the common people that if every haire of our heads were preachers or teachers of the Catechisme it were little enough But and if our Archbishop bee not either able or not willing to preach to feede his flocke with the spirituall food of the word wherefore then did he condiscend to accept of a Bishopricke knowing himselfe so unmeet for the same or what account will he give up to the Prince of Sheepheards when it shall be required at his hands Happily they may have enough to doe to answer for themselves He layes the burden upon their neckes they will say they were but assistants unto him Now as that learned Cardinall saith non adjuvari dicitur qui nihil facit Hee is not said to be assisted which doth nothing himselfe Againe in his treatise de gemitu Columbae lib. 2. cap. 5. Deni● inquiunt multi sunt hoc tempore praedicatores verbi Dei ex ordinibus religiosis verum est illud quidem sed illi vocati sunt in adjutorium Episcoporum non ut proprium munus ipsorum impediant To conclude saith he they will say that at this time there be many preachers of Gods word among religious Orders true it is but they be called to be helpers to the Bishops not hinderers of that which is their owne proper duty to performe But verily had Card. Bellar. lived in these countryes he would not have said that at this day there be many Preachers of Gods word among religious Orders but rather many beggars feeders of their owne bellies among religious Orders who in begging from house to house can publish the benefit of the cord the Rosary the habit the Scapulare tell you a long story of the myracles of S. Francis can frame many a tale and many a lewd lye of the parish Priest to bring the people out of love with their Pastour whereby the water may run more freely unto their owne mills But the healthfull doctrine the blessed life the sweet example the stupendious myracles of our Saviour Redeemer of the world in the Gospell are little taught or insisted upon witnesse those places parts of the country which the Fryars doe chiefly haunt Examine the people the penitents of those Friars in the mistery of the Trinity the incarnation of our Saviour the articles of their creed the use of

but the second is without the compasse of their vowes they leave that for the Clergy And therefore Iohannes Rusbrochius himselfe a Monke speaking of the Friar Mendicants of these times in his booke called Tabernaculum foederis cap. 123. hath these words Mendici pauperes dici volunt suam semper queri inopiā tamen omnibus abundare rebus Beggars poore they desire to be called alwayes to complaine of their want and yet to abound with all things And me thinkes a Friar when he is on horsebacke with his hatched Rapier and his wrought Spurres and meetes a parish Priest upon the way in his fri●● Stockins and his brogges going on foote happily twice as farre as the other is to ride that to minister unto some poore sicke Creature in a Cot he should be much ashamed of himselfe especially when he calls to minde that precept of S. Francis in the 3. cap. of his rule Non debeant equitare nisi manifesta neoessitate vel infirmitate cogantur The Friars are not to ride but compelled thereunto thorough manifest necessity or sicknesse So he But verily in these parts it shall be much against the Friars humour to travell two miles out of Towne not mounted upon an easie pased horse Nay it seemes that the Friars who live among us are of opinion that the world would be scandalized to see them goe on foot Well then let us leave the Friar on horsebacke and returne we a little backe to our purpose of the habit from which we have made this short digression Were then our Friars really so charitable so liberall in bestowing of their habits And did they so much thirst after the good of soules yea and so tender hearted as they could not endure that a soule should remaine some short time in Purgatory but rather they would bestow upon the corps the habit of S. Francis or S. Dominicke for their rellefe I then wonder as Armachanus did well observe why they doe onely addresse themselves unto the rich to the great ones and not unto the poore for surely our christian faith teacheth us that the poore have soules as well as the rich And who can otherwise judge but that it is as meritorious a deed to cover a poore corpes with a habit who many times hath scarce a rag of a course sheet to shroude them in as to bestow it upon the carcase of never so rich a man for here is a soule so is there there is necessity the subject of an almes heere is none But as Armachanus answers well for them in his booke called Defensoriorum curatorum Non more Thobiae ad sepelcendum rupiunt corpora pauperum defunctorum sed instar vulturun● ultra m●re ad quingenta miliaria sua alimenta odorando sentientium qu●unt Not as Thobias did doe they seeke for the bodies of the poore deceased to bury them but like unto vultures smelling out their carions beyond seas five hundred miles doe they seeke food So he Neither are these Mendicants comented with such profit as they make of their habits and sepultures from the Larty but they must encroach also upon the Pastours or parish Priest of the place clayming not onely the honour of the funerall rites ceremonies to be performed by themselves but challenging all dutyes offerings and almes thereunto belonging And here I may not forget what a late president of the Parliament of Aix in France hath left written of the ambition of our Friars Minors in such occasions I will give you his words Fratres S. Francisci qui se appellant Minores ut nomen consonet rei debent esse minori loco ideò tanquam humiliores quia minores non debent praetendere cōtra aliquos de aliqua praecedētia c. The Friars of S. Francis Order who call themselves Minors as much as to say the lesser that their name may be agreeable unto the thing they ought to be in a lower place as more hūble for that the lesser ought never to pretend for precedency of place against any Because in doing otherwise they should seem to go against their own Order estate which is to be the lesser of all estates Orders of the whole Vniversall Church nay which is more since a certain time they would have the name of minimi that is the lowest of all other by vertue of a certain reformation But I see that all this is but in word not in deed For that they will not only contend for equality with other Religious but also with the Cathedrall Church As I have seene in the Funerals of a certaine Noble potent man Francis Rollin who for one onely houre was depositated in their Church in carrying of the Corps they would not only be in the last place before the Canons of the Cathedrall Church but their Guardian said That he ought to have the last place yea after the Bishop himself then in place Which how ridiculous it was ought to be let all imagin By which it may be seen what may be said of them who when as they ought in all humility to strive with the lowest yet will they contend for equality with the highest Wherefore their pride can not more rightly be compared to any thing then to the pride of Lucifer who would be like unto the most High Bartholomaeus Chassanaeus Praeses Senatus Aquaesextias in Catalogo Gloriae mundi parte 4. Consideratione 69. Thus gentle Reader I have given theea touch of those dangerous doctrines taught by our Friars tending to the evacuation of that great benefit of our salvation in Christ I have shewed how farre our Archbishop with all the rest of his Friars are interessed therein Moreover both out of grave Authors lamentable experience of these times I have discoursed of those manifold and manifest enormityes of the Friar Mendicants more particularly of this Country Their Avarice Lying Ambition Hypocrisie Neither have published the secret faults of any God forbid I should It is not only against Christian charity but humanity so to do If any say It is not my part to handle these matters it concernes me not I answer I am one of those whom the Scripture calls barking dogs I say 56. And whose office it is not only to barke at the wolfe when I see him a farre off but if he come nearer me to bite him too Math. 7. And by Gods grace so will I do so long as I have either tongue or teeth in my head And so had I ended but CAP. VI. A defence of our late Appeale THat I was requested by a friend to lay downe the grounds motiues which enduced M. D. Cadell my selfe to publish in Print our late Appeale unto the See Apostolicke from the gravamina or agrievances of the Archbishop the rather for that the Friars those of his faction as it is said take great exceptions thereunto 1. First then in defence of

the aforesaid printed Appeale I answere That there is nothing therein published unto the world which was not publicke before either de Iure or de facto or both as by induction shall appeare when time serves Now to make a thing more publick which is already publick was alwayes held most lawfull In confirmation whereof see these Authors following Cajet opuscuio 31. Respons 9. Lessius de justitia Iure lib. 2. cap. 11. dub 13. num 35. Clavis regia lib 11. cap. 11. num 30. 31. Arragonius de justitia jure q. 62. ●rt 2. Reginaldus lib. 27. cap. 4. num 82. 85. ●●orius 3. parte lib. 13 cap. 7. dubio 8. S●t lib. 4 q. 6. ar 3. And all other Writers If then to make more publick what already is publick be lawfull it skils not whether that publication be written or printed writing or printing being but accidentall to publication If you say But those foule excesses laide unto the charge of the Archbishop ought at least to have bin concealed from the Protestants I answer as in part I have done before in my Epistle unto the Reader That as among us a mixt people the manifest faults excesses of Protestants cannot be concealed from the Catholicks No more is it possible that the manifest faults excesses of our Catholicks can any wise be hidden from the Protestants of which nature quality are those 8. aggrievances which we layde down in our late Appeale Besides who seeth not that it is the delinquents thēselves who first manifest make publick their own disorders by such manifestation they come to be known of others who in their own just defence may make use therof by way of justice to haue the same reformed or corrected how els could it be lawfull to bring any person in question upon crimes in courts Tribunals And how comes it to passe that we have both heard 8● read of Prelats not only excommunicated or suspended but somtimes deposed for Heresie Schisme Simony c. I say If their own faults might not be further published 2. Secondly in defence of Printing our Appeale I say that an Appeale is a juridicall instrument of his owne nature admitting publicity no lesse then all other court pleadings as Bills Answers Orders Sentences Iudgements Executions the like All which processes of publicke courts may be notified through the world either by pen or Presse 3. Thirdly we committed that our Appeale the rather unto the Presse for that we suspected our Ordinary would not accept it at our hands having often before denyed to receive any letter or Petition from such suiters as desired justice of him so de facto it came to passe For first personally in pen hand we presented this selfe same Appeale unto our Ordinary Iune 21. an 1632. who refused to receive it of us Wherefore that it might be sufficiently knowne that we did Appeale from his manifold tyrannies to a higher Tribunall which benefit of the canon for that he both hath doth continually seeke to deprive us of and debarre us of all audience we held it necessary and as by our learned councell we were advised to notifie his manifold and manifest injustice omnibus Chri. fidelibus 4. Fourthly None can Appeale from the court of the Ordinary to a higher Tribunall but of necessity he must lay downe the causes grounds why he declines the judgement of his Ordinary otherwise his Appeale is not onely voyde in law but he is punishable for the same See 2. q. 6. cap. Quicun● cap. emaino de appellationibus in 6. ibi glossam Item Sayrus de eens lib. 12. cap. 17. num 34. with many Doctours by him cited So then those 8. Gravamina layd downe in our Appeale being the causes why we declined his jurisdiction wee could not omit the same 5. Our fift reason is Ad hominem as thus Our Ordinary Thomas Flemming aliàs Barnewell thinking good to prohibit the people our Masses under Excommunication he layes downe for his ground our disobedience continuall insolency without hope of amendment c. as may appeare by the first lines of his censure prefixed unto this work which causes althogh above at large are proved to be meerly his owne inventions yet true or false he made no scruple to publish them in open Auditories assemblies when the greatest concourse of people might be had to our great disgrace shame and infamy as much as in him was If this I say was lawfull for him to do against us in matters so false as we dayly challenge him to the proofe of them may not we doe the like in our just defence in his most notorious crimes to which every day we offer our selves to the tryall and touchstone of proofe before any Tribunall which is pleased to take knowledge thereof 6. Lastly our Archbishops faction dayly writes and prints against us of the Clergy witnesse that infamous Libell called Examen juridicum censurae Parisiensis under the saigned name of Edmundus Vrsulanus not onely scosfing the R. Bishops of France with all the most learned Doctours of Sorbon that famous Vniversity of Paris in most base contumelious language traducing them but also charging five R. Priests of this Irish Nation that by name with lewd aspersions of which himselfe dare neither give his name by which he may be knowne nor shew his head to the justification Nay not sparing to blemish the fame of the most Ill Archbishop of Paris being himselfe as is confessed by his owne faction a Friar Minor but more they neither will nor dare give us of him which libelling Pamphlet of that Friar is in such high estimation with our Archbishop as it is made his only Vade mecum may not we then in defence of our good names print what we are daily provided to justifie firming it with our own proper names by which every houre we may be knowne challenged as we did that our aforesaid Appeale to so many persons as we did communicate the same unto And as I my self the Author of this Book Paul Harris do subscribe my name with mine own hand offering my selfe to the justification of every word syllable therein contained The next worke gentle judicious impartiall Reader which thou mayest expect at my hands is a full refutation of those most impious blasphemous doctrines of the Friars above-mentioned in Cap. 4. As also a compendions Treatise of the 6. Excommunications 2. Exiles 2. Suspensions published inflicted within the compasse of a few weekes by our present Archbishop Tho Flemming aliàs Barnwell with the causes motives subjects of them all And so submitting my self all my writings to the censures of the See Apostolick beseeching Almighty God of his infinit goodnes and mercy to grant us his grace ro live and dye his servants I heere end Qui ve●●●●s mutant ritus legesque refigunt Quas ●●êre Patres nullo compede vivunt Hi sunt qui patriae clero populoque minantur Excidium Tu prisca fides borum agmina vitae FINIS Something being heere omitted accidentally makes the cohaerence not so goo●