after his Copy and Example And renewing the charge to her he went to Bed in as good bodily health as he had done before for many years but after his first sleep he found himself taken with a violent Fever occasioned as was conceived by his Physician by eating of a little Tansey at Supper It seized him May 1. 1662. and deprived him of his understanding for seven days the eighth day he died but for some hours before had the use of his Faculties restored to him telling one of the Vergers of the Church who came to him I know it is Church-time with you and this is Asâ—ension-day I am ascending to the Church triumphant I go to my God and Saviour into Ioys Celestial and to Hallelujahs Eternal He died in his great Climacterical upon Ascension-day 1662. when our Blessed Saviour entred into his Glory and as a Harbinger went to prepare his place for all his faithful Followers and Disciples The Synagogus annexed to Mr. Herbert's Poems Mount mount my Soul and climb or rather fly With all thy force on high Thy Saviour rose not only but ascended And he must be attended Both in his Conquest and his Triumph too His Glories strongly woo His Graces to them and will not appear In their full lustre until both be there Where he now sits not for himself alone But that upon his Throne All his Redeemed may Attendants be Rob'd and Crown'd as he Kings without Courtiers are lone men they say And do'st thou think to stay Behind one earth whilst thy King Reigns in Heaven Yet not be of thy happiness bereaven Nothing that thou canst think worth having's here Nothing is wanting there That thou canst wish to make thee truly blest And above all the rest Thy Life is hid with God in Iesus Christ Higher than what is high'st O grovel then no longer here on earth Where misery every moment drowns thy mirth But towre my Soul and soar above the Skies Where thy true Treasure lies Tho with corruption and mortality Thou clogg'd and pinion'd be Yet thy fleet thoughts and sprightly wishes may Speedily glide away To what thou canst not reach at least aspire Ascend if not indeed yet in desire As for the Off-spring of his Loins God gave him the blessing of the Religious man in Psalm 128. his Wife being like a fruitful Vine and his Children being in all eleven as Olive-plants encompassed his Table nay he saw his Childrens Children and which to him was more than all he saw peace upon Israel i. e. the Church and State restored quieted and established after many concussions and confusions and a total Abolition of their Government But the issue of his Brain was far more numerous than that of his Body as will appear by the following Catalogue of Books written by him viz. Spurius a Tragedy MSS. Written An. Dom. 1616. Theomachia a Comedy MSS. 1619. Geography twice Printed at Oxon in Quarto 1621. 1624. and four times in London but afterward in 1652. enlarged into a Folio under the Title of Cosmography An Essay call'd Augustus 1631. inserted since into his Cosmography The History of St. George London 1631. Reprinted 1633. The History of the Sabbath 1635. Reprinted 1636. An Answer to the Bishop of Lincolns Letter to the Vicar of Grantham 1636. Afterward twice Reprinted An Answer to Mr. Burtons two Seditious Sermons 1637. A short Treatise concerning a Form of Prayer to be used according to what is enjoyned in the 55. Canon MSS. Written at the request of the Bishop of Winchester Antidotum Lincolniense or an Answer to the Bishop of Lincoln's Book entituled Holy-Table Name and Thing 1637. Reprinted 1638. An uniform Book of Articles fitted for Bishops and Arch-Deacons in their Visitations 1640. De Iure partialis Episcoporum or containing the Peerage of the Bishops Printed in the last Collection of his Works 1681. A Reply to Dr. Hackwel concerning the Sacrifice of the Eucharist MSS. 1641. A Help to English History containing a Succession of all the Kings Dukes Marquesses Earls Bishops c. of England and Wales Written An. Dom. 1641. under the name of Robert Hall but now enlarged under the name of Dr. Heylyn The History of Episcopacy London 1641. And now Reprinted 1681. The History of Liturgies Written 1642. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Lord Hopton's Victory at Bodmin A View of the Proceedings in the West for a Pacification A Letter to a Gentleman in Leicestershire about the Treaty A Relation of the Proceedings of Sir Iohn Gell. A Relation of the Queens return from Holland and the Siege of Newark The + or Black Cross shewing that the Londoners were the cause of the Rebellion The Rebels Catechism All these seven Printed at Oxon 1644. An Answer to the Papists Groundless Clamor who nick-name the Religion of the Church of England by thâ— name of a Parliamentary Religion 1644. and now Reprinted 1681. A Relation of the Death and Sufferings of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1644. The Stumbling-Block of Disobedience removed Written 1644. Printed 1658. and Reprinted 1681. An Exposition of the Creed Folio London 1654. A Survey of France with an account of the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey London 1656. Quarto Examen Historicum or a Discovery and Examination of the Mistakes Faâ—sities and Defects in some modern Histories in two Books London 1659. Octavo Certamen Epistolare or the Letter-Combat managed with Mr. Baxter Dr. Bernard Mr. Hickman and I. H. Esq London 1658 Octavo Historia Quinque-Articularies Quarto London 1660. Reprinted 1681. Respondet Petrus or An Answer of Peter Heylyn D. D. to Dr. Bernards Book entituled The Iudgment of the late Primate c. London 1658. Quarto Observations on Mr. Ham. L'Strange's History on the Life of King Charles I. London 1658. Octavo Extraneus Vapulans or a Defence of those Observations London 1658. Octavo A Short History of King Charles I. from his Cradle to his Grave 1658. Thirteen Sermons some of which are an Exposition of the Parable of the Tares London 1659. Reprinted 1661. The History of the Reformation London 1661. Fol. Cyprianus Anglicus or the History of the Life and Death of Arch-Bishop Laud. Folio London 1668. Aërius Redivivus or the History of the Presbyterians from the year 1636 to the year 1647. Oxon. 1670. Fol. His Monument has since the erection of it had violence offered it by some rude and irreligious hand there being ever in the world those ill men who regard the Names of the Learned neither whilst they are living nor when they are dead It is erected on the North-side of the Abbey in Westminster over against the Sub-Deans Seat and the Right Reverend Dr. Earl then Dean of Westminster and afterward Bishop of Salisbury was pleased to honor the memory of his dear Friend with this following Inscription Depositum morâ—ale Petri Heylyn S. Th. D. Hujus Ecclesiae Prebendarii Subdecani Viri planè memorabilis Egregiis dotibus instructissimi Ingenio acri foecundo Iudicio subacto Memoriâ ad prodigium tenaci Cui adjunxit incredibilem in Studiis patientiam Quae cessantibus oculis non cessarunt Scripsit varia plurima Quae jam manibus teruntur Et argumentis non vulgaribus Stylo non vulgari suffecit Constans ubique Ecclesiae Et Majestatis Regiae Assertor Nec florentis magis utriusque Quam afflictae Idemque perduellium Schismaticae Factionis Impugnator acerrimus Contemptor Invidiae Et animo infracto Plura ejusmodi meditanti Mors indixit Silentium Vt sileatur Efficere non potest Obiit Anno Aetat 63. Posuit hoc illi moestissima Conjux FINIS Sleid. Com. l. 6. * So he did in a Letter to Dr. Heylyn Theol. Vet. Pref. to the Reader K. Iames Instructions to the University Ian. 18. 1616. Appendix to the Adv. on Mr. Sanderson's Histories Wisdom 4. 8 9. Pryn Burtoâ— Bastwick Page 426. Archbishops Life page 429. Page 430. * At these words the Bishop knock'd with his Staff on the Pulpit Tacit. in Vit. lul Agr. Observations on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 34. * Committee of Affectioâ—s * Exam. Hist. p. 111. Preface to the Cosmography Certam Epist. 369. As Euscapius said of Longinus * Certam Epist. 100. Tacit. An. lib. 4. Epist. Ded. before Cert Epist. Exam. Histor. 201. Cert Epist. 243. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Tacit. Hist. l. 1. Page 6. General Preface to an Answer of several Treatises * Preface to Theo. Vet. p. 13. Theol. Vet. p. 27 28. Edit 1. b Ib. 72. c Ib. 152. d Ib. 187. e Ib. 418 419 420. f 130. g 138. h 152. i 277. k 195. ib 269 270 294. l 292. m 294. n 304. o 384. p 305. q 332. r 359. s 361 362. t 371 372. De not Eccles. l. 4. c. 4. u 386 387. w 397 398. x 457 458. y 403 404. Mat. 27. 63. Dr. Burnet's Preface to the History of the Reformation Vol. I. Epist. Ded. Hist. D. Ham. p. 29 30. Page 6. Exam. Hist. 162. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 72. Cert Epist. 22. Cert Epist. 173. Ib. 153. Cert Epist. 57. Exam. Hist 126. Observat. on the History of the Reign of K. Charles 220. Exam. Hist. 97. Obs. 196. Exam. Hist. 237. Introduct unto Exam. Hist. Observ. on 151. Exam. Hist. â—46 Cert Epist. 44. Obser. 183. 1 Pet 2. 25. 1 Pet. 5. 1. Ib. 188. P. 224. Yitles of Hon. p. 2. cap. 5. Observ. on the Hist. page 2. Pref. to Theol. Vet. Acts 6. 10. Cert Epist. 31. Gen. 48. 10. * Stalius calls blindness so Tul. Tus. Quaest. lib. 5. Ibid. Quintilian in Declam Certam Epist. 310. * Sir W. S. Cert Epistola Epist. Ded. Tacit. Anal. l. 13. 2 Cor. 11. 27. Psal. 32. 4. Ecclus. c. 34. 2 7. Verse 6.
execution there being intended an English Pontifical which was to contain the Form and Manner of the Coronation of King Charles I. and to serve as a standing Rule to succeeding Ages on the like occasions Another Form to be observed by all Archbishops and Bishops for consecrating Churches Church-yards and Chappels And a third for reconciling such Penitents as either had done open Pennance or had revolted from the Faith of Christ to the Law of Mahomet Which three together with the Form of Confirmation and that of ordering Bishops Priests and Deacons which were then in force were to make up the whole Body of the Book intended But the troubles of the times increasing it was thought expedient to defer the prosecution of it till a fitter conjuncture And yet notwithstanding all the storms that were then rising this excellent person went through the Book of Articles the compiling of which gave no obstruction to him from attending the service of the Committee upon all occasions And for the better Authorizing of the Articles he placed before every one of them in the Margin the Canon Rubrick Law Injunction or other Authentick Evidence upon which they were grounded Which being finished were by him openly read in the House and by the House approved and passed without any alteration only that exegatical or explanatory clause in the fourth Article of the fourth Chapter touching the reading of the Communion-Service at the Lords Table was desired by some to be omitted which was done accordingly Finally it was Dr. Heylyn who proposed a Canon for enjoyning the said Book to be only used in Parochial Visitations for the better settling of Uniformity in the outward Government and Administration of the Church and for preventing of such just Grievances as might be laid upon the Church-Wardens and other sworn men by any impertinent inconvenient or illegal Enquiries in the Articles for Ecclesiastical Visitations Neither were these the only Fruits of his labours and travels in this business there being six Subsidies granted to the King and the Bishops and Clergy in Convocation upon the 20th of May received his Majesties Letters Sealed with his Royal Signet and attested by his Sign Manual which required and authorized them to proceed in making Synodical Constitutions for levying of those Subsidies which had been before granted And this was easily done there being nothing to be altered but the changing of the name of Subsidy into that of Benevolence Friday May 29. the Canons were formally subscribed unto by the Bishops and Clergy no one dissenting except the Bishop of Glocester who died in the Communion of the Roman Church and was all that part of his life in which he revolted from the Church of England a dear Favourite and Servant of Oliver Cromwel unto whom he dedicated some of his Books for which he was voted worthy of Suspension by the Convocation and was accordingly Suspended by the Archbishop of Canterbury Which being done the Convocation was dissolved Proceed we now from the Active to the more Passive part of Dr. Heyly's life For the Long Parliament the Churches as well as the Kings Scourge began to sit at Westminster and a general Rumor was spread both in City and Country that our Doctor being conscious to himself of many Crimes durst not stand the brunt of their displeasure and therefore had made use of his heels as his best weapons of defence being run away out of a fear and foresight of an approaching storm When these rumors were raised he was at his Parsonage of Alresford from whence he hastened with all conveniâ—nt speed confuting the Calumny by shewing himself the very next day after his coming to London in his Gown and Tippet in Westminster-Hall And upon a Vote passed in the House of Lords that no Bishop should be of the Committee for the Preparatory Examinations in the Cause of the Earl of Strafford under colour that they were excluded from acting in it by some antient Canons as in cause of Blood our learned Divine did thereupon draw up a brief Discourse entituled De jure Paritatis Episcoporum now inserted in the Re-printed Volume of his Works which he presented unto many of the Bishops to assert all their Rights of Peerage and this of being of that Committee among the rest which either by Law or antient custom did belong unto them The Parliament began their Session Novemb. 3. 1640. and upon the 9th of December following upon the Complaint of Mr. Pryn our Doctor was called before the Committee of the Courts of Justice who accosted him with that fierce fury that no one could have withstood the Torrent but one whose Soul was fortified with Innocence equal to his Courage The Crime objected against him was that he had been a subservient Instrument under the Archbishop of Canterbury all the sufferings of Mr. Pryn having read the Histriomastix out of which he had furnished the Lords of the Council and many other persons with matter to proceed against its Author But our Doctor made a bold and just Defence for himself telling his Accusers That the Task was imposed upon him by Royal Authority which he would readily prove if they would have so much patience as to allow him time for that purpose Great hopes they had to squeeze something out of him concerning his being engaged in it by the Archbishop but he was too wary to be ensnared by any of their Artifices and being faithful to his Friend and Patron was kept four days under Examination suffering for the two first the brutish Rage of the People more perhaps than St. Paul did at Ephesus for that blessed man did not adventure himself amongst those Savages But our poor Doctor was tossed up and down by the fury of an ungovern'd multitude and railed at as he passed through them by their leud and ungoverned tongues But God who sets bounds to the Waves of the proud Ocean rebuked their rage and rescued him from their malice But alas what civility can be expected from the ill-bred Rabble unto Clergy-men when they themselves like the Eagle in the Greek Apologue wound one another with Arrows feathered with their own Plumes For four days after he had received order to appear before the Committee he preach'd his turn in the Abbey at Westminster and in the midst of his Sermon was insufferably affronted by the Bishop of Lincoln who knocking the Pulpit with his Staff cried out aloud No more of that Point No more of that Point Peter This happened to the poor man in very ill circumstances for it occasioned new clamours and animated his enemies to proceed on with greater violence against him But notwithstanding all their united malice he held out bravely sending the whole passage of his Sermon as he designed to Preach it both to his Friends at Court and Enemies in Parliament and taking Sir Robert Filmore with some other Gentlemen that were his Auditors out of the Church along with him to his House where he immediately sealed
13th year of his Age sent to London by his Father to be under the Cure of Dr. Turner Husband to that Gentlewoman that had a hand in the Death of Sir Tho. Overbury who keeping him to a strict Diet and frequent Sweatings sent him back into the Country after four Months time But his Distemper again returning he was fain once more to apply himself unto his old Doctor before a Cure could be completed Upon his return to Burford he found his old Master dead and was committed to the Care of a Successor viz. Mr. Davis a Reverend good man who notwithstanding his long discontinuance from School found his Scholar not to have mis-spent or mis-employed any time that gave him the least Relaxation from his Distemper and therefore placed him Third in the â—ppermost Form Mr. Davis spared no diligence that might tend to the cultivating of a Plant so flourishing and hopeful making him fit for the University by having him but twelve Months under his Tuition A kindness so gratefully resented by our Doctor that he dedicated to him one of his Books called Ecclesia Vindicata and had it not been for the misfortune of the War had given better Testimonies of a thankful and generous mind in preferring him to some considerable Benefice or Dignity in the Church He was the beginning of December 1613. in the 14th year of his Age sent to Oxford and placed under the Tuition of Mr. Ioseph Hill an antient Batchelor in Divinity once one of the Fellows of Corpus Christi College but then Commoner of Hart-Hall by whom Mr. Walter Newberry afterward a zealous Puritan was made choice of to instruct him in Logick and other Academical Studies as far as the tenderness of his Age rendred him capable And he made such progress in them that upon the 22d of Iuly 1614. he stood Candidate for a Demies place in Magdalen College having no other Recommendations than Sir Iohn Walters then Attorney General to the Prince and afterward Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Grand-Father to that worthy Gentleman Sir William Walter now of Sarsden in the County of Oxford Baronet Dr. Langton President of the College put Mr Heylyn the Eighth upon the Roll which was the first place of the second Course but it succeeded not till the year following being then Elected First upon the Roll and having very much endeared himself to the President and Fellows by a facetious Latine Poem upon a Journey that he made with his two Tutors unto Woodstock But immediately after his admission into that noble Foundation he fell into a Consumption which constrained him to retire to his Native Air where he continued till Christmas following He was a year after his Admission made Impositor of the Hall in which Office he acquitted himself with so much Fidelity that the College-Dean continued him longer in it than any ever before by which means he contracted a great deal of Hatred and Enmity from those Students that were of his own standing being called by them the Perpetual Dictator But he diverted the violence of the Storm by the assiduity of his Studies and particularly by Composing an English Tragedy called Spurius which was so well approved of by some learned persons of that Foundation that the President caused it to be privately acted in his own Lodgings In Iuly 1617. he obtained his Grace for the degree of Batchelor of Arts but was not Presented to it till the October following by reason of the absence of one of his Seniors holding it unworthy to prejudice another person for his own Advancement After the performance of the Lent-Exercises for his Degree he fell into a Fever which increasing with great violence at last turned into a Tertian Ague and caused him again to retreat unto his Countrey Air which he enjoyed till the middle of Iuly following and then according to the College Statutes which require that Exercise to be performed every long Vacation by some Batchelor of Arts he began his Cosmographical Lectures and finished them in the end of the next August His Reading of those Lectures drew the whole Society into a profound admiration of his Learning and Abilities insomuch that before he had ended them he was admitted Fellow upon Probation in the place of one Mr. Love And that he might give a Testimony of his grateful mind for so unexpected a Favour he writ a Latine Comedy call'd Theomachia which he Composed and Transcribed in a Fortnights space On Iuly 29. 1619. he was admitted in verum perpetuum Socium and not long before was made Moderator of the Senior Form which he retained above two years And within that compass of time he began to write his Geography accordingly as he designed when he Read his Cosmographic-Lectures which Book he finish'd in little more than two months beginning it Feb. 22. and completing it the 29th of April following At the Act Ann. Dom. 1620 he was admitted Master of Arts the honor of which Degree was the more remarkable because that very year the Earl of Pembroke Chancellor of the University signified his pleasure by special Letters that from that time forward the Masters of Arts who before sate bare should wear their Caps in all Congregations and Convocations unto which Act of Grace his Lordship was induced by an humble Petition presented to him by the Regent Masters in behalf of themselves and Non-Regents as also by Dr. Prideaux then Vice-Chancellor who being pre-acquainted with the business gave great encouragement to proceed onward in it and lastly by the indefatigable pains of one Master Clopton junior of Corpus-Christi-Colledge who was the principal Solicitor in that Affair His Geography was committed by him to the perusal of some Learned Friends and being by them well approved he obtained his Fathers consent for the Printing of it which was done accordingly November 7. 1621. The first Copy of it was presented by him to King Charles the First then Prince of Wales unto whom he Dedicated it and by whom together with its Author it was very graciously received being introduced into the Princes Presence by Sir Robert Carre one of the Gentlemen of his Highnesses Bed-Chamber and since Earl of Ancram unto whose Care Master Heylyn was commended by the Lord Danvers then at Cornbury by reason of some bodily Indisposition But after this Sun-shine of Favour and Honor darted on him by the Prince there followed a Cloud which darkened all his Joys for in a few months after his Father died at Oxon with an Ulcer in his Bladder occasioned by the Stone with which he had been for many years grievously afflicted His Body was conveyed to Lechlade in Glocestershire where he was buried near his Wife who died six years before him of a Contagious Fever and lay in the Chancel of that Parish-Church Septemb. 15. 1622. he received Confirmation from the hands of Bishop Lake in the Parish Church of Wells and in a short space after exhibited a Certificate to Doctor Langton concerning
the History of St. George Patron of the most noble Order of the Garter A business as he tells the King in his Epistle Dedicatory of so intricate and involved a nature that he had no Guide to follow nor any Path to tread but what he had made unto himself Neither had that Task ever come to perfection had not so able an hand undertaken it whose industry and abilities were superior to every thing but themselves Many enemies the Book met withal when it came first to light But 't is more easie to load learned Authors with Railing and Reproaches than to Encounter and Confute their Arguments The Historian had the honor to be introduced by the Bishop of London into his Masters Bed-Chamber unto whom he presented his Book which his Majesty graciously accepted and held some conference with the Author about the subject-matter contained in it He also gave Copies of the History to all the Knights of the Order that were then attending at Court who all used him with respect suitable to his merits except the Earl of E. who called him a begging Scholar of which words he was afterward very much ashamed when the incivility unbecoming a Nobleman and Courtier came to the knowledge of those that were of hiw own Quality Against this History Doctor Hackwel appeared in Print of which the King was presently informed and sending for Mr. Heylyn commanded him to consider the Arguments of his Antagonist and withal sent him to Windsor to search into the Records of the Order This occasioned a second Edition of the History wherein were answered all the Doctors Arguments and Allegations but no Reply made to his Invectives which were too frequently interspersed in the Book of that learned Writer of whom Mr. Heylyn heard no more till his very excellent Book about the Supposed Decay of Nature came out in a new Edition wherein there was a Retractation made of those passages that related to St. George Mr. Heylyn began now to conceive some hopes of not being any longer unkindly dealt withal by the hand of Fortune having a Presentation given him by one Mr. Bridges to the Parsonage of Meysie-Hampton in the Diocess of Glocester unto the Bishop of which he made Application but found him already pre-engaged to further the pretended Title of Corpus Christi College in Oxon. However his Lordship promised not to give Institution to any person till the Title was cleared advising Mr. Heylyn to leave his Presentation with him and to enter a Caveat in his Court But he who was false to God and his Mother-Church could never be faithful to those engagements thich 〈◊〉 made to man the one he deserted by turning Papist being the only Bishop of the English Hierarchy who renounced a Persecuted Church to embrace the Errors and Idolatries of the Roman Communion And as for his promises to Mr. Heylyn those he violated giving one Mr. Iackson who was presented by C.C.C. Institution so soon as ever he requested it This engaged our young Married Divine in a tedious Suit at Law which occasioned him great trouble and that which he could not well at that time undergo vast charge and expence especially if we consider the bad success that attended it For by reason of the absence of many of the Iury and the supply of Tales who attended upon the Trial as Water-men wait for a Fare together with the Tergiversation or rather Treachery of one of his Council upon whose Wisdom and Integrity the Client most relied the Cause went against him though affirmed by all Standers-by and by the Council himself the night immediately preceding the Trial to be as fair and just an Action as ever was brought to Bar. But indignus es felictate quem fortuitorum pudet It was not the first time that a poor man was oppressed and a righteous Cause miscarried And God ever rewards the quiet submission of his faithful Servants to his wise and unsearchable Providence with far more valuable Blessings than those which he deprives or with-holds from them Ioseph had never met with those signal honors and dignities in Pharaohs Court had not he been first sold by his Brethren for a Bond-slave into Egypt Neither was this the only disappointment he met with in his way to Preferment For not long after Preaching at Court in his second Attendance his Majesty expressed a very high opinion of him to many noble Lords about him and in a few months after gave him a Presentation to the Rectory of Hemingford in the County of Huntington But this also missed of the desired effect which his Majesties Bounty and Mr. Heylyns necessities required For the Bishop of Linclon unto whom he made Application with his Presentation would not allow the King to have any Title to the Living so that the poor man was fain to return to London re infectâ The Bishop was much offended as well as surprized that a young Divine should have so comprehensive a knowledg of the Law For he made good the Kings Right upon the passages of the Conveyances of the other party But the King soon understood the entertainment his Chaplain met with at Bugden and sent him this gracious Message That he was sorry he had pâ—t him to so much charge and trouble but it should not be long before he would be out of his debt And he soon performed his Royall promise for within a week after he bestowed on him a Prebeâ—dship of Westminster void by the death of Dr. Darrel to the extreme vexation of his Lordship who was then Dean of the same Church And that which added to the honor of this Preferment was his not only being the same day iniâ—iated into the friendship of the Attorney-General Mr. Noye but the condescending Message that came along with the Royal Gift viz. That he bestowed that Prebendship on him to bear the charges of his last Iourney but he was still in his debt for the Living When Moses was deserted by his Parents for fear of Pharaohs fury God was pleased to provide him a Saviour and a Nurse and he was taken out of the Bul-rushes and fed and preserved in despight of all his enemies Being possessed of this Preferment he began the repairing and beautifying of his House with many other things so far as his narrow contracted Fortune would permit him And the first honorable Visit that he received in his new Habitation was from the learned Lord Falkland who brought along with him one Captain Nelson that pretended a new Invention viz. The Discovery of the Longitude of the Sea The Captain had imparted his design to many learned Mathematicians who by no means could approve of or subscribe to his Demonstrations But the King referr'd him to Mr. Heylyn who told that noble Lord That his Majesty was mistaken in him his skill and knowledg lying more in the Historicaâ— than Philosophical part of Geography His Lordship seem'd much offended with the answer conceiving that out of a supercilious disdain of
in Scotland and the Archbishop of Canterbury designing to put out an Apology for vindicating the Liturgy that he had recommended to that Kirk desired our Doctor to translate it into Latine that being published with the Apology the world might be satisfied in his Majesties Piety as well as his Graces care as also that the rebellious and perverse temper of the Scots might be apparent unio all who would raise such tumults upon the recommendation of a Book that was so venerable and Orthodoxâ— Our Reverend Doctor undertook and compleated it but the distemper and troubles of those times were the occasion that the Book went no farther than the hands of that learned Martyr In Feb. 1639. Dr. Heylyn was put in Commission of the Peace for the County of Hampshire into which he was no sooner admitted but he occasioned the discovery of an horrid Murther that had been committed many years before in that Country April following he was elected Clerk of the Convocation for the College of Westminster At which time the Archbishop of Canterbury sending a Canon to that Assembly for the Suppressing the further growth of Popery and bringing Papists to Church our Reverend Doctor moved his Grace that the Canon might be enlarged for the greater satisfaction of the people as well as the protection of the Church viz. That all persons entrusted with Care of Souls should respectively use all possible Care and Diligence by open Conferences with the Parties and by Censures of the Church in inferior Courts as also by Complaints unto the Secular Powers to reduce all such to the Church of England as were misled into Popish Superstition This and much more was offered by Dr. Heylyn as may be seen more at large in his Life of the Archbishop And about the same time he drew up a Paper wherein he offered a mutual Conference by select Committees between the House of Commons and the Lower House of Convocation And this he did that the Representatives of the Clergy might give satisfaction to the Commons in point of Ceremonies and in other matters relating to the Church if the motion was accepted but if refused that they might gain the advantage of Reputation among knowing and wise persons But the unhappy Dissolution of the Parliament prevented all things of this nature The news of which was so unwelcome and amazing to Dr. Heylyn that being then busied at the Election for the School at Westminster the Pen felâ— out of his hand and it was not without some difficulty before he could recollect his thoughts in the business about which he was engaged The Convocation according to usual custom had expired the next day after the Parliament had not our Reverend man gone to Lambeth and there displayed to the Archbishop the Kings necessities and acquainted him with a precedent in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth for granting Subsidies or a Benevolence by Convocation to be taxed and levied without help of Parliament Upon which proposal the Convocation was adjourned till Wednesday May 13. on which day the Bishops met in full Convocation and a Commission was sent down to the Lower-House dated May 12 which enabled the Prelates and Clergy then Assembled to treat of and conclude upon such Canons as they conceived necessary for the good of the Church The greatest part of the Clergy very much scrupled this matter conceiving the Convocation to end with the Parliament But our Reverend Divine being well skill'd in the Records of Convocations shew'd the distinction between the Writ for calling a Parliament and that for assembling a Convocation their different Forms the independence of one upon the other as also between the Writ by which they were called to be a Convocation to make Canons and do other business He proved also that although the Commission was expired with the Parliament yet the Writ continued still in force by which they were to remain a Convocation till they were Dissolved by another Writ With this distinction he satisfied the greatest part of those who scrupled to sit after the Parliaments Dissolution But the King proved the best Casuist in the case who being acquainted with these scrupulosities called the most learned in the Laws to consult about them by whom it was determined That the Convocation being called by the Kings Writ notwithstanding the Dissolution of the Parliament was to be continued till it was Dissolved by the Kings Writ And this was subscribed by Finch Lord Keeper Littleton Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Banks Attorney-General Whitfield c. It will be too tedious to insert into these Papers all the Debates that were in this learned Assembly most of them are to be seen in the Life of the Archbishop Suffice it to acquaint the Leader that few or none of those propositions which either concerned the Institution Power or Priviledges of Sovereign Kings or related to the Episcopal Power Doctrine or Discipline of the English Church but were either first proposed or afterward drawn up by Dr. Heylyn though he ouâ— of his great modesty and worth ascribes them to other persons It was the Clerk of the Church of Westminster who was placed on purpose by the Prolocutor to speak last in the Grand Committee for the Canon of Uniformity and to answer all such Arguments as had been brought against any of the Points proposed and were not answered to his hand It was he who made a proposition for one uniform Book of Articles to be used by all Bishops and Arch-deacons in Visitations to avoid the confusion that happened in most parts of the Church for want of it those Articles of the Bishops many times everting those of the Arch-Deacons one Bishop differing from another the Successors from the Predecessors and the same person not consistent to those Articles which himself had published by means whereof the people were much disturbed the Rules of the Church contemned for their multiplicity unknown by reason of their uncertainty and despised by reason of the inconstancy of those that made them The motion back'd by these Reasons did so well please the Prolocutor with the rest of the Clergy that they desired the Doctor in pursuit of his own project to undertake the Compiling of the said Book of Articles and to present it to the House with all convenient speed It was the same learned man who took into consideration the great Excesses and Abuses which were crept in and complained of Ecclesiastical Courts the redress and Reformation of which Grievances was brought within the compass of these seven Heads 1. Concerning Chancellors Patents and how long their virtuâ— was to continue 2. That Chancellors were not alone to censure the Clergy in sundry cases 3. That Excommunication and Absolution were not to be pronounced but by a Priest 4. Concerning Commutations and the way of disposing of them 5. Concerning Concurrent Iurisdictions 6. Concerning Licences to Marry 7. Against Vexatious Citations Some other things were proposed and designed but never put in
first the Clergy in all other Christian Kingdoms of these North-West Parts make the Third Estate that is to say in the German Empire as appears by Thuanus the Historian lib. 2. In France as is affirmed by Paulus Aemilius lib. 9. In Spain as testifieth Bodinus de Republ lib. 3. For which also consult the general History of Spain as in point of practice lib. 9 10 11 14. In Hungary as witnesseth Bonfinius Decl. 2. lib. 1. In Poland as is verified by Thuanus also l. 56. In Denmark as Pontanus tells us in Historia rerum Danicarum l. 7. The Swedes observing anciently the same Form and Order of Government as was used by the Danes The like we find in Cambden for the Realm of Scotland in which anciently the Lords Spiritual viz. Bishops Abbots and Priors made the Third Estate And certainly it was very strange if the Bishops and other Prelates in the Realm of England being a great and powerful Body should move in a lower Sphere in England than they do elsewhere But 2dly Not to stand only upon probable inferences we find first in History touching the Reign and Acts of Henry V. That when his Funerals were ended the Three Estates of the Realm of England did assemble together and declared his Son King Henry VI. being an Infant of eight Months old to be their Sovereign Lord as his Heir and Successor And if the Lords Spiritual did not then make the Third Estate I would fain know who did Secondly The Petition tendred to Richard Duke of Glocester to accept the Crown occurring in the Parliament Rolls runs in the name of the Three Estates of the Realm that is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons thereof Thirdly In the said Parliament of the said Rich. Crowned King it is said expresly That at the request and by the consent of the Three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land Assembled in this present Parliament and by Authority of the same it be Pronounced Decreed and Declared That our Sovereign Lord the King was and is the very and undoubted King of this Realm of England c. Fourthly It is acknowledged in the Statute of 1. Eliz. c. 3. where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in that Parliament Assembled being said expresly and in terminis to represent the Three Estates of this Realm of England did recognize the Queens Majesty to be their true lawful and undoubted Sovereign Liege Lady and Queen Add unto these the Testimony of Sir Edward Cooke tho a private person who in his Book of the Iurisdiction of Courts published by Order of the Long Parliament c. 1. doth expresly say That the Parliament consists of the Head and the Body that the Head is the King that the Body is the Three Estates viz. the Lords Spiritual Temporal and the Commons In which words we have not only the Opinion and Testimony of that learned Lawyer but the Authority of the Long Parliament also tho against it self I hope the perusal of these things will be no less acceptable to the sober Reader than the transcribing of them has been unto my self which I have done to the end as well of informing my Country-men about the Rights of the Crown and Privileges of the Church and Clergy as to shew that Dr. Heylyn had a zeal according unto knowledg and was not less zealous for knowledge-sake And the Doctor having thus stood up in the defence of Monarchy and Hierarchy both in their prosperous and adverse condition when the black Cloud was dispelled and a fair Sun-shine began to dawn upon these harrassed and oppressed Islands by the Return of his Sacred Majesty this excellent man having in his mind Tullies Resolution Defendi Rempub. Adolescens non deseram Senex thought it unbecoming him to desert the Church in any of its pressing needs and therefore when the door of Hope began to open he busied his active and searching mind in finding out several expedients for the restoring and securing of its Power and Privileges in future Ages against the attempts of Factious and Sacrilegious men And the first thing that he engaged in was to draw up several Papers and tender them to those Persons in Authrority who in the days of Anarchy and Oppression had given the most signal Testimonies of their Affection to the Church In which Papers he first shewed what Alterations Explanations c. were made in the Publick Liturgy in the Reigns of King Edward VI. Queen Elizabeth and King Iames that so those who were intrusted with so sacred a Depositum might be the better enabled to proceed in the Alteration and enlargement of it as they afterward did and as it now stands by Law Established in this Church Secondly Whereas in the first year of King Edward VI. it was enacted that all Arch-Bishops Bishops c. should make their Processes Writings and Instruments in the Kings name and not under their own Names which Act was afterward extended unto Ordinations as appears by the Form of a Testimonial extant in Sanders's Seditious Book De Schismate Anglicano and whereas the Act was repealed in the last year of Queen Mary and did stand so repealed all the Reign of Queen Elizabeth but was by the activity of some and the incogitancy of others revived again in the first year of King Iames but lay dorment all the Reign of that Prince and during the first ten years of King Charles I. after which it was endeavoured to be set on foot by some disturbers of the Publick Peace upon which the King having it under the hand of his Judges that the proceedings of the Arch-Bishops Bishops c. were not contrary to the Laws of the Land inserted their Judgment about it in a Proclamation for indemnifying the Bishops and the satisfying of his loving Subjects in that Point therefore Dr. Heylyn considering that what the Judges did was extrajudicial and that the Kings Proclamation expired at his Death solicited the concerns of the Church in this Affair viz. that the Act so pasâ—ed as before is said in the first of King Iames might be repealed that so the Bishops might proceed as formerly in the exercise of their Jurisdiction without fear or danger Thirdly Whereas in the 16. year of Charles I. there passed an Act that no Arch-Bishop Bishop c. should minister any Corporal Oath unto any Church-Warden Sideman or any other person whatsoever with many other things whereby the whole Episcopal Jurisdiction was subverted except Canonical Obedience only and all proceedings in Courts Ecclesiastical in Causes Matrimonial Testamentory c. were weakened and all Episcopal Visitations were made void as to the ordinary Punishments of Heresie Schism Non-conformity Incest Adultery and other Crimes of Ecclesiastical Cognizance therefore Dr. Heylyn stated the Case and in a Petition drawn up by him prayed that for the restoring of the Episcopal Jurisdiction the Clauses of that Act