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A71056	An apology of the treatise De non temerandis ecclesiis against a treatie by an unknowne authour, written against it in some particulars / by Sir Henry Spelman Knight ; also his epistle to Richard Carew Esquire, of Anthony in Cornwall concerning tithes.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4917; ESTC R19621	39,391	64

have received by this said benefit in our deliverance which act is of it selfe so highly to the great peace unyte and welth of this most noble Empyre of England that if there were non other cause but that only we were bound to and with all our diligence and industry to study labour and devise how this benefit exceeding all other might world without end be extolled praised and made immortall and to receyte how much the furtherance of gods glory is by the same act set forth and advanced my learning ne yet wytte will not serve me Yet I dare boldly afferme pondering and considering depely the effect and circumstance of this matter This act is no lesse worthe then well worthy to be set in the booke of Kings of the old testament as a thing sounding to gods honour as much as any other history therein conteyned but what should I attempt or goe about to expresse the condigne and everlasting praises and thankes which your majesty hath deserved of all your hole Cominalt for the benefites before named unlesse I would take in hand like an evill workeman which by reason of his unperfectnes in his science should utterly staine and deface the thing he would most earnestly and diligently shew and set forthe I will therefore most excellent Emperor of this realme set all this aside and shew to your grace the cause of my enterprise for so much as I perceave that all your gracious proceedings are onely driven and conveyed to the most highe just and sincere honour of Almighty God the publique welth and unity of all Christendome most especially of this your most noble Realme of England it hath animated and incouraged me according to the small talent of learning that the Lord hath lent to me to put your grace in remembrance of the intollerable pestilence of Impropriations of benefices to religious persons as they will be called some to men and some to women which in mine opinion is a thing plainly repugnant to the most holy and blessed decrees and ordinances of Almighty God and highly to the extolling supporting and maintenance of the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome as your Majesty shall perceave in reading of this little treatise which your grace not being offended I shall ever God willing be able justly to defend and also stop the mouthes of them that shall say and abide by the contrary and that not with mine owne words but with authorities of holy Scripture And further I doe most humbly upon both my knees beseech your Imperiall Majesty that unto such time as this my little book be cleerly confuted by like holy Scripture and authorities as I have approved the same that it may safely goe abroad under protection of your gracious and redoubted name And for the prosperous preservation of your most royall estate of your most noble and vertuous Queene of your deere daughter Lady Princesse daughter and heire to you both according to my most bound duty I shall daily pray my life enduring Sir Francis Bigott Knight of Yorkshire wrote this Treatise whereof this Preface I received from Sir Henry Spelman but the rest of the book I could never yet finde thoughe it be mentioned by severall Authors Bale Hollinshead and lately by Sir Richard Baker in his history It seemes to have bin written after the Kings breach with the Pope his marriage with Anne Bolen and the birth of Queen Elizabeth as I conjecture by circumstances His purpose was chiefly bent against the Monasteries who had unjustly gotten so many Parsonages into their possessions It is much desired that if any man have the rest of the book that he would please to communicate the copy that hereafter as occasion serves it may be published compleatly together with some other things of this argument that the learned Knight hath committed to my charge but by reason of the present troubles I cannot now attend to prepare them for the Presse As for Sir Francis Bigott himselfe he was found afterwards active in the troubles of Yorkshire that happened in 28. H. 8. and being apprehended among others was put to death 29. H. 8. as our common Chronicles doe report Baleus saith of him Franciscus Bigott ex Eboracensi patria auratus eques homo natalium splendore nobilis ac doctus evangelicae veritatis amator Scripsit contra clerum De Impropriaribus lib. 1. Quosdam item latinos libros anglicanos reddidit inter seditiosos tandem anno Domini 1537 invite tamen eo repertus eadem cum illis indigna morte periit To the right Reverend Fathers and Brethren the Bishops and Ministers of Scotland I Have caused this little Treatise right reverend and beloved in the Lord Jesus to be printed againe in North-Britaine for many causes first because I was informed that there came forth but a few copies at the first printing thereof in South-Britaine Againe I hope this doing will incite that worthy Knight the Authour thereof quicklier to send out the greater worke which he promiseth of that same argument but principally to incite you whom these matters most nearely doe concerne to look into them more advisedly then as yet ye have done it was a private occasion as that worshipfull Gentleman sheweth that led him to this writing You have a publique whereof it is pitty you are so little moved who seeth not the state of the Church of Scotland as concerning the patrimony to go daily from worse to worse Sacrilege and Simony have so prevailed that it beginneth to be doubted of many whether there be any such sinnes forbidden by God and condemned in his Word Neither can you deny the cause of this evill for the most part to have flowed from your selves your selling and making away of the Church rights without any conscience the buying and bartering of benifices with your shamelesse and slavish courting of corrupt patrones hath made the world thinke that things Ecclesiasticall are of the nature of Temporall things which may be done away at your pleasures and where at the first it was meere worldlinesse that led men on those courses now a great many to outface conscience and delude all reproofes they stand not to defend that Lands Tithes yea whatsoever belonged to the Church in former ages may lawfully be alienated by you and possessed by seculars which opinion must either be taken out of the mindes of men or need you not looke to have these wicked facts in this kinde unreformed to this end should all Ecclesiasticall men labour to informe themselves as well by the Word as by the writings of Ancients and Constitutions of Councels touching the right and lawfulnesse of ecclesiasticall things that when they are perswaded themselves of the truth they may the more effectualy teach others There is no impiety against which it is more requisite you set your selves in this time for besides the abounding of this sinne and the judgement of God upon the land for the same who doth not foresee in the