an Uncle of his Fuller I appeal to the surviving Members of the House of Commons the most competent Judges in this point whether such a Protestation was not hammered though not perfected about the date by me assigned Acts of State never ride Post and it seems to me improbable that the Protestation by such unused approperation to be mentioned framed and taken all in one day But herein I submit to those who best know it Dr. Heylyn The occasion of it was a Speech made by the King in the House of Peers in favour of the Earl of Strafford upon the Saturday before which mov'd them to unite themselves by this Protestation for bringing to condign punishment all such as shall either by force practice plots counsels conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary of any thing in the same Protestation contain'd Which Protestation being carried into the House of Peers was after some few dayes generally taken by that House also But the prevalent party in the House of Commons having further aims then such as our Author pleaseth to take notice of first caus'd it to be printed by an Order of the fifth of May that they might be sent down to the Sheriffes and Iustices of Peace in the severall Shires to whom they intimated that as they justified thâ— taking of it in themselves so they could not but approve it in all such as should take it But finding that this did not much edifie with the Country people they desired the Lords to concur with them in imposing the same Failing whereof by an Order of their own House onely Iuly 30. it was declared that the Protestation made by them was fit to be taken by every Person that was well affected in Religion and to the good of the Common-wealth and therefore what Person soever did not take the same was unfit to bear Office in the Church or Common-wealth Which notwithstanding many refus'd to take it as our Author telleth us not knowing but that some sinister use might be made thereof as afterward appeared by those Pikes and Protestations which conducted some of the five Members to the House of Commons Fuller The Animadvertor and the Author have in this Paragraph lovingly shaken hands together I fear for meeting and parting at once and that it will not be long before we disjoyne them again Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 183. About this time came forth the Lord Brook his Book against Bishops accusing them in respect of their Parentage to be de faece populi of the dregs of the people and in respect of their Studies no way fit for Government or to be Barons in Parliament A passage mis-becoming no mans pen so much as his that writ it whose Father neither was of a better extraction then â—ome nor better left as in the way of his subsistance then any of the Bishops whom he thus upbraideth had been left by their fathers Fuller The Animadvertor will I hope acknowledge me a fair and ingenuous Adversary on a token best known to us alone However Christianity obligeth me to take no unworthy advantage of my Brother in the same Profession Dr. Heylyn From the first part of which calumny the Bishops freed themselves well enough as appears by our Author And from the second since they were too modest to speak in their own commendations our Author might have freed them with one of the old tales which are in his budget And the tale is of a Nobleman in King Harry the eights time who told Mr. Pace one of the Kings Secretaries in contempt of Learning that it was enough for Noblemens sons to wind their Horn and carry their Hauk fair and to leave study and learning to the children of mean men to whom the aforesaid Mr. Pace replied Then you and other Noblâ—men must be content that your children may wind their Horns and keep their Hauks while the children of mean men do manage matters of Estate And certainly there can be no reason why men that have been verst in Books studied in Histories and thereby made acquainted with the chief occurrences of most States and Kingdoms should not be thought as fit to manage the affairs of State as those who spend their time in Hauking and Hunting if not upon some worse employments For that a Superinduction of holy Orders should prove a Supersedeas to all civill prudence is such a wild extravagant fancy as no man of judgment can allow of Fuller I never said it nor thought it I will never write a syllable against mine own Vocation The Clergy I am sure cannot be impaired and Lay-Noblemen I hope may be improved to make them more industrious to enable themselves by the Animadvertor's story well reported and better urged and applied Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 188. The next day the 12 Subscribers were voted to be committed to the Tower save that Bishop Morton of Durham and Hall of Norwich found some favour Our Author speaks this of those twelve Bishops who had subscrib'd a Protestation for preserving their Rights and Votes in the House of Peers during the time of their involuntary absence to which they were compelled by threats menaces and some open acts of violence committed on them But in the name of one of the Bishops who found the favour of not being sent unto the Tower he is much mistaken it not being Dr. Hall Bishop of Norwich but Dr. Wright Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield who found that favour at their Hands Fuller Not much who if at all could not be lesse mistaken I shall provide God willing the next Edition shall be reformed herein and meane time desire the Owner of my former to rectifie it with their Pen who immediately can remove Coventry and Lichfield though 80 Miles distance to Norwich and thereby he will much wright me and nothing at all wrong himself Dr. Heylyn The like Misnomer I find after fol. 193. where he speaks of William Earl of Bath The Earl of Bath of whom he speaks being nam'd Henry and not William unlesse he chang'd his name when he succeeded in that Earldom as I think he did not and I am sure our Author will not say he did Fuller That noble Earl questionable whether of more Honour or Learning so cordiall to the cause of the Church far from all new dipt Sectaries never changed his Name till he changed his Life and then of a Militant became a Triumphant Saint The Reader will believe me knowing enough in his Christian name whose Relict since Countess of Middlesex was my late Parishoner at Waltham where I have seen his name above a thousand times prefixed with his own hand writing before the severall Books in the Numerous and choise Library at Copt-hall It was indeed a meer mistake of the Printer Dr. Heylyn As much he is mistaken also in point of time leaving the Bishops in prison for eighteen weeks whereas they were scarce detained there for half that time For being committed
King Henry the fifth Fuller This being allowed as indeed it is but a Pen-slip who is more faulty the Author in the cursorily committing or the Animadvertor in the deliberate censuring thereof Dr. Heylin But I cannot think so charitably of som other errors of this kind which I finde in his History of Cambridge fol. 67. Where amongst the English Dukes which carried the title of Earl of Cambridge he reckoneth Edmond of Langly fift son to Edward the third Edward his son Richard Duke of York his brother father to King Edward the fourth But first this Richard whom he speaks of though he were Earl of Cambridge by the consent of Edward his elder brother yet was he never Duke oâ— York Richard being executed at South-hampton for treason against King Harry the fifth before that Kings going into France and Edward his elder brother slain not long after in the Battail of Agincourt And secondly this Richard was not the Father but Grandfather of King Edward the fourth For being married unto Anne sister and heir unto Edmond Mortimer Earl of March he had by her a sonne called Richard improvidently restored in blood and advanced unto the Title of Duke of York by King Henry the sixth Anno 1426. Who by the Lady Cecely his wife one of the many Dâ—ughters of Ralph Earl of Westmerland was father of King Edward the fourth George Duke of Clarence and King Richard the third Thirdly as Richard Eâ—rl of Cambridge was not Duke of York so Richard Duke of York was not Earl of Cambridge though by our Author made the last Earle thereof Hist. of Cam. 162. before the restoring of that title on the House of the Hamiltons Fuller This hath formerly been answered at large in the Introduction wherein it plainly appeares that the last Richard was Duke of York and Earle of Cambridge though I confesse it is questionable whether his Father were Duke of York However it doth my work viz. That the Earldome of Cambridge was alwayes the first alone excepted conferred on either a forreign Prince or an English Peer of the Blood-royall an honour not communicated to any other Peere in England Dr. Heylin If our Author be no better at a pedegree in private Families then he is in those of Kings and Princes I shall not give him much for his Art of memory for his History lesse and for his Heraldry just nothing Fuller When I intend to expose them to sale I know where to meet with a francker Chapman None alive ever heard me pretend to the Art of memory who in my booke have decried it as a Trick no Art and indeed is more of fancy than memory I confesse some ten years since when I came out of the Pulpit of St. Dunstons-East One who since wrote a book thereof told me in the Vestry before credible people That he in Sydney Colledge had taught me the Art of memory I returned unto him that it was not so for I could not remember that I had ever seen his face which I conceive was a reall Refutation However seeing that a natural memory is the best flower in mine and not the worst in the Animadvertors garden Let us turn our competitions herein unto mutuall thinkfulnesse to the God of heaven Dr. Heylin But I see our Author is as good at the succession of Bishops as in that of Princes For saith he speaking of Cardinal Beaufort Fol. 185. He built the fair Hospital of St. Cross neere Winchester and although Chancellor of the Univesity of Oxford was no grand benefactor thereunto as were his Predecessors Wickam and Wainfleet Wickham and Wainfleet are here made the Predecessors of Cardinal Beaufort in the See of Winchester whereas in very deed though he succeeded Wickham in that Bishoprick he preceded Wainfleet For in the Catalogue of the Bishops of Winchester they are marshulled thus viz. 1365. 50. William of Wickham 1405. 51. Henry Beaufort 1447. 52. William de Wainfleet which last continued Bishop till the year 1485 the See being kept by these three Bishops above 120. years and thereby giving them great Advantages of doing those excellent works and founding those famous Colleges which our Author rightly hath ascribed to the first and last But whereas our Author â—elleth us also of this Cardinal Beaufort that he built the Hospital of St. Crosse he is as much out in that as he was in the other that Hospital being first built by Henry of Blais Brother of King Stephen and Bishop of Winchester Auno 1129. augmented onely and perhaps more liberally endowed by this Potent Cardinal From these Foundations made and enlarged by these three great Bishops of Winchester successively proceed we to two others raised by King Henry the sixth of which our Author telleth us Fuller What a peice of DON QUIXOTISME is this for the Animadvertor to fight in confutation of that which was formerly confessed These words being thus fairly entred in the Table of Errataes Book pag. line 4. 185. 22. read it thus of his Predecessor Wickham or Successor Wainfleet Faults thus fairly confessed are presumed fully forgiven and faults thus fully forgiven have their guilt returning no more In the Court Christian such might have been sued who upbraided their Neighbours for incontinence after they formerly had performed publique penance for the same And I hope the Reader will allow me Reparation from the Animadvertor for a fault so causlesly taxed after it was so clearly acknowledged and amended Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 183. This good precedent of the Archbishops bounty that is to say the foundation of All-souls Colledge by Archbishop Chicheley may be presumed a spur to the speed of the Kings liberality who soon after founded Eaton Colledge c. to be a Nursery to Kings Colledge in Cambridge fol. 184. Of Eaton Colledge and the condition of the same our Author hath spoken here at large but we must look for the foundation of Kings Colledge in the History of Cambridge fol. 77. where I finde something which requireth an Animadversion Our Author there chargeth Dr. Heylin for avowing something which he cannot justifie that is to say for saying That when William of Wainfleet Bishop of Winchester afterwards founder of Magdalen Colledge perswaded King Henry the Sixth to erect some Monument for Learning in Oxford the King returned Imo potius Cantabrigiae ut duas si fieri possit in Anglia Academias habeam Yea rather said he at Cambridge that if it be possible I may have two Universities in England As if Cambridge were not reputed one before the founding of Kings Colledge therein But here the premisses onely are the Doctors the inference or conclusion is our Authors own The Doctor infers not thereupon that Cambridge was not reputed an University till the founding of Kings Colledge by King Henry the sixth and indeed he could not for he acknowledged before out of Robert de Renington that it was made an University in the time of King Edward the second All
Author hath all the reason in the world to desire to be admitted into their Communion and be made partaker of that happinesse which such Saints enjoy c. Fuller If God were not more mercifull unto us than we are charitable one to another what would become of us all I humbly conceive that these Exiles though I will not advocate for their carriage in all particulars had more liberty in modeling their own Church than such as live in England under a setled Government commanded by Authority Schismatick in my minde is too harsh for such who fled and suffered for their conscience However I conceive a Saint-ship not inconsistent with such Schismaticalnesse God graciously on their general repentance forgiving them their fault herein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 39. Trinity Colledge built by Sir Thomas Pope I shall not derogate so much from Sir Thomas Pope as our Author doth from Trinity Colledge naming no Bishop of this House as he doth of others He tells us that he liv'd in this University about 17 weeks and all that time Dr. Skinner the Bishop of Oxford liv'd there too Dr. Wright the Bishop of Liechfield probably was then living also for he deceased not till after the beginning of the year 1643. but he living at that time in his own House of Ecclesal Castle Both of them Members of this Colledge and therefore worthily deserving to have found some place in our Authors History And because our Author can finde no learned Writers of this Colledge neither I will supply him with two others â—n that kinde also The first whereof shall be Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer sometimes a Commoner of this House and here initiated in those Studies in which he afterwards attain'd to so high an eminence The second William Chillingworth an able and accute Divine and once a Fellow of this Colledge whose Book intituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation written in defence of Dr. Potters Book called Charity mistaken commended by our Author Lib 3. fol. 115. remains unanswered by the Iesuites notwithstanding all their brags before-hand to this very day Which Book though most ridiculously buried with the Author at Arundel get thee gon thou accursed Book c. by Mr. Francis Cheynel the usu fructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth shall still survive unto the world in its own value when the poore three-penny commodities of such a sorry Haberdasher of Small-weares shall be out of credite Of this Pageant see the Pamphlet call'd Chillingworthi Novissima printed at London Anno 1644. Fuller If the Animavertor had written an History of Cambridge perchance he would have made as many and great Omissions I have craved solem pardon of the Reader when such failings should occur Church History Book 3. pag. 67. I humbly request the Antiquaries of their respective foundations best skilled in their own worthy Natives to insert their own observations which if they would restore unto me against the next Edition of this work if it be thought worthy thereof God shall have the Glory they the publick thanks and the world the benefit of their contributions to my endeavours Bishop Wright is entred in where he ought a Warden of Wadham the rest shall be inserted in the next Edition with my worthy friend Mr. Gilbert Ironside of the same foundation Mr. Cheynel is now rather the object of the Animadvertors prayer and pittie than of his Anger Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 41. But now it is gone let it go it was but a beggerly Town and cost England ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof Admit it be so yet certainly it was worth the keeping had it cost much more The English while they kept that Town had a dore open into France upon all occasions and therefore it was commonly said that they carried the Keyes of France at their Girdles c. Fuller The Animadvertor might understand my meaning even to make the best of a bad matter when it cannot be helped A KEY falleth under a double valuation one for the intrinsicall works from the weight thereof in Metal which is very inconsiderable The other from the use thereof and thus it 's price riseth or falleth as it openeth to more or less treasure Calis I confesse in the second consideration was a place of main importance yet indeed it cost a vast expence in keeping it as by a Book in the Exchequer which some moneths since I perused doth appear the charge amounting to an innumerable Sum at the rate of Money in that Age. THE NINTH BOOK Containing the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Dr. Heylin THe short Reigns of King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary being briefly past over by our Author he spends the more time in setting out the affairs of the Church under Queen Elizabeth not so much because her Reign was long but because it was a busie Age and full of Faction To which Faction how he stands affâ—cted he is not coy to let us see on all occasions giving us in the very first entrance this brief but notable Essay viz. Fol. 51. Idolaty is not to be permitted a moment the first minute is the fittest to abolish it all that have power have right to destroy it by that grand Charter of Religion whereby every one is bound to advance Gods glory And if Sovereigns forget no reason but Subjects should remember their duty Our Author speaks this in behalf of some forward Spirits who not enduring the lazinesse of Authority in order to the great work of Reformation fell before hand to the beating down of superstitious Pictures and Images And though some others condemned their indiscretion herein yet our Author will not but rather gives these reasons for their justification 1. That the Popish Religion is Idolatry 2. That Idolatry is to be destroyed by all that have power to doe it 3. Which is indeed the main that if the Sovereigns do forget there is no reason but Subjects should remember their duty This being our Authors Master-piece and a fair ground-work for Seditious and Rebellious for the times ensuing I shall spend a little the more time in the examination of the propositions as before we had them c. Fuller The Animadvertor hath dealt most unfairly with me in citing by the halfs what I have written and leaving out what immediatly followed and what he ought to have inserted viz. For after I had presented the Judgement of these rigid and violent Hotspurs I subjoyned as followeth in confutation of their Extravagancies But others condemned their indiscretion herein for though they might reform the private persons and families and refrain to communicate in any outward Act contrary to Gods word yet publick reformation belonged to the Magistrate and a good deed was by them ill done for want of a calling to doe it I appeal to such who knew me in the Universitie to those that
and sicker constitution and some passages in them I do not approve I hope to acquit my self so dutifull a son to the Church of England that when in a reverent posture I shall crave her blessing she will give it me in as full and free a manner and measure as to the Animadvertor himself Dr. Heylyn Thirdly the Book called Histrio-Mastix was not writ by Mr. Prin about three years before his last sufferings as our Author telleth us for then it must be writ or published Anno 1634. whereas indeed that Book was published in Print about the latter end of 1632. and the Author Censur'd in Star-Chamber for some passages in it about the latter end of the year 1633. Otherwise had it been as our Author tells us the punishment must have preceded the offence and he must suffer for a Book which was not publisht at that time and perhaps not written But our Author hath a speciall faculty in this kind which few Writers have Fuller The Animadvertor hath a speciall faculty in cavilling without cause My Clock of time strikes true enough but that he is minded not to tell it aright My words are Some three years since which word SOME soundeth an interpretative plùs minus to all ingenuous Ears Besides this is our opposite marginall Note containing the contents of that Paragraph Mr. Prin accused for Libelling against Bishops which accusation was about two years before this his last Censure during which time he was imprisoned And my SOME three years are to bear date in the construction of any impartiall Reader from that his accusation and then nothing is mis-timed but falleth out in due season And now Reader judge where the many errors be into which I have run in the story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings seeing no one mistake can be produced and proved against me And seeing the first Book of Mr. Prin was â—ound in it self in my opinion and his last Books more moderate even in the judgment of the Animadvertor and his midling Books how faulty soever such for which he hath severally suffered let us even take a fair farewell of Mr. Prin and his Books and so proceed Dr. Heylyn Now as our Author post-dateth his Histrio-Mâ—stix by making it come into the world two years after it did so he ante-dates a Book of Dr. White then Lord Bishop of Ely which he makes to be publisht two years sooner then indeed it was That Book of his entituled A Treatise of the Sabbath came not out till Michaelmas Anno 1635. though placed by our Author as then written Anno 1633. for which see fol. 144. Fuller In answer hereunto May the Reader be pleased to take notice of these particulars 1. The revived controversie Lords-Day lasted ten years bandied with books from 1628. till 1638. 2. I was loath to scatter my Book with it but resolved on one intire Narrative thereof 3. I fixed on the yeare 1633. therein to insert the same because the middle Number from the rising to the sinking of the difference then came to the very heat and height thereof 4. Hence my Narrative retreated some years back to 1628. when Bradborn began the difference 5. Hence also it sallied forth to the year 1635. when Bishop White 's book was set forth and beyond it 6. The date of the yeare 1633. stands still unmoveable on my Margin the whole Relation being for the reasons aforesaid entered under it So that nothing is offered to the Reader unjoynted in Time if I be but rightly understood Dr. Heylyn Next unto Mr. Prinne in the course of his Censure comes the Bishop of Liâ—coln the cause whereof we have in our Author who having left a blank fol. 156. for somewhat which he thinks not fit to make known to all gives some occasion to suspect that the matter was far worse on the Bishops side than perhaps it was And therefore to prevent all further misconstructions in this businesse I will lay down the story as I find it thus viz. The Bishop's purgation depending chiefly upon the testimony of one Prideon it happened that the February after one Elizabeth Hodson was delivered of a base child and laid to this Prideon The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such a load of filth and infamy conceived it would invalidate all his testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruine therefore he bestirs himself amain And though by order of the Justices at the publick Sessions at Lincoln Prideon was charged as the reputed father the Bishop by his two Agents Powel and Owen procured that Order to be suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses at length in May 10 Car. procured the child to be fathered upon one Boon and Prideon acquit Which lewd practises for the supportation of his favourite's credit cost the Bishop as he confest to Sir Iohn Munson and others twelve hundred pounds so much directly and by consequence much more Fuller I have concealed nothing herein of Moment the Blank being insignificant and the mere mistake of the Printer and expect no considerable addition from the Animadvertor having in my Book truly and clearly stated the Bishops Cause from the best Records I appeal to the unpartiall Perusers of what I wrote whether by this Note any thing of moment is added to the matter in hand except the naming of a light houswife which I conceived beneath my History the rest being truly by me related before Dr. Heylyn But to proceed the cause being brought unto a censure fol. 157. Secretary Windebank motioned to degrade him which saith he was lustily pronounced by a Knight and a Lay-man having no precedent for the same in former Ages But first it is not very certain that any such thing was moved by Sir Francis Windebank A manuscript of that daies proceedings I have often seen containing the Decree and Sentence with the substance of every Speech then made and amongst others that of Sir Francis Windebank in which I find no motion tending to a Degradation nor any other punishment inflicted on him than Fine Suspension and Imprisonment in which the residue of the Lords concurred as we find in our Author Fuller It is very certain he moved it and I avow it from honourable Eyes and Ears The Animadvertor misguides the reference of those my words having no precedent for the same in former Ages making them relate to the Bishop's Degradation whereof one precedent since the Reformation Unus homo nobis which indeed refer to the Knight's and Lay-man's first mentioning thereof which is unprecedented I am sure that such a person should FIRST make such a motion against a Bishop I confess at Bp. Midleton's Degradation some of the Lay-Privy-Counsellors were present but acted little therein so far from FIRST mentioning of it onely concurring with the Court the matter being chiefly managed by Arch-bishop Whitgift and some other Bishops and Deans the Commissioners as most proper
in our Author's History though the greatest falshood Tam facilis in mendaciis fides ut quicquid famae liceat fingere illi esset libenter audire in my Author's language But for the last he brings some proof he would have us think so at the least that is to say the words of one Bayly a Scot whom it concern'd to make him as odious as he could the better to comply with a Pamphlet called The intentions of the Army in which it was declared That the Scots entred England with a purpose to remove the Arch-bishop from the King and execute their vengeance on him What hand Dr. Couzens had in assisting of the work I am not able to say But sure I am that there was nothing was done in it by the Bishops of England but with the counsel and co-operation of their brethren in the Church of Scotland viz. the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews the Arch-bishop of Glasco the Bishops of Murray Ross Brechin and Dunblane as appears by the Book entituled Hidden works of darkness c. fol. 150 153 154 c. And this our Author must needs know but that he hath a mind to quarrell the Arch-bishop upon every turn as appears plainly 1. By his Narrative of the Designe in King Iames his time from the first undertaking of it by the Arch-bishop of St. Andrewes and the Bishop of Galloway then being whose Book corrected by that King with some additions expunctions and accommodations was sent back to Scotland 2. By that unsatisfiedness which he seems to have when the project was resum'd by King Charls Whether the Book by him sent into Scotland were the same which had passed the hands of King Iames or not which he expresseth in these words viz. In the Reigne of King Charls the project was resumed but whether the same Book or no God knoweth fol. 160. If so if God onely know whether it were the same or no how dares he tell us that it was not And if it was the same as it may be for ought he knoweth with what conscience can he charge the making of it upon Bishop Laud Besides as afterward he telleth us fol. 163 The Church of Scotland claimed not onely to be Independent and free as any Church in Christendom a Sister not a Daughter of England And consequently the Prelates of that Church had more reason to decline the receiving of a Liturgy impos'd on them or commended to them by the Primat of England for fear of acknowledging any subordination to him than to receive the same Liturgy here by Law establisht which they might very safely borrow from their Sister-Church without any such danger But howsoever it was the blame must fall on him who did least deserve it Fuller I will return to my words which gave the Animadvertor the first occasion of this long discourse Generally they excused the King in their writings but charged Arch-bishop Laud. I do not charge the Arch-bishop for compiling the Book but say The Scots did Nor do I say That what they charged on him is true but it is true that they did charge it on him Had I denyed it I had been a liar and seeing I affirmed no more the Animadvertor is a caviller It is observable that when our Chroniclers relate how Queen Anne Bollen was charged for Incontinency Margaret Countess of Salisbury for treasonable compliance with the Pope Henry Earl of Surrey for assuming the Arms of England Edward Duke of Somerset for designing the death of some Privy Counsellors Thomas Duke of Norfolk for aspiring by the match of the Queen of Scots to the English Crown Robert Earl of Essex for dangerous machinations against the person of Queen Elizabeth Thomas Earl of Strafford for endeavouring to subject England and Ireland to the King 's arbitrary Power That the Historians who barely report these Persons thus charged are not bound to make the charge good it is enough if they name their respective accusers as here I have named the Scots It is also observable that some of the Persons aforesaid though condemned and executed have since found such favour or justice rather with unpartiall Posterity that though they could not revive their persons they have restored their memories to their innocence And if the like shall be the hap of this Arch-bishop I shall rejoyce therein I mean if the Animadvertor's defence of him seems so clear as to out-shine the evidence so weighty as to out-poize all allegations which in printed Books are published against him In testimony whereof I return nothing in contradiction to what the Animadvertor hath written and it is questionable whether my desire that he may or distrust that he will not be believed be the greater Whatever the success be I forbear farther rejoynder To fight with a shaddow whether one's own or another's passeth for the proverbiall expression of a vain and useless act But seeing the dead are sometimes tearmed shaddows umbrae to fall foul on them without absolute necessity is an act not onely vain but wicked not onely useless but uncharitable And therefore no more hereof Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceedeth 167. Thus none seeing now foul weather in Scotland could expect it fair Sun-Shine in England In this I am as little of our Author's Opinion as in most things else The Sun in England might have shined with a brighter Beam if the Clouds which had been gathered together and threatned such foule Weather in Scotland had been dispersed and scattered by the Thunder of our English Ordnance The opportunity was well given and well taken also had it not been unhappily lost in the Prosecution Fuller Grant the Thunder of our English Ordnance had scattered the Scottish Clâ—uds yet by the confession of the Animadvertor there must first be foul weather in England before there could be such fair weather to follow it The Skyes are alwayes dark and lowring even whilst the Thunder is Engendering therein Military preparations in order to a Conquest of the Scotts must needs give our Nation great troubles and for the time un-Sunshine England which is enough to secure my Expression from just exception Dr. Heylyn The Scots were then weak unprovided of all Necessaries not above three thousand compleat Armes to be found amongst them The English on the other side making a formidable appearance gallantly Horst compleaty Armed and intermingled with the Choisest of the Nobility and Gentry in all the Nation Fuller I am much of the mind of the Animadvertor that there was a visible Disparity betwixt the two Armies and the Ods in the eye of flesh on the side of the English They were Gallantly Horst indeed whether in Reference to their Horses or Riders and the King pleasantly said It would make the Scots fight against them were it but to get their brave Cloaths Indeed the strength of the Scots consisted in their Reputation to be strong reported here by such as Friended them and the Scotch Lyon was not half so fierce as he was
that some two years since being informed by our friend Mr. Davenport that you took some exceptions at what I had written concerning you in my Church-History I returned you an Answer to this Effect That I would make you just reparation either in the next Edition of my History or in another Book which I was about to set forth Of the Worthies of England choosing therein the most proper and conspicuous place which might render it most visible to the Reader This last Book had since been printed had not the unhappy difference between Dr. Heylyn and me retarded it What I wrote concerning your Accusation in the House of Commons I transcribed out of the Manuscript journalls of that House As for your purgation in the House of Lords I knew not thereof which maketh such my omssion the more excusable I am now right glad that you did so clearly vindicate your innocence In my next Edition I will do you all possile right with improvement that my Pen can perform as also God Willing when I come to treat in my intended Book of the Cathedrall of Durham In the mean time joyning with Hundreds more of my Profession in thanks to you for your worthy Work on the Apocrypha and desiring the Continuation and increase of Gods blessing on your studies who do abide the Champion for our Religion in forraign parts know that amongst your many honourers you have none more affectionate than Your humble Servant Thomas Fuller To the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly placed in the front of a Book but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof If you have had the Leisure and Patience to peruse this Book you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed and I do as heartily wish as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee I must now accost thee in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell CONSULT CONSIDER and GIVE SENTENCE Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor please thine owne Conscience though thou displeasest us and adjudge in thy selfe where neither of Us where both of Us where one of Us which one of Us is in the right Onely this I will add for my Comfort and thy better Confidence in reading my Book that according to the received Rule in Law Exceptio firmat Regulam in non-Exceptis it followeth proportionably that Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis And if so by the Tacite Consent of my Adversary himselfe all other passages in my Book are allowed Sound and True save these few which fall under his reproof and how justly I submit my Cause to thy Censure and thy Person to Gods keeping remaining Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller Cranford Moate-House To my Loving Friend Doctor Peter Heylyn I Hope Sir that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us And now as Duellers when they are Both out of breath may stand still and Parley before they have a Second passe let us in cold Blood exchange a Word and mean time let us depose at least suspend our Animosities Death hath crept into both our Clay-Cottages through the Windows your Eyes being Bad mine not Good God mend them both And Sanctifie unto us these Monitors of Mortality and however it fareth with our Corporeall sight send our Souls that Collyrium and Heavenly Eye-salve mentioned in Scripture But indeed Sir I conceive our Time Pains and Parts may be better expended to Gods Glory and the Churches Good than in these needlesse Contentions Why should Peter fall out with Thomas both being Disciples to the same Lord and Master I assure you Sir whatever you conceive to the contrary I am Cordiall to the cause of the English Church and my Hoary Haâ—res will go down to the Grave in sorrow for her Sufferings You well remember the passage in Homer how wise Nestor bemoaned the unhappy difference betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O gods how great the grief of Greece the while And Priams selfe and Sons do sweetly smile Yea all the Trojan party swell with Laughter That Greeks with Greeks fall out and fight to Slaughter Let me therefore tender unto you an Expedient in Tendency to our mutuall Agreement You know full well Sir how in Heraldry two Lioncells Rampant endorsed are said to be the Embleme of two Valiant Men keeping appointment and meeting in the Field but either forbidden fight by their Prince or departing on Tearms of Equallity agreed betwixt themselves Whereupon turning Back to Back neither Conquerors nor Conquered they depart the Field severall wayes their Stout Stomacks not suffering them both to go the same way left it be accounted an Iâ—jury one to precede the other In like manner I know you disdain to allow me your Equall in this Controversie betwixt us and I will not allow you my Superiour To prevent future Troâ—ble let it be a Drawn Battle and let both of us abound in our owne sense severally perswaded in the Truth of what we have written Thus parting and going out Back to Back here to cut off all Contest about Precedency I hope we shall meet in Heaven Face to Face hereafter In Order whereunto God Willing I will give you a meeting when and where you shall be pleased to appoint that we who have Tilted Pens may shake Hands together St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou mightest receive him for ever To avoid exceptions you shall be the good Philemon I the fugitive Onesimus Wâ—o knoweth but that God in his providence permitted yea ordered this difference to happen betwixt us not onely to occasion a reconciliation but to consolidate a mutuall friendship betwixt us during our Lives and that the surviver in Gods pleasure onely to appoint may make favourable and respectfull mention of him who goeth first to his grave The desire of him who remaines SIR A Lover of your Parts and an Honourer of your Person THO. FULLER FINIS To Dr. Cornelius Burges SIR I could have wished that in your book entituled a Case concerning the buying of Bishops Lands with the lawfullnesse thereof c. you had forborn this following expression against me Part. 1. pag. 7. As that flashy jeering Author of the late published History of the Church upon hear-say onely and out of Resolution calumniari fortiter hath falsely reported him Let us go back to the occasion of these words When Dr. Hacket May the 11th 1641. made a Speech in behalfe of the Deans and Chapters of England for the preventing of the alienation of their Lands and revenues you returned an Answer thereunto and about the conclusive Result thereof is our present contest Dr. Burges You say you onely concluded those things unalienable from the Church
THE APPEAL OF Iniured Innocence UNTO The RELIGIOUS LEARNED and INGENUOUS READER In a CONTROVERSIE betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. PETER HEYLYN AND The Author THOMAS FULLER 1 King 5.7 See how he seeketh a Quarrel against me Terent. in Eunucho Responsum non dictum est quia laesit prior LONDON Printed by W. Godbid and are to be sold by Iohn Williams at the Crowne in St. Paul's Church-yard M. DC LIX To the Right Honorable GEORGE BERKELEY L. Berkeley Moubray Segrave and Bruce my most Bountiful and most Exemplary Patron SIR MY Church-History was so far from prostituting her Self to Mercenary Embraces She did not at all Espouse any Particular Interest but kept her self a Virgin However a Dragon is risen up with much Fiercenesse and fury threatning this my Virgins destruction Your Name is GEORGE and for you it is as easie as Honourable to protect Her from violence If any Material Falshood or Forgery be found in my Book let LIAR be branded in my face But oh suffer not my Injured Innocence to be over-born in such things which I have truly clearly and warily written Thus shall you encourage Me leaving off such Controversal deviations from my Calling to PREACH and to perform in my Ministerial function somewhat worthy of the Honour to be Your Lordships most oblieged Servant and Chaplain THOMAS FULLER Cranford Moat-house March the 21 th THE APPEAL OF INJUR'D INNOCENCE CHAP. I. That it is impossible for the Pen of any Historians writing in as our's a divided Age to please all Parties and how easie it is to Cavil at any Author SUch as lived after the Flood and before the Confusion of Tongues were happy in this particular that they did Hear to Understand and Speak to be Understood with all persons in their Generation Not such their Felicity who lived after the Confusion of Languages at the Tower of Babel when the Eloquence of the Best was but Barbarisme to all save a few Folk of his owne Familie Happy those English Historians who wrote some Sixty years since before our Civil Distempers were born or conceived at leastwise before there were House-burnings though some Heart-burnings amongst us I mean before Mens latent Animosities broke out into open Hostility seeing then there was a generall right understanding betwixt all of the Nation But alass Such as wrote in or since our Civil Wars are seldome apprehended truely and candidly save of such of their owne perswasion whilest others doe not or what is worse will not understand them aright And no wonder if Speeches be not rendred according to the true intent of the Speaker when Prejudice is the Interpreter thereof This I foresaw when I entred upon my Church-History but comforted my self with the counsel of Erasmus Si non possis placere Omnibus place to Optimis If thou canst not please all please the best In order whereunto I took up to my self this Resolution to Stere my course betwixt the two Rocks of Adulation and Irritation though it seems I have run upon both if the Animadvertor may be beleeved whereof hereafter As it is impossible in distracted Times to please all so is it easie for any at any time to Cavil at the best Performance A Pigmey is Giant enough for this purpose Now Cavils may be reduced to these two heads Cavils Without Cause Without Measure Causeless Cavils are such as the Caviller himself doth create without any Ground for the same such find a Knot in a Bulrush because they themselves before had ty'd it therein and may be compared to Beggers who breed Vermine in their owne bodies and then blow them on the cloaths of others Cavils without measure are when the anger and bitterness of the Caviller exceedeth due proportion and the demerit of the Fault as when he maketh Memorie to be Iudgement-mistakes Casual to be Voluntary Errors the Printers to be the Authors faults And then brags every Foil to be a Fall and Triumpheth at the Rout of a small Party as at the Defeat of the whole Army This Distinction is here premised whereof hereafter we shall make use as we see just occasion CHAP. II. Why the Author desired and hoped never to come under the Pen of the Animadvertor in a Controversal Difference IT was ever my Desire â—nd Care if it were possible not to fall under the Pen of the Animadvertor having several reasons thereof to my self which now I publickly profess 1. I knew him a Man of able Parts and Learning God sanctifie both to his Glory and the Churches Good 2. Of an Eager spirit with him of whom it was said Quicquid voluit valde voluit 3. Of a Tart and Smart Style endevouring to down with all which stood betwixt him and his Opinion 4. Not over Dutiful in his Language to the Fathers of the Church what then may Children expect from him if contrary in Judgment to him Lastly and chiefly One the Edge of whose keenness is not taken off by the Death of his Adversary witness his writing against the Archbishops of York and Armagh The Fable tells us that the Tanner was the Worst of all Masters to his Cattle as who would not onely load them soundly whilest living but Tan their Hides when dead and none could blame one if unwilling to exasperate such a Pen which if surviving would prosecute his Adversary into his Grave The premises made me though not servilely fearful which I praise God I am not of any Writer yet generally cautious not to give him any Personal provocation knowing that though Both our Pens were Long the World was Wide enough for them without Crossing each other As I desired so I partly hoped that my Church-History would escape the Animadvertor First because a Gentleman came to me sent from him as I supposed informing me That had not Dr. Heylin been visited with blindness he had been upon my bones before Then I desired him to return this Answer That as I was sorry for the Sad Cause the Doctors Blindness I was glad of the Ioyful Effect my owne Quiet Nor hearing any more for many moneths after I conceived my self secure from any wind in that corner It increased my Confidence because I conceived Dr. Heylin neither out of Charity or Policy would write against one who had been his Fellow-Servant to and Sufferer for the same Lord and Master King Charles for whose Cause I lost none of the worst Livings and one of the best Prebends in England Onely thus happy I was in my very unhappiness to leave what was taken away from the rest of my Brethren In a word seeing no Birds or Beasts of Prey except Sharp-set indeed will feed on his own Kind I concluded Dr. Heylin would not write against me who conceived my self to be One of his owne Party But it seems I reckoned without my Host and now am call'd to a Rear-account I cannot say with Iob The thing that I feared but The thing that I feared not is faln upon me
no more obnoxious to this Objection than other Authors who set for t New Editions Secondly I hope my Alterations shall not be so many or great as to disguise the second from the first Edition Lastly I will take order God willing for the Printing of a peice of Paper lesse then a Leaf in my second Impression being the Index of Alteration so that the Owners of the First may if so pleased in less then an Hour with their Pens conform their Books to the new Edition which though a little less Beautifull to the Eye will be no less Beneficial to the Users thereof Here let me humbly tender to the Readers Consideration that my HOLY WARRE though for some Design of the Stationer sticking still in the Title Page at the third Edition as some unmarried Maids will never be more then eighteen yet hath it oftner passed the Press as hath my HOLY STATE MEDITATIONS c. and yet never did I alter Line or Word in any new Impression I speak not this by way of Attribution to my Self as if my Books came for that first with more Perfection then other Mens but with Insinuation to the Reader that ti is but equall that I who have been no Common Begger in this Kind yea never before made use of a second Edition may now have the Benefit thereof allowed me especially in a Subject of such Length Latitude Difficulty Variety and Multiplicity of Matter CHAP. VIII The Fifth General Answer That it is no shame for any Man to confess when convinced thereof and amend an Error in his Iudgement THe Knowledge of our Saviour as God may be compared to the Sun all perfect and compleat at once without any accession or addition thereunto whilst his Knowledge as Man like the Waxing Moon was capable of Increase and was though not subject to the least Error receptive of clearer Information and Iesus increased in Wisdome yea it is expresly said yet learned he Obedience by the thing which he suffered Not such the Knowledge of the best and wisest Man which besides a Capability of more Instruction is always attended with an obnoxiousnesse to many mistakes seeing here wee know in part and easy it is for any Man to come on the Blinde Side of another as being better versed and skilled in such particular matters When therefore I find my self convinced in my Judgement of an Error in my Church-History by perusing the Notes of the Animadvertor I will fairly and freely confesse and amend it And I conceive it is no shame at all for a Childe to write a few Lines of Retractation after so good a Father hath set him so fair a Copy thereof In such a case let not the Animadvertor give me any Blowes where I conceive that my own Blush is a sufficient Penance for the same and let him not immoderately insult on such occasions seeing my Iudgement-Faults will be found neither in number nor Nature such as He hath suggested Covetous Euclio in the Comedy complained that his Servant Intromisit Sexentos Coquos had let in six hundred Cooks when they wanted five hundred ninety eight of that number being but two Anthrax and Congrio truely told and though the Animadvertor frequently complaineth that I run into many Errors run into many Errors yet on examination many of those Errors will prove Truths and such as remain Errors will not prove many Besides the Animadvertor is concerned to be civill to me in this Kind seeing in this particular Veniam petimus dabimusque vicissim A mutuall Bargain we may make Pardon to give and Pardon take If I were minded to retaliate and to show that Humanum est errare I could instance in many mistakes in the last Edition of his Geography Some of the best Birth and Brains in our Nation and Travalers in foreign parts as far as India it self proferred me on their accord to detect in several Countryes unexcusable Errors confuted by their ocular discovery I heartily thanked them for that which I refused to accept and did return First that the Book had atchieved a generall Repute and not undeservedly Secondly that it was very usefull and I my Self had reaped Benefit thereby Thirdly that it would seem in me like to Revenge in this Juncture of Time when the Doctor was disadvantaged by some Infirmity Lastly that others might be detremented thereby Yea if we but look into his SHORT VIEW of the Life and Reign of King CHARLES some Faults occur therein which God willing I will calmly discover in our Answer to these Animadversions not with intent to Cloud his Credit but Clear my own CHAP. IX The Sixth General Answer That Prelial Mistakes in Defiance of all Care will escape in the best Corrected Book THe most accurate Book that ever came forth into Light had some Mistakes of the Presse therein Indeed I have heard of Robert Stephen that he offered a great Summe of Money equivalent perchance to five Pounds of our English Coin to such who would discover any Erratum in his Folio Greek Testament dedicated to King Francis the first But sure I am that some of our English Bibles which may be presumed set forth with the best Care printed at London have their Errats and therefore Prelial Faults being a catching Disease no wonder if my Book as well or rather as ill as others be subject to the same Here it will be objected that there is a known and sure Receipt for the Cure of this Disease viz. the Listing of such Faults as have escaped either in the Beginning or End of the Book that so the Reader may if he please amend if otherwise avoid them Such an Index Erratorum or Catalogue of Mistakes is in some sort a STOOL OF REPENTANCE wherein Offenders find their lost Innocence and such faults thus confessed are never charged either on the Author's or Printer's Account It is answered that although such a List of Faults generally followeth as the Impedimentum or Baggage in the Rere of a Book yet seldome or never is it adequate to all the Errata's which are committed therein For first all committed are not discovered neither by the Corrector nor the Author himself who perusing his own Book in overlooking the faults therein Overlooks them indeed and following the conduct of his own fancy wherein He intended all to be right readeth the words in his Book rather as they should be than as they are printed Secondly all faults which are discovered are not confessed Such as the Printer esteemeth small He leaveth to be amended by the direction of the Sense and discretion of the Reader according to the common Speech that the Reader ought to be better than his Book In my Book the Index of Errata's amounts not to above forty a very small number in proportion of so voluminous a Work which with Credit might crave the allowance of twice as many more thereunto The Animadvertor in these his Notes maketh great advantage of some
of these un-confessed-Faults and I sometimes plead the mistake of the Press for my Answer though seldome save when some similitude of form in the mistaken letter rendreth it probable for a Prelial Error CHAP. X. The Seventh and last General Answer That an Author charging his Margin with his Author is thereby Himself discharged HIstorians who write of things done at distance many miles from their dwellings and more years before their Births must either feign them in their owne Brains or fetch them from other credible Authors I say credible such as carry worth and weight with them Substantial Persons Subsidie men as I may say in Truths Book otherwise for some Pamphlets and all Pasquils I behold them as so many Knights of the Post even of no Reputation Now for the more credit of what is written and better assurance of the Reader it is very expedient that the Author alledged be fully and fairly quoted in the Margin with the Tome Book Chapter Leaf Page and Columne sometimes seldome descending so low as the Line where the thing quoted is expressed and this done the Author is free from fault which citeth it though He may be faulty who is cited if delivering a falshood Indeed if one become bound as Surety for another he engageth Himself to make good the Debt in the Default of Principal But if he onely be Bail for his Appearance and accordingly produceth his Person in Publick Court He ought to be discharged without farther trouble Semblably if one not onely cites but commends the words of an Authour then He undertakes for him adopts his words to be his owne becomes his Pledge and consequently is bound to justifie and maintain the truth of what he hath quoted But if he barely alledgeth his words without any closing with them in his Judgement he is onely bound for that Author's appearance Understand me to justifie that such words are exactly extant in manner and form in the place alledged easy to be found by any who will follow the Marginal direction This I reserve for my Eighth and last Answer when taxed by the Animadvertor for such things for which I have presented my Author in the Margin In such cases I conceive I should be discharged and if any Fees at all be to be paid I hope the Courteous Reader on my request will remit them and dismiss me without more molestation CHAP. XI That many of the Animadvertors Notes are onely Additional not Opposite to what I have written And that all things omitted in an History are not Defects WHo so beholdeth the Several places in my Book noted on by the Animadvertor hath cause at the first Blush to conclude my Church-History very Erroneous and full of Faults out of which so bigg a Bundle of Mistakes have been collected but upon serious Perusal of these Notes it will appear that a third part of them at the least are meerly Additional not opposite to what I have written so that they render my Book not for Truth the lesse but his for Bulk the greater Herein he seemeth like unto those Builders who either wanting Materials to erect an intire house or fearing so frail and feeble a Fabrick will not stand by it self run it along the side-walls of another house whereby they not onely save Timber but gain strength to their New Edifice The Animadvertor had a Mind to communicate some new Notions he had to the World but he found them not many and weighty enough to fill a just Book for Sale whereupon he resolves to range his Notions against my Church-History that so partly carping thereat and partly adding thereto he might betwixt both make up a Book Competent for Sale Hence it is that sometimes not liking my Language as not proper and expressive enough he substituted his owne with little or no variation of Matter and sometimes adds new Passages some whereof I could formerly have inserted but because I perceived my Book as the Reader is sensible by the price thereof grown already to too great a Volume When Additional Notes frequently occur I conceive my self not obliged in the least degree to return an Answer thereunto as being rather besides than against what I have written However if I have left out any thing it would have been suspected I had omitted that which most had made against me to prevent which Jealousie such Additional Notes are also here verbatim represented To such as object that the Animadvertor's Additions are Suppletory of the Defects in my Church-History I answer that a Defect properly is Absentia debiti adesse the Absence of what ought to be there so that a thing is maimed or lame without it But Additions to an History are reducible to these two Heads viz. either such as they Must without Imperfection be added May without Impertinency be added Few if any of the former some of the latter kind are found in the Animadvertor's Additory Notes And let me tell Him that if He writes Books against all who have written Books and have not written all which may be said of their Subject he may even write against all who have ever written Books and then He will have work enough Let us go no farther then to his own Geophraphy being sure he is too Iudicious to be so conceited of his own pains as to think he hath inserted all that may be said of so large a Subject The Story is well known of Aesop's Master who buying two Servants together in the Market-place demanded of one of them what he could doe He answered that he would doe all things doe all things Then the other Aesop himself being askt what he could doe answered He could doe nothing His Master seeming angry to keep so unprofitable a Servant How can I returned Aesop doe any thing when my Fellow-servant will doe all and leave me nothing to doe If Dr. Heylin hath done all things in his Geography he hath given a Writ of Ease for ever to Posterity who may Despair to merit more of that matter All who hereafter shall write a new Book of Geography must also find out a new World with Columbus as anticipated by the Doctor having formerly completed all on that Subject I presume not to say that I have in my Church-History done all things having written many and most material Passages leaving the rest to others But this I say that all things left out in a History are not wanting neither are all things wanting Defects if not essential thereunto As for some of the Animadvertors added Notes they are no more needful or useful than a sixth finger to a mans Hand as God willing in due time shall appear CHAP. XII That the Author Designed unto himself no Party-pleasing in Writing his Church-History PArtiality is constantly charged on me by the Animadvertor and once with a witness as followeth pag. 257. We see by this as by like Passages which way our Author's Bowle is BY ASSED how constantly he declares himself in Favour of
those who have either Separated from the Church or appeared against it I return to prosecute his Metaphor that I have used as UPRIGHT BOWLES as ever any that enter the Alley of History since our Civil Dissentions I do freely declare my self that I in VVriting my Book am for the Church of England as it stood established by Law the Creed being the Contracted Articles and the 39. Articles the Expanded Creed of her Doctrine as the Canons of her Discipline And still I prise her Favour highest though for the present it be least worth as little able to protect and less to prefer any that are faithfull to her Interest As for pleasing of Parties I never Designed or Endevoured it There were a kind of Philosophers called ELECTICI which were of none yet of all Sects and who would not engage in gross in the Opinions of any Philosophers but did pick and choose here and there what they found Consonant to Truth either amongst the Stoicks Peripateticks Academicks or misinterpreted Epicures receiving that and rejecting the rest such my Project to commend in all Parties what I find praise-worthy and condemne the rest on which Account some Fleer some Frown none Smile upon me First for the Papists though I malice not their Persons and have a Pity as God I hope hath a Mercy for many amongst them yet I do as occasion is offered dislike their Errors whereby I have incurred and according to their principles deserved their Displeasure The old Non-conformists being the same with the modern Presbuterians but depressed and under as the modern Presbuterians are the old Non-conformists but vertical and in Authority do though the Animadvertor twiâ—teth me constantly to Advocate for them take great and general exception at me and it is not long since in a Meeting of the most Eminent amongst them I was told that I put too much Gall into my Inck against them The Independent being the Benjamin of Parties and his Mess I assure you is none of the least taxeth me for too much fieriness as the Animadvertor in his Expression lately cited chargeth me for too much Favour unto them Thomas Lord Coventry when coming from the Chancery to sit down at Dinner was wont to say Surely to day I have dealt equally for I have displeased both sides I hope that I have his Happiness for I am sure I have his Unhappiness that having disobliged all Parties I have written the very Truth Thus I can onely privately comfort my self in my owne Innocence and hope that when my Head is laid low what seems too sweet too bitter too salt too fresh to the present divided Age will be adjudged well tasted and seasoned to the Palate of Unpartial Posterity CHAP. XIII What Good the Animadvertor might but would not doe and what Good by Gods goodness he Herein hath done unto the Author WHen the Animadvertor had perused my Book marking some but making moe faults therein it was in his Power to have done me a Pleasure the greatest he could give or I receive viz. not to paradigmatize me but by Letter in an amicable way to impart my Mistakes unto me that I might amend them in my next Edition Say not He owed me no such thing who would have beheld it not as a Debt paid unto but Alms bestowed upon me I was not wholly without hope hereof having found such favour from some worthy Friends Had the Animadvertor done the like How had he obliged me As the Society of Peter-house do preserve the Pictures of their Benefactors in their Parlour so would I have erected unto him a Monument of Gratitude in my Heart besides my publick acknowledgement of the courtesie But it seems He intended not my Information but Defamation However he hath done to me a great good turn for which because not intended I will thank God viz. He by his causeless Carping hath allayed in me the delight in Writing of Histories seeing nothing can be so unpartially and inoffensively written but some will carp thereat Mothers minding to wean their Children use to put Soot Wormwood or Mustard on the Nibbles of their Breasts God foresaw I might Suck to a Surfet in Writing Histories which hath been a Thief in the Lamp of my Life wasting much Oyle thereof My Head and Hand had robb'd my Heart in such delightful Studdies Wherefore he raised the bitter Pen of the Animadvertor to wean me from such Digressions from my Vocation I now experimentally find the Truth of * Solomon's words of making many Books there is no End Not but that all perfect Books I mean perfect in sheets otherwise none save Scripture perfect have Finis in the Close thereof or that any Author is so irrational but He propounds an End to himself before he begins it but that in making of many Books there is no end that is the Writers of them seldome or never do attain that End which they propound to themselves especially if Squinting at sinister Ends as who is not flesh and blood Such as project wealth to themselves are commonly by unwise managing or casual miscarriage impaired thereby in their Estates Others who designed to themselves with the builders of Babel to get them a Name commonly meet with shame and disgrace Or else when their Books are ended yet they are not ended because though never so cautiously written some Antagonists will take up the Bucklers against them so that they must begin again after they have ended or sink in their credits to write in their own vindication which is my case enough to take off my edge formerly too keen in making multiplicity of Books I confess I have yet one History ready for the Press which I hope will be for Gods Glory and Honour of our Nation This new-built Ship is now on the Stocks ready to be lanched and being a Vessel of great Burden God send me some good Adventurers to bear part of the Expence This done I will never meddle more with making any Books of this Nature It is a provident way before Writing leave us to leave of Writing and the rather because Scribling is the Frequentative thereof If therefore my Petitioning and Optative Amen shall meet with Gods Commissioning and Imperative Amen I will hereafter totally attend the Concernments of my Calling and what directly and immediately shall tend to the advance of Devotion in my Self and in Others as preparatory to my Dissolution out of this state of Mortality CHAP. XIV That the Author is unjustly charged by the Animadvertor for being agreeable to the Times And how far forth such Agreeableness is consistent with Christian Prudence THe Animadvertor is pleased to Charge me to be a great Temporizer and agreeable to the Times In Order to my Defence herein let me premise this Distinction that there is a Sinful and Sinless Agreeableness with the Times be they never so bad It is a Sinful Agreeableness when People for their private profit or safety or both are resolved in
such Obligation of particular respect to Dr Heylyn on the same account I could wish he had used a more cleanly Metaphor and forborn the phrase of Fluxing Such a cure appears not in Hippocrates as being a modern remedy for a modern malady However would I were but half so holy as he was of whom it was said An evill disease say they and they did but say it cleaveth fast unto him I will use no harsher Metaphor in relation of my answers to my two Antagonists than only That men may meddle with a Mallow with naked hands but need to put on their Hedging-gloves when to deal with a Thorn or Nettle Onely here I shall presume to request the Reader to take especial notice of those remarkable words of the Animadvertor tell them of their Errors in a MODEST WAY and keep them against a rainy-day I mean such a seasonable Time as we may make use thereof Dr. Heylyn But so it happeneth many times that some men are more impatient of the Cure then sensible of their Diseases and that in stead of giving thanks to to the Physitian for the great pains he took about them they pay him with nothing but displeasures Which being the worst that can befall me I am armed against it Fuller But so it happeneth many times that as in this case there may be plus periculi à Medico quà m à Morbo More danger of the Physitian than of the Disease A good belief and conceit of the Physitian is more than half a Cure and I confess I have none of the Animadvertor whom I behold but as an adventurous Emperick having seen and marked his practise on other Patients rather disgraceing their Persons than amending their Errors Give me a Physitian of my own Election not of his Intrusion especially when he usually wrappeth up his best Receipts in Poysoned Papers Dr. Heylyn If by the hazard of my Peace I shall procure this benefit to the present and succeeding times that men may prove more careful of what they write and not obtrude upon the Reader either through Ignorance inadvertency or somewhat worse such and so many falsities mistakes and errors as have been lately put upon him in some modern Histories It is that I aimed at and having gained that point I have gained my purpose Fuller But what if on the contrary which is more probable it commeth to pass that some having commendable Inclinations and proportionable Qualifications to write Histories perceiving their Books Damnatos antequam natos baned before born by the prejudice which this Animadvertor bears their Parents who is ready as soon as their Books shall peep out of the Press to assault them with causless cavills What I say if such persons on the tender resentment of the premises shall quit all their Intentions to write the Animadvertor can little comâ—ort himself and others will less commend him for this his over-activity so destructive to the publick Good But there are some who when they can no longer bewitch with their Beauty endevour to doe it with their Malice thereby to render themselves in any sort considerable to be feared when they are no more loved All I will add is this He who already having one of his feet in the Grave will spurn his brother with the other will find few to pitty him if falling all along for his pains Dr. Heylyn Non Partis Studiis agimur sed Sumpsimus Arma Consiliis Inimica tuis Ignavia fallax Peter Heylyn Fuller This Distick whereof the Animadvertor by the immediate subscription of his name thereunto may to some seem the Author is frequently cited by Mr. Selden and may thus be Englished We serve no Sides nor Parties seek to please But do defie Sloth thy deceiving Ease However I humbly conceive that what faults soever I am guilty of the sin of Sloth cannot justly especially in my Church-History be laid to my charge 1. All passages of Church-concernment from the Reign of Henry the third untill King Henry the sixth I got exactly written and attested out of the Records in the Tower 2. The most material transactions in all Convocations since the Reformation till the time of Queen Elizabeth save that sometimes the Journals be very defective which was no fault of mine I transcribed out of the Registers of Canterbury 3. I have by much labour procured many Letters and other Rarities which formerly never did see the light out of the Library of Sir Thomas Cotton and others 4. The learned Mr. Selden on his own desire honoured my first four Centuries with reading and returned them unto me some weeks after without any considerable alterations 5. The best Antiquaries of England amongst whom the Arch-Bishop of Armagh it being not then my happiness to be known to the Learned and religious Sir R. Twisden I consulted with These now I forbear to name lest I remove and derive the Animadvertors anger on them from my self who am though not the most able the best prepared to endure his displeasure Give me leave to add that a greater volume of general Church-Historie might be made with less time pains and cost for in the making thereof I had Straw provided me to burn my Brick I mean could find what I needed in printed Books Whereas in this Brittish Church-History I must as well as I could provide my own Straw and my pains have been scattered all over the Land by riding writing going sending chiding begging praying and sometimes paying too to procure manuscript materials These particulars seriously considered I hope it will appear that the Animadvertor unjustly chargeth Sloth on my account and Tyrannically crieth out with Pharoah Ye are idle Idle are you Yea I hope I may alter the property of the Animadvertors Distick and turn his Sword into my Shield after this manner Non Partis Studiis agimur sed sumpsimus arma Consiliis peramica tuis Industria Doctrix Thomas Fuller An ANSWER TO Dr. Heylyn's Necessary INTRODUCTION c. Dr. Heylyn INtending some short Animadversions on the Church-History of Brittain for Vindication of the Truth the Church and the injured Clergy I have thought good to prepare the way unto them by a plain but necessary Introduction touching the Quality and Nature of the Book which I have in hand Fuller Intending God willing to return a true clear and short Answer to the Introduction I conceived it requisite to premise these few lines following The Animadvertor like a Cunning Market-man hath put his best Corn in the top of his Sack to invite Chapmen to buy it His Preface hath a Decoction of his whole Book which was advisedly done by him hoping that those might read his Preface whom he suspected would never peruse his Book Reader As I am loath any thing in his Book should not be once Answered so be not offended if to avoid repetition I am loath it should be twice answered Each particular in the Preface will recurre in the body of the Book where by Gods
assistance no emphatical word nor syllable shall pass without its respective reply Nor hath the Reader any cause to suspect that by such shifting I intend any Evasion by pleading in the Preface that I will answer objections in the Body of my Book and alledging in the Body of my Book that I have answered them in the Preface For I have to do with the Animadvertor so cunning and so exacting a Merchant that it is impossible for one indebted unto him to escape without full payment by changing the place of his habitation However the Animadvertor hath dealt severely to say no worse with me who to render me the more culpable and my Book of the less credit hath represented all my faults in a Duplicating Glass And whereas the Best of Beings non bis judicat in id ipsum doth not punish the same faults twice he hath twice taxed every supposed mistake in my History once in his Preface and again in the Body of his Book Dr. Heylyn Concerning which the Reader is to understand that in the Year 1642. Mr. Fuller publisht his Book called The Holy State in the Preface whereof he letâ— us know that he should count it freedom to serve two Apprâ—ntiships God spinning out the 〈◊〉 thread of his life so long in writing the Ecclesiastical History from Christâ— time to our daies And so much time it seems he had spent upon it excepting some 〈◊〉 for recreation in the Holy Land before he had finisht and expos'd it to pubâ—â—ck view the Book not comming out untill the year 1655. whether agreeable to his promise and such a tedious expectâ—tion we are now to see Fuller My words are by the Animadvertor given-in deâ—ectively and as to me disadvantageously this â—assage which ought to have been inserted immediatly preceding my Promise If I may be so happy as to see these gloomy dayes disclouded with the beams of Gods mercy I appeal to the Conscience of the Animadvertor himself whâ—ther in his Soul he conceiveth these days disclouded or no. Gloomy they were when I wâ—ote those words before any war rained in the Land and since such bloody showers have ended they continue louring gloomy and dark unto this day My promise therfore being thus but Conditional and the condition on which it was grounded not as yet performed I have no neâ—d Liberare fidem to free my Faith which was never bound though I had ever since utterly quitted all thoughts of writing any Church-History For the first five years during our actual Civill Wars I had little list or leasure to write fearing to be made an History and shifting daily for my safety All that time I could not live to study who did onely study to live So soon as Gods goodness gave me a fixed habitation I composed my Land of Canaan or Pisgah-Sight This though I confess it be no part of Church-Building yet it is the clearing of the floore or Foundation thereof by presenting the performances of Christ and his Apostles in Palestine I perceive the Animadvertor hath a months mind to give me a Jeere for my fallying into the Holy-Land which I can bear the better seeing by Gods goodness that my Book hath met with generall reception likely to live when I am dead so that friends of quality solicite me to teach it the Latine-Language Dr. Heylyn For first the Reader might expect by the former passage that he designed the Generall History of the Church from the first preaching of Christ and the calling of the twelve Apostles to the times we live in whereas he hath restrained himself to the Church of Brittain which he conceives to be so far from being founded in the time of Christ that he is loth to give it the Antiquity of being the work of any of the Apostles of any of the Seventy Disciples or finally of any Apostolicall Spirit of those eldest times Fuller Charity begins but doth not end at home The same Method was embraced in my Church-History It began with our own Domestick affairs to confute that accusation commonly charged on Englishmen that they are very knowing in forrain parts but ignorant in their own Country I intended God willing to have proceeded to forrain Churches but I am discouraged by the causless caviling at what I have written already My Church-History beginneth for point of Time Indeterminately before the Birth of Christ lapping in or folding over part of Paganisme and presenteth the dolefull condition of the Britons whilest yet unconverted and grievious Idolaters Determinately my History begins Anno Dom. 37. which is but four years after Christs Passion and that is very early I assure you Christianity in this Island being a Timely riser to be up so soon and dressing it Self whilest as yet and many years after most Countreys were fast asleep in Pugan Impiety I deny not but that Apostolical men were the first founders of Religion in our Land But as for such Apostles St. Peter St. Paul c. who without probability of Truth and against proportion of Time are by some Authors obtruded on us those I do reject I hope without the least â—ault rendring my reasons for the same Dr. Heylyn And secondly Though he entitle it by the name of the Church-History of Brittain yet he pursues not his Design agreeable to that Title neither there being little said of the affairs of the Church of Scotland which certainly makes up a considerable part of the Isle of Brittain and less if any thing at all of the Church of Ireland which anciently past in the account of a Brittish-Island Fuller I will render the Reader a true account why I entitled my Book The Church-History of Brittain First the Church-History of England I might not call it the five first Centuries therein belonging wholly to the Brittains before the Name and Notion of England was ever heard of in any Author Secondly The Church-History of Great-Brittain I did not call it for fear of bringing in Scotland within the Latitude thereof a compass too large for my weak Endeavours Thirdly The Church-History of Brittain I did and might call it in a double respect tam à parte Majore quà m meliore both from the bigger and better the fairer and fruitfuller part of Brittain the Ecclesiastical affairs whereof were therein contained Yea the Animadvertor knows full well that the South of this Island by way of Eminence is so called To give one Instance of many from the Title-page of a passage of State Nobilissima disceptatio super Dignitate magnitudine Regnorum Britannici Et Gallici habita ab utriusque Oratoribus Legatis in Concilio Constantiensi Lovanii anno 1517. Typis excusa The most noble Dispute about the Dignity and greatness of the Kingdomes of Brittain and France betwixt the Embassadors and Legates of both Sides in the Councell of Constance Anno 1517. printed at Lovaine Here the contest only was betwixt the Crowns of England here termed Brittain and France Scotland not at all
new peice of cloth must be more unfashionable Besides that many of these old ends are so light and ludicrous so little pertinent to the business which he has in hand that they serve only to make sport for Children ut pueris placeas Declamatio fias and for nothing else Fuller Had the Animadvertor come with a good stomach such larding had been no bad Cookery Certain I am that a Comment admitteth less latitude in this kind than a Church-History Certain I am also that a Comment on the Creed is allowed less Liberty then other Comments Now the Animadvertor hath be scattered his every where with Verses and Translations It consisteth not with my Charity to miscall it a Creed-Romance accounting it a sin so to decry or disparage his usefull endevours The best way to discover the deformity of my Fabrick is for the Animadvertor to erect a more beautifull Building hard by it that so his rare and regular may shame my rude peece of Architecture What if such mixtures make the Garment which also I utterly deny to be less in the fashion the fondling of Fancy I made it not for Sight but Service that it might be strong and warm to the Wearers thereof I stand on my justification that no such light or ludicrous Verses are to be found in my Book which render it to just exception But no wonder if the Bel clinketh even as the prejudic'd Hearer thinketh thereof Dr. Heylyn This leads me to the next impertinency his raking into the Chanel of old Popish Legends writ in the darker times of Superstition but written with an honest zeal and a good intention as well to raise the Reader to the admiration of the person of whom they write as to the emulation of his virtues But being mixt with some Monkish dotages the most learned and ingenious men in the Church of Rome have now laid them by and it had been very well if our Author had done so to but that there must be something of entertainment for the gentle Reader and to inflame the reckoning which he pays not for Fuller I have not raked into the Kennel of old Popish Legends who took the clearest water in this kind out of those Rivers which run at this day in highest Reputation with the Romanists I never cited any Legend but either out of Harpsfield who wrote in the last Generation and was as Ingenuous as any of his Perswasion or else out of Hierom Porter his Flores Sanctorum who wrot some forty years and in high esteem with the Papists at this day as appears by the dear price thereof I confess I have instanced taking ten perchance out of ten thousand in the grossest of them that is the fairest Monster which is most Deformed partly to shew what a Spirit of Delusion acted in that Age partly to raise our Gratitude to God seeing such Lying vanities are now ridiculous even to children I believe not the Animadvertor when saying that the most learned and Ingenious of Rome have laid them aside seeing Cornelius à lapide weaveth them in all along his comments and K. Iames did justly complain that Bellarmine himself did mar his pretty Books of Devotion with such Legendary mixtures Dr. Heylyn But above all things recommend me to his Merry Tales and scraps of Trencherjests frequently interlaced in all parts of the History which if abstracted from the rest and put into a Book by themselves might very well be serv'd up for a second course to the Banquet of Iests a Supplement to the old Book entituled Wits Fits and Fancies or an additional Century to the old Hundred Merry Tales so long since extant But standing as they do they neither do become the gravity of a Church-Historian nor are consistent with the nature of a sober argument Fuller The Animadvertor should have rendred me liable to just Reproof by instancing in One of those Tales so inconsistent with the gravity of a Church-Historian which no doubt he had done but because he knew himself unable to produce it He who is often seen to snap hastily at and feed hungerly on an hard crust will not be believed if bragging that he can eat Pheasants and Partridges at his Pleasure And seeing the Animadvertor doth commonly carp and cavil at the silly shadows of seeming mistakes in my Book it is utterly improbable he can yet will not charge me with a fault which cannot be defended But let him at leasure produce the most light and ludicrous Story in all my Book and here I stand ready to Parallel it with as light I say not in the Animadvertor but in as Grave Authors as ever put Pen to Paper Dr. Heylyn But as it seems our Author came with the same thoughts to the writing of this present History as Poets anciently address themselves to the writing of Comedies of which thus my Terence Poeta cum primùm animum ad scribendum appulit Id sibi negotii credidit solum dari Populo ut placerent quas fecisset fabulas That is to say Thus Poets when their mind they first apply In looser verse to frame a Comedy Think there is nothing more for them to do Then please the people whom they speak unto Fuller I admire that the Animadvertor who so lately had taxed me for writing and translating of Verses will now do the same himself There is a double people-pleasing One sordid and servile made of falshood and flattery which I defie and detest The other lawful when men deliver and dress Truth in the most plausible expression I have a precedent above Exception to warrant it even Solomon himself Eccles. 12.10 The Preacher sought out Acceptable words This I did and will aim at in all my writings and I doubt not but that the Animadvertor's Stationer doth hope and desire that he hath thus pleased people in his Book for the advancing of the price and quickning the Sale thereof Dr. Heylyn In the last place proceed we to the manifold excursions about the Antiquity of Cambridge built on as weak Authority as the Monkish Legends and so impertinent to the matter which he hath in hand that the most Reverend Mat. Parker though a Cambridge man in his Antiquitates Britannicae makes no business of it The more impertinent in regard that at the fag-end of his Book there follows a distinct History of that University to which all former passages might have been reduced But as it seems he was resolved to insert nothing in that History but what he had some probable ground for leaving the Legendary part thereof to the Church-Romance as most proper for it And certainly he is wondrous wise in his generation For fearing lest he might be asked for those Bulls and Chartularies which frequently he relates unto in the former Books he tells us in the History of Cambridge fol 53. That they were burnt by some of the seditious Townsmen in the open Market place Anno 1380. or thereabouts So that for want of other
a Reverend Prelate and as knowing as any of his Order in this point of Antiquity knew this to be in his Diocesse yet never manifested the least Regreet at the Chappelizing of this Place As for consecration of Churches and Chappels I say first is no Sacramental action Secondly It is not of Evangelical Institution as Bellarmine himself doth freely confesse no Express for it in the New-Testament De cultu Sanctorum lib. 3. cap. 5. In statu Evangelii non habemus tam expressa testimonia Scripturae Thirdly It is charitably to be presumed that when Dr. Montague and the fellows first entred the Dormitory sequestring that place for a Chappel they by Prayers and a Sermon did solemnly consign it to the Service of God seeing no man of common Principles of Piety will offer to eat meat before he hath said Grace Fourthly Such Prayers did in some sort Dedicate the place wanting no formality save because not done by a Bishop and if this be all the fault can be found therein let the Animadvertor prove probatio incumbit affirmanti that in the primitive Times consecrating of Churches was only an Episcopal Act. Fifthly What was wanting in the consecration at the first hath since sufficiently been supplyed and corroborated by usance thereof to Gods Service only If factious people should in peaceable times against lawfull Authority conventicle in a Barn or Stable their Meetings sinfull in themselves could not derive any Sacrednesse to the place whilst the World lasteth But if Persecution which God of his goodness avert though we by our wickednesse deserve it should invade our Land I conceive Stables are by Prayers and presence of God's suffering Servants and chiefly by God's presence with them at the minute of their entrance thither elevated into Holy places Dr. Heylyn And if the Brethren think it not enough for their ease to be pent up in so narrow a Room t is but repairing to the next Grove or Coppise and that in a like traet of time shall become as holy as Solomons Temple or any consecrated place whatsoever it be Fuller Not the solemnest Consecration can advance our Churches into the same degree of Sacredness with Solomon's Temple which was yea might bee but one dignified when dedicated with God his Glorious Presence 2 Chro. 7.12 Who chose that place to himself for an house of Sacrifice It was the Type of our blessed Saviour perfect in all Points as made by inspired Architects and the utensils in the Holy of Holiest the self same which Moses made according to the pattern in the Mount But I hold English Churches may amount to the Holinesse of the Jewish Synagogues Dr. Heylyn Churches may well be spared pulled down and their Materials sold for the use of the Saints Fuller God forbid The clean contrary followeth from my Position wherein I do offer an Argument for the Sacredness of Places the Register of whose Consecration is lost as Time out of Mind so that now they can no otherwise prove it no Record being extant thereof save by pious Prescription Enough in my Judgement to give Sacriledge a Rap over the fingers if offering to lay hold on such places and buildings and turn them to her private Profit Were it in my power I would have built a Church where I only made my Church-History But the worst is the Animadvertor would then have quarrelled the contriving and adorning of my Church as much as now he doth the matter and making of my Book and therefore I leave it to others of more ability first to do and then to defend their good Actions from his Morosity Dr. Heylyn A Tub by this our Author's Logick will be as useful as the Pulpit unto Edification Fuller This is a Tale for I am sure it is no Truth of a Tub indeed I ever beheld a Pulpit as in some sort jure divino ever since I read Nehem. 8.4 that Ezrah stood upon a Pulpit of Wood. However if called thereunto I pray God I may make but as good a practical Sermon as Iohn Badby effectually preached in a Tub of Constancy and Christian Patience when put into such a Vessel and burnt therein for the testimony of the Truth in the Reign of K. Henry the fourth Dr. Heylyn And that we may perceive that nothing is more precious with him then an irregular unconsecrated and unfurnished Chappel c. Fuller Next to an Heart such as David had made the best Coppy of the best Original after Gods own heart I most highly prize a regular and consecrated Chappel furnished with Matron-like not Meritricious Ornaments Dr. Heylyn Melvin's infamous Libel against the Furniture of the Altars in the Chappels Royall for which he was censur'd in the Star-Chamber must be brought in by head and shoulders out of time and place for fear lest such an excellent piece of Puritanical Zeal should be lost to posterity These things I might have noted in their proper places but that they were reserv'd for this as a taste to the rest Fuller I account not those his verses worth the translating though easie and speak of his censure as well as of his offence I mis-timed nothing having entered this passage near the year wherein he was setled a Professor beyond the Seas Dr. Heylyn Et jam sinis erat And here I thought I should have ended this Anatomy of our Author's Book but that there is another passage in the Preface thereof which requires a little further consideration For in that Preface he informs us by the way of caution That the three first Books were for the main written in the Reign of the late King as appeareth by the Passages then proper for the Government The other nine Books were made since Monarchy was turned into a State Fuller The Animadvertor hath fairly and fully no constant Practice cited my words I request the Reader to take especial notice of those three FOR THE MAIN I presume the Reader conceiveth such a caveat not improper or impertinent but safe and seasonable for my Defence and his Direction especially seeing the like happened not to any English Historian this thousand years that his Pen during the writing of his Book should pass through Climates of different Governments Dr. Heylyn By which it seems that our Author never meant to frame his History by the line of Truth but to attemper it to the palat of the present Government whatsoever it then was or should prove to be which I am sure agrees not with the Laws of History And though I can most easily grant that the fourth Book and the rest that follow were written after the great alteration and change of State in making a new Common-wealth out of the ruines of an ancient Monarchy yet I concur not with our Author in the time of the former For it appears by some passages that the three first Books either were not all written in the time of the King or else he must give himself some disloyal hopes
that the King should never be restored to his place and Power by which he might be called to a reckoning for them Fuller It Seems Multa videntur quae non sunt The Inference is false and forced Titus Livius lived in Imperial yet wrote of Regal Consulatory Tribunitial at Rome without the least imputation of falshood I conceive Monarchical Aristocratical and Democralical truth to be One and the Same It followeth not that two-faced Ianus as beholding two worlds one before the other after the Flood had also two Hearts I did not attemper my History to the Palat of the Government so as to sweeten it with any Falshood but I made it Palatable thus far forth as not to give a wilful disgust to those in present Power and procure danger to my self by using any over-salt tart or bitter Expression better forborn than inserted without any prejudice to the Truth Dr. Heylyn For in the second Book he reckons the Cross in Baptism for a Popish Trinket by which it appears not I am sure to have been written in the time of Kingly Government that being no expression sutable unto such a time Fuller Should I simply and absolutely call the Cross in Baptisme a Popish Trinket my fore-head Signed therewith would give my Tongue the lye and return the Popery in the teeth thereof I behold it as an Ancient and Significant Ceremony but in no degree essentiall to or completory of the Sacrament witness the wisdome of the Church of England which in private Baptism permitteth the omitting thereof But when Ceremonyes shall devour their distance and intrude themselves necessary and essential it is high time to term them Superstititious Trinkets The rest I referr to what I have written when this passage recurreth in the place cited by the Animadvertor Dr. Heylyn Secondly speaking of the precedency which was fixt in Canterbury by removing the Archiepiscopal See from London thither he telleth us that the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike level in their Graves But certainly the Government was not changed into a State or Commonwealth till the death of the King and till the death of the King neither of those Episcopall Sees nor any of the rest were laid so level in their Graves but that they were in hope of a Resurrection the King declaring himself very constantly in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight as well against the abolishing of the Episcopal Government as the alienation of their Lands Thirdly In the latter end of the same Book he makes a great dispute against the high and sacred priviledge of the Kings of England in curing the disease comonly called the Kings Evil whether to be imputed to Magick or Imagination or indeed a Miracle next brings us in an old Wives Tale about Queen Elizabeth as if she had disclaimed that power she daily exercised and finally manageth a Quarrel against the form of Prayer used at the curing of that Evil which he arraigns for Superstition and impertinencies no inferior Crimes Are all these passages proper to that Government also Finally in the third Book he derogates from the power of the Church in making Canons giving the binding and concluding Power in matters which concern the civil Rights of the Subjects not to the King but to the Lay-people of the Land assembled in Parliament which game he after followeth in the eighth and last And though it might be safe enough for him in the eighth and last to derogate in this manner from the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs yet certainly it was neither safe for him so to do nor proper for him so to write in the time of the Kingly Government unless he had some such wretched hopes as before we spake of Fuller I desire the Reader to remember my late words as the Animadvertor recited them FOR THE MAIN I confess though these Books were written in the Reign of King Charles yet after his Death I interpolated some lines and amongst others that of levelling all Bishopricks I raised no dispute against the Kings curing the Evil it being raised before I was born and which I endeavoured to allay referring it to Miracle as to the peruser of my History in that place will appear I tell no old Wives Tale of Queen Elizabeth it being a Masculine Truth from most authentick Authors I derogate not in the least degree from the power of the Church but the Animadvertor doth arrogate unto it more then is due by the Lawes of God and Man maintaining that Church-men may go beyond Ecclesiastical Censures even to the Limbs and Lives of such as are Recusants to their Constitutions WRETCHED and what formerly he said DISLOYAL HOPES I defie and return them in the Teeth of him that wrote the words He had WRETCHED AND DISLOIAL HOPES who wrote that King Iames went to New-market as Tiberius to his Capreae he waved his Loyalty and Discretion together who so saucily and un-subject-like counted how often King Charles waved his Crown Here give me leave to tell the Animadvertor that such whom he slighteth for LOW-ROYALISTS were whilst they had a King in England as HIGH in their Loyalty to him Prayers and Sufferings for him as those HIGH-ROIALISTS who maintain that all goods of the Subjects are at the King 's absolute Dispose and yet since those Kings are departed this life can write of them in so base and disparaging Language that any one of the LOW-ROIALISTS would have his right hand cut off rather then write the like Reader pardon my too just passion when DISLOIALTY is laid to my charge It is with me Either now speak or else for ever hereafter hold your Peace Dr. Heylyn I must needs say that on the reading of these Passages and the rest that follow I found my self possest with much Indignation And I long expected when some Champion would appear in the Listes against this Goliah who so reproachfully had defied the whole Armyes of Israel And I must needs confess withal that I did never enter more unwillingly on any undertaking But beeing solicited thereunto by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by Men of all Orders and Dignityes in the Church and of all degrees in the Universities I was at last overcome by that Importunity which I found would not be resisted Fuller Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height What just cause I have given for so great passion the Reader will judge If I be a Goliah in this point may I have his Success to be conquered killed and my head cut off even with my own Sword If I be none May the Animadvertor be graciously pardoned And it may be he shall never come off any undertaking more unhappily I could mate him with telling him that Men of all Sorts and Sizes their Equals in Number and Quality have likewise importuned me not tamely to sit down but to vindicate my own credit and conscience Dr. Heylyn
I know that as the Times stand I am to expect nothing for my pains and Travel but the displeasure of some and censure of others Fuller I will take no advantage by the Times and if without their help I cannot Bwoy up my credit let it sink for ever And I humbly desire all who have or may reap benefit by my Books not to be displeased with the Animadvertor in my behalfe It is Punishment enough that he hath written and too much for his Stationer that he hath printed so impertinent a Book When Henry Lord Hunsdon on the High-way had in Passion given a Blow to Sir Henry Colt the Lord had it returned him the Principal with Interest and when the Lord his Servants and Followers began to draw their Swords Away away said he cannot I and my Neighbour exchange a Box on the Ear but you must interest your selves in the matter Let none of my Friends and Favourers engage their anger in this difference betwixt Mee and the Animadvertor Let us alone and although we enter Adversaries in the Beginning wee shall I hope go out friends at the end of the Contest after there hath been a Pass or two betwixt our Selves Thus Heats betwixt Lawyers born at the Bar in Westminster-Hall are commonly buryed at the Board in the Inns of Court Dr. Heylyn But coming to the work with a single Heart abstracted from all self-ends and Interests I shall satisfie my Self with having done this poor Service to the Church my once blessed Mother for whose sake only I have put my Self upon this Adventure The party whom I am to deal with is so much a stranger to me that he is neither beneficio nec injuriâ notus and therefore no particular respects have mov'd me to the making of these Animadversions Which I have writ without Relation to his person for vindication of the Truth the Church and the injured Clergy as before is said So that I may affirm with an honest Conscience Non lecta est operi sed data causa meo That this imployment was not chosen by me but impos'd upon me the unresistable Intreaties of so many friends having something in them of Commands But howsoever Iacta est alea as Caesar once said when he passed over the Rubicon I must now take my fortune whatsoever it proves So God speed me well Fuller How much of this SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE is performed by him let the Reader judge in due time I am glad to hear this Passage from the Animadvertor that I never did him any Injury the rather because some of my Friends have charged me for provoking his Pen against me And though I pleaded that neither in Thought Word or Deed I ever did him any wrong I hardly prevailed with them for beliefe And now the Animadvertor hath cleared me that I never did any Injury unto him Would I could say the same of him that he never did me any Injury However as a Christian I here fully and freely forgive him and hereafter will endevour as a Scholar so to defend my self against his Injury that God willing it shall not shake my Contentment Without relation to my person let the Reader be Judge hereof Indeed Thomas hath been well used by him but Fuller hath soundly felt his displeasure However if Truth the Church and Clergy have been abused by me He hath given Me too fair quarter who deserved Death down-right for so hainous an Offence Amongst all which Persons inciting him to write against me one Letter sent to him from Regina Pecunia was most prevalent with him Witnesse this his Book offered to and refused by some Stationers because on his high terms they could not make a saving Bargain to themselves Iacta est alea. The English is you have cast the Dey And seeing the Animadvertor hath begun the Metaphor I hope I may make it an Allegory without rendring either of us Scandalous I appeal to the Reader whom I make Groom Porter termed by Mr. Camb. Aleatorum Arbiter and let him judge who plays with False who Coggs who slurrs a Dey and in a doubtful Case when we cannot agree upon the Cast betwixt our selves let him decide it By Fortune I presume the Animadvertor intendeth nothing derogatory to divine Providence in which Sense St. Augustin retracteth his former frequent using of the Word Only he meaneth uncertainty of Successe In which notion I say an hearty Amen to his Prayer when I have enlarged his God speed me into God speed US well May he who manageth this Controversie with most Sincerity come off with best Successe AMEN Errata confessed by the Printer of Dr. Heylyns Animadversions PAge 10. line 17. for Helkinus r. Telkinus p. 20. l. 21. for Queen of r. Queen of England p. 27. l. 6. for Wooderpoir r. Woodensdike p. 42. l. 1. for inconsideratenesse r. the inconsideratenesse of Children p. 121. l. f28 for ter r. better p. 145. l. 2. for statuendoâ— statuendi p. 15 l. 22. Horconâ—nar r. cantuur p. 154. l. 17. for Dr. Hammond r. Dr. Boke p. 160. l. 1. for his r. this p. 163. l. 28. for Jesuites r. Franciscans p. 189. l. ult 2 or contemn r. confession p. 221. in the Marg. for whether r. with other p. 228. l. 2. for Den r. Dean p. 239. l. 9. for Commons r. Canons p. 271. l. ult for culis r. oculâ—s Fuller THis is a Catalogue of Prelal Misâ—akes committed and confessed in the Doctor 's Book of Animadversions and here by me inserted not to disparage the pains of câ—re of the Printer but on these Considerations First to prevent all Exceptions that I have defectively presented in his Book Secondly to show that sometimes as here there may be an Erratum Erratorum to be re-reformed It thus beginneth Page 10. l. 17. for Melkinus r. Tolkinus That is read that which is wrong instead of thaâ— which was right before For a Mâ—lkinus Avalonius appeareth in Bale Pits and others but a Telkinus was never in Nature But Take notice also of this confessed Mistake p. 163. l. 28. for Iesuits r. Franciscans There is here no temptation to the Press to Erre there being betwixt the two Words no literal Similitude or Orthographical Symbolizing scarce a letter in the one which is in the other I make no other use hereof save only to crave the like Favour in my own Defence when in the Earls of March Roger is misprinted Edward and in the Earls of Bath Henry is misprinted William in my Church History I confess there be some Press faults in this my Book as for Prelial wherever occurring read Prelal part 1. p. 50. l. 32. for Anno Dom. 580 r. 560. part 1. p. 52. l. 18. for DEMOL r. DEINOL and part 2. page 88. betwixt the 33. and 34 l. insert I pray Papists Non-conformists and covetous Conformists the Acts therein appearing like For the rest I hope they are nothing so many or great as to discompose the sense and therefore I confide in
the Reader 's Discretion as also in the Animadvertor's Ingenuity expecting he will deal as candidly with me as I have done with him when such though unconfessed Errata's do occur And because my hand is now in I request such as have my Church-history to delete these words Book 2. p. 129. l. 21. A Title till his Time unknown in England For I profess I know not by what casualty these words crept into my Book contrary to my intent PART I. Dr. Heylyn IN order to the first conversion of the British Nation our Author takes beginning at the sad condition they vvere in before the Christian Faith was preached unto them And in a sad condition they were indeed as being in the state of Gentilism and consequently without the true knowledge of the God that made them Fuller The Author takes beginning vvhere Dr. Heylyn himself had he writ the Church-History of Brittain I believe would and I am sure should have begun And seeing he concurreth vvith the Author in the same expression that the Brittains were in a sad condition he might have spared himself and his Reader the trouble of the following impertinency Dr. Heylyn But yet they were not in a worse condition then the other Gentiles c. Fuller Nor did I ever say they vvere Had I said so the Doctor 's carping had had a handle to hold on vvhereas novv his teeth and nails must bite and scratch a fastning for themselves Dr. Heylyn But yet not in a vvorse condition then the other Gentiles vvho vvere not onely darkened in their understanding but so deprav'd also in their affections as to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness Not so effeminate in their conversation as the Asiaticks nor so luxurious as the Greeks nor branded with those filthy and unnaturall lusts which St. Paul chargeth on the Romans and were in ordinary practise with most Eastern Nations Fuller What of all this It is said of King Ioram He wrought evill in the sight of the Lord but not like his father and like his mother It is said of King Hoshea He did that which was evill in the sight of the Lord but not as the Kings of Israel that were before him It doth not follow that these Kings were good because less bad then others So that my words stand an un-shakened truth that the Brittains before their conversion were though not so debauched as other Heathens Idolaters in a sad condition Dr. Heylyn And though they were Idolaters yea and foul ones as our Author hath it yet neither c. Fuller If they were Idolaters they must be foul ones except as one hath fancied a tale of a fair Aethiopian any could make a truth of fair Idolaters Dr. Heylyn Yet neither were their gods of so brutish and impure a nature as the Priapus Cloacina and Stercutia amongst the Romans or as their Venus Flora Lupa common Harlots All of vvhich and such like other gods the old Fathers tell us that they vvere not nomina Colendorum sed crimina Colentium Nor vvere they so immodest and obscene in their rites and ceremonies as were the Greeks and Romans in the Sacrifices to their Cybele or Berecynthia vvhom they call the mother of the gods described by Arnobius Lactantius and others of the antient Writers in such lively colours as no chaste eye can look upon them without detestation Fuller Well may the Doctor run apace drawing an empty Cart after him What is all this to confute my position that the unconverted Brittains foul Idolaters were in a sad condition It seems he had a mind to tell the world of the foulest Idolls amongst the Romans and if so let them thank him for his intelligence who knew it not before Dr. Heylyn And for the number of their gods they fell extreamly short of that infinite multitude which St. Augustine finds amongst the Romans our Author naming onely three which he calls gods paramount that is to say BELINUS ANDATE and DIANA Fuller If they had onely three gods they had two too many However it will appear that these were onely as the Author phraseth them Paramount That they fell not to use the Doctor 's words extreamly short a virtuous extream of the Romans in their Idolatry may thus be proved They that had Idolls almost exceeding the Aegyptians in number fell not much short of the Romans But the antient Brittains almost exceeded the Aegyptians in number of Idolls Therefore they fell not much short of the Romans The Major is plain in Scripture often complaining of the Idols of Aegypt as also in human Writers Iuvenal jeering the Aegyptians for being over-stocked with such kind of cattle whose gods Leeks and Onyons did commonly grow in their Gardens The Minor are the very words of grave Gildas the most antient Brittish Writer flourishing Anno Domini 580. Portenta pene numero Aegyptiaca vincentia Where in few words we have the Numerosity and Monstrosity of the Brittish Idols Numerosity almost exceeding the Aegyptians Monstrosity called Portents mishapen Anticks of prodigious deformity Dr. Heylyn When therefore Gildas telleth us of the antient Brittains that in the number of their gods they had almost exceeded Aegypt Portenta pene numero Aegyptiaca vincentia in that Author's language it must be understood with reference to the Times in which he lived when all the Roman Rabble had been thrust upon them and not as speaking of the time of their first Conversion Fuller Satis pro Imperio MUST is for a King and seeing the Doctor and I are both Kings alike I return He MUST NOT be so understood as to any judicious and indifferent Reader will appear For the clearing hereof I will present and translate the words of Gildas with what precedeth and followeth them conducing effectually to the true understanding of this clause controverted I use the first and best printed Edition set forth by Polydore Virgil 1523. and Dedicated to Cuthbert Tonstall then the learned Bishop of London Onely because I suspect that some Readers will be out of breath in going along with the long-winded style of Gildas the excusable fault of the Age he lived in I crave leave to divide his long and entire Sentence for the better understanding thereof into severall parcells without the least addition thereto or alteration thereof Gildas Folio primo Igitur omittens priscos illos communesque cum omnibus gentibus errores quibus ante adventum Christi in carne omne humanum genus obligabatur adstrictum Nec enumerans PATRIAE PORTENTA ipsa diabolica pene numero Aegyptiaca vincentia quorum nonnulla lineamentis adhuc deformibus intra vel extra deserta moenia solito more rigentia torvis vultibus intuemur Neque nominatim inclamitans Montes ipsos aut Colles vel Fluvios olim exitiabiles nunc vero humanis usibus utiles quibus divinus Honor à caeco tunc populo cumulabatur Et tacens vetustos immanium Tyrannorum Annos qui in aliis longe positis
fol. 10. gives us some other in their stead which he thinks unanswerable Fuller I deny not that P. Eleutherius might or did send a Letter to K. Lucius but I justly suspect the Letter novv extant to be but-pretended and forged I never thought by the vvay hovv came the Animadvertor to knovv my thoughts my Arguments unanswerable but now I say they are unanswered standing in full force notvvithstanding any alledged by the Animadvertor to the contrary I confesse a Memory-mistake of Sicilia for Galatia and as it is the first fault he hath detected in my Book so shall it be the first by me God Willing amended in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Our Author First objects against the Popes answer to the King that Fol. 11. It relates to a former letter of King Lucius wherein he requested of the Pope to send him a Copy or Collection of the Roman Lawes which being at that time in force in the I le of Britain was but actum agere But certainly though those parts of Brittain in which Lucius reign'd were governed in part and but in part by the Lawes of Rome yet were the Lawes of Rome at that time more in number and of a far more generall practice then to be limited to so narrow a part of their Dominions Two thousand Volumes we find of them in Iustinians time out of which by the help of Theophilus Trebonianus and many other learned men of that noble faculty the Emperour compos'd that Book or body of Law which from the universality of its comprehension we still call the Pandects Fuller One who hath taken but two Turnes in Trinity hall Court in Cambridge knowes full well what PANDECTS are and why so called All this is but praefatory I waite for the answer to the Objection still to come Dr. Heylyn In the next place it is objected that This letter mounts King Lucius to too high a Throne making him the Monarch or King of Britain who neither was the Supreme nor sole King here but partial and subordinate to the Romans This we acknowledge to be true but no way prejudiciall to the cause in hand Lucius both was and might be call'd the King of Britain though Tributary and Vassal to the Roman Emperors as the two Baliols Iohn and Edward were both Kings of Scotland though Homagers and Vassals to Edward the first and third of England the Kings of Naples to the Pope and those of Austria and Bohemia to the German Emperors Fuller A Blank is better then such writing to no purpose For first both the Baliols in their severall times were though not SUPREME SOLE Kings of Scotland So were the Kings of Naples and the King of Austria there never being but one the first and Last viz. Fredoritus Leopoldus and the Kings of Bohemia in their respective Dominions Not so Lucius who was neither Supreme nor Sole King of Brittain Besides the Baliols being Kings of Scotland did never Style themselves or were Styled by other Kings of Brittaine The Kings of Naples never entituled themselves Kings of Italy Nor the Kings of Austria and Bohemia ever wrote themselves or were written to as Kings of Germany Whereas Lucius Ruler onely in the South West-part of this Isle is in this Letter made King of Brittain more then came to his share an Argument that the Forger thereof was unacquainted with the Constitution of his Kingdom And this just Exception stands firme against the Letter what ever the Animadvertor hath alledged in the excuse thereof Dr. Heylyn Nor doth the next objection give us any trouble at all that is to say that The Scripture quoted in that Letter is out of St. Hieroms Translation which came more then a hundred years after Unless it can be prov'd withall as I think it cannot that Hierom followed not in those Texts those old Translations which were before receiv'd and used in the Western Churches Fuller See the different tempers of men how some in point of Truth are of a tenderer constitution than others The Primate Armach was so sensible of the strength of this reason that it made him conclude against the authenticallnesse of the Letter Dr. Heylyn Lesle am I mov'd with that which follows viz. That this letter not appearing till a thousand years after the death of Pope Eleutherius might probably creep out of some Monks Cell some four hundred years since Which allegation being admitted the Monks Cell excepted it makes no more to the discredit of the letter which we have before us then to the undervaluing of those excellent Monuments of Piety and Learning which have been recovered of late times from the dust and moths of ancient Libraries Such Treasures like money long lock't up is never thought lesse profitable when it comes abroad And from what place soever it first came abroad I am confident it came not out of any Monks Cell that generation being then wholly at the Popes devotion by consequence not likely to divulge an Evidence so manifestly tending to the overthrow of his pretensions The Popes about four hundred years since were mounted to the height of that power and Tyranny which they claimed as Vicars unto Christ. To which there could not any thing be more plainly contrary then that passage in the Pope's letter whereto he tells the King That he was Gods Vicar in his owne Kingdom vos estis Vicarius Dei in Regno vestro as the Latin hath it Too great a secret to proceed from the Cell of a Monk who would have rather forg'd ten Decretals to uphold the Popish usurpations over Soveraign Princes then published one onely whether true or false to subvert the same Nor doth this Letter onely give the King an empty Title but such a Title as imports the exercise of the chief Ecclesiastical Power within his Dominions For thus it followeth in the same The people and the folk of the Realm of Britain be yours whom if they be divided ye ought to gather in concord and peace to call them to the faith and law of Christ to cherish and maintain them to rule and govern them so as you may reign everlastingly with him whose Vicar you are So far the very words of the letter as our Author rendereth them which savour far more of the honest simplicity of the Primitive Popes then the impostures and supposititious issues of the latter times Fuller I confesse some pretious pieces of Antiquity long Latent in Obscurity have at last broke forth into the Light with no little advantage to Learning But then such were intire Books and we know how when where and by whom they were found out and brought forth Whereas this loose Letter secretly and slily slid into the World unattended with any such Cicumstances to attest the Genuinesse thereof Children casually lost are no whit the lesse Legitimate and beloved the more when found and owned of their Parents But give me leave to suspect that Babe a Bastard which is left on a bulk or
Countrey conquered to change the Laws alter the Language or new mould the Government or finally to translate the Scepter from the old Royal Family to some one of their own None of which things being done in the Invasions of the Scots and Picts they cannot properly be said to have subdued the South parts of the Island as our Author out of love perhaps to the Scots would perswade the Reader Fuller I confesse of all Five the Picts and Scots had the most short and uncertain abode in the South The distinction is very nice betwixt harrassing or depopulating of a Countrey and subduing it If I could but harrasse and depopulate that is but deargumentaâ—e the Animamadvertors Book against me I doubt not but I should be accounted to subdue it Why is not my Pen charged with a love to the Picts whom I also equally with the Scots intitle to this subduing and is a Nation now no where extant to be the object of my affection But this five-times subduing of the South of this Island is in all Authors as generally known and received as that a man hath five fingers on his hand Wherefore no more in Answer to just nothing THE THIRD BOOK From the time of the Norman Conquest to the first preaching of Wickliffe Dr. Heylin WE are now come unto the times of the Norman Government when the Church began to settle on a surer bottom both for power and polity the Bishops lesse obnoxious to the Kings than formerly because elected by the Monks and Canons of their own Cathedrals their Consistories free from the intermixture of Lay-assistance and their Synods manag'd by themselves Wherein though they had power of making such Synodicall Constitutions as did ipso facto binde all parties yet our Author is resolv'd to have it otherwise Fuller All this is but perfatary and therefore my Answer not necessary thereunto The Animadvertor seemeth to congratulate the Condition of the English Church as better hereafter in the following than in foregoing Ages He instanceth in two particulars POWER and POLITIE omitting a third worth Both Piety to which Purity in Doctrine may be reduced which now began more and more to be impaired Let me add that after the Kings of England had parted which indeed was wrested from them with the Investing of Bishops Bishops became lesse managable by and dutiful to their Prince and more insulting over the People and being lesse OBNOXIOUS to use the Animadvertors word to the Soveraign were more NOXIOUS to the Subjects Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 19. The Proceedings saith he of the Canon Law were never wholly received into practice in the Land but so as made subject in whatsoever touched temporals to Secular Lawes and National Customes And the Laity as pleasure limited Canons in this behalf How false this is how contrary to the power and practice of the Church before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the eight and finally how dangerous a ground is hereby laid to weaken the Authority of Convocations will best appear by laying down the sum of a Petition presented by the House of Commons to the same King Henry together with the Answer of the Prelates and inferior Clergy then being Synodically assembled to the said Petition The substance of the Petition was as followeth viz. THat the Clergy of this your Realm being your Highnesse Subjects in their Convocation by them holden within this your Realm have made and daily make divers Sanctions or Laws concerning Temporal things and some of them be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of your Realm not having ne requiring your most Royal assent to the same Laws so by them made nother any assent or knowledge of your Lay Subjects is had to the same nother to them published and known in their Mother tongue albeit divers and sundry of the said Laws extend in certain causes to your excellent Person your Liberty and Prerogative Royal and to the interdiction of your Laws and Possessions and so likewise to the Goods and Possessions of your Lay Subjects declaring the infringers of the same Laws so by them made not onely to incur the terrible censure of Excommunication but also to the detestable crime and sin of Heresie by the which divers of your humble and obedient Lay Subjects be brought into this Ambiguity whether they may doe and execute your Laws according to your jurisdiction Royal of this Realm for dread of the same Censures and pains comprised in the same Laws so by them made in their Convocations to the great trouble and inquietation of your said humble and obedient Lay Subjects c. the impeachment of your Jurisdiction and Prerogative Royal. The Answer thereunto was this TO this we say that forasmuch as we repute and take our Authority of making Laws to be grounded upon the Scripture of God and the determination of holy Church which must also be a rule and squier to try the justice and righteousnesse of all Laws as well Spiritual as Temporal we verily trust that considering the Laws of this Realm be such as have been made by most Christian religious and devout Princes and People how both these Laws proceeding from one fountain the same being sincerely interpretrd and after the good meaning of the makers there shall be found no repugnancy nor contrariety but that the one shall be found as aiding maintaining and supporting the other And if it shall otherwise appear as it is our duty whereunto we shall alwayes most diligently apply our selves to reform our Ordinances to Gods Commission and to conform our Statutes and Laws and those of our predecessors to the determination of Scripture and holy Church so we hope in God and shall daily pray for the same that your Highnesse will if there appear cause why with the assent of your People temper your Graces Laws accordingly Whereby shall ensue a most happy and perfect conjunction and agreement as God being Lapis angularis to agree and conjoyn the same And as concerning the requiring of your Highnesse Royal assent to the authority of such Laws as have been by our Predecessors or shall be made by us in such points and Articles as we have by Gods authority to rule and order by such Provisions and Laws we knowing your Highness wisdome and vertue and learning nothing doubt but the same perceiveth how the granting hereunto dependeth not upon our will and liberty And that we your most humble Subjects may not submit the execution of our charge and duty certainly prescribed by God to your Highnesse assent although in very deed the same is most worthy for your most Noble Princely and excellent vertues not onely to give your Royal assent but also to devise and command what we should for good order and manners by Statutes and Laws provide in the Church neverthelesse considering we may not so ne in such sort refrain the doing of our office in the feeding and ruling of Christs people your Graces Subjects we most
an Injury when they must passe for necessary Animadversions on my Book to the defaming thereof as if it were defective without them which were there though perchance not so finely as fully and clearly before Dr. Heylin Possible it is that being overlaid by his own Subjects and distressed by the French he might send unto that King for aid in his great extremities And doing this if this were all he did no more than Nature and indignation and the necessity of his affairs did provoke him to not half so much as was done afterwards upon far weaker grounds by King Francis the first employing the Turks Forces both by Sea and Land against Charles the fifth But the Monks coming to the knowledge of this secret practise and construing his actions to the worst improv'd the Molehill to a Mountain rendring him thereby as odious to posterity as he was to themselves Fuller How much is this different from what I have written before but that the Animadvertor will not wear words at the second hand of my using but will have them spick and span new of his own making Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 63. I question whether the Bishop of Rochester whose Country house at Bromley is so nigh had ever a House in the City There is no question but he had Stow finding it in Southwark by the name of Rochester house adjoyning on the South side to the Bishop of Winchesters ruinous and out of reparation in his time as possibly not much frequented since the building of Bromley House and since converted into Tenements for private persons Fuller It was a Question to me though none to the Animadvertor now it is a question neither to him nor to me who by him am informed I see that men may learn by what boyes learn in their Qui mihi Sed qui nil dubitat nil capit inde boni Had I not questioned this once publickly probably I had questioned it ever privately and gone in my self without satisfaction Dr. Heylin But since our Author hath desired others to recover the rest from oblivion I shall help him to the knowledge of two more and shall thank any man to finde out the third The first of these two is the Bishop of Lincolns House situate neer the old Temple in Holborn first built by Robert de Chesney Bishop of Lincoln Anno 1147. since alien'd from that See to the Earls of Southampton and passing by the name of Southampton House The second is the Bishop of Bangors a fair House situate in Shoe-lane neer St. Andrews Church of late time leased out by the Bishops and not since the dwelling of Dr. Smith Doctor in Physick a right honest and ingenuous person and my very good friend Of all the old Bishops which were founded before King Harry the eight there is none whose House we have not found but the Bishop of Asaph to the finding whereof if our Author or any other will hold forth the Candle I shall follow the light the best I can and be thankfull for it Fuller I faithfully promise so to doe as soon as I arrive at any good intelligence thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 67. And though some high Royalists look on it as the product of Subjects animosities improving themselves on their Princes extremities c. Our Author telleth us in his Epistle to the Reader that the three first Books of this Volume were for the main written in the reign of the late King and that it would appear so by some passages which were then proper for the Government But certainly if these words were written in the time of the late King they were written in the time of his distresse when his affairs were desperate and his Party ruin'd the name of Royalists had not else been used here in the way of reproach nor any new matter charg'd upon them which might render them more obnoxious to fine and ransome than the crime of Loyalty Fuller My Loyaltie did rise and fall with his Majesties successe as a Rock in the Sea doth with the ebbing and flowing of the Tyde I had more pitty but not lesse honour for him in his deepest distresse God knows my heart I use not the word High-Royalist here as by way of reproach and the unpartial Reader niether will nor can so understand it Some there are who maintain that a King is no way confined with his own Laws but that without any fault he may by his own lâ—st limit his Demands on his Subjects taking from them without any wrong what they refuse to pay unto him There the Animadvertor will call Royalists and I dare call them High-Royalists beholding as I have said the Grand-Charter as the product of Subjects animosities improving themselves on their Princes extremities Dr. Heylin But whatsoever our Author thinks it cannot but appear to any who consults the story of former times that the original of this Charter was first writ in blood obtain'd by working on the necessities of some Princes extorted in the minority of another and finally confirm'd by him who had not power to justifie his denial of it Fuller I could heartily have wished that the Animadvertor had expressed the names of these Kings Who now onely hope that I conjecture them aright 1. King Iohn on the working of whose necessities it was first obtainned 2. Henry the third whose consent thereto was extorted in his minoritie 3. Edward the first confirming it when not in power to justifie his denial during his durance as a Prisoner taken in Battail Here I confesse are three sad conditions necessity of the first minority of the second captivity of the third But know that the last of these when at liberty and not onely endued with freedome but impowered with force and being as wise and successefull a Prince as ever sate on the English Throne found it advantagious for his Interest to observe what formerly when a Prisoner he had confirmed Otherwise his Sword was so long reaching as farre as Palastine it self and so sharp hewing his conquering way through Wales and Scotland that therewith enforced with his arm he might have rescinded the Seals of the Grand-Charter and put himself into the condition of an absolute command But he preferred the strict observation thereof partly out of Piety because solemnly sworn thereunto partly out of Policy as sensible that therein the Rights of Sovereigns and Subjects were indifferently contempered to their mutual happinesse it being Fetters to neither but Girdles to both to be strengthned by such restraints Dr. Heylin And if our Author be so certain that those Kings flourihed most both at home and abroad who tyed themselves most conscientiously to the observation thereof I would fain know how some of our Kings who have most conscientiously tied themselves to that observation became so unprosperous or how some others came to flourish both at home and abroad who have made it their great work to infringe the same in almost all the
I have dated the submission of the Clergy to the King not from the first private performance but the passing thereof into Print and publique cognisance Thus the Age of Children are by their Parents reckoned from their birth but by others from their entrance in the Register But the main fault and that a foul one if true layed to my charge is for weakning the Authority of Church and subjecting it to the power of Parliaments But know it is past the might and spight of the most malicious man finally to weaken the just Authority of the Church God having solemnly promised That the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Yet Princes as King Henry the eighth did might retrence the Power of the Church or ambitious Church-men rather when they invaded the just priviledges of others I shall onely return a few plain and general answers to what is objected First before I entred on the difficult Subject of Synods and Convocations before and since the Clergies Submission with their respective powers I placed as followeth Church-History Book 1. pag. 191. This I humbly conceive to be the difference betwixt the three kindes of Convocations submitting what I have written to the censure and correction of the learned in the Law conscious of my own ignorance therein as indeed such skill neither is to be expected or required in one of my profession who am ready with willingnesse yea with chearfulnesse yea with thankfulnesse to God and man publickly to recall and retract what any such convince me to have mistaken herein hoping that my stumbling in so dark a subject may prevent the failing of others Having thus humbly desired I say not deserved favour I hope it will be indulged unto me Secondly I presume to tender this I hope reasonable motion to the Reader that seeing the Animadvertor not onely freely confesseth this Subject to be an intricate Labyrinth but also fairly acknowledgeth that he findeth the Positions I maintain in SOME OTHER AUTHORS that I may be discharged and that the guilt if any may be derived on such Authors as have misguided me Thirdly When I use the word Parliament it expoundeth it self what was meant thereby capable in that age of no other comment viz. The aggregation of the King Lords and Commons Fourthly I distinguish betwixt a consultive conclusive and punitive power in matters of Religion The consultive power God hath intrusted his Church with and the Clergy as the Representative thereof The conclusive power also is invested in them so far forth as to declare what is Orthodox and what Heretical But the punitive power especially when exceeding Church Censors and extending to Life Limb and Estate is in the Parliament that so neither Royal Prerogative nor Subjects Right may be injured Fifthly I distinguish betwixt the power which the Convocation had over the Clergy and what they have over the Laity Over the Estates of the latter they have no power As for the Clergy they are all represented by their voluntary elections in their Clerks or Proctors Volenti non fit injuria A man that is willing is not wronged What summes therefore they give away of the Clergy they may be presumed impowred therein with the consent of the Clergy However to clear all doubts the consent of Parliament hath since the Submission of the Clergy been required unto it As for the black Swan in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I mean that single and signal instance of thaâ— Unparliament-impowred-Convocation which gave that supplimental Subsidie to Queen Elizabeth I humbly conceive that the popularity of so peerlesse a Princesse the necessity of her occasions and the tranquilitie of those times a happinesse denyed in our Age made that unquestioned which might be questionable if any turbulent Clergy-man had proved recusant in payment As to the Convocation 1640. let me request the Reader that I may without danger humbly tender my opinion therein That Convocation as all others consisted of Bishops Deans Archdeacons and Clerks Of these the three former acted onely in their personal capacities and carrying their own Purses in their own pockets might give Subsidies to the King to what proportion they pleased and justifie the doing thereof Not so the fourth and last Members being Clerks chosen for their respective Cathedrals and Diocesses legally to sit as long as the Parliament lasted After the dissolution whereof they desisted to be publique Persons lost the notion of Representatives and returned to their private condition In which capacity they might have given for themselves what sums they pleased but could not vote away the estates of other Clergy-men except the respective Cathedrals and Diocesses had re-Elected them which had it been done they might no doubt have justifyed the giving away of Subsidies as authorized thereunto though the Parliament had been dissolved seeing every man may doe with his owne as he pleaseth and the diffusive Clergy were justly interpreted to doe what was done by their Proctors Truth may be blamed but cannot be shamed and I have unbosomed my thoughts and judgment herein But this outswelleth the proportion of my booke and let me make a faire motion to the Animadvertor I resume my two former Propositions viz. 1 The proceedings of the Canon Law in what touched temporals of Life Limb and Estate was alwaies limited with the secular Lawes and Nationall Customes of England 2 That the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of Ecclesiasticall Courts against declared Hereticks so that they could not punish them in Life or Limbe but as limited by the Statute If the Animadvertor who hath leisure and abilitie be pleased in confutation of these my Propositions to write a few sheets it being richly worth his and the Readers paines cleerly briefly fully and fairly without the least dash of ill language subscribing his name thereunto I will God willing returne him my answere qualified accordingly and though I confesse the Animadvertor hath the advantage of me at the weapon of Law yet my confidence of a good Cause will make mee undertake the Challenge alwaies provided That no advantage be taken against us by any for delivering our Judgements and Consciences in so nice a Controversie For the present I forbeare because this dispute is substantive enough to stand by it self and too large to bee adjected to this booke Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 253. I have heard saith he that Queen Elizabeth being informed that Dr. Pilkington Bishop of Durham had given ten thousand pounds in marriage with his Daughter and being offended that a Prelates daughter should equall a Princesse in Portion took away one thousand pounds a year from that Bishoprick and assigned it for the better maintenance of the Garrison of Barwick In telling of which story our Author commits many mistakes as in most things else For first to justifie the Queens displeasure if she were displeased he makes the Bishop richer and the Portion greater than indeed they were The ten thousand pounds Lib
9 fol. 109. being shrunk to eight and that eight thousand pound not given to one Daughter as is here affirmed but divided equally between two whereof the one was married to Sir Iames Harrington the other unto Dunch of Berkshire Secondly this could be no cause of the Queens displeasure and much lesse of the Countries envie that Bishop having sat in the See of Durham above seventeen years And certainly he must needs have been a very ill Husband if out of such a great Revenue he had not saved five hundred pounds per annum to prefer his Children the income being as great and the charges of Hospility lesse than they have been since Thirdly the Queen did not take away a thousand pound a year from that Bishoprick as is here affirmed The Lands were left to it as before but in regard the Garrison of Barwick preserved the Bishops Lands and Tenants from the spoil of the Scots the Queen thought fit that the Bishops should contribute towards their own defence imposing on them an annual pension of a thousand pound for the better maintaining of that Garrison Fourthly Bishop Pilkington was no Doctor but a Batchelor of Divinity onely and possibly had not been raised by our Author to an higher title and Degree than the University had given him but that he was a Conniver at Non-conformity as our Author telleth us Lib. 9. fol. 109. Lastly I shall here add that I conceived the Pension above mentioned not to have been laid upon that See after Pilkingtons death but on his first preferment to it the French having then newly landed some forces in Scotland which put the Queen upon a necessity of doubling her Guards and increasing her Garrisons But whatsoever was the cause of imposing this great yearly payment upon that Bishoprick certain I am that it continued and the money was duly paid into the Exchequer for many years after the true cause thereof was taken away the Queens displeasure against Pilkington ending either with his life or hers and all the Garrisons and forces upon the Borders being taken away in the beginning of the Reign of King Iames. So true is that old saying Quod Christus non capit fiscus rapit never more fully verified than in this particular Fuller I have given in a double account of Bishop Pilkingtons Issue and Estate 1. As same reported and as envioâ—s Courtiers represented it to Queen Elizabeth that he gave ten thousand with his onely Daughter Lib. 5. fol. 253. 2. As it was in truth giving but four thousand a piece with Two daughters lib. 8. fol. 109. The Animadvertor may allow me knowing in his family my wife being Grandchild to his Eldest Daughter married to Sir Henry Harrington Yet no relation to him or favour for him as a semi-non conformist but mere love to the Truth made me entitle him Doctor though I confesse Bishop Godwin maketh him but Batchelour in Divinity For Dr. Caius Master of Gonvil Hall whilest Pilkington was of St. Iohns in Cambridge giveth him the stile of Doctor who must be presumed most exact in the Titles of his own Contemporary The difference is not great betwixt taking away 1000 l. yearly from the Bishoprick and charging it with an annual Pension of 1000 l. to maintain the Garrison of Barwick However if the Reader can gain any information from what is additory in the Animadvertor I shall be light glad thereof THE SIXTH BOOK Containing the History of Abbeys Dr. Heylin THis Book containing the History of Abbeys seems but a Supplement to the former but being made a distinct book by our Author we must doe so likewise In which the first thing capable of an Animadversion is but meerly verbal viz. Fol. 266. Cistercians so called from one Robert living in Cistercium in Burgundy The place in Burgundy from whence these Monks took denomination though call'd Cirstercium by the Latins is better known to the French and English by the name Cisteaux the Monks thereof the Monks of Cisteaux by the English and Lesmoines de Cisteaux by the French and yet our Author hath hit it better in his Cistercians than Ralph Brook York Herald did in his Sister-senses for which sufficiently derided by Augustin Vincent as our Author being so well studied in Heraldry cannot chuse but know Fuller It was equally in my power and pleasure without the least prejudice to the Truth whether I would render the place in the French Cisteaux or retain the Latine name Cistercium I preferred the latter because our English word Cistercians hath most conformity therewith What is R. Brooke his Sister-senses Brother-senses or Non-senses to me This spends time in writing money in buying pains in reading makes some more angry none more knowing Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 268. But be he who he himself or any other pleaseth brother if they will to St. George on Horseback Our Author not satisfying himself in that Equitius who is supposed to be the first Founder of Monks in England makes him in scorn to be the Brother of St. George on Horse back that is to say a meer Chimera a Legendary Saint a thing of nothing The Knights of that most noble Order are beholding to him for putting their Patron in the same Rank with St. Equitius of whose existence on the Earth he can finde no Constat Fuller I honour the Knights of that noble Order as much as the Animadvertor himself Their Ribbands though now wearing out apace seem in my eyes as fair and fresh as when first put on I doe not deny but much doubt of St. George as he is presented with his improbable Atchievements Yet grant the whole History onely Emblematical and Allegorical of Christ rescuing his Church from the might and malice of Satan no Diminution of Honour at all is thereby to the Fellows of that noble Order Dr. Heylin But I would have him know how poorly soever he thinks of St. George on Horseback that there hath more been said of him his Noble birth Atchievements with his death and Martyrdome than all the Friends our Author hath will or can justly say in defence of our present History Fuller The Animadvertor might have done well to instanced in that Author which hath been the Champion for this Champion and hath so substantially asserted him If in this passage he reflecteth on his own Book on that Subject he hath lookt so long on St. George he hath forgot Solomon Let another praise thee and not thy own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips For my part I am yet to seek what service he hath done to the Church of God so busie to make DOWN SABBATH and UP St. GEORGE Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 270 So they deserve some commendation for their Orthodox Judgement in maintaining some Controversies in Divinity of importance against the Jesuites Our Author speaks this of the Dominicans or preaching Fryers who though they be the sole active managers of the Inquisition deserve notwithstanding
busie to throw dirt on others Any man may be witty in a biting way and those who have the dullest brains have commonly the sharpest teeth to that purpose But such caâ—nal mirth whilest it tickleth the flesh doth wound the soul. And which was the 〈◊〉 these baâ—â— Books would give a great advantage to the General foe and Papists would make too much uâ—e thereof against Protestant Religion especially seeing an Archangel thought himself too good to bring and Satan not bad enough to have railing speeches brought against him Reader what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal Libels Dr. Heylin For if our Authors rule be good fol. 193. That the fault is not in the Writer if he truly cite what is false on the credit of another they had no reason to examine punctually the truth of that which tended so apparently to the great advantage of their cause and party c. Fuller I say again the Writer is faultless who truly cites what is false on the CREDIT of another alwayes provided that the other who is quoted hath Credit and be not a lying Libeller like these Pasauls If this Rule be not true the Animadvertor will have an hard task of it to make good all in his Geography on his own knowledge who therein hath traded on trust as much as another Dr. Heylin But I am weary and ashamed of raking in so impure a kennel and for that cause also shall willingly pass over his apology for Hacket that blasphemous wretch and most execrable Miscreant justly condemned and executed for a double Treason against the King of Kings in Heaven and the Queen on earth Fuller I appeal to the Reader whether I have not in my Church History wrote most bitterly and deservedly against Him only I took occasion by Hackets badness to raise our thankfulness to God If my meat herein please not the Animadvertors pallat let him leave it in the Dish none shall eat thereof against their own stomacks for fear of a surfeit Dr. Heylin Of whom he would not have us think fol. 204. that he and his two Companions his two Prophets for so they called themselves were not worse by nature than all others of the English Nation the natural corruption in the hearts of others being not less headstrong but more bridled And finally that if Gods restraining grace be taken from us we shall all run unto the same excess of Riot Which Plea if it be good for Hacket will hold good for Iudas and pity it is that some of our fine wits did never study an apology for him c. Fuller Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 214. At Antwerp he was ordained Minister by the Presbytery there and not long after that he was put in Orders by the Presbytery of a forain Nation Here have we Ordination and putting into Orders ascribed to the Presbytery of Antwerp a Mongrel company consisting of two blew Aprons to each Cruel night cap and that too in such positive terms and without any the least qualification that no Presbyterian in the pack could have spoke more plainly c. Fuller It is better to weare a Cruel Night-cap than a cruel heart causelesly cavilling at every man Mr. Travers was ordained Minister or Priest by the Presbytery of Antwerp and never had other Ordination I only relate that it was so de facto and appeal to the Reader whether my words import the least countenance and approbation thereof though the sin had not been so hainous if I had so done Dr. Heylin Only I shall make bold to quit my Author with a merry tale though but one for an hundred and 't is a tale of an old jolly popish Priest who having no entertainment for a friend who came to him on a Fasting day but a piece of Pork and making conscience of observing the appointed Fast dipt it into a tub of water saying down Pork up Pike Satisfied with which device as being accustomed to transubstantiate he well might be he caused it to be put into the pot and made ready for dinner But as the Pork for all this suddain piece of wit was no other than Pork so these good fellowes of the Presbytery by laying hands upon one another act as little as he The parties so impos'd upon impos'd upon indeed in the proper notion are but as they were Lay-bretheren of the better stamp Ministers if you will but not Priests nor Deacons nor any wayes Canonically enabled for divine performances Fuller It is not a fortnight since I heard proclamation against the selling of Porke because about London fatted with the flesh of diseased horses I suspect some unwholsomness in the Animadvertors Pork-story especially as applyed and therefore will not meddle therewith Dr. Heylin But fearing to be chidden for his levity I knock off again following my Author as he leaâ—s me who being over shoes will be over boots also He is so lost to the High Royalist and covetous Conformist that he cannot be in a worse case with them than he is already Fuller If I be lost with the high Royalists and covetous Conformists I hope I shall be found by the low Royalists and liberal Conformists However may God be pleased to finde my soul and I pass not with whom I be lost There are a sort of men who with Dr. Manwaring maintain that Kings may impose without Parliaments what taxes they please and the Subjects bound to payment under pain of Damnation a principle introductory to tyranny and slavery These I term high Royalists and I protest my self as to dissent in judgement from them so not to be at all ambitious of their favour Dr. Heylin And therefore having declared himself for a Presbyterian in point of Government he will go thorough with his work c. Fuller Where have I declared my self for a Presbyterian in point of Government who never scattered sylable and if I did I would snatch it up again to countenance such presumption I confess I said That Mr. Travers was made Minister or Priest by the Presbytery at Antwerp that is made Minister so far forth as they could give and he receive the Ministerial Character who never had it otherwise impressed upon him Suppose a Knightâ— Might not a Historian say such a man was made a Knight by such a power of person not engaging himself to justifie his Authority that made him And by the same proportion I relating Mr. Travers made Minister at Antwerp am not concerned to justifie nor by my expression doe I any way approve their Minister-making if they have no Commission thereunto I cannot close with the Animadvertor in his uncharitable censure of the Ministery of forain Protestant Churches rendring them utterly invalid because ordained by no Bishops Cain as commonly believed is conceived to have killed a fourth part of mankinde by murthering Abel but the Animadvertors cruelty to Protestants hath exceeded this proportion in spiritually killing more than
of parchment out of his bosome and gave it to the Lord Keeper Williams who read it to the Commons four severall times East West North and South fol. 123. Thirdly the Lord Keeper who read that Scrole was not the Lord Keeper VVilliams but the Lord Keeper Coventry the Seal being taken from the Bishop of Lincoln and committed to the custody of Sir Thomas Coventry in October before And therefore fourthly our Author is much out in placing both the Coronation and the following Parliament before the change of the Lord Keeper and sending Sir Iohn Suckling to fetch that Seal at the end of a Parliament in the Spring which he had brought away with him before Michaelmas Term. But as our Author was willing to keep the Bishop of Lincoln in the Deanry of Westminster for no less then five or six years after it was confer'd on another so is he as desirous to continue him Lord Keeper for as many months after the Seal had been entrusted to another hand Fuller This also is an errour I neither can nor will defend the Lord Keeper Williams put for the Lord Keeper Coventry which hath betrayed me to some consequentiall incongruities I will not plead for my self in such a Suit where I foresee the Verdict will go against me Onely I move as to mitigation of Costs and Dammages that greater slips have fallen from the Pens of good Historians Mr. Speed in his Chronicle first Edition page 786. speaking of Henry eldest son to King Henry the eighth maketh Arch-Bishop Cranmer mistaken for Warham his God-father twenty four years before Cranmer ever sat in that See I write not this to accuse him but in part to excuse my self by paralleling mine with as evident a mistake I hope my free confession of my fault with promise of emendation of It and the Appendants thereof in my next Edition will meet with the Reader 's absolution And let the Animadvertor for the present if so pleased make merry and feast himself on my mistake assuring him that he is likely to fast a long time hereafter Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 122. The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshal of England the Duke of Buckingham as Lord high Constable of England for that day went before his Majesty in that great Solemnity In this passage and the next that follows our Author shewes himself as bad an Herald in marshalling a Royal Show as in stating the true time of the creation of a noble Peer Here in this place he placeth the Earl Marshall before the Constable whereas by the Statute 31 H. 8. c. 10. the Constable is to have precedency before the Marshall Nor want there precedents to shew that the Lord High Constable did many times direct his Mandats to the Earl Marshall as one of the Ministers of his Court willing and requiring him to perform such and such services as in the said Precepts were expressed Fuller My Heraldry is right both in Place and Time The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshall went after the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High Constable though going before him For Barons went in this Royall Procession at the Kings Coronation before Bishops Bishops before Viscounts Viscounts before Earls the meaner before the greater Officers of State Thus the Lord Constable though the last was the first because of all Subjects nearest to the person of the Soveraign It seemeth the dayes were very long when the Animadvertor wrote these causless cavills which being now grown very short I cannot afford so much time in confuting them This his cavilling mindeth me of what he hath mistaken in his Geography For the younger son of an English Earl comming to Geneva desired a Carp for his dinner having read in the Doctor 's Geography that the Lemman Lake had plenty of the Fish and the best and biggest of that kind The people wondred at his desire of such a dainty which that place did not afford but told him That they had Trouts as good and great as any in Europe Indeed learned Gesner doth observe that the Trouts caught in this Lake sent to and sold at Lions are mistaken for Salmons by strangers unacquainted with their proportions It seems the Animadvertor's Pen is so much given to cavilling that he turned Trouts into Carps though none of them so great as this his CARP at me for making the Lord Marshall to go before the Lord Constable at the King's Coronation Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Ibid. That the Kings Train being six yards long of Purple Vâ—lvet was held up by the Lord Compton and the Lord Viscount Dorcester That the Lord Compton was one of them which held up the Kings Train I shall easily grant he being then Master of the Robes and thereby challenging a right to perform this service But that the Lord Viscount Dorcester was the other of them I shall never grant there being no such Viscount at the time of the Coronation I cannot say but that Sir Dudley Carlton might be one of those which held up the Train though I am not sure of it But sure I am that Sir Dudley Carlton was not made Baron of Imber-court till towards the latter end of the following Parliament of Anno 1606. nor created Viscount Dorcester untill some years after Fuller It is a meer mistake of the Printer for Viscount Doncaster son of and now himself the Earl of Carlile whose Father having a great Office in the Wardrobe this place was proper for him to perform All will presume me knowing enough in the Orthography of his Title who was my Patron when I wrote the Book and whom I shall ever whilst I live deservedly honour for his great bounty unto me Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 122. The Lord Arch-bishop did present his Majesty to the Lords and Commons East West North South asking their minds four severall times if they did consent to the Coronation of King Charls their lawfull Soveraign This is a piece of new State-doctrine never known before that the Coronation of the King and consequently his Succession to the Crown of England should depend on the consent of the Lords and Commons who were then assembled the Coronation not proceeding as he after telleth us till their consent was given four times by Acclamations Fuller I exactly follow the Language of my worthy Intelligencer a Doctor of Divinity still alive rich in Learning and Piety present on the place and an exact observer of all passages and see no reason to depart to depart from it I am so far from making the Coronation of the Soveraign depend on the consent of his Subjects that I make not the Kingly power depend on his Coronation who before it and without it is lawfull and effectuall King to all purposes and intents This was not a consent like that of the Bride to the Bride-groom the want whereof doth null the Marriage but a meer ceremoniall one in majorem Pompam which did not make but manifest not constitute but
declare his power over his people So that the King got not one single mite of Title more than he had before this four-fold Acclamation Dr. Heylyn And this I call piece of new State-Doctrine never known before because I find the contrary in the Coronation of our former Kings For in the form and manner of the Coronation of King Edward 6. described in the Catalogue of Honour set forth by Thomas Mills of Canterbury Anno 1610. we find in thus The King being carried by certain noble Courtiers in another Chair unto the four sides of the Stage was by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared unto the people standing round about both by Gods and Mans Lawes to be the right and lawfull King of England France and Ireland and proclaimed that day to be Crowned Consecrated and Annointed unto whom he demanded Whether they would obey and serve or not By whom it was again with a loud cry answered God save the King and Ever live his Majesty The same we have in substance but in fewer words in the Coronation of King Iames where it is said that The King was shewed to the People and that they were required to make acknowledgement of their allegiance to his Majesty by the Arch-Bishop which they did by acclamations Assuredly the difference is exceeding vast betwixt obeying and consenting betwixt the Peoples acknowledging their alliegance and promising to obey and serve their lawfull Soveraign and giving their consent to his Coronation as if it could not be performed without such consent Fuller The hinge of the controversie turneth on the criticall difference betwixt these two phrases Acknowledging their allegiance to their Soveraigne Giving consent to his Coronation The Animadvertor endeavours to widen the distance betwixt them and make the difference vast yea exceeding vast against the will of the words vvhich are well inclined to an agreement there being a Vicinity yea Affinity betvvixt them since such who vvill not acknowledge their Allegiance will not give-consent to his Coronation and such vvho will consent thereunto will acknowledge their allegiance I refer my self wholly in this difference to the Arbitration of Mr. Mills the same Author and Edition cited by the Animadvertor who speaking of the antient form of the Coronation of the Kings of England in reference to this passage thus expresseth himself After the King hath a little reposed himself in the Chair or Throne erected upon the Scaffold then the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall go unto the four squares of the Scaffold and with a loud voice Ask the good liking of the people concerning the Coronation of the King Small I am sure is the difference betwixt consenting and good-liking However the Kings Coronation though following after did not depend on such consent good-liking or acknowledging of Allegiance seeing amongst our English Kings an Vsurper's Title was not the better with nor a lawfull Prince's the worse without such ceremonies of State Dr. Heylyn pag. 202. Nor had the late Arch-Bishop been reproacht so generally by the common people and that reproach publish'd in severall Pamphlets for altering the King's Oath at his Coronation to the infringing of the Liberties and diminution of the Rights of the English Subjects had he done them such a notable piece of service as freeing them from all promises to obey and serve and making the Kings Coronation to depend on their consent For Bishop Laud being one of that Committee which was appointed by the King to review the form and order of the Coronation to the end it might be fitted to some Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England which had not been observ'd before must bear the greatest blame in this alteration if any such alteration had been made as our Author speaks of because he was the principall man whom the King relied on in that business Fuller This proceedeth on the former foundation which being false and confuted the superstructure sinketh therewith Dr. Heylyn But our Author tells us in his Preface that this last Book with divers of the rest were written by him when the Monarchy was turn'd into a State And I dare believe him He had not else so punctually conform'd his language to the State-doctrin by which the making and consequently the unmaking of Kings is wholly vested in the People according to that Maxim of Buchanan Populo jus est imperium cui velit deferat than which there is not a more pestilent and seditious passage in his whole Book De jure Regni apud Scotos though there be nothing else but treason and sedition in it Fuller What I wrote in this point I wrote in my PREFACE that it might be obvious to every Eye viz. That the first three Books of my Church History were for the main written in the Reign of the late King the other nine since Monarchy was turn'd into a State My language in the latter Books forbeareth such personall passages on the King and his Posterity which in his life-time were as consistent with my loyalty as since inconsistent with my safety I will instance in one of them Church-History Book 3. Page 52. Some of whose Offspring King Iohn 's shall flourish in free and full power on the English Throne when the Chair of Pestilence shall be burnt to ashes and neither Tripple Crown left at Rome to be worn nor any Head there which shall dare to wear it But if the Animadvertor or any by him employed can in any my nine last Books discover a syllable sounding to the disparagement of the Kings person or power to any impartiall Ear let me who so long fed on the King's large diet be justly famished for my unthankfulnesse As for Buchanan as I admire his Poetry so I dislike his Divinity especially in this point desiring that his Principles may never come South the River Tweed and if offering it may be drowned in their passage Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 123. Then as many Earls and Barons as could conveniently stand about the Throne did lay their hands on the Crown on his Majesty's head protesting to spend their bloods to maintain it to him and his lawfull Heirs A promise faithfully performed by many of them some losing their lives for him in the open field others exhausting their Estates in the defence of his many more venturing their whole fortunes by adhering to him to a confiscation A Catalogue of which last we may find subscribed to a Letter sent from the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled in Oxford to those at Westminster Anno 1643. And by that Catalogue we may also see what and who they were who so ignobly brake faith vvith him all those whose names we find not in that subscription or presently superadded to it being to be reckoned amongst those who instead of spending their blood to maintain the Crown to Him and to his lawful Successors concurred vvith them either in opere or in voto who despoiled him of it And to say truth they were revvarded as
no Topick so usefull in his Logick as the rule of Contraries Contraria juxta se posi a magis elucescunt Upon which ground the better to set off Bishop Andrews this poor Archbishop must be charged with want of moderation in enjoyning his own private practises and opinions upon other men And here that Bishop Iuxon might appear with the greater lustre the said Arch-bishop with all his passions and infirmities must stand by for a foil He had indeed no such command upon his passions as to be at all times of equall temper especially when wearied with the businesse of the Councill-Table and the High-Commission But as he was soon hot so he was soon cool'd and so much is observed by Sir Edward Dering though his greatest adversary and the first that threw dirt in his face in the late long Parliament who telleth us of him that the roughness of his uncourtly nature sent most men discontented from him but so that he would often of himself find waies and means to sweeten maâ—y of them again when they least looked for it In this more modest then our Author who gives us nothing of this Prelate but his vvants and vveaknesses But of this reverend Prelaâ—â— he vvill give cause to speak more hereafter Fuller There were other Clergy men Privy-Counsellors beside Arch-Bishop Laud Dr. Abbots Neil Harsnet Williams c. And therefore the Animadvertors Collection of my words cannot be conclusive in Reference to Arch-Bishop Laud I confesse else where I do reckon Anger amongst his personall imperfections which a Historian may do without any wrong at all The spirit of God saying Elias was subject to like passions as we are I am confident as angry as Arch-Bishop Laud was He would not have bin angry with me for writing of it as sensible of and sorrowfull for his owne imperfection therein I am much of the mind of Sr. Edward Dering that the roughnesse of his un-court-like nature sweetned many men when they least looked for it surprizing some of them and my selfe for one with unexpected Courtesies But whereas I am accused for giving in nothing of this Prelate but his wants and vveaknesses it vvill not be long before my innocence herein vvill appeare Dr. Heylyn Let us now on unto another of a different judgment his profest enemy Mr. Prin of whom thus our Author fol. 157. Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glostershire c. and began with the writing of some Orthodox Books In this story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings our Author runs into many errors which either his love to the man or zeal to the good cause or carelesnesse of what he writes have brought upon him Fuller If I have run into so many errours it will be charity in the Animadvertor fairly to lead me back again a foot-pace into the truth and then he shall have thanks for his pains alwaies provided he doth not pinch me by the arm as he conducteth me which will turn my thanks into anger But seeing the Animadvertor careth for both alike from my hands let him do as he pleaseth Next we have his tripartite History of my errors which he will have to proceed from one of these three causes 1. Love to the person of Mr. Prin. To whom I professe I have no fondnesse but likeing the Motto of Luther In quo aliquid Christi video illum diligo I must on that account have a kindness for him 2. Zeal to their good cause which I behold as a jeer and treading on the toes of Scripture Galatians 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing 3. Carelesnesse of what I write But seeing now the Animadvertor's hand is in his Arithmetick in counting of causes of my mistakes his charity might have found a â—ourth worth all the other three and imputed my errors to that infirmity which alwaies attendeth human nature However let us proceed Dr. Heylyn Whereas our Author telleth us that Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire Bath is not in Glocester-shire but a chief City in the County of Somerseâ— Fuller These are ANI-MAD-VERSIONS indeed when a Writer's words are madly verted inverted perverted against his true intent and their Grammaticall sense My words run thus Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire where Bath is walled about with a Parenthesis not essentiall to the Sentence thus perfect without it Mr. William Prin was born in Glocester-shire These walls the Animadvertor hath most dis-ingenuously dismantled to lay Bath open and if possible to bring it into Glocester-shire that so he may have something to cavil at me Indeed Bath is not in but within three miles of Glocester-shire and the next eminent place to the Village of Mr. Prin's nativity When Towns stand in the confines of two Counties is it not proper enough to say Such a one was born about London in Surrey though London be in Middlesex or about Windsor in Buckingham-shire though Windsor be in Bark-shire Mr. Fox writing in his own defence against such as traduced him Some saith he do not cavill because they have found fault but do find faults because they may cavill And be it reported to the Reader whether the Animadvertor may be accounted one of them And now the Animadvertor having a little refreshed himself in my Crosse-Bath and somewhat pleased his spirit of opposition he thus proceedeth Dr. Heylyn Secondly whereas he saith that he began with the writing of some Orthodox Books Though I look on Mr. Prin so far forth as I am able to judge by some Books of his not long since published as a man of a far more moderate spirit than I have done formerly yet can I not think his first Books to have been so Orthodox as our Author makes them For not to say any thing of his Perpetuity c. Fuller But I must and will say something of his Perpetuity of the Regenerate Man his Estate as being that which is particularly named in my Margin and chiefly intended by me A Book wherein an usefull necessary and comfortable Truth is learnedly defended A Book which will perpetuate the memory of the Writer who had he proceeded and continued as he began none could have took just exception at or got just advantage against him Dr. Heylyn As for the Books of Mr. Prin entituled Lame Giles his Haltings Cozen 's cozening Devotions and his Appendix to another they have many things repugnant to the Rules and Canons of the Church of England No greater enemy against howing at the Name of Iesus nor greater enemy to some Ceremonies here by Law established In which particulars if our Author think him to be Orthodox he declares himself to be no true son of the Church of England Fuller I confess in this his numerous offspring his younger children were nor so vigorous as his first born termed in the Scripture the might and beginning of their fathers strengâ—h they were of a weaker
Commissioners More of this fine stuff we may see hereafter In the mean time we may judge by this remnant of the whole Piece and find it upon proof to be very sleight and not worth the wearing For first the Gentleman could not and our Author cannot chuse but know that a Convocation and a Synod as us'd in England of late times are but the same one thing under divers names the one borrowed from a Grecian the other from a Latin Originall The Convocation of the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury being nothing but a Provinciall Synod as a Nationall Synod is nothing else but the Convocation of the Clergy of both Provinces Secondly our Author knowes by this time that the Commission which seems to makes this doughty difference changed not the Convocation into a Synod as some vainly think but onely made that Convocation active in order to the making of Canons which otherwise had been able to proceed no further then the grant of Subsidies Thirdly that nothing is more ordinary then for the Convocations of all times since the Reformation to take unto themselves the name of Synods For the Articles of Religion made in the Convocation Anno 1552. are called in the Title of the Book Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi convenit c. The same name given to those agreed on in the Convocation Anno 1562. as appears by the Title of that Book also in the Latin Edition The Canons of the year 1571. are said to be concluded and agreed upon in Synodo inchoatâ Lond. in aede Divi Pauli c. In the year 1575. came out a Book of Articles with this Title following viz. Articles whereupon it was agreed by the most reverend father in God the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and other the Bishops and the whole Clergy in the Province of Canterbury in the Convocation or synod holden at Westminster The like we find in the year 1597. being the last active Convocation in Queen Elizabeth's time in which we meet with a Book entituled Constitutiones Ecclesiasticae c. in Synodo inchoatâ Londini vicesimo quinto die mensis Octobris Fuller I request the Reader would be pleased to call to his remembrance a passage of the Animadvertors on my fifth Book relating to the Reigne of King Henry the Eighth I must confess my self to be at a loss in this intricate Labyrinth unless perhaps there were some criticall difference between a SYNOD and a CONVOCATION the first being called by the Arch-bishops in their severall and respective Provinces as the necessities of the Church the other onely by the King as his occasions and affairs did require the same I find my self now in the like labyrinth and can meet with no Ariadne's thread to extricate my self I confess commonly CONVOCATION and SYNOD pass for Synonyma's signifying one and the same thing yet some make this nice difference 1. Convocation which is in the beginning and ending parallel with the Parliament 2. Synod which is called by the King out of Parliament I acknowledge my self a Seeker in this point and will not wilfully bolt mine eyes against the beams of Truth by whomsoever delivered Mean time I crave leave to enter this my dissatisfaction herein seeing the Animadvertor so lately did confess his in a thing of the like nature Dr. Heylyn Our Author finally is to know that though the members of the two Convocations of York and Canterbury did not meet in person yet they communicated their counsells the results of the one being dispatcht unto the other and there agreed on or rejected as they saw cause for it Fuller I am not to know it for I knew it before and nothing in my Book appears to the contrary that the two Provinciall Synods privately did communicate their transactions as they were in fieri in the making and at last publickly viz. when We at Westminster had compleated the Canons by Our subscription thereunto Dr. Heylyn Which laid together shewes the vanity of another passage in the Speech of Sir Edward Deering where he vapoureth thus viz. A strange Commission wherein no one Commissioner's name is to be found a strange Convocation that lived when the Parliament was dead a strange holy Synod where one part never saw never conferred with the other Lastly Sir Edward Deering seems to marvell at the Title of the Book of Canons then in question expressing that they were treated upon in Convocation agreed upon in Synod And this saith he is a new Mould to cast Canons in never us'd before But had he looked upon the Title of the Book of Canons Anno 1603. he had found it otherwise The Title this viz. Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall treated by the Bishop of London President of the Convocation for the Province of Canterbury c. and agreed upon with the Kings Majesty's licence in their Synod begun at London Anno 1603. And so much for the satisfaction of all such persons whom either that Gentleman or this our Author have mis-informed and consequently abused in this particular Fuller He hath now vapoured out that which by the Apostle is termed even a vapour which appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Being dead the Animadvertor might have spared this expression upon him I believe neither he nor the Author did wittingly or willingly mis-informe any and therefore cannot by any charitable pen be justly condemned for abusing them Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Ibid. Now because great Bodies move slowly c. it was thought fit to contract the Synod into a select Committee of some twenty six beside the Prolocutor No such contracting of the Synod as our Author speaks of There was indeed a Committee of twenty six or thereabouts appointed to consider of a Canon for uniformity in some Rites and Ceremonies of which number were the principall of those whom he calls Dissenters and our Author too amongst the rest who having agreed upon the Canon it was by them presented to the rest of the Clergy in Convocation and by them approv'd And possible it is that the drawing up o◠some other Canons might be referr'd also to that Committee as is accustomed in such cases without contracting the whole House into that small body or excluding any man from being present at their Consultation Fuller I know not what offence the word contracting may give but my meaning obvious to any Reader is this that a select Committee was appointed to prepare matters of greatest importance No member being excluded from being present at but from giving a Vote in that Consultation Dr Heylyn But whereas our Author afterwards tells us that nothing should be accounted the Act of the House till thrice as he takes it publickly voted therein It is but as he takes it or mistakes it rather and so let it go Fuller He might have allowed me the liberty of that modest Parenthesis without carping at it Some things I confesse having since better informed my self passed at the first
and Author's Joynt-desires might have taken Effect there had been no difference about this passage in my Book Tuque domo proprià nos Te Praesul Poteremur Thou hadst enjoy'd thy house and we Prelate had enjoyed Thee But alas it is so He is still and still when all other Bishops are released detained in the Tower where I believe he maketh Gods Service his perfect freedom My words as relating to the time when I wrote them containe too much sorrowfull truth therein Dr. Heylyn Fourthly Archbishop Williams after his restoring unto liberty â—ent not into the Kings Quarters as our Author saith but unto one of his own houses in Yorkshire where he continued till the year 1643. and then came to Oxford not that he found the North too cold for him or the War too hot but to solicit for renâ—wing of his Commendam in the Deanry of Westminster the time for which he was to hold it drawing towards an end Fuller Nothing false or faulty The Arch-bishop of York stayed some weeks after his enlargement at Westminster thence he went privately to the house of Sir Thomas Hedley in Huntingon shire and thence to his Palace at Caâ—ood nigh York where he gave the King a magnificent Intertainment King James setled the Deanry of Westminster under the great Seal on Dr. Williams so long as he should continue Bishop of Lincoln Hinc illa Lacrimae hence the great heaving and hussing at Him because He would not resigne it which was so signal a Monument of his Master's favour unto him Being Arch-bishop of York King Charls confirmed his Deanry unto him for three years in lieu of the profits of his Arch-bishoprick which the King had taken Sede vacante So that it is probable enough the renuing that Tearm might be a Joynt-Motive of his going to Oxford But I see nothing which I have written can be cavilled at except because I call Yorkshire the King's Quarters which as yet was the Kings WHOLE when the Arch-bishop first came thither as being a little before the War began though few Weeks after it became the King's Quarters Such a Prolepsis is familiar with the best Historians and in effect is little more then when the Animadvertor calleth the Gag and Appello Caesarem the Books of Bishop Montague who when they were written by him was no though soon after a Bishop Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 196. Some of the aged Bishops had their tongues so used to the language of a third Estate that more then once they ran on that reputed Rock in their speeches for which they were publickly shent and enjoyned an acknowledgment of their mistake By whom they were so publickly shent and who they were that so ingenuously acknowledged their mistake as my Author telleth us not so neither can I say whether it be true or false Fuller I tell you again It is true The Earl of Essex and the Lord Say were two of the Lords though this be more then I need discover who checked them And of two of those Bishops Dr. Hall late Bishop of Norwich is gone to God and the other is still alive Dr. Heylyn But I must needs say that there was small ingenuity in acknowledging a mistake in that wherein they had not been mistaken or by endeavouring to avoid a reputed Rock to run themselves on a certain Rock even the Rock of Scandall Fuller Their brief and generall acknowledgment that they vvere sorry that they had spoken in this point vvhat had incurred the displeasure of the Temporall Lords was no trespass on their own ingenuity nor had shadovv of scandall to others therein I confess men must not bear fals-witness either against themselves or others nor may they betray their right especially when they have not onely a personall concernment therein but also are in some sort Feoffees in trust for Posterity However vvhen a predominant Power plainly appears which will certainly over-rule their cause against them without scandall they may not to say in Christian prudence they ought to wave the vindication of their priviledges for the present waiting wishing and praying for more moderate and equall times wherein they may assert their right with more advantage to their cause and less danger to their persons Dr. Heylyn For that the English Bishops had their vote in Parliament as a third Estate and not in the capacity of temporal Barons will evidently appear by these reasons following For first the Clergy in all other Christian Kingdoms of these Northwest 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 in his De Repub. lib. 3. For which consult also to the Generall History of Spain as in point of practise lib. 9 10 11 14. In Hungary as witnesseth Bonfinius Dec. 2. l. 1. In Poland as is verified by Thunus also lib. 56. In Denmark as Pontanus telleth us in Historia rerum Danicarum l. 7. The Swedes observing antiently the same form and order of Government as was us'd by the Danes The like we find in Camden for the Realm of Scotland in which antiently the Lords Spirituall viz. Bishops Abbots Priors made the third Estate And certainly it were very strange if the Bishops and other Prelates in the Realm of England being a great and powerfull body should move in a lower Sphere in England then they do elsewhere But secondly not to stand onely upon probable inferences we find first in the History of Titus Livius touching the Reign and Acts of King Henry the fifth that when his Funerals were ended the three Estates of the Realm of England did assemble togeâ—her and declared his Son King Henry the sixth being an Infant of eight months old to be their Soveraign Lord as his Heir and Successor And if the Lords Spirituall did not then make the third Estate I would 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 Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons thereof Thirdly in the first Parliament of the said Richard lately 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 Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by Authority of the same it be pronounced decreed and declared That our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very and undoubted King of this Realm of England c. Fourthly it is acknowledged so in the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 3. where the Lords Spirituall and Temporall 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
these three notions the point in hand doth fall I am not bound to discover Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 207. Now began the great and generall purgation of the Clergy in the Parliaments Quarâ—ers c. Some of whose offences were so foul it is a shame to report them crying to justice for punishment And it was time that such a purgation should be made if their offences were so â—oul as our Author makes them But first our Author might have done well to have satisfied himselfe in all particulars before he rais'd so foul a scandall on his Christian Brethren and not to have taken them up upon hear-say or on no better grounds then the credit of the first Century which he after mentions Which modesty he might have learnt 1. From the Author of that scandalous and infamous Pamphlet whatsoever he was desisting from the writing of a second Century as being sensible that the Subject was generally odious And certainly if it were odious in that party to write the same it must be much more odious in our Author to defend the writing He might have learnt it 2. from the most excellent Master in the Schools of Piety and Morality which this Age hath given us even the King himselfe who as our Author telleth us fol. 208. would not give way that any such Book should be written of the vicious lives of some Parliament Ministers when such an undertaking was presented to him But if their Offences were so foul the Writer of the Century had some reason for what he did and our Author had some reason for what he saith especially if the putting in of one Herb had not spoil'd all the Pot of Pottage But first Qui alterum incusat probri seipsum intueri oporiet is a good rule in the Schools of Prudence and therefore it concerns our Author to be sure of this that all things be well at home both in his owne Person and in his Family before he throw so much foul dirt in the face of his Brethren In which respect Manutius was conceived to be the unfittest man in Rome as indeed he was to perform the Office of a Ceâ—sor though most ambitiously he affected and attain'd that Dignity of whom it is affirmed by Velleius Paterculus Nec quicquam objicere potuit Adolescentibus quod non agnosceret Senex that is to say that he was able to object no crime to the younger sort of which himselfe being then well in years was not also guilty And secondly Non temerè de fratre malt aliquid credendum esse was antiently a Rule in the Schools of Charity which our Author either hath forgotten or else never learned He would otherwise have examin'd the Proofs before he had pronounced the Sentence and not have positively condemned these poor men for such foul offences as cryed to justice for punishment and of such scandalous enormities as were not fit to be covered with the Mantle of Charity But he takes himselfe up at last with a doubt that there might want sufficient proof to convict them of it Nothing saith he can be said in their excuse if what was the main matter their crimes were sufficiently proved And if they were not sufficiently proved as indeed they were not no witnesse coming in upon Oath to make good the Charge our Author hath sufficiently prov'd himselfe an unrighteous Iudge an Accusator stratrum as we know who is in accusing and condemning them for scandalous enormities and foul offences branding them by the name of Baal and calling them unsavory Salt not fit to be thrown upon the Dunghill yet all this while to be unsatisfied in the sufficiency of the proof Decedis ab Officio Religiosi Iudicis is the least that can be said here and I say no more Onely I note what sport was made by that Century then and may be made hereafter of this part of the History in the Court of Rome to which the libellous Pamphlets of Martin-Mar-Prelate publisht in Queen Elizabeths time serv'd for Authentick Witnesses and sufficient evidence to disgrace this Church Nor have they spar'd to look upon this whole businesse as an act of divine Retaliation in turning so many of the Regular and Orthodox Clergy out of their Benefices and Preferments by our new Reâ—ormers under colour of some Scandalous Enormities by them committed under pretence whereof so many poor Monks and Fryers were as they say turn'd out of their Cells with like humanity by those which had the first hammering of the Reformation here by law estalisht Fuller First as to my selfe who am most knowing of my owne infirmities I will confesse them to God and not plead for them before man If God's restraining grace hath bridled â—e from Scandalous obnoxiousnesse may he alone have the honour thereof As for other paines and spots in my Soul I hope that He be it spoken without the least verball reflection who is the Fullers sope will scoure them forth with his Merit that I may appear clean by Gods Mercy I know full well who it is that is tearmed the Accuser of his Brethren even Satan himself Hence it is that one observeth he hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabolus Divell and so also in Italian French Spanish with some small variation It being good reason that he should keep his name in all Countries who keeps his nature in all places being a constant delator and traducer of Gods servants often without cause alwayes without measure But I hope I may say in this point Get thee behind me Satan I meane I may justly thrust both Name and Thing farre from me even to light where it deserveth Some of my Brethren or Fathers rather I reverence and admire for their eminences others I commend and will endeavour to imitate others guilty of humane infirmities I desire to conceale their faults and that not taking effect to excuse their persons Such as are past my pleading for fall under my pitty and have my Prayers that God would amend them But willingly much lesse causlessely I will not accuse any and my Pen and Tongue hath been and shall be tender of their Reputations Proceed I now to what I have written concerning the Sequestred Clergy of England wherein I will freely God-willing unbosome my mind and if I perish I perish I appeal to the Searcher of hearts if I did not desire to do them all just favour as I hope to find favour from him when I most need it But as Marriners when they have both Wind and Tide against them cannot make their desired Port in a straight Line and therefore are fain to fetch a compass Semnably I desiring to graâ—ifie my Brethren and not destroy my selfe was â—aine to go about that in any measure I might with safety do it And there was no compassing of it without compaceing it No reaching the End without going out of the Way First therefore I did acknowledge what indeed could not be concealed and what
it first affected and then we shall know whether forreign Protestant Churches will dandle this Infant or destroy it I mean whether they will declare for or Protest and remonstrate against it It will be time enough then for both our Survivor to return an answer Dr. Heylyn If not the Church of England had lost nothing by it as being HATED by the Calvinists and not lov'd by the Lutherans Fuller Short and sharp much matter in few Words and little Truth in much Matter Our Church of England in Relation to forraign Protestant Churches is here by the Animadvertor represented in a strange posture like another Ishmael whose hand was against every one and every one 's against Him That our Church is not HATED by the Calvinists appears by many and plain passages in the Books of those who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seeming Pillars amongst them Calvin Beza Zanchy Deodat Mollinaeus c. who notwithstanding some small differences betwixt us lovingly give us the Right hand of Fellowship The Animadvertor discovers himselfe as little States-man as Divine in advising the Church of England by making Foes of her Friends to make Friends of her Foes by incurring the Enmity of forreign Protestants thereby to procure the Amity of Papists The best is there is no danger to see that day The poor Woman in the Gospel was troubled with a double Issue the one of Blood the Life in her Body and the other of Money the Life-blood of her Estate but the latter was quickly stanched having spent all her Living on Physitians to no purpose Thus successelesse have their pains proved hitherto who have endeavoured an accommodation betwixt us and Rome so that the Wound betwixt us may justly be beheld as incurable Dr. Heylyn But our Author will not here delist so soon hath he forgotten his own Rule made in the case of Mr. Love and therefore mustereth up his faults viz. 1. Passion though an humane frailty 2. His Severity to his Predecessor easing him before his time and against his Will of his jurisdiction 3. His over-medling in State-matters 4. His imposing of the Scottish Liturgy Of all which we have spoke so much upon other Occasions that is to say Numb 246.251.289.259 and therefore do not count it necessary to adde any thing here Fuller I shall God willing remember and practise my Rule in the Case of Mr. Love when the Animadvertor I sear will be sound to have forgotten it here are four faulâ—s of the Arch-bishop mustered up by me and is it not a thin Muster indeed When a Gentleman was told that he would be much ashamed if all his faults were written in his forehead he in my Mind modestly and wittily replyed that he should be right glad that his Face could hold them all Happy is that man whose faults may be reduced to the number of Four I have in my Reply to the forecited pages of the Animadvertor returned my answer unto them and therefore to use his language account it unnecessary to adde any thing here I have done no wrong to the Arch-bishop's Memory if I have charged him with four â—aults and to overpoize them have given him many Commendations in several places of my Book which here I will sum up to confute that Loud and late Untruth of the Animadvertor when saying Page 218. Our Author gives us nothing of this PRELATE but his WANTS and WEAKNESSES The Praise I gave him is reducible to four heads NATURALLS or Corporalls about his Body or Person MORALS or Civills touching his demeanor to others INTELLECTUALLS whether Innate or Acquisite by his own Industry SPIRITUALLS or Supernaturalls to which his Benefactions as the fruit of a Lively Faith are reduced NATURALLS 1. Nephew to a Lord Major of LONDON therefore not basely Born page two hundred and sixteen Paragraph 71. 2. Chearfull in countenance Page 119. paragraph 84. 3. A sharpe and pierceing eye Ibidem 4. Gravity and quicknesse were well compounded in his Face Ibidem 5. So chearfull his Countenance when ascending the Scaffold as rather to gain a Crown than lose his Head page 215. paragr 68. MORALLS 6. He was temperate in his dyet pag. 218. parag 78. 7. Chaste in his Conversation ibid. 8. Plaine in his Apparrel ibid. paragr 79. 9. Not preferring his owne Kindred without merit ib. pa. 80. 10. Promoting Men of Learning and Abilyties ibid. 11. Covetousnesse he perfectly hated ibid. parag 81. 12. Had no project to raise a Name or Family ibid. 13. Abridged Courtiers Bribes pag. 218. paragr 76. 14. But not their Fees for Church Preferments ibid. 15. Not ambitious as appears by his refusing a CARDINALL'S CAâ— once and again offered him page 149. paragr 47. INTELLECTUALLS 16. He had a cleare Iudgement pag. 119. paragr 84. 17. Of a firme Memory ibid. 18. One of the greatest Schollars of our Nation page 216. par 71. 19. Having an Experimentall knowledge of all conditions of Clergy-men page 217. par 72. SPIRITUALLS 20. A strict Observer of the Lords-day in his own Person pag. 147. para 38. 21. Moderate in pressing the Book of sports in his owne Diocese ibid. par 41. 22. A worthy Instrument in moving King Charles to so pious a Work as the restoring of the Irish Impropriations pag. 149. paragr 45. Thus I did vvrite in his due praise as much as I durst and though lesse then his Friends expected more than I am thanked for All I vvill adde is this seeing his Head vvas cut off by the â—xe it had been madnesse in me to run my Neck into the Halter in taxing those of cruelty and unjustice vvhich caused his Execution Dr. Heylyn And so I leave him to his Rest in the BOSOME OF ABRAHAM in the LAND OF THE LIVING Fuller Bosome of Abraham is a Scripture-Expression to signifie the repose of the souls of such Saints vvho departed this life before the asscention of our Saviour into Heaven Where ever the bosome of Abraham be it is good to be there and hence it is frequently used by the Fathers to denote the happy condition even of such vvhich departed in the Faith since Christs ascention Quicquid illud est saith St. Augustine quod illo significatur sinu ibi Nebridius meus vivit dulcis amicus meus For the main it is a Synonymon vvith Heaven and probably all the persons therein are receptive of a higher degree of Glory after the Day of Iudgement LAND OF THE LIVING is an Old Testament-Phrase vvhich some narrow-breasted Commentators have confin'd to Temporal Happinesse but importeth much more in my Opinion even final Felicity as may appear by David his Expression I had fainted unlesse I had beleeved to see the goodness of the Lord in the LAND OF THE LIVING I have stay'd the longer in the Stating of these two Expressions that I may the more safely and sincerely concurre as I do with the Animadvertor's charity in the final Estate of this Prelate with whose Memory my Pen here
writ by one Sighing or singing readd by one Smiling or Frowning The Reader needs no Interpreter to expound the word Parliament as taken generally at this time Successe having beaten the sâ—â—se thereof into Mens Heads for the two Houses Loqui cum â—ulgo in this case I hope is no fault These two Houses at this time maintained their ENTHYMEM to be a compleat SYLLOGISM concluding all Persons under them presuming that the King though not Personally was Vertually with them A position which I have no calling to examine As for the Clause in the Article which hooked the University under Parliamentary Visitation heare how the Animadvertor reports it Dr. Heylyn I find indeed that it was agreed on by the Commissioners on both sides touching the Surrendry of that City That the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxon and the Governors and Students of Christ-Church of King H. 8. his Foundation and all other Heads and Governors Masters Fellows and Scholars of the Colledges Halls and Bodies Corporate and Societies of the same University and the publick Professors and Readers and the Orator thereof and all other persons belonging to the said University or to any Colledges or Halls therein shall and may according to their Statutes Charters and Customs enjoy their antient form of government subordinate to the immediate Authority and power of Parliament But I find not that any of the Heads or Delegates of that University were present at the making of this Article or consented to it or thought themselves oblig'd by any thing contained in it Fuller This last Clause was eagerly urged by the Committee against the Delegates of the University and I could wish they could as easily have untied the Knot as Answered the hardest Objection of Bellarmine in the Divinity-Schools The King when privately departing Oxford left if not a Commission at least Leave with the Lords to make as good â—earmes for themselves and all with them in the Citty besieged as the Enemy would give and they could get in that streightned condition The Vniversity therefore was urged by the Committee to have given an Implicite consent to these Articles and enjoying the Benefit they must share in the Burthen thereof To this the Delegates made many faire and Civill Answers strengthned with Law and Reason but alasse great are the Odds though Learning be the Answerer where Power is the Opponent Dr. Heylyn Nor indeed could it stand with reason that they should wave the patronage of a gracious Soveraign who had been a Nursing Father to them and put themselves under the arbitrary power of those who they knew minded nothing but destruction toward them And that the University did not think it selfe oblig'd by any thing contained in that Article appears even by our Author himselfe who tells us in this very passage that the Delegates from the University pleaded their priviledges before the Committee of Parliament that they were onely visitable by the King and such as should be deputed by him which certainly they had never done unlesse our Author will conclude them to be fools or madmen had they before submitted to that Paramount power which he adscribes unto the Houses Nor did the Houses of Parliament find themselves impowered by this clause of the Article to obtrude any such Visitation on them And therefore when the Delegates had pleaded and prov'd their priviledges a Commission for a Visitation was issued by the two Houses of Parliament in the name of the King but under the new broad Seal which themselves had made which notwithstanding the University stood still on their own defence in regard that though the Kings name was us'd in that Commission yet they knew well that he had never given his consent unto it Whereupon followed that great alteration both in the Heads and Members of most Colledges which our Author speaks of Fuller The Animadvertor endeavours to runne me on one of these dangerous Rocks either to condemne the University for Fools and Mad men whom I Love and Honour for Wise and Sober Persons or else to make me incurre the Displeasure of the Parliament And the Philosopher's Answer to the Emperour is well known That it is ill Disputing with them that can command LEGIONS The best is I am not bound to answer to this dangerous Dilemma keeping my selfe close to my Calling viz. Reporting vvhat vvas done but whether Iustly or unjustly let others decide The Animadvertor's Boldnesse herein is for me to admire not Imitate When an Old Man vvas demanded the Cause of his Confidence hovv he durst so freely tell a King of his faults he rendred a double Reason of his Boldnesse Orbitâ—s et Senectus One that he had no Children and therefore Careless to preserve Posterity the other that he vvas extreamely Old therefore lesse curious to keep that Life that vvas leaving him How it fareth vvith the Animadvertor in these two Particulars I know not sure I am for my self that I am not so old to be Weary of the World as I hope it is not of me and God having given me Children I vvill not destroy them and hazard my selfe by running into needlesse Dangers And let this suffice for an Answer Dr. Heylyn Nor deals he much more candidly in relating the proceedings of the Visitation vvhich vvas made in Cambridge the Visitors vvhereof as acting by the Paramount power of Parliament he more sensibly favoureth than the poor sufferers or malignant Members as he calls them of that University Fuller The Animadvertor sees more in me then I can see in my selfe and because vve are both Parties engaged the lesse to be credited in our owne Cause be it reported to the Reader if pleased to peruse the Conclusion of my History of Cambridge whether I cast not my Graines of Favour into the Scales of the poor Sufferers These I call not MALIGNANT MEMBERS but with this Qualification so tearmed And let not me be condemned for the Ill Language of others I say again As as an Historian I have favoured no side but told the Truth so I could not so far unman my selfe but that for Humanity sake to say no more I did pitty the Sufferers on which Account I incurred the displeasure of the Opposite Party the best is causelesse Anger being an Edglesse Sword I feare it the lesse Dr. Heylyn For whereas the Authour of the Book called Querela Cantabrigiensis hath told us of an Oath of Discovery obtruded by the Visitors upon severall persons whereby they were sworn to detect one another even their dearest friends Our Author vvho vvas out of the storm seeming not satisfied in the truth of this relation must vvrite to Mr. Ash who vvas one of those Visitors to be inform'd in that which he knew before Fuller No Person more proper or probable to inform me herein than Mr. Ash one of the Visitors who I believed did both know the Truth and would not tell a falsehood herein I was so far from desiring Information in
what as the Animadvertor saith I KNEW BEFORE that I protest I know IT NOT YET being left in such a Mist about this Oath of Discovery On the one side my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Gunning Fellow of Clare Hall eminent for his Learning and Honesty hath since assured me that such an Oath was offered and urged upon him by the Committee On the other side I am on just grounds daily confirmed in my Confidence that neither the Earl of Manchester nor any under him by his Command or Consent enforced such an Oath so that where to lay the Blame I know not and have neither List nor Leasure further to enquire who having Blistered my Fingers already will burn my Hands no more in so dangerous a subject Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds And on the reading of Mr. Ash his Answer declares expresly that no such Oath was tendred by him to that University But first Mr. Ash doth not absolutely deny that there was any such Oath but that he was a stranger to it and possibly he might be so far a stranger to it as not to be an Actor in that part of the Tragedy Secondly Mr. Ash onely saith that he cannot call to mind that any such thing was mov'd by the Earl of Manchester and yet I trow such a thing might be mov'd by the Earl of Manchester though Mr. Ash after so many years was willing not to call it to mind Or else if no such Oath was tendred by him as our Author is assur'd there was not that part of the Tragedy might be acted by Mr. Good the other Chaplain without communicating his Instructions to his fellow Visitor Fuller Mr. Ash on serious and Solemn recollection hath since given me Assurance both by his word of Mouth and Writing that no such Oath was urged to his knowledge and being a Minister of the Gospell I am in Charity and Conscience bound to believe Him Dr. Heylyn And therefore thirdly I would know why Mr. Good was not writ to also that having from him the like Certificate our Author might have had the better grounds for his unbelief before he had pronounc'd so positively against the Author of that Querela Fuller The reason was because Mr. Good was dead and had I known whither I did not know by what Carrier to convay my Letter unto him I pronounced not positively against Querela in point of the Oath which I left under very vehement Suspitions Dr. Heylyn Fourthly and finally it is not easie to be thought that the Author of that Book should have vented such a manifest falshood especially in a matter so derogatory to all Christian charity and that neither the Earl of Manchester nor either of these two Chaplains or any friends of theirs should in the space of ten years and more endeavour to wipe off such an odious imputation till our Author out of pure zeal to the Paramount-power played the Advocate in it Fuller I will freely give all my Fees for my Advocation to the Animadvertor and will Thank him too if he will be pleased to take them from me to himselfe It seemes I did not my Worke well who had nothing but displeasure for my Wages Possibly the Earl of Manchester might not know that the urging of such an Oath was objected against him and his and probably if he did know he satisfied himselfe in his own Integrity and Innocence leaving the Blame and Shame to fall on such as were guilty thereof Dr. Heylyn But to return again to Oxford one of the first effects which followed on the alteration before remembred though mentioned by our Author in another place was the rifling of the Treasury in Magdalen Colledge of which he tells us lib. 9. fol. 234. That a considerable sum of Gold being by Dr. Humphry who had been Master of that Colledge left in a Chest not to be opened except some great necessity urged thereunto was lately shar'd between Dr. Wilkinson who then held the place of President by the power of the Visitors and the fellows there But first Our Author is mistaken in Dr. Humphry though he be willing to entitle him whom he calls a moderate Non-conâ—ormisâ— to some benefaction The summe there found amounted to above twelve hundred double Pistolets the old Doctor having no fewer than one hundred for his part of the spoile and every fellow thirty a piece for theirs each Pistolet exchang'd at sixteen shillings six pence and yet the Exchanger got well by the bargain too Too great a sum for Dr. Humphry who had many Children and no provident Woman to his Wife to leave behind him to the Colledge had he been so minded The Money as the Tradition went in that Colledge was left there by the Founder to remedy and repair such ruines as either the casualty of fire or the ravages of a Civil warre might bring upon it to which the nature of the Coin being all French pieces remember that the English at that time were Masters of a great part of France gives a further testimony Fuller As I have been mistaken in the Person Dr. Humphry for Bishop Wainfleet Donour of this Gold following common Report therein so I could heartily have wished I had also erred in the Thing it self I mean that an A motion of such Devoted Treasure had never been done The Animadvertor might well have forborn his Sparring at the precious Memory of that learned and pious Dr. Humphry And the new mention of his name mindeth me of an old fault which the Animadvertor not long since laid to my charge viz. my calling of Thomas Bentham the DEANE saith he of Magdalens Oxford the CENSOR thereof Whereas I exactly followed the words of Dr. Humphry in his Latin Life of Iewel page 73. Tho. Benthamus quamvis CENSOR eo Anno c. And I humbly conceive that I having so good a Precedent as Dr. Humphry President of that Colledge I might as well call their Deane Censor in English as He doth in Latin Dr. Heylyn Secondly I would have our Author observe that those whom he accuseth of this act of Rapine vvere neither high Royalists nor covetous Conformists as vve knovv who vvords it but men agreeable to the times and of the same temper and affections vvhich himselfe is of the Conformists never being so covetous as to cast an eye tovvards it nor the high Royalists so ignoble in their greatest extreamities as to lay hands on it Fuller If I be one of their Persuasion who shared this Gold and I must be so because the Animadvertor doth say it I have acquitted my self a faithfull Historian in not consulting my own partie 's Credit but unpartially reporting the truth However I hope God will keep my hands that my fingers shall not have the GUILT of the Gold of Tholouse Dr. Heylyn And thirdly I must needs charge our Author vvith some partiality in aggravating this fact vvhich indeed cannot be excused vvith so many circumstances and passing over the like at Cambridge as
Bill of Charges the Church paid the reckoning the Dominican Fryer who translated it being rewarded with a Benefice and a good Prebend as the Bishop himselfe did signifie by letter to the Duke of Buckingham Fuller I have been credibly informed by those who have best cause to know it That it was done not onely by his procurement but at his Cost Though I deny not but that a benefice might be conferred on the Fryer in reward of his paines Thus far I am assured by such as saw it That the Bishop who had more skill in the Spanish then his policy would publiquely own did with his owne hand correct every sheet therein Dr. Heylyn And as for the printing of the book I cannot think that it was at his charges neither but at the charges of the Printer it not being usuall to give the Printer money and the copy too Fuller The Animadvertor so well practised in printing knowes full well That though i◠be usuall to give Money and Copies too for a saleable book which being Printed in our owne tongue is every mans Money yet a Spanish Book printed in England is chargeable meeting with few buyers because few understanders thereof Dr. Heylyn And Thirdly Taking it for granted that the Liturgy was translated and printed at this Bishop's charges yet does not this prove him to be so great an honourer of it as our Author makes him For had he been indeed a true honourer of the English Liturgy he would have been a more diligent attendant on it than he shewed himself never repairing to the Church at Westminster whereof he was Dean from the 18. of February 1635. when the businesse of the great Pew was judged against him till his Commitment to the Tower in Iuly 1637. Fuller One reason why he seldome came to Prayers to Westminster Church was because he was permitted but little to live there after he fell into the King's displeasure being often sent away the day after he came thither On the same token that once Sr. Iohn Cook being sent unto him to command him to avoid the Deanery Mr. Secretary said the Bishop what Authority have you to command a Man out of his owne House Which wrought so much on the old Knight that he was not quiet till he had gotten his owne pardon Dr. Heylyn Nor ever going to the Chappell of the Tower where he was a Prisoner to attend the Divine Service of the Church or receive the Sacrament from Iuly 1637. when he was committed to November 1640. when he was enlarged A very strong Argument that he was no such Honourer of the English Liturgy as is here pretended A Liturgy most highly esteemed in all places wheresoever it came and never so much vilified despis'd condemn'd as amongst our selves and those amongst our selves who did so vilifie and despise it by none more countenanced then by him who is here said to be so great an Honourer o◠it Fuller Though for reasons best known to himselfe he went not to Prayers in the Tower Chappell yet was he his own Chaplain to read them in his own Chamber And let me add this memorable passage thereunto During his durance in the Tower there was a Kinsman of Sr. William Balforés then Lieutenant a Scotish man and his name Mr. Melvin too who being mortally sick sent for Bishop Williams to pray with him The Bishop read to him the Visitation of the sick having fore-acquainted this dying man That there was a form of Absolution in this Prayer if he thought fit to receive it Wherewith Mr. Melvin was not onely well satisfied but got himselfe up as well as he could on his knees in the bed and in that posture received Absolution Dr Heylyn But for this Blow our Author hath his Buckler ready telling us Ibid. Not out of Sympathy to Non-conformists but Antipathy to Arch-bishop Laud he was favourable to some select Persons of that Opinion An Action somewhat like to that of the Earl of Kildare who being accused before Henry the Eighth for burning the Cathedrall Church of Cassiles in Ireland profess'd ingeniously That he would never have burnt the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Hate to that Bishop an Arch-Bishop of Ireland incited that mad Earl to burn his Cathedrall Church And hate to Bishop Laud the Primate and Metropolitan of all England stir'd up this Bishop to raise a more unquenchable Combustion in the Church of England So that we may affirm of him as Tertullian in another case of the Primitive Christians viz. Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum But are we sure that he was favourable to the Non-Conformists out of an antipathy to Bishop Laud onely I believe not so His antipathy to the King did as strongly byass him that way as any thing else For which I have the Testimony of the Author of the History of King Charls publisht 1656. who telleth us of him That being malevolently inclin'd about the losse of the great Seal c. Fuller I will not advocate for all the actions of Bishop Williams and though the Animadvertor beholds my pen as over-partiall unto him yet I know who it was that wrote unto me Semper es iniquior in Archiepiscopum Eboracensem I am a true honourer of his many excellent virtues and no excuser of his Faults who could heartily wish That the latter part of his Life had been like the beginning thereof Dr. Heylyn And so I take my leave of this great Prelate whom I both reverence for his Place and honour for his Parts as much as any And yet I cannot choose but say that I find more reason to condemn then there is to commend him so that we may affirm of him as the Historian doth of Cajus Caesar Son of Agrippa and Nephew to the great Augustus viz. Tam variè se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficiat as my Author hath it And with the same Character accommodated to our Author and this present History I conclude these Notes subjoyning onely this old Saying as well for my comfort as defence viz. Truth though it may be blam'd can never be sham'd Fuller Here the Animadvertor doth Tickle and Pinch me both together yet neither will I laugh nor cry but keep my former composure I will take no notice of a piece of MEZENTISM in his joyning of the Dead and Living together and conceive my selfe far unworthy to be parallel'd in the least degree with his Eminences However I will endeavour with the Gladiators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honestè decumbere that when I can fight no longer I may fall handsomely in the Scene of this Life May God who gave it have the glory of what is good in me my selfe the shame of what is bad which I ought to labour to amend To the Reverend and his Worthy Friend Dr. Iohn Cosin Dean of Peter-burgh SIR You may be pleased to remember
which were setled upon it by Divine Right Fuller I Report you concluded Deans and Chapters lands alienable without sin of Sacriledge from that particular Use yet so as that they ought still to be preserved to the Church in generall I confesse I neither was nor might be present in the Parliament and therefore must take it on Hear-say However I distinguish on hear-say which is double Hear-say Common Credible I conceive mine to be of the latter and better sort And I have no other way to defend my selfe than by appealing to many members of the House then present still alive and firmly remembring that transaction Surely Sir the Parliament never brought into question Whether things might be alienated from the Church which by Divine Right were setled thereon It was inconsistent with their prudence amounting in effect to this question Whether Gods or their power were the highest And Sir if you concluded no more than what you say you concluded what was never controverted by any Christian. Whereas you call me a FLASHY WRITER God forbid that in all my Books such a flash of folly and falshood should be found as falls from your Pen in your own praise Part. 1. pag. 32. lin 30 31. Albeit Dr. Burges performeth more service in that Church than any Bishop that ever sat there I read Act. 10.2 of a Cornelius praised by God for his Prayers and Alms but you are the first of the name which publickly in print commendeth himselfe And as for the Bishops of that See Have you forgotten William Barlow who in the Marian dayes exul in Germania inopem vitam ut potuit toleravit Preaching a practicall Sermon of patience and contentednesse to all posterity whilst another usurped his habitation What shall I speak of Sâ—ilâ— Montague c. What proportion I pray doth a petâ—y brook bear to a large LAKE If I be a flashy Writer you should have been so carefull as not to have brought fuell in your Book which I so soon may burn to ashes Part. 1. pag. 20. And that this was the high-way wherein the Popish Clergy of England long before as well as since the Conquest constantly travelled take one Testimony more of that famous Gildas the Elder surnamed Sapiens who being a Brittain Presbyter within the sixth Century or hundred of years after Christ thus chargeth the Popish Clergy of his time who had sacked their Principles from Augustine the Monk sent from Rome on purpose to advance the State and Pompe of the Clergy under Colour of planting the Christian faith in England For thus he saith Britannia habet sacerdotes c. Brittain saith he hath Priests but some of them very dolâ—s very many Ministers but many of them impudent ones Clergy men but very Thieves or Cheaters Pastors as they are termed but in truth Woolves standing to slay and flay the souls of the sheep for that they seek not the good of the people but the Grambing of their owne bellies They have Church houses but they never repaire to them unlesse for their own filthy lucre But know Sir that herein you are much mistaken in your Chronology for Gildas died saith Arch-bishop Usher in his Index-Chronolog pag. 1144. in the year of our Lord 570. Augustine the Monk came not over â—nto England untill the year 596. as â—s notoriously known to all that open a Book I am therefore confident that Gildas his complaint related onely to his Country-men the Brittish Clergy without the least reflection on the Saxon which as yet were unconverted pagans And therefore to say they had sucked in principles from Augustine the Monk is an Anti-Chronism which cannot be justified Respect Sir to your age degree and profession charms my Pen into some reverence unto you and because I hear abler Men are undertaking your Confutation I add no more but remain Your Loving Friend Thomas Fuller FINIS AN INDEX OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PERSONS and Passages in this BOOK TO THE READER ALthough a Methodicall Book be an Index to it self yet an Index is not to be contemned by the most Industrious Reader Whom we request to take notice of the following Particulars I. C. stands for Century B. for Book P. for Page ¶ for Paragraph II. In the two first Books memorables are ranked onely according to Centuries and Paragraphs but afterwards by Books III. Paragraph without page doth for brevity sake referre to that page which was last named IV. Page without Book on the same reason relates to the last Book that was named V. VVhere no Paragraph is named it sheweth that the page by it self is sufficient notification Lastly know that the discounting of Sheets to expedite the work at severall Presses hath occasioned in the Fifth book after page 200. compleated to go back again to page 153 surrounded in this fashion to prevent confusion AARON a Citizen of Caerlion martyred Cent. 4. ¶ 10. ABBEYS The prodigious expence in building and endowing them Cent. 10. ¶ 40. multitudes of them causeth the Danish invasion ¶ 51. mischiefs done by them b. 2. p. 282 283 284. prime Officers and Officines p. 285 286 287. the civil benefits by them p. 296 297 298. presage of their ruin p. 300. and offers to overthrow them p. 301 302. the lesser which could not expend 200. pounds a year bestowed on the King p. 310 311. and the rest visited with three sorts of Officers p. 314 315. some appear vertuous p. 316. others notoriously vitious p. 317. all resigned by their Abbots unwillingly willing to the King p. 319 c. Rob. ABBOT Bishop of Salisbury his death and commendation B. 10. P. 70. ¶ 53. George ABBOT Arch-bishop of Cant. B. 10. p. 57. ¶ 47. casually killeth a keeper p. 87. ¶ 12 c. befriended by Sir Edward Coke ¶ 15. and Bishop Andrews ¶ 16. mortified by this chance ¶ 17. seven years after severely suspended from his jurisdiction b. 11. ¶ 51. his character ¶ 53. and vindication ¶ 54. 55. Tho. ADAMS Alderman of London foundeth an Arabick Professours place in Cambridge Hist. of Cam. p. 166. ¶ 22. ADELME the first Bishop of Sherborn Cent. 8. ¶ 4. and the first Englishman who wrote in Latin or made a verse ibid. AETHELARD Arch-bâ—â—hop of Cant. calleth a Synod Cent. 9. ¶ 2. with the solemn subscriptions thereunto ibidem AGRICOLA a principall spreader of Pelagianisme in Britain Cent. 5. ¶ 3. AIDAN Bishop of Lindissern his due Commendation Cent. 7. ¶ 70. dissenteth from the Romish Church in the Celebration of Easter ¶ 71. inciteth Lay-men to the Reading of Scripture ¶ 72. St. ALBAN though a Britan how a Citizen of Rome Cent. 4. â— 2. converted to Christianity by Amphibalus ¶ 3. his Martyrdome and reported Miracles ¶ 4.5 his intire body pretended in three places Cent. 5. ¶ 11. Enshrined some hundred years after by King Offa Cent. 8. ¶ 35. St. ALBANS Abbey founded by King Offa Cent. 8. ¶ 38. the Abbot thereof confirmed first in place of all England
have heard my many Sermons on this Subject in London and else where but especially to my Book called TRUTH MAINTAINED made against Mr. Saltmarsh wherein I have heartily to place that first largely and to my power strongly vindicated Non licet Populo renuente Magistratu Reformationem moliri Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 54. This Parliament being very active in matters of Religion the Convocation younger Brother thereunto was little imployed and less regarded Our Author follows this Design of putting matters of Religion into the power of Parliaments though he hath chosen a very ill Medium to conclude the point This Parliament as active as he seems to make it troubled it self so little with matters of Religion that had it done lesse it had done just nothing All that it did was the Repealing of some Acts made in the time of Queen Mary and setling matters in the same State in which she found them at her first coming to the Crown The Common Prayer Book being reviewed and fitted to the use of the Church by some godly men appointed by the Queen alone receiv'd no other confirmation in this present Parliament than what it had before in the last years of King Edward The Supremacy was again restor'd as it had been formerly the Title of Supreme head which seem'd offensive unto many of both Religions being changed into that of Supreme Governor nothing in all this done de novo which could intitle this Parliament to such activity in matters of Religion but that our Author had a minde to undervalue the Convocation as being little imployed and lesse regarded I grant indeed that the Convocation of that year did only meet for forms sake without acting any thing c. Fuller Yea God hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce And although the Animadvector is pleased to say That if this Parliament had done lesse it had done just nothing these truly were MAGNALIA so farre as the word is applyable to humane performances Dr. Heylin In the mean time I would fain know our Authors Reason why speaking of the Convocation and the Parliament in the notion of Twins the Convocation must be made the younger Brother Assuredly there had been Convocations in the Church of England some hundreds of years before the name of Parliament had been ever heard of which he that lists to read the collection of Councels published by that learned and industrious Gentleman Sir Henry Spelman cannot but perceive Fuller I confesse Convocations in their general notion more ancient and regular and completely constituted than Parliaments Yet of these Twins I called the Convocation the younger Brother properly enough First Because modern Convocations as modelled since the submission of the Clergy to Henry the eighth are many years junior to Parliaments Secondly The Convocations alwaies began the day after the Parliament the Archbishops and Bishops alwaies attending the King the first day in Parliament Lastly The Parliament hath made a younger Brother of the Convocation And there being a priority in Power he in effect is the Heir and elder Brother who confineth the other to a poor pittance and small portion as our Age can well remember Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 71. This year the spire of Poles steeple covered with lead strangely fell on fire More modestly in this than when he formerly ascribes the burning of some great Abbeys to Lightning from Heaven And so this steeple was both reported and believed to be fired also it being an ordinary thing in our common Almanacks till these latter times to count the time among the other Epoches of Computation from the year that St. Paul-steeple was fired with Lightning But afterwards it was acknowledged as our Author truly notes to be done by the negligence of a Plummer carelesly leaving his Coles therein since which acknowledgement we finde no mention of this accident in our yearly Almanacks But whereas our Author finds no other Benefactors for the repairing of this great Ruine but the Queens bounty and the Clergies benevolence I must needs tell him that these were onely accessories to the principal charge The greatest part hereof or to say better the whole work was by the Queen imposed on the City of London it being affirmed by Iohn Stow that after this mischance the Queens Majesty directed her Letters to the Major willing him to take order for the speedy repairing of the same c. Fuller Non est tanti all this Note The Queen and Clergy are onely mentioned by way of eminence not exclusion of others The Animadvertor commonly layeth it to my charge that in my writing I am injurious to the Church and Clergy and now he is offended with me for giving them too much honour Sure I am Mr. Camden speaking of the repairing of S. Pauls on this occasion ascribes it to the great bounty of the Queen and money gathered of the Churchmen and others where his particular nomination onely of the Queen and Church-men making them paramount Benefactors Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 72. In the Convocation now sitting the nine and thirty Articles were composed agreeing for the main with those set forth in the Reign of King Edward the sixth though in some particulars allowing more liberty to dissenting judgements This is the active Convocation which before I spake of not setâ—ing matters of Religion in the same estate in which they were left by King Edward but altering some Articles expunging others adding some de novo and fitting the whole body of them unto edification Not leaving any liberty to dissenting judgements as our Author would have it but binding men unto the literal and Grammatical sense Fuller But the literal and Grammatical sense is worded in so favourable and receptive terms that two opposite parties both wellâ—skilled in Grammer have with great assurance of successe pleaded them in their defence In such Cases when the Controversie is admissive of a latitude as not necessary to salvation the pious and learned Penners of the Articles though they did not purposely use Cheverel expressions to afford shelter to equivocation yet prudently seeing that all things in the Articles were not of equall concernment and politickly â—ore-seeing men would be divided and differ in their judgements about them selected phrases Grammatically admissive of several senses all consistent with Salvation and would draw their words no closer for fear of strangling tender Consciences Hence is it that in the Question Whether Concupiscence be properly a sin in the Regenerate both parties appeal unto the Article equally perswaded there so finde favour in their several Opinions as indeed like a well drawn Picture it seemeth to Eye them both and yet frown on neither And one may read in the works of King Iames that on this account he highly commendeth the discretion and moderation of the Composers of our Articles Dr. Heylin They had not otherwise attained to the end they aimed at which was ad tollendam opinionum