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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69606	The life of Dr. Thomas Morton, late Bishop of Duresme begun by R.B. secretary to his Lordship ; and finished by J.N., D.D., his Lordship's chaplain.	R. B. (Richard Baddeley); Naylor, Joseph.; Nelson, Joseph.	1669 (1669)	Wing B382B; ESTC R37053	34,218	206

shewed unto me by D● Bal●anquall his successour in the Savoy in which it appeared That he became a Suit●r unto King James for the Arch-Bishoprick of York then rumored to be voyd by the death of Doctor Toby Matthew the Arch-Bishop there though be happily outlived tha● 〈◊〉 preferred to the Deanary of Windsor and the Mastership of the Savoy with the Rectory of Ilsworth and was yearly presented by many of the Nobility and Bishops of this Kingdom with sundry rich gifts in Plate and other costly accoutrements All which not withstanding in the end he deserted the Church of England Yet upon a specious pretence forsooth as he gave it out of Reconciling the Church of England with the Church of Rome Whereupon about the same time and on this very occasion fell out the following passage betwixt him and Bishop Morton For being asked by the said Bishop thus Domine quid tibi in animo est convertere Papam Etiam Conclave Papale Spal Quidni an existimas eos esse Diabolos ut non possint converti Episc Coven Minime Domine ne● puto Dominum Spalatensem esse De●m qui hoc prestare possit Nostine Domine Canones istos Conc ' Tridentini● Spalat Imò novi aus●● sum tibi dicere Millies mille esse in Italia qui fidem nullam huic Concilio adhibent This passage is worth the translating The Bishop of Leichfeild asked him What my Lord is it your purpose to convert the Pope Yea and the Papal Conclave to Spal And why not doe you think them to be Devils that they cannot be converted Bishop Leichfeild No my Lord nor doe I think my Lord of Spalato to be a God who is abl● to performe so much Doe you know my Lord those Canons in the Council of Trent Spal Yea I know them well and I dare boldly say that there be many thousands of Italy who give no Faith to this Council c. However this passed away he went and since gone he would be gone he was formerly banished and commanded away out of England by the Kings strict command But being arived at Rome the case was altered the foriner Pope his friend being dead and because he did not or rather could not answer the Books or rather the authorities therein quoted out of the antient Fathers which he had Published and Printed at London De Repub. Christiana and others he found the just guerdon of his revolt for it was adjudged in the Holy Office as they call the Inquisition that his Corps being first strangled in the Castle of St. Ang●●● should be burned in Campo Flori yet had he been fairely premonished and minded hereof by our Bishop who writ a large and learned Epistle l Now ready for the Pross after long and gr●at desiring the●eof unto him in Latine a little before his departure which was consigned into his hands by the Writer hereof wherein as a true Prophet he warned him of that which came after to passe viz. His Treatment at Rome Yet notwithstanding upon the receipt of that Letter the Arch-Bishop testified his friendly respects unto our Bishop at the farewell of the bearer in these very words Salutes millies mille di● as Domino t●o nomine meo m It was often in h●● mouth Ego moriar Archiepiscopus Spala●ens●s During the time of his Government of this large Dioces of Coventry and Leiehfeild there hapned a Boy of the Village of Bilson neer Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford called George Purie who was seduced by the Popish Priests to become a Demoniack which thing he did as they tutored him whom after a small season they a Gods name must dispossess But yet all their working and fine devises were to very small or no purpose for the Devill had so wrought with the n The Devill had steeled his heart I● was ●i● own wor● and expression in his Confession after wards Boy that he accused a Woman and she a Papist for bewitching him whereupon she was committed to the County Goale at Stafford and this Boy was brought to the Assizes to confront her where before the Judges of Assize this Boy albeit hoodwinckt would seem to know of the woman Prisoner her comming to the Barr which he did as afterwards he confessed by the jingling of her Chains and divers strange prancks he there played in the face of the country as a Demoniack or person possessed so that at the last he was committed and recommended by the learned Judges of Assize unto Dr. Morton Bishop of the Diocess being then one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace who brought him unto Eccleshal Castle where he then resided and after a competent time found him to be a cunning Imposter Which things and many moe were layed open to Publick view in a Book Intituled The Boy of Bilson But afterwards he much detested and loathed the former cousening cheats and was bound Apprentice in Bristol How this Bishop spent his time in that Bishoprick of Coventry and Leichfeild his continuall Labors testifie viz. chiefly in Preaching the Word of God partly in Writing Books profitable to the Church of God partly in Conference with Recusants and Catechizing of his own Family weekly c. But for his free Hospitality both at Eccleshall and Leichfeild and his continuall relieving of the poor let them testifie who were eye-witnesses of which many are fallen asleep and perhaps some remain to this day Whiles he was Bishop here he had sundry learned men for his Chaplains especially that Reverend and Pious man of God Doctor Ralph Brownrigg on whom he collated the Arch-deaconry of Coventry when Bishop of Leichfeild and afterwards a good Prebend in the Cathedrall Church of Durham which dignities His Royall Majesty King Charles did Crowne with the Bishoprick of Exeter Mr. Stephen Haxbie and Mr. George Gippes both fellows of St. Johns in Cambridge and Mr. Isaac Basire with some others on whom he freely bestowed such spirituall preferments as fell in his Patronage Here I must not forget that blessed Saint of God Mr. George Canner a blinde young man for blinde he came into the world borne in the County of Lancaster whom with his Unckle who had the tuition of him this Bishop maintained both at the Grammer Schoole in Chester when Bishop there and after in the University till he became Batchelor of Arts in the University of Cambridge where he proved an excellent proficient And after Orders taken he placed him Curate at Clifton Canvile in Stafford-shire when he was Bishop of Leichfeild where he discharged that sacred Function by his diligent Preaching even unto admiration for the book of Common Prayer as the Church of England requireth and enjoyneth he could repeat by heart and understand the Rubrick sufficiently As for the Chapters in the Old and New Testament which were to be Read to the Congregation he had them perfectly by heart by his Unckles twice Reading them over unto him For the Administration of the blessed