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A29113 Appello [sic] Cæsarem, or, An appeal to Cæsar in vindication of a little book printed some years since the time of our troubles and intituled A præsent for Cæsar / both done by Tho. Bradley. Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670. 1661 (1661) Wing B4127; ESTC R30237 11,292 41

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APPELLO CAESAREM OR An Appeal to CAESAR In vindication of a little Book printed some years since in the time of our troubles and intituled A Praesent for Caesar Both done by Tho Bradley D. D. one of his late Majesties Chaplains and Rector of Castleford and Ackworth near Pontefract in Yorkshire both in his Majesties gift and of his speciall grace bestowed upon the Author but ever since 44 meerly for his Loyalty taken from him again by Sequestration YORKE Printed by Alice Broad 1661. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty Charles the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France Ireland Defender of the Faith in all causes and over all Persons Ecclesiasticall and Civill within his Majesties Dominions next under Christ Supream Head and Governour Most gracious dread Soveraign TO your sacred hand view I humbly offer this little peiee because your Majesty is in some sort concerned in it I know your Majesty hath little time to read books but there are some books which both for the usefulnes of the subject matter which they treat of and for the smoothnes of the style language they are cloth'd with are both pleasant profitable and so the reading of them is but a studious recreation and such is this at least in one of these respects and it is but a little one it took not up above two dayes in the writing of it l●sse then one hours time in the reading of it will dispatch it and I humbly beseech your Majesty that you would bestow upon it those few minutes that you will be pleased to read it and that you would read it through and that you would read it your selfe for there are some things in it which perhaps there are many that are not willing your Majesty should be acquainted with and therefore against such I humbly beg your Majesties protection howsoever I shall keep my self within the bounds of truth sobernes and if I do disserve any of them it shall be in order to the serving of your Majesty which when I can do no way else I shall supply with my prayers publike and private for all the blessings which may make your Majesty happy both here on earth and eternally hereafter in heaven Amen Your Majesties most humble and loyall Subject T. Bradley Apello Caesarem or an Appeal to Caesar in the vindication of a little book printed some years since in the time our troubles intiuled A Present for CAESAR TRue it is there was such a little book printed some years since which I do own in which I find no fault but in the Title and some complementall language here there to mitigate the ferocity of that Tyrant with whom in it I had to do but he was sagacious enough to discover the hook that lay hidden under that bait which then I offerd him 't is true the Title was A present for Caesar and we have no Caesar but the King but surely in common prudence thus much you will allow to policy that he which had a Tyrant to deal withall may give him good words neither did the giving of him a better style then he deserv'd make him really such as that style did import nor conclude him that gave it him onely by way of allusion to esteem him so There are evidences enough to conclude the contrary in the judgment of all them that know me for if services or sufferings by sequestrations plunderings frequent imprisonments menaces and threatnings reaching even to life it selfe may speak a man loyall there are enough that speak loud enough to declare me such For my zeal in his Majesties Cause and service it is well known I forsook all to follow him through thick and thin and did so to the very last and being a sworn Chaplain was one of those that did help to carry the Arke before him in the time of his greatest troubles and dangers and was afflicted in many of those things wherein he was afflicted But to passe by these praevious considerations mentioned only for prevention of prejudice I pass from the title of the book to the book it selfe and of that I shal give a very brief yet a full and clear account under these two heads 1. By showing what the very sum subject substance of that book was 2. What my aymes ends reaches were in penning it at that time The former of these is obvious to any man at the first view which sees or reads it but in the latter I was more reserved they were known only to my selfe and very few more whom I acquainted with them Dr. Healing for one which knew more of that which lay in the bottome of that design then any other and with whom I had frequent conference about it All these things I shall now unriddle unfold which done rightly understood then Apello Caesarem Apello Ecclesiam Apello Populum Apello Omnes I shall appeal to all the world whether that book or he that pen'd it deserves that blame which some imagine nay I shall rise so high in my vindication as not onely to free it from blame but I challenge thanks for it from all England especially the Clergy which especially blame me for it and if his Majesty shall be pleas'd to take hold of some discoveries that there I make and which here in this vindication I must necessarily hint at I hope his Majesty will think I do him no disservice in it neither As to the first then of these 2 heads The very sum and substance of the book lies in these 2 proposals and those two concerning only Churchmen Church livings all which at that time were in the hands and possession of the intruding Clergy which had invaded and usurped upon the Church as their Patron had done upon the civill State concerning them therefore I made these two proposals 1. First I did propose that all those that did possesse sequestred livings and had peaceably enjoyed them two years or above might be required to pay their first-fruits the Tyrant having set forth a cruell Proclamation that we should never return to our livings more nor exercise our Ministeriall Function elsewhere 2. My second proposall was this I did propose that they and all others which should hereafter be prefer'd to Ecclesiasticall dignities or promotions might pay their first-fruits according to the statute of the 26 of Henry the eighth whereby it is required that they should pay them in according to the full value of such dignities benefices and promotions and not as they stand partially rated in the King's book by an ancient inquiry made above 100 years since which gives them not in to the 5 6 nor scarce to the 8 part of the true value throughout the land this done I did demonstrate what a great improvement this would make of the first-fruit Office for the first-fruits being thus improved the tenths likewise must improve proportionably according to which the tenths would come