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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75650	Articles of accusation and impeachment of the House of Commons, and all the Commons of England against VVilliam Pierce Doctor of Divinitie and Bishop of Bath and Wells.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3832; Thomason E238_25; ESTC R19350	7,684	10

Sonne servants or other dependants and to deprive the Patrons of their rights and hath even by force against all law and equity conseired s●me of the Benefices upon his sonne servants and dependants viz upon his sonne the Parsonage of Buckland and endeavored by the lik force to conferre the Personage of Standerweeke upon his said sonne and other Parsonage upon his servants and a lives and did against Law and by force conferr the Uicarage of Hynstridge upon his servant Flamstead 11. That hee hath it ampered with witnesses examined by and before him upon Oath to make them testifie untruths and hath falsified their depositions setting downe his owne words and what hee would have them depose instead of what they test●fied as namely in the Case of the Church wardens of Becking●on and in that of M. I●nes Minister of Beer●rocombe 12. 〈◊〉 is a common vexer persecuter and molester of worthy and 〈◊〉 Ministers and a countenancer of those who are negligent 〈…〉 as namely he hath vexed and persecuted Mr Chambers Mr Thomas Mr. Croake Mr. Newton Mr. Barnard Mr. Cunnant Mr. Roswell and many other good and pa●●efull Ministers of the Diocesse 〈…〉 him Chaplaine Mr. Egl●rf●●ld Gawler and 〈…〉 with other vitious Ministers and Mr 〈◊〉 and others 〈…〉 13. If 〈◊〉 said Bishop according to Law did severely exact and impose upon lives of the Clergie within his Diocesse the new Oath prescribed by thesixt Canon of the late pretended Synod and caused and and inforced them to take the said illegall Oath himselfe kissing the Seale or the Commission which authorised him to exact the faid Oath of his Clergy and kneeling downe upon his knees tooke the Oath first and their administred it to others saying that he was glad in his heart that this Oath was imposed upon all the Clergy of England for now the true Children of the Church would be knowne from the spurious and Bastards And 〈…〉 hath 〈◊〉 to conferre Orders upon such who refused to take the Oath as namely upon one Mr. Gibbens And hath enforced the said Oath upon divers he hath ordained Ministers since the making thereof 14. That the said Bishop was a great fomenter and incourager of the late-divisions and wa●res betweene the Kingdoms of England and Scotland conventing and urging the Clergy of his Diocesse to contribute a a liberall benevolence towards the maintenance of the said warres using this speech as one motive to induce them to this contribution that it was * Bishop Hall labours to excuse it in his Answer to the vindication p. 14.15 as if the Bishop mean it only in a less evil construction as referring to the northern use of that quarrell not our prosecution when as it is most cleare by the words and circumstances that he meant quite contrary Bellum Episcopale and ●ing that what eve● cause the King had expressed in the Declaration 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 this war was for us meaning us the Bishops And whereas some of the Clergie 〈◊〉 the payment of so large a Benevolence as the said Bishop demanded in regard of their poverty and because they were still in their first fruits when they were free from Subsidies the said Bishop threamed by his power to put more Names and Horses upon them saying that as they would not 〈◊〉 the King with their purses they should serve him with their Armes And thereupon compelled them to pay the summes he demanded of them is gainst Law as namely Mr. Roswell Mr. Iames Mr. Abbot and others And not contented herewith the said Bishop pretending that there was divers poore Uicars and Ministers in his Diocesse that were not able to pay the benevolence so that he could not raise the summe hee expected thereupon directed his letters to divers of his welthier Clergie causing some of them to pay a * Which some of the Countie conceive hee hath pursed up or discharged his owne share in this contribution therewith fee and contribution 15. That the said Bishop not content with this first benevolence hath since that compelled divers of his Clergy to pay all or part of the sixe illegall subsidies or benevolences imposed by the late pretended Synod without confirmation of Parliament threatning to excommunicate and deprive them ipso facto who failed payment of it at the dayes prefixed by the Synod and sent out a proces to Mr. Newton minister of Taunton even whiles the said Towne was much visited by the pestilence long before the said Subsidy or Benevolence was due to enjoyne him to pay it punctually at the day or else hee would inflict on him the penalties prescribed by this Synod and used these speeches that if they did not pay the said Subsidies or Benevolence they should be ground to powder 16. And the said Commons by Protestation saving to themselves the libertie of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other accusation or impeachment against the said Bishop And also of replying to the answers that he said Bishop shall make unto the said Articles or to any of them and of offering proofes also of the premisses or any of them or any other impeachment or occasion that shall be exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliaments require doe pray that the said Bishop may be put to answer to all and every the premisses And that such proceedings examinations tryalls and judgements may bee upon every of them had and used as is agreeable to Law and Justice By these Articles of impeachment you may easily discover what a desperately prophane impious turbulent Pilate the Bishop is even such a one whom no age I thinke in many particulars is able to paralell whose prodigiously prophane speeches and actions proclaies to all the world that our present Pilates impieties have made them fit for judgement yea good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under feete of men as the very excrements and off-scourings of all things FJNJS