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A43643	A vindication of the naked truth, the second part against the trivial objections and exceptions, of one Fullwood, stiling himself, D. D. archdeacon of Totnes in Devonshire, in a libelling pamphlet with a bulky and imboss'd title, calling it Leges Angliæ, or, The lawfulness of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Church of England : in answer to Mr. Hickeringill's Naked truth, the second part / by Phil. Hickeringill.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1832; ESTC R13003	47,957	41

these Words On a Rock consisting of these Sands stands our mighty Champion triumphing with his Naked Truth c. And truly if our mighty Champion stand thus Triumphing upon a Rock made of Sands It is the first Rock made of Sands that ever was seen in the World before I have seen great hills of Sands but never a Rock consisting of Sands before for lively and natural expressions and tough and sinewy Arguments 't is the very None-such of the D. D Come confess ingeniously Is there not more and better Heads then your own in this Elaborate Work Is it not the Six Months labour of a Prelatical Smectimnuus or Club-Divines Now for his Rancounter CHAP. II. Wherein very Majesterially he asserts contradictorily In defiance of the said Propositions and Rocks of Sand That Our Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England was not derived from the Pope but from the Crown before the Reformation by Hen. 8. Sed quomodo probas Domine D. D First by begging the Question Petitione Printipij And asking sternly and demanding in 8 bold Questions first Dare any Protestant stand to the contrary c. So that he has got Mr. Hickeringill upon the Lock and upon the Hugg the Devonshire and Cornish Hugg Hang or Drown'd there 's no escaping yield or confess your self a Papist concluding that to say so is not more like a Hobbist than a Papist I thought I had caught a Hobby but War-Hawk To which I 'le onely say that as Seneca in his Epistles to his dear Lucillus speaking of Harpast his Wives Fool a poor ridiculous creature That if he had a desire to laugh at a Fool he need not seek far for he could find cause enough at home to laugh at himself so you Mr. quibling Archdeacon need not be at charge to keep a Jester you may find one ridiculous enough within the Corps of your own Archdeaconry Hobby-War-hawk But then he falls and grows calm and leaves this bold Italian way of Reggin●… and comes to his proofs First Then our Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction was not derived from the Pope but from the Crown before H. 8. because it was a known Law 25. Edw. 1. and 25. Edw. 3. long before Hen. 8. that the Church of England was founded in Episcopacy by our Kings c. and not in the Papacy 1. I always thought till now that our Church of England I know not for his Church of England was neither founded upon Episcopacy not the Papacy but on Christ the Rock of Ages 2. The Popish Episcopacy in the said two King Edwards time and the Papacy were one and the same piece the Pope the Head they the Members and derivative from him influenc'd by him and would never obey our Kings further then they list as appears by stout Robert Archbishop of Canterbury another Becket And though the Kings made bold to recommend an Archbishop or a Bishop to the Pope yet the Pope Invested and chose whom he list the greater Usurper he but who did or could help it till stout King H. 8. did behead the Pope and made himself by Parliament Head of the Church 'T is true Rome was not built in a day and neither did nor could extend its Suburbs and Commands as far as England till William the Conquerour the Pope's Champion and who fought under the Popes Banner which he sent him for the Invasion of England did with his French and Normans and all Gatherings bring with his French and Italian Troops the French and Italian Laws and the French Mode of Ecclesiastical Polity and Jurisdiction And therefore 't is rightly noted that 'till Will. the Conquerour there was no Bishops Courts or Ecclesiastical Courts but the Hundred-Courts the onely Courts of Justice in England in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Temporal But the Pope made his Champion Will. the Conquerour and all succeeding Kings after him till H 8. set up such Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdiction as were at Rome wherein they Judged and proceeded according to the Popes canon-Canon-Laws and he himself was the Head and Supream of those Courts and nothing more frequent then Appeals to Rome till the 24. H●n 8.12 ordain'd that there should be no Appeals thither where he had emptied so much of his purse and yet could not obtain a Divorce to his liking if appeals to Rome from our Ecclesiastical-Courts then they were onely Romes Inferior Courts And was there ever any Statute made from Will. the Conquerour or rather Hen. 3. to Hen. 8. but by the consent of the Popish Clergy that is to say the consent of the Pope their Head whose Laws they obey'd in defiance of their Leige-Lords and Soveraign Kings I know there was old Tugging frequently betwixt our Kings and the Popes and sometimes the staring people cryed Now the Pope then in hopes Now the King has got is but if any stout King did as they did try for Mastery with this Whore and who should wear the Britches yet Pope Joan or Pope John or howsoever nam'd always got the better at long run Of which I will Instance in some few particulars that first occur and come to mind for I scorn to spend so many days as this D. D. with his Smec-conjoyn'd has been Months in Labour for the production of his Ridiculus mus Robert Kildwardby Archbishop of Canterbury 6. Edw. 1. Fleec't the whole Province of Canterbury namely the greatest part of the Kingdom of England by his Provincial-Visitation not by down-right plundering of the Clergy Church-wardens and the poor and rich Sinners he knew a way worth two on 't the other had been the ready way to be hang'd for Edward 1. was neither Bigot Antiq. Brit. Ec. p. 196. Fook nor Coward for He saith Mat. Parker being the Popes Creature went a visiting as some do now a days without any Commission from the King no strange thing in those days more strange in our days now that they have not as formerly a Pope to back them and whose Creatures they were in despight of the King But this crafty Robert Kildwardby play'd the Fox in his Visitation and Se donis saith the Historian non imperitando sed artificiose ut fratres sui ordinis solebant suadendo locupletavit that is He enrich'd himself and fill'd his pockets but how not by an open violent way of force and command but craftily with sleight of Hand and Tongue as the Brethren of his Order are wont to do pick'd their pockets with a parccl of fair words Why that 's better yet then the Hectoring way Come Clergy-man deliver your Purse your Purse for Procurations Visitations c. The Naked-Truth on 't was the Pope Nicholas 3d. had a Cardinals Capp at Robert's service if he would come up to the price on 't and bid like a Chapman but all the craft lay in the catching the Money to day the purchase Whereupon Kildwardby does not go in the old Road of Procurations Synodals and Vilitations that even in those times were not onely grumbled at by the Slaves

Hundret nor bring any Ecclesiastical cause to the Judgment of Secular men Therefore William the Conquerour the Popes Champion brought with him this new distinction of Clergy and Layty and Ecclesiastical Judges and Secular Judges for it seems Ecclesiastical Causes as well as Secular were brought in the Hundret Court to the Judgment of Secular men not Ecclesiastical men 5. The said Proclamation ordains every man to do right to God and the Bishop not according to the Hundred but according to the Canons and Episcopal Laws Which answers the greatest Stress of the D. D. Answer The Conquerour with the Pope brought in the Canons and Episcopal Laws and when the Pope's head was cut off and his Supremacy taken away vanish also did his Canons and Episcopal Laws And the Popish King and Parliament in Hen. 8. time knew it as well and therefore when they had made the King Head of the Church as well as State a fatal distinction of Church and State and often makes a Kingdom divided against its self cutting off all Appeals to Rome 24 H. 12. in the very next year they found a necessity to abrogate all Popish Canons that were contrariant to the Kings Prerogative and the Laws and Statutes of this Realm but such as were not so contrariant and repugnant to remain in force And to that purpose there was to be a Book of such Canons compiled by thirty two Commissioners party per pale one moyety Clergy and the other Lay but they did nothing and so that project in the Statute came to nothing And for my part in the Knowledge I have in the ancient Councils and Canon's in the making whereof the Pope had the great hand they might as well seek a needle in a bottle of Hay as seek for Canons amongst the old ones suitable to the new face of our Church when it had lost its old wonted head that had Authorized and Father'd the English Church and all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from William the Conquerour till 24 Henry 8. which was 467 long years and during the weary Reigns of twenty Kings together who were so tyred with the Pope's Insolence that some of them as King John meditated rather to turn Turk than undergo the Infamy as well as Tyranny and Cruelty in being all his Reign so shamefully Priest-ridden complaining and bemoaning himself that after he subjugated himself and his Scepter to the Pope of Rome nothing prosper'd that he undertook ever after Therefore hard is the fate of that Man much more of that King and Kingdom that are under the Tyranny of these Bigots How do they wrest the holy Scriptures to surrogate their preposterous Hierarchy as did the said Popham Archbishop in his said Letter to the King Edw. 1. aforementioned quoting Mat. 16.19 Whatsoe're thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and threatning the King with death from Deut. 17.12 And the man that shall do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God or unto the Judge even that man shall dye Then he threatens the King with Deut. 17.18 19 20. and with Luk. 10.16 He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me And he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me which saith the Archbishop St. Dyonisius expounds Ierarchis in his quae agant Ierarchicè obediendum est sicut a Deo motis To the Hierarchy or Prelates in what they act as Prelates we ought to obey them as those that are influenc't by God himself Then he quotes Deut. 17.8 9 10 11. and Heb. 4. and Mat. 17.5 Mat. 28.20 Acts 3.22 Mat. 18.19 20. Mat. 18.17 Mat. 10.20 as Impertinent as tedious to insist upon concluding his Letter in a menacing way from Lambeth November Anno Dommi 1281. and the third year of his Translation Instancing also for his Platform and imitation in this his contumacy the example of Thomas Becket and Boniface his Predecessors as fierce and Seditious as himself But wise King Edw. 1. like his Grandfather Hen. 2. and his Father Hen. 3. would not so easily part with the Reins of Government for he disanulled not only the Rading-Canons as aforesaid but also the Lambeth-Canons Anno 1281. Even as his Grandfather Hen. 2. abrogated all the Canon Law being then Duke of Normandy and particularly the Canons of the late Councel of Rhemes And by Proclamation forbidding Hugo Archbishop of Roan to put the same in Execution and threatning Pope Innocent 2. that if he would not restrain the said Archbishop therein he would turn Protestant so I translate the words of the Kings letter to Pope Innocent Minatus est Apertè divortium ab Apostolicâ sede nisi praesumptio illius Archiepiscopi reprimeretur Which so frighted the Pope that he was glad to knock under and yield to the time foreseeing a Storm approaching he very wisely made fair weather on 't to use his own words Quod prefectò quamvis Justum fuerit Mat. Paris Hist Aug. p. 96 97. à nobis in Concilio Rhemensi mandatum pro ejus tamen charitate aliquando condescendere quando non ascendere possumus debemus et pro tempore ipsius voluntati assensum praebere That is saith the Pope What was done in the Councel of Rhemes was nothing but what was Just and right and also by us Commanded nevertheless for charity sake we must be lowly and condescend then when we cannot climb and ascend and be uppermost and for the present give our assent and consent to the Kings will and pleasure And there had been a fatal divorce or beginning of Protestanism from Rome by another Henry Hen. 2. long before Hen. 8. if Pope Innocent had been as stiff and inflexible as was Pope Clement to Hen. 8. So that all along those that please to observe our Statutes Histories and Chronicles they will find that ever since our Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction was brought from France and Rome by William the Conquerour sometimes the Church-men and their head the Pope had the weather-gage and sometimes the Kings as they hapned to be some more prudent some more weak some more potent and some in greater straits than other of which last condition namely when our Kings affairs were in a Peck of troubles and distresses the Pope and his Janizaries the Popish Prelates alwaies wrought upon their necessities and most unmanly would never give them fair quarter when they had them down None so cruel as Women and cowardly Gownmen when they get men at advantage many Instances whereof you may see in the reigns of King John the King Henries and the King Edwards c. So that now Canon-Law now Statute-Law now the Church and now the State now the Lord Arch-bishops and Lord Bishops and now the Lords temporal and the Common's had the upper-hand but the Bishops carryed it for the most part and alwaies at long run whilest they had the Pope or the High-Commission on their side And even since they

and desired their restauration and surely they better understood their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in those days than this Archdeacon can possibly at this distance in these days Lastly The Temporal as well as Spiritual Courts are enabled by 24. Henry 8.12 to determine the controversies in this Realm without Appeals and yet none of them take upon them to Sit without the Kings special Commission and Authority except petty-Hundred-Courts c. which are Common-Law-Courts but so are not the Ecclesiastical at best further than Ecclesiastical matters may still by the Common Law be tryed before the Lord of the Hundred or his Steward and the Freeholders and the Bishop also and Archdeacon may be suffered to come into the Room but whether they may come in without knocking or must sit or stand be covered or uncovered when they come there by the Common Law it seems it is not by our D. D. the great Common Lawyer as yet determined And therefore it is much better for the Archdeacon at least much more proper for him to leave these doubtful matters as whether 1 Edward 6.2 be now in force and how far and to what Commissioners the 13 Car. 2.12 does extend wherein the Author of the Naked Truth would not peremptorily assert any thing to the decision of a Parliament or wiser heads than his own Then in Chap. 3. Sect. 2. the D. D. tells of another Statute 31 Henry 8.3 and cites the words but most egregiously false there is not one such clause in 31 H. 8.3 But if there were as perhaps I will not deny something to that purpose in another Statute that Archbishops Bishops c. may wear the Tokens and Ensigns and Ceremonies of their Order and whilst they do nothing but what to their Office and Order does appertain no body will trouble themselves about them And more false also is what he would make 25 Henry 8.19 speak as though by that Statute the Convocation hath power reserved by the same Act of making new Canons provided the Convocation be called by the Kings Writ and have the Royal assent and License to make promulgate and execute such Canons If this be true I do not know but the Lambeth-Canons exploded and condemned by Act of Parliament and those of King James are all Statute-Law for the Convocation that made them were called by the Kings Writ and they were confirmed also by the Royal assent In a matter of this consequence let us turn to the Statute and trust our Archdeacon henceforward no further than our own knowledg That of 25. Henry 8.19 begins thus The Title The Clergy in their Convocation shall enact no Constitutions without the Kings assent And as the Title so the body of the Act Where the Kings humble and obedient subjects the Clergy of this Realm c. promise in verbo Sacerdoti that they will never presume to attempt premulge or execute any new Canons c. unless the Kings Royal Assent and License be to them had to make promulge and execute the same Now is this D. D. an honest man when the Statute only binds them to good behaviour namely not to presume without the Royal assent but does not enable them to make any new though they have the Royal Assent False also most impudently false is his next quotation of a Statute 37 Henry 8.16 But if he mean 37 Henry 8.17 still it is false either through Imprudence or unparellel'd Impudence for there is not one word to the matter in question but the whole Statute is only a License to Marry a License for civil Lawyers to Marry and that though they be Marryed yet that shall not make them uncapable of being Commissaries Chancellors or Vicar-generals or Officials but does not create or constitute any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction or Courts to put them in Indeed the said 37 Henry 8.17 is a clear and evident explanation of the 25 Henry 8.18 that thereby the King and Parliament did look upon all Ecclesiastical Canons Ordinances and Constitutions formerly made to be null and void and repealed and of no effect by the said 25 Henry 8.18 saying that the Bishop of Rome and his adherents minding utterly as much as in him lay to abolish obscure and delete such power given by God to the Princes of the earth whereby they might gather and get to themselves the government and rule of the world have in their Councils and Synods Provincial made divers Ordinances and Constitutions And albeit the said Decrees Ordinances and Constitutions by a Statute made 25 Henry 8. be utterly abolished frustrate and 1. By this it is evident that as the King Pope and Bishops had all work enough to look to themselves and that King Henry and his Parliament and Bishops were still Popish so if the Spiritual Courts had any Jurisdiction yet they had none but by way of Parenthesis in the said Statute of Appeals 2. And that only in causes Testamentary Marriage or Divorce Tithes or Oblations 3. And to Judg of these and determine was impossible because they had no Canons Decrees nor Laws Ecclesiastical by which to Judg and determine of them 4. And therefore Mr. Archdeacon though by what has been said your Official might keep Spiritual Courts although he were Married so also he might keep Spiritual Courts although he did nothing but whistle there all the while or throw stones at all that came near him for Sentences and Decrees cannot be made but according to a Canon Law or Rule and Canons there were none in force at that time in the said Judgment of the House of Commons And therefore though you had never so much Authority and Commission for keeping your beloved Courts what 's that to the Naked Truth Have you any Commissions for Extortions in Probate of Wills for illegal Extortions of Money for Citations Licenses to Preach Institutions Inductions Sequestrations Synodals Procurations Money from Church-Wardens Commutations Visitations to confute which is the great import of the Naked Truth and you have not one word in your Leges Angliae to say for them or for your selves or to justifie by whose or by what Commission or by what Canons you act and proceed It is a most dangerous and fatal thing sure for a man to think as the Papists do think in these days whereas I thought a man might have believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and a thousand things more that the Papists believe and yet keep out of harms way But no our desperate D. D. has p. 22. got Mr. Hsckeringill upon the Hip again and gores him too with one of the unavoidable Horns of the sharpest of Arguments a Dilemma in these words namely I leave it to Mr. Hickeringill himself for if he think that that Convocation namely in Queen Marys Reign spake that which was not true he hath said nothing to the purpose so his business is done that way But if he think they did speak truth then he thinks that the Jurisdiction of the Church

of England as derived from the King according to the Statute of Edw. 6. or in Hen. 8's time was no lawful Jurisdiction that is Mr. Hickeringill thinks as the Papists think War hawk again Mr. Hickeringill and a Premunire too Let him even pick and chuse I see there 's no escaping yield or dye there 's no fence against a Crambee-Pun and Quibble the second assault is always irresistible And yet this Joke is not so witty as it is sharp and poynant insinuating that Mr. Hickeringill's opinion is a Popish opinion so in plain English he says before Chap. 2. Sect. 2. In these words Thus our ancient Ecclesiastical Governours and Laws depended upon the Crown and not upon the Pope by the Laws of England and in the Judgment of all the States of the Kingdom before H. 8. and so did also the execution of those Laws by those Governours in the same publick Judgment All this is true and the very Naked Truth in other words varyed And what of all this listen a little better than Mr. Hickeringill 's Popish opinion And why I pray Mr. Archdeacon why this unsanctified Epithete of Popish To vindicate in the words of the ingenious Hudribas When you at any thing would rail Then you make Popery the Scale To take the height on 't and explain To what degree it is prophane Well look to thy hits D. D. for all the corps of thy Archdeaconry together with the Extortion money in Visitations Synodals and Procurations will not be able to pay the damages that you and your Bookseller Royston are like to undergo forfeit and pay for bringing that scandalous imputation of Popery so often in your Book against Mr. Hickeringill who though he has not much Ecclesiastical Emoluments to lose thereby if the imputation be true yet he pays the King Assessments and finds Arms for above 200. l. per annum temporal estate of inheritance a third part whereof besides other mischiefs are forfeit if you can prove him a Papist and if you cannot 't is fit that on the Gallows which was set up for innocent Mordecai that wicked Haman should be hang'd thereon and the mischief which you wickedly design'd against him 't is but just it should fall upon your own Pate and that you and your Bookseller should for the Libel fall into the same Pit which you have in malice and wickedness digged for the innocent Alas you do not know Mr. Hickeringill the man you scandalize in time he 'l make you know him better I dare assure ye as he has and will do to some others such railers lyars and slanderers as your selves sure Mr. Archdeacon you do not say your Prayers you do not sure say your Litany D. D. But all your provocations cannot make Mr. Hickeringill render you railing for railing the wonted attacks of effeminate and doting old men The Author of the Naked Truth is so much against the Popes Supremacy and all other Religious Bigots that some think as does this Archdeacon that he gives the King too many even all the Keys of the Church For 't is undoubtedly true that the Crown of this Realm of England is and has been before H. 8. Imperial that is de jure not de facto thanks to the wicked Usurper the Pope and his Legates like that Paudolfus who in huffing pride set his Ecclesiastical foot upon this Imperial Crown in King John's time or like those Popes that made the Emperors themselves hold their Stirrups This ought not to have been done it was not de jure it was commonly de facto done before H. 8ths time and thus with his Quixot-chivalry he assaults the Windmills set up by his own brains like boys that set up their Shrovetide-Cocks only to throw at and busy themselves As for example Chap. 2. Sect. 3. he says the Statutes grant Consultations and Appeals into Chancery from the Spiritual Courts 'T is true but what then it only supposes that the Spiritual Courts meddle with those appealable Causes as Matrimony Tythes c. which are but very few And whereas he says the Bishops may deprive and have statute-Statute-Law for so doing 't is false they have indeed power by 1 H. 7.4 to commit a Minister that has committed Incest or Fornication to the Gaol but for no other offence and that Statute was made upon force when the Laity durst not meddle with a Clergy-man though a muderer without consent of his Ordinary However the Clergy then were so goatish numerous and high-fed that no man could keep his wife or daughters from those lazy and bucksome Abby-Lubbers and so let the Bishops still for Incontinency send the Delinquent to Gaol but I thank you no such matter Incontinency is now as modish and fashionable a sin as ever I have known Two or Three notorious Whoremasters Ministers in Essex convict but they scap'd the Gaol and one of them a Scotch-man that had two Bastards in one year got a Pardon The sin of Adultery and Fornication is a filthy and abominable sin in all men especially in Divines but as long as it is the Mode it will sind great Patrons to countenance and abet it sweet-lips cannot forbear so sweet a sin No body denies but Procurations Synodals Robbing by the High-way Visitations and Picking of Pockets in spight of Laws Canons and Decrees of Holy-Church to the contrary in spight of Equity and Conscience in spight of Mercy Pity and Compassion has been in times of Prelacy in spight of Christs command and the Apostles command not to wrong men for filthy lucres sake has been I say an old and ancient practise and indeed in the days of Popish Prelacy and the High Commission they did what they list who durst controul or gainsay But now that Popish Prelacy and the High Commission are null'd and made void and all their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction so precarious and no authority for their Procurations and Synodals no authority to call Church-Wardens and Ministers before them to a great Town and Tavern no authority for such Visitations much less to demand money for the same no authority neither to demand money in Ecclesiatim-Visitations and yet they will have six shilling and eight pence ready money and visit Twenty Churches in a day a very special Trade They will not be put off with a little Victuals Bread and Cheese or Pottage no these Ecclesiastical fellows are high fed And truly to spoil all their Courts though they had never so lawful an authority let but the people follow this following advice and you will not long be troubled with them Namely When the Minister and Church-Wardens are cited to come to a Visitation at a great Town and there is a great Tavern take no notice of it refuse to be hurried from your business your families and your homes against Law let them proceed against you as far as they dare if they excommunicate you for contempt a good Action of the case lies against them for there is neither Statute-Law nor

la Royante S'il est de peu ou bien Communante Ayme l'aussi car Dieu t'y a faict naistre Love thou thy Country's State whether it be A Common-Wealth Senate or Monarchy All Change is fatal count then that the best In which thy Country finds most Peace most Rest AN ABSTRACT OF THE PREMISES IN A SHORT CONCLUSION 'T Is evident then by his own Shewing That there was no Ecclesiastical Courts distinct from the Hundred-Courts and Lay-Courts till the Pope's Champion brought over that New French and Italian Mode with a long Sword into England and Odo Bishop of Bayeux Brother to the Conqueror assisting to set up the Pope's Usurpations in Spiritual Courts or Spiritual Tyranny forbid by Christ and his Holy Apostles who pretended not to this Hierarchy or Frelacy Names as Unknown as Arch-Bishops or Arch-Deacons Chancellors Officials Surrogates Advocates Proctors Sumners and the rest of that kind to the Primitive-Church Secondly That it is great Impudence for the Clergy much more for the Frelacy to call themselves the Church as if the Lay-People were not as much Members of Christ nay as Learned Prudent Modest and Honest as the best of them I will not except the Pope himself And that to Style the Clergy alone the Church or Holy Church is contrary to the constant Style and Dialect of Holy-Writ as appears by Mat. 16.18 Act. 2.47 5.11 8.1 11.26 13.23 14.27 14.23 15.3 22 41. 16.5 20.17 28. Rom. 16.1 4 5 16 23. 1 Cor. 4.17 10.32 14.4 5 23 33 34. 1 Cor. 16.1 19. 2 Cor. 1.1 8.1.18 19.23 24. 11.8 28. 12.13 and in all other places which are numerous throughout the Holy Scripture Thirdly That by the Oath given alwayes to Excommunicate persons before they be Absolv'd namely Stare parere mandatis Ecclesiae to stand to and obey the Commands of the Church by Church they alwayes mean themselves the Prelacy or Governing Men of the Church And by Holy-Church being free in Magna Charta was and must be meant the Clergy and the Pope their Head but how Holy they were in those Times what Symonists and consequently Perjur'd Persons appears fully in the Premises By the Angel of the Church of Ephesus Rev. 2.1 8. the Prelates say by Angel there is meant the Bishop or Presbyter by the Church there them must be meant the Christian People of Ephesus and if these Clergy in Edw. 1. such as Old Nich. Pap. and Arch-Bishop Peckham c. were Angels they were black ones surely Fourthly That from the Reign of William the Conquerour to Hen. 8. The Clergy or Ecclesiastical Men had one Head namely a Forreign Head the Pope and the Laiety another Head the King Fifthly These Two Heads namely The Pope the Head of the Church and the King the Head of the State were ever and anon knocking one against the other and the English-Clergy alwayes sided with their Head the Pope to make the other Temporal Head bow down and submit to this Spiritual Head Sixthly That when this Spiritual Head would not submit to the Temporal Head and Gratify the King's will in the desired Divorce betwixt King H. 8. and His Queen who had been Twenty Years his Wife He caus'd this Pope his Spiritual Head and Forreign-Power to be Beheaded and cut off till it was restor'd and patch't on again by 1. Phil. and Mar. 8. And indeed what ever that resolute King Henry did will that will soon became a Law if the King would have Queen Katherine Divorc't and her Daughter Mary declared Illegitimate Yea quoth the Stature 25. H. 8.22 when His Will was to have the Princess Elizabeth Legitimate and inheritable of the Imperial Crown of this Realm Yea quoth the Statute 25. H. 8.22 Again when he was minded to make her uncapable of the Crown Yea quoth the Statute 28. H. 8.7 And Lastly when his Will and His Mind was changed and that both the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth though it was Impossible but one of them was Illegitimate and both of them so declared Illegitimate in the said Statutes should be capable to Inherit as they both did the Imperial Crown of this Realm Yea quoth the Parliament 35. H. 8.1 when the Bishops grumbled that they had not their old Procurations out of the Dissolved Monasteries and Consequently could not pay him their First-Fruits and Tenth's though the King knew it was against their own Laws and Canons to have any yet the King willing to stop their Mouths and knowing that to take some Men by the Pocket is as bad as to take them by the Throat rather than he would disoblige them he being also at variance with the Pope he allows them these little snips out of his large New-Conquests and Acquests by the Statute 34. and 35. H. 8.19 But made them only recoverable in Ecclesiastical-Courts and only such as were paid Ten Years before the Dissolution of Monasteries which now is a thing Impossible to prove their own Registers being no competent Witnesses being Parties and their Register-Books no Records 7. That all the remaining Years of the Reign of Hen. 8. after the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction here in England had no dependance of the Pope they had no Laws no known Canons nor Rule to Proceed upon and if they kept Courts these Ecclesiastical Courts could take no Cognizance but of Three or Four things namely Causes Testamentary Matrimonial Tyes and Obventions and such perhaps they have cognizance of at this Day if they have Authority for keeping Courts and have any Laws or Canons other than Acts of Parliament to direct them which I think they have not 8. That when the Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdiction had got a Protestant-head it also had a Protestant-face by 1. Edw. 6.2 and 't is senceless to Imagine that that Statute was not constantly put in Execution and all Processes in the Name and Style of the King 9. This Protestant-face of Ecclesiastical Authority was Blasted by 1. Mar. and in its Room was again set up the Pope's head and the Popish-Church by 1. Phil. and Mar. 8. and Forreign Powers and Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical after the Old Italian or Romish Mode 10. This Popish Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Foreign Powers were Defeated in 1. Eliz. 1. by repealing 1 Mar. and 1 Phil. Mar. 8. that had repealed 1 Edw. 6.2 which had been under restraint and made of no Force by the Repeal aforesaid and thence resum'd its former Vigour and Vertue but of that Quere All the Reason in the World for it as Mr. H. Cary learnedly insists 11. When 1. Eliz. 1. had cancel'd all the Popish Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Spiritual-Courts there was none till the same Statute gave the Queen and Her Heirs and Successors Power by Commission to settle a new Form and Face of Government Ecclesiastical 12. That Branch of 1 Eliz. 1. that gave the Queen and Her Heirs this Power and Authority being repealed by 13. Car. 2.12 For my Part I must say It is beyond my Apprehension to find out where the