change en cest point per reason quant il est endow a luy ses successors perpetualment Et ceo fuit le substance des arguments ex vtraque parte fait en cest Case Car nul Idgement est vncor 〈◊〉 one en ceo I Atturney generall Bolton Recorder de Dublin Oliuer Eustace â—e Ciuilian suero â—t a Counsell le oâ—e Clark del Roy William Talbot â—ames Briuer Iohn Haly Doctor del Ciuil ley ove les defendants Hill 4. Iacobi The Case of Praemunire or The Conuiction and Attainder of Robert Lalor Priest being endited vppon the statute of 16. Rich. 2. cap 5. Of what quality credit Robert Lalor was THis Robert Lalor being a Natiue of this Kingdome receaued his Orders of priesthood aboue 30 years since at the haÌ„ds of one Richard Brady to whome the Pope had giuen the title of Bishop of Kilmore in Vâ—ster for the space of twenty yeares together his authority and credit was not 〈◊〉 within the Prouince of Leinster Hee had also made his name knowen in the Court of Rome held intelligence with the Cardinall who was Protector of this nation by meanes whereof hee obtained the title and iurisdiction of Vicar generall of the Sea Apostolike within the Archbyshopricke of Dublin and the Pyshopricks of Kildare and Fernes This pretended iurisdiction extending welny ouer all the Prouince of â—einster hee exercised boldly and securely many yeares together vntill the proclamation was published whereby all Iesuites and Priests ordained by forreine authority were commaunded to depart out of this kingdome by a certaine time prefixed After which time hee began to lurke to change his name howbeit at last he was apprehended in Dublin and committed to prison in the Castle there His apprehension and first examsnation Vppon his first examination taken by the Lord Deputie himselfe hee acknowledged that hee was a Priest and ordained by a popish Titulari Bishop that hee had accepted the title and Office of the Popes Vicar generall in the. 3. Dioceses before named and had exercised spirituall iurisdiction in foro conscientia and in sundry other points hee maintained and iusti fied the Popes authority onely hee said hee was of opinion that the Pope had no power to excommunicate or depose his Maiestie because the King is not of the Popes Religion His first in â—â—…ment conuiction The next terme after hee was indicted vppon the statute of 2. Eliz. enacted in this Realme against such as should wilfullie and aduisedly maintaine and vphould the iurisdiction of any foreine Prince or Prelat in any Causes Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill within this Realme By which statute the first offence of that kind is punished with losse of goods and one yeares imprisonment the second offence incurreth the penaltie of the Praemunire And the third offence is made high Treason Vppon this Indictment hee was arrained conuicted and condemned and so rested in prison during the next two Tearmes without any further question His second examination He then made peticion vnto the Lord Deputie to be set at libertie wherevppon his Lordship caused him to be examined by Sir Olliuer Seint Iohn Sir Iames Fullerton Sit Iefferie Fenton the Atturney Solicitor generall At first he made some euasiue and indirect aunsweres but at last voluntarily and freely he made this ensuing acknowledgement or confession which being set downe in writing word for word as hee made it was aduisedly read by him and subscribed with his owne hand and with the hands of those who tooke his examination and afterwards hee confirmed it by his oath before the Lord Deputie and Connsell The confession or acknowledgement of Robert Lalor Priest made the 22. of December 1606. His confession or acknowledgement FIrst hee doth acknowledge that hee is not a lawfull Vicar generall in the Dioceses of Dublin Kildare and Fernes and thinketh in his conscience that hee cannot lawfully take vppon him the said Office Item hee doth acknowledge our Soueraigne Lord King Iames that now is to bee his lawfull cheefe and Supreme gouernour in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill and that hee â—is bound in conscience to obey him in all the said causes and that neither the Pope nor any other forreine Prelate Prince or Potentate hath any power to controll the King in any cause Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill within this kingdome or any of his Maiesties Dominions Item he doth in his conscience beleeue that all Bishops ordained and made by the Kings authority within any of his Dominions are lawfull Bishops and that no Bishop made by the Pope or by any authority deriued from the Pope within the Kings Dominions hath any power or authority to impugne disanull or controll any Act done by any Bishop made by his Maiesties authority as aforesaid Item he professeth himselfe willing and ready to obey the King as a good and obedient Subiect ought to doe in all his lawfull commaundements either concerning his function of priesthood or any other duty belonging to a good subiect After this confession made the State heere had no purpose to proceed against him seuerely either for his contempt of the proclamation or offence against the law So as hee had more liberty then before and many of his friends had accesse vnto him who telling him what thy heard of his confession hee protested vnto them that hee had onely acknowledged the Kings Ciuill and Temporall power without any confession or admittance of his authority in spirituall causes This being reported vnto the Lord Deputie by sundry gentlemen who gaue faith vnto what hee said his Lordship thought sitt that since hee had incurred the paine of Praemunire by exercising Episcopall iurisdiction as Vicar generall to the Pope that hee should bee attainted of that offence as well to make him an example to others of his profession for almost in euerie Dioces of this kingdome there is a Titulary Bishop ordained by the Pope as also that at the time of his triall a iust occasion might bee taken to publish the confession and acknowledgment which hee had voluntarily made signed and confirmed by oath before the Lord Deputie and Counsell who haue likewise subscribed their names as witnesles thereof The inditement of Lalor vpon the statut of 16 Rich. 2. Heerevppon in Hillary Tearme 4 Iacobi an inditement was framed against him in the Kings Bench vppon the statute of 16. Rich. 2. cap. 5. containing these seuerall points 1 That he had receaued a Bull or Breefe purchased or procured in the Court of Rome which Bull or Breeue did touch or concerne the Kings Crowne and dignitie Royall conteining a Commission of Authoritie from the Pope of Rome vnto Richard Brady and Dauid Magragh to constitute a Vicar generall for the Sea of Rome by the name of the Sea Apostolike in the seuerall Dioceses of Dublin Kildare and Fernes within this Kingdome of Ireland 2 That by pretext or collour of that Bull or
hart because they sooth them in their litigious humor howbeit in the end when they haue wearied wasted themselues they finde how weake those wiles craftie courses are learne of Esope that that one onely plaine way which the Cart had to escape from the dogges was better safer then those hundred trickes of euasion whereof the Fox did vaunt before he was taken and they finde withall the saying of Cicero true ignoratio iuris litigiosa est potius quam scientia Besides this malignant vnquiet disposition of many Clients there is another cause why suites are not brought so soone to an end as perhappes they were in former ages namely the multitude of causes now depending in euery Court of â—ustice euery of which causes must haue conuenient time allowed as well to prepare it make it ripe to be heard or tried as for the triall hearing it selfe And the true cause of the multitude of causes doth proceed from this that the comodities of the earth being more improued there is more wealth consequently there are more contracts reall personall then there were in former ages Besides there is more luxury excesse in the world which breedeth vnthryftes banckruptes bad debtors more coueteousnesse more malice which begetteth force fraud oppression extortion breath of the peace breach of trust Out of these fountaînes innumerable suites do spring which make the Courts of Iustice so to swell and hence it is that our statute lawes since Henr. 8. his time do make vp so greate a volume hence it is that the professors of the lawe are growne withall to so greate a number for where there is magna messis there must bee of necessity operarij multi Indeed if wee all liu'd according to the lawe of nature wee should neede fewe lawes fewer lawiers Do as thou wouldest bee done vnto were a rule sufficient to rule vs all euery mans conscience would supplie both the place of an Aduocate a Iudge then wee should suffer no costs of suite nor delay of proces And againe if wee were a poore a naked people as many nations in America bee wee should easily agree to bee iudged by the next man wee meete so make a short end of euerie controuersie When the people of Rome were litle better then Sheepards heardsmen all their lawes were contained in ten or twelue Iuory tables But when they became Lordes of all the world what a world of bookes were there written of the Roman ciuill lawe The like wee see in euery common-wealth when it once beginnes to flourish to growe rich mighty the people growe proud withall their pride makes them contentious litigious so as there is neede of many lawes to bridle them many Officers to execute those lawes many Lawyers to interpret those lawes all litle enough as when a bodie growes full grosse it needes more Physicke then when it was leane And yet though our suites and causes bee very many our Courts of Iustice but a fewe whereby it must needs come to passe that euerie particular busines mouing in his turne must haue the slower motion yet if wee compare our legall proceedings with the proces of other Kingdomes common-weales specially of France wee shall finde that according to the vsuaâ—l clause in diuers writts wee haue indeede plenam celerem iustitiam though the breefest Iustice bee not alwayes best that our causes for the most parte beîng orderly pursued may come to their Period in a yeare with the course of the Sunne when there are many processes in foreine countries that seeme to be gouerned by Saturne which planet doth fearce finnish his course in the space of thirty yeares as Bodin doth testifie of his owne country that their were more suites in lawe depending in France then in all Europe besides that many of those causes were an hundred yeare old as that of the countie of Rais saieth hee which suite hath beene so well entertained in all the Chambers of Iustice as albeit the parties that began it are long since deade yet the suit it selfe is still aliue Besides wee haue not so many Appeales nor so many reuiewes of causes as the Ciuill Canon lawes do admitt neither haue wee at this day so many delaies by Essoines viewes vouchers protections as were in vse in former ages when titles of land were tried onely in actions Reall which are now growne almost out of vse a more speedy course of triall inuented by mâ—xt personall actions Lastly there is no Nation in the world I speake it for the honor of our Nation of our land that hath a course of Iustice so speedy withall so commodious easie for the subiect as our trialles by Assise nisi prius are For what Kingdome is there vnder the Sunne wherein euery halfe yeare the publike Iustice doth make her progresse into euery part thereof as it doth in the kingdomes of England Ireland whereby it commeth to passe that whereas the people of other contries do trauell farr to seeke Iustice in their fixt setled Courts as it were at fountaines or Cesternes the streames of Iustice are deriued vnto our people brought by conduit pipes or quilles euen home as it were to their owne doores And thus much I thought fitt to obserue for the clearing of that vniust imputation of long vnnecessary delaies in our legal proceedings 3 But there is yet another exception against the professors of our lawe namely that wittingly willingly they take vppon them the defence of many bad causes knowing the same to bee vniust when they are first consulted with retained And this is obiected by such as presume to censure our Profession in this manner In euery cause betweene partie partie say they there is a right there is a wrong yet neither the one partie nor the other did euer want a Counsellor to maintaine his cause This may bee true for the most part yet in truth the learned Counsell whose fortune it is to light on the wrong side may be free from imputation of any blame For when doth the right or wrong in euery cause appeare when is that distinguished made manifest can it bee discouered vppon the first Commencement of the suite before it bee knowne what can bee alleaged proued by either partie Assueredly it cannot therefore the Counsellor when he is first retained cannot possibly Iudge of the cause whether it bee iust or vniust because be heares onely one part of the matter and that also he receaues by information from his Client who doth euer put the case with the best aduantage for himselfe But when the parties haue pleaded are at issue when they haue examined witnesses in course of equity or bee descended to a triall in course of lawe after publication hearing in thâ—one cause full euidence deliuered
al dit Sir Randall mac Donell per les letters patents avantdit Et en cest Case divers points fueront consider resolve 1 Primerment coment que le rule del Civil ley soit que Flumina portus publica sunt ideoque ius piscandi omnibus commune est in portu fluminibusque quel rule est trove en Bracton libr. 2. cap. 12. Uncor per le common ley del Engleterre home poet aver proper severall interest cybien en vn caw ou riuer come en vn piscary pur ceo vn eaw poet estre graunt 11. R. 2. Plow Comment 154. a. Si vn graunt al auter aquam suam le piscary en ceo passera per ceo que est enclude in ceo paroll aqua Et N. Br. 123. quod permittat gist de libera piscaria en tiel forme Praecipe A. quod permittat B. habere liberam piscariam in aqua ipsius A. in N. que monstre que A. ad interest in le eaw Auxi piscary gist en graunt en tenure per graunt de ceo le soile passa car 40. Edw. 3. 45. Monstraverunt gist d'un piscary que imply que ceo containe terre demesne Car auterment distresse ne poet estre prise en ceo come est noate Plow Comment 154. a. vid. 34. Ass p. 11. graunt del piscarie en le riuer de Tese al Abbe de Riuaux saluo stagno molendini Auxi piscarie est demaundable per praecipe N. Br. fol. 2. c. Et assise gist de piscarie N. Br. 179. l. Car home poet aver estate de francktenement en piscary Fitz. Ass 422. temps Edw. 1. en assise de nusans le plaintife count que per lever de Gors il est disturb de son piscarie exception fuit pris al count pur ceo que nul francktenement fuit assigne a que le piscarie fuit appendant la est dit que piscarie est francktenement per soy per que ne besoigne de monstrer a quel francktenement ceo est appendant Vid. auxi fitz Ass 427. 12. Henr. 3. assise de libeto tenemento se pleint d'un piscary recover Auxi home poet faire bailife de son piscary 11. Henr. 7. 20. a. 10. Henr. 7. 24. b. Nat. br 88 H. vid. auxi 23. Henr. 3. Brooke assise 450 34. Ass p. 11. Et de prouentu fluminum decimae solui debent Linwood fol. 101. vncor Pisces non offerebantur in templo Thom. Aquin. 1. 2. q. 102. est noate per Linwood supra quod fluuius est perennis decursus aquarum flumen vero proprié est ipsa aqua Et la glosse sur le rule del Ciuil ley avantdit est tiel flumen ipsum nisi alueum mutet semper in eodem loco manet sed aqua profluens est communis quia non manet sed procul fluit extra ditionem eius cuius flumen est vt ad mare tandem perueniat Secondment il ya l 2. kindes de rivers nauigable nient nauigable chescun nauigable river cy hault que le Mer flow reflow en ceo est flumen regale le piscary de ceo est auxi piscary Roiall appent al Roy per son prerogative mes en chescun auter river nient nauigable en le piscary de tiel river les Tertenants ex vtraque parte aquae ont interest de common droit Le reason pur que le Roy ad interest en tiel nauigable river cy hault que le mer flow reflow en ceo est pur ceo que tiel river participate del nature del Mer est dit brache del Mer tant avant que el flow 22. Ass p. 93. 8. E 2. fitz Corone 399. Et la Mer neft solement desouth le Dominion del Roy come est dit 6. R 2. fitz protection 46. La mer est del ligeance del Roy come de son Corone D'engleterre mes est auxi son proper inheritance pur ceo le Roy avera le terre que est gained hors del Mer Dier 15. Eliz. 226. b. 22. Ass p. 93. Auxi le Roy avera les graund poissons del Mer Balenas Sturgiones c. queux sont pisces regales nul subiect poet eux aver sans speciall graunt del Roy praerogatiu Regis cap. 11. Stanford 37. 38. Bracton lib. 3. cap. 3. 39. Ed. 3. 35. a. Et le Roy avera wilde Swannes come volatilia regalia sur le Mer braches de ceo Le Case de Swannes en le 7. part des Reports del Seignior Cooke issint wreck del Mer est perquisit Royall 5. Cooke 107. Sir Henry Counstables case sur cest reason devant le Statute de 18. E. 3. nul subiect puissoit passer oustre le Mer sans speciall licence del Roy mes la est enact que la Mer soit overt a touts merchaunts Et touts Ports havens que sont ostia ianuae regni apperteinont al Roy pur ceo que il est custos totius regni fitz Na. Br. 113. a. le Roy do et de droit saver defender son Realme civien vers le Mer que vers ses Enemies que le Roy ad mesme le prerogative interest en les braches del Mer nauigable Rivers cy hault que le Mer flow reflow en eux que il ad in alto mari est manifest per plusors authorities Records 1 Le Roy per ses letters patents fait al graund Admirall D'engleterre graunt a luy non solement Irisdiction power de determine maritime causes mes omnia bona wauiata Flotzon Ietzon Lagan ac omnia bona mercimonia Catalla in mari deperdita seu extra mare proiecta ac omnia singula casualia tam in vel super mare vel littora crecas vel costeras maris quam in vel super aquas dulces portus flumina Riuos aut alia loca superinundata quaecunque infra fluxum refluxum maris seu aquae ad plenitudinem á quibuscunque á primis Pontibus versus mare per totum regnum Angliae aut Hyberniae c. Emergentia Contingentia seu Prouenientia c. 2 Le commission de Sewers que fuit agard per le Roy per vertue de son prerogative Royall devant ascun statute fait en tiel Case extend non solement al walles bankes del Mer mes auxi del nauigable Rivers freshwaters Registr fol. 127. a. b. N. B. 113. a. Et est recite en le statute de 25. Henr. 8. cap. 10. que le Roy per reason de son dignity prerogative Royall do et provider que nauigable streames sont fait passable c. 3 Le Citty de London per vn Charter del Roy ad le River de Thames graunt a eux mes pur ceo que fuit conceave que le soile ground del River ne passoit per cest graunt
dit Et cest nosme ou title de honor fuit ab initio accompaine ove vn honorable Office Car cesty que fuit Comes ad vnterritory assigne a luy pur garder governer que fuit appell Comitatus Cest title ne commenceoit destre frequent tanque le declination del Roman Impire cestascavoir en le temps del Charlemaine que ordaine institute divers countees in Germany Italy Fraunce done a eux non solement vn absolute commaund in Martiall affaires deins lour severall territories mes auxi ordinary Iurisdiction in Ciuill Criminall causes pur ceo est dit en le Imperiall law Quod Comes est iudex ordinarius Graue en Dutch signifie vn Idge cybien que vn Earle Mes ceux Countees ne fueront touts de equall degree car fueront de 2. sorts viz. Comites simplices Comites Palatini ou del primer second order Car coment que Comites simplices avoient tiel commaund Irisdiction come avant est monstre vncor Comites Palatini fueront de plus hault Ranck avoent divers Royall Francheses priviledges que ne fueront graunts al simple countees Cest nosme office de Countee fuit introduce en Engletere hors del Cermany per les Saxons long temps devant le Norman Conquest Mittons Case 4. Cooke 34. le Record de Domeâ—day prove ceo que fait mention de severall countyes en Engleterre Mes le primer county Palatine viz. le County Palatine de Chester fuit erect en temps de Will. le Conqueror Cambden 464. Pur le nosme del Countee en nostre ley certes ceo est le plus auncient nosme de dignity honor devant le teÌ„ps del Edw. 3. fuit le sole nosme de dignity honor en Engleterre Car le nosme title de Duke Marques Vicount sont de puisne temps Car le primer Duke fuit create en temps Edw. 3. le primer Marques en temps R. 2. le primer Viscount en temps Henr. 6. le nosme ou title de Baron nest nosme de dignity ne addition 8. Henr. 6. 10. a. le Seignior Louels Case Mes Countee est parcell del nosme del substance del nosme si soit omitt en breefe le breefe abatera 39. Edw. 3. 35. le Case del Gilbert Vmfreuill Countee de Angus 14. Edw. 3. Breefe 278. le Case de Hugh de Audelay Countee de Glocester Et cest title de Countee est instar cognominis ne besoigne de vser auter surnosme come si action soit port vers Io. Countee de Oxford sans auter surnosme est sufficient 7. Henr. 6. 27. 12. Edw. 3. Breefe 454. Auxi cest title nest merge ou confounded per title de Duke car si Countee soit fait Duke pendant le breefe ceo ne abatera le breefe Come ou le Countee de Lancaster fuit fait Duke de Lancaster 25. Edw. 3. 39. breefe 409. issint ou action fuit port vers countee de Richmound il plead que il fuit Duke de Brittaine non allocatur 11. Edw. 3. Br. 473. Pur l'office del simple ou Ordinary Countee per nostre ley il avoit custodiam comitatus authority de raiser posse comitatus a suppresser rebellions riotts c. que fuit vn Martiall commaund il avoit auxi Iurisdiction in ciuill criminall causes a cest entent il avoit 2. Courts 1. son Turne ou view pur criminall causes 2. le county court pur civill causes Le primer fuit le Court del Roy car pleas del Corone ne poent estre tenus en ascun Court forsque en Court del Roy le second fuit le Court del couÌ„tee mesme pur ceo est appell le County Court mes pur ceo que il fuit auxi immediate officer al Court del Roy pur fair execution del breefes del Roy le Comes ou counted mesme comitabatur Principem fuit pur le plus part attendant sur luy ou en son Counsell du en ses guerres le Roy fesoit vn Lientenant ou Deputy a luy come Fineux dit 12. Henr. 7. 17. b. cestascavoir le Vicount que ore execute mesme l'office en touts points Et est destre note que en touts counties que sont simple counties subiect al ordinary Irisdiction del Courts del Roy le Roy mesme fait le Vicount mes deins counties Palatine ou le countee ad iura regalia le countee mesme nemi le Roy fait le Vicount 12. Henr. 7. 17. 18. 4. Cooke 33. Mittons case 22. Edw. 4. 22. Et tout ceo fuit note sur l'Originall del countee in generall sur le nosme office del Ordinary countee PUr l'originall nosme prerogatiue del Countee Palatine que fuit vn extraordinarie couÌ„tee 1. fuit noate observe que fuit appell Palatinus vel Comes Palatij pur ceo que il fuit theife officer CouÌ„sellor en le Pallace del Emperour est dit que il ne fuit solement companion del person del Prince mes comes curarum Par extans curis solo diademate dispar pur cest reason le Prince communcate a luy plusors de ses Roiall prerogatives 2. fuit observe que cest honor de couÌ„ty Palatine fuit primerment institute per l'Emperour apres que le Empire fuit translate al Germany Et pur ceo les Doctors del Imperiall ley teignont Quod solus Princeps qui est Monarcha Imperator in regno suo ex plenitudine potestatis potest creare Comitem Palatinum Baldus titul Rescript 6. de precibus Imperatori offerendis FUit auxi resolve que accordant a cest rule le Roy del Engleterre poet bien creater vn countee Palatine car il est Monarcha Imperator in regno suo come est apparant per plusors recordes Idgementes en Parliament En le Preface del Seignior Cooke al quart part de ses Reports vn auncient Charter del Roy Edgar que rerire le stile del Roy est tiel Ego Edgarus Anglorum Basileus omnium Insularum Oceani quae Brittaniam circumiacent cunctarumque nationum quae infra eam includuntur Imperator Dominus c. Et a cest entent Matth. Paris in historia maiori fol. 17. a. dit que quant vn difference surdoit perenter le Roy William Rufus Anselme Archevesque de Canterbury touchant le Irisdiction del Pape en Engleterre Rex Willielmus allegauit quod spectabat ad officium Imperatoris quem vellet Papam eligere ob candem rationem quod nullus Archiepiscopus vel Episcopus regni sui Curiae Romanae vel Papae subesset praecipuè cum ipse omnes libertates haberet in regno suo quas Imperator vindicabat in Imperio Per l'estatute de 28. Henr. 8.
obtaine faculty de retainer le personage de Northcreake in commendam fructus emolumenta ad vsus suos conuertere c. Uacor fuit aiudge que cest faculty ne luy aydera pur le benefice que fuit void car il ne fuit person al temps del dispensation graunt a luy Ameâ—me l'entent est Digbyes Case en le 4. des Reports del Seignior Cooke 79 vn Merrick person de Norton que fuit del annuel value del 8. li. fuit present al Esglise de Stanes admitt institute a ceo per quel institution le primer benefice fuit void vncor devant induction il obtaine qualification dispensation Ecclesiam de Stanes recipere retinere quoad vixerit c. Uncor ceo vient trop tard de preserver le primer benefice que fuit void devant vid. 18. Eliz. Dier 347. Doctor Westons Case Sur touts ceux reasons authorities ils concludont que cest faculty ou dispensation de prender vn void benefice en perpetuam commendam fuit void Mes si benefice soit plein d'incumbent faculty post estre graunt a cest incumbent de retainer ceo in perpetuam commendam nient obstant que il prist auter benefice incompatible Et pur ceo les Bulls de prouision graunt per le Pape queux fueront en nature de faculties de prender beneficia vacantia vel vacatura ne vnques fesoent le prouisor able de prender occupier vn benefice que serroit void de sa teste demesne sans institution admission ou induction Car sil ad enter en tiel manner la ley vst adiudge luy abator disturbor quare impedit gisoit bers luy Mes si tiel prouisor ad estre admitt institute induct donques serroit remove per l'estatut de prouisoribus 29. Edw. 3. 44. a. 11. Henr. 4. 213. 229. Mes le Roy removeroit tiel provisor per Quare impedit apres institution induction 19. Edw. 3. Fitz. Quare non admisit 7. 8. Et issint hors de tout ceo que est dit devant result cest difference enter faculty de prender benefice faculty de retainer benefice viz. que faculty graunt al vn que nest incumbent de prender vn void benefice est void faculty al vn que incumbent d'un benefice de retainer mesine le benefice est von Et per consequence cest faculty graunt al Evesque d'Ossory esteant void le Uicarage abantdit ne fuit vnques plein de luy per que le Roy ad bon title a presenter a ceo per laps MEs del auter part fuit argue per le Counsell des defendants 1. que cest faculty graunt en le forme avantdit fuit bon do et estre approbe allow pur bon en cest Court 2. que cest faculty fuit bien execute per l'entry del Evesque en le Uicarage sans aseun presentation institution induction 3. Que l'Evesque aiant enter occupie cest benefice per vertue de cest faculty l'Elglise fuit fait plein de luy issint que null title puistoit devolver al Roy per lapsum temporis durant le vie del Evesque Quant al primer point ils arguont que cest faculty fuit bon do et estre allow pur bon in cest Court pur eco que est bien garrant per vn positive ley del Realme viz. per le Statute de 28. Henr. 8. cap. 20. per que les Commissioners ont power authority a doner graunter per lour discretions tielx dispensations licences ou faculties pur causes nient repugnant a les saint Scriptures leyes de Dieu come en temps paravant ont estre vse accustome destre en obtaine al See de Rome que chescun dispensation licence ou faculty graunt per vertue de cest act serra approve pur bon effectuall en ley en touts Courts Irisdictions eibien Spirituall que Temporall c. Et a prover que cest faculty ou dispensation graunt al Evesque d'Ossory fuit bien garrant per le dit Act de Parliament fuit monstre 1. que tiel faculty ou dispensation ad vse accuslome destre graunt obtaine en le Court de Rome devant le fcsans de cest Statute 2. que la cause pur que cest faculty ou dispensation est graunt nest repugnant ou contrary a la saint Scripture ou ley de Dieu 3. que le faculty en cause de ceo nest vnreasonable ou meerement encounter ley mes est aggreeable poet bien estoier ove les rules de la ley D'engleterre 1 Et pur monstrer que tielx faculties ou disponsations ont vse destre graunt en le Court de Rome devant le Statute l'originall del Commenda fuit primerment enquire Et suit dit que le Pape Leo 4. Anno Domini 848. aut co circiter primerment invent le Commendam Come appiert libr. Decretorum causa 23. quaest 2. ou est dit vnde Leo 4. scribit qui plures Ecclesias retinet vnam quidem titulatam alteram vero sub commendatione tenere debet Car ou per les auncient Canons Counsells vn home ne puissoit aver forsque vn benefice vncor per experience tuit trove convenient que ascunfoits viz. en case de necessity ou vtility del Esglise vn home averoit le charge les fruits de plusors benefices cest distinction fuit invent allow que coment que home naveroit forsque vn benefice in litulo vncor il puissoit aver auter benefice in Commenda viz. que auter benefice puissoit estre commend committ a son custody cure tantque vn able incumbent fuissoit provide pur ceo Mes apres grand abuse esteant trove en le graunting de ceux Commendas per les Ordinaries car omnium rerum quarum est vsus potest esse abusus virtute solum excepta dit Aristotle vn auter Canon fuit fait en le Counsell de Lions Anno Domini 1274. pur reformation de ceo come appiert libr. 6. Decretal de Elect. Elect. potestate cap. Nemo Nemo deinceps parochialem Ecclesiam alicui non constituto in legitima aetate vel sacerdotio commendare praesumat nec tali nisi vnam euidenti necessitate vel vtilitate Ecclesiae suadente Huiusmodi autem Commendam rité factam declaramus vltra semestre temporis spatium non durare c. Mes la glo se la dit come est monstre devant ista constitutio non comprehendit Romanum Pontificem ideo Romanus Pontifex potest perpetuo commendare issint que le Pape nient obstant rest Canon ad power de doner benefices in perpetuam Commendam Et reuera depuis le dit Counsell de Lions sicome lc Pape ad reserve a luy mesme le sole power a doner benefices in
adiudged high treason to bring in Bulls of Excommunication whereby the Realme should bee cursed 7 That no decree should bee brought from the Pope to bee executed in England vppon paine of imprisonment and confiscation of goods To these and other Constitutions of the like nature made at Claringdon all the rest of the Bishops and great men did subscribe and bound themselues by oath to obserue the same absolutly onely the Archbishop would not subscribe and sweare but with a Sauing saluosuo ordine bonore sancte Ecclesiâ— yet at last hee was content to make the like absolute subscription and oath as the rest had done but presently hee repented and to shewe his repentance suspended himselfe from celebrating Masse till he had receaued absolution from the Pope Then he began to maintaine and iustifie the exemption of Clarkes againe whereat the Kings displeasure was kindled a new and then the Archbishop once againe promised absolute obedience to the Kings lawes See the ficklenes mutability of your constant Martyr The King to bind fast this slippery Proteus called a Parliament of the Bishops and Barons and sending for the Roll of those lawes required all the Bishops to set their seales therevnto They all assented but the Archbishop who protested he would not set his seale nor giue allowance to those lawes The King being highly offended with his rebellious demeanor required the Barons in Parliament to giue Iudgement of him who being his subiect would not be ruled by his lawes Cito facite mihi iustitiam de illo qui homo meus ligeus est stare Iuri in Curia mearecusat Wherevppon the Barons proceeding against him being ready to condemne him I prohibit you quoth the Archbishop in the name of Almighty God to proceed against mee for I haue appealed to the Pope and so departed in contempt of that high Court Omnibus clamantibus saith Houenden quo progrederis proditor expecta audi iudicium tuum After this he lurked secretly neere the Sea shore and changing his apparell and name like a Iesuit of these times he tooke shipping with a purpose to flie to Rome but his passage being hindred by contrary windes hee was summoned to a Parliament at Northampton where he made default wilfully for which contempt his temporalties were seised and his body being attacht he was charged with so great an account to the King as that he was found in arreare thirty thousand markes and committed to prison whence hee found meanes to escape shortly after and to passe out of the Realme to Rome Hee was no sooner gone but the King sends writts to all the Shiriffs in England to attach the bodies of all such as made any appeales to the Court of Rome herevppon many messages and letters passing to froe all the suffragans of Canterbury ioyne in a letter to the Pope wherein they condemne the fugitiue Archbishop and iustifie the Kings proceedings Vppon this the Pope sends two Legates to the King being then in Normandy to mediate for the Archbishop They with the mediation of the French King preuailed so farre with King Henry as that he was pleased to accept his submission once againe and promised the King of France that if he would be obedient to his lawes he should enioy as ample liberties as any Archbishop of Canterbury euer had and so sent him into England with recommendation vnto the young King his Sonne then lately Crowned who hearing of his comming commaunded him to forbeare to come to his presence vntill he had absolued the Archbishop of Yorke others whome he had excommunicated for performing their duties at his Coronation The Archbishop returned answere that they had done him wrong in vsurping his office yet if they would take a solmne oath to become obedient to the Popes commaundement in all things concerning the Church he would absolute them The Bishops vnderstanding this protested they would neuer take that oath vnlesse the King willed them so to doe King Henry the father being hereof aduertised into France did rise into great passion and choler and in the hearing of some of his seruants vttered words to this effect Will no man reueng mee of mine enemies Wherevppon the foure Gentlemen named in the storyes of that time passed into England and first mouing the Archbishop to absolue the Bishops whome he had excommunicated for performing their duties at the young Kings Coronation and receauing a peremptory answere of deniall from the Archbishop they laid violent hands vppon him and slew him for which the King was faine not onely to suffer corporall pennance but in token of his humiliation to kisse the knee of the Popes Legate And this is the abridgement of Beckets troubles or rather treasons for which he was celebrated for so famous a Martyr Foure points of iurisdiction vsurped vppon the crowne of England by the Pope before the raigne of K. Iohn And thus you see by what degrees the Court of Rome did within the space of one hundred and odd yeares vsurpe vppon the Crowne of England foure points of Iurisdiction viz. First sending of Legats into England SecoÌ„dly drawing of appeales to the Court of Rome Thirdly donation of bishopricks and other Ecclesiasticall benefices and fourthly exemption of Clarkes from the secular power And you see withall how our Kings and Parliaments haue from time to time opposed and withstood this vniust vsurpation Now then the Bishop of Rome hauing claimed and welny recouered full and sole iurisdiction in all causes Ecclesiasticall and ouer all persons Ecclesiasticall with power to dispose of all Ecclesiasticall benefices in England whereby he had vppon the matter made an absolute conquest of more then halfe the kingdome for euerie one that could read the Psalme of Miserere was a Clarke the Cleargie possessed the moytie of all temporall possessions There remained now nothing to make him owner and proprietor of all but to geâ—â— a surrender of the Crowne and to make the King his Farmer and the people his Villaines which he fully accomplisht and brought to passe in the times of King Iohn and of Henr. 3. The cause of the quarrell betweene K. Iohn the Pope The quarrell betweene the Pope and King Iohn which wrested the Sceptor out of his hand and in the end brake his heart began about the election of the Archbishop of Canterbury I call it election and not donation or inuestiture for the manner of inuesting of Bishops by the Staffe and Ring after the time of King Henr. 1. was not any more vsed but by the Kings licence they were Canonically elected and being elected the King gaue his Roiall assent to their election and by restitution of their temporalties did fully inuest them And though this course of election began to be in vse in the time of Rich. 1. and Henr. 2. Yet I finde it not confirmed by any Constitution or Charter before the time of King Iohn who by his Charter dated the fifteenth of Ianuary in the