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
Breeue hee was constituted Vicar generall of the Sea of Rome and tooke vppon him the stile and title of vicar generall in the said seuerall dioceses 3 That hee did exercise Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as Vicar generall of the Sea of Rome by instituting diuers persons to benefices with cure of soules by graunting dispensations in causes Matrimoniall by pronouncing sentences of diuorce betwene diuers married persons and by doing all other actes and things pertayning to Episcopall iurisdiction within the said seuerall Dioceses against our Souerainge Lord the King his Crowne and dignitie Royall and in contempt of his Maiestie and disherison of his Crowne and contrary to the forme and effect of the statute c. To this inditement Lalor pleaded not guiltie and when the issue was to bee tried the name and reputation of the man and the nature of the cause drewe all the principall gentlemen both of the Pale and Prouinces that were in towne to the hearing of the matter At what time a substantiall lury of the Cittie of Dublin being sworne for the triall and the points of the Inditement being opened and set forth by the Kings Seriant the Atturney generall thought it not impertinent but very necessary before hee descended to the perticular enidence against the prisoner to informe and satisfie the hearers in two points Why Lalor was indited vppon the old statute of 16 R. 2. 1 What reason moued vs to grounde this inditement vppon the olde statute of 16 Richard 2. rather then vppon some other later lawe made since the time of King Henr. 8. 2 What were the true causes of the making of this lawe of 16. Rich. and other former lawes against Prouisors and such as did appeale to the Court of Rome in those times when both the Prince and people of England did for the most part acknowledge the Pope to be the thirteenth Apostle and only oracle in matters of Religion and did followe his doctrine in most of those points wherein wee now dissent from him 1 For the first poynt wee did purposely forbeare to proceede against him vppon any latter law to the end that such as were igâ—onorant might bee enformed that long before King Henr 8. was borne diuers lawes were made against the vsurpatâ—on of the Bishop of Rome vppon the rights of of the Crowne of England welny as sharpe and as seuere as any statutes which haue beene made in later times and that therefore wee made choyse to proceede vppon a lawe made more then 200. yeares past when the King the Lords and Commons which made the lawes and the Iudges which did interpret the lawes did for the most part follow the same opinions in Religion which were taught and held in the Court of Rome the treâ— causeof making the stattute of 〈◊〉 R 2 other statuts against pouisors 2 For the second poynt the causes that moued and almost enforced the English nation to make this and other statutes of the same nature were of the greatest importance that could possible arise in any state For these lawes were made to vphold and maintaine the Soueraingtie of the King the liberty of the people the common lawe and the common-weale which otherwise had beene vndermined and viterly ruined by the vsurpation of the Bishop of Rome For albeit the Kings of England were absolute Emperours within their Dominions and had vnder them as learned a Prelacie and Cleargie as valiant and prudent a Nobility as free and wealthy a Commonalty as any was then in Christendome yet if wee looke into the stories and records of these two Imperiall kingdomes wee shall finde that if these lawes of Prouision and Praemunire had not beene made they had lost the name of Imperiall and of Kingdomes too and had beene long since made Tributary Prouinces to the Bishop of Rome or rather part of S. Peters patrimony in demesne Our Kings had had their Scepters wrested out of their hands their Crownes spurned of from their heads their neckstrod vppon they had beene made Laquaies or footmen to the Bishop of Rome as some of the Emperours and French Kings were our Prelats had beene made his chaplaines and Clearks our Nobilitie his vassals and seruants our Commons his slaues and villaines if these Acts of manu-mission had not freed them In a word before the making of these Lawes the flourishing Crowne and Common-wealth of England was in extreame danger to haue beene brought into most miserable seruitude and slauery vnder collour of religion and deuotion to the Sea of Rome And this was not onely seene and felt by the King and much repined at and protested against by the Nobility but the Commons the generall multitude of the Subiects did exclame and crie out vppon it The statuts of praemunire made at praier of the commoÌ„s For the Commons of England may bee an example vnto all other Subiects in the world in this that they haue euer beene tender and sensible of the wrongs and dishonors offred vnto their Kings and haue euer contended to vphold and maintaine their honor and Soueraigntie And their faith and loyaltie hath beene generally such though euery age hath brought forth some particular monsters of disloyaltie as no pretence of zeale or religion cold euer withdrawe the greater part of the Subiects to submitt themselues to a foreine yoke no not when Popery was in her height and exaltation whereof this Act and diuers other of the same kinde are cleare and manifest testimonies For this Act of 16. Richard 2. was made at the prayer of the Commons which prayer they make not for themselues neither shew they their owne selfe loue therein as in other Bills which containe their greeuances but their loue and zeale to the King and his Crowne When after the Norman Conquest they importuned their Kings for the great Charter they sought their owne liberties and in other bills preferred commonly by the Commons against Shiriffs Escheators Purueyors or the like they seeke their owne profit and ease but heere their petition is to the King to make a lawe for the defence and maintenance of his owne honor The effect of the statut of 16. R. 2. cap. 5. They complaine that by Bulls and processes from Rome the King is depriued of that iurisdiction which belongeth of right to his Imperiall Crowne that the King doth loose the seruice and counsell of his Prelats and learned men by translations made by the Bishop of Rome That the Kings lawes are defeated at his will the Treasure of the Realme is exhausted and exported to enrich his Court and that by those meanes the Crowne of England which hath euer beene free and subiect vnto none but immediatly vnto God should be submitted vnto the Bishop of Rome to the vtter destruction of the King and the whole Realme which God defend say they and therevppon out of their exceeding zeale and feruencie they offer to liue and die with the king in defence of the liberties of the Crowne And
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
conscience he could not lawfully take vpon him the said office He hath also acknowledged our Souerainge Lord King Iames to be his lawfull Chiefe and Supreame Gouernour in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill and that hee is in conscience bound to obey him in all the said causes and so forth as it is conteined in his acknowledgment or confession before set downe which being shewed foorth by the Atturney generall the court caused it to be publikly read and therevppon demanded of Lalor if that were not his free and voluntarie confession signed with his owne hand and confirmed by his oath before the Lord deputie and Counsell He was not a little abashed at the publishing of this acknowledgment confession in the hearing of so many principall gentelmen to whome hee had preached a contrary doctrine therefore said he the shewing foorth of this confession is altogether impertinent and besides the matter Howbeit he could not deny but that he made it and signed it and swore it as it was testified by the Lord deputy and the rest Then was it demanded of him whither since the making of this confession he had not protested to diuers of his friends that he had not acknowledged the Kings supremacie in Ecclesiasticall causes his aunswer was that indeede he had said to some of his frends who visited him iâ— the Castle of Dublin that he had not confessed or acknowledged that the King was his Supreame Gouernour in spirituall causes for that the trueth is in the confession there is no mention made of spirituall causes but of Ecclesiasticall This is a subtile euasion indeede said the Atturney generall I pray you what difference doe you make betweene Ecclesiasticall causes and spirituall causes This question said Lalor is sudden and vnexpected at this time and therfore you shall doe well to take another day to dispute this point Nay said the Atturney generall we can neuer speake of it in a better time or fitter place and therefore though you that beare so reuerend a title and hold the reputation of so great a Clearke require a further time yet shall you heare that wee laymen that serue his Maiestie and by the dutie of our places are to maintaine the iurisdiction of the Crowne are neuer so vnprouided but that we can say somewhat touching the nature and difference of these causes When the distinction of Ecclesiasticall and spirituall causes from Ciuill and temporall causes begaÌ„ in the world First then let vs see when this distinction of Ecclesiasticall or spirituall causes from Ciuill and temporall causes did first begin in point of iurisdiction Assuredly for the space of three hundred yeares after Christ this distinction was not knowen or heard of in the Christian world For the causes of Testaments of Matrimony of Bastardy and Adultery and the rest which are called Ecclesiasticall or spirituall causes were meerely ciuill determined by the rules of the ciuill lawe and subiect onely to the iurisdiction of the Ciuill Magistrate as all Ciuillians will testifie with mee But after that the Emperours had receaued the Christian faith out of a zeale and desire they had to grace and honor the learned and godly Bishops of that time they were pleased to single out certaine speciall causes wherein they graunted iurisdiction vnto the Bishops namely in cases of Tieths because they were paid to men of the Church In causes of Matrimony because mariages were for the most part solemnized in the Church In causes Testamentary because testaments were many times made in extremis when Churchmen were present giuing spirituall comfort to the testator and therefore they were thought the fittest persons to take the probates of such testaments Howbeit these Bishops did not proceed in these causes according to the Canons and decrees of the Church for the Canon lawe was not then hatched or dream't of but according to the rules of the Imperiall law as the Ciuill magistrate did proceed in other causes neither did the Emperours in giuing this iurisdiction vnto them giue away their owne Supreme and absolute power to correct and punish these iudges as well as others if they performed not their seuerall duties This then is most certaine that the primitiue iurisdiction in all these causes was in the Ciuill magistrate and so in right it remaineth at this day and though it be deriued from him it remaineth in him as in a fountaine For euery Christian monarch as well as the godly Kings of Iuda is custos vtriusque tabulâ— coÌ„sequently hath power to punish not onely Treason Murder Theft and all manner of force fraude but incest adultery vsury periury simony sorcery idolatry blasphemy neither are these causes in respect of their owne quality and vature to bee distinguished one from another by the names of Spirituall or Temporall For why is adultery a spirituall cause rather then murther when they are both offences a like against the second table or idolatry rather then periury being both offences likewise against the first table And indeede if wee consider the natures of these causes it will seeme somewhat absurd that they are distinguished by the name of spirituall teÌ„porall for to speake properly that which is opposed to spirituall should be tearmed carnall And that which is opposed to temporall should be called eternall And therefore if things were called by their proper names adultery should not be called a spirituall offence but a carnall But shall I expresse plainely and breefely why these causes were first denominated some spirituall or Ecclesiasticall and others temporall and ciuill Truely they were so called not from the nature of the causes as I said before but from the quality of the persons whome the Prince had made iudges in those causes The Cleargie did study spirituall things and did professe to liue secundum spiritum and were called spirituall men and therefore they called the causes wherein Princes had giuen them iurisdiction spirituall causes after their owne name and qualitie But because the Lay magistrates were said to intend the things of this world which are temporall and transitory the Cleargie called them secular or temporall men and the causes wherein they were iudges temporall causes This distinction began first in the Court of Rome where the Cleargie hauing by this iurisdiction gotten great wealth their wealth begott pride their pride begott ingratitude towards Princes who first gaue them their iurisdiction then according to the nature of all vngratefull persons they went about to extinguish the memory of the benefit for whereas their iurisdiction was first deriued from Caesar in the execution whereof they were Caesars iudges so as both their Courts and causes ought still to haue borne Caesars image and superscription as belonging vnto Caesar They blotted Caesars name out of the style of their Courts and called them Courts Christian as if the Courts holden by other magistrates had beene in comparison but Courts of Ethnickes and the causes which in their nature were meerely Ciuill they called Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall So as if the Emperour should challenge his Courts and causes againe and say Reddite Caesarâ— quaesunt Caesaris they would all cry out on the contrarie part and say date Deo quaesunt Dei our courts beare the name and title of Christ the superscription of Caesar is quite worne out and not to be found vppon them And this point of their policy is worth the obseruing that when they found their iurisdiction in matrimoniall causes to be the most sweete and gainefull of all other for of Matrimony they made matter of money indeede to the end that Caesar might neuer resume so rich a perquisite of their spirituall iurisdiction they reduced Matrimony into the nuÌ„ber of the seuen Sacraments After which time it had beene sacriledge if the ciuill magistrate had intermedled with the least matter that had relation to Matrimony or any dependancy there vppon So then yet appeareth that all causes whereof Eccicsiasticall or spirituall persons haue cognisans or iurisdiction by the graunts or permission of Princes are called Ecclesiasticall or spirituall causes And as all their courts are called spirituall courts so all causes determinable in those courts are called spirituall causes And therefore where Maister Lalor hath acknowledged the Kings Maiestie to be Supreame gouernour in all Ecclesiasticall causes he hath therein acknowledged the Kings supremacy in all spirituall causes wherein he hath but reÌ„dered to Caesar but that which is Caesars and hath giuen vnto his Maiestie no more then all the Bishops of England haue yeelded to his predecessors not onely in this later age but also in former times both before and since the Conquest as hath beene before at large expressed Heere the daie being farre spent the Court demaunded of the prisoner if hee had any more to say for himselfe his answere was that he did willingly renounce his office of Vicar generall And did humbly craue his Maiesties grace and pardon And to that end he desired the Court to moue the Lord Deputie to bee fauorable vnto him Then the â—ury departed from the Barre and returning within halfe an houre found the prisoner guilty of the contempts whereof he was indicted Where vppon the Sollicitor generall moued the Court to proceed to iudgement And Sir Dominicke Sarsfield knight one of the Iustices of his Maiesties chiefe place gaue iudgement according to the forme of the statute where vppon the indictment was framed Printed at Dublin by Iohn Franckton printer to the Kings most excellent Maiesty for Ireland Anoo 1615.