attempt the Pope had disinherited and precipitated from the Imperial dignity so great a Prince then whom there was not a greater yea not an equal not being convicted of nor confessing the crimes objected That if he deserved to be deposed he was not to be adjudged cashiered but by a General Council That no credit was to be given to the crimes objected against him by professed enemies whereof the Pope was known to be the principal That he was yet guiltlesse as to them and a good neighbour who never discerned any infidelity in him in secular matters or in the Catholick Faith That they knew be faithfully warred for our Lord Jesus Christ against the Saracens jeoparding himself both by Land and Sea for his cause That they found not so much Religion in the Pope who instead of assisting promoting protecting him warring in Gods cause as he ought to do â—ickedly endeavoured to confound and supplant him whiles absent That they could not precipitate themselves into so great dangers to impugne Frederick himself being so potent whom so many Kingdoms would assist against them and whose just cause would afford him assistance That the Pope cared not for the prodigal effusion of their blood so as they might satisfie his wrath That if he should conquer him by them or others he would tread down all other Princes of the world under his feet assuming hornes of boasting and pride because he had broken in pieces the great Emperor Frederick himself That they would send Messengers to him to enquire diligently and certifie them of the Orthodoxy of his Faith That if they found nothing in him but what was sound why should they impugne him If otherwise they would persecute both him yea and the Pope himself if he shall think evil of God or any other mortal even unto death whereupon the Nuncioes departed confounded His satisfactory pious answer to the French Messengers concerning the Orthodoxy of his Faith the treacheries of the Pope and prayer to God to avenge them 540 541. He maketh a Truce with the Soldan recovers the Cities taken from him by the Popes forces marched towards Rome against the Pope who endeavoured not only to depose but murder him writes Letters to the King of England relating the Popes impious proceedings Rebellions Wars raised against and ingratitude towards him exhorts him to adhere to and assist him in this cause which concerned the Jurisdiction honour security of all other Kings Princes whose rights he patronized which Letters much discredited the Popes authority and prejudiced the Clergies honour 541 to 545. His expostulatory Letters to King H. 3. for permitting the Popes Agents continually to extort vast sums of money out of his Realm to maintain Wars against him and suffering his scandalous Bulls to be published in all places to his infamy against the Law of Nature Nations bonds of affinity between them being his Son-in-law Brother Friend against whom he had declared no War his cause concerning the Interest Prerogative of other Kings Crowns and his own the Pope to his infamy claiming a Lordly Dominion over him as his Vassal To which he unworthily answered That he durst not contradict the Popes will 546 547 548. The Pope to divert his march to Rome stirs up the Earl of Flanders to invade his Territories 548. He makes peace with Millain and Bononia reduceth the Cities near Rome to obedience by his forces and Letters causeth the Romans and most of the Cardinals to desert the Pope who desired a General Counsil to settle a peace between them which he assented to The Pope despairing of his cause consents to a Truce till the Council His Legate in France perswades him to break it and bid open defyance to the Emperor having raised monies enough to maintain one years War against him He summons all the Emperors enemies to the Council to depose him who thereupon by his Letters to the King of England and others prohibits the Bishops to repair to it stops all their passages by Land who upon the Popes Letters repairing thither with a strong Convoy sent from Jenoa by Sea three Popes Nuncioes above one hundred Archbishops Bishops Abbots and Pâ—oxies of Prelates besides Embassadors from Cities in Rebellion against the Emperor and above 4000 Mariners of Jenoa were taken prisoners by the Emperors Gallies and some Bishops slain drowned in the fight wherein God signally owned his cause against the Pope his Letters concerning it 549 to 558. He surprizeth the Popes new Castle built with the Croysado money whereupon he dyed of grief and discontent 647. The Cardinals desire his release of the imprisoned Cardinals and license to elect a New Pope to which he condescends Their division double election he assents to one but dislikes the other being a Roman and his professed enemy 647 648. Cardinal Columna taken prisoner his Castles demolished for seeming favourable to him 648. The English Bishops Embassy to him to remit his indignation against the Church of Rome though justly provoked to permit command the Cardinals to elect a New Pope after Coelestine the 4. his death Ibid. His answer That the pertinacious pride and unsatiable covetousnesse of the Church of Rome not he hindred the proceedings to a New Popes election That if he hindred the successes of the Roman and English Church none might admire since the one endeavoured by all means to depose him from his Imperial dignity and the other desisted not to excommunicate not a little to defame him and pour forth their money to his detriment 648 649. He commanded the disagreeing Cardinals to elect a Pope to take off the infamy that he hindred the election releaseth all the imprisoned Cardinals and Prelates at their request for the Churches peace who thereupon became more obstinate schismatical and hating each other then before He thus deluded besieged Rome and the Romans as the authors of this schisme to the detriment of the Church and Empire from which suspicion the Roman Citizens freeing themselves by their Agents and laying all the blame on the schismatical Cardinals he by publick Proclamation in his Camp commanded all the Cities and possessions of the Church and Cardinals to be depopulated by his Souldiers which they vigorously pursuing the Cardinals petitioned him to forbear his indignation and plunder of them promising faithfully speedily to elect a Pope profitable both to the Church and Empire they elect Innocent the 4 Pope 649 650 651. This Pope being confirmed trayterously ratified his former sentence of Excommunication raised forces against him routs his Army publickly defamed him That he never heard divine service nor prayers occasioned by his Excommunications and Prelates refusal to communicate with him that he did not worthily reverence Ecclesiastical persons that he did neither rightly speak nor think of the Catholick Faith that he lay with Saâ—â—cen women that he called Saracens and other Insidels into the Empire wherein they built fortified Citus Which calumnies caused many Noble grave persons to depart from him and his
Dominion from Constantine the Great which refute and destroy each other Now because the sacred Scriptures are of little or no Authority in the Church of Rome but as they are glossed interpreted from time to time by Popes themselves in their own causes for their own advantage I shall in the next place subvert the foundation of their pretended Universal Monarchy by their own established Romish Devotions Practises Doctrines directly or consequentially contradicting overturning each other by a divine infatuation I shall reduce them to these two general heads 1. Such Practises Devotions Doctrines of the Roman Church and its members as directly invalid diminish subvert the Soveraign Universal Kingly or Priestly offices of Christ himself and by consequence St. Peters and the Popes which they derive from him 2ly Such as subvert the Popes alone To begin with their Practises and Devotions as they deem them The Romanists as you heard before acknowledge that our Saviour Christ as God and Man did not receive the actuall possession or exercise of his Universal Kingly power in earth or heaven especially in Temporals till after his resurrection and his ascention in his humane body and nature into heaven to the Throne of his Majesty not whiles he was a sucking babe in his mothers arms or hanging nayled on his Crosse or intombed in his sepulcher the lowest acts parts of his humiliation antecedent to his actual Soveraign Exaltation and Regal Power as Phil. 2. 1 to 12. Ephes 2. 19 to 23. Mat. 28. 18 19. Lu. 24. 26. Acts 2. 23 to 27. c. 5. 30 31. c. 13. 33 34. Heb. 1. 3. c. 12. 2. Rev. 3. 21. c. 5. 12 13. resolve Now how do Popes Popish Churches Councils Cardinals Bishops Doctors Priests Monks Nonnes Laicks and the whole Church of Rome picture represent our Saviour Christ to the eyes of their bodies and mindes either in all or most of their publike or private Masse-books Breviaries Offices Psalters Primers Processionals Manuals Rosaries or other Books of Devotion and Religion in all their Collegiate Cathedral Parochial Churches Chappels or private Oratories Monasteries Colledges Cells Closets or Crosses which they erect and in their publike or private Masses Processions devoutest prayers and addresses to him when they most implore his grace or assistance Not as a most glorious triumphant Soveraign King of Kings or head of all Principalities and Powers or as their only high Priest Advocate Mediator sitting in Heaven on the Throne of his Majesty and glory at his Fathers right hand there making perpetual intercession for them to reconcile and bring them to his Father But rather as a despicable sucking babe or infant lying in his swadling clouts in his Mothers arms lap bosom brest or at her feet in a cratch or manger as if he were still an infant and not grown to his manly stature Yea they make him such a frail despicable infant that his very bones and limbs too may now be easily broken and knocked off from his body contrary to John 19. 33. 36. Ps 34. 26. A bone of him shall not be broken and he tumbled down out of his mothers armes to the ground witnesse this famous Legend recorded for a most certain miraculous truth by our Gervasius Dorobernensis Anno Gratiae 1187. King Henry the 2d being in Castello Radulphi in Provincia Bituricensi wherein the French King intended to besiege him Est ibidem Coenobium Monachorum habitus nigri in honore beatae virginis Mariae dedicatum Quo cum Braibanceni Regis Angliae stipendiarii festinarent ut ea quae in eadem Ecclesia reposita erant absportarent Lemovicensis Vicecomes armatus accessit eorumque ab ingressu Ecclesiae cohibuit furorem fugatoque tandem latronum Cuneo remanserunt quidam ex ipsis in ipso atrio Ecclesiae tessara ludentes Cum ergo quidam ex ipsis ut moris est sorte perderent alii vero lucro inhiantes eos qui perdebant probris irritarent hi qui perdebant furore succensi in Deum et beatam ejus genetricem nefandas blasphemias jactitabant ac si ecrâ—m esset culpa quod hujusmodi infortunia eis accidebant Vnus autem ex eis insanior caeteris arrepto lapide ad imaginem Sanctae Virginis Mariae in lapide sculptam projecit quo infantem feriens ejus manum dejecit in terram Qua ruente ipse quoque puer e gremio lapsus est inferiusque solito resedit De brachio autem pueri simul et manu quae jam in terram lapsa est sanguis uberrime manavit ac si viventis hominis vigor esset in lapide It seems this statue of their Saviour was transubstantiated into his very body and blood as well as the Hostia Ipsa vero Imago Mariae ac si suo compateretur filio conjectis manibus ad humeros proprios Vestimentum lapideum abrupit et corpus proprium fere usque ad mamillas detexit Hic vero qui lapidem jecerat absque mora corruit et expiravit caeterique amentes effecti sunt as madd as they who forged and believed this Legend Vicecomes autem Lemovicensis accurrens manum pueri sanguine madidam apprehendit magnumque defensionis proemium laetabundus absportavit The like miracles wee have recorded of abundance of blood issuing out of the little Images of our Savior wounded or crucified by Iewes since his ascention into heaven publikely read in the Roman Church recorded for truths by Sigebertus yea by Baronius himself and Henricus Spondanus his Epitomizer Anno Christi 446. nu 3. Anno 560. nu 1. Anno 765. nu 2. which blood they reserve and shew to the people who adore it as the very blood of Christ himself in several places Yea our Radulphus de Diceto in his Abbreviationes Chronicorum Anno 765. out of Sigebertus and others stories Judaei Imaginem Jesu Salvatoris nostri invenientes in domo Judaei ibi relictam à quodam Christiano eam deponunt omnia opprobria quae Judaei Jesu Christo intulerunt imagini ejus inferebant tandem lancea latere ejus aperto exivit de eo sanguis et aqua Quod illi supposita ampulla suscipientes omnes infirmos in Synagoga sua collectos sanabat Quod cum vidissent Judaei baptizati sunt omnes when as the shedding of Christs blood and sight of the miracles wrought at his Passion converted no one Jew and in memory hereof Passio autem Dominicae Imaginis celebratur singulis annis 5 Idus Nov. the day of our Gunpowder Treason apud Beretham in Syria where this Image was crucified So as they had two good Fridayes the one for the Passion of our Saviour which is moveable changing every year and the other for the passion of his very image which is certain Or 2dly They represent and adore him as a diâ—inutive despicable babe or dwarfe whose real natural glorified body born of the Virgin Mary if they believe their own Popes Councils Doctors Churches resolutions
one part he may cut away also another and so may his Successors and so the Empire should at last be brought to nothing and utterly destroyed which is against the Publique good and the end why the Empire is ordained Ex quo verè credo Whereupon I do truly believe that the aforesaid Donation De Iure cannot be of force to prejudice the Empire or the Successors He adds That praescriptio dat utile Dominium Ecclesiae praestitis tamen Tributis Censibus Imperatorum Directum non tollit Contra Principem non nisi quoad utile Dominium praescribitur because the Pope in using this Dominion doth it as the Emperors Deputy or Minister and in the Emperors name and so the Soveraignty still rests in the Emperor against which there is no prescription As for prescription by the Canon Law that is least available for the Pope For by the Canon Law there is required to a valid prescription TITULUS BONA FIDES Both which in this case of Constantines Donation and so in King Iohns too he saith seem to be wanting for there is a Title pretended where there is no Title at all quia datus per eum quidare non potuit and because the alienation is made contrary to Law as we have shewed Bona fides also is here wanting because the Pope and his Successors knew Res esse alienas hoc est Imperii Thus Albericus most clearly resolves whose words and reasons extend as fully to King Johns Charter as to Constantines pretended Donation to the Pope Antonius Rosellus noble both for his birth and learning in the Civil Law and other Literature though he defends the Donations made to Popes by Constantine Charles Lewes and Otho yet after long debate he concludes thus Firmiter teneo That as to those lands and territories which the Pope hath from antient times possessed by vertue of those gifts they are good for the possession profits utile Dominium seeing therin the Imperial right is not taken away SED DIRECTUM IMPERIUM EST PENES CAESAREM Directum Imperium est in ossibus Caesaris irremovibile vel inalienabile Habet ergo Papa executionem potestatis in the Territories given him but he hath not the Soveraign power over them that belongs to the Emperor who in all temporal goods and possessions is the Soveraign Prince For as we daily see the Emperor gives Dukedoms Earldoms or Kingdoms et tamen retinet in directo Dominio ipsam Inrisdictionem et Jus Imperii in ipsis bonis aut commissis even so in those gifts given by the Emperors to the Church or Pope JUS IMPERII et Jurisdictionem retinuit et retinet quamvis utile Dominium ejus et executionem potestatis Pontifici commisit He subjoyns The Donation to the Pope is good quoad proprietatem dominium particulare sed non quoad Jurisdictionem totalem Jus Imperii Although the Pope be capable of Imperial right quoad subsidium non tamen est capax principaliter ideo impossibile est per viam praescriptionis Nay it is impossible that in the same person should subsist the Imperial Authority and the Priesthood ideo impossibile est per viam praescriptionis He further resolves If there happen a controversie betwixt the Pope and the Prince concerning any meer temporal matter I think the Emperour himself ought to be Judge herein seeing in Temporal matters he is above all even the Pope himself ipse est Judex suae causae the Emperour is Judge in his own cause as the Law teacheth Therefore King John his Successors and Parliaments are meet Judges in the case of England by like reason who have adjudged this Kings Charter voyd He proceeds one step further Whereas the Popes to make sure that Authority which they use in the Patrimony of St. Peter cause the Emperour to swear that he will not exercise that Imperial Authority which he hath in those Lands but permit the Popes to enjoy the same as they have used tying the Emperours by this Oath from the exercise of any Imperial Jurisdiction in those Territories this learned Lawyer teacheth That Emperours indeed after they have once taken this Oath cannot intermeddle in those Lands but ought by vertue of their Oath leave the Jurisdiction therein to the Pope But withall he adds that seeing the Emperor retaineth still the direct dominion in those Lands which dominion he cannot possibly passe away to the Pope his Successors need not to take that Oath and not taking it saith he they may actually use their own Imperial Rights and Jurisdiction in the same and it were better they would do so Hugo Grotius one of the learnedest most judicious Lawyers Scholars of this later age positively concludes Rex partem populi alienare non potest nisi etiam pars de qua alienanda agitur consentiat accedente populi consensu libero alienari posse etiam à rege quid obstet non video Quare subscribere non possumus Jurisconsultis qui de non alienandis Imperii partibus adjiciunt exceptiones duas de publica utilitate de necessitate nisi hoc sensu ut ubi est eadem utilitas communis corporis partis facile etiam ex silentio etiam non longi temporis consensus populi partis intervenisse videatur facilius verò si etiam necessitas appareat At ubi manifesta est in contrarium voluntas aut corporis aut partis nihil actum debet intelligi Sub alienatione merito comprehenditur infeudatio sub onere Quare videmus a pluribus populis irritas habitas ut alienationes ita infeudationes Regnorum quas populis inconsultis Reges fecerant Populum autem consensisse intelligimus sive totus coiit quod olim apud Germanos Gallos fieri solebat sive per Legatos partium integrantium mandato sufficiente instructos Nam facimus quod per alium facimus d Sed nec pignori dari pars Imperii poterit nisi consensu simili non ea tantum de causa quod ex pignoris datione sequi alienatio soleat sed quod et Rex teneatur populo ad exercendum per se summum Imperium et populus partibus suis ad conservandum hoc exercitium in sua integritate cujus rei gratia in societatem civilem coitum est Patrimonium quoque populi cujus fructus destinati sunt ad sustentanda Reipublicae aut Regiae dignitatis onera a Regibus alienari nec in totum nec in partem potest Nam in hoc jus majus fructuario non habent Nec admitto distinctionem si res modicum videat quia quod meum non est ejus nec exiguam partem alienare mihi jus est sed in rebus modicis quam in magnis consensus populi ex scientia et ex silentio facilius praesumitur Existimat Barclaius Si Rex regnum alienet aut alii subjiciat amitti ab eo
Obedience to him till conformable to his Papal pleasure and to dispence with the Kings own Oathes to his Barons and people 8ly A pretended supream Antichristian Papal authority actually to deprive the King and his Heirs of his very hereditary Crown Kingdoms and give them away to other foreign Princes 9ly To command foreign Kings and all Christian Nobles Knights Souldiers by force of armes to seize upon and expell him his Kingdoms and issue out Crossadoes to War against and dethrone him as if he were a meer Saracen and Turk 10ly A Jurisdiction to deprive suspend sequester excommunicate the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Ecclesiastical and Temporal Peers and Cities of the Realm at his Papal pleasure and summon them to attend the Pope personally at Rome to undergo his Papal censures 11ly A liberty inserted into the Great Charter for all Bishops Clergymen Monks and others to depart out of the Realm resort to Rome or to the Kings Enemies without his Royal license first obtained and to return again at their pleasures 12ly A liberty for all Chapters Covents Monks Clergymen freely to elect whom they pleased to Bishopricks Monasteries Deaneries and other preferments in the Kings Donation and to reject whatever persons the King should specially recommend unto them though never so deserving so as the King could prefer no person to any elective Dignity within his Realms but whom the Chapters Covents Clergy should voluntarily elect and the Pope or his Legates actually confirm at their pleasures 13ly A power to sequester suspend deprive excommunicate and reduce to extream necessity all such Scholars Clergymen and Loyal Subjects who had so much loyalty and courage as to appear in defence of the King and his Cause against the Popes illegal injurious encroachments and to protect advance reward encourage all Traytors and Rebells against the King to advance the Popes Usurpations 14ly A power to sell Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries and all other Ecclesiastical preferments Palls to those who would give most money for them to extort monies for Papal Benedictions Valedictions dismissions from attendance in General Councils or the See of Rome upon summons thither 15ly An over-awing authority over all the Bishops Clergy of England Ireland to obey the Popes most unjust treasonable commands against the expresse commands protestations of the King Barons Kingdoms to the Kings Realms and Churches prejudice 16ly A power to hear and determine by Appeal or otherwise all causes and controversies concerning elections unions or disunions of Churches or other Ecclesiastical Offices As to the Kings and Kingdoms Temporal Rights and Jurisdictions Pope Innocent made these unparalleld encroachments on them 1. An actual Interdiction of the whole Realm sundry years for a pretended personal contempt in the King alone and after that the like Interdict of the Londoners and Barons temporal Estates for their Rebellions and civil offences against the King 2ly An Antichristian power to dethrone dis-inherit the King and his Heirs of their hereditary right in the Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland and to transfer them to foreign Kings and Enemies without the Kings or Kingdoms consent or any tryal hearing of the King or Kingdom 3ly A forcible wrested resignation from the King of his Crown Scepter Kingdoms to the Pope and his Successors without his Barons or Kingdoms consents by a void illegal extorted Charter 4ly A resuming of them by King John and his Heirs from the Pope and his Successors under an Annual Rent or Pension and extorting of an Oath of Homage and Fealty from the King as a meer Vassal and Tributary to the Pope and Church of Rome directly contrary to the Rights of the Crown and freedom Office Royaly of a King 5ly A power to confirm null repeal the Kings own Temporal Charters yea Great Charters of Liberties and the Forrest and judge of their validity or invalidity at his Papal pleasure 6ly A power to examine hear determine the Right and Title of King John and others to the Crown of England and decide them in the Court of Rome as the supream Judicature in such cases 7ly A Jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil controversies touching Priviledges Rights Franchises between the King and his Barons and excommunicate them for not submitting to his Papal Edicts therein 8ly A power to make Truces and prohibit Christian Kings to War upon each others Kingdoms under pain of Excommunication and Interdiction 9ly A pretended right to protect all Kings and Nobles who took up the Crosse from any civil proceedings Wars against each other during the Crossado and to recommend promote grant prescribe Taxes Tenths to maintain those Wars against the Turks but in truth to fill his Papal coffers 10ly A power to exempt Treacherous Rebellious Clergymen from being Out-lawed or Interdicted by the King and force the King by publike Patents to disclaim this his antient Prerogative with his power of detaining any Clerks in Prison for capital Crimes or Felonies if demanded to be delivered by and to their Ordinaries All these with some other Usurpations of lesse concernment reducible to these heads were introduced by Pope Innocent the 3d. during the reign of King John never practised in England before by any of his ambitious Predecessors and so fastned upon the necks of the King Kingdom by wholesale by means of King Johns forced resignation of his Crown to the Pope intestine Wars differences between the King his Bishops Barons this Pope and his Legates policies that his Successors for many years after though they frequently complained petitioned against them with much earnestnesse and regret yet were hardly able with all their power or policy to resist much lesse to shake them off but only by piece-meal and inches as they had strength and opportunity to do it I shall now proceed to his Sons and Successors long yet troublesome reign by like unhappy contests between the Crosâ—er and Scepter the King and his Barons upon pretext of publike Liberty and our Ecclesiastical affairs under him THE FOVRTH BOOK CHAP. I. K. Henry the 3d. his succession to K. John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions Complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Encroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland with the chief passages concerning the Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20. years of his young troublesome reign KIng John being taken out of this world by poyson through the implacable malice of the Monks and Prelates having then many Enemies both of Earls Barons and more especially of the Popish Clergy Henry his eldest son was then but of the Age of 9. Years at which time most of the Lords of England adhering to Lewes the French Kings son whom they had sent for before in displeasure of King John to be their King and had sworn to him their Allegiance Thereupon William Earl Marshall a Noble man of great
c. Episcopis Salutem c. Ita nobis in Odore bonae opinionis fratrum cooperatorum nostrorum convenit delectari ut in pestilentibus vitia non palpemus cum non deoeat pro reverentia ordinis sustinere peccantes quorum culpa tot eos dignos mortibus facit quot ad subjectos perditionis exempla transmittunt qui sola quae pravitatis exempla conspiâ—iunt imitantur Hinc est quod cum de venerabili fratre nostro Dunelmensi Episcopo saepius nobis insinuata fuissent quae ab Episcopali honestate nimium dissonabant tandem inconculcatis funibus clamoris excitati ut non pateremur cum perditione multorum quiescere amplius in suis enormitatibus Episcopum memoratum de quo insinuatio clamosa processit quod postquam fuit ad officium Pontificale promotus reâ—s sanguinis symoniae adulterii sacrelogii rapinae perjurii ac dilapidationis multiplicis est effectus non formidans clericos orphanos acviâ—os religiosos opprimere testamenta decedentium impedire Regia jura contra scientiam dilecti filii nostri Pandulphi Norwicensis electi munire ac excommunicationi ligatus ingerere se divinis Item etiam appellationibus non defert ad Romanam Ecclesi interpositis statuta generalis concilii non observat nunquam proponit populo verbum Dei lingua exemplo vitae pravum subditis praebet exemplum Coram multis juravit quod pacem ipso vivente Dunelmensis Ecclesia non habebit Conquerente sibi Monacho quodam Dunelmensi se a servientibus suis ab Ecclesia quadam fuisse extractum usque ad sanguinis effusionem pulsatum respondit ei quod melius factum fuisset si servientes Episcopi Monachum perimissent Ipse insuper Apostolicam regulam continentem qualis debeat esse Episcopus penitus calcavit in cunctis Nos ergo ne alienae culpae simus authores si clausis oculis tot tanta praedicti Episcopi transeamus errata cum adeo ad nos clamor super his ascenderit ut dissimulationi amplius non sit locus dignum duximus ex officii nostri debito descendere ut haec an ita sint vel aliter videamus Quocirca fraternitati vestrae per Apostolica scripta Mandamus quatenus inquisita super his cognita sollicite veritate quae inveneritis vestris fideliter inclusis sigillis ad nostram praesentiam remittatis ut Authore Deo quod super hoc faciendum fuerit statuamus Datum Viterbii Pontificatus nostri Anno Quarto CUM autem literae Domini Papae ad notitiam executorum pervenissent ex officio sibi injuncto vocaverunt Episcopum Dunelmensem cum Abbatibus Prioribus Archidiaconis Decanis apud Dunelmum ad suum consistorium alios laicos clericos illius provinciae quoscunque hujus rei esse conscios crediderunt Illis autem omnibus die sibi loco statuto coram executoribus comparentibus recitatae fuerunt literae Domini Papae audientibus cunctis aperte distincte ad intelligendum Quibus perfectis intellectis surrexerunt Clerici Dunelmensis Episcopi quasdam refutationes frivolas fallaces allegantes contra executores praedictos atque ne procederent in inquisitione praedicta praesentiam Domini Papae appellarunt Et sic facta appellatione episcopus cum Clericis suis recessit diem statuentes adversariis qua contra eum in Domini Papae praesentia comparerent Interposita itaque appellatione saepedictus Episcopus Romanam adivit Curiam praemissis Clericis suis qui sibi supervenienti Domini Papae gratiam praepararent Unde contigit ut antequam Monachi Dunelmenses Romam venissent clerici memorati actionem eorundem Monachorum non mediocriter infirmaverant Unde post multas hinc inde coram Papa altercationes tam Episcopi quam Monachi immoderatis profusis expensis remissi sunt in Angliam ad executores supradictos ut coram eis quod justum fuerit sententialiter statuatur Duravit autem haec diu inter eos semel suborta contentio donec mors Episcopi litem sicut ipse praedixerat terminavit What was the general corruption of the Pope Prelates Monks Clergy in that age appears by this relation The Archbishop of Cassel in Irâ—land by his own usurped authority interdicted the Kings Tenants and Lands there without reasonable cause and after an Appeal whereof the King complaining to Pope Honorius he thereupon enjoyned him to release the Interdict within 15. dayes or in case of his refusal authorized other Bishops to release it and finally to hear and determine the cause by this ensuing Bull. HONORIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei c. Archiepiscopo Cassel salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Charissimus in Christo filius H. Rex Anglorum illustris suam ad nos querimoniam destinavit quod tu in homines et terras ejus sine causa rationabili post appellationem ad nos interpositam Interdicti sententiam authoritate propria contra statuta generalis Concilii promulgasti Quocirca fraternitati tuae per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus si est ita infra xv dies post susceptionem praesentum sententiam ipsam sine difficultate relaxes Alioquin Venerabilibus fratribus nostris Dar. Midens Osser Episcopis damus nostris Literis in mandatis ut ipsi extunc sufficienti ab eis super hiis pro quibus praedicta sententia est prolata recepta iuxta formam Ecclesiae cautione sententiam relaxantes eandem audiant si quid postmodum remanserit questionis appellatione remota fine debito decidant faciant quod decreverint authoritate nostra firmiter observari Dat. Alatri xiiij Kalend. Iunii Pontificatus nostri Anno sexto Anno 1221. William de Marisco Bishop of London of his own accord resigning his Bishoprick Eustachius de Faucumberge tunc Scaccarii thesaurarius quinto Calendas Martii in Episcopum Londinensem eligitur cuius electio a Legato Pandulpho confirmatur vii Calendas Maii apud Westmonasterium consecratur Which Bishop soon after petiit ab Abbate Willielmo Conventu Westmonasteriensi processionem procurationem visitationem omnimodam jurisdictionem propter quae ad Papam fuit appellatum After which Appeal this difference was by consent of both parties referred to Stephen Langhton Archbishop of Canterbury two other Bishops and two Priors as arbitrators to determine Qui Monasterium Westmonasterii ab omnimoda subjectione jurisdictione Episcopi Londinensis penitus exemptum declaraverunt by vertue of the Kings Charters ordinaverunt quod Ecclesia de Stanes cum pertinentiis suis in usus proprios Ecclesiae Westmonasteriensis commutaretur manerium de Sunneb in proprietat Episcopi Londinensis Ecclesia ejusdem manerii cedat in usus proprios Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli in perpetuum Which prevented all proceedings on this Appeal The same year upon the forementioned complaint and Letters of King Henry to Pope Honorius against Henry de Lezimaco Earl of March the Pope sent
dejected enemies to life up their heads After which he caused the Germans to elect another Emperor the Lantgrave who upon conference sided with him against the Pope who refused all termes of peace unlesse he would sweat absolutely to stand to his-Ecclesiastical censure which he refused to do unlesse he knew before hand the causes and all conditions of it without restoring the places he had gained belonging to the Empire of antient right 651. The Pope refuseth all sorts of cautions he tendred to him to settle place to the great rejoycing of Saracens Turks and other Pagans who invaded spoyled the Christians in all places during their dissentions Upon which he stops all passages to Rome by Sea and Land imploying his Son Coâ—rade therein forced the Pope and Cardinals to fly out of Rome and Italy disguised into France his jeer against the Pope for this his dishonourable flight 651 652 653. By assistance of the French King the Pope summoned a General Council excommunicated deposed the Emperor afresh absolves all his Subjects from their allegiance prohibits any to own or converse with him under pain of Excommunication in a most insolent manner notwithstanding all his Embassadors Advocates allegations and proffers of satisfaction 643 to 654 664 753. The Bulls causes of his Excommunication and dethroning 644 to 660. His notable stout speech after his dethroning by the Pope and Council He sets his Crown on his head bids defyance against the Pope sends notable Letters to the King of England and other Princes against the pride insolency ingratitude of the Pope and Prelates occasioned by their great endowments riches by the bounty of Christian Emperors Kings to the impoverishing of their Realms asseits it would be an act of charity very acceptable to God to resume their possessions riches which made them cast God behind their backs choaked their Religion caused them ungratefully to conspire and set themselves against their advancers Heirs exhorting them to reduce them to their primitive humility condition to substract their great noxious revenues from them which made them mad riotous rebellious and unlike the Primitive Bishops in the Apostles times who subdued Emperors Kings by their piety holineste nor by Armes 660 661 662. The great dangers many Princes Prelates apprehended would ensue by this Emperors deposing by encouraging Popes though of mean birth to trample all Emperors Kings Princes Prelates under feet at their pleasures and grow intollerably proud insolent to boast we have trampled the very greatest Lord and Emperor Frederick under feet and who art thou who rashly believest thou art able to resist us 662. The Pope exhorts the Cistercians to live and dye in his and the Churches quarrel against him who thereupon inclined to his party 662 663. All Christendome troubled with Wars by the hatred discord between the Pope and him and the Universal Church every where endangered 753 754. The French Nobles adhere to him detest the pride of the Pope the Servant of Servants who rejected all the honest conditions of peace which he offered him 755. He the greatest of all Christian Princes who had not his equal an enemy to Pope Innocent the 4. generally hated in most Kingdoms 676. Two new Emperors successively set up against him their forces defeated one of them slain in battle the other dyes 753. Appendix 27. He is poysoned by his most intimate Counsellor and Advocate Peter de Vinea corrupted by Pope Innoccut the 4. his great gifts and promises his memorable declamation against Popes ingratitude insolency advanced from nothing by his predecessors to so great wealth power who thereby endeavoured to exterminate destroy their advancers and the tottering Empire 754 756 809 810. The punishment of his poysoner the Popes great rejoycing at his misery death 754 755. Frederick King of Naples his great munificent gifts of Crown Lands revoked 319. G. GErmany Almaign Popes pretended Title to it 391. The Emperors Oath power he cannot alien his Lands or Soveraign power 316 317 318 319. See Index 14. Emperor Oath Frederick Otho Seditions Rebellions raised in it by Popes against the Emperor 411 523 5â—8 536 753 754 810 811. Shaken with intestine wars by the Pope 676 698 717. Gothes obey the Greek Church 491. Granado Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. Greek Church subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople its errors opposition against separation from the Church of Rome for its detestable symony ambition corruptions the several Nations Countries obedient to it rejecting the Popes authority its claim of primacy above the Pope by St. Peters first preaching fixing his See at Antioch not Rome G 〈◊〉 us its Patriarch and Greek Churches opposition against Pope Gregory 9. who grants a Croysado against them 484 490 491 492 512 513 676 752. Greek Emperors 319 490 491 492 512. Their donations of the Lands of the Empire revoked 319. H. HAco King of Denmark Norway and Sweden his Coronation by the Popes Legate gifts to him and the Pope for it 697. Henry 5. Emperor Pope Paschal 2. and his Cardinals grant of the right of Investitures to him by his Bull Oath perjuriously revoked soon after 328. King Henry 1. of England his Charter of Laws Liberties â—ead to the Barons by Archbishop Langeton who swear to revive maintain and fight for it to death in convenient time 283. Enlarged with divers new additions in King Johns Great Charter 338. He erected endowed the Bishoprick of Carlisle 376 377. King Henry 2. of England his antient Jurisdiction over Clergymen by prescription declared voyd by the Pope 6 7. He ejects the Abbesse and Nuns of Ambresbury for their Incontinency and puts others in their places 228. His contests with Becket abjuration of the antient priviledge of Investitures and right of conferring Bishopricks before the Popes Legate 250. Revokes resumes the Crown Lands Mannors Castles granted by King Stephen an Usurper to the Nobles as voyd and the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland from the King of Scots 324. King Henry 3. of England his Coronation at Gloucester at 9. years old after his Fathers death his Oath Homage to the Pope 369 370. The Bishops Nobles Castellans Homage Fealty and Fidelity to him he remains in the custody of William Earl of Pembrock his chief advancer Ibid. Many Barons revolt from Lewes to him for breach of his Oath and detaining their Lands Casties 370. He routs Lewes his forces Articles of agreement between them ratified by Oath out of which sundry Bishops Abbots Clerks were excepted 371 372. The Popes Usurpations on him by reason of his infancy necessities assistance of him against the French and revolted Barons 369 372 1068. His memorable Prohibitions Writs to restrain the Usurpations Extortions exorbitant Encroachments of Popes Popes Legates Delegates Archbishops Bishops and other Agents in England and Ireland upon the rights of his Crown the Liberties Properties Consciences of his Subjects Courts Officers and redresse their grievances See Prohibitions Elections Excommunications Oathes Index 14. and Index 3 4 5 6
Of the Barons and Churches of London by the Pope and his Legate without any remedy by Appeal for contemning his Excommunications of them and taking up armes against King John to defend the Great Charter of Liberties after his nulling it as extorted by force and prohibition to maintain it under pain of Excommunication 359 â—â—0 361 362. Their slighting derâ—ding exclâ—ming against it as null having no power â—reâ—â—dent from Saint Peter or Scripture Appeal against it to the next General Council and to Christ officiate notwithstanding it Ibid. King Henry 3. â—njoyned by the Pope under pain of Excommunication and Interdict to inquire of and punish such who broke open the Romans barns and took away their Corn against the Liberties of the Church and his Coronation Oath whereupon he issued out Inquisitions against them 436 437. Against all Harbourers of Pyrates or such who send any Victuals Arms Ships or hold Commerce with Saracens to the prejudice of the Holy Land and against all Christian Kings Princes who made not peace with each other or invaded one anothers Territories during four years space to the hinderance of the Holy War This to be solemnly and publickly denounced in all Cities and Port-Towns on all Lords-dayes and Holy-dayes 449. 450. A General one ordered by the Archbishop of Cassal in Ireland of the Kings Tenants by his Authority against the Decree of Pope Honorius to be reversed within 15 days 384. Of the Cathedral and whole City of Winton by the Bishop elected consecrated against the Kings will for keeping him out of the City by the Kings special Writ to the Maior 584. 586. Of such as having layd down the Crosse refused to take it up or redeem it for Monys 681. Of those who opposed Pope Innocents grant of the First-fruits of all Benefices for seven years without any benefit of Appeal 583. Of the Monastery of Saint Albans for 15 days by the Popes Exactors of a Tax notwithstanding all their privileges evaded by a Non obstante during which their Bells Masses ceased onely they said their Canonical Howres with a low voyce 846. Of Sewald Archbishop of York for opposing the clandestine intrusion enstallment of an Alien into the Deanery of York by the Popes provision 850. 851. 926. 927. Of the Kings Castles Cities Towns Lands and also of the Kings Officers Judges Sheriffs Nobles Lay-mens Castles Lands by the Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London or other Bishops â—or summoning Bishops or Clergymen to appear in secular Courts for any Causes civil or criminal or distraining or attaching them for their contempts in not appearing 900. 901. 902. For refusing to take imprison excommunicate Persons or releasing conversing with them whiles excommunicated by the Kings Writs or otherwise before satisfaction given to the Church 903 904. For out-lawing Clerks in Criminal or Capital causes for not appearing to answer their Crimes in the Kings Courts 904. 905. For suing out Prohibitions or Attachments on them against Bishops and Ordinaries for suing men for breach of Faith and Oaths in Civil contracts 905. Of Jews by Interdict of all Commerce with them 905. 906. For hindering Prelates by Prohibitions and Attachments to compel persons to take Oaths in Criminal causes or testifie the truth or inquire of mens offences in their Courts and Visitations 907. For Abbots not entring into Bonds to the Popes Merchant for the King in such summes as the Popes Agents and the King demanded from them 933 934. Of the whole City of York by the Archbishop for a long time 954. Of King Henry 3. subjecting himself to excommunication and his Realm to the Popes Interdict by his Patent and Articles if he paid not Moneys to him c. for Sicily at certain dayes 919. Of the Bishop of Bangor of a Chappel in Wales for a laye Cause prohibited and ordered to be released by the Kings Writ 1009. By the Popes Legate of the City of London the Cinqueports and all the Barons in armes against King Henry the 3d. 1015. 1016. His Interdict brought by the Bishops out of France into England taken by the Inhabitants of Dover torn thrown into the Sea in contempt and not executed Ibid. Appeals against it to a General Council or to the Supream Judge 1025. See Excommunications Intestates Goods claimed seised on by a Papal Statute in England and elsewhere for the Pope forced at last by the Cardinals to null his constitution therein for its scandal and injustice 664. 671. 672. 681. 682. 692. 921. 922. Investitures of Bishops Abbots by a Pastoral Staff and Ring the antient approved right of our Kings and Christian Emperors wrested from them by the treachery perjury rebellion of Popes and popish Prelates after many years contests yet still their undoubted right by their own Canons Bulls 2. 226. 250. 328. Invocation of Mery and Saints by Papists See Mary Prayers Joseph of Aramathea his burial of Christ reserving the Water and Blood wherein he washed his dead Body for a Relique a Viol thereof sent into England attested to be his very blood 1200 years after there adored 712. 713. The fable of his long life 421. Is in This Is my body predicated onely significatively representatively not identically proved by sundry other Scriptures daily common instances 78. 79. Never signified nor produced a transubstantiation made by it when uttered in Scripture or Story Ibid. Judges Popes others not to be Judges and Parties or Judges in their own Cases by Popes own Doctrine 303. 343. Yet they were so in all cases between Kings Emperors and themselves 303. Enemies not to be Judges yet Popes both Enemies and Judges See Enemies Judges bound to defend the Kings Prerogative yet complained of by Archbishops Bishops Popes and ordered by their Constitutions to be excommunicated Interdicted for maintaining it and the Subjects Liberties against their usurpations and granting Prohibitions to that end 429. 430. 499. 704. 705. 706. 710. 827. 828. 857. 858. 859. 872 to 913. 964. 965. 969. 970. 972. Chief Justices of England and Ireland See Index 8. Judges Delegates and Subdeligates to which of them Prohibitions are to be directed 879. 880. Jurisdiction of Kings in and over all Ecclesiastical religious affairs Persons Churches 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. See Bishops Election Prerogative Prohibitions and Index 2. 3. 4. Opposed denied by Popes popish Prelates Canons Canonists 5. 6. 7. 8. 89. 874 to 912. 983. 990. 991. None coercive in Popes Bishops by Divine right but only by grace grants of Kings to be exercised in their names stile authority by their Commissions as their Substitutes 2. 3. 4. 5. What matters causes of right belong to Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Jurisdiction by the Lawes Customes of the Realm of England and Ireland What not and what to the Kings Temporal Courts See Bishops Canon Prerogative Prohibitions Excommunications Index 3. 4. 5. 6. p. 1 to 9. 272. 872 to 913. Bractons Discourse of Jurisdictions his distinction of Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Kings and Popes according to the
papal Divinity Law in that age 872. 873 to 890. No particular person can wave alter decline the Jurisdictions of the Kings Courts by his Contract oath nor give a Jurisdiction to Ecclesiastical Courts in Temporal matters contracts nor yet the Pope by his Bulls 872 to 890. Popes and popish Usurers endeavoured to do it by clauses in their Instruments priviledges contracts with our Kings 452. 453. 454 767. 768. 846 919. 931. 1001. 1002. and the Bishops by their Constitutions 998 to 913. See Prohibitions Popes Popish Canonists Prelates by their Constitutions exempted themselves Clerks Lands Goods Churches from all Emperours Laymens Jurisdiction Judicature Courts Laws Taxes for publick defence as subject onely to Gods judgement and their own and their very Concubines Harlots too 5. 6 7. 8. 874. 878. 886 897. 898 to 9â—2 Popes have no Jurisdiction in Temporal things or affairs 258. 259. 260. 278. 279. 360. 361. 473. 478. 872 882. When how Jurisdictions may be altered transferred and how to be excepted against 887. 888. Encroachments of Jurisdiction by Popes their Legates Delegates Archbishops Bishops Ecclesiastical persons Courts restrained by Kings Prohibitions 872 to 913. Appendix 8 9. See Prohibitions Jus Patronatus 971. Justices Itinerant licensed by Archbishops to give Oathes and impanel Juries in times prohibited by Canons at the Xings petition 394 407. K. KIngs particularly Kings of England Gods Vicars upon Earth chief Governors Patrons Protectors of the Church Christian Religion Gods Worship 1 2 3 4 5 872 873. Their Ecclesiastical Supremacy over all Prelates Priests persons causes within their Dominions in what particulars it principally consists Ibid. Popes claims and pretended Soveraign Monarchy Jurisdiction over them and their Kingdoms 5 6 7 8. Popes Popish Canonists exempt all Prelates Clergy-men their Lands Goods yea Concubines from their Jurisdiction Laws Taxes Judicatures for civil criminal matters as well as Ecclesiastical and make them meer cyphers 5 6 7 8 9. Excommunicate Interdict depose them absolve their Subjects from their Allegiance dispose of their Crowns Kingdoms at their pleasure See Frederick 2. Otho King John Henry 3. Index 10 12 14. Absolution Excommunication Interdicts Oaths Their Papal Titles to all their Kingdoms Territories 9 291 292. Our Kings Soveraign Authority Jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical as well as Civil things derived only from God not Popes 1 2 3 4 229 305 323 324 325 326 571 576 582 583 592 688 720 721. Their care duty zeal Writs endeavours to preserve defend the antient just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown Kingdom against all Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England Ireland France 227 228 230 232 233 236 237 239 240 to 273 300 301 302 303 323 324 326 338 356 586 592 593 to 598 640 641 644 645 663 710 727 739 740 962 963 964. Appendix 7 to 12 24 25. See Prerogative Prohibitions and Index 3 4 5 10 12. Right in Bishops elections dispensed with it out of special grace in some cases of Elections in Ireland See Index 4. and Elections Excepted out of Archbishops general Excommunications See Excommunications His Grants Acts by misinformation or circumvention nulled 304 373 374 482. They cannot alien their Crowns Kingdoms Crown-Lands without their Barons Subjects consents being against their Oaths trusts duty and Trustees of them only for the publick safety benefit of their Subjects 273 274 275 289. 290 291 316 to 329. Such alienations resumed Ibid. See Alienation Resumption Their care duty Oath Writs to preserve defend protect the just Rights Liberties of the Church Prelates Clergy in their persons possessions whereof God hath made them Defenders without prejudice to their Crowns and Royal Prerogatives See Index 2 3 4 5 6 10 12. p. 227 229 230 2â—3 234 242 251 252 279 323 324 334 335 336 380 381 571 57â— 575 576 58â— 592 593 6â—6 637 666 667 668 670 to 675 678 680 688 689 716 748 749 928 929 968 995 to 1007 1016 1017 1027 1028 1033. Obliged to protect foster the Rights Liberties of their Lay-Subjects against Popes and Prelates Usurpations 507 666 667 670 671 672. Kings desire declaration to govern by Law not power â—88 to do Justice to all great and small according to Law in all his Courts 989. Kings remain such whiles just cease to be Kings when they prove unjust 776. The King declared of full age by the Pope resumes the custody of his Castles 391 392. What virtues are requisite in Kings and by what precious stones represented 247 248. The King of England the most Christian of all Christiaâ— Kings where Faith Holiness hath more flourished then in any Kingdom throughout the World 712. His Coronation Oath See Oath Adorned with Armes Laws 588. Appealed to for Justice by Foreign Princes 588. The Kings Counsil Writs issued subscribed by them and their advice Acts done in their presence 265 277 278 381 389 390 394 1007 1008. See Index 8 9. and Writs His ill Counsellors especially Aliens complained against removed banished by the Barons 300. See Aliens Barons Pope obeyed by Bishops Abbots more then the King 300 933 934. Append. 9 10. See more in Prerogative Prohibitions Knights made at solemn Festivals the Popes Legates Nephew Knighted by King H. 3. with others 570 711. L. LApse after 6. months 389. None against the King by his Prerogative 481 482 563. Laws Popes usurped power to limit null dispense against the Law of God and the Apostles to take away all positive Laws without a cause and null all Princes Lay-mens Laws 5 6. No Princes Laws can binde Bishops or Clergymen though for their benefit unlesse ratified by the Pope 6. The making and interpreting of Laws in the Virgin Mary who knew both the Civil Canon Laws and Decretals 19. Laws of England setled in Ireland See Ireland Of King Edward the Confessor and King H. 1. sworn to be observed by our Kings evil Laws to be abolished 279 282 283 336 370. See Charter of Liberties Students of the Canon Law in the Universities of Oxford and Paris advised with in Appeals by the King 588. The Bishops learned in the Canon Laws much insisted on them to advance their own Jurisdiction exempt themselves and all the Clergy from Kings and secular Courts Jurisdiction 249 251 253 874 to 913. See Canons Canon Law Index 3. Judge Bractons learned Treatise of the Laws and Customs of England in the reign of King Henry 3. 872 to 888. Laymen though Emperors Kings Judges uncapable by Popes Popish Prelates Canons of any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Ecclesiastical persons causes things or over Priests Concubines not to be witnesses against Clergymen 5 6 7 8 874 890 to 913. Their ill esteem of them and their authority though Emperors Kings Ibid. and Index 3 10 12. Lay-patrons Benefices exempted by order of Parliament and Popes Bulls from First-fruits and Popes Provisions by the Barons stout oppositions against them 507 508 718. Excommunicated Interdicted for arresting criminal Clerks or their Concubines suing Clergymen in the Kings secular Courts 6
are inserted out of their due Chronological series or years to which they relate If they consider that this was occasioned either by the continued series of the History to which they relate hapning in divers years which could not well be dis-joyned without greater inconveniences or to unite some Records or Stories of the same kind together illustrating or ratifying each other though different in time or else by casualty or oversight at the Press and withall if they observe how the distinct years rolls of every Record and of most Historians are truly cited quoted in the Text or Margin I hope it will be reputed no Solecism nor just ground of complaint Perhaps some other curious Perusers of this Work may charge me with Tautologie or surplusage for inserting several Letters Procurations of our Kings to Popes Cardinals and Proctors sent to Rome or several Patents and Prohibitions to distinct persons Courts running almost in the same words But I hope the rarity and novelty of them never formerly published in print their confirmation and explanation of each other especially in cases of Prohibitions and the matters conteined in them not mentioned in Story together with my care to avoid the censure of omitting or concealing any records of this nature wherewith others might upbraid me And the constant Practise of the Clergy Popes Prelates Church and Laicks of Rome most likely to pick quarrels with me in repeating sundry dozens scores if not hundreds of Pater-Nosters together on their Beads though that prayer was purposely instituted by Christ himself to avoid and condemn all such repetitions and likewise Reiterations of Ave-Maries of the name of Jesus and other Petitions ejaculations in their Primers Letanies Missals Jesus Psalters Breviaries Offices Howers of the Virgin Mary Manuals of Prayers and other their Bookes of publike and private Devotion will at least acquit if not justifie me against this exception That which I deem some polite dainty Readers will most censure me for is want of Elegant lofty eloquent language embellishments and transitions But this defect my declining age want of competent time to review polish every passage together with the gravity variety of the subject matter the usual Vulgar stile of most of our Records and Law-books will apologize for this defect A plain English Garbe modest natural beauty bush being in Gods and wise mens judgements better decenter commendabler then any fantastick outlandish habit a painted spotted face or effeminate powdred frizled head not of Gods or Natures making but the Barbers or Tyre-womans To conclude all I shall desire of my ingenuous Readers is a friendly construction and kinde acceptation of these my Lucubrations a free pardon of all defects or involuntary oversights if any shall occurr therein together with their cordial prayers for Gods assistance and enablement of me in the compleating of the remaining Tomes if they shall be judged usefull for the publike or gratefull to posterity there being few or none I know or hear of who will probably be at the pains or cost to carry on or compleat them when I am translated hence to a better world and shall rest from all my studies labours in this Farewell The GENERAL CONTENTS of the BOOKS and CHAPTERS conteined in this Second Tome All the particulars whereof being many and various are comprised in the TABLE BOOK 3. CHAP. 1. page 227. COntaining Evidences of King John's Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all Bishops Religious and Ecclesiastical persons Causes Bishopricks Monasteries Tithes Advowsons in granting Licenses to elect and to approve or reject Bishops Abbots when elected Examining the Jurisdictions of all Ecclesiastical Courts Imprisoning banishing Bishops Clergy-men seizing their Bishopricks Spiritualties Confiscating their Goods Benefices for their Contempts Rebellions Treasons against him and obedience to the Popes Interdicts and other unjust Commands with other particulars and his strenuous vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown against Provisions and other Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England and Ireland till the 15. year of his Reign CHAP. 2. page 270. Of King John's most unworthy prostitution not only of the undoubted Rights and priviledges of his Crown but of Himself his Diadem Kingdomes of England and Ireland after so many years Glorious Contests to the Tyrannical Usurpations of Pope Innocent and his own Trayterous Bishops and Clergy Of his resignation of his Crown and Kingdomes by Two supposed Charters but in truth only by one to the Pope and his Successors and resuming them as their Feudatory under an Annual Rent His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope The Validity of this Charter these Rents and their payment debated the present and subsequent Oppositions against them This Kings Opposition against the Encroachments of his Treacherous Rebellious Bishops and Clergy who dealt most perfidiously with and stirred up the Barons warrs Rebellions against him after they had forced him to resign his Crown and protested against his unkingly actions when accomplished by their own procurement and designes With other memorable particulars and Records relating to these transactions and this Kings Charters proceedings in Ecclesiastical Elections Affairs as Supream Patron within his own Dominions BOOK 4. CHAP. 1. King Henry the 3. his succession to King John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Incroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland With the chief passages concerning Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20 years of his young and troublesome reign CHAP. 4. pag. 447. Containing sundry Records Patents and Historical passages evidencing this Kings Supream Jurisdiction in and over Ecclesiastical persons Courts Affairs in England and Ireland The intollerable Vsurpations Extortions Oppressions Innovations Proceedings of Popes their Legates Agents Instruments to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges of the King Church Kingdom Subjects in both these Realms with the several Complaints and Oppositions against them The English and Irish Bishops Covents Courts Christians Encroachments upon the Kings Temporal Courts Rights Royal Dignity and Subjects Liberties The Prohibitions Writs Oppositions against them With the principal Ecclesiastical Affairs and transactions in relation to England and Ireland from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d. his reign CHAP. 3. p. 872. Comprizing sundry evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting this Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Encroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges With the several Prohibitions Writs Mandates issued to restrain them And
to the Pope that the King had done soe much malice then hee was towards the King full wroth and sent two Legates unto the King that one was called Pandulfe and that other Durâ—unt that they should warne the King in the Popes name that hee should cease of his Persecution that hee did unto holy Chirche and amend the wrong and the trespasse that hee had done to the Archbyshop of Canterbury and to the Priour and to the Monkes of Canterbury and to all the Clergy of England And that hee should restore all the goodes agen that hee had taken of them agenst their will and else they should curse him by name And to do this thing and to confirm the Pope toke them his Letters in Bulles Patents These two Legates came into Englond and came to the King to Northampton there that hee held his Parliament and full courteously they him salewed and said Syr we come from the Pope of Rome the peace of the holy Chirche and the Lond to amend And wee admonish you first in the Popes half that yee make full restitution of the goodes that yee have ravished and taken of holy Chirche and of the Lond and that yee receive Stephen Archbyshop of Canterbury into his Dignitee and the Priour of Canterbury and his Monkes and that yee yeld agen unto the Archbyshop all his Londs and Rents without any withhoulding And Syr yet moreover That yee shall make restitution unto all holy Chirche whereof they shall hould them well apaid Tho answered the King as touching the Priour and his Monkes of Canterbury all that yee have said I will doe gladly and all things that yee will ordeine But as touching the Archbyshop I shall tell you in my hert as it lyes That the Archbyshop leave his Archbyshoprick and that the Pope then for him would pray and then upon a venture mee should lyke some other Byshoprick to give him in Englond And upon this condition I will him accept and receive And neverthelesse as Archbyshop in England if hee abyde hee shall never have soe good safe conduyte but that hee shall be take Tho said Pandulph unto the King Sir holy Chirche was wont never to discharge an Archbyshop without cause reasonable But it ever hath heene wont to chastize Princes that to God and holy Chirche were disobedyent What how now said the King menace yee mee Nay said Pandulph But yee now have openly tould as it standeth in your heart And to you wee will tell what is the Popes will And thus it standeth that hee hath you hooly enterdyted and accursed for the wrongs that yee have done to holy Chirche and to the Clergy And forasmuch as yee dwell and heth in will to abyde in malice and in wretchednesse and will not come out thereof ne to amend yee shall understond that this time afterward the sentence is upon you geven and houldeth stede and strength and upon all tho that with you hath communed before this time whether they bene Earles Barons or Knights or any other whatsoever that they bee wee them assoylle safely unto this day And from this tyme afterward of what condition soever they bene wee them accurse that with you comyne ony word and doe wee sentence upon them openly and specially And wee assoylle clene Earles Barons Knights and all other men of their homages services and feautees that they should unto you doe And this tydynge to conferme wee geve plaine power to the Byshop of Winchester and to the Byshop of Norwich And the same power wee geve into Scotland to the Byshops of Rochester and of Salisbury And in Wales wee geve the same power to the Byshop of Saint Davids and of Landaff and of Saint Asse And moreover wee sente thrughout all Chrystendome that all the Byshops beyond the Sea that they doe accurse all those that helpe you or any Counsell giveth you in any manner nede that yee have to doe in any part of the World And wee assoylle them alsoe all by authoryte of the Pope and commaund them alsoe with you for to fight as with him that is Enemy to all holy Chirche Tho answered the King What may yee doe more to mee Tho answered Pandulph Wee say to you in the word of God that yee ne no Heyre that yee have never after this day may be Crowned Tho said the King By him that is Almighty God and I had wift this ere that yee came into my Londe that yee had brought mee such tydings I should have made you ride all one year Tho answered Pandulph Full well wende wee at our first cominge that yee would have beene obedyent to God and holy Chirche and have fullfilled the Popes Commandement And now wee have shewed unto you and pronounced the Popes will as wee were charged therewith And as now yee have said that if yee had wist the cause of our coming that yee would have do us to ryde all au hoole yeare And as well yee might have said that yee would have taken an hoole yeare of respyte by the Popes leave But for to suffer what dethe yee could ordeyne wee shall not spare for to tell you hooly all the Popes Message and his will that wee were charged with And anone tho commaunded the King the Shyriffs and Baylyffs of Northampton that were in the Kings presence that they should bring forth all the Prysoners that they might bee done to death before Pandulph for bycause the King wened that they would have gaynsaid their deeds for cause of the Dethe all thing that they had spoken afore When the Prysoners were come before the King the King commanded some to bee hanged and some to bee drawne and some to drawe out their Eyne out of their head And among all other there was a Clerke that had falsyde the Kings moneye and the King commanded that hee should be hanged and drawed And when Pandulph heard this Commandement of the King hee sterte him upright quickly and anone axed a Booke and a Candle and would have cursyd the King and all them that would set upon the Clerke any hand And Pandulph himselfe went for to seeke a Crosse And the King followed him and delivered him the Clerke by the hond that hee should doe with him what hee would and thus was the Clerke delivered and went thens And Pandulph and Duraunt his fellow wente from the King and came agen to the Pope of Rome and tould him that King Iohan would not amended bee but ever abode soe accursyd And neverthelesse the Pope graunted that yeare throughout all England that Priests might sing Masse in covenable Churches and consecrate our Lords body and give it to syck men which were likely to passe out of this World and alsoe that men might Chrysten Children over all the Londe And when the Pope wift and saw that the King would not bee under the rule of holy Chirche for no manner thing the Pope then sente to the King of Fraunce
therefore the Court of Parliament upon a civil request obtained by the Kings Proctor General against a Decree made in favour of the Successors of Foelix of Nogaret to whom King Philip the fair 260. years before had given the Lands and Seigniory of Calvisson for his virtues and well deserving of the Common-weale whereby it was revoked unto the Council shewing thereby That Prescription hath no place when there is any question of the Revenues of the Crown And the Court of Parliament at Rovan by a sentence given the 14. February 1511. betwixt the Kings Proctor and the Religious of St. Omer adjudging the possession of certain goods unto the King allowing the Religious to relieve themselves by some other means and to prove it duely by way of Inquest and for cause which words and for cause are not to be understood for the poor subjects of the Country only but generally for all And oftentimes the Treaties made betwixt Princes have no other difficulties but for the preservation of the Revenues the which Princes cannot alienate to the prejudice of the publique Henry the 8. King of England in a Treaty made with the Pope and Potentates of Italy in the year 1527. caused this clause to be added That they might not give away any thing of the Crown of France for the redeeming of King Francis and upon this point the breach of the Treaty of Madrid was grounded for that the antient custome of this Realm conformable to the Edicts or Ordinances of other Nations requires the consent of the three Estates the which is observed in Poland by a Law made by Alexander King of Poland according to the disposition of the Common Law unlesse the sale were made at such time as the Enemy had invaded the Country and that the forme be observed from point to point as in the alienation of Pupils goods the Common-weale being alwayes regarded as a Pupil and if there be any thing omitted it is all of no force or at least it is subject to recission without restitution unto the Purchaser of the thing purchased Neither can the Prince challenge that unto himself which belongs unto the publique no more then a Husband can his Wives Dowry wherein the Prince hath lesse right for the Husband may abuse the fruits of his Wives Dowry at his pleasure but a Prince may well use but not abuse the fruits of a publique Dowry As the Citizens that were in society with the Athenians complained That the publique money was to be put in Apolloes Treasury and not to be wasted by the Athenians Our Kings have and do acknowledge that the propriety of the Crown Lands is not the Princes for King Charles the 5. and 7. would not have the Crown Lands pawned unlesse the Parliament at the instance of the Kings Proctor had so decreed as we may see in the antient Registers of the Court of Parliament and Chamber of Accounts And the reason is for that the Revenues belong unto the Common-weale as wise Princes have alwayes acknowledged And when as K. Lewis the 8. dyed having given much by his Testament to poor Widdows and Orphans he commanded all his Jewells and moveables to be sold to pâ—rform his Legacies least that any thing belonging to the Crown should be sold as having no Interest in it And for this cause Pertinax the Roman Emperor caused his name being written upon the publique Lands to be rased out saying That it was the very Inheritance of the Common-weale and not the Emperors although they enjoy the Rents for the maintenance of their houses and the Common-weale And we do also read that Antonius Pius lived of his own Inheritance applying nothing that belonged to the publique to his private use Whom K. Lewis the 12. called the Father of his Country doth seem to imitate who would not mingle his Patrimony and Revenues with that of the publique erecting the Chamber of Blois for his Lands at Blois Coussy and Monfort and yet many have erroneously confounded the publique with the Princes private Lands Neither is it lawfull for Soveraign Princes to abuse the fruits and Revenues of the Crown Lands although the Common-weale be in quiet and free from all trouble for that they have the use only and ought the Common-weale and their house being maintained to keep the surplusage for publique necessity Although that Pericles said to the Ambassadors of the Confederates That they had no Interest in the imployment of the Treasure so as they were maintained in peace for it was contained in the Treaty of Alliance that the money which should be raised in the time of peace should be guarded in Apolloes Temple and that it should not be imployed but by a common consent But there is great difference between the Treasury or Exchequer in a Monarchy and in popular States for a Prince may have a Treasury of his private Patrimony the which was called Fiscus by the Antients and that of the publique Revenues Aerarium the one being divided from the other by the antient Laws the which can have no place in a popular or Aristocratical Estate Yet there never wanted Flatterers to perswade Princes to sell their Revenues of the Crown to make a great benefit the which is a Tyrannical Opinion and the ruine of a Common-weale For it is well known that the publique Revenues consist chiefly in that which Dukes Marquesses Earles and Barons did sometimes possesse the which either by Succession Dowry or by Confiscation have come unto the State in Lordships Coppy-holds in Fees Alienations Sales Seisures Rents Amercements Rights Confiscations and other Regalities the which are not subject to Imposts and ordinary Charges and oftentimes are gotten by them which are free from all Charges Moreover Commissioners granted to sell the publique Revenues for the making of money speedily allow it to be sold for Ten Years purchase when as private Lands in Fee with Justice are sold for Thirty Years purchase and those that have Dignities at Fifty Years and more so as some with the purchase of the publique Lands reap in one year more profit by the Iurisdiction then they paid for the Land Others have paid nothing at all taking the Valuation of the Revenue by Extracts from the Chamber of Accounts given in by the receivers in Ten Years who oftentimes have not received any thing for that the profits of inferiour Iustice is made in the chief and Regal Court. As for Sales the purchaser hath more profit then the Interest of the money which they have paid can amount unto As also the receivers of the Revenues are not accustomed to give any account of Casualties but for a small part And in Farming out the Crown Lands the Farmers are liable to Subsidies and are charged according to their abilities There are infinite more abuses which the Common-wealth sustains by Sales of their Revenues but the greatest is that the money which is made is not put out to Rent like to those that think
apicem necesse sit honoribus extolli quam in nullo vilescere decet vel egere revocatis si placet in irritum alienationibus dictarum Ecclesiarum factis temporibus quibus vacavit sedes Carleolensis ipsas eidem Ecclesias restituere et confirmare velitis in usus et honorem sui Pontificis tanto benigniores nostris precibus aures accommodantes quanto libentius et propensius nobis noscitur valuisse et in posterum posse valere ut de provectione sua quae nostra est una cum caeteris Apostolicae sedis beneficiis ad humillimas gratias et perpetuas devotiones vestrae debeamus assurgere sanctitati Teste Com. apud Westmonasterium Decimo septimo die Februarii Per eundem P. Wint. Justic VEnerabilibus Patribus amicis in Christo charissimis Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalibus suis in omnibus H. Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. salutem debitam Sanctissimis Patribus devotionem Cum adhuc in nostris ageret partibus Venerabilis Pater G. titulo Sancti Martini Presbyter Cardinalis merito nobis semper diligendus de mandato Domini Papae Carleolensi Ecclesiae tunc vacanti Pastorem prafecit idoneum videlicet H. quondam Abbatem Belli loci virum utique in fidelitate nostra multipliciter expertum suae perutilem Ecclesiae totique pariter Regno nostro Sane cum suam invenerit Ecclesiam tantis tempore vacationis suae possessiombus honoribus mutilatam videlicet Ecclesiis de Novo Castro cum Capellis pertinentiis suis de Neuborne de Corrbrigg de Reebrigg de Wintingham de Penred quae sibi concessae fuerant in usus proprios in prima fundatione sua a Rege Henrico primo aliis praedecessoribus nostris Regibus Angliae per privilegia Romanorum Pontificum confirmatae ut Pontificali non sufficiant quae sibi sunt reservata de Concilio nostro cui innotuerunt haec omnia vestra duximus Sanctitati devotissimè supplicandum ut eidem Episcopo fideli nostro cui multo tenemur debito ac Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae devotissimo ad reformationem Ecclesiae suae diligentius aspiranti Si placet assistere velitis in consiliis et auriliis quibus mediantibus ea quae dispersa sunt et ab Ecclesia sua per incuriam et negligentiam habitantium in ea Canonicorum alienata sibi restituta fuisse gratuletur ut suis sufficiat usibus Episcopalis dignitas quae nunc quasi vilescere cogitur et egere Et quia provectionem ejusdem Episcopi meritis fidelitatis suae multipliciter exigentibus proprium reputamus et reputare debemus honorem vestram sibi gaudeat in hac parte diligentiam taliter affuisse ut ad obsequia condignas devotiones vobis diebus perpetuis arctius teneamur obligati Teste Domino P. Wintoniensi Episcopo apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quarto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tertio By these Records it is evident 1. That King Henry the 1. originally founded the Bishoprick of Kartiol and endowed it with several impropriations by his own Regal Authority that he and his Successors setled and confirmed by their Charters sundry Lands and impropriations thereon and that it is the right duty of our Kings as founders of Bishopricks to see the Lands and Revenues unduly alienated from them restored when there is just cause which this King by reason of his infancy being then under a Protector and the Popes and Legates great usurped power in England at that season could not easily effect by his Regal power without the Popes and Cardinals assistance the true occasion of these his Letters to them King Henry having continual occasions to make use of the Pope and Court of Rome about his Domestick and Foreign affairs in the 4th year of his reign constituted W. de St. Albin his Proctor general therein especially against the Son of the Earl of March in Picardy who against his faith to King John his Father to marry his Sister refused to do it or to restore her without a ransome whereupon he desired the Pope to command him to marry or restore her or else to give order to two Bishops he names and a Dean to Excommunicate him for his disobedience as these three Records attest VEnerabilibus in Christo Patribus amicis charissimis universis Episcopis Presbyteris Diaconis Sacro-sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae Cardinalibus H. Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Eo ampliorem de dilectione vestra gerentes fiduciam in nostris nostrorum promovendis negotiis novimus prudentiam vestram circa ea fidelius elaborasse mittimus ad vos dilectum nostrum Willielmum de Sancto Albino procuratorem nostrum ad impetrandum et contradicendum in omnibus nostris et nostrorum negotiis quae contra nos et nostros fuerint proposita in Curia Romana Rogantes attentius sinceritatem vestram ut cum fueritis super hiis ab eo ex parte nostra requisiti de solita clementia vestra velitis ea quae honoris nostri sunt consueta diligentia procurare De negotio autem nostro quod exponet idem plenius de Johan primogenita sorore nostra H. de Lizen per Dominum J. Patrem nostrum pridem commissa de qua traducenda fidei praestitit Sacramentum vos duximus exorandos quatenus laborare velitis si placet pleno effectu erga Dominum Papam ut soror ipsa nostra restituatur quam ipse fidei spreta religione superinducta matre nostra nobis reddere contradicit volens nos per ipfius detentionem ad ejus redemptionem invitos compellere Et rogamus vos ut scribatur super hoc Xancton et Limovic Episcopis et Decanis Burdeg ut nisi munitione praemissa illam nobis curaverit restituere ad id per censuram Ecclesiasticam rite compellatur Teste H. de Burgo Justiciario nostro apud Notingham Vicesimo die J nii REX Domino Papae salutem se totum semper tam devotum quam fidelem Cum a sedis Apostolicae gratia dependeant si quae sunt circa nos serena si quae prospera necesse habemus vestrae dominationi proponere quae in dispendium nobis veniunt et gravamen Dominus autem I. Rex genitor noster agens quondam in partibus Pictaviae Johannem filiam suam sororem nostram nuptui H. de Lexim fil Com. de March concessit qui licet eam de manibus ipsius Patris nostri Regis accepisset et jurasset quod eam in Vxorem duceret non observata tamen juramenti religione spretaque sorore nostra matrem nostram Reginam Maritali sibi foedere copulavit Quam quidem sororem nostram nihilominus nobis reddere contradicit immo eam detinendo contramandatum nostrum ad ipsius redemptionem nos intemptat cohercere Hanc igitur injuriam passi sub vestra protectione Sanctissimae Paternitati vestrae supplicamus
and divisions amongst his people 3ly Because they withdrew them from their Husbandry and other necessary temporal occasions to dance attendance from time to time and place to place on them and their Officers to their grand vexation and impoverishing 4ly Because they involved them in the danger or guilt of perjury by enforcing them to swear concerning the secret private actions of others wherein they might easily be mistaken All which reasons remain still in full force against all such like Oathes Inquisitions Innovations Vexations of Bishops Archdeacons Rural Deans Officials and other Ecclesiastical Officers which the King his Courts Judges Counsil may and ought by Law to prohibite redresse from time to time by like Writs of Prohibition for the Subjects relief upon all occasions as is evident by these six antient successive Writs the Register of Writs part 2. f. 36. Fitzherbert Natura Brevium f. 41. a. Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Tit. Prohibition sect 5. and other Law-books concurring with these Writs 4ly That Bishops Archdeacons Officials and other Ecclesiastical Officers and Courts had then no legal authority by the antient Laws usage Custom of this Realm to administer any Oath to Laymen except only in causes of Matrimony and Testament as these Prohibitions with sundry others hereafter cited in their due Chronological order the Statutes of 2 H. 5 c. 3. 2 E. 6. c. 13. and the last recited Lawbooks resolve 5ly That Bishops have been and may be legally attached and their Temporalties seized into the Kings hands if they prejudice the Kings Crown Dignity or vex his Subjects by administring enforcing illegal Oathes and Articles of Inquiry upon them by Excommunications and other Ecclesiastical Censures contrary to the Laws and antient Custom of the Realm 6ly That by the antient Laws and Custom of this Realm no new Oathes whatsoever may or ought to be framed imposed on any of the Kings Subjects by any Bishops Ecclesiastical or other persons whatsoever nor any old legal Oathes altered but by special Acts of Parliament prescribing both the forme words of the Oathes themselves and the persons who shall take and administer them who must be specially authorized either by express words in the Acts themselves or by special Commissions from the King under the Great Seal of England to administer them when made and not otherwise This is most apparent by all the Oathes heretofore prescribed to Justices of the Kings Courts Justices of Oyer and Terminer and of the Peace Barons and Officers of the Exchequer Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs the Officers of the Court of Wards and Liveries the Court of Augmentations Customers Searchers Commissioners of Sewers of Castles and Holds Conservators of the Truce Bayliffs of Franchises Coroners Sheriffs Clerks Attornies the Kings Privy Counsil Knights of Shires Burgesses of Parliament Champions Clerks of the Council Mayors and other Officers by the several Oathes of Fealty Allegiance and Supremacy made from time to time for the necessary preservation of the Sacred Persons of our Kings the safety of the Kingdom and defence of the Rights Priviledges Jurisdiction of the Crown against all Papal Usurpations and Treasonable practises whatsoever all made prescribed by special Acts of Parliament as these ensuing resolve us 9 H. 3. c. 28. 51 H. 3. c. 14. 3 E. 1. c. 40. 6 E. 1. c. 8. 13 E. 1. c. 43. 13 E. 1. Stat. of Winchester c. 6. 13 E. 1. Stat. Merchant and Articles of Inquisition upon the Statute of Winchester 34 E. 1. Statute of Liberties c. 6. Totles Magna Charta 1556. f. 164 to 168. Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Coroners sect 3. 9. E. 2. Statute of Sheriffs 17 E. 2. c. 4. 1 E. 3. Parl. 1. c. 8. Parl. 2. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 2. 9 E. 3. of Money c. 9. 15 E. 3. c. 3 4. 15 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 10 20 28 37 41 42 17 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 11. 18 E. 3. Star 3. 20 E. 3. c. 1 2 3. Rot. Parl. num 25. Rastal Justice and Justices sect 2 3 4. and Clerks of the Chancery sect 1. 21 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 7. 25 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 10. 25 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 5. Stat. 4. c. 1. Stat. 7. of levying the Quindisme 27 E. 3. Stat. 2. c. 1 15 16 23 24 26. 31 E. 3. Stat. 2. 5 R. 2. Stat. 1. c. 11 13 14. 5 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 74. 6 R. 2. c. 12. 7 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 27. 9 R. 2. c. 3. 11 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 23. 12 R. 2. c. 8. 13 R. 2. c. 7. 14 R. 2. c. 3. 17 R. 2. c. 9. 17 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 18. 21 R. 2. c. 5. 21 R. â— Rot. Parl. num 21 37 to 44 51 52 53 89. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 38. 4 H. 4. c. 10 18 20 21. 8 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 66. 11 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 14 39 63. 1 H. 5. c. 6. 2 H. 5. c. 4 6 7. 4 H. 5. c. 2 4. 1 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 62. 2 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 17. 2 H. 6. c. 10. 11 H. 6. c. 8. 11 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 14 15 16. 18 H. 6. c. 4 10. 20 H. 6. c. 10. 23 H. 6. c. 2. 33 H. 6. c. 3 5. 39 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 25 26 29. 3 E. 4. c. 3. 7 E. 4. c. 1. 8 E. 4. c. 2. 12 E. 4. c. 2 3. 17 E. 4. c. 2. 1 R. 3. c. 6. 19 H. 7. c. 7. 22 H. 8. c. 8 14. 23 H. 8. c. 5. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 2. 28 H. 8. c. 7. 10 16. 31 H. 8. c. 14. 32 H. 8. c. 46. 33 H. 8. c. 22. 2 3 Phil. Mar. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 11. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. 13 Eliz. c. 7. 18 Eliz. c. 6. 27 Eliz. c. 12. 29 Eliz. c. 4. 43 Eliz. c. 1 2. 1 Jac. c. 9. 3 Jac. c. 4. 7 Jac. c. 2 6 8. â—1 Jac. c. 7. 20 33. 1 Car. 1. c. 1. 2 Car. 1. c. 1. The Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. 17 Car. 1. An Act for repeal of the Branch of the Statute of 1 Eliz. c. 1. a meer Declaration of the antient Common Law of England in point of administring Oaths by Ecclesiastical Courts and Persons and the Act for Explanation of a Clause therein 13 Car. 2. p. 66 67. The Acts for well Governing and Regulating of Corporations An. 13 Car. 2. p. 11. 12 13 14 15. The Act against Quakers and others refusing to take lawfull Oathes p. 3 4 5 7. The Act for Ordering the forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom p. 53 54. An Act for the Uniformity of publike Prayers c. p 73 77 80. An Act for Regulating the making of Stuffs in Norfolke and Norwich p. 49 108 110. An Act for Distribution and supply of Threescore thousand pounds c. for relief of Poor and maimed Officers and Soldiers p. 178 188. An Act for preventing Frauds
Manfreds hands in which des gn God blasted both the Popes forces and Kings rapines to their perpetual infamy I shall close up this year and Chapter too with the words of Mat. Paris Transiit igitur annus ille Ecclesiae et Praelatis ultimae servitutis genitivus Regni Angliae praedativus Terrae Sanctae sterilis et potius nocivus BOOK IV. CHAP. III. Comprising sundry Evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting our Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Enchroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges with the several Prohibitions Mandates issued to restrain them And some other Ecclesiastical affaires transactions between the King Pope and Court of Rome of most concernment from the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d till the expiration of his Reign Anno Domini 1272. I Have presented you in the precedent Chapters with many memorable Records Writs Prohibitions restraining the Popes and Prelates Usurpations upon the Rights Crown Courts of King Henry the 3d. and his Subjects Liberties till the 40. year of his Reign about which time or soon after Henry de Bracton a famous Judge under him learned both in the Civil Canon and Common Laws of the Realm published five most excellent Books De Legibus Consuetudinibus Angliae wherein he asserts the Kings Supremacy over all persons whatsoever as having no Peer at all much less any Superior within his Realm stiling him Dei Vicarius several times in sundry places already transcribed in my Second Book chap. 2. p. 30 31 32. concerning King Lucius which I shall not here repeat Which passages of his will well explain those clauses in him which seem to patronize the Popes Supremacy viz. Apud homines verò est differentia personarum quia hominum quidem sunt praecellentes Praelati aliis principantur Dominus Papa videlicet in rebus spiritualibus quae pertinent ad Sacerdotium sub eo Archiepiscopi Episcopi alii Praelati inseriores Item in temporalibus sunt Imperatores Reges et Principes in hiis quae pertinent ad Regnum sub eis Duces Comites Barones Magnates sive Vavasores Milites etiam liberi villani diversae potestates sub Rege constitutae Ad Papam et ad Sacerdotium quidem pertinent ea quae spiritualia sunt ad Regem vero et ad Regnum ea quae sunt temporalia juxta illud Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filiis hominum Et unde ad Papam nihil pettinet ut de temporalibus disponat vel ordinet non magis quam Reges vel Principes de spiritualibus ne quis eorum falcem immittat in messem alienam Et sicut Papa potest ordinare in spiritualibus quoad ordines et dignitates ita potest Rex in temporalibus in haereditatibus dandis vel haeredibus constituendis secundum consuetudinem Regni sui Which passages as they absolutely refute the Popes Temporal Supremacy and Jurisdiction in England upon pretext of K. Johns Charter or the grant of Peter-pence so they admit the Popes Supremacy only in Spiritual things to wit in consecrating depriving Bishops Priests administring Sacraments inflicting Ecclesiastical censures exercising their Ministerial function but not in the sapream Ecclesiastical Government of the Church or Clergy of England vested only in the King not Pope as Gods Vicar to whom all the Archbishops Bishops and Prelates of the Realm were then immediately subject as to their Soveraign Lord and Patron not so unto the Pope who notwithstanding his encroachments on the Crown in King Johns Reign which were regained only by degrees in those bad times by his successors could make no Archbishop Bishop in England or Ireland nor call Synods nor enact Laws or Canons to bind the Church or Clergy of England or Ireland without the Kings Royal assent who by his Writs of Prohibition controlled both the Popes his Legates Delegates and Archbishops Bishops yea Synods Jurisdictions and extravagant proceedings beyond their legal bounds as Bracton himself informs us in his Treatise of Jurisdictions and Prohibitions pertinent to my Theam wherein you may most clearly discerne a combination between the Pope Bishops and Ecclesiastical Courts especially by Bulls and Delegations from the Pope totally to subvert the Jurisdiction of the Kings Temporal Courts in that age and to engrosse them into their own hands to the prejudice of the King his Crown and Dignity and subversion of the antient Laws Customs Rights Priviledges of the Kingdom and Kings Officers Subjects and their diligence vigilancy courage to prevent it by several Writs and forms of Prohibitions thus digested into a perspicuous method and recorded to posterity by Judge Bracton 1. Est etiam jurisdictio quaedam ordinaria quaedam delegata quae pertinet ad sacertium forum Ecclesiasticum sicut in causis spiritualibus spiritualitati annexis Est etiam alia jurisdictio ordinaria vel delegata quae pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis ad Regnum in causis placitis rerum temporalium in foro seculari unde videndum cujus judicium forum actor adire debeat Et verum est quod sive Laicum sive Clericum velit quis convenire debet adire judicem sequi forum rei judicium habebit illum apud quem reushabet domicilium sive domicilium habuerit sub jurisdictione unius vel duorum 2. Et licet generaliter verum sit quod actor forum rei sequi debeat fallit tamen in casibus propter diversitatem jurisdictionum causarum de rebus spiritualibus temporalibus earum sequela sicut in causa matrimoniali rebus permissis ob causam matrimonii quae in foro Ecclesiastico terminari debent quia cujus juris i. jurisdictionis est principale ejusdem juris erit accessorium Et eodem modo sicut in foro seculari agatur de aliquo placito quod pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis fides fuerit opposita in contractu non propter hoc pertinebit cognitio super principali ad judicem Ecclesiasticum 3. Item fallit in causa testamentaria aliis pluribus causis Ecclesiasticis Item ratione criminis convenitur quis ubi deliquit ut si quis crimen commiserit in terra aliena quia ubi deliquit ibi subjceat juri sicut videri poterit de Vtfangthef per exemplum Item ratione contractus quia conveniendus ubi contraxit Item ratione rei petitae ut si Clericus petat versus Clericum Laicum debitum quod non sit de Testamento vel de Matrimonio sequi debet
Archbishop bestowed on Fulco Sandford his Proctor at Rome who betrayed him 850 852 1056. Falco established therein by the Popes assistance after many irreparable devastations of his Archbishoprick 852. His Official in his absence at Rome by his authority confirming the Bishop of Ossory the King upon his and two other Bishops certificates thereof granted a Writ to restore his Temporalties 979 980. The King after the death of Fulco de Saunford Archbp. of Dublin granted the issues profits thereof to Pr. Edward towards the expences of his voyage to the Holy Land excepting all Knights fees wards reliefs eschears advowsons of all Abbies Priories Dignities Prebends Churches that fell void Writs to the Escheator and Archbishops Tenants to this purpose 1056. Robert de la Provend The King of special grace granted this priviledge to him his heirs and their Tenants in perpetual that their goods should not be distrained in any place for debts wherein they were not principal or sureties unlesse where the debtors were within their power p. 1017. Dumensis Dume Bishops Thomas Lidel his election justly nulled by the Archbishop of Ardmach who was ready by his Metropolitical authority to conferr it on Reginald Archdeacon of Dume if the King thereto assented the King thereupon at his request assented to him as a fit person receives his fealty and issued a Writ to the Chief Justice after the Archbishops confirmation of him to restore his Temporalties and to the Archbishop to do his duty in confirming and consecrating him p. 941. E. Elfin Elphin Bishoprick and Bishops I. Archdeacon of Elfin approved Bishop elect by the Popes Ordinance in derogation of the Kings prerogative being chosen without the Kings assent the Archbishop of Tuam refused to consecrate him yet because the Pope gave a laudable Testimony of him in his Letters to the King he issued a Writ to his chief Justice to restore his Temporalties to him p. 635. Thomas Dean of Archada elected Bishop of Elfin by the Dean and Chapter before they obtained a license from the King yet the King assented to his electionâ— to prevent danger to the Church so as by occasion of his grace at this time no prejudice might accrue to him for the future nor any prerogative confered on them but that the Chapter of Elfin when the See became void should have a license from the King before they went to an election 687. He joynes in a complaint to Pope Alexander with the Archbishop and Suffragans of Tuam against the Kings Justices in Ireland for interdicting imprisoning oppressing their Priests and Tenants for crimes and suspitions of crimes before confession or conviction and binding them to appear before secular Judges procuring a Bull to excommunicate them if they desisted not from it notwithstanding any prohibition or constitution p. 857 858 859. Thomas made Archbishop of Tuam p. 955. See Tuam Miso Archdeacon of Clon elected by the Kings License and none excepting against it the King gave his assent thereto commanding the Archbishop of Tuam to do his duty therein and the chief Justice to restore his Temporalties if his election was confirmed by the Archbishop After which the Dean Archdeacon Treasurer and Provost of that Church presented Thomas Abbot of Buelie of the Cistercian order whom they elected Bishop to the King by Letters Patents under their Common Seal certifying him that the Archdeacons election was unduly made without expecting the Kings license which the Archbishop also certifyed by his Letters Patents and that by his Archiepiscopal authority he had nulled his election for certain causes And although the King by reason of the contradiction of these their Certificates might well doubt which of them was justly to be preferred as duly elected yet he assented to the Abbots election upon the Archbishops certificate so as he more fully examined the merit of both elections and certified the King which of them he ought to admit without violation of Law p. 979. After this the Archbishop of Dublin confirming and consecrating Milo and the Archbishop of Tuam Thomas as duly elected Thomas appealâ—d to the Pope who gave a definitive sentence for Thomas as appeared by the Popes certificate to the King and Milo being dead as appeared by the Archbishop of Tuams Letters thereupon the King who suspended the restitution of the Temporalties till the controversie descided between them issued Writs to his Escheator to restore the Temporalties to Thomas without delay out of special grace he receiving first in his name an Oath of fealty which he and all other Bishops and Prelates of the Land were bound to make p. 991 992. F. Fern Bishoprick Bishops ALbinus a Writ to the Chief Justice to attach him by safe pledges and sureties to appear before him on a set day for his contempt in prosecuting a suite in the Ecclesiastical Court before the Archbishops of Dublin Tuam and Bishop of Clokor against William Earl Marshall for his Lay-fee against the Kings Prohibition to them p. 372. A Patent to him and the Archbishop of Dublin to promote and collect the Ayde of all the Irish Clergy granted by the Pope to the King and to repair to Dublin to conferr with the other Archbishops and Bishops concerning it 406 407. A Delegate of the Pope with others in the case of the Bishop of Imelic 422. John a Patent for him and another to receive the profits of all Archbishopricks and Bishopricks which should fall void in Ireland to satisfie a Debt the King owed the Archbishop of Dublin in the first place and after that for the Kings use during pleasure to be answered to his Exchequer 423. Finabarun Finabern Bishop Pope Alexanders Bull to him his Dean and Archdeacon to compell the Kings Officers and Bayliffs in Ireland by Ecclesiastial censures to give over their grievances of indicting suing and imprisoning the Archbishop of Tuams and his Suffragans Clerks and Tenants in Temporal Courts notwithstanding the Kings prohibition or any constitution p. 857 858 859. The Kings Proctors exceptions protest at Rome against it as against the Kings prerogative Ibid. Mauritius elected Bishop thereof by license from the King was unwarily confirmed and consecrated Bishop by the Archbishop of the province before and without the Kings royal assent to his election or receiving or sending to the King for his assent which offence and neglect the King at this time remitting issued a Writ to the Escheator of Ireland to restore the temporalties to him receiving Fealty first from the Bishop in the Kings name according to usage and Letters Patents from the Chapter that they shall not draw the said negligence or omission into consequence yet punishing the Metropolitans Trespasse done to the King in admitting the Bishop elect without his assent according to the quality of it 1017 1018. H. Henechdun Bishoprick IT being antiently a Parish Church and no Cathedral two Bishops were successively placed in it as a Cathedral The Pope upon the Archbishop of Tuams petition to whom it
one Charter of Resignation not two 290 291. The nullity of his Charter to the Pope largely proved by many Authorities Reasons 275 291 to 330. His dolefull lamentations complaints frenzy after he had made it and publick profession with grief That after his reconciliation to the Pope and subjection of himself and his Realms to the Church of Rome he prospered in nothing that all things went crosse with him and his Barons scorned hated rebelled against him 296 297. The Archbishops Protestation against his detestable Charter his Nobles Peoples French Kings revilings and reproachful speeches against him for it 293 294 to 303 431 638 639. The Popes Jesuites foreign Historians mistakes of inferences from it 9 291 292 293. The Rent reserved on it how insolently trampled on at first by Pandulph 274. When and how oft payed upon what account 306 to 315 His Patents Letters Commissions for the exiled Bishops return dammages 271 272 275 to 282. His disclaim of power to outlaw Clerks 278. His submissive reception of the Archbishop and exiled Bishops Oaths to them at his absolution from the Excommunication 278 279. He commits the custody of the Realm to the Archbishop his hatching new Rebellions and â—ncâ—ting the Barons secretly against him under pretext to defend their Liberties granted by King Henry 1. his Charter They refuse to follow him into France he resolving to subdue them by force the Archbishop threatned to Interdict all who should assist him if he persisted 2â—2 He by Proclamation commanded the Laws of King H. 1. to be observed the exactions of Sheriffs Forresters and all ill Laws to be redressed 282 283 335 He enlargeth imprisoned Clerks deliâ—eâ—â—ng them to the Legate 283 He repents of his Agreement with the Pope His sending Ambassadours to Admiraâ—ius King of Affrick to surrender his Kingdom to him become his Tributary and Mat. Paris his relation thereof a mere malicious forgery to defame and render him odious 283 284 285 286. His little regard of the Popish Mass 286. His sequestration of St. Albans and removing their Officers 283. His Messengers Message Gifts to Pope Innocent the most ambitious proud insatiable desirer of Money of all men and pronest to all wickednesses for Money professing that he was and ever would be his Subject and Tributary after his Embassy rejected by Maâ—â—â—elius upon condition that he would confound and excommunicate upon the next occasion the Archbishops and Barons he had formerly cherished against him who thereupon dispatched Nicholas his Legate into England His safe conduct to reception of him His and his Bishops conferences before the Legate concerning their Dammages and release of the Interdict his Charter and Resignation of England and Ireland and Homage for them sealed with a golden Seal made to him 287 to 291 307. The Legates usurpations upon the King Kingdom Church in conferring Benefices by Provisions without the Kings or Patrons consents suspending Bishops Abbots others from their Offices Benefices citing them to appear personally at Rome and not allowing them one peâ—y to defray their charges 987 329 330 334. The Archbishops vain appeal against his Legatine Power proceedings as derogatory to his Archiepiscopal authority His commendation of King John to the Pope That he never had seen so humble and modest a King and the great honour he thereupon found in the Popes eyâ—s 330. His compensation to the Bishops his Letters to his Nobles Subjects and chief Cities Towns in England concerning the release of the Interdict after 6 years 3 months and 14 dayes duration 331 332 333. His grant of the Custody of Saint Edmonds Abby to the Legate and Protection of it for his use 333. His Writs to three of the Cinqueports and Sheriff of Nottingham for restoring the Rights of the Archbishop and Lands of the Bishop of Lincoln to them 334. The severe suspensions of such Clergy-men who adhered to or received Benefices from him during his Excommunication and Interdict by the exiled rebellioâ—s Prelates restored with their Dammages 334 335. The Barons demand raise Forces against him for the confirmation of the Great Charter by the Archbishops encouragement the Chief Adviser and Instrument thereiâ— 335 336. His confirmation thereof and of the Charter of the Forrest with new Clauses thrust into it by the Bishops for their advantage by his own Oath the Popes Bull and appointing 25 Conservators of it all sworn to ayde and assist them in the preservation thereof and seise the Kings Castles if he receded from the same 335 336 337 338 935 936. His new Charter to the Bishops and Clergy touching the freedom of Elections saving to himself his Regal authority the custody of the Temporalties of vacant Bishopricks and Monasteries during the vacancy the power of granting Licenses for free Elections upon petition and right of confirming them after Elections made or disallowing them for just cause shewn 337 338 936. His Charter of the Patronage Royalties and Custody of the Bishoprick of Rochester to the Archbishops and his Successors his ungrateful treacherous requital of it in surrendring the Castle of Rochester and Ammunition in it to the Barons against his trust 339 340 344. His Complaints Letters Appeal to the Pope against the Barons in extorting the Great Charter from him by seising the City of London and armed force whiles under the Popes protection and crossed for the Holy war with the Popes Oath thereupon by Saint Peter not to suffer so great an injury to go unrevenged his nulling the great Charter and all Oaths Obligations for its observation by his definitive Sentence Bull sent into England by advice with his Cardinals reciting the grant of England Ireland to St. Peter and his Successors by K. Johns Charter and golden Seal under the annual rent of 1000 Marks and Oath of Fealty excommunicating all who should afterwards presse or maintain this Charter reprehending them for taking Arms against him contrary to their Oath of Fealty and advising them to honour obey please him by submission to him 340 341 342 343. The Barons rise up more fiercely against him notwithstanding the Popes monitory and minatory Letters to them endeavouring to expell him the Realm the Sentence of Excommunication denounced against them in general to be published every Lords day and Holy day throughout all England with Bells Book and Candles enjoyning all Laymen to assist him with their Counsel aide and suspending all Bishops from their Office and Subjects obedience who neglected to execute it 343 344 345. The Archbishop delayed its publication as gotten by mis-information for which he is suspended from his Archbishoprick cited to Rome upon New Letters of Complaint by the King against him there again suspended and his Suffragans absolved from their obedience to him for refusing to obey his Superiours 345 346 347 348. The Barons appeal against the Excommunication as null because not particularly named in the â—ull of it whereupon they and some Londoners are particularly excommunicated Interdicted by Name in two other Bulls which
of it not to be made on the Vassal without complaint first made to the Superior Lord 363 364. Prohibited by the Pope under pain of Excommunication interdict and deposition Upon King John when his Vassal and upon Princes under his protection crossed for his or the Holy War 6. 363. to 366. 370. 371. 449. 450. 404. In joyned by Popes under promises of remission of sinnes not only against Saracens but the E. of Tholouse the Greek Church the Emperors Otho Frederick Conrade Manfred K. John when interdicted excommunicated deposed by him for vindicating the rights of their Crowns 363 c. 414. 415. 419. 425. 426. 450. 470. 471. 490 491. 492. 513 515. 517. 546. 547. 549. Popes prohibited the Crucesignati to go against the Saracens according to their vow to imploy their armes and monies raised by dispensing with their Vows against these Christians Ibidem The Barons Warrs excited fomented by the Bishops and Clergy who ought to maintain peace not warre 1021 to 1026. See Barons The plunders and miseries of Warre 351. 806 to 907. Whales belong to the King an Inquisition for taking one away 739. 982. Wills of Bishops licensed authorized by the King to make them valid 576. 636. A Writ for removing an interred Corps from St. James Bristoll to Ambresbery according to the parties last Will 575. 576. Woods of Archbishopricks Bishopricks Abbyes now and then felled sold by the King during Vacancies and when seised for contempts or high Misdemeanors 262. 462. 913. Appendix 27. Of the Archbishoprick felled and sold by Boniface 626. Improved 973 974. Wooll of the Cistercians demanded of them by the King for one year denyed Writs prohibiting them to be Merchants of Wooll 480. 893. 993. 603. 604. Women authors of the worship of the V Mary as the Queen of Heaven of the Collyridian and other Heresies 56 57. to 63. Their visions and apparitions not to be credited 74. The Virgin Mary their Advocate Intercessor by Popish devotions 45. See Mary Sainted by Popes 56. Wreck to be sued for in the Ecclesiastical Court 783. Writs no new ought to issue out of Chancery without the consent of the Nobles and Prelates in Parliament 895. Writs of severall kindes bearing Teste sometimes in the Kings Name sometimes in the Name of the Gardians of the Realmes in his absence sometimes in his Privy Counsellors somtimes in the Chancellors or Chief Justices which you may observe throughout all the Writs here recorded as you read them See Index 8. Kings INDEX 15. Of Scripture Texts abused perverted alledged altered by Popes Pontificians and the Church of Rome to justifie their Errors Corruptions and St. Peters Popes Vniversal Monarchy Vicarship and those which most evidently refute them SCripture Texts professedly altered corrupted for their Adoration Exaltation Invocation of the Virgin Mary as breaker of the Serpents head their Advocate Empresse Lady Queen of Heaven Mediator Saviour Gen. 3. 15. It changed into She p. 16 18 34. Psal 3. 1. Ps 4. 1. Ps 5. 1. Ps 6. 1. Ps 7. 1. Ps 9. 1. Ps 11. 1. Ps 13. 1. Ps 16. 1. Ps 18. 1. Ps 20. 1. Ps 25. 1. Ps 26. 1. Ps 27. 1. Ps 28. 1. Ps 31. 1. Ps 34. 1. Ps 45. 1. Ps 51. 1. Ps 54. 1. Ps 70. 1. Ps 71. 1. Ps 79. 1. Ps 95. 1. Ps 105. 1. Ps 110. 1. Ps 119. 33. Ps 127. 1. Ps 128. 1. Ps 130. 1. Ps 132. 1. Ps 134. 1. Ps 140. 1. Ps 145. 21. Ps 148. 1. Ps 149. 1. Ps 150. 6. in all these Lord is directly changed by them into Lady and he into she and these Texts appropriated to God applyed to her Ps 12. Ps 36. Ps 91. Ps 125. 1. Mat. 11. 28. God Lord are altered into the Mother of God by Bonaventura Bernardinus de Busti and others by Popes approbation p. 23 29 35 39 40 50. Moreover the Second Commandement Exod. 20. 4 5 6. Deut. 5. 8â— 9 10. is quite obliterated out of all their Breviaries Missals Howres Offices Psalters Letanies Rosaries Primers of our Lady and most of their late Catechisins as inconsistent with their Images and adorations of them All which are against these direct Texts Deut. 4. 2. c. 12. 32. Josh 1. 7. Prov. 30. 6. Rom. 1. 25 26. 2 Pet. 3. 16. Rev. 22. 18. p. 50 56. They abuse wrest these particular sacred Texts applying them to the Virgin Mary her Kingdom Subjects Gen. 2. 28. c. 16. 9 13. c. 18. 3. c. 27. 29. c. 29. 20. p. 28 29 42 45. Deut. 33. 3. Judg. 9. 8 10. 1 Chron. 29. 11. 2 Chron. 12. 8. Esth 2. 17. c. 5. 2 3. Job 12. 10. Psal 36. 9. Ps 45. 9. Ps 48. 9. Ps 74. 12. Ps 89. 21. Ps 95. 4. Ps 103. 19. Ps 116. 16. Ps 145. 16. Prov. 8. 15 17. c. 23. 13. Cant. 2. 4. c. 5. 1. Isa 60. 7. c. 49. 6. Dan. 2. 44. Mat. 11. 28. Lu. 1. 33. c. 2. 32. John 1. 16. Ephes 1. 21 22. Phil. 2. 9 10. Hebr. 4. 16. p. 16 â—0 22 23 27 28 29 31 37 38 45 47. Besides other Apocrypha Texts They insist on the very words of the Idolatrous Jews Jer. 4. 17 18 19. to justifie their adoration of the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven as they did the Moon p. 16. Texts they impertinently or blasphemously alledge wrest misapply to prove St. Peters and Popes Universal Monarchy Supremacy over Kings Kingdoms c. Gen. 1. 16. Psal 2. 8. Ps 45. 16. Ps 72. 8. Ps 89. 27 37 38. Isa 9. 6 7. Dâ—â— 2. 44 c. 4. 3 34. c. 6. 26. c. 7. 14 27. Mich 4. 7. Mat. 16. 14 18 19. c. 26. 18 19 20. Lu. 1. 2â— Johâ— 21. 15 16 17. Acts 10. 12 13. Phil. 2. 9 10 11. p. 9 10 11 409 538 539 568 656 658. Texts produced by them to prove the consecrated Bread and Wine Transubstantiated into the very Body and Blood of Christ Mat. 26. 26 27 28. John 5. 53 54 55 56. p. 15 75 77 79 80. Several Scripture Texts over-tedious to recapitulate directly refuting Prayers to Angels Saints the Virgin Mary or to any but God alone p. 56 57 60. Saints seeing of Prayers in the New Popish Looking-glasse of the Trinity p. 57 58. The pretended Soveraign Monarchy and Vicarship of St. Peter and Popes p. 9 10 11 12 13. The Advocateship Mediatorship c. of the Virgin Mary proving Christ alone to be our only Advocate Intercessor Mediator Redeemer Reconciler Ayde Hope Help Deliverer Saviour Light Salvation High Priest p. 29 36 41 42. Texts proving that Christ alone was born without original and lived without actual sin not the Virgin Mary p. 46. That Vows are to be made to God alone p. 51. That all Miracles are ever visible to all mens eyes and seldome wrought by some extraordinary persons not every Priest and that God hath made our senses judges of the truth of Christs body incarnation resurrection ascension as well as Miracles p. 75 76. That the Verbe Is
hath conusance of them 882 885. The Popes Bull to morgage them for 3. years for the holy war 449. Tithwite exemption from it 219. Toll exemption from it 229. exacted from Clerks 896. Transubstantiation subveâ—â—â— the foundation of St. Peters and Popes Universal Vicarship to Christ and Monarchy 10 11 15 97 98. proved by sundry Popish Miracles apparitions of Christ as an infant or blood in the consecrated Host all impostures or diabolical delusions 68 to 75. How stated asserted by their Treat Councils Doctors Canonists 15. 66 67 68. 71. 79. See 456. 504 707 1065. Not wrought nor proved by This is my body 77 78. Nor intended proved by Joh. 5 p. 79 10. Against Scripture Articles of our Faith sense reason experience 71 72 No Miracle 75 76. Invented asserted only to make their M 〈◊〉 a propitiatory sacrifice which else would be of no value See Mâ—sse Treasure trove not incident to Bishops Liberties 398. Treason for Bishops to resort appeal to Rome and own any for Pope without the Kings license 4. To Interdict the Realm excommunicate or depose the King by the Popes Bulls See H n. 3. and King John Index 3 4 10. They and all other Clergymen punisha le for it by Kings and Temporal Magistrates as well as Laymen 2. â— See Bishopâ— Clerks Banishment for it See â—â—â—â—shment Pâ—oâ—hâ—cying the Kings deposal by a day Trâ—aâ—â—â— 266 267. 268. To desert his service because excommunicated by the Pope 25â— 267. To betray the rightâ— of 〈◊〉 Crown 248. To detain the Kings Castles against him 3â—2 See Castles To imagin his death of betray him to his Enemies 265. Truce continued between England and France Popes interpâ—sing therein 4â—6 447 448. 244 945 With the Saracens broken by the Pope though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the great scandal diâ—grace of Christians 4 8 Made by the Emperor with the Soldan upon honourable terms objected by the Pope as a crime 427. See Frederick and Gregory 9. V. VAcations of Bishopricks Abbyes the Custody of their Temporalties presentation to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to our Kings by their antient Prerogative of which some Prelates in England and Ireland endeavoured to 〈◊〉 them 2 3 236 237 2â—8 272 37â— 428 511 522 81â— 627 687 913 9â—8 993 96â— 963 955. 96â— 994 10â—4 6â—9 â—â—1 782 9â—â— 636. Appendix 18 See Index 3. 4. The Custody of the Temporalties of 〈◊〉 granted to the Archbishop and his Successors 339. 819 877 Oâ— Westminster Abby to the Monkes by spicial Charters 763 7â—4 The Archbishops Jurisdiction claimed over the Church of Lincola during the Vacancy 805 And of the Prior Monks of Canterbury over their Diocesans as Gardians of the Spiritualties of Canterbury during vacancies thereof 597 to 6â—0 Vexations by Ecclesiastical persons of the Kings Subjects complained of prohibited â— 4 699 704. 705. 706. 728. 830 832. 8â—3 884. 969. 970. 992. Vâ—cariges endowed by Kings directions 4â—7 Append. 29. Vâ—caâ—s of God and Christ on earth Christian Kings are such in over their own Realms Churches not Popes 1. 3 4. 872. 873. See King Popes pretences to be Christs and Gods Universal Vâ—â—ars upon earthâ— claiming all his regal Sâ—cerdoral Offices and Sâ—veraign Universal authority by that pretex yea a power to excommunicate depose all Christian Kings Emperors nuâ—â— all Laws c. p. 6. 7. 8. This their 〈◊〉 disproved by Scripture 9 10 11 Dâ—â—â—ed by the Gâ—â—el Church S 〈◊〉 Antioch and Greek Church by the Emperor Frederick and others 360. 513 154 533 538 539. 560. Pope Alexander the 4. desires prayers so to govern the Church aâ— to deserve to be called Gods Vâ—câ—â— and 〈◊〉 sâ—ccâ—ssâ—â— claimed expressed in their own Bulls as unworthy of it 407 449. 449. 81â— Vicats General of the King to take place of all Bishops and visit the Ecclesiastical state persons under him 3 4. Victuals to be sold to Jewes notwithstanding Bishops inhibitions 387. 475 476. not to Saracens 449. Villains soas not to enter into Religion without their Lords assent 4. Vi Laica amovenda to Sheriffs c. 6â—8 689 867. 1004. 1005. Virgini y consecrated by Mary 32 a great virtue 350. Virgins consecrated by Mary internally externally only by â—ishâ—ps 19. Visitations of the Ecclesiastical state persons a prerogative of the King by such as he shall appoint by Letters Patents 3 4 Kings may exempt persons places from Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Visitations and Jurisdiction their Free Chappels exempted from them 3 4 720. 721 721. 727. 729. 748. 757. 559. 982 923. 1047. Vexatious illegall proceedings and procurations in them together with coertion and administing enforcing Oathes prohibited in them by Popes Bulls Canonists Kings Writs 699 704 to 713. 728 743 744 760 892 907 969 970 What procurations fees are to be demanded taken in them 233 743 744. 79â— 791. Of Archbishop Boniface with the oppositions appeals against it 740 741 746 747 748 752 76â— 789 790 791. Of the Bishop of Lincoln and oppositions appeals against it 698 699 704 705 706 709. 754. 761 76â— 798 Of Monks by the Popes Visitors grievances and appeals against them 440 441 442. 789. By the Abbot of the Cistertians by the Kings license 601 789. By Bishops for Popes to get money from Monks to exempt them from it 798 799. The principal end to get mony not reform abuses 789 790 798. Exemptions of Abbots from Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Visitations for mony by Popes Bulls 384 791 79â— 798. App. 22 23. The Emperor excommunicated for not suffering an Archbishop to come to his See to visit 410. Pope Innocent 4. his Decree concerning Visitations procurations and preaching at them 743 744 790 791. Usurpation of Jurisdiction punished by our Kings restrained by their Writs 3. See Prohibitions Usurpers Charters neither do nor ought to prejudice the right heir to the Crown resumed 324. Usurers of Popes Caursini and other Italian Merchants countenanced by them against the Lawes of God Man Bishops Excommunications their detestable Usury bonds undermining of Jewes Popes remitting the Usury of Jewes not theirs to such as crossed themselves for the Holy Land with other matters concerning Popes Usurers Usury 350. 371. 426. 427. 437. 448. 460. 462. 467. 4â—8 469. 516. 522. 546. 560. 573. 654. 718. 753. 754. 802. 809. 845. 846. 848. 868. 869. 717. 821. 835. 859. 871. 877. 878. 1034 1035. Uâ—fâ—ngthees 428 873. U lawry of King John against exiled Bishops and Clergymen reversed by his Patent his declaration he had no power to outlaw Clerks 270 272. W. VVApentake 228. Waâ—peni exemption from it 229. Wards of body and lands of Tenants in Capite belong to the King 429 430. The Archbishop opposed this prerogative and complained to the Pope against it Ib. Granted maried to Aliens of mean fortune complained against as a grievance in Parliaments 444 721 991. Contribution out of Wardships to relieve the Holy Land 239. Warrants of Judges produced else coram non Judice 887. Warranty not in a suit between a Bastard and Mulier 474. Warre what a just cause