Duty with him at Sea and especially when his Majesty and Highness were pleased to point at him in the Royal Chappel in time of Divine Service in view of many my Lord of Winton from that time never ceas'd to imploy his utmost Power and Interest to ruine Jones in Court and Country Jones therefore doth humbly desire the right Reverend Bishops of Bangor and St. Asaph to cause this Matter to be search'd least there be any design laid against this Church or Judgments he multiplied upon this Nation by unsincere Oaths or the Presbyter party bearian away the Glory of Defending the Protestant Interest and the late glorious Kings Cause and Martyrdome recieve wrong and old Fears and jealousies be justified And Particularly least by any misinformation Jones be oppressed by the Church for his fidelity to the Church as well against the Schismatical party when it formerly prevail'd as against the Popish when it began Clandestinely to prevaile May 26. 1669. Tho. Jones Neither was there any thing made of or upon this Information in writeing saving the sending a Copy attested by a Public notary to the great Bishops for the compass of a whole Year my Lord Ch. H. being now out of the way c. But in the Year 1670 when I was pursuing my appeal to the Arches against my Diocesan touching the said reading Pew my Diocesan and my Lord of W. Consulted upon an Action of Scandalum Magnatum which my Lord of W. Commenc'd against me in Easter Term of the said Year 1670 for words pretended to have been spoken by me at Lanynnis Octob. 3. 1668. and whatever their Importance were so long conceal'd The words of my Lord of W. Declaration put in Trinity Term following where these My Lord of W. hath engaged you Bishop of Bangor to do me all the mischief you can for his part he hath discountenanc'd my Catechizing at St. James's and my Preaching in the Fleet he is a Promotor of Popery and a Subvertor of the Church of England Which words I mean the last Clause as soon as I met them in the Declaration I was amaz'd thereat and declared to my Lord of W. Agents and Friends for I could not be admitted either before or after to speake with his Lordship that I never spoke those words neither did I own them I and an other then and there present would take our Oaths upon it what I did speake of my Lord of W. I gave the same under my hand in writing which I did own and stand to my Lord of W. notwithstanding would proceed upon these words But in Michaelmas Term he was not ready and I had an opportunity to be dismiss'd upon motion being the third Term as I was informed and my Lord of W. could never have renewed this suite any more because of the Statute of limitation Here my Lord of W. is beholding for his verdict and conquest to my respects to the late Bishop of London where of both were told betimes who pretending kindness to me and good Will did advize and prevaile upon me to desist Hillary Term 1670 the Bishop of Bangor and his Chaplain and Mr. S. Ll. Swore the words aforesaid at Kings Bench before Lord Chief Justice Keeling Middlesex and Mr. Ll. ex abundante Swore that I there said I delighted to contend with great Bishops which was a great Collusion for I had us'd those words there by way of disowning and charge against the said Mr Ll. for raising in the Country such a false report concerning me who delighted not to contend with any sort of men either superiors or Inferiours or equalls for reasons which I then and there gave to them both My Lord of W. having recover'd a verdict of 317 l. against me for the words so proved seiz'd upon my Living of Llandurnog which was all my preferment for three Years together for the same being worth 200 l. per annum at least in those years wherein there hapned a dearth in those parts not allowing me 6 d. thereout towards my maintenance being silenc'd also from my calling the said years in the Ecclesiastical Courts upon the score of reading Pew aforesaid My Lord of W. and his Friends about the said three years end by trick about 20 l. being my own moneys in over-plus for which they gain'd a receipt from under my hand by craft have raised a report thereupon that he secretly maintained me in those years wronging my next Relations who solely did to whom I am to Lease Llandurnog from time to time for their reimbursements yet my Lord of W. Lawyers affirm'd at the King's Bench that he had bestowed the verdict moneys saving 50 l. upon Bangor Cathedral the said Court wondring at so cruel a Charity neither of which vain glorious reports were true most of the moneys being still in the hands of his Sequestrators towards uses limited by a Deed kept secret as I have been credibly inform'd Though his Lordship had received or might have received all his moneys well nigh twice over yet he still withheld my Living from me till I mov'd the Court of Kings Bench Trin. 1674 where the late Bishop of Bangor his principal Witness being detected in Illegal malitious proceedings escap'd being fined by the Court for the same by a Plea of Death in his behalf Neither was I wanting to tender my Lord of W. through Persons of Quality and honour such a Submission betimes as was due foro soli upon such words prov'd against me which I can well swear I never spoke and upon his refusal of the same yielded to pay him his Monyes quietly rather then make any accknowledgment against my Conscience which he expected The Duke of York the same time vz 1671 was graciously pleas'd to intercede through the late Bishop of Worcester for remission of his verdict and an end of troubling me And my Lord of W. promised by his secretary Mr. Garrard to the Bishop of Worcester that he did remit the same upon the Duke's Account as the Bishop told me but then went soon off from that promise sequestring me a new as it were in my belief and hopes Now it is to be observ'd my Lord of W. never made any manner of vindication against the said paper which I did always own and have been since more Confirm'd in by the Rumour'd Instability of her late Highness in 1671 whereof I had Apprehenfions to my self in 1666 and as I adhaer'd to my opinion deliver'd in the said paper from the date thereof to this present amidst variety of Deaths so God helping I shall continue in the same Martyrially to my lifes end unless I be convinc'd there from by better Methods then have hitherto been used Vid. Mercyless pressures without any end upon wilful misconstruction of my words offers of great preferments Dukes favour and sums of monies in my streights if I make some confession against the Truth and my self to clear my Lord of W. which hath been term'd Submission and due Obedience
at Lannunnis in Dyssrin Cluid May 26. 1669. THat on the first of July 1666. at a Consecration Dinner at Lambeth it pleased the Right Reverend Father in God George Lord Bishop of Winton to incense and provoke the Bishop of Bangor Mr Jones his Diocesan in these or the like words That he was the Errant'st Rogue in England and that my Lord of Bangor should use him accordingly when he came to his Living That from that time and especially from August 1668. after other Attempts fail'd upon a pretence about a Reading seat in the Parish Church of Landurnog my Lord of Bangor did sufficiently answer and gratifie my Lord of Wintons pleasure touching Mr. Jones by all manner of unfavourable proceedings Excommunications Censures ab ingressu Ecclesiae ab Officio Beneficio and other defamations against Mr. Jones the Living being in my Lord of Bangors own Gift and Patronage That Mr. Jones upon Appeal being restored to his Church March 14. 1668. Did by way of Appology Verify his Life and Innocence from his Infancy at the Altar for the satisfaction of his Parishoners in point of Loyalty and Principles and conversation and particularly his Obedience to his Diocesan touching the Reading Seat declaring therewithal that my Lord of Winton who had privately accused Mr. Jones to his R. Master and diligently incens'd several great Persons in Church and State against him was driven to wave and clear Mr. Jones from all manner of Charge and exception against him before he was willing to accept or repair to his Living at Landurnog the usual Residence by Commendam of the Bishop of Bangor he having before refused the Bishoprick it self preferring his R. Highness Rays and Service before an untimely Dignity That the same time Mr. Jones did and doth submit his whole life for Thirty Years Backward to the strictest Examination of my Lord of Winton and Bangor who have sufficient jurisdiction and Power over him and If in all that time no Flaw or blame can be found in his Loyalty conversation or Principles He then did and still doth Declare that the true cause of my Lord of Wintons Wrath and War against him was First his introduction of a Portugues Nobleman and convert to her R. Highness Favour and Charity who complains and Mr. J. conceives not without Ground of wrongs and snares from my L. of W. against his Life who for his quality and unblameableness confessed by his Adversaries was useful while encouraged to prevent the growth of Popery which Mr. Jones had special Orders to Endeavour in his R. Highness's Family whereof he had Charge of Souls by that other Instances did effect with Gods assistance in good part 2dly when his R. Highness began kindly and frequently to mention Mr. Jones his performance of his Duty with him in his Dangers at Sea and especially when his sacred Majesty and R. Highness were pleased to take notice of him in the Royal Chappel in time of Divine Service in view of many my Lord of Winton from that time never ceased to employ his utmost Power and interest to ruine Mr. Jones in Court and Country Mr. Jones Therefore doth Humbly desire the Right Reverend Bishops of Bangor and St. Asaph to cause this matter to be search'd by competent Authority as in their Wisdoms they shall think fit least there be any Design laid against the Church or Judgements be multiplied upon the Nation by unsincere Oaths or the Presbyterian Party bear away the Glory of defending the Protestant interest and the late glorious King's Cause and Martyrdom receive Wrong or Old Fears and jealousies be justified And particularly least by any misinformation Mr. Jones be oppressed by the Church for his Fidelity to the Church as well against the Schismatical Interest when it formerly prevailed as against the Popish when it began clandestinly to prevail Tho. Jones But my Diocesan made no regard notwithstanding of this Information under my hand only sent up a Coppy thereof attested by a Publique Notary as the Notary himself told me In Hilary term following I went to London to pursue my Appeal where after some space I was Arrested by the Bishop of Winchester upon an Action of Scandalum Magnatum and coursely used In Eâ—â—sâ—â—â— Term he put in his Declaration for the words He is a Promotor of Popery and a subverter of the Church of England as spoken by me at Lanunnis October 3. 1668. I told his Agent that I did not speak nor own such words But the Bishops proved them for him at Kings-Bench and a Verdict of 317 l. recovered thereupon against me in February 1670 and my Rectory Sequestred also my House seiz'd and abused and Family turn'd out of Doors by an obsolete Writ vi Laica Amovenda to supply their Writ of Sequestration and Glebelands plowed and all held from me for Three years without any Contenement or Allowance whatsoever whereby I was much disabled to maintain my Appeal till his Agents received near Twice his Verdict as was prov'd at Kings-Bench When they had wrested my Calling and Living from me they set friends upon me to perswade me to submit and ask forgivoness for the words I never spoke nor own'd and to recede from the Paper under my hand which I over own'd and was now more confirmed in by the Rumour'd Apostacy of the Dutchess in 1671. which I did suspect and fear from 1666. And such importunities of Friends and Superiors with offers of Remission and restoration I never could shake off till I declared my Resolution to his Highness in this Paper following My last Address to the Duke April 20. 1673. The Submission of Tho. Jones with his humble request to his R. Highness HAving serv'd your Highness with my utmost love and fidelity to the best of my Skill and judgment as I ought it was my fate to be approv'd by your Princely knowledg and suddenly destroyed upon hear-say Neither find I any hope left after many years patience of recovering your promised favour as long as your Highness is politickly possessed that I refuse to submit to the Bishops against all that I have or can speak or act to the contrary unless your Highness would admit me to submit to their Lordships or their Proxies in your Highness presence that your Highness your self may see and be satisfied as well with my submission as I hope you are with my Innocence and Integrity The number of my Submissions tender'd from time to time esteem'd satisfactory in the judgment of Gentry Clergy Lawyers Civilians Bishops Nobles I have made known to the R. Bp. of Worcester as also my manner of Life and Loyalty for 20 or 30 years past and the passages of my calling with Bradshaw in his Circuits against his execrable Act to support the Loyalty of my Country-men against him which was not the way in those days to thrive But his Lordship is slow or loath to make his report to your Highness in a concern of his Reverend Brethren whom neither
Elymas the Sorcerer OR A MEMORIAL Towards the DISCOVERY Of the Bottom of this Popish-PLOT And how far his R. HIGHNESS's Directors have been Faithful to his Honour and Interest or the Peace of the NATION Publish'd upon occasion of a Passage in the Late Dutchess of YORK's Declaration for changing her RELIGION BY THO JONES sometime Domestick and Naval Chaplain to his R. Highness the Duke of York Cur aliquid vidi Cur noxia Lumina feci 2 Cor. 12 9. My Strength is made perfect weakness LONDON Printed for H. Jones MDCLXXXII A Memorial towards the Discovery of the Original of this Popish-Plot c. MOnsieur Maimbourg in his History of Calvinisme very lately put out this present year 1682 in several Editions recites therein with great Catholick boast and hopes A Declaration of her late Highness the Dutchess of York of the Reasons and Motives she had to change her Religion I regarded one passage therein more upon my own experience than the credit of a Stranger which justified a suspition I endur'd long trouble for many years to adhere to out of fidelity to my Church and Country though severely lash'd with the Imputations of Pride and disobedience for it for which I am to bless The passage is this J'ay este particulierement fortement convaincue de la presence reele de Jesus-Christ au Saint Sacrement de l' Autel de l'infaillibilite de l' Eglise de la Confession de la priere pour les morts J'ay voulu conferer de ces marieres par maniere dentretien avec les deux plus habiles Evesques que nous ayons en Angleterre tous deux m'ont avoue ingenument qu'ily a bien des choses dans l'Eglise Romaine qu'il seroit a desirer que l' Eglise Anglicane eust toujours observees comme la Confession qu'on ne scauroit desavouer que â—ieu mesme n'ait commandee la priere pour les morts qui est une des plus authentiques les plus anciennes pratiques de la Religion Chrestienne que pour eux ils s'en servoient en particulier sans en faire une profession publique Comme je pressois un de ces Evesques sur les autres points de concroverse principalement sur la presence reele de Jesus Christ au Saint Sacrament de l' Autel il me repondit librement que s'il estoit Catholique il ne voudroit pas changer de Religion mais qu'ayant este eleve dans une Eglise dans laquelle il croyoit avoir tout ce qui estnecessaire au salus y ayant receu son Baptesme il ne croyoit pas la pouvoir quitter sans un grand scandale Tout ce discours neservit qu'a augmenter le desir ardent que j'avois de me rendre Catholique je sentis des peines interieures d'horribles inquietudes ensuite de la conversation que j'eus avec ces deux Evesques I was particularly and strongly convinced of the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar of the Infallibility of the Church Confession and Prayer for the Dead I was willing to conferr of these matters by way of Discourse with the Two most able Bishops that we have in England and both confest to me ingeniously That there are many things in the Church of Rome which it was to be wished that the Church of England had still observed as Confession which it could not be denied but that God had commanded it and Prayer for the Dead which is one of the most authentick and Antient Practices of the Christian Religion but as to themselves they made use thereof in private without making publick profession thereof As I pressed one of these Bishops upon the other points of Controversy and principally on the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar he answered me freely that were he a Catholick he would not change Religion but that having been educated in a Church in which he believed there was all that was necessary to Salvation and there having received his Baptisme he thought he could not quit it without great Scandal All this discourse served but to increase the Ardent desire which I had to become a Catholick and I felt inward Pains and horrible disquiets after the conversation I had with these Two Bishops The Author of the Apology in behalf of the Papists Printed in 1666 who well knew me and the cause of my sufferings dropt an Early Intimation of the like Import We dare with submission say Let a Publick Invitation be put up against any Party whatsoever Nay against the Reverend Bishops themselves and some malicious in his Lordships sense Informer or other will alledge that which may be far better to conceal There are but few to be found so forsaken of God and their own Reasons as are not able to discern and allow that Secret Enemies are far more dangerous to all Men and Communities than open and profesl'd and that Men hate to be betrayed worse than to be Destroyed They therefore that countenance or cover the Masquerade Enemies of the Church of England prove themselves to be of the same pernicious conspiracy the greater they are in Place and Power the greater is the danger to the Publick from them and their detection therefore the greater service and Glory Her late Highness expresses not what Bishops those Two were in Particular whom all sober Protestants must look on as the betrayers of her Soul and this Church It seems duty and fidelity to our Church and Nation to contribute Intelligence and Observations to detect them farther They are not in Reason Fathers who are condemned Persons in Law And the danger and scandal of their ill example is the less because they never shewed so much Learning and Integrity as to justifie before the world their new Perswasions by Pen or open Practice or Resignation A Papist or a Mahometan that is sincere and Resolute in the profession of his errour shews more Religon and vertue than the most Reverend two fac'd Renegado that 's false to his Faith and trust and Countrey for wordly Interest And Indeed he that is so false to himself will hardly be true to any other Therefore Campanella advises to chuse for confessor non qui te diligit sed qui diligit animam Suam such who loves his own Soul not thee To these Judas's amongst our Apostles is cheiflly owing the present misery and Redivision of these flourishing Kingdoms by new Fears and fewds and not a little perhaps to the Eternal Frailties of great ones that had rather be Pleas'd than Lovd How happy were it for the Nation if such carnal compliers for the sake of Grandeur were as hateful to our Princes as they are to God and the rest of Mankinde I have no better account to give to God and the World of the latter part of my life than some zeal and Adventures against such Betrayers which
to this Some years after when I petitioned His Highness for Restoration upon the score of Innocence or else for common ordinary Justice and equity between any Master and Servant in three particulars 1. Arrears of Salarie 2. A Bene discessit and leave to take another Patron 3. Some reparation of detriment by occasion of his Service His Highness was graciously pleased with kind circumstances to give me his answer by my Lord Craven to this effect that his Lordship doubted not to see me suddainly made a Bishop if I submitted to the Bishops And I answered I had given His Highness Reasons in Paper why I could not because their Terms were indispensably to renounce my Innocence and Truth to secure and justify them if then said his Lordship you cannot and will not submit to the Bishops His Highness's last answer is that he can do nothing for you but as he is directed by the Bishops which was agreable to former answers of His Highness to me that he referd them matters to the Bishops and I heard it from others of different interests who well knew His Highness's mind in this matter That he would do nothing for me against the mind of the Bishops but if I could get the Bishops of my side he would be as kind as ever Sr. W. C. C. W. L. C. M. Neither would the Bishops give His Highness way to shew me Favour or do me Justice as above without such submission which they had not power enough to bring me to as I told them when I was lowest and so it continues still with me though the one be in His Grave the other gone off the Stage and Bishop Blanford of Worcester desired by the Duke to search my cause reported on my behalf in the matter of the reading Pew against my Diocesan but as to the concern of the greater Bishops he thought fit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that I could not well and fully make use of a great Patronage within reach most necessary for me in my deserted condition for want of leave neither did His Highness recommend me to any other Patron and I was neglected by my own Church for which I had studyed and suffered all my days and my Principles allowed me not to joyn with other Protestants who more respected me for my Sufferrings and Integrity though differing ever from them for the wrongs of some mortal Governours of the church was no exception or prejudice to me against the good Laws and Government it self as I answered some of them that invited me neither was I to repair to my Living the Master-gin of my adversaries where old snares continued and my Cow was milked and submission was expected to unjust scandalous and-over ruled Censures and their watch and frown upon my Converse every where made it difficult to live or breath yet I was unwilling for the reason at first to cry out for help against my Fathers or to make their oppression known to the Nation for my relief and vindication Now I can discern no difference between being wounded by the hands of Papists as Principals or of Reverend Protestants if for no other cause but Protestancie as Instruments but that my Guard against Enemies in the shape of friends in Superioritie was more difficult and their Wounds pierced deeper by the Trachery and Indignity and that the Master is to be rever'd above the Servant nor how any other Clergie man in the same Circumstances should have escaped the same mysterious and unaccountable Danger and Trouble if he had been as proud and mad as to prefer his Duty and Fidelity to his Church and Country before his Worldly Interest and Advantage surely from the beginning of the Reformation it was not so New whether it be of publick Concern and Consequence to prevent the like discouragement to others from those who should rather encourage their Inferiors in such Fidelity I humbly leave it to the Government to Judge Now I perceived that you well knew of this design and storm against me about two yeres before the Duke understood it and I must say it to your Honour that none of my adversaries dealt more plainly with me in fore telling both my danger and its cause than you did whereby I suspect you could not be then ignorant of this Popish Plot in its first rise and management For I remember when upon Her late Highnesses Her Order to me in 1664. to watch and oppose the intollerable incroachments of the other Chappel at St. James I had amongst other instances to check them recommended D. M. in great distress and miserie to her Charitie and Protection with much acceptance then she being a zealous Protestant in her own inclination and he likewise under a good Charracter for Life and Birth which the Portugal Chaplains whom I was commanded to found had nothing to except against I did not find them so incens'd against him and me as I found you and your partie against us both before any other Good or Evil was known of him or objected against me For publiquely at Gentle-men-Waiters Table among other molestations you reproved me upon his score and were angry with him for changing his Religion and communicating with the French Church having then little or no English and that the French and we differed not only in Dicipline but in Doctrine and that you would keep him from your Sacrament at St. Jams's if he offer'd to come there And when I told you the Bishop of W. did countenance him and weekly relieved him with Her Highnesses Charity you assur'd me the Bishop was not for him which afterwards appeared true to some purpose and another time the same yere before a private Sacrament order'd Her Highness in Her closet by Her Confessor my Lord of Winton for the recovery of the Duke of Cambridge's health which seemed a strange use of a Protestant Sacrament to me when I desired to be in Charity with you and to know the true cause of your displeasure against me with a purpose to give you Christian satisfaction you answered that I had never done you any wrong but that I should be turned out of the Family for unsound Principles which I then desired to know what they were seeing I had been firm to the Church of England before the Restoration and had no reason to desert it since but you would not then assign what they were but you and your partie from that time daily set your selves to molest me and decry me and diminish my Salary as afore to diminish my Qualility against contract with consideration and to exclude me from Preaching and officiating at all before the Dutches at St. Jams's For besides her monthly Sacrament days wherein she remained at St. James's you know if you please when it was my turn to Preach she began to stay the other Sundays on which I was to Preach at home to hear me and not to goe to White-Hall and I remember when she found you were to Preach when
which is the present trust or shall ever be as is ought the daily Prayer and Study and Patience of Your Royal Highness most Humble most Dutyful and Faithful Servant Thomas Jones For the Right Reverend Dr. Barrow Lord Bishop of St. Asaph At Ely House My LORD I am inform'd that your Lordship concerns your self with other Reverend Persons in other parts to bring new trouble and disgrace upon me since my Restoration to Landurnog which is within your Diocess and Neighborhood but out of your Jurisdiction and to begin to give directions to your Clergie to avoid and shun my company and converse as a perfidious Person I trust I am no way guilty of that hard Character or any other Crime haveing lived all my days just to all men and firm to my King and Church though wholly a stranger to your Lordship I was born and brought up at Oswestry in Shropshire and lived in the late times at Castle in Montgomerishire both within your Diocess where it is well known and well attested by the Principal Gentry and Clergy of those parts how far serviceable I was to King and Church against their Enemies Bradshaw and the Propagators with considerable success though with Persecution Whither I repair'd at the request and advice of the Loyal Gentry and Clergy thereabouts and particularly Dr. Griffiths afterwards one of your Lordships predecessors and left a fellowship in University Colledg and took Holy-Orders in 1654. and studied the welsh Tongue to serve those parts when the Orthodoxe Clergy was miserably consum'd by an act of Propagation so called The Title stood thus as represented to me upon best enquiry Puleston the last Lawful incumbent dyed Anno. 1645. Wyn the next was put in by Parliament Committees put out again by the same powers for scandal about 1651 And the Church shut up till 1654. when I and others were desired to come from Oxford to the assistance of the Country to prevent Taylors and Weavers c. setling upon the Parishes Upon his Majesties Restoration Wyn discovers a dormant Title simoniacally procur'd about 1646 the Commissioners for consirming and restoring with the advice of Bishop Griffiths upon their hearing of the cause between Wyn and me setled me because Wyn had not read the 39 Articles Wyn afterwards at a tryal at Law at Bridgenorth had one to prove his reading the Articles and I was Ejected Then Bishop Griffiths deprives Wyn in his consistory for scandal and confers Castle on Langford a monyed man c. Wyn appeals and overthrows the Bishop who lived not long after This Rectory being worth 140 pound per Annum I abode the loss thereof with much arrears rather than I would recover the same by bringing the frailties of such Patrons upon the Stage whereof I had good proofs offerd me and have them by me From thence I removed to the service of the Lord President and Councel of Wales at Ludlow Castle Recommended by the R Bishops of Gloucester and St. Asaph about 1661. and thence to His R. Highness the Duke of York in 1663. upon no interest or acquaintance but after some Sermons Preached by me in Westminister-Abby and about the same time waved an Invitation from Dr. Margetson the most R. Primate of England to be His Graces Chaplain thinking it not fit to desert the Duke on a suddain for advantage in all which places which are the stages of my life I lived in good Name and Fame and Love untill I fell into the displeasure of the Reverend Bishop of Winton and my Lords Grace of Canterbury upon his score to whom I was as much a stranger as to your Lordship saving that I was recommended by an Eminent hand unto the one for Loyal actings and sufferings in the late times who became inexorable towards me from 1666 and before to this present time for no real cause as I could ever find or conjecture but recommending one De Macedo being In great distress and want upon his leaving the Church of Rome to Her late R. Highness's Charity then very zealous for Protestantisme who proving a great Eye-sore to the Romish Chappel at St James's upon Her Highness's countenancing of him was strangely removed out of the way after I went to Sea to attend the Duke in 1664 and 1665. But if he through provocation or discouragement or scandal given him carried himself unworthy of his maintenance and respect which he received from the Dutches and also from my Lord of W. he might surely have been laid aside with English Christian fairness being a stranger without arts and Snare and the fowl imputations of being burnt for Sodomy in Paris about ten years before he died and without annexing my distruction to his escape at Portsmouth whore he had like to have been conveyed to be more really burnt in his own Country By whose means this was contriv'd deserves enquiry but my fall was manifestly then wrought by the means of the said Bishop of W. through her said Highness whose reputed Confessor he then was against the Dukes mind and inclination when I was newly returned from Sea with the special and publick approbation of his Highness Vide S. Cressy Epistle Apologetical Pag. 115. Apology for the Papists answered pag. 36. A presage and proem to this trouble was the late Lord high Chancellor H. desiring me not to take my degree of Dr. when I moved him for his letter As Chancellor of the University granted of Course to any being recommended to his favour by the Duke a little before Shortly after the great Bishops accuse an innocent Servant to his Prince and Master who had but newly before recommended me to them The exceptions were 1. That the Bishop of W. having adviz'd the Duke to have no Preaching at Sea I should speak irreverently hereof to a friend as contrary to a Fleet Statute and Sea mens needs as well as out of present pique against me 2. That I scorn'd to Administer the Sacrament to the Family in the absence of the Dutches. 3. That I was an enemy to the Governours and Government of the Church But they were soon waved and quitted as soon a I pleaded innocence and desired to be tryed upon any of them or any other and the Duke acquainted that now my Cross was without a Title But though I was cleard I was nevertheless remov'd whether I would or no to Landurnog usually held in commendam and resided upon by the Bishops of Bangor under coulour of preferment and reward for service Her Highness being inform'd as she was pleas'd to declare to me before the Duke that I could not hold the Dukes service and my living together with a good Conscience whereupon His Highness commanded me to go to a great Bishop to desire him as from his Highness to see me setled by Law in both and the great Bishops answer to His Highness message was that he had not learning enough to satisfy His Highness how by Law one body could be in two places but
Innocence nor Submission nor Intercession nor satisfaction nor the Example of His Majesty in Pardoning nor any method whereby God is reconciled to man or men to one another could in Seven years appease or reconcile If it be expected that I am to bear false Testimony against my self and acknowledge my self guilty where I know and am known to be innocent to justify any thereby that have accused me wrongfully and against their knowledge of my innocence to my Prince and Master meerly to prevent the effects of his fresh favour towards me or for some other intrigue then I plainly declare that I hold this to be unnatural and slavish and sinful for me to do and Satanical for any to expect it And do remit and quit the hopes of your Highnesses favour if it is to be obtain'd upon no other terms Nevertheless in common ordinary justice between any Master and Servant your Highness may well grant me these Three requests following which I humbly make to your Highness 1. My arrear of Salary and also of Chamber Rent which are about â— l. for I have not had 6 d. allowed me from my Living these 2 or 3 years to buy me Bread nor the Liberty of my calling to Earn it 2. Your Highness Pass Certificate or dimissory letter to look out a New Patron for otherwise men fear and shun me for fear of some personal displeasure in your Highness towards me 3. Some Equitable Compensation for my detriment and loss for it is well known that I am in all probability about 600 l. per annum the worse by accepting your Hignesses Service and waving the present Primate of Irelands and about 500 l. out of Purse the worse by the Living in Wales and the snares and contrived troubles that attend it more intollerable than Death lasting upon me about 7 years which is Life in Law under the Pretences of a Reading-Pew and rash words manag'd by Power against me And I shall c. I added to Sir A. A. to make him witness of this Address That I am and was of opinion ever from 1665. that the true causes of my Troubles were not any of those things Objected against me by my Lord of Winton or any other but my excecuting her late Highnesses Orders against Popery in her Family and my beginning to be considerable in his Higenesses Favour after my attendance at Sea The Dukes Answer to me by Sir A. A. and my Lord C. August 14. 1673. The Duke is willing but is not able to do any thing for you but as the Bps direct him c. I delivered likewise to Sir A. A. a Certificate of Mr. Wren Secretary to the late Chancellor Hide touching my Actings and sufferings in times of Usurpation as also a state of my Accounts and arrears which I left with him A Letter to the Bishop of Winton July 6. 75. My Lord YOU were pleased for some occult cause to continue an endless enmity against me now about Ten years like the Goddess in the Poets quam nec longa Dies Pietas nec mitigat ulla c. though Innocent and Infinitely an unequal Match to your Lordship and all along kneeling to your Power Neither do I remember any advantage or Victory you ever gain'd over me but when I laid down my defence and guard at your feet trusting to your Lordship and your R. Brethrens words and Counsel out of entire respect to your Dignities and Persons and being now necessitated to be Plt. and to take a little benefit of the Law against you you presently take Sanctuary in your Priviledges against me tho' in a controversy first begun by your Lordship And after disowning your Messages by Mr. Markham and Mr. J. Apothecary through your Secretary which they still avow you lately sent another to me by my R. Diocesan the Bp. of Bangor which if it be stood to by your Ldp. or Rightly understood by me implies that your Ldp. is willing to forgive me your verdict Moneys if I acknowledge that I wrong'd your Ldp. which signifies to me in effect that if I wrongfully accuse my self to justifie your Ldp. who have so accused me to the Duke to my greater prejudice than you are now able to repair that then your Ldp. will bestow that Monys upon me which you declared at Kings-Beneh and by other Acts and Deeds to have bestowed on Bangor Church My Lord I am ready to do my Duty without Hire and any thing Else to recover your Ldps. Peace and Charity but sin as you find in my Letter by Mr. Markham for your Ldps satisfaction My Ld. I have lately made 2 or 3 requests to his Highness that his Highness would be pleased to pay me the remaining part of my Salary and Grant me a Dimissory Letter or recommend me to some new Patron that he would make me some equitable reparation for my great detriment occasioned by his Service and Favour His Highnesses gratious Answer was that he could do nothing for me but as he was directed by the Bps. meaning I suppose your Ldp. I hope therefore that if your Ldp. will not allow his Highness to readmit me to his favour which his Higness ever was and is willing to that you will not Ecclipse his justice from July 6. 75. Your most Humble Servant Tho. Jones For the Right Reverend Father in God George Lord Bishop of Winton at his House in Chelsey these with Reverence The Bishop return'd Answer to this Letter by Mr. Isaac W. to Dr. J. that I might have my Moneys restor'd and what else I desir'd if I submitted to him Some Submissions tendered in the Controversy about Reading Pew THe Bishop in his answer upon Oath Affirming he never gave me order to Publish the Curate seat as unfit to prevent all colour of Disobedience I desired my Advocate to draw such a submission as might fully satisfie the Bishop of Bangor and Sir Leolin Jenkins who it enuously appeared against me at Doctors Commons though neither Judge nor Advocate in the Cause but as Amicus Curiae as he term'd it whereupon Dr. L. Now Sir R. L. Drew for me this draught ensuing of which he said no Person or Court on Earth could require more And this I did because Sir Leolin told me the Duke was offended with me because I submitted not to the great Bishops nor to my own Diocesan As the case stands between my Lord Bishop of Bangor and Mr. Jones Rector of Landurnog He having published at the Altar his Diocesan s Order for Condemning the Reading Seat in the Church of Landurnog as undecent and inconvenient which Order his Diocesan denieth in his Answer in the Arches Court to have given him This is humbly proposed in behalf of Mr. Jones as a way to extinguish all Imputations of Disobedience and to end all differences between his Diocesan and him viz. in regard he is convinced in his Conscience that he published but the Truth he may be allowed to declare it at the same