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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

in the Chapter house unlesse the crime be so great that the Visitor must examine and correct it by whom and none else t●e delinquent may be deprived and not by the Bishop uulesse Idem Canonicus in offensa aliqua aut crimine gravi veluti Haeresi adulterio furto perjurio atqueid genus aliis culpabilis inventus fuerit And then saith the statute 37. chap. Fiat sequestratio praebendae interim dum talis accusatio coram Episcopo visitatore pendeat Now it is well knowne that the late Bishop Howson in his Visitation 1631. and at sundry other times cleered me not culpable of any fault which could deserve so great punishment or any at all But contrarily did say that Doctor Cosin was a factions and seditious man and that he deserved to be expeld for corrupting the Church Service and Ceremonies They Doctor Cosin and others proceeded against me maliciously and trecherously by a strange and unheard of suspension from comming to Durham Church onely at the same time that I kept residence contrary to the statutes which bind me to be present in the time of Divine Service every day and this they did in the midst of my Residence so that I could not come to Church ten daies together being prohibited by the sentence of suspension naild up upon my stall They are bound by oath to maintaine and cause others to maintaine all rights priviledges and customes of the Church this Law right and custome they perjuriously violated 39. They perfidiously and most uncharitably conspired against me all of them not one excepted not to come to my residence continuing one and twenty daies and though they were oft invited and kindly intreated yet not one of them would once come to my house such a thing was never heard of before And it is contrary to their Oath Omnes probatas Probandas bujus Ecclesiae consuetudines observabo I take my Oath that I will observe all approved customes of the Church 40. They made another most damnable conspiracy against me in the Chapter-house in sending letters full of horrible slanders and diabolicall calumniations to Doctor Laud then Bishop of London and soure other Bishops which are since dead and this they did many times one of which Letters I have full of untruths making the Bishops beleeve 〈◊〉 I am an enemy to the Church a man unsufferable and that I 〈…〉 against his Majesties Chappell All which are most false and some of them knew they were false and therefore they are perjured and by the statute to be expeld Statuimus ut nemo in virtute juramenti Ecc●●si● prastiticontra Decanum aut Canonicos quicquam dicat aut denuntiet nisi quod verum crediderit cap. 40. By vertue of their Oath all are injoyned to say nothing against any Canon but what they beleeved to be true And this sending of Letters by Messengers hyred on purpose was oftentimes on the Churches charges whereof a good part was mine own 〈…〉 and in all other suite● against my selfe they used my owne mony which is theevery robbing me and endevouring to kill me with my owne sword 41. They made a sequestration of all my living belonging to my Pre●●●● All the Prebendaries then in Durham with the Deane concurring to belie and slander me viz. that I preacht contra pios salubr●● ritus Edclesiae in grave p●riculum animae suae c. That I preacht against the godly and wholsome Ceremonies of the Church whereas there was not a word spoken against any approved Ceremony of our Church but onely against unlawfull Innovations condemned by our Church If they can name any truely I will loose my life 42. And although Haec lis nunquam pend●bat coram Episcopo visitatort for Bishop Howson kept no visitation till my cause was transmitted to London and York they made that damnable sequestration twice first before the suspension sealed the 9 of August 1628. which because they thought to be wrong they amended that errour with a capitall crime for scraping out the date an● what they would beside and writing other words or figures in place thereof they sealed that false sequestration ag tine contrary to their Oath in these words Statuimus eti m ut Sigillum Commune nunquam albae chartae aut Palinxesto opponatur sub poena perjurii perpetuae amotionis ab ha●ecelesiae illius qui opposut quiad id faciendum consenserit ad satisfaciend●m pro damnissint obligati The Common seale must not be put to scrape parchment under the paine of perjury and expulsion out of the Church of Durham and the must be bound to make satisfaction for the wrong done These treacherons Durhamers Doctor Cosin Mr. J●mes with their fellowes were not content with their Vill●nous casting me into the whirlepoole of the high Commission where I have been cost from Durham to London from London to York from prison to prison more then 13. yeares together and utterly undone by their barbarous more then Turkish and Paganish Practises They were not content I say to plague me with all manner of punishments the merciless Commisioners could inflict upon me in all the fores●id places but in the Chipter houses they would bite me and prejudicate my cause before it came to tryall with a malitious sequestration of my living twise sealed in the comp sse of one moneth and that perfidiously and sl●nrdrously fraughted with diabolicall calumniations They perjuriously have offended in detaining from me all that I have lost these 14 yeares since 1628 with above 1200. pound which I have spent siucethis Parliament began in maintaining witnesses c. whilest they maintaine their witnesses as they have done all their suits of law against me upon the Church cost and by the statutes of Durham Church which they tooke their Corporall Oathes to obey they are bound to pay to me as appeares by the 14. and 15 Chapters If any Prebendary be absent from Durham Church being hindred by any lawfull impediment and namely by imprisonment he shall enjoy all profits and commodities arising any wayes from his Prebend as if he had all that time beene present The words of the statute are these Quod si ob aliquod illorum impedimeenterum viz. profectionem ad Parliamentum moram ibidem Incarceratonem non voluntarium c. iliquem Canonicorum abesse ab ecclesia hac comingerit in omnibus tamen commodis emolumintis ration●● corporis prabenda sua quotidianarum distributionum a dicta ecclesia percipiendis pro praesente haberi volumut I Peter Smart one of the Prebendaries have beene absent from the Church of Durham 12. yeares I have beene all that time Ligiteme impeditus for I have beene by my false brethrens fault and procurement imprisoned and by wrongfull excommunication suspension and degradation as is adjudged by the high Court of Parliament kept from my house and Church and all my meanes hath beene taken from me the sum of all which amounted to above 14000. pound a great