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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78968	By the King. a Proclamation against the opression of the clergy by the intrusion of factious and schismaticall persons into their cures and inverting and detaining their tithes, and possessions by orders of one or both Houses of Parliament, contrary to all law and justice.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2543; Thomason 669.f.7[17]; ESTC R211702	2,055	1

BY THE KING A Proclamation against the Opression of the Clergy by the Intrusion of Factious and Schismaticall Persons into their Cures and inverting and detaining their Tithes and possessions by Orders of one or both Houses of Parliament contrary to all Law and Justice WHEREAS by the Great Charter of the Liberties of England it is provided that the Church should have all its Rights whole and the Liberties inviolable and amongst others the Church hath these Priviledges That regularly no Ecclesiasticall Possessions may be extended seized or sequestred but by the Ordinary And that Distresses may not be taken of Lands wherewith Churches have been anciently envowed And that Churches presentative cannot be filled and the Lawful Incumbents hereof removed but by the Ordinary nor the Cure of the Incumbents served by Curates Lecturers or others but by their own appointment or in their default by the appointment of the Ordinary neither are any of Our Subjects of the Laity by the Common-Lawes of Our Realme capable to take or receive Tithes which are the portion of the Clergy unlesse by demisse from them or such as are appropriate and made Lay-Fee Neverthelesse by colour of Orders or pretended Ordinances of one or both Houses of Parliament the Estates Reall and Personall as well of Our Clergy as La●ty have been and are daily seized sequestred and taken from them and their Possessions d●strayned for illegall Taxes and Contributions for supporting the Rebellion against Vs Which being clearly against Law and vnwarrantable We did forbid by Our Proclamation of the seventh of Aprill last and do hereby forbid the same under the penalties in that Our Proclamation contained And whereas divers of Our Clergy Eminent for their Piety and Learning because they publish Our Lawfull and Iust Commands and Declarations and will not against the known Lawes of the Land and their own Consciences submit to Contributions nor publiquely pray against Vs and Our Assistants but conforme themselves to the Book of Common-Prayer established by Law and Preach Gods Word according to the Purity thereof and in their Sermons will not teach Sedition nor will publish illegall Commands and Orders for fomenting the unnaturall Warre Levied against Vs are some of them driven and forced from their Cures and Habitations some others Silenced and discharged from the Exercise of their Cures and Persecuted and their Curates if Orthodox displaced and others who are Factious and Schismaticall intruded and put in to sow Sedition and seduce Our good Subjects from their Obedience expresly contrary to the Word of God and the Lawes of the Land and the Giebs Tithes and other Emoluments of Right belonging to such Incumbents as will not conforme to that Faction are diverted in all Parishes where such Arbitrary power prevailes and distributed part to such Factious Curates and the test to the maintenance of this Warre against Law and the Liberties of the Church Our Will and Pleasure therefore is and We do hereby straitly charge and command all Our Subjects as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall not to presume to intermeddle in discharging or hindering any of Our said Clergy for the cause aforesaid or any other the like pretences or any of them from the exercise of their Cures and Functions or in displaceing the said Curates substituted by them nor doe presume to intrude or cause any Curates Lecturers or others to be intruded or put into fuch Curates substituted by them delete the records or to take or dispose the Globe Tithes Fruits or Emoluments belonging to any of our said Clergy Who are so silenced forced from their Cures and persecuted as aforesaid And we doe hereby require and command all Our Subjects duly to set forth and pay their Tithes to their severall and respective lawfull Incumbents of their Parishes or to their Farmors Assignes or Deputies without any guile or fraud and so as the same may be received and enjoyed by the same Incumbents without any diminution substraction or diversion notwithstanding any sequestration or pretende Orders or Ordinaces or other command whatsoever of one or both Houses of Parliament And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall presume to transgresse this Our Command We do hereby Declare and Signify That they do not only oppugue and infring the good old Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of the Church which all Our Subjects as well as Our Selfe are bound to mantaine and observe but do also assist a Rebellion against Vs for which We shall proceed against them according Law as they shallbe apprehended and brought to the Hands of Iustice and will give direction for taking their Lands and Goods into safe Custody in the mean time And We doe hereby farther straitly commmand and require all Church-Wardens Sides-men and Patishiones whatsoever to resist all such Persons as shall be so intruded or put into any of the Cures aforesaid by or upon pretence of any such pretence of any such pretended Orders or Ordinances or commands as aforesaid and to assist as much as in them lyeth the Lawfull Ancumbents their Curates Farmors Assignes or Deputies in the receaving taking and enjoying the Glebe Tithes Fruites Emoluments to them of right belonging Willing commanding all Sheriffes Majors Bayliffes Iustices Peace Constables Head-boroughs other Our Officers loving Subjects what 's oever upon their Allegianc the severest punishment that by the Law may be unflicted upon them not only to obey observ carfuly these Our cōmāds but to be aiding and assisting to the utmost of their power to all such Persons as shall requirs their assistance and Protetection in this behalfe and to resist and repell by force of Armes all such as shall oppose this Our Legall command And Our Will and pleasure is That this Our Proclamation be read in all Churches and Chappells in this Our Kingdome Given at Our Court at Oxford the Fifteenth day of May in the Ninteenth yeare of Our Reigne May 27. 1643 GOD Save the KING Printed at Oxford by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printed to the Vniversity 1643.