Councill of Trent ¶ 42. his death and deserved praise p. 101. ¶ 1.2 JEWES first came over into England under William the Conquerour b. 3. p. 9. ¶ 44. highly favoured by W. Rufus ibid. had a chief Justicer over them p. 84. ¶ 33. a High priest or Presbyter ¶ 35. their griping usurie p. 85. ¶ 36 c. unfortunate at Feast and Frayes p. 86 ¶ 40. cruelly used by K. Henry the 3d. ¶ 43. Misdemeanours charged on them p. 87. ¶ 46 cast out of the land by K. Edward the first 47. though others say they craved leave to depart ibid. c. ILTUTUS abused by Monkish forgeries C. 6. ¶ 8. IMAGE-WORSHIP first setled by Synod in England C. 8. ¶ 9 10. injoyned point-blank to poore people to practice it b. 4. p. 150. ¶ 40. IN A King of the West-Saxons hâ—s Ecclesiasticall Laws C. 7. ¶ 106. he giveth Peter-Pence to the Pope C. 8. ¶ 13. INDEPENDENTS vide dissenting Brethren Sr. Fra. INGLEFIELD a Benefactour to the English Coll. at Valladolâ—t b. 9. p. 87. yea to all English Papists p. 108. ¶ 20. St. JOHNS COLLEDGE in Cambridge founded by the Lady Margaret Hist. of Cam. p. 94. ¶ 11. the Masters Bishops c. thereof p. 94 95. St. JOHNS COLL. Oxford founded by Sr. Tho. White b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 44. The Presidents Bishops Benefactours c. thereof ¶ 45. King JOHN receives a present from the Pope b. 3. p. 48. ¶ 4. returns him a stout answer 5. for which the whole Kingdome is interdicted p. 49. ¶ 6 7 c. his Innocency to the Popes injustice ¶ 9. by whom he is excommunicated by name ¶ 10. yet is blessed under his curse ¶ 11. his submission to the Pope p. 51. ¶ 13. resigning his Crown ibid his unworthy Embassey to the King of Morocco p. 53. ¶ 21. lamentable death ¶ 22. and character ¶ 23. JOSEPH of ARIMATHEA said to be sent into Britain C. 1. ¶ 11. his drossy History brought to the Touch ¶ 12. severall places assigned for his buriall ¶ 14. the Oratours of Spain in the councill of Basel endeavour to disprove the whole story b. 4. p. 180. ¶ 8. whose objections are easily answered p. 181. ¶ 9. IRELAND excludeth their own Articles and receiveth the 39 Articles of England b. 11. p. 149. ¶ 46. ITALIANS had in England seventy thousand Marks a year of Ecclesiasticall revenues b. 3. p. 65. ¶ 29. held the best livings and kept no Hospitalitie b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 17. William JUXON Bishop of London made Lord Treasurer b. 11. p. 150. ¶ 48. his commendable carriage ¶ 49. K. Q. KATHARINE de Valois disobeyeth her Husband b. 4. p. 170. ¶ 46. therefore never buried ¶ 47 48. Q. KATHARINE Dowager for politick ends married to King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 165. ¶ 6. on what score the match was first scrupled by the King p. 171. ¶ 36 37 c. her Speech p. 173. her character and death b. 5. p. 206. ¶ 19. KATHARINE HALL founded by Robert Woodlark Hist. of Camb. p. 83. ¶ 40. in strictnesse of Criticisme may be termed Aula bolla ¶ 41. KEBY a British Saint fixed in Anglesey C. 4. ¶ 25. KENT the Saxons Kingdome therein when beginning how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. first converted to Christianity by Augustine the Monk b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 11. the Petition of the Ministers of Kent against subscription b. 9. p. 144. KENULPHUS King of the West-Saxons his Charter granted to the Abbey of Abbington proving the power of Kings in that Age in Church matters b. 2. p. 101. ¶ 25. notwithstanding Persons his objections to the contrary ¶ 26. putteth down the Arch-bishoprick of Lichfield KETTS Robert and William their Rebellion b. 7. p. 339. ¶ 2. their execution p. 397. ¶ 15. The KINGS EVILL a large discourse of the cause and cure thereof C. 11. p. 145 146 147. John KING Dean of Christ-Church b. 5. p. 170. present at hampton-Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. when Bishop of London graveleth Legate the Arrian p. 62. ¶ 8. condemneth him for a Heretick p. 63. ¶ 10. his cleare carriage in a cause of great consequence p. 67. ¶ 24 25. his death p. 90. ¶ 31. and eminencies in defiance of Popish falshood ¶ 32.33 Henry KING made Bishop of Chichester b. 11. p. 194. KINGS HALL built by King Edward the third Hist of Camb. p. 39. ¶ 46. three eminences thereof ¶ 47. KINGS COLLEDGE founded by K. Henry the sixth Hist. of Camb. p. 73. John KNEWSTUBS minister of Cockfield in Suffolk b. 9. p. 135. ¶ 16. a meeting of Presbyterians at his house ibidem against conformities at Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. his exceptions propounded p. 16 and 17. shrewdly checkt by King James p. 20. a Benefactour to Saint Johns Colledge Hist. of Camb. p. 95. ¶ 15. KNIGHTS of the Garter their Institution qualifications habilliments Oath and orders by them observed how their places become vacant b. 3. p. 116. KNIGHTS anciently made by Abbots b. 3. p. 17 18. untill it was forbidden by Canon ibidem Mr. KNOT the Jesuit his causelesse Cavills at Mr. Sutton confuted b. 10. p. 65. ¶ 17 c. John KNOX chosen their minister by the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 1. opposed in his discipline by Dr. Cox ¶ 3 4. accused for treacherous speeches against the Emperour ¶ 5. forced to depart Frankford to the great grief of his party ibidem L. Arthur LAKE Bishop of Bath and Wells his death and character b. 11. ¶ 45. LAMBETH Articles by whom made b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 23. nine in number p. 230. various judgements of them p. 231. ¶ 24 c. LANCASTER and York houses the Battels betwixt them for the Crown Place Time number slain and Conquerour b. 4. p. 1â—6 and 187. LANCK-FRANCK made Arch-bishop of Canterbury b. 3. ¶ 4. most kindly treated by the Pope ¶ 17. to whom he acouseth Thomas elect of York and Remigius elect of Lincoln ¶ 18 19. his return and imployment ¶ 20. Hugh LATIMER a violent Papist History of Cambridge p. 102. ¶ 33. converted by Bilney ¶ 34. his Sermon of Cards p. 103. ¶ 38. preacheth before the Convocation b. 5. p. 207. ¶ 23. deprived of his Bishoprick of Worcester p. 231. ¶ 18. why he assumed it not again in the Reign of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 405. ¶ 28. his judgement of the contemners of common prayer p. 426. ¶ 17. William LAUD made Bishop of St. Davids b. 9. p. 90. ¶ 30. a great Benefactour to St. Johns in Oxford b. 8. p. 40. ¶ 45. accused by the Scotch for making their Liturgy b. 11. p. 163. prepares for his death b. 11. p. 215. ¶ 68. his Funerall speech and burial p. 216. ¶ 69 70. his birth breeding and character p. 216 217 218 219. LAURENTIUS Arch-bishop of Cant. reconcileth the British to the Romish Church in the Celebration of Easter C. 7. ¶ 27. intending to depart England is rebuked in a vision
in the following Parliament we are to follow him to that Parliament for our satisfaction And there we find that Mr. Maynard made a Speech in the Committee of Lords against the Canons made by the Bishops in the last Convocation in which he endeavoured to prove c. Fuller Diogenes being demanded what one should give him to strike on the head as hard as he could Give me sayed he but an Helmet Well fare my Helmet the seasonable interposition of the word ENDEAVOURED which hath secured me from the blowes of the Animadvertor and perchance his hand thereby retunded Besides I have a double Helmet Master now Serjeant Mainard no lesse eminently known for his skill in Law than for his love to the Clergy by pleading so effectually in his success as well as desire for their Tithes Wherefore being weary with this long contest I resolve for a while even to take my naturall rest and will quietly sleep untill Iogged by that which particularly concerneth me Dr. Heylyn Endeavoured to prove that the Clergy had no power to make Canons without common consent in Parliament because in the Saxon's times Lawes and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall had the confirmation of Peers and sometimes of the People to which great Councills our Parliaments do succeed Which Argument if it be of force to prove that the Clergy can make no Canons without consent of the Peers and People in Parliament it must prove also that the Peers and People can make no Statutes without consent of the Clergy in their Convocation My reason is Because such Councels in the times of the Saxons were mixt Assemblies consisting as well of Laicks as of Ecclesiasticks and the matters there concluded on of a mixt nature also Laws being passed as commonly in them in order to the good governance of the Common-wealth as Canons for the regulating such things as concern'd Religion But these great Councels of the Saxons being divided into two parts in the times ensuing the Clergy did their work by themselves without any confirmation from the King or Parliament till the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the Eighth And if the Parliaments did succeed in the place of those great Councells as he saies they did it was because that antiently the Procurators of the Clergy not the Bishops onely had their place in Parliament though neither Peers nor People voted in the Convocations Which being so it is not much to be admired that there was some checking as is said in the second Argument about the disuse of the generall making of such Church-Laws But checking or repining at the proceeding of any Superiour Court makes not the Acts thereof illegall for if it did the Acts of Parliaments themselves would be reputed of no force or illegally made because the Clergy for a long time have checkt and think they have good cause to check for their being excluded Which checking of the Commons appears not onely in those antient Authors which the Gentleman cited but in the Remonstrance tendred by them to King Henry the Eighth exemplified at large in these Animadversions lib. 3. n. 61. But because this being a Record of the Convocation may not come within the walk of a Common Lawyer I shall put him in mind of that memorable passage in the Parliament 51 Edw. 3d. which in brief was this The Commons finding themselves aggrieved as well with certain Constitutions made by the Clergy in their Synods as with some Laws or Ordinances which were lately passed more to the advantage of the Clergy then the Common People put in a Bill to this effect viz. That no Act nor Ordinance should from thenceforth be made or granted on the Petition of the said Clergy without the consent of the Commons and that the said Commons should not be bound in times to come by any Constitutions made by the Clergy of this Realm for their own advantage to which the Commons of this Realm had not given consent The reason of which is this and 't is worth the marking Car eux ne veulent estre obligez a nul de vos Estatuz ne Ordinances faitz sanz leur Assent Because the said Clergy did not think themselves bound as indeed they were not in those times by any Statute Act or Ordinance made without their assent in the Court of Parliament But that which could not be obtain'd by this checking of the Commons in the declining and last times of King Edward 3. was in some part effected by the more vigorous prosecution of King Henry 8. who to satisfie the desires of the Commons in this particular and repress their checkings obtained from the Clergy that they should neither make nor execute any Canons without his consent as before is said so that the Kings power of confirming Canons was grounded on the free and voluntary submission of the Clergy and was not built as the third Argument objecteth on so weak a foundation as the Pope's making Canons by his sole power the Pope not making Canons here nor putting his Prescripts and Letters decretory in the place of Canons but onely as a remedy for some present exigency So that the King's power in this particular not being built upon the Popes as he said it was it may well stand That Kings may make Canons without consent of Parliament though he saith they cannot But whereas it is argued in the fourth place that the clause in the Statute of Submission in which it is said that the Clergy shall not make Canons without the Kings leave doth not imply that by His leave alone they may make them I cannot think that he delivered this for Law and much less for Logick For had this been looked on formerly as a piece of Law the Parliaments would have check'd at it at some time or other and been as sensible of the Kings enchroachments in executing this power without them as antiently some of them had been about the disuse of the like generall consent in the making of them Fuller DORMIT SECURUS Dr. Heylyn Fol. 180. In the next place our Author tells us that Mr. Maynard endeavoured also to prove that these Canons were against the King's Prerogative the Rights Liberties and Properties of the Subject And he saith well that it was endeavoured to be proved and endeavoured onely nothing amounting to a proof being to be found in that which followes It had before been Voted by the House of Commons that the Canons are against fundamentall Laws of this Realm against the Kings Prerogative Property of the Subject the Right of Parliament and do tend to faction and sedition And it was fit that some endeavours should be used to make good the Vote But this being but a generall charge requires a generall answer onely and it shall be this Before the Canons were subscribed they were imparted to the King by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and by the King communicated to the Lords of the Councill who calling to them the assistance of the Judges and
for a brace of notorious falshoods and see who will shed a tear to quench the fire As for the Apparition to Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith seeing afterwards the Animadvertor twitteth me therewith we will till then defer our Answer thereunto Dr. Heylyn Less opposition meets the preaching of St. Ioseph of Arimathea though it meeteth some For notwithstanding that this Tradition be as generall as universally received as almost any other in the Christian Church yet our Author being resolved to let fly at all declares it for a piece of Novel superstition disguis'd with pretended Antiquity Better provided as it seems to dispute this point than the Ambassadours of Castile when they contended for precedency with those of England in the Council of Basil who had not any thing to object against this Tradition of Iosephs preaching to the Brittains although the English had provoked them by confuting their absurd pretences for St. Iames his preaching to the Spaniards Fuller I never denyed the Historicall ground-work but the Fabulous varnish of Arimathean Ioseph here preaching My words run thus Church-History Pag. 6. Part 12. Yet because the Norman Charters of Glassenbury refer to a Succession of many antient Charters bestowed on that Church by severall Saxon Kings as the Saxon Charters relate to Brittish Grants in Intuition to Joseph's being there We dare not wholly deny the substance of the Story though the Leaven of Monkery hath much swollen and puffed up the circumstance thereof And to the impartiall peruser of the connexion of my words Novell Superstition disguised with pretended Antiquity relate not to the substance of the Story but as it is presented unto us with fictitious embellishments And here I foretell the Reader what he shall see within few pages performed namely that after the Animadvertor hath flung and flounced and fluttered about to shew his own activity and opposition against what I though never so well and warily have written at last he will calmly come up and in this controversie close with my sense though not words using for the more credit his own expressions Dr. Heylyn For first our Author doth object in the way of scorn that fol. 6. The relation is as ill accoutred with tacklings as the Ship in which it is affirmed that St. Phillip St. Joseph and the rest were put by the Iews into a Vessell without Sails or Oars with intent to drown them and being tossed with tempests in the midland Sea at last safely landed at Marcelles in France and thence afterwards made for England No such strange piece of Errantry if we mark it well as to render the whole truth suspected Fuller Not by way of scorn Sir but by way of dislike and distrust The more I mark it the more strange piece of Errantry it seemeth so that I cannot meet with a stranger Dr. Heylyn For first we find it in the Monuments of elder times that Acrisius King of Argos exposed his daughter Danae with her young son Perseus in such a vessell as this was and as ill provided of all necessaries to the open Seas who notwithstanding by divine providence were safely wafted to those parts of Italy which we now call Puglia Fuller Monuments of elder times What be your Acts if these be your Monuments Ask my fellow if I be a thief ask a Poeticall Fable if a Monkish Legend be a lyar And what if Danae the self-same forsooth which had a golden shoure rained into her lap crossed from Argos in Peloponesus to Apulia now Puglia almost in a streight line and the narrowest part of the Adriatick This doth not parallel the improbability of Ioseph his voyage in an un-accoutred Ship from some Port in Palestine to Marselles the way being ten times as far full of flexures and making of severall points which costs our Sea-men some months in sailing though better accommodated I confess Gods power can bring any a greater distance with cordage of cobweb in a nut-shell but no wise man will make his belief so cheap to credit such a miracle except it be better attested Dr. Heylyn And secondly for the middle times we have the LIKE story in an Author above all exception even our Author himself who telleth us lib. 6. fol. 265. of our present History that King Athelstane put his brother Edwin into a little Wherry or Cock-boat without any tackling or furniture thereunto to the end that if the poor Prince perished his wickedness might be imputed to the waves Fuller Thanks for the jeer premised I am not the Author but bare Relater of that story obvious in all our English Chronicles Nor is the story LIKE to that of Ioseph's except he had been drowned in his Waftage to Marelles as this exposed Prince Edwin was in our Narrow Seas whether wilfully or casually not so certain his corps being taken up in Flanders The resemblance betwixt stories chiefly consists in similitude of success And what likeness betwixt a miserable death and a miraculous deliverance Dr. Heylyn Our Author objecteth in the next place that no writer of credit can be produced before the Conquest who mentioneth Joseph 's comming hither For answer whereunto it may first be said that where there is a constant uncontrolled Tradition there is most commonly the less care taken to commit it to Writing Fuller Less care implyeth some care whereas here no care but a pannick silence of all Authors Brittish Saxon and Christian for a thousand years together Secondly the Animadvertor might have done well to have instanced in any one Tradition seeing he saith it is most commonly done which is constant and uncontrolled yet attested by no creditable Author and then let him carry the cause Dr. Heylyn Secondly that the Charters of Glassenbury relating from the Norman to the Saxâ—n Kings and from the Saxons to the Brittains being all built upon St. Ioseph's comming hither and preaching here may serve instead of many Authors bearing witness to it And thirdly that Frier Bale as great an enemy to the unwarrantable Traditions of the Church of Rome as our Author can desire to have him hath vouch'd two witnesses hereunto that is to say Melkinus Avalonius and Gildas Albanus whose Writings or some fragments of them he may be believed to have seen though our Author hath not Fuller Nor the Animadvertor neither Bale doth not intimate that he ever saw any part of them and he useth to Cackle when lighting on such Eggs. But we collect from him and other Authors that no credit is to be given to such supposititious fragments Dr. Heylyn As for some circumstances in the story that is to say the dedicating of Iosephs first Church to the Virgin Mary the burying of his body in it and the inclosing of the same with a large Church-yard I look upon them as the products of Munkish ignorance accommodated unto the fashion of those times which the writers liv'd in There is scarce any Saint in all the Calendar whose History would not be subject to the like
fol. 10. gives us some other in their stead which he thinks unanswerable Fuller I deny not that P. Eleutherius might or did send a Letter to K. Lucius but I justly suspect the Letter novv extant to be but-pretended and forged I never thought by the vvay hovv came the Animadvertor to knovv my thoughts my Arguments unanswerable but now I say they are unanswered standing in full force notvvithstanding any alledged by the Animadvertor to the contrary I confesse a Memory-mistake of Sicilia for Galatia and as it is the first fault he hath detected in my Book so shall it be the first by me God Willing amended in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Our Author First objects against the Popes answer to the King that Fol. 11. It relates to a former letter of King Lucius wherein he requested of the Pope to send him a Copy or Collection of the Roman Lawes which being at that time in force in the I le of Britain was but actum agere But certainly though those parts of Brittain in which Lucius reign'd were governed in part and but in part by the Lawes of Rome yet were the Lawes of Rome at that time more in number and of a far more generall practice then to be limited to so narrow a part of their Dominions Two thousand Volumes we find of them in Iustinians time out of which by the help of Theophilus Trebonianus and many other learned men of that noble faculty the Emperour compos'd that Book or body of Law which from the universality of its comprehension we still call the Pandects Fuller One who hath taken but two Turnes in Trinity hall Court in Cambridge knowes full well what PANDECTS are and why so called All this is but praefatory I waite for the answer to the Objection still to come Dr. Heylyn In the next place it is objected that This letter mounts King Lucius to too high a Throne making him the Monarch or King of Britain who neither was the Supreme nor sole King here but partial and subordinate to the Romans This we acknowledge to be true but no way prejudiciall to the cause in hand Lucius both was and might be call'd the King of Britain though Tributary and Vassal to the Roman Emperors as the two Baliols Iohn and Edward were both Kings of Scotland though Homagers and Vassals to Edward the first and third of England the Kings of Naples to the Pope and those of Austria and Bohemia to the German Emperors Fuller A Blank is better then such writing to no purpose For first both the Baliols in their severall times were though not SUPREME SOLE Kings of Scotland So were the Kings of Naples and the King of Austria there never being but one the first and Last viz. Fredoritus Leopoldus and the Kings of Bohemia in their respective Dominions Not so Lucius who was neither Supreme nor Sole King of Brittain Besides the Baliols being Kings of Scotland did never Style themselves or were Styled by other Kings of Brittaine The Kings of Naples never entituled themselves Kings of Italy Nor the Kings of Austria and Bohemia ever wrote themselves or were written to as Kings of Germany Whereas Lucius Ruler onely in the South West-part of this Isle is in this Letter made King of Brittain more then came to his share an Argument that the Forger thereof was unacquainted with the Constitution of his Kingdom And this just Exception stands firme against the Letter what ever the Animadvertor hath alledged in the excuse thereof Dr. Heylyn Nor doth the next objection give us any trouble at all that is to say that The Scripture quoted in that Letter is out of St. Hieroms Translation which came more then a hundred years after Unless it can be prov'd withall as I think it cannot that Hierom followed not in those Texts those old Translations which were before receiv'd and used in the Western Churches Fuller See the different tempers of men how some in point of Truth are of a tenderer constitution than others The Primate Armach was so sensible of the strength of this reason that it made him conclude against the authenticallnesse of the Letter Dr. Heylyn Lesle am I mov'd with that which follows viz. That this letter not appearing till a thousand years after the death of Pope Eleutherius might probably creep out of some Monks Cell some four hundred years since Which allegation being admitted the Monks Cell excepted it makes no more to the discredit of the letter which we have before us then to the undervaluing of those excellent Monuments of Piety and Learning which have been recovered of late times from the dust and moths of ancient Libraries Such Treasures like money long lock't up is never thought lesse profitable when it comes abroad And from what place soever it first came abroad I am confident it came not out of any Monks Cell that generation being then wholly at the Popes devotion by consequence not likely to divulge an Evidence so manifestly tending to the overthrow of his pretensions The Popes about four hundred years since were mounted to the height of that power and Tyranny which they claimed as Vicars unto Christ. To which there could not any thing be more plainly contrary then that passage in the Pope's letter whereto he tells the King That he was Gods Vicar in his owne Kingdom vos estis Vicarius Dei in Regno vestro as the Latin hath it Too great a secret to proceed from the Cell of a Monk who would have rather forg'd ten Decretals to uphold the Popish usurpations over Soveraign Princes then published one onely whether true or false to subvert the same Nor doth this Letter onely give the King an empty Title but such a Title as imports the exercise of the chief Ecclesiastical Power within his Dominions For thus it followeth in the same The people and the folk of the Realm of Britain be yours whom if they be divided ye ought to gather in concord and peace to call them to the faith and law of Christ to cherish and maintain them to rule and govern them so as you may reign everlastingly with him whose Vicar you are So far the very words of the letter as our Author rendereth them which savour far more of the honest simplicity of the Primitive Popes then the impostures and supposititious issues of the latter times Fuller I confesse some pretious pieces of Antiquity long Latent in Obscurity have at last broke forth into the Light with no little advantage to Learning But then such were intire Books and we know how when where and by whom they were found out and brought forth Whereas this loose Letter secretly and slily slid into the World unattended with any such Cicumstances to attest the Genuinesse thereof Children casually lost are no whit the lesse Legitimate and beloved the more when found and owned of their Parents But give me leave to suspect that Babe a Bastard which is left on a bulk or
the one is called East Swale the other West-Swale I see no reason why we should look any where else for that River Swale mentioned in the old fragment which before we spake of But herein I must submit my self to more able judgements The place agreed on we should next inquire into the numbers but that our Author seems to grant as much as the fragment craveth Fuller I could heartily wish that all the Animadvertors Book had consisted of such matter then had it been greater though less I mean bigger in benefit though smaller in Bulk and more instructive to the Reader thereof I did not before take notice of either East or West-Swale in Kent and now prosesse my self the Animadvertors Convert in this point agreeing with him that this grand-Baptizing if done by St. Austin was done in the place by him specified But this still doth more and more confirm me in my judgement that Austin advanced never into Yorkshire and that the conversion of the Northumbrians was the work of Paulinus and others Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 66. If so many were baptized in one day it appears plainly that in that age the Administration of that Sacrament was not loaded with those superstitious Ceremonies as essential thereunto of crossing spittle Oyl Cream Salt and such like Trinkets Our Author here reckoneth the signe of the Crosse in Baptism amongst the vain trinkets and superstitious Ceremonies of the Church of Rome and thereby utterly condemneth the Church of England which doth not onely require it in her Rubricks but also pleads for it in her Canons Not as essential to that Sacrament the Papists not making Spittle Oyle Cream Salt c. to be essential thereunto as our Author saith but onely for a signe significative in token that the party signed shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his Banner against sin the world and the Devil and to continue Christs faithfull soldier and servant unto his lives end A Ceremony not so new as to be brought within the compass of Popish Trinkets though by them abused For when the point was agitated in the Conference at Hampton Court and that it was affirmed by some of the Bishops that the Crosse in Baptism was used in the time of Constantine Dr. Reynolds the most able man of the opposite party who had before acknowledged it to have been in use in other cases from the very times of the Apostles had not one word to say against it And to say truth no man of modesty and learning could have spoke against it when it was proved so clearly by Dr. Andrews then Dean of Westminster out of Tertullian Cyprian Origen each of which died long time before Constantines birth to have been used in immortali Lavacro in that blessed Sacrament That good old saying of Tertullian Caro signetur ut anima muniatur may serve once for all And therefore when our Author telleth us in the following words that in that age nothing was used with Baptism but Baptism it must be considered as a smack of that old leaven which more and more will sowre the lump of his whole discourse We have already had a taste of it in the very first Book we finde a continuance of it here and we shall see more of it hereafter our Author not being coy in shewing his good affections not onely to the persons of the Non-conformists but their inconformity not to the men onely but their Doctrines and Opinions also And this is that which we must trust to in the whole course of this History Fuller This Objection hath been answered at large in the Introduction and here I intend no repetition onely desiring the Reader to take notice of those my words as ESSENTIAL thereunto Let me add that a Curse is pronounced on those who remove the Land-marks and it falleth most heavy on them who remove the limits in Gods worship as being Boundaries of highest Consequence turn MAY into MUST convenient into necessary Ornamental into Essential I have as high an Esteem for the Cross in Baptisme as the Animadvertor Himself so long as it observes the due distance of an Ancient and Significant Ceremony and intrudes not it self as Essential A Chain of Gold is an eminent Ornament about the Neck but it may be drawn so close as to choak and strangle the wearer thereof And in like manner Ceremonies though decent and usefull when pretending to Essentiality become as Luther saith Carnificinae Conscientiae and therefore justly may we beware thereof Dr. Heylin Having now done with the Acts of Austin we shall not keep our selves to so continued a discourse as before we did but take our Authors Text by piecemeal as it comes before us and making such Animadversions on the same as may best serve to rectifie the story and maintain the truth as namely Fol. 65. Thus the Italian Spanish and French Daughters or Neeces to the Latine are generated from the corruption thereof This is I grant the common and received opinion but yet me thinks our Author who loves singularities should not vouchsafe to travel on the publique Road. Fuller In my passage to heaven I desire to goe in the narrow path and decline the broad way which leadeth to destruction But on earth I love to travel the common and beaten road as easiest to finde and wherein if wrong or at a losse one may soonest finde company to guide and direct him If I should travel over the Animadvertors several at laceys-Laceys-Court I have cause to suspect he would sue me for pedibus ambulando And it is hard if also he will not let me goe without carping at me in the high-way or publique road I build nothing on the high-way so to trespasse upon the Lord of the Soil but onely peaceably passe along it I mean I make no inferences or deductions from this received opinion I derive no consequence thence All that I doe is to gain just advantage thereby to honour the Welsh tongue by shewing that it is no Daughter or Neece like the Italians Spanish and French but a Mother and original Language and might justly have expected thanks rather than censure from the Animadvertor for my pains seeing he delighteth to derive himself from British extraction Dr. Heylin For in my minde it is affirmed with better reason by our learned Brerewood That those tongues have not sprung from the corruption of the Latine by the inundation and mixture of barbarous people in those Provinces but from the first imperfect impression and receiving of it in those forein Countries For the Latine tongue was never so generally received in any of the conquered Provinces out of Italy as to be spoken ordinarily by the common people the Gentry and Nobility might be perfect in it for the better dispatch of their Affairs with the Roman Magistrates who had the Government and Lieutenancy in their several Countries And some taste of
superstition quarrelling at the Circumstances and Ceremonies which are used And this they doe saith he ibid. either displeased at the Collect consisting of the first nine verses of the Gospel of St. John as wholly improper and nothing relating to the occasion c. Our Author tels us more than once lib. 11.167 of his being a Clerk of the Convocation but I finde by this that he never came so high as to be Clerk of the Closet Fuller I never was nor the Animadvertor neither Clerk of the Closet Non tanto me dignor honore But I have had the honor to see the King solemnly Heal in the Quire of the Cathedral of Sarisbury though being so long since I cannot recover all particulars Dr. Heylin Which had he been he would not have mistaken the Gospel for a Collect or touched upon that Gospel which is lesse material without insisting on the other which is more pertinent and proper to the work in hand or suffered the displeased party to remain unsatisfied about the sign of the Crosse made by the Royal Hands on the place infected as it after followed when there is no such crossing used in that sacred Ceremony the King only gently drawing both his hands over the sore at the reading of the first Gospel Fuller I fully satisfie the displeased party if he be not through weaknesse nor wilfulnesse incapable thereof about the Sign of the Crosse in those my words immediately following All which exceptions fall to the ground when it shall be avowed That the Kings bare Hands notwithstanding the omission of such Ceremonies have effected the Healing Take it pray as since it is set down in more ample manner in a late Book which I know not whither it be more learned in it self or usefull to others All along K. Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth her reign when the Strumosi such as had the Kings-Evil came to be touch'd the manner was then for Her to apply the Sign of the Crosse to the Tumor which raising a cause of Jealousies as if some mysterious Operation were imputed to it That wise and learned King not only with his Son the late King practically discontinued it but ordered it to be expunged out of the prayers relating to the Cure which hath proceeded as effectually that omission notwithstanding as ever before Dr. Heylin But that both he and others may be satisfied in these particulars I have thought fit to lay down the whole form of prayers and readings used in the healing of that malady in this manner following The form of the Service at the healing of the Kings-Evil THe first Gospel is exactly the same with that on Ascension day At the touching of every infirm person these words are repeated They shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover The second Gospel begins the first of St. Iohn and ends at these words Full of grace and truth At the putting the Angel about their necks were repeated That Light was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name c. Min. O Lord save thy servants Answ. Which put their trust in thee Min. Send unto them help from above Answ. And evermore mightily defend them Min. Help us O God our Saviour Answ. And for the glory of thy Names sake deliver us be mercifull unto us sinners for thy Names sake Min. O Lord hear our prayer Answ. And let our cry come unto thee The Collect. Almighty God the eternal health of all such as put their trust in thee Hear us we beseech thee on the behalf of these thy servants for whom we call for thy mercifull help that they receiving health may give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The peace of God c. This is the whole form against which nothing is objected but the using of the words before mentioned at the putting on of the Angel the pertinency whereof may appear to any who consider that the Light which was the true Light and lighteth every man which cometh into the world did not shine more visibly at the least more comfortably upon the people than in the healing of so many sick infirm and leprous persons as did from time to time receive the benefit of it But it is time I should proceed Fuller I perceive by this office that I have mistaken the Gospel for the the Collect which in the next Edition God willing shall be rectified Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 148. These chose Harald to be King whose title to the Crown is not worth our deriving of it much lesse his relying on it A Title not so despicable as our Author makes it nor much inferiour unto that by which his predecessor obtain'd the Kingdome Harald being son to Earl Godwin the most potent man of all the Saxons by Theyra the natural daughter of Canutus the first was consequently Brother by the whole blood to Harald Harfagar and Brother by the half blood to Canutus the second the two last Danish Kings of England In which respect being of Saxon Ancestry by his Father and of the Danish Royal blood by his Mother he might be lookT on as the fittest person in that conjuncture to content both Nations But whatsoever his Title was it was undoubtedly better than that of the Norman had either his success been answerable or his sword as good Fuller It was a despicable Titâ—le even after the Animadvertor hath befriended it with his most advantageous representing thereof 1. From his Father Earl Godwin the most potent man of Saxon Ancestry 2. From his Mother Theyra the natural Daughter of Canutus the first As to his Paternal Title if his Fathers potencie was all can be alledged for it any Oppressor hath the same right His Maternal Title if from Canutus his natural understand base Daughter openeth a Dore as I may say for all who come in by the window Besides the Animadvertor is much mistaken in the name of his Mother seeing Mr. Camden saith E Githâ Suenonis Regis Danici Sorore natuâ— fuit He was born of Githa Sister to Sweno King of Denmark Dr. Heylin Upon occasion of which Conquest our Author telleth us that Ibid. This was the fifth time wherein the South of this Island was conquered first by Romans secondly by Picts and Scots thirdly by Saxons fourthly by the Danes and fifthly by the Norman But this I can by no means yeeld to the Scots and Picts not being to be nam'd amongst those Nations who subdued the South part of this Island That they did many times harrass and depopulate the South part of it I shall easily grant but to the subduing of a Countrey there is more required than to waste and spoil it that is to say to fix their dwelling and abode for some time at least in the
Soveraign having learnt primum in unoquoque Genere est excipiendum The Animadvertor hath here taken occasion to write much but thereof nothing to confute me and little to informe others He deserved to be this King Henry's Chaplain if living in that Age for his exactnesse in the distinct enumeration of all his Dignities and Estate before he came to the Crown Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 190. That States-men do admire how blinde the Policy of that Age was in keeping King Henry alive there being no such sure Prison as a Grave for a Capâ—ive King whose life though in restraint is a fair mark for the full Aim of mal-contents to practise his enlargement Our Author might have spar'd this Doctrine so frequently in practise amongst the worldly Politicians of all times and ages that there is more need of a Bridle to holde them in than a Spur to quicken them Parce precor stimulis fortiùs utere loris had been a wholesome caveat there had any friend of his been by to have advis'd him of it The murthering of depos'd and Captive Princes though too often practised never found Advocates to plead for it and much lesse Preachers to preach for it untill these latter times First made a Maxim of State in the School of Machiavel who layes it down for an Aphorisme in point of policy viz. that great Persons must not at all be touched or if they be must be made sure from taking Revenge inculcated afterwards by the Lord Gray who being sent by King Iames to intercede for the life of his Mother did underhand solicite her death and whispered nothing so much in Queen Elizabeths eares as Mortua non mordet if the Scots Queen were once dead she would never bite But never prest so home never so punctually appli'd to the case of Kings as here I finde it by our Author of whom it cannot be affirm'd that he speaks in this case the sense of others but positively and plainly doth declare his own No such divinity preach'd in the Schools of Ignatius though fitter for the Pen of a Mariana than of a Divine or Minister of the Church of England Which whether it passed from him before or since the last sad accident of this nature it comes all to one this being like a two-hand-sword made to strike on both sides and if it come too late for instruction will serve abundantly howsoever for the justification Another note we have within two leaves after as derogatory to the Honour of the late Archbishop as this is dangerous to the Estate of all Soveraign Princes if once they chance to happen into the hands of their Enemies But of this our Author will give me an occasion to speake more in another place and then he shall heare further from me Fuller My words as by me laid down are so far from being a two-handed sword they have neither hilt nor blade in them only they hold out an Handle for me thereby to defend my self I say States-men did admire at the preserving King Henry alive and render their reason If the Animadvertor takes me for a Statesman whose generall Judgement in this point I did barely relate he is much mistaken in me Reason of State and Reason of Religion are Stars of so different an Horison that the elevation of the One is the depression of the other Not that God hath placed Religion and Right Reason diametrically opposite in themselves so that where-ever they meet they must fall out and fight but Reason bowed by Politicians o their present Interest that is Achitophelesme is Enmity to Religion But the lesse we touch this harsh string the better musick Dr. Heylin Now to goe on Fol. 197. The Duke requested of King Richard the Earldome of Hereford and Hereditary Constableship of England Not so it was not the Earldom that is to say the Title of Earl of Hereford which the Duke requested but so much of the Lands of those Earls as had been formerly enjoy'd by the House of Lancaster Concerning which we are to know that Humphry de Bohun the last Earl of Hereford left behinde him two Daughters onely of which the eldest called Eleanor was married to Thomas of Woodsâ—ock Duke of Gloster Mary the other married unto Henry of Bullenbrook Earl of Darby Betwixt these two the Estate was parted the one moity which drew after it the Title of Hereford falling to Henry Earl of Darby the other which drew after it the Office oâ— Constable to the Duke of Gloâ—ester But the Duke of Glocester being dead and his estate coming in fine unto his Daughter who was not able to contend Henry the fifth forced her unto a sub-division laying one half of her just partage to the other moity But the issue of Henry of Bullenbrook being quite extinct in the Person of Edward Prince of Wales Son of Henry the sixth these three parts of the Lands of the Earls of Hereford having been formerly incorporated into the Duchy of Lancaster remained in possession of the Crown but were conceiv'd by this Duke to belong to him as being the direct Heir of Anne Daughter of Thomas Duke of Glocester and consequently the direct Heir also of the House of Hereford This was the sum of his demand Nor doe I finde that he made any suit for the Office of Constable or that he needed so to doe he being then Constable of England as his Son Edward the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family was after him Fuller The cause of their variance is given in differently by several Authors Some say that at once this Duke requested three things of King Richard 1. Power 2. Honor 3. Wealth First Power to be Hereditary Constable of England not to hold it as he did pro arbitrio Regis but in the right of his descent Secondly Honor the Earldome of Hereford Thirdly Wealth that partage of Land mentioned by the Animadvertor I instanced onely in the first the pride of this Duke being notoriously known to be more than his covetousnesse not dâ—nying but that the Kings denyal of the Land he requested had an effectual influence on his discontent Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 169. At last the coming in of the Lord Stanley with three thousand fresh men decided the controversie on the Earls side Our Author is out in this also It was not the Lord Stanley but his Brother Sir William Stanley who came in so seasonably and thereby turn'd the Scale and chang'd the fortune of the day For which service he was afterward made Lord Chamberlain of the new Kings Houshold and advanc'd to great Riches and Estates but finally beheaded by that very King for whom and to whom he had done the same But the King look'd upon this action with another eye And therefore when the merit of his service was interposed to mitigate the Kings displeasure and preserve the maâ— the King remembred very shrewdly that as he came soon enough to win
have thought that to call him an Advocate for the Stews had not been enough But that Doctor was not half so wise as our Author is and doth not fit each Argument with a several Antidote as our Author doth hoping thereby but vainly hoping that the arguments alledged will be wash'd away Some of our late Criticks had a like Designe in marking all the wanton and obscene Epigrams in Martial with a Hand or Asterism to the intent that young Scholars when they read that Author might be fore-warn'd to passe them over Whereas on the contrary it was found that too many young fellows or wonton wits â—s our Author calls them did ordinarily skip over the rest and pitch on those which were so mark't and set out unto them And much I fear that it will so fall out with our Author also whose Arguments will be studied and made use of when his Answers will not Fuller The commendable Act of King Henry the eighth in suppressing the Stews may well be reported in Church-History it being recorded in Scripture to the eternal praise of King Asa that he took away the Sodomites out of the Land I hope my collection of arguments in confutation of such Styes of Lust will appear to any rational Reader of sufficient validity Indeed it is reported of Zeuxes that famous Painter that he so lively pictured a Boy with a Rod in his hand carrying a Basket of Grapes that Birds mistaking them for real ones peckt at them and whilest others commended his Art he was angry with his own work-manship confessing that if he had made the Boy but as well as the Grapes the Birds durst not adventure at them I have the same just cause to be offended with my own indeavors if the Arguments against those Schools of Wantonnesse should prove insufficient though I am confident that if seriously considered they doe in their own true weight preponderate those produced in favour of them However if my well-intended pains be abused by such who onely will feed on the poisons wholy neglecting the Antidotes their destruction is of themselves and I can wash my hands of any fault therein But me thinks the Animadvertor might well have passed this over in silence for fear of awaking sleeping wontonnesse jogged by this his Note so that if my Arguments onely presented in my Book be singly this his Animadversion is doubly guilty on the same account occasioning loose eyes to reflect on that which otherwise would not be observed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 253. Otherwise some suspect had he survived King Edward the sixth we might presently have heard of a King Henry the ninth Our Author speaks this of Henry Fitz Roy the Kings natural Son by Elizabeth Blunt and the great disturbance he might have wrought to the Kings two daughters in their Succession to the Crown A Prince indeed whom his Father very highly cherished creating him Duke of Somerset and Richmond Earl of Nottingham and Earl Marshal of England and raising him to no small hopes of the Crown it self as appears plainly by the Statute 22 H. 8. c. 7. But whereas our Author speaks it on a supposition of his surviving King Edward the sixth he should have done well in the first place to have inform'd himself whether this Henry and Prince Edward were at any time alive together And if my Books speak true they were not Henry of Somerset and Richmond dying the 22 of Iuly Anno 1536. Prince Edward not being born till the 12 of October Anno 1537. So that if our Author had been but as good at Law or Grammar as he is at Heraldry he would not have spoke of a Survivor-ship in such a case when the one person had been long dead before the other was born Fuller Terms of Law when used not in Law-Books nor in any solemn Court but in common Discourse are weaned from their critical sense and admit more latitude If the word surviving should be tied up to legal strictnesse Survivour is appliable to none save onely to such who are Ioint-tenants However because co-viving is properly required in a Survivor those my words had he survived shall be altered into had he lived to survive Prince Edward and then all is beyond exception Dr. Heylin These incoherent Animadversions being thus passed over we now proceed to the Examination of our Authors Principles for weakning the Authority of the Church and subjecting it in all proceedings to the power of Parliaments Concerning which he had before given us two Rules Preparatory to the great businesse which we have in hand First that the proceedings of the Canon Law were subject in whatsoever touched temporals to secular Laws and National Customes And the Laitie at pleasure limited Canons in this behalf Lib. 3. n. 61. And secondly that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie Lib. 4. n. 88. And if the Ecclesiastical power was thus curbed and fettered when it was at the highest there is no question to be made but that it was much more obnoxious to the secular Courts when it began to sink in reputation and decline in strength How true and justifiable or rather how unjustifiable and false these two principles are we have shewn already and must now look into the rest which our Author in pursuance of the main Design hath presented to us But first we must take notice of another passage concerning the calling of Convocations or Synodical meetings formerly called by the two Archbishops in their several Provinces by their own sole and proper power as our Author grants fol. 190. to which he adds Fol. 190. But after the Statute of Premunire was made which did much restrain the Papal power and subject it to the Laws of the Land when Arcbishops called no more Convocations by their sole and absolute command but at the pleasure of the King In which I must confesse my self to be much unsatisfied though I finde the same position in some other Authors My reasons two 1. Because there is nothing in the Statuâ—e of Praemunire to restrain the Archbishops from calling these meetings as before that Act extending onely to such as purchase or pursue or cause to be purchased or pursued in the Court of Rome or elsewhere any such Translations Processes Sentences of Excommunication Bulls Instruments or any other things whatsoever which touch the King against him his Crown and his Regality or his Realm or to such as bring within the Realm or them receive or make thereof notification or any other Execution whatsoever within the same Realm or without c. And secondly because I finde in the Statute of the submission of the Clergy that it was recognized and acknowledged by the Clergie in their Convocation that the Convocation of the said Clergie is alwaies hath been and ought to be assembled alwaies by the Kings Writ And if they had been alwaies call'd by the Kings Writ then
9 fol. 109. being shrunk to eight and that eight thousand pound not given to one Daughter as is here affirmed but divided equally between two whereof the one was married to Sir Iames Harrington the other unto Dunch of Berkshire Secondly this could be no cause of the Queens displeasure and much lesse of the Countries envie that Bishop having sat in the See of Durham above seventeen years And certainly he must needs have been a very ill Husband if out of such a great Revenue he had not saved five hundred pounds per annum to prefer his Children the income being as great and the charges of Hospility lesse than they have been since Thirdly the Queen did not take away a thousand pound a year from that Bishoprick as is here affirmed The Lands were left to it as before but in regard the Garrison of Barwick preserved the Bishops Lands and Tenants from the spoil of the Scots the Queen thought fit that the Bishops should contribute towards their own defence imposing on them an annual pension of a thousand pound for the better maintaining of that Garrison Fourthly Bishop Pilkington was no Doctor but a Batchelor of Divinity onely and possibly had not been raised by our Author to an higher title and Degree than the University had given him but that he was a Conniver at Non-conformity as our Author telleth us Lib. 9. fol. 109. Lastly I shall here add that I conceived the Pension above mentioned not to have been laid upon that See after Pilkingtons death but on his first preferment to it the French having then newly landed some forces in Scotland which put the Queen upon a necessity of doubling her Guards and increasing her Garrisons But whatsoever was the cause of imposing this great yearly payment upon that Bishoprick certain I am that it continued and the money was duly paid into the Exchequer for many years after the true cause thereof was taken away the Queens displeasure against Pilkington ending either with his life or hers and all the Garrisons and forces upon the Borders being taken away in the beginning of the Reign of King Iames. So true is that old saying Quod Christus non capit fiscus rapit never more fully verified than in this particular Fuller I have given in a double account of Bishop Pilkingtons Issue and Estate 1. As same reported and as envioâ—s Courtiers represented it to Queen Elizabeth that he gave ten thousand with his onely Daughter Lib. 5. fol. 253. 2. As it was in truth giving but four thousand a piece with Two daughters lib. 8. fol. 109. The Animadvertor may allow me knowing in his family my wife being Grandchild to his Eldest Daughter married to Sir Henry Harrington Yet no relation to him or favour for him as a semi-non conformist but mere love to the Truth made me entitle him Doctor though I confesse Bishop Godwin maketh him but Batchelour in Divinity For Dr. Caius Master of Gonvil Hall whilest Pilkington was of St. Iohns in Cambridge giveth him the stile of Doctor who must be presumed most exact in the Titles of his own Contemporary The difference is not great betwixt taking away 1000 l. yearly from the Bishoprick and charging it with an annual Pension of 1000 l. to maintain the Garrison of Barwick However if the Reader can gain any information from what is additory in the Animadvertor I shall be light glad thereof THE SIXTH BOOK Containing the History of Abbeys Dr. Heylin THis Book containing the History of Abbeys seems but a Supplement to the former but being made a distinct book by our Author we must doe so likewise In which the first thing capable of an Animadversion is but meerly verbal viz. Fol. 266. Cistercians so called from one Robert living in Cistercium in Burgundy The place in Burgundy from whence these Monks took denomination though call'd Cirstercium by the Latins is better known to the French and English by the name Cisteaux the Monks thereof the Monks of Cisteaux by the English and Lesmoines de Cisteaux by the French and yet our Author hath hit it better in his Cistercians than Ralph Brook York Herald did in his Sister-senses for which sufficiently derided by Augustin Vincent as our Author being so well studied in Heraldry cannot chuse but know Fuller It was equally in my power and pleasure without the least prejudice to the Truth whether I would render the place in the French Cisteaux or retain the Latine name Cistercium I preferred the latter because our English word Cistercians hath most conformity therewith What is R. Brooke his Sister-senses Brother-senses or Non-senses to me This spends time in writing money in buying pains in reading makes some more angry none more knowing Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 268. But be he who he himself or any other pleaseth brother if they will to St. George on Horseback Our Author not satisfying himself in that Equitius who is supposed to be the first Founder of Monks in England makes him in scorn to be the Brother of St. George on Horse back that is to say a meer Chimera a Legendary Saint a thing of nothing The Knights of that most noble Order are beholding to him for putting their Patron in the same Rank with St. Equitius of whose existence on the Earth he can finde no Constat Fuller I honour the Knights of that noble Order as much as the Animadvertor himself Their Ribbands though now wearing out apace seem in my eyes as fair and fresh as when first put on I doe not deny but much doubt of St. George as he is presented with his improbable Atchievements Yet grant the whole History onely Emblematical and Allegorical of Christ rescuing his Church from the might and malice of Satan no Diminution of Honour at all is thereby to the Fellows of that noble Order Dr. Heylin But I would have him know how poorly soever he thinks of St. George on Horseback that there hath more been said of him his Noble birth Atchievements with his death and Martyrdome than all the Friends our Author hath will or can justly say in defence of our present History Fuller The Animadvertor might have done well to instanced in that Author which hath been the Champion for this Champion and hath so substantially asserted him If in this passage he reflecteth on his own Book on that Subject he hath lookt so long on St. George he hath forgot Solomon Let another praise thee and not thy own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips For my part I am yet to seek what service he hath done to the Church of God so busie to make DOWN SABBATH and UP St. GEORGE Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 270 So they deserve some commendation for their Orthodox Judgement in maintaining some Controversies in Divinity of importance against the Jesuites Our Author speaks this of the Dominicans or preaching Fryers who though they be the sole active managers of the Inquisition deserve notwithstanding
busie to throw dirt on others Any man may be witty in a biting way and those who have the dullest brains have commonly the sharpest teeth to that purpose But such caâ—nal mirth whilest it tickleth the flesh doth wound the soul. And which was the 〈◊〉 these baâ—â— Books would give a great advantage to the General foe and Papists would make too much uâ—e thereof against Protestant Religion especially seeing an Archangel thought himself too good to bring and Satan not bad enough to have railing speeches brought against him Reader what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal Libels Dr. Heylin For if our Authors rule be good fol. 193. That the fault is not in the Writer if he truly cite what is false on the credit of another they had no reason to examine punctually the truth of that which tended so apparently to the great advantage of their cause and party c. Fuller I say again the Writer is faultless who truly cites what is false on the CREDIT of another alwayes provided that the other who is quoted hath Credit and be not a lying Libeller like these Pasauls If this Rule be not true the Animadvertor will have an hard task of it to make good all in his Geography on his own knowledge who therein hath traded on trust as much as another Dr. Heylin But I am weary and ashamed of raking in so impure a kennel and for that cause also shall willingly pass over his apology for Hacket that blasphemous wretch and most execrable Miscreant justly condemned and executed for a double Treason against the King of Kings in Heaven and the Queen on earth Fuller I appeal to the Reader whether I have not in my Church History wrote most bitterly and deservedly against Him only I took occasion by Hackets badness to raise our thankfulness to God If my meat herein please not the Animadvertors pallat let him leave it in the Dish none shall eat thereof against their own stomacks for fear of a surfeit Dr. Heylin Of whom he would not have us think fol. 204. that he and his two Companions his two Prophets for so they called themselves were not worse by nature than all others of the English Nation the natural corruption in the hearts of others being not less headstrong but more bridled And finally that if Gods restraining grace be taken from us we shall all run unto the same excess of Riot Which Plea if it be good for Hacket will hold good for Iudas and pity it is that some of our fine wits did never study an apology for him c. Fuller Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 214. At Antwerp he was ordained Minister by the Presbytery there and not long after that he was put in Orders by the Presbytery of a forain Nation Here have we Ordination and putting into Orders ascribed to the Presbytery of Antwerp a Mongrel company consisting of two blew Aprons to each Cruel night cap and that too in such positive terms and without any the least qualification that no Presbyterian in the pack could have spoke more plainly c. Fuller It is better to weare a Cruel Night-cap than a cruel heart causelesly cavilling at every man Mr. Travers was ordained Minister or Priest by the Presbytery of Antwerp and never had other Ordination I only relate that it was so de facto and appeal to the Reader whether my words import the least countenance and approbation thereof though the sin had not been so hainous if I had so done Dr. Heylin Only I shall make bold to quit my Author with a merry tale though but one for an hundred and 't is a tale of an old jolly popish Priest who having no entertainment for a friend who came to him on a Fasting day but a piece of Pork and making conscience of observing the appointed Fast dipt it into a tub of water saying down Pork up Pike Satisfied with which device as being accustomed to transubstantiate he well might be he caused it to be put into the pot and made ready for dinner But as the Pork for all this suddain piece of wit was no other than Pork so these good fellowes of the Presbytery by laying hands upon one another act as little as he The parties so impos'd upon impos'd upon indeed in the proper notion are but as they were Lay-bretheren of the better stamp Ministers if you will but not Priests nor Deacons nor any wayes Canonically enabled for divine performances Fuller It is not a fortnight since I heard proclamation against the selling of Porke because about London fatted with the flesh of diseased horses I suspect some unwholsomness in the Animadvertors Pork-story especially as applyed and therefore will not meddle therewith Dr. Heylin But fearing to be chidden for his levity I knock off again following my Author as he leaâ—s me who being over shoes will be over boots also He is so lost to the High Royalist and covetous Conformist that he cannot be in a worse case with them than he is already Fuller If I be lost with the high Royalists and covetous Conformists I hope I shall be found by the low Royalists and liberal Conformists However may God be pleased to finde my soul and I pass not with whom I be lost There are a sort of men who with Dr. Manwaring maintain that Kings may impose without Parliaments what taxes they please and the Subjects bound to payment under pain of Damnation a principle introductory to tyranny and slavery These I term high Royalists and I protest my self as to dissent in judgement from them so not to be at all ambitious of their favour Dr. Heylin And therefore having declared himself for a Presbyterian in point of Government he will go thorough with his work c. Fuller Where have I declared my self for a Presbyterian in point of Government who never scattered sylable and if I did I would snatch it up again to countenance such presumption I confess I said That Mr. Travers was made Minister or Priest by the Presbytery at Antwerp that is made Minister so far forth as they could give and he receive the Ministerial Character who never had it otherwise impressed upon him Suppose a Knightâ— Might not a Historian say such a man was made a Knight by such a power of person not engaging himself to justifie his Authority that made him And by the same proportion I relating Mr. Travers made Minister at Antwerp am not concerned to justifie nor by my expression doe I any way approve their Minister-making if they have no Commission thereunto I cannot close with the Animadvertor in his uncharitable censure of the Ministery of forain Protestant Churches rendring them utterly invalid because ordained by no Bishops Cain as commonly believed is conceived to have killed a fourth part of mankinde by murthering Abel but the Animadvertors cruelty to Protestants hath exceeded this proportion in spiritually killing more than
from Spalato nunc quidem parum Colitur ob Turcarum Viciniam A judicious Writer valuing his Arch-bishoprick as it seemeth to advantage estimateth it annually at 3000 Crowns which falleth a fourth part short of 1000 pounds sterling a summe exceeded in most of our middling Bishopricks Besides the Arch-bishoprick of Spalato was clogged and incumbred with a Pension of 500 Crowns the sixth part of his Revenues payable with the arrears by the Popes Command to one Andrutius The payment of which Sixt part went as much against Spalato's stomach as the payment of the Fifts now a dayes doth from the present Possessors to sequestred Minister Dr. Heylin He could not hope to mend his fortunes by his coming hither or to advance himself to a more liberal entertainment in the Church of England than what he had attained to in the Church of Rome Covetousness therefore could not be the motive for leaving his own Estate of which he had been possessed 14. years in our Authors reckoning to betake himself to a strange Country where he could promise himself nothing but protection and the freedome of conscience Our Author might have said with more probability that covetousness and not conscience was the cause of his going hence no bait of profit or preferment being laid before him to invite him hither as they were both by those which had the managing of that designe to allure him hence c. Fuller Dark men are the best Comment upon themselves whose precedent are best expounded by their subsequent actions Who so considereth the rapacity and tenacity of this Prelate in England will easily believe that a two-handed covetousness moved him to leave his native Country and come over hither One to save the other to gain To save that is to evade the payment of the aforesaid Pension with the arrears thereof To gain promising himself as by the future will appear not only protection but preferment not only safety but more plenty by coming hither He had Learning enough to deserve Ambition enough to desire Boldness enough to beg and presumed K. Iames had bounty enough to give him the highest and best prâ—ferment in England and he who publickly did beg York may be presumed privately to have promised the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury to himself Dr. Heylin All mens mouths saith our Author were now filled with discourse of Prince Charles his Match with Donna Maria the Infanta of Spain The Protestants grieved thereat fearing that his Marriage would be the Funerals of their Religion c. The business of the Match with Spain hath already sufficiently been agitated between the Author of the History of the Reign of King Charles and his Observator And yet I must add something to let our Author and his Reader to understand thus much that the Protestants had no cause to fear such a Funeral Fuller Hâ—d I said that the Protestants justly feared this Marriage then the Animadvertor had justly censured whereas now grant they feared where no fear was he findeth fault where no fault is Historians may and must relate those great and general impressions which are made on the spirits of people and are not bound to justifie the causes thereof to be sound and sufficient Ten thousand Persons of quality are still alive who can â—nd will attest that a pannick fear for that Match invaded the Nation Dr. Heylin They knew they lived under such a King who loved his Sovereignty too well to quit any part thereof to the Pope of Rome especially to part with that Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters which he esteemed the fairest flower in the Royal Garland They knew they lived under such a King whose interest it was to preserve Religion in the same state in which he found it and could not fear but that he would sufficiently provide for the safety of it Fuller Mr. Camden writing of the Match of Q. Elizabeth with Mounsier younger Brother to the King of France hath this presage that when Mr. Stubs whose hand was cut off said God save the Queen the multitude standing by held their peace rendring this as one reason thereof Ex odio Nuptiarum quas religione exitiosas futuras praesagierunt Out of hatred to that Match which they presag'd would be destructive to Religion Now may not the Animadvertor as well tax Mr. Camden for inserting this needless Note and tell the world that no Princess was more skild in Queen craft than Q Elizabeth and that this presage of her People was falsly foâ—â—deâ— I detract not from the policy or piety head or heart of K. Iames but this I say let Sovereigns be never so good their Subjects under them will have their own Ioyes Griefs Loves Hatreds Hopes Fears sometimes caused sometimes causless and Historâ—ans have an equal Commission to report both to posterity Dr. Heylin If any Protestants feared the funeral of their Religion they were such Protestants as had been frighted out of their wits as you know who used to call the Puritans or such who under the name of Protestants had contrived themselves into a Faction not only against Episcopacy but even Monarchy also Fuller I profess I know not who used to call Puritans Protestants frighted out of their wits who ever it was it was not Michael the Arch-angel who would not rail on the Devil By Protestants I mean Protestants indeed or if you will rather have it Christians sound in their Iudgement uncontriv'd into any Faction so far from being Anti-episcopal that some of them were Members of the Hierarchy and so far from destroying Monarchy that since they endeavoured the preservation thereof with the destruction of their own Estaâ—es As worthy Doctor Hackwel Arch-Deacon of Surrey was outed his Chaplainâ— place for his opposing the Match when first tendred to Prince Henry so many qualified as aforesaid concurred with his â—udgement in the resumption of the Match with K. Charles notwithstanding they were justly and fully possessed of integrity and ability of K. Iames. Their seriously considering the Zâ—â—l of the Spanish to promote Popery the activity of the Romish Priests to gain Proselites their dexterous sinisterity in seducing Souls the negligence of two many English Ministers in feeding their Flocks the plâ—usibility oâ— Popery to vulgar Iudgements the lushiousness thereof to the palaâ— of flesh and Blood the fickleness of our English Nation to embrace Novelties the wavering of many unsettled minds the substilty of Satan to advance any mischievous designe the justice of God to leave a sinful Nation to the Spirit of delusion feared whether justly or no let the Reader judge that the Spanish Match as represented attended with a Tolleration might prove fatall to the Protestant Religion Dr. Heylin And to these Puritans nothing was more terrible than the Match with Spain fearing and perhaps justly fearing that the Kings alliance with that Crown might arme him both with power and counsel to suppress those Practices which have since prov'd the funeral of the Church of England Fuller
in truth must be confessed viz. That some of the ejected Clergy were guilty of foul offences to whom and whom alone the name of Baal and unsavory Salt did relate Nor was it a wonder if amongst Ten Thousand and more some were guilty of Scandalous enormities This being laid down and yeilded to the violence of the times I wrought my selfe by degrees as much as I durst to insert what followeth in vindication of many others rigorously cast out for following in their affections their preceding Iudgements and Consciences and no scandall could justly be charged upon them pleading for them as ensueth Church-History Book 11. pag. 207. 1. The witnesses against them were seldome deposed on Oath but their bare complaints believed 2. Many of the Complainers were factious People those most accusing their Sermons who least heard them and who since have deserted the Church as hating the profession of the Ministry 3. Many were charged with delivering false Doctrines whose Posiâ—ioâ—s were found at the least disputable Such those accused for Preaching that Baptism washeth away Originall Sin which the most learned and honest in the Assembly in some sense will not deny namely that in the Children of God it cleanseth the condemning and finall peaceable commanding power of Originall Sin though the stain and blemish thereof doth still remain 4. Some were meerly outed for their affections to the King's Cause and what was Malignity at London was Loyalty at Oxford 5. Yea many Moderate men of the opposite party much be moaned such severity that some Clergy men blamelesse for life and Orthodox for Doctrine were ejected onely on the account of their faithfullnesse to the King's cause And as much corruption was let out by this Ejection maâ—y scandalous Ministers deservedly punished so at the same time the Veins of the English Church were emptied of Much good blood some inoffensive Pastors which hath made her Body Hydropicall ever since ill humours succeeding in the room by reason of too large and suddain evacuation This being written by me some ten in the Paroxâ—sm of the Business and printed some four years since was as much as then I durst say for my Brethren without running my selfe into apparent danger If the Papists take advantage at what I have written I can wash my Hands I have given them no just occasion and I hope this my hust defence will prove satisfactory to the ingenuous That I did not designedly â—etract â—â—om any 〈◊〉 Brethren But if this my Plea finds no acceptance and if I must groan under so unjust an accusation I will endeavour to follow the Counsell of the Prophet I will beare the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him until He plead my Cause and execute Iudgment for me He will bring me forth to the Light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Dr. Heylyn But to say truth It is no wonder if he concurre with others in the Condemnation of particular persons since he concurrs with others in the condemnation of the Church it selfe For speaking of the separation made by Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye c. fol. 209. he professeth that he rather doth believe that the sinfull corruptions of the worship and Government of this Church taking hold on their Consciences and their inability to comport any longer therewith was rather the true cause of their deserting of their Country then that it was for Debt or Danger as Mr. Edwards in his Book had suggested of them What grounds Mr. Edwards had for his suggestion I enquire not now though coming from the Pen of one who was no friend unto the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England it might have met with greater credit in our Author For if these men be not allowed for witnesses against one another the Church would be in worse condition then the antient Borderers Amongst whom though the testimony of an English Man against a Scoâ— or of a Scoâ— against the English in matters of spoil and depredation could not find admittance yet a Scot's evidence against a Scâ—t was beyond exception Lege inter Limitaneos cautum ut nullus nisi Anglus in Anglum nullus nisi Scotus in Scoâ—um testis admitâ—atur as we read in Camden We see by this as by other passages which way our Author's Bowl is biassed how constantly he declares himselfe in favour of those who have either separated from the Church or appear'd against it Rather then such good people shall be thought to forsake the Land for Debt or Danger the Church shall be accus'd for laying the heavy burthen of Conformity upon their Consciences which neither they nor their fore-fathers the old English Puritans were resolved to bear For what else were those sinfull Corruptions of this Church in Goâ—erâ—ment and Worship which laid hold of their Consciences as our Author words it but the Government of the Church by Bishops the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church here by law establisht which yet must be allowed of by our Author as the more true and reall cause of their Separation then that which we find in Mr. Edwards Fuller I knew Mr. Edwards very well my contemporary in Queens Colledge who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagernesse of his spirit and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him especially being informed and assured the contrary from credible persons As for the five dissenting Members Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sympson Mr. Bridge Mr. Burroughs to whom Mr. Archer may be reduced they owed not eighteen pence a piece to any in England and carried over with them no contemptible summs in their purses As for Lay-Gentlemen and Merchants that went over with them such as peruse their names will be satisfied in their responsible yea plentifull Estates Sr. MATTHEW BOINTON Sr. WILLIAM CONSTABLE Sr. RICHARD SALTINGSTON Mr. LAWRENCE since Lord President of the Councill Mr. ANDREWES since Lord Major of London Mr. BOWRCHER Mr. ASK since a Judge Mr. JAMES Mr. WHITE And although the last of these failed beyond the Seas a cacching Casually with great undertakings yet was he known to have a very great Estate at his going over Yea I am most credibly inform'd by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein that Mr. Herbert Palmer an Anti-Independent to the heighth being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some false-hoods in one sheet of his Gangrena proffered to have that sheet re-printed at his own cost but some intervening accident obstructed it Dr. Heylyn Nor can our Author save himselfe by his parenthesis in which he tells us that he uses their language onely For using it without check or censure he makes it his own as well as theirs and justifies them in the action which he should have condemn'd Fuller This is an Hypercriticism which I never heard of before and now do not believe In opposition whereunto I return that if a Writer doth slily weave another Author's words into his owne
one of my Name printed before I was born and false never by Man or woman retorted on me However if it doth Quit mine He is now but Even with me and hereafter I shall be ABOVE him by forbearing any bitter Return I had rather my Name should make many causelessely merry then any justly sad and seeing it lyeth equally open and obvious to praise and dispraise I shall as little be elated when flattered Fuller of wit and learning as dejected when flouted Fuller of folly and ignorance All this which the Animadvertor hath said on my Name I behold as nothing and as the Anagram of his Name HEYLYN NE HILI NOTHING-worth Dr. Heylyn But my other story is more serious intended for the satisfaction of our Author and the Reader both It was in November Anno 1639. that I receiv'd a message from the Lord Archbishop to attend him the next day at two of the clock in the afternoon The Key being turn'd which opened the way into his Study I found him sitting in a chair holding a paper in both hands and his eyes so fixt upon that paper that he observ'd me not at my coming in Finding him in that posture I thought it fit and manners to retire again But the noise I made by my retreat bringing him back unto himselfe he recall'd me again and told me after some short pawse that he well remembred that he had sent for me but could not tell for his life what it was about After which he was pleas'd to say not without tears standing in his eyes that he had then newly receiv'd a letter acquainting him with a Revolt of a Person of some Quality in North-Wales to the Church of Rome that he knew that the increase of Popery by such frequent Revolts would be imputed unto him and his Brethren the Bishops who were all least guilty of the same that for his part he had done his utmost so far forth as it might consist with the Rules of Prudence and the Preservation of the Church to suppresse that party and to bring the chief sticklers in it to condign punishment to the truth whereof lifting up his wet eyes to Heaven he took God to witnesse conjuring me as I would answer it to God at the day of Judgement that if ever I came to any of those places which he and his Brethren by reason of their great age were not like to hold long I would imploy all such abilities as God had given me in suppressing that party who by their open undertakings and secret practices were like to be the ruine of this flourishing Church After some words of mine upon that occasion I found some argument to divert him from those sad remembrances and having brought him to some reasonable composednesse I took leave for the present and some two or three dayes after waiting on him again he then told me the reason of his sending for me the time before And this I deliver for a truth on the faith of a Christian which I hope will over-ballance any Evidence which hath been brought to prove such Popish inclinations as he stands generally charg'd with in our Author's History Fuller I verily believe all and every one of these Passages to be true and therefore may proceed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 217. However most apparent it is by many passages in his life that he endeavoured to take up many controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome And this indeed is Novum Crimen that is to say a crime of a new stamp never coyn'd before Fuller I call it not Novum Crimen which I believe was in him according to his Principles Pium Propositum but let me also add was Frustraneus Conatus and that not onely ex Eventu because it did not but ex Natura Rei because it could not take Effect such the reall Unreconcileablenesse betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn I thought that when our Saviour said Beati Pacifici it had been sufficient warrant unto any man to endeavour Peace to build up the breaches in the Church and to make Ierusalem like a City which is at Unity in it selfe especially where it may be done not onely salva charitate without breach of charity but salâ—â— fide too without wrong to the faith The greatest part of the Controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome not being in the Fundamentalls or in any Essentiall Points in the Christian Religion I cannot otherwise look upon it but as a most Christian pious work to endeavour an atonement in the Superstructures But hereof our Author seems to doubt first whether such endeavours to agree and compose the differences be lawfull or not and secondly whether they be possible Fuller I confesse Scripture pronounceth the Peace-makers blessed In answer whereunto I will take no notice of Iehu his Tart return to K. Ioram What peace so long as the whoredomes of thy Mother Iezabel and her witchcrafts are so many Rather will I make use of the Calme Counsell of the Apostle If it be POSSIBLE as much as in you lieth live Peaceably with all Men. Which words if it be possible intimate an impossibility of Peace with some Natures in some differences though good men have done what lyeth understand it Lawfully in their power to performe such sometimes the frowardnesse of one though the forwardnesse of the other side to Agreement which is the true state of the Controversie betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn As for the lawfulnesse thereof I could never see any reason produc'd against it nor so much as any question made of it till I found it here Fuller All such zealous Authors who charge the Papists with Idolatry and the Animadvertor knowes well Who they are do question the Lawfulnesse of such an Agreement Dr. Heylyn Against the possibility thereof it hath been objected that such and so great is the pride of the Church of Rome that they will condescend to nothing And therefore if any such composition or agreement be made it must not be by their meeting us but our going to them Fuller I remember some then present have told me of a passage at a disputation in Oxford When Dr. Prideaux pressed home an Argument to which the Answerer returned Reverende Professor memini me legisse hoc ipsissimum Argumentum apud Bellarminum At mi fili returned that Dr. ubi legisti Responsum This Objection the Animadvertor acknowledgeth he hath formerly met with but where did he meet with a satisfactory Answer thereunto Let me add It is not onely the Pride of the Church of Rome which will not let-goe her Power but also her Covetousnesse which will not part with her Profit which obstructeth all accommodation betwixt us And if the Church of Rome would the Court of Rome will not quit the Premises and the latter hath an irresistible influence on the former In this point the Court of Rome is like the Country-man who willingly put his Cause to Arbitration
writ by one Sighing or singing readd by one Smiling or Frowning The Reader needs no Interpreter to expound the word Parliament as taken generally at this time Successe having beaten the sâ—â—se thereof into Mens Heads for the two Houses Loqui cum â—ulgo in this case I hope is no fault These two Houses at this time maintained their ENTHYMEM to be a compleat SYLLOGISM concluding all Persons under them presuming that the King though not Personally was Vertually with them A position which I have no calling to examine As for the Clause in the Article which hooked the University under Parliamentary Visitation heare how the Animadvertor reports it Dr. Heylyn I find indeed that it was agreed on by the Commissioners on both sides touching the Surrendry of that City That the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxon and the Governors and Students of Christ-Church of King H. 8. his Foundation and all other Heads and Governors Masters Fellows and Scholars of the Colledges Halls and Bodies Corporate and Societies of the same University and the publick Professors and Readers and the Orator thereof and all other persons belonging to the said University or to any Colledges or Halls therein shall and may according to their Statutes Charters and Customs enjoy their antient form of government subordinate to the immediate Authority and power of Parliament But I find not that any of the Heads or Delegates of that University were present at the making of this Article or consented to it or thought themselves oblig'd by any thing contained in it Fuller This last Clause was eagerly urged by the Committee against the Delegates of the University and I could wish they could as easily have untied the Knot as Answered the hardest Objection of Bellarmine in the Divinity-Schools The King when privately departing Oxford left if not a Commission at least Leave with the Lords to make as good â—earmes for themselves and all with them in the Citty besieged as the Enemy would give and they could get in that streightned condition The Vniversity therefore was urged by the Committee to have given an Implicite consent to these Articles and enjoying the Benefit they must share in the Burthen thereof To this the Delegates made many faire and Civill Answers strengthned with Law and Reason but alasse great are the Odds though Learning be the Answerer where Power is the Opponent Dr. Heylyn Nor indeed could it stand with reason that they should wave the patronage of a gracious Soveraign who had been a Nursing Father to them and put themselves under the arbitrary power of those who they knew minded nothing but destruction toward them And that the University did not think it selfe oblig'd by any thing contained in that Article appears even by our Author himselfe who tells us in this very passage that the Delegates from the University pleaded their priviledges before the Committee of Parliament that they were onely visitable by the King and such as should be deputed by him which certainly they had never done unlesse our Author will conclude them to be fools or madmen had they before submitted to that Paramount power which he adscribes unto the Houses Nor did the Houses of Parliament find themselves impowered by this clause of the Article to obtrude any such Visitation on them And therefore when the Delegates had pleaded and prov'd their priviledges a Commission for a Visitation was issued by the two Houses of Parliament in the name of the King but under the new broad Seal which themselves had made which notwithstanding the University stood still on their own defence in regard that though the Kings name was us'd in that Commission yet they knew well that he had never given his consent unto it Whereupon followed that great alteration both in the Heads and Members of most Colledges which our Author speaks of Fuller The Animadvertor endeavours to runne me on one of these dangerous Rocks either to condemne the University for Fools and Mad men whom I Love and Honour for Wise and Sober Persons or else to make me incurre the Displeasure of the Parliament And the Philosopher's Answer to the Emperour is well known That it is ill Disputing with them that can command LEGIONS The best is I am not bound to answer to this dangerous Dilemma keeping my selfe close to my Calling viz. Reporting vvhat vvas done but whether Iustly or unjustly let others decide The Animadvertor's Boldnesse herein is for me to admire not Imitate When an Old Man vvas demanded the Cause of his Confidence hovv he durst so freely tell a King of his faults he rendred a double Reason of his Boldnesse Orbitâ—s et Senectus One that he had no Children and therefore Careless to preserve Posterity the other that he vvas extreamely Old therefore lesse curious to keep that Life that vvas leaving him How it fareth vvith the Animadvertor in these two Particulars I know not sure I am for my self that I am not so old to be Weary of the World as I hope it is not of me and God having given me Children I vvill not destroy them and hazard my selfe by running into needlesse Dangers And let this suffice for an Answer Dr. Heylyn Nor deals he much more candidly in relating the proceedings of the Visitation vvhich vvas made in Cambridge the Visitors vvhereof as acting by the Paramount power of Parliament he more sensibly favoureth than the poor sufferers or malignant Members as he calls them of that University Fuller The Animadvertor sees more in me then I can see in my selfe and because vve are both Parties engaged the lesse to be credited in our owne Cause be it reported to the Reader if pleased to peruse the Conclusion of my History of Cambridge whether I cast not my Graines of Favour into the Scales of the poor Sufferers These I call not MALIGNANT MEMBERS but with this Qualification so tearmed And let not me be condemned for the Ill Language of others I say again As as an Historian I have favoured no side but told the Truth so I could not so far unman my selfe but that for Humanity sake to say no more I did pitty the Sufferers on which Account I incurred the displeasure of the Opposite Party the best is causelesse Anger being an Edglesse Sword I feare it the lesse Dr. Heylyn For whereas the Authour of the Book called Querela Cantabrigiensis hath told us of an Oath of Discovery obtruded by the Visitors upon severall persons whereby they were sworn to detect one another even their dearest friends Our Author vvho vvas out of the storm seeming not satisfied in the truth of this relation must vvrite to Mr. Ash who vvas one of those Visitors to be inform'd in that which he knew before Fuller No Person more proper or probable to inform me herein than Mr. Ash one of the Visitors who I believed did both know the Truth and would not tell a falsehood herein I was so far from desiring Information in
Ibid. Much he expended on the Repair of Westminster Abbey-Church c. The Library at Westminster was the effect of his bounty This though it be true in part yet we cannot say of it that it is either the whole truth or nothing but the truth For the plain truth is that neither the charge of repairing that Church nor furnishing that Library came out of his own private Coffers but the Churches rents For at such time as he was made Lord Keeper of the great Seal he caused it to be signified unto the Prebendaries of that Church how inconvenient it would be both to him and them to keep up the Commons of the Colledge and gaind so farre upon them that they pass'd over to him all the rents of that Church upon condition that he should pay the annual pensions of the Prebendaries School-Masters Quire-men and inferiour Officers and maintain the Commons of the Scholars The rest amounting to a great yearly value was left wholly to him upon his honourable word and promise to expend the â—ame for the good and honour of that Church The surplusage of which expenses receiv'd by him for four years and upwards amounted unto more than had been laid out by him on the Church and Library as was offered to be proved before the Lords Commissioners at the visitation Anno. 1635. And as for the Library at St. Iohns it might possibly cost him more wit than money many books being daily sent in to him upon the intimation of his purpose of founding the two Libraries by such as had either suits in Court or businesse in Chancery or any wayes depended on him or expected any favours from him either as Bishop of Lincoln or Dean of Westminster Fuller As the worme on a sudden smot the gourd of Ionah and it withered so it is possible that the most verdâ—nt and flourishing Charity may be fretted and blasted by ill reports There is a Chapiter-Act subscribed with the hands of the Prebendaries of Westminster the Date whereof I do not at present remember and the Copy of it is in the hands of my Worthy friend wherein they thankfully acknowledge the great bounty of this Bishop in expending so much on the repaire of their Church If the Library of St. Iohns cost him more Wit then Money as the Animadvertor phraseth it sure I am that in the same sense The founding of Fellowships and Scholler-ships in that Colledge cost him more Money then Wit Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He hated Popery with a perfect hatred But Wilson in his History of great Brittain sings another song whether in Tune or out of Tune they can best tell who liv'd most neere those times and had opportunities to observe him Fuller I wonder That the Animadvertor who in the Preface to this his Book had branded Wilsons History with the name of a most Infamous Pasquill maketh mention of any passage therein to a Bishop's disgrace Dr. Heylyn There is a muttering of some strange offer which he made to King Iames at such time as the Prince was in Spain and the Court seemed in common apprehension to warp towards Popery vvhich declared no such perfect hatred as our Author speaks of unto that Religion Fuller The Prophet telleth us of Tongues which have MUTTERED perversnesse and such to me seem they that are Authors of this report Dr. Heylyn Not was he coy of telling such whom he admitted unto privacies vvith him that in the time of his greatnesse at Court he vvas accounted for the Head of the Catholick Party not sparing to declare what free and frequent accesses he gave the principall Sticklers in that cause both Priests and Iesuites and the speciall services vvhich he did them And it must be somewhat more than strange if all this be true that he should hate Popery vvith a perfect hatred yet not more strange then that he should so stickle in the preferment of Dr. Theodore Price to the Arch-Bishoprick of Armagh in Ireland who died a profest Catholick reconciled to the Church of Rome as our Author hath it Fol. 226. But if there be no more truth in the Bishop of Lincolns hating Popery then in Dr. 〈◊〉 dying a professed Papist there is no credit to be given at all to that part of the Character Dr. Price though once a great Favourite of this Bishop and by him continued Sub-Dean of Westminster many years together vvas at the last suppos'd to be better affected to Bishop Laud than to Bishop Williams Bishop Laud having lately appeared a Suiâ—or for him for the Bishoprick of St. Asaph And therefore that two Birds might be kild with the same bolâ— no sooner vvas Dr. Price deceased but the Bishop of Lincoln being then at Westminster calls the Prebends together tells them that he had been with Mr. Sub-Deane before his death that he left him in very doubtfull tearmes about Religion and consequently could not tell in what form to bury him that if the Dr. had died a profest Papist he would have buried him himselfe but being as it was he could not see how any of the Prebendaries could either with safety or with credit performe that office But the Artifice and design being soon discovered took so little effect that Dr. Newel one of the Senior Prebendaries performed the Obsequies the rest of the whole Chapiter attending the body to the grave with all due solemnity Fuller I deny not but as a States-man he might do some civill offices to the Romish party in that Juncture of time in compliance to King Iames his commands But this amounteth not to prove him a Lover of Popery As for Dr. Price I will not rake into his ashes If he dyed a protestant 't was the better for him but the contrary is generally reported printed believed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He was so great an honourer of the English Liturgy that of his owne cost he caused the same to be translated into Spanish and fairly printed to confute their false conceipt of our Church c. If this be true it makes not onely to his honour but also to the honour of the English Liturgy translated into more Languages then any Liturgy in the world whatsoever it be translated into Latine by Alexander Alesius a learned Scot in King Edwards time as afterward by Dr. Walter Haddon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and his translation mended by Dr. Mocket in the time of King Iames translated into French by the command of that King for the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey into Spanish at the charge of this Bishop as our Author telleth us and finally into Greek by one Mr. Petly by whom it was dedicated and presented to the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the greatest Patron and Advancer of the English Liturgy But secondly I have some reason to doubt that the Liturgy was not translated at the charges of Bishop Williams That it was done by his pocurement I shall easily grant but whosoever made the
by Pope Adrian the fourth b. 3. p. 29. ¶ 49. ALL-SOULS Colledge in Oxford founded by Hen. Chichely Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 4. p. 182. ARROW a small city in Switzerland where a Congregation of English Exiles in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 26. ¶ 41. ALCUINUS or Albinus an eminent Scholar and opposer of Image-worship Cent. 8. ¶ 40. ALFRED the Saxon Monarch his admirable act Cent. 9. ¶ 25. c. foundeth an University at Oxford ¶ 29. c. a solemn Councill kept by him ¶ 42. with the Canons made therein ibidem his death ¶ 44. ALIEN Priors b. 6. p. 33. ¶ 1.2 of two natures ¶ 3. shaken by other Kings ¶ 4. but dissolved by King Henry 5. ¶ 5. William ALLEN Cardinal his death and character b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 12. William AMESE his bitter Sermon against Cards and Dice Hist. of Cam. p. 159. ¶ 41.42 leaveth Christs Colledge for his non-Conformity ¶ 43. AMPHIBALUS so named first by I. Munmoth Cent. 4. ¶ 6. Martyred at Redbourn in Hartfortshire ¶ 7. The fancies about his stake confuted ibidem ANABAPTISTS their beginning in England b. 5. p. 249. ¶ 11. discovered in London b. 9. p. 104. ¶ 12. eleven condemned and two burnt ¶ 13. Lancelot ANDREWS his death and character b. 11. ¶ 46 47 48 49. ANNA King of the East-Saxons happy in his children Cent. 7. ¶ 82. Q. ANNE Wife to King Iames her signal letter to the Town of Rippon b. 10. ¶ 15. ANSELME Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 3. p. 11. ¶ 30. refuseth to lend King Rufus a 1000. pounds ¶ 32. Variance betwixt him and King Rufus p. 12. ¶ 36. c. holdeth a Synod at Westminster p. 16. ¶ 3. the constitutions thereof p. 16 17 18 19. sent to Rome p. 20. ¶ 5. forbids Priests marriage ¶ 7. but dyeth re infecta p. 23. ¶ 18. Io. ARGENTINE challengeth all Cambridge to dispute with him Hist. of Cam. p. 64. ¶ 28. c. ARIMINUM British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. And why they refused to receive a Salary from the Emperour ibidem ARLES British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. ARISTOBULUS fabulously made by Grecian writerâ— a Bishop of Britain Cent. 1. ¶ 8. ARMES la noble Families still extant relating to the Atchievements of their Ancestours in the holy Land b. 3. p. 40 41 42 43. ARRIANISME infected England as appeares by Gildas his complaint Cent. 4. ¶ 21. King ARTHUR a real worthy of Britain though his actions be much discredited with Monkish fictions Cent. 6. ¶ 2. The SIX ARTICLES contrived by Bishop Gardiner b. 5. p. 203 ¶ 17. to the great trouble of poore Protestants ¶ 18. The 39. ARTICLES composed b. 9. p. 72. ¶ 51. why drawn up in generall terms ¶ 52. by those who had been Confessours 53. confirmed by Statute 55. imposed onely on the Clergy ¶ 56. The 20th ARTICLE concerning the Authority of the Church questioned b. 9. p. 73. inserted in some omitted in other Editions p. 74. ¶ 85. defended by Bishop Laud against Mr. Burton ¶ 59. ARTICLES of Lambeth see Lambeth Thomas ARUNDEL when Arch-bishop of York a cruel persecutour b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 42. when Arch-bishop of Cant. active in deposing King Rich. the second p. 153. ¶ 54. visiteth the Vniversity of Cambridge and all the Colledges therein Hist. of Cam. p. 59 60 c. Affronted at Oxford b. 4. p. 164. ¶ 125. but by the Kings help too hard for the Students p. 165. ¶ his wofull death p. 166. ¶ 30. St. ASAPH his pious Expression Cent. 6. ¶ 13. Iohn ASCHWELL challengeth all Camb. Hist. of Camb. p. 104. ¶ 44. his bad successe ¶ 45. c. Anne ASCOUGH b. 5. p. 242. ¶ 44. Plea for leaving her Husband ¶ 45. first wracked then burnt 46. her prose and poetry 47. Mr. ASHLEY his difference at Frankford with Mr. Home book 8. p. 32 33. ¶ 11. The sad consequences occasioned thereby ¶ 12.13 ASSEMBLEY of Divines their first meeting b. 11. ¶ 1. consisteth of four English quarters p. 198. ¶ 2. besides the Scotish Commissioners p. 199. ¶ 3. the reasons of the Royalists why they would not joyne with them b. 11. p. 199. ¶ 5. first petition for a fast p. 200. ¶ 8. troubled with Mr. Selden b. 11. p. 213. ¶ 54. and with the Erasâ—ians ¶ 55. c. shrewdly checkt for exceeding their bounds p. 214. ¶ 58. their Monuments p. 215. ¶ 66. rather sinketh then endeth ¶ 67. King ATHELSTAN his principle Laws enacted at Greatlea Cent. ¶ 9.10 ATHELWOLPHUS Monarch of the Saxons maketh equivalently a Parliament act for the paying of Tithes Cent. 9. ¶ 8. Objections against the validity thereof answered ¶ 9 10. et sequentibus Granteth Peter-Pence to the Pope ¶ 15. St. AUDRE her chastity Cent. 7. ¶ 108. twice a Wife still a Maid ¶ 109. c. her miraculous monument confuted ¶ 111. c. St. AUGUSTINE the worthy Father Bishop of Hippo said to be born on the same day with Pelagius the Heretick Cent. 5. ¶ 2. AURELIUS AMBROSIUS erecteth a monument in Memory of his Conquest over the Britans Cent. 5. ¶ 25. Causelesly slandered by an Italian writer ¶ 28. AUGUSTINE the MONK sent by P. Gregory to Convert England b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 2. by him shrinking for fear is encouraged ¶ 3. mocked by women in his passage ¶ 4. landeth in England ¶ 5. why chusing rather to be Arch-bishop of Cant. then London C. 7. ¶ 1. summons a Synod under his AKE ¶ 2. his proud carriage therein towards the British Clergy ¶ 3. c. his prophesy ¶ 8. arraigned as guilty of murderâ—ng the Monks of Bangor ¶ 10. c. acquitted by the moderation of Mr. Fox ¶ 14. baptiseth ten thousand in one day ¶ 19. his ridiculous miracle ¶ 22. death and Epitaph ¶ 24. without the date of the year ¶ 25. a farewell to him with his character ¶ 26. AUGUSTINEAN Monks b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 67. Colcheâ—er their chief seat ibidem AUGMENTATION court the erection use cause name abolishing thereof b. 6. p. 348 349. AUGUSTINEAN Friers b. 6. p. 273. ¶ 1. The same in Oxford turned into Wadham Coll. b. 10. p. 68. ¶ 30. learned writers of their Order bred in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 30. B. Gervase BABINGTON Bishop of Worcester his death and praise b. 10. p. 56. ¶ 32 33. Roger BACON a great School-man and Mathematician falsly accused for a Conjurer C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 17. many of that name confounded into one ¶ 18. John BACONTHORP a little man and great Scholar p. 97. ¶ 20. BAILIOL COLL. founded by J. Bailiol b. 3. p. 67. and 68. Philip BAKER Provost of Kings an honest Papist Hist. of Cam. p. 142. ¶ 4. John BALE Bishop of Ossory his death character and excusable passim b. 9. p. 67. ¶ 37 38 39. Bishop BANCROFT causlesly condemned for keeping Popish Priests in his house b. 10. ¶ p. 1. his behaviour
p. 173 ¶ 35 c. Sr. Tho. SMITH Benefactour generall to all Scholars Hist. of Camb. p. 81. ¶ 37 38. and also p. 144. ¶ 6 7 8. Henry SMITH commonly called the Silver-tongu'd b. 9. p. 142. ¶ 3 4. Rich. SMITH titularie Bishop of Chalcedon b. 11. ¶ 72. some write for others against him Episcopizeth in England b. 11. p. 137. ¶ 7. opposed by Nicholas Smith and defended by Dr. Kelison both zealous Papists ¶ 8 9 c. SOBRIQUETS what they were b. 3. p. 30. ¶ 52 fifteen principall of them ibid. SODOMITRY the beginning thereof in England b. 3. p. 19. ¶ 29. with too gentle a Canon against it ibid. SOUTH SAXONS their Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. converted to Christianity by Wilfride C. 7. ¶ 98 c. taught by him first to fish ¶ 101. SPALATO his coming over into England with the whole story of his stay here departure hence and burning at Rome for a Heretick after his death b. 10. p. 93. unto the 100. King STEPHEN usurpeth the Crown b. 3. p. 24. ¶ 28. by the perjury of the Clergy p. 25. ¶ 29. variety of opinions and arguments pro and con about him ¶ 30 31 c. the Clergy revolt from him p. 27. ¶ 39. appeareth as some say in person summoned to a Synod in Winchester p. 28. ¶ 43. a founder of Religious houses p. 29. ¶ 46. his death p. 30. ¶ 51. STEWES suppressed by statute b. 5. p. 239. ¶ 38. their Original ¶ 39. and Constitution p. 140. ¶ 40. arguments pro and con for their lawfulness ¶ 41 42. STIGANDUS Arch-bishop of Cant. his Simony b. 3. ¶ 2. and covetousness ¶ 4. Simon STOCK living in a trunk of a tree esteemed a Saint b. 6. p. 272. ¶ 21. STONEHENGE the description and conceived occasion thereof C. 5. ¶ 26. Tho. STONE a conscientious Non-conformist discovereth the Anatomy of the disciplinarian meetings p. 207 c. his sixteen Reasons in his own defence against his accusers herein p. 209 c. J. STORY a most bloody persecutor b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 12. with a fine design trained into England b. 9. p. 84. ¶ 20. executed his revenge on the executioner ibid. STRASBURGH the congregation of English Exiles therein in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. Jack STRAW his rebellion b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 18. his rabble of Rebells in Rhythme p. 139. ¶ 19. their barbarous outrages p. 140. ¶ 20. and ruin ¶ 21. See Wat Tyler STURBRIDGE FAIRE the Originall thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 66. ¶ 36. SUBSCRIPTION first pressed by the Bishops b. 9. p. 76. ¶ 66. and more rigorously p. 102. ¶ 3. Simon SUDBURY Arch-bishop of Canterbury why silent in the conference at St. Paul's b. 4. p. 136. ¶ 10. slain by the rebells under Jack Straw ¶ 20. being one hundred thousand ¶ 21. founded whilst living Canterbury Colledge in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 28. Matthew SUTCLIFFE Dean of Exeter his bounty to Chealsey Colledge b. 10. p. 51. ¶ 22. the Lands of that Colledge restored to his heirs generall p. 55. ¶ 27. Richard SUTTON his death b. 10. p. 75. ¶ 15. the severall mannours bestowed by him on Charter-house ¶ 16. the Cavils of Mr. Knot ¶ 17. his constant prayer p. 66. ¶ 20. SWEATING sicknesse in Cambridge the cause and cure thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 128. Edward SYMPSON an excellent Critick Hist. of Camb. p. 123. ¶ 20. enioyned a recantation before King James p. 160. ¶ 44. SYON nunnes their notorious wantonnesse b. 6. p. 318. ¶ 8. T. Adam TARLETON Bishop of Hereford his life and death letter b. 3. p. 107. ¶ 28. thrice arraigned for his life yet escapeth p. 108. Mr. TAVERNOUR high Sherâ—ff of Oxford part of his Sermon preached at St. Maries b. 9. p. 65. ¶ 35. TAVISTOCK in Devon the last mitred Abbot made by King Henry the eighth few years before the dissolution b. 6. p. 293. ¶ 5. TAURINUS how by mistake made the first Bishop of York C. 2. ¶ 1. TAXERS in Cambridge their original Hist. of Camb. p. 10. ¶ 36 37 c. St. TELIAU his high commendation C. 6. ¶ 12. TEMPLES of heathen Idols converted into Christian Churches C. 2. ¶ 11. our Churches succeed not to the holinesse of Solomons Temple but of the Jewish Synagogues b. 11. p. 150. ¶ 51. TENTHS their Original why paid to the Pope b. 5. p. 226. ¶ 1. commissioners being unquestioned Gentlemen imployed by King Henry the eighth to rate them ¶ 2. their Instructions ¶ 3. Tenths remitted by Q. Mary p. 228. ¶ 6. resumed by Q. Elizabeth ¶ 7. in vain heaved at at the present in our state ¶ 8. A TERRIER made of all Glebe Lands b. 3. p. 113. New TESTAMENT severall Bishops assigned to peruse the translation of the several Books thereof b. 5. p. 233. Gardiner gives in a List of Latine words which he would not have translated p. 238. why p. 239. ¶ 35. TEUXBURY Abbot in Glocestershire controverted whether or no a Baron in Parliament b. 6. p. 294. ¶ 12. THEODORUS Arch-bishop of Cant. C. 7. ¶ 95. settleth Easter according to the Romish Rite ¶ 96. the Canons of a Councill kept by him at Hartford ibidem Tho. THIRLEBY Bâ—shop of Ely sent to Rome to reconcile England to the Pope b. 8. ¶ 42. no great persecuter in his Diocess in the dayes of Q. Mary S. 2. ¶ 14. found favour under Q. Elizabeth b. 9. ¶ 18. being a Prisoner to be envied ibidem though reputed a good man wasted the lands of Westminster Church whereof he the first and last Bishop b. 9. ¶ 43. Thomas TISDALE founder of Pembrook Colledge in Oxford b. 11. ¶ 41. TYTHES first given to the Clergie C. 9. ¶ 8 c. by King Athelwolphus The objections against his grant answered c. ibidem confirmed by the Charter of King William the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 12. three orders exempted from payment of them b. 6. p. 283. ¶ 3. THOR a Saxon Idol his name shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. John THRASK censured for his Iudaicall opinions b. 10. p. 76. ¶ 64. George THROGMORTON an Oxford man challengeth all Cambridge to dâ—spute on two questions Hist. of Cambridge p. 104. ¶ 44. the ill successe thereof ¶ 45 c. TOLERATION of Papists set a-foot in the Reign of King James with the arguments pro and con â— 10. p. 106 and 107. resumed and reiected in the Reign of K. Charles b. 11. ¶ 56 57 58. Rob. TOUNSON Bishop of Salisbury his death b. 10. p. 91. ¶ 35. TRANSLATOURS of the Bible their names and number b. 10. p. 45 46. instructions given by King James p. 47. their work finished p. 58. and defended against causelesse Cavils ibidem TRINITY COLL. in Oxford founded by Sir Tho. Pope b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 43. being the first that gaâ—ned by Abbey lands and made a publick acknowledgement in charitable uses ibidem The Presidents Bâ—shops Benefactours c. of that