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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

Gospel-Book and kiss it saying So help me God and this Holy Doom And I said to them Sirs ye speak here full generally and largely What if a Prelate commandeth his Subject to do an unlawful thing should he obey thereto The Arch-Bishop said That a Subject ought not to suppose that a Prelate will bid him do an unlawful thing Thorpe said But to our Purpose And I related that a Master of Divinity had said That it was not lawful either to give or take any charge upon a Book for every Book is nothing else but divers Creatures of which it is made Therefore to swear upon a Book is to swear by Creatures and this swearing is ever unlawful This sentence witnesseth Chrysostome plainly blaming them greatly that bring forth a Book to swear upon charging Clerks that in no wise they constrain any body to swear whether they think a man swear true or false And the Arch-Bishop and his Clerks scorned me and blamed me greatly for this saying and threatned me with great punishment except I left this opinion of not swearing And then I said this is not my opinion only but it is the opinion of Christ and St. James and of Chrysostome and of other Saints And the Clerk said to me Wilt thou submit thee here meekly to the Ordinance of holy Church and lay thy hand upon the Book touching the Holy Gospel of God And I said have I not told you here how that I heard a Master of Divinity fay that in such a Case it is all one to touch a Book and to swear by a Book And the Arch-Bishop said There is no Master of Divinity in England so great but if he hold this opinion before me I shall punish him as I shall do thee except thou swear And I said Was not Chrysostome an E●●e●tive Doctor The A●ca-bishop ●a●d Yea. And I said If Chrysostome proveth him ●orthy of great blame that bringeth forth a Book to swear upon it must needs sollow that he is more too blame that sweareth upon that Book The Clesk said Lay thine hand upon the Book touching the Holy Gospel of God Here the ignorance of the Papists may be cen who be ieved the Le●ter was the Gospel And these ●lind Protestants and Frofessors in our age still hold the ame I said I understand that the Holy Gospel of God may not be touched with mans hand The Clerk said I said not truth c. I said By Authority of Saint Hierome the reading of the Letter is not the Gospel but the belief that men have in the Word of God that is the Gospel that we believe and that is the virtue of Gods Word and David saith Through the Word of God the Heavens were formed In the year 4●7 King Hunder●ck in the time of the ten Persecutions put an Oath to the Christians and they refused it but some amongst them being simple men was willing to take it and the King said unto them which would have taken the Oath Because that you contrary to the Rule of the Gospel which saith Snear not at all would have sworn the Kings will is that you shall never see your Churches more but shall be banished into the Wilderness and never perform any Ministerial Office more and there you shall till the ground and the King sa●d to them that refused the Oath You shall be immediately sent away to the Isle of Cross to hew timber for Ships E seb p. 80. The Christians that were put to cruel tortures by the Papists in the Valley of Piedmont about the year 1655 of which a particular Relation is herein following one of the Articles against these Christians was that they could not swear at all Pontius of the age of fifteen years was cruelly tormented and martyred by the Heathen in the primitive times because he could not swear And many now in these dayes suffer much for the like cause The false Christians would have people swear like the He●then CHAP. XVII Concerning the Title of Doctors and concerning their Habits A Bout three hundred years ago then the Name and Title of Doctor began to be conferred solemnly It was an Article of John Wickliffs condemned at Constance that Graduations and Doctorships in Universities and Colledges as they were in use then did conduce nothing to the Church The Genevians in their Annotations upon Rev. 9. ver 3. where the Locusts came out of the smoak say they were and are false Teachers Hereticks and worldly-subtile Prelates with Monks Fryars Cardinals Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Doctors Batchellors and Masters Didoclavius in his Book called Altare Damascenum p. 891 saith that Hoods Tippets and square Caps were introduced by Antichrist to promote his splendor Philpot chose rather to be secluded the Convocation of the Clergy then to wear a Hood and Tippet Stat. Arad Oxon. Tit. 14. Parag. 1. The words of the Statutes are in English thus It is ordered that all Heads of Colledges all Fellows and Scholars wear black or sad-coloured Clothes and all that are initiated into holy Orders as it becomes those of the Clergy to do There were of old a certain sort of people among the Jews called Chemarims or Black-coats as it may be read in Hosea the 5th But our Translators have rendred them Priests instead of Chemarims which Priests were smutted by the Heathens black Sacrifices CHAP. XVIII Concerning the Heathen Idolaters naming their Dayes and Months THE old Pagan Saxons in their Idolatry were the first that brought in the Names of the Dayes which those called Christians have retained to this day for they adored Idols and unto them offered Sacrisices and worshipped the Planets See Vestigans Antiquities and Cambdens Brit. As touching the Idols which these Saxons adored they were divers and though they had many yet seven among the rest they especially appropriated unto the seven dayes of the week That day which is the first day of the week they worshipped the Idol of the Sun which was placed in a Temple and there acrificed unto and to the special adoration of which Idol they gave the Name of Sunday The second day of the week they dedicated to the Idol of the Moon and from whence these called Christians retain the Name of Monday instead of Moonday The next was the the Idol of the Planets was the Idol of Tuisco who was the first and chiefest man of Name among the Germans unto whom the Name of Tuesday was especially Dedicated The next was the Idol Woden whom the Saxons honoured for their God of Battel And after this Idol these called Christians do yet call the fourth day of the week Wednesday instead of Woddensday The next was the Idol Thor from whence the Name Thursday is retained instead of the fifth day of the week The next Idol was the Goddess Friga to which Idol they dedicated the sixth day of the Week and called it Friday which is retained to this day The last day was the Idol Seater from whence is called the seventh day Saturday

they took and 〈◊〉 into four quarters and afterwards finding the Mother they 〈…〉 and cut off her head leaving her in the Snow And in page 350 A young woman about eighteen years old was taken as she was flying upon the Snow and they thrust a Pike through her alive and roasted her and brought a piece to make a meal of but she not being roasted enough stopt their stomacks And thus the Papists are Beasts And the Papists took a Protestant and tyed his hands to his privy-members hanging him upon a Gate by his hands to make him renounce his Religion And also they tyed two more in the same manner only they after they had tyed their hands to their privy-parts they tyed their hands behind them until their very bowels were torn out and so they dyed Besides other cruel barbarous usage to prisoners And in page 352 a man about fourscore years old they cut off his Nose his Ears and other parts of his body and left him in the Snow who dyed there And page 353 the cruel Papists put Gunpowder into many men and womens mouths and cramb'd it down their throats and set it on sire and tore their heads to pieces Fol. 354 They stript one naked and tore off his Nose with Pinchers and made holes in his hands and dragged him with a Cord by the middle and they cut off his flesh as they dragged him and struck him saying Wilt not thou go to Mass and then they cut off his head and threw him into a River And page 355 these bloody Papists pluckt out another mans eyes and cut off his privy-members putting them into his mouth and then they cut off his skin and hung it up in four Windows of their principal houses And page 356 they took a man and cut off his head and fryed his brains and eat them up and took out his heart frying it and took it and eat it also And page 357 several aged people they burnt alive Page 358 they dragged a woman and her daughter with Horses through the streets stabbing them with Pitch-forks and threw them into a River throwing Batts at them And page 359 Others as they were passing from the bloody perrecating Papists they shot one in the neck and after they slit his Chin and Nose throwing of him to the Dogs And page 360 and 361 Eleven men they forced to throw one another into the Flery Furnace and forced them to carry one another on their backs and the Papists themselves carried the last man And these bloody Papists hunted the Protestants up and down the Rocks upon their bare feet when were cut with Ice and Flinty-Rocks until they bled grievously And y●t these bloody Papists like one that Solomon speak 〈…〉 their mouths and say they have done no hurt but they that desire to rea● more of their Cruelty and Wickedness let them look in the said Book And as for the Papists Powder-Plot in King James 's time and their Massacring of many thousands in Ireland it is not out of memory yet At Guttenburg in Bohemia where were deep Metal-Mynes the Papists threw into one of them 1700 persons and into another 1038 in the year 1420. The Papists killed of the Waldenses about a thousand men women and children in one place and robbed and spoised the poor Christians and when that the Christians would not receive their Hoast they gagged them and thrust it down their mouths The King of Nordan Humbers slew twelve hundred Christians because they prayed to Christ for assistance CHAP. XXVIII A List of some of the Accusutions for which the aforesaid People suffered in the Valleys of Piedmont by the Papists FOr that they believed the Church of God was without spot or wrinkle Also they believed that it was not lawful for the Prelates of the Roman Church to have temporal Jurisdiction in the world and that none hath a greater degree of Power and Authority in the Church then he hath of Holiness Also that they believed that the Sacraments administred by the Priests of the Romish Church are of no Efficacy Also they believed that tythes ought not to be paid to the said Priests Also they believed that the Romish Church is a House of Confusion and the Synagogue of Satan Also they believed that it was not lawful to swear any thing be it true or false Also they believed that it was as prositable to pray to God in a Stable as in a place called a Church Also they believed that rain-water ●ad as greant virtue as holy water in the Church Also for that they believed that no man ought to observe the festival-Festival-days of Saints but that it was lawful to do work upon them Also for that they believed that it was lawful to eat flesh every where and at all times and that Lent was not to be kept See page 217 and 218. And for these causes and some other Decrees which are contrary to Scriptures did the Papists murther them in the year 1655. Here followeth a List of some of the Article for which the Martyrs suffered in Queen Maryes Reign in the year 1556 and by other Papists 1. First For confessing that an evil man doth rot receive Christs body 2. That it is Idolatry to creep to the Cross John for bids it and saith Beware of Images For confessing that they should not pray to Mary and other Saints For these things and denying the Papist Principles were five men and women burnt in the year 1558. The Article against Marga●et Marringe Martyr was That she had refused to come to Church that she had not come to the Parish-Church for the space of one year neither did she mean to come any more unto the same in those Idolatrous dayes Articles exhibited against R Lusse Martyr 1. For refusing to call the Lords Supper by the Name of the Sacrament of the Altar 2. For denying Purgatory Prayers and Alms and saying they did not profit the dead bodies 3. For holding that Images are no● to be suffered in the Church and that all that kneel to Images are Idolaters 4. That they which are burn'd of late for denying these things are Gods Servants and Martyrs 5. For denying the Church of Bome to be Universal Articles against other Martyrs Henry Crimses for marrying his Wife on Palm-Sunday in Lent was punished as some are now Also that they would not follow the Cross or confess to a Priest Also that they did not believe the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church Also that they did not believe that Bread Water Ashes and Palms were Holy Ceremonies in the Papists Church Also the Martyrs confessed that the Popish Mass was Blasphemy Some of the Papists Canons or Decrees which the Martyrs suffered for and which those called Church-Wandens and Priests we●e by the Command of the Bishops to make Enquiry into in their several Parishes 1. Whether they see the Font be comely kept and have Holy-water always ready for Children to be Chris●ned 2.

Relict of his Brother made an Act that no more Annal should be paid for Bulls or Pardons to the Pope nor no Appeals be made to him but that all should appeal to the King for pardon Ab●ut this time the whole Clergy of Engla●d was charged by the Kings Council to be in a Praemunire for supporting and maintaining the Popes power and were called to answer in the Kings Bench but before their day of appearance came they in their Convocation concluded an Humble Submission in Writing and offered the King One hundred thousand pounds to pardon them which after some labour the King promised them pardon in which Submission the Clergy called the King Supream Head of the Church Bakers Chron. This Pardon was signed by the Kings hand Mark The King turning and denying the Popes Supremacy the Priests turn and deny their old Head of the Church called Peter's Successor And in the year 1535 the Popes Authority in England was abolished by Parliament and about two years after an Act was made which gave the King all Religious Houses and all their Lands and Goods And then an Oath was ministred to the Clergy which they took That they should renounce the Popes Authority and swear to be true and faithful to the King his Heirs and Successors of life and limb and to live and dye with him against all people and to acknowledg their holding their Bishopricks of the King only beseeching him to make restitution of the temporalities of the said Bishoprick So God me help and aell Saints said they About this time the Bible was first permitted to be read in English and Injunctions were set forth by the Lord Cromwel That the Creed Lords Prayer ten Commandments and Articles of the Christian Faith should be read in English which caused twenty thousand people to rise in arms in Lincolnshire being headed by a Monk and others and they were scarcely appeased but there arose forty thousand in the North where on one side of th●ir Ensigns they had Christ hanging on the Cross and on the other side the Cup and Bread of the Sacrament but they were suppressed In September 1537 by the special motion of the aforesaid Cromw●l all the Images unto which were made any special Pilgrimages and Offerings were taken down and burnt and forthwith by the means of the said Cromwell all the Orders of Fryars and Nunns with their Cloisters and Houses were suppressed and put down After all this and notwithstanding this Reformation Popery had so much power in the hearts both of King and people that one Nicholson alias Lambert being accused for denying the presence in the Sacrament he appealed to the King and the King heard him openly but all would not do neither would the King pardon him and shortly after he was drawn to Smithfi●ld and there burnt and this was done about the thirteenth year of his Reign And in the thirty seventh year of his Reign the Parliament gave him all the Colledges and Chantries And one John Smith was burnt in Smithfield and one Andrew Howet a Taylor for denying the Real presence in the Sacrament And further in the thirteenth year of his Reign was set forth by the Bishops the Book of the six Articles condemning all for Hereticks and to be burnt that should hold 1. That the Body of Christ was not really present in the Sacrament after Consecration 2. That the Sacrament might not truly be administred under one kind 3. That priests entred into holy Orders might ma●ry 4. That vows of Ch●stity entred into upon mature deliberation were not to be kept 5. That private Masses were not to be used 6. That Auricular Confession was not necessary in the Church These Articles and the Penalty annexed to them were called a whip with six strings which penalty was they were to be burned to death and forfeit their Estates real and personal to the King After King Henry the Eighth succeeded Edward the Sixth Son to King Henry the Eighth in whose time new injunctions were set forth for pulling down and removing all Images out of Churches also Homilies wee appointed to be read for peoples instruction and that the Sacrament should be ministred to lay-people in both kinds Also Marriage was allowed to the Clergy Auricular Confession was forbidden and prayer for the dead and in his fifth year the Book of Common prayer was established After King Edward succeeded Queen Mary about whose coming to the Crown there was some combustion to whom first the Suffolk men resorted who being always forward in promoting the proceedings of the Gospel and promised her their aid and to help her so that she would not attempt the alteration of the Religion which her brother King Edward had before established To make the matter short unto this condition she agreed and made promise to them that no alteration should be of Religion being a Papist and setting Popery up the people and priests generally turned that way and all Bishops that had been deprived in the time of Edward the sixth were restored to their Bishopricks and all Beneficed men that were married and would not forsake their opinion and turn were turned out of their Livings and in her time the Mass was again sung in Latin and the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England and the Mass commanded in all Churches to be used In her second year the Realm was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool and the first Fruits and tenths were restored to the Clergy but this was soon revoked the Council finding the necessity of it for the Queens support In her fourth year Monastaries were begun to be re-edified the number of those that dyed for Religion in her time which was but six years was two hundred fourscore and thirteen men and women Now see the Oath which the Clergy took to the Pope They swore to be true to Saint Peter the holy Church of Rome and to the Pope the holy Father and to defend it against all men and to acknowledg the Rules of the holy Fathers Decrees which to my power say they I shall keep and cause to be kept and all Here●icks and Schismaticks to our Holy Father I will persecute to my power So help me God and the holy Evangelists In the year 1559 Queen Mary being dead Queen Elizabeth began to reign and she with the advice of the Parliament soon made an Act for Uniformity of prayer and administration of the S●craments And the title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to Queen Elizab●th by the Parliament and they gave first fruits and tenths to her The Supremacy thus confirmed to the Queen the Oath was tendred to the Bishops and others who had been Papists in Queen Maries dayes and as many as refused to take it were deprived of their Livings and of the number of above Nine thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots who had then been in place in Queen Maries

And as these called Christians have sollowed the Heathens Examples in naming their Days so they followed them in naming their Months for the Heathen they called Mars the God of Battel and from thence they calleed the first Month March. And Venus they called the Goddess of Love and Beauty and from thence they called they called the second Month April And Maja a Heathen Goddess called Flora Flora and Cloris were called the Goddesses of Flowers unto Maja the Heathen Idolaters use to sacrifice from thence was the third Month called May. And upon the first day of the same Month they used to keep Floralia Feasts to the two Goddesses of Flowers viz. Flora and Cloris and Flora was a Strumpet in Rome that used on the first day of that Month to set up a May-pole before her door to entice her Lovers From whence came May-poles and May-day to be since observed by these called Christians And Juno whom the Heathen called the Goddess of Kingdoms and Wealth from this Juno the fourth Month was called June And Julius Caesar a Roman Emperor in honour to him was the fifth Month called July And in honour to Augustus Caesar an Emperor was the sixth Month called August And four of the other Months are called after the Latin Names as September for the seventh Month October for the eighth November for the ninth December for the tenth And one J●nus a King of Italy was for his wisdom pictured with two faces whom they honoured as God and from this Name J●●●● was the eleventh Month called January And Saturnus Pluto Februs were called the Gods of Hell wh●● the Heathen said had the Rule of evil Spirits there and from 〈◊〉 Februs was the the twelfth Month called February And by all there Idolatrous Names do these called Christians call their D●ys to this any which is contrary to the Scriptures the Prophets and the Apostles The Saxons also had a Goddess whom they sacrificed to m●●●● Month of April called E●ster Hence they called April E●●●● Month and hence in process of time came Easter Page 135. Ca●●● 〈◊〉 Brit. CHAP. XIX Concerning Burying-places IN the year 1198 Gaudentius de Mor See Justin Part 1. Ch. 26. proves that they did of old bury privately their dead in their Grounds which custom was taken away by Pope Innocent the third who decreed that none should be buryed in unconsecrated places and then after people began to desire to be buryed within the Church out of a Superstitious respect to the Saint whose Name that Church did bear and because their Kindred and Relations did pray for them there besides they hoped to be benefited by the merits of the Martyrs And it may be read in Austin de cura pro Mortuis chap. 5. That the believing Mother did desire that the body of her believing Son might be buryed in the Church of the Martyrs for so much as she did believe that his soul did reap benefit through the Merits of the said Martyrs And about this time the Clergy began to appropriate to themselves the prerogative of taking money to let people be buryed in Churches and is at this day used in England It was one of the Articles of the W●ldenses That the use of Church-yards is supersluous and invented only for lucres sake and that it was no matter in what ground any one was laid or buryed Bish Vsher de Succes Eccles Chr. c. 6. CHAP. XX. Concerning Ministers VVHen Christ bid them go into all Nations he bid them wait at Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high and they was not to go to be seven years at Colledges as they are now like an Apprentice but some of them were Tradesmen as Moses was a keeper of Sheep and Jacob was a keeper of Sheep and David was a keeper of Sheep and Elisha a Plough-man and Amos a Herdsman and Peter and John Fisher-men and unlearned men and Paul a Tent-maker And the Teachers of the Waldenses were said to be Weavers and Coblers of which when they were told of it they replied they were not ashamed of their Priests because they laboured with their hands according to the Example of the Apostles CHAP. XXI Concerning Marriage with the King IT was the Romans that first brought up marrying with a Ring it being their practice and custom that the man should give in token of good-will a Ring unto the woman Alex. Gen. Lib. 2. Antique Romani p. 72. And before they would bsgin the Ceremonies of their Contract the man procured a Southsayer and the woman another to cast their Fortune and the token or sign that these Southsayers accounted most fortunate was a Crow And this practice of ma●rying with a Ring do these called Christians retain to this day amongst many other of the Heathen Idolatrous practices And this practice is contrary to the practice of the holy men of God in the Scriptures for Boaz took Ruth to Wife before the Elder of the people and said Ye are witnesses this day that I take Ruth to Wife and the people said We are witnesses this day and the Lord m●ke the woman in thy house like the house of Rachel c. and tha● thou mayest do worthily in Ephr●ta and be famous in Bethlem And of the stock of Boaz came Christ Ruth 4. And Isaiah was to take Witnesses and write in a R●ll when he went to the Prophetess So here you may see was no Southsayers nor Rings used CHAP. XXII Concerning Churches and Vniversities so called AND the Names that the Papists gave the Steeplehouses are still used by Protestants they called their Churches Cathedral Churches and Kings Chappel and Queens Chappel And Pope Faelix the third he decreed that Churches should be dedicated to the Saints and so they came to be called one Christs Church and another they called Saint Peters Church and another Saint Pauls Church and another they called Saint Jame's Church and another Saint George's Church and Saint Bennets Church c. And them called Protestants calls them so still And the Protestants still call the Colledges by the same Names the Papists gave them who first set them up The Papists called them Christ Church Colledg Emanuel Colledg Trinity Colledg Corpus Christi Colledg that is the Body of Christ Colledg Jesus Colledg Brazen nose Colledg Magdalen Colledg All-Souls Colledg Saint Johns Colledg The two Universities as they are called were founded by Popish Saxon Kings and other Kings Bishops and other men and women Tindal who was a Martyr said concerning Universities that whosoever ordained Universities be it Alexander at Halis Saint Thomas or any other he was a Starr that fell from Heaven to Earth for there are brought in said he moral virtues for Faith and Opinions for Truth and said they were a confused Cloud Tindal in his Book of the Revelation of Antichrist CHAP. XXIII How the Bishops and Clergy heretofore have been the cause of cruel Laws against those that differed from them whom they called Hereticks

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the