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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

of Iohn King first Bishop there was kept vacant ten years An. 1568. after Henry Curwin the second Bishop it was kept void twenty one years together An. 1592. after Iohn Vnderhill the third Bishop it continued void 11. years so little want was there of a Bishop in that poor See An. 1559. the new created Bishoprick of Gloucester after Iames Brooks the third Bishop his death was kept vacant three years An. 1578. as long after Edmond Cheyney An. 1538. the new erected Bishoprick of Bristoll after Paul Bresh the first Bishop was kept vacant four years An. 1578. three years after Richard Cheyney which See continued void otherwise than by Commendam thirty one years together An. 1593. it continued vacant ten years together So little need was there of a Bishop in this See An. 1397. the Bishoprick of St. Davids after Iohn Gilberts death was vacant four years An. 1592. after Marmaduke Middleton almost two years An. 1133. the Bishoprick of Landaffe upon Vrbans decease was kept void six years An. 1183. after Nicholas ap Georgant five years An. 1240. after Elias de Raynor above four years An. 1287 after VVilliam de Brews nine years An. 1213. the Bishoprick of Bangor after Robert of Shrewstury was kept vacant two years An. 1374. as long after Iohn Gilbert An. 1378. after Iohn Swassham twenty years An. 1266. after Amanus the first Bishop of Rangor that See was vacant two years An. 1313. after Lew●lin six years An. 1406 after Iohn Trevour five years An. 1439. after Robert five years An. 1017. after Aldbanus of Durham that See continued void above three years An. 1096. as long after VVilliam Carlapho An. 1140. after Geoffry Rusus above five years An. 1207. after Philip of Poytiers above ten years An. 1226. above two years the King threatning the Covent that they should have no Bishop in seven years An. 1237. after Richard P●ore two years till Ethelmate his half Brother whom he commended to the Monks election should be of age An 1505. after William Severus two years An. 1587. after Richard Barnes almost two years An. 1577. the Bishoprick of Chester was kept vacant two years If then all our Bishopricks in several ages to omit the long vacancies of later times have been thus kept void 2,3,4,5 6,7,8,10,15,20 30. years or more together at divers times to omit all annual vacancies without any prejudice to the Church or State and with very great benefit to the Kings of England who enjoyed the Temporalties in the mean time then certainly Diocaesan Bishops are no such necessary Creatures of divine institution in the Church of Christ as some esteem them but that they may be spared and their Lands Temporalties sold or leased as well as thus seised by our Kings without Sacriledge or Injustice when as no Parish Churches can spare or want their Parochial Ministers who are of Gods institution above six months at most After which if the Patron present not in the interim an able and sufficient Clerk the Ordinary by the Canon Common-law may collate and sequester the profits in the mean time only to defray the officiating of the Cure which must be at no time intermitted or neglected because of Divine institution and so absolutely necessary both for the Peoples instruction and salvation which these long vacancies prove Diocaesan Bishops are not 4ly That as our Bishops Abbots Priors did originally for some hundreds of years receive their actual Investitures into their Churches Temporalties from the King alone per Annulum Baculum by a Ring and Pastoral staff delivered to them in nature of a Livery and seilin extorted from our Kings by the violence and tyranny of Pope Vrban and Pascal the 2. and Treason of Archbishop Anselme against the Right of the Crown and Custom of the Realm so they did likewise hold all their Baronies and Temporalties from swear Fealty and do Liege Homage to our Kings for the same as their Supream Liege Lords like other Barons and were as far forth responsible for them to the Kings Iustices and Ministers as Lay-Barons and Tenants were which they all acknowledged in their Recognition to King Henry the second in the Council of Clarindon as our Histories assure us and were lyable to forfeit them for their Treasons Rebellions Disloyalties and Contempts against the King and his Crown as well as Lay-men our Kings being alike Soveraign Lords and Kings to them as well as other Subjects and Tenauts and that Iure Domini as their Supreme Landlords and Patrons from by and under whom alone they held their Temporalties 5ly That the Kings of England as Supream Heads and Governours under Christ of the Church of England have in all ages enjoyed and exercised a Soveraign Power and Jurisdiction over all Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Abbots Priors and other Ecclesiastical Persons in all Causes whatsoever as well as over their Temporal Subjects to visit reform order correct restrain amend punish all their Errors Heresies Offences Contempts Enormities Treasons Rebellions against their Persons Crowns Dignities and Royal Authority punishable by any Spiritual Ecclesiastical or Temporal Authority or Iurisdiction and to punish their Persons by imprisonments banishments death scisure sequestration confiscation of their Temporalties Bishoppricks real and personal Goods and Estates as is enacted by the several Statutes against Provisors and the express Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 19 21. 26 H. 8. c. 1 3. 27 H. 8. c. 10. 28 H. 6. c. 7. 10. 31 H. 8. c. 14. 32 H. 8. c. 22 24 26. 33 H. 8. c. 29. 34 35 H. 8. c. 17 19. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 1 Ed. 6. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. 13 Eliz. c. 12. and other Acts The several Writs De Excommunicato capiendo De Excommunicato deliberando De Cautions admittenda Quare impedit Quare incumbravit Quare non admisit Quod Episcopus admittat Ne admittas Ne exeas Reguum Vi Iacca removenda and especially by the several Writs of Prohibition and ad Iura Regia and Capias pro contemptu wherewith our Records and Law-books are full fraught I shall only recite some memorable Presidents of our Kings and Parliaments proceedings against our Archbps. Bishops in seising their temporalties confiscating their Estates banishing them the Realm suspending from and depriving them of their Bishopricks yea in imprisoning executing their Persons for their rebellions Treasons Conspiracies Contempts against them and their Royal Prerogatives in former ages worthy their and our most serious consideration and remembrance To begin with our Archbishops about the year of Christ 765. Offa King of Mercians being highly offended with Iambertus or Lambert as some stile him Archbishop of Canterbury for his oppositions against him seised and took away all his Temporalties within his Kingdom detaining some of them to himself and giving the rest of them to his Souldiers and Courtiers and moreover by the Popes consent erected a new

against the Kings Prerogative the King was so highly offended with him as he had just cause that he presently banished him the Realm and seised his Temporalties Giles de Bruse Bishop of Hereford for siding with the Barons in their wars against King Iohn and consenting to the Interdict had all his ●oods and Temporalties seised and was banished the Kingdom by King Iohn Peter de Eveblancks 42. Bishop of Hereford for his intollerable Oppressions Treacheries and Exorbitances was arrested by the Barons in the year 1263. in his own Cathedral Church where they seised upon his Goods divided his Treasure amongst their Souldiers before his face and then imprisoned him a long time in Ordley Castle as a mere Pest and Traytor both to Church and State Adam de Orlton or Tarleton the 46. Bishop of Hereford was arrested of High Treason for aiding the Mortymers with men and armes against King Edward the second and being indicted and brought to the Kings-bench Bar at Westminster to be arraigned for this Treason the Archbishops of Canterbury York and Dublin accompanied with their Suffragan Bishops came forcibly with their Crofiers rescued took him away from the Bar and protected him from the Kings Justice but the Indictment being found true upon proof his Temporalties were thereupon seised into the Kings hands till by this Bishops instigation he was deposed from the Crown and soon after murdered by his advice When Queen Isabel and her Son Prince Edward were with their Army at Oxford this Bishop steps up into the Pulpit and there taking these words for his Text My Head grieved me he made a long Discourse to prove That an Evil Head not otherwise to be cured must be taken away applying it to King Edw. the 2 d. that he ought to be deposed and afterwards he counselled the Queen to depose make him away which being effected at Berkley Castle by thrusting a hot Spit into his fundament none then appeared so earnest a Prosecutor of these Murderers as this Traitorous Bishop who set them on work to whom when many of his own Letters were produced and shewed concerning this most traytorous inhuman Act he eluded them by sophistical interpretations and utterly denyed he was any way consenting thereunto when as in truth he was the chief occasion and adviser thereof Iohn Trevenant the 51. Bishop of Hereford was one of the prime Actors in the deposition of King Richard the second and setting up King Henry the 4th in his Throne for which he demerited not only a sequestration of his Temporalties but a Decollation though he escaped both Charles Booth Bishop of Hereford was excepted out of the General pardon of the Praemunire granted by King Henry the 8th to the Clergy in Parliament 22 H. 8. c. 15. for which his Goods and Temporalties were confiscated to the King Agelrick Bishop of the South-Saxons since Chichester was deprived by VVilliam the Conqueror Anno 1078. with sundry other Bishops and Abbots in the Councils of VVinchester and VVindsor for their Treasons and Conspiracies against him and afterwards imprisoned Thomas Rushock the 20th Bishop of Chichester a lewd pernicious Prelate Anno 1388. was banished the Court as a Traytor and pernicious Counsellor to King Richard the second his Lands and Goods confiscated himself banished and deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament and had suffered death too as a Traytor but that his Guiltiness made him fly before he could be apprehended Richard Sampson the 37th Bishop of Chichester Anno 21 H. 8. was committed Prisoner to the Tower for relieving certain trayterous Persons who denyed the Kings Supremacy George Day Bishop of Chichester Octob. 10. 1551. was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Kings Supremacy maintaining the Popes and other Misdemeanours and his Temporalties seised Iohn Christopherson Bishop of Chichester was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament 1 Eliz. for denying the Queens Supremacy and to take the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance Henry Spencer Bishop of Norwich a Martial Prelate more imployed in the Field than in the Pulpit and the Popes General against the Flemmings Anno 1385. had all his Temporalties seised into the Kings hands for two years for raising an Army and passing the Seas without and against King Richard the second his command and was likewise questioned fined and ransoned in Parliament for his misdemeanours in that military imployment Alexander Bishop of Norwich being elected by the Monks against the Kings consent Anno 1406. had his Temporalties kept from him by the King and his Person imprisoned at Windsor almost a year Richard Nyx Bishop of Norwich in the 25 of H. 8. was attainted in a Praemunire put out of the Kings protection his Person imprisoned his Lands Goods and Chattels seised and forfeited to the King for citing the Maior of Thetford into his Spiritual Court and forcing him to revoke a Presentment upon Oath contrary to Law Hugh Novant Bishop of Chester or Coventry and Litchfield as some stile him for conspiring with the King of France and Earl Iohn against his Soveraign King Richard the first to detain him still in Prison and plotting all the Mischief he could for the destruction of the King and Kingdom was in a Grand Parliamentary Council held at Nottingham about the year 1198. adjudged to Ecclesiastical censures and the seisure of his Temporalties as a Bishop and also to banishment and a Fine of 5000 Marks by the Temporal Lords as an Officer to the King VValter Langton Bishop of Chester by King Edward the second his command was arrested by the Constable of the Tower and imprisoned above two years space in several Castles his Lands and Temporalties seised into the Kings hands his Goods confiscated and after that compelled to answer to divers hainous Crimes whereof he was accused Cutbert Scot Bishop of Chester for his disobedience to Queen Elizabeth was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and displaced Edilred King of M●rcia for some just displeasure against Putta Bp. of Rochester burned his Church and City and forced him to desert his Bishoprick to which he would never afterwards return Godwin Bishop of Rochester was for many months besieged in his City of Rochester by King Ethelred for some contempts against this King who would not raise his Siege upon any intreaty till the Bishop had submitted himself and likewise paid him an hundred pounds Fine Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was grievously questioned in Parliament by the House of Commons Anno 25 H. 8. for saying That all their doings against the Clergy was for lack of Faith after which he was indicted and condemned of High Treason for countenancing the Revelations of Elizabeth Barton and denying to acknowledge the Kings Supremacy over Ecclesiastical Persons and Causes for which Treason be was executed upon Tower-hill though a Bishop and new-made Cardinal June 21. 1535. and his Head set upon London Bridge Edmond

quibusvis Apostolicis ac in provincialibus synodalibus conciliis editis specialibus vel generalibus constitutionibus caeterisque contrariis quibuscunque Admonemus tamen cum divisio Episcopatuum erectio Cathedralium Ecclesiarum sint de majoribus cansis quae summo Pontifici sunt reservatae recurrendum esse ad suam Sanctitatem ab ea suppliciter postulandum ut haec confirmare seu de novo facere dignetur Et licet omnes res mobiles Ecclesiarum indistinctè iis qui eos tenent relaxaverimus eos tamen admonitos esse volumus ut ante oculos habente divini judicii severitatem contra Balthasarem Regem Babilonis qui vasa saera non àse sed à Patre è templo ablata in prophano usus convertit ea propriis Ecclesiis si extant vel aliis restituant Hortante etiam per viscera misericordiae Iesu Christi obsestantes cos omnes quos haec res tangit ut salutis suae non omnino immemores hoc saltem efficiciant ut ex bonis Ecclesiasticis maxime iis quae ratione personatunm vicariatuum populi ministrorum sustentationi fuerint specialiter destinata seu aliis Cathedralibus aliis quae nunc extant inferioribus Ecclesus curam animarum exercentibus ita provideatur et earum pastores personae et vicarii commodè et honestè juxta corum qualitatem et statum sustentari possint et curam animarum laudabiliter exercere et onera incumbentia congruè supportare Datum Lambeth prope Loudinum Wintonien Diocess Anno Nativitatis Domini Millessimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo quarto Nono Cal. Ianuarii Pontif. Sanctissimi in Christo patris et Domini nostri Domini Iulii divina providentia Papae tertii Anno quinto Reginaldus Cardinalis Polus Legatus We the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled rendering most humble thanks to your Majesties by whose intercession and means we have obtained the said Dispensations of the Popes holyness by the most reverend Father in God his Legate most humbly beseecheth the same that it may be ordained as followeth And therefore be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament that all and singular Articles and Clauses contained in the said Dispensation as well touching the establishment of Bishopricks and Cathedral Churches as also the confirmation of mariages in degrees prohibited by the Canons of the Church the legitimation of Children and the ratification of Process and of Sentences in matters Ecclesiastical touching the invalidity of them for want of Jurisdiction and the institutions and destitutions of and in Benefices and Promotions ecclesiastical dispensations and graces given by such order as the publick Laws of the Realm then approved and all other things before contained in the said Letters of dispensation shall remain and be reputed and taken to all intents and constructions in the Laws of this Realm lawfull good and effectual to be alleged and pleaded in all Courts ecclesiastical and temporal for good and sufficient matter either for the Plaintiff or Defendant without any allegation or objection to be made against the validity of them by pretence of any general Councel Canon or Decree to the contrary made or to be made in that behalf And whereas divers and sundry late Monasteries Priories Commandries and late Nunneries Deaneries Prebends Colleges Hospitals Houses of Fryers Chauntries and other religious ecclesiastical Houses and places and the Manors Graunges Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Pentious Portions Vicarages Churches Chapels Advowsons Nominations Patronages Annuities Rents Reversions Services and other Possessions and Hereditaments to the late Monasteries Priors Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Chauntries Prebends Houses of Fryers Colleges Hospitals and other religious and ecclesiastical Houses and Places and to sundry Archbishopricks and Bishopricks within this Realm late appertaining and belonging came as well to the hands and possession of the said King of famous memory Henry the 8. father unto your Majesty our said Soveraign Lady by dissolution gift grant surrender attainder or otherwise as also to the hands and possession of divers and sundry other persons and bodies politick and corporate by sundry means conveyances and assurances according to the order of the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm And where also divers Manors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of the possessions of Archbishoprick and Bishopricks and many and sundry late Deaneries Colleges Chauntries Rectories Prebends free Chapels Guyldes and Fraternityes Manors Houses Graunges Lands Tenements Rents Services and other Ecclesiastical Possessions Hereditaments Goods and Cattels to the said Archbishopricks Bishopricks Deaneries Colleges Chauntries free Chapels Rectories Guyldes and Fraternityes late appertaining and belonging or appointing to and for the finding of Priests Obyttes Lyghts or other like purpose came as well to the hands and possession of the late noble King Edward the sixth Brother unto your Majesty Soveraign Lady by vertue of an Act of Parliament therof made or otherwise as also the hands and possessions of divers sundry other persons and bodies politick and corporate by sundry means conveyances and assurances according to the order of the Laws of this Realm a great number of which said late Monasteries Priories Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Colleges Hospitals Prebends Chauntries free Chapels Guyldes and Fraternities and the Manors Granges Messuages Lauds Tenements Rents Reversions Services Tithes Pentions Portions Vicarages Churches Chapels Advowsons Nominations Patronages Annuities and Hereditaments Goods and Cattels to the said Monasterie● Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Colleges Hospitals Chauntries free Chapels Guyldes Fraternities and other Ecclesiastical Houses Archbishopricks and Bishopricks belonging as well for great sums of mony as for other good and reasonable causes and considerations have been conveyed and assured to diverse the Subjects and bodies politick of this Realm aswell by the said King Henry the eight the said King Edward the sixth and by your Highnesse our Soveraign Lady and joyntly by both your Majesties as also by diverse the Owners of the said Ecclesiastical possessions which said conveyances and assurances by their sundry Letters Patents and other writings more plainly do and may appear Forasmuch as the said most reveverend Father hath also by the said Dispensations removed and taken away all matter of impeachment trouble and danger which by occasion of any general Councel Canon or Decree Ecclesiastical might touch and disquiet the possessions of such Goods moveables lands tenements possessions and hereditaments as were of late belonging to any of the said Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries Priories Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Houses of Fryers or other religious Houses or Places of what nature name kind or quality soever they be of Yet for that the Title of all lands possessions and hereditaments in this your Majesties Realm Dominions is grounded in the laws statutes and customs of the same and by your high jurisdiction authority royal and crown imperial and in your Courts only to be impleaded ordered tryed and adjudged and none