Idolatry Heresie of Pagans the Collyridian hereticks Together with their pretended Doctrine Miracle of Transubstantiation the Great Dianaes of the Pontificians now most insisted on to reduce them from their Romish Idolatry Superstition Errors and keep unstable Protestants from apostatizing to them in this and succeeding ages by the seducements of their superabounding active Emissaries This Tome as those intended to succeed it principally consists of memorable Records preserved in the Tower of London not formerly published intermixed with observable Historical passages pertinent to my Theam taken for the most part out of our best antientest Historians of the Roman Religion writing in or nearest the reigns of K. John and Henry the 3d which I have printed at large in their proper Dialects as most authentick the better to communicate them to forreign Nations and prevent all Cavills of Pontifician or other Criticks against their translations with some usefull Observations on Deductions from them for the Readers information or Romanists refutation if not conviction all which I hope are so genuine solid impartial that no carping Zoilus nor Advocate for Popes or the Court of Rome shall be justly able to quarrell with much lesse to refute or contradict them All the Records herein transcribed were perused with my own eyes and carefully examined re-examined by the Originals which are of so venerable irrefragable authority being carefully enrolled in the respective years they bear date by sworn Clerks without any rasure alteration diminution and so remaining till this present that no person by our Common Lawes may or ought to averr against them By their Verdict I have here not only corrected some mistakes ratified illustrated sundry obscure dubious passages in our Historians Chronologers and King Johns printed Charter but also supplyed many observable defects omitted or pretermitted Bulls Letters Patents Writs Records Transactions relating to the Ecclesiastical Supremacy of our Kings the Church-affairs Archbishops Bishops Clergy Lawes Customs Spiritual Temporal Courts Jurisdictions proceedings in England and Ireland not extant in nor remembred by any Histories or Law-books whatsoever not unworthy the knowledge if not of his Sacred Majesty yet of the greatest learnedest Counsellers Officers of State Prelates Divines Judges Professors of the Common or Canon Lawes the studious Nobility Gentry whether Protestants or Pontificians of both these Kingdoms from whose publike if not private view they have hitherto been concealed If these my crude Historical Collections which I had neither sufficient time nor leisure to digest polish according to the dignity of the subject matter shall through the Almighties blessing on and Your Lordships favourable Acceptation of them produce any Glory to God any honour advantage to our Reformed Protestant Religion Churches Realms any satisfactory Vindication of His Majesties or His Royal Predecessors Soveraign Ecclesiastical Civil just antient Rights Prerogatives against the injurious claimes pretences of Vsurping Romish Popes or Prelates any reformation of revived old Ecclesiastical Vsurpations Excommunications Vexations Corruptions Exactions Extravagances redressed suppressed by these and our other Kings Writs Prohibitions even in times of Popery any conviction conversion reduction of seduced Pontificians or Romish Proselytes to due obedience to his Majesty and the bosom of our Church by discovering to them the manifold unchristian if not Antichristian Practises Corruptions Vices Frauds Errors Exorbitances of Popes the Visible Heads Popish Cardinals Legates Nuncioes Prelates the chief pillars hinges of the Roman Church and the manifold just occasions given by them to our Kings Kingdoms to renounce all dependance on all communion with them Or if they shall contribute any increase of knowledge or other benefit to the honourable Profession and Professors of the Law whereof Your Lordship under his Majesty is and long may you still continue in all splendor and felicity to be the most eminent Patron as well as Member all which particulars were the chief ends aimed at in this Vndertaking I shall then repute my extraordinary expense paines therein sufficiently remunerated and be thereby encouraged with greater vigor and all possible expedition through Gods gracious assistance to compleat the anteceding and succeeding Tomes of this Chronological Vindication Which if God shall vouchsafe me life health oportunity to finish I hope I may crave leave to sue forth my Quietus est from any future labours of this nature because it will then be high time for me only to prepare for another world conclude with Paul the aged I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Hence forth there is layd up for me a Crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also who love his appearing Which Crown of Righteousness that this Soveraign Lord of Lords and King of Kings may most graciously bestow upon Your Lordship in Heaven after You have long served honoured both HIM His MAJESTY His Realms Churches in your Generation upon earth shall be the daily prayer of Your Lordships most Humble Devoted Obliged Servant WILLIAM PRYNNE From my Study in Licolns Inne May 29. 1665. the most joyfull day Festival of his Majesties Birth and Restitution to his Royal Throne at Whitehall To the Candid and Ingenuous Readers especially Professors or Students of the Common Laws in England and Ireland Kinde Readers I Here present to your View and Censure The Second Tome of An Exact CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION and HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman and English KINGS SUPREAM ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions c. A Subject heretofore cursorily handled debated by Sir Edward Cooke in the First Part of his Fifth Reports Of the Kings Ecclesiastical Law by Sir John Davis in his Irish Reports The Case of Praemunire by Sir Christopher Sybthorp Knight one of His Majesties Iustices of the Court of Chief Place in Ireland in his Friendly Advertisement to the pretended Catholicks of Ireland Dublin 1621. Part 1. Concerning the Kings Supremacy and the Oath in that behalf to be taken and of late by my learned Friend Sir Roger Twisden in his elaborate acute Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism as it stands separate from the Church of Rome and was reformed 1 Elizabethae London 1663. But never yet Chronologically and Historically Vindicated Demonstrated by any Lawyers Antiquaries Historians Chronologers or Divines in such ample manner as the Dignity of the subject matter demerits or as some learned French and German Lawyers Antiquaries Writers have Vindicated the Soveraign Ecclesiastical Prerogatives Rights Liberties of the Kings Emperors Churches of France and Germany in large Folio and Quarto Volumes when as our Histories Annals Records afford us more copious Presidents more numerous eminent Monuments of this kinde then France
praecepta nostra quae vobis injunximus viva voce quae prius Vicecomitibus caeteris Ballivis nostris demandaveramus quae omnia diligenter volumus observari firmiter teneatis observetis Et si super aliquibus forsitan haesitetis consilium nostrum requiratis antequam aliquid novum durius attemptetis Teste Rege apud Waliford Vicesimo secundo die Decembris The Bishop soon after presuming against the Kings Appeal to enter into the Bishoprick of Winchester to conferre orders excommunicate his subjects the Mayor Citizens and interdict the whole City of Winton for obeying his commands as you heard before and intending to proceed de novo in the like contempts the King thereupon to preserve his own Royal Prerogative and Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical and evidence his supremacy in and over all Ecclesiastical persons causes issued this Writ to the Gardians of this Bishoprick touching his proceedings against him in this Appeal commanding them personally to acquaint the Bishop therewith to read it to him in the presence of witnesses to declare all his excommunications voyd and that he would severely proceed against him if he persisted in his obstinacy and submitted not to his Appeal REX Custodibus Episcopatus Winton salutem Licet contra W. de Raleg appellaverimus in hunc modum Dicit Dominus Rex c. ut patet ex alia parte Râ—â—uli in appellatione facta contra eundem Episcopum post appellationem quam de diversorum Jurisperitorum Regni nostri quos huic habere potuimus fecimus magistros Oxon. in Jurelegentes alios viros Religiosos Jurisperitos consuluerimus per omnes dicta appellatio fuerit approbata dictus tamen Episcopus haec omnia parvipendens spernens supra dictum Episcopatum sicut intelleximus intravit ordinesque celebravit ibidem sententiasque diversas excommunicationis et suspentionis protulit nuncque de novo manum suam totis viribus aggravando Majorem et Ballivos nostros Winton excommunicavit contra privilegia nostra prohibentia nequis in tales sententias proferat nisi Authoritate Rescripti Apostolici specialem facientes de dicto nostro privilegio mentionem et Civitatem Winton interdixit quae omnia licet de facto tantum teneant tamen utcunque famam nostram sugillant nec ipsa de catero possumus conniventibus oculis praeterire Ideoque vobis praecipiendo Mandamus quatenus convocatis Abbate Abbatiae de Hyda Priore fratrum praedicatorum cum duobus vel tribus de fratribus Gardiano fratrum minorum cum totidem aliis viris Religiosis honestis fide dignis quos habere poteritis ad dictum Episcopum accedatis supradicta omnia de verbo ad verbum legi faciatis iterum ex eisdem causis supradicto modo nomine nostro appellantes supplicantes Postea sibi ex parte nostra offeratis nos paratos incontinenti mittere Parisius ad omnes magistros in jure ibidem regentes alios Jurisperitos qui ibidem poterunt reperiri Et si audita dicta Appellatione plene intellecta ipsam dicant tanquam inanem frivolam non fuisse admittendam nec fore Nuncios procuratores nostros quos jam ad Curiam Romanam pro prosecutione dictae appellationis misimus alios qui jam sunt in procinctu Itineris sui revocabimus in aliis omnibus erga ipsum Episcopum nos habebimus secundum quod decuerit sicut praedicti Magistri Jurisperiti dixerint faciemus Quod si dictam Appellationem tanquam rationabilem seu probabilem admittendam fuisse fore dixerint idem Episcopus Episcopatum exeat et Clerici quos ordinavit suspensi permaneant et quicquid post et contra Appellationem praedictam factum est sicut hoc totum de jure fuerit in irritum revocetur Ita quod haec omnia offensas et injurias contra nos nostros attemptas corrigat emendet juxta dictum consilium Magistrorum Quod si hoc totum renuerit sciat pro certo quod nos contra ipsum et suos taliter procedemus quod paena decente sentiat se errasse Hiis autem omnibus lectis coram ipso post sigillum nostrum hiis praesentibus literis faciatis opponi sigilla praesentium testificantium lectionem oblationem praedictas responsum Episcopi supradicti apponentes diem annum quibus nomine de mandato nostro haec omnia legeritis optuleritis postmodum haec omnia universo Clero populo Winton publicetis transcriptum retinentes nobis incontinenti facta publicatione praesentes literas transmittatis Supradicta etiam sic intelligimus quod licet Appellatio per magistros Parisienses approbaretur nichilominus tamen postea Appellationem nostram prosequentes super praemissis voluntatem judicum sumum Pontificis audivimus secundum quod judicaverit per omnia faciemus Quod si hoc totum renuerit et sic per elationem et ambitionem nimiam nos et nostros sic in Episcopatu morando et administrando contra Deum et justitiam quasi in Regno nobis fortior sit offendere eligit Itâ—rum nomine nostro propter haec nova gravamina ad sedem Apostolicam appelletis ad tuitionem ad Electum Cantuariensem Nos enim dante Domino super hoc justum salubre consilium capiemus Teste Rege apud Wind. primo die Januarii The Bishop notwithstanding this Writ and Appeal persevering in his obstinacy the King thereupon sene this second Writ to the Gardians of the spiritualties and writ a Letter to the Pope answering all his Cavils and exceptions against this Appeal REX Custodibus Episcopatus Wint. Vicecomitibus Suthamp Sur. salutem Nuper pervenit ad aures nostras quod VV. de Ral. Episcopus post Legitimas nostras appellationes quas ad Dominum Papam interposuimus propter multiplices injurias magna gravamina quae nobis nostris intulit denunciavit magistrum Henericnm de Secus Clericum nostrum Specialem in hoc negotio nostrum procuratorem Monachos quosdam Sancti Switini VVinton nobis adhaerentes et quosdam alios sententia Excommunicationis innodatâ—s quam injuriam in Curia nostra nobis factam tanquam gravissimam ad animam revocamus Et cum tam grave delictum contra Nos attemptat nullatemis impunitum possumus derelinquere vobis districtius praecipiendo Mandamus sicut vos ipsos vestra diligitis si idem Episcopus contra Appellationes nostras legitime ad sedem Apostolicam interpositas Episcopatum Winton intret ad officium Episcopale exercendum eundem nullo modo hospitemini nec hospitari ab aliquo saico permittatis nec aliquem de Clericis suis nec aliquem de hiis qui se gerent suos officiales Immo sub paena memorata omnibus Laicis de Balliva vestra inhibeatis ne cum praescriptis contractus faciant vel commercia
papal Divinity Law in that age 872. 873 to 890. No particular person can wave alter decline the Jurisdictions of the Kings Courts by his Contract oath nor give a Jurisdiction to Ecclesiastical Courts in Temporal matters contracts nor yet the Pope by his Bulls 872 to 890. Popes and popish Usurers endeavoured to do it by clauses in their Instruments priviledges contracts with our Kings 452. 453. 454 767. 768. 846 919. 931. 1001. 1002. and the Bishops by their Constitutions 998 to 913. See Prohibitions Popes Popish Canonists Prelates by their Constitutions exempted themselves Clerks Lands Goods Churches from all Emperours Laymens Jurisdiction Judicature Courts Laws Taxes for publick defence as subject onely to Gods judgement and their own and their very Concubines Harlots too 5. 6 7. 8. 874. 878. 886 897. 898 to 9â—2 Popes have no Jurisdiction in Temporal things or affairs 258. 259. 260. 278. 279. 360. 361. 473. 478. 872 882. When how Jurisdictions may be altered transferred and how to be excepted against 887. 888. Encroachments of Jurisdiction by Popes their Legates Delegates Archbishops Bishops Ecclesiastical persons Courts restrained by Kings Prohibitions 872 to 913. Appendix 8 9. See Prohibitions Jus Patronatus 971. Justices Itinerant licensed by Archbishops to give Oathes and impanel Juries in times prohibited by Canons at the Xings petition 394 407. K. KIngs particularly Kings of England Gods Vicars upon Earth chief Governors Patrons Protectors of the Church Christian Religion Gods Worship 1 2 3 4 5 872 873. Their Ecclesiastical Supremacy over all Prelates Priests persons causes within their Dominions in what particulars it principally consists Ibid. Popes claims and pretended Soveraign Monarchy Jurisdiction over them and their Kingdoms 5 6 7 8. Popes Popish Canonists exempt all Prelates Clergy-men their Lands Goods yea Concubines from their Jurisdiction Laws Taxes Judicatures for civil criminal matters as well as Ecclesiastical and make them meer cyphers 5 6 7 8 9. Excommunicate Interdict depose them absolve their Subjects from their Allegiance dispose of their Crowns Kingdoms at their pleasure See Frederick 2. Otho King John Henry 3. Index 10 12 14. Absolution Excommunication Interdicts Oaths Their Papal Titles to all their Kingdoms Territories 9 291 292. Our Kings Soveraign Authority Jurisdiction in Ecclesiastical as well as Civil things derived only from God not Popes 1 2 3 4 229 305 323 324 325 326 571 576 582 583 592 688 720 721. Their care duty zeal Writs endeavours to preserve defend the antient just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown Kingdom against all Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England Ireland France 227 228 230 232 233 236 237 239 240 to 273 300 301 302 303 323 324 326 338 356 586 592 593 to 598 640 641 644 645 663 710 727 739 740 962 963 964. Appendix 7 to 12 24 25. See Prerogative Prohibitions and Index 3 4 5 10 12. Right in Bishops elections dispensed with it out of special grace in some cases of Elections in Ireland See Index 4. and Elections Excepted out of Archbishops general Excommunications See Excommunications His Grants Acts by misinformation or circumvention nulled 304 373 374 482. They cannot alien their Crowns Kingdoms Crown-Lands without their Barons Subjects consents being against their Oaths trusts duty and Trustees of them only for the publick safety benefit of their Subjects 273 274 275 289. 290 291 316 to 329. Such alienations resumed Ibid. See Alienation Resumption Their care duty Oath Writs to preserve defend protect the just Rights Liberties of the Church Prelates Clergy in their persons possessions whereof God hath made them Defenders without prejudice to their Crowns and Royal Prerogatives See Index 2 3 4 5 6 10 12. p. 227 229 230 2â—3 234 242 251 252 279 323 324 334 335 336 380 381 571 57â— 575 576 58â— 592 593 6â—6 637 666 667 668 670 to 675 678 680 688 689 716 748 749 928 929 968 995 to 1007 1016 1017 1027 1028 1033. Obliged to protect foster the Rights Liberties of their Lay-Subjects against Popes and Prelates Usurpations 507 666 667 670 671 672. Kings desire declaration to govern by Law not power â—88 to do Justice to all great and small according to Law in all his Courts 989. Kings remain such whiles just cease to be Kings when they prove unjust 776. The King declared of full age by the Pope resumes the custody of his Castles 391 392. What virtues are requisite in Kings and by what precious stones represented 247 248. The King of England the most Christian of all Christiaâ— Kings where Faith Holiness hath more flourished then in any Kingdom throughout the World 712. His Coronation Oath See Oath Adorned with Armes Laws 588. Appealed to for Justice by Foreign Princes 588. The Kings Counsil Writs issued subscribed by them and their advice Acts done in their presence 265 277 278 381 389 390 394 1007 1008. See Index 8 9. and Writs His ill Counsellors especially Aliens complained against removed banished by the Barons 300. See Aliens Barons Pope obeyed by Bishops Abbots more then the King 300 933 934. Append. 9 10. See more in Prerogative Prohibitions Knights made at solemn Festivals the Popes Legates Nephew Knighted by King H. 3. with others 570 711. L. LApse after 6. months 389. None against the King by his Prerogative 481 482 563. Laws Popes usurped power to limit null dispense against the Law of God and the Apostles to take away all positive Laws without a cause and null all Princes Lay-mens Laws 5 6. No Princes Laws can binde Bishops or Clergymen though for their benefit unlesse ratified by the Pope 6. The making and interpreting of Laws in the Virgin Mary who knew both the Civil Canon Laws and Decretals 19. Laws of England setled in Ireland See Ireland Of King Edward the Confessor and King H. 1. sworn to be observed by our Kings evil Laws to be abolished 279 282 283 336 370. See Charter of Liberties Students of the Canon Law in the Universities of Oxford and Paris advised with in Appeals by the King 588. The Bishops learned in the Canon Laws much insisted on them to advance their own Jurisdiction exempt themselves and all the Clergy from Kings and secular Courts Jurisdiction 249 251 253 874 to 913. See Canons Canon Law Index 3. Judge Bractons learned Treatise of the Laws and Customs of England in the reign of King Henry 3. 872 to 888. Laymen though Emperors Kings Judges uncapable by Popes Popish Prelates Canons of any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Ecclesiastical persons causes things or over Priests Concubines not to be witnesses against Clergymen 5 6 7 8 874 890 to 913. Their ill esteem of them and their authority though Emperors Kings Ibid. and Index 3 10 12. Lay-patrons Benefices exempted by order of Parliament and Popes Bulls from First-fruits and Popes Provisions by the Barons stout oppositions against them 507 508 718. Excommunicated Interdicted for arresting criminal Clerks or their Concubines suing Clergymen in the Kings secular Courts 6
Januarii 3. 1664. Imprimatur WILL. MORICE THE SECOND TOME OF AN EXACT CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION AND HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions From the First Year of the Reign of King John Anno Dom. 1199. till the Death of King Henry the III. in the year 1273. WHEREIN The several branches of our Kings Ecclesiastical Soveraignty are truly stated the Popes usurped Vniversal Monarchy subverted by their own Popish Assertions concerning the Virgin Mary Transubstantiation and Christs corporal presence on earth in every Hostia Popes Popish Prelates Intollerable USURPATIONS on Vnchristian Practises against the Persons antient undoubted ECCLESIASTICAL TEMPORAL PREROGATIVES JURISDICTIONS RIGHTS of these KINGS CROWNES PRIVILEGES the LIBERTIES PROPERTIES of the Churches Kingdomes Clergy Nobility Commonalty of ENGLAND and IRELAND By Legates Nuncioes Delegates Bulls Palls Exemptions Dispensations Non-obstantes Decretals Canons Appeals Citations Journeys to Rome Inhibitions Sequestrations Provisions Ratifying void vacating legal Elections Presentations to Ecclesiastical Dignities Benefices at their pleasures By Croysadoes Procurations Tenths Firstfruits illegal Oathes Extortions Rapines Excommunications Interdicts Absolutions from Oathes Vowes open Treasons Rebellions Wars to depose enslave our KINGS KINGDOMES and make them HOMAGERS VASSALLS TRIBUTARIES to the SEE OF ROME With their and our Parliaments Nobles Clergies Commons successive memorable Complaints Oppositions Letters Writs Prohibitions Proceedings against them in the height of Popery The principal Transactions of State between these Kings and the Popes Cardinals Legates Court of Rome with their unparallel'd Avarice Bribery Simony Treachery Tyranny Frauds Impieties Extortions Corruptions are impartially related out of the best Historians in or next that age and irrefragable rare Records in the Tower not formerly published With Vsefull Observations on from them And several Indexes to this Tome By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher and Reader of the Honourable Society of LINCOLNES INNE Tit. 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work 2 Pet. 2. 14 15. An heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse LONDON Printed for the Author by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. and are to be sold by Abel Roper at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet Gabriel Bedell at the inner Temple Gate and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britaine To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of CLARENDON Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Chancellor of the Vniversity of OXFORD and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Counsell MY LORD IT is the Institution of God and Nature that all things by a divine and natural right should terminate in their Original and revert to the Spring from which they issue Hence St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and of our British Isle resolves that as all things in heaven and earth visible and invisible whether Thrones Dominions Principalities Powers or other Creatures were and are created By so likewise TO and FOR GOD their ALPHA and OMEGA Yea King Solomon long before him not only concluded in point of Divinity The Lord hath made all things FOR HIMSELF but thus demonstrates it by natural experimental Philosophy All rivers run into the Sea unto the place from whence the Rivers come THITHER THEY RETURN AGAIN This Contemplation hath excited yea obliged me in point of Right and Equity not only to return but dedicate this Large Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration to Your Lordship from whose unexpected Voluntary Motion and Subsequent Encouragements to collect publish it for the Honour of our Kings Nation Church Kingdome and benefit of Posterity it received its Original Conception Augmentation Production at vacant hours borrowed for the most part from my natural rest and repasts without the least neglect of my other distracting publick Imployments Which may justly excuse all Defects of Ornament Method Stile Substance any Curious Eyes shall discover therein or in my yet uncompleated Preceding or Succeeding Tomes of the same heroick subject not hitherto at large historically discussed by any Antiquary or Historian I have seen I have prefaced this Tome brought forth into the VVorld like Pharez before its elder brother with a brief necessary Introduction to supply the want of my Larger Introduction comprised in the First Book of the First Tome not yet compleated over-large to be annexed to this as I at first designed Wherein I have truly stated that antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed exercised as there was occasion by our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings which I have historically vindicated in Fact and Right in this and my other intended Tomes Whereunto I have subjoyned a short Synopsis of Roman Popes and their Parasites impudent Claims to a Vniversal Antimonarchical if not Antichristian Soveraign Monarchy over all Churches Empires Kingdomes Nations Emperors Kings Prelates Priests persons throughout the world as well in Temporals as Spirituals under their own forged Titles of Christs Vniversal Vicars His and St. Peters Successors which Supremacy they have for sundry ages attempted to exercise and enlarge upon all advantages by scandalous Bulls Excommunications Interdicts Treasons Rebellions Absolutions of Subjects from their Oathes Allegeance deposals of Christian Emperors Kings wresting their Crownes Regal Authority and Kingdomes out of their hands by force and fraud to the grand disturbance of all Christian Realms to which they have forged Titles The sandy foundations of this their pretended Papal Monarchy I have utterly subverted in a new way by the avowed practises of their own Popes Church and Articles of their Romish Faith concerning the Vniversal Empire yea Deification of the Virgin Mary whom they have not only seated Soul and body in the very Throne of the sacred Trinity in heaven but elevated above God the Father and Christ her Sonne intituling her to all their Soveraign Power over all creatures in heaven earth hell to all their Divine Attributes Titles Offices Worship invoking adoring her in their publike private authorized Devotions more then them yea ascribing to her a commanding power over them in heaven it self And by their Doctrine of Transubstantiation or Christs real presence both in his human body soul Deity in every consecrated Host adoring it as God Christ himself seconded with their Legends of his frequent corporeal real visible apparitions on earth which infallibly overturn the foundations whereon they build St. Peters and their own Supremacy Upon which occasion I have briefly and I hope irrefragably refuted by new Topicks not hitherto used or not fully pressed by Protestant Divines their idolatrous Invocations Adorations of the Virgin Mary and other Saints wherein they not only imitate but farr exceed the antient
are inserted out of their due Chronological series or years to which they relate If they consider that this was occasioned either by the continued series of the History to which they relate hapning in divers years which could not well be dis-joyned without greater inconveniences or to unite some Records or Stories of the same kind together illustrating or ratifying each other though different in time or else by casualty or oversight at the Press and withall if they observe how the distinct years rolls of every Record and of most Historians are truly cited quoted in the Text or Margin I hope it will be reputed no Solecism nor just ground of complaint Perhaps some other curious Perusers of this Work may charge me with Tautologie or surplusage for inserting several Letters Procurations of our Kings to Popes Cardinals and Proctors sent to Rome or several Patents and Prohibitions to distinct persons Courts running almost in the same words But I hope the rarity and novelty of them never formerly published in print their confirmation and explanation of each other especially in cases of Prohibitions and the matters conteined in them not mentioned in Story together with my care to avoid the censure of omitting or concealing any records of this nature wherewith others might upbraid me And the constant Practise of the Clergy Popes Prelates Church and Laicks of Rome most likely to pick quarrels with me in repeating sundry dozens scores if not hundreds of Pater-Nosters together on their Beads though that prayer was purposely instituted by Christ himself to avoid and condemn all such repetitions and likewise Reiterations of Ave-Maries of the name of Jesus and other Petitions ejaculations in their Primers Letanies Missals Jesus Psalters Breviaries Offices Howers of the Virgin Mary Manuals of Prayers and other their Bookes of publike and private Devotion will at least acquit if not justifie me against this exception That which I deem some polite dainty Readers will most censure me for is want of Elegant lofty eloquent language embellishments and transitions But this defect my declining age want of competent time to review polish every passage together with the gravity variety of the subject matter the usual Vulgar stile of most of our Records and Law-books will apologize for this defect A plain English Garbe modest natural beauty bush being in Gods and wise mens judgements better decenter commendabler then any fantastick outlandish habit a painted spotted face or effeminate powdred frizled head not of Gods or Natures making but the Barbers or Tyre-womans To conclude all I shall desire of my ingenuous Readers is a friendly construction and kinde acceptation of these my Lucubrations a free pardon of all defects or involuntary oversights if any shall occurr therein together with their cordial prayers for Gods assistance and enablement of me in the compleating of the remaining Tomes if they shall be judged usefull for the publike or gratefull to posterity there being few or none I know or hear of who will probably be at the pains or cost to carry on or compleat them when I am translated hence to a better world and shall rest from all my studies labours in this Farewell The GENERAL CONTENTS of the BOOKS and CHAPTERS conteined in this Second Tome All the particulars whereof being many and various are comprised in the TABLE BOOK 3. CHAP. 1. page 227. COntaining Evidences of King John's Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all Bishops Religious and Ecclesiastical persons Causes Bishopricks Monasteries Tithes Advowsons in granting Licenses to elect and to approve or reject Bishops Abbots when elected Examining the Jurisdictions of all Ecclesiastical Courts Imprisoning banishing Bishops Clergy-men seizing their Bishopricks Spiritualties Confiscating their Goods Benefices for their Contempts Rebellions Treasons against him and obedience to the Popes Interdicts and other unjust Commands with other particulars and his strenuous vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown against Provisions and other Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England and Ireland till the 15. year of his Reign CHAP. 2. page 270. Of King John's most unworthy prostitution not only of the undoubted Rights and priviledges of his Crown but of Himself his Diadem Kingdomes of England and Ireland after so many years Glorious Contests to the Tyrannical Usurpations of Pope Innocent and his own Trayterous Bishops and Clergy Of his resignation of his Crown and Kingdomes by Two supposed Charters but in truth only by one to the Pope and his Successors and resuming them as their Feudatory under an Annual Rent His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope The Validity of this Charter these Rents and their payment debated the present and subsequent Oppositions against them This Kings Opposition against the Encroachments of his Treacherous Rebellious Bishops and Clergy who dealt most perfidiously with and stirred up the Barons warrs Rebellions against him after they had forced him to resign his Crown and protested against his unkingly actions when accomplished by their own procurement and designes With other memorable particulars and Records relating to these transactions and this Kings Charters proceedings in Ecclesiastical Elections Affairs as Supream Patron within his own Dominions BOOK 4. CHAP. 1. King Henry the 3. his succession to King John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Incroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland With the chief passages concerning Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20 years of his young and troublesome reign CHAP. 4. pag. 447. Containing sundry Records Patents and Historical passages evidencing this Kings Supream Jurisdiction in and over Ecclesiastical persons Courts Affairs in England and Ireland The intollerable Vsurpations Extortions Oppressions Innovations Proceedings of Popes their Legates Agents Instruments to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges of the King Church Kingdom Subjects in both these Realms with the several Complaints and Oppositions against them The English and Irish Bishops Covents Courts Christians Encroachments upon the Kings Temporal Courts Rights Royal Dignity and Subjects Liberties The Prohibitions Writs Oppositions against them With the principal Ecclesiastical Affairs and transactions in relation to England and Ireland from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d. his reign CHAP. 3. p. 872. Comprizing sundry evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting this Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Encroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges With the several Prohibitions Writs Mandates issued to restrain them And
some other Ecclesiastical Affairs transactions between the King Pope and Court of Rome from the end of the 40th Year of King Henry the 3d. till the expiration of his Reign Anno Domini 1272. A Brief Necessary INTRODUCTION to An Exact Chronological Vindication c. wherein the Antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed and exercised by our Christian British Roman Saxon Danish Norman and English Kings within their Dominions is particularly stated The Vsurped pretended Vniversal Monarchy and Supream Authority of St. Peter and Popes his imaginary Successors in his Chair at Rome as well in Ecclesiasticals as Temporals with their Claims Titles to and Grounds thereof are concisely related and fully refuted subverted even by the contradictory Practises Devotions Resolutions Principles Assertions of their Roman Church Popes Doctors Votaries concerning the Virgin Mary and Christ in opposition to our Reformed Protestant Churches and Religion THis Second Tome being brought forth to the Worlds View before the First I repute it not only convenient but necessary by way of Introduction to the Chronological and Historical part thereof to present you with a Brief Account of these 4. particulars First What Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction it is that our Christian Kings and Monarchs as Gods Vicars have claimed exercised over all Prelates Spiritual or other persons causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions by an antient undoubted Right in all ages from their first Conversion to Christianity as Supream Heads or Governors of them next under God upon all emergent Occasions unlesse when forcibly or fraudulently interrupted therein by Popes and Popish Prelates and in what particular branches it principally consists Secondly What pretended claimes the Popes or Bishops of Rome of later ages have made and still make to the Supream Vniversal Ecclesiastical and likewise to the Soveraign absolute Temporal Jurisdiction or Monarchy over all Patriarchs Bishops Clergymen Emperors Kings Princes Nobles Laicks Churches Empires Kingdoms Nations throughout the World whether Christian or Pagan and particularly over our Kings kingdomes Istes of Great Britain and Ireland Thirdly By what fictitious Titles Deeds or Conveyances they derive and appropriate this Vniversal Ecclesiastical and Temporal Monarchy wholly and solely to themselves and their successors in the See of Rome Fourthly That the very Practises Resolutions and established Doctrines of their own Popes Doctors concerning the Virgin Mary Christ and Transubstantion refute yea totally subvert this their pretended Title Right unto this their Soveraign Universal Monarchy For the first of these The Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed exercised by our Kings Monarchs as Gods Vicats over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdoms and Dominions in all ages from their first conversion to Christianity as Supream Heads or Governors of them next under God upon all emergent occasions is not as our Romish Antagonists would perswade their seduced Proselytes an actual absolute authority to Administer the Word Sacraments of Baptism the Lords Supper or confer holy Orders by their own actual imposition of hands or exercise the Priests or Bishops peculiar ministerial Offices nor yet by their Laws Edicts or Royal commands to abrogate repeal contradict or dispense with any divine Lawes Precepts Ordinances Institutions Duties enjoyned or prescribed by GOD himself to his Church or Christians in the Old or New Testament nor to set up or countenance any Idolatry Heresie Sect False Doctrine Worship Superstition Innovation Corruption Vice repugnant to the Word of God which all true Christian Monarchs Kings how great soever have utterly disclaimed but it principally consists in these ensuing branches which will best define and explain it First in a Soveraign power by their Lawes Edicts to command enjoyn all Ecclesiastical and other persons whatsoever within their Dominions to serve worship professe fear love obey the only true God to believe embrace the Holy Scriptures and Articles of Faith revealed in them to observe keep use all Gods moral Commandements Evangelical Precepts Sacraments Institutions perform all religious publike and private duties prescribed to them in their respective places callings as Christians relating unto God as well as to men and to punish all such by themselves or their subordinate Ecclesiastical or Civil Magistrates who shall obstinately willfully or supinely offend in any of the premises with Ecclesiastical or Civil censures according to the quality of their persons and offences 2ly To prohibit suppresse and extirpate to their power all Atheism Blasphemy Heresie Idolatry Paganism Irreligion False worships Religions Errors Superstitions Sects Schisms Prophanations Crimes tending to Gods dishonor the prejudice or scandal of the true Religion the endangering of their Subjects souls or disturbance of the Churches as well as Kingdoms publick peace by Laws Edicts and suitable punishments inflicted on all who are guilty of such offences as oportunity shall require 3ly To protect maintain countenance encourage the Churches Ministers and people of God committed to their care in the faithfull publick and private discharge of their Christian duties both towards God and man 4ly To provide a competent number and succession of pious holy learned painfull able Bishops Ministers Pastors diligently to preach teach Gods Word catechize instruct both by Doctrin and Conversation pray with for administer the Sacraments duely and perform all other Episcopal ministerial offices to them and all their Subjects throughout their Realms To provide competent maintenance for them to enjoyn them diligently faithfully to discharge their pastoral duties avoid all scandals offences exorbitances in Doctrine Life And to rebuke correct remove deprive them for negligence Heresie Scisme Simony Scandalous Crimes and other offences in or against their sacred places and Functions 5ly To prescribe institute publike standing Sacred dayes Festivals Fasts for Gods ordinary publike worship and Church-meetings extraordinary Festivals Fasts Humiliations upon extraordinary emergent Occasions as Mercies Victories Dangers Wars Pestilences or other Judgements and see them religiously observed 6ly To erect new Churches Chappels Parishes Bishopricks Archbishopricks Colleges Houses of Religion divide unite or dissolve old to translate Bishops Sees from one City to another yea Abbies Priories into Bishopricks Bishopricks into Archbishopricks To endow them with what Ecclesiastical Priviledges Franchises Jurisdictions Exemptions they please to limit the bounds of their Diocesses Provinces exempt what peculiars Churches Free Chappels Religious Houses Societies they think meet from their Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Visitations Jurisdictions Censures To settle their respective precedencies in all publike Councils Solemnities and determin all Controversies concerning the same 7ly To elect nominate approve confirm yea antiently to invest per Annulum Baculum all Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors and present to all Ecclesiastical Dignities Offices Benefices any ways belonging to their Crowns by patronage lapse or other prerogative upon vacancies by death translation Simony resignation or deprivation To grant Charters Licenses to Deans Chapters Covents or other persons to elect Bishops Abbots c. yet so as to approve or disapprove their Elections when made and
suum sumptum de virgine Non ergo fecit nos corpus suum quod natum est de Virgine sumitur in altari sub specie panis vini sed fecit nos corpus suum spirituaie icil Ecclesiam fidelium â—hough Chrysostom averrs Nos secum Christus in unam quasi massam ut ita dicam reducit neque in fide tantum sed reipsa nos corpus suum effecit Then much lesse can these words of our Saviour This is my body This is my blood of the New Testament c. uttered by him but once necessarily or probably inferr that the Consecrated bread and wine whose Natures shapes accidents Christ never assumed which were never stiled Christ himself his members flesh bone one or one flesh with him in Scripture inferr or imply any real transmutation of them into the very substance of his natural body blood born of the Virgin praeexistent so many hundred years before what ever erroneous Popes Romish Councils or Doctors for their own private lucre to make their Masse a real propitiatory sacrifice for quick and dead have hitherto disputed defined to the contrary Finally Whereas Bellarmine Maldonet and other Pontificians do principally next after hoc est corpus meum ground their Doctrine of Transubstantiation and Christs corporal personal presence in the Eucharist on John 6. 53 54 55 56. Verily verily I say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him I answer 1. Origen * Augustin Bertramus with Berengarius of old and of later times Cardinal Cajetanus in his Commentar in Joan. cap. 6. Hermannus Bodius in his Collectanea as Sixtus Senensis confesseth Cornel. Jansenius in his Concord Evang. in Joan. 6. Biel Cusanus Taper Hesselius and Petrus Lombardus l. 4. Dist 8. D. besides other Docti religiosi probi viri Catholici of the Roman Church as Maldonet acknowledgeth as well as Luther Oecolampadius and other Protestants resolve that this Chapter Text was never intended of the eating of Christs body and blood in the Sacrament but only of our mystical or spiritual eating and drinking it by faith alone as these unanswerable arguments will evidence 1. Because these words were spoken by Christ near a year or more before the institution of the Lords Supper 2ly They were spoken to all the people and Capernaites who followed Christ only for the loaves John 6. 26 to 67 to whom he never administred the Sacrament not to his 12. disciples to whom only he administred it at his last Supper in private 3ly Because it speaks only of the eating of that bread and flesh of his which came down from heaven not of the Sacramental bread or wine of which there is not one syllable in this Chapter being not then instituted 4ly Of that eating and drinking which is only spiritual by faith not oral by the mouth or teeth and so St. Peter himself as well as Christ then expounded it v. 69. 5ly Of such an eating Christs flesh and drinking his blood without which none can have spiritual or eternal life Therefore not of a Sacramental eating else all infants and others who die before they receive the Sacrament must necessarily be damned which the Church of Rome as well as Protestants contradict 6ly Of such an eating and drinking only which gives eternal life to all who eat Christs flesh and drink his bloud which the Sacramental eating doth not for all unworthy communicants eat and drink damnation to themselves 1 Cor. 11. 23 24. 7ly Of such an eating his flesh and drinking his blood as their dwelling is in Christ and Christ in them John 6. 56. but that dwelling is only spiritual or mystical by faith alone not by eating swallowing bodily inhabitation union or commixture with the bodies of the Communicants as many Romanists in odium haereticorum assert by Suarez his confession 2ly Admit this Text meant of the Sacramental eating Christs flesh drinking his blood it proves only a quite contrary transubstantiation to that the Romanists assert to wit of the flesh of Christ into meat or bread indeed of his blood into drink or wine indeed not of bread into his flesh indeed as the words infallibly attest 3ly It utterly subverts their half-communion and depriving Lay-communicants totally of drinking Christs blood by taking from them the sacred Wine Cup here severed from their eating his flesh in the consecrated bread as not only sacrilegious but damnable since none by the express Letter of the objected Text can have any everlasting life or dwell in Christ and Christ in them unless they drink his blood as well as eat his flesh being here thrice coupled together with the conjunction and yea ratified with this double asseveration of Christ himself who is the truth Verily Verily I say unto you So as they must now either renounce their half communion or this abused Text and their Doctrine of Transuâ—â—â—aâ—â—iation founded thereon Which as it subverts St. Peters and their Popes usurped Universal Ecclesiastical and Temporal Monarchy Vicarship and as it is wholly inconsistent with it or their Ladies Queens Empresse Goddesse Maries Soveraignty or the antient undoubted Ecclesiastical and Temporal Rights of all Christian Kings so particularly of our Kings of England and Ireland whose Papal usurpations on their Crownes were the original occasion of many horrid Conspiracies Insurrections Rebellions Treasons Wars Attempts against their sacred Persons Prerogatives Subjects Liberties Properties in former ages as the ensuing Exact Chronological Vindication c. will at large demonstrate during the Reigns of King John and Henry the 3d. to which I shall now apply my self having been more large in this Introduction to it to help fill up the vacant Pages left for the second Book which I originally designed to have annexed thereunto but amounting to an intire Tome of it self was necessitated to sever from it THE SECOND TOME AND THIRD BOOKE The Prologue I Am now through Divine assistance arrived at the Second TOME and Principally intended part of An Exact Chronological and Historical Demonstration of our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings Supream Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and the Popes and Popish Prelates intollerable Usurpations on Oppositions against the same beginning with the Tempestuous Reign of our Unfortunate King John when the Antientest Charter Clause Fine Liberate Patent and other Rolls yet extant in the Treasury of the Tower of London begin the Jawes of All-devouring Time having totally consumed all precedent Rolls of this nature during his Predecessors Regins except some Antient Charters and other Fragments of Records never reduced into Rolls In this Kings Reign we meet with
the Highest Attempts the most Audacious Dangerous Conspiracies and Treasonable Vsurpations ever formerly made not only upon the just antient Rights Priviledges Prerogatives of the Crown but also upon this King and his Kingdoms of England and Ireland themselves occasioned by the Treacheries Rebellions of some of his disloyal Popish Prelates at home instigating the Barons to take up Arms against Him and by the Unchristian Practises Tyranny of Pope Innocent the III. combining with those perfidious Bishops who perswaded him to Interdict the whole Kingdom Excommunicate King John himself for sundry years and at last to deprive him of his Crown Kingdomes and give them to the King of France yea injoyning exciting him and other foreign Enemies to raise puissant forces by Land and Sea to deprive him and his Posterity of the Crown and Realms of England and Ireland by open force The Clashes betwixt the Papal Crosier and Royal Scepter during his reign arising from small beginnings and the contests between Him Stephen Langeton Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops Barons confederating with him farre exceeding those of King Henry the I. and II. with Archbishop Aâ—selm and Becket his trayterous predecessors canonized for their Treasons and producing the saddâ—st Tragedies ever acted in any Age on the Theatre of our other Little World Which though resolutely and gallantly resisted encountred by King John with great Regal Magnanimity Courage Pâ—udence and good success for sundry years at first yet at last through the Terrours of the Popes long-continued Interdicts Excommunications Abjudication of him from his Crown Kingdoms the formidable Forces of his Foreign Enemies ready to invade seise upon Him and them the Treachery of many of his own Bishops Clergy Nobility Subjects all absolved from their Allegiance to him by this nocent Pope Innocent on whose cordial assistance he could not safely rely but principally through the panniâ—k Fears Terrours wrought in his mind by the prophecies of Peter the Hermit forged Letters and the uncessant intoxicating Sollicitations of Pandulpbus the Popes Legate representing all these Dangers to his sad melancholly Thoughts in their blackest colours perswading him there was no other possible means left to preserve his Life Crown Kingdoms ward off the impendent Dangers disperse the Tempestuous Clouds then hanging over him or to save his Immortal Soul but by making his peace with God and taking Sanctuary in Pope Innocents bosom by casting Himself down at his Papal feet and resigning his Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland into his hands to protect dispose of as his Own was thereupon in conclusion though with much reluctancy induced to resigne them by a detestable Charter into this Popes Legates hands to his use to become the Popes feudatory under an Annual Rent yea to do Homage swear Fealty to him and his successors as their Vassal to his perpetual Infamy as likewise to part with other Chief Flowers of his Royal Ecclesiastical Prerogative and Jurisdiction over his perfidious Usurping Popish Bishops to his own and his Successors grand prejudice Which encouraged succeeding Popes Prelates upon every oportunity to make many new successive dangerous bold Incroachments upon the Prerogatives Rights Priviledges of our Kings their Subjects Liberties Properties to their Intollerable Grievance till at last they were necessitated by degrees to shake off their unsupportable Papal yoaks and Usurpations I shall begin with some Histories and Records in the first Year of King Johns Reign evidencing the Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction both claimed and exercised by him in and over all Persons Causes within his Realms with his vigilant care industry to preserve the same against Foreign Papal Domestick Episcopal and Monastical Usurpations upon several emergent occasions proceeding in a Chronological Method except only where the Series of the History to make it compleat and more intelligible or some other just occasion shall necessitate me to resort to Subsequent Years and Records before their just order of Time BOOK III. CHAP. I. Conteining Evidences of King Johns Supream Jurisdiction over all Bishops Religious and Ecclesiastical Persons Causes Bishopricks Monasteries Tithes Advousons in granting Licenses to elect and to approve or reject Bishops Abbots when elected examining the Jurisdictions of all Ecclesiastical Courts Imprisoning Banishing Bishops Clergy-men seizing their Bishopricks Spiritualties Confiscating their Goods Benefices for their Contempts and Obedience to the Popes Interdicts and unjust Commands with other particulars and his strenuous vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown against Provisions and other Papal and Prelatical Usurpations in England and Ireland till the 15. year of his Reign IT is very observable that King John at his Coronation in Westminster Abby June 9. Anno Dom. 1199. was sworn in the first place by Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury as Matthew Paris and others relate Quod sanctam Ecclesiam ejus ordinatos diligeret eam ob incursione malignatium INDEMNEM CONSERVARET Dignitates illius bonafide et sine malo ingenio SERVABIT ILLAESAS as Roger Hoveden expresseth it This Archbishop with all the Bishops Abbots Nobles present at and consenting to this Oath and doing Homage and Fealty to him thereby declared him to be Supream Governour Patron Protector and Head on Earth of the Church of England as well in Ecclesiastical as Temporal affairs else this Oath had been Nugatory The 13. of June following he was solemnly divorced in Normandy in the presence of 3. of his Norman Bishops from the Duke of Gloucesters daughter Unde magnam Summi Pontificis Innocentii tertii Curiae Romanae indignationem incurrit praesumens temere contra Leges Canones dissolvere quod eorum suerat Auctoritate Colligatum as Radulfus de Diceto informs us But he no more valuing their Indignation then he did their Canons and Laws soon after married Isabel sole daughter and heir of the Earl of Engolesme who was crowned Queen Octob. 8. by Archbishop Hubert this Pope and Cardinals not daring to question or null his marriage Immediately after Pope Innocent the 3d. sent his Legate to King John desiring him to release Philip Bishop of Bâ—lvoire taken Prisoner by King Richard the first in the Field and kept Prisoner by him all his life notwithstanding this and other Popes importunate Letters for his enlargement VNDER PAIN OF AN INTERDICT who had-then by the space of two years been detained under most cruel Imprisonment some months in his very Armes in which he was taken fighting not suffered to be put off day or night But because the said Bishop was taken in Armes as a Souldier and Plunderer against the Dignity of his Order the King notwithstanding this Popes intreaties and menaces would not enlarge him untill he had paid 6000. marks of sterling money to his Exchequer and 2000. marks for his expences during his Imprisonment under King Richard and himself which he accordingly paid And till he had also taken an Oath before the Cardinals and other Bishops never thereafter to bear Armes during his life
copiosam milites solummodo servientes liberos homines cum Balistariis sagitariis juxta maritima retinentes Venit praeterea de Hibornia Johannes Episcopus Norwicensis cum militibus quingentis equitibus multis ad Regem ab ipso gratanter susceptus est Omnibus igitur congregatis ad pugnam aestimati sunt in exercitu apud Barham donam inter milites electos servientes strenuos bene armatos sexaginta millia virorum fortium quibus si erga Regem Angliae et defensionem Patriae cor fuisset et anima una non fuisset Princeps sub Coelo contra quem regnum Angliae se non defenderet Constituit preterea Rex cum adversariis navale praelium conferre ut eos pelago submergeret antequam terram occuparent Habebat namque classem uberiorem quam Rex Francorum unde maximam securitatem concepit hostibus resistendi What King John in point of prudence Policy Valour Warre Justice Conscience could have done more then he did to protect and defend the invaded Rights of his Crown Kingdom people Church of England against the manifold unparalleld Treasons Policies Stratagems Usurpations affronts unjust demands Interdict excomunication dijudication from his Crown and Kingdomes and intended invasions of this insolent Pope and his Agents his own perjured Trayterous Bishops Monks Clergy and their domestick confederats his French and other forraign enemies with admirable courage gallantry prudence success for 8. years space together transcends my understanding to define the times and circumstances duly considered for which he really deserved more honour thanks from the Crown Church Realm and people of England then all of his predecessors had he still persevered in his former unshaken magnanimous Resolutions and not been decoyed by Pandulphus must strangly to fail in his last actings his Army and Navy then raised through Gods assistance being able to have encountred all the forces raised against him and dissipated them like a mist before the Sun BOOK III. CHAP. II. Of King Johns most unworthy prostitution not only of the undoubted Rights and Privileges of his Crown but of Himself his Diadem Kingdoms of England and Ireland after so many years glorious Contests to the Tyrannical Vsurpations of Pope Innocent and his own Trayterous Bishops and Clergy Of his resignation of his Crown and Kingdoms by two several Charters to the Pope and his Successors and resuming of them as their Feudatory under an Annual Rent His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope The Validity of these Charters Rents and their payment debated The present subsequent Oppositions against them His Oppositions to the Encroachments of his Treacherous Rebellious Bishops and Clergy who dealt most Treacherously with and stirred up the Barons Wars Rebellions against him when they had enforced him to resign his Crown and protested against his Vnkingly actions when accomplished by their own procurement and designs With other memorable particulars and Records relating to these Transactions and this Kings Charters proceedings in Ecclesiastical Elections Affairs as Supream Patron therein within his own Dominions HAving presented you with King Johns most heroick vigilant strenuous defence of his supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over all persons causes within his Realms and Dominions for 14. years space I shall in the next place inform you by what arts menaces fears terrours he was at last by the intoxications of the Pope and his Legate Pandulphus when he had raised such a puissant Army as might have secured him against all Foreign Invaders a small part of his Navy burning and sinking all the French Kings Fleet in Flanders soon after the surrender of his Crown suddenly emasculated and totally metamorphosed into a quite contrary person resolution and induced not only to part with most of the antient Ecclesiastical Prerogatives united to his Crown but with his very Crown Kingdoms themselves which he resigned to the Pope becoming his sworn Vassal Tenant for his own Kingdoms under an annual rent which rendred him a scorn derision to his Bishops Barons Subjects and all other Christian Kings with the Arguments and Policies by which the Pope and his Legates effected these their unjust designs You heard in the precedent Chapter what a puissant Army and Navy King John had provided to resist the Invasions of the French King and all his Confederates who conspired to deprive him of his Crown Kingdoms and what secret Agreements Articles Instructions the Pope had given to Pandulphus to communicate to K. John whereby he might purchase his peace at Rome if condescended to by him without any hesitation I shall now proceed to inform you out of Matthew Paris how Pandulphus proceeded to accomplish the Popes designs and decoy King John to submit to his most unworthy Proposals DUm autem Rex Anglorum cum innumera Armatorum copia circa maritima Regis Francorum prestolaretur adventum applicuerunt duo fratres de Militia templi apud Doveram venientes amicabiliter ad Regem dixerunt ei Missi sumus ad te O Rex potentissime ex parte Pandulphi subdiaconi ac Domini Papae familiaris qui pro utilitate vestra Regni vestri vobiscum petit habere colloquium proponet enim quandam tibi pacis formam qua poteris Deo Ecclesiae reconciliari licet in Curia Romana â— jure Regni Angliae abjudicatus fueris sententialiter condemnatus Rex vero cum Templariorum verba intellexisset misit Templarios memoratos propter Pandulphum quantocius transfretare Venit ergo Pandulphus ut dictum est invitatus ad Regem apud Doveram cum ipso loquutus est dicens Ecce Rex Francorum potentissimus in Ostio Sequanae fluminis cum innumera navium multitudine maximo militum equitum peditumque stipatus agmine ad hoc expectat ut majoribus adhuc vallatus catervis super vos Regnum vestrum hostiliter veniat quasi Domino summo Pontifici rebellem a Regno te violenter depellat atque authoritate sedis Apostolicae Regnum Angliae perpetuo jure possideat Veniunt cum illo omnes Episcopi dudum ab Anglia proscripti cum Clericis Laicis exultantibus ut ipso duce sedes Episcopales cum rebus aliis te invito recipiant obsequium vobis olim antecessoribus vestris exhibitum ipsi de caetero reverenter impendant Jactat se praeterea idem Rex Chartas habere omnium fere Angliae Magnatum de fidelitate subjectione unde plenam concepit securitatem ad finem optimum rem perducere inchoatam Consule ergo saltem nunc quasi in extremis agenti utilitati tuae ut ad poenitentiam redeas Dominum quem contra te ad vindictam provocasti gravissimam placere ne differas si enim sufficientem volueris praestare cautionem judicio Ecclesiae parendi humiliari pro ipso qui se pro te humiliavit poteris ex Clementia sedis Apostolicae Regnum recuperare a quo pro
Obedience to him till conformable to his Papal pleasure and to dispence with the Kings own Oathes to his Barons and people 8ly A pretended supream Antichristian Papal authority actually to deprive the King and his Heirs of his very hereditary Crown Kingdoms and give them away to other foreign Princes 9ly To command foreign Kings and all Christian Nobles Knights Souldiers by force of armes to seize upon and expell him his Kingdoms and issue out Crossadoes to War against and dethrone him as if he were a meer Saracen and Turk 10ly A Jurisdiction to deprive suspend sequester excommunicate the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Ecclesiastical and Temporal Peers and Cities of the Realm at his Papal pleasure and summon them to attend the Pope personally at Rome to undergo his Papal censures 11ly A liberty inserted into the Great Charter for all Bishops Clergymen Monks and others to depart out of the Realm resort to Rome or to the Kings Enemies without his Royal license first obtained and to return again at their pleasures 12ly A liberty for all Chapters Covents Monks Clergymen freely to elect whom they pleased to Bishopricks Monasteries Deaneries and other preferments in the Kings Donation and to reject whatever persons the King should specially recommend unto them though never so deserving so as the King could prefer no person to any elective Dignity within his Realms but whom the Chapters Covents Clergy should voluntarily elect and the Pope or his Legates actually confirm at their pleasures 13ly A power to sequester suspend deprive excommunicate and reduce to extream necessity all such Scholars Clergymen and Loyal Subjects who had so much loyalty and courage as to appear in defence of the King and his Cause against the Popes illegal injurious encroachments and to protect advance reward encourage all Traytors and Rebells against the King to advance the Popes Usurpations 14ly A power to sell Archbishopricks Bishopricks Monasteries and all other Ecclesiastical preferments Palls to those who would give most money for them to extort monies for Papal Benedictions Valedictions dismissions from attendance in General Councils or the See of Rome upon summons thither 15ly An over-awing authority over all the Bishops Clergy of England Ireland to obey the Popes most unjust treasonable commands against the expresse commands protestations of the King Barons Kingdoms to the Kings Realms and Churches prejudice 16ly A power to hear and determine by Appeal or otherwise all causes and controversies concerning elections unions or disunions of Churches or other Ecclesiastical Offices As to the Kings and Kingdoms Temporal Rights and Jurisdictions Pope Innocent made these unparalleld encroachments on them 1. An actual Interdiction of the whole Realm sundry years for a pretended personal contempt in the King alone and after that the like Interdict of the Londoners and Barons temporal Estates for their Rebellions and civil offences against the King 2ly An Antichristian power to dethrone dis-inherit the King and his Heirs of their hereditary right in the Crown Kingdoms of England and Ireland and to transfer them to foreign Kings and Enemies without the Kings or Kingdoms consent or any tryal hearing of the King or Kingdom 3ly A forcible wrested resignation from the King of his Crown Scepter Kingdoms to the Pope and his Successors without his Barons or Kingdoms consents by a void illegal extorted Charter 4ly A resuming of them by King John and his Heirs from the Pope and his Successors under an Annual Rent or Pension and extorting of an Oath of Homage and Fealty from the King as a meer Vassal and Tributary to the Pope and Church of Rome directly contrary to the Rights of the Crown and freedom Office Royaly of a King 5ly A power to confirm null repeal the Kings own Temporal Charters yea Great Charters of Liberties and the Forrest and judge of their validity or invalidity at his Papal pleasure 6ly A power to examine hear determine the Right and Title of King John and others to the Crown of England and decide them in the Court of Rome as the supream Judicature in such cases 7ly A Jurisdiction to hear and determine all civil controversies touching Priviledges Rights Franchises between the King and his Barons and excommunicate them for not submitting to his Papal Edicts therein 8ly A power to make Truces and prohibit Christian Kings to War upon each others Kingdoms under pain of Excommunication and Interdiction 9ly A pretended right to protect all Kings and Nobles who took up the Crosse from any civil proceedings Wars against each other during the Crossado and to recommend promote grant prescribe Taxes Tenths to maintain those Wars against the Turks but in truth to fill his Papal coffers 10ly A power to exempt Treacherous Rebellious Clergymen from being Out-lawed or Interdicted by the King and force the King by publike Patents to disclaim this his antient Prerogative with his power of detaining any Clerks in Prison for capital Crimes or Felonies if demanded to be delivered by and to their Ordinaries All these with some other Usurpations of lesse concernment reducible to these heads were introduced by Pope Innocent the 3d. during the reign of King John never practised in England before by any of his ambitious Predecessors and so fastned upon the necks of the King Kingdom by wholesale by means of King Johns forced resignation of his Crown to the Pope intestine Wars differences between the King his Bishops Barons this Pope and his Legates policies that his Successors for many years after though they frequently complained petitioned against them with much earnestnesse and regret yet were hardly able with all their power or policy to resist much lesse to shake them off but only by piece-meal and inches as they had strength and opportunity to do it I shall now proceed to his Sons and Successors long yet troublesome reign by like unhappy contests between the Crosâ—er and Scepter the King and his Barons upon pretext of publike Liberty and our Ecclesiastical affairs under him THE FOVRTH BOOK CHAP. I. K. Henry the 3d. his succession to K. John his Coronation necessitated Oath Homage Subjection to Transactions Complyance with the Pope and See of Rome against his own and the Nobles wills his and their Complaints Oppositions Prohibitions against the Popes Bishops Clergies Encroachments Exactions both in England and Ireland with the chief passages concerning the Ecclesiastical affairs in them during the first 20. years of his young troublesome reign KIng John being taken out of this world by poyson through the implacable malice of the Monks and Prelates having then many Enemies both of Earls Barons and more especially of the Popish Clergy Henry his eldest son was then but of the Age of 9. Years at which time most of the Lords of England adhering to Lewes the French Kings son whom they had sent for before in displeasure of King John to be their King and had sworn to him their Allegiance Thereupon William Earl Marshall a Noble man of great
salvos plegios praedictos H. Dublinensem T. Tuamensem Archiepiscopos T. Clokoren Episcopum quod sint coram vobis ad diem competentem prout videritis expedire ostensuri quare tenuerint placitum in curia Christianitatis de Laico feodo ipsius Comitis in Lagenia contra Prohibitionem nostram et poni similiter faciatis per vadium et salvos plegios praedictum Fernensem Episcopum quod sit coram vobis ad eundem diem ostensurus quare prosecutus est placitum illud in curia Christianitatis contra prohibitionem nostram Teste Com. apud Gloucestriam Vicesimo die Aprilis As these Archbishops usurped upon the Kings Crown in his Courts in Ireland so some Souldiers after the War ended seised some of the Bishops Castles and Lands in England contra Regis prohibitionem illorum voluntatem detinere praesumpserunt Inter quos Robertus de Gaugi post multas Regis admonitiones Castellum de Neuverk cum villa tota pertinenti is multis quae ad jus Hugonis Episcopi Lincolniensis spectabant ei reddere contradixit Whereupon the Protector being highly offended by the Kings command raised a great Army and marching thither in person with the King beseiged it till surrendered to the Bishop by composition he paying one hundred pounds to Gaugi for the victuals in the Castle without receiving any recompence for the Town which he burnt down before the seige In the 3d. year of King Henry the 3d. the Bishoprick of Leismore united formerly to the Bishoprick of Waterford by the Popes Legat in Ireland whiles the Bishop was in England at the consecration of the Bishop of Carlile Macrobius a Canon of Leismore procuring an election from the rest of the Canons pretending the See to be then voyd obtained the Legates and Kings royal assent to the election and restitution of the Temporalties whereof the Bishop of Waterford complaining to the King the King upon information of the fraud and circumvention nulled that election and commanded the Bishop to be put in possession of his Temporalties notwithstanding his former Writs REX Justic Hiberniae salutem Cum venerabilis in Christo Pater R. Waterford Episcopus de mandato Venerabilis Patris G. quondam Legati in Anglia ad partes boreales pro Consecrando Episcopo Carleolensi accessisset Magister R. de Bedeford cum Magistro Macrobio David Canonicis Lismor ad Domum P nunc Legatum in Anglia nos consilium nostrum advenisset protestans ostendens quasdem Literas quibus Capitulum Lismor eisdem M. D. Canonicis potestatem contulerat eligendi Pastorem ad Lismor Ecclesiam quam tunc nobis asserebant vacare Nos dictis eorum fidem adhibentes electioni de persona ipsius Magistri R. sic celebratae Regium praestantes assensum eo quod consona videbantur esse rationi quae fuerunt de eadem nobis proposita si veritate fuissent subnixa ipsum Magistrum R. in possessionem omnium bonorum ad Ecclesiam Lismor spectantium tanquam Electum praecepimus Sane cum postmodum reverteretur Episcopus ille Waterford Episcopus proponens nobis et Concilio nostro ipsum et praedecessores suos Lismor Ecclesiam cum suis pertinentiis tanquam partem Episcopatus Waterfordensis diutius tenuisse et possedisse exhibuit ipsi Domino Legato et concilio nostro literas Domini I. titulo Sancti Stephani in monte Celio Presbyter Cardinalis pridem in Hibernia Legato super Ordinatione eorundem Episcopatuum qui licet aliquando tempore Hiberniensi divisi extitissent ut dicebatur ostendit eos per ipsum Legatum coadunatos nec poterat sic aliquis in ejus praejudicium qui utrique praesedebat Ecclesiae in unam earum per falsi suggestionem ingressum fraudulenter promeruisse Nos igitur attendentes nunc ex ipsius relatione et operis exhibitione Majestatem nostram fallaciter per ipsum Magistrum R. esse circumventum qui Lismoriensem Ecclesiam nobis dixit esse vacantem et nos sic ejus electioni fecit tacita veritate consentire decrevimus ut cum mendax precator carere debeat impetratis nec ei praestare debeat patrocinium quod per fraudem et dolum nisus est a nobis et consilio nostro impetrasse memoratus Waterfordensis Episcopus in possessionem omnium bonorum praefatae Ecclesiae Lismoriensis inducat Quocirca Uobis Mandamus quatenus non obstantibus literis nostris quas ipse Magister R. de Bedeford suppressa veritate a nobis et Consilio nostro obtinuit quibus possessionem eorum quae ad Ecclesiam Lismoriensem pertinent est adeptus sine dilatione memorato Waterfordensi Episcopo plenam seisinam habere faciatis omnium possessionum quae ad ipsam Ecclesiam Lismoriensem noscuntur pertinere Teste H. de Burgo Justic apud Westmonasterium Septimo die Junii per Literas suas dominorum Winton Dunolm Episcoporum factas authoritate Domini Legati IDem in narratione mandatum est Archiepiscopo Cassel in fine mandatum est ei quod dictum Waterfordensem Episcopum Episcopatum Lismoriensem pacifice possidere permittat Teste ut supra Consimiles Literas habent Patentes direct eisdem A clear evidence of this Kings Supremacy in and over Bishops Bishopricks and Ecclesiastical persons causes within the Realm of England as also of the Popes Legates late Usurpations there to unite Bishopricks without the King The Bishop of Ely an inveterate Enemy both to King John and King Henry the 3d. going into France after Lewes his return thither reported King Henry to be dead and endeavoured to stir up a new Warre and rebellion against him whereupon the King Writ to the Pope to deprive him and bestow his Bishoprick by provision upon some other the Isle of Ely being a place of strength and receptacle of Lewes and the Barons heretofore in which Letter the King acknowledgeth the Popes great favours and assistance to him during his infancy puts himself and his Realm under the protection of his Wings and by way of complement stiles them the Patrimony of the Church of Rome to gaine the Popes readier Protection and assistance in his suits Wars SANCTISSIMO Patri ac Spirituali Domino suo H. Dei gratia summo Pontifici Devotus filius ejus H. sua post Deum gratia Rex Angliae c. recommendationem et devota osculapedum Incipiens respirare una cum regno nostro Majestatis vestrae nostrae et sacrosanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Patrimonio post tot Angustias et pressuras quae Clarae Memoriae Patrem meum et me postmodum invenerunt et ereptus per Dei gratiam et vestrae paternitatis sollicitudinem ab ipso laqueo venantium vitam meam cum tam aetas mea quam status et tranquillitas regni nostri in teneritate concordent nec ut ita dicam sunt in aetate perfecti sub tegmine Alarum vestrarum inenarrabili mihi clementia
under the wardship of Peter Bishop of Winchester was on Whitsonday Crowned the second time at Westminster by Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury Soon after which there being a difference concerning the Bishoprick of Ely between Galfridus de Burgo Archdeacon of Norwich and Robert of York the Pope at last nulled both their Elections and conferred the Bishoprick upon John Abbot of Fontain who was consecrated at Westminster The same year and day Hugh Bishop of Lincoln was canonized a Saint in this form AD natales Domini Sanctus Hugo Lincolniensis Episcopus a Papa Honorio canonizatus est in Catalogo Sanctorum admissus facta prius Miraculorum ejus inquisitione a Stephano Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo Abbate de Fontibus Johanni sicut in hoc sequenti Domini Papae authentico continetur HONORIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei dilectis filiis universis Christi fidelibus praeseâ—tem paginam inspecturis salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Divinae dignatio pietatis Sanctos electos suos in coelestis Regni foelicitate locatos adhuc in terra miraculorum coruscatione clarificat ut fidelium per hoc excitata devotio eorum suffragia digna veneratione deposcant Cum igitur Sanctae recordationis Hugonem Lincolniensem Episcopum quem sicut nobis plenarie constat divini muneris largitas tam in vita quam etiam post vestem mortalitatis exutam insignium miraculorum multitudine illustravit Sanctorum Catologo Asscripsimus universitatem vestram monemus exhortamur in Domino quatenus eius apud Deum patrocinia devote imploretis Ad haec statuentes ut die depositionis ipsius ejusdem festivitas annis fingulis devote de caetero celebretur Data Viterbii xiij Kalend. Marcii Pontificatus nostri Anno quarto The transcendent virtues of this canonized Bishop were his ingratitude and perfidiousnesse to King John in resorting to this Arch-traytor Stephen of Canterbury receiving his Consecration from siding with him against and deposing of the King contrary to his Oath and duty for which the King seized his Temporalties and kept them in his hands near five years space Yet for these virtues this Archbishop procured him to be canonized for a Saint About the same time this Arch-traytor Stephen to canonize Treason against our Kings as demeriting the highest honour and Saintship caused his Trayterous insolent Predecessor Thomas Becket to be translated enshrined adored with great solemnity Thus related by Matthew Paris EOdem tempore levatum est de lapide marmoreo corpus Beati Thomae Archiepiscopi Martyris a Stephano Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo praesente Rege omnibus ferè Episcopis totius Regni cum Abbatibus Prioribus Comitibus Baronibus Clero populo multo in crastino Octavarum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Cujus corpus sanctissimum collocatum est honorifice in Pheretro ex auro lapidibus pretiosis mirabiliter fabrefacto Interfuerunt etiam huic translationi Archiepiscopi Episcopi Abbates Priores alii multi de Regno Francorum aliarumque diversarum Regionum qui ob honorem reverentiam Beati Martyris ut tantae adessent solemnitati alacriter convenerunt Nam dignissimum omnibus videbarur ut Sanctum Martyrem Christi generaliter honorarent et colerent qui pro universali Ecclesia sanguinem suum fundere et ad finem usque non timuit fideliter decertare It is observable That most of the English many of the French Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Clergy and of other Countries were by the Archbishops invitation present at the translation of this Arch-traytor Becket as most worthy to be honoured and worshipped as a Saint and Martyr for the universal Church of Christ for which he shed his blood and truthfully contested against his Soveraign till the last only to exempt Clergymen though Traytors Rebels Murderers Sodomites Theeves from secular Jurisdiction and overturn the antient Rights Prerogatives of the Crown and Kingdom too as the premises demonstrate No wonder therefore that so many Archbishops Bishops and Clergymen in our own and other Kingdoms became Arch-traytors Rebels to their Emperors and Kings since it was the readiest way to procure the highest preferments that Popes could conferre upon them in their lives and a canonization adoration of them for Saints and holy Martyrs after their deaths King Henry the 3d. this year issued on a memorable Prohibition and Proclamation to the Sheriffs of Middlesex Hertford and Surry prohibiting any to enter into any the Lands of the Bishop of London under a penalty as his Father King John had done before him REX Vicecomiti Middlesex salutem Constat nobis consilio nostro quod Dominus J. Rex Pater noster per Literas suas Patentes prohibuit ne quis Feoda W. quondam London Episcopi ingrederetur sive ex donâ— sive ex venditione sive ex invadiatione sive ex concessione alicujus sine assensu et voluntare ejusdem Episcopi Nos autem Venerabili Patri E. London Episcopo idem concedentes prohibemus super forisfacturam nostram ne quis Feoda ingrediatur sive ex dono sive ex venditione sive ex invadatione vel concessione alicujus sine assensu et voluntate ipsius Episcopi Et ideo tibi praecipimus quod hanc prohibitionem nostram clamari facias per totam Ballivam tuam et firmiter observari Si quis autem contra hanc prohibitionem nostram Feodum ipsius Episcopi ingredi praesumpserit sine assensu et voluntate ipsius Episcopi sicut praedictum est tu sine dilatione eidem Episcopo plenariam inde seisinam habere facias capiens ad opus nostrum ab illo quâ— Feodum suum sic ingressus fuerit forisfacturam nostram in quam incidit ex hoc facto durent autem Literae istae usque ad aetatem nostram Teste H. c. apud Turrim London Tertio die Julii Per eundem Concilium Domini Regis Eodem modo scribitur Vicecomitibus Hereford Surr. A pregnant evidence of our Kings Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in and over Bishops and Bishopricks Soon after the King having in his Temporal Court recovered by Judgement the Church of Acley against the Prior and Canons of St. Friswiths in Oxford they by false suggestions to detain the possession of the Church against the King procured Letters from the Pope to certain Delegates to examine the cause again in prejudice of the Kings Court Crown and Dignity whereupon the King issued forth this memorable Prohibition to and Appeal against them to preserve his Right and Prerogative REX Abbatibus de Stanlegge de Bordest Priori de Stanl salutem Sciatis quod Venerabilis Pater P. Norwicensis electus publice recognovit coram vener Patribus E. London P. Wintoniensi J. Bathoniensi W. Coventrensi R. Sarisburiensi B. Roffensi Episcopis praesenti etiam Domino Linc. aliis fidelibus de Consilio nostro Quod nunquam per ipsum vel mandatum suum Prior Canonici Sancti Fritswith
charissimi in Christo filii Regis Angliae illustris votis liberaliter annuimus ut ei in his quae dignè deposcit nos favorabiles exhibeamus Cum igitur sicut ex parte sua fuit propositum coram nobis nonnulli Pontifices et alii Praelati Regni sui Ballivos suos super his quae ad jurisoictionem Regiam pertinent coram se pro suo compellant libito litigare ac in eos nisi coram ipsis litigent excommunicationis ferant sententias in ipsius Regis praejudicium et gravamen Nos ejus supplicationibus inclinati ut nullus ipsius Regni Archiepiscopus Episcopus vel alius Praelatus Ballivos ipsos coram se super his quae ad Regiam jurisdictionem pertinent litigare compellat vel hac de causa in eos hujusmodi ferant sententias auctoritate literarum districte durimus inhibendum Quocirca discretioni vestrae per Apostolica scripta mandamus quatenus praedictum super his contra inhibitionis nostrae tenorem non permittatis ab aliquibus indebite molestare Malefactores c. Datum Lugdini 7 Idus Martii Pontificatus nostri Anno 7. Hoc tamen non sine redarguatione peritorum haec fecit Dominus Rex Quod scilicet conquestus est super hoc Dominus Papae Having royal power to redress it himself by his own Writs of Prohibition asis evident by this remarkable Writ of K. Henry the 3d. in the 20th year of his Reign casually omitted in its due place directed to the Official of the Bishop of Winchester enjoyning him to absolve the Kings Bayliffs whom he had unjustly Excommunicated at the suit of the Prior of St. Swithin in Winchester for seising upon a Royal Fish belonging to the King by his Prerogative which the Prior claimed because drawn on shore upon his Land REX Magistro W. Officiali P. Winton Episcopi salutem Ad nostram pervenit noticiam quod cum quidam Piscis Regius nuper applicaret in terra Prioris Sancti Swithinis Winton constantibus illuc tà m Ballivis nostris quà m Ballivis ipsius Prioris manu communi esset ad terram tractus unanimi assensu Ballivorum nostrorum ipsius Prioris esset in quadam domo depositus sale conditus quia Ballivi nostri tandem non permiserunt dictum Priorem pro voluntate sua de dicto Pisce disponere resumentes eum ad opus Regium delata inde vobis querela per praefatum Priorem sententiam Excommunicationis in Ballivos nostros praecipitatis unde si miremur et movemur minime mirari debetis cum nullus in Regno nostro jus habeat hujusmodi Regium Piscem vendicandi ubicunque applicuerit nisi de jure speciali a nobis vel Praedecessoribus nostris 〈◊〉 fuerat indultum Et licet Ballivi nostri graves exstitissent ipso Priori vel 〈◊〉 super concessa ei à Regia potesrate libertate ob Regiam tamen reverentiam requirendi essemus ut id emendari faceremus et tunc demum si negligentes essemus in hac parte posset in Ballivos nostros honestius animadverti Et ideo vobis mandamus rogantes quatenus praefatos Ballivos nostros a dicta sententia Excommunicationis faciatis absolvi Et si memoratus Prior ostendere velit quod jus habeat in hujusmodi Regio Pisce paerati sumus ipsum audire ei per considerationem Curiae nostrae Justitiam exhibere Teste Rege apud Doncastr 27 die Septembris By which Writ and the Kings forecited complaint and Popes Letters in pursuance thereof it is apparent First That no Bishop nor Ecclesiastical person or Court ought to draw any of the Kings Officers or Bayliffs into their Ecclesiastical Courts for any matter belonging to the Kings proper Jurisdiction or Temporal Courts nor for the execution or neglect of their Offices 2ly That they ought not to Excommunicate them in their Courts for any Temporal cause or executing their Offices and that the King by his special Writs may command them to absolve them if Excommunicated 3ly That Royal Fishes as Whales and Sturgeon belong only to the Kings of England wherever cast on shore by vertue of their Prerogative and that none can claim them but by special grant from the Crown and that they ought to sue for them only in the Kings own Courts 4ly That in that age Abbots Prelates and Ecclesiastical Courts were very insolent ingratefull severe and uncivil in vexing Excommunicating the Kings Bayliffs Sheriffs Officers upon every trifling occasion without complaining first to the King notwithstanding they claimed all their Priviledges Royalties Lands from the Crown 5ly That the King was very sensible of these affronts to him and his Officers and industrious to redresse them by Writs out of his Temporal Courts for the maintenance of the Rights Prerogatives of his Crown and encouragement of his Officers to discharge their duties The forementioned high-spirited Bishop Grosthead in the second year of his Consecration offered an high affront to the King his Crown and Dignity by prohibiting Clerks attached for holding Plea in the Spiritual Court of a Temporal matter contrary to the Kings Prohibition to appear or answer their contempts in the Kings Courts whereupon he issued this notable Writ to him and his Justices of the Bench to maintain the Rights of his Crown against this Innovation and enchroachment REX Venerabili Patri R. eadem gratia Lincoln Episcopo salutem Ad aures nostras nuper pervenit quod cum temporibus Praedecessorum nostrorum Regum Angliae et tempore nostro Clerici qui contra Prohibitionem Regiam in placitis ad Regiam dignitatem pertinentibus processerint in foro Ecclesiastico ea occasione attachiati secundum leges et consuetudines Regni in Curia Regia inde respondere consueverint Nosque ea semper gavisi sumus libertate et adhuc in ejusdem possessione Vos in grave praejudicium dignitatis Regiae libertatem praedictam nobis intenditis auferre non permittentes Clericos vestros de Diocaesi vestra post contemptum Prohibitionis nostrae inde in Curia nostra respondere de quo cogimur mirari vehementer et moveri Cum igitur tantam et tam enormem injuriam non possumus sicut nec debemus aequanimiter toletare Vobis mandamus rogantes et bena fide consulentes quatenus possessionem libertatis memoratae nobis relinquentes illaesam nihil contra Coronam et Dignitatem attemptetis in hac parte propter quod asperius erga vos moveri debeamus Scituri indubitanter quod nullo modo permittemus pro defectu defensionis sufficientis juri nostro aliquid deperire Teste Rege apud Clarenden 17 die Junii Et mandatum est Justiciariis de Banco quod quatenus in eis Dominum Regem in seisina libertatis praedictae ficut ea usus est hucusque manuteneant non permittentes quod pro defectu sui aliquid jure Regio depereat Teste ut supra As this turbulent innovating
quatinus non impediatis vel impediri permittatis praefatum consanguineum nostrum Cruce signatum proponentem transire magnificè in Terrae Sanctae subsidium vel assignatos suos quin concessionem sibi a Domino Papa factam de redemptione votorum cruce signatorum in dicta terra Lagenia sicut in Literis Papalibus plenius continetur usque ad tempus illud quo nos fuimus crucis charactere insigniti integrè colligere possint restituentes eidem vel ejus procuratoribus si quid per vos vel per aliquem de terra praedicta collectum fuerit vel in alios usus deputatum usque ad tempus praedictum Teste Rege apud Winton 9. die Novembris REX Papae salutem Cum super pecunia de redemptionibus votorum cruce signatorum Legatis seu alio modo concessis succursui Terrae Sanctae nobis feceritis gratiam specialem sancti tati vestrae supplicamus attente quatinus venerabilibus Patribus Ciceslr Norwic. Episcopis ac Johannum Mansell praeposito Beverlaci per literas vestras mandare velitis ut ratiocinium seu compotum W. Wygorn Episcopi de hiis quae recepit distribuit de praedicta pecunia audiant si quid inde residuum fuerit nobis integrè faciant assignari Ita quod liberalitatem vestram sentiamus more folito fructuosam the King and Pope serving each others turns for their own advantages Teste Rege apud Wodstock 28. die Januarii How apt the Bishops and Clergy in this age were even against their Oath of Fealty to the King to encroach upon his Royal Perogative and Temporal Jurisdiction in holding Plea in their Ecclesiastical Courts at Rome of Temporal causes no way belonging to them and Excommunicating his Sheriffs against his expresse Prohibitions and how vigilant zealous the King and his Nobles were to prevent such incroachments upon his Crown and Perogative by Prohibitions and seisures of their Baronies this memorable Record will inform us REX Papae salutem Ex hoc quod Venerabilis Pater W. Wigorn. Episcopus tanquam immemor fidelitatis nobis praestiti Iuramenti placitum nam ii vetiti inter ipsum et dilectum et fidelem nostrum Willielmum de Bello Campo Vicecomitem nostrum Wigorn. exortum contra prohibitionem nostram sibi factam expresse tam viva voce quam literis prosequitur in Curia nostra non sine laesione et nostrae praejudicio dignitatis cum cordis turbatione admiratio nobis crescit quamquam non de eodem placito sed de sententia excommunicationis quam ipsius occasione in dictum Nobilem tulit se asserat agere coram vobis unde de Consilio Magnatum nostrorum Baroniam quam idem Episcopus de nobis tenet in Capite sicut est legis et consuetudinis Regni nostri providimus capere in manum nostram ipsam tamen captionem ad instantiam R. Com. Cornub. distulimus usque ad instans festum Purificationis beatae Mariae si forte dictus Episcopus a prosecutione praefata penitus duxerit desistendum Igitur ne Paternitatem vestram quae omnia nostram Coronam et Dignitatem Regiam tangentia semper voluit et vult illaesa servari decretum nostrum lateat in hac parte praesentes vobis literas destinamus supplicantes attente quatinus juxta quod vobis supplicavimus alias eidem Episcopo nullum praebere velitis audientiam in placito memorato seu aliis quae nostrum forum et dignitatis nostrae culmen tangere dinoscuntur Teste Rege apud Winton 21. die Decembris The Mayor and Bayliffs of Bristol seising some Stones collected for repair of St. Thomas Church in Dublin by the Kings license to repair the Castle of Bristol the King thereupon issued this Writ to restore them MAndatum est Majori Ballivis Bristol quatinus Petram quam Abbas Conventus S. Thoma Dublin colligi fecerunt apud Bristol ad construendum Ecclesiam Dublin quam arrestari fecerunt ad Castrum Regis Bristol reparandum eisdem canoncis liberent si quam in operatione Regis ibidem posuerint et restaurantes quocienscunque aliquam collectam Petrae illuc fecerint ad fabricam Ecclesiae suae permittant ipsos eandem Petram cariare quo voluerint Teste Rege apud Wind. 1◠die Jan. The inhabitants of Rochester having intruded one Christian condemned for the death of her Brother into the Church of Rochester as into a Sanctuary to save her from Execution and some of them taking Sanctuary in the same Church for this offence the King to curb these offenders and bring them to condigne punishment issued this Writ to the Sheriff of Kent to seise the Liberties of the Town into his own hands and to attach twelve of the discrectest men therein and keep in safe custody all Clerks and Laymen who had taken Sanctuary in the Church upon this occasion MAndatum est Vic. Kanciae quod capiat in manum Regis libertatem Villae Roffae attachiat Ballivos xii de probioribus discretioribus ejusdem Villae quod sint coram Rege in crastino Sancti Dionisii apud West monasterium ad respondendum Regi de hiis quae eis dicentur ex parte Regis omnes illos qui sunt in prisona nostra Roffae pro intrusione Christianae filiae Dunstani damnatae pro morte fratris sui venire faciat coram Rege ad praedictum diem locum omnes illos'tà m Laicos quà m Clericos qui se tenent in Ecclesia pro intrusione praedicta mulieris salvo custodiat ita quod non exeant ante quam faciant quod facere debuerint secundum consuetudinem terrae The King having built a New Chappel at Windsor issued this Mandate to provide a Mass-Book Breviarie with other Books Vestments Furniture and Ornaments fit for performance of the devotions then used therein MAndatum est Edwardo de Westmonast quod Regi habere faciat in nova Capella sua apud Windes unum Missale unum Breviar Collectar Capitular Impuar duo Antiphonar duo Salteria duo Gradal Tropar unum Calicem quatuor Manutergia quatuor Tual super altare ad Ministrandum in Capella praedicta Teste Rege apud Wind. 21. die Maii. The King before the Statute of Mortmain Anno. 7. E. 1. de Religiosis issued this Writ of Prohibition not to sell any Lands held in Capite to Religious persons or others to the impairing of the Revenues of the Crown MAndatum est Bartholomaeo de Creke in fide qua Regi tenetur firmiter inhibendo ne terram seu aliqua tenementa quae de Rege tenet in Capite viris Religiosis vendat nec de eisdem aliquam alienationem faciat per quam Regi aut Haeredibus Regis de hiis quae ad Regem pertinent aliquid subtrahatur Teste Rege apud Wind. 16. die Junii The Archbishop of Canterbury his Suffragans and Agents endeavouring to subject the Kings
Manfreds hands in which des gn God blasted both the Popes forces and Kings rapines to their perpetual infamy I shall close up this year and Chapter too with the words of Mat. Paris Transiit igitur annus ille Ecclesiae et Praelatis ultimae servitutis genitivus Regni Angliae praedativus Terrae Sanctae sterilis et potius nocivus BOOK IV. CHAP. III. Comprising sundry Evidences out of Law-books Histories and Records manifesting our Kings Soveraign Ecclesiastical as well as Temporal Authority over all Ecclesiastical Persons Courts Causes in England and Ireland The Popes and his Instruments intollerable Extortions Oppressions Innovations Enchroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative and Subjects Liberties Properties and their respective Oppositions Complaints against them Together with our Popish Prelates and Ecclesiastical Synods Courts illegal Usurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights Courts Crown Dignity and Peoples Priviledges with the several Prohibitions Mandates issued to restrain them And some other Ecclesiastical affaires transactions between the King Pope and Court of Rome of most concernment from the end of the 40th year of King Henry the 3d till the expiration of his Reign Anno Domini 1272. I Have presented you in the precedent Chapters with many memorable Records Writs Prohibitions restraining the Popes and Prelates Usurpations upon the Rights Crown Courts of King Henry the 3d. and his Subjects Liberties till the 40. year of his Reign about which time or soon after Henry de Bracton a famous Judge under him learned both in the Civil Canon and Common Laws of the Realm published five most excellent Books De Legibus Consuetudinibus Angliae wherein he asserts the Kings Supremacy over all persons whatsoever as having no Peer at all much less any Superior within his Realm stiling him Dei Vicarius several times in sundry places already transcribed in my Second Book chap. 2. p. 30 31 32. concerning King Lucius which I shall not here repeat Which passages of his will well explain those clauses in him which seem to patronize the Popes Supremacy viz. Apud homines verò est differentia personarum quia hominum quidem sunt praecellentes Praelati aliis principantur Dominus Papa videlicet in rebus spiritualibus quae pertinent ad Sacerdotium sub eo Archiepiscopi Episcopi alii Praelati inseriores Item in temporalibus sunt Imperatores Reges et Principes in hiis quae pertinent ad Regnum sub eis Duces Comites Barones Magnates sive Vavasores Milites etiam liberi villani diversae potestates sub Rege constitutae Ad Papam et ad Sacerdotium quidem pertinent ea quae spiritualia sunt ad Regem vero et ad Regnum ea quae sunt temporalia juxta illud Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filiis hominum Et unde ad Papam nihil pettinet ut de temporalibus disponat vel ordinet non magis quam Reges vel Principes de spiritualibus ne quis eorum falcem immittat in messem alienam Et sicut Papa potest ordinare in spiritualibus quoad ordines et dignitates ita potest Rex in temporalibus in haereditatibus dandis vel haeredibus constituendis secundum consuetudinem Regni sui Which passages as they absolutely refute the Popes Temporal Supremacy and Jurisdiction in England upon pretext of K. Johns Charter or the grant of Peter-pence so they admit the Popes Supremacy only in Spiritual things to wit in consecrating depriving Bishops Priests administring Sacraments inflicting Ecclesiastical censures exercising their Ministerial function but not in the sapream Ecclesiastical Government of the Church or Clergy of England vested only in the King not Pope as Gods Vicar to whom all the Archbishops Bishops and Prelates of the Realm were then immediately subject as to their Soveraign Lord and Patron not so unto the Pope who notwithstanding his encroachments on the Crown in King Johns Reign which were regained only by degrees in those bad times by his successors could make no Archbishop Bishop in England or Ireland nor call Synods nor enact Laws or Canons to bind the Church or Clergy of England or Ireland without the Kings Royal assent who by his Writs of Prohibition controlled both the Popes his Legates Delegates and Archbishops Bishops yea Synods Jurisdictions and extravagant proceedings beyond their legal bounds as Bracton himself informs us in his Treatise of Jurisdictions and Prohibitions pertinent to my Theam wherein you may most clearly discerne a combination between the Pope Bishops and Ecclesiastical Courts especially by Bulls and Delegations from the Pope totally to subvert the Jurisdiction of the Kings Temporal Courts in that age and to engrosse them into their own hands to the prejudice of the King his Crown and Dignity and subversion of the antient Laws Customs Rights Priviledges of the Kingdom and Kings Officers Subjects and their diligence vigilancy courage to prevent it by several Writs and forms of Prohibitions thus digested into a perspicuous method and recorded to posterity by Judge Bracton 1. Est etiam jurisdictio quaedam ordinaria quaedam delegata quae pertinet ad sacertium forum Ecclesiasticum sicut in causis spiritualibus spiritualitati annexis Est etiam alia jurisdictio ordinaria vel delegata quae pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis ad Regnum in causis placitis rerum temporalium in foro seculari unde videndum cujus judicium forum actor adire debeat Et verum est quod sive Laicum sive Clericum velit quis convenire debet adire judicem sequi forum rei judicium habebit illum apud quem reushabet domicilium sive domicilium habuerit sub jurisdictione unius vel duorum 2. Et licet generaliter verum sit quod actor forum rei sequi debeat fallit tamen in casibus propter diversitatem jurisdictionum causarum de rebus spiritualibus temporalibus earum sequela sicut in causa matrimoniali rebus permissis ob causam matrimonii quae in foro Ecclesiastico terminari debent quia cujus juris i. jurisdictionis est principale ejusdem juris erit accessorium Et eodem modo sicut in foro seculari agatur de aliquo placito quod pertinet ad Coronam dignitatem Regis fides fuerit opposita in contractu non propter hoc pertinebit cognitio super principali ad judicem Ecclesiasticum 3. Item fallit in causa testamentaria aliis pluribus causis Ecclesiasticis Item ratione criminis convenitur quis ubi deliquit ut si quis crimen commiserit in terra aliena quia ubi deliquit ibi subjceat juri sicut videri poterit de Vtfangthef per exemplum Item ratione contractus quia conveniendus ubi contraxit Item ratione rei petitae ut si Clericus petat versus Clericum Laicum debitum quod non sit de Testamento vel de Matrimonio sequi debet
Church of Rome 312 313. This Index with those in the other Tomes when finished will adde a considerable Supplement to the defects and rectifie some mistakes in Francis Godwin his Catalogue of the Bishops of England INDEX 4. Of the Archbishopricks Bishopricks Archbishops Bishops Clergy of the Kingdom of Ireland in general and particular and all matters concerning them mentioned in this Tome which will adde some Supplement to James Ware his Book De Praesulibus Hyberniae MAtter 's in general A Writ to the Chief Justice of Ireland that no Benefice or Ecclesiastical living belonging to the King in Ireland shall be conferred without his privity and assent to the prejudice of his Crown as was lately practised in his and his Fathers dayes to the derogation of his Prerogative p. 378. A Writ to all the Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland to attempt nothing to the prejudice of the Crown in conferring Prebendaries belonging to the King during the vacancies of their Sees 402. Writs to all the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors to levy the 15th part of their goods granted the King by the Pope for his relief 406 407. To the Archbishops of Ireland to admit no Bishops or others to any Dignities belonging to Cathedrals within their Provinces unlesse they first have the Kings special Letters Patents to elect and afterwards his assent to their elections 407. The King to have the custody of all Bishopricks in Ireland during their vacancies and that their Tenants ought to sue in his Courts for Justice of which antient Prerogatives the Irish Bishops endeavoured to deprive him his Letters to the Pope and his Proctors against this attempt 428. See Limeric Prohibitions that no election should be made in any voyd Cathedral in Ireland without the Kings special license first had since it tended to the disinheriting of him and his Heirs 481. The Kings Writ to all Chapters of the Freers Minorites in Ireland that no Freer of their Order should be elected an Archbishop or Bishop in Ireland nor consecrated though elected which the King assented to 632 633. To the Chief Justice not to suffer J. de Frussyn the Popes Nuncio to exercise any other Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Ireland but to collect the Dismes for relief of the Holy Land and absolve those who layd violent hands on Clerks although the Prelates would suffer it 634. A Writ to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland summoned to the Council of Lyons not to assent to any thing to the Kings or Kingdoms prejudice 640 641. A Writ of King H. 3 for a Cup to be provided to keep the Eucharist in for every Cathedral in Ireland by his Chief Justice 798. To the Archbishops and Bishops to certifie who and what number of persons had there taken up the Crosse for the Holy Land 807 808. Writs to all Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Archdeacons Officials Deans and other Prelates in Ireland to assist the Collectors of the Dismes there for relief of the Holy Land 815. and satisfaction of the Queen and Pope 1049 1054. A Writ to Prince Edward to redresse several grievances and oppressions complained of by the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland to the prejudice of their Liberties by advice of the Chief Justice and others of the Kings Counsil 827 828. Pope Alexanders Bull for that purpose upon complaint of the Archbishop of Tuam and his Suffragans to excommunicate the Kings Justices Bayliffs as well as others for their proceedings at Law against their Clerks and Tenants notwithstanding the Kings Prohibitions with the Kings Proctors protestations against it and the Bishops holding Plea of Advousons in Ireland as derogatory to the Kings Prerogative which they endeavoured to procure from the Pope 857 858 859. A Prohibition for Archbishops Bishops and Ecclesiastical Judges in Ireland to hold Plea in their Ecclesiastical Courts of Advousons of Churches Chapples Lay-see or Goods not given in Marriage or Testament Appendix p. 24 25. A. Aladen Alleden Aland Bishoprick Bishops THe Bishops complaint to the King against his Justices oppression of him and his Tenants in citing them out of their Counties and Provinces in hindring the Irish to make Wills take up the Crosse and distraining them to make suit in causes which concerned them not 827 828. The Popes Bull upon his and other Bishops complaints to redresse their grievances excommunicate the Kings Justices Bayliffs and Kings Proctors appeal against their Excommunication of them for executing their Offices as against his Crown and Dignity whereupon the Excommunication was agreed to be suspended as to the Justices 857 858 859. Ardacen Bishoprick Bishops An Appeal against this and other Bishops electing an Archbishop of Ardmach without the Kings license against his Right and Dignity 240. Ardmach Archbishoprick Archbishops It s Suffragans their actings against the Kings Right and Dignity by electing Eugenius Archbishop without his privity orlicense his appeal Writs against it A Prohibition issued to all Archbishops Bishops others of his Diocesse not to receive or own him as Archbishop 240 241. A Writ to the Archbishop to collect the 15th part of all Ecclesiastical and Religious persons goods in his Province granted by the Pope to the King for his ayde 406 407. A second Writ to that purpose to proceed therein with all diligence without delay 422 423. Cuneren Bishoprick subject to it 604. A Prohibition to the Archbishop not to cite any out of the Realm not proceed in his Ecclesiastical Court in a case of the Prior of Lanton for Advousons or Lands belonging to the Kings Temporal Court which he would by no means suffer since thereby he might utterly cast down and enervate his Crown and Dignity which he ought by no means to will if there were loyalty in him 628. Power granted by the King to the Chief Justice of Ireland to grant a license to the Dean and Chapter to chuse an Archbishop and consent to his election so as it might not be drawn into example because the Pope endeavoured to deprive him of this antient right 690. Letters to the Archbishop to publish a Croysado and raise monies for the Kings voyage to the Holy Land 735. St. Patrick Archbishop of Ardmach Christs apparition gifts to him and his Purgatory p. 69. D. Archbishop of it The Kings Writ to him to admit and consecrate a Bishop to whose election he had given his Royal assent for that time though elected only by his Chief Justice license without his own first craved and obtained which ought to have been 474. The Archbishop complained against by the Bishop of Clocor for grievances spoliations of Lands Churches of him and his Tenants imprisoning his men as excommunicated by the Kings Letters since the Archbishop circumvented the King therein by his Proctors he and his Tenants being then in truth excommunicated as the King was certified by other Bishops to whom the cause was referred to be examined Writs to the Chief Justice to right him and them according to Law 482. Audelmus of Colen consecrated at
415 421 424 436 470 476 490 492 506 507 512 513 539 540 546 611 to 621 639 to 649 664 665 to 687 690 to 699 716 717 730 to 736 746 747 752 753 754 766 768 776 to 781 799 801 802 803 822 823 824 825 841 843 to 853 861 to 872 918 to 922 925 to 935 944 945 961 to 965 968 980 1015 1016 1023 1024 1025 1026 to 1027. Appendix 25 26. See Index 10 12. and King Henry 3. King John Rome Popes not peremptorily imposed but only recommended desired Aydes from it at first granted imposed assented to only by the King Nobles who proportioned ordered the times manner of levying them 238 239 240 Pope Innocent 4. stiled it an unexhausted pit whence he might extort much 671. Often hurt provoked by the injuries of that Pope who yet in a rage threatned to Interdict it encouraged by the Kings and their effeminate fear for which he was reprehended admonished by John an Englishman a Cistercian Monk and Cardinal for beating it like Balaams Asse with his spurs rod and yet not suffering them so much as to mutter against him 676. English thoâ— miserablest of all men by biting devouring each other 737. F. FErdinand 1. Emperor Cassander his Consultation dedicated to approved by him 22. Flanders invaded by the French King when prohibited to invade England 275. France Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. An Ayde granted collected therein by the Kings assent upon the Popes Bull and Legate sent thither for relief of the Holy Land 238 239 240. Kings of France ought not to alien their Crown Lands or Territories to others their alienation of them voyd 319 to 324. The Realm of England never was in subjection to France Its descent to King Edward 3. his Law concerning it 325. No Pope presumed to conferre any Prebendary Benefice by Provision therein till Pope Innocent 3. 330 777 778. The French invade England excommunicated by the Popes Legate 361 362. See Lewes The French Peers Courts proceedings and condemnation of King John to death for murdering his Nephew Arthur the Popes exceptions against it as voyd 363 364. Pope Honorius and Pope Gregories Bulls to the French King for the English to passe and repasse freely to Rome through France without impediment 396 408. The Popes Legate calls a Council therein against the Earl of Tholouse exacts two Prebendaries and two Monks portions in every Cathedral Monastery there to avoyd the old infamy of avarice symony bribery and delay of justice in the Court of Rome with the French Bishops Clergies answers oppositions against it 401 402 403. A Croysado published in it against the Earl of Tholouse and Albigenses the French King crosseth himself against them the Pope prohibites the King of England to invade France during his imployment in this War against these good Christians 403 404. Wars between England and France 406 408. A Truce propounded between them 446. King H. 3. his invasion of it the Earl of Britains revolt from him to the King of France against his Oath and Obligations 455 456. A Croysado published in it to defraud the people and pick their purses 470 512. The Kings and Popes Agents rigour in extorting it his and his Armies great defeat slaughter the King taken prisoner by the Saracens soon after to his Kingdoms great desolation reputed a just judgement 717 733 734 753 754 776. The French Kings Peers confederacâ— and memorable protestation against the Popes Bishops Ecclesiastical Officers encroachments upon their Rights Liberties by new Constitutions holding Pleas of Temporal causes abuse of Excommunications Oaths c. 699 to 760. France reduced to poverty by Pope Innocent 4. conspired against the Pope and Cardinals 676 698. Many Frenchmen slain in ayding Baldwin in his expedition against the Grecians 492. The French crossed for the Holy Wars prohibited to go by the Pope when prepared their speeches mutiny thereupon 512 513. The French Kings and his Nobles Counsils detestation of speeches against Pope Gregories depriving the Emperor Frederick Robert the Kings brothers refusal of the Empire tendred to him by the Pope the dignity of its Kings by lineal descent 540 541. The French alwayes envy the English traduce the Kings of England for banishing Becket and Edmund of Canterbury his leaving England in discontent 591. The long feud controversie between France and England which destroyed innumerable people prayed by King H. 3. to be composed by the Popes mediation 944 945 956 957. a Peace at last concluded 961. King Henries advice to Prince Edward by reason of his sicknesse to hasten his return with the French King from the Holy Wars 1058. King Francis 1. of France declares his Articles under hand and seal ratified by his Oath to consign the Dutchy of Burgundy to the Emperor for his ransome to be voyd because against his Coronation Oath and Laws of France not to alien the Crown Lands 319 320. King Francis 2. of France his complaint of the alienation and mortgaging the Crown Lands thereof 323. Frederick the 2. whiles King of Sicily persecuted by Otho the Emperor for seising some Castles of the Empire during the vacancy 260. Made Emperor by Pope Innocent 3. out of meer malice to Otho 5. interdicted excommunicated deposed by him only for seising and restoring to the Empire according to his Coronation Oath the antient Possessions thereof which Popes had injuriously usurped on purpose to persecute Otho to death by force of Armes 539. He by a just retaliation is soon after excommunicated by Bulls published in all places interdicted defamed by Pope Gregory the 9th for not going to Jerusalem against the Saracens according to his Oath though hindred by sicknesse necessary emergent affairs of the Empire and Civil Wars raised against him in Sicily by this Popes instigation and for contemning the Popes and St. Peters Keyes All prohibited to celebrate divine service to him till he submitted himself to the Church to be proceeded against as an Heretick if he presumed to be present at divine service all his Subjects absolved from their allegiance deprived of his Empire for endeavoring to recover the antient rights possessions of it from the Popes Churches Usurpations 409 to 414. His notable Letters to the King of England and all Christian Princes setting forth Popes designs by Excommunications Interdict to wrest their Kingdoms Lands out of their hands make them their Vassals Tributaries trample them under feet like King John and the Earl of Tholouse pick all their Subjects purses swallow up their wealth by unsatiable blood-suckers Legates Wolves in Sheeps cloathing their symonies rapines extortions unheard of in former ages 414 415. King H. 3. his Letter to him not to revolt from his obedience to the Church of Rome but humbly to obey and submit to the Pope 415 416 He goes to the Holy Land to avoyd the scandals raised of him and his Excommunication for not going which the Pope continued at his arrival at Acon none of the people or Clergy would kiss
tendred to them for their approbation upon just exceptions To alter the manner of such elections for special reasons To command Archbishops Bishops other Officers by their Writs to ordain consecrate install admit institute induct them when elected approved or Clerks presented by them at such convenient times places as they shall prescribe and to punish them for their contempts or neglects therein To remove translate Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors Priests and other Religious Persons yea transfer their Temporalties Revenues Glebes Tithes Reliques at their royal pleasures from one Archbishoprick Bishoprick Abbey Priory Benefice Order Church to another upon just or necessary reasons of piety or state polity for the publike good 8ly To seise sequester and enjoy to their own proper uses the Temporalties revenues of all Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical dignities during their Vacancies with all incident profits any wayes belonging thereunto till they in their piety justice or prudence shall deem convenient to fill them with successors 9ly To seise sequester confiscate the temporalties real personal estates and indict arraign imprison out-law judge condemn banish execute the persons of all Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priests or other Ecclesiastical orders for their Contempts Treasons Rebellions Conspiracies Seditions Murders Felonies or other civil Crimes against their Crowns and dignities even in their temporal Courts in as ample manner as any of their Lay-Subjects notwithstanding Papal exemptions 10ly To demand and receive for the publike defence of the Church Realm and safety of their Government persons both Dismes Aydes Subsidies Firstfruits and Oathes of Homage Fealty Allegiance and Supremacy from all their Prelates Clergy as well as from their Nobility or Commonalty 11ly To summon National Provincial Parliamentary Councils or Synods at such times and places as they shall deem convenient upon all just occasions to compile out of the Scriptures and publish formes of Creeds Confessions of Faith Articles of Religion Liturgies Laws Canons for the suppression or reformation of Atheism Blasphemy Heresies Schismes False Doctrines Corruptions neglects in matters of Religion Doctrine Divine Worship Sacraments Ceremonies or circumstances belonging to them or concerning the manners lives good government ordering disposing of all Ecclesiastical persons Fabricks Glebes Tithes revenues or other Church-affairs whatsoever and reforming of any abuses in them To preside in their proper persons or by such as they shall appoint in all such Councils Synods to direct all their proceedings to alter reject approve or ratifie by their Edicts all or any of their Confessions Articles Laws Canons Votes Decisions Sentences as they shall see just cause when presented to them for their approbations And to remove prorogue or adjourn such Councils Synods dissolve them at their royal pleasures 12ly To receive hear and determine by themselves their Assistants or Delegates all final Appeals from or Complaints against the irregular Proceedings or unjust Sentences of any Ecclesiastical Councils Synods Archbishops Bishops Courts or Jurisdictions whatsoever who have no more nor other Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction nor conusance of any causes whatsoever commonly stiled Spiritual or Ecclesiastical but what they by their Lawes Charters Concessions under their Great Seals have conferred on them and what they derive by from under them and execute in their rights steads names by their authority To prohibit restrain redresse by their Prohibitions and other Writs from time to time wherewith our Records abound all such illegal Vsurpations Encroachments of Jurisdiction upon their Royal Prerogatives Temporal Courts Jurisdictions Lawes or the Properties Rights Liberties Consciences of their Subjects by Ecclesiastical Constitutions Canons Visitations Courts Inquisitions Oathes Vexations Interdicts Excommunications Sequestrations Extorsions Procurations or any other Extravagances 13ly To prohibit any Ecclesiastical Prelates Persons to resort to General Councils beyond the Seas unless specially licensed elected sent or permitted by them or assemble in any Synods or Convocations within their Realms without their summons or to debate conclude any thing in them to the derogation or prejudice of their Crowns or Kingdoms or excommunicate any of their Barons Officers Tenants in Capite or any persons inhabiting within their Cities Burroughs Castles Manors antient Demesnes without their precedent privity and license if within the Realm or license of their Lieutenants Chief Justice or the Chief Officers of such Cities Boroughs Castles Manors or Demesnes And command them when they or other Subjects are unjustly or illegally excommunicated to absolve and release them too if imprisoned upon a Capias Excommunicatum without any Oath at all or pledges ad râ—manendum upon caution or pledges given only to stand to the judgement of the Church 14ly To appoint Vicegerents general or other Commissioners of their natural born Subjects by their Letters Patents under the Great Seal to visit the Ecclesiastical State persons and punish correct order and redresse by Ecclesiastical Censures in their rights and by their authority all Heresies errors crimes offences contempts whatsoever punishable by the Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Lawes of their Realms 15ly To nominate and appoint what Archbishop or Bishop should annoint crown or re-crown Them or their Queens Sons and at what times places notwithstanding any pretences of custom or prescription to the contrary 16ly To license Archbishops Bishops Clergy-men to make Wills devise goods Legacies or to hold other Ecclesiastical promotions benefices by way of Commenda with their Bishopricks and exempt Clerks employed in their special service from residing on their benefices during such imployments and their royal pleasures without Episcopal coertion or censure for Non-residenceâ— To deraign or enable Monkes Nuns and other religious persons to purchase lands or take farms or sue elect marry upon special occasions 17ly To prohibit the alienation of Lands from by or in mortmain unto any Ecclesiastical or religious persons houses or the appropriation of any benefices to them without their special License or the ordination of the sonnes of Villains by Ordinaries to be Priests Deacons or the admission of them or any Infants to be Monks or Nunnes by Abbots Priors Abbesses without their Lords or Parents previous assents 18ly To admit install induct Clerks into Prebendaries and other Benefices and collect Subsidies granted by the Clergy by Lay hands or other persons particularly authorized by their Patents for that purpose when Ordinaries Archdeacons Prebends or other Ecclesiastical Officers neglect or refuse to do their duties therein 19ly To denounce Anathemaes Execrations and Excommunications by their own royal Charters as likewise with and by their Bishops against all infringers or violators of their Charters and the Donations Priviledges granted in or by them to Monasteries religious Houses or to the generality of their Subjects by the Great Charters of the Liberties of England and the Forest and by other publike or private Charters And to command their Bishops to excommunicate all such as should take up arms against or deprive them of their just Rights 20ly To prohibit all their Archbishops Bishops Clergy Subjects to own acknowledge
honoriâ—ice vixerum hospitalitatem ad posse procurando eleemosynas patentibus januis erogarunt durum esset nimis tales suis beneficiis spoliatos in ignominiosam trudi paupertatem Quidam vero juvenes feroces ac strenui maximis periculis se opponerent ancequam suis se sinerent privari beneficiis unico tantum retento Quod bene perpendo per memetipsum Antequam enim ad istam vocarer dignitatem proposuâ— in animo meo quod si unicum amitterem beneficium talis praetextu constitutionis omnia amitterem Unde timendum est quod multi ad praesens in simili proposito perseverent Quoniam igitur multitudo talium in causa est Sanctae Paternitati vestrae supplicamus quatenus ob salutem vestram nostram super hujusmodi statuto Dominum Papam consulatis Praeterea cum statutum vestrum in religione Sancti Benedicti ad omnes aequaliter se extendat durum sit multis tum propter locorum penuriam praecipue Monialibus cum sint debiles fragiles hoc statutum observare necesse est huic rigori discretum addere temperamentum Super quo etiam postulamus ut Dominum Papam super his velitis consultare Cui Dominus Legatus respondit Quod si omnes Praelati scilicet isti praesentes Archiepiscopi Episcopi una cum eo super his Domino Papae scriberent libenter consentiret Et sciendum quod quia aliqui opinabantur sicut datum fuit intelligi Domino Legato quod statuta sua robur nisi tantum in tempore suae Legationis non obtinerent jussu ejusdem surrexit in medio quidam Clericus suus Magister scilicet Altho aperto libro authentico scilicet registro Domini Papae ad majorem authoritatem ut validius talium opinionem improbaret quandam decretalem legit distincte aperte quam Dominus Legatus distinguens approbavit per illam asserens manifeste quod etiam post recessum ejus sua statuta perpetuae firmitatis robur debeant obtinere Nec praetereundum quod primo die Concilii collocatis ut praedictum est Archiepiscopis Cantuariensi scilicet a dextris Eboracensi vero a sinistris perlectoque Evangelio Ego sum Pastor bonus dictisque collectis ad hoc pertinentibus indictoque silentio turba comprimente castigata Dominus Legatus sedendo quasi â—ubam vocem suam exaltans sermonem suum inchoavit thema suum sic praeordinando In medio sedis in circuitu ejus quatuor animalia plena oculis ante retro In sermone prosequendo innuens quod Praelati quasi animalia habentia oculos ante retro debent esse in rerum saecularium dispositionibus providi in spiritualibus circumspecti Priora sequentibus caute continuantes Et post sermonem legi fecit statuta alta voce distincte quae firmiter statuit observari quae subscripta in hoc libro duximus annotari Quoniam domum Domini decet Sanctitudo Ministros ejus a Domino dicitur Sancti estote quoniam Sanctus sum ego Dominus Deus vester Satagit astutia humani generis inimici ut Sanctitatem subtrahat vel destruat utrobique dum in plerisque locis ut ne consecrentur Ecclesiae vel retardat ne suo digne fungantur officio Ministorum mores vitam multorum vitiat depravat Sanctorum Patrum regulis statutis generaliter omnibus Christianae religionis profectibus opponendo Huic est igitur armata manu a cunctis Christi fidelibus fortiter in fide resistendum ad ejus molimina renovatis novis semper utendum viribus enervanda sicut Isaac puteos quos foderant filii Abrahae sed humo impleverant Palestini prius studuit renovari deinde alios fodere prorsus novos Denique nos Otto miseratione divina Sancti Nicholai in carcere Tulliano Diaconus Cardinalis Apostolicae sedis Legatus ad partes Angliae cum Legationis officio a sede Apostolica destinati divino fulti auxilio et astantis Concilii suffragio et consensu ad roborandum et reformandum statum Ecclesiasticum in partibus Anglicanis salvis aliis Canonicis institutis quae cum reverentia volumus cupimus observari quaedam ex commissa nobis poteâ—tate duximus observanda quae per certos articulos fecimus digeri distingui After which follow all the Canons made and promulged in this Council which those who please may peruse at leasure in Matthew Paris and in Johannes de Aton his Constitutiones Legitimae Ecclesiae totiusque Regionis Anglicanae ab Legatis à Latere Summorum Pontificum collectio fol. 1 to 121. with his Glosse upon them The 1. Canon was for the Dedication and Consecration of Churches many Cathedrals as well as Parish Churches being then unconsecrated The 2. and 3. concerning Ecclesiastical Sacraments and Baptism Others concerning the covetousness of Priests their hearing Confessions the qualities of such as were to be ordained their Farmers and Vicars Presentations to Churches not dividing one Church into more the Residence of Bishops and Priests Pluralities the habit of Clerks Clandestine Marriages of Priests Priests Concubines their sons succession in their Benefices protecting of Theeves Murderers eating of flesh the Office of Archdeacons Bishops their Judges Procurations undue unjust Citations Exactions by Procurations Registers abuses of Proctors and Ecclesiastical Judges and an Oath to be prescribed to them to prevent the like abuses for the future In this Council this Legate introduced the use of Oathes in Ecclesiastical Courts and Causes never formerly used in England under a specious pretext by colour whereof the Bishops and their Agents extending their Authority beyond the Canon introduced these and other Oathes against the Laws and Customes of the Realm to the peoples great oppression as you shall hear anon till the King by his Prohibitions restrained this Usurpation The Canon first introducing an Oath of Calumny made in this Council runs in these words Jusjurandum calumniae in causis Ecclesiasticis cujuslibet de veritate dicendi in spiritualibus quoque ut veritas aperiatur facilius causae celerius terminentur statuimus de caetero praestari in Regno Angliae secundum Canonicas et Legitimas Sanctiones obtenta in contrarium consuetudine non obstante Huic statuto utiliter annectentes ut judiciales induciae judicis dentur arbitrio juxta Legitimas Canonicas Sanctiones The nature kinds forms words of this Juramentum Calumniae you may read at large in Johannis Schneidewini a most famous Civilian professor Academiae Witebergensis in quatuor Institutionum Imperialium D. Justiniani libros Commentarius printed Argentorati 1599. lib. 4. Tit. 6. and Tit. 16. De Juramento Calumniae to whom I referre the Readers desiring satisfaction therein He resolving p. 1102. Istud juramentum hodie non aestimatur uno obolo quia facti sumus contemptores Dei religionis ejus Unde ego puto quod litigatores
quapropter ipsum non criminor Necesse habeo ad sinum misericordiae vestrae paternum refugere auxilium à vobis in hac necessitate petiturus Videmus namque nobilem virum Comitem Richardum qui licet cruce non signetur per obtentum gratiae vestrae in hac parte nimis fructiferae à cruce signato populo non minimam pecuniam vindemiare in Regno Angliae ego ex eo spem consequenter accipiens cruce signatus indigens eandem mihi postulo concedendam Considerans igitur Dominus Papa loquentis facundiam rationis efficaciam corporis elegentiam se ipsi favorabilem exhibuit concedens ei in parte quae postulavit latam videlicet ex aliena cute corrigiam Tunc etiam temporis Comes Richardus authoritate Domini Papae cujus indigentiae clà m cautè satisfecerat a cruce signatis infinitam collegit pecuniam ita quod ab uno Archidiaconatu dicitur sexcentas libras reportasse harum literarum fretus auctoritate Consimilique cautela Willus Longa Spata mille marcas et amplius de cruce signatis ut praescriptum est reportavit besides what Archbishop Boniface qui in partibus transmarinis Domino Papae militabat violently extorted by Excommunications from the Bishops and Clergie of his Province at the same time of which before In regard of the manifold Extortions this year both at home and abroad by the Pope and his agents principally to raise and maintain Wars against the Emperor Mat. Paris and Matthew Westminster render us this Epitome and brief character thereof Transiit igitur annus ille uberrimus in frugibus in fructibus autem sterilis Angliae nocivus Walliae dominator Tyrannicus Terrae Sanctae inimicus suspectus et formidabilis Ecclesiae nocivus universali et spoliator turbulentus Italiae cruentus Imperio et Curiae Romanae infamis et inimicus et praecipue Regno Alemanniae martius et hostilis Regnis Francorum et Anglorum exactor hostilis et praedator turbulentus odium generans in cordibus Praelatorum et aliorum plurium contra Papam eo quod Patronis violenter spoliatis suspendit a beneficiorum collatione quod est hactenus inauditum et contra Dominum Regem eo quod talia toleravit As the Pope thus vexed oppressed the Clergy and Religious persons on the one hand this year so Bishop Grosthead and his Ecclesiastical Officers vexed oppressed the Nobility and Laity on the other hand by Bulls Priviledges obtained at a dear rate from this Pope as our Historians and Records inform us For this Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincolne after a long contest and suit at Rome Anno Dom. 1245. purchasing from Pope Innocent the 4th a Priviledge forecited to visit the Dean Chapter Canons Clerks Ministers of the Quire and Cathedral Church of Lincolne and all the Ministers Chaplains Churches and Parishioners belonginging to the Churches within his Diocesse et ad correctionem excessorum ac morum reformationem libere admittendum And likewise that the Canons of Lincolne should yield and render to him Canonical obedience and reverence Obligare se tamen ad hoc Iuramento manuali praestatione seu promissione minime tēneantur cum ad hoc consuetudine non juveris The next year Anno. 1246. he visited his Diocesse in pursuance of this priviledge by his Archdeacons Deans and Officials and at the suggestion of the Friers Minorites and Predicants in his Visitations and Consistories made strict Inquisitions concerning the continency and manners as well of the Noble as ignoble to the enormous defamation and scandal of many compelling Laymen to present and give in testimony in these cases upon Oath an Innovation never used in the Realmes before The King upon complaint thereof issued forth Writs to the Sheriff of Lincoln to inhibit any Lay persons within his County to appear before them to make any Inquisitions or take any Oath at the will of the Bishop except only in causes of Matrimony and Testament which Matthew Paris thus records to posterity living at that time within this Diocesse and taking special Notice of these proceedings His quoque diebus cum Episcopus Lincolniensis supra quà m deceret vel expediret in Subjectos suos ad suggestionem ut dicitur Praedicatorum Minorum desaeviret ita scilicet ut faceret Inquisitiones districtas per Archidiaconos et Decanos suos in Episcopatu suo de continentia et moribus tam Nobilium quam Ignobilium in enormem laesionem famae multorum et scandalum QUOD NUNQUAM FIERI CONSUEVERAT Dominus Rer audiens super hoc populi graves quaerimonias CONSILIO CURIAE SUAE scripsit Vicecomiti Hertfordiae in haec verba Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae c. Praecipimus tibi quod sicut teipsum et omnia tua diligis non permittas quod aliqui Laici in Balliva tua ad voluntatem Episcopi Lincolniensis Archidiaconorum Officialium seu Decanorum ruralium in aliquo loco conveniant de caetero AD COGNITIONES PER SACRAMENTUM EORUM VEL ATTESTATIONES ALIQUAS FACIENDAS nisi in Causis Matrimonialibus vel Testamentartis Quod cum audisset Episcopus asserebat Dominum Regem quorundam Conspiratorum qui jam in Francia in consimilem audaciam proruperunt vestigia securum An insolent undutifull answer of a furious turbulent wilfull Prelate The Conspiracie of the Nobility and Commonalty of France which Grostheads words related to is thus recorded by Mat. Paris They being intollerably oppressed by the Insolencies usurpations of the Pope French Bishops and Clergy upon their antient Liberties Rights Priviledges by citing them into their Ecclesiastical Courts for Temporal Matters and causes belonging to the Civil Jurisdiction judging them by new Canons and Constitutions made by themselves alone without common consent in their Parliaments when as they ought rather to be Judged by the Nobles and Laity by whose Valour and Liberality they enjoyed all their Ecclesiastical Priviledges and possessions Excommunicating interdicting enforcing them to take new Oathes and tyrannizing over them at their pleasures as if they were slaves and vassals rather then Freemen they thereupon after all other fruitlesse complaints entred into a Solemne League and Confederacy against them to vindicate and regain their antient Rights and Priviledges Cum vero dierum istorum fluenta prolaberentur tepuit devotio fidelium et filialis affectus Charitatis quem quilibet Christianus adversus Patrem nostrum spiritualem videlicet Dominum Papam gerere teneretur non sine animarum periculo laesus deperiit imo et in odium execrabile et maledictiones occultas est conversus Videbant enim omnes et singuli et videntes sentiebant ipsum Dominum Papam pecuniae et pecuniarum rapinis in multorum damnum et depauperationem insatiabiliter inhiare Nec credebant jam multi ipsum potestatem beato Petro concessam coelitus videlicet ligandi et solvendi obtinere qui penitus beato Petro dissimilis probabatur
and divisions amongst his people 3ly Because they withdrew them from their Husbandry and other necessary temporal occasions to dance attendance from time to time and place to place on them and their Officers to their grand vexation and impoverishing 4ly Because they involved them in the danger or guilt of perjury by enforcing them to swear concerning the secret private actions of others wherein they might easily be mistaken All which reasons remain still in full force against all such like Oathes Inquisitions Innovations Vexations of Bishops Archdeacons Rural Deans Officials and other Ecclesiastical Officers which the King his Courts Judges Counsil may and ought by Law to prohibite redresse from time to time by like Writs of Prohibition for the Subjects relief upon all occasions as is evident by these six antient successive Writs the Register of Writs part 2. f. 36. Fitzherbert Natura Brevium f. 41. a. Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Tit. Prohibition sect 5. and other Law-books concurring with these Writs 4ly That Bishops Archdeacons Officials and other Ecclesiastical Officers and Courts had then no legal authority by the antient Laws usage Custom of this Realm to administer any Oath to Laymen except only in causes of Matrimony and Testament as these Prohibitions with sundry others hereafter cited in their due Chronological order the Statutes of 2 H. 5 c. 3. 2 E. 6. c. 13. and the last recited Lawbooks resolve 5ly That Bishops have been and may be legally attached and their Temporalties seized into the Kings hands if they prejudice the Kings Crown Dignity or vex his Subjects by administring enforcing illegal Oathes and Articles of Inquiry upon them by Excommunications and other Ecclesiastical Censures contrary to the Laws and antient Custom of the Realm 6ly That by the antient Laws and Custom of this Realm no new Oathes whatsoever may or ought to be framed imposed on any of the Kings Subjects by any Bishops Ecclesiastical or other persons whatsoever nor any old legal Oathes altered but by special Acts of Parliament prescribing both the forme words of the Oathes themselves and the persons who shall take and administer them who must be specially authorized either by express words in the Acts themselves or by special Commissions from the King under the Great Seal of England to administer them when made and not otherwise This is most apparent by all the Oathes heretofore prescribed to Justices of the Kings Courts Justices of Oyer and Terminer and of the Peace Barons and Officers of the Exchequer Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs the Officers of the Court of Wards and Liveries the Court of Augmentations Customers Searchers Commissioners of Sewers of Castles and Holds Conservators of the Truce Bayliffs of Franchises Coroners Sheriffs Clerks Attornies the Kings Privy Counsil Knights of Shires Burgesses of Parliament Champions Clerks of the Council Mayors and other Officers by the several Oathes of Fealty Allegiance and Supremacy made from time to time for the necessary preservation of the Sacred Persons of our Kings the safety of the Kingdom and defence of the Rights Priviledges Jurisdiction of the Crown against all Papal Usurpations and Treasonable practises whatsoever all made prescribed by special Acts of Parliament as these ensuing resolve us 9 H. 3. c. 28. 51 H. 3. c. 14. 3 E. 1. c. 40. 6 E. 1. c. 8. 13 E. 1. c. 43. 13 E. 1. Stat. of Winchester c. 6. 13 E. 1. Stat. Merchant and Articles of Inquisition upon the Statute of Winchester 34 E. 1. Statute of Liberties c. 6. Totles Magna Charta 1556. f. 164 to 168. Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Coroners sect 3. 9. E. 2. Statute of Sheriffs 17 E. 2. c. 4. 1 E. 3. Parl. 1. c. 8. Parl. 2. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 2. 9 E. 3. of Money c. 9. 15 E. 3. c. 3 4. 15 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 10 20 28 37 41 42 17 E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 11. 18 E. 3. Star 3. 20 E. 3. c. 1 2 3. Rot. Parl. num 25. Rastal Justice and Justices sect 2 3 4. and Clerks of the Chancery sect 1. 21 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 7. 25 E. 3. Rot. Parl. num 10. 25 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 5. Stat. 4. c. 1. Stat. 7. of levying the Quindisme 27 E. 3. Stat. 2. c. 1 15 16 23 24 26. 31 E. 3. Stat. 2. 5 R. 2. Stat. 1. c. 11 13 14. 5 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 74. 6 R. 2. c. 12. 7 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 27. 9 R. 2. c. 3. 11 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 23. 12 R. 2. c. 8. 13 R. 2. c. 7. 14 R. 2. c. 3. 17 R. 2. c. 9. 17 R. 2. Rot. Parl. num 18. 21 R. 2. c. 5. 21 R. â— Rot. Parl. num 21 37 to 44 51 52 53 89. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 38. 4 H. 4. c. 10 18 20 21. 8 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 66. 11 H. 4. Rot. Parl. num 14 39 63. 1 H. 5. c. 6. 2 H. 5. c. 4 6 7. 4 H. 5. c. 2 4. 1 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 62. 2 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 17. 2 H. 6. c. 10. 11 H. 6. c. 8. 11 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 14 15 16. 18 H. 6. c. 4 10. 20 H. 6. c. 10. 23 H. 6. c. 2. 33 H. 6. c. 3 5. 39 H. 6. Rot. Parl. num 25 26 29. 3 E. 4. c. 3. 7 E. 4. c. 1. 8 E. 4. c. 2. 12 E. 4. c. 2 3. 17 E. 4. c. 2. 1 R. 3. c. 6. 19 H. 7. c. 7. 22 H. 8. c. 8 14. 23 H. 8. c. 5. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 2. 28 H. 8. c. 7. 10 16. 31 H. 8. c. 14. 32 H. 8. c. 46. 33 H. 8. c. 22. 2 3 Phil. Mar. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 11. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. 13 Eliz. c. 7. 18 Eliz. c. 6. 27 Eliz. c. 12. 29 Eliz. c. 4. 43 Eliz. c. 1 2. 1 Jac. c. 9. 3 Jac. c. 4. 7 Jac. c. 2 6 8. â—1 Jac. c. 7. 20 33. 1 Car. 1. c. 1. 2 Car. 1. c. 1. The Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. 17 Car. 1. An Act for repeal of the Branch of the Statute of 1 Eliz. c. 1. a meer Declaration of the antient Common Law of England in point of administring Oaths by Ecclesiastical Courts and Persons and the Act for Explanation of a Clause therein 13 Car. 2. p. 66 67. The Acts for well Governing and Regulating of Corporations An. 13 Car. 2. p. 11. 12 13 14 15. The Act against Quakers and others refusing to take lawfull Oathes p. 3 4 5 7. The Act for Ordering the forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom p. 53 54. An Act for the Uniformity of publike Prayers c. p 73 77 80. An Act for Regulating the making of Stuffs in Norfolke and Norwich p. 49 108 110. An Act for Distribution and supply of Threescore thousand pounds c. for relief of Poor and maimed Officers and Soldiers p. 178 188. An Act for preventing Frauds
per Literas Regis quod ab hujusmodi exactionibus desisterent Teste ut supra Those Prohibitions were seconded with these ensuing of like nature upon the complaints of particular persons unjustly prosecuted in the Courts Christian at York for Chattels and Debts not in cases of Matrimony or Testament to the prejudice of the Kings Crown and Dignity REX Decano Praeceptori S. Petri Eborum eorum Commissariis salutem Prohibemus vobis ne teneatis placitum in Curia Christianitatis de Catallis vel Debitis unde Walterus de Rudham Clericus sicut ex relatu quorundam fidelium nostrorum intelleximus trahitur in placitum coram vobis in Curia Christianitatis authoritate Literarum Domini Papae per Abbatem et Conventum de Fontibus nisi Catalla illa vel Debita sint de Testamento vel Matrimonio quia placita de Catallis et Debitis quae non sunt de Testamento vel Matrimonio spectant ad Coronam et dignitatem nostram inhibuimus etiam praedicto Waltero ne in Curia Christianitatis super hujusmodi Catallis vel Debitis examen Ecclesiasticum in juris et dignitatis Regiae praejudicium aliquatenus subire praesumat Eodem modo scribitur Abbati Conventui de Fontibus By which several Writs it is most apparent that there was a strong combination and endeavour at this time between the Bishops Abbots Deans Chapters and others who had Ecclesiastical Courts and Jurisdiction and the Court of Rome to usurpe and engrosse the cognisance of most Temporal causes concerning Lands or Goods especially of Clergymen and Religious persons into their own hands and to trample the Kings Temporal Courts Officers Crown Dignity and Lay-Subjects under their feet which they unanimously and strenuously opposed and endeavoured to prevent by the precedent and these subsequent Prohibitions to them in the case of the Monks of Winton who suing the Bishop elect of Winton in the Court of Rome and before the Popes Delegates touching the propriety of the Mannour of Taunton and other Lands held immediately of the King moving from him and part of the Barony of the Bishop to the prejudice of the Kings Crown and dignity whereof neither the Pope nor any Court Christian had or ought to have any cognisance or jurisdiction but only himself and his own Courts the King thereupon issued this memorable Prohibition to the Bishop not to appear or answer to any such Suit before the Pope or in any Court Christian under pain of seising his Temporalties being contrary to his Oath of Fealty to the King and to the prejudice both of his Crown and Realm REX A. Winton electo salutem Intelleximus ex relatu quorundam fidelium nostrorum quod Monachi Winton vos super Manerio de Taunton quibusdam aliis quae de nobis immediatè tenetis quae à nobis indubitanter movere noscuntur coram Domino Papa vel auditoribus suis in Curia Romana trahunt in causam et super proprietate Maneriorum ipsorum sibi cum instantia a vobis postulant responderi Quia vero ad nos tanquam ad Dominum principalem cognitio praedictorum sicut et aliorum feodalium Regni nostri indubitanter noscitur pertinere vobis sub debito fidelitatis in qua nobis tenemini et sub poena animadversionis debitae et condignae in temporalia et feodalia quae de nobis tenetis districtius inhibemus ne de praedictis in foro Ecclesiastico seu coram alio quam coram nobis in nostrum et Regni nostri praejudicium et gravamen aliquatenus respondere praesumatis praesertim cum hoc sine transgressione Iuramenti quo nobis tenemini facere non possitis sicut nec debetis Pro certo tenentes quod si secus egeritis omittere nec volumus nec valemus quin nos ad temporalia et feodalia vestra secundum legem et consuetudinem Regni nostri capiemus In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Novum Castrum super Tynam 29 die Augusti The King being further informed that the Monks of Winton in this Suit between the Bishop and them had procured a sequestration of the Temporal goods belonging to the Priory to the Abbots of Stafford and Boxley towards the satisfaction of the debts of the Priory and expenses of the Monks in this Suit which they intended to execute in derogation of the Rights of his Crown and contrary to the Law and Custom of the Realm issued this Prohibition to them not to proceed therein under pain of seising their Temporalties REX Abbatibus de Stafford de Boxlegh Cisterciensis ordinis salutem Intelleximus miramur plurimum et movemur quod in causa quae vertitur inter venerabilem Patrem electum Winton ex una parte Monachos loci ejusdem ex altera Dominus Papa non intelligens nec advertens qualiter et quantum negotium hujusmodi nos tangebat in nostrum praejudicium et gravamen ordinat vel ordinare proponit Quod facta sequestratione bonorum Temporalium ad Prioratum Ecclesiae Winton spectantium vobis eorundem bonorum custodia assignetur de quibus secundum quod fieri poterit fiat solutio debitorum et provideatur Monachis hinc inde sibi adversantibus in expensis sicque durante sequestratione hujusmodi Prior ibi non existeret qui possessionem Temporalium obtineret Cum autem Prior Winton in Curia nostra certis temporibus satisfacere et multa nobis alia consueta servitia exhibere et coram nobis et Iustitiariis nostris respondere omnibus de se conquerentibus teneatur nec ad haec de consuetudine Regni nostri inviolabiliter hactenus observata procuratorem vel atoruatum possit constituere loco suo nisi praesens in Curia ipsum constitueret viva voce et quociens in aliquo praedictorum defecerit in amerciamentum nostrum incidat et nobis debeat propter hoc certam pecuniae quantitatem per ordinationem et sequestrationem hujusmodi cum non esset qui praedicta faceret nos debitis consuetudinibus et servitiis contingeret defraudari Praeterea cum bona temporalia Prioratus praedicti de Baronia nostra esse et a nobis teneri noscantur et non existente ibi Priore ad Episcopum Winton vel si Episcopus ibi non existeret ad nos bonorum custodia pertineat eorundem Dominus Papa de bonis ipsis quae de Baronia nostra existunt nobis irrequisitis in nostrum praejudicium nihil potuit aut debuit ordinare Nec aliquid sine dubio ut credimus ordinasset si veritatem super hoc cognovisset cum nullus alius ubi nos maxime in justitiam non desicimus judicare vel ordinare habeat de eisdem Vnde vobis mandamus prout districtius possumus inhibendo quatenus si Literas forte super hoc receperitis vos de bonis praedictis donec saltem Dominum Papam super hoc
p. 838 839. Bound in 500 Marks to the Pope against their wills p. 844 845. E. ST Edmunds Abby A protection for it committed by the King to the Popes Legat p. 333. The Abbot a Commissioner to inquire of the goods formerly taken from the Romans 436. Richard de Insula Abbot his praise death 442. The Abbot complains to the King against the Popes exactions 567. The Popes Delegate in the case between the Abbot of Glaston and Bishop of Bath p. 578 634. King H. the 3. his extortions from it during the vacancy the Abbots election nulled bound in 800 marks to the Pope 717. It s visitation by the Popes Delegates 789. The Abbot Conservator of the Priviledge granted to St. Augustinâ— Câ—nt 794. A refuge to oppressed Clerks 806. Converts â—ent to it 836 839. The Abbot confirmed at Rome against the Kings and Archbishops wills 924. The Freâ—â—s Mâ—â—oâ—s intrude there 935. It s Custos during the Vacancy called to account 977. King H. 3. dyeth in it 1067. The Abbot One of the Popes Delegates in a case between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Abbot of S. Augustines proceeds therein against the Kings prohibition Appendix p. 8. to 17. The Kings Commissioners to be present at their election of an Abbot p. 348. S. Edrulâ—us Abbot recommended to be elected Bishop of Sagion p. 234. St. Ellen de With Converts sent to it p. 840. Elleschirch Prioresse p. 352. Ely Prior and Covent their Bishops election against the Kings Writ vacated oppressed by him p. 913 923 924. A Writ concerning the goods distreined p. 965. Euchâ—esay Priory Converts sent to it p. 838 840. Evesham Abby dedicated p. 504. an Heretick brought before Richard Abbot of it and others p. 560. The Kings Chancellor p. 6â—4 Converts sent thither p. 838 840. The Abbot deprived and a new substituted by the Popes Legat Appendix p. 18. F. ST Facundus Abbot the Popes Legat to publish the Emperors Excommunication p. 655. St. Faith Fidis Convert Jewes sent thither p. 836 839. Farnley Pharlegg Priory Converts sent thither p. 836 839. Flay Abbot of the Cistercian Order preached against the Popes Usurers corruptions p. 802. Flexle Flaxele Abby Convert Jews sent to it p. 836 to 841. the collecting the Croysado money specially committed to the Abbot p. 861. Font-everoit Nunnes placed in Ambresbiry p. 228 229. De Fontibus Fountain Funtan Abbot his Appeal against the Archbishop of Yorks excommunication p. 242. John the Abbot made Bishop of Ely p. 379. A prohibition against the Abbot in a suit before the Popes Delegates 831. Converts sent thither p. 836 839. Collector of the Dismes in York Province 863. Frecheswill Fridswell Oxon Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 839 840. A Prohibition against it for the Church of Aclea to the Popes Delegates of which the Monks would disinherit the King p. 381. Frenton Prior made Abbot of Westminster by the Popes Legat p. 335. Appendix p. 18. G. GEnâ—ueâ—e Abbot a Prohibition against him to the Popes Delegates for â—â—ing for Lands before them p. 725 726 Gerwedon Abby Convert Jews sent to it p. 838 839. Gâ—â—â—bourne Prior and Covent of St. Austins Order bound in 300. Marks to the Pope against their will p. 845. Glaston Abbey united to the Bishopricks of Bath and Wells sundry Letters Writs suits between the Bishop of Bath and Abbot concerning it p. 356 357 851 852 995 996. Convert Jews sent to it p. 836 837 839. Abbot Roger excommunicated gets a prohibition p. 851 852. the Bishop summoned for proceeding against it p. 995 996. Godestow Abbesse Converts sent thither p. 835 838. Gregory Cantuar. A prohibition to the Prior then Dean of Canterbury p. 496. Convert Jews sent to it p. 835 837 839. A Delegate in an Ecclesiastical cause p. 835. Gutlacâ— Hereford Priory Converts sent to it p. 840. H. HAle Abby Converts sent to it p. 840. Harle Hurle Ralph Arundel Prior elected Abbot of Westminster p. 229. The Prior Kings Proctor at Rome 584. The Popes Visitor p. 789. Haverholm Converts sent to it p. 840. Hexstaâ—â—â—shâ—m Priory Converts sent thereto p. 838 840. Holcontram Abby Converts sent to it 838 840. Huntindon Priory Converts sent thither 836 837 839. Hyda Hyde Abbot sent by the King with an Appeal to the Bishop of Winton p. 585 586. Converts sent thither p. 838 840. I. JAmes Bristoll Priory Converts sent to it p. 840. James Noâ—thampton Converts sent thereto p. 840. St. Johns Jerusalem p. 864 945 947 1027. See Templars and Hospitallers K. KEmere Abbot Cicestrensis Ordinis one of the Popes Commissioners to absolve David Prince of Wales from his Oath to K. H. 3. p. 622. Kenwilworth Prior pretends right to Cesterton Church p. 993. Kingswode Abby Converts sent to it p. 838 840. Kirkest Abbey Converts sent to it p. 837. Kirkham Priory Converts sent thâ—reto p. 838 840. Kirkstead Abby Converts sent thither p. 836 837 839. Kokersand Converts sent thither p. 840. Kynes Priory Converts sent thither p. 838 843. L. LAncaster Priory Converts sent to it p. 840. Langâ—don Converts sent to it p. 840. Lanton Prior his suit and Appeal against the Archbishop of Ardmach p. 628. Lanynton Converts sent thither p. 837. Lesâ—es Abbot summoned to answer a contempt for holding a Plea as Popes Delegate against the Kings prohibition p. 477 478. Lewes Priory a Convert sent to it p. 836 837 839. Leycestre Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 837. Liwâ—hul Priory a Convert sent thither p. 840. M. MAlmâ—sbury The Abbot suspended by Martin the Popes Agent for opposing his exactions p. 606. Converts sent to it p. 836 839. A Writ to him to receive a Monk of Winchester p. 976. St. Maries Ebor. The Abbot with others sent to meet and receive the Popes Legat p. 287. A Writ to him and others touching the Bishop of Winchâ—sters election p. 354 355. defamed and the Monks dispersed for a false deed 775. A Prohibition to him concerning the Liberties of York p. 831. St. Martinâ— Dovor A Writ to the Constable of Dover to protect the Prior and Covent in their Liberties against the Subprior and Canons of Canterbury p 1059 1060. Mauvern pâ—rva Priory Converts sent to it p. 838 840. Merkeb Converts sent to it p. 840. Merlus Converts sent thither p. 840. Merton Prior suspended for opposing the Popes Nuncioes exactions p. 606. A Writ to the Prior and Covent not to suffer any monyes of the Bishop of Winchester or his brother to be thence removed p. 938. Gilbert Prior of it Collector of the Dismes his account p. 1050. Michelham Michalham Priory Converts sent to it p. 836 837 839. Middleton Abby Converts sent thither p. 838 840. Monte-acute Prior accused and ordered to be deprived for dilapidations if guilty p. 256 257. Converts sent to it 36 837 839. Monte Belli Abbot presents Articles of Reformation for Religious Houses to Pope Greg. 9. 440 441. N. ST Neoth the Priors Lands unjustly seised as an alien restored on complaint p. 631.
and possession of the Tenement to the Plaintiff according to the Law and Custom of Ireland to take and imprison the Judges who held plea thereof in the Ecclesiastical Court and the Bishop too for prosecuting the cause there against his Prohibition in contempt of his Crown and Dignity till they made full satisfaction to the King for such an enormous and grand contempt and to proceed in like manner in other like cases that he might lose none of his right 635. See Imelic Daniel the King at the earnest importunity of many great and Religious persons gave order to his Chief Justice to restore his Temporalties although the Dean and Chapter of Clon refused to present him to the King after his election for to approve or disallow him and without his favour proceeded by the Popes command to consecrate him in prejudice of his Royal Dignity Provided that the Bishop Dean and Chapter should first give security by a Charter under their hands and seals that they would not hereafter proceed to any election of a Bishop without first petitioning for a license and that after the election they should present the person elected to him and his heirs before his consecration p. 719. Clokor Bishops Th. An Attachment against him for holding Plea in the Ecclesiastical Court of a Lay fee against the Kings Prohibition p. 372. Cluacensis and Cluenfert Bishops with others under the Archbishop of Tuam procured a Bull from Pope Alexander to excommunicate the Kings Justices and Bayliffs for inquisitions imprisonments and legal proceedings against them their Tenants and Officers notwithstanding the Kings Prohibitions The Kings Proctors appeal and exteptions against these clauses as contrary to the Kings prerogative p. 857 858. Cork Bishops Mauritius translated to the Archbishoprick of Cassel by the Kings license and assent p. 391. Corliagensis Episcopus William a Monk of Jariponte confirmed by the Popes Legate his confirmation approved by the King a Writ to restore his temporalties p. 1033. Cuntren Bishop Adam subject to Armach 604. D. Dary Bishoprick Bishops DArensis Episcopus The Popes delegate to absolve the Archbishop of Cassels causless interdict of the Kings men and Lands after an Appeal at the Kings complaint in case he took it not off in 15. dayes 384. His certificate of a Bishops consecration by the Archbishop of Dublin at Rome 980. Dublin Archbishoprick and Archbishops Henricus Loundres subscribes King Johas Chatter in Mat. Paris of his surrender of England and Ireland to the Pope p. 274. His protestation against it and grief at Pandulphus trampling the first money under his feet 274 293 300. Joyns in a Letter with the Barons for recalling the exiled Bishops and Stephen Langeton and their safe return into England 277. Sent with others by the King to meet them 278. A Writ with his Teste to deliver two imprisoned Clerks to the custody of the Popes Legat 283. An Attachment against him for holding plea of a Lay fee in his Court against the Kings prohibition 372. The Kings Writ to him to consecrate the Bishop elect of Artferten according to the Popes mandate which he approved 393. Justice of Ireland a Writ commanding him to proceed in a certificate to the Justices in Assise of Mortdauncester where Bastardy was pleaded to take the proofs of the plaintif therein notwithstanding any Appealâ— according to the Law and Custom of Ireland and to give a definitive sentence therein that Justice might not be obstructed the Kings Court declined and his Jurisdiction transferred to another Judicature 393 394 Pope Honorius Bull to him to punish the detainers of the Kings Castles with Ecclesiastical Censures if they refused to surrender them to him 397. A Writ to him to collect the 5. part of all movable goods of Bishops Abbots Priors and a 6. of all inferiour Clergymen within his Province and Ireland according to their annual values granted to H. 3. by the Pope and to dispose reserve pay and account to the King for them that it should not be drawn into example for the future 406. The other Archbishops summoned to meet him ac Dublin concerning it 409. A mandate to him when any Cathedral within his Diocesse fell void not to admit any person to vacant dignities untill it shall appear they have petitioned for and obtained license from the King to elect and obtained his royal assent to the election 407. The profits of all Archbishopricks and Bishopricks which should fall voyd in Ireland granted to him till a debt owing him by the King was fully satisfied p. 423. A Mandate to all Abbots Priors Earls Barons Knights Citizens Burgesses and other persons within the Archbishoprick to pay Tâ—thes of their Fishponds to their parish Priests without expecting the Kings royal Mandate and assent 424. A Writ to transmit to him the Constitution of Merton concerning Bastardy that the issue born before marriage ought not to inherit Lands or Tenements but the Brother born after marriage That the Lord ought not to be vouched to warranty in such cases by the tenant nor duel allowed to proceed accordingly in Irel. 474. A special Writ to him and the chief Justice to grant a license to the Dean and Chapter of Arefarten to elect a new Bishop for that time out of special grace and to confirm consecrate the person elected in his royal name and right that his right might not be impeached and to null their former election made without his license which he would by no means confirm to preserve his prerogative to confirm consecrate no Bishop without his precedent license to elect subsequent confirmation when elected 480 481. A Writ to him to preach the Crosse publish the Popes Bull through all Ireland to ayde the Holy Land by such persons as he should think meet to reserve the Bull safe when published in the Priory of Trinity in Dublin where all might resort to it and use diligence therein 732 733. A Writ to him to permit Stephen Longespe and his agents according to the Popes Bull to him to collect all the monyes in Lagenia for the redemption of the Vows of such who had taken on them the Crosse in that Province and to assist them therein 757. A writ to collect and unite the Disms of Beneficed persons in Ireland by the Chief Justices advise 768 A mandate to him to release the Excommunication he hâ—d published against Stephen Longespe and to the chief Justice to induce him to it 784. Lucas the Kings Parent to him and others with the Bishops of Notwich Chichester and Abbot of Westminsters Letters and instructions to them concerning the businesse of the Crosse and collecting the Dismes of all Ireland for relief of the Holy Land p. 815 816. Ranulphus de Norwico Chancellor of Ireland elected Archbishop by the Canons at Dublin was excepted against his election nulled in the Court of Rome and the Electorblamed because he was a secular person brought up in the Kings Court sitting at the receit of Custom and the
dejected enemies to life up their heads After which he caused the Germans to elect another Emperor the Lantgrave who upon conference sided with him against the Pope who refused all termes of peace unlesse he would sweat absolutely to stand to his-his-Ecclesiastical censure which he refused to do unlesse he knew before hand the causes and all conditions of it without restoring the places he had gained belonging to the Empire of antient right 651. The Pope refuseth all sorts of cautions he tendred to him to settle place to the great rejoycing of Saracens Turks and other Pagans who invaded spoyled the Christians in all places during their dissentions Upon which he stops all passages to Rome by Sea and Land imploying his Son Coâ—rade therein forced the Pope and Cardinals to fly out of Rome and Italy disguised into France his jeer against the Pope for this his dishonourable flight 651 652 653. By assistance of the French King the Pope summoned a General Council excommunicated deposed the Emperor afresh absolves all his Subjects from their allegiance prohibits any to own or converse with him under pain of Excommunication in a most insolent manner notwithstanding all his Embassadors Advocates allegations and proffers of satisfaction 643 to 654 664 753. The Bulls causes of his Excommunication and dethroning 644 to 660. His notable stout speech after his dethroning by the Pope and Council He sets his Crown on his head bids defyance against the Pope sends notable Letters to the King of England and other Princes against the pride insolency ingratitude of the Pope and Prelates occasioned by their great endowments riches by the bounty of Christian Emperors Kings to the impoverishing of their Realms asseits it would be an act of charity very acceptable to God to resume their possessions riches which made them cast God behind their backs choaked their Religion caused them ungratefully to conspire and set themselves against their advancers Heirs exhorting them to reduce them to their primitive humility condition to substract their great noxious revenues from them which made them mad riotous rebellious and unlike the Primitive Bishops in the Apostles times who subdued Emperors Kings by their piety holineste nor by Armes 660 661 662. The great dangers many Princes Prelates apprehended would ensue by this Emperors deposing by encouraging Popes though of mean birth to trample all Emperors Kings Princes Prelates under feet at their pleasures and grow intollerably proud insolent to boast we have trampled the very greatest Lord and Emperor Frederick under feet and who art thou who rashly believest thou art able to resist us 662. The Pope exhorts the Cistercians to live and dye in his and the Churches quarrel against him who thereupon inclined to his party 662 663. All Christendome troubled with Wars by the hatred discord between the Pope and him and the Universal Church every where endangered 753 754. The French Nobles adhere to him detest the pride of the Pope the Servant of Servants who rejected all the honest conditions of peace which he offered him 755. He the greatest of all Christian Princes who had not his equal an enemy to Pope Innocent the 4. generally hated in most Kingdoms 676. Two new Emperors successively set up against him their forces defeated one of them slain in battle the other dyes 753. Appendix 27. He is poysoned by his most intimate Counsellor and Advocate Peter de Vinea corrupted by Pope Innoccut the 4. his great gifts and promises his memorable declamation against Popes ingratitude insolency advanced from nothing by his predecessors to so great wealth power who thereby endeavoured to exterminate destroy their advancers and the tottering Empire 754 756 809 810. The punishment of his poysoner the Popes great rejoycing at his misery death 754 755. Frederick King of Naples his great munificent gifts of Crown Lands revoked 319. G. GErmany Almaign Popes pretended Title to it 391. The Emperors Oath power he cannot alien his Lands or Soveraign power 316 317 318 319. See Index 14. Emperor Oath Frederick Otho Seditions Rebellions raised in it by Popes against the Emperor 411 523 5â—8 536 753 754 810 811. Shaken with intestine wars by the Pope 676 698 717. Gothes obey the Greek Church 491. Granado Popes pretended Title to it 9 291. Greek Church subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople its errors opposition against separation from the Church of Rome for its detestable symony ambition corruptions the several Nations Countries obedient to it rejecting the Popes authority its claim of primacy above the Pope by St. Peters first preaching fixing his See at Antioch not Rome G 〈◊〉 us its Patriarch and Greek Churches opposition against Pope Gregory 9. who grants a Croysado against them 484 490 491 492 512 513 676 752. Greek Emperors 319 490 491 492 512. Their donations of the Lands of the Empire revoked 319. H. HAco King of Denmark Norway and Sweden his Coronation by the Popes Legate gifts to him and the Pope for it 697. Henry 5. Emperor Pope Paschal 2. and his Cardinals grant of the right of Investitures to him by his Bull Oath perjuriously revoked soon after 328. King Henry 1. of England his Charter of Laws Liberties â—ead to the Barons by Archbishop Langeton who swear to revive maintain and fight for it to death in convenient time 283. Enlarged with divers new additions in King Johns Great Charter 338. He erected endowed the Bishoprick of Carlisle 376 377. King Henry 2. of England his antient Jurisdiction over Clergymen by prescription declared voyd by the Pope 6 7. He ejects the Abbesse and Nuns of Ambresbury for their Incontinency and puts others in their places 228. His contests with Becket abjuration of the antient priviledge of Investitures and right of conferring Bishopricks before the Popes Legate 250. Revokes resumes the Crown Lands Mannors Castles granted by King Stephen an Usurper to the Nobles as voyd and the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmerland from the King of Scots 324. King Henry 3. of England his Coronation at Gloucester at 9. years old after his Fathers death his Oath Homage to the Pope 369 370. The Bishops Nobles Castellans Homage Fealty and Fidelity to him he remains in the custody of William Earl of Pembrock his chief advancer Ibid. Many Barons revolt from Lewes to him for breach of his Oath and detaining their Lands Casties 370. He routs Lewes his forces Articles of agreement between them ratified by Oath out of which sundry Bishops Abbots Clerks were excepted 371 372. The Popes Usurpations on him by reason of his infancy necessities assistance of him against the French and revolted Barons 369 372 1068. His memorable Prohibitions Writs to restrain the Usurpations Extortions exorbitant Encroachments of Popes Popes Legates Delegates Archbishops Bishops and other Agents in England and Ireland upon the rights of his Crown the Liberties Properties Consciences of his Subjects Courts Officers and redresse their grievances See Prohibitions Elections Excommunications Oathes Index 14. and Index 3 4 5 6
himself saith of Christ in reference to his ascending into heaven The Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly That God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Which he thus seconded both before the Councel and High Priest of the Jews Acts 5. 31 32. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins and we are witnesses of these things And in his Sermon to Cornelius Acts 10. 36. he addes He not I is Lord of all Which St. Paul whom he stiles Our beloved brother and fellow Apostle and whose Epistles he voucheth as concurring with his own 2 Pet. 3 15 16. thus amplifies 1 Cor. 15. 24 25 26. For Christ must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death Then cometh the end when he shall deliver up the Kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power Compared with Ephes 1. 20 21 22. Col. 1. 17 18 19. Phil. 2. 9 10 11. 2 Tim. 5. 14 15 16. And St. John thus thirds Rev. 11. 15 16 17. And there were great voices in heaven saying The Kingdoms of the world are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and He not St. Peter or the Pope his pretended successor shall reign for ever and ever And the twenty four Elders fell upon their faces and worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee not delegated to the Pope or St. Peter thy great power and hast reigned And Rev. 19. 6. I heard as the voyce of a great multitude and as of mighty thunderings saying Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent not Pope reigneth Moreover David in relation to the Kingdom Kingship of Christ after his resurrection and ascension assures us Psal 29. 10. The Lord sitteth King for ever Psal 97. 1. The Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the multitude of Isles be glad thereof Yea Dan. 2. 44. c. 4. 3 34. c. 6. 26. c. 7. 14 27. Luke 1. 33. It was prophesied and predicted of Christ That his Kingdom shall never be destroyed that his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and his Dominion an everlasting Dominion from generation to generation without any inter-regnum or succession and shall be even unto the end and shall not passe away or be transferred and shall not be left to other people therefore not to St. Peter or Roman Pontiffs of several Nations and all Dominions shall serve and obey him not St. Peter or Popes Compared with Mich. 4. 7. And the Lord not Popes shall reign over them for ever Isa 9. 6 7. Luke 1. 38 39. And the Lord God shall give him the throne of his Father David and the government shall be upon his shoulders and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom and of the encrease of his government there shall be no end Therefore by the concurrent verdicts of St. Peter himself backed by St. Paul St. John and all these sacred Texts it is infallible that Christ neither at his ascension nor at any time else ever transferred the right exercise dominion of his Kingdom Church or government thereof much lesse of all Kingdoms Nations Monarchs in the world to St. Peter or his Roman successors but intirely reserved it to himself as personal and untransferrable to any other And so they must bid farewell for ever to St. Peters pretended Universal Monarchy and Patrimony as Christs Successors or Vicars by the Testimony of all these sacred Texts whereon they would gladly found and establish it The third Texts are such as destroy both St. Peters and all Popes Titles to Christs Universal High Priesthood or Shepherdship over the Catholick Church as the precedent do their Kingship The first is St. Peters own expression 1 Pet. 5. 2 3 4. Feed the flock of God which is amongst you neither as being Lords over Gods heritage but being ensamples to the flock And when the Chief Shepherd Christ shall appear therefore Christ not he was then Chief Pastor of the Sheep you shall receive a Crown of glory that fadeth not away The next is that of St. Paul Hebr. 13. 20. Our Lord Iesus Christ brought again from the dead is the Great Shepherd of the Sheep to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen compared with Hebr. 7. 21. to the end ch 10 12. 15 to 22. and Psal 110. 4. The Lord sware and will not repent in relation to Jesus Christ and his Priesthood Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedech And they truly were many Priests because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death but this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangable or untransferrable Priesthood that passeth not to another by succession or delegation therefore not to St. Peter or any other Roman Pontiff Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him not by Peter Mary or the Pope seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an high Priest became us who is holy harmlesse undefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens are any Roman Pontiffs so qualified and who needed not daily as these Priests did and all Popes and Masse-Priests too to offer up sacrifice for their own sinnes and then for the peoples for this he did once when he offered up himself and is consecrated for evermore For by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us After he had offered one sacrifice for ever he sate down at the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool for by one offering he hath perfected for ever those that are sanctified And having him an High Priest over the House of God not St. Peter nor his successors let us draw near with a pure heart in full assurance of faith Popes therefore and their seduced Pontificians must now bid adieu to their Antichristian Titles of Pontifex Optimus Maximus Pontifex Summus Sanctissimus Episcopus Vniversalis Oecumenicus Pastor summus Pastor Pastorum and to their Vicarship and succession in Christs Vniversal High Priesthood as well as to his Kingship unlesse they will renounce all these Canonical Scriptures Vnking Vnpriest our Saviour Christ and usurp both his Royal Throne and Chair upon Christs pretended Donation of them to St. Peter at his ascention who never heard of claimed but professedly disavowed any such Gift and all Popes of Rome too for some hundreds of years Of no greater Credit or Validity then their forged Donation of all Ecclesiastical and Temporal Soveraignty and
Dominion from Constantine the Great which refute and destroy each other Now because the sacred Scriptures are of little or no Authority in the Church of Rome but as they are glossed interpreted from time to time by Popes themselves in their own causes for their own advantage I shall in the next place subvert the foundation of their pretended Universal Monarchy by their own established Romish Devotions Practises Doctrines directly or consequentially contradicting overturning each other by a divine infatuation I shall reduce them to these two general heads 1. Such Practises Devotions Doctrines of the Roman Church and its members as directly invalid diminish subvert the Soveraign Universal Kingly or Priestly offices of Christ himself and by consequence St. Peters and the Popes which they derive from him 2ly Such as subvert the Popes alone To begin with their Practises and Devotions as they deem them The Romanists as you heard before acknowledge that our Saviour Christ as God and Man did not receive the actuall possession or exercise of his Universal Kingly power in earth or heaven especially in Temporals till after his resurrection and his ascention in his humane body and nature into heaven to the Throne of his Majesty not whiles he was a sucking babe in his mothers arms or hanging nayled on his Crosse or intombed in his sepulcher the lowest acts parts of his humiliation antecedent to his actual Soveraign Exaltation and Regal Power as Phil. 2. 1 to 12. Ephes 2. 19 to 23. Mat. 28. 18 19. Lu. 24. 26. Acts 2. 23 to 27. c. 5. 30 31. c. 13. 33 34. Heb. 1. 3. c. 12. 2. Rev. 3. 21. c. 5. 12 13. resolve Now how do Popes Popish Churches Councils Cardinals Bishops Doctors Priests Monks Nonnes Laicks and the whole Church of Rome picture represent our Saviour Christ to the eyes of their bodies and mindes either in all or most of their publike or private Masse-books Breviaries Offices Psalters Primers Processionals Manuals Rosaries or other Books of Devotion and Religion in all their Collegiate Cathedral Parochial Churches Chappels or private Oratories Monasteries Colledges Cells Closets or Crosses which they erect and in their publike or private Masses Processions devoutest prayers and addresses to him when they most implore his grace or assistance Not as a most glorious triumphant Soveraign King of Kings or head of all Principalities and Powers or as their only high Priest Advocate Mediator sitting in Heaven on the Throne of his Majesty and glory at his Fathers right hand there making perpetual intercession for them to reconcile and bring them to his Father But rather as a despicable sucking babe or infant lying in his swadling clouts in his Mothers arms lap bosom brest or at her feet in a cratch or manger as if he were still an infant and not grown to his manly stature Yea they make him such a frail despicable infant that his very bones and limbs too may now be easily broken and knocked off from his body contrary to John 19. 33. 36. Ps 34. 26. A bone of him shall not be broken and he tumbled down out of his mothers armes to the ground witnesse this famous Legend recorded for a most certain miraculous truth by our Gervasius Dorobernensis Anno Gratiae 1187. King Henry the 2d being in Castello Radulphi in Provincia Bituricensi wherein the French King intended to besiege him Est ibidem Coenobium Monachorum habitus nigri in honore beatae virginis Mariae dedicatum Quo cum Braibanceni Regis Angliae stipendiarii festinarent ut ea quae in eadem Ecclesia reposita erant absportarent Lemovicensis Vicecomes armatus accessit eorumque ab ingressu Ecclesiae cohibuit furorem fugatoque tandem latronum Cuneo remanserunt quidam ex ipsis in ipso atrio Ecclesiae tessara ludentes Cum ergo quidam ex ipsis ut moris est sorte perderent alii vero lucro inhiantes eos qui perdebant probris irritarent hi qui perdebant furore succensi in Deum et beatam ejus genetricem nefandas blasphemias jactitabant ac si ecrâ—m esset culpa quod hujusmodi infortunia eis accidebant Vnus autem ex eis insanior caeteris arrepto lapide ad imaginem Sanctae Virginis Mariae in lapide sculptam projecit quo infantem feriens ejus manum dejecit in terram Qua ruente ipse quoque puer e gremio lapsus est inferiusque solito resedit De brachio autem pueri simul et manu quae jam in terram lapsa est sanguis uberrime manavit ac si viventis hominis vigor esset in lapide It seems this statue of their Saviour was transubstantiated into his very body and blood as well as the Hostia Ipsa vero Imago Mariae ac si suo compateretur filio conjectis manibus ad humeros proprios Vestimentum lapideum abrupit et corpus proprium fere usque ad mamillas detexit Hic vero qui lapidem jecerat absque mora corruit et expiravit caeterique amentes effecti sunt as madd as they who forged and believed this Legend Vicecomes autem Lemovicensis accurrens manum pueri sanguine madidam apprehendit magnumque defensionis proemium laetabundus absportavit The like miracles wee have recorded of abundance of blood issuing out of the little Images of our Savior wounded or crucified by Iewes since his ascention into heaven publikely read in the Roman Church recorded for truths by Sigebertus yea by Baronius himself and Henricus Spondanus his Epitomizer Anno Christi 446. nu 3. Anno 560. nu 1. Anno 765. nu 2. which blood they reserve and shew to the people who adore it as the very blood of Christ himself in several places Yea our Radulphus de Diceto in his Abbreviationes Chronicorum Anno 765. out of Sigebertus and others stories Judaei Imaginem Jesu Salvatoris nostri invenientes in domo Judaei ibi relictam à quodam Christiano eam deponunt omnia opprobria quae Judaei Jesu Christo intulerunt imagini ejus inferebant tandem lancea latere ejus aperto exivit de eo sanguis et aqua Quod illi supposita ampulla suscipientes omnes infirmos in Synagoga sua collectos sanabat Quod cum vidissent Judaei baptizati sunt omnes when as the shedding of Christs blood and sight of the miracles wrought at his Passion converted no one Jew and in memory hereof Passio autem Dominicae Imaginis celebratur singulis annis 5 Idus Nov. the day of our Gunpowder Treason apud Beretham in Syria where this Image was crucified So as they had two good Fridayes the one for the Passion of our Saviour which is moveable changing every year and the other for the passion of his very image which is certain Or 2dly They represent and adore him as a diâ—inutive despicable babe or dwarfe whose real natural glorified body born of the Virgin Mary if they believe their own Popes Councils Doctors Churches resolutions