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A69901	England's independency upon the papal power historically and judicially stated by Sr. John Davis ... and by Sr. Edward Coke ... in two reports, selected from their greater volumes ; with a preface written by Sir John Pettus, Knight.	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.; Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.; Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing D397; ESTC R21289	68,482	102

and other Ordinaries having Episcopal Jurisdiction to punish and chastise Priests Clerks and Religious men being within the bounds of their Jurisdiction as shall be convicted afore them by examination and lawfull proof requisite by the law of the Church of Advoutrie Fornication Incest or any other fleshly Incontinency by committing them to ward and prison there to abide for such time as shall be thought to their discretions convenient for the quality and quantity of their trespass And that none of the said Archbishops Bishops or Ordinaries aforesaid be thereof chargeable of to or upon any action of false or wrongfull imprisonment but that they be utterly thereof discharged in any of the cases aforesaid by virtue of this Act. Rex est persona mixta because he hath both Ecclesiastical and Temporal Jurisdiction By the Ecclesiastical Laws allowed within this Realm a Priest cannot have two Benefices nor can a Bastard be a Priest but the King may by his Ecclesiasticall power and Jurisdiction dispense with both of these because they be mala prohibita and not mala per se In the Reign of King Henry the Eighth BY an Act of Parliament made in the 24. year of King Henry the 8. that is to say by the King 24 Bishops 29 Abbots and Priors for so many were then Lords of Parliament by all the Lords Temporal and the Commons in that Parliament assembled it is declared That where by divers sundry old authentick Histories and Chronicles it was manifestly declared and expressed that this Realm of England is an Empire and so hath been accepted in the world governed by one Supreme Head and King having the Dignity and Royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same unto whom a Body politick compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of Spiritualty and Temporalty been bound and ought to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience he being also institute and furnished by the goodness and furtherance of Almighty God with plenary whole and entire Power Preheminence Authority Prerogative and Jurisdiction to render and yield Justice and final determination to all manner of folk resiants or subjects within this his Realm in all causes matters debates and contentions happening to occur insurge or begin within the limits thereof without restraint or provocation to any forrein Princes or Potentates of the world The Body Spiritual whereof having power when any cause of the Law Divine happened to come in question or of Spiritual learning that it was declared interpreted and shewed by that part of the said Body politick called the Spiritualty then being usually called the English Church which alwaies had been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge integrity and sufficiency of number it had been always thought and was also at that hour sufficient and meet of it self without the intermeddling of any exteriour person or persons to declare and determine all such doubts and to administer all such offices and duties as to the rank spiritual did appertain For the due administration whereof and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection the King 's most noble Progenitors and the antecessors of the Nobles of this Realm did sufficiently indow the said Church both with honour and possessions And the Laws Temporal for trial of property of lands and goods and for the conservation of the people of this Realm in unity and peace without ravine or spoil was administred adjudged and executed by sundry Judges and Ministers of the other part of the said Body politick called the Temporaltie And both their Authorities and Jurisdictions did conjoyn together in the due administration of Justice the one to help the other And whereas the King his most noble Progenitors and the Nobility and Commons of the said Realm at divers and sundry Parliaments as well in the time King Edward the 1. Edward the 3. Richard the 2. Henry the 4. and other noble Kings of this Realm made sundry Ordinances Laws Statutes and Provisions for the entire and sure conservation of the Prerogatives Liberties and Preheminences of the said Imperial Crown of this Realm and of the Jurisdiction Spiritual and Temporal of the same to keep it from the annoiance as well of the See of Rome as from the authority of other forrein Potentates attempting the diminution or violation thereof as often and from time to time as any such annoiance or attempt might be known or espied And notwithstanding the said good Statutes and Ordinances made in the time of the King 's most noble Progenitors in preservation of the Authority and Prerogative of the said Imperiall Crown as is aforesaid yet nevertheless fithence the making of the said good Statutes and Ordinances divers and sundry inconveniences and dangers not provided for plainly by the said former Acts Statutes and Ordinances have risen and sprung by reason of Appeals sued out of this Realm to the See of Rome in causes Testamentary causes of Matrimony and Divorces right of Tithes Oblations and Obventions not onely to the great inquietation vexation trouble costs and charges of the King's Highness and many of his subjects and resiants in this his Realm but also to the great delay and lett to the true and speedy determination of the said causes forasmuch as the parties appealing to the said Court of Rome most commonly did the same for delay of Justice and forasmuch as the great distance of way was so far out of this Realm that neither the necessary proofs nor the true knowledge of the cause could be so well known or the witnesses there so well examined as within this Realm so that the parties grieved by means of the said Appeals were most times without remedy In consideration thereof the King his Nobles and Commons considering the great enormities dammages long delaies and hurts that as well to his Highness as to his said Noble subjects Commons and resiants of this his Realm in the said causes Testamentary causes of Matrimony and Divorces Tithes Oblations and Obventions did daily ensue did therefore by his Royall assent and by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in that Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same enact establish and ordain That all causes Testamentary causes of Matrimony and Divorces rights of Tithes Oblations and Obventions the knowledge whereof by the goodness of Princes of this Realm and by the Laws and Customes of the same appertained to the Spiritual Jurisdiction of this Realm then already commenced moved depending being happening or hereafter coming in contention debate or question within this Realm or within any of the King's dominions or Marches of the same or elsewhere whether they concern the King his Heirs or Successors or any other subjects or resiants within this Realm of what degree soever they be should be from thenceforth heard examined discussed clearly finally and definitively adjudged and determined within the King's Jurisdiction and