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A54636	Miscellanea parliamentaria containing presidents 1. of freedom from arrests, 2. of censures : 1. upon such as have wrote books to the dishonour of the Lords or Commons, or to alter the constitution of the government, 2. upon members for misdemeanours, 3. upon persons not members, for contempts and misdemeanours, 4. for misdemeanours in elections ... : with an appendix containing several instances wherein the kings of England have consulted and advised with their parliaments 1. in marriages, 2. peace and war, 3. leagues ... / by William Petyt of the Inner-Temple, Esq.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1948; ESTC R15174	115,975	326

must without doubt fall upon them But to return back V. Anno 3 Caroli primi Dr. Manwaring was impeached in Parliament by the Commons for preaching and printing several Sermons with a wicked and malicious intention to seduce and misguide the Conscience of the King touching the observation of the Laws and Customs of this Kingdom and the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects thereof and to incense his Royal Displeasure against his Subjects and to scandalize subvert and impeach ●he good Laws and Government of this Realm and the Authority of the High Court of Parliament to alien his Royal Heart from his People and to cause Jealousies Seditions and Divisions in the Kingdom Whereupon he had Judgment 1. To be imprisoned during pleasure of the House of Lords 2. Was fined a 1000 l. to the King 3. To make such submission and acknowledgment of his Offences in writing both there and at the Bar of the Commons House 4. Suspended for the term of 3 years from exercising the Ministry 5. Fo● ever disabled to preach at Court 6. That he should be for ever disabled to have any Ecclesiastical Dignity or Secular Office 7. That his said Books were worthy to be burnt and that for the better effecting of that his Majesty was to be moved to grant a Proclamation to call them in to be burnt in London and both the Vniversities and to prohibit their Reprinting This was the Judgment of the Lords The Doctor made his submission upon his knees first at the Bar of the House of Lords and after on his knees at the Bar of the House of Commons His Submission was this I do here in all sorrow of heart and true repentance acknowledge those many Errors and Indiscretions which I have committed in preaching and publishing those two Sermons of mine I call Religion and Allegiance and my great fault in falling upon this Theam again and handling the same rashly scandalously and unadvisedly in mine own Parish-Church in St. Giles in the Fields the 4th of May last past I do humbly acknowledge those three Sermons of mine to be full of many dangerous passages and inferences and scandalous aspersions in most parts of the same And I do humbly acknowledge the Justice of this Honourable House in that Sentence and Judgment pass'd upon me for my great offence and I do from the bottom of my heart crave pardon of God the King this Honourable House the Church and the Commonwealth in general and those worthy Persons reflected upon by me in particular for these great Errors and Offences Roger Manwaring After all which the Lords ordered the Bishop of London to suspend him according to the Clause expressed in the part of the Judgment against him The Doctor after got a Pardon and was made a Bishop which occasioned great Disturbances in the House of Commons in 4 Car. 1. The Charge and Articles against the Doctor drawn out of his own Books Article I. 1. That his Majesty is not bound to keep and observe the good Laws and Customs of the Realm concerning the Right and Liberty of the Subject to be exempted from all Loans Taxes and other Aids laid upon them without common Consent in Parliament 2. That his Majesties Will and command in imposing any charges upon his Subjects without such consent doth so far bind them in their consciences that they cannot refuse the same without peril of eternal damnation Article II. 1. That these Refusers had offended against the Law of God 2. Against the Supreme Authority 3. By so doing were become guilty of impiety disloyalty rebellion disobedience and liable to many other Taxes Article III. 1. That Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies 2. That the slow proceedings of such Assemblies are not fit to supply the urgent necessity of the State 3. That Parliaments are apt to produce sundry impediments to the just designs of Princes and to give them occasion of displeasure and discontent It was a saying of Themistius in his Consular Oration to Jovinian the Emperor that Some Bishops did not worship God but the Imperial purple This Dr. as I said before after this so solemn a Judgment did in the time of Prorogation between 3 4 Car. 1. get a Pardon and not only so but the Bishoprick of St. Davids which occasioned great debates and disturbances in the Parliament when they reassembled again the power and validity of his Pardon being brought in question and several times argued but the dissolution of the Parliament put an end to the dispute for that time But in the Parliament before the Long Parliament of 1640. the Lords highly resented it as may appear by following proceedings This day was read the Declaration of the House of Commons made tertio Caroli Regis against Dr. Manwaring since Lord Bishop of St. Davids and likewise the Sentence pronounced against him by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the High Court of Parliament which is committed to the consideration of the Lords of the Grand Committee for Priviledges and it was moved that what can be alledged on the Lord Bishop of St. Davids part either by Pardon License or otherwise that it may be produced and seen at the sitting of the Lords Committees for theirfull and clear understanding and better expedition in the business Having taken into consideration the business concerning Dr. Manwaring it was ordered that upon Munday next the Records be brought into the House that the House may determine the Cause touching Dr. Manwaring The business appointed this day concerning Dr. Manwaring is referred until to morrow morning viz. 28 Aprilis The Lord Keeper by command from his Majesty was to let their Lordships know that his Majesty had understood that there was some question concerning Doctor Manwaring now Bishop of Saint Davids and that his Majesty had given command that the said Dr. Manwaring shall not come and fit in Parliament nor send any Proxy to the Parliament thereupon it was ordered to be entred so And between that and the next Parl. as I am informed he died VI. Anno 3 Caroli primi Dr. Mountague was complained of in the House of Commons for writing and publishing several Tenents tending to Arminianism and Popery and that he had committed a contempt against the House Heli the Priest who teaching from without Corrupted Faith bound under Laws of might Not feeling God but blowing him about In every shape and likeness but the right We are to desire to conform our selves to former Parliaments this Cause began here 21. Jac. and then it was commended to the Archbishop But after it was so far from cure that another Book of Appeal came out and the Parliament 1 Caroli sent to the Archbishop to know what he had done who said he had given Mountague Admonition and yet he Printed that second Book without his consent and so it was then debated and the

in divers Places assembled and required to lend certain sums of Money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and give attendance before your Privy Councel and in other Places and others of them have been therefore imprisoned confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted and divers other Charges have been laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by Lord Lievtenants Deputy Lieutenants Commissioners for Musters Justices of Peace and others by Command or Direction from your Majesty or your Privy Councel against the Laws and free Customs of the Realm And where also by the Statute called the Great Charter of the Liberties of England it is declared and Enacted That no Freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or his free Customs or be Outlawed or Exiled or in any manner destroyed but by the lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land And in the 28th year of the Reign of K. Edward the III. it was Declared and Enacted by Authority of Parliament That no man of what Estate or Condition that he be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law Nevertheless against the tenour of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed and when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas Corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court shall order and their Keepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties special Command signified by the Lords of your Privy Councel and yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law And whereas of late great company of Souldiers and Mariners have been dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their Houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customs of this Realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the People And whereas also by Authority of Parliament in the 25th year of the Reign of K. Edward the III. it is Declared and Enacted That no man should be forejudged of Life or Limb against the form of the great Charter and the Law of the Land and by the said great Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customs of the same Realm or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no Offendor of what kind soever is exempted from the Proceedings to be used and Punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm nevertheless of late divers Commissions under your Majesties Great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed Commissioners with Power and Authority to proceed within the Land according to the Justice of the Martial Law against such Souldiers and Mariners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny or other Outrage or Misdemeanour whatsoever and by such summary Course and Order as is agreeable to Martial Law and as is used in Armies in time of War to proceed to the Tryal and Condemnation of such Offendors and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the Law Martial By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have been by some of the said Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to have been judged and executed And also sundry grievous Offendors by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the Punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Justice have unjustly refused or forborn to proceed against such Offendors according to the same Laws and Statutes upon pretence that the said Offendors were punishable only by Martial Law and by Authority of such Commissions as aforesaid which Commissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directly contrary to the said Laws and Statutes of this your Realm They do therefore humbly pray your most Excellent Majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like Charge without common Consent by Act of Parliament and that none be called to make answer or take such Oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof and that no Freeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be Imprisoned or Detained And that your Majestie would be pleased to remove the said Souldiers and Mariners and that your People may not be so burthened in time to come And that the foresaid Commissions for proceeding by Martial Law may be revoaked and adnulled And that hereafter no Commissions of like nature may issue forth to any Person or Persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid least by colour of them any of your Majesties Subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and Franchises of this Land All which they most Humbly Pray of your most Excellent Majesty as their Rights and Liberties according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And that your Maiestie would also vouchsafe to declare that the awards doings and proceedings to the prejudice of your People in any of the premisses shall not be drawn hereafter into Consequence or Example and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased for the further comfort and safety of your People to declare your Royal Will and Pleasure That in the things aforesaid all your Officers and Ministers shall serve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as they tender the Honour of your Majesty and the Prosperity of this Kingdom Which Petition being read the 2d of June 1628. the King's Answer was thus delivered unto it THe King willeth that Right be done according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and that the Statutes be put in due execution that his Subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions contrary to their just Rights and Liberties to the preservation whereof he holds himself in Conscience as well obliged as of his Prerogative But

Highness's most Faithful and Obedient Subjects the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Considering and certainly perceiving by divers means the earnest Good-will and Purpose that our said Sovereign Lord hath to preserve maintain and continue Us his Natural Subjects in this most Fortunate Peace whereunto after many Storms and Tempests of the Wars His Majesty hath by the Goodness of God restored Us Do also notwithstanding his Majesties great Care and politick Means used for the recovery thereof easily perceive how hard it shall be for His Highness to continue and kéep us therein during the time of this troublesom state of Christendom being as it were lamentably cut and torn in pieces and Factions of War except his Highness be restored to a further Estate and Furniture of Treasure meet for the Defence of these His Realms Dominions And Subjects and like to other Princes having such large Realms Dominions and People the lack and want whereof as we know shall chiefly redound to all our Losses and Detriments which must be defended and preserved by the Puissant Power and Might of our Sovereign Lord and Head not by the multitude of our private Riches and Strength at Home So also have We séen of late years plainly before Our Eyes and felt in a great part of Our sorrowful hearts the very Principal Chief and first Causes of this lack during the time of the woful mis-governance of this Noble Realm and other the King's Dominions by the late Protector Duke of Somerset to whom Almighty God grant his Mercy who first of his insatiate ambition contrary to the advices of all Wise and Good Councellors having gotten into his hands the sole Governance of the most Sacred Person of our Sovereign Lord and consequently the Protectorship of all his Highness's Realms and Dominious immediately to lay a fit Foundation for his unhappy and unskilful Government brought the King's Majesty whom he took by pretence to Govern being left by His Highness's Father of most Famous Memory in tender Years but yet in Peace suddenly into open Hostility and Wars against two puissant Realms at once considering neither the Ability to begin nor means to continue them wherein following always his own singularity by stirring and increasing of new Quarrels and Causes of War by unadvised Invasions by desperate Enterprises and Uoyages by sumptuous endless vain Fortifications both in Foreign Realms and in the Seas by bringing into the Realm of costly and great numbers of Strangers Men of War and such other innumerable vain Devices he did not only Exhaust and utterly Waste the King's Majestie 's Treasures and Revenues of His Crown and of Us His Highness's Subjects but also endangered His Majestie 's Credit beyond the Seas with divers strange Merchants by taking up and borrowing great Sums of Money growing from time to time more and more indurable which Gate of Misery being so wide open We all know and the best part of Us felt what a heap of Calamities fell upon all the Realm immediately Yea and to this day what Prests and Memory thereof remaineth not wholly yet filled up First the King's Majesties Treasure of all sorts wasted the great substance of the Moneys melted and altered in base Coyn for the serving of the Charge of these Wars the Laws and ancient Policies of this noble Realm dissolved and unjoyned and by Examples thereof the whole state of Ireland endangered with Factions and Rebellions wherein no small Sums of Treasure were also wasted in Armies and Fortifications part whereof remains unto this day of necessity In the midst of all these miseries by the suffering of the said late Protector rose up a monstrous and dangerous Rebellion of the lewd numbers and baser multitudes against their Heads the withstanding and happy stay whereof although it came through the mercifulness of God by the labour and fortitude of others worthy eternal Praise subduing the headless raging people in sundry parts of the Realm delivering Us the King's Majesties Natural Subjects out of our unnatural Subjection to him that ruled Us with disorder And finally restoring the Royal Person of the King's Highness to the Fréedom of His Princely Estate and consequently to an Honourable Peace with his Enemies Yet could not hitherto the great Breach and Ruine of the King's Majestie 's Estate touching his Treasure be repaired or re-enforced which consequently followed upon the first Foundations broken although in other points of the decay thanked be God the King's Majesties own marvellous Intelligence with the Industry of good Conncellors hath notably supplied and amended the defaults And as these former Errors brought His Majesty into utter wasts of His own Treasure and Riches into the Expences of Our Subsidies granted for the same Wars though nothing answerable to the Expence of the same Finally into notable and immeasurable Charges beyond the Seas Provisions of Money taken up in time of Wars so yet to the increase of this former sore We remember and perceive also that there were very great Charges left by the late King of famous Memory by reason of his Wars to be discharged as well beyond Sea towards strangers as on this side towards his own Subjects which of their nature beyond the Seas for lack of payment did grow excessively besides the late evident great Charge and Loss sustained by the Kings Majesty for the only Profit of His publick Weal in the reducing of part of His Coyn from a notable baseness unto a fine Standard by the which His Majesty lacketh a great private Gain in his Mints being now worth no Revenue at all but rather chargable and the rest of which Coyn we trust He will shortly reduce to like fineness All which things We His Majesties Faithful and natural Loving Subjects weighing with Our selves and considering divers great weighty matters hereupon depending for the preservation of this Ancient Noble and Imperial Crown Albeit We see manifestly before Our Eyes Our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty disposed of His good Nature rather daily to diminish the Revenue of His Crown lately angmented by His Father of most famous Memory towards the unburthening of His great intollerable Weights and Charges lying and growing in strangers hands beyond the Seas then to call upon us His natural Subjects and People like as we daily hear and know that all other most Christian Princes do in Causes of less Importance and like His Majesties noble Progenitors have always done in such Cases heretofore Yet for the preservation of Our selves and Our Posterity in this Peace and Wealth whereunto We have by the great Charges of Our Sovereign Lord been blessed brought for the maintenance and upholding of the Crown and Dignity Imperial of this Noble Realm in Honour and Might against all Attempts of Foreign and Ancient Enemies for the Restauration of this decayed House of the Commonwealth having suffer'd violation and ruine by exile of Justice in the former time of the aforesaid evil Governance For the comforting and encouraging of

former Proceedings in this House against the said Mr. Hall as well in disabling him to be any more a Member of this House as also touching his said Imprisonment the Matter was referred to further Consideration after search of the Presidents and Entries of this House heretofore had and made in the course of the said Cause On Friday the 2d day of December upon a Motion this day renewed on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the Burrough of Grantham in the County of Lincoln touching a Writ brought against them by Arthur Hall Esq whereby he demandeth Wages of the said Inhabitants for his Service done for them in attendance at sundry Parliaments being elected and returned one of the Burgesses of the said Burrough in the same Parliaments For as much as it is alledged that the said Arthur Hall hath been heretofore disabled by this House to be at any time afterwards a Member of this House and also that in some Sessions of the same Parliaments he hath neither been free of the Corporation of the said Burrough and in some other also hath not given any attendance in Parliament at all It is Ordered that the Examination of the state of the Cause be committed to the Right Honourable Sir Walter Mildmay Kt. one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel Chancellor of her Highness's Court of Exchequer Sir Ralph Sadler Kt. one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel and Chancellor of her Highness's Dutchy of Lancaster Thomas Crumwel Robert Markham and Robert Wroth Esquires to the end that after due Examination thereof by them had if it shall so seem good to them they do thereupon move the Lord Chancellor on the behalf of this House to stay the granting out of any Attachment or other Process against the said Inhabitants for the said Wages at the Suit of the said Arthur Hall and the said Committees also to signifie their Proceedings therein to this House at the next Sitting thereof accordingly An Order delivered by Mr. Crumwel Entred by the Consent of the House WHereas upon Complaint made to this House upon Munday the 21. day of November in the first Meeting of this present Parliament on the behalf of the Burrough of Grantham in the County of Lincoln against Arthur Hall Gent. That the said Arthur Hall had commenced Suit against them for Wages by him demanded of the said Burrough as one of the Burgesses of the Parliament in the Sessions of Parliament holden in the 13. 14. 18. and 23. years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queens Majecty wherein it was alledged that the said Burrough ought not to be charged as well in respect of the negligent attendance of the said Mr. Hall at the said Sessions of Parliament and some other Offences by him committed at some of the said Sessions as also in respect that he had made promise not to require any such Wages The Examination of the said Cause on the 2d day of December in the last Session of this Parliament by Order of this House was committed unto Sir Ralph Sadler Kt. Chancellor of the Dutchy Sir Walter Mildmay Kt. Chancellor of the Exchequer Thomas Crumwel Robert Markham and Robert Wroth Esqs. This day Report was made by the said Committees that not having time during the last Session of Parliament to examine the Circumstances of the Cause they had in the mean season by their Letters advertised my Lord Chancellor that the said Cause was committed unto them and humbly requested his Lordship to stay the issuing forth of any further Process against the said Burrough until this Session of Parliament or Meeting which accordingly his Lordship had very honourably performed and the said Committees did further declare that having during this Session of Parliament or Meeting sent for Mr. Hall declared unto him the effect of the Complaint against him they had desired him to remit the said Wages which he had demanded of the said Burrough whom they found very conformable to condescend to such their Request and that the said Mr. Hall then alledged and affirmed unto them that if the Citizens of the said Burrough would have made suit unto him he would upon such their own suit then remitted the same so was he very willing to do any thing which might be grateful to this House and did freely and frankly remit the same which being well liked of by this House it was by them this day Ordered that the same should be entred accordingly §. 1. Mr. Arthur Hall's Case stated I. ANno 23 Eliz. 1580. Mr. Arthur Hall Burgess for Grantham for writing a Book derogatory to the Authority Power and State of the Commons House of Parliament had Judgment nemine contradicente 1. To be imprisoned in the Tower for 6 months and from thence till he had made a Retractation of his Book 2. To be severed and cut off from being a Member of that or any future Parliament 3. A Fine of 500 Marks to the Queen 4. His Book and slanderous Libel adjudged utterly false and erroneous II. Anno 1 Jacobi 1603. The Bishop of Bristol publishing a Book tending to make division and strife wrong and dishonour both to the Lower House and the Lords themselves was complained of by the Commons to the Lords The Earl of Salisbury at a Conference between the two Houses rebuked the Bishop That any man should presume to see more than a Parliament could the Bishop made his Recantation 1. That he had erred 2. That he was sorry for it 3. If it were to do again he would not do it 4. But protested it was done of ignorance and not of malice III. Anno 7 Jacobi 1609. Dr. Cowell Professor of the Civil Law at Cambridge writ a Book called the Interpreter rashly dangerously and perniciously asserting certain Heads to the overthrow and destruction of Parliaments and the fundamental Laws and Government of the Kingdom He was complained of by the Commons to the Lords as equally wounded who resolved to censure his Errors and boldness but upon the interposition of the King who declared that the man had mistaken the Fundamental Points and Constitutions of Parliaments promised to condemn the Doctrines of the Book as absurd and him that maintained the Positions they proceeded no further His Principles with the evident Inferences from them were these 1. That the King was solutus à Legibus and not bound by his Coronation Oath 2. That it was not ex necessitate that the King should call a Parliament to make Laws but might do that by his absolute power for Voluntas Regis with him was Lex populi 3. That it was a favour to admit the consent of his Subjects in giving of Subsidies 4. The Doctor draws his Arguments from the Imperial Laws of the Roman Emperors an Argument which may be urged with as great reason and upon as good authority for the reduction of the state of the Clergy of England to

the Writ divers proposals made but at last resolved to present it to the House without any Opinion of theirs touching the Offence and Error of the Lord Keeper was directed to report the whole Narrative to the House Mr. Brook said he had never any person in admiration for advantage had read the Law there is a Market overt of the Law the Common Pleas and the Chancery the Shop of Justice the Chancery First No doubt it 's a great fault to deny an original Writ in the Chancery but not so much as to deny a Fine in the Common Pleas just Excuse and the offer of Amendments doth much extenuate the Offence which is but singular the Lord Keeper might do this to vindicate his Right from the Vsurpation of the Court of Wards it cannot stand with the Gravity of this House to transmit it a man for one single offence this will be admonition enough to him that it hath been thus agitated in this House Sir James Parrot argued the offence of the Lord Keeper in the denial of an original Writ some Excuses are alledged First done within a short time after he came in ignorantia Juris in a Judge Another Excuse offered a Contention between two Courts this rather aggravates than extenuates his offence being his own Case he ought not to have stayed Justice this thought a sole fault yet a great fault But he thinks it not a sole fault He is informed that there are more Faults of the like kind objected to the Lord Keeper Proposed To have that examined then it will be a sole fault two other Petitions before the Committees before the Lord Keeper of Mrs. ' Thomas and Sir Francis Fuliambe to have these two fully heard tomorrow and then to grow to a Resolution of this in the mean time to have the Cursitor examined about the other whether another Quare impedit or Ne admittas was not denied Sir Thomas Hobby moved to begin in order with the parts of the Reports First To the Writ that which is amiss in the Inheritance and then to consider of the Faults to have the Bill read Mr. Price alledged no corruption nor ill intention appears in the Lord Keeper a difference between things evil in themselves and evil by success the Lord Keeper came young to his Place and from a strange speculation and found this President therefore to have some course taken to right the Lady and to limit that vast Court Mr. Sollicitor thinks the Answer of the Lord Keeper's very fair and satisfactory if it be rightly understood and so the Debate went off XII Sir Edward Cook reports from the Committee of Grievances a Complaint against the Bishop of Norwich the charge is great and strange consisting of four parts First the City of Norwich having 34 Parishes he sent for the Preachers of the City and told them they had preaching enough and the morning preaching needless wished them to cease the Mornings Exercise this aggravated by divers Circumstances a Letter written to him by the Metropolitan about the Kings pleasure for preaching after this his Inhibition the Cathedral Church the Elbow of the City not above 2000 can hear yet all to come thither above 20000 people in Norwich The second There came up Images and Crucifixes counted Laymens Books and the Lord Bishop blessed those that set up those Ornaments a Dove in the Font fluttering over the water to sanctifie it Rot. Parl. 18 E. 3. num 32 33 34. the Commons dealt with the Provisors they complained they had not Spiritual food for Cardinals put into Churches Shoemakers and Taylors 50 E. 3. called bonum Parliamentum a complaint of the Popes usurpation not feeding the Flock Rome called the Sinful City and that all the Ill that hath befaln this Kingdom hath come from thence 17 R. 2. num 22. 11. H. 4. and a great many more Presidents so that this complaint is proper for this place The third was Extortion by orders of the Archbishop and by their own Canons the Iees set down these very much exceeded 4. Old Institutions now registred which is very dangerous for disherisons They have not heard his defence 40 E 3 inter Brevia a complaint against the Bishop of Hereford for Non-residency not lying within his Diocess all Bishops ought to be Resident unless they be in the Kings Service where the People are not taught the King hath but half Subjects the readiest way to make Rebellions The Committee thought it worthy to be transmitted up to the Lords Resolved upon Question without a Negative That this matter shall be transmitted up to the Lords Sir Edward Cook to do it and a Message to be sent to the Lords for a Conference about it The Commons desire their Lordships for a Conference touching some Accusations against the Lord Bishop of Norwich unto which his Lordship hath not yet been heard Humbly leaving the time and place to their Lordship The Lords appointed the 15 th of this Month to confer with the Commons touching their Complaint against the Lord Bishop of Norwich being returned the Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury reparted the same to the House to this effect viz. That the Commons had received of Complaint exhibited by the Citizens of Norwich against the said Lord Bishop and to shew that it was ordinary for the Commons to complain of the Governours of the Church divers Records of Parliament were cited viz. Anno 25 E. 3. 17 R. 2. and 11 H. 4. all which were cited to satisfie tacite objectionis for their medling with a cause of this nature That the charge against the Lord Bishop consisted of six parts 1. That he inhibited or dishartned Preachers on the Sabath day in the Forenoon 2. That Images were set up in the Church and one of the Hoey Ghost fluttering over the Font and a Marble Tomb pulled down and Images set down in the room and the Bishop blessed them that did it 3. That he punished those that Prayed not toward the East 4. That he punished a Minister for Chatechising his Family and Singing of Psalmes 5. That he used Extortion many ways 6. That he did not enter Institutions to the prejudice of Patrons For the first it was said that there was 34. Churches in Norwich and in those Parishes 30 or 40000 People That the Lord Bishop sent for the Preachers by Apparitor and told them there was no need of Preaching on Sunday in the Forenoon except in the Cathedral Church where 2 or 3000 only could hear many dwelling three quarters of a Mile off and many being old and not able for their Age to come so far That this Inhibition was when the King had commanded more Preaching That his Lordship connived at Recusants All which was to the disheartning of good Professors It may be objected his Lordship allowed of Catechizing ergo no Preaching