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A83647	Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament, in maintenance of their accusation, against William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, whereby he stands charged with high treason. Also, further articles of impeachment by the Commons in Parliament, against the said Archbishop of Canterbury, of high treason, and divers high crimes and misdemeanors. Die Mercurii, 17 Jan. 1643. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that these articles and impeachment, be forthwith printed and published. John Brown Cler. Parliamentor.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing E2527; Thomason E29_15; ESTC R8429	7,331	16

Execution upon the said Iudgment to be stayed And being moved therein and made acquainted with the bad life and conversation of the said parson he said that he had spoken to the Iudges for him and that he would never suffer a Iudgement to passe against a Clergy-man by nihil dicit 5. That the said Archbishop about eight yeares last past being then also a privy Counsell or to his Maiesty for the end and purpose aforesaid caused Sir John Corbet of Stoake in the County of Salop Baronet then a Iustice of peace of the said County to bee committed to the prison of the Fleet where he continued prisoner for the space of halfe a yeare or more for no other cause but for calling for the Petition of Right and causing it to be read at the Sessions of the peace for that County upon a iust and necessary occasion And during the time of his said imprisonment the said Archbishop without any colour of right by a writing under the Seale of his Archbishopricke granted away parcell of the Glebe land of the Church of Adderley in the said County whereof the said Sir John Corbet was then patron unto Robert Viscouns Kilmurrey without the consent of the said Sir John or the then Incumbent of the said Church which said Viscount Kilmurrey built a Chappell upon the said parcell of Gleve land to the great preiudice of the said sir John Corbet which dath caused great suits and dissentions betweene them And whereas the said Sir John Corbet had a Iudgement against Sir James Stonehouse Knight in an action of Waste in his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster which was after wards affirmed in a Writ of Error in the Kings Bench and Execution thereupon awarded yet the said Sir John by meanes of the said Archbishop could not have the effect thereof but was committed to prison by the caid Archbishop and others at the Councell Table untill he had submitted himselfe unto the Order of the said Table whereby he lost the benefit of the said Iudgement and Execution 6. That whereas divers gifts and dispositions of divers summes of money were heretofore made by divers charitable and well disposed persons for the buying in of divers Impropriatrons for the maintenance of preaching the word of God in severall Churches the said Archbishop about eight yeares last past wilfully and maliciously caused the said gifts feoffements and conveyances made to the uses aforesaid to bee overthrowne in his Maiesties Court of Exchequer contrary to Law as things dangerous to the Church and State under the specious pretence of buying in Appropriations whereby that pious worke was suppressed and trodden downe to the great dishonour of God and scandall of Religion 7. That the said Archbishop at severall times within these ten yeeres last past at Westminster and elsewhere within this Realme contrary to the known Laws of this Land hath endeavoured to advance Popery and Superstition within the Realm And for that end and purpose hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers Popish Priests and Iesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Damport a dangerous Person and Franciscan Fryer who having written a Popish and seditious Booke intituled Deus natura gratia wherin the thirty nine Articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament were much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while hee was in writing the said Book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Mouns●er St. Giles a Popish Priest at Oxford knowing him to be a Popish Priest That the said Archbishop about foure yeers last past at Westminster aforesaid said that there must be a blow given to the Church such as hath not bin yet giuen before it could bee brought to conformity declaring thereby his intention to be to shake and after the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England 9. That in or about the month of May 1641. presently after the dissolution of the last Parliament the said Archbishop for the ends and purposes aforesaid caused a Synod or Convocation of the Clergy to bee held for the seuer all Provinces of Canterbury and York wherein were made and established by his meanes and procurement divers Canons and Constitntions Ecclesiasticall contrary to the Laws of this Realme the Rights and Priviledges or Parliament the Liberty and property of the Subiect tending also to sedition and of dangerous consequence And amongst other things the said Archbishop caused a most dangerous and illegail Oath to be therein made and contrived the tenor whereof followeth in these words That I A. B. doe sweare that I doe approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as containing all things accessary to Salvation And that I will not endeavour by my selfe or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which Is so established Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Archbishops Bishops Deanes and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the Sea of Rome And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to the plain and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And this I doe heartily willingly and truly upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Iesus Christ Which Oath the said Archbishop himself did take and caused divers other Ministers of the Church to take the same upon paine of suspension and deprivation of their Lviings and other severe penalties And did also cause Godfrey then Bishop of Gloucester to bee committed to prison for refusing to Subscribe to the said Canons and to take the said Oath And afterward the said Bishop submitting himselfe to take the said Oath he was set at liberty 10. That a little before the calling of the last Parliament anno 1640. a Vote being then passed and a resolution taken at the Councell Table by the advice of the said Archbishop for assisting of the King in extraordinary wayes if the said Parliament should prove peevish and refuse to supply his Maiesty The sayd Archbishop wickedly and malitiously advised his Maiesty to dissolve the said Parliament and accordingly the same was dissolved And presently after the said Archbishop told his Maiesty that now he was absolved from all rules of Government and left free to use extraordinary wayes for his supply For all which matters and things the said Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of the ●●●●●es and of all the Commons of England doe impeach the said Archbishop of Canterbury of high Treason and other crimes and misdemeanours tending to the subversion of our Religion Lawes and Liberties and to the utter ruine of this Church and Common-wealth And the said Commons by protestation saving to themselves the libertie of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further or other Accusation or Impeachment against the said William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury and also of replying to the answer that he shall make unto the said articles or any of them Or of offering proofe of the premisses or any other Impeachment or accusations that shal be exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliaments require Doe pray that hee the said William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury may be called to answer the said several crimes and misdemeanours and receive such condigne punishment as the same shall deserve and that such further proceedings may be upon everie of them had and used against him as is agreeable to Law and Iustice FINIS

ARTICLES OF THE COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT IN Maintenance of their Accusation against WILLIAM LAUD Archbishop of Canterbury whereby he stands charged with high Treason ALSO Further Articles of Impeachment by the Commons in Parliament against the said Archbishop of Canterbury of high Treason and divers high Crimes and misdemeanors Die Mercurii 17 Jan. 1643. ORdered by the Lords assembled in Parliament That these Articles and Impeachment be forthwith Printed and published John Brown Cler. Parliamentor Jan. 19. Printed for John Wright in the Old-bailey 1643. Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament in maintenance of the Accusation against William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury whereby he stands charged with high Treason 1. THat he hath Traiterously endeavoured to subvert the Fundamentall Laws and Government of the Kingdome of England and in stead thereof to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government against Law and to that end hath wickedly and Traiterously advised his Majesty that he might at his owne will and pleasure leavy and take money of his subjects without their consent in Parliament and this he affirmed was warrantable by the Law of God 2. He hath for the better accomplishment of that his Traiterous designe advised and proeured divers Sermons and other discourses to be preached Printed and published in which the authority of Parliaments and the force of the Lawes of the Kingdome are denyed and an absolute and unlimited power over the Persons and Estates of his Majesties Subjects is maintained and defended not onely in the King but also in himselfe and other Bishops above and against the Law and he hath bin a great protector favourer and promoter of the publishers of such false and pernicious opinions 3. He hath by Letters Messages Threats promises and divers other wayes to Iudges and other Ministers of Iustice interrupted and perverted and at other times by the meanes aforesaid hath endeavoured to interrupt and pervert the course of Iustice in his Majesties Courts at Westminster and other Courts to the subversion of the Lawes of this Kingdome whereby sundry of his Majesties Subjects have beene stopt in their just suits and deprived of their lawfull rights and subjected to his Tyrannicall will to their utter ruine destruction 4. That the said Archbishop hath Traiterously and corruptly sold justice to those that have had causes depending before him by colour of his Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as Archbishop High Commissioner Refaree or otherwise and hath taken unlawfull Gifts and Bribes of his Majesties Subjects and hath as much as in him lyeth endeavoured to coreupt other Courts of Iustice by advising his Majesty to sell places of judicature and other Offices and procuring the sale of them contrary to the Lawes and Statutes in that behalfe 5. He hath Traiterously caused a Booke of Canons to bee composed and published and these Canons to be put in execution without any lawfull warrant and authority in that behalf In which pretended Canons many matters are contained contrary to the kings Prerogative to the Fundamentall Lawes and Statutes of this Realme to the right of Parliament to the propriety and liberty of the Subjects matters tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence to the Establishment of a vast unlawfull and presumptuous power in himselfe and his Successors many of which Canons by the practice of the said Archbishop were surreptitiously passed in the late Convocation without due consideration and debate others by feare and compulsion were subscribed to by the Prelats and Clerks there assembled which had never beene voted and passed in the convocation as they ought to have beene and the said Archbishop hath contrived and endeavoured to assure and confirme the unlawfull and exorbitant power which he hath usurped and exercised over his Majesties Subjects by a wicked and ungodly Oath in one of the said pretended Canons enjoyned to be taken by all the Clergy and many of the Laity of this Kingdome 6. He hath Traiterously assumed to himselfe a Papall and Tyrannicall power both in Ecclesiasticall and Temporall matters over his Majesties Subjects in this Realme of England and in other places to the disherrison of the Crowne dishonour of his Majesty and derogation of his supreame Authority in Ecclesiasticall matters And the said Archbishop claimes the Kings Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as incident to his Episcopall and Archi-episcopall Office in this Kingdome and doth deny the same to be derived from the crowne of England which he hath accordingly exercised to the high contempt of his Royall Majesty and to the destruction of divers of the Kings Liege-people in their persons and Estates 7. That he hath Traiterously endeavoured to alter and subvert Gods true Religion by Law established in this Realme and in stead thereof to set up Popish superstition and Idolatry And to that end hath declared and maintained in speeches and printed Bookes divers Popish doctrines and opinions contrary to the Articles of Religion established He hath urged and injoyned divers Popish and superstitious Ceremonies without any warrant of Law and hath cruelly persecuted those who have opposed the same by corporall punishment and imprisonment and most unjustly vexed others who refused to comforme thereunto by Ecclesiasticall Censures of Excommunication Suspension Deprivation Derogation contrary to the Law of this Kingdome 8. That for the better advancing of his Traiterous purpose and designe he did abuse the great power and trust his Majesty reposed in him and did intrude upon the places of divers great Offcers and upon the right of other his Majesties Subjects wherby he did procure to himself nomination of sundry persons to Ecclesiasticall Dignities Pro●●tions and Benefices belonging to his Majesty and divers of the Nobility Clergy others and hath taken upon him the commendation of Chaplaines to the King by which meanes he hath preferred to his Majestie service and to other great promotions in the Church such as have bin Popishly affected or otherwise unsound and corrupt both in Doctrine and Manners 9. He hath for the same Traiterous and wicked intent chosen imployed such men to be his Chaplaines whom he knew to be notoriously disaffected to the reformed Religion grossely addicted to Popish superstition and Erroneous and unsound both in judgement and practise and to them or some of them he hath committed the Lycensing of Bookes to be printed by which meanes divers false and Superstitious Bookes have beene published to the great scandall of Religion and to the seducing of many of his Majesties Subjects 10. He hath Traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to reconcile the Church of England with the Church of Rome and for the effecting thereof hath consorted and confederated with divers popish Priests and Iesuits and hath kept secret intelligence with the Pope of Rome and by himselfe his Agents or Instruments treated with such as have from thence received authority and instruction he hath permitted and countenanted a Popish Hierarchie or Ecclesiasticall Government to be established in this Kingdom by al which Traiterous malicious