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A56177	A legal resolution of two important quæres of general present concernment Clearly demonstrating from our statute, common and canon laws, the bounden duty of ministers, & vicars of parish-churches, to administer the sacraments, as well as preach to their parishioners; with the legal remedies to reclaim them from, or punish and remove them for their wilfull obstinacy in denying the sacraments to them. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne; to whom these quæres were newly propounded by some clients.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3995; ESTC R219602	25,257	35

c. 2. and upon the second conviction he is Ipso Facto deprived of all his spiritual Promotions and his Vicaredge and the Patron may present another 2. They may all after such refusal joyntly detain their Tythes and Duties demanded by him as their Vicar because by his own confession he was never legally instituted to discharge all the Duties of an Incumbent according to 13 Eliz. c. 12. and disclaims to own them as his proper Flock and Cure owning onely his Segregated Congregation for such in opposition and contradistinction to his Parish which they may plead in Bar of any Legal Action to recover his Dues this p disclaiming of them being a kinde of resignation of his Vicaredge and bar unto his Dues quia Beneficium propter Officium and if he be not their true real Parochial Vicar and do not his duty to them he hath no right to their Parochial dues nor yet unto the Glebe If he will muzzle their mouths * not tread out the corn to them at the Lord's Table they may also muzzle his mouth that he shall not eat of their Corn at his own or their Tables by way of retaliation Our * Law-Books resolve That if an Annuity be granted to a Lawyer Attorny or Physitian pro Consilio suo impenso impendendo if they stop or refuse to give the Grantors their Counsel when required or if A. grants an Annuity to B. for the use of a way and B. stops the way that hereupon the Grantors may justly stop and detain the Annuities being forfeited by their stoppage and refusal of their Counsel Advice or way granted and may plead the same in Bar of any Action at Law for these Annuities much more then may the Parishioners do it when their Vicar or Incumbent not only peremptorily refuseth to give them the Sacraments but disclaims to be their Vicar or Pastor in a Parochial and Legal way If they will reap all their temporal things and duties it is just they should sow and administer to them all their spiritual things and Nutriments if the Parishioners must not muzzle their mouths much less must they muzzle their Parishioners by keeping them back from the Lord's Table 1 Cor. 9. 10 11. Rom. 15. 17. 3. Every particular Parishioner grieved may by the Statutes of 13 E. 1. c. 24 25 50. have a special Action upon the Case against him at the common Law as I conceive since he can now have no remedy in any spiritual Courts as formerly being all suppressed by the self-same Reason as Executors and Legatees now sue at the common Law and in Chancery for such things such Legacies and Ministers for such Tythes and Duties as formerly they had no suit nor remedy for but in Ecclesiastical Courts alone else there should be a great failer of Justice and because no Ecclesiastical q Jurisdiction is now either wronged by nor can be claimed pleaded against such Actions there being none to take present conusans of them Or at least they way have a * special Action against him upon the Statutes of 1 Ed. 6. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 2. as well as upon the Statutes of Magna Charta c. 20. of Merton c. 10. and other Acts 4. I conceive the Patron himself from the forecited Reasons of Littleton's Cases of Frankalmoigne Sect. 136 137. and of Conditions in Law Sect. 378 379. upon the Vicars refusal to own the Parishioners and administer the Sacraments to them as his Flock for which end the Glebe and Duties thereunto belonging were first given by the Patron and his Tenants to the Vicar and his Successors as well as to preach may justly enter upon him for breach of this Condition in Law out him of the Glebe and Vicaredge and bestow them on some other by his immediate deed of Collation and Livery of Seisin without any Presentation as * free Chappels used to be and are still collated and that upon this Legal Ground r because Patrons originally had the sole right of collating inducting instituting Clerks and Incumbents to their Churches without the Bishops special license as they conferred other Freeholds to their Tenants by their own immediate grants and liveries till Bishops and Ordinaries by sundry Canons extorted by degrees this Jurisdiction from them ingrossing the power of approving admitting instituting and inducting Clerks into Parochial Churches by degrees into their own hands Which Bishops with their Canons Ordinances being now suspended or abrogated in England and their ancient Jurisdiction by no express Act of any real Parliament legally transferred to any other Ecclesiastical or Civil Jurisdiction thereupon the Patron 's original right of collating Benefices by immediate grant and livery and outing the Incumbent thereof as Patron s and Visitor of the Church for not administring the Sacrament and discharging his pastoral Office is * revived resetled in him by Law So as he may now justly enter put out or deprive the Vicar as the Bishop and Ecclesiastical Courts might formerly have done there being no other Legal Ecclesiastical Powers here extant to depose him which the Marginal Law-Books with other Authorities will cleer compared with 21 E. 3. 46. 13 E. 4. 8 9. Br. Extinguishment and Reviver 16. 46. Cooks 1 Instit. f. 319 338. 24. E. 3. 72. Bro. Escheat 9 19 and 13 E. 1. c. 25 50. 5. I conceive a special Writ may be framed and directed to the Vicar commanding him to administer the Sacraments to his Parishioners according to his Pastoral duty and the Laws and Customes of England and if then he refuse to do it thereupon he may be fined attached ejected for this contempt and that upon this Ground Our King heretofore being * Supreme Governours in and over all Ecclesiastical and Temporal Causes and persons had by the very Common Law of England a Soveraign Power without any Act of Parliament by their remedial Writs upon all occasions to enjoyn all Officers Prelates Priests Ministers persons under them to discharge those Offices Duties which the Laws themselves and their Offices engaged them to perform This is evident not only from the examples of Solomon Jehosaphat Hezekiah Josiah Ezra and other godly Kings and Governours in Scripture who appointed the Courses of the Priests and Levites to be in the Temple commanded them to wait upon and execute their Offices in every particular according to their charges to offer Sacrifices praise and minister before the Lord as the duty of every day required to kill and prepare the Passeover for the people but likewise by special Proclamations Edicts commanded both Levites Priests people to keep celebrate and eat the Passeover a Type of the Lords Supper which succeeds it when they had neglected it sundry years 1 Chron. 24. 2. Chron. 8. 14 15. c. 13. 10 12 18. c. 29. 16 to 35. 30. 3 16 24. c. 35. 2 to 18. Ezek. 6. 18 to 22. But also 1. From the Elegant t Oration of King Edgar to

To which I shall add Claus. 24. E. 1. dors 10. 8. Claus. 32. E. 1. dors 9. Claus. 33. E. 1. dors 16. Claus. 34 E. 1. dors 10. Claus. 8. E. 2. m. 25. Claus. 20. E. 2. dors 10 11. Claus. 7. E. 3. pars 2. m. 4. Where several Writs are directed to the Bishops and Clergy-men to make special Prayers and Supplications for the King and his children the Nobles and State of the Realm upon several occasions in times of war and danger to make special thanksgivings for Victories and intercessions for eminent persons Souls departed as they were then obliged to do in those times of Superstition Cart. 16. Joan. dors 10. A VVrit to the Chapter of York not to elect S. de C. for their Archbishop quia esset contra honorem nostrum oommodum Regni nostri Pat. 18. H. 3. m. 17. Claus. 26. H. 3. m. 12. Pat. 29. H. 3. dors 5. Pat. 9. E. 1. m. 2. Pat. 25. E. 1. pars 1. m. 9 10. Pat. 8. Joan. m. 1. where King John Henry 3 and Eward 1. by their special Writs prohibited the Archbishops Bishops and Clergy in their Counsels and Synods to do act enact or assent to any thing concerning their Crowns Person State Counsel or against their royal Crown Dignity or the Rights of the Realm of England and to revoke suspend the Counsels and Convocations summoned by the Archbishop under pain of forseiting all their goods and seisure of their Baronies Claus. 41. H. 3. pars 1. dors 5. A VVrit to Walter Bishop of Duresm reciting That none ought to judge the Laws of the Realm but the King and his Nobles and Judges that if he presuming on his Royal Liberties did otherwise ipsas Libertates regales ad nos per vestrum abusum censemus devolvendas Claus. 16. E. 1. dors 2. A VVrit to the Bishop of London injoyning him no longer to permit any persons to come and worship quandam Tabulam having divers pictures in it and the Earl of Lancansters amongstothers which they worshipped and adored tanquam rem sine sanctum absque authoritate Ecclesiae Romanae with sundry such-like Writs to Bishops and Clergy-men in our Records the grounds whereof extend to our present case And Claus. 4. H. 3. m. 10. A VVrit of prohibition to the Archbishop of York not to excommunicate some who hurt and molested the Cruce-signati because the Cruce-signati had no title to the Lands But that which comes neerest to our case and is the same in substance Confirmation and Chrism being formerly reputed * Sacraments amongst us in time of Popery is this memorable case recorded in Rot. Claus. An. 26. E. 3. The Bishop of Exeter would have visited the Church of St. Burian in Cornwal founded by King Arthur and exempted from Episcopal jurisdiction whereupon they opposing his visitation the Bishop interdicted the Parish and refused to give them oyl and chrism to baptize their Infants or to confirm their children upon complaint whereof to the King there issued a Writ out of the Chancery to the Bishop commanding him to absolve them confirmare parvulos chrisma mittere to confirm their Children send them Chrism to baptize their Infants This Record was vouched and shewed to the Judges of the King Bench Mich. 17 Jacobi upon this occasion The Parishioners of a Village in Kent elected a Church-warden according to their ancient custom but the Bishops Official refused to admit him whereupon the Parishioners by M. Noy their Counsel moved in the Kings Bench for a Writ and Mandamus to the Official to admit the Churchwarden or if he did not to shew good cause to the Court why he refused to do it which the Court upon view of this president granted them and upon it the Churchwarden was admitted to his Office If then our Kings and their Courts of Chancery and Kings Bench might enjoyn this Bishop and this Official by special Writs and Mandates to absolve these interdicted Parishioners confirm their Children send them Chrism to baptise their Infants and to admit the Churchwarden the others had chosen according to their duties by the Statutes of 13 E. 1. c. 24 25 50. forecited or by their own inherent jurisdiction without any special Act of Parliament being things to which they were obliged by our Laws their very offices duties to perform then by the self-same Law and Reason may our Kings and Courts of Justice upon all occasions by vertue of these Statutes whereon these Writs were principally grounded issue forth the like Writs and Mandates to all Ministers and Vicars who refuse personally to baptize or deliver the Lords Supper to their Parishioners at due accustomed seasons or to admit them freely to those Sacraments according to their bounden duties to which their very Office with the Laws of God the Realm oblige them unless they can shew a legal cause to the contrary as none of them can do and in case they refuse to do it they may thereupon be attached fined imprisoned till they do conform and assent to do it as well as in the Case of a * Quid Juris clamat or Per qua servicia by which any tenant where he is bound and adjudged by Law to attorn refuseth to do it shall be imprisoned till he actually attorn in proper person not by Deputy which the Law will not admit it being a personal duty not performable by any other I shall conclude this with that memorable Record of Pa● 8. E. 1. m. 27. where the King by his Writs commanded all his Sheriffs Bayliffs and Lieges effectually to summon admonish and induce all the Jews within their Bayliwicks diligently to meet together to hear God's word preached to them by the Friers Predicants without tumult contention or blasphemy and not to hinder any Jews from conversion whose hearts God should please to convert as you may read at large in the 2 Part of my short Domurrer to the Jews long discontinued Remitter into England p. 87 88. And if our Kings by their Writs might lay such Injunctions on the unbelieving English Jews much more may they enjoyn all English Ministers to administer the Sacraments to their people and not to hinder any of them from this * means of their spiritual conversion as well as confirmation and likewise command the people diligently to frequent and receive them especially when so long discontinued neglected slighted denied to Gods dishonor Religions scandal our Chuches insamy good Christians greatest grief the grand encrease of impiety prophaness schism and decrease of Christian amity unity zeal that cordial brotherly love and sweet communion which was between Ministers and their people and between private Christians heretofore when Sacraments were more frequent Finally If any Parson or Vicar for 2 yeers space refuse and cease to administer the Sacrament to his Parishioners as many of late times have done I conceive a Writ of Cessavit will lie against him by the Patron

his Prelates and Clergy Et mea quidem interest Laicos cum aequitatis Jure tractare inter virum proximum suum justum judicium facere c. Sed meae sollicitudinis est Ecclesiarum Ministris Gregibus Monachorum Choris virginum necessaria administrare paci corum ac quieti consulere De quorum omnium Moribus ad nos spectat examen si vivunt continenter si honeste so habent ad eos qui foris sunt si in Divinis Officiis solliciti ●● in docendo populo as●●dui si victu sobrii si moderati habitu s in Iudiciis sunt discreti c. Ego Constantini vos Petri gladium habetis in manibus jungamus dextras gladium gladio copulemus ut projiciantur extra crastra leprosi c. 2. From the Statute of Magna Charta c. 22. We shall deny nor defer to no man justice or right to wit neither in Civil nor Ecclesiastical things or causes the words being general and extending equally to both as this Charter doth both to all Ecclesiastical and temporal persons Freemen of the Realm of England c. 1 2. 3. From this usual recital in our Kings Writs u Nos qui singulis de Regno nostro in exhibitione justitiae sumus debitores Nos volentes quibuscunque legis nostris in Curits nostris plenam celerem Iustitiam exhiberi Precipimus c. Justiciae complementum sibi fieri nullatenus differri c. secundum legem consuetudinem Regni nostri 4. By the Statute of West 2. An. 13 E. 1. c. 24 25 50. which enacts that where a Writ is granted out of the Chancery for a thing done to the noysance of another the Plaintiffs from henceforth shall not depart out of the Kings Courts without remedy because in the Register of the Chancery there is no special Writ found in his Case but from henceforth where in one case a VVrit is granted In like case when like remedy faileth the Writ shall be made as hath been used before and from henceforth as often as it shall fortune in the Chancery that in one case a VVrit is found and in like case falling under like Law and requiring like remedy there is found none the Clerks of Chancery shall agree in making the Writ or the Plaintiffs may adjourn it till the next Parliament and by consent of men learned in the Law A new Writ shall be made according to his special new Case lest it should happen afterwards that the Kings Court should fail to minister Iustice unto Complainants And lest Suiters coming to the Kings Court should depart from thence without remedy they shall have Writs provided in their Cases By vertue of which Statutes the Subjects grieved have usually had not only a VVrit grounded thereon particulatly stiled x in consimili casu but many other writs as appeareth in our Books though they bear not that name And by vertue thereof I am cleer of Opinion the Parishioners may have a special Writ against their Vicar in this very Case to enjoyn him to administer the Sacrament of Baptism and the Lords Supper to them and their Children to admit them thereunto as well as a VVrit De Clerico admittendo to the Bishop and De Attornato recipiendo to the Sheriff upon the Statute of Merton c. 10. when they refuse to admit them contrary to our Laws 5. From the ancient VVrit of William the Conqueror to y Remigius Bishop of Lincolu and all other Bishops and Archdeacons Willielmus Dei Gratia c. Propterea mando regia auctoritate praecipio ut nullus Episcopus vel Archidiaconus de Legibus Episcopalibus amplius in Hundret placita teneant c. And from his Jurisdiction over all Ecclesiastical persons and causes thus recorded by Eadmerus Hist. novorum l. 1. p. 6. Cuncta ergo divina simul humana ejue nutum expectabant Non ergo pati volebat quenquam in omni Dominati●ne sua constitutum Romanae Urbis Pontificem pro Apostolico nisi se jubente recipere aut ejus literas si primitu● sibi oftensae non fuissent ullo pacto suscipere Primatum quoque regni sui Archiepiscopum dico Centuariensem si coacto generali Episcoporum Concilio praesideret Non sinebat quicquam statuere vel prohibere nisi quae suae voluntati accommodata à se primo essent ordinata Nulli nihilominus Episcoporum concessum iri permittebat ut aliquem de Baronibus suis seu Ministris sive incesto sive adulterio sive aliquo capitali crimine denotatum publicè nisi ejus praecepto implacitaret aut excommunicaret aut ulla Ecclesiastici rigoris poena constringeret Therefore much less would he permit any Bishop or Minister under him to suspend or seclude them from the Sacraments especially those no wayes guilty of such scandalous sins or other crimes as now our Ministers do their Parishioners without any divine regal or legal Authority but their own Papal Usurpation Pride or Peevishness 6. This is most apparent by the usual known printed Writs of our Kings to relieve their grieved Subjects both in Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and things as namely the VVrits b De Procedendo ad Judicium when any Judge or Court of Justice delayes the Plaintiff or Defendant of his right in not giving Judgement for them when and so speedily as they might c De Libertatibus allocandis when the Justices of the King Eyre or Forest deny or delay to grant any Burrough or Person the ancient Liberties they formerly enjoyed by Charter or prescription The VVrit d De Leproso amovendo to the Major of London and other Officers to remove Lepers which infect the people and De villi● venellis mundandis when they neglect to remove the one cleanse the other as they ought The several e Writs to Sheriffs and others to repair Highways Bridges Walls Sea-banks and the like extant in the Clause and Patent Rolls before any Statutes made for their repair The Writs f De reparatione facienda de Curia claudenda quod permittat to particular persons to repair houses and fences when they neglect to do it and are bound thereto by Law and to enjoy their Commons Rights c. The VVrits De Attornato recipiendo De moderata misericordia De secta ad molendinum curiam De ne injusta vexos De non ponendo in assisis juratis Quod Clerico non eligantur in Officium Ballivi c. De corrodio habendo Quo Jure Vilaica removenda VVith many other VVrits of this nature to temporal Officers persons by these ensuing VVrits to Ecclesiastical persons as namely the usual Writs to Bishops g Ad admittendum Clericum de cautione admittenda to enforce them to admit Clerks and absolve excommunicate persons upon caution tendered when they refused to do it against right and Law

upon the Stat. of West 2. 13 E. 1. c. 41. as Fitzh. Natt Brev. f. 209 L. 5. E. 3. 25. b. Register f. 238. Fit ●essavit 12 18 24. 12 H. 4. 24. 45 E. 3. 10. Ploud f. 58. Cook 4. Rep. f. 118. 11. Rep. f. 63. 2. Instit. f. 460. more then intimate if not fully resolve These legal remedies if pursued in a just and Christian way may through Gods blessing reduce many refractory Parochical Ministers and Vicars to the due administration of the Sacraments to their Parishioners which too many of them have of late totally divers in a deplorable measure cast off restore the comfortable frequent enjoyment of them to those Parishioners who have a long time earnestly thirsted after them and prevent the Anabaptistical Jesuitical design of g John Canne with his Fraternity and others of late yeers crept into Parochial Cures of purpose to subvert them with all other Parochial Congregations and all Patrons rights to present unto them a design most eagerly prosecuted publikely allowed and much advanced of late yeers by unchristian and illegal practices gilded over with religious pretences this is the Opinion and Judgement in answer to your Case and Quaeres of your Friend and Counsellor Will Prynne Lincolns Inne 20 Junii 1656. AN APPENDIX OUr Vicars and Ministers refusal to administer the Sacraments to their Parishioners is in truth an actual penal suspension and excommunication of them and their Infants from the Lords Supper and Baptism without any precedent citation articles legal proceeding hearing or sentence denounced against them in any Ecclesiastical Classis or Judicature against all rules of Religion Conscience Law Justice and the express Letter of Magna Charta c. 29. Wherefore as King Edw. 1 2 3. did issue forth several Writs and Mandates to their Bishops and Clergy * not to convent question censure excommunicate any of their Officers or Subjects within their Dominions for discharging their Duties duly obeying their Mandates and to absolve all those they had excommunited upon this account and likewise issue out Writs to their Sheriffs De promulgantibus sententiam excommunicationis in Ministros Regis capiendis imprisonandis for obeying their commands So by like Justice Reason may Writs be issued to all those Vicars and Ministers who deny the Sacraments to their Parishioners without any legal cause or sentence of suspension or excommunication first denounced against them commanding them peremptorily to admit them to and administer the Sacraments duly to them yea Writs to the Sheriffs to attach and imprison them in case of their wilful neglect or contempt herein Claus. 12. E. 2. m. 20. The Archbishop of York and his Ministers oppressed vexed the people of his Diocess in his Courts and Visitations by malicious citations for pretended adulteries and other Ecclesiastical crimes before they were publickly defamed of or presented for them and for which they could not aid themselves by the Kings prohibition they having legal conns●●s of these crimes upon Petition to the King and his Counsel against these malicious citations by the people there issued a special Writ to the Bishop reciting and prohibiting such citations and proceedings for the future De oppressionibus populo per citationes non inferendis By like reason and equity may special Writs now be granted to Ministers not to oppress vex injure their Parishioners especially such as are neither scandalous ignorant nor actually excommunicated by depriving them of the Sacraments at due and accustomed seasons far worse then those malicious citations which were but Ecclesiastical process when as these amount at least to Ecclesiastical censures suspensions excommunications from the Sacraments that for sundry months may yeers of many whole Cities and Parishes without any legal accusation conviction hearing In times of popery if any religious person or Monk professed departed from his house and wandred abroad in the Country against the rules of his Religion or Order upon a certificate thereof in Chancery by the Abbot there issued a Writ de * Apostata capiendo of which I finde * many presidents in our Records for the Sheriffs to apprehend and deliver him to his Abbot or his Attorney to be chastised according to the rules of his Order And if any Priests wore long hair against the Canons and rules of their Order in the Kings Court where the Ordinaries had no power to reform them the King himself granted a special Writ and commission to certain persons giving them plenam potestatem scindendi capillos Clericorum qui sunt in Hospitio no●●ro familia nostra longos crines habentium capillos nutrientium c. Pat. 21. H. 3. dor 3. By the like and better reason then may special Writs be issued to reduce Ministers off●ending in and apostatizing from the very essential duties of their function not in circumstantials only as these in former times to the due execution of the duties of their function and administration of the Sacraments to their Parishioners according to the rules of their Order the Statutes of the Realm the Doctrine custom of the Church of England so much now slighted contemned by them to Gods dishonor the vilipending of their Ministery function yea the Sacraments themselves and their peoples grief offence and spiritual prejudice who may doubtless have a * special action at law against them on the Stat. of 1 Ed. 6. 1 Eliz. c. 2. for their relief herein The Sacraments of Baptism and the Lords Supper are bequeathed by Christ to all visible Members of every visible Church as visible who are known to their Ministers not to the elect invisible regenerated Members only infallibly a known to God alone but not to any mortals Every Member of a visible Church hath an equal right to and b in all Sacraments Ordinances Priviledges of the visible Church as he is a Member of it by vertue of his Membership as c all Freemen of England have an equal interest in all the Laws Rights Liberties Franchises of the Realm of England as they are native Freemen of the Body politick of England As therefore no English Freeman may or can by Law be debarred from the use and benefit of the common Laws Liberties and Franchises of England or any pretended or real crimes but by and upon a legal conviction and judgement according to the Laws of England so no member of the Church of England of ripe Yeers and in his right Senses may or can be debarred from the Lords Table or any other publick Ordinances Priviledges of the Church of England for any pretended scandal but by a judicial legal sentence of Excommunication whereby he is actually suspended or cut off from being a Member of the Church for the present his very Membership whiles he is a Member entituling him of Right to whatever Ordinances any other Members enjoy and to participate with them therein It is therefore as great as high an Injury Injustice