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An ansvver to a lawless pamphlet entituled, The petition and articles exhibited in Parliament against Doctor Haywood, late chaplain to the Bishop of Canterbury. By R.M.
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R. M.
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1641
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Wing M69; Thomason E172_27; ESTC R13527
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being then at Croydon by reason of the great sicknesse in London which caused the Doctor to allow the larger time for printing to deliver it to the Translators hands alone But this translator played the knave egregiously For hee kept the Book in his hand after it was licenced caried it not to the Presse till towards the end of February following and in the meane time had opportunity to make what alterations hee pleased And so it appeared he did for when the Book came out in Aprill following diverse grosse passages of Popery were to be seene in it which the Doctor was sure hee had cancelled Whereupon according to his duty the Doctor presently certified the Lord Keeper and the Arch Bishop as their Chaplains can witnesse how much he thought the Church and himselfe abused And the booke was presently called in and the mattter was brought in question before the Lords of the Councell Who required the Kings Atturney to send for the Authour and the Printers and the licencer and to enquire where the abuse lay which he did and finding the whole fault to have beene in Barrows who fled instantly upon the books calling in and was discovered by his Trunk and papers left behind him to be a Romish Priest the Kings Atturney accordingly certified the Counsel Bord. Whereupon a Proclamation went forth immediately for the apprehending of Barrows and the D. and the Printers were dismissed without farther trouble No reason therefore hath the Doctor to stand to any thing in the said corrupted booke which lay so long in the hands of a popish Priest to alter it how hee pleased For this Barrows was afterwards Overseer of the Presse and when the Booke was Printed carried halfe the written coppy away with him And how he might play false by inserting new sheetes and adding new passages who knowes for the Doctor remembers no particulars now but what were turned over before the Kings Atturney and his leisure vvould not serve to look on many One thing the Doctor is sure of The petitioners had little reason to complaine of theo Booke For it gave them no offence they never saw a coppie of it till they sought for it about December last to fill up their charge against the Doctor Nor could they have met with it had they not hapned by chance upon Okes that Printed it Doctor Haywoods supersticious and idolatrouse manner of administration of the Sacrament c. Here are many untruthes couched together The Sanctum Sanctorum and the Subdeacons and the beautifull Gate are all termes or these mens own invention The Doctor never so called them nor any by his aprobation The Skreene a faire Ornament of the Church and great honour to that religious Lady who bestowed it vvas assigned vvhere to stand by the Parishioners nor can it be placed conveniently but vvhere it now is The Doctor neither perswaded the making of the Screene nor contributed a peny towards it nor knew of what fashion it would be nor vvas present in the Parish when it vvas set up The Ornaments of the Holy Table The silke curtaines Carpet Covering Books and much plate are all the pious guift of the same honourable lady which bestowed the Skreene And being for the decencie of Gods servi e and well accepted of by the Parishioners the Doctor had no reason to refuse them As for the Crucifix Organs and Church-musick me tioned in the Petition they were there long before Doctor Haywords coming There is no Deske upon the Lords Table onely a little stay to hold up the plate nor any such pictures on the Books as the Petitioner speake of For the Ceremonies used in administring the scornfull description whereof and his abusive wit that drew it the Doctor much pitties they were none of them invented nor new brought up by Doctor Haywood His pattern he had from his Majesties Chappell not far from that place Neither did any man ever tell him he was offended with the sight of these few Ceremonies Yet since the Petitioners complaint the Doctor as I heard hath laid them downe And professes that for matters of Ceremony he will ever be obedient to the lawfull orders of the Church wherein hee lives nor ever use any hereafter but what authority and generall custome require These Articles were all proved before the grand Committee c. This seemes a stirewd evidence against the Doctor but if well sounded makes rather for him For what doth it prove but that the Doctor beleeved well of his own industry in purging out Popery and credited his owne judgement rather then the Printers objections an argument that he had bestowed good paines in perusing the Booke But why doth not the Printer tell us what were the Popish passages that so much stumbled him They were such as the Doctor denies to be popish Three of them as hee remembers the Printer told him of One that the Church triumphant praid for the Church militant which the Doctor as t is said defended Another that we ought to desire the praiers of the Saints living upon Earth for us A third that before God there is no respect of Prelate Prince or People Not one of these three are objected in the Doctors charge and I beleeve the petitioners objected all they could find But indeed the Doctor heartily wishes either that the Printer had never come to him or that hee had shewed him somewhat truly popish that hee might have had cause to suspect Barrows and to stop the presse For shewing him such slight things which in a translation might well enough be borne with though not so well perhaps in a new book the printer lost the credit of his judgement with the Doctor and increased the Doctors good opinion of Barrows and made Barrows thereupon more bold to put in what popery he listed while the Printers were the slacker to complaine of it As for the Originall Coppy the Printer reports to have been wrested from him the D. wonders what became of the first part of it for before the Kings Atturney there was produced but the latter halfe The rest it was said Barrows had convei'd away with him 'T is well known the Doctor had never sight of the Originall Coppie after it was first delivered to the Presse but onely before the Kings Atturney while the falsifications were turned to For the Coppie was laid up in the Star-chamber office where it is yet At the hearing of the businesse before the Committee The Doctor said not that the Printer had left out the word Mind but that Barrows had falsified that place and strooke out the word Mind so that the printer could read it no otherwise And this the printers examination upon oath confirmed The Doctor instanced in this place because one of the Printers was so impudent as to say before the Committee there was never a blur nor any thing canceld in the originall coppie But it is evident to them that looke on the said Coppie That where
the Translator had first made it according to the Latin Invocate the Saints of Heaven the Doctor had strooke out the word Invocate and put over head Call to mind the Saints c. And Barrows had again strooke out the word Mind and left it Call to the Saints c. which was done questionlesse after the book was licensed and done of purpose For what reason else had Barrows to run away or how should the same vvords call to mind and the same manner of dashing out be found in severall places in the written coppie as it is But the D. takes God to witnesse he never allowed any exhortation to invocate the Saints in that book nor in any other Nor any superstitious passage else contrary to our Religion wittingly Invocation of Saints is a point the Doctor hath often preached against publikely disputed against and subscribed against Nor did he ever in his life favour that Romish Error or abet any that did At the hearing of the businesse before the Committee c. The D. denies not but that this whole sentence taken together may beare an unsavory sense but it may also as properly beare an Orthodox sense And the Doctor might very well understand it in the better sense vvhen he read it and not consider the worse and according to the Latine it must be so understood Recordare sanctos quibus specialiter devotus ei ut te in coelesti itinere promoveant Cal to mind the Saints to whom thou hast a special devotion to help thee in the way to Heaven call to minde that needs little defence for it is in regard of imitating their ventues to whom thou hast a speciall devotion that needs not much There is devotion in calling the Saints to mind and a special devotion in calling some speciall vertues of some Saints to mind And this calling to mind the vertues and good life of the Saints doth helpe in the way to Heaven But the Doctor rather believes it might besome mistake for hee had in divers places before turned invocate into call to minde and might doe it here hastily reading it and thinking the place sufficiently purged without deliberating upon what followed And yet I Pray who knows whether those words to whom thou hast a speciall devotion were not the hand-writing of Barrows after the Book was Licensed It was proved that a Parishioner of his being seduced c. There is nothing here to be blamed but the Doctors memory confounded with a multitude of other businesse T is notoriously false that the Doctor was sollicited three or foure severall times For hee never saw the Womans husband that reports this but twice till he saw him at the Committee The first time he met the Doctor going upon earnest businesse to Westminster and the Doctor tooke his name and the place where he dwelt promising to come Yet appointing no certain time through multitude of other businesse forgot it The man comming againe about a fortnight after and perceiving his face and his errand forgotten by the Doctor went away in a chafe and came no more But it is well known and ready to be proved that the Doctor hath conferred with divers Recusants and converted more families then one and brought them to Church Although he hath great reason to take heed how hee talks with women for that other womans sake mentioned presently after For whereas t is delivered that the Doctor should say Salvation might bee had in the Church of Rome It was no saying of his but a question put forth by the woman asking the Doctor whether he could deny it To whom the Doctor replyed as diverse will witnesse That what ever might be thought of Papists beyond Sea or of those in former times who knew no other Religion yet for such as shee was who lived in wilfull disobedience to the Church wherein shee was baptized and refused to be better informed out of Gods word graciously offered her there was no hope of salvation But above all things the Doctor wonders any should except against his manner of taking the Protestation What could be more solemne T was taken on Whitsunday last in the afternoon immediatly after Sermon before so great a congregation as usually no Sunday in the yeere hath more It was told the Parishioners in the morning publikely that they should take it The afternoons Preacher so soon as ever the Psalm after Sermon was ended first read it in the Pulpit then took it so did the curate Warning being then given to strangers and women to depart and the Parish gathering about the Doctors Pew the Doctor himselfe first took the Protestation audibly in his own person and give it to others to doe the like When this was done there was a place assigned that as many as had taken it should come subscribe their names in a book namely at the Vestry on Tuesday following where the Doctor and the Church-wardens subscribed their names and others of the Parish as many as would did the like both then and on the next Sunday following All which considered it may bee wondred why any should yet doubt of the Doctors soundnesse in Religion notwithstanding these mens objections For lest their malice should not sufficiently appeare in alleaging things colourably true they have not spared to print things manifestly false such as these That he hath inveighed against the Petitioners in his Sermons a thing that all his hearers except the Petitioners will be ready to sweare the contrary That hee forceth all Communicants to come to the Rails whereas the Doctor knoweth not of any yet that hath ever refused to come till Sunday last being the 27 of June 1641. That he inveigheth against those which goe from their Parish Church whereas hee never yet reproved or caused to be presented one of his Parishioners for so doing That his voice is so weake halfe the Church cannot heare him which none but deafe people will say Nor is it much more to the purpose to alleage his keeping the Lords Table within the Screen and the Rayls a thing that no authority hath yet enjoyned the contrary As for the Honorable Houses of Parliament for both which the Doctor daily prays they need not be pointed out by these men what they have to doe They see I doubt not how much their justice is prejudiced by scattering such Libels exposing men to obloquie before they are proved guilty Let mee therefore desire these Petitioners not to snatch the power of judicature out of their hands and to condemne and proscribe before sentence Nor to follow with such implacable bitternesse a harmlesse Minister of God who prayes heartily that God would give them a better minde And endevours nothing more then theirs and all his Parishes proficiencie in godlinesse desiring them for a farewell to think upon that sentence of S. Paul 1 Thess 5.12 13. Wee beseech you brethren to know them that are ever you in the Lord and admonish you And to esteem them very highly in love for their work sake and be at peace among your selves FINIS