conversed with none but God and themselves the other kept in Societies in the midst of Cities ande led Mortified Lives amidst the noise and crowd The Arians held the Son was not Consubstantial or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in substance and all things like to the Father The Councel at Ariminum by Western Bishops and at the same time another at Seleucia for the Eastern Anno 359. The Nicene Creed confirmed Athanasius Dies Anno 371. St. Hillary flourished Anno 385. he was Bishop of Poictiers in France and Died there with this Epitaph on his Tomb savouring of the Poetry of that Age. Hilarius cubat hac fictavus Episcopus Vrna Defensor Nostrae Terrificus fidei St. Hillary's writings is in a Language Eloquent in its Kind tho not chast and genuine it being true what Erasmus observes upon this occasion That the Roman Provincials some few only excepted who were brought up at Rome seldom or never attained the purity and simplicity of the Latin Tongue but betray an over anxious Affection of Eloquence St. Basil flourished Anno 370. Prohaeresius was St. Basil's Tutor a man greatly honoured by the Emperor Constans who sent him to Rome where he was honoured with a Statue of Brass with this Inscription Rome the Queen of Cities to the King of Eloquence Basil being made Bishop of Caesarea was a stout defender of the Nicene Faith Valens the Emperour intending to subdue the East to the Doctrine of Arins came to Caesarea attended by Modestus the Pretorean Prefect Basil is sent for before Modestus and the Discourse between them was in this manner Mod. What 's the matter Basil that you presume to oppose so great an Emperour above all the rest Bas What do you mean Sir what Arrogance do you speak of I vnderstand you not Mod. I mean your refusing to comply with the Emperour's Religion when all others have struck sail to it Bas But that is inconsistent with the Command and Will of my Soveraign Emperour nor can I ever be brought to worship a Creature or one that is a made God Mod. What then do you make of us Basil Nothing at all so long as you command such things as these Mod. But tell me do not you think it a great Honour to come over to us Bas I grant you to be illustrious Persons yet you are not more Honourable than God And know sir Christianity is to be measured not by Dignity of Persons but soundness of the Faith The Prefect in a Passion started out of his Chair and proceeded in a sharper strain Mod. What then you are not afraid of the Power we are armed with Bas What can happen what can I suffer Mod. Any one of those things that are within my Power Bas What are they Confiscation of Goods Banishment Tortures or Death or if there be any thing worse than these threaten that for of these there is none can reach us Mod. How so Bas He is not obnoxious to Confiscation who hath nothing to lose unless you want these old tattered Cloathes and a few Books wherein consists my whole Estate Banishment I regard not who am tied to no place the whole Earth is God's whose Pilgrim and Stranger I am As for Tortures what can they do where there 's not a Body to bear them Set aside the first blow and there 's nothing else within your Power And then for Death I shall esteem it a Kindness and Benefit it will but sooner send me to God Use your Pleasure Let the Emperour know you shall never prevail with us to confederate with that impious Sect. As for the Advantage you propound to me and the Favour of the Emperour offer these things to Boys and Children who are wont to be caught with such gawdy Baits I highly value the Emperour's Favour when I can have it with Piety and the Favour of Heaven but without that I look upon it as pernicious and deadly Nazianzen flourisht An. 371. and is made Bishop of Constantinople Theodosius promotes the Catholick Faith against the Arrians An. 380. The Second General Council holden at Constantinople An. 381. wherein was Ratified the Nicene Creed which our Church hath adopted into her solemn Liturgy which is an Explanation of the old Nicene Creed especially about the Article of the holy Ghost In this Council were condemned the Sabellian Marcellian Photinian Eunomian Apollmarian and Macedonian Heresies a short account whereof is as followeth Sabellius asserted the Father Son and holy Ghost are but one and the same Person distinguished only by Three several Names and that by Vertue of this Oneness of Persons the Father might be said to suffer whence they are sometimes stiled Patripassians Marcllus Bishop of Ancyra held that Christ began to be the Son of God at his Incarnation and that his Kingdom shall continue to the day of Judgment and then cease In opposition to this the Councel particularly level'd that clause in the Creed whose Kingdom shall have no end Photius Bishop of Sirmium held Christ a meer Man and received the begiuning of his Existence from the Virgin Mary Aetius the Author of the Eunomean Haeresie he corrupted the very Arian Heresie and held the Son altogether unlike in Nature and Substance to the Father Apollinaris Bishop of Laodicea held our Lord assumed a Body without an human Soul his Divinity supplying the room of that and that the Son of God brought his flesh along with him when he came from Heaven Macedonius denied the Divinity of the Holy Ghost and that was the chief reason of calling the second general councel Nazianzen in his Writings attained to the true temper of the Grecian Eloquence Basil excelled in the Panegyrick way Nazeanzen's stile is more Malculine he did sometimes too far indulge the vein of Oratory especially in his Encomiasticks wherein he sometimes takes a liberty of making addresses to the dead which succeeding Superstition improved to formal invocation he did it with hesitancy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if any sense be in departed Souls of things here below and so More Oratorio St. Ambrose made Bishop of Milan Anno 374. St. Austin comes to Milan and is converted by the Sermons of St. Ambrose 385. Chrysostom consecrated Bishop of Constantinople Anno 398. St. Austin ordained Bishop of Hippo Anno 395. Chrysostom condemned and deposed in the Synod ad quercum and banisht but soon after recalled and acquitted in another Synod Anno 403. Chrisostom again condemned and banished Anno 404. by the instigation of the Empress Eudoxia After which Chrisostom underwent grievous persecutions and suffered many perils by travelling up and down strange Countries by the malicious contrivance of his Enemies till he was releas'd by death at Comana Portica and was buried there in the Tomb of St. Basilifcus the Martyr Eusebius his genuine Works De Preparatione Evangelica lib. 15. De Demonstratione Evangelia Contra Hieroclem Contra Marcellum De Ecclesiastica Theologia Chronicon Historiae Ecclesiasticae lib. 10.
the Controversy about the Celebration of Easter threatens to Excommunicate the Asiatick Churches for which he is severely reproved by Iraeneus Anno. 196. Tertullian Writes his Apology Anno. 200. Sixth Persecution wherein Ireneus suffers Martyrdom in France Anno. 202. under Severus Origen sets up a School at Alexandria Anno. 203. Minutius Felix flourished A. 207. Vlpian the Lawyer flourished An. 223. who instigated a cruel Persecution at Rome Origen Persecuted and Synodically condemned by Demetrius Bishop of Alexandria Anno. 230. Plotinus Scholar to Ammonius 232 The seventh Persecution under Maximinus Anno 235. Babylas chosen Bishop of Antioch Anno. 239. Cyprian chosen Bishop of Carthage Anno. 248. The Eighth Persecution by Decius Anno 250. Great Schisms in the African Church about the Lapsed Anno. 251. The Novatian Doctrin condemned in a Synod of 60 Bishops at Rome 252. The ninth Persecution under Valerian Anno. 257 St. Cyprian beheaded at Carthage Anno. 258 Gallienus the Emperor stops the Persecution against the Christians Anno. 260. Paulus Samosetanus Bishop of Antioch is Deposed and Condemned by a Synod at Anâ—â—och Anno. 270. The Manichaean Heresie sprung up Anno. 277. Cyril the 18th Bishop of Antioch Anno â—78 The Persecution under Dioclesian Anno 3â—0 Writings falsly attributed to Dyonisius Areopagitâ— for the good of Students in Divinity that they may not be imposed on De Divinis Nominibus De Mistica Theologia Epistola ad Polycarpum Epist ad Titum Epist ad Johannem Evangelistam St. Clemens Epistola ad Corinthios a genuine Writing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Photius stiles it worthy all esteem and veneration it breaths the true Genius and Spirit of the Apostolick Age. Epist ad Jacobum Fratrem Domini is supposititious so are the Homeâ—iae Clementinae Constitutiones Canones Apostolici Ignatius his Genuine Writing are Ad Ephesios Ad Trallianos A Philadelphenos Ad Magnesianos Ad Romanos Ad Smyneos Ad Polycarpum the rest suppositious Justin Martyr's Genuine Writings Paraenesis ad Graecos Apologia pro Christiani two Parts Dialogus cum Tryphone Judae Clemens Alexandrinus his Genuine Writings Proterxticon ad Gentes Pedagogi Lib. 3. Stromat Lib. 3. Suppositious Commentariola in 1. Epist Petri. Epist Judae 3 Epist St. Johannis Tertullian his chief Genuine Writings Apologeticus De Spectaculis De Corona Ad Nationes De Idolatria Ad Martyras De Patientia De Virgin Valandis De Baptismo adversus Valentinianos De Anima De Resurrectione Cyprian his Genuine Writings Epistola ad Donatum Epistolae 38. in secessu Epistolae Variae 8. De Disciplina Habitu Virginum De Lapisis De Vnitate Ecclesiae Catholaecie De Oratione Dominica Ad Demetrianum De Idolorum Vanitate De Mortalitate De Opera Eleemosynis De Bono Patientiae De Zelo. De Exhortatione Martirii ad Fortunatum Testimonium adversus Judaeos Concilium Carthaginense De Baptizandis Haereticis St. Gregory Thaumaturgus his Genuine Writings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Origen Metaphrasis in Ecclesiastem Bâ—â—â—is Exposicio Fidei Episâ—ola Canonicâ— Since the first General Councel at Nice against Arrius 1351 years Since the second General Councel holden at Constantinople against the Heresie of Macedonius who denied the Deity of the Holy Ghostâ— 1287 years Since the third General Councâ—â—â—gâ—â—nst Pelagius and Nestorius held at Ephesus 1238 years Summoned by Theodosius the Second where in Nestorius himself was present St. Cyril therein earnestly contended for Christs Divinity affirming him one and the same Son of God begotten of the Father before all Ages and in the last times made Man of a Virgin and that the Blessed Virgin ought properly and truly to be called θευτόχος or the Mother of God Hereat Nestorius rose up and told them plainly he would not own a God that grew to Mans Estate by two or three Months and so forth and so washed his Hands and would come no more into their company Since the fourth General Councel held at Chalcedon against the Heresie of Eutyches under Martian 1216. Years The Dioclesian Persecution set on Foot Anno 303. Constantine the great Emperor Anno 306. Eusebius Caesariensis flourished Anno 229. Eusebius wrote a Confutation of Hierocles who wrote against the Christians as Origen did against Celsus and Porphyry Arius began cunningly to broach his Heresie in the time of Eusebius The Nicene Councel summoned under Constantine Anno 325. Athanasius chosen to the Sea of Alexandria Anno 326. 318 Bishops met at the Nicene Councel they with their Attendants were Transported to Nice at the Emperors charge and maintained at his cost during their being there 17 Bishops appeared for the Arian Heresie wherein Constantine sat as a publick Moderator and Arius was banished into Illyricum In this Councel of Nice was debated the Paschal Controversy concerning the time oi the Celebration of Easter wherein the Christian World was so much divided the Eastern Churches observing it after the Jewish Custom on the 14th day after the Phasis or Appearance of the Moon the rest on the next Lords Day after the Jewish Passover A question controverted from the very infancy of the Church And in this Councel it was Universally agreed to follow the usage of these Churches whose custom it had heen from all Antiquity to observe it on the Lord's Day next ensuing the Jewish Festival In this Councel likewise were digested Twenty Canons about Ecclesiastical Discipline all extant intire at this day A Synod holden by the Arians at Tyre where they Try Condemn and Depose Athanasius Anno 334. Athanasius banished to Triers by Constantine Anno 336. And released by his Son Constantine Anno. 337. Arian Dies a sudden and sad Death Anno 336. Constantine the Great Dies Anno 337. Constantius to whose share the Eastern Empire sell and his Empress favour the Arrians The Synod at Antioch called Synodus in Encenys Deposeth Athanasius Anno 341. But Athanasius Purgeth himself at a Synod at Rome called by Pope Julius The Synod at Sardica where the Eastern Bishops refuse to joyn with them in the West notwithstanding which Athanasius is heard absolv'd and restor'd Anno. 347. Athanasius condemned by the Arians in a Synod at Arles Anno. 353. Constantius when the Orthodox Catholick Bishop refused to Subscribe the Arian Tenents said to them What I command let that be your Canon either submit or be banished The desperate attempts of the Arian Faction at Alexandria under Count Syrinus who with a party of 500 Soldiers broke into the Church where the People were met for their common Devotion and suddenly rusht in with drawn Swords Spears Clubs c. The Guards were set round the Church and the Tragedy began and there were multitudes Killed Virgins Abused Athanasius sat still till forced by the Monks through the Guards narrowly escaped the very Gentiles were ashamed of their Actions Athanasius retired to the Wilderness where he enjoyed the Company of devout Hermits there were two sorts of them Eremitae and Caenobitae the first were wholly devoted to Solitude and
Excommunication out of the Canterbury Book I shall here set it down word for word as it was wrote in those times More of Excommunication the Old Form THE general Sense of Execration was usually denounced four times a year the Greater and the Lesser Curse The Canterbury Book saith Wherefore ye Shullen understand at the beginning that this word Curse is thus much to say as departing from God and Good Works Of two manner of Cursing Holy Church telleth the one is cleped the Lasse Curse the other is cleped the More Curse That we clepen the Lasse Curse is of this strength that every man and woman that falleth therein it departeth him from all the Sacraments that been in Holy Church that they may none of them receive till they be assoyled c. The More Curse is much more worse and is of this strength for to depart a man from God and all the Holy Church and also from the Company of all Christen Folk ne to be saved by the Passion of Christ ne to be holpen by the Sacraments that been done in Holy Church c. After repeating the Articles of the Curse the General Sentence was thundred out every Quarter as the Canterbury Book saith By the authority of our Lord God Almighty and our Lady St. Mary and all Saints of Heaven of Angels or Archangels Patriarks and Prophets Evangelists Apostles Martyrs Confessors and Virgins also by the Power of all Holy Church that our Lord Jesus gave to St Peter We denounce all those Accursed that we have thus reckned to you and all those that maintain 'em in her sins or given 'em hereto either help or councel so that they be departed from God and all Holy Church and that they have noe of the Passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ne of no Sacraments that been in Holy Church ne no part of the Prayers amen Christen Folk but that they be accursed of God and of Holy Church from their soole of their foot unto the crowne of their head sleeping and Waking sitting and Standing in all her words and in all her Works and but if they have grace of God for to amend 'em herein this Life for to dwell in the Paine of Hell for ever withouten end Fiat Fiat doe to the Book quench the Candle ring the Bell Amen Amen CHAP. III. Of Bishops and Deans Election Consecration Installation c. NEXT to the two Arch bishops are the Bishops of London Durham and Winchester the order of the rest being by no other rule than the Priority of their Consecration The manner of making a Bishop is thus When a Bishops Sea becomes vacant the Dean and Chapter give notice of it to the King and request him to give them leave to chuse another whereupon the King grants them his Conge D'eslire i. e. leave to Elect and usually recommends one Then the Dean summons a Chapter and they Elect and they certifie the Party Elected who having accepted it it is certified to the King and the Arch-bishop of the Province whereupon the King gives his Royal Assent under the great Seal of England which is exhibited to the Arch-bishop of that Province with command to Confirm and Consecrate him then the Arch-bishop Subscribes Fiat Confirmatio and gives commission under his Episcopal Seal to his Vicar general to perform all Acts thereto required after which the Bishop elect takes the Oaths of Supremacy Simony and Canonical Obedience Sometime after this follows the Consecration which in the inferiour Clergy is called Ordination which is performed by the Arch-bishop of the Province or some other Bishop commissioned by him with the assistance of two other Bishops in the Arch-bishops Chappel upon a Sunday or an Holyday after Morning Service Next follows his Installation by vertue of a Mandate from the Arch-bishop to the Arch deacon of his Province This is performed in the Cathedral Church in the presence of a publick notary and the Arch deacon with the Petty Canons accompany the Bishop to the Quire and there place him in a Seat prepared for him and Te Deum is Sung and then the Bishop is conducted into the Chapter-house after this he is introduced into the King's Presence to do his Homage for his Temporalities or Barony and then he compounds for the first Fruits of his Bishoprick The Bishops write Divinae Permissione the Arch-bishop writes himself Divina Providentia The inferiour Bishops are stiled right reverend Fathers in God the Arch-bishops most reverend Deans Arch-deacon and Prebendaries are the Dignified Clergy Deans of the Old Foundations which were before the Suppression of Monasteries are brought to their Dignities much like Bishops Whereas the Deans of the New Foundations upon suppression of Abbies are installed a much shorter way by veâ—tue of the King's Letters Patents without either Election or Confirmation The chief of the Prebendaries is the Subdean who supplies the Deans Place in his Absence The Archdeacons upon the Bishops Mandate are to induct Clerks into their Benefices Vicars properly Officiate in those Livings which are called Impropriations of which there are in England no less than 3845. For above a third part of the best Benefices of England being anciently by the Popes Grant Appropiated to Monasteries towards their Maintenance were upon the dissolution of the Monasteries made Lay-Fees CHAP. IV. A Chronological Table shewing in what Ages the Primitive Fathers lived and Memorable things hapned and some other Memoirs of Antient Times ST Peter and St. Paul suffered Martyrdom at Rome Anno Christi 65. Jerusalem Sackt and Bâ—rnt Ann. Christ 70. And therein 110,000 of the Jews Perish'd and 9,000 taken Prisoners Linus Martyred at Rome Anno 77. Titus commands Josephus his History of the Jewish War to be laid up in the Library at Rome Anno. 80. The second Persecation Anno 90. St. John wrote the Book of Revelation Anno 94. St. Clemens Bishop of Rome is thrown into the Sea with an Anchor tied about his Neck Anno 100. The third Persecution began 107. under Trajan Ignatius Martyred by wild Beasts Anno. 107. Onesimus Stoned at Rome 109. The Fourth Persecution under Adrian 117. Aquila a Kinsman of Adrian the Emperor first turns Christian and then Jew Translates the old Testament into Greek Anno. 128. Justin Martyr converted to Christianity Anno. 132. Marcus the first of the Gentile Converts made Bishop of Jerusalem all hitherto having been of the Circumcision Anno. 135. Justin Martyr presents his Apology to the Emperor in behalf of the Christians Anno. 162. Justin Martyr suffered Martyrdom Anno. 163. St. Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna Martyred Anno 167. Pantaenus a Christian Philosopher opens the Catholick School at Alexandria Anno. 180. The Persecution against the Christians much abated after M. Aurelius his Victory over the Marcomanni gained by the Prayers of the Christian Legion Anno. 174. Lucius a King of Brittain sends Letters to Pope Eleutherius for Christian Preachers Anno. 186. Clemens Alexandrinus Pantaenus his Scholar and Successor Famous Anno. 194. Pope Victor revives
De Vita Constantini Oratio de Laudibus Constantini De Locis Hebraicis Epist ad Caesarienses de fide Nicaena Nazianzen's genuine Works most of them Apologeticus de fuga sua In Julianum Imp. Invictivae duae Oratio post editum ex fuga Oratio ad Gregorium Nyssenum Oratio de suis Sermonibus Oratio funebris in laudem Caesarii Fratrii De Pace Orat. 3. Oratio de Pauperum Amore. In Laudem Cypriani Martyris Oratio Funebris in Laudem Basil Mag. Oratio in Laudem mag Athanasii Oratio de moderatione in disputando Oratio de Dogmate Constitutione Episcoporum Oratio in presentia 150 Episcoporum habita De Theologia Oration 5. Oratio Panegyrica in Christi nativitatem In Sanct. Baptisma In Pascha 2. In Novam Dominicam In Sanctam Pentecosten In Laudem Martyrum adversus Arianos Tract de fide Lat. Epistolae 242. Testamentum Poemata 64. alia 78. De Episcopis de hominum ingratitudine Querela Supposititious Metaphrasis in Ecclesiastem Hoc est opus Gregorii Thaumaturgi Christus Patiens Tragaedia St. Epiphanius 's genuine Writings his Stile was Mean but but the Matter weighty Panarium five Adversus Haereses LXXX a Choice Book Ancoratus seu de fide Sermo Aenacephalaeosis seu Panarii Epitome De Ponderibus Mensuris Liber Epistola ad Johannem Hierosolymitanum Lat. Ad Hieronimum Epistola Lat. The first Martyr in Brittain was St Alban under Dioclesian's persecution Some will have 100 Christians martyred at Liechfield which in the Brittish-tongue signifies Golgotha In allusion thereto the City Arms are a Field Surcharged with Dead Bodies Anno 401. Arrianism having got a little riddance in Brittain Pelagianism succeeded Pelagius was born in Brittain his name Morgan i. e. near the Sea Hence his Latin Name And the same day Pelagius was born in Brittain St. Austin was born in Africk His main Errors are 1. That no man can be saved without Gods Grace by his own Mirits and Free will 2. That Infants were born without Original Sin 3. That they were Baptised not to be freed from sin but thereby to be adopted into the Kingdom of God 4. That Adam died not by reason of his sin but by the condition of nature Germanus and Lupus two French Bishops came and disputed with the Pelagian Doctors and confuted them Anno 501. Arthur flourished in Brittain It is more than comes to the proportion of Brittain that amongst but nine Worthies in the whole World two should prove Natives of this Island Constantine and Arthur That there was an Arthur is certain for his Corps Coffin and Epitaph were taken out of his Monument at Glassenbury in the reign of King Henry II. Anno 585. Pope Gregory sent Augustine the Monk and Melitus and forty more to preach the Gospel in Brittain he brought Interpreters with him out of France The Pagan Idols worshipt in Brittain were Thur. i. e. Jupiter hence dies Jovis Thursday Woden i. e. Mercurius hence dies Mercury Wednesday Frea i. e. Venus hence Friday Seater i. e. Saturn hence Saturday Tuisco Mars since Tuesday The Old Christian Brittains served God in the Mountains and cared not for Austins alamode ceremonies Anno 601. The Archbishoprick was translated from London to Canterbury Austin was Archbishop he calls a Councel of Saxon and Brittain Bishops where the Abbot of Bangor spake as the mouth of the rest we are under the Government of the Bishop of Carlion upon Vske and above him unto God without any subordination to Rome So that Religion came into Brittain not by the semicircle of Rome but in a direct line from the Asiatick Churches Hereupon Austin stirred up Ethelbert King of Kent to send to the Pagan King of Northumberland to murder 1200 Monks of Bangor Anno 632. Sigebert King of Eastangles builded Cambridge Bede calls him Christianismus Doctâ—ssimus Anno 640. The first Lent was kept in England In the space of 82 years the whole Saxon Heptarchy was converted to Christianity Anno 709. A Synod was called at London to introduce into England the Doctrine of Image worship Binnius and Baronius say it was brought in by St. Austin the Monk But it is very improbable Austin would deliver a Doctrine point blank against Gregory that sent him who most zealously inveighed against all worship of Images in his Epistle ad Serenum Massiliensem Venerable Bede was born in this Age. St. Bede was too much while he lived but Venerable was a fit medium Anno 790. The Archbishoprick was translated from Canterbury to Liechfield by Offa King of Mercia and Pope Adrian but soon after it was restored back to Canterbury Anno 867. The Danes enter into the heart of England and burnt the Abby at Peterburrough which was fifteen days a burning and slew the Monks who were buriall in a grave where one may have four yards square of Martyrs dust which no place in England else doth afford In these four last Centuries Scriptures were generally read The Original was preferred No Prayers for the dead in nature of propitiation but only commemoration Communion was under both kinds Anno 1067. A contest was betwixt the Monks of Glassenbury and Thurstan their Norman Abbot he obtruding a service upon them which they disliked hence Osmond Bishop of Sarisbury made a Liturgy for all England hence the Old Saying Secundum usum Sarum Anno 1138. Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury was stiled Legatus natus which from him was entayled on this See Nicholas Breakspeakers was Pope by the Name of Adrian the Fourth We never had but four Popes and an half I mean Cardinal Pool Pope Elect. St. Davids may vie Archiepiscopal jurisdiction before Canterbury as being first Christian as the old verse hath it about the proportion of pardons given to Pilgrims visiting Religious Places Roma semel quantum bis dat Menevia tantum Anno 1205. Pope Innocent the third assoyled all the English Subjects of their Allegiance from King John John after granted his Kingdom to the Pope by Pandulphus who kept the Crown five days in his hands then it was King Innocent Anno. 1254. About this time the Popes oppression began to grow intollerable for it appeared that the Ecclesiastical Revenues of Italians in England amounted to threescore and ten thousand marks per annum whereas the King's income at that time was hardly twenty thousand King Edward I. expelled the Jews out of England they seated in Germany and Italy where the profit from Jews and Stews much advanced the revenues of the Pope Anno 1341. In this Age the Schoolmen were at the heighth England had the best of all and the most Hales Doctor Irrefragabilis Roger Bacon Doctor Mirabils John Duns Scotus Doctor Subtilis John Baconthrop Doctor Resolutus William Occam Doctor Singularis Pater Nominalium Doctor Bradwardine Doctor Profundus Anno 1336. A survey was exactly taken of all the Clergies Glebe Land and the same was returned into the Exchequer and is at this day the most effectual
581 Parish-churches of which 336 are impropriations it hath four Arch-deacons viz. of York Cleveland Eastriding and Nottingham Valuation 1609 19 2  Tenths 1113 17 9 ob Carlisle it contains Westmorland and most part of Cumberland 93 Parishes whereof 18 impropriate Valuation 530 4 11 ob Tenths 161 1 7 ob Chester contains part of Cumberland Lancashire and Cheshire 256 Parishes of which 101 are impropriate 2 Arch-deacons Richmond and Chester Valuation 420 1 8 Tenths 435 12  Durham it contains the Bishoprick of Durham and County of Northumberland each of which hath an Arch-deacon 135 Parishes whereof 87 impropriate Tenth 385 5 6 ob Valuation 1821 1 5 q. A Catalogue of all the Bishops in England and Wales ARchbishop of Cant. Dr. Tillotson Archbishop of York Dr. Sharp Bishop of London Dr. Compton Bishop of Durham Dr. Crew Bishop of Winchester Dr. Mew Bishop of Rochester Dr. Sprat Bishop of Salisbury Dr. Burnet Bishop of Chester Dr. Stratford Bishop of Worcester Dr. Stillingfleet Bishop of Chichester Dr. Patrick Bishop of Oxford Dr. Hough Bishop of Leichsield and Coventry Dr. Lloyd Bishop of Hereford Dr. Bishop of Norwich Dr. Moore Bishop of Lincoln Dr. Tenison Bishop of Ely Dr. Patrick Bishop of Carlisle Bp. of Bath and Wells Dr. Kâ—â—ten Bishop of Peterborough Dr. Bishop of Exeter Sir J. Trelawny Bishop of Bristol Dr. Hall Bishop of St. Asaph Dr. Jones Bishop of Llandaff Bishop of St. Davids Dr. Wartson Bishop of Bangor A List of the present Deans both in England and Wales ST Asaph Dr. Bright Bangor Dr. Jones Bristol Dr. Levet Canterbury Dr. Hooper Carlisle Dr. Musgrave Chester Dr. Ardern Chichester Dr. Hawkins Christ Church Oxon Dr. Aldrich St. Davids Dr. Ellis Durham Dr. Greenvile Ely Dr. Spencer Exeter Dr. Annesley Glocester Dr. Jane Hereford Dr. Benson Leichfeild Dr. Addison Lincoln Dr. Bâ—evius Norwich Dr. Fairfax St. Paul's Dr. Sherlock Peterborough Dâ— Freeman Rochester Dr. Vllock Salisbury Dr. Price Wells Dr. Bachurst Westminer Dr. Sprat Bp. of Rochester Winchester Dr. Meggot Windsor Dr. Hascard Worcester Dr. Talbot York Dr. Wickhaw In England are 2 Archbishops 26 Bishops 26 Deans of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches 60 Archdeacons 544 Prebendaries 9700 Rectors and Vicars besides Curates There are several Rural Deans The Rural Dean was anciently called Archi-presbyter and had the guidance and direction of the Presbyters The Pastors of every Parishare called Rectors unless the Predial Tythes are impropriated and then they are called Vicars The Stile of the Archbishop of Canterbury is Johannes Divina Providentia Archiepiscopus Cantuareusis Primas Metropolita totius Anglae The Bishops write D. vina Permissione All the incomes of the Bishops in England are judged to amount to four hundred and fifty thousand pounds per annum For institution aad induction of Parsons to benefices the Bishops have three pounds a piece at least Licenses to Preach cost ten shillings The Church-Wardens pay for their books of Articles every year and for writing their Presentments by a Clerk 2 s. 4. Ministers pay 1 s. 8 d. for shewing their Licences to Preach to the Register at every Bishops Visitation and 4 s. Procurat to the Bishop and 8 d. to the Apparitor The 2 Archbishops have Precedency of all the Lord 's Temporal and every other Bâ—shop hath place of all the Barons of the Realm under the estate of Viscount and other Superior Dignities The Bishops have amongst themselves this Precedence First The Bishop of London and after him the Bishop of Durham and then the Bishop of Winchester and after him every Bishop as he is in Seiniority CHAP. VI. Of the Original of Patronage and of Presentation Institution and Induction AS for Foundation and Erection of Churches c. The Patron designed the ground and building but the Bishops consent was required the Foundation being provided and Materials the Bâ—shop comes in his Formalities in Person the Collare and Humerale and saith certain Prayers and Fumeth the Groundwork and the Singingmen say the ἀπολυτίκιον a kind of Collect for the Saint to whose Name the Church is Dedicated and crosseth the corner-stone and layeth the Foundation the Founder Endowed it For the particular manner of Consecration of Churches Vide Dr. Plotâ—s History of Staffordshire Several well minded good meâ— built Churches and endowed them with several parcels of Land and other immunities reserving to themselves their Heirs and Successors a Right and Power to bestow the said Churches and Lands on such Persons they thought fit and this Right of Presentation is called Advowson The Patrons in the Civil Law are called Advocati and Pâ—tronia Patrociâ—o or Defence and they Present an Incumbent on every Vacancy Presentation It is nothing else but the nomination of a fit Person to the Bishop to be admitted instituted and inducted into the Church or Benefice which is void it is an instrument in the Nature of a Letter Missive directed to the Bishop and is usually in this Form Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Dom. Dom. Johanni per missione Divina Eboracensi Archiepiscopo Angliae Primati Metropolitani ejusve in absentia vicario suo in rebus Spiritualibus generali praenobilis T. P. Baro de P. verus indubitatus patronus Rectoriae Ecclesiae parochialis de H. Salutem in domino sempiter nam Ad Ecclesiam Parochialem de H. predict vestrae Diocesis modo per mortem T. R. ultimi incumbentis ibidem vacantem delectum mihi in Christo T. H. Sacrae Theologiae prefessorem paternitati vestrae praesento humiliter supplicans ut prefaâ—um T. H. ad dict am Ecclesiam admittere ipsumque in Rectoram ejusdem instituti induci faâ—ere cum suis juribus pertinentis Vniversis caeteraque omnia singula peragere adimplere in hac parte quae ad vestrum munus Episcopale per tinâ—re videbantur dignemini cum favâ—re in cujus rei Testimonium c. If a feme covert hath title to Present to a Church which is void she cannot present by her self but the Presentation must be in the Names of the Husband and Wife except in the case of the Queen If a Clerk be presented to the Bishop and the Bishop doth refuse to admit or institute him the Bishop must shew the particular cause why he doth refuse him and not generally that he is uncapable or Schismaticus Inveteraius Coke 5. Rep. Specot's case That a Clerk is a common haunter of Taverns or a player at unlawful Games are no good causes of refusal for tho they are Mala Prohibita yet they are not Mala in se But Heretick Schismatick Perjur'd Person Bastard Outlawed Illiterate are good causes to refuse so as the Bishop express the crime in certain by a Certificate but in such cases the Ordinary must give notice to the Patron of his refusal The Law hath appointed six Months ro the Patron to present his Clerk to the Bishop and if the Patron does not Present his Clerk accordingly then the Bishop shall Present
by Lapse a Clerk of his own choosing This is called in Law a Collation and if the Bishop shall not Collate within six Months then the Archbishop shall Collate his Clerk and if the Archbishop do not Collate within six Months then the King shall Present The six Months shall be accounted according to the Calendar and not according to 28 days to the Month. If the Church become void by Death of the incumbent the six Months shall be accounted from the time of his Death So it is if the Church become void by Creation i. e. by making the present incumbent there of a Bishop but if the Church become void by Resignation which Resignation must be made to the Bishop or by Deprivation then the Bishop must give notice of such Resignation or Deprivation and the six Months shall be accounted from the time of such notice If the King be Patron and doth not present his Clerk to the Church within six Months there the Ordinary ought not de jure to Collate in regard of the said Lapse he ought only to Sequest the Profits of the Church till the King will Present A common Person cannot revoke repeal or vary from his first Presentation because he hath put it out of himself and he hath given the Bishop power to perfect what he himself began yet before Induction the King may revoke his Presentment Before the Clerk is admitted and instituted he ought to be examined by the Bishop If once the Bishop refuseth a Man for insufficiency he cannot afterwards accept of him The Clerk is not bound to shew his Letters of Orders or Letters Testimonial to the Bishop upon his Examination Trin. 43. Eliz. B. R. Palms and the Bishop of Peterborough's case If the Bishop find the Clerk able he admits him in these words Admitto te habilem And afterwards he doth institute him unto the benefice or Church thus Instituo te rectorem Ecclaesie parochialis de D habere curam animarum accipe curam tuam meam The Bishop may examin admit and institute a man cut of his own Diocess In all cases if a Church Lapse to the Bishop or Archbishop and the Pation presents his Clerk before the Bishop or Archbishop have collated the Bishop is bound to admit the Clerk of the true Patron and cannot take advantage of the Lapse A Clerk must subscribe to three Articles 1. To the Supremacy 2. That the book of Common prayer and of ordering Bishops Preists and Deacons contains nothing in it contrary to the word of God 3. That he alloweth of the 39 Articles of Religion and acknowledgeth them to be agreeable to the word of God The Delinquent against the Canons of King James made at a Convocation in London Anno Dom. 1003. is to be preceeded withal by the censures of the Church Cheif Justice Wrâ—y Pasch 23. Eliz. reports that whereas one Smith subscribed the 39 Articles with this addition so far forth as the same were agreeable to the word of God that this was not according to the Stat. 13. Eliz. Induction is usually done by the Archdeacon It is the putting the Clerk in Possession of the Church Glebelands Tyths c. by the institution he is admitted ad Officium by induction he is intitled ad beneficium No man is capable to be a Parson Vicar c. before he is a Priest in Orders which cannot be before he is four and twenty years of 〈◊〉 By the Stat. 14. Car. 2. Cap. 4. he must make a Subscription according to the said Act and have a Certificate from the Bishop that he hath so done Within 2 Months after he is inducted he must during Divine Service read the 39 Articles in the Parish Church and declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all that is therein contained positively He must within 2 Months after he is inducted upon some Sunday read the book of Common Prayer i. e. the whole Service of the Church appointed for that day and likewise declare his assent and consent to all the matters and things therein contained in these words J. A. B. Do declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled the Book of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together wâ—th the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in the Churches and the form or manner of making ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Preists and Deacons He must likewise within 3 Months after his Institution upon some Lord's day during Divine Service publickly read his Certificate from the Bishop of his Subscription to the Declaration following and he must at the same time read the Declaration it self in the Church where he is to Officiate before the Congregation there assembled The Declaration follows I A. B. declare that it is not Lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Trayterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against these that are Commissiâ—nated by him and that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now Established The clause about the solemn League and Covenant is now expired Observe That the Parson Vicar c. must upon the accoptance of every new Living or Ecclesiastical Preferment within this Law repeat all these things Let him have some credible Witnesses present when he makes his Subscription before the Bishop and that they attest the Bishop's Certificate and that they get two books of Articles and when they read them that he gives one of them to some Parishioners to read with him and attest the same that they were present and heard the Clerk read the 39 Articles during the time of Common Prayer and declare his unfeigned assent and Consent to all the matters and things therein contained by subscribing their names thereunto When he reads the Book of Common Prayer let some intelligent Parishoners read with him and give them a copy of the Declaration aforesaid and let them attest under their hands his reading of the Common Prayer and Declaration whith may be done in this Form In a fair legible hand write the Declaration aforesaid Then write under Memorandum That upon Sunday the in the year of our Lord _____ A. B. Parson of D. in the County of D. read common Prayers in the said Parish Church of D. both in the forenoon and afternoon of the same day according to the form and order prescribed and directed by the book entituled the book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other rights and ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England c. and immediately after reading the same made a declaration of his unfeigned assent and consent to all the matters and things therein contained in the form and words
above written And let the Witnesses subscribe the same Certificate and let these things be carefully kept CHAP. VII Of Marriages Times Prohibiting Marriage MArriage comes in on the 13th day of January and at Septuagessima Sunday it is out again until Low Sunday for we must fast from flesh in clear Lent at which time it comes in again and goes not cut again till Rogation Sunday For Rogamen Vetitat From whence it is forbidden again till Trinity Sunday from whence it is not fordidden till Advent Sunday But then it goes out and comes not in again till the 13â—h day of January next following notwithstanding all this I would venture to Marry a prudent comly and rich Woman at any time Affinity and Consanguinity forbidding Marriage A Man may not Marry his Grandmother Grandfathers Wife Wives Grandmother Fathers Sister Mothers Sister Fathers Brothers Wife Mothers Brothers Wife Wives Fathers Sister Wives Mothers Sister Mother Stepmother Wives Mother Daughter Wives Daughter Sons Wife A Woman may not Marry her Grandfather Grandmothers Husband Husbands Grandfather Fathers Brother Mothers Brother Fathers Sisters Husband Mothers Sisters Husband Husbands Fathers Brother Husbands Mothers Brother Father Stepfather Husbands Father Son Husbands Son Daughters Husband A Man may not Marry his Sister Wives Sister Brothers Wife Sons Daughter Daughters Daughter Sons Sons Wife Daughters Sons Wife Wives Sons Daughter Wives Daughters Daughter Brothers Daughter Sisters Daughter Brothers Sons Wife Sisters Sons Wife Wives Brothers Daughter Wives Sisters Daughter A Woman may not Marry her Brother Husbands Brother Sisters Husband Sons Son Daughters Son Sons Daughters Husband Daughters Daughters Husband Husbands Sons Son Husbands Daughters Son Brothers Son Sisters Son Brothers Daughters Husband Sisters Daughters Husband Husbands Brothers Son Husbands Sisters Son He that would see more of this let him peruse Lord Chief Justice Vaughans reports in Dr. Harrisons Case where he shall meet with excellent and curious Learning on this Subject CHAP. VIII Of Non-residence BY Stat. 21. Hen. 8. cap. 13. every Archdeacon Dean Parson and Vicar must be personally resident and abiding in at or upon his said Dignity or Benefice or one of them at the least and upon wilful absence by the space of one Month at a time or two Months at several times in any one year to forfeit 10 l. The Stat. intends he should be Resident in and upon his Parsonage or Vicaridg-house Imprisonment excuseth the Parson c. Removal for healths sake excuseth He that is Resident in the University and under forty years of age to do Exercises there is excused Being in the King's Service beyond Sea excuseth A Chaplain qualified is excused The King may give License to any of his own Chaplains to be Non-resident Arch bishops Bishops Lords Household Chaplains are excused Vid. Stat. 13 Eliz. c. 20. 14 Eliz. cap. 11. CHAP. IX Of Dispensations and Pluralities A Dispensation granted by the Archbish and confirmed by the King 's Letters Patents as it must be Retinere beneficium cum cura animarum is good only to such a person who is full and perfect incumbent of the Church at the time of the Dispensation to him by Stat. 21. Hen. 8. cap. 13. The King Queen and Prince and other the King's Children may retain as many Chaplains as they please and every of their Chaplains may purchase a Dispensation for two Parsonages or Benefices with cure of Souls or may hold as many of the King's Gift as they can get Every Archbishop and Duke may have six Chaplains and every one may have two Parsonages Every Marquiss and Earl may have five Chaplains and every one may have two Benefices Every Viscount and Bishop may have four Chaplains and every one may keep two Benefices The Lord Chancellor every Barron and Knight of the Garter may have three Chaplains Every Dutchess Countess and Barroness being Widows may have two Chaplains The Treasurer of the King's House and Comptroler the King's Secretary Dean of the Chappel and Master of the Rolls may every of them have two Chaplains and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench one Chaplain All Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity not admitted by Grace only may keep two Benefices No Deanery Archdeaconry or Prebend is within this Act of Pluralities If any incumbent be Resident upon his Living and keep a Curate he is bound by the Act of Vniformity once every Month at least to read the Common Prayers in his Parish Church or he forseits 5 l. for every time he fails therein CHAP. X. Causes of Deprivation CAuses of Deprivation in the Spiritual Court all which are allowed by the Common Law are Conscientia Criminis Debilitas Corporis Irregularitaes Personae Defectus Scientiae Grave Scandulun Heresie Schisme c. If the Clerk be convict of Perjury in the Spiritual Court it 's a good cause of Deprivation but the Ordinary must give notice to the Patron of this Deprivation If the Patron Present a meer Lay-man the same is a good cause of Deprivation if he be instituted and inducted but he must be deprived by sentence in the Spiritual Court If a Judgment of Deprivation be against a Parson if he make his Appeal the Church is not void but he remains Parson during the time of the Appeal and if he do reverse the Judgment there needs no new Institution and induction Hornogalâ—'s Case Disobedience to the Ordinary Incontinency and Drunkeness are good causes of Deprivation he must be a common Drunkard He that comes in by Simony may be deprived To maintain any Doctrine against the 39 Articles of Religion and persist therein is cause of Deprivation Nonconformity is a good cause of Deprivation Taking a second Benefice contrary to the Stat. 21 H. 8. cap. 13. without a Dispensation is a just cause of Deprivation Observe avoidances by Act of Parliament need no sentence declaratory By Stat. 13 Eliz. cap. 12. He that doth not subscribe unto the Articles nor read the Articles of Religion shall be deprived ipso facto But the Ordinary must give notice thereof to the Patron CHAP. XI Of Dilapidations A Dilapidation is the pulling down or destroying any of the Houses or Buildings belonging to a Spiritual Living or the Chancel or suffering them to run into ruin or decay or wasting and destroying the woods of the Church Suits for Dilapidations are most properly to be sued in the Spiritual Courts But a special Action upon the case lies against the Dilapidator his Executors or Administrators at Common Law and all the Money and Damage that shall be recovered for Dilapidations are to be expended and laid out in and about the Repairs As to the Bishop and Parson 's granting Leases in such cases besure to consult some able Councellâ—r CHAP. XII The Priviledges of Clergy-men THey are not compelled to serve in any temporal Office as Constable Overseer c. They may not be arrested in the Church or Church yard when they are attendant on Divine Service The bodies of Clergy-men cannot be arrested upon any