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B10267 The examinations of Faithful Commin Dominican Fryar, as Sir James Ware had them from the late Lord Primate Usher, being one of the memorials of the Lord Cecil. Ware, Robert. 1679 (1679) Wing W847AC; ESTC R186262 6,370 10

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to speak with him Yet the poor man whether through sear or to Comage his spirits call'd for a Cup of Sack and Drank Her Graces Health to the Pursevant saying her 's a health to my Royall Queen if She intends to Try my Fidelity and Employ me in her Navy I will venture all the Blood in my Body to Defend Her Graces Right But when he appeared before the Board they Demanded of him if he had seen Faithfull Commin he made answer he had seen him in the Low Countries and enquiring further he related this Relation as followes Coming with other Vessels to Land some Goods at Amsterdam Martin Van Davall a Merchant of that City hearing me Talk of this man told me that this Commin had been lately at Rome and that Pope Pius the 5th caused him to be Clapt up in Prison and that Commin had wrote to his Holiness the next day saying that he had something to say unto his Holiness upon which the Pope sent for him and as soon as he had seen Mr. Commin he spoke to him saying Sir I have heard how you have set me and my Predecessors forth amongst your Hereticks of England by Railing against my Person and my Church And that Commin made answer I confess my Lips have open'd that which my Heart thought otherwaies But your Holiness little thinks that I have done you a kindness notwithstanding I have spoken so much against your Holiness And that the Pope should Returne Commin this answer How in the Name of Jesus Mary of all His Saints hast thou done so and that Commin should make this answer saying I Preached against set Forms of Prayer and I called the English Prayers English Mass and have perswaded severall to pray Spritually and Extempore which hath taken so much with the People that the Church of England is become as Odious to that Sort whom I instructed as Mass is to them which will never be but a Stumbling Block to that Church while it is a Church and that upon this Relation the Pope Cherished him and gave him 2000 Duckets for his Labour Her Grace and the Whole Council thanking Mr. John Baker for his Relation bad him withdraw and upon this Information wrote over to Her Correspondents beyond Seas if possible he might be sent ever hither in to England but it being talked all over England how that the Pope had Rewarded this Impostor some knowing where he was gave him notice and thereby he Escaped out of those Territories and fled into the Romish holdings The Council Consulting with Her Grace to prevent not only Popery but all other Sectaries caused an Act to be Framed and to be Enacted that the severall Ministers of severall Parishes should take the Names of all the Families li●●●ing within the several Parishes both Male ●nd Female from Ten years of Age and that every Parish should have a certaine Clerk for that purpose and that every house within the said Parish should have a particular seat for them and their Families Each Man or Woman missing prayers every Sunday to forfeit a shilling Excepting those who had Certificates under a Protestant Physitians hand to be sick The Clerk to have one third part the poor the second third part and the third towards the Church for Broomes Sweet strowing Herbs Flowers and Bushes c. This Act at First was Irksom to many but at long running rather then a Master would pay for his Family or for his Servants they began to come to Prayers and Sermons Then the Clerks spying but little to be got when the People began to come to Church neglected their Office and severall agreeing with the Ministers of Each Parish to give them a yearly Stipend the Act ceased and Popery and Sectaries increased This being a Copy of the Lord Cecills Memorandums of Faithfull Commin with many other Memorandums in the same Book worth the Printing which Book was amongst Arch-Bishop Vshers Manuscripts before his Death FINIS