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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

me And Jehoiada the High Priest was the preserver of Joash the right Heir of the Crown against the Usurpations of Athaliah and when he had settled him in his Kingdom though not without Force of Arms and they also ordered by Jehoiada 2 Chron. 23. 8. he was inward in his Counsels and was ruled by him in his Marriage 2 Chron. 24. 2. and he died with this Testimony that this young King did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days wherein Jehoiada instructed him 2 King 12. But after his Death you may read what befel Joash 2 Chron. 24. In all the Conduct of this People out of Egypt in which many Temporal Businesses did occur Aaron was joyned with Moses in and through all Thou leadest thy People like sheep saith the Prophet Psal. 77. by or in the Hand of Moses and Aaron The Prophet David was a great Shepherd himself and knew very well what belonged to leading the People and you see he is so far from separating Aaron from Moses in the great work of leading the People that though they be two Persons and have two distinct Powers yet in regard the one is subordinate and subservient to the other they are reputed to have but one Hand in this great Work And therefore in the Original and in all the Translations which render it 't is said in Manu not in Manibus in the Hand not in the Hands of Moses and Aaron So necessary did God in his Wisdom think it that Aaron should be near about Moses in the Government of his People And as the Priests and Levites were great Men in the great Sanhedrim at Jerusalem so were two of them ever in all the lesser Sanhedrims in the several Cities of every Tribe for so Josephus witnesses expresly that two of them were ever allotted to each Magistracy Jeroboam's Sin it was and a great one to make the lowest of the People Priests 1 King 12. 13. and I pray God it be not the Sin of this Age to make the Priests the lowest of the People So by this I think it appears that nothing of like Antiquity can well be more clear than that four thousand years before and under the Law the Priests especially the chief Priests did meddle in and help manage the greatest Temporal Affairs And this as this Honourable Person cannot but know so I presume he was willing warily to avoid For he tells you he shall not need to begin so high Not need And why so Why it is because saith he the Question is only what concerns Bishops as they are Ministers of the Gospel and that which was before being of another Nature can give no Rule to this No Man doubts but this Question in Parliament belongs only to Bishops as they are Ministers of the Gospel nay more particularly than so as they are Ministers of the Gospel in the Church of England only For either this must be said or else granted it must be by this Honourable Lord that the Parliament of England takes upon them to limit Episcopacy through all the Christian World and to teach all States therein what they are to do with their Bishops And this were as bold a part for the English Parliament to do as it is for a private English-man to censure the Parliament And truly for my own part I cannot tell how to excuse the Parliament in this For though in the Act now past there be nothing enacted but that which concerns Bishops and such as are in Holy Orders here because their Power stretches no farther than this Kingdom yet their Aim and their Judgment is general And this appears by the Preface of that Act which runs thus Whereas Bishops and other Persons in Holy Orders ought not to be intangled with Secular Jurisdiction c. Ought not Therefore in their Judgment 't is Malum per se a thing in it felf unlawful for any Man in Holy Orders to meddle in or help manage Temporal Affairs For though their words be Ought not to be intangled which as that word intangled bears sense in English and stands for an absolute hindring of them from the works of their own Calling I grant as well as they yet the Act proceeds generally to divest them of all Power and Jurisdiction in Civil Affairs whether they be intangled with them or not But be it so that this Question belongs to Bishops only as they are Ministers of the Gospel yet why may not the Ancient Usage before the Law and the Law of God Himself give a Rule to this For sure if they can give no Rule in this then can they give no Rule to any thing else under the Gospel that is not simply Moral in it self as well as none to Prelates and their assisting in Temporal Affairs Which Opinion how many things it will disjoynt both in Church and State is not hard to see First then I shall endeavour to make it appear that the practice of pious Men before the Law and the Precept of the Law can give a Rule to many things under the Gospel and then I will examine how and how far those things may be said to be of another Nature which is the Reason given why they can give no Rule in this For the First that they can give a Rule I hope it will appear very plainly For in things that are Typical the Type must praefigure the Antitype and give a kind of Rule to make the Antitype known Therefore in Typical things no Question is or can be made but that the things which were under the Law can give a Rule to us Christians Though this bold Proposition runs universally without excepting things Typical or any other Besides the Priests had a hand in all Temporal Affairs and in matters which were no way Typical but meerly belonging to Order and Government as appears by the Proofs before made And therefore the Jews may be Precedents for Christians which could not possibly be if they could give us no Rule Nor is this any new Doctrine For that ancient Commentary under the Name of St Ambrose tells us expresly that that which is mentioned by St. Paul 1 Cor. 14. 30. is a Custom of the Synagogue which he would have us to follow And as this Doctrine is not new so neither is it refused by later Writers and some of them as Learned almost as this Lord. For that which was ordered 1 Chron. 23. 30. that they should stand every Morning and Evening to thank and praise the Lord is precedent enough to presume that the like is not against the Law of God And Calvin speaks it out expresly In regard saith he that God himself instituted that they should offer Sacrifice Morning and Evening inde colligitur it is thence collected plainly that the Church cannot want a certain Discipline So here the Jews Discipline gives an express Rule to us And it is very learnedly and truly observed by a late Writer

to hear so many Soldiers take Oxford in their way but glad withal that you keep the Scholars so well from them that all Disorders may be prevented as you write they have hitherto been Lambeth June 19. 1640. W. Cant. NOtwithstanding the Accident which fell out upon Tuesday June 16th between the Commanders and the Soldiers which was a very mutinous Quarrel in their Drink and cost some Blood Oxford June 22. 1640. A. Frewen ON Friday June 19th a Batchelor of Arts of Magdalen-Hall was found drowned in the River by New-Parks His wide-sleev'd Gown Hat and Band lay on the Bank but the rest of his Cloaths were upon him which makes us much suspect that he wilfully cast away himself The Crowners Inquest hath found him not Mentis compotem And I hear from good Hands that he was much troubled in Mind for which reason at the opening of his Study I mean to observe what Books he used most Oxford June 22. 1640. A. Frewen ON June the 25th 1640. I sent by Dr. Baylie Dean of Sarum and President of St. John Baptist's-College the Conveyances for the perpetual Settling of the Arabick Lecture in Oxford and the Statutes which I made for the due reading of it and desired that those Statutes might by the Vice-Chancellor's care be transcribed into the Original Statute-Book and the Conveyances also according as he finds done with other Lectures given by other Benefactors to the University As also for the transcribing of these Statutes into all other Statute-Books of the University respectively that those which are bound to be Auditors may know both their Times and their Duties These Directions I sent by Dr. Baylie but sent no Letter at this time to the the University because of the hast which I made to have the Business done and to he out of my Hands in these broken Times which gave me no leisure at all from more Publick Affairs to write unto them As for the Evidences which belong to this Land they are all in the Custody of the Town of Redding to which Town I gave all my Land lying in Bray in Berkshire of which this to the Arabick Lecture is not a full fifth part and could not dismember the Evidences and therefore thought it fittest to leave them there where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 part of the Land was settled to other charitable Uses 〈◊〉 I have made the Vice-Chancellor for the time being with some 〈◊〉 Heads of Colleges perpetual Visitors of that which I have done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Counterpart whereof remains in the Custody of the 〈◊〉 and Fellows of St. John Baptist's College of all which I gave 〈◊〉 present Vice-Chancellor an Account June 25th 1640. W. Cant. Right Honourable YOUR Letters of the Seventh of this June with all Humility we have received And according to Your Lordships Commands therein we have diligently enquired and informed our selves and do find that some Guests being Recusants do resort to the Inn called the Miter and that Greene named in Your Lordship's Letter was presented at the last Sessions for a Popish Recusant but not many Years since he was one of our Serjeants and did then frequent the Church And we finding that he Marrying the late Inn-holder's Widow of the said Inn became Owner thereof during the Minority of his Son-in-Law and by that means it being an ancient Inn of the Inheritance of Lincoln-College he keepeth the same Inn. And touching the Authority and Licensing the said Greene so to do His Majesty's Letters were lately procured and sent to us that we should not meddle in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-Houses or Victualling-Houses but that we should leave the same to the Vice-Chancellor and the Justices that were Members of the University And under pretence of that Letter when we in Obedience to His Majesty's Proclamation and his Highness's Writ directed to us for the observing of Lent at the beginning of the last Lent did by Warrant Summon the Victuallers of our own Body only to become bound to His Majesty according to the said Proclamation the Vice-Chancellor sent his Beadles to the Mayor to tell him that the binding of Victuallers did belong to the Vice-Chancellor and not to the Mayor And thereupon the Vice-Chancellor presently made a Warrant to call all the Victuallers before him at another Place one Hour before the time appointed in the Mayor's Warrant And amongst others did take a Recognizance of the said Greene but never certified the same Recognizance not any other Recognizances to the Sessions according to the Law And we make bold to certifie Your Lordships That we have only the Name of Mayor and Magistrates but the Vice-Chancellor Doctors and Proctors do interpose in the Town Affairs That all our Liberties and Privileges are much lessened that of late we had much ado to get Mayor and Bailiffs there being so many that paid their Fines to refuse that the City was at last forced to refuse their Fines and to compel them to take upon them the same Offices Whereas heretofore when we enjoy'd our Liberties and Privileges the same Places were much desired And so hoping that the Premisses considered Your Lordships will not conceive us so careless therein as in Your Lordships Letters is express'd we humbly take leave resting at Your Lordships Service Oxon 15 Junii 1640. John Smith Mayor William Potter Aldermen John Sare Aldermen Henry Southam Aldermen Thomas Cooper Aldermen May it please Your good Lordship ACcording to the Statute of Winchester in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the First and according to certain Orders and Directions publish'd by the Body of his Highness Privy-Council 1630. A Watch was set by Mr. Mayor and his Brethren with the Consent of the Vice-Chancellor these Rebellious times requiring the same part of which Watch by reason of divers Inrodes and Inlets besides the Gates of the City were appointed by Mr. Mayor to walk about their several Wards and Liberties for the Safety thereof and good Order by which Watch straggling Soldiers and others have been taken and we have been safe But Mr. Proctors question the said Watch and exact of them 40 s. a time for such their walking And for Non-payment thereof threaten to sue them in the Vice-chancellor's Court and send for these Watch-Men very often to their Chambers and make them attend them there and have imprison'd some of the Constables and have laid hold of the Watch-Men and taken some of them to the Prison Gates with an intent to Imprison them and do say that Mr. Mayor cannot give them Power to go from the Gates of the said City And for these Causes Mr. Mayor is forced to discharge the Watch but the Watch in St. Thomas Parish being the Entrance from Farrington where the late Rebellion was he did not discharge and the last Night Proctor Allibond Imprisoned the Constable for setting the same Watch. All this we will prove to be true upon Oath if