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The honours of the Lords spiritual asserted, and their priviledges to vote in capital cases in Parliament maintained by reason and precedents collected out of the records of the Tower, and the journals of the House of Lords.
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Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.
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redress being found to their bitterest complaints from the Lay Judges who in some places made sport at their Miseries and Oppressions as if nothing had been too hard or insupportable for their shoulders now those days through Mercy are over and must be forgotten to receive almost in all places the same hard measure from their pretended well-wishers This strikes to the very heart When no regard is had of all their past sufferings First-fruits Tenths no small standing revenue of the Crown amounting as some compute to near 40000 l. per annum which they joyfully discharge but they must still be left to the arbitrary disproportionate Impositions of every Domineering insolent Officer The consideration hereof hath convinced many formerly of a different perswasion that 't is not only usefull but expedient yea necessary for the Church to have some of his own Ordering Power to protect them and to hear and redress their just grievances But what further concerns the Clergys Priviledges and just Rights being so learnedly handled by the Immortal Spelman and the general ones so fully Collected by Rebuffus de Stud. Priv. and others I shall not here any further enlarge upon them The grand concern at present and which we principally design is how far they were Priviledged as to publick Assemblies and State Consultations And that the Holy Constantine and many other famous Kings and Emperours have made use of their advice both at Home and Abroad employed them in Embassies and other important Transactions hath been already demonstrated And here in the first place if such an argument could hope to sway with us Christians it would soon be proved that those who attended the Worship of the Heathen gods were admitted in Greece the then most knowing and civilized part of the World into their Pan-Aetolium and Amphyctionian Counsels Amongst the Athenian Areopagites and Roman Senators and that the Old Gauls divided their states in Druidas who had omnium rerum immunitatem Equites Plebem as the Egyptians before did into Priests Soldiers and Tradesmen But leaving Gentilisme we will hasten to Christendome And here once for all desire our Reader to consider that by the fundamental Constitutions of the most and best settled Nations in Europe there are three States generally settled whereof the Clergy is ever one Now to make this good though we might produce variety of instances yet we shall content our selves with the single Testimony of Calvin alone knowing that it will go farther with some than a Jury of others This we find expresly asserted in his Institutions l. 4. c. 20. Sect. 31. In singulis regnis tres sunt ordines c. which how to make up without the Spiritualty will be hard and beyond my skill In our Neighbour Nation of France the practise is notoriously known the ancient stile of the Royal Edicts always running as 't is Recorded of Pepin Ann. 744. Per Consilium Sacerdotum Optimatum ordinavimus Per Consilium Sacerdotum optimatum ordinavit Carolamanus Thuanus passim It might farther be noted that six Prelates are here Pairee of that great and famous Kingdom three of them being stiled Dukes and three Counts See Seldens Titles of Honours and yet the whole number of the Pairee exceeds not Twelve As likewise the Arch Bishop of Paris hath a peculiar indulgence in being present in every Court of that Royal City without exception Chappinus Look we into Hungary where Thwroczius informs us that by the Fundamental Constitutions of King Stephen the Bishops in Concilio Regis primi adsistunt Poland comes behind none in its Reverence and Respect for their Clergy where the Arch Bishop of Gnesna is Primas Regni Princeps primus Stanis Kristanowick in discrip Polon whose jurisdiction is not limited to the Spirituality alone but hath the chief place in the Rank of the Senators assigned him and is of the greatest Authority in all publick Consultations And when at any time there happens an Interregnum as it frequently doth in those Elective Kingdoms it belongs to him to summon a Dyet to give Audience to Forreign Embassadours and to appoint a time and place for the Election of a New King Our Author farther enlargeth this to have proceeded from the Piety of the Popish Kings towards the Church that the Sons of it should for ever hold the highest places in their Conventions with many other Priviledges which to this day they enjoy in his own words and he no Clergyman neither but a Lawyer Maxime illius Regni commodo emolumento adjumento addo ornamento Cromerus another Historian of that Country adds that there is ever a Royal standing Council assigned the King of which there is to be two Arch Bishops and seven Bishops And how considerable a number in all the German Dyets the Ecclesiasticks are Panvinius is a Witness beyond exception who reckons thirty four Bishops that have their Votes there besides Abbots Priors c. who pass for Religious Persons and in the Septemvirate we find no less than three Clergy-men Mentz Arch Chancellour of Germany Coln of France and Triers of Italy I shall wholly out of this Collection omit Spain and Italy as being such known vassals to the Pope where the Clergy Rule the Roast But one word dashes all this with some They are Papists a doughty argument to condemn any thing though backed by never so strong reasons And let us examine how matters stand with others Andreas Bureus in his Description of Sueden acknowledges that the Ecclesiasticks were heretofore the Prime men in the Senate till the Covetousness of Gustavus the first despoiled them of their Revenues Yet since the Reformation they still to this day retain their suffrages in all Publick Dyets of the Kingdom And when the New Crowned King makes choice of his Counsellors the Arch Bishop of Upsal is still the first who is allowed a greater proportion of Attendants when he comes to the King than any Noble man in the Nation no fewer than Forty Horse being permitted him whereas the retinue of the other Noble men must not exceed Thirty And in the great Assembly at Lincopen Ann. 1600. we find both Bishops and other Ecclesiasticks And as to Denmark Pontanus recites Seven Bishops as the Ecclesiastical Nobility and these have their Votes in all Grand Meetings Jonas ab Elvervelt distributes the States of Holstein into three Orders 1. King and Princes 2. Prelates 3. The Families of the Nobles And he makes the Bishops of Lubeck and Slewick the two Prime Peers in all their Dyets In Scotland it is known that anciently the Bishops and Prelates were Essential Members of the Parliament and had their Seats as ours here in England on the Right hand of the King And in a Parliament held at Edenborough Ann. 1597. a Vote passed for restoring the Clergy to their Original Priviledges as the Third Estate in that Kingdom the Learned Prince King James Condemning that Act of Annexing their Temporalities to the Crown as Vile and Pernitious Basil
take the rest in Order onely premising this that t is true indeed we find fewer of this See upon the Civil Stage than any other most Offices being lookt upon as below the Archiepiscopal Dignity and therefore a Nobleman upbraided Hurbert Arch Bishop 1199. when he was made Chancellour of England Chief Justice of England and high Governour of all the Dominions under King Richard the first however we shall begin with his Person and See Canterbury Hubert under Richard 1. and King John who intrusted the same Prelate with the Government of the whole Realm at his departure into Normandy Gualter Reynolds Chancellour Ann. Dom. 1310. John Stratford Chancellour under Edw. 3. And when the King Invaded France no Person thought so fit in his absence to have the Government of the Nation entrusted to him Simon Islip of the Privy Counsel to the Edw. 3. John Stafford to Hen. 5. John Morton to Hen. 6. and Edw. 4. But we need not stand upon this when in truth it hath been seldom known that any of them have been at any time omitted Nor was this proper only to the times of Propery Come to the Reformation we find Arch Bishop Cranmer of the Privy Counsel to Hen. 8. and Edw. 6. and very active in Civil matters yet a man so averse to Rome so instrumental in planting the Gospel so Laborious so Holy that a great Apocalyptical man Mr. Brightman in his Commentaries oa the Apocalypse a man no friend to the Hierarchy takes him to be that Angel pointed at by God Rev. 14. that had power over the fire Under the renown'd Queen Elizabeth John Whitgift of the Council and had the Government of the Principality of Wates given to him YORK Waler Gray Chancellour under King John had the Government of the Realm entrusted to him under Hen. 3. William de Melton Successively Treasurer and Chancellour of England 1317. William de Zouche Vicegerent to King Edw. Ann. Dom. 1346. John Kemp Ann. 1425. twice Lord Chancellour And Thomas Young Lord Precident of the North An. Dom. 1561. LONDON There was not long since to be seen in St. Pauls the Monument of William Bishop of London who obtained from the Conqueror the City Charter to which the Lord Major and his Brethren the Aldermen used in a gratefull Commemoration every year to walk on foot He was Privy Counsellor to King William the Conqueror Mauritius Chancellour under the same King Eustachius de Falconbridge one of King Rich. 1. his Justices Chancellour of the Exchequer Treasurer of England and twice Embassadour into France Henry de Wingham Chancellour under Edw. 3. Ralph Boldoc under Edw. 1. Richard Bintworth under Edw. 3. Robert Braybrook under Rich. 2. Richard Cox Dean of Westminster whom I crave leave to name here as belonging to the Diocess of the privy Counsel to Edw. 6. And Bishop Bancroft sent Embassadour to Embden to treat with the King of Denmarks Commissioners Ann. Dom. 1600. DURHAM Geoffrey Rufus Chancellour of England Ann. Dom. 1140. Richardus de Marisco Ann. Dom. 1217. Anthony Beake of the Privy Councel Ann. Dom. 1294. Richard de Bury Cancellarius Ann. Dom. 1334. and Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1336. Thomas Langley Chancellor Ann. Dom. 1406. Thomas Ruthal of the Counsel to Henry 8. and as his Monument at Westminster testifies Secretary to Hen. 7. Richard Neyle of the Privy Council A. D. 1627. And here we cannot omit that known passage of Newbrigensis who brings in K. Richard making himself merry with the Bishop boasting what a feat he had done E Vetusto Episcopo novitium Comitem ego mirus artifex feci To make a New Count of an Old Bishop a Priviledge yet continued to that Ancient See WINCHESTER Swithan Chancellour of England under K. Egbert Ann. Dom. 860. William Giffard Chancellour under the Conqueror William Rufus and K. Henry 1. Peter de la Roch. Lord Chief Justice under K. John Sendall Chancellour 1316. William Edenden Treasucr under Edw. 3. William of Wickam Founder of New Colledge in Oxon Principal Secretary of State Keeper of the Privy Seal Master of the Wards and Treasurer of the Kings Revenues in France Ann. Dom. 1360. William Wainfleet Founder of Magdalen Colledge Oxon for his great Wisdom and Integrity long Lord Chancellor of England under Hen. 6. Richard Fox Founder of C. C. C. Oxon one of the Privy Counsel to Hen. 7. as Prudent a Prince as this Nation hath known and this Bishop as wise a Privy Counsellor as he a Prince continually employed either in matters of Counsel at home or Embassies and Treaties abroad ELY William Longchamp Chancellor Ann. Dom. 1189. after Chief Justice and Protector of the Realm when K. Richard the first undertook his Journey to the Holy Land Eustacius Chancellor Ann. Dom. 1196. John Hotbam Chancellor Ann. Dom. 1317. Simon Laughan And. Dom. 1361. first Treasurer then Chancellor of England John Barnet Treasurer A. D. 1366. John Fordham Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1385. William Gray Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1469. John Alcock Chancellor Ann. Dom. 1486 And Thomas Goodrick Chancellor under Edw. 6. LINCOLN Robert Bleuet Chancellor under the Conqueror Ann. 1092. Alexander under K. Henry the I. Lord Chief Justice of England Galfridus Chancellour A. D. 1180. Hugh de Wells Chancellour Ann. Dom. 1209. Walter de Constantiis Chancellour under Hen. 6. and Dr. Williams Dean of Westminster and after Bishop of this See made Lord Keeper by the Learned K. James COVENTRY and LICHFIELD Roger de Wiseman Keeper of the Great Seal Ann. Dom. 1245. William de Langton Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1226. Roger Northbrough Clerk of the Wardrope afterwards Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1322. Geoffrey Blyth Lord President of Wales Ann. Dom. 1513. Rowland Lee his Successor in the same Office Ann. D. 1535. Richard Sampson in the same Ann. Dom. 1537. William Smith Founder of Brazen-Nose Colledge Oxon in the same under Hen. 8. SARUM Osmond Chancellor of England always of the Privy Council and seldom separated from the Court under the Conqueror Roger Chancellor 1107. and under K. Stephen Ann. Dom. 1136. John Waltham Master of the Rools Keeper of the Privy Seal and after Treasurer of England under Richard the II. Nicolas Bubwith Treasurer Ann. Dom. 1407. William Ayscoth Clerk of the Counsel Ann. Dom. 1438. BATH and WELLS Robert Burnet first Lord Treasurer then Chancellour of England and always of the Council under Edw. I. John Drokensford Keeper of the Wardrope Ann. 1309. Robert Stillington first Keeper of the Privy Seal then Chancellour Ann. Dom. 1465. Oliver King Principal Secretary of State 1492. John Clark Master of the Rolls A. D. 1523. EXETER Leofricus first one of the Privy Counsel then Chancellour of England under the Conqueror though Sir Henry Spelman reckons him of Bath at that time and possibly he might be of both William Brewster of the Privy Counsel under Henry the 3. Walter Stapledon Founder of Exon Colledge Oxon first of the Privy Counsel then Treasurer under Edw. 2. John Grandesson Privy Counsellor to Edw. 3. John Voysey Lord