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A43524	Cyprianus anglicus, or, The history of the life and death of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... containing also the ecclesiastical history of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from his first rising till his death / by P. Heylyn ...	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1668 (1668)	Wing H1699; ESTC R4332	571,739	552

paid for that purpose all which amounted to three thousand two hundred forty seven pound sixteen shillings two pence half-peny The Clergy of England within the Province of Canterbury freely contributed the fortieth part of all such Church Livings as were charged with First-fruits and the thirtieth part of all their Benefices not so charged those of London only excepted who besides the thirtieth part of such as paid First-fruits gave the twentieth part of all the rest Which Contribution of the Clergy amounted to one thousand four hundred sixty one pound thirteen shillings and eleven pence whereunto was added by the benevolence of the Bishop of London at several times coming in all to nine hundred five pound one shilling and eleven pence By the Dean and Chapter one hundred thirty six pound thirteen shillings and four pence and made of the surplusage of Timber one hundred nineteen pound three shillings and nine pence Given by the Justices and Officers of the Common Pleas thirty four pound five shillings and by those of the Kings Bench seventeen pound sixteen shillings eight pence All which together made no more than six thousand seven hundred and two pound thirteen shillings and four pence And yet with this small Sum such was the cheapness of those Times the Work was carried on so prosperously that before the Month of April 1566. all the Roofs of Timber whereof those large ones of the East and West framed in Yorkshire and brought by Sea were perfectly finished and covered with Lead the adding of a new Steeple being thought unnecessary because too chargeable though divers Models have been made and presented of it The whole Roof being thus Repaired the Stone-work of it stood as before it did sensibly decaying day by day by reason of the corroding quality of the Sea-coal smoke which on every side annoyed it Which being observed by one Henry Farley about the middle of the Reign of King Iames he never left solliciting the King by several Petitions and Addresses to take the Ruinous Estate thereof into his Princely Consideration till at last it was resolved on by the King And to create the greater Veneration to so good a Work he bestowed that magnificent Visit on it described at large in the first Book of this History Anno 1620. The product and result whereof was the issuing out a Commission under the Great Seal of England bearing date the sixteenth day of November then next following directed to Sir Francis Iones Knight then Lord Mayor of London George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Francis Lord Verulam then Lord Chancellor of England and divers others to the number of sixty Persons and upwards Which Commission importing That this Church being the greatest and most eminent as also one of the principal Ornaments of the Realm and in much decay any six or more of these Commissioners whereof three to be of the said Kings Privy-Council should meet to make Particulars of the decay and likewise what Houses Cellars c. had been built near it either to the annoyance of it or the Church-yard And moreover to Inquire what Lands Rents c. had been given towards its Repair or Sums of Money collected to that purpose and not accordingly employed And further to consider of the most fit and proper means to raise money to carry on the said Repair And lastly to appoint Surveyors and other Officers of their Work and to make Certificate of their Proceedings therein into the Chancery Upon the Meeting of which Commissioners and diligent search made into the Particulars afore-mentioned it was acknowledged that the Bishop of London had the whole care of the Body of that Church and the Dean and Chapter of the Choires But that which each of them enjoyed to this purpose was so little that they yearly expended double as much upon the Roof and other parts decayed to preserve them from present ruine Which being made evident to the Commissioners as also that in former times even from the very first foundation thereof it had been supported partly out of the large Oblations of those that visited the Shrines and Oratories therein and partly from Publick Contributions in all parts of the Kingdom It was concluded to proceed in the same way now as had been done formerly And that it might proceed the better the King himself and many of the principal Nobility and Gentry declared by their Superscriptions for the encouragement of others to so good a Work what Sums they resolved to give in pursuance of it Doctor Iohn King then Bishop of London subscribing for 100 l. per Annum as long as he should continue in that See Mountain who succeeded not long after in that Bishoprick procured with great charge and trouble some huge massie Stones to be brought from Portland for the beginning of the Work But money coming slowly in and he being a man of small activity though of good affec●ions the heat of this great business cooled by little and little and so came to nothing But Laud succeeding him in the See of London and having deservedly attained unto great Authority with his Majesty no sooner saw his Office settled both at home and abroad but he possessed him with a Loyal and Religious Zeal to persue that Work which King Iames had so piously designed though it went not much further than the bare design Few words might serve to animate the King to a Work so pious who aimed at nothing more than the Glory of God in the Advancement of the Peace and Happiness of the Church of England And therefore following the example o● his Royal Father he bestowed the like Visit on St. Pauls whither he was attended with the like Magnificence and entertained at the first entrance into the Church with the like Solemnity The Divine Service being done and the Sermon ended which tended principally unto the promoting of a Work so honourable both to his Majesties Person and the English Nation his Majesty took a view of the Decays of that Church and there Religiously promised not to be wanting in the Piety of his best Endeavours to the Repair of those Ruines which Age the Casualties of Weather or any other Accidents had brought upon it In order whereunto in the beginning o● this year he issued out his Royal Commission under the Great Seal of England bearing date the tenth of April in the seventh year of his Reign directed to Sir Robert Ducy Lord Mayor of the City of Londan George Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Lord Coventry Lord Keeper of the Great Seal c. William Lord Bishop of London Richard Lord Bishop of Winton Iohn Lord Bishop of Ely c. Nicholas Rainton Ralph Freeman Rowland Heylyn c. Aldermen of the City of London Edward Waymack and Robert Bateman Chamberlain of the said City of London In which Commission the said King taking notice of this Cathedral as the goodliest Monument and most ancient Church of his whole Dominions as also that it was the principal

dropp'd out of his Pocket was taken up and forthwith carried to the Duke The shame and grief of which mischance gave him so much trouble that he withdrew by little and little and at last betook himself wholly to his old affectation of a Popular Greatness By reason of his Lectures in Cambridge and Lincolns-Inn he was grown powerful in the University and had gained a strong Party in the City but died about the time that Laud succeeded Mountain in the See of London And it was well for him that he died so opportunely Laud was resolved that there should be no more but one Bishop of that City and would have found some way or other to remove him out of Lincolns-Inn to the end he might have no pretence of raising or encreasing any Faction there to disturbe the Publick But before Laud shall come from St. Davids to London he must take Bath and Wells in his way to which we are now ready to wait upon him THE LIFE OF The most Reverend FATHER in GOD WILLIAM Lord Archbishop of Canterbury LIB III. Extending from his being made Bishop of Bath and Wells till his coming to the See of Canterbury IT hapned during the Sitting of the late Parliament that Doctor Arthur Lake Bishop of Bath and Wells a man of great Learning and exemplary Piety departed this Life into whose Place his Majesty on the twentieth of Iune nominates our Bishop of St. Davids In pursuance of which Nomination his Majesty on the 26th of Iuly Signed the Writ of Conge d'eslire to the Dean and Chapter warranting them thereby to proceed to a new Election and therewith sent his Letters Missive according to the usual Custom in behalf of Laud. On Wednesday August the 16th they Elect him Bishop of that See and on September 18. their Election is confirmed in due form of Law his Majesty on the morrow after restoring the Temporalties of that Bishoprick from the time of his Predecessors death And now he is actually possessed not only of the Jurisdiction but of the Rents Profits and Emergencies belonging to a Bishop of Bath and Wells a double Title but relating to a single Diocess and that Diocess confined to the County of Somerset The Bishops seat originally at Wells where it still continues and in respect whereof this Church is called in some Writers Fontanensis Ecclesia The stile of Bath came in but upon the by The church of Wells first built by Ina King of the West Saxons Anno 704. and by him dedicated to St. Andrew after endowed by Kenulfe another King of the same people Anno 766. and finally made a Bishops See in the time of Edward the elder Anno 905. The first that bore that title being Adelmus before Abbot of Glastenbury The present Church in place where that of Ina had stood before was built most part of it by Bishop Robert the eighteenth Bishop of this See but finished and perfected by Bishop Ioceline Sirnamed d' Wellis Iohannes d' Villula the sixteenth Bishop having bought the Town of Bath of King Henry the First for five hundred Marks transferred his Seat unto that City 1088. Hence grew a jar betwixt the Monks of Bath and the Canons of Wells about the Election of the Bishop At last the difference was thus composed by that Bishop Robert whom before I spake of that from thenceforward the Bishop should be denominated from both places and the precedency in the Style should be given to Bath that on the vacancy of the See a certain number of Delegates from both Churches should elect their Prelate who being elected should be installed in them both both of them to be reckoned as the Bishops Chapter and all his Grants and Patents confirmed in both And so it stood untill the Reign of King Henry VIII at what time the Monastery of Bath being dissolved there passed an Act of Parliament for the Dean and Chapter of Wells to make one sole Chapter to the Bishop 35 Hen. 8. C. 15. To welcome him to this new honour his Majesty commanded him to draw up certain Instructions to be communicated to the Archbishops Bishops and the rest of the Clergy of this Realm upon this occasion The late Parliament being dissolved without acting any thing in order to his Majesties Service he was necessitated by the urgency of his affairs to try his Fortune on the subject in the way of Loane which seemed to have some Regality in it For whereas the Parliament had passed a Bill of three Subsidies and three fifteens and that the said Parliament was dissolved before the Bill passed into an Act his Majesty was advised that he had good grounds to require those Subsidies of the Subjects which the House of Commons in their names had assented to and yet not to require them by the name of Subsidies but only in the way of Loan till the next Parliament should enable him to make payment of it or confirm his levying of those moneys by a subsequent Act. The Sum required to be raised was 173411 pound which was conceived to equal the three Subsidies which had been voted for him in the House of Commons though it never passed into an Act or otherwise to make up that Sum which the present necessity of setting out his Fleet required He had before pawned the Plate and Jewels of the Crown and sold as much Land to the City of London which would neither lent gratis nor take those Lands in way of Mortgage as brought in 120000 pound upon easie purchases All which he was ready to expend or had before expended on the publick safety But that not being able to make such necessary provisions as were required both to secure himself at home and succour his Confederates and Allies abroad he was forced to fall upon this course To which end he issues out his Letters of Commission bearing date the thirteenth of October directed to certain Lords Knights and Gentlemen in their several Counties In which they were required to acquaint the People that his dear Uncle the King of Denmark was brought into great distress That without present Succour the Sound would be lost his Garrison in Stoade broken by the Emperours Forces which then straightly besieged it the Eastland Trade which maintains our Shipping and the Staple of Hamborough which vents our Cloth would both be gotten from him As also that the two great Kings of Spain and France together with the Pope were joyned to rout out our Religion That their Admirals the Duke of Guise and Don Frederick d' Toledo were at that present before Rochel endeavouring to block it up And that they have store of Land-men ready on the Coast of Britain with them and other Forces to invade us Upon which grounds they were required by all plausible and powerful means to perswade the People to pay the Taxes severally imposed upon them with many other directions tending to advance the Service It was observed of Queen Elizabeth that when she had

Revenue thought it not fit in that low ebb of the Exchequer that the Church of Winton should be filled with another Bishop before the Michaelmas Rents at least if not some following Pay-days also had flowed into his Majesties Coffers Which though it were no very long time compared with the Vacancies of some former Reign yet gave it an occasion to some calumniating Spirits to report abroad That this Bishoprick was designed to be a Subsistence for one of the Queen of Bohemia's younger Sons who was to hold it by the Name of an Administrator according to an ill Custom of some Princes amongst the Lutherans But this Obstruction being passed by Neile with great chearfulness in himself and thankfulness unto the King proceeded in his Translation to the See of Winton his Election being ratified by his Majesty and confirmed in due form of Law before the end of the next year 1627. In Mountains hands the business did receive a stop He had spent a great part of his Life in the air of the Court as Chaplain to Robert Earl of Salisbury Dean of Westminster and Bishop Almoner and had lived for many years last past in the warm City of London To remove him so far from the Court and send him into those cold Regions of the North he looked on as the worst kind of Banishment next neighbour to a Civil death But having a long while strived in vain and understanding that his Majesty was not well pleased with his delays he began to set forward on that Journey with this Proviso notwithstanding That the utmost term of his Removal should be but from London-House in the City to Durham-House in the Strand And yet to beget more delays toward Laud's Advancement before he actually was confirmed in the See of Durham the Metropolitan See of York fell void by the death of the most Reverend Prelate Doctor Toby Matthews This Dignity he affected with as much ambition as he had earnestly endeavoured to decline the other and he obtained what he desired But so much time was taken up in passing the Election facilitating the Royal Assent and the Formalities of his Confirmation that the next Session of Parliament was ended and the middle of Iuly well near passed before Laud could be actually Translated to the See of London These matters being in agitation and the Parliament drawing on apace on Tuesday the fifth of February he strained the back-sinew of his right Leg as he went with his Majesty to Hampton-Court which kept him to his Chamber till the fourteenth of the same during which time of his keeping in I had both the happiness of being taken into his special knowledge of me and the opportunity of a longer Conference with him than I could otherwise have expected I went to have presented my service to him as he was preparing for this Journey and was appointed to attend him on the same day seven-night when I might presume on his return Coming precisely at the time I heard of his mischance and that he kept himself to his Chamber but order had been left amongst the Servants that if I came he should be made acquainted with it which being done accordingly I was brought into his Chamber where I found him sitting in a Chair with his lame leg resting on a Pillow Commanding that no body should come to interrupt him till he called for them he caused me to sit down by him inquired first into the course of my Studies which he well approved of exhorting me to hold my self in that moderate course in which he found me He fell afterwards to discourse of some passages in Oxon. in which I was specially concerned and told me thereupon the story of such oppositions as had been made against him in that University by Archbishop Abbot and some others encouraged me not to shrink if I had already or should hereafter find the like I was with him thus remotis Arbitris almost two hours It grew towards twelve of the clock and then he knocked for his Servants to come unto him He dined that day in his ordinary Dining-room which was the first time he had so done since his mishap He caused me to tarry Dinner with him and used me with no small respect which was much noted by some Gentlemen Ephilston one of his Majesties Cup-bearers being one of the Company who dined that day with him A passage I confess not pertinent to my present Story but such as I have a good precedent for from Philip de Comines who telleth us as impertinently of the time though he acquaint us not with the occasion of his leaving the Duke of Burgundies Service to betake himself to the Imployments of King Lewis xi It is now time to look into the following Parliament in the preparation whereunto to make himself more gracious in the eyes of the People his Majesty releaseth such Gentlemen as had been formerly imprisoned about the Loan which in effect was but the letting loose of so many hungry Lions to pursue and worry him For being looked upon as Confessors if not Martyrs for the Common-wealth upon the merit of those sufferings they were generally preferred afore all others to serve in Parliament and being so preferred they carried as generally with them a vindicative Spirit to revenge themselves for that Restraint by a restraining of the Prerogative within narrower bounds At the opening of this Parliament March 17. the Preaching of the Sermon was committed to the Bishop of Bath and Wells who shewed much honest Art in perswading them to endeavour to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Ephes. 4.3 which he had taken for his Text In which first laying before them the excellency and effects of VNITY he told them amongst other things That it was a very charitable tie but better known than loved a thing so good that it was never broken but by the worst men nay so good it was that the very worst men pretended best when they broke it and that it was so in the Church neuer yet Heretick renting her Bowels but he pretended that he raked them for Truth That it was so also in the State seldom any unquiet Spirit dividing her Vnion but he pretends some great abuses which his integrity would remedy O that I were made a Iudge in the Land that every man which hath any Controversie might come to me that I might do him Iustice and yet no worse a man than David was King when this cunning was used 1 Sam. 15. That Vnity both in Church and Common-wealth was so good that none but the worst willingly broke it That even they were so far ashamed of the breach that they must seem holier than the rest that they may be thought to have had a just cause to break it And afterwards coming by degrees to an Application Good God saith he what a preposterous Thrift is this in men to sow up every small rent in their own Coat and not care what