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A74974	De non temerandis ecclesiis, churches not to be violated. A tract of the rights and respect due unto churches. Written to a gentleman who having an appropriate parsonage, imployed the church to prophane uses, and left the parishioners uncertainely provided of divine service, in a parish neere there adjoyning. / Written and first published thirty years since by Sir Henry Spelman knight.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Spelman, Clement, 1598-1679.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4921; Thomason E335_5; ESTC R200775	67,012	74

left undissolved by H. 8. In the third yeare he permits if not procures his Brother Thomas Lord Seymore untried saith o Godwin fo 227. Goodwin to be attainted by Parliament and shortly after not unblamed signed a Warrant for his Execution whereupon his Brother lost his Head and he a friend The same yeare his zeale to Reformation addes new sacriledge to his former for he defaces some part of St Pauls p Stowes Aunalls Church converts the Charnell-house and a Chappell by it into dwelling Houses and demolishing some Monuments there he turnes out the old bones to seek new Sepulchers in the Fields next he destroyes the Steeple and part of the Church of St Johns of Jerusalem by Smithfield Ibid. and with the stone beginneth to build his house in the * Somerset House Strand but as the leprosie with the Jewes with us the curse of Sacriledge cleaves to the Consecrated stone and they become insuccessefull so as the Builder doth not finish his House nor doth his Sonne inherit it In the fifth yeare of Edward the 6th the Duke was indicted and found guilty of Felony which was saith Hollinshead upon a Statute made the third and fourth of Edward the 6th and since repealed whereby to attempt the death of a Privy Councellour is Felony Godwin saith upon the Statute of 3. H. 7. but erroniously that not extending to Barons it is observable that this Law was but the yeare before passed by himselfe and himselfe the only man that ever suffered by it The Statute being since repealed q Godwin fo 247. Godwin observes and wonders that he omitted to pray the benefit of his Booke as if Heavens would not that he that had spoyled his Church should be saved by his Clergy and it is observable that in the Raigne of Edw. 6th none of the Nobility dyes under the Rod of Justice but the Duke of Somerset and his Brother the Lord Admirall all the Vncle 's the King had and their Crimes comparatively were not haynous Did these men dye the common death of all men or are they visited after the manner of all men if not beleeve they provoked the Lord and consider that if they sinned in the first prophanation thou that continuest their act can'st not be innocent Here thou mayest see God observing a Decorum in his punishment of Sacriledge the Issue of the Conqueror are strangely almost miraculously slaine in the New-Forrest where their Father committed the Sacriledge Woolsey that by the Kings licence and power had destroyed 40 Monasteries is by the Kings power ruined and at last driven to seek entertainment and an obscure grave in a Monastery his Agents that had thrust themselves into his sacrilegious imployment are themselves their owne Executioners guilty of their owne Blouds Pope Clement the 7th that willingly permitted the spoyle of 40 poore Monasteries to erect two Rich Colledges is himselfe necessitated to Plunder his owne rich Church to preserve his poore decayed Person The Lord Cromwell and Duke of Somerset commit their Sacriledge by Acts of Parliament and by Acts of Parliament they perish every one by the Sword wherewith he strikes And since in the Acts of Parliament for dissolution of Monasteries the whole Kingdome was involved either by their Personall consent as Barons or their implicite consent in the representative body in the House of Commons we have just cause to feare and pray least God still observing his order and turning our Artillery upon our selves should make use of a Parliament whereby our Fathers robbed him to destroy us their Children I have here given thee instance only of such as were the first Actors in the Violation and subversion of Monasteries least therefore thou shouldest thinke the crime and punishment endeth with them Consider with me the condition and successe both of our Common-wealth in generall and of Private Families in particular before the Dissolutions and observe them after and we shall find just cause to thinke there is a cursed thing amongst us For while our Religious houses stood they imploying their Revenues according to their Donors direction opened wide their Hospitable gates to all Commers and without the charge of a Reckoning welcommed all Travailers untill the Statute of 1. Edw. 1. restrained and limited them and casting their Bread upon the Waters they releeved the Neighbouring poore without the care of the two next Justices of Peace or the curse of a Penall Law while they stood the younger Children both of Lords and Commons were provided for without the ruine of their Fathers Estate or almost a charge to their Parents and not left as now often to an unworthy necessitous and vitious course of life we had then no new Lawes the off-spring of new Vices to erect Houses of correction for lewd and r Vid. 43. Eliz c. 3. vagrant Persons to provide stock to bind poore Children Prentises or to make weekly Leavyes to maintaine the weake lame indigent and impotent People to our new charge of an Annuall Subsidie at least for these were provided for those prevented by the charity of our Religious Houses and then the Families and Estates of our Nobility and Gentry continued long through very many descents But when covetous sacriledge got the upper hand of superstitious charity and destroyed all our Monasteries all our Religious Houses the preservers of Learning both Divine and Humane by their Learned workes and laborious Manuscripts the suppressors of Vice by their strict regular and exemplar life though some nay many among them Sonnes of Ely made the offerings of the Lord to stinck before the People Then all their Houses all their Lands Appropriations Tithes and Oblations 〈…〉 Par. Churches 9232. Cam. Brit fo 162. 9284. whereof impropriate 3845. comming into the Kings hands Policy to prevent a restitution distributes them among the Layety some the King exchanges some he sells others he gives away and by this meanes like the dust flung up by Moses they presently disperse all the Kingdome over and at once becomes curses both upon the Families and Estates of the owners they often vitiously spending on their private occasions what was piously intended for publique Devotion insomuch that within Twenty yeares next after the Dissolution more of our Nobility and their Children have been attainted and dyed under the Sword of Justice then did from the Conquest to the Dissolution being almost five hundred yeares so as if thou examine the List of the Barons in the Parliament of the 27. H. 8. thou shalt find very few of them whose Sonne doth at this day inherit his Fathers Title and Estate and of these few many to whom the Kings favour hath restored what the rigorous Law of attainder took both Dignity Lands and Posterity And doublesse the Commons have drunke deep in this Cup of deadly Wine but they being more numerous and lesse eminent are not so obvious to observation Thou hast seen the insuccesse of H. 8. and his Family and mayest observe his

stood who dyes beast like not speaking a word Mills saith the Arrow glanced from the Deare Speed and Matthew Paris from a Tree and killed the King but both agree his death to be as his Fathers by accident He dead his followers as did his Father's leave his body and fled his Funeralls are as his Fathers interrupted for his r Mat. Par. ib. Speed 449. Corps were laid in a Colyers Court drawne by one silly leane Beast saith the Book in his passage the Cart brake in foule and filthy wayes leaving his body a miserable spectacle pittifully goared and filthily bemired so as his Father he passeth not quietly to his Grave yet at last he is brought bleeding to Winchester and there buryed unlamented Speed saith his Å¿ Speed ibid. bones were after taken up and laid in a Coffer with Canutus his bones but there they rest not for in December 1642. Winchester being entered by the Parliament forces the Organes Windows and Chests wherein the bones of many our ancient Kings were preserved were by the fury of the souldiers broken and among others his and as his Fathers scattered upon the face of the Earth as not worthy buriall And this was the third of the Conquerours Issue that was murdered in the New Forrest where the Doggs licked the blood of Naboth there they must licke the blood of Ahab where the sacriledge was committed must be the place of the punishment Hugh Earle of Shrewsbery 11th Wil. Rusin commanding against the Welchmen in Anglesey kenneled his Doggs in the Church of S. Frydance where in the morning they were found madd the Earle shortly after fighting with the enemy was with an Arrow shot t Holl. 23. dead in the eye the rest of his body being strangely armed Henry the first the Conquerours fourth Sonne is his brothers Successor he had severall Children whereof his eldest William with his brother Richard and Sister Mary in a calme day are u M. Pa f 69. Speed 459. Holl. 41. drowned by the English shore himselfe eating Lampreis dies on a surfet and being opened the stinck of his body and braines * M Par. 73. Speed 467. poyson his Physitions one other of his Daughters mournes her virginity in a Nunnery and dyes Childlesse and in the next Generation is his name forgot Plantaginet takes the Crowne It is observable that the Conqueror all his Sonnes and all their Sonnes dyed untimely deaths unlesse thou reckonest the Lamprey Surfet of H. 2. to be naturall what the x Fol. 20. in margine Author notes of Nabuc and H. 8. is also true of William the Conqueror for in the 68. after his destroying St Peters Church at Yorke which was in his second yeare his Name is extinct and his Kingdome is devolved to another Nation y Speed f. 46. that the Norman time held 69 year Plantaginet takes his Crowne upon search I feare thou shalt find very few Families among the many thousands in England who enjoy their Sacrilegious possessions of Abbies and Impropriations beyond the 68 yeare and very many that hold them not halfe the time and none almost but with some notable misfortune I cannot omit the Sacriledge and punishment of King John who in the 17th yeare of his Raigne among other Churches rifled the Abbies of z Hol. 194. Par. f. 287. Peterborough and Croyland and after attempts to carry his sacrilegious wealth from Lynne to Lincolne but passing the Washes the Earth in the midst of the waters opens her mouth as for Korah and his company and at once swallowes up both Carts Carriage and Horses all his Treasure all his Regalities all his Churchspoyle and all the Church-spoylers not one a Matt. Par fo 287. nec pes unas evasit qui regicasam nuntiaret escapes to bring the King word the King himselfe passes the Washe at another place and lodges that night in Swinsteed Abbey where the newes and sicknesse whereof he dyed together met him some say he was poysoned by a Munke of Swinsteed William b Math Par. fo 687. Marshall Earle of Pembrooke the great Protecter both of King and Kingdome having in the Irish warre forceably taken from the Bishop of Furnes two Mannors belonging to his Church was by him much solicited to restore them but the Earle refusing was by the Bishop excommunicate and so dying was buried in the Temple Church at London The Bishop sues to the King to returne the Lands the King requires the Bishop to absolve the Earle and both King and Bishop goes to the Earles grave where the Bishop in the Kings presence used these words Oh William which lyes here snared in the bonds of Excommunication if what thou hast injuriously taken from my Church be with cempetent satisfaction restored either by the King thy heires or friend I then absolve thee otherwise I ratifie my sentence Vt tuis semper peccatis involutus in inferno maneas condemnatus The King blames the Bishops rigour and perswades the Sonnes to a restitution but the Eldest William answered He did not beleeve his Father to have got them unjustly because possessions got in Warre becomes a lawfull inheritance and therefore if the doting old Bishop hath judged falsely upon his owne head be the curse my Father dyed seized of them and I lawfull inherit them nor will I lessen my estate Which the Bishop hearing was more grieved at the sonnes contumacy then the Fathers injury and going to the King told him Sir what I have said stands immutable the punishment of Malefactors is from the Lord. And the curse written in the Psalmes will fall heavy upon Earle William in the next Generation shall his name be forgot and his sonnes shall not share the blessing of increase and multiply and some of them shall dye miserable deaths and the inheritance of all be dispersed and scattered and all this my Lord O King you shall see even in your dayes With what spirit the Bishop spake it doe thou judge for in the space of 25 yeares all the five Sonnes of the Earle successively according to their Birth inherits his Earldome and Lands and all dye Childlesse the name and Family is extinct and the Lands scattered and dispersed and that nothing might faile of what the Bishop foretold c Matth. Par. 400. 403. Richard his second sonne is sore wounded and taken Prisoner in Ireland and there dyes of his hurts d Matt. Par. f. 565. Aune Dom. 1241. Gilbert the third sonne justing at Hertford breaks the Reynes of his Bridle and falling from his Horse one foot hangs in the stirrop and he thereby dragged about the field till rent and torne and so by a miserable death satisfied the Curse But these examples are at too great a distance and not to be discerned but through the perspective of Antient History I will therefore come nigher and view Cardinall Woolsey who from a m ane and obscure root grew to over shaddow all the