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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

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

were Morall not Cerimoniall and therefore remaine under the Gospell Christ that sends thee from the Altar to be reconciled to thy Brother commands thee to leave thy Guift behind thee at the Altar and the reason given by Divines is because thou hast devoted it to the Lord the guift remaines holy and might not return to the world for though thy person be not accepted yet thy guift by thy devoting is holy to the Lord as were the Censers in the case of Corah Thou seest that Christ who would not Peter should strike to rescue him his Maister from violence yet he himselfe strikes to free the Temple from Sacrolege and thou canst not think that Christ stroke this day to preserve what he would abolish the next day the Sanction of the Temple d ee but consider that of Ananias and Saphirah and thou wilt conclude that the Devoting any thing to God is under the Gospell a sanctifying it to the Lord and the withdrawing it must then be Sacriledge which was Ananias sinne agreed by all Diviner and Junius in his notes upon it saith predium Consecrâssent Ecclesiae they had Consecrated it to the Lord to conclude thou canst not violate or irreverently use a Church or Temple but thou must disrationate St. Pauls argument who diswades the pollution of thy Body because it is the Temple of the holy Ghost Thou mayst observe our Law books to have held Tythes due by divine right our Parliaments in their Statutes too have acknowledged Tythes due to God and holy Church and this both before after the Statutes of Dissolution that at this day the Law reckons tythes of impropriate as well as of presentative Churches to be Ecclesiastique things and if this will not perswade a restitution of such as thou hast yet let it disswade a reception of more For I know thou would'st not buy a Title litigious between thee and thy neighbour and why wilt thou that which at best is questionable between thee and thy God that must judge the Title and in a Court where thou canst have no advocate but his Sonne whom thou would'st disinherit But the destruction of Corah perswades more with the Isralites then the soft voyee of Moses and such Oratory may take thee Hell hath frighted some to Heaven view then the insuccesse of Sacrilegious persons in all ages that will prevaile with thee for had Corah and his Complices been visited after the visitation of other men thou and I nay perhaps the whole Congregation of Israell would have beleived what they said is truth it sounded so like reason and approved what they did as pious it looked so like Religion but their end otherwise inform'd them and better instructed us I will not trouble thee with presidents of forraign Nations as Bohemia the Palatinat and Germany where under colour of Reformation the ruine of Monasteries and Religious Houses mightily inriched for the present both publique and private Coffers and now the Ravenous War hath both exhausted the wealth and almost unpeopled the Country hoc omen Deus avertat I will therefore tye my selfe to our owne Country and story unhappily plentifull in miserable examples I will begin with William the Conquerer In the first year of his raigne he fires by his Normaines St a Holl. fol. 7. Peters Church in Yorke In the 4th he rifles the b Holl. fol. 8. Monasteries and about the c Speed f. 429 Camb. But. 259. 18th year of his raigne destroyed 36 Mother Churches in Hampshire to make his New-Forrest takes all their Plate all their Treasure even the Chalices In the d Holl. 12. Speed 428. Matt. Par. fol. 10. 13th year of his raign the Sonne out of his own loynes Robert of Normandy Rebels against him and in Battaile beates his Father from his Horse wounds his Person and which to him is worse his honour About the 19th year Richard his second but first beloved Sonne sporting in his Fathers New-Forrest is there strangely killed by the goaring of a Stagge saith e Speed 429. Speed f Camb. 259. Camden by a pestilent Ayre In the 20th of his raigne he burnt the City of g Holl. 14. Speed 431. Matth. Par. fol. 13. Mannts Church of S. Maries with to Anchorites and comming too nigh the flame the heat of the fire and his Armes attracts a dissease and his Horse leaping with him breaks his Riders belly whereof he dies and his Body forsaken of his Nobles and Servants lyes three dayes neglected after by the courtesy of a Country gentleman his Corps is brought to St h Speed 434. Stephens Church in Cane in Normandy but in the passage the Town Fires and his bearers leave him and run to quench that so that dead he goes not quietly to his Grave whither brought at last is there denyed Buriall by one who claimed the ground as his inheritance forced from him by the Duke all Ceremonies stay untill a composition was made and an Annuall rent saith i Daniel 48. Daniell paid for his Grave in which before he could be laid his body swelling burst to the great annoyance of the Company he is offensive dead and living afterwards the towne being taken by an Enemy his Bones as unworthy to be inshrined in a Church are digged up and scatrered like Chaffe before the winde death denies him rest His k Speed 429. Grand-child Henry the sonne of Robert hunting in the New-Forrest is strucke throw the Jawes with a bough of a Tree and like Absalom found hanging in the thicket of an Oake His Grandchild William second Sonne to Robert Dake of Normandy was made Earle of Flanders and in a Warre against his Vncle Henry the first received a small l Speed 462. Mat. Par. 71. Milles lat 77. wound in his hand and thereof dyed the last of the Conquerors Grand-children by his eldest Sonne Robert of Normandy the Conquerors eldest sonne disinherited by his Father is taken m Stow. prisoner by his brother Henry the first who puts out both his Eyes and after 26 yeares imprisonment Robert n Ma. Par. 73. Speed 467. dyes starved in the Goale at Cardaffe William Rufus succeeded his Father in his Crowne and Curse in his first yeare his Nobles o Speed 440. Mat. Par. 14. Rebell in his sixth a great Famine rageth and such a mortality as the quick can scarce bury the dead About the p Holl. 22. Speed 445. 19th yeare of his Raigne his Treasury is stored by sale of Chalices and Church-Jewells In his 13th yeare while Sir q Speed 448. Mat. Par. 54. Cervus magnus cum ante eum regem transiret dis Rex cuidem mi liti Wal. Tirrel trahe Diabole Exijt ergo telum volatile obstante arbore in obliquum reflexum saciens per medium cordis sauciavit qui subitò mortuus corruit Walter Tirret shoots at a Deare in the New-Forrest he kills the King in the same place where a Church

subjects of England eminent for Wit as Learning great in the esteeme and favour of his Prince laden with home and Forraigne dignities full of wealth as yeares in briefe he was while free from Sacriledge the great and successefull Counsellor of his Prince and indeed the Catalogue of humane blessings but about the 17th yeare of Henry the 8th Woolsey by consent and licence of the King and Pope Clement the 7th e Holl. f. 891. Stow. Good f. 67. dissolves forty small Monasteries in England to erect two Colledges the one in Oxford the other in Ipswich thou and I may think this a work of Piety to destroy the poor Idolatrous Cells of lasie and ignorant Monkes to erect stately Cottages for learned and industrious Divines this God must accept and prosper both the Act and Acter No thou art deceived he that would not that thou shouldest doe evill that good may come thereof will not accept an offering commenced by Sacriledge in the ruine of 40 Religious Houses Woolsey layes the foundation of his Colledges but never sets up their Gates About three yeares after the King possesseth his Pallace at f Good f. 104. Holl. 909. Westminster Whitehall the Great Seale is taken from him his great wealth seised and himselfe confined to a poore house at Assure where he remained a time saith g God f. 106. Godwin without necessaries driven to borrow furniture for his house money for his expences so as in his speech to the judges he complained that he was driven as it were to begge his bread from doore to doore 21. Hen. 8. he is convicted in a Premunire all his Lands and Estate seised by the h Holl. 909. Good f. 67. Good 108. King his Colledge at Ipswich destroyed before built that at Oxford receives some indowment and a new name from the King but is never to be finished In the 22. H. 8. at his Castle at Caywood he is by the Earle of i Holl. 915. Northumberland arrested of High Treason and fent towards London at Lecester the Lievtenant of the Tower met him at whose sight he was much affrighted and to prevent a publique and ignominious death which he feared he gave himselfe saith k Mart. 304.306 Martin a Purge * Hist Pont. Rom. Card. f. 1408. Venenum recepisse say they that write the lives of the Popes Cardinalls whereof he dyed and was obscurely buried in Lecester Abby without other memory then his Sacriledge The Cardinall in dissolving his forty Monasteries had used the help of five men besides Cromwell whereof two afterwards l Good f 67. fought a Duell in which one is slaine and the survivor hanged for the murther so each dyed guilty of his own and the others blood a third becomes Judas-like his own executioner for throwing himselfe into a well he is there drowned the fourth a great Richman to whom nothing is so terrible as poverty lives to begge his bread from doore to doore the fift a Bishop cruelly murthered in Ireland by m Stow. abridg f. 498. Thomas Fitz. Garret sonne to the Earle of Kildare I might here remember how Tope Clement the 7th after his voluntary consent to destroy poore Religious Houses is himselfe forced out of his n Speed fol. 996. Hist Pont. Rom. Card. stately Pallace at Rome and being besieged at his Castle of St Angelo is there constrained to eate Asses Flesh and taking such conditions as a Victorious Enemy would give is driven to plunder his own Church to pay his Enemies Army and at last dyes wretchedly of a miserable disease but this is Forraign and I tyed to home examples Thomas Lord Audley received the first fruits of H. 8 his Sacriledge for in the 24th of his Raigne the King dissolved by what meanes I finde not the Priory of Christ Church in London and gave saith o Stow. 24. H. 8. Stow the Church Plate Lands to Sir Thomas Audley who upon the dissolution of Monasteries got that of S. James in little Walden in Essex and made it both his Seate and Place of his Barony and after left it to Margaret his Daughter and Heire first married to Henry Dudley Sonne to the Duke of Northumberland slaine at St Quintynes and dyed without Issue and after she was second Wife to Thomas Duke of Norfolke who had issue Thomas Howard created Lord Walden being his Grandfathers Title and to credit his Mothers Inheritance upon the Scite of the Monastery he began a goodly p Audly Inne Structure but attended with the fate of sacrilegious foundations for that much impaires him and he never perfects that he met also with other misfortunes which betiding so Noble a Family and not yet published to the World are fitter for thy inquiry then my Penn. Cardinall Woolsey being dead his servant Cromwell succeeds him in his Court Favour and Fate as their birthes were alike obsure their rise alike eminent so alike miserable were their downefall wonder not at the first part of their fortune but contemplate the later Policy in Kings preferres able men to high places and honour for authority power and esteeme of the Persons advantages their actions of which wise Princes reap the Harvest the Actors get but gleanings while the King makes Cromwell a Baron his Seeretary Lord Privy Seale his Vicegerent in Ecclesiasticis he doth but faciliate his owne great work of dissolving q Speed 10.6 Monasteries a businesse wherein Cromwell was too much versed and unhappily too successefull Report spake him a great Stickler for the Protestant Religion and that although the Gospell had lost a Pillar in Queene Anne Bullen yet was another raised in r Speed 1016.92 Cromwell for he had caused the Bible to be read the Creed Pater Noster and Ten Commandements to be learned in English and expounded in every Å¿ Good f. 146. Church some thought that Cromwell hoped to bury Popery in the ruines of the Abbyes and thereby give the better growth to the more pure Protestant Religion how pious soever his intents were in reforming Religion yet was not the manner of effecting them it seemes acceptable to Heaven for by Parliament in the 31 of H. 8. he perfected his Dissolutions and in April in the 32 of H. 8. he is made t Holl. 950. Earle of Essex and Lord Great Chamberlaine of England high in the Kings favour and esteeme yet instantly while sitting at the Councell-Table he is suddainly apprehended and sent to the Tower whence he comes not forth untill to his u Goodw. fol. 174. Execution for in Parliament he is presently accused of Treason and Heresie and unheard is attainted Some do observe that he x Sir Edward Cook in his Iurisdiction of Courts f. 37. saith that Sir Tho. Gaudy then a grave Judge of the Kings Bench after told him that Cromvvell was commanded to attend the Chiefe Iustices to know whether a man that was forth comming as being in Prison might be