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The Connexion being choice collections of some principal matters in King James his reign, which may serve to supply the vacancy betwixt Mr. Townsend's and Mr. Rushworth's historical collections.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)
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Wing C5882; ESTC R2805
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4. That Christ our Saviour took not Humane Flesh of the Substance of the Virgin Mary his Mother and that that Promise the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents Head was not fulfilled in Christ 5. That the Person of the Holy Ghost is not God Coequal Coeternal and Coessential with the Father and the Son 6. That the three Creeds viz. the Apostles Creed the Nicene Creed the Athanasian Creed are the Heresies of âe Nicolaitaines 7. That he the âid Edward Wightman is that Proâhet spoken of in the Eighteenth of âeuteronomy in these words I will âise them up a Prophet c. and that âat place of Isaiah I alone have troden âe Wine-press and that that place âhose Fan is in his hand are proper âd personal to him the said Edward âightman 8. And that he the said âightman is that Person of the Holy âhost spoken of in the Scriptures âd the Comforter spoken of in the âxteenth of St. John's Gospel 9. And at those words of our Saviour Christ the Sin of Blasphemy against the âoly Ghost are meant of his Person ââ And that that place the Fourth ââ Malachy of Elias to come is âewise meant of his Person 11. That âe Soul doth sleep in the Sleep of âe First Death as well as the Body âd is mortal as touching the Sleep âe first Death as the Body is And ât the Soul of our Saviour Jesus ârist did sleep in that Sleep of Death well as his Body 12. That the Souls of the Elect Saints Departed are not Members possessed of the Triumphant Church in Heaven 13. That the Baptizing of Infants is an abominable Custom 14. That there oughâ not in the Church the use of the Lords Supper to be celebrated iâ the Elements of Bread and Wine and the use of Baptism to be celebrated in the Element of Water as they are now practised in the Church of England but that the use of Baptism iâ to be administred in Water only to Converts of sufficient Age and Understanding converted from Infidelity to the Faith 15. That God hath ordained and sent him the said Edwarâ Wightman to perform his part in the Work of the Salvation of the World to deliver it by his Teaching or Admonition from the Heresie of the Nicolaitanes as Christ was ordained and sent to save the World and by hiâ Death to deliver it from Sin and to reconcile it to God 16. And thaâ Christianity is not wholly professed and preached in the Church of England but only in part wherein he âhe said Edward Wightman hath before the said Reverend Father as alâo before our Commissioners for Cauâes Ecclesiastical within our Realm of England maintained his said most âerilous and dangerous Opinions as âppeareth by many of his Confessions âs also by a Book Written and Subscriâed by him and given to us for the which his damnable and heretical Oâinions he is by Divine Sentence declared by the said Reverend Father âhe Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield with the Advice and Consent of Learned Divines and others Learned in âhe Law assisting him in Judgment âustly adjudged pronounced and declared to be an obstinate and incorrigible Heretick and is left by them under the Sentence of the great Excommunication and therefore as a Corrupt Member to be cut off from âhe rest of the Flock of Christ lest he should infect others professing the true Christian Faith and is to be by our Secular Power and Authority as an Heretick punished As by the Significavit of the said Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield bearing Date at Lichfield the Fourteenth day of December in the Ninth Year of our Reign and remaining in our Court of Chancery more at large appeareth And although the said Edward Wightman hath since the said Sentence pronounced against him been often very charitably moved and exhorted as well by the said Bishop as by many other Godly Grave and Learned Divines to dissuade revoke and remove him from the said Blasphemous Heretical and Anabaptistical Opinions yet he arrogantly and willfully resisteth and continueth in the same We therefore according to our Regal Function and Office minding the Execution of Justice in this behalf and to give Example to others lest they should attempt the like hereafter have Determined by the Assent of our Council to will and require and do hereby Authorize and Require You our said Chancellour immediately upon the Receit hereof to award and make out under Our Great Seal of England Our Writ of Execution âccording to the Tenor in these presents ensuing And these presents shall âe your sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the same Then was a Warrant granted by the King to the Lord Chancellour of England to award a Writ under the Great Seal to the Sherriff of Lichfield for Burning of Edward Wightman delivered over to the Secular Power by the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield The Warrant THE Kng to the Sheriff of Our City of Lichfield Greeting Whereas the Reverend Father in Christ Richard by Divine Providence of Coventry and Lichfield Bishop hath signified unto Us That he judicially proceeding according to the Exigence of the Ecclesiastical Canons and of the Laws and Customs of this our Kingdom of England against one Edward Wightman of the Parish of Burton upon Trent in the Diocess of Coventry and Lichfield of and upon the Wicked Heresies of Ebion Cerinthus Valentinian Arrius Macedonius Simon Magus of Manes Manichees Photinus and of the Anabaptists and other Arch Hereticks and moreover of other cursed Opinions belched by the Instinct of Satan excogitated and heretofore unheard of the aforesaid Edward Wightman appearing before the aforesaid Reverend Father and other Divines and Learned in the Law assisting him in Judgment the aforesaid Wicked Crimes Heresies and other detestable Blasphemies and Errors stubbornly and pertinaciously knowingly maliciously and with an hardened Heart published defended and dispersed by definitive Sentence of the said Reverend Father with the Consent of Divines Learned in the Law aforesaid justly lawfully and Canonically against the said Edward Wightman in that part brought stands adjudged and pronounced an Hereâick and therefore as a diseased Sheep âut of the Flock of the Lord lest our âubjects he do infect by his Contaâion he hath decreeed to be cast out ând cut off Whereas therefore the Holy Mother-Church hath not furâher in this part what it ought more âo do and prosecute the same Reveâend Father the same Edward Wightman as a Blasphemous and Condemâed Heretick hath left to our Secuâar Power to be punished with Conââign Punishment as by the Letters Patents of the aforesaid Reverend Father the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in this behalf thereupon made is certified unto us in our Chancery We therefore as a Zealot of Justice and a Defender of the Catholick Faith and willing that the Holy Church and the Rights and Liberties of the same and the Catholick Faith to maintain and defend and such like Heresies and Errors every
where so much as in us lies to âoot out and extirpate and Hereticks so convict to punish with Condigâ Punishment holding that such an Hâretick in the aforesaid Form Conviââ and Condemned according to thâ Laws and Customs of this our Kingdom of England in this part accustomed ought to be Burned with Fireâ We command thee that thou cause the said Edward Wightman being iâ thy Custody to be committed to the Fire in some publick and open Placeâ below the City aforesaid for the Cause aforesaid before the People and the same Edward Wightman in the same Fire cause really to be Burned in the Detestation of the said Crime and for manifest Example of other Christians that they may not fall into the same Crime And this no ways omit under the Peril that shall follow thereon Witness c. Anno Dom. 1616. An. Reg. Jac. 14. â Order of the King 's Privy Council sent to the Peers of the Realm for the Tryal of the Earl and Countess of Somerset Whitehall Apr. 24. 1616. AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship âhereas the King 's Majesty hath reâved that the Earl of Somerset and âe Countess his Wife lately indicted âf Felony for the Murder and Poyâning of Sir Thomas Overbury then âs Majesties Prisoner in the Tower âall now receive their Lawful and âublick Tryal by their Peers immeâately after the end of this present âaster Term. At the Tryal of which âoble Personages your Lordship's âresence as being a Peer of the Realm ând one of approved Wisdom and Inâgrity is requisite to pass upon them âhese are to let your Lordship understand that his Majesties Pleasure ââ and so commandeth by these our Leâters that your Lordship make youâ repair to the City of London by thâ Eleventh day of the Month of Mââ following being some days before thâ Tryal intended at which time youâ Lordship shall understand more of hiâ Majesties Pleasure So not doubtinâ of your Lordships Care to observe hâ Majesties Directions we commit yoâ to God Your Lordships very loving Friends G. Cant. T. Ellesmere Canc. Fenton E. Wotton Tho. Lake Lo. Dare. C. Edmonds E. Worcester Lenox P. Herbert R. Winwood F. Grevyll J. Caesar âhe Speech of Sir Francis Bacon at the Arraignment of the Earl of Somerset the Countess having received the King's Pardon âT may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England and you ây Lords the Peers You have here âefore you Robert Earl of Somerset ââ be Tried for his Life concerning âe Procuring and Consenting to the âoysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury ââen the King's Prisoner in the Tower âf London as an Accessary before the âact I know your Honours cannot beâold this Noble Man but you must âemember the great Favours which âhe King hath conferred on him and âust be sensible that he is yet a Memâer of your Body and a Peer as you âre so that you cannot cut him off ââom your Body but with grief and âherefore you will expect from us that give in the King's Evidence sound ând sufficient matter of Proof to satisfie your Honours Consciences As for the manner of the Evidence the King our Master who amongst other his Vertues excelleth in that Vertue of the Imperial Throne which is Justice hath given us Command that we should not expatiate nor make Invectives but materially pursue the Evidence as it conduceth to the points in question A matter that though we are glad of so good a Warrant yet we should have done of our selves For far be it from us by any Strains of Wit or Arts to seek to play Prizes or blazon our Names in Blood or to carry the Day other ways than on sure grounds We shall carry the Lanthorn of Justice which is the Evidence before your Eyes upright and so be able to save it from being put out with any grounds of Evasion or vain Defence not doubting at all but that the Evidence it self will carry that Force as it shall need no Advantage or Aggravation First My Lords The Course that will hold in delivery of that which shall say for I love Order is First I will speak something of the Nature and Greatness of the Offence which is now to be Tried not to weigh down my Lord with the greatâess of it but rather contrariwise to âew that a great Offence needs a âood Proof And that the King howâever he might esteem this Gentleâan heretofore as the Signeâ upon his âinger to use the Scripture Phrase âet in such a Case as this he was to âut it off Secondly I will use some few words âouching the Nature of the Proofs which in such a Case are competent Thirdly I will state the Proofs And Lastly I will produce the âroofs either out of Examination ând matters of Writing or Witnesses âiva voce For the Offence it self it is of Crimes âext unto High Treason the greatest is the foulest of Felonies It hath âree Degrees First It is Murder by Impoysonment Secondly It is Muâder committed upon the King's Prisoner in the Tower Thirdly I might say it is Murder under the colour â Friendship but that it is a Circumstance Moral and therefore I leavâ that to the Evidence it self For Murder my Lords the firââ Record of Justice which was in thâ World was Judgment upon a ãâã therer in the Person of Adam's First born Cain and though it was not punished by Death but Banishment and marks of Ignominy in respect of the Primogenitors or the Population oâ the World yet there was a severâ Charge given that it should not gââ unpunished So it appeareth likewise in Scripture that the Murder of Abner by Joab though it were by David respited in respect of great Services past or reason of State yet it was not forgotten But of this I will say no more because I will not discourse It was ever admitted and ranked in God's own Tables That Murder is of Offences between man and man next unto High Treason and Disobedience to Authority which sometimes have been referred to the first Table because of the Lieutenancy of God in Princes the greatest For Impoysonment I am sorry it should be heard of in our Kingdom It is not nostri generis nec sanguinis pecâatum it is an Italian Comfit fit for the Court of Rome where that person that intoxicateth the Kings of the Earth is many times really intoxicaâed and poysoned himself but it hath three Circumstances which makes it grievous beyond other matters The First is That it takes a man away in full peace in God's and the King's peace that thinks no harm âut is comforting of Nature with Reâection and Food so that as the Scripture saith his Table is made a Snare The Second is That it is easily committed and easily conceal'd and on âhe other side hardly prevented and hardly discovered For Murder by violence Princes have Guards and Private Men have Houses Attendants and Arms. Neither can such Murder be committed but Cum sonitu with some