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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41314	An ansvver to the articles preferd against Edvvard Finch, vicar of Christ church by some of the parishioners of the same whereunto is added a just and modest reply to a most scurrilous, scandalous and malicious pamphlet, as by the title may appeare, of an uncertaine author / by Edvvard Finch...	Finch, Edward, d. 1642?	1641 (1641)	Wing F930; ESTC R1567	13,997	32

of Fees a thing for which I stand so much condemn'd I have given an answer to the Articles in generall but will give the Reader satisfaction in the particulars alleaged And 1. For Master How Hee was indeed an ancient Parishioner and one to whom so long as he liv'd I was much beholding and because he was one that honour'd the Church and the well establisht Government thereof and was indeed a Benefactor if it may be so properly call'd by his dayly sollicitation of friends to a good value I gave order he should be decently and solemnly enterr'd and attended on to his grave by those that appertaine to the Church the Quire It was desir'd Master Risdon should preach I gave way to it but it was not perform'd and the reason was this There came an Order from Authoritie that there should be no night Funerals upon a complaint made by the Heralds at Armes the Executor of master How had notice of this and that the whole Solemnitie must bee finisht by foure a clock this was promisde till past six we waited at last Master Risdon said unto me I neither will nor dare preach because it is past the Canonicall houre and against the Order of the Lords nor is it safe for you to bury it this night let us attend no longer but be pleased to give order that the Church doores may be shut up Whereupon they were presently after the Guests invited to the Funerall came with the Coarse and knockt I caused the doores presently to be open'd and the Body was buried presently Without a Sermon indeed because of master Risdons former refusall not out of any denyall of mine It was never prov'd that I had five pound for a Sermon for him and that master Ioyce who was brought as a witnesse knowes well and so does one master Iohn Wright a Gentleman of our Parish who was by at the agreement and will testifie that it was for the ground and the other Church-officers duties which for my share came but to five shillings besides the ground which was in the Chancell and by consequence the benefit of opening of it and interring of the Body totally belonging to me for which I had three pound laid down of which master Wright lent the Executor twenty shillings 2. For master Darnton I confesse that he dying in my Parish I did expect as large a proportion for my duties as any that should come out of another Parish to Officiate in my Pulpit He mistooke himselfe that said I call'd it my Shop Indeed this I said both upon that and the like occasion to himselfe and others that it was my livelyhood and that I had reason to make the best benefit aswell as any of them of their shops and this I hope may receive a favourable construction That I deny'd absolutly that Doctor Holeworth should preach his Funerall Sermon is utterly false but as master Pettit I presume upon occasion will testifie for me I said I thought my Pulpit honour'd by him and so indeed I doe and ever shall He is knowne to be a man so generally learned a man of so rare abilities and indowments of nature and on whom God hath bestowed such an admirable gift and faculty in the way of his Preaching That I spent my time as the Taverne while the Funerall was Solemnizing is like the rest of the Authors Scandals maliciously inserted and utterly false neither did any such thing come in proofe To the Articles concerning my Superstitious affection to the Surplice and other as he ignorantly termes them Popish practices which I thanke God I am farre from and hope in God ever shall be I have answered to them before and his vaine babling Tawtologie and multiplication of termes to infuse suspicion against me in point of my Religion into the peoples heads my practice being known to be otherwise shall not make me wast my time and tire the Reader As for the Article concerning my Drunkennesse It was testified by Master Risdon the Lecturer who for feare of losing his quarterly Contribution might happily be drawne to say that which I daresay and he himselfe had since said he will not if he came upon his oath sweare for a World And it was observ'd by many that hee gave his Testimony very faintly and not without being jogged and egged forward by one William Greenhill a Chandler that stood behind him That Arch-incendiary of Christ-Church Parish who together with his brother in Law Iohn I know not what to call him more have beene the Plotters and Contrivers of these Articles in Parliament against me and the Procurers of witnesses to testifie upon them as I will make appeare Were it not by meanes of these two I am confident and so are many more besides me that my selfe and Parishoners should live as lovingly and as peaceably as any Pastor and people in England But this by the way In briefe I beleeve 't is an hard matter to sweare positively when a man is drunke but he that glanc't at that testimony let him knocke at his owne breast and see if he bee not guilty himselfe of that sinne and in a higher measure too which he laies to the charge of others though that 's no warrant for me nor any other to sinne because I can produce Presidents Concerning the Administration of the Sacrament to the dying woman her husband himselfe did before the Committee and will anywhere else cleere me for any rudenesse or any incivillity which might cause her to cry out and so did Mistresse Iohnson her Neighbour in Warwick Lane and the rest of the Women then present All that one of them said was this that she conceited me to be distemper'd in drinke and that she we might my distractions and griefes have been so many my miseries and afflictions so great that when it is well knowne I have neither eat nor dranke that day by my lookes discourse and unwonted alteration of speech I have been supposed to be distemper'd and I desire the Reader to judge of me in a Christian way and to beleeve this to be true The improbabilitie to tempt a dying woman in an uncivell way being in all mens opinions so abominable rediculous that I should injure my selfe to God about a confutation which the Witnesses did for me Concerning my Sermon which I Preacht on the 5. of November about two yeares since it was alleged by one Bamfoard that I should deliver words to this effect The Plotters in that businesse were but a few male-contented Persons and that they desir'd at their death that this act might be forgotten and that I should say that I thankt God that it was so almost and I hop't 't would bee quite forgotten Should I have deliver'd any such Doctrine in a Pulpit or spoken such words in any place whatsoever upon the perprecation of so horrid and damnable Treason as that a Treason never to be forgot while the World lasteth I confesse I deserv'd to suffer the same if