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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83820	A Report of the committee of the charge against Mathew Wren, Bishop of Ely, to the House of Commons, July 5th, 1641 with the vote of the House taken hereupon.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1641 (1641)	Wing E2704B; ESTC R172054	949	4

A REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHARGE AGAINST MATHEW WREN Bishop of Ely to the House of COMMONS July 5th 1641. With the Vote of the House hereupon Printed in the yeare 1641. A Report of the Committee of the Charge against Mathew Wren Bishop of Ely to the House of COMMONS Iuly 5th 1641. 1. THAT the sayd Mathew Wren Bishop of Ely hath Excommunicated Deprived or Banished within the space of two yeares fifty Godly Learned and painefull Ministers 2. His Practising Superstition in his owne person 3. His causing the Communion Table to be placed Altar-wise and to be Railed in and Kneeling and Consecrating the Bread and Wine at the West side of the Communion Table with his back towards the People and bowing to or before the same 4. Elevating the Bread and Wine high over his head that the People might see it 5. Causing all the Pewes or Seates to be so contrived as that the People must of necessity kneele with their faces towards the East 6. Imployed his power to restraine powerfull Preaching forbidding all Sermons on Sundayes after-noone or in the weeke dayes without his Lycence and least expounding the Catechisme and Common Prayer Booke should be as bad a Preaching as he and some of his Officers sayd therefore he inhibits any manner of exposition and inioynes onely the bare question and answere in the Common Prayer Booke 7. And to the end the People shall not know where there is any Sermons Commands all Ringing of Bells to be alike that so the People may not ●●●guish where there is a Sermon or where there is but Prayers 8. He permitted no Prayer to be sayd before Sermon but that which is directed in the 39 Cannon which hath no warrant of Law and after Sermon suffers no Prayer at all but onely Gloria Patri c. 9. He did publish a Booke of Articles to which the Church Wardens were to be sworne and these thirty nine Articles containe at least 897 Questions One whereof was this Doth any man discourse prophanely at meale time touching Religion or the holy Scripture Another Doth the Minister Expound the holy Scripture according to the sense of the Ancient Fathers Which Questions it is believed would puzzle the deepest learned Church-Warden in England to answere And after some time spent in the debate of the sayd Articles it was resolved upon the question and Voted that it is the opinion of this House that Mathew Wren Bishop of Ely is unworthy and unfit to hold or exercise any Office or Dignity in the Church or Common-wealth And further Voted that there be a Message sent to the Lords to desire them to joyne with the Commons in Petitioning his Majesty to remove Bishop Wren both from his person and Service FINIS