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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

Academiis possunt determinare omnes Controversias etiam sepositis Episcopis Upon an occasion of mentioning the absolute Decree he brake into a great and long Discourse that his Mouth was shut by Authority else he would maintain that Truth contra omnes qui sunt in Vivis which fetcht a great Hum from the Country Ministers that were there c. These particulars by the Command of his Majesty I sent to Dr. Prideaux and received from him this answer following and his Protestation under his hand Ecclesia authoritatem habet in fidei Controversiis determinandis Ecclesia authoritatem habet interpretandi Sacras Scripturas Ecclesia potestatem habet decernendi Ritus Ceremonias These Questions I approved when they were brought unto me and wished the Beadle that brought them to convey them to the Congregation to be allowed according to Custom conceiving them to be especially bent according to the meaning of the Article cited against Papal Vsurpations and Puritancial Innovations which I detest as much as any man Whereby it appears what I positively hold concerning the authority of the Church in all the proposed Particulars namely that which that 20th Article prescribeth and not otherwise Certain passages that came from Dr. Prideaux in the discussing of the Questions at Oxford Ecclesia est mera Chimaera Ecclesia nihil docet nec determinat Controversiae omnes melius ad Academiam referri possunt quàm ad Ecclesiam Docti homines in Academiis possunt determinare omnes Controversias etiam sepositis Episcopis The passages therefore imperfectly catched at by the Informer were no Positions of mine For I detest them as they are laid for impious and ridiculous But Oppositions according to my place proposed for the further clearing of the truth to which the Respondent was to give satisfaction And the General Protestation I hope takes off all that can be laid against me in the particulars Notwithstanding to touch on each of them as they are laid To the First I never said the Church was Mera Chimaera as it is or hath a Being and ought to be believed But as the Respondent by his Answer made it In which I conceived him to swerve from the Article whence his Questions were taken To the Second my Argument was to this purpose Omnis actio ést Suppositorum vel Singularium Ergo 〈◊〉 in abstracto nil docet aut determinat sed per hos aut illos Episcopos Pastores Doctores As Homo non disputat sed Petrus Johannes c. The third and fourth may be well put together My Prosecution was That the Universities are eminent Parts and Seminaries of the Church and had sitter opportunity to discuss Controversies than divers other Assemblies Not by any means to determine them but to prepare them for the determination of Ecclesiastical Assemblies of Synods Councils Bishops that have Superiour Authority wherein they might do Service to the Church and those Superiours not prescribing any thing unto them As the debating of a thing by a learned Counsellour makes the easier Passage for the Benches Sentence And this was urged only as Commodum not as Necessarium The QUEEN's ALMONER present I am told no. For he departed as they say that were in the Seat with him being tyred as it should seem by the tedious Preface of the Respondent before the Disputations began But be it so or otherwise to what purpose this is interposed I know not Upon an occasion of mentioning the absolute Decree he brake into a great and long Discourse that his Mouth was shut by Authority else he would maintain the truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis which fetcht a great Hum from the Country Ministers that were there c. This Argument was unexpectly cast in by Mr. Smith of St. John's but bent as I took it against somewhat I have written in that behalf which the Respondent not endeavouring to clear I was put upon it to shew in what sense I took absolutum Decretum Which indeed I said I was ready to maintain against any as my Predecessors in that place had done This was not in a long Discourse as it is suggested but in as short a Solution as is usually brought in Schools to a Doubt on the bye And from this I took off the Opponents farther proceeding in Obedience to Authority Whereupon if a Hum succeeded it was more than I used to take notice of It might be as well of dislike as approbation and of other Auditors as soon as Country Ministers A Hiss I am sure was given before when the Respondent excluded the King and Parliament from being parts of the Church But I remember whose practice it is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had rather bear and forbear and end with this PROTESTATION THAT as I believe the Catholick Church in my Creed so I Reverence this Church of England wherein I have had my Baptism and whole Breeding as a most eminent Member of it To the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church have I hitherto often subscribed and by God's Grace constantly adhered and resolve by the same assistance according to my ability under his Majesty's Protection faithfully to maintain against Papists Puritans or any other that shall oppose it The Prelacy of our Reverend Bishops in it I have ever defended in my Place to be jure Divino which I dare say has been more often and with greater pains taking than most of those have done who have receiv'd greater Encouragement from their Lordships I desire nothing but the continuance of my vocation in a peaceable Course that after all my pains in the place of his Majesty's Professor almost for these 18 years together my Sons especially be not countenanced in my declining Age to vilify and vex me So shall I spend the remainder of my time in hearty Prayer for his Majesty my only Master and Patron for the Reverend Bishops the State and all his Majesty's Subjects and Affairs and continue my utmost Endeavours to do all faithful Service to the Church wherein I live To whose Authority I ever have and do hereby submit my self and Studies to be according to Gods word directed or corrected J. Prideaux Reverendissime Cancellarie INdefesso Prudentiae oculo quo nos gubernas Parendi has leges explora quas tandem Detersas pulvere simplicitate verborum Rescriptas à Clausularum antithesi Purgatas biennique opere recusas coarctavimus in sanam Epitomen ut imperandi 〈◊〉 negotium Tibi molliamus obtemperandi Methodus patescat nobis peccandi venia tollatur Latuerunt diu Statuta ex Vetustatis situ plus satis veneranda non memoriae sed Scriniorum Sarcina in quorum fragmenta dubia texturam inaequalem toto Codice dissita capita sensûs dissoni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jurati omnes tantum ut Perjuri evaderent 〈◊〉 pacis licentiam quis non arripiat quando inter se pugnant Decreta quae prohibent At

1. But the Rule drawn down to particulars is from the the commended Practice of the Kings of Juda under the Law Now if these can give us no Rule then we have none at all brought down to particulars wherein that Power consists And here this Lord being a known Separatist from the Church of England as appears most manifestly by another Speech of his Lordship 's in Parliament and printed with this separates I doubt from her Doctrine too and will not could he speak out with safety allow Kings any Power at all in Church Affairs more than to be the Executioners to see the Orders of their Assemblyes executed in such things as they need the Civil Sword And therefore he doth wisely in his generation to say That the things which were before can give no Rule in this The other is that there is of late a Name of Scorn fastned upon the Brethren of the Separation and they are commonly called Round-heads from their Fashion of cutting close and rounding of their Hair A Fashion used in Paganism in the times of their Mournings and sad occurrences as these seem to do puting on in outward shew at least a sowr Look and a more severe Carriage than other Men. This Fashion of Rounding the Head God himself forbids his People to practise the more to withdraw from the Superstitions of the Gentiles Ye shall not round the Corners of your Heads Lev. 19. 27. This express Text of Scripture troubled the Brownists and the rest extreamly and therefore this Lord being a great favourer of theirs if not one himself hath thought upon this way to ease their minds and his own For 't is no matter for this Text nor for their resembling Heathen Idolaters they may round their Heads safely since those things which were before can give no Rule in this And I do not doubt but that if this World go on the dear Sisters of these Rattle-heads will no longer keep silence in their Churches or Conventicles since the Apostle surely is deceived where he saith that Women are not permitted to speak in the Churches because they are to be under Obedience as also saith the Law 1 Cor. 14. For the Law and those things which were before can give no Rule in this and therefore they shall not need to go as high as Adam to answer this They shall not need in this nor we in that of Episcopacy go so high as Adam But yet we may if we will for so high the Apostle goes in this place And I thank this Lord for that Liberty if he means so well that though we need not go so high yet we may if we list And this is most certain that any State Christian may receive all or as much of the Judicial Law of Moses as they please and find fit for them and as much of the Ceremonial as detracts not from Christ come in the Flesh. And since all Law is a Rule this could not be done if those Laws being before could be no Rule to us This is proof enough as I conceive that these things which were before can give a Rule to us now under the Gospel My Lord thinks not so for this Reason Because they are of another Nature Secondly therefore the Reason comes to be examined Wherein I shall weigh two things First Whether the Law of Moses and the Gospel of Christ are things of another Nature and how far And Secondly Whether this be universally true that among things of another Nature one cannot give a Rule to another 1. For the first I shall easily acknowledge a great deal of difference between the Law and the Gospel They differ in the Strictness of the Covenant made under either They differ in the Sacraments and Sacramentals used in either They differ in the Extent and Continuance of either They differ in the Way and Power of justifying a Sinner and perhaps in more things than these And in these things in which they thus differ and qua as they so differ the Law can give no Rule to Christians but whether these differences do make the Law and the Gospel things of quite another Nature which are the words here used I cannot but doubt a little First because more or less strictness doth not vary the Covenant in Nature though it doth in Grace for Magis Minus non variant speciem More or Less in any thing does not make a specifical Difference and therefore not in Nature And use of different Sacraments do not make things to be of another Nature where Res Sacramenti the Substance of the Sacrament is one and the same And so 't is here For one and the same Christ is the Substance of Circumcision and the Pascal Lamb as well as of Baptism and the Eucharist For our Fathers under the Law did all cat the same spiritual meat and did all drink of the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them And that Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. 3 4. And much less can Extent or Continuance vary Nature Not Extent for Fire contained in a Chimny and spread miserably over a City is one and the same in Nature Not Continuance for then a Father and his Son should not be of the same Nature if the one live longer than the other And as for the way and Power of Justification they difference the Law and the Gospel not so much in their Nature as in their Relation to Christ who alone is our Justification 1 Cor. 1. 30. and was theirs also who lived under the Law for both they and we were and are justified by the same Faith in the same Christ. And this seems to me very plain in Scripture For to this day saith the Apostle the Vail remains upon the Jews in the reading of the Old Testament which Vail is done away in Christ but we all with open Face behold as in a glass the Glory of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 14 18. So one and the same Christ is in the Old Testament as well as in the New Not so plainly but there though under a Vail Now a Vail on and a Vail off a dimmer and a clearer sight in and by the one than by the other do in no case make the things of another Nature Again We find it expresly written Gal. 3. 24. That the Law was our School-master to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by Faith Our School-master therefore it must needs be able to give Rules unto us or else it can never teach us And the Rules it gives are very good too or else they can never bring us unto Christ that we may be justified by Faith which to do St. Paul here tells us is the End of the Law 's Instruction And this Instruction it could not so fully give if this School-master were so of another Nature as that it could not give us a Rule in this Besides the Type and the Antitype the Shadow and the Substance

Tabernacle Numb 20. 6. Hezekiah and all that were present with him when they had made an end of offering bowed and worshipped 2 Chron. 29. 29. David calls the People to it with a Venite O come let us Worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker Psal. 95. 6. And in all these Places I pray mark it 't is bodily Worship Nor can they say That this was Judaical Worship and now not to be 〈◊〉 For long before Judaism began Bethel the House of GOD was a place of Reverence Gen. 28. 17 c. Therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of and To GOD. And after Judaical Worship ended Venite Adoremus as far up wards as there is any track of a Liturgy was the Introitus of the Priest all the Latine Church over And in the daily Prayers of the Church of England this was retain'd at the Reformation and that Psalm in which is Venite Adoremus is commanded to begin the Morning Service every Day And for ought I know the Priest may as well leave out the Venite as the Adoremus the calling the People to their Duty as the Duty it self when they are come Therefore even according to the Service-Book of the Church of England the Priest and the People both are call'd upon for external and bodily Reverence and Worship of GOD in his Church Therefore they which do it do not Innovate And yet the Government is so moderate God grant it be not too loose therewhile that no Man is constrained no Man questioned only religiously called upon Venite Adoremus Come let us Worship For my own part I take my self bound to Worship with Body as well as in Soul when ever I come where God is Worshipped And were this Kingdom such as would allow no Holy Table standing in its proper place and such places some there are yet I would Worship God when I came into His House And were the times such as should beat down Churches and all the curious carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers as in Psal. 74. 6. and such Times have been yet would I Worship in what place soever I came to Pray tho there were not so much as a Stone laid for Bethel But this is the misery 't is Superstition now adays for any Man to come with more Reverence into a Church than a Tinker and his Bitch come into an Ale-house the Comparison is too homely but my just Indignation at the Prophaneness of the Times makes me speak it And you my Honourable Lords of the Garter in your great Solemnities you do your Reverence and to Almighty God I doubt not but yet it is versus Altare towards his Altar as the greatest place of God's Residence upon Earth I say the greatest yea greater than the Pulpit For there 't is Hoc est Corpus meum This is my Body But in the Pulpit 't is at most but Hoc est Verbum meum This is my Word And a greater Reverence no doubt is due to the Body than to the Word of our Lord. And so in Relation answerably to the Throne where his Body is usually present than to the Seat whence his Word useth to be proclainted And God hold it there at His Word for as too many Men use the matter 't is Hoc est Verbum Diaboli This is the Word of the Devil in too many places Witness Sedition and the like to it And this Reverence ye do when ye enter the Chapel and when you approach nearer to Offer And this is no Innovation for you are bound to it by your Order and that 's not New And Idolatry it is not to Worship God towards His Holy Table For if it had been Idolatry I presume Queen Elizabeth and King James would not have practised it no not in those Solemnities And being not Idolatry but true Divine Worship You will I hope give a poor Priest leave to Worship God as Your selves do For if it be God's Worship I ought to do it as well as You And if it be Idolatry You ought not to do it more than I. I say again I hope a poor Priest may Worship God with as lowly Reverence as you do since you are bound by your Order and by your Oath according to a Constitution of Henry the Fifth as appears to give due Honour and Reverence Domino Deo Altari ejus in modum Virorum Ecclesiasticorum That is to the Lord your God and to his Altar for there is a Reverence due to that too though such as comes far short of Divine Worship and this in the manner as Ecclesiastical Persons both Worship and do Reverence The Story which led in this Decree is this King Henry the Fifth that Noble and Victorious Prince returning gloriously out of France sat at this Solemnity and finding the Knights of the Order scarce bow to God or but slightly and then bow towards Him and His Seat startled at it being a Prince then grown as Religious as he was before Victorious and after asking the Reason for till then the Knights of the Order never bowed toward the King or his Seat the Duke of Bedford answer'd it was setled by a Chapter Act three Years before Hereupon that Great King replied No I 'll none of this till you the Knights do it satis bene well enough and with due performance to Almighty GOD. And hereupon the forenamed Act proceeded that they should do this Duty to Almighty GOD not slightly but ad modum Virorum Ecclesiasticorum as low as well as decently as Clergy-Men use to do it Now if you will turn this off and say it was the Superstition of that Age so to do Bishop Jewell will come in to help me there For where Harding names divers Ceremonies and particularly howing themselves and adoring at the Sacrament I say adoring At the Sacrament not adoring the Sacrament there Bishop Jewell that Learned Painful and Reverend Prelate approves all both the Kneeling and the Bowing and the Standing up at the Gospel which as antient as it is in the Church and a common Custom is yet fondly made another of their Innovations And farther the Bishop adds That they are all commendable Gestures and tokens of Devotion so long as the People understand what they mean and apply them unto GOD. Now with us the People did ever understand them fully and apply them to GOD and to none but GOD till these Factious Spirits and their like to the great disservice of GOD and His Church went about to persuade them that they are Superstitious if not Idolatrous Gestures As they make every thing else to be where GOD is not served slovenly 13. The Thirteenth Innovation is The placing of the Holy Table Altar-wise at the upper end of the Chancel that is the setting of it North and South and placing a Rail before it to keep it from Prophanation which Mr. Burton says is done to advance and usher in Popery To this I Answer That 't is no

tenorem praedictorum nummos erogaret indignata vel tam crassam negligentiam vel 〈◊〉 Contumaciam statuit Vniversitas ut a Gradu 〈◊〉 abarceretur Reportarunt Obsequii pariter ac Gratitudinis praemium pii ac 〈◊〉 filii caeteros nominatim Guilielmum Adams GuilielmumGoulston è Coll. Lincolniensi Oliverum Wallup è Collegio Pembrochiensi Guilielmum Holt è Collegio Magdalenensi Eusebium Dormer ex 〈◊〉 Mgadalenensi publico hoc instrumento sistit Academia iisdemquae minuto-varia at serica de scapulis detrahit de manibus eorum Pilea ipsi indigna Capita qui libertatis Academicae insignia gerant excutit cosdemque nusquam inter magistros numerandos pronunciat in cujus censurae majorem fidem sic imperante Convocatione Literas has ad Valvas Templi B. Mariae Virginis affigi ac prostare curavimus Insuper sciant isti Tenebriones ipsa Statuta ad quae Sacramenti Religione se obstrinexerunt brachium in eos non imbelle exeruisse quin manu fortiori de Gradu etiam Baccalaureatus quem 〈◊〉 vigore Statuti ipsos deturbasse Cujus tenor sequitur liquetque Tit. 9. Sect. 7 Item tu jurabis quod incipies realiter intra annum Quod siquis post praestitum istud juramentum absque 〈◊〉 dispensatione nihilominus haud incoeperit privetur ipso facto non solum gradu ad quem novissimè praesentatus fuerat sed aliis omnibus quos prius susceperat I have received an ingenious handsome Epistle from him that was Monk at Tholouse and as I am most unwilling to break any Letter of Statute so do I not think that the words which you have sent up have any purpose to barr an English-men born especially in a Case of such exigence and extremity but is only a Bar upon such Englishmen as shall voluntarily forsake their own Universities to take their Degree beyond the Seas And in this sense the Statute is deservedly penal upon them but God forbid that it should be extended against an Englishman in such a Case of Difficulty and Distress as this Man is Therefore I leave him to you and the Heads to shew him all the favour which you shall think fit for him Lambeth Decem. 1. 1637. W. Cant. SIR UPon Monday last according to promise there was notice taken at the Green-Cloth of the Cause of the Privilege for carrying of Billet c. according as the Officers had promised me and according to the Brief which I had collected out of your Letters and with my own hand delivered to Mr. Comptroller and as the Officers tell me you shall hear no more of the business which promise I hope they will perform W. Cant. SInce the Publishing of the new Statutes there hath been some complaint made that the younger sort cannot have access often enough to the Statute-Book which is reserved in every particular College thereby to know all Hours for Lectures and all other Duties required of them Hereupon it was thought sit that an Abridgment should be made of the Statutes especially of those which concern manners and exercise This pains was undertaken and the Abridgment made by Mr. Thomas Crosfield of Queens College and was Printed and Published in January 1638. but according to the old Stile in England 1637. The Title of the Book is Statuta 〈◊〉 è Corpore Statutorum Vniversitatis Oxoniensis ut in promptu ad manum sint quae magis ad usum praecipuè Juniorum facere videntur SIR For Mr. Chudley in the sense which I writ and as you took it the Example will be so full of danger and the breach of Statute so violent against it with a Nullo modo proponatur ne quisquam proponat sub poenà Banniconis as that for my part I shall never yield to it for him or any other And therefore you did well before you proposed any thing to the Heads to acquaint me with those Barrs in Statute and with the danger of the Consequence likely to fall very often in every Year wanting one Term and no more But in the end of your Letters you tell me that young Chudley came to you and exprest himself otherwise namely for a present Creation And this way you say expresses more present savour and respect to him and is of less danger in the precedent for the future The young Man 〈◊〉 seems deserves well and the Princes Tutor hath been very earnest with me for him Nevertheless I shall not in this way peremptorily appoint any thing but leave him to you and the Heads to do whatsoever you shall think fittest and with advice rather to shew no favour than to creat a Precedent which may endanger the Statutes and the Government after Of which I shall ever desire you to be tender and careful Lambeth Feb. 9. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. A Strict Charge given to the Vice-chancellor and Proctors to look that the Lent Disputations be carefully performed in a quick and Learned way and without disorder Lambeth Feb. 12. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. MR. Kilby of Lincoln-College made a Sermon in which he brake his Majesty's Declaration concerning the Five Articles but he submitted himself and his Censure stands upon Record The Sermon was Preach'd upon Tuesday the 30th of January and he was censured Feb. 12th 1637 8. The Students of Christ-Church and Exeter grew so unruly the last week the Masters interposing and wrangling in the Schools and their Boys fighting out of School that I was forced to Command an absolute Cessation of all manner of Disputations betwixt the two Houses and so they rest quiet ever since Most Reverend WE are Encouraged in the common favour respectively vouchsafed by your Grace unto the University and City of Oxon to present our common Grievances and to appeal unto your Grace for a Redress wherein we shall most willingly rest and settle The Jurors consisting of Twelve Privileged and Twelve Free men Empanell'd by the University to enquire after such Misdemeanours as are impleadable in a Court-Leet lately held in your Grace's Name have presented with joynt Consent unto your Vice-chancellor the Conduit 〈◊〉 in the Market-place at Carfax as a Nuisance The Vice-chancellor as opportunity was ministred gave notice hereof unto the Heads at their Monday Meeting and assumed to deliver as much unto Mr. Mayor adding his Request that it might duly be considered what was best to be resolved in this kind We whose names are here underwritten have diliberated upon the Presentment do freely assent to the Body thereof and acknowledge the Conduit there placed to be a just Grievance The Remedy is not so easily prescribed neither should we happily so jointly concur in the amends if we undertook to determine the same Our Appeal unto your Grace is unanimous both University and City submitting our Accomodations unto your Grace's Resolution most humbly beseeching your Grace to take this particular into Consideration and so to order the same and dispose of it for the Good and Honour of the

therefore to let You know that I do hereby nominate and choose Dr. Frewen to be my Vice-chancellor for the Year ensueing and to pray and require You to allow of this my Choice and to give him all the Respects due to his Place and all other Aid and Assistance by your Counsel or otherwise which shall be requisite the better to inable him in the discharge of the Office which he now undertakes Thus not doubting of your readiness and willing obedience herein I leave both him and you all to the Blessing of God and rest July 11. 1638. Your loving Friend and Chancellor W. Cant. To my very loving Friends the Vice-chancellor the Doctors the Proctors and the rest of the Convocation of the Vniversity of Oxford I Have now no Business to you but only to pray you that in this Dead time of Vacation You will be watchful that the Scholars spend not their time in Taverns and Ale-houses and so help themselves to put on a Habit which will not be fit to be worn in Term nor at any other time And you cannot do a greater Office in all the time of your Vice-chancellorship than to hinder the growth of this Spreading Evil c. Croyden August 3. 1638. W. Cant. SIR I Thank You heartily for your Care about the Taverns and the frequenting of Ale-Houses about which base places You cannot be too careful For they are certainly the Bane of a great many young Men which are sent to the Vniversity for better Purposes and if you do not now and then give them a Night walk they will easily deceive all your Care for the Day I Cannot be at Woodstock this Year when His Majesty comes by reason of Business which the King himself hath laid upon me and must be done at that time or not at all I am sorry it so falls out but I have spoken with his Majesty that my Absence may not hinder the wonted Grace which he shews to the Vniversity I have likewise spoken to the Officers of the Houshold about Your Entertainment that Day I have also sent to My Lord of Oxford to attend there in my Room It will be time for you now at your Monday Meeting to propose to the Heads the keeping of their several Companies at Home that they may not disturb the King's Game nor otherwise offend the Court by their frequent going thither of which I pray be very careful Croyden August 10. 1638. W. Cant. SIR I Thank You for your Care to make a present stop of the use of prohibited Gowns among the younger sort But if you punish only the Taylors that made them and not the Scholars that wear them I doubt You will not easily remedy the Abuse unless it appear to You That the Taylors made them without the Scholars Appointment then indeed the Scholars are Blameless otherwise not Croyden August 17. 1638. W. Cant. IN this time of my Absence from Woodstock things were carryed well at Court by the Heads and they had a very Gracious Entertainment there and gave the King good Content and were dismissed without Complaint against any Scholar for disturbing his Majesty's Game SIR FOR the Business concerning the placing of the Sons of the Lady Lewis with the young Noble-men I am sorry that they which are Suitors have so much as one Precedent for it But since 't is so I am glad that was before my time for certainly I am not like to make a Second And I pray do you consider what it may breed in the Issue If all the Children of Noble-men's Daughters that are Marryed to Knights shall challenge the same Privilege in the Vniversity that the Sons of the Noble-men do and with what Power and Discretion the University can give it considering they have not the Privileges with Noble-men's Sons in any other part of the Kingdom besides nor can you at present see what Constructions may be made of it above it being upon the matter the giving of a Precedency The Truth is I would be very glad it were in my Power to gratifie that Honourable Lady without prejudice to the University which I doubt in this Particular cannot be And besides I am perswaded this proceeds from the forwardness of Dr. Mansel and her Kinsman Dr. Glenham and not from her self tho' if it did come from her self I cannot tell what other Answer to give therefore I pray give them the fairest Denial you can Croyden Sept. 20. 1638. W. Cant. WHereas there is an Omission in the Statutes concerning the Examination of the younger sort before they take their Degrees I advised the Vice-chancellor to consult the Heads for a supply of this defect in Statute who did so and sent me word that the Heads had Ordered That all Regents should examine in their Course those only excepted who are dispensed with for their Absence by the Congregation and that every Candidate repulsed as insufficient by Examiners should not be admitted to a second Examination in six Months after To this I gave Answer That they should do well in a Business of such Difficulty and so unpleasing to the young Students and perhaps to the Regents also to have this their Order confirmed in Convocation unless they did find any thing in Statute to make such Order of their binding To the Proctor of Merton-College Mr. Corbet I delivered your Grace's Advice That he should do well to substitute some other to officiate for him at the Communion at the beginning of Terms if the tenderness of his Conscience would not give him leave to conform to such seemly Gestures as are thought fit to be used at that Service His Answer was That he did conform therein at the last Communion the which how true my Predecessor now with your Grace is best able to resolve you I found him I confess more tractable than I expected but since that time he is quite relapsed the Fruit of his Friend 's Mr. Channell 's Sermon wherein among other the like passages he told us That he that does more than Canon requires is as great a Puritan as he that does less By his last Discourse I find him resolved neither to conform nor absent himself without Command which I have assured him already is folly to expect Yet to this purpose he desired me to send you this inclosed Petition a Copy whereof here follows To the Right Reverend Father in God William by the Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace the Honourable Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford The Humble Petition of Edward Corbet one of the Proctors of the same Vniversity WHereas your Petitioner was wish'd by Mr. Vice-chancellor in your Grace's Name either to bow towards the Altar at the University Common Prayers or to forbear to officiate He humbly sheweth your Grace that from his Heart he Loveth and Honoureth the Church of England and doth not only rigidly and carefully observe her Doctrine and Discipline but would to the

the malicious cunning of that Opposite Faction And though I shall spare dead Men's Names where I have not certainty Yet if you be pleased to look back and consider who they were that Governed businesses in 1571 and rid the Church almost at their pleasure And how potent the Ancestors these Libellers began then to grow you will think it no hard matter to have the Articles Printed and this Clause left out And yet 't is plain That after the stir about Subscription in the Year 1571 the Articles were setled and subscribed unto at last as in the Year 1562 with this Clause in them for the Church For looking farther into the Records which are in mine own Hands I have found the Book of 1563 subscribed by all the Lower House of Convocation in this very Year of Contradiction 1571 Dr. John Elmar who was after Lord Bishop of London being there Prolocutor Alexander Nowel Dean of St. Paul's having been Prolocutor in 1563 and yet living and present and subscribing in 1571. Therefore I do here openly in the Star-Chamber charge upon that pure Sect this foul Corruption of falsifying the Articles of the Church of England let them take it off as they can I have now done and 't is time I should with the Innovations charged upon the Prelates and fit to be answered here Some few more there are but they belong to matter of Doctrine which shall presently be answered Justo Volumine at large to satisfie all Well-Minded People But when Mr. Burton's Book which is the Main one is answered I mean his Book no this Railing neither Prynn nor Bastwick nor any Attendants upon Rabshakeh shall by me or my care be answered If this Court find not a way to stop these Libellers Mouths and Pens for me they shall rail on till they be weary Yet one thing more I beseech you give me leave to add 'T is Mr. Burton's Charge upon the Prelates That the Censures formerly laid upon Malefactors are now put upon God's Ministers for their Vertue and Piety A heavy charge this too But if he or any Man else can shew that any Man hath been punished in the High Commission or elsewhere by the Prelates for Vertue and Piety there is all the Reason in the World we should be severely punished our selves But the Truth is the Vertue and Piety for which these Ministers are punished is for Preaching Schism and Sedition many of their Sermons being as bad as their Libels As Burton's Libell was one of his Sermons first But whether this stuff have any Affinity with Vertue and Piety I submit to any Christian Reader And yet Mr. Burton is so confident of his Innocency even in this Cause wherein he hath so fouly carryed himself that he breaks forth into these words I never so much as once dreamed that Impiety and Impudency it self in such a Christian State as this is and under such a gracious Prince durst ever thus publickly have called me in Question and that upon the open Stage c. You see the boldness of the Man and in as bad a Cause as I think in this kind ever any Man had I shall end all with a passage out of S. Cyprian when he then Bishop of Carthage was bitterly railed upon by a pack of Schismaticks his answer was and 't is now mine They have railed both bitterly and falsly upon me and yet non oportet me paria cum illis facere it becomes not me to answer them with the like either Levities or Revilings but to speak and write that only which becomes Sacerdotem Dei a Priest of God Neither shall I in this give way though I have been extremely vilified to either Grief or Passion to speak remembring that of the Psalmist Psal. 37. 8. Fret not thy self else shalt thou be moved to do Evil. Neither yet by God's Grace shall the Reproaches of such Men as these make me faint or start aside either from the Right-way in matter of practice they are S. Cyprian's words again or a certa Regula from the certain Rule of Faith And since in former times some spared not to call the Master of the House Beelzebub how much more will they be bold with them of his Houshould as it is in St. Matthew 10. 25. And so bold have these Men been but the next words of our Saviour are Fear them not I humbly crave Pardon of your Lordships for this my necessary length and give you all hearty thanks for your Noble Patience and your Just and Honowable Censure upon these Men and your unanimous dislike of them and defence of the Church But because the business hath some Reflexion upon my self I shall forbear to censure them and leave them to God's Mercy and the King's Justice FINIS Dr. Frewen Vicechancellour The Election of the R. R. Father William Laud Bp. of London to be Chancellour Convocation At London-House for Admission of their Chancellour Elect. The Letters Patents of the University Dr. Frewen continued Vicechancellour The Chancelor's Speech Order taken for weekly Letters from the Vicechancellour Concerning the making and settling the Statutes To Dr. Tolson the Vicechancellour's Deputy about two disorderly Sermons To Dr. Frewin Vicechancellor about observing Formalities My first Letters to the Convocation A 〈◊〉 in Christ Church given to the Hebrew Reader for ever The observing of Formalities The not spolling of his Majesty's Game Dr. Smith Warden of Wadham College apopinted Vicechancellour Dr. Smith A Letter of Thanks from the Vniversity for my Letters to Them Dr. 〈◊〉 the Hebrew Reader 's Thanks for the Prebend of Christchurch procured by me Certain Advertisements given the Vicechancellour at Michaelmas 〈◊〉 Octob 6 1630. An Order De accumulandis Gradibus Octob. 11. 1630. Dr. Prideaux his Letter De Accumulandis Gradibus My Answer to Dr. Prideaux his Letter de accumulandis gradibus Concerning Act Questions A Clause of my Letters to the Vicechancellour de susceptione Gradûs Baccalur in SS Theologiâ Octob. 15. 1630. De gradibus accumulandis Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and an Answer to my former Letters 〈◊〉 The Act Question Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and Acknowledgement of the Justness of my Proceedings The Proctors of the University their Thanks concerning Reformation Concerning the Principal of St. Edmund's Hall To the Vice-Chancellour concerning the Choice of a Principal of St. Edmund's-Hall An Act concerning the Commission for Fees Thanks from the University for my Care of their Liberties My Letters to the Vicechancellour about the publishing of Mr. Page's Book concerning Bowing at the Name of Jesus The occasion of the next foregoing Letter Mr. Baker's Letter to Mr. Page about the not publishing of his Book c. In my Predecessour's time Annus Cancellarii Secundus Dr. Smith continued Vice-Chancellour a Second year My Letters sent with his Majesties to the University about Fees July 4. 1631. His Majesties Letters to be Register'd The Delegates to settle presently the Business of Fees His Majesties Letters to me