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A91309	Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells; ... In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered. / By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4115; Thomason E259_1; ESTC R212479	202,789	171

such Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they shall thinke necessary fit and convenient for the honour and service of Almighty God and quiet of the Church and the better government therof c. And our present Soveraign King Charles in his Declaration printed before the 39. Articles of the Church of England made by the advise of so many of the Bishops as might conveniently be called twice printed by his speciall command An. 1628. resolves in these very words this point of his royall Prorogative derived from his Predecessors That We are supreame Governour of the Church of England and that If any difference arise about the externall policie concerning Iniunctions Canons or other Constitutions whatsoever thereto belonging the Clergy in their Convocation not the Bishops in their Consistories Visitations or high Commissions is to order and settle them having first obtained leave under Our broad Seale so to do and We approving their said Ordinances and Constitutions provided that none be made contrary to the Lawes and Customes of the Land What power our Kings have excercised in Convocations to direct and limit them in all their proceedings determinations Canons in former ages especially since 25. Hen. 8. c. 19. will appeare First by the forme of our Kings Writs for summoning a Convocation of which I shall give you onely one late president agreeing in forme and substance with all former Writs of this kinde CAROLVS Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex fidei defensor c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri ac fideli Conciliari● Nostro Gulielmo eadem gratia Cantur A chiepis totius Angliae Primati Metropolitano salutem Quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis Nos securitatem defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ac pacem tranquilitatem bonum publicum Defensionem regni Nostri subditorum Nostrorum ejusdem concernentibus Vobis in fide dilectione quibus Nobis tenemini rogando mandamus quatenus remissis debito intuitu attentis ponderatis universos singulos Episcopos vestrae Provinciae ac Decanos Ecclesiarum Cathedralium nec non Archidiaconos Capitula Collegia totumque Cle●um cujuslibet diocesios ejusdem Provinciae ad comparendum coram vobis in Ecclesia Catholica sancti Pauli London decimoquarto die Aprilis proximè futuro vel alibi prout melius expedire videritis cum omni celeritate accommoda modo debito convocari facias ad tractandum consentiendum concludendum super premissis aliis quae tibi clarius exponentur tunc ibidem ex parte Nostra Et hoc sicut Nos Statum Regni Nostri ac honorem utilitatem Ecclesiae praedictae diligitis nulla tenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonast vicesimo die Februarii Anno regni Nostri quintodecimo Secondly by the forme of the Kings royall License commonly granted to the Convocation before they may or can debate of any thing particularly the forme whereof you may discerne in this subjoyned directed to the last Convocation 1640. CHARLES By the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting Whereas in and by one Act of Parliament made at Westminster in the five and twentieth year of the Raigne of King Henry the Eighth reciting That whereas the Kings humble and obedient Subjects the Clergie of this Realme of England had not onely knowledged according to the truth that the Convocation of the same Clergie were alwayes had bin and ought to bee assembled by the Kings Writ but also submitting themselves to the Kings Majesty had promised in verbo Sacerdotii that they would never from thenceforth presume to attempt alledge claime or put in u●e or enact promulge or execute any new Canons Constitutions Ordinances provinciall or other or by whatsoever other name they should bee called in the Convocation unlesse the said Kings most Royall assent and license might to them be had to make promulge and execute the same and that the said King did give his most Royall assent and authority in that behalfe It was therefore enacted by the authority of the sayd Parliament according to the said submission and Petition of the said Clergie amongst other things that they nor any of them from thenceforth should enact promulge or execute any such Canons Constitutions or Ordinances provinciall by whatsoever name or names they might be called in their Convocations in time comming which alwayes shall bee assembled by authority of the Kings Writ unlesse the same Clergie might have the Kings most Royall assent and license to make promulge and execute such Canons Constitutions and Ordinances provinciall or Synodall upon pain of every one of the said Clergie doing contrary to the said Act and being thereof convict to suffer imprisonment and make fine at the Kings will c. Know ye that We for divers urgent and waighty causes and considerations Vs thereunto especially moving of Our especiall Grace certaine knowledge and meere motion have by vertue of Our Prerogative Royall and supream authority in Causes Ecclesiasticall given and granted and by these presents do give and grant full free and lawfull liberty license power and authority unto the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-Bishop of Can●terbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan President of this Convocation for the Province of Canterbury and to the rest of the Bishops of the same Province and to all Deans of Cathedrall Churches Archdeacons Chapters and Colledges and the whole Clergy of every severall Diocesse within the said Province that they or the greater number of them wherof the said President of the said Convocation to be alwayes one shall and may from time to time during our will and pleasure propose conferre treat debate consider consult and agree upon the exposition or alteration of any Canon or Canons now in force and of and upon such other new Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions as they the said Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury President of the said Convocation and the rest of the said Bishops and other the Clergie of the same Province or the greater number of them wherof the sayd Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury President of the said Convocation to be one shall thinke necessary fit and convenient for the honor and service of Almighty God the good and quiet of the Church and the better government thereof to be from time to time observed performed fulfilled and kept as well by the sayd Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury the Bishops and their successors and the rest of the whole Clergy of the sayd Province of Canterbury in their severall callings offices Functions Ministeries degrees and administrations as also by all and every Deane of the Arches and other Iudges of the sayd Arch-bishops Courts Guardians of Spiritualties Chancellors Deans and Chapters Archdeacons Commissaries Officialls Registers and all and every other Ecclesiasticall Officers and their inferiour ministers whatsoever of the same Province

' inchoat ' 1. Decem. 1384. contin ' ad diem Lunae prox ' post festum corp ' Christi Convocat ' inchoat ' 6. Novem. 1385. contin ' ad 7. diem Decem. An. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 5. Novem. 1386. contin ' ad 3. diem Decem. An. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 26. Febr. 1387. contin ' ad 4. diem Martii sequent Convocat ' inchoat ' 17. Octob. 1388. contin ' ad 22. diem Octob. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 17. Apr. 1391. contin ' ad 21. diem Apr. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 5. die Febr. 1394. contin ' ad 18. diem ejusdem mensis Convocat ' inchoat ' 6. Maii An. Dom. 1460. contin ' ad 15. diem Julii An. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 6. Julii An. Dom. 1463. contin ' ad 18. diem Julii praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 21. Martii 1480. contin ' ad 15. diem Novem. 1481. Convocat ' inchoat ' 13. Febr. 1486. contin ' ad 27. diem Febr. praedict Convocat ' inchoat ' 14. Ia●●ar 1487. contin ' ad 27. diem Febr. praedict The Presidents since these being more obvious and infinite I pretermit Indeed I finde some Convocations and Synods summoned without any speciall Writs yet extant which perchance are lost however though they were summoned without speciall Writs yet it was alwayes by the Kings licence privi●● and assistance first obtained or by former adjournments and not by virtue of any summons from the Pope Arch-bishop of Canterbury or any other Prelates without or against the Kings command as some of the ensuing Presidents manifest in direct termes Convocatio inchoata absque brevi mense Julii An. Dom. 1295. Convocatio inchoata absque brevi die alia dominica qua cantabatur officium laetare eodem Anno. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi die S. Hillarii An. Dom. 1297. Alia absque brevi pro defensione Ecclesiae cont ' Scotos die S. Edmundi Regis eodem Anno. Convocat ' inchoat ' ad instantiam Regis regressi à Flandriae inchoat ' festo Nativ ' S. Johannis Baptistae An. Dom. 1298. Convocat ' Concilii provincialis absque brevi inchoat ' 16. Maii An. Dom. 1356. Convocat ' Cleri Provinciae Cant ' ad supplicationem dom Reg. inchoat ' die Mercurii proxim ' post dominicam qua cantatur officium misericordia Domini in Ecclesia S. Brigittae Londin An. Dom. 1356. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi die Jovis prox post festum S. Georgii Martyris 24. April An. Dom. 1371. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi 1. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1373. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi 8. Febr. An. 1576. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi 5. Novemb. An. Dom. 1377. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi 9. Maii. 1379. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi die Sabbat proxim ' post festum Purificationis S. Mariae Virginis An. Dom. 1379. Convocat ' inchoat ' absque brevi 1. Decemb. An. Dom. 1380. Since this time I finde no Synod Councell or Convocation ever summoned or assembled but by the Kings speciall Writs yet extant among our Records the particularizing whereof being superfluous I shall here omit Secondly our Acts of Parliament expresly resolve that our Convocations Synods Councels ought to be summoned onely by the Kings Writ Hence the Statute of 8. H. 6. c. 1. recites That all the Clergie are to be called to the Convocation by the Kings Writ and thereupon enacts That they and their servants shall for ever hereafter fully use and enjoy such liberties and defence in comming going and tarrying as the great men and Commonalty of England called to the Kings Parliament doe enjoy Hence the whole Clergie of England in their submission in Parliament 25. H. 8. c. 19. 27. H. 8. c. 15. made this acknowledgment Whereas the Kings humble and obedient subjects the Clergie of the Realme of England have acknowledged according to truth THAT THE CONVOCATION OF THE SAME CLERGY IS ALWAYES HATH BEEN AND OUGHT TO BE ASSEMBLED ONLY BY THE KINGS WRIT c. And thereupon these Statutes among other things enact according to this submission and Petition of the said Clergie that they ne any of them from henceforth should make promulge or execute any new Canons c. in their Convocations in times comming which ALWAYES SHALL BE ASSEMBLED BY AUTHORITY OF THE KINGS WRIT c. A cleare confession and resolution that Councels Synods and Convocations here in England alwaies have been are and for ever hereafter ought to be called and summoned not by the Popes or Prelates authority and citations but by the Kings royall authoritie and Writ Hence the English Clergie in most Bills of their Subsidies since as in 27. Eliz. c. 28. 29. Eliz. The Act of one Subsidie granted by the Clergie 31. Eliz. c. 14. 35. Eliz. c. 12. 39. Eliz. c. 26. 43. Eliz. c. 17. 3. Jacobi c. 25. 7. Jacobi c. 22. 21. Jacobi c. 32. 1. Caroli c. 1. 3. Caroli c. 6. have inserted this clause in the prologue of their Subsidies Vestrae serenissimae regiae Majestati or sublimitati per praesens publicum instrumentum sive has literas nostras testimoniales significamus notum facimus quod Praelati Clerus nostrae Cantuariensis Provinciae IN SACRA SYNODO PROVINCIALI SIVE CONVOCATIONE VIGORE ET AVTORITATE BREVIS REGII VESTRI IN EA PARTE NOBIS DIRECTI in domo capitulari ECCLESIAE VESTRAE CATHEDRALIS divi Pauli London vicesimo quarto die mensis Novembris Anno Dom. c. inchoata celebrata to testifie that their Synods Convocations are and ought to be summoned and held only by virtue and authoritie of the Kings Royall Writ and why not then their Visitations being in truth Convocations and Synods Thirdly the whole Church of England in the 39. Articles of Religion ratified by Parliament and all Clergy-mens subscriptions to them as also by our present Soveraigns Declaration prefixt before them Anno 1628. Artic. 21. and the whole Church of Ireland in their Articles of Religion Anno 1615. Artic. 76. unanimously resolve as an Article of Religion not to be questioned That generall Councels and by the selfe-same reason Nationall and Provinciall may not be gathered together by Popes Prelates or any other persons without the Commandement or will of Princes Therefore the sole right of summoning them belongs not to Popes or Prelates but to Princes and other supreme temporall Magistrates And as these Articles so the learned Writers of our Church as incomparable Bishop Jewell in the defence of the Apologie of the Church of England part 1. c. 9. Divis 1. p 52 54. part 6. c. 12. Divis 2. p. 58● to 592. Reply to Master Hardings answer Artic. 4. Divis 19. and 26. p. 193. 212 213 214. Bishop Alley in his poore mans Library Tom. 2. Miscellanea Praelect 1. f. 18 19 20. Bishop Bilson in his true difference between Christian subjection unchristian rebellion passim Doctor William Whittakers

And when in the first times of Christs Church Prelates used this power 't was therefore onely because in those dayes they had no Christian Kings And it was then so onely used as in times of persecution that is with supposition is case it were required of submitting their very lives unto the very laws and commands even of those pagan Princes that they might not so muchas seem to disturb their civil Government which Christ came to confirm but by no meanes to undermine CHARLES by the Grace of GOD c. Now for asmuch as the said Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury President of the said Convocation for the province of Canterbury and the said Arch-bishop of Yorke President of the said Convocation for the Province of Yorke and others the said Bishops Deans Arch-deacons Chapters and Colleges with the rest of the Clergie having met together respectively at the time and places before mentioned respectively and then and there by vertue of Our said authority granted unto them treated of concluded and agreed upon certaine Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to the end and purpose by Vs limited and prescribed unto them have thereupon offered and presented the same unto Vs most humbly desiring Vs to give our Royall assent unto the same according to form of a certain Statute or Act of Parliament made in that behalfe in the 25th yeer of the Reign of King Henry the eighth and by Our said Prerogative Royall and Supream authority in Causes Ecclesiasticall to ratifie by Our Letters Patents under Our great Seal of England and to confirm the same The Title and Tenour of them being word for word as ensueth Wee of Our Princely inclination and Royall care for the maintenance of the present Estate and government of the Church of England by the Lawes of this Our Realme now setled and established having diligently with great contentment and comfort read and considered of all these their said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions agreed upon as is before expressed And finding the same such as Wee are perswaded will be very profitable not only to Our Clergy but to the whole Church of this Our Kingdome and to all the true Members of it if they be well observed Have therefore for Vs. Our Heires and lawfull Successours of Our especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion given and by th●se presents doe give Our Royall Assent according to the forme of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid to all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and constitutions and to all and every thing in them contained as they are before written And furthermore We do not onely by our said Prerogative Royall and supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiasticall ratifie confirme and establish by these Our Letters Patents the said Canons Ordinances and Constitutions and all and every thing in them contained as is aforesaid but do likewise propound publish and straightly injoyne and command by Our said Authority and by these Our Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept by all Our loving Subjects of this Our Kingdome both within the Provinces of Canterbury and Yorke in all points wherein they do or may concerne every or any of them according to this Our will and pleasure hereby signified and expressed And that likewise for the better observation of them every Minister by what name or title soever he be called shall in the Parish Church or Chappell where he hath charge read all the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions at all such times and in such manner as is prescribed in the said Canons or any of them The Booke of the said Canons to be provided at the charge of the Parish betwixt this and the Feast of S. Michael the Arch-angell next ensuing straightly charging and commanding all Archbishops Bishops and all other that exercise any Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction within this Realme every man in his place to see and procure so much as in them lyeth all and every of the same Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to be in all points duly observed not sparing to execute the penalties in them severally mentioned upon any that shall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to observe the same as they tender the honour of God the peace of the Church the tranquillity of the Kingdome and their duties and service to Vs their King and Soveraigne In witnesse whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witnesse Our Selfe at Westminster the thirtieth day of Iune in the sixteenth yeare of Our Reigne By all these Patents with others of like nature directed to all our Convocations by our Kings in former and latter times by Our present Parliaments manner of calling limiting directing our present Assembly of Divines in all particulars of their proceedings and debates appointing some eminent Members of both Houses to sit and consult together with them and to certifie all their results and determinations to them to be considered rectified rejected or approved by both Houses as they in their wisdomes shall see cause and by the fore-cited premises it is most apparent that the Arch-bishops Bishops Clergy and Convocation of England assembled Synodically together much lesse then any particular Independent Minister or Congregation notwithstanding all their late printed vaunts of their Ecclesiasticall soveraigne Iurisdiction by divine right and power to prescribe and enjoyne Visitation-Oaths Articles new Rites and Ceremonies of their owne Inventions both unto Ministers and people which they seconded with their practice to the insufferable grievance and oppression of the people are so farre from having any lawfull right power and authority to make prescribe any Ecclesiasticall Injunctions Canons Lawes Rites Ceremonies or forme of Government to any of his Majesties Subjects that though they be lawfully assembled together in a Provinciall or Nationall Synod by the Kings owne Writ or Parliaments command yet they cannot legally or of right so much as treat debate consult of any Ecclesiasticall affaires without a speciall licence first obtained from the King or Parliament and then only of such generals or particulars as they shall prescribe them much lesse compile enact promulge impose or execute any Ecclesiasticall Canons Lawes Injunctions Ordinances Oaths without their speciall approbation and ratification of them by their speciall Letters Patents under the great Seale and by Act of Parliament too as hath been lately resolved by unanimous consent of both Houses in the case of the condemned new booke of Canons The like I have proved of the Bishops Clergie Councels in other Christian Empires and Kingdomes Where then is that immense Episcopall jurisdiction authority preheminence superiority power in point of dominion over and beyond that of ordinary Ministers which our Lordly Prelats lately so much boasted of and pleaded for as due unto them by no lesse then divine institution if we may beleeve them not by the Grace Patents Grants or connivence of Christian Princes Let these swelling ambitious Grandees

Greeks on the left hand the Latine Clergy on the right and himselfe would have sate in the midst but the Emperor withstood it saying Locum ipsum sibi potiùs quàm summo Pontifici convenire That that place did rather belong to him than to the Pope But after many contestations they all accorded at last that the Pope and his Clergy should sit on the right side the Emperor and his Greeks on the left of the Church one right over against the other and neither Pope nor Emperor in the midst In the Councell of Lateran under Leo the tenth there were divers Ambassadors Princes Nobles and Lay-men present in every Session Sigismond King of Poland had his Ambassadors and Orators there chosen by himselfe his Princes Lords Spirituall and Temporall Nobles and Commons in full Parliament who gave them full Power and Commission for them and every of them Pro Nobis ac Regnis Dominiis Principibus Spiritualibus Secularibus Proceribus Populis ditioni Nostrae Subjectis saith their Commission under the Kings Seale 10. Aprilis Anno 1515. to treat of handle conclude agree and determine of all things in their names and steads that should bee propounded or handled in that Councell concerning Religion or the Church Etiamsi talia forent quae mandatum exigerent magis speciale quàm praesentibus est insertum Promising that they would ratifie grant confirme and establish whatever should be there done and acted by their Orators Maximilian Duke of Millain Francis Marquesse of Mantua Stanislaus and John Dukes of Mazovia and Russia sent Orators and Ambassadors to this Councell with like Commissions under their Seales to ratifie all things therin concluded in their steads recorded at large by Surius in the third Session of that Councell And the like Commissions had the Ambassadors of Lewes King of France Joachim Marquesse of Brandenburge William Marquesse of Montferrat Emanuel King of Portugall Charles Duke of Savoy and Maximilian the Emperor the Constitutions of Councells wherein the Pope sate President being not obligaotory unlesse the Emperor with other Christian Kings and Princes ratified them by their Ambassadors Orators and Proctors if absent from or by their Subscriptions and Seals if present in them In the Councell of Lyons Anno 1245. foure Noble-men chosen and sent by the King and Parliament of England were present as Ambassadors And the Bishops sent by the Church of England to the generall Councell of Pisa Anno 1409. were elected and chosen by the whole Clergy of England in their Convocation In the Councell of Basil King Henry the Sixth of England had fourteene Ambassadors Orators Proctors to whom and to the major part of them hee gave as well a generall as speciall power and Mandate in his name and stead to bee present in that Councell and therein to treat conferre and conclude as well of those things which might concerne the Reformation of the Universall Church in the Head and in the Members as of those things which concerned the Supportation of the Orthodox Faith and the Pacification of Kings and Princes as also of and concerning a perpetuall Peace from Warre between him and Charles of France his Adversary and also to treat commune and appoint and moreover to assent and if need were to disassent to those things which should there happen to bee decreed and ordained according to the determination of the said Councell Promising that hee would bona fide ratifie approve and confirme all and every thing that should bee done acted or effected in the premises or any of them by his said Ambassadors Orators and Proctors or the greatest part of them and that when hee should bee certified thereof hee would see them duly executed as farre as belonged to him and to a Christian Prince The Letters Patents themselves dated the tenth of July are recorded verbatim by Master Selden out of the Tables of France 12. H. 6. memb 2. A sufficient Testimony that it belongs to Christian Princes by themselves their Ambassadors Orators or Proctors to ratifie the Decrees of all Councells and Synods and to disapprove and damne them if they see cause Whence King Henry of France and the Parliament and Synod of Paris Anno 1593. damned and disavowed divers of the Canons of the Councell of Trent as prejudiciall to the Crown Royall Justice and liberty of the Church of France as Bochellus relates at full To conclude with Forraigne Presidents The Conclusions Constitutions and Determinations of that late famous Synod of Dort were ratified by the generall approbations and Edict of the Estates of the Low-Countries under their hands and Seale Visis cognitis maturè examinatis atque expensis praedicto judicio sententia Synodi say they in their Charter of Approbation ista plenè in omnibus approbavimus confirmavimus rata habuimus approbamus confirmamus rata habemus per praesentes Volentes statuentes ut nulla alia Doctrina de quinque praedictis Doctrinae capitibus Ecclesiis horum regionum doceatur aut propagetur praeter hanc quae praedicto judicio sit conformis consentanea c. Actum sub nostro Sigillo Signatione Praesidis Subscriptione nostri Graphiarij Hagae Comitis 2. Julij Anno 1619. All these with sundry other Forragine Testimonies abundantly demonstrate That the Constitutions Canons and Decrees of Councells are of no binding force and power at all unlesse confirmed by Emperors Kings Princes Nobles Subscriptions Edicts Patents Proclamations and Acts of Parliament and that most ancient Councells in forraigne parts were in truth but Parliaments To passe from these to our owne domesticke Presidents It is most apparent by numerous punctuall Examples that the Clergy of England alone had never any lawfull Jurisdiction vested in them to make binding Ecclesiasticall Lawes or Canons in our Synods and Convocations in any age without our Kings Nobles and Parliaments assents and approbations That all or most of our ancient Councells Synods Convocations were nought else but Parliaments wherein our Kings Nobles Senators and Commons were personally present as well as Bishops or Clergy-men And that all matters concerning Religion Church-Government Ceremonies with all binding Lawes Canons Articles relating thereunto have since the first planting of Religion in this our Island till this present time beene alwayes setled resolved confirmed in and by Parliaments or such Councells and Synods wherein our Kings Nobles Commons were present and had decisive Votes It is the received opinion of all our Antiquaries and Historians that King Lucius was the first Christian King of this Island and the first Prince in the world that embraced the Christian Faith That about the yeare of our Lord 185. hee writing to Pope Elutherius to send him the Romane and Imperiall Lawes whereby to governe his people then newly converted to Christ the modest Pope returned him this answer You have requested the Romane and Caesarean Lawes to bee transmitted to you from Vs which you would use

the stability of the Realme A cleare evidence it was both a Parliament and Synod too Anno 824. There was another Synodall Assembly held at Clovesho under the same king Beornulfe and Wulfred Archbishop of Canterbury assidentibus Episcopis Abbatibus PRINCIPIBVS MERCIORVM VNIVERSIS MVLTI SAPIENTISSIMI VIRI CONGREGATI to determine certaine Controversies and settle the lands of the Church which they did accordingly the Acts of this Councell were subscribed by the king his Dukes Nobles as well as by the Bishops as you may see in the close of it Anno 833. there was a Councell held at London the 26 of May which is intiuled Concilium Pan-Anglicum a Cauncell of all England wherein were present Egbert King of West-Saxons and Withlasius King of Mercians both the Archbishops of England with the Bishops and Nobles In which they con●●ted not onely of Church affaires but also about hindering the incursions of the Danes and confirmed divers Priviledges to the Abby of Crowland by a Charter granted by this King in this Councel subscribed by the King Dukes and other Laymen as well as by Bishops and Abbots Anno 838. I finde Concilium Pan-Anglicum held at Kingston wherein King Egbert and Ethelwolfe his Sonne sate Presidents together with Ceolueth Archbishop and the rest of the Bishops optimatibus Angliae and the chiefe men and Nobles at England wherein certain Charters of Lands given to the Church formerly accorded to by the Nobles were confirmed vnder pain of excommunication and curses to the infringers of them About which time Keneth king of Scots compiled and published certain Ecclesiasticall Lawes intermixed with temporall made in a Parliamentary Councell not an Episcopall Synod Anno 851. there was a Councell held at Kingsbury under Bertulph King of Mercia praesentibus Ceolnotho Dorobernensi Archiepiscopo caeterisque Regni Merciae Episcopis Magnatibus and another Councell at Benningdon under this King about the same year â Praelatis Proceribus Regni sub Bertolpho Rege In both these ample possessions and priviledges were granted to the Abbots and Monks of England Vnanimi consensu totius praesentis Cancilii pro Regni negotiis Congregati the Charters being subscribed by Dukes Lords and temporall Officers present in these Councels as well as by Bishops or Abbots An. 855. There was a generall Councel of all England held at Winchester Concilium V●ntoniae Pan-anglicum 5. Nov Judic 4. celebratum praesentibus Aethelwulfo Rege Westsaxoniae Beorredo Rege Merciae Edmundo Rege East-Anglorum una cum Archiepiscopis Cantuariae Eborum caeterisque totius Angliae Episcopis Magnatibus in which King Aethelwulph by his royall Charter granted the tenth part of his lands and goods to the Church cum coxsilio Episcoporum ac Principum meorum Praesentibus subscribentibus Archiepiscopis Episcopis Angliae Vniversis re●non Beorredo Rege Merciae Edmundo Eastanglorum Rege Abbatum Abbatissarum Ducum Comitium Procerumquetotius terrae aliorumque fidelium infintia multitudine qui omnes Regium Chirographum landaverunt Dignitates vero sua nomina subscripserunt These Councels therefore were no other but Parliaments The Ecclesiasticall Lawes of king Alured Anno 887. were made in Parliament and not in a Synod of Bishops Ex Consulto Sapientum Atque in ipsis discernendis ego Alredus Occiden alium Saxonum Rex prudent●ssimeram è nostris confilio usus sum atque eis omnibus placuit edici eorum observationem saith the Praeface to his Lawes The Ecclesiasticall Lawes of Alured or Alfred and Guthurne were accorded in a Councell wherein these Kings and their people made a League King Edward the elder upon the letter of Pope Formosus congregavit Synodum SENATORVM PROCERVM POPVLORVM ET NOBILIVM Gent's Anglae in quae prasedebat Plegmundus Archiepiscopus Tum sibi Rex cum suis Plegmundus Archiepiscopus salubre consilium iniverunt and constituted and elected five Bishops in the Province of the Gevisi where there were but two Bishopricks formerly dividing those two Bishopricks into five by a Parliament not Synod The Ecclesiasticall Lawes of King Edward the elder and Guthurne An. 905. were made in Parliaments of the Lords and Commons not Synods of the Clergie as appeares by this Proeme Haec ea sunt SENATVS-CONSVLTA ac instituta quae primo Aluredus Guthurnus Reges deinde Edovardus Guthurnus Reges illis ipsis temporibus tulere cum Pacis foedus Daci Angli ferierunt ac sese mutuo an●plexi sunt quae postea a SAPIENTIBVS recitata saepius atque ad communem Regni utilitatem aucta atque amplificata sunt The Ecclesiasticall Lawes of King Aethelstan An. 928. were made in Parliament not in a Convocation as is evident by the temporall lawes mixed with them made at the same time and by chap. 9. Decreta cictaque sunt haec in celebri Gratanleano Concilio cui Wulfhelmus interfuit Archiepiscopus cum eo Optimates Sapientes ab Aethelstano evocati frequentissimi The Ecclesiasticall lawes of Hoel Dha the good King of all Wales about the yeare 940. were made not by the Ecclesiasticall persons onely but by the Laiety too hee summoning sex Laicos viros auctoritate scientia pollentes six Laymen potent in authority and Learning out of every County and then selecting out of them twelve Laicos doctissimos unum Clericum doctissimum qui vocabatur Blanguindus ad instituendas sibi leges usus c. 12. most learned Laymen and but one learned Clerke to compile Ecclesiasticall Lawes for him and his people The Ecclesiasticall Lawes of King Edmund Anno 944. were made in a Parliament at London as appeares by the temporall lawes joyned with them and by the Proocme Edmundus Rex ipso solenni Paschatis festo frequentem Londini tam Ecclesiasticorum quam LAICORVM caetum celebravit c. A sci entissimis Regni mei in celebri tam Ecclesiasticorum quam LAICORVM frequentia studiose requisivisse quo tandem pacto Christiana proveheretur fides Atque NOBIS OMNIBVS commodissimum visum est Edmundus Rex congregavit magnam Synodum Dei ordinis SECVLI apud London c. Ego Edmundus Rex mando praecipio omni populo seniorum ac juvenum qui in regione mea sunt ea quae investigans investigovi cum sapientibus Clericis LAICIS Anno 948. There was a Councell as well of Lords and great men as Bishops and Abbots held in London In festo Nativitatis beatae Mariae cum universi Magnates Regni per regium edictum summoniti tam Archiepiscopi Episcopi ac Abbate quam caeteri totius Regni Proceres Optimates Londoniis convenissent ad tractandum de negotiis publicis totius regni consummatis Omnibus the K. in this Parlia granted a large Charter of lands priviledges to the Abbey of Croyland this Councell therefore was certainly no other but a Parliament An. 952.

Cremensis on Victors part and by Gulielmus Papiensis on Alexanders side In conspectu Regum Praesulum coram universa quae convenerat multitudine cleri et opuli In the presence of the Kings and Prelats and before all the multitude of the Clergy and People there assembled where Papiensis pleaded Alexanders cause so well and answered retorted what ever the opposite partie had alleaged soe substantially Vt neuter ulterius Princeps cunctaretur repudiata parte Octaviani Dominum Alexandrum recipere et cum Regnis sibi subditis ei de caetero in ijs quae Dei sunt tanquam Patri parere The forenamed Schismatickes therefore departing with confusion and shame Our Princes and Prelates Principes et Pontifices having solemnly pronounced a sentence of excommunication against the Schismatickes dissolved the Synod Loe here both the Emperor the Kings of England and France with their Nobles as well as Prelates present in a severall Councells directing and determining this great controversie in them who was Peters rightfull successor ratefying and receiving him for Pope whom they conceived in their indifferent Judgments to have the best title yea the Laity had here their voyces as well as the Clergy consented to the decrees of both Councells So when there was a former Schisme between Clement Vrban concerning the Title of the Papacie VVilliam Rufus enquiring who had the best right commanded Vrban to be reputed Apostolicall and true Pope throughout his Dominions eique vice beati Petri IN CHRISTIANA RELIGIONE not in any temporall affaires obedire claiming this as a part of his prerogative royall that none should acknowledge or receive any man for Pope or Peters successor within his Kingdome but by his election and authority and him whom he should declare to be the man accounting him no lesse then a Traitor that should deprive him of this right which his Ancestors claimed and enjoyed An. 1170. at the request of King Hen the 2d two Cardinalls Albert and Theodine were sent into France from Rome who having called a great Assembly of Ecclesiasticall persons and Noblemen within the Teritorries of the King of England they solemnly admitted the King to purge himselfe before them of the murther of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury which purgation the King there made and submitted himselfe naked to Ecclesiasticall discipline Anno 1175. Richard Archbishop of Canterbury kept a great Councell at Westminster to which almost all the Bishops and Abbots of the Province of Canterbury came Et coram pranominatis Regibus and before King Henry the second and King Henry his Sonne and the Bishops and Abbots Richard Archbishop of Canterbury standing in an high place promulged certaine Decrees Canons concerning Clergy-men the Eucharist Tythes recorded by Hoveden to be firmely and inviolably observed by all his Provincials so that both the Kings assented to them though they were but Collections of some Decrees out of former Councels In the same yeare King Henry the Father called another Councell at Windesore eight dayes after Michaelmas Praesentibus Rege Filio the King and his Sonne being present Richard Archbishop of Canterbury with the Bishops of England and Laurence Archbishop of Dublin Praesentibus etiam Comitibus Baronibus Angliae the Carles and Barons of England being also present In which Councell being a meer Parliament there was a generall Concord made between King Henry the second and Rodericke King of Conact in Ireland and the King in that Councell gave the Bishoprick of Waterford to one Augustine an Irishman whom he sent to Donatus Archbishop of Cassels to be Consecrated Anno 1176. King Henry the second assembled and held a great Councell at Nottingham concerning the Statutes of his Kingdome and before the King his Sonne and the Archbishops Bishops Earles and Barons of his Kingdom communi omnium Concilio by the common Councell of them all he divided his Kingdome into sixe parts through each of which he appointed three Iustices Itinerant whom he caused to swear upon the holy Evangelists that they should bona fide and without any sinister intention keep and cause the people of his Kingdom inviolably to observe the Articles of Assize there renued and confirmed recorded at large by Hoveden To this Councell by the Kings command came William King of Scots with all his Bishops whom the King commanded by the fealty and Oath of Allegiance they had taken to him to do the same subjection to the Church of England which they ought to do and were went to do in the times of his Predecessors To whom they answered that they never had made any subjection or homage to the Church of England nor ought so to do To which Roger Archbishop of York replyed That the Bishop of Glascow and of Candida Casa or Whitterne had in the time of his Predecessors been subject to the See of Yorke and for proofe hereof he shewed divers priviledges of the Bishops of Rome which made it appeare To which Jocelin Bishop of Glascow answered That the Church of Glascow was a speciall Daughter of the Church of Rome and exempt from all Archiepiscopall and Episcopall jurisdiction and if the Church of Yorke had any jurisdiction over the Church of Glascow at any time it appeared that he deserved not to have any dominion over it for time to come And because Richard Archbishop of Canterbury endeavoured that the Church of Scotland should be subject to the Church of Canterbury such was his ambition then he so crossed the King of England That he permitted the Bishops of Scotland to return home without making any subjection of themselves to the Church of England as they had formerly done Anno 1176. Hugo Cardinalis Hoveden stiles him Hugozun the Popes Legate by the Kings permission and asistance called a generall Councell at London in the midst of Lent where the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and all the Bishops and Abbots of England with a great number of Clergie-men assembling together the Cardinall sate on an high throne in the Chappell of the infirme Monkes of Westminster and the Bishops and Abbots with him every one in his place according to his order and dignity But there arose a contention between the Archbishops of Canterbury and Yorke which of them should sit at the right hand of the Cardinall And when as the Archbishop of Yorke would sit there the Bishop of Canterburies servants rushed violently upon him threw him down upon the ground trampled on him with their feet and brake his Miter whereupon the Councel was dispersed and the Cardinall flying to hide himselfe out of their sight was so hindered that he held no Councel Both sides made appeales to the Pope and complained to the King of the injuries done unto them So Hoveden Gulielmus Nubrigensis relates the story in these words When the Cardinall assisted by the Kings favour had called together the Ecclesiasticall persons of both Provinces of

his temporalities goods Chattels seised into the Kings hands Who yet would not yeeld but pronounced them all excommunicate who disobeyed the former constitution which being made onely by the Clergy and not ratified by King and Parliament was held but a meere idle nullity and audacious disobedient attempt obliging neither King nor subject Anno 1418. A Provinciall Synod was held at London under Henry Chichely Archbishop of Canterbury Where upon the motion of Robert Guilbert President of Merton Colledge in Oxford and of Thomas Kington it was decreed That the Patrons of Ecclesiasticall benefices when they fell voyd should conferre them upon such who were Graduates in the Universities having a respect of their degree and profession according to the value of the living This Constitution being propounded in the Congregation in the University to be there ratified the Masters of Arts Monks and Professors who exceeded the Regents of the University in multitude rejected and refused it but K. Henry the fifth being addicted to learning An. 1420. writ to the Synod then assembled at London wherein the Chancellors both of Oxford and Cambridge petitioned that it might be received though the Maisters of Art had refused to receive it to passe the Decree which some Friars there opposed Judge in Parliamento postea confirmavit and he afterwards confirmed the same in Parliament Loe here a Constitution first made in a Synod or Convocation rejected in both Vniversities because not then confirmed by the King in Parliament to make it binding and efficatious for future times a most pregnant evidence for proofe of that I now contend for To cite more presidents of this nature in former ages would be more tedious than necessary in so plaine a case I shall therefore passe from Councels and Synods to direct Acts of Parliament touching Religion and Church affaires As high as we have any Acts of Parliament since the Conquest remaining on Record We finde all Ecclesiasticall matters and Church affaires setled and ratified by speciall Acts of Parliament only not by the Clergies Canons The great Charter of England first granted by King Henry the first ratified afterwards at Runing-Mead by King John revived by King Henry the third in the ninth yeare of his Raigne confirmed frequently by him afterwards by King Edward the first in the 28th yeare of his Raigne yea by all or most of his successors in speciall Acts of Parliament by the Petition of Right 3. Caroli begins thus Know yee that we to the honour of Almighty God and for the salvation of the Soules of our Progenitors and Successors Kings of England to the advancement of holy Church c. First We have granted to God and by this our present Charter have confirmed for Vs and our Heires for ever more that the Church of England shall be free and have all her rights and liberties inviolable And that all her elections shall bee free c. An. 1164. In February there was a Parliament held at Clarindon by King Henry the 2d his command who was there present where all the Archbishops Bishops Abbotts Priors Earles Barons Nobles and great men of the Realm made a Recognition or Recerd of part of the Customes and Liberties of the Kings Ancestors to wit of King Henry the first and others which ought to be observed and kept by all men in the Realm by reason of the dissention and discords frequently emerging betweene the Clergy and the Kings Iustices and great men of the Realme the substance whereof was conteined in these 16. Chapters recorded by Matthew Paris 1. That if any controversie concerning the advowson and presentation of Churches should arise betweene Laymen or betweene Laymen and Clergie men it should bee heard and determined in the Court of our Lord the King 2. That the Churches of the Fee of our Lord the King could not bee given in perpetuity or appropiated without his grant or concession 3. That Clergiemen accused of any thing being summoned by the Kings Iustice should come into the Kings Court to answer the same there that so the Kings Court might determine what was to bee answered there and what fit to be answered in the Ecclesiasticall Court that so the Iustice might send into the Court of holy Church to see how the matter shall there be handled And if the Clarke shall be convict or confesse the crime that the Church from thenceforth ought not to protect him 4. That it shall not be lawfull to the Archbishops Bishops and persons of the Realme to goe out of the Realme without the Licence of our Lord the King and if they shall goe thence if it shall please the King they shall give him security that neither in going nor in returning nor in staying they shall procure hurt or dammage to our Lord the King or the Realme 5. That excommunicate persons ought not to give a pledge to remaine vadium ad remanentiam nor to take an Oath but onely to give a surety or pledge of standing to the judgment of the Church where they are absolved 6. That Laymen ought not to be accused but by lawfull accusers witnesses in the presence of the Bishop that the Arch-Deacon may not lose his right nor any thing that he ought to have from thence And if those who are accused shall be such that no man will or dares to accuse the Sheriffe being required by the Bishop shall sweare twelve lawfull men of the Vicenage or Town before the Bishop that they shall manifest the truth concerning such according to their Consciences 7. No man who holds of the King in Capite nor any of his Dominicall Ministers or house-hold servants shall be excommunicated nor the Lands of any one of them put under interdict unlesse our Lord the King if he bee within the Realme be first acquainted therewith or his Iustice if he shall be forth of the Realme the reason then rendred was lest the King should at unawares Kisse or admit to his Councell such an excommunicate person resorting to him that so he may doe right concerning him and see that what appertaineth to the Kings Court shall be there determined and that what belongeth to the Ecclesiasticall Court may bee sent unto it that it may bethere descided 8. Concerning appeales if they shall happen they ought to proceed from the Arch-Deacon to the Bishop from the Bishop to the Archbishop and if the Archbishop shall faile in exhibiting Iustice they may appeale to our Lord the K. in the last place and that by his precept the controversie may be ended in the Arch-Bishops Court so that there ought to bee no further proceeding without the assent of our Lord the King 10. If any be cited by the Arch-Deacon or Bishop for any offence for which he ought to answer to them and will not appeare upon their citations it shall bee lawfull for them to put him under interdict but they ought not to excommunicate him till he be convented before the

HERETIQVES limiting the maner of proceeding against them defining what shal be heresie how it shall be punished and abridging the Authority of the Bishops and Canon Law ch 16. concernes Pluralities ch 19. containes the submission of the Clergy Convocation to the King declares the Kings supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall the impotency of the Clergy or Convocation to make or promulge any Canons or Ecclesiasticall constituti●ns or to debate any thing in Convocation without his Royall Lycence and approbation The Nullity and invalidity of the Canon Law abolisheth all appeales to Rome and Authorizeth 32. persons whereof halfe to be of the Clergy the other halfe of THE LAITY to survay the Canon Law and to compile a body of the Canon Law to be authorized by the King under his Great Seale by vertue of this Act for to be the only Canon Law to be used within this Realme Chap. 20. takes away the payment of any Annates o● first fruits to the Bishop of Rome nullifies his usurped power and Buls settles the forme of electing and consecrating Archbishops and Bishops within this Realme and plentifully manifests the Kings and Parliaments Jurisdictions in Ecclesiasticall affaires chap. 21. doth the like exonerating the Kings Subjects from all exactions and Impositions heretofore payed to the Sea of Rome and enabling the Archbishop of Canterbury and his Officers to grant all Licences and dispensations within the Realme which were formerly granted at Rome only The Statute is worthy perusall consideration fully demonstrating the power of the Parliament in Church affaires 26. H. 8. c. 1. declares the Kings Highnesse to be supreme head of the Church of England under Christ making it a part of his Royall Title and to have Ecclesiasticall authority to redresse and reforme all Errors Heresies and abuses in the Church punishable by any spirituall or ecclesiasticall Law Chap. 3. enacts The payment of the first fruits of all Dignities Benefices promotions spirituall and tenthes to the King and his Heires abolishing the Popes usurpations and authority herein ch 13. abolisheth sanctuarie in cases of High Treason ch 14. Authorizeth the nomination and consecration of suffragan Bishops in sundry places of this Realme and both creates and limits their authority chap. 15. takes away some exactions of spirituall men within the Archdeaconry of Richmond 27. H. 8. c. 8. limits that the Kings spirituall Subjects shall pay no Tithes whiles they are in their first fruits ch 15. authorizeth the King to nominate 32. persons halfe of the Clergy the other of the Laity for the perusall and making of Ecclesiasticall Lawes and manifests the Convocations invalidity to make such lawes or Canons ch 19. Limiteth and abolisheth Sanctuaries and sanctuary persons ch 20. containes an Order touching the paying of Tithes throughout the Realme ch 21. Limits the maner of payment of Tythes within the City of London ch 27. suppresseth divers Monasteries Priories and Religious Houses vesteth their revenues in the King and erects the Court of Augmentations 28. H. 8. ch 10. extinguisheth thes authority of the Bishop of Rome prescribes an Oath of abjuration of it and Popery together with the Popes usurpations and excellently sets forth the Kings supreamacy the Parliaments authority in matters ecclesiasticall as you may read in the Act worthy perusall ch 11. enacts Restitution of the first fruits in time of vacation to the next incumbent ch 13. compells spirituall persons to residence upon their livings ch 16. Releaseth such as have obtained pretended Licences and dispensations from the Sea of Rome 31. H 8. c. 6. enables such as were Religious persons to purchase lands to sue and be sued in al maner of Actions which they were disabled formerly to do by the Common Canon Law ch 9. Enables the King to make Bishops by his Letters Patents only and to erect new Bishopricks which he did ch 13. disolves all Monasteries and religious Houses and vests them in the King wherein you may behold much of the Kings and Parliaments power in Church businesses ch 14. For abolishing of diversity of opinions in matters of Religion most fully and exactly demonstrates the Kings and Parliaments jurisdictions in matters of Religion as the whole Act sufficiently manifests though the Articles therein defined were erronious and the Act too cruell and bloudy 32. H. 8. cap. 8. provides for the true payment of Tythes and offerings chap. 10. containes the punishment of incontinent Priests and of women offending with them ch 12. concernes Sanctuaries and the priviledges of Churches and Church-Yards ch 15. prescribes the manner of proceeding against Heretickes and impugners of the Act for abolishing of enormious opinions in Christian Religion chap. 23 24. concernes Accounts of Bishops and subsidies granted by the Clergie chap. 25. Dispences the Kings marriage with the Lady Iane chap. 24. Dissolves the Hospitalls of Saint Johns of Ierusalem in England and Ireland for supporting and maintaining the supremacy and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome contrary to their duty and Allegiance chap. 26. Intitled An act concerning true opinions and Declaration of Christs Religion is most pregnant to our present purpose which you may peruse chap. 38. Concerning precontracts of marriages and degrees of consanguinity is likewise a most punctuall Act for the Kings and Parliaments Ecclesiasticall power and chap 44. 45 47. good evidences of it 33. H. 8. chap. 15. 27 28 29 30 31 32. Enabling Religious persons to sue and bee sued severing the Bishopricks of CHESTER and Isle of MAN from the jurisdiction of CANTERBURY to the See of Yorke making the Church of Whitgate a Popish Church by it selfe and severing it from the Parish of Over which I wish our Independents to observe and to learne from this and other Acts that no new Churches or Parishes can be erected legally but by act of Parliament which none of their Churches are 34. and 35. H. 8. c. 1. intituled An act for The advancement of true Religion and For the abolishing of the contrary is most pertinent to our purpose and c. 15. 17 19 35. H. 8. c. 9. for ratification of the Kings stile and Title of Defender of the Faith and supreame head of the Church of England and Ireland ch 6. Concerning the qualification of the Statute of the 6. Articles c. 16. concerning the examination of the Canon Lawes by 32. persons halfe of the Clergie and halfe of the temporalty to be named by the Kings Majesty during his life to compile a body of the Canon Law to bee used in the Realme 37. H. 8. c. 4. 12. but especially ch 17. That Doctors of civill Law may execute Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction though Laymen and married a Law worthy reading and chap. 21. For the union of Churches not exceeding the value of 5l which could not be done but by Act of Parliament are all most pregnant evidences of the Kings and Parliaments indubitable Ecclesiasticall jurisdictions in matters of Discipline Religion Church-government and all Church affaires whatsoever The Statutes made in King

Edward the 6. his Reigne are most punctuall and pegnant evidences hereof as namely 1. Edw. 6. ch 11. For administring the Sacrament in both kindes therein proved necessary by sundry Texts of Scripture and punishing such persons as shall unreverently speake against the Sacrament with Temporall and Ecclesiasticall censures ch 2. concerning the election and creation of Bishops by the Kings Letters Patents and what Processe and Seales they shall use declaring that they have no Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction but meerely from the King ch 9. For uniting certaine Churches within the City of Yorke ch 12. which abolisheth Sanctuaries and Clergy in some cases 2. and 3. E. 6. ch 1. For the Vniformity of service and the administration of the Sacraments throughout the Realme ch 13. For the true payment of Tythes ch 19. For abstinence from flesh ch 20. Concerning Recusants ch 23. For positive Lawes made against the Mariage of Priests ch 23. The repeale of a Statute touching Precontracts of Mariage 3. and 4. E. 6. ch 10. For the abolishing and putting away of diverse superstitious Popish Books and Images chap. 11. That the Kings Majesty may nominate and appoint 32. persons halfe Clergy-men and halfe Laymen to peruse and make Ecclesiasticall Lawes ch 12. For the manner of Ordaining Ecclesiasticall Ministers and Consecrating Bishops ch 15. Against fond and phantasticall Prophecies 5. and 6. E. 6. ch 1. For the uniformity of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments ch 3. For the keeping of Holy-dayes and Fasting dayes ch 4. Against fighting and quarelling in Churches and Church-Yards ch 12. For the lawfulnesse of Priests Mariage and legitimation of their children chap. 13. Touching Religious persons and c. 23. Against Vsurie All these are clearely Ecclesiasticall Acts yet made by Parliament The Statutes in Queene Maries Reigne though of a different Religion from her brother and a zealous Pontifician sufficiently evidence the jurisdiction of our Princes and Parliaments in matters of the Church and Religion witnesse 1. Mar. Parl. 1. Ses 2. Chap. 2. Repealing diverse acts-made touching Religion in King Edward the 6. his Raigne and setting up Masse and the old Lyturgies againe chap. 2. Against Offendors of Preachers and other Ministers in the Church or Church-Yard or interrupting them in their Sermons or saying Masse under paine of imprisonment fines and Ecclesiasticall censures chap. 15. For re-edifying the parish Church of Saint Ellins in Stangate 1. Mariae Par. 2. c. 1. Declaring That the Regall power of this Realme is in the Queenes Majesty as fully and absolutely as ever it was in any of her most Noble Progenitors Kings of this Realme chap. 3. Being an Act of Repeale of two severall acts in the 7. yeare of King Edward the 6. touching the dissolution of the Bishoprick of Durham Chap. 9. Touching Ordinances Rules c. in Cathedrall Churches and Schooles c. 10. Repealing a statute for the uniting of the parish Churches of Onger and Greensted in the County of Essex 1. and 2. Phil. and Mary chap. 6. For the reviving of three Statutes made for the punishment Of Heresies and that with forseiture of Lands imprisonment and death in some cases chap. 8. Intituled an Act repealing all Statutes Articles and provisions made against the See Apostolike of Rome since the 20. yeare of King H. 8. and restoring the Bishops with their Courts offices the Pope himselfe to their former usurped jurisdictions in England ratifying this Popes very Bulles and dispensations to make them valid and setling the whole affaires of the Church of England chap. 9. 20. For the punishing of traiterous Sermons and Prayers against the Queene chap. 17. Concerning leases of some spirituall persons and 2. and 3. Phil. and Mary chap. 4. For the extinguishment of first fruits c. All Ecclesiasticall Statutes In Queen Elizabeths happy Raigne there are sundry Statutes abundantly manifesting her own and the Parliaments supreame Iurisdictions and Legislative power in matters of Religion Church-government Discipline c. as namely 1 Eliz. c. 1. An Act restoring to the Crowne the ancient Jurisdiction OVER THE STATE ECCLESIASTICALL SPIRITVALL and abolishing all fortaigne power repugnant to the same which gives the Queen her heires and successors all manner of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction in and over all Ecclesiasticall persons and causes and power to correct redresse and reform all manner of HERESIE SCHISME ERRORS ABVSES OFFENCES ECCLESIASTICALL prescribes the oath of Supremacy which all are to take and most Independents have formerly taken wherein they do utterly testifie and declare in their consciences that the Queen and her Successours are the onely supreame Governours of this Realme and other their Dommions as well IN ALL SPIRITVALL OR ECCLESIASTICALL THINGS OR CAVSES as temporall c. which jurisdiction of theirs they sweare to their power to assist and defend Which oath if any refuse to take hee shall forseit all his Ecclesiasticall promotions and temporall offices This Act likewise abolisheth the Popes jurisdiction under pain of a praemunire and other mulcts against the maintainers of it It determines what shall be adjudged HERESIE and what not namely Only such matter and cause as heretofore hath been determined ordered and adjudged to be heresie by the authority of the Canonicall Scriptures o● by the first foure generall-Councels or any of them or by any other generall Councell wherein the same was declared heresie by the expresse and plain words of the Canonicall Scripture or such as hereafter shall be ordered IVDGED OR DETERMINED TO BE HERESIE BY THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT OF THIS REALME with the assent of the Clergy in their Convocation to wit by way of assistance and advice cumulatively not negatively as if their assent were simply necessary So as by this Act the Parliament is made the sole proper Iudge what is or shal be reputed punished as heresie what not how it shal be punished the highest point of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction Ch. 2. For the uniformity of Common prayer and service in the Church and administration of the Sacraments enjoyning conformity under temporall and Ecclesiasticall punishments is an irrefragable proofe of the Parliaments Ecclesiasticall power in all Church matters and 1 Eliz. c. 3. 4. 6. 5 Eliz. c. 1. For the assurance of the Queens royall power over all States and Subjects within her Highnesse Dominions ch 23. For the due executing of Writs de Excommunicato capiendo ch 28. For translating of the Bible and divine Service into the Welch tongue 8 Eliz. c. 1. Declaring the manner of making and Corsecrating the Archbishops Bishops and Ministers of this Realm to be good lawfull and perfect ratifying the Booke of common Prayer and of Ordination together with the Queens Soveraigne Ecclesiasticall Authority 13 Eliz. c. 2. Against the bringing in and putting in execution of Bulls and other instruments of the See of Rome chap. 8. Against Usury ch 19. concerning Dilapidations c. 12. To reforme certain disorders touching Ministers of the Church ratifying the 39.

civill Magistrates as you have plentifully done even with some colour of reason as well as insanire cum ratione which is all I shall answer to your reasons Fourthly Hee writes Let Master Prynne Or any other evict mee of any wilfull or unwilfull violation of the priviledges of Parliament and I shall bee as willing as willingnesse it selfe can make me to further such a conviction and no man shall be more ready then I to crave their pardon or undergoe their Justice nay I shall repent my selfe and abhor my errour in dust and ashes Certainely this your promised late Repentance which is yet contingent and improbable after so many publike offronts and oppositions against the power and proceedings of Parliament will bee a very poore recompence and satisfaction for all your former misdemeanors and scandalls to the Parliament yet late repentance being better then none at all I shall now challenge you to make good this your promise since your owne Conscience and judgment cannot but informe you I have written enough in the former Sections to evict and convince you and all the world besides that you have not only violated but denyed oppugned those priviledges of Parliament in Ecclesiasticall affaires which our owne Parliaments in all ages and Parliamentary Assemblies in all other Kingdomes have unquestionably exercised enjoyed without any such publique opposition as you have made against them And if you now make not good your promise few or none will ever credit you hereafter 5ly For the Authors you cite to justifie yourselfe they are miserably wrested and mistaken for the most part The first you quote is Master Edwards who maintaines point blancke against you throughout his Treatise a Legislative and coerceive power in Parliaments and civil Majestrates even in Church-affaires and matters of Religion in the very pages you quote and else where Therefore you palpably abuse the Author and Reader in quoting him to the contrary who is so point-blancke against you For the passage you quote out of his Page 256. The Parliament interposeth no Authority to determine what government shall be whence you inferre p. 7. Therefore his opinion appeares to be either that the Parliament hath No authority or at least intends not to make use of it in determining a government It was written only with reference to that present time the Parliament having at that time when he writ during the Assemblies debate and consultation interposed no Authority to determine what government shall be yet before that it had declared the old prelaticall Lordly government to be abolished and called an Assembly to advise with about a New But to inferre from thence as you doe Therefore his opinion is either that the Parliament hath no Authority or at least intends not to make use of it in determining a Government Is an inference quite contrary to the next ensuing words and pages to the whole scope of the Authors Booke Humbly submitted to the Honourable houses of Parliament contrary to his expresse words p. 138. 281. to all his reasons against Toleration of your Way and to the Parliaments intent in calling the Assembly to assist them in determining and setling a Church-government agreable to Gods word Be ashamed therefore of this grosse perversion of your first Authors passages diametrally contrary to this meaning Your Passages out of Master Hayward Bishop Iewell Master Fox Mr. Calvin Iacobus Acontius Junius Peter Martyr and Gulielmus Appolonius make nothing at all against the Legislative Authority of Parliaments in matters of Religion and Church government and have no a●●inity with your Passages words most of them Bishop Iewel especially as I have already proved vindicating propugning the very ecclesiastical power of Parliaments which you oppugne Indeed some of their words seeme to diminish the Coercive power of Majestrat●s enforcing of mens consciences in matters of Religion which I shal answer in due place and manifest how you abuse the Authors herein as well as Mr. Edwards not hitherto answered by any of your party but how they militat against the jurisdiction of Parliaments in making Lawes touching Religion discipline and Church-government I am yet to seeke For the Passages he aleageth out of the Divines of Scotland That the Prince or Majestrate may not make or publish any Ecclesiasticall Law without the free assent of the Clergy c. That he may not by HIMSELFE define or direct such matters nor make any Lawes therein That the King hath not a Nomotheticke Legislative Power in matters ecclesiasticall in a constitute Church That the ordinary power of the King is not to make Ecclesiasticall Lawes c. I Answer 1. That their only meaning if I mistake not in these passages is that the Prince or chiefe civill Majestrate of HIMSELFE without a Parliament or without the assistance and consent of his Nobles Commons Clergy cannot legally make any ecclesiasticall Lawes to obliege his people upon which reason our Brethren of Scotl. rejected the late New service booke and Canons and our selves the late Canons c Oath which Canterbury wold have obtruded on us because they were made and prescribed only by the Kings Authority and the Prelates or Convocations not the Parliaments upon which very reason the Parliaments of both Kingdomes have respectively adjudged both one and other illegall But that the King or supreame temporall Majestrates assisted by a Parliament and Orthdox Divines may not make binding ecclesiasticall Lawes or that their or our Parliaments have not a reall Legislative power in any matters ecclesiastike the only point controversed is directly contrary both to the constant Doctrine and Practise of our Brethren and their Church used ever since the Reformation to the proceedings of their last Parliaments and generall Assemblies as I have formerly manifested You may therefore blush at this your perverting of their meaning as if they held that the Parliaments of England or Scotland had no power to make Ecclesiasticall Lawes for Religion or Church gouernment when as their Bookes Actions addresses to our present Parliament their presence assistance in our Assembly proclaimes the contrary And the very publique Confession of faith professed and subscribed in their Church Anno 1560 Chap. 14 since confirmed by severall Acts of Parliament doth the like But admit all those Authors really as not one of them is in verity opposite to the Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and Legislative power of Parliaments yet the unanimous practise and resolution of all Christian Realmes Synods Parliaments in all ages contrary to their private novell opinions is sufficient infinitly to overbalance them in the Judgements of all prudent men And thus much for Mr. Goodwins Innocencies tryumph as to the present point I shall next apply my selfe to Answer such Objections as my deare Brother Master Henry Burton hath lately made against the premises in his Vindication to my 12. Queeres touching Church-Government my Independency examined His first and principall Objection is this

Churches in the Bible yet none of them nor my dear Brother have hitherto been able to shew it though they have oft-times promised it Therefore we presume there is no such Shew us but some cleare Texts to manifest it and we will believe you without more dispute till then though you were Angels from Heaven we dare not credit you without a word to build on 3ly Because some Independents themselves one Anonymous who hath published a malicious Answer to me full of virulency against Presbytery the Scots positively deny any such universall platforme concurring fully with me in opinion Fourthly Because the Churches of God ever since the Apostles dayes have in severall Nations Republikes States and Conditions had different formes of Government Discipline Ceremonies administrations in some particulars as the Independent Congregations of Brownists Anabaptists Familists c. differ in sundry things of moment among themselves and yet have ever beene reputed true Churches of Christ The Churches of England Scotland France Geneva Germany Aethiopia Russia Greece Bohemia and the Netherlands vary one from another in their Government Discipline Rites Ceremonies in some points of Doctrine and are not Independent yet none of our Brethren I suppose will be so uncharitable as to deem them all Antichristian opposers of the Kingdome and Government of Christ and no true Churches as they must of necessity be if Church-government be a part of the Gospel one uniform unalterable Government universally prescribed to them all Fiftly Because the Gospel never intended to subvert diminish crosse or destroy the lawfull civill politicall Governments Lawes Customes of Kingdomes Nations Republikes which are Gods own Ordinance as well as Churchgovernment since one Ordinance of God doth not crosse or thwart another Now the lawfull Governments Customes Manners of most Nations Kingdoms Republiks being various different one from another the Gospel to be equally preached to them all some Church-government erected among them all and the condition of the Church whiles militant in this world being as full of changes as the Moone sometimes tossed with the boysterous waves almost drowned in the flouds of affliction Sometimes totally ecelipsed and driven into the wildernesse in one place yet slourishing or lesse troubled in another Othertimes in a prosperous peaceable condition Sometimes under Pagan or impious Princes and Magistrates other whiles under more or lesse pious Christian Kings and Governours sometimes in a more pure light some otherwhiles in a more corrupt ignorant condition Sometimes over-growne with haeresies schismes Innovations other-times holding forth the truth more clearly and purging out of all errors sometimes requiring a more sharpe and rigorous Discipline other-times a more milde and gentle Yea some Nations being more barbarous fierce obstinat vitious proner to some kinde of vices sins corruptions then others and so needing a Discipline Government somewhat discrepant from those who are more civell and ingenious Some using one gesture of prayer adoration administring the Sacrament some another as some bowing others kneeling others prostration some knocking of the breasts some bare-headed others covered some vayled others unvayled some sitting at the Lords Supper in one manner others in another Some kneeling others standing some using dipping others sprinkling others washing in baptisme some one kinde of tongue tone tune gesture in singing Preaching Praying others another which is all I meant in my first and second Queries by the manners and customes of the people which my deare Brother mis-interprets as meant of their superstitious and corrupt customes not their civill which I onely intended Some one forme of Temples Churches Tables Pulpits Chalices Vestments others another and all Nations not having the selfe-same opinion judgement of the lawfulnes or conveniency of one sort of Church-government as of another I conceive there was a kinde of necessity under the Gospel of leaving divets things in Church-government and Discipline more indeffinite and arbittary then under the Leviticall Law given onely to the Iewish Nation and that not for perperuity but till the Gospel came which see them free from that yoake of bondage and left them and all other beleevers at greater liberty than before This I conceive to be the true reason why there is no such precise universall set forme of Church-government and Discipline punctually prese●bed without the least variation to all Nations Churches in the New Testament as you say was to the Israelites in the old 6ly The Government and Discipline of the Churches of Christ hath bin alwayes more or lesse variable in every age and never continued uniforme constant unalterable in any age as the fundamentall Doctrines of the Church have done We are able to produce Professors of the Doctrines maintained in the Protestant Churches in all ages the Doctrine of the Gospel being universally the same and unalterable But no creature is able to demonstrate a succession of any one kind of Church-government discipline in all ages or Churches be it Presbyteriall Episcopall or mixt of both much lesse any series of Independent Churches Therefore certainly there is no such universall divine set forme of Church-government and Discipline essentiall to the being of a true Church prescribed in the Scriptures as some have fancied for then it would have had a being in some part or other of the world in all ages as well as the Doctrine of the Gospel and the Sacraments 7ly All Independents reach that there is no set forme of publick Prayer Liturgy preaching administring the sacrament in every particular nor yet of the matter or fashion of Churches Tables Chancels Vestments Gestures of Worship prescribed to all Churches Nations in all ages without variation yea they reject all set formes of publike Prayers administration of the Sacraments and Liturgies in Churches as Antichristian unlawfull or unexpedient at the least though they can hardly prove them such If then there be no set forme of publique Prayers Liturgy Preaching administring the Sacraments c. prescribed to all Churches in al ages without any variation and every Minister be 〈◊〉 at large to use his owne Method and manner of Praying Preaching administring the Sacraments Chatechising as Independents affirme provided it be generally consonant to the word Let them render me a solid reason if they can why there should be only one universall unalterable divineforme of Church-Government and Discipline precisely imposed on all Churches Nations ages alike without the least variation else they must of necessity grant as great a liberty and indefinitenes in the one as other and that there may be as many different formes of Church-Government and Discipline as of preaching praying Singing of Psalmes administring the Sacraments c. provided they be all decent agreeable to the generall rules of Scripture though not particularly prescribed therin 8ly All grant there is no immutable universall set forme of Civill Government prescribed to all Nations Republickes Cities Families Christian or Ethenicall 〈◊〉 they have a

seven to what Rules Covenants Orders Censures Government Discipline every private Minister Eldership or every major part of a congregation shall arbitrarily prescribe unto their members as suitable to the Word No doubt he that hath a doubtfull case in Law would rather have the advice of many solid Lawyers then one he that is sicke in body will give more credit to the opinion of the whole Colledge of Physitians upon debate then to one or two Doctors or Apothecaries Whence the policies of all States Churches in all Ages have reserved the power of making Lawes and setling matters of greatest moment to their most generall Councells Parliaments and Assemblies not to Cabinet Counsells or Vesteries Brother it is a true rule of Aristotle that men are better governed by Laws which continue constant inpartiall inflexible then by Men whose lusts passions interests and private ends doe for the most part byasse them awry holds as well in Ecclesiasticall as civill Constitutions Therefore this legislative power and Jurisdiction of Parliaments and Synods over particular Churches is so farre from being a prejudice or slavery to them that it is as great a priviledge and freedome as our Parliaments are to our Kingdomes which onely make binding Lawes for all and the only meanes to free us from an arbitrary Government The third thing my Brother objects is That all these Churches where the Apostles Preached were of absolute Authority among themselves respectively and equall one to another not one of them having jurisdiction over another The seven Churches of Asia the Churches of Ephesus Corinth Antioch c. exercising all jurisdiction within themselves alone not being subordinate to themselves or any other as others object And in the Primitive Churches next after Christ for two hundred yeares or more the Government was almost popular and every Church had equall power of ordaining and casting out their Minister and were independent one of another as appeares by the Centurists Cent. 1. c. 7. Tit de Conso●iatione Ecclesiarum and De Synodis privatis To this I answer 1. That there is no such thing in the first Century my Brother quotes nor any thing in the second but that one particular Church and Bishop was not then Lord and soveraign over another but it saith not they were not subject to the determinations of publick Synods 2. That none of the Churches planted by the Apostles were absolute and Independent as you pretend For first they were all subject to the Apostles rules and directions both Churches Ministers Elders as is evident by the whole History of the Acts and all the Epistles written to those Churches after they were planted prescribing Rules and Directions to them for to follow by Pauls sending for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus to him to Miletus and giving them there a charge concerning themselves and their flockes Acts 20. 15. to 36. by ● Cor. 11. 18. That which commeth upon me daily the care of all the Churches c. 1 Cor. 11. 34. The rest will I set in order when I come by his commanding them to deliver the incestuous Corinthian to Sathan 1 Cor. 5. 4 5. Tit. 1. 5 6. Therefore they were not Independent or absolute in themselves but subordinate to the Apostles 2. Though they were not subordinate immediately one to another as one single Parish Church now is not subordinate to another particular Church nor the Churches of one City Republike Kingdom subordinate to another yet they were all subject to a Parliament Synod or combination of many Churches in cases of differences new opinions c. which concern the purity of Religion the suppressing of Schismes the common Peace or weale of all Churches in which all have equall interest as is cleare by the Synodicall determination and decrees of the Apostles Elders and Brethren at Ierusalem who sent Decrees to all the Churches of the Gentiles to observe Acts 15. throughout c. 21. 24 25. which is thus expressed Ch. 16. v. 4 5. And as they went through the Cities they delivered them THE DECREES FOR TO KEEPE THAT WERE ORDAINED OF THE APOSTLES AND ELDERS WHICH WERE AT HIERVSALEM And marke the happy fruites and effects of those Decrees And so was the Church established in the Faith and increased in number daily It was well there were no Independents then they would have quarrelled both this Synod and its Decrees as they doe most strangly now or sought for to avoyd this unavoydable president argued as some doe now What we are Independent Congregations absolute and compleate within our selves what hath the Church or Synod at Jerusalem to doe to make Decrees for us to keepe who are under Christ alone as our onely King Head Governour Law-giver not under Apostles Elders Synods or any other Church who may not Lord it over us Hence then I argue that the Churches then were not Independent because they thus readily embraced submitted to the observation of these Synodall Decrees which our Independent Churches will not stoop to saying Their Churches are absolute intirely their owne who is Lord over them Adde to this that the Apostle in the 1 Cor. 11. 15. argues the unlawfulnesse of womens praying without vailes and of mens wearing long haire ad never longer in England then now in the Church of Corinth from the very custome of other Churches Neverthelesse saith he if any man seens to be contentious in opposing the premises we have no such custome NEITHER THE CHVRCHES OF CHRIST where Paul from the custome of all other Churches of Christ condemnes the irregularity of some in the Church of Corinth whence I argue If the lawful laudable customes only of all other or most of the Churches of Christ ought to oblige a sister Church that is singular and different from them to uniformity with them in things convenient and just as this Text manifests then by like reason the just Decrees and Canons of many Churches combined ought to oblige particular Churches which are under their precincts 3. Though the Church of Corinth did not exercise Jurisdiction or claime a power over the Church of Philippi nor one of the seven Churches exercise a Jurisdiction over the other as they were single Churches and under severall civill Government whose Magistrates then were not Christians yet Paul John and the other Apostles held a jurisdiction over them as their Epistles to them manifest and they all combined in a Synod had power by their Deputies one over another not as particular Churches but as a Synod wherein they were all combined as the second Century cap. 7. Master Rutherford his due Right of Presbitires Art 15. p. 355. to 480. to whom I sha refer the Reader My Brothers Argument therefore is but this in substance The Church of Sepulchres hath no jurisdiction over Saint Androwes nor the Church of Pauls over Westminster not the Church of England over the Church of France or Scotland Ergo a generall Councell or

1073. g Hist Novotum lib 1. p. 6. h Malmesb dr Gestis Pon●●f Anglōrum p 214. 215. 1075. 1093. i Eadmerus Hist Noverum lib. 1. p. 26. to 31. k Historia Angl. p. 190. l Hadmerue Histor Novorum l. 3. p. 6● Willielmu● Malm●●bury de Gestis pontif Anglorum l. 1. p 228. 〈◊〉 Annal. pars prior p. 469. Math. Westm An. 1102. p. 23. Antiquitares Ecclesiae Brit. p. 104 105. m Jotnal Histor Antiqui Ecclesiae Brit. p. 105. n Matth. Pa●is Histor Angl. Anno 1107. p. 25. 26. Roger ●oveden Annal. pars 1. p. 60. Eadmerus Hist Novorum l. 4. p. 91. o Eadmerus Hist l. 4. p. 94. 95. Haec sunt statuta de Archid●aconibus● c. qua Dominicae incarnat A●iouis 1108. statue●●nt Ansel Co●tuar●ensis Archiepiscoput Thomas Ebor acensi● Archiepisco●us electus cum eo alii Episcopi Anglia● In presentia gloriosi Regis Henrici essensu Comitum et Baronum suo●um ●atutum est 〈◊〉 Regeni Haveden Anal● pars prior p. 472. p Eadmerus Hist l. 5. p. 114 115. 116. 〈◊〉 p. 49 50 51. * A meere ●orgery and untruth See Section ● q Eadmer●● Ibidem p. 117. 1114. r Ibid. p. 1●8 ſ Eadmerus Hist Novorum l. 3. p. 58. Note t Eadmerus Hist. l. 6. p. 137. 138. 1125. u An. 1125 p. 499 500. See R●ger Hoveden Annal parspr●orp 478 Math Westm Anno 1125. p. 31. Mathew Paris An 1125 p. 67. Henry Huntindon Hist l. 7. p. 382. Cum eadem di●●●●pus Christi con●ecisset Meretrice post Vesperam interceptuo est Res apertissima negari non potuit celari non decuit Summ● honor ubique habitus in summum dedecus versus est c. write our Popish Monke● See John Bale his Acts of English Votaries Holingshe●d Speed and others y Continuatio ad Florentium Wigorni●sem p. 503. 504. 505. z Continuatio●●● Flore●tium Wigorniensem p. 519 a Roger Hoveden An●al pars prior An. 1138. p. 485. b Hoveden Ibid. Anno 1139 484. c Mathew Westm Anno 1142. p. 28. Mathew Paris An. 1142. p. 76 Roger Hoveden Anno 1142. p. 488. Gulielmus Neubrigensis l. 1. c. 18. p. 27 d Artic. Cler. c. 3 22 As● 70. 11. H. 4 88 20 E 4 10 b. 22 E. 4 20 12 H 7. 22 23 C. ●4 report f●o Fitz. Na Br●s 51 k 52 m. 53. ● e Antiqu Eccles Bri● p 117 f Nubrigensis Hist l. 2 c 9 p. 112. 113. 113. See Ioannis Marius Zaberel Theodoricus a Niem de Schismate g Eadmerus Hist Novorum l. 2. p. 23 33. h Eadmerus Hist l. 2. p. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. i Gulielmns Nubrigensis Rer. Angl. l. 1. c. 25. k Hoveden Annal. pars posterior An. 1175. p. 542. Speeds Hist of great Britaine p. 521. 1175 l Hoveden ib. p. 546. 547. Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. p. 94 95. 1175 m Hoveden ibid. An. 1176 p. 548 549 550. 1176 n See Eadmerus hist Novor● l. 4. p. 97 l. 5. p. 139 to 135. Malmesbury de Gestis Pontif. Anglor l. 3. p. 272 273. o Annal. part posterior An. 1176. p 550 1176 p Hist l. 3. c. 1. p 210 211. q In vita Richardi p 125 126 ſ Math. Westm Anno 1226 p. 118. 119. 126. Math Paris An 1226. p. 316. Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. pi 153. 154. t Math. Paris p. 319. Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. p. 119. 120. v Math. Paris Hist Angl. An. 1231. p. 359. 1231. x Matth. Paris An. 1136. p. 431 432 433. Math. Westm An. n. 237. p. 146. Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. p. 163 164. 1236. 1288 y Antiquit. Ecclesiae Brit. p. 205. Se loannis de Aton Constit Provinciales f. 139 131. 1296 z Antiquit. Eccl●siae Brit. p. 209 210 211. Matthew Westminster An. 1295 1296 1297. p. 408. 409. 410. Thomas Washingham Ypodigma Neustriae An. 1296 1297. a See Fox Acts and Monuments p. 388. Bishop Iewels defence of the Apology of the Church of England part 6. c. 2. divis 1. p. 522 habito Rex cum suis Baronibus Parliamento Clero excluso Statutum est c. b Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. p. 314 315. 1418 c See Sir Edw Cookes Institutes on Magna Charta c. 1. Matthew Paris p. 53. 249 296. King Henry the 1. and 2. d Matthew Paris p. 96. 97 98 99. See Eadmerus Houeden Hollingshed Speed Daniel in the life of King Henry the 2d and Antiqu. Ecclesiae Brit and Godwin in the life of Becket * Matthew Paris ibid. f The Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy c. part 1. p. 17. to 29. K. Henry 3. K. Edw. 1. K. Edw. 2. K. Edw. 3. K. Rich. 2. K. Henry 4. K. Henry 5. K. Henry 6. K. Ed. 4. K. Rich. 3. K. Henry 7. K. Henry 8. K. Edward the 6th Q. Mary Q. Elizabeth K. James K. Charles a Crompton Iurisdiction f. 1. 2. Con● 4. Institut● p. 9. b Walsingham Hist Angliae p. 188. 204. to 210. 302. to 307. Fox Acts and Monuments vol. 1. p. 556. to 570. c Walsingham Hist Angl. p. 302 303. d Acts and Monuments vol. 1. p. 618 619 620. * See Boanerges o● the Supplication of the Ministers of Scotland to the high Court of Parliament of England Master Henry Burton his Israels Fast the Epistle Dedicatory The Petition of the Lincolnshi●e Ministers c. * Redly to A. ● p. 111. See my Brother Burtons Vindication p. 44 45. 60 51 62. e Part. 6. c. 2. Divis 1. p. 641 643 654 ●●5 f The true difference betweene Christian subjection and unchristian Rebellion part 3 p. 540. 541. 4●2 543. NOTA. FRANCE Fredericus Lindebrogus Codex Legum Antiquarum g See the Title p. 1. Ad● dit 4. f. 304. Hinemari Epist ad Epis copos quosdam Franciae et Ludovico Regi And Fridericus Lindebrogus Codex Legum Antiquarum p. 322. c. h Caroli Magni c. Capitula p. 328. 329 Fridericus Lindebrogus Codex legum Antiquarum p. 1193. 1196. 1197. i Acts and Monuments vol. 1. p. 461. to 478. Edit 164. Spaine Bohamia Denmarke Italy Frederic●● Lindebrogus Cod Legum Antiquarum m Ib. f. 363. n Ib. f. 400. Fridericus Lindeb ogus Ibid. f. 265. 166. o Ib. f 439. p Ib. f. 442. q Ibid. f. 498 591. r Ibid. f. ſ Ib. 694. r Codicis l 1. Tit. 1. to 12. Novel Const 3. 5 6. 16 37. 42 67. 77 83 79 123 131 132 133 141 144 146 1●● 117. Ireland Scotland u Hector B●ethius lib. 10. Spelman Concil p. 340. 342. x See Regiam Majestatem Or Auld laws constitutions of Scotland collected by Sir Iohn Skene printed at Edinburgh 16●9 * Knox History of the Reformation of Religion in the Realme of Scotland l. 3. p. 127. to 135. * Ibidem p. 250. 251. to 278. See the Doctrine and Discipline of the Kirke of Scotland Le●●e lib. 10. Buchanon Hist l. 16. 17. 18. * Page 96. 97. 98. * See my Brother Burtons Vindication p. 69. * ● Theomachia ● 48. 49.