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A63509 A True description or rather a parallel betweene Cardinall Wolsey, Arch-Bishop of York, and VVilliam Laud, Arch-Bishop of Canterbvry. 1641 (1641) Wing T2679; ESTC R23148 4,467 9

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A true Description OR Rather a Parallel betweene Cardinall WOLSEY Arch-Bishop of YORK AND WILLIAM LAUD Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY Printed in the Yeare 1641. A true Description or rather a Parallel between Cardinall Wolsey Arch-Bishop of York and William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterburie c. THere be two Primates or Arch-Bishops throughout England and Wales Canterburie and Yorke both Metropolitans York of England Canterburie of all England for so their Titles runne To the Primate of Canterburie bee subordinate thirteene Bishops in England and foure in Wales But the Primate of Yorke hath at this time but two Suffragans in England Namely the Bishops of Carliele and Durhan though hee had in King Lucius dayes who was the first Christian King of this our Nation all the Prelacy of Scotland within his jurisdiction Canterburie commanding all from this side the River Trent to the furthest limits of Wales and York commanding all from beyond the Trent to the utmost bounds of Scotland and hitherto their prime Archiepiscopall Prerogatives may not unproperly be paralleld In the time of Henrie the first were potent two famous Prelates Anselme of Canterburie who durst contest against the King and Girald of Yorke who denyed to give place or any precedence at all to Anselme Thomas Becket who was first Chancellour and after Arch-Bishop of Canterburie in the reigne of Henrie the second bore himselfe so insol●ntly against the King his Soveraigne that it cost him his life being slaine in the Church as he was going to the Altar But above all the pride tyrannie and oppression of the Bishop of Ely in the reigne of Richard the first wants example who was at once Chancellour of England and Regent of the Land and held in his hand at once the two Arch-Bishopricks of York and Canterburie who never rid abroad without a thousand horse for his guard to attend him whom we may well parallel with the now great Cardinall of France and need hee had of such a traine to keep himselfe from being pulled to peeces by the oppressed Prelates and people equally extorting from the Clergie and Laietie yet he in the end disguising himselfe in the shape of an old Woman thinking to passe the Sea at Dover where hee awayted on the Strand a Pinace being hired for that purpose he was discovered by a Sayler and brought backe to abide a most severe sentence Stephen Lancthon Arch-Bishop of Canterburie in the time of King Iohn would not absolve the Land being for sixe yeares together indicted by the Pope till the King had payd unto him and the rest of the Bishops eighteene thousand Markes in gold and thus I could continue the pride of the Prelacie and their great Tyrannie through all the Kings Reignes But I now fall upon the promist parallel betwixt Thomas Wolsey Arch-Bishop of York and Cardinall and William Laud Doctor in Divinitie and Arch-Bishop of Canterburie They were both the sonnes of meane and Mechanick men Wolsey of a Butcher Laud of a Clothworker The one borne in Ipswich threescore miles the other in Reading thirtie miles distant from the City of London both of them verie toward forward and pregnant grammar Schollars and of singular apprehensions as suddenly rising to the first forme in the Schoole From thence being yong they were removed to the Vniversitie of Oxford Wolsey admitted into Maudlin Coledge Laud into St. Iohns and as they were of different times so they were of different statures yet either of them well shapt according to their proportions VVolsey was of a competent tallnesse Laud of a lesse size but might be called a prettie man as the other a proper man both of ingenious and acute aspects as may appeare by this mans face the others picture In their particular Colledges they were alike proficients both as active of body as braine serious at their private studies and equally frequent in the Schooles eloquent Orators either to write speake or dictate daintie Disputants well verst in Philosophy both Morall Physicall and Metaphysicall as also in the Mathematicks and neither of them strangers to the Muses both taking their degrees according to their time and through the whole Academie Sir Wolsey was called the boy-Batchelour and Sir Laud the little Batchelour The maine study that either of them fixt upon was Theologie for though they were conversant in all the other Arts and Sciences yet that they solely profest and by that came their future preferment Wolsey being Batchelour was made Schoole-master of Maudlin Schoole in Oxford but Laud came in time to be Master of St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford therein transcending the other as also in his degrees of Master of Art Batchelour of Divinitie and Doctor of Divinitie when the other being suddenly cald from the Rectorship of his schoole to be resident upon a Countrie Benefice he took no more Academicall degrees than the first of Batchelour and taking a strange affront by one Sir Amius Paulet a Knight in the Countrie who set him in the Stocks he indured likewise divers other disasters but that disgrace he made the Knight pay dearely for after he came to be invested in his dignitie Briefely they came both to stand in the Princes eye but ere I proceed any further let me give the courteous Reader this modest caveat that he is to expect from me onely a parallell of their Acts and Fortune but no legend of their lives it therefore briefely thus followeth Both these from Academicks comming to turne Courtiers Wolsey by his diligent waiting came to insinuate himselfe into the brests of the Privie Counsellours His first emploiment was in an Embassie to the Emperour which was done by such fortunate and almost incredible expedition that by that only he grew into first grace with King Henry the seventh father to King Henry the eighth Laud by the mediation and meanes wrought by friends grew first into favour with King Iames of sacred memory father to our now royall Soveraigne King Charles They were both at first the Kings Chaplaines Woolseyes first preferment was to bee Deane of Lincolne of which hee was after Bishop Lauds first ecclesiasticall dignity was to be Deane of Saint Davids of which he was after Bishop also And both these Prelaticall Courtiers came also to be privie Counsellours Woolsey in the beginning of Henry the eighths raigne was made Bishop of Tourney in France soone after Bishop of Lincoln and before his full consecration by the death of the Incumbent was ended translated to the Arch-Bishoprick of York and all this within the compasse of a yeare Laud though not so suddainly yet very speedily was from St. Davids removed to London and from London to Canterburie and this in the beginning of the Reigne of King Charles Thus you see they were both Arch-Bishops and as Laud was never Cardinall so Woolsey was never Canterburie But in some things the Cardinall much exceeded Canterburie as in holding all these Bishopricks at once when the other was never possest but of one at one time The