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A19932	Le primer report des cases & matters en ley resolues & adiudges en les courts del Roy en Ireland. Collect et digest per Sr. Iohn Dauys Chiualer Atturney Generall del Roy en cest realme; Reports des cases & matters en ley, resolves & adjudges en les courts del roy en Ireland	Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.	1615 (1615)	STC 6361; ESTC S107361	165,355	220

adiudged high treason to bring in Bulls of Excommunication whereby the Realme should bee cursed 7 That no decree should bee brought from the Pope to bee executed in England vppon paine of imprisonment and confiscation of goods To these and other Constitutions of the like nature made at Claringdon all the rest of the Bishops and great men did subscribe and bound themselues by oath to obserue the same absolutly onely the Archbishop would not subscribe and sweare but with a Sauing saluosuo ordine bonore sancte Ecclesi● yet at last hee was content to make the like absolute subscription and oath as the rest had done but presently hee repented and to shewe his repentance suspended himselfe from celebrating Masse till he had receaued absolution from the Pope Then he began to maintaine and iustifie the exemption of Clarkes againe whereat the Kings displeasure was kindled a new and then the Archbishop once againe promised absolute obedience to the Kings lawes See the ficklenes mutability of your constant Martyr The King to bind fast this slippery Proteus called a Parliament of the Bishops and Barons and sending for the Roll of those lawes required all the Bishops to set their seales therevnto They all assented but the Archbishop who protested he would not set his seale nor giue allowance to those lawes The King being highly offended with his rebellious demeanor required the Barons in Parliament to giue Iudgement of him who being his subiect would not be ruled by his lawes Cito facite mihi iustitiam de illo qui homo meus ligeus est stare Iuri in Curia mearecusat Wherevppon the Barons proceeding against him being ready to condemne him I prohibit you quoth the Archbishop in the name of Almighty God to proceed against mee for I haue appealed to the Pope and so departed in contempt of that high Court Omnibus clamantibus saith Houenden quo progrederis proditor expecta audi iudicium tuum After this he lurked secretly neere the Sea shore and changing his apparell and name like a Iesuit of these times he tooke shipping with a purpose to flie to Rome but his passage being hindred by contrary windes hee was summoned to a Parliament at Northampton where he made default wilfully for which contempt his temporalties were seised and his body being attacht he was charged with so great an account to the King as that he was found in arreare thirty thousand markes and committed to prison whence hee found meanes to escape shortly after and to passe out of the Realme to Rome Hee was no sooner gone but the King sends writts to all the Shiriffs in England to attach the bodies of all such as made any appeales to the Court of Rome herevppon many messages and letters passing to froe all the suffragans of Canterbury ioyne in a letter to the Pope wherein they condemne the fugitiue Archbishop and iustifie the Kings proceedings Vppon this the Pope sends two Legates to the King being then in Normandy to mediate for the Archbishop They with the mediation of the French King preuailed so farre with King Henry as that he was pleased to accept his submission once againe and promised the King of France that if he would be obedient to his lawes he should enioy as ample liberties as any Archbishop of Canterbury euer had and so sent him into England with recommendation vnto the young King his Sonne then lately Crowned who hearing of his comming commaunded him to forbeare to come to his presence vntill he had absolued the Archbishop of Yorke others whome he had excommunicated for performing their duties at his Coronation The Archbishop returned answere that they had done him wrong in vsurping his office yet if they would take a solmne oath to become obedient to the Popes commaundement in all things concerning the Church he would absolute them The Bishops vnderstanding this protested they would neuer take that oath vnlesse the King willed them so to doe King Henry the father being hereof aduertised into France did rise into great passion and choler and in the hearing of some of his seruants vttered words to this effect Will no man reueng mee of mine enemies Wherevppon the foure Gentlemen named in the storyes of that time passed into England and first mouing the Archbishop to absolue the Bishops whome he had excommunicated for performing their duties at the young Kings Coronation and receauing a peremptory answere of deniall from the Archbishop they laid violent hands vppon him and slew him for which the King was faine not onely to suffer corporall pennance but in token of his humiliation to kisse the knee of the Popes Legate And this is the abridgement of Beckets troubles or rather treasons for which he was celebrated for so famous a Martyr Foure points of iurisdiction vsurped vppon the crowne of England by the Pope before the raigne of K. Iohn And thus you see by what degrees the Court of Rome did within the space of one hundred and odd yeares vsurpe vppon the Crowne of England foure points of Iurisdiction viz. First sending of Legats into England Secōdly drawing of appeales to the Court of Rome Thirdly donation of bishopricks and other Ecclesiasticall benefices and fourthly exemption of Clarkes from the secular power And you see withall how our Kings and Parliaments haue from time to time opposed and withstood this vniust vsurpation Now then the Bishop of Rome hauing claimed and welny recouered full and sole iurisdiction in all causes Ecclesiasticall and ouer all persons Ecclesiasticall with power to dispose of all Ecclesiasticall benefices in England whereby he had vppon the matter made an absolute conquest of more then halfe the kingdome for euerie one that could read the Psalme of Miserere was a Clarke the Cleargie possessed the moytie of all temporall possessions There remained now nothing to make him owner and proprietor of all but to ge●● a surrender of the Crowne and to make the King his Farmer and the people his Villaines which he fully accomplisht and brought to passe in the times of King Iohn and of Henr. 3. The cause of the quarrell betweene K. Iohn the Pope The quarrell betweene the Pope and King Iohn which wrested the Sceptor out of his hand and in the end brake his heart began about the election of the Archbishop of Canterbury I call it election and not donation or inuestiture for the manner of inuesting of Bishops by the Staffe and Ring after the time of King Henr. 1. was not any more vsed but by the Kings licence they were Canonically elected and being elected the King gaue his Roiall assent to their election and by restitution of their temporalties did fully inuest them And though this course of election began to be in vse in the time of Rich. 1. and Henr. 2. Yet I finde it not confirmed by any Constitution or Charter before the time of King Iohn who by his Charter dated the fifteenth of Ianuary in the

recumbere dignus suit exempla sectamur Nunquid reuerendissimum patrem nostrum Columbam eius successores viros à Deo dilectos diu●nis pag●●●s contraria sapuisse aut egisse credendum est In this disputation or dialogue two things may bee obserued first that at this time the authority of the Bishop of Rome was of no estimation in these Ilands next that the Primitiue Churches of Bri●tany and Ireland were instituted according to the forme and discipline of the East Churches and not of the West and planted by the disciples of Iohn and not of Peter Thus much for the time of the Brittons The Pope had no iurisdiction in England in the time of the Saxons For the Saxons though King Ina gaue the Peter pence to the Pope partly as Almes and partly in recompence of a house erected in Rome for entertainment of English pilgrimes yet it is certaine that Alfred and Athelstane Edgar and Edmund Canutus and Edward the Consessor and diuers other Kings of the Saxon race did giue all the Bishopricks in England Per annulum baculum without any other ceremony as the Emperour and the French King and other Christian Princes were wont to doe They made also seuerall lawes for the gouernment of the Church Among others Saint Edward begins his lawes with his protestation that it is his Princely charge Vt populum Domini super omnia sanctam Ecclesiam regat guber●et And King Edgar in his Oration to his English Cleargie Eg● saieth hee Constantini vos Petri gladium habetis iungamus dextras gladium gladio copulemus vt ci●ciantur extra Castra leprosi purgetur sanctuarium Domini So as the Kings of England with their owne Cleargie did gouerne the Church and therein sought no ayd of the Court of Rome And the troth is that though the Pope had then long hands yet hee did extend them so farre as England bycause they were full of businesse neerer home in drawing the Emperour and the French King vnder his yoke The first vsurpatiō of the Pope vpon the crowne began in the time of king William the Cōquerour But vppon the conquest made by the Norman hee apprehended the first occasion to vsurpe vppon the liberties of the Crowne of England For the Conqu●rour came in with the Popes Banner and vnder it wonne the battaile which gott him the garland and therefore the Pope presumed hee might boldly plucke some flowers from it being partly gained by his countenance and blessing Heerevppon hee sent two Legates into England which were admitted and receaued by the Conquerour With them hee called a Synod of the Clergie and deposed old Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury bycause he had not purchased his Pal in the Court of Rome hee displaced many Bishops and Abbots to place his Normans in their Romes By sending Legates into England And amongst the the rest it is to bee noted that the King hauing earnestly moued Wolstan Bishop of Worcester being then very aged to giue vp his staffe his answere was that hee would giue vp his staffe onely to him of whome hee first receaued the same Inter Epist Lanfr Archiepiscopi Cant. M. S. in Archi● Robert Co●●on Eq. Aur. And so the old man went to Sanit Edwards Tombe and there offred vp his staffe and Ring with these words Of thee O holy Edward I receaued my staffe and my Ring and to thee I doe now surrender the same againe which p●oues that before the Norman Conquest the King did inuest his Bishops per annulum baculum as I said before In the time of William Ruffus the Pope attēpted to draw appeales to Rome but pr●uailed not Thus wee see by the admission of the Popes Legates the first step or entrie made into his vsurped iurisdiction in England Albeit the King still retained the absolute power of inuesting Bishops and seemed onely to vse the aduise and assistance of the Legates in Ecclesiasticall matters for that no dec●ee passed or was put in execution without his Royall assent therevnto Besides how farre forth hee submitted himselfe to the Pope it appeareth by a short Epistle which hee wrote to Gregory the. 7. in this forme Excellentissimo sanctae Ecclesiae Pastori Greg●rio gratia Dei anglorum Rex Dux Normannorum Willielmus salutem cum A●…icitia Hubertus Legatus t●us Religiose Pater ad me ve●iens ex tua parte me admonuit vt tibi successoribus tuis fid●l●tatem facerem de pecunia quam antecessores mei ad Roman●● Ecclesiam ●●●…ere solebant melius cogi●arem Vnum admisi alterum non admis● fidelitatem facere nolui nec volo quia ●●c ego promisi ncc antecessores ●●os antecessoribus tuis id secrsse comperio Pecu●ia tribus ferè annis in Gallijs me agente negligentur collecta est nunc v●ro di●ina misericordia me in Regnum meum reuers● quod Collectum est per praefatum Legatum mittetur quod reliquum est per Legatos Lan●ranci Archichiscopi ●●delis nostri cum opportunum fuerit transmittetur c. But in the time of his next successor King William Rufus they attempted to passe one degree farther that is to drawe appeales to the Court of Rome For Anselme being made Archbishop of Cauterbury and being at some difference with the King besought his leaue to goe to Rome vnder pretence of fetching his Pall. The King knowing hee would appeale to the Pope denied him leaue to goe and withall told him that none of his Bishops ought to bee subiect to the Pope but the Pope himselfe ought to bee subiect to the Emperour and that the King of England had the same absolute liberties in his Dominions as the Emperour had in the Empyre And that it was an auncient custome and lawe in England vsed time out of minde before the Conquest that none might appeale to the Pope without the Kings leaue and that hee that breaketh this lawe or custome doth violate the Crowne and dignitie Royall and hee that violates my Crowne saieth hee is mine enemie and a traytor How answere you this quoth the King Christ himselfe answeres you saith the Archbishop Tu es Petrus super hanc petram c. Wherewith the King was nothing satisfied And therevppon Anselme departing out of the Realme without licence the King seised his temporalities and became so exasperate and implacable towards the Bishop as hee kept him in perpetuall exile during his Raigne albeit great intercession were made for his returne as well by the Pope as the King of France In the time of king Hēry the first the Pope vsurpeth the donation of Bishopricks c. In the time of the next King Henr 1. though hee were a learned and a prudent Prince yet they sought to gaine a further point vppon him and to plucke a flower from his Crowne of greater value namely the patronage and donation of Bishoprickes and all other benefices Ecclesiasticall For Anselme being reuok't