and other infirmities compell'd him to it In this also he was a true disciple of St. Paul who had taught him by precept to endure hardness as a good souldier of Jesus Christ and by his own example 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to keep under his body and bring it into subjection lest when he had preached to others himself should become a reprobate So that hence you may clearly see how true a Disciple of this great Apostle this Reverend person hath been in all his actions both as a Christian and as a Bishop 2. And I could shew you the like of his sufferings if the work were not too hazardous as well as too great for this time For Action and Passion are Relative terms the one cannot be truly understood without reflecting upon the other and therefore I must forbear to speak of his Christian sufferings that I may the better conceal the unchristian doings of them that brought those sufferings upon him All that I shall say in this particular is this wherein I cannot wrong his Reverend brethren so much as single him altogether from them that when the Accuser of the Brethren had got a permission to vent his whole malice in Calumniating the Bishops of this poor afflicted Church he could not lay any personal fault to the charge of any one of them all that he could object against them was either their office as Bishops or that wherewith he deluded the giddy multitude to think was a failing in the exercise of that office though now it is evident to most men that will be content to lay aside their groundless jealousies that it was a timely foresight of that mischief and a providential care to suppress it which we now see when it is too late hath almost utterly ruined this once flourishing Church But as for this Reverend Bishop in particular there was never any thing laid to his charge by those that brought his sufferings upon him but only that he was a Bishop And whatsoever he suffered upon that account he well knew was not for evil doing but for conscience towards God and consequently for righteousness sake which made him with St. Paul rejoyce in his sufferings even then when he suffered the loss of his estate and liberty and which he valued much more the loss of the free exercise of his function in the Church in a word the loss of all things his life only excepted and for that he escaped very narrowly too in one of those I know not what to call them which contrary to common sense were voted no Tumults But the best was he valued it not in so good a cause as this was for he was wont alwayes to sweeten all his sufferings to himself with blessing God that no man could take from him either his Mortality or Immortality 3. And let this suffice though much more would be requisite to have spoken both of his fight and of his course whereof the one is now fought and the other finished and yet blessed be God for it he hath kept the Faith in both which was the third and crowning act in St. Paul wherein he was so carefully imitated by this Reverend Prelate who was faithful to God both in his duty as a Christian and in his office as a Bishop till the very last gasp and gave a full testimony of both by his actions while he had strength and power to express either 1. Witness his late Ordinations of Priests and Deacons here among you whereof some here present received the benefit and many more can give the testimony and wherein he was so exceeding careful when he durst not trust either his eyes or his memory that he gave the words of benediction as they were read unto him by some of those that assisted him in those solemn offices 2. Witness also his great care and earnest prayers of which likewise there be several witnesses here present that the sacred order and succession of Bishops might never fail in this poor afflicted and distressed Church 3. Witness likewise his very great and high esteem of the sacred Liturgy of the Church of England which I may justly say attended him to his very grave and did not expire with his breath For I had an express and particular command from him not to omit nor so much as transpose as he had observed too frequently to be done by others the reading of the Lesson taken out of 1 Cor. 15. which the Church hath prescribed to be read at the Grave and which being read there while the mouth of the grave is open upon those that hear it and while such a spectacle of mortality is before their eyes he said could not but have a greater influence upon their souls then any Funeral Sermon he had ever heard preached 4. Witness moreover his exceeding great fervour and devotion in prayer whereunto he seldome answered with a single Amen and at which duty he never kneeled upon a Qushion I think in all his life nor ever prayed but upon his knees till he was confined to his death-bed and even then would never lie with his Cap on his head if he either prayed himself or any other prayed by him while he had strength to pull it off with his own hands 5. Witness lastly that great consolation and devotion which he had and used in partaking the comforts of the Church to prepare him for his long journey I speak not only in respect of the Holy Eucharist it self as his viaticum but also of those preparatives which he used before it in the presence of many who are now here present as to the Profession of his Faith the stirring up of his hope and the exercise 1. of his charity in forgiving all that ever had done him any wrong 2. of his humility in desiring all men to forgive him though he could not remember he had wronged any 3. and last of all of his repentance wherein he was so exact and punctual as not to neglect that great benefit and comfort which every truly pious and humble soul doth reap from the Keyes of the Church in the Ministery of absolution duly performed which he both desired and received And when he had been partaker of these comforts himself he made all those that assisted him in them partakers of his Blessing upon them and prayers for them It is an infallible sign the soil is good when the seed that is sown doth not only forthwith spring up as that did which fell upon stony places but also bringeth forth fruit with patience in an honest and good heart as that did which fell upon the good ground and as the case was here For he did not only receive the seed with joy for the present but retained it with much comfort in the time of his greatest temptation even to the very last gasp which was two dayes after For while he was able to speak he testified the fruit of it by
the Church of Rome might be decided by the doctrine and practice of the Church for the first five hundred years after Christ for that hath been my design in all my writings 9. If I had not believed upon sufficient evidence that the succession of Bishops in the Church of England had been legally derived from the Apostles I had never entred into that high calling much less continued in it thus long And therefore I must here expresly vindicate my self from a most notorious untruth which is cast upon me by a late Romish writer That I should publickly in the House of Peers the beginning of the last Parliament assent to that abominable fiction which some Romanists have devised concerning the Consecrating Matthew Parker at the Nags-head Tavern to be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for I do here solemnly profess I have alwayes believed that Fable to proceed from the Father of lyes as the publick Records still extant do evidently testifie Nor do I remember that ever I heard it mentioned in that or any other Parliament that ever I sate in 10. As for our Brethren the Protestants of forraign reformed Churches the most learned and judicious of themselves have bewailed their miserie for want of Bishops And therefore God forbid I should be so uncharitable as to censure them for No-Churches for that which is their Infelicity not their fault But as for our perverse Protestants at home I cannot say the same of them seeing they impiously reject that which the other piously desire And therefore I cannot flatter those in this Church who have received their Ordination only from meer Presbyters so far as to think them lawfully Ordained S. Hierom himself reserved to the Bishop the power of Ordination 11. Seeing therefore I have been as I hear so far misunderstood by some among us as to be thought to approve of their Ordination by meer Presbyters because I once said it might be vallid in case of Necessity I do here profess my meaning to be That I never thought there was any such Necessity in the Church of England as to warrant it where blessed be God for it there be so many Bishops still surviving And therefore I desier them not to mistake my meaning in that saying 12. Wheresoever there is a formed Church there must of necssity be some set form of Gods worship Otherwise it will quickly fall in peices as wofull experience hath taught us And of all formes of Gods worship in the whole Church of Christ none in my judgement did ever exceed the Leiturgy of the Church of England both for decency edification and devotion in all the severall offices of it If the Assemblers themselves that first laid it aside could have found any faults in it their modesty was not so great if we may judge of it by their other actions as to have concealed them from the world 13. Having thus far prevented the uncharitableness of others against my self I do here from my heart protest my unfained charity to all the world and more particularly both towards those Papists and perverse protestants whom I have so much endeavovred to undeceive both by my Sermons conferences and writings It was only their errors whereat I was offended I have alwayes loved and pittied their persons and prayed and laboured for the right informing of their minds and the eternall salvation of their soules 14. But yet my common charity to them must not supersede my more particular love and obligation which I have to those truly humble and meek soules in the Church of England and more especially in my own Diocess of Duresme who still stand firm upon the foundation of a sound faith and continue obedient to the doctrine of Gods word and discipline of his Church without wavering either to the right hand or to the left 15. And my earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former affections notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the doctrin disciplin government and form of worship of this poor afflicted Church Which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of their soules I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom 16. This is the onely Legacy I now can and the best I ever could leave them beside my prayers Wherein I commend them all to the blessing of almighty God and to the glory of his saving grace in Christ Jesus I have appointed two Copies of this my Legacy or Declaration to be written The one whereof I do hereby order to be annexed as a Codicill to my will and the other to be delivered into the hand of my beloved Chaplain Mr. John Barwick to be published in print after my death Both of which I have signed sealed published and declared this 15. day of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1658. In the presence of Tho Duresme Thomas Saunders Iunior John Barwick Cler. Joseph Draper Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies And now you have had His Sermon as well as mine and may see by it he hath not ended his fight though he hath ended his life For by this he hath set a guard upon his memory after his body is in the grave I might in this thing fitly compare him to Abel before the flood who being dead yet speaketh Or to Samson under the Law Who slew more at his death then in his life but only that I have made choyce of St. Paul for the pattern now under the Gospell It is the Gospell rule not to kill but to save With St. Paul to build up the Church of lively stones the soules of men and not with Sampson to pull down the house upon our selves and others To this it was that St. Paul engaged in all his fights both in what he did and what he suffered and in this it was that he was looked upon as a pattern and presedent by this reverend Bishop How many thousand soules the Apostle hath gained even since his death is known only to God And so is it also how many may still be brought in by this crowning act of this deceased Bishop They have each done his part in their severall rank and degree according to the proportion of their abilities And God in mercy will I hope supply the rest both to them and us They have severally fought a good fight they have finished their course they have kept the faith and henceforth is laid up for each of them a crown of righteousness and so there will be for us also if we follow their good example For it is no peculiar reward to them or any other in particular The Lord the rigteous judge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will give or render it not only to them but as it followes in my Text to all those that love his appearing To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost three persons and one God let us render as is due all glory honor prayse power thankesgiving and
Deed another of the same Tenour written in Paper which he signed with his Manual Seal in the presence also of the same witnesses All this I heard saw and therefore know to be done In testimony whereof I have subscribed and thereto put my usual and accustomed Notaries signe Tob. Holder 99. To this Protestation were annexed these three following Attestations from the Bishops Temporal Lords and Clerks The Attestation of the Bishops WHereas we the surviving Bishops of the Church of England who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. are requested by our Reverend Brother the Lord Bishop of Duresme to declare and attest the truth concerning an Imputation cast upon him in the Pamphlet of that nameless Author mentioned in his Protestation and Declaration here prefixed and whereas we are obliged to perform what he requesteth both for the justification of the truth and for the clearing of our selves of another slanderous aspersion which the same Author casteth upon us as if we had heard our said Reverend Brother make such a speech as is there pretended and by our silence had approved what that Libeller falsely affirmeth was delivered in it we do hereby solemnly Protest and Declare before God and all the world that we never knew of any such Book presented to the House of Peers as he there pretendeth nor believe any such was ever presented and therefore could never hear any such Speech made against it as he mentioneth by our said Reverend Brother or any other much less approve of it by our silence And if any such Book had been presented or any such Speech had been made there is none among us so ignorant or negligent in his duty in defending the truth but would have been both able and ready to have confuted so groundless a Fable as the pretended Consecration of Bishops at the Nags-head out of the Authentick and known Registers of the Church still extant mentioned and faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason so long before For the Confirmation of which Truth and Attestation of what our said Reverend Brother hath herewith Protested and Declared we have hereunto set our hands dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Guil. London Will. Bath and Wells Ma. Elie. Ro. Oxon. Jo. Roffens Br. Sarum The Attestation of the Lords Temporal 100. WE of the Lords Temporal whose names are he under written who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. being desired by the Bishop of Duresme to testifie our knowledge concerning an Imputation cast upon him about a Speech pretended to be made by him in that Parliament more particularly mentioned and disavowed in his prefixed Protestation do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book against Bishops as is there mentioned was presented to the House of Peers in that Parliament and consequently that no such Speech as is there pretended was or could be made by him or any other against it In witness whereof we have signed this our Attestation with our own hands Dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Hertford Dorchester Lindsey Rutland T. Southamton T. Lyncoln W. Devonshire E. Manchester Berkshire Cleveland Monmouth Hen. Dover M. Newport F. Willughbye J. Lovelace The Attestation of the Clerks of the House 101. WE whose names are hereunto subscribed being Clerks in the Honourable House of Peers during the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. who according to our several places and Offices did give continual attendance in the said House and as our duty required did respectively and particularly observe whatsoever was debated and concluded in it do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book was presented to that honourabe House nor any such Speech made in it by the Reverend Bishop of Duresme or any other as are mentioned and disavowed in his Lordships Protestation and Declaration here prefixed And therefore we have freely voluntarily given this our Attestation for the Confirmation of the Truth of what is affirmed and declared by the said Bishop in his said Protestation In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands Dated the twenty seventh day of December Anno Domini 1658. Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum Jo. Throckmorton Sam. Smith 102. This is so full a vindication of this Reverend Bishop from this foul aspersion and so clear and honourable an Attestation to the cause of the Church of England in point of Succession that I cannot see what more needs be added to it excepting only this ensuing Certificate out of the Journal of the House of Peers which I must ascribe to the great pains and civility of Mr. Scobel who after a long and diligent search wrote these following words over against the place where the objection is made Page 9. in the Margine of the Book which I have in my custody Upon search made in the Book of the Lords House I do not finde any such Book presented nor any entry of any such Speech made by Bishop Morton Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Parliament 103. And now I speak it unfainedly I know not what N.N. can reply to all these clear Testimonies either in truth or modesty but only by confessing his error If all these persons of Honour and ingenuity after such a solemn charge laid upon them by this pious Bishop to speak nothing but the truth in sincerity must be thought to conspire together in a Lye rather then his Ancient Peer shall incur the suspicion of being mistaken yet the Authentick Record of the proceedings in the Lords House will sufficiently justifie them against that Calumnie Or if on the other side the journal of the House shall be condemned by N.N. either as imperfect or obliterated in this particular yet the Readers even of the Romish perswasion will be satisfied as many of them as will be satisfied with reason that this is a poor and groundless shift when they shall seriously consider these concurrent testimonies of so many persons of all ranks and orders that are most likely both to know the truth and remember it But both of these concurring together will make it as clear as the sun at noon-day that either N. N. or his Ancient Peer is mistaken 104. And hence I conceive it is that N. N. as I here in a late reply which I have not yet seen to the above-mentioned Book of the learned Bishop of Derrie hath not the confidence to deny the truth of what is both there and here testified but only betakes himself to the last reserve of a bad cause downright railing venting all the malice he can upon the innocent Ashes of this deceased Bishop Wherein I shall not gratifie him so much as to make even that return which Michael the Archangel did to him that suggested this Topick to him but rather that which better becomes a Christian and was
I cannot but hope that what I have yet to say in the person of this dead Prelate will have so much influence upon you all especially of the Laity as not to return without some fruit I confess I have done with my own Sermon it is more then time I should but I have still another to preach to you from this Reverend Bishop and in this I can easily presume upon your patience though I have almost wearied it already When I call this a Sermon which now I am to deliver I speak not without my warrant For when St. Gregory preached his Forty Sermons upon the Gospels he penned them all but read no more of them himself then eighteen by reason of some bodily infirmities the rest were read by his sub-Deacon or Notarie and yet all of them were then received and ever since esteemed and reputed as St. Gregories Sermons and in this sense it is that I call that which now remaineth the Bishop of DURESMES Sermon though I read it to you It is indeed the most solemn and elaborate Sermon he ever made being a profession or Declaration of his Faith with some wholsome instructions and directions to all good Christians within the Church of England though it be more particularly directed to those within his own Diocess By the time you have heard it you will finde it to be a rich supply for many things which otherwise I could not have omitted to speak concerning him It is a thing he did with much deliberation and not without some consultation with some of his Reverend Brethren and others as to the form and manner of it and when it was fitted exactly according to his own thoughts and desire he solemnly published signed and sealed it in the presence of five witnesses and annexed it as a Codicil to his Will and afterward when the shrinking of his small estate compelled him to alter his will to what it is now at his death he declared this to be a part of it which before was only a Codicil in the presence of other witnesses so that upon second thoughts it was not only owned by him but also ratified and confirmed more solemnly then before It followeth in these words 1. IN the first ages of the Church it was a very excellent custome that whensoever any was Consecrated Bishop of any Patriarchal or chief see he should by an Encyclical Epistle give an account of his Faith to his Brethren of the same order and dignity for the better strengthening of that Catholick Communion which the Bishops and Churches then had and still should preserve among themselves And this by the way was an homage as well payed as received by the Bishops of Rome in those times which is a sufficient evidence of a Coordination but could never have consisted with their now challenged Monarchy in the Church 2. And though the reason be different the design is no less necessary in this last and worst age of the Church for all Bishops whomsoever to leave some Testimony of their Faith to the world when it shall please God to take them out of it that so neither their Names may be traduced after their death nor any weak Brother misled by fathering any false opinions upon them whereof they were no way guilty 3. And this I think will be as necessary for me to perform as any other of my order in some respects though not so necessary in some other which is the cause both why I leave this short account of my self to the world and why it is no larger 4. For though I have sufficiently declared my self to the world both by my life and labours to be a true Orthodox and sincere Christian and Protestant according to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Primitive Church professed also and practised in the Church of England seeing I have been a writer above fifty years and have passed through all the orders of the Church Deacon Priest and Bishop and have been Rector of three Churches Prebendary in one Dean of two and Bishop of three Diocesses successively yet I cannot think my self secure from the malignancy of false and virulent tongues and pens after my Death more then I have been in my life and the rather because I have sustained the heavy Office of a Bishop so many years in the Church which some perverse people make criminal in it self and have by my writings discharged a good Conscience in asserting the truth against the opposites on both sides for which the Father of Lies will not be wanting to stir up enemies against me 5. I do therefore here solemnly profess in the presence of Almighty God that by his grace preventing and assisting me I have alwayes lived and purpose to die in the true Catholick Faith wherein I was Baptized firmly believing all the Canonical Scripture of the old and New Testament and fully assenting to every Article of all those three Creeds commonly called the Apostles Creed the Nicen or Constantinopolitan Creed and the Athanasian Creed which in the ancient Church were accounted the Adequate Rules of Faith and have accordingly been received as such by the Church of England 6. As for Counsels that are free and general consisting of competent persons lawfully summoned and proceeding according to the word of God Such as were the foure first viz those of Nice Constantinople Ephesus and Chalcedon I do reverence them as the Supream Tribunals of the Church of Christ upon earth for judging of Heresies and composing differences in the Church And as I utterly condemn all Heresies that have been condemned by any of them so I heartily wish that all the present differences in the Church of God might be determined by such a free general Counsel as any of those foure were already mentioned 7. The composers of those ancient differences in the Church were Bishops as it cannot be denied concerning which order I profess to believe that â—t was instituted by the Apostles who were infallibly inspired by the Holy Ghost and approved by Christ in the Revelation of St. John and consequently to be of Divine institution as I have made it evident by a little Treatise already printed and could still further manifest it by some papers not yet committed to the Press And I had never sustained the burthen of that Office above 40 years in the Church if this had not been alwayes my judgment concerning Bishops I pray God restore them again to those poor afflicted parts of his Church where either the Office or the Exercise of it is wanting 8. That the Bishop of Rome hath any more power over Bishops then other Primates and Patriarcks have in their several Sees respectively is a thing which I have often and largely disproved in my writings All that the Ancient Church did allow him was a priority of order but no supreamacie of Monarchical power And I heartily wish that this and all other differences now on foot between us and
which had occasioned his removall out of the dale wherein he could willingly have spent his dayes to set him upon an Hill c. 35. And by this I leave the Reader to judge how really he might have said Nolo Episcopari If it had not been to clear himself of that blot formerly mentioned which was so unjustly cast upon him I might have said of him as Hincmarus doth of St. Remigius he was not so properly chosen as violently snatched up to this height of Episcopall dignity And however I cannot say less of him then Venerable Bede who lyes buried in the Church where he was last Bishop said of St. Wilfrid who was Bishop of the Church where he was born He was forced to take upon him the office of a Bishop 36. This appeared yet further by the slowness of the proceedings towards his Consecration For though the King nominated him for the Bishoprick of Chester in the year 1615. Yet was it the seaventh of July 1616. before he was Consecrated partly by occasion of this rub partly by his own indifferency though withall I must say it was partly occasioned by the distance of those severall places where the things must be respectively performed which are perviously required by the Canons of the Church and Lawes of the Land in order to his Consecration For the Conge d' esleire was granted at London the Election performed at Chester by the Dean and Chapter which being signified back to the King there wanted still his Royall assent to the Election and after that the Metropolitans solemne Confirmation of it which must be obtained at York the see of Chester being in that Province 37. The solemnity it self of his Ordination or Consecration was one of the greatest that hath been seen in England in the memory of man For there were three Metropolitans respectively engaged in it beside other Bishops The foundation of the whole proceedings was laid as regularly it ought in a Faculty from the Arch-Bishop of York The Act it self was performed in chief by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to whom the said Faculty was directed and he was assisted therein by the Primat of Ireland and the Bishop of Cathnes in Scotland beside the Bishop of London and other Bishops of the English Church The place where this sacred office was performed was the Arch-Bishop of Canterburys Chappell at Lambith 38. But that which made this solemnity the greater was the presence of so many of the Nobility of England besides many Lords of Scotland that were there Which was occasioned in part by a concurrent action that was also solemnly performed at the same time and place Namely the Absolution of the Marquiss of Huntley from the Band of an Excommunication laid upon him by the Bishops of Scotland in the High Commission The particulars whereof being perfectly extrinsecall to my present designe I shall refer the Reader for them to the History of the Church of Scotland written by that wise and grave person the late Arch-Bishop of St. Andrewes 39. The concurrence of these two great solemnities occasioned a very great number of Communicants at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist of the Nobility and Gentry of both Nations beside the Clergy Whereunto I must add as a thing not to be omitted that Prince Radzivils Son of Poland did also then communicate and likewise a Noble man of that Kingdom that came over with him as his Governour Who did both of them very much admire the glory and happiness of our English Church and the reverend performance of those sacred offices in her 40. I have now brought this great light almost to his Candlestick where his actions will be so conspicuous and so many as it will be both unnecessary and impossible for me to give the world a perticular account of them And therefore I must content my self and desire the Reader to be contented also with a few of the chief 41. It fell out with him as with a candle newly lighted which is then in most danger to be blown out For while necessaries were preparing for his journey to Chester and for the accomodation of his palace there he retired himself to Clay Hall in Essex upon the earnest invitation of that noble Knight and his worthy friend Sir Christopher Hatton and there fell sick of a dangerous fever though blessed be God for it it continued not long with him 42. Being happily recovered of this sickness he made no delay but presently put himself upon his journey towards his great work And being advanced as far as the borders of his own diocess he was met on the way and brought into the City of Chester by such a great number of Knights and other the best Gentlemen of the Country beside the Clergy as may give a lasting testimony to their honour as well as his in shewing such a religious respect to their Bishop 43. When he was setled there he found all the inconveniences which he foresaw and which made him at first so loath to undertake that weighty office and some also which he could not foresee at so great a distance For beside the great number of Romish Recusants which hath allwayes been observed in this Diocess he found another sort of Recusants better known by the name of Non-conformists who though they were not as many in number as the other yet had they so much perversness and obstinacy in them as made them equall or rather superior in relation to the trouble he had with them 44. And therefore his first care was to reduce them to their obedience to the Church wherein he used no less of fatherly mildness towards them then strength of argument against them For having cited before him such of the Clergy as were the chief of that party whereof the principall ring-leader was one Mr. Hynd he first enquired of them the reason of their non-conformity which when he understood to be The use of the Surplice the Cross at Baptisme and the Ring in Marriage he was content himself to endeavour their satisfaction in a publick and solemn conference with them upon all these three poynts But their perversness frustrating his expectation and desires in relation to their own good his next care was to make his endeavours more publick for the common good of the rest of their partie And therefore he Printed a relation of that conference with some enlargements which he intituled The defence of the three innocent ceremonies 45. And having committed this charitable and learned work to the blessing of God upon the hearts of the Readers he betook himself to endeavour the reducing of the other adverse party the Popish Recusants wherein God blessed him exceedingly considering how great the work was and how little time he had to bring it towards any perfection being Bishop there not full three years And of this we have a very authentick and ample testimony from royall authority in the declaration of King James concerning lawfull sports to be used
in this Diocess and the small revenue of the Bishoprick and the great necessity there was of advancing Charity and maintaining Hospitality especially in that place where good House-keeping is so much valued and practised moved King James to bestow upon him the Rectory of Stopford by way of Commendam for the better support of his charge and dignity which he held during the time he was Bishop of this See and where his name and memory is still precious among such of the parishoners as are of years sufficient to remember his being among them 54. In the year 1617. the See of Leichfield and Coventry became void by the translation of his old friend that learned prelate Dr. Overall above mentioned to the Bishoprick of Norwich To supply which vacancy the King was pleased to have this reverend Bishop translated thither the year after at the motion of that great pattern of Episcopall perfection Dr. Andrewes above mentioned then Bishop of Elie who was never known to do the like for any other and yet did this without his seeking or knowledge that he might have him his nearer Neighbour as he said and of the same province with himself His Tarnslation beareth date Mar. 6 1618. 55. And here his trouble was not so great as at Chester though his Diocess was larger because the common sort of people for the most part were better principled by the care and vigilancy of his predecessour But yet he abated nothing of his former paines and industry both in Writing Preaching and Conferring with those that were not wilfully obstinat beside his ordinary vigilancie in Visiting his Diocess and care in Confirming such children as could give an account of their Faith It would be too large a task for me to relate the particulars 56. About the time he was translated to this See there came over into England that very learned though unfortunate man Marcus Antonius de Dominis Arch-Bishop of Spalato primat of Dalmatia c. Which as he was wont to glory was Sâ— Hieroms Native Country as well as his This great Scholar after he had so profoundly asserted the truth of Christian religion as it is professed and practised in the Church of England in so many particulars against the errours and corruptions of the See of Rome in his learned and laborious Books De Republica Ecclesiastica and had also from the Kings bounty received so great incouragements for his honourable support as the Deanary of Windsour and Mastership of the Savoy besides many rich and yearly presents not only from the Bishops and Clergy but also from the Nobility and Gentery was so far wrought upon by that great Politition count Gondamar the Spanish Embassador then in England and other instruments of the See of Rome that sought his ruin under some specious pretences as to take up a resolution of returning to Rome and could not be disswaded from it by his true friends that really endeavoured his security Among whom this Reverend Bishop was neither the least nor last who very earnestly advised him both by word and writing not to venture himself upon such a hopeless and hassardous journey 57. The arch-Arch-Bishops pretence was very plausible and commendable and how reall he was in it must be left to God namely to Negotiat an unity in Religion between the Church of Rome and the Church of England upon those moderate grounds which he had laid down and so well defended in his learned and laborious works printed here at London He applauded himself in the excellency of the work in removing the Schisme and of the honour in becoming a Repairer of the breach and of the reward which is promised to the Peacemakers And he thought himself the more likely to go through with his work by reason of the seasonable opportunity he had at that time when Gregory the fiftenth was newly chosen Pope who had been of his old and intimate acquaintance brought up in the same Schole and College with him And however he was resolved to make an attempt because if he failled in it he hoped he should lose nothing but his labour For as for his Indemnity count Gondamar had promised him the security of the King of Spain his Master But how well that promise was performed will appear by the sequel 58. While he was swelled up full with this promise and these hopes the Bishop of Leichfeild and Coventry coming to visit him had this insuing discourse with him among many others which I have often heard him repeat with pleasure and shall therefore insert it and the rather because it shewes us of how little authority the Councell of Trent would be if it were not for the terrour of the Inquisition Leichf Domine quid tibi in animo est Anne convertere Papam Atque etiam conclave papale Spal Quid ni domine Anne existimas eos diabolos esse ut non possint converti Leichf Minime domine nec puto dominum Spalatensem deum esse ut hoc possit prestare Nostin enim concilium Tridientinum Spal Novi domine ausus sum tibi dicere Millies mille sunt etiam in Italia qui huic concillo fidem nullam adhibent 59. This discourse and many other too extrinsecall here to mention having passed between them they parted friendly And not long after did this Bishop reinforce his arguments with an addition of many more in a long and learned Epistle to him Wherein among other motives to dissvade him from his journey he used one wherein he shewed himself a true prophet concerning the entertainment he was like to find at Rome Which proved to be that before he got to Rome Pope Gregorie the fiftenth his old friend was dead and a successour chosen in his place by whom this Arch-Bishop was imprisoned in Castro St. Angelo Where he died not without strong suspicion of Murder or Poyson And his body was afterward burnt as of an Heretick in Campo Flori. 60. I could here start a problematicall question concerning this learned Arch-Bishop Whether or no did he ever retract his works which he published in Print If he did why did they at Rome burn his body for Heresie If not then they abused him in his life time as well as after his death in the Manifesto which they put forth in his name which was so learnedly answered by Dr. Crakanthorp There is but one way of avoiding this Dilemma and that will bring them into a greater strait then either of the other namely that they burnt him after his death for what he retracted in his life time and if they own this they must withall proclaime their injustice and cruelty to the world Let them take it in which sence they will his reasons and arguments laid down and urged in his learned works will more condemne their cause then the altering of his opinion supposing but not granting that he ever altered it can tend to their advantage His many clear and convincing Authorityes from the Holy Scriptures
adoration this day and from henceforth for ever more Amen Amen Amen A SUMMARIE ACCOUNT OF THE HOLY LIFE AND HAPPY DEATH Of the Right Reverend Father in God THOMAS LATE LORD BISHOP of DURESEME Added as a supplement to the Sermon preached at his Funerall By the same Author Eccles 7 1. A good name is better then precious Ointment and the day of Death then the day of ones Birth Claudian Antiquos Evolve duces assursce futurae Militiae LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. The LIFE and DEATH OF THOMAS Lord BISHOP OF DURESME The Preface 1. AS the death of Gods Saints is precious in the sight of the Lord So will the memoriall of their lives also be in the hearing of all that are really his people And of all his Saints none can be more precious to him nor should be to us Then those that are most peculiarly honored with that title by the spirit of God in holy Scripture Those that are by him called unto and imployed in some holy office as well as qualified with Sanctifying grace like Aron who was Gods high Priest and for that reason is emphatically stiled the Saint of the Lord. 2. If there had not been something that is sacred in the office of a Bishop even as it is distinct from the order of Priest-hood the generall councell of Chalcedon could not as we know it did have adjudged it Sacrilege to take down a Bishop to the degree of a Priest And whatsoever that was it was in this person over and above his sanctity of life and sacredness of his other inferiour orders of Ministery in the Church And therefore I may represent this reverend Bishop to the world as a Saint or holy person for his Calling as well as for his life without any prejudice to the truth and thereby oppose that current of Sacrilege which some of late yeares hath much improved who will not allow him the title of a Saint nor none else that is not of their own sect or faction I have already upon another occasion made some short essay of it and this is only to supply what the largeness of the subject and shortness of the time would not then permit me to speak 3. And in this I must disclaim all thoughts of by ends or any other designe then only by asserting the truth to be just to him and charitable to others That neither his enemies may wrong his good name nor his friends want some small preservation of his memory Nor both of them the benefit of his good example 4. I know his charity while he lived had a speciall eye upon his enemies and so shall mine have now he is dead in convincing them also as far as I am able of their great injustice as well as uncharitableness against him and the rest of his Reverend Brethren in vilifying their persons and contemning their sacred function to the high displeasure of Almighty God the great scandal of Christian Religion and the extream hazard of the Church of England by opening so wide a gap to Schisme and Heresy and even Athesme it self 5. How those that so zealously affect the exterpation of Episcopacy can arrogate to themselves the title either of Christians or Protestants is a thing that may justly be questioned seeing Bishops were planted in the Church together with Christianity even by the Apostles themselves as is evident from the concurrent suffrages of all antiquity And that the first Protestants from whom all the rest derive that title did clearly profess in their confession of Auspurgh their willingness to submit to their Bishops even of the Romish Church provided they would not impose upon them such new and unjust burthens as had not been received by the custome of the Catholick Church Which none of our present English Bishops ever did but the quite contrary was objected against them for their greatest crime 6. I know that many of the seduced people have repented of these errours already and I hope the rest may be brought to repentance when they see what persons they were both for life and learning who sustained the office of Bishops at that time when the cunning and malice of the Divell did so unjustly incense the rude multitude against them I shall confine my self to this one instance leaving the rest for others as occasion shall require who was in as great an hazard of his life in one of those tumults as any and yet there was as little objected against him by those that raised them as against any of the rest 7. And in what I say of him I shall keep my self to the exact rule of truth both for his sake and my own and the Readers and the end I cheifly aime at without either flattering his memory or omitting those passages of his life which may cheifly qualify his example for our imitation Only I must beg my Readers pardon if the length of his life and multitude of his imployments and greatness of his learning and christian concealement of much of his piety necessitate me to omit many things I could not learn and pass over somethings I know and fall much below his merit in what I relate for brevities sake 8. Having premised thus much I presume the Reader will expect no Panegyrick but only a bare and that also a short narrative of his life for the information of posterity and conviction of his enemies rather then for any solace to his friends who could not but know him well enough seeing he was a burning and shining light for so great a number of yeares here amongst us And what I say shall for methods sake be reduced to these three heads 1. A plain Narrative of the principall passages in his Life 2. A breif Catalogue of his works 3. A short Character of his person and Qualities CHAP. I. A plain Narrative of the principall passages of his Life 1. HIs Coat armour and pedigree will shew him to be of the same Originall and Stock with that eminent prelate and wise states man John Morton Bishop of Elie and Lord Chancellor of England afterward Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by whose contrivance and management the too Houses of York and Lancaster were united Whereby that issue of blood was stopped which had so long and plentifully flowed within the bowells of this our Native Country And from hence the judicious Reader will conclude his Ancesters could not be obscure at lest since this Cardinals time for such persons as he was seldom left their kindred without some considerable preferments If I were so good an Herald as to trace up his pedigree to those times it is possible it would reach to Thomas or John Morton whom the Cardinall made his Heires as being Sones to two of his Brothers Sure I am that Sir Thomas Morton of Dorsetshire who reckoned his descent from one of them sought him out and acknowledged his kindred and desired his
such appropriation commanding the Bishops to see it executed 79. Thus far this learned Author concerning the nature of Appropriations and the Bishops power over them while they belonged to Religious houses And as for the time since the dissolution he proceedeth on thus 80. The Statute of 27. H. 8. c. 28. saith that the King shall have all such Monasteries Priories and other such Religious houses of Moncks as were not above 200.l a year in as large and ample manner as the Governours of those and such other Religious houses have or ought to have the same in right of their Houses c. whereupon he inferreth that though the statute changed the owner yet it changed not the nature of the thing The Monastical persons had them before as spiritual livings and now the King must have them in as large manner but still as spiritual livings 81. And again to the same effect neither do I yet find where this power viz. of granting Augmentations is taken from the Bishops for the Statute that giveth those appropriate Churches to the King saith not the King shall have them as temporal lands or discharged of the Bishops jurisdiction but that he shall have them as the Religious persons had them that is as spiritual livings and consequently subject to the jurisdiction the Bishops before had over them and then are they no otherwise in the hands of the Layty 82. Hitherto this learned and judicious Author whereunto I shall only adde which I wonder he did omit that both in the aforementioned Act of 27. H. 8. c. 28. and likewise in the other Act of 31. H. 8. c. 13. where the rest of the Monasteries c. which were above 200.l per annum are confirmed to the King there is this express salvo saving to all and every person and persons and bodies politick and their heirs and successours and the heirs and successours of all and every of them other then the said late Abbots Priors c. all such right title and interest Synods Proxies and all other profits as they or any of them have claim ought may or might have had in or to the premises or any part or parcel thereof and PERSONAGES APPROPRIATE are mentioned expresly as a part of the premises in the Statute of 31. H. 8. c. 13. in such like manner form and condition to all intents respects constructions and purposes as if this Act had never been had ne made From whence I conceive it is no unreasonable inference to conclude that whatsoever power the Bishop of the diocess had over Churches appropriate before the dissolution of Monasteries he had and hath over Churches impropriate after And then I have no more to say as to this particular but to beg my Readers pardon once again for this long digression 83. I have now brought this view of the life of this Reverend Bishop to the precipice of his outward splendour though neither his glory nor happiness incurred the least diminution by his future sufferings for he was never more happy in his own thoughts nor more glorious in the eyes of all good men then in being exercised in those troubles whereof the continued series of publick affairs afforded him a perpetual opportunity from this time till his death The particulars whereof were so many as I shall only cull out two for instances the one whereof was in conjunction with eleven of his reverend Brethren the other peculiar to himself alone 84. I must make my passage to the former of these through those confluences of the rude multitude at Westminster at the beginning of the late Parliament which I hope may now be called by their proper name Tumults without offence and were never thought otherwise by any but those that had sacrificed their understandings and tongues to the Votes of the House of Commons When I know a more proper term for the like overture of reformation made at Ephesus when some cried one thing some another and yet the greater part knew not why they were come together I shall most willingly apply it nearer home I am sure there could hardly be a fitter parallel to that at Ephesus then these at Westminster in one whereof this Reverend Bishop was in extream hazard of his life by the multitude that were beckoned thither by the contrivers of our late miseries whereof some cried pull him out of his Coach orhers nay he is a good man others but for all that he is a Bishop And I have often heard him say he believed he should not have escaped alive if a leading man among that rabble had not cried out let him go and hang himself which he was wont to compare to the words of the Angel uttered by Balaams Asse though the rudeness of the expression argued more of the Asse then the Angel 85. Upon these and the like violations of the liberty and freedome essential to all the members of Parliament whereby the Bishops were necessitated to omit the discharge of their duty in the House of Peers according to their ancient right before the name of Parliament was known in England and according to the several Writs by which they were summoned to that Parliament twelve of them whereof this reverend person was one meeting together to consult and advise how they might make the discharge of their duty and the enjoyment of their safety consist together agreed upon a Petition to the King wherein they did remonstrate some of those violences offered to their persons and the just fears they were in by those tumults and did Protest their dissent from all Lawes which should be enacted till they might attend the service of the House with freedome and safety and the Nullity of them that should be made while the Parliament was under such a force as themselves and their Brethren being one of the three estates could not attend the service of the house without the apparent hazard of their lives or to this effect 86. And though it was the known and continual practise of the House of Peers that any one member of it might enter his dissent upon record from any thing he disliked though it had already passed the House yet was this Protestation of the dissent of all these twelve Reverend Bishops aggravated with so much virulence by the leaders of the faction as to get them charged with High Treason by the House of Commons for it and committed to prison upon it and yet after they had got the Bill to pass against the Bishops sitting in Parliament they let the accusation fall without ever drawing it into a formal Impeachment as being ashamed of ever having it brought unto a Legal trial where Council might be heard on both sides And upon this occasion did this Reverend Bishop and the rest suffer about four moneths imprisonment though it is true indeed the place of his and the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventries imprisonment was the house of the Huisher of the Black Rod whereas
the other Ten were sent to the Tower but whether this was in favour to these two as being very old or to the person to whom they were committed as being then reputed rich may best be conjectured by the excessive charge they were at there more then the other in the Tower 87. And though this Fact was never permitted to come to a due examination according to the ancient and known manner of proceeding at law in cases of Treason though it was earnestly desired and endeavoured by these Reverend Bishops yet were they so far prejudged by it as to make all the twelve lyable to Sequestration for it as that word bath been abused of late for the taking away of a mans whole estate Personal and Real Which yet had not been half so grievous to them if they had not seen an occasion taken thereby to rob God of the patrimony as well as of the moveable goods of their several Churches which was shared among those that had long gaped for it or made the price of blood by being put into the Treasurie out of which the War was maintained I pray God it may never be laid to their charge 88. But to let this pass as the common cause of this once flourishing Church I shall return to this Reverend Bishop in particular who being discharged from his first Imprisonment returned to his lodgings in Duresme House and there attended his Devotions and study till such time as his adversaries thought fit to give him another occasion to exercise his patience under a second captivity for which the snare was thus prepared 89. It was represented to the House of Commons by some of his back-friends as a matter of much prejudice to their affairs that he should still have in his custody the Seal of the County Palatine of Duresme The method and motive were both of them near of kin to that which Jezebel practised to get Naboths Vineyard though I shall forbear the mention of any particular Person The House hereupon sent a Committee of their own members to demand it and the answer he returned was in the Negative but yet as well sweetned with civil expressions as he could make it and among other things he desired the Interposition of the House of Peers for it was while they sate for their fuller satisfaction which they rightly interpreting to be an Appeal from those that were not his competent Judges to those that were sent for him by their Sergeant at Arms to appear at their Bar which he did and made it evident to them 1. That it was not a Seal transmitted from Bishop to Bishop successively but one that had his own Arms and Impress cut upon it 2. That to part with it could not but be of great prejudice to several persons within the County Palatine of Duresme whose estates depended upon it both by way of Patents for Offices and Leases for Lands He added also 3. That it might be prejudicial to himself and successours and to the Person by whom he received the power to make it Which being a very reasonable Plea though the last part of it was not very acceptable to them the House had nothing to object against it and so dismist him for that time And yet manet altâ mente his adversaries that could not then have their wills on him retained their malice against him till another opportunity 90. And that fell out not long after upon this occasion The right Honourable the Earl and Countess of Rutland having alwayes carried a very Reverend respect to this good Bishop and he no less honourable esteem of them and that noble Family desired him to perform the holy Office of Baptisme to a sweet young Lady which God had then newly blessed them withall which he did as he alwayes judged a Bishop ought to do exactly according to the order of the Church prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer And this being taken notice of by his old adversaries and much aggravated by some Zealots of the contrary perswasion whom I hope God hath forgiven was complained of to the House of Commons as a thing superstitious idolatrous or I know not what 91. It is a hard case when the Commons must teach their Bishops whom God hath placed over them in chief as the guides of their souls what is superstition and idolatrie But the world being then turned upside down it was the less wonder the case was so in this particular And accordingly having sent for him as a Prisoner to their Bar they patched up this fault to the former to make an Accumulative crime of both together and so committed him prisoner to their Sergeant under whose custody he continued about 6. Moneths before he could obtain his enlargement 92. Having thus fallen upon a discourse concerning the Sufferings of this Reverend Bishop in relation to the Parliament it will not be amiss to enlarge it a little farther so as to take in a business pretended to be done in the late Parliament wherein he had been a deep sufferer in point of his Reputation if he had not lived to clear himself of it the case was thus 93. In the year 1657. came forth a Book said to be Printed at Rouen intituled A Treatise of the Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie wherein the Author or Authors N. N. hath conjured up the old over-worn fable of the Nags-head Ordination or Consecration from the place where it was first hatched and imposeth the patronage of it upon this Reverend Bishop in these words 94. In the beginning of the late Parliament some Presbyterian Lords presented to the Upper House a certain Book proving that the Protestant Bishops had no Succession nor Consecration and therefore were no Bishops and by consequence had no right to sit in Parliament Hereupon Doctor Morton pretended Bishop of Durham who is yet alive made a Speech against this Book in his own and all the Bishops behalf then present he endeavoured to prove succession from the last Catholick Bishops who said he ordained the first Protestant Bishops at the Nags-head in Cheapside as was notorious to all the world c. Therefore the said Book ought to be looked upon as a groundless Libel This was told to many by one of the ancientest Peers of England present in Parliament when Morton made his speech and the same he is ready to depose upon Oath Nay he cannot believe that any will be so impudent as to deny a thing so notorious whereof there are as many witnesses living as there were Lords and Bishops that were that day in the Upper House of Parliament 95. And again in the same Chapter Whereas Doctor Morton pretended Bishop of Durham affirmed publickly in the Upper House that the first Protestant Bishops were Consecrated at the Nags-head this answer all the rest approved by their silence and were glad to have that retiring place against the Presbyterians who proved clearly that they were not Consecrated at Lambeth as Mr.
Mason pretends c. 96. These are the Authors words and they have already been proved to be so notoriously imposterous and false in a Book written by the accurate pen of the right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Derrie that I might have saved my Reader this trouble but only that I measure this action by what I know was the minde of this Reverend Bishop while he lived who was so exceedingly sensible of the wrong done him in this particular that he never thought any thing too much to vindicate himself from it And this is evident by his tripling his guard against it first in that Codecil annexed to his Will which is herewith published then by a Letter to Mr. Gunning desiring him to take notice of the injury in a Book which he was then preparing for the Press and last of all in a Formal Protestation made by him in the presence of a publick Notarie before several competent witnesses and attested unto afterwards by all the Bishops now surviving who sate in that Parliament excepting only the Bishop of Bangor who lives so far remote in Wales as he could not conveniently be sent unto and likewise by as many of the Temporal Lords who sate in that Parliament as with any convenience it could be presented unto and last of all by all the Clerks that attended in the House of Peers and who are sworn officers to keep true and perfect Records of what passeth there The form whereof and of the Attestations annexed to it are word for word as followeth and for the other circumstances of that Action I shall refer the Reader to my Preface before the Learned Bishop of Derries Book above mentioned The Bishop of DURESMES Protestation 97. WHereas I am most injuriously and slanderously traduced by a nameless Author calling himself N. N. in a Book said to be printed at Rouen 1657. intituled A Treatise of the Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie as if upon the presenting of a certain Book to the Vpper House in the beginning of the late Parliament proving as he saith that the Protestant Bishops had no Succession nor Consecration and therefore were no Bishops and by consequence ought not to sit in Parliament I should make a speech against the said Book in my own and all the the Bishops behalf endeavouring to prove succession from the last Catholick Bishops as he there stiles them who by Imposition of hands ordained the first Protestant Bishops at the Nags-head in Cheapside as was notorious to all the world c. I do hereby in the presence of Almighty God solemnly protest and Declare to all the world that what this Author there affirms concerning me is a most notorious untruth and a gross slander For to the best of my knowledge and remembrance no such Book as he there mentions was ever presented to the Vpper House in that or any other Parliament that I ever sate in and if there had I could never have made such a speech as is there pretended seeing I have ever spoken according to my thoughts and alwayes believed that Fable of the Nags-head Consecration to have proceeded from the Father of Lyes as the Authentick Records of the Church still extant which were so faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason do evidently testifie And whereas the same impudent Libeller doth moreover say that what he there affirms was told to many by one of the Ancientest Peers of England present in Parliament when I made this pretended speech and that he is ready to depose the same upon his oath and that he cannot believe any will be so impudent as to deny a thing so notorious whereof there are as many witnesses living as there are Lords and Bishops that were that day in the Vpper House of Parliament c. I answer that I am very unwilling to believe any Peer of England should have so little sense of his Conscience and Honour as either to swear or so much as affirm so notorious an untruth And therefore for the justification of my self and manifestation of the truth in this particular I do freely and willingly Appeal as he directs me to those many Honourable persons the Lords Spiritual and Temporal yet alive who sate in the House of Peers in that Parliament or to as many of them as this my Protestation can come to for a true Certificate of what they know or believe concerning this matter humbly desiring them and charging upon their Souls as they will answer it to God at the Day of Judgement that they will be pleased to testifie the truth and nothing but the truth herein to the best of their knowledge and remembrance without any favour or affection to me at all I cannot reasonably be suspected by any indifferent man of denying any thing that I know or believe to be true seeing I am so shortly in all probability to render an account to the Searcher of hearts of all my words and actions being now at the least upon the Ninty fifth year of my Age and I acknowledge it a great mercy and favour of God that he hath reserved me thus long to clear the Church of England and my self of this most notorious slander before he takes me to himself for I cannot imagine any reason why this shameless writer might not have cast the same upon any of my Reverend Brethren as well as me but only that I being the Eldest it was probable I might be in my grave before this untruth could be taken notice of in the world And now I thank God I can chearfully sing my Nunc dimittis unless it shall please him to reserve me for the like service hereafter for I desire not to live any longer upon Earth then he shall be pleased to make me his instrument to defend the truth and promote his glory And for the more sosolemn and full confirmation of this my Free and Voluntary Protestation and Declaration I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of Tho. Duresme Tho. Saunders Senior Tho. Saunders Jun. Jo. Barwick Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies 98. Hereunto was added the Attestation of a Publick Notarie subscribed with his hand and Signed with his Notarial mark and Motto in these words I Tobie Holder publick Notarie being requested by the right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bishop of Duresme at the House of Thomas Saunders Esq in the parish of Flamestead in the County of Hertford in the year of our Lord Moneth and Day above specified was then and there personally present where and when the said Reverend Bishop did signe publish and declare this his Protestation and Declaration above written to be his Act and Dead and did cause his Authentick-Episcopal Seal to be thereto affixed in the presence of the Witnesses whose names are there subscribed And did there and then likewise signe publish and declare as his Act and