they had deserved the first thing which was done by the House of Commons after the King by their means had been brought to the fatall Block being to turn them out of povver to dissolve their House and annul their priviledges reducing them to the same condition vvith the rest of the Subjects Fuller I behold all this Paragraph as a Letter sent to me vvhich requires no Answer onely I bear the Animadvertor witnesse that it is delivered seeing I was none of the Lords on either Side But I am not altogether satisfied in the Adequation of the Animadvertor's Dichotomy to all the English Nobility That all not subscribing the Catalogue at Oxford must instantly be concluded on the opsite Party believing that upon serious search some Lords would be found in their Minority and not necessarily reducible to either of these heads Dr. Heylyn Footsteps of his moderation content with the enjoying without the enjoyning their private practices and opinions on others This comes in as an inference onely on a former passage in which it is said of Bishop Andrews that in what place soever he came he never pressed any other Ceremonies upon them than such as he found to be used there before his comming Though othervvise condemned by some for many superstitious Ceremonies and superfluous Ornaments used in his private Chappell How true this is I am not able to affirm Fuller The Animadvertor if so disposed might soon have satisfied himself in this point being Beneficed in Hampshire the last Diocesse of Bishop Andrews And though his institution into his Living was since the death of that worthy Prelate yet his information in this particular had been easie from the aged Clergy of his Vicinage Sure I am he ever was inquisitive enough in matters vvhiâ—h might make for his advantage so that his not denying tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter in question Dr. Heylyn I am less able if it should be true to commend it in him It is not certainly the office of a carefull Bishop onely to leave things as he found them but to reduce them if amiss to those Rules and Canons from which by the forwardness of some to innovate and the connivance of others at the innovations they had been suffered to decline Fuller I comply cordially with the Animadvertor in all this last Sentence Only I add That it is also the office of a good Bishop not to endeavour the Alteration of things well setled before This was the constant practice of Doctor Andrews successively Bishop of Chichester Ely and Winchester who never urged any other Ceremonies that what which he found there Now whereas the Animadvertor saith that iâ— this should be true he is not able to commend it in him the matter is not much seeing the actions of Bishop Andrewes are able to commend themselves Dr. Heylyn And for the Inference it selfe it is intended chiefly for the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury against whom he had a fling before in the fourth Book of this History not noted there because reserved to another place of vvhich more hereafter Condemmed here for his want of moderation in enjoyning his private practices and opinions on other men But first our Author had done well to have spared the man vvho hath already reckoned for all his errours both vvith God and the vvorld Fuller He hath so and I hope what he could not satisfie in himself was done by his Savâ—our But first the Animadvertor had done wel to have spared his censure on my intentions except he had better assurance of them Here I must Reader appeal to an higher than thy self Him vvho can read the secrets of my heart before whom I protest That in this passage I did not reflect in any degree on the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury To make this the more probable knovv the Articles of his Visitation vvere observed to be as moderate as any Bishops in England Here let me enter this Memorable and let the Animadvertor confute it if he can There was a designe of the thirty six Dissenters of whom hereafter in the Convocaâ—ion to obtain that these Articles of his Visitation might be precedenâ—tall to all the Bishops in England as being in themselves in offensive and containing no Innovations This was by some communicated to Arch-Bishop Laud who at first seemed to approve thereof and how it came afterwards to miscarry I am not bound to discover I confess this my expression did eye another person related to Bishop Andrewes whom I forbear to name except by the Animadvertor's reply unto me I be forced thereunto Dr. Heylyn And secondly it had been better if he had told us what those private practises and opinions were which the Arch-Bishop with such want of moderation did enjoyâ— on others Fuller They are reckoned up in my Church-History Book 11. pag. 174. parag 47 48. This is direction enough and there one may find more then a good many of such opinions and practises On the self-same token that it was discreetly done of the Animadvertor to pass them over in silence without a word in their defence or excuse I will not again here repeat them partly because I will not revive what in some sort is dead and buried and partly because I charitably believe that some engaged therein and still alive are since sorry for their over-activity therein Dr. Heylyn For it is possible enough that the opinions which he speaks of might be the publick Doctrines of the Church of England maintained by him in opposition to those private opinions which the Calvinian party had intended to obtrude upon her A thing complained oâ— by Spalato who well observed that many of the opinions both of Luther and Calvin were received amongst us as part of the Doctrine and Confession of the Church of England which otherwise he acknowledged to be capable of an Orthodox sense Praeter Anglicanam Confessionem quam mi â— ut moâ—estam praedicalant multa video Lutheri Calvini dogmata obtinuisse as he there objects Fuller I am not bound to stand to the judgment of Spalato who would not stand to his own judgment but first in â—earâ— then in body went back into Aegypt Lay not such unsavoury salt in my dish but cast it to the Dunghill Dr. Heylyn He that reads the Gag and the Appello Caesarem of Bishop Monâ—â—gue cannot but see that those opinions which our Author condemned for private were the true Doctrine of this Church professed and held forth in the Book of Articles the Homilies and the Common-Prayer-Book Fuller He that reads the Answers returned by severall Divines to the Books of Bishop Montague cannot but see that they were rather private opinions than the true and professed Doctrine of the Church of England Here Reader I cannot but remember a passage betwixt two Messengers sent to carry Defiances from severall Armies who meeting in the mid-way though naked and without Swords yet to manifest their zeal to their Cause fought it out with their Trumpets
Countrey conquered to change the Laws alter the Language or new mould the Government or finally to translate the Scepter from the old Royal Family to some one of their own None of which things being done in the Invasions of the Scots and Picts they cannot properly be said to have subdued the South parts of the Island as our Author out of love perhaps to the Scots would perswade the Reader Fuller I confesse of all Five the Picts and Scots had the most short and uncertain abode in the South The distinction is very nice betwixt harrassing or depopulating of a Countrey and subduing it If I could but harrasse and depopulate that is but deargumentaâ—e the Animamadvertors Book against me I doubt not but I should be accounted to subdue it Why is not my Pen charged with a love to the Picts whom I also equally with the Scots intitle to this subduing and is a Nation now no where extant to be the object of my affection But this five-times subduing of the South of this Island is in all Authors as generally known and received as that a man hath five fingers on his hand Wherefore no more in Answer to just nothing THE THIRD BOOK From the time of the Norman Conquest to the first preaching of Wickliffe Dr. Heylin WE are now come unto the times of the Norman Government when the Church began to settle on a surer bottom both for power and polity the Bishops lesse obnoxious to the Kings than formerly because elected by the Monks and Canons of their own Cathedrals their Consistories free from the intermixture of Lay-assistance and their Synods manag'd by themselves Wherein though they had power of making such Synodicall Constitutions as did ipso facto binde all parties yet our Author is resolv'd to have it otherwise Fuller All this is but perfatary and therefore my Answer not necessary thereunto The Animadvertor seemeth to congratulate the Condition of the English Church as better hereafter in the following than in foregoing Ages He instanceth in two particulars POWER and POLITIE omitting a third worth Both Piety to which Purity in Doctrine may be reduced which now began more and more to be impaired Let me add that after the Kings of England had parted which indeed was wrested from them with the Investing of Bishops Bishops became lesse managable by and dutiful to their Prince and more insulting over the People and being lesse OBNOXIOUS to use the Animadvertors word to the Soveraign were more NOXIOUS to the Subjects Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 19. The Proceedings saith he of the Canon Law were never wholly received into practice in the Land but so as made subject in whatsoever touched temporals to Secular Lawes and National Customes And the Laity as pleasure limited Canons in this behalf How false this is how contrary to the power and practice of the Church before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the eight and finally how dangerous a ground is hereby laid to weaken the Authority of Convocations will best appear by laying down the sum of a Petition presented by the House of Commons to the same King Henry together with the Answer of the Prelates and inferior Clergy then being Synodically assembled to the said Petition The substance of the Petition was as followeth viz. THat the Clergy of this your Realm being your Highnesse Subjects in their Convocation by them holden within this your Realm have made and daily make divers Sanctions or Laws concerning Temporal things and some of them be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of your Realm not having ne requiring your most Royal assent to the same Laws so by them made nother any assent or knowledge of your Lay Subjects is had to the same nother to them published and known in their Mother tongue albeit divers and sundry of the said Laws extend in certain causes to your excellent Person your Liberty and Prerogative Royal and to the interdiction of your Laws and Possessions and so likewise to the Goods and Possessions of your Lay Subjects declaring the infringers of the same Laws so by them made not onely to incur the terrible censure of Excommunication but also to the detestable crime and sin of Heresie by the which divers of your humble and obedient Lay Subjects be brought into this Ambiguity whether they may doe and execute your Laws according to your jurisdiction Royal of this Realm for dread of the same Censures and pains comprised in the same Laws so by them made in their Convocations to the great trouble and inquietation of your said humble and obedient Lay Subjects c. the impeachment of your Jurisdiction and Prerogative Royal. The Answer thereunto was this TO this we say that forasmuch as we repute and take our Authority of making Laws to be grounded upon the Scripture of God and the determination of holy Church which must also be a rule and squier to try the justice and righteousnesse of all Laws as well Spiritual as Temporal we verily trust that considering the Laws of this Realm be such as have been made by most Christian religious and devout Princes and People how both these Laws proceeding from one fountain the same being sincerely interpretrd and after the good meaning of the makers there shall be found no repugnancy nor contrariety but that the one shall be found as aiding maintaining and supporting the other And if it shall otherwise appear as it is our duty whereunto we shall alwayes most diligently apply our selves to reform our Ordinances to Gods Commission and to conform our Statutes and Laws and those of our predecessors to the determination of Scripture and holy Church so we hope in God and shall daily pray for the same that your Highnesse will if there appear cause why with the assent of your People temper your Graces Laws accordingly Whereby shall ensue a most happy and perfect conjunction and agreement as God being Lapis angularis to agree and conjoyn the same And as concerning the requiring of your Highnesse Royal assent to the authority of such Laws as have been by our Predecessors or shall be made by us in such points and Articles as we have by Gods authority to rule and order by such Provisions and Laws we knowing your Highness wisdome and vertue and learning nothing doubt but the same perceiveth how the granting hereunto dependeth not upon our will and liberty And that we your most humble Subjects may not submit the execution of our charge and duty certainly prescribed by God to your Highnesse assent although in very deed the same is most worthy for your most Noble Princely and excellent vertues not onely to give your Royal assent but also to devise and command what we should for good order and manners by Statutes and Laws provide in the Church neverthelesse considering we may not so ne in such sort refrain the doing of our office in the feeding and ruling of Christs people your Graces Subjects we most
was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames Anno 1603. and afterwards created Lord Montague of Boughton in the nineteenth year of that King Anno 1621. which honourable Title is now enjoyed by his Son another Edward Anno 1658. And thirdly though I grant that Dr. Iames Montague Bishop of Winchester the second Brother of the four was of great power and favour in the time of King Iames. Thus far Dr. Heylin out of his Advertisements written in correction of Mr. Sandersons History of the Reign of King Iames. To rectifie this heap of Errors not to be paralleled in any Author pretending to the emendation of another I have here plainly set down the Male-pedegree of this Noble Numerous and successfull Family 1 Sir Edward Montague Lord Chief Justice in the Reign of King Henry the eighth 2 Sir Edward Montague a worthy Patriot in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Sir Walter Montague Knight second Son died without Issue Sir Henry Montague third Son Earl of Manchester Lord Chief Justice Lord Treasurer c. Edw. Montague now Earl of Manchester besides other Sons 3 Sir Edward Montague made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames never a Martialist and created by Him Baron Montague of Boughton dying in the beginning of the Civill Warres William Mountague Esq of the Middle-Temple second Son 4 Edward now Lord Montague of Boughton Ralfe Montague Esq second Son Edward Montague Esq eldest Son Christopher Montague third Son died before his Father being a most hopefull Gentleman Sir Charles Montague fourth Son who did good service in Ireland and left three Daughters and Co-heirs Iames Montague fifth Son Bishop of Winchester died unmarried Sir Sidney Montague sixth Son Master of the Requests Edward Montague now Admirall and one of the Lords of the Councel I presume the Animadvertor will allow me exact in this Family which hath reflected so fauourably upon me that I desire and indeed deserve to live no longer than whilest I acknowledg the same THE FOURTH BOOK From the first preaching of Wickliffe to the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the eighth Dr. Heylin OUR Author begins this Book with the Story of Wickliffe and continueth it in relating the successes of him and his followers to which he seems so much addicted as to Christen their Opinions by the name of the Gospel For speaking of such incouragements and helps as were given to Wickliffe by the Duke of Lancaster with other advantages which the conditions of those times did afford unto him he addeth That Fol. 129. We must attribute the main to Divine Providence blessing the Gospel A name too high to be bestowed upon the Fancies of a private man many of whose Opinions were so far from truth so contrary to peace and civil Order so inconsistent with the Government of the Church of Christ as make them utterly unworthy to be look'd on as a part of the Gospel Or if the Doctrines of Wickliffe must be call'd the Gospel what shall become of the Religion then establisht in the Realm of England and in most other parts of the Western World Were all but Wickliffes Followers relaps'd to Heathenism were they turn'd Jews or had imbrac'd the Law of Mahomet If none of these and that they still continued in the faith of Christ delivered to them in the Gospels of the four Evangelists and other Apostolicall Writers Wickliffes new Doctrines could not challenge the name of Gospel noâ— ought it to be given to him by the Pen of any But such is the humor of some men as to call every separation from the Church of Rome by the name of Gospel the greater the separation is the more pure the Gospel No name but that of Evangelici would content the Germans when they first separated from that Church and reformed their own And Harry Nichols when he separated from the German Churches and became the Father of Familists bestows the name of Evangelium Regni on his Dreams and Dotages Gospels of this kinde we have had and may have too many quot Capita tâ—t Fides as many Gospels in a manner as Sects and Sectaries if this world goe on Now as Wickliffes Doctrines are advanc'd to the name of Gospel so his Followers whatsoever they were must be called Gods servants the Bishops being said fol. 151. to be busie in persecuting Gods servants and for what crime soever they were brought to punishment it must be thought they suffered onely for the Gospel and the service of God A pregnant evidence whereof we have in the story of Sir Iohn Oldcastle accused in the time of King Harry the fifth for a design to kill the King and his Brethren actually in Arms against that King in the head of 20000 men attainted for the same in open Parliament and condemn'd to die and executed in St. Giles his Fields accordingly as both Sir Roger Acton his principal Counsellor and 37 of his Accomplices had been before For this we have not onely the Authority of our common Chronicles Walsingham Stow and many others but the Records of the Tower and Acts of Parliament as is confessed by our Author fol. 168. Yet coming out of Wickliffes Schools and the chief Scholar questionlesse which was train'd up in them he must be Registred for a Martyr in Fox his Calendar And though our Author dares not quit him as he sayes himself yet such is his tendernesse and respect to Wickliffes Gospel that he is loath to load his Memory with causlesse Crimes fol. 167. taxeth the Clergie of that time for their hatred to him discrediteth the relation of T. Walsingham and all later Authors who are affirm'd to follow him as the Flock their Belweather and finally leaves it as a special verdict to the last day of the Revelation of the righteous Iudgements of God Fuller First I fain would know whether the Animadvertor would be contented with the Condition of the Church of England as Wickliffe found it for Opinions and Practise and doth not earnestly desire a Reformation thereof I am charitably confident that He doth desire such an Emendation and therefore being both of us agreed in this Point of the convenience yea necessity thereof in the second place I would as fain be satisfied from the Animadvertor whether He conceived it possible that such Reformation could be advanced without Miracle all on a sodain so that many grosse Errors would not continue and some new one be superadded The man in the Gospel first saw men walking as trees before he saw perfectly Nature hath appointed the Twilight as a Bridge to passe us out of Night into Day Such false and wild opinions like the Scales which fell down from the Eyes of St. Paul when perfectly restored to his sight have either vanished or been banished out of all Protestant Confession Far be it from me to account the rest of England relapsed into Atheism or lapsed in Iudaism Turcism c. whom I behold as Erronious Christians
in Doctrine and Practise and yet still in such a condition that though so living and dying if they lead a good life and being weak ignorant and seduced seriously repented of all their sins of ignorance they might be saved closing fully with the moderate Judgement of learned Hooker herein I know that the very worst of Hereticks have assumed to themselves the very best of Names gilding themselves over with the Title of Gospellers and the like but because Thieves often pretend themselves honest men may not honest men avow themselves to be so and also be so termed by others The words of the Animadvertor of Wickliffs Gospel might well have been spared seeing indeed it was Christs Gospel dawning is part of day preached by Wickliffe in a purer manner than in that Age thanks to God it was then so good impurer than in our Age thanks be to God it now is better As for Sir Iohn Oldcastle L. Cobham his Case is so perplexed with contrary relations much may be said against him and little lesse in his behalf and I have cause to beleeve indeed that his Innocence wanted not clearnesse but clearing Whereas the Animadvertor takes exception at my referring the Decision hereof to the revelation of the righteous judgement of God it must be Either because 1. That Time will come too soon to decide the Controversie 2. Or else come too late to decide the Controversie 3. Or else be insufficient to decide the Controversie And having no just cause to suspect any of these it had been better if my or rather St. Pauls words had passed without his reprehension Dr. Heylin From the Scholar passe we to the Master of whom it is reported in a late Popish Pamphlet that he made a recantation of his Errors and liv'd and dyed conformable to the Church of Rome This I will behold as a notorious falshood an imposture of the Romish party though the argument used by our Author be not of strength sufficient to inforce me to it If saith he Wickliffe was sufficiently reconcil'd to the Roman faith why was not Rome sufficiently reconciled to him Using such cruelty to him many years after his death fol. 171. But this say I is no reason of no force at all Wickliffe might possibly be reconcil'd to the Church of Rome and yet the Ministers of that Church to strike a terror into others might execute that vengâ—ance on him after his decease which they had neither power nor opportunity to doe when he was alive Quam vivo iracundiam debuerant in corpus mortui contulerunt And hereof we have a fair example in Marcus Antonius de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato who comming into England 1616. did manifestly oppose the Doctrines of the Church of Rome in some learned Volumes But being cunningly wrought on by some Emissaries of the Romish party in the year 1622. he went back to Rome was reconcil'd to that Church and writ there most reproachfully of the Church of England which notwithstanding he was kept prisoner all the rest of his life and his body burnt to ashes after his decease So then it is no such new matter for a dissenting Christian such as Wickliff and de Dominis were though branded by the name of Hereticks to be admitted to a reconciliation with the Church of Rome and yet that Church to carry a revengefull minde towards them when occasion serves Fuller I answer first I am not the first who have discovered strong affections with a weak Judgement endeavouring to prove a Truth with a non-cogent and un-concluding Argument in case my reason should be disproved Secondly Spalato is no proper parallel of Wickliffe in this point Spalato contracted a new Guilt by bragging at the Table of a Cardinal in Rome that his Book de Repub. Eccles. could be answered by none but himself and dum calebat whilest the scent hereof was hot they burnt his Body when but lately dead Whereas their despight followed Wickliffe at a distance more than fourty years after his Death on no pretended new misdemeanor Lastly the Animadvertor cometh up unto me in allowing Wickliffe his Reconciliation to Rome a notorious untruth and therefore we may proceed to what is more material wherein we two shall apppear two being it seems but one in this difference Dr. Heylin And all this while we have expected that our Author would have given us a brief Summary of Wickliffes Doctrines that by seeing the Piety and Orthodoxie of his Opinions we might have thought more reverently both of him and his Followers But theâ—ein our expectation must remain unsatisfied our Author thinking it more agreeable to his Design to hold the Reader in suspense and conceal this from him dealing herein as the old Germans did with those of other Nations who came to wait upon Valeda a great Queen amongst them not suffering any to have a sight of her to keep them in a greater admiration of her Parts and Person Arcebantur aspectu quò plus venerationis inesset as it is in Tacitus The wheat of Wickliffe was so foul so full of chaff and intermingled with so many and such dangerous Tares that to expose it to the view were to mar the market And therefore our Author having formerly honoured his Opinions by the name of Gospel and his followers with the Title of Gods servants as before was noted had reason not to shew them all at once in a lump together that we might think them better and more Orthodox than indeed they were But the best is to save us the trouble of consulting Harpsfield and others who have written of them our Author hath given them us at last on another occasion Lib. 5. fol. 208. many of which the Reader may peruse in these Animadversions Numb 113. Thus having laid together so much of this present Book as relates to Wickliffe and his followers I must behold the rest in fragments as they lye before me Fuller Wickliffes Doctrines so called fall under a double notion being either such as were 1. Charged on Him 2. Maintained by Him For the former no Fault of Omission can be found in me having given in in a full Sheet a Catalogue of them digested under several Heads as concerning the Pope Prelats Priests Saints King Christ God with the Tome Book Article Chapter where they are to be found in T. Waldensis Sure I am they were not so bad in all particulars as he there representeth them If the Animadvertor a Protestant living with me in the same suffering Age accuse me for accounting Murdering of Kings for necessary Prudence as oft as they shall fall into the power of their Subjects which I abhor in my heart and no such thing appears in the place cited no wonder if Waldensis charged on Wickliffe abominable Errors which he cordially detested As for the Doctrines which Wickliffe did maintain we have some but want an exact List of them and I believe it is past the power of any Author
Ghostly Father cannot give or enjoyn any penance at all 11. That it is sufficient for a Man or Woman to make their confession to God alone 12. That it is as lawfull at all times to confesse to a Lay-man as to a Priest 13. That it is sufficient that the sinner doe say I know my self a sinner 14. That Bishops Ordinaries and Eccelesiastical Iudges have no Authority to give any sentence of Excommunication or censure ne yet to absolve or loose any man from the same 15. That it is not necessary or profitable to have any Church or Chappel to pray in or to doe any divine service in 16. That buryings in Churches and Church-yards be unprofitable and vain 17. That the rich and costly Ornaments in the Church are rather high displeasure than pleasure or honour to God 18. That our Lady was no better than another Woman and like a bag of Pepper or Saffron when the spice is out 19. That Prayers Suffrages Fasting or Alms-deeds doe not help to take away sin 20. That Holy-dayes ordained and instituted by the Church are not to be observed and kept in reverence in as much as all dayes and times be alike 21. That Plowing and Carting and such servile work may be done in the same without any offence at all as on other dayes 22. That it is sufficient and enough to beleeve though a man doe no good works at all 23. That seeing Christ hath shed his blood for us and Redeemed us we need not to doe any thing at all but to believe and repent if we have offended 24. That no humane Constitutions or Laws do binde any Christian man but such as be in the Goâ—pels Pauls Epistles or the New Testament and that a man may break them without any offence at all 25. That the singing or saying of Mass Mattens or Even song is but a roring howling whistling mumming tomâ—ing and jugling and the playing on the Organs a foolish vanity This is our Authors golden Oare out of which his new Protestant Religion was to be extracted So happily refin'd that there is nothing of the Old Christian Religion to be found therein Which though our Author doth defend as Expressions rather than Opinions the Careers of the Soul and Extravagancies of humane infirmity as he doth the rest yet he that looks upon these points and sees not in them the rude draught and lineaments of the Puritan Plat-form which they have been hammering since the time of Cartwright and his Associates must either have better eyes than mine or no eyes at all I see our Author looks for thanks for this discovery for publishing the paper which contain'd these new Protestant truths and I give him mine Fuller I have many things to return in this Contest First had I garbled the Opinions of my own Head and not presented them to the Reader as I found them presented in the Records of the Convocation then the Animadvertor had had just advantage against me Secondly He taketh exception at me in his Introduction for not giving in the Degrees by which Heterodoxies in Religion were ejected and cast out Yet not he is offended at me because I goe about to doe it shewing how bad Religion was before the Reformation even in the best Professors thereof Thirdly It is more than probable that these Opinions presented by such as were disaffected to the Reformation were not over favourably stated but rather worded to the disadvantage Fourthly Some of these Opinions thus condemned by the Animadvertor are â—ound in themselves I instance in that which in this his List is the eleventh in number viz That it is sufficient for a man or woman to make confession to God alone This at this day is defended by the Protestanâ— Church which though commending Confession as expedient in some cases especially when the afflicted Conscience cannot otherwiâ—e get any eaâ—e yet doth it not command it on any as necessary necessitate precepti so that the omission thereof should amount to a sin I am confident that the Animadvertor himself never solemnly confessed his sins to any but to God aloâ—e And it is injurious in him to demand of another to doe that which was never done by himself Lastly How unjust were it to put all Ieremies bud figs by themselves and thence to conclude all the rest which indeed were very good to be like unto them Such the dealing of the Animadvertor herein who hath called out the very Refuse and Dross of the Dross in these Opinions and left out the rest then maintained by Gods People in opposition to the Errors and Superstition of that Age some whereof are here inserted 1. They deny Extreme Unction to be any Sacrament 2. That all those are Antichrists who deny the Laity the Sacrament under both kindes 3. That it is plain Idolatry to set up any Lights before any Images or in any place of the Church in time of Divine Service as long as the Sun giveth light 4. That Auâ—icular Confession is invented to know the secrets of mens hearts and to pull money out of their purse 5. That Sainâ—s are not to be invocated and that they understand not nor know nothing of our Petitions nor can be Mediators or Intercessors betwixt us and God 6. That Diriges Massâ—s c. done for the Souls of those which are departed out of this World are buâ— vain and of no profit 7. That Souls departed goe strait to Heaven others to Hell 8. That there is no mean place betwixt Heaven and Hell where Souls departed may be affâ—cted 9. That there is no distinction of Sin to be Venial and Mortal 10. That hallowed Water Bread Candles Ashes Palmes are of none effect and are onely used to seduce people The rest I refer to my Church-History Had that all been like these I would have called them the Gold but because of many Errors mixed amongst them I resume my Metaphor and term them the Golden Oare out of which the Reformed Christian Religion was extracted And let the Author and Reader joyn in their thanks to Gods Goodnesse by whose blessing on the pious endeavors of the Reformers thâ— bad Figs I mean those false indiscreet scandalous and dangerous Doctrines are cashired and condemned and the good ones understand me the Positions which were pious and orthodox retained defended and practised at this day in the Church of England Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 239. At this time also were the Stews suppressed by the Kings command And I could wish that some command had been laid upon our Author by the Parliament to suppresse them also and not to have given them any place in the present History especially not to have produc'd those arguments by which some shamelesse persons endeavoured to maintain both the conveniency and necessity of such common Brothel-houses Had Bishop Iewel been alive and seen but half so much from Dr. Harding pleading in behalf of the common women permitted by the Pope in Rome he would
those who have either Separated from the Church or appeared against it I return to prosecute his Metaphor that I have used as UPRIGHT BOWLES as ever any that enter the Alley of History since our Civil Dissentions I do freely declare my self that I in VVriting my Book am for the Church of England as it stood established by Law the Creed being the Contracted Articles and the 39. Articles the Expanded Creed of her Doctrine as the Canons of her Discipline And still I prise her Favour highest though for the present it be least worth as little able to protect and less to prefer any that are faithfull to her Interest As for pleasing of Parties I never Designed or Endevoured it There were a kind of Philosophers called ELECTICI which were of none yet of all Sects and who would not engage in gross in the Opinions of any Philosophers but did pick and choose here and there what they found Consonant to Truth either amongst the Stoicks Peripateticks Academicks or misinterpreted Epicures receiving that and rejecting the rest such my Project to commend in all Parties what I find praise-worthy and condemne the rest on which Account some Fleer some Frown none Smile upon me First for the Papists though I malice not their Persons and have a Pity as God I hope hath a Mercy for many amongst them yet I do as occasion is offered dislike their Errors whereby I have incurred and according to their principles deserved their Displeasure The old Non-conformists being the same with the modern Presbuterians but depressed and under as the modern Presbuterians are the old Non-conformists but vertical and in Authority do though the Animadvertor twiâ—teth me constantly to Advocate for them take great and general exception at me and it is not long since in a Meeting of the most Eminent amongst them I was told that I put too much Gall into my Inck against them The Independent being the Benjamin of Parties and his Mess I assure you is none of the least taxeth me for too much fieriness as the Animadvertor in his Expression lately cited chargeth me for too much Favour unto them Thomas Lord Coventry when coming from the Chancery to sit down at Dinner was wont to say Surely to day I have dealt equally for I have displeased both sides I hope that I have his Happiness for I am sure I have his Unhappiness that having disobliged all Parties I have written the very Truth Thus I can onely privately comfort my self in my owne Innocence and hope that when my Head is laid low what seems too sweet too bitter too salt too fresh to the present divided Age will be adjudged well tasted and seasoned to the Palate of Unpartial Posterity CHAP. XIII What Good the Animadvertor might but would not doe and what Good by Gods goodness he Herein hath done unto the Author WHen the Animadvertor had perused my Book marking some but making moe faults therein it was in his Power to have done me a Pleasure the greatest he could give or I receive viz. not to paradigmatize me but by Letter in an amicable way to impart my Mistakes unto me that I might amend them in my next Edition Say not He owed me no such thing who would have beheld it not as a Debt paid unto but Alms bestowed upon me I was not wholly without hope hereof having found such favour from some worthy Friends Had the Animadvertor done the like How had he obliged me As the Society of Peter-house do preserve the Pictures of their Benefactors in their Parlour so would I have erected unto him a Monument of Gratitude in my Heart besides my publick acknowledgement of the courtesie But it seems He intended not my Information but Defamation However he hath done to me a great good turn for which because not intended I will thank God viz. He by his causeless Carping hath allayed in me the delight in Writing of Histories seeing nothing can be so unpartially and inoffensively written but some will carp thereat Mothers minding to wean their Children use to put Soot Wormwood or Mustard on the Nibbles of their Breasts God foresaw I might Suck to a Surfet in Writing Histories which hath been a Thief in the Lamp of my Life wasting much Oyle thereof My Head and Hand had robb'd my Heart in such delightful Studdies Wherefore he raised the bitter Pen of the Animadvertor to wean me from such Digressions from my Vocation I now experimentally find the Truth of * Solomon's words of making many Books there is no End Not but that all perfect Books I mean perfect in sheets otherwise none save Scripture perfect have Finis in the Close thereof or that any Author is so irrational but He propounds an End to himself before he begins it but that in making of many Books there is no end that is the Writers of them seldome or never do attain that End which they propound to themselves especially if Squinting at sinister Ends as who is not flesh and blood Such as project wealth to themselves are commonly by unwise managing or casual miscarriage impaired thereby in their Estates Others who designed to themselves with the builders of Babel to get them a Name commonly meet with shame and disgrace Or else when their Books are ended yet they are not ended because though never so cautiously written some Antagonists will take up the Bucklers against them so that they must begin again after they have ended or sink in their credits to write in their own vindication which is my case enough to take off my edge formerly too keen in making multiplicity of Books I confess I have yet one History ready for the Press which I hope will be for Gods Glory and Honour of our Nation This new-built Ship is now on the Stocks ready to be lanched and being a Vessel of great Burden God send me some good Adventurers to bear part of the Expence This done I will never meddle more with making any Books of this Nature It is a provident way before Writing leave us to leave of Writing and the rather because Scribling is the Frequentative thereof If therefore my Petitioning and Optative Amen shall meet with Gods Commissioning and Imperative Amen I will hereafter totally attend the Concernments of my Calling and what directly and immediately shall tend to the advance of Devotion in my Self and in Others as preparatory to my Dissolution out of this state of Mortality CHAP. XIV That the Author is unjustly charged by the Animadvertor for being agreeable to the Times And how far forth such Agreeableness is consistent with Christian Prudence THe Animadvertor is pleased to Charge me to be a great Temporizer and agreeable to the Times In Order to my Defence herein let me premise this Distinction that there is a Sinful and Sinless Agreeableness with the Times be they never so bad It is a Sinful Agreeableness when People for their private profit or safety or both are resolved in
Belief and Life Faith and Fact Doctrine and Manners to be the same with the Times how contrary soever they be unto the Will and Word of God Be it BIBLE or THALMUD or ALCORAN or MASSE-BOOK or COMMON-PRAYER-BOOK or DIRECTORY any many all or no Manner of God's publick Service to them all is alike and equally imbraced But there is also a Sinless yea lawful and necessary agreeableness to the Times insomuch that no meaner Father than St. Ambrose or worse Critick than Erasmus read the Text Romans 12.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serving the Time A Reading countenanced by the Context Rejoycing in Hope patient in Tribulation continuing in Prayer all being Directions of our demeanour in dangerous times And even those who dislike the Reading as false defend the Doctrine as true that though we must not be Slaves and Vassals we may be Servants to the Times so far forth as not to Dis-serve God thereby This Sinless and lawful Agreeableness with the Times is partly Passive partly Active Passive chiefly consisteth in Bearing and Forbearing Bearing in paying all Pecuniary burdens imposed it being but equal in my opinion there to return Tribute where we receive Protection I doubt not but in this point even the Animadvertor himself is agreeable to the Times going along with the rest of his Neighbours in their paying of all publick Taxes Forbearing expresseth it self first in Silence The Spanish Proverb true at all is necessary in dangerous Times Where the mouth is shut no Fly doth enter Yea the Spirit of God giveth his Servants this counsel Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that Time for it is an evil Time Thus Holding of ones peace that is using no Provoking Language against the Present Power procureth Holding of ones Peace that is retaining and possessing of one's Safety and Quiet Secondly Forbearing consisteth in Refraining though not without secret sorrow from some Laudable Act which he heartily desireth but dares not doe as visibly destructive to his Person and Estate being prohibited by the Predominant Powers In such a Case a man may to use the Apostle's phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the present necessity omit many things Pleasing to but not Commanded by that God who preferreth Mercy before Sacrifice For instance If any Earthly Prince or Power should enjoyn a Christian as Darius did Daniel not to pray to God for the space of Thirty dayes together his Command is not to be obeyed as contrary to Gods positive Precept Pray continually But if he should onely enjoyn him to forbear such a Form of Prayer allowing him liberty to use any other I conceive that such an omission Lawful dictated unto him by the Principles of Prudence for his self Preservation The Active Part of Lawful Agreeableness with the times is in doing what they enjoyn as being Indifferent and sometimes so good that our own Conscience doth or should enjoyn the same In such a case where there is a Concurrence of Both together it is neither Dishonesty nor Indiscretion for one in himself to conceal his own Inclinations and publickly to put his Actions as Fasting Thanksgiving Preaching c. on the Account of Conformity to the Times it being as flattery to court so no less folly to contemne and reject the favour of the Times when it may be had without the least violation yet possibly with an Improvement of our own Conscience I have Endevoured to steer my Carriage by the Compass aforesaid and my main Motive thereunto was that I might enjoy the Benefit of my Ministry the bare using whereof is the greatest Advancement I am capable of in this Life I know all Stars are not of the same Bigness and Brightness some shine some only twinkle and allowing my Self of the latter Size and Sort I would not willingly put out my own though dimme light in total Darkness nor would bury my halfe-Talent hoping by putting it forth to gain an other half-Talent thereby to the Glory of God and the good of others But it will be Objected against me that it is suspicious at the least that I have Bribed the Times with some base Compliance with them because they have reflected so favourably upon me Otherwise how cometh it to pass that my fleece like Gideons is dry when the rest of my Brethren of the same party are wet with their own Tears I being permitted Preaching and peaceable Enjoying of a Parsonage I answer first I impute this Peaceableness I enjoy to Gods undeserved Goodness on my Unworthiness He hath not dealt thus with all my Brethren above me in all respects God maketh People sometimes potius reperire quà m invenire Gratiam to find the Favours they sought not for If I am one of them whom God hath made to be pitied of those who carried me away captive I hope I shall be thankful unto Him and Others I hope will not be Envious at me for so great a Mercy Next to the Fountain of Gods Goodness I ascribe my Liberty of Preaching to the Favour of some Great Friends God hath raised up for me It was not a Childish answer though the answer of a Child to his Father taxing him for being Proud of his New Coat I am glad said he but not proud of it Give me leave to be glad and joyful in my self for my Good Friends and to desire and endevour their Continuance and increase A Friend in the Court hath alwayes been accounted as Good as a Penny in the Councel as a Pound in the Purse Nor will any rational man Condemn me for making my Addresses to and improvement of them seeing the Animadvertor himself as I am informed hath his Friend in the Councel and it is not long since he had Occasion to make use of his Favour I must not forget the Articles of Exeter whereof I had the Benefit living and waiting there on the Kings Daughter at the Rendition thereof Articles which both as Penned and Performed were the best in England thanks to their Wisdome who so Warily made and Honesty who so well observed them Nor was it though last named least causal of my Quiet that Happy Criticism to my self as I may call it I never was formally sequestred but went before driven away from my Living which took of the Edge off the Ordinance against me that the Waight thereof fell but slentingly upon me Thus when God will fasten a favour on any Person though never so unworthy he ordereth the Concurrences of all things contributive thereunto All I will add is this that hitherto and I hope Who hath will keep me I speak it in the presence of God I have not by my Pen or Practice to my knowledge done any thing Unworthily to the betraying of the Interest of the Church of England and if it can be proved Let my Mother-Church not onely spit in my face the expression it seems of Parents amongst the Iews when they were offended with their Children for some
Practise fell far short of his Precepts witness his inserting of this false passage opposite to the very Letter of the Old Testament speaking of Iehojakaim King of Iudah 2 King 24.9 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his Father had done Iosephus Ant. Iud. lib. 10. cap. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This man being merciful and just by his nature c. But because it is not my Work to accuse Iosephus whom I cannot praise and prize enough but to defend my self against the Animadvertor let us proceed Dr. Heylyn There is another rule which he bound himself to that is to say Neither to omit any thing through ignorance nor to bury any thing in forgetfullness And all these cautions well observed make a perfect History Fuller Here is the Elixir indeed of Historical perfection Let a Glorified Saint write such an History of the Church-Triumphant that so there may be a just proportion betwixt the Author and his Subject both being Perfect I have met with this Distick made by reverend Bernard Gilpin upon such Sectaries as require exactness in our Church of England Optant ut careat maculis Ecclesia cunctis Praesens vita negat vita futura dabit Thus Englished by Bishop Carleton Men wish our Church no blemish had at all It cannot be so here in Heaven it shall This is true both of our Church and all Church-Histories whereof none without faults and they the best which have the fewest Dr. Heylyn But on the contrary there are some who do spend themselves on the style and dresse as if their business rather were to delight the ear then inform the judgement Others so byassed by self-ends and private interesse that they seem rather Advocates to plead for some growing party then true Reporters of affairs as they be before them Some who endevouring to be copious clap all together in a huddle which is offered to them without relation to the Ornaments and Attire of Language and others with like carelesness as unto themselves but greater inconvenience as unto the Reader examine not the truth and certainty of what they write so they write somewhat which they think may inform the Reader Betwixt these Truth is oftentimes irrecoverably lost the Reader led aside from the wayes of Verity into the crooked lanes of Error and many times conducted to such dangerous precipices as may prove destructive to himself and of ill consequence to all those which are guided by him The Errors of the Understanding in matters which may possibly be reduced to Practise are far more mischievous then those which do consist in the niceties of Speculation and advance no farther which moved the Orator not onely to honour History with the Attribute of Testis Temporum but to style it also by the name of Magistra Vitae Fuller I remember when the reverend Vice-master of Trinity College in Cambridge was told that one of the Scholars had abused him in an Oration Did he said he name me Did he name Thomas Harrison And when it was returned that he named him not then said he I do not believe that he meant me Although it is very suspicious that I am the mark aimed at in this discourse yet being not conscious of such faults to my self and because I am not named by him I will not understand my self intended till he toucheth me with more personal particularities Dr. Heylyn These things considered as they ought hath made me wonder many times at the unadvisedness of some late Writers in this kind whose Histories are composed with so much partiality on the one Side and so much inadvertency on the Other that they stand more in need of a Commentator to expound the Truth and lay it clear and open to the view of the Reader than either the dark words of Aristotle or any other obscure Piece of the ancient Writers I speak of Histories not Libels of which last sort I reckon Weldon's Pamphlet called The Court of King Iames and Wilson's most infamous Pasquil of the Reign of that King in which it is not easie to judge whether the Matter be more false or the Stile more reproachful in all parts thereof Certain I am we may affirm of them as Cremutius Cordus doth of the Epistles of Antonius and the Orations of Brutus Falsa quidem in Augustum probra sed multa cum acerbitate habent that is to say that they contained not only false and disgraceful passages against the honour of Augustus but were apparelled also in the habit of scurrilous language With such as these I shall not meddle at the present leaving their crimes unto the punishment not of an Index but an Ignis Expurgatorius as most proper for them Fuller I am not concerned at all in this Paragraph Onely let me add this in the honour of the deceased Robert Earl of Warwick who told me at Beddington that when Wilson's Book in Manuscript was brought unto him he expunged out of it more than an hundred offensive passages My Lord said I you have done well and you had done better if you had put out one hundred more Dr. Heylyn But as for those whom either the want of true intelligence or inadvertency in not weighing seriously what they were to do or the too much indulgence to their own affections have made more capable of being bettered by correction I have thought it more agreeable to the Rules of justice to rectifie their mistakes and reform their Errors than absolutely to condemn and decry their Writings Fuller REFORMING of Errors is a specious and glorious Designe especially when proportionable means are used in order thereunto But of late the word REFORMATION is grown so thredbare it hath no nap left it thereunder to cover foul acts to attain a fair end I much suspect the Animadvertor will prove such a Deforming-Reformer as our Age hath produced too many of them Dr. Heylyn At this time I have Two before me whom I conceive to stand in need of such Observations by which the truth may be preserved and the clear face of things presented to the Readers eye the one of them an Authour of Ecclesiastical the other of some Civil Histories Fuller I commend the valour of the Animadvertor to combate with Two at once odds on which Hercules himself durst not adventure I also am to deal with two the Animadvertor and Dr. Cosins but not as a Challenger but in the notion of a poor Defendant and if one be assaulted by two hundred he may and must guard himself against them as well as he can Dr. Heylyn In both I find the Truth much injured and in one the Church The Errors of the one tend not to the subversion of any publick interesse but being Errors may misguide the Reader in the way of his knowledge and discourse and therefore I have rectified him with some Advertisements not taking notice of such passages as have been made the subject of some
assistance no emphatical word nor syllable shall pass without its respective reply Nor hath the Reader any cause to suspect that by such shifting I intend any Evasion by pleading in the Preface that I will answer objections in the Body of my Book and alledging in the Body of my Book that I have answered them in the Preface For I have to do with the Animadvertor so cunning and so exacting a Merchant that it is impossible for one indebted unto him to escape without full payment by changing the place of his habitation However the Animadvertor hath dealt severely to say no worse with me who to render me the more culpable and my Book of the less credit hath represented all my faults in a Duplicating Glass And whereas the Best of Beings non bis judicat in id ipsum doth not punish the same faults twice he hath twice taxed every supposed mistake in my History once in his Preface and again in the Body of his Book Dr. Heylyn Concerning which the Reader is to understand that in the Year 1642. Mr. Fuller publisht his Book called The Holy State in the Preface whereof he letâ— us know that he should count it freedom to serve two Apprâ—ntiships God spinning out the 〈◊〉 thread of his life so long in writing the Ecclesiastical History from Christâ— time to our daies And so much time it seems he had spent upon it excepting some 〈◊〉 for recreation in the Holy Land before he had finisht and expos'd it to pubâ—â—ck view the Book not comming out untill the year 1655. whether agreeable to his promise and such a tedious expectâ—tion we are now to see Fuller My words are by the Animadvertor given-in deâ—ectively and as to me disadvantageously this â—assage which ought to have been inserted immediatly preceding my Promise If I may be so happy as to see these gloomy dayes disclouded with the beams of Gods mercy I appeal to the Conscience of the Animadvertor himself whâ—ther in his Soul he conceiveth these days disclouded or no. Gloomy they were when I wâ—ote those words before any war rained in the Land and since such bloody showers have ended they continue louring gloomy and dark unto this day My promise therfore being thus but Conditional and the condition on which it was grounded not as yet performed I have no neâ—d Liberare fidem to free my Faith which was never bound though I had ever since utterly quitted all thoughts of writing any Church-History For the first five years during our actual Civill Wars I had little list or leasure to write fearing to be made an History and shifting daily for my safety All that time I could not live to study who did onely study to live So soon as Gods goodness gave me a fixed habitation I composed my Land of Canaan or Pisgah-Sight This though I confess it be no part of Church-Building yet it is the clearing of the floore or Foundation thereof by presenting the performances of Christ and his Apostles in Palestine I perceive the Animadvertor hath a months mind to give me a Jeere for my fallying into the Holy-Land which I can bear the better seeing by Gods goodness that my Book hath met with generall reception likely to live when I am dead so that friends of quality solicite me to teach it the Latine-Language Dr. Heylyn For first the Reader might expect by the former passage that he designed the Generall History of the Church from the first preaching of Christ and the calling of the twelve Apostles to the times we live in whereas he hath restrained himself to the Church of Brittain which he conceives to be so far from being founded in the time of Christ that he is loth to give it the Antiquity of being the work of any of the Apostles of any of the Seventy Disciples or finally of any Apostolicall Spirit of those eldest times Fuller Charity begins but doth not end at home The same Method was embraced in my Church-History It began with our own Domestick affairs to confute that accusation commonly charged on Englishmen that they are very knowing in forrain parts but ignorant in their own Country I intended God willing to have proceeded to forrain Churches but I am discouraged by the causless caviling at what I have written already My Church-History beginneth for point of Time Indeterminately before the Birth of Christ lapping in or folding over part of Paganisme and presenteth the dolefull condition of the Britons whilest yet unconverted and grievious Idolaters Determinately my History begins Anno Dom. 37. which is but four years after Christs Passion and that is very early I assure you Christianity in this Island being a Timely riser to be up so soon and dressing it Self whilest as yet and many years after most Countreys were fast asleep in Pugan Impiety I deny not but that Apostolical men were the first founders of Religion in our Land But as for such Apostles St. Peter St. Paul c. who without probability of Truth and against proportion of Time are by some Authors obtruded on us those I do reject I hope without the least â—ault rendring my reasons for the same Dr. Heylyn And secondly Though he entitle it by the name of the Church-History of Brittain yet he pursues not his Design agreeable to that Title neither there being little said of the affairs of the Church of Scotland which certainly makes up a considerable part of the Isle of Brittain and less if any thing at all of the Church of Ireland which anciently past in the account of a Brittish-Island Fuller I will render the Reader a true account why I entitled my Book The Church-History of Brittain First the Church-History of England I might not call it the five first Centuries therein belonging wholly to the Brittains before the Name and Notion of England was ever heard of in any Author Secondly The Church-History of Great-Brittain I did not call it for fear of bringing in Scotland within the Latitude thereof a compass too large for my weak Endeavours Thirdly The Church-History of Brittain I did and might call it in a double respect tam à parte Majore quà m meliore both from the bigger and better the fairer and fruitfuller part of Brittain the Ecclesiastical affairs whereof were therein contained Yea the Animadvertor knows full well that the South of this Island by way of Eminence is so called To give one Instance of many from the Title-page of a passage of State Nobilissima disceptatio super Dignitate magnitudine Regnorum Britannici Et Gallici habita ab utriusque Oratoribus Legatis in Concilio Constantiensi Lovanii anno 1517. Typis excusa The most noble Dispute about the Dignity and greatness of the Kingdomes of Brittain and France betwixt the Embassadors and Legates of both Sides in the Councell of Constance Anno 1517. printed at Lovaine Here the contest only was betwixt the Crowns of England here termed Brittain and France Scotland not at all
but Prudence in me to believe my self above such Trifles who have written a Book to Eternity Fourthly I regreat not to be Anvile for any ingenious Hammer to make pleasant musick on but it seems my Traducer was not so happy Lastly I remember a speech oâ— Sir Walter Rawleighs If any saith he speaketh against me to my face my Tongue shall give him an Answer but my back-side is good enough to return to him who abuseth me behind my back Dr. Heylyn In the next ranck of Impertinencies which are more intrinseall part of the substance of the work I account his Heraldry Blazons of Arms Descents of noble Families with their Atchivements intermingled as they come in his way not pertinent I am sure to a Church-Historian unless such persons had been Founders of Episcopal Sees or Religious-Houses or that the Arms so blazoned did belong to either Fuller I answer in generall Those passages of Heraldry are put in for variety and diversion to refresh the wearied Reader They are never used without asking of leave before or craving pardon after the inserting thereof and such craving is having a request in that kind with the Ingenious Grant it ill manners in the Author not to ask it is ill nature in the Reader not to grant so small a suit Mr. Camden in his description of Oxfordshire hath a prolixe though not tedious poeme of the marriage of Thame and Isis which he ushereth in with Si placet vel legas vel negligas read or reject either set by it or set it by as the Reader is disposed The same though not expressed is implied in all such Digressions which may be said to be left unprinted in Effect to such as like them not their Ploughs may make Balks of such deviations and proceed to more serious matter Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us lib. 9. fol. 151. that knowledge in the Laws of this Land is neither to be expected or required in one of his profession and yet I trow considering the great influence which the Laws have upon Church-matters the knowledge of the Law cannot be so unnecessary in the way of a Clergy-man as the study of Heraldry But granting Heraldry to be an Ornament in all them that have it yet is it no ingredient requisit to the composition of an Ecclesiastical History The Copies of Battle-Abbey Roll fitter for Stow and Hollinshead where before we had them can in an History of the Church pretend to no place at all though possibly the names of some may be remembred as their Foundations or Endowments of Churches give occasion for it The Arms of Knight-Errant billeted in the Isle of Ely by the Norman Conqueror is of like extravagancy Such also is the Catalogue of those noble Adventurers with their Arms Issue and Atchievements who did accompany King Richard the first to the War of Palestine which might have better serv'd as an Appendix to his History of the Holy War then found a place in the main Body of an History of the Church of England Which three alone besides many intercalations of that kind in most parts of the Book make up eight sheets more inserted onely for the ostentation of his skill in Heraldry in which notwithstanding he hath fallen on as palpable Errors as he hath committed in his History Fuller Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments hath done the like presenting the names of such who came over at the Norman Conquest I have only made their Catalogue more complete And seeing it was preserved in Battle-Abbey the very addition of Abbey doth dye it with some Ecclesiastical tincture The Arms of the Knights of Ely might on a threefold title have escaped the Animadvertor's censure First they was never before printed Secondly the Wall whereon they were depicted is now demolished Lastly each Knight being blended or as I may say empaled with a Monk a Moiety of that Mixture may be construed reducible to Church-History As for the Arms of some signal persons atchieved in the HOLY-WAR If the Sirname of WAR be secular the Christian name thereof HOLY is Ecclesiastical and so rendred all actions therein within the latitude of Church-History to an ingenuous Reader Dr. Heylyn For besides those which are observed in the course of this work I find two others of that kind in his History of Cambridge to be noted there For fol. 146. he telleth us That Alice Countess of Oxford was Daughter and sole Heir of Gilbert Lord Samford which Gilbert was Hereditary Lord Chamberlain of England But by his leave Gilbert Lord Samford was never the hereditary Chamberlain of the Realm of England but only Chamberlain in Fee to the Queens of England betwixt which Offices how vast a difference there is let our Authour judge Fuller I plead in my own defence according to my last general Answer that I have charged my Margin with my Authoâ— Mr. Parker Fellow of Caius College in Cambridge one known for a most abâ—â— Antiquary but especially in Heraldry and I thought that he had lighten on some rare Evidence out of the ordinary road but seeing he was mistaken I will amend it God willing in my next Edition Dr. Heylyn And secondly The Honor of Lord Chamberlain of England came not unto the Earls of Oxford by that Marriage or by any other but was invested in that Family before they had attained the Title and Degree of Earls Conferred by King Henry the first on Aubrey de Vere a right puissant Person and afterwards on Aubrey de Vere his Son together with the Earldome of Oxford by King Henry the second continuing Hereditary in that House till the death of Robert Duke of Ireland the ninth Earl thereof and then bestowed for a time at the Kings discretion and at last setled by King Charls in the House of Lindsey Fuller This is nothing Confutatory of Me who never affirmed that the High-Chamberlainship accrued to the House of Oxford by any such match Dr. Heylyn But because being a Cambridge Man he may be better skill'd in the Earls of that County let us see what he saith of them and we shall find fol. 162. That Richard Plantagenet Duke of York was the eighth Earl of Cambridge Whereas first Richard Duke of York was not Earl of Cambridge Fuller He was he was he was as presently God willing will appear beyond all doubt and contradiction Dr. Heylyn And secondly If he had been such he must have been the seventh Earl and not the eighth For thus those Earls are marshalled in our Catalogues of Honor and Books of Heraldry viz. 1. William de Meschines 2. Iohn de Hainalt 3. William Marquess of Iuliers 4. Edmond of Langley D. of York 5. Edward D. of York 6. Richard de Conisburgh younger Brother of Edward 7. Iames Marquess Hamilton c. Fuller Indeed they are thus reckoned up in a late little and useful Book entituled The Help of History made as I am credibly informed by the Animadvertor himself and therefore by him wel
ancient evidence we must take his word which whether those of Cambridge will depend upon they can best resolve For my part I forbear all intermedling in a controversie so clearly stated and which hath lain so long asleep till now awakened by our Author to beget new quarrels Such passages in that History as come under any Animadversion have been reduced unto the other as occasion served which the Reader may be pleased to take notice of as they come before him Fuller Because omitted by Arch-Bishop Parker I have the more Cause and Reason to insert it Otherwise had he handled the Subject before the Animadvertor would have cryed out Crambe that there was nothing novel therein Call it I pray The FRINGE of my Book be it but for the Subjects sake whereof it treats my dear Mother the University of Cambridge I live in the same generation with the Animadvertor and I hope shall acquit my self as honest which truly is as wise as himself CHURCH-ROMANCE parciùs ista As I tell the Reader of the burning of those Original Charters so in the same place I charge my Margin with my Author Dr. Caius and thereby discharge my self Doth the Animadvertor now forbear all intermedling therein in this Controversy Why did he not forbear before when setting forth his last Geography some five years since And is it not as lawful for me to defend as for him to oppose my Mother When where and by whom was this Controversie so clearly stated Was it by the Animadvertor himself Such a Party is unfit for a Iudge Or was it stated by the Parliament mentioned by him 1 mo Iacobi when as he telleth us the Clerk was commanded to place Oxford first But it plainly appears it was not then so clearly decided but that the question was ever started again in the late long Parliament with Arguments on both Sides Witness the printed Speech of Sir Simonds D'EWES on that occasion Dr. Heylyn All these extravagancies and impertinencies which make up a fifth part of the whole Volume being thus discharged it is to be presum'd that nothing should remain but a meer Church History as the Title promiseth But let us not be too presumptuous on no better grounds Fuller The Animadvertor's Words mind me of a Memorable passage which hereafter he hath in his Animadversions on my Sixth Book or History of Abbeys The Intruder payeth to the Sequestred Minister but a NINETEENTH part in stead of a FIFTH But if the FIFTH-PART in relation to my Book be here stated to the same proportion for the NINETEENTH yet will not the Animadvertor's measure be reconciled to the Standard of Truth Dr. Heylyn For on a Melius inquirendum into the whole course of the Book which we have before us we shall find too little of the Church and too much of the State I mean too little of the Ecclesiastical and too much of the Civil History It might be reasonably expected that in a History of the Church of England we should have heard somewhat of the foundation and enlargement of Cathedral Churches if not of the more eminent Monasteries and Religious Houses and that we should have heard somewhat more of the succession of Bishops in their several and respective Sees their personal Endowments learned Writings and other Acts of Piety Magnificence and publick Interess especially when the times afforded any whose names in some of those respects deserv'd to be retain'd in everlasting remembrance Fuller I doubt not but the Reader who hath perused my Church-History will bear me witness that therein there is a competent Representation of all these particulars so far forth as the Proportion of the Book will bear Dr. Heylyn It might have been expected also that we should have found more frequent mention of the calling of National and Provincial Synods with the result of their proceedings and the great influence which they had on the Civil State sparingly spoken of at the best and totally discontinued in a manner from the death of King Henry the fourth until the Convâ—â—â—tion of the yeer 1552. of which no notice had been taken but that he had a mind to question the Authority of the Book of Articles which came out that year though publisht as the issue and product of it by the express Warrant and Command of King Edward the sixth Fuller All Councels before the Conquest with their Canons are compleatly and the most remarkable after it represented in my History With what face can the Animadvertor say that I have discontinued the Acts of the Convocation till the year 1552 The Acts of one critical Convocation in the 27 of Henry the eighth 1535. taking up no less than eight sheets in my Book and another in the same Kings Reign imploying more than a sheet Dr. Heylyn No mention of that memorable Convocation in the fourth and fifth years of Philip and Mary in which the Clergy taking notice of an Act of Parliament then newly passed by which the Subjects of the Temporality having Lands to the yearly value of five pounds and upwards were charged with finding Horse and Armour according to the proportion of their yearly Revenues and Possessions did by their sole authority as a Convocation impose upon themselves and the rest of the Clergy of this Land the finding of a like number of Horses Armour and other Necessaries for the War according to their yearly income proportion for proportion and rate for rate as by that Statute had been laid on the Temporal Subjects Fuller I am confident that this is the self-same Convocation which is thus entered in my Church-History Book 8. p. 39. Anno 1557. quinto Mariae The Clergy gave the Queen a Subsidie of eight shillings in the pound confirmed by Act of Parliament to be paid in four years In requital whereof by Poole 's procurement the Queen Priviledged them from shewing their horses with the Laily yet so that they should muster them up for the defence of the Land under Captains of their own own chusing I cannot therefore be justly charged with no mention of the Acts of this Convocation Dr. Heylyn And this they did by their own sole Authority as before was said Ordering the same to be levyed on all such as were refractory by Sequestration Deprivation Suspension Excommunication Ecclesiastical Censures all without relating to any subsequent confirmation by Act of Parliament which they conceiv'd they had no need of Fuller I took the less notice of and gave the less heed to the transactions of the Clergy therein because then they were in their Hufte and Height furious with Fire and Fagot so that all done by them de facto cannot be justified for Legal who sometimes borrowed a point of Law even with intent never to repay it in their proceedings It may be proved out of Mr. Fox that some at that time by a cruell Prolepsis antedated the burning of some Martyrs before the Writ de Haeretico Comburendo came unto them Wherefore all their actions
in that time are not Precedential to warrant Posterity and the Air of that Torrid Zone will not fit the Bodyes in our Temperate Climate Dr. Heylyn Nor find we any thing of the Convocations of Queen Elizabeths time except that of the year 1562. and that not fairly dealt with neither as is elsewhere shewed though there passed many Canons in the Convocation of the year 1571. and of the year 1585. and the year 1597. all Printed and still publickly extant besides the memorable Convocation of the year 1555. in which the Clergy gave the Queen a Benevolence of 2 s. in the pound to be levyed by Ecclesiastical Censures without relating to any subsequent confirmation by Act of Parliament as had accustomably been used in the Grant of Subsidies Fuller Bernardus non vidit omnia I could not come to the knowledge of every particular But I confess I cannot conjecture the cause of the Animadvertor's retrogradâ— motion who after so many years in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth goeth back again to the year 1555. Which was four years before she came to the Crown Dr. Heylyn It might have been expected also that we should have found in a Church-History of Brittain the several degrees and steps by which the Heterodoxies and Superstitions of the Church of Rome did creep in amongst us and the degrees by which they were ejected and cast out again and the whole Reformation setled upon the Doctrine of the Apostles attended by the Rites and Ceremonies of the Primitive times Fuller I hope the peruser of my Book will be sensible of no defect but that the same in a good degree is performed by me on several occasions Dr. Heylyn As also that some honorable mention should be found of those gallant Defences which were made by Dr. Bancroft Dr. Bilson Dr. Bridges Dr. Cosins and divers others against the violent Batteries and Assaults of the Puritan Faction in Queen Elizabeths time and of the learned Writings of B. Buckeridge B. Morton Dr. Sutcliff Dr. Burges c. in justification of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England against the remnants of that scattered and then broken Faction in the time of King Iames of which we have Ne gry quidem not a word delivered Nor could it stand with his design which will discover it self in part in this Introduction and shall more fully be discovered in the Animadversions that it should be otherwise Fuller I answer First no Drag-net can be so comprehensive as to catch all Fish and Fry in the River I mean no Historian can descend to every particular Secondly What if I left that piece in the Dish for manners sake I must not ingross all History to my self but leave some to such as shall succeed me in the same Subject Thirdly the Reader in perusing my Book will bear me witness that most of these have their true Encomiums on the same account and especially Dr. Bancroft Dr. Bilson Dr. Cosins Fourthly if my omission of his Book hath offended B. Morton my asking will be having the pardon of so vivacious a piety who being past the age of a man now leads the life of an Angel Lastly I have a Book of the Lives of all English Worthies God send it good success which had been in print if not obstructed by the intervening of this Contest And coming forth will be suppletory of all such defects Dr. Heylyn All which together make it cleer and evident that there is too little of the Church or Ecclesiastical History in our Authors Book And that there is too much of the State or Civil History will be easily seen by that unnecessary intermixture of State-Concernments not pertinent to the business which he hath in hand Fuller I answer first in general Such the sympathy betwixt the embracing Twins Church and State that sometimes 't is both painful and pity to part them More particularly such passages have at the least a cast or eye of Church-colour in them or else they are inserted for necessity Ne detur vacuum for meer lack of Church-matter All the Ecclesiastical History in Mr. Fox during the Reign of Edward the fourth will not fill his hollow Pen the cause why he makes it up with History of the State and I sometimes do the like Lastly it is done for Variety and then commonly I crave the Readers leave which I hope is no offence Must I turn School-boy again and the Animadvertor be my School-master to give me a Theam that I must write on no other Subject but what he appoints me Dr. Heylyn Of this sort to look no further is the long Will and Testament of King Henry the eighth with his Gloss or Comment on the same taking up three whole sheets at least in which there is not any thing which concerns Religion or which relates unto the Church or Church-affairs although to have the better colour to bring it in he tells us that he hath transcribed it not onely for the rarity thereof but because it contained many passages which might reflect much light upon Church-History Fuller I answer first All ancient Wills have something of Sacredness in them beginning In the name of God Amen Secondly they are proved in the Court-Christian which evidenceth something of Ecclesiasticalness in them Thirdly Kings have ever been beheld as mixt Persons wherein Church and State are blended together Fourthly the Will of King Henry the eighth in that Active-juncture of times is more than the Will of an ordinary King Fiftly it is most remarkable even in Church-History if only on this Account to shew that he who had violated the Testaments of so many Founders and Benefactors had hardly any one Particular of his own Will performed Sixthly it never was and perchance had I not done it never had been Printed Seventhly false and imperfect Copies thereof pass about in Manuscript Lastly I have received so much thanks from the Animadvertor's Betters for printing of it that I will freely pardon and pass by his causless cavil against me for the same Dr. Heylyn Lib. 5. fol. 243. Of this sort also is his description of the pomp and order of the Coronation of King Charles which though he doth acknowledge not to be within Pale and Park of Ecclesiastical History yet he resolves to bring it in because it comes within the Purlews of it as his own words are But for this he hath a better reason than we are aware of that is to say That if hereafter Divine Providence shall assign England another King though the transactions herein be not wholly precedential something of State may be chosen out gratefull for imitation Lib. 11. fol. 124. As if the Pomp and order of a Coronation were not more punctually preserved in the Heralds Office who have the ordering of all things done without the Church and are eye-Witnesses of all which is done within than in our Authors second-hand and imperfect Collections Fuller I answer first a Coronation is Church-work performed therein
let others judge Dr. Heylyn The Heterodoxies of Wickcliff Canoniz'd for Gospel and Calvin's Opinions whatsoever they were declar'd for Orthodox Fuller The Animadvertor's words are more than Apocrypha even a very untruth Dr. Heylyn The Sabbatarian Rigors published for Divine and Ancient Truths though there be no antiquity nor divinity in them The Hierarchy of Bishops so coldly pleaded for as shewes he had a mind to betray the cause c. Fuller Most false as in due time and place shall abundantly appear Weakly it may be for lack of Ability not coldly for want of affection But rather than the Cause I so cordially wish well to should miscarrie by my well-intended weakness hence-forward I will stand by and resign my place at the Bar to better Pleaders in its behalf Dr. Heylyn Whilst all things pass on smoothly for the Presbyterians whom he chiefly acts for And this is that which we must look for par my par tout as the Frnchmen say Nor deals he otherwise with the Persons which are brought before him than he doth with the Causes which they bring No profest Puritan no cunning Non-conformist or open Separatist comes upon the Stage whom he follows not with Plaudite's and some fair Commends Fuller He means Mr. Carlwright Travers Stone Udal Greenham Hildersham Dod all though dissenting from the Church in Ceremonyes eminent in their Generations I commend them not for their Non-conformity but other qualities of Piety Painfullness Learning Patience c. Doth not Mr. Camden give Babington who suffered as a Traitor to Q. Eliz. the commendation of Wealth Wit Learning and Handsomness Yea doth not the holy Spirit praise Absalom for his blamless Beauty and Achitophel for his oraculous wisdome The worst of moral men may be commended for their Naturals and the worst of Spiritual men for their Morals Dr. Heylyn When as the Fathers of the Chuch and conformable Children of it are sent off commonly in silence and sometimes with censure Fuller The Reader by perusing my Book will find I have embalmed their memoryes with my best spices Dr. Heylyn The late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury so eminently deserving of the Church of England must be raked out of his Grave arraigned for many misdemeanors of which none could accuse him when he was alive all his infirmities and weaknesses mustered up together make him hatefull to the present and succeeding Ages when Mr. Love's Treasonable practises and seditious Speeches must needs forsooth be buried in the same Earth with him Fuller I have in this my Appeal collected twenty two commendations of the Arch-Bishop out of my Church-History and had made them up forty save that the Press prevented me The best is what is lost in the Hundred is found in the Shire I mean may be though not in this my Defence found in my Book at large Dr. Heylyn The University of Oxford frequently quarrelled and exasperated upon sleight occasions The late King's party branded by the odious Title of Malignants not better'd by some froth of pretended Wit in the Etymology Fuller When and Where being now left at large without any direction to the place I am more troubled what my Offence is than what my Defence shall be I am sure the Animadvertor as a dutifull Son to his Mother will in due time and place discover it and unwilling to antedate my own molestation my answer is deferred or rather referred thereunto As for my using the term Malignant in due time I shall make a satisfactory Answer Dr. Heylyn The regular Clergy shamefully reproached by the Name of covetous Conformists Lib. 9. fol. 98. Fuller Who would not think but that as the Charge standeth against me I had branded all Conformists with the Note of Covetous which had been an Abominable Scandall indeed Whereas my words only relate to some particular persons whom if the Animadvertor will say they were Conformists as indeed they were I dare sweare if called thereunto that they were Covetous as who by Unreasonable Leases as the Statute calleth them wasted the Lands of the Church till they were seasonably retrenched by that wholesom Law made the 13. th of Q. Elizabeth Regular Clergy they might be as the Animadvertor termeth them in other things but in this particular Regular only to the Rules of Avarice making such Leases against Reason and common Equity though in the Rigor of the then Law justifiable I wonder that the Animadvertor will advocate for their Actions so detrimental to the Church Nor doth this dash the least disgrace on Conformity it self they not doing it quà Conformists It was not their Conformity made them Covetous though perchance their Covetousnesse might make them conformable but their own Corruption But if the Epithet of Covetous be so offensive I will in my next Edition to mend the Matter change it into Saâ—rilegious Conformity and justifie my Expression according to the Principle of the Animadvertor's own Judgement because they enriched themselves with impayring the goods of the Church Dr. Heylyn And those poor men who were ejected by this late long-Parliament despitefully called Baal's Priests unsavory salt not fit to be thrown upon the Dunghill though he be doubtfull of the Proofs which were brought against them Lib. 11. fol. 207. Fuller I have at large defended my self against this foul and false accusation when the place cited doth occur Dr. Heylyn So many of all sorts wronged and injured him that should they all study their personal and particular Revenges he were not able to abide it And therefore we may justly say in the Poet's Language Si de tot laesis sua Numina quisque Deorum Vindicet in poenas non satis unus erit Which may be Englisht in these words Should all wrong'd parties seek t' avenge their fame One man were not enough to bear the shame Fuller If I stand endebted to so many for wronging of them the fairest way is for them jointly to seize on what I have that so my small Estate may be shared amongst them all so far as it will go and every one have his Proportion thereof Whereas now the Animadvertor taking all and more then all his Penny-worths out of Me he hath injuriously dealt with the rest of the Creditors thereby However I hope to appear responsible seeing no debt is soon satisfied and the Animadvertor himself in due time will be found in my debt if all accounts be equally audited betwixt us This I dare boldly say though I confess his faults excuse not mine if guilty that he hath wronged more and Persons of higher quality in his late Books Bishop Iames Montague a known eminent Scholler vilified by an odious and indiscreet comparing him with another of his Sirname Judge Hutton and Crook scandalously abused by him for consenting privately to the SHIP-MONY who as well privately in the King's presence as publikely opposed it though they subscribed their hands in Conformity to the greater number as the Animadvertor more knowing in Law than my self
will acknowledge the common and constant custome in such cases I could instance in many more it being no discretion to play out all I have at once but to keep a Reserve in my hand in case which God forefend I should be provoked to another Answer Dr. Heylyn But nothing does more evidently discover his unfaithfull dealing then his report of the proceedings in the Isle of Wight between his Majesty and the long-Parliament Divines of which he tells us Lib. 11. fol. 235. That his Majesty in the last Paper which he sent them acknowledged their great pains to inform his Iudgement according to their perswasions and also took especial notice of their Civilities of the Application both in the beginning and body of their Reply and having cleer'd himself from some mis-understanding about the Writ of Partition which they speak of puts an end to the businesse The man who reads this passage cannot choose but think that his Majesty being vanquisht by the Arguments of the Presbyterians had given over the cause and therefore as convicted in his Conscience rendreth them thanks for the Instruction which he had received and the Civilities they used towards him in the way thereof But he that looks upon his Majestie 's last Paper will find that he had Learnedly and Divinely refel'd all their Arguments And having so done puts them in mind of three questions which are propos'd in his former Paper acknowledged by themselves to be of great importance in the present controversie without an Answer whereunto his Majesty declared that he would put an end to that conference It not being probable as he told them that they should work much upon his Iudgement whilst they are fearfull to declare their own nor possible to relieve his conscience but by a free declaring of theirs But they not able or not daring for fear of displeasing their great Masters to return an Answer to those Questions his Majesty remain'd sole Master of the field a most absolute Conquerour For though the first blow commonly does begin the Quarrel it is the last blow always that gets the Victory But Regium est cum benefeceris malè audire It hath been commonly the fortune of the greatest Princes when they deserve best to be worst reported Fuller Here I will truely acquaint the Reader with the State of this Matter The posting Press which with the Time and Tide will stay for no man mistaking my Copy compleat and not attending my coming to London that morning from Waltham clapt it up imperfect I must therefore deservedly take all the blame and shame thereof on my self and here in this Sheet do publick-pennance for the same promising amendment to the full God willing in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Nor deals he better with the Church then he does with the King concealing such things as might make for her justification and advocating for such things as disturb her order In the last Book we find him speaking of some heats which were rais'd in the Church about placing the Communion-Table Altar-wise and great fault found for the want of Moderation in those Men who had the managing of that business But he conceals his Majesties Determination in the Case of St. Gregories Novemb. 3. 1633. By which all Bishops and other Ordinaries were incouraged to proceed therein and consequently those of inferiour rank to defend their actings Fuller I have not full twenty Lines on the whole Subject being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference sopited in good measure and as I durst not totally omit so I passed it over with all possible brevity Dr. Heylyn The Chappel of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge is built North and South contrary to the usage of the primitive times and the Church of England with which King Iames being made acquainted he answered as our Author tels us That it was no matter how the Chappel stood so the heart stood aright Which Tale being told by him and believed by others populum qui sibi credit habet Ovid. in Ep. Hysiphil as he is like enough to find many Believers farewell to all external Reverence in the Service of God What need we trouble our selves or others with standing kneeling bowing in the acts of Worship it is no matter in what posture the Body be so the Heart be right Fuller The Speech of K. Iames was no Tale but a Truth when he did not exclude bodily reverence but prefer Soul sincerity in divine Service Parallel unto those Scripture-Instances Psalm 51.26 for thou desirest no Sacrifice that is thou wouldest them not comparatively to cordial Contrition 1 Pet. 4 3. speaking of good women whose adorning let it not be that outward of playting the hair viz. not chiefly therein to the neglecting of inward holiness Nor is the Speech inductive of corporal Irreverence if believed seeing a Mans body may and ought easily quickly and cheaply be contrived into standing bowing kneeling when it requires time and expence to take down and re-build a Chappel which would cost the Colledge five hundred Pounds at the least Dr. Heylyn What need we put our selves or others to the charge of Surplices and Hoods of Gowns and Cassacks in the officiating of Gods Service It is no matter in what habit the Body be so the heart be right There is another Chappel in Cambridge which was never consecrated whether a Stable or a Dormitory is all one to me At which time when some found themselves grieved our Author tells them This others of us great Learning and Religion himself especially for one dare defend that the continued Series of Divine Duties publickly practised for more then thirty years without the least check or controul of those in authority in a place set apart to that purpose doth sufficiently consecrate the same Stables and Barns by this Argument shall in some tract of time become as sacred as our Churches Fuller Had I lived in Sidney Colledge when that Dormitory was first used for a Chappel I would have advised and in my Sphere advanced its consecration accounting the Omission to fall under just reproof But seeing it hath been so long omitted I now conceive it hath no need of Consecration seeing though never solemnly and formally dedicated to Divine Service by the Ordinary or one deputed by him yet hath it had a tacite interpretative Consecration and thereby hath contracted a relative Sacrednesse By the same Proportion it is that Utensils long used in a Family to most civill and generous imployment by degrees acquire to themselves the Reputation in the Apostle's language of vessels of honour as being opposed to such vessels imployed in sordid though necessary Service and of the same metal and matter I doubt not but if this place used for a Chappel now about a Jubilee of years should be turned to a Stable the Animadvertor would behold it and justly too as a piece of Prophanation and this intimates a Sacrednesse therein It is mainly material that Bishop Andrews of Ely
that the King should never be restored to his place and Power by which he might be called to a reckoning for them Fuller It Seems Multa videntur quae non sunt The Inference is false and forced Titus Livius lived in Imperial yet wrote of Regal Consulatory Tribunitial at Rome without the least imputation of falshood I conceive Monarchical Aristocratical and Democralical truth to be One and the Same It followeth not that two-faced Ianus as beholding two worlds one before the other after the Flood had also two Hearts I did not attemper my History to the Palat of the Government so as to sweeten it with any Falshood but I made it Palatable thus far forth as not to give a wilful disgust to those in present Power and procure danger to my self by using any over-salt tart or bitter Expression better forborn than inserted without any prejudice to the Truth Dr. Heylyn For in the second Book he reckons the Cross in Baptism for a Popish Trinket by which it appears not I am sure to have been written in the time of Kingly Government that being no expression sutable unto such a time Fuller Should I simply and absolutely call the Cross in Baptisme a Popish Trinket my fore-head Signed therewith would give my Tongue the lye and return the Popery in the teeth thereof I behold it as an Ancient and Significant Ceremony but in no degree essentiall to or completory of the Sacrament witness the wisdome of the Church of England which in private Baptism permitteth the omitting thereof But when Ceremonyes shall devour their distance and intrude themselves necessary and essential it is high time to term them Superstititious Trinkets The rest I referr to what I have written when this passage recurreth in the place cited by the Animadvertor Dr. Heylyn Secondly speaking of the precedency which was fixt in Canterbury by removing the Archiepiscopal See from London thither he telleth us that the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike level in their Graves But certainly the Government was not changed into a State or Commonwealth till the death of the King and till the death of the King neither of those Episcopall Sees nor any of the rest were laid so level in their Graves but that they were in hope of a Resurrection the King declaring himself very constantly in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight as well against the abolishing of the Episcopal Government as the alienation of their Lands Thirdly In the latter end of the same Book he makes a great dispute against the high and sacred priviledge of the Kings of England in curing the disease comonly called the Kings Evil whether to be imputed to Magick or Imagination or indeed a Miracle next brings us in an old Wives Tale about Queen Elizabeth as if she had disclaimed that power she daily exercised and finally manageth a Quarrel against the form of Prayer used at the curing of that Evil which he arraigns for Superstition and impertinencies no inferior Crimes Are all these passages proper to that Government also Finally in the third Book he derogates from the power of the Church in making Canons giving the binding and concluding Power in matters which concern the civil Rights of the Subjects not to the King but to the Lay-people of the Land assembled in Parliament which game he after followeth in the eighth and last And though it might be safe enough for him in the eighth and last to derogate in this manner from the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs yet certainly it was neither safe for him so to do nor proper for him so to write in the time of the Kingly Government unless he had some such wretched hopes as before we spake of Fuller I desire the Reader to remember my late words as the Animadvertor recited them FOR THE MAIN I confess though these Books were written in the Reign of King Charles yet after his Death I interpolated some lines and amongst others that of levelling all Bishopricks I raised no dispute against the Kings curing the Evil it being raised before I was born and which I endeavoured to allay referring it to Miracle as to the peruser of my History in that place will appear I tell no old Wives Tale of Queen Elizabeth it being a Masculine Truth from most authentick Authors I derogate not in the least degree from the power of the Church but the Animadvertor doth arrogate unto it more then is due by the Lawes of God and Man maintaining that Church-men may go beyond Ecclesiastical Censures even to the Limbs and Lives of such as are Recusants to their Constitutions WRETCHED and what formerly he said DISLOYAL HOPES I defie and return them in the Teeth of him that wrote the words He had WRETCHED AND DISLOIAL HOPES who wrote that King Iames went to New-market as Tiberius to his Capreae he waved his Loyalty and Discretion together who so saucily and un-subject-like counted how often King Charles waved his Crown Here give me leave to tell the Animadvertor that such whom he slighteth for LOW-ROYALISTS were whilst they had a King in England as HIGH in their Loyalty to him Prayers and Sufferings for him as those HIGH-ROIALISTS who maintain that all goods of the Subjects are at the King 's absolute Dispose and yet since those Kings are departed this life can write of them in so base and disparaging Language that any one of the LOW-ROIALISTS would have his right hand cut off rather then write the like Reader pardon my too just passion when DISLOIALTY is laid to my charge It is with me Either now speak or else for ever hereafter hold your Peace Dr. Heylyn I must needs say that on the reading of these Passages and the rest that follow I found my self possest with much Indignation And I long expected when some Champion would appear in the Listes against this Goliah who so reproachfully had defied the whole Armyes of Israel And I must needs confess withal that I did never enter more unwillingly on any undertaking But beeing solicited thereunto by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by Men of all Orders and Dignityes in the Church and of all degrees in the Universities I was at last overcome by that Importunity which I found would not be resisted Fuller Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height What just cause I have given for so great passion the Reader will judge If I be a Goliah in this point may I have his Success to be conquered killed and my head cut off even with my own Sword If I be none May the Animadvertor be graciously pardoned And it may be he shall never come off any undertaking more unhappily I could mate him with telling him that Men of all Sorts and Sizes their Equals in Number and Quality have likewise importuned me not tamely to sit down but to vindicate my own credit and conscience Dr. Heylyn
Thou shalt not have other gods before me and the Animadvertor knoweth well that the Originall importeth Coram me that is Thou shalt have none other in my sight or presence Now for quietnesse sake let the result of this long discourse so far as I can understand be granted him and it amounts to no more then to put the Brittains in the same form with the Grecians instructed by their Druids in the worship of one God as well and as far as the Grecians were in the same Lesson by their Philosophers Now what the Grecians held and did in this point will appear by the practise of the Athenians whose City was the Mistris of Greece Staple of Learning and Palace of Philosophers and how well the Athenians worshipped one God we have from the infallible witness of St. Paul whose spirit was stirred within him whilst he saw the City wholly given to idolatry Whence it will follow that the Brittaines form-fellowes with the Grecians were wholly given to Idolatry which is as much and more then I said before And now the Reader may judge what progress the Animadvertor hath made in confuting what I have written yea less then the Beast Pigritia in Brasil which as he telleth us elsewhere goeth not so far in fourteen daies as one may throw a stone Yea our Adversary hath not gone at all save backward and if he doth not mend his pace it will be late before he commeth to his lodging Here let me mind the Animadvertor that my Church-History thus beginneth That we may the more freely and fully pay the tribute of our thanks to Gods goodness for the Gospell which we now enjoy let us recount the sad condition of the Brittains our Predecessors before the Christian faith was preached unto them If therefore the Animadvertor by his tedious discourse endeavouring to UN-IDOLATRIZE the Brittains as much as he could I say if hereby he hath hindred or lessened any mans paying of his thanks to God he hath done a thankless office both to God and Man therein Dr Heylyn Our Author proceedeth fol. 3. It facilitated the entrance of the Gospell hither that lately the Roman Conquest had in part civilized the South of this Island by transporting Colonies and erecting of Cities there Than which there could not any thing be said more different from the truth of story or from the time of that Conversion which we have in hand performed as all our latter Writers and amongst them our Author himself have affirmed from Gildas who lived in the fourth Century of the Christian Church Tempore summo Tiberii Caesaris toward the latter end of the Reigne of Tiberius Cesar that is to say about thirty seven years after Christs Nativity at what time the Romans had neither erected any one City nor planted any one Colony in the South parts of the Island For though Iulius Cesar in pursuance of his Gallick Conquest had attempted this Island crossed the Thames and pierced as far as Verulamium in the County of the Cattieuchlani now Hartfordshire yet either finding how difficult a work it was like to prove or having business of more moment he gave over the enterprize resting contented with the honour of the first discovery Et ostendisse potiùs quà m trad disse as we read in Tacitus Nothing done after this in order to the Conquest of Brittain untill the time of Claudius Augustus would by no means be perswaded to the undertaking and much less Tiberius in whose last years the Gospell was first preach'd in Brittain as before was said Concilium id Divus Augustus vocabat Tiberius praecipue And though Caligula leaving the honour of this Conquest to his Uncle Claudius who next succeeded in the Empire and being invited into Brittain by a discontented party amongst the Natives reduc'd some part thereof into the form of a Roman Province Of this see Tacitus at large in the life of Agricola By which it will appear most clearly that there was neither City of the Romans erection nor Colony of their plantation till the time of Claudius and consequently no such facilitating of the work by either of those means which our Author dreams of But from the Time proceed we to the Author of this first Conversion of which thus our Author Fuller In the first place know Reader that Mr. Burton in his late learned Notes on Antoninus justifieth that Iulius Cesar did Colonize what ever the Animadvertor saith to the contrary some part of this Land otherwise his whole Conquest would have unraveled after his departure and his Successors had had their work to begin afresh 2ly I say not the first entrance but the Entrance of the Gospell was facilitated by the Roman Conquest The entrance of the Gospell into this Island was so far from being done in an instant or simul semel that it was not res unius seculi the product of one age but was successively done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at sundry times and in divers manners So that this extensive entrance of the Christian Religion gradually insinuating it self took up a century of years from the latter end of Tiberius and so forwards Christianity entred not into this Island like Lightning but like light None can behold this Essay thereof in the time of Tiberius otherwise then a morning-Star some forty years after the day dawned and lastly under King Lucius that Leuer-Maure or the great light the Sun of Religion may be siad to arise before which time the South of this Island was sufficiently Colonized by the Romans whereby Commerce and Civility ushered Christianity into Brittain Yet to clear my words not from untruth in themselves but mistakes in others and to avoid all appearance of falshood it shall be altered God-willing in the next Edition It facilitated the entrance and propagation of the Gospell here c. Dr. Heylyn Parsons the Iesuite mainly stickleth for the Apostle Peter to have first preached the Gospell here And our Author doth as mainly stickle against it The Reason which induced Parsons so to stickle in it was as our Author thinks and telleth us fol. 4. to infer an Obligation of this Island to the See of Rome And to exempt this Island from that Obligation our Author hath endeavoured to disprove the Tradition Fuller That the Iesuite furiously driveth on that designe appeareth to any that peruse his Works and your Author conceiveth his owne Endeavours lawfull and usefull in stopping his full Carrere and disobliging the Church of England from a Debt as uniustly pretended as vehemently prosecuted Et veniam pro laude petit laudatus abunâ—e Non fastiditus si tuus Author erit Your Author for his praise doth pardon crave If not despis'd his praise enough shall have It is therefore but hard measure for you to require his good intentions if failing in successe with contempt and reproach Dr. Heylyn Whereas indeed St. Peters preaching in this Island if he were the first that preach't here in
the Time of Tiberius must be before his Preaching in the Citty of Rome to which he came not till the Reigne of the Emperour Claudius And thereupon it followeth by the Iesuit's Logick that the Brittains by sparing their Apostle to preach at Rome did lay an Obligation upon that Citty but received none from it Fuller Yea but if Simeon Metaphrastes be to be believed on whose testimony Parsons Principally relieth being the selfe same Author whom the Animadvertor within few lines hereafter doth so highly commend and extoll St. Peter preached here not before but long after his being at Rome and but a little before his Death namely in the twelfth year of Nero Cesar. Dr. Heylyn Or granting that St. Peter did first preach at Rome yet would this draw upon us no such engagement to the Pope and the Church of Rome as our Author fears and other German Nations by Boniface Willibade Willibad Willibidd and Swibert English Saxons all might or did draw the like Dependance of those Churches upon this of England Fuller The proportion I confesse is Good and well-grounded but I answer great the difference betwixt the Natures of England and Rome England never pretended Superiority over other Churches which Rome doth prosecuting even Shadowy pretences with all violence What the Talent-hiding servant said of his Master may be justly said of moderne Rome She reapeth where she hath not strowed demanding Officium where she never bestow'd Beneficium and requiring duty where she never conferred Courtesie Rome therefore being no faire Creditor but so cruell an Extortioner I conceive my paines well imployed to quit England from a Debt of Obligation unjustly exacted of her by Parsons the Iesuite on the pretence of St. Peter's preaching here Dr. Heylyn So that this fear being overblown we will consider somewhat further of St. Peters first Preaching in this Island not as deliver'd by Tradition from the Church of Rome which is suspected to have pleaded their own Interest in it but as affirmed positively by the Greek Menologies and in the works of Simeon Metaphrastes an approved Greek Author Of the Menologies though vouched by Camden to this purpose our Author takes no notice at all but lets the weight of his displeasure fall on Metaphrastes Fuller The best way to over-blow this feare is to confute the five Arguments alledged by Parsons for St. Peters Preaching here which I hope is done effectually by me in my Church-History where I follow the Iesuite verbatim in answering to his Reasons And this is the Reason that I took no notice of the Greek Menologies because not mentioned by Parsons whence I collect that either he had never seen them which is very improbable or else he conceived that no great beliefe was to be given unto them or advantage thereby to be gotten for his Cause Dr. Heylyn Our Author saith Metaphrastes is an Auâ—hor of no Credit as Baronius himselfe doth confesse But first Baronius himselfe makes no such Confession that which our Author tells us from him being onely this In alijs multis ibi ab ipso positis errare eum certum est that is to say that he hath err'd in many things by him delivered Assuredly if to erre in many things delivered in so great a Work as that of Simon Metaphrastes may forthwith be conceived sufficient to make an Author of no Credit God blesse not onely our Historian but Baronius himselfe from being held Authors of no Credit in both whom there are many Errours not possible to be reconciled to the Truth of Story Fuller THREE is a perfect Number let therefore the Animadvertor be put in also partly to make up a Compleate company partly that he may have the Benefit of his owne JEAR-PRAYERS to himselfe Baronius being Dead to pray for him is Popery and to take God's Name in vain to Jear us both is Prophanenesse The Animadvertor who now inserts GOD-BLESSE when it might have been omitted will omit it when it should be inserted as God willing I shall take notice of in due time and place hereafter Dr. Heylyn But secondly as Baronius did not so he could not say that Metaphrastes was an Author of no credit the Man being not onely pious but Learned also for the times wherein he lived honoured as a Saint in the Greek Menologies on the 27. day of November and graced with a Funeral Oration by Michael Psellus a Renouned Scholler highly extolled by Balsamon for his paines and industry in this present work and no lesse magnified by the Fathers in the Councill of Florence Anno. 1436. All which had never set such an Estimate upon him in their severall Times had he been an Author of no Credit as our Author makes him Fuller I shall hereafter have an higher esteem for Metaphrastes However to return to the words of Baronius which in the last Note gave the occasion of this contest In aliis multis IBI ab ipso positis errare eum certum est It is certain that he hath erred in many things THERE delivered by him The Animadvertor in his Translation omitteth THERE the most emphaticall word in the whole Sentence seeing granting Metaphrastes a good Author in other things he is erroneous in this particular Dr. Heylyn I had now ended with St. Peter but that I find him appear in a vision to King Edward the Confessor and telling him That he had preached the Gospell in Brittain occasioning thereby the foundation of the Abbey of St. Peter in Westminster To which our Author makes this answer To this vision pretended of Peter we oppose the certain words of St. Paul 1 Tim. 4.1 Neither give heed to fables What a pitty is it that this apparition was not made and the same tale told over again to Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith that so it might have found some credit with our Author though with no body else Fuller Nay rather what a pitty was it that this Apparition of St. Peter was not made unto his name-sake Peter here the Animadvertor and then all had been authentick indeed Dr. Heylyn For of this Thomas Fuller our Author telleth us and telleth it in confirmation of some Miracles done by King Henry the sixth after his decease that being a very honest man he hapned into the company of some who had stoln some Cattle for which he was condemned and executed and being on the top of the Ladder King Henry the sixth appeared unto him and so ordered the matter that he was not strangled with the Rope but preserved alive And finally that in gratitude of so great a benefit he repaired to that Kings Tomb in Chertsey Abbey and there presented his humble thanks for that great deliverance There being as good Authors for that Apparition of St. Peter as of this of St. Henry Vel neutrum flammis ure vel ure duos Either let both be believed for truths or for falshoods burn both Fuller Let the Eccho both in Latine and English answer for me Ure duos Burn both
for a brace of notorious falshoods and see who will shed a tear to quench the fire As for the Apparition to Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith seeing afterwards the Animadvertor twitteth me therewith we will till then defer our Answer thereunto Dr. Heylyn Less opposition meets the preaching of St. Ioseph of Arimathea though it meeteth some For notwithstanding that this Tradition be as generall as universally received as almost any other in the Christian Church yet our Author being resolved to let fly at all declares it for a piece of Novel superstition disguis'd with pretended Antiquity Better provided as it seems to dispute this point than the Ambassadours of Castile when they contended for precedency with those of England in the Council of Basil who had not any thing to object against this Tradition of Iosephs preaching to the Brittains although the English had provoked them by confuting their absurd pretences for St. Iames his preaching to the Spaniards Fuller I never denyed the Historicall ground-work but the Fabulous varnish of Arimathean Ioseph here preaching My words run thus Church-History Pag. 6. Part 12. Yet because the Norman Charters of Glassenbury refer to a Succession of many antient Charters bestowed on that Church by severall Saxon Kings as the Saxon Charters relate to Brittish Grants in Intuition to Joseph's being there We dare not wholly deny the substance of the Story though the Leaven of Monkery hath much swollen and puffed up the circumstance thereof And to the impartiall peruser of the connexion of my words Novell Superstition disguised with pretended Antiquity relate not to the substance of the Story but as it is presented unto us with fictitious embellishments And here I foretell the Reader what he shall see within few pages performed namely that after the Animadvertor hath flung and flounced and fluttered about to shew his own activity and opposition against what I though never so well and warily have written at last he will calmly come up and in this controversie close with my sense though not words using for the more credit his own expressions Dr. Heylyn For first our Author doth object in the way of scorn that fol. 6. The relation is as ill accoutred with tacklings as the Ship in which it is affirmed that St. Phillip St. Joseph and the rest were put by the Iews into a Vessell without Sails or Oars with intent to drown them and being tossed with tempests in the midland Sea at last safely landed at Marcelles in France and thence afterwards made for England No such strange piece of Errantry if we mark it well as to render the whole truth suspected Fuller Not by way of scorn Sir but by way of dislike and distrust The more I mark it the more strange piece of Errantry it seemeth so that I cannot meet with a stranger Dr. Heylyn For first we find it in the Monuments of elder times that Acrisius King of Argos exposed his daughter Danae with her young son Perseus in such a vessell as this was and as ill provided of all necessaries to the open Seas who notwithstanding by divine providence were safely wafted to those parts of Italy which we now call Puglia Fuller Monuments of elder times What be your Acts if these be your Monuments Ask my fellow if I be a thief ask a Poeticall Fable if a Monkish Legend be a lyar And what if Danae the self-same forsooth which had a golden shoure rained into her lap crossed from Argos in Peloponesus to Apulia now Puglia almost in a streight line and the narrowest part of the Adriatick This doth not parallel the improbability of Ioseph his voyage in an un-accoutred Ship from some Port in Palestine to Marselles the way being ten times as far full of flexures and making of severall points which costs our Sea-men some months in sailing though better accommodated I confess Gods power can bring any a greater distance with cordage of cobweb in a nut-shell but no wise man will make his belief so cheap to credit such a miracle except it be better attested Dr. Heylyn And secondly for the middle times we have the LIKE story in an Author above all exception even our Author himself who telleth us lib. 6. fol. 265. of our present History that King Athelstane put his brother Edwin into a little Wherry or Cock-boat without any tackling or furniture thereunto to the end that if the poor Prince perished his wickedness might be imputed to the waves Fuller Thanks for the jeer premised I am not the Author but bare Relater of that story obvious in all our English Chronicles Nor is the story LIKE to that of Ioseph's except he had been drowned in his Waftage to Marelles as this exposed Prince Edwin was in our Narrow Seas whether wilfully or casually not so certain his corps being taken up in Flanders The resemblance betwixt stories chiefly consists in similitude of success And what likeness betwixt a miserable death and a miraculous deliverance Dr. Heylyn Our Author objecteth in the next place that no writer of credit can be produced before the Conquest who mentioneth Joseph 's comming hither For answer whereunto it may first be said that where there is a constant uncontrolled Tradition there is most commonly the less care taken to commit it to Writing Fuller Less care implyeth some care whereas here no care but a pannick silence of all Authors Brittish Saxon and Christian for a thousand years together Secondly the Animadvertor might have done well to have instanced in any one Tradition seeing he saith it is most commonly done which is constant and uncontrolled yet attested by no creditable Author and then let him carry the cause Dr. Heylyn Secondly that the Charters of Glassenbury relating from the Norman to the Saxâ—n Kings and from the Saxons to the Brittains being all built upon St. Ioseph's comming hither and preaching here may serve instead of many Authors bearing witness to it And thirdly that Frier Bale as great an enemy to the unwarrantable Traditions of the Church of Rome as our Author can desire to have him hath vouch'd two witnesses hereunto that is to say Melkinus Avalonius and Gildas Albanus whose Writings or some fragments of them he may be believed to have seen though our Author hath not Fuller Nor the Animadvertor neither Bale doth not intimate that he ever saw any part of them and he useth to Cackle when lighting on such Eggs. But we collect from him and other Authors that no credit is to be given to such supposititious fragments Dr. Heylyn As for some circumstances in the story that is to say the dedicating of Iosephs first Church to the Virgin Mary the burying of his body in it and the inclosing of the same with a large Church-yard I look upon them as the products of Munkish ignorance accommodated unto the fashion of those times which the writers liv'd in There is scarce any Saint in all the Calendar whose History would not be subject to the like
fine they did which notwithstanding our Author hereupon inferreth Fuller I onely humbly tendered my weak Opinion herein that Religion was a loser by such mixtures If it findeth no welcome in the brest of the Animadvertor and others no hurt is done let it fairly return into his Bosome who it seems first gave it a beeing though I could cite most Pious and Learned Authors of the same Judgement But for the present let all the weight of the guilt light on my selfe alone Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 13. They had better built new Nests for the holy Dove and not have lodg'd it where Schriech-owls and unclean Birds had formerly been harboured A prety piece of new Divinity and such as savours strongly of the Modern Anabaptist such as not onely doth reproach the practise of most pious Antiquity but layes a sure ground for the pulling down of all our Churches as having been abus'd to Popish Superstitions in the former times if ever that encreasing faction should become predominant What pitty is it that our Author had not liv'd and preacht this Doctrine in King Edwards time that the Parochiall Churches and Cathedrals being sent after the Abbies new Nests might have been built for the Dove in some tree or other under the shade whereof the people might assemble to their devotions and not new Nests provided only bur new feathers also the vestments prescribed to the Ministers by the Church of England being condemned and disallowed by the Puritan party because in use formerly with the Priests of the Church of Rome More of this stuffe but of a more dangerous consequence to the publick peace we shall see hereafter Fuller I do not quarrell with the posture of my Nativity knowing God hath determined the times fore-appointed and the bounds of their Habitation Nor would I have my beeing antedated in the dayes of K. Edward the sixt whereby my Soul should be degraded into a dimmer Light then what now I live in Had I lived in His Reigne I know not what I would have done seeing one may be lost in the Labyrinth of his owne Heart But though I know not what I would have done I know what I should have done viz. perswaded to my power all people to be sensible of the vast difference betwixt Heathen-Temples and Christian-Churches The former were the Styes of swine yea the Dens of Devils profaned to the foul Idols of Pagans The latter were dedicated to the true God and the memory of his glorious Saints out of zeal and wel-intended Devotion And though the same were abused by superstition yet the substantiall use of them might remain when their accidential abuse was removed and might be continued for God's service without any Sin not to say could not be aliened from it without some sacriledge Dr. Heylyn We have now done at last vvith the story of Lucius and must next follow our Author unto that of Amphibalus in prosecution whereof he telleth us of a great slaughter of Christians in or near the City of Litchfield from thence so denominated of vvhich thus saith he Fol. 19. This relation is favoured by the name of Litchfield which in the British tongue signifies a Golgotha or a place bestrewed with skuls It 's true indeed that Litchfield or Licidfield as Bedae calleth it is made by Iohn Rosse to signifie Cadaverum Campus or the field of dead bodies But that it doth so signifie in the British language I do more then doubt the termination of the vvord being meerly Saxon as in Hefensield Cock-field Camps-field and many others As little am I satisfied in the Etymon of the name of Maiden-head which he ascribes unto the worshipping of the head of one of those many Maidens vvhich vvere martyred with Ursula at Colen fol. 36. For vvhich though he cite Camden for his Author following therein but not approving the old Tradition yet vvhen I find in the same Camden that this Town was formerly called Maiden-hith that anciently there vvas a ferry near the place vvhere the Town now stands and that Hith in the old Saxon tongue did signifie a Wharf Haven or landing place I have some reason to believe that the Town took this name from the Wharf or Ferry belonging at that time to some neighbouring Nunnery or to some private Maidens dwelling thereabout vvho then received the profits of it Just so Queen-Hith in London took that appellation because the profits of that Wharf vvere antiently accompted for to the Queens of England and Maiden-bradly in Wilshire vvas so denominated because belonging to one of the inheretrices of Manasses Basset a most noble personage in his time who founded a House here for Maiden Lepers Fuller As for Litchfield thereof hereafter But whether it be Maiden-head or Maiden-hith is not a straw matter to me who cited the words out of Cambdens Latine Brittannia which is more properly Cambden than the English translation thereof Dr. Heylyn But to return again to Leitch-field It must needs seem as strange to my judicious Reader that one part of it should be borrowed from the Brittains and the other from the Saxons as it seems strange unto our Author and that justly too that Cern in Dorcetshire should anciently be called Cernel from the Latine vvord Cerno vvhich signifies to see and the Hebrew vvord El signifying God fol. 67. Fuller Nothing more usuall than for the same vvord to bear parly par pale two languages But such mixtures onely are made in such places vvhere those two Languages have entred common together And this is the reason that disapproveth the probability of Cern-el because Hebrew and Latine never incorporated together Greek as I may say being interposed betwixt them But such Conjunctions of two Languages vvhich in some sort indented one another are frequent and familiar Our Author lately presented us vvith two half-Greek half-Latine Archi-flamens and Proto-flamens He also just now mentioned a vvord halfâ—French half Saxon Camps-field Many towns names in England are half Saxons half British Up-Avon Neather-Avon tvvo villages in Wilt-shire Avon being a river in the Brittish tongue To put all out of doubt the Reader may rely on the judgement of this my vvorthy friend vvhose Letter I have here caused to be inserted Mr. Fuller As touching the Elymology of the City of Litchfield I can give you no satisfactory accompt being not well skill'd in the Saxon Tongue But if Mr. John Rosse hath ground for his Campus Cadaverum I conceive he deduced it from the British Tongues and Saxon. For in our Brittish language Llaith signifies death as may be seen in severall antient Brittish Authors as Taliefin and others Lleithfa may well bear a place of slaughter as wel as lladdfa the word lladd in the Brittish is the same with occidere in the Latine ma and Man denotes a place and ma being joyned with lleith or lladd the m by the rules of the Brittish language turns into f as lladdfa lleithfa lladdfaes Maes is the
I have seen in an exquisite Map of the Heptarchy and this I tender as the most probable Expedient to reconcile learned Authors amongst themselves and all to the Truth in bringing Worcestershire and West Saxons together Thus being critical in stating the Place and laying the Scene I hope I shall be the better believed in relating the Acts of this Conference Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 61. That we can part with it without any losse to our selves and therefore bids it to make shift for its own Authenticalnesse fol. 60. The Record sleighted thus is a Memorial of the Answer of the Abbot of Bancor to Archbishop Austins proposition communicated by Peter Moston a Welsh Gentleman to that learned and industrious Antiquary Sir Henry Spelman and by him placed in his collection of the British and Saxon Councels Which honour he had never given it had he not conceived it worthy to deserve that place nor had the Papists used such violence to wrest it from us without the hope of gaining some what to themselves Fuller Had I sleighted that Record I would not have took the pains to have exemplyfied it in British and English and procured a Prime Antiquary of the Welsh to correct it I have given the true Valuation thereunto esteeming it as highly as Doctor Hammond hath done thus writing thereof in his Account of H. T. his Appendix to the Manual of Controversie concerning the Abbot of Bangors Answer to Augustine Page 168. In case this one Testimony should be demonstrated to be a Simple Imposture we can unconcernedly and easily part with it standing in no need of this Auxiliary And not long after The acquisitions of this Author H.T. hereby and proportionably out losses must be so unconsiderable For the rest I refer my self to my Church-History in this particular passage and stand ready to justifie the same as truly and cautiously written Dr. Heylin But to proceed this conference being ended without success there followed not long after the great slaughter of the Monks of Bancor for which our Author in a merrier humor than becomes the sadnesse of the matter or the gravity of an Ecclesiastical History hath caused Austin to be indited impanelling a Jury and producing his evidence Fuller I am sensible of no mis-becoming mirth or levity therein The impanelling of a Iury is one of the most solemn and serious of all the proceedings in our Law I preferred this method as the clearest to present all passages to the fancie and fittest to fix the same in the memory of the Reader Dr. Heylin Amongst which Matthew Parker the learned Archbishop of Canterbury and Iohn Iewel the renowned Bishop of Salisbury must be rejected by the Jury as incompetent witnesses partly because of their known opposition to the Romish Church and partly because of their modern writing almost a thousand years after the matter in fact fol. 64. And all this done to add the greater honour to Mr. Fox as Modern as either of the two and as averse as either of them from the Church of Rome But Mr. Fox was Mr. Fox no friend unto the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England whereas the other two were Bishops and great sticklers for them This makes our Author magnifie Fox for his moderation whose moderate testimony saith he much moved the whole Court and as much to condemn the others for the sharpnesse of their expressions against Austin whom our Author himself reproacheth often for his pride and haughtinesse fol. 62. which made them of lesse credit amongst the Jury A thread of which fine spinning we shall finde frequently interwoven in the whole web of this History and towards the latter end thereof not a few whole pieces made of no better yarn And let the Reader take this with him for a taste of our Authors good affections to the several parties that it is bare M. Parker and plain Bishop Iewel without welt or guard but reverent Mr. Fox by all means and so let him passe And let us passe also to the residue of the Acts of Austin Fuller 1. I did not expect that the Animadvertor being of Magdalens in Oxford would have been offended to have heard his Collegiate Mr. Fox to be commended 2. The testimonies of Archbishop Parker and Bishop Iewell are to hold the Ballance indifferently the lesse valued Because in some sort they were parties as who in their Writings had engaged themselves in this present Controversie whilest Mr. Fox stands Neuâ—er as to this particular Controversie 3. Though the Animadvertor be pleased to entitle him noe friend to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England give me leave to add and he was no fierce foe against them But Mr. Fox was Mr. Fox and Dr. Heylin is Dr. Heylin 4. As Mr. Fox hath now the casual favour of my Pen to be epithited Reverent so afterwards without welt or guard he is plainly called Iohn Fox The Animadvertor in this his sleight Note reaping what was not purposely sowen will finde little food in what He reaps Lastly Bishop Iewel hath his large and due character of commendation with all honourable Additions with advantage in due place So also hath Archbishop Parker on the same token that in my History of Cambridge I cleer him from the scandalous insinuation of Bryan Twine Si illis standum sit c. suggesting some unworthy suspicions as if he had falsified Mathew Paris in his Edition thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 66. Who all this while was very industrious and no lesse successfull in converting the Saxons to the Christian faith Insomuch that a certain Author reporteth how in the River Swale neer Richmond in Yorkshire he in one day baptized above ten thousand The certain Author whom he means is an old fragment of a namelesse Author cited by Camden fol. 136. who tells the story otherwise than our Anthor doth For though the Fragment tell us that the River was called Swale yet that it was the River Swale neer Richmond in Yorkshire is the addition of our Author That there is a River of that name neer Richmond is affirmed by Camden who withall telleth us That it was reputed very sacred amongst the ancient English for that in it when the English-Saxons first embraced Christianity there were in one day baptized with festival joy by Paulinus the Archbishop of York above ten thousand Men besides Women and little Children Of Austins baptizing in this River not one word saith he Neither doth Beda touch upon it as certainly he would have done had there been ground for it And therefore if I may have leave to venture my opinion I shall concur with the old fragment as to the name of the River and yet not carry Austin out of Kent much less into Richmondshire to perform that office For when we find in Camden that the Medway falling into the Thames is divided by the Isle of Sheppey into two great branches of which
the one is called East Swale the other West-Swale I see no reason why we should look any where else for that River Swale mentioned in the old fragment which before we spake of But herein I must submit my self to more able judgements The place agreed on we should next inquire into the numbers but that our Author seems to grant as much as the fragment craveth Fuller I could heartily wish that all the Animadvertors Book had consisted of such matter then had it been greater though less I mean bigger in benefit though smaller in Bulk and more instructive to the Reader thereof I did not before take notice of either East or West-Swale in Kent and now prosesse my self the Animadvertors Convert in this point agreeing with him that this grand-Baptizing if done by St. Austin was done in the place by him specified But this still doth more and more confirm me in my judgement that Austin advanced never into Yorkshire and that the conversion of the Northumbrians was the work of Paulinus and others Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 66. If so many were baptized in one day it appears plainly that in that age the Administration of that Sacrament was not loaded with those superstitious Ceremonies as essential thereunto of crossing spittle Oyl Cream Salt and such like Trinkets Our Author here reckoneth the signe of the Crosse in Baptism amongst the vain trinkets and superstitious Ceremonies of the Church of Rome and thereby utterly condemneth the Church of England which doth not onely require it in her Rubricks but also pleads for it in her Canons Not as essential to that Sacrament the Papists not making Spittle Oyle Cream Salt c. to be essential thereunto as our Author saith but onely for a signe significative in token that the party signed shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified and manfully to fight under his Banner against sin the world and the Devil and to continue Christs faithfull soldier and servant unto his lives end A Ceremony not so new as to be brought within the compass of Popish Trinkets though by them abused For when the point was agitated in the Conference at Hampton Court and that it was affirmed by some of the Bishops that the Crosse in Baptism was used in the time of Constantine Dr. Reynolds the most able man of the opposite party who had before acknowledged it to have been in use in other cases from the very times of the Apostles had not one word to say against it And to say truth no man of modesty and learning could have spoke against it when it was proved so clearly by Dr. Andrews then Dean of Westminster out of Tertullian Cyprian Origen each of which died long time before Constantines birth to have been used in immortali Lavacro in that blessed Sacrament That good old saying of Tertullian Caro signetur ut anima muniatur may serve once for all And therefore when our Author telleth us in the following words that in that age nothing was used with Baptism but Baptism it must be considered as a smack of that old leaven which more and more will sowre the lump of his whole discourse We have already had a taste of it in the very first Book we finde a continuance of it here and we shall see more of it hereafter our Author not being coy in shewing his good affections not onely to the persons of the Non-conformists but their inconformity not to the men onely but their Doctrines and Opinions also And this is that which we must trust to in the whole course of this History Fuller This Objection hath been answered at large in the Introduction and here I intend no repetition onely desiring the Reader to take notice of those my words as ESSENTIAL thereunto Let me add that a Curse is pronounced on those who remove the Land-marks and it falleth most heavy on them who remove the limits in Gods worship as being Boundaries of highest Consequence turn MAY into MUST convenient into necessary Ornamental into Essential I have as high an Esteem for the Cross in Baptisme as the Animadvertor Himself so long as it observes the due distance of an Ancient and Significant Ceremony and intrudes not it self as Essential A Chain of Gold is an eminent Ornament about the Neck but it may be drawn so close as to choak and strangle the wearer thereof And in like manner Ceremonies though decent and usefull when pretending to Essentiality become as Luther saith Carnificinae Conscientiae and therefore justly may we beware thereof Dr. Heylin Having now done with the Acts of Austin we shall not keep our selves to so continued a discourse as before we did but take our Authors Text by piecemeal as it comes before us and making such Animadversions on the same as may best serve to rectifie the story and maintain the truth as namely Fol. 65. Thus the Italian Spanish and French Daughters or Neeces to the Latine are generated from the corruption thereof This is I grant the common and received opinion but yet me thinks our Author who loves singularities should not vouchsafe to travel on the publique Road. Fuller In my passage to heaven I desire to goe in the narrow path and decline the broad way which leadeth to destruction But on earth I love to travel the common and beaten road as easiest to finde and wherein if wrong or at a losse one may soonest finde company to guide and direct him If I should travel over the Animadvertors several at Laceys-Court I have cause to suspect he would sue me for pedibus ambulando And it is hard if also he will not let me goe without carping at me in the high-way or publique road I build nothing on the high-way so to trespasse upon the Lord of the Soil but onely peaceably passe along it I mean I make no inferences or deductions from this received opinion I derive no consequence thence All that I doe is to gain just advantage thereby to honour the Welsh tongue by shewing that it is no Daughter or Neece like the Italians Spanish and French but a Mother and original Language and might justly have expected thanks rather than censure from the Animadvertor for my pains seeing he delighteth to derive himself from British extraction Dr. Heylin For in my minde it is affirmed with better reason by our learned Brerewood That those tongues have not sprung from the corruption of the Latine by the inundation and mixture of barbarous people in those Provinces but from the first imperfect impression and receiving of it in those forein Countries For the Latine tongue was never so generally received in any of the conquered Provinces out of Italy as to be spoken ordinarily by the common people the Gentry and Nobility might be perfect in it for the better dispatch of their Affairs with the Roman Magistrates who had the Government and Lieutenancy in their several Countries And some taste of
Soveraign having learnt primum in unoquoque Genere est excipiendum The Animadvertor hath here taken occasion to write much but thereof nothing to confute me and little to informe others He deserved to be this King Henry's Chaplain if living in that Age for his exactnesse in the distinct enumeration of all his Dignities and Estate before he came to the Crown Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 190. That States-men do admire how blinde the Policy of that Age was in keeping King Henry alive there being no such sure Prison as a Grave for a Capâ—ive King whose life though in restraint is a fair mark for the full Aim of mal-contents to practise his enlargement Our Author might have spar'd this Doctrine so frequently in practise amongst the worldly Politicians of all times and ages that there is more need of a Bridle to holde them in than a Spur to quicken them Parce precor stimulis fortiùs utere loris had been a wholesome caveat there had any friend of his been by to have advis'd him of it The murthering of depos'd and Captive Princes though too often practised never found Advocates to plead for it and much lesse Preachers to preach for it untill these latter times First made a Maxim of State in the School of Machiavel who layes it down for an Aphorisme in point of policy viz. that great Persons must not at all be touched or if they be must be made sure from taking Revenge inculcated afterwards by the Lord Gray who being sent by King Iames to intercede for the life of his Mother did underhand solicite her death and whispered nothing so much in Queen Elizabeths eares as Mortua non mordet if the Scots Queen were once dead she would never bite But never prest so home never so punctually appli'd to the case of Kings as here I finde it by our Author of whom it cannot be affirm'd that he speaks in this case the sense of others but positively and plainly doth declare his own No such divinity preach'd in the Schools of Ignatius though fitter for the Pen of a Mariana than of a Divine or Minister of the Church of England Which whether it passed from him before or since the last sad accident of this nature it comes all to one this being like a two-hand-sword made to strike on both sides and if it come too late for instruction will serve abundantly howsoever for the justification Another note we have within two leaves after as derogatory to the Honour of the late Archbishop as this is dangerous to the Estate of all Soveraign Princes if once they chance to happen into the hands of their Enemies But of this our Author will give me an occasion to speake more in another place and then he shall heare further from me Fuller My words as by me laid down are so far from being a two-handed sword they have neither hilt nor blade in them only they hold out an Handle for me thereby to defend my self I say States-men did admire at the preserving King Henry alive and render their reason If the Animadvertor takes me for a Statesman whose generall Judgement in this point I did barely relate he is much mistaken in me Reason of State and Reason of Religion are Stars of so different an Horison that the elevation of the One is the depression of the other Not that God hath placed Religion and Right Reason diametrically opposite in themselves so that where-ever they meet they must fall out and fight but Reason bowed by Politicians o their present Interest that is Achitophelesme is Enmity to Religion But the lesse we touch this harsh string the better musick Dr. Heylin Now to goe on Fol. 197. The Duke requested of King Richard the Earldome of Hereford and Hereditary Constableship of England Not so it was not the Earldom that is to say the Title of Earl of Hereford which the Duke requested but so much of the Lands of those Earls as had been formerly enjoy'd by the House of Lancaster Concerning which we are to know that Humphry de Bohun the last Earl of Hereford left behinde him two Daughters onely of which the eldest called Eleanor was married to Thomas of Woodsâ—ock Duke of Gloster Mary the other married unto Henry of Bullenbrook Earl of Darby Betwixt these two the Estate was parted the one moity which drew after it the Title of Hereford falling to Henry Earl of Darby the other which drew after it the Office oâ— Constable to the Duke of Gloâ—ester But the Duke of Glocester being dead and his estate coming in fine unto his Daughter who was not able to contend Henry the fifth forced her unto a sub-division laying one half of her just partage to the other moity But the issue of Henry of Bullenbrook being quite extinct in the Person of Edward Prince of Wales Son of Henry the sixth these three parts of the Lands of the Earls of Hereford having been formerly incorporated into the Duchy of Lancaster remained in possession of the Crown but were conceiv'd by this Duke to belong to him as being the direct Heir of Anne Daughter of Thomas Duke of Glocester and consequently the direct Heir also of the House of Hereford This was the sum of his demand Nor doe I finde that he made any suit for the Office of Constable or that he needed so to doe he being then Constable of England as his Son Edward the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family was after him Fuller The cause of their variance is given in differently by several Authors Some say that at once this Duke requested three things of King Richard 1. Power 2. Honor 3. Wealth First Power to be Hereditary Constable of England not to hold it as he did pro arbitrio Regis but in the right of his descent Secondly Honor the Earldome of Hereford Thirdly Wealth that partage of Land mentioned by the Animadvertor I instanced onely in the first the pride of this Duke being notoriously known to be more than his covetousnesse not dâ—nying but that the Kings denyal of the Land he requested had an effectual influence on his discontent Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 169. At last the coming in of the Lord Stanley with three thousand fresh men decided the controversie on the Earls side Our Author is out in this also It was not the Lord Stanley but his Brother Sir William Stanley who came in so seasonably and thereby turn'd the Scale and chang'd the fortune of the day For which service he was afterward made Lord Chamberlain of the new Kings Houshold and advanc'd to great Riches and Estates but finally beheaded by that very King for whom and to whom he had done the same But the King look'd upon this action with another eye And therefore when the merit of his service was interposed to mitigate the Kings displeasure and preserve the maâ— the King remembred very shrewdly that as he came soon enough to win
certainly before the Statute of Praemunire for that the whole Clergy in their Convocation should publiquely declare and avow a notorious falshood especially in a matter of fact is not a thing to be imagined I must confesse my self to be at a losse in this intricate Labyrinth unless perhaps there were some critical difference in those elder times between a Synod and a Convocation the first being call'd by the Arch-bishops in their several and respective Provinces as the necessities of the Church the other only by the King as his occasion and affairs did require the same But whether this were so or not is not much material as the case now stands the Clergie not assembling since the 25 of King Henry the eighth but as they are convocated and convened by the Kings Writ only I only add that the time and year of this submission is mistook by our Author who placeth it in 1533. whereas indeed the Clergy made this acknowledgement and submission in their Convocation Anno 1532. though it pass'd not into an Act or Statute till the year next following Well then suppose the Clergy call'd by the Kings Authority and all their Acts and Constitutions ratified by the Royals assent are they of force to binde the Subject to submit and conform unto them Not if our Author may be judge for he tels us plainly Fol. 191. That even such Convocations with the Royal assent subject not any for recusancie to obey their Canons to a civil penalty in person or property until confirmed by Act of Parliament I marvel where our Author took up this opinion which he neither findes in the Registers of Convocation or Records of Parliament Himself hath told us fol. 190. that such Canons and Constitutions as were concluded on in Synods or Convocations before the passing of the Statute of Praemunire were without any further Ratification obligatory to all subjected to their jurisdiction And he hath told us also of such Convocations as had been called between the passing of the Statute of Praemunire and the Act for Submission that they made Canons which were binding although none other than Synodical Authority did confirm the same Upon which premisses I shall not fear to raise this Syllogism viz. That power which the Clergy had in their Convocations before their submission to the King to binde the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than own Synodical Authority the same they had when the Kings power signified in his Royal assent was added to them but the Clergy by our Authors own confession had power in their Convocations before their submission to the King to bind the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than their own Synodical Authority Ergo they had the same power to bind the Subjects when the Kings power signified by the Royal assent was added to them The Minor being granted by our Author as before is shewed the Major is onely to be proved And for the proof hereof I am to put the Reader in minde of a Petition or Remonstrance exhibited to the King by the House of Commons Anno 1532. in which they shewed themselves agrieved that the Clergy of this Realm should act Authoriâ—atively and Supremely in the Convocations and they in Parliament do nothing but as it was confirmed and ratified by Royal assent By which it seems that there was nothing then desired by the House of Commons but that the Convocation should be brought down to the same level with the Houses of Parliament and that their Acts and Constitutions should not binde the Subject as before in their Goods and Possessions until they were confirmed and ratified by the Regal Power The Answer unto which Remonstrance being drawn up by Dr. Gardiner then newly made Bishop of Winchester and allowed of by both Houses of Convocation was by them presented to the King But the King not satisfied with this Answer resolves to bring them to his bent lest else perhaps they might have acted something to the hindrance of his divorce which was at that time in agitation and therefore on the tenth of May he sends a Paper to them by Dr. Fox after Bishop of Hereford in which it was peremptorily required That no Constitution or Ordinance shall be hereafter by the Clergy Enacted Promulged or put in Execution unlesse the Kings Highnesse do approve the same by his high Authority and Royal assent and his advice and favour be also interponed for the execution of every such Constitution among his Highnesse Subjects And though the Clergy on the receipt of this paper remov'd first to the Chappel of St. Katherines and after unto that of St. Dunstan to consult about it yet found they no Saint able to inspire them with a resolution contrary to the Kings desires and therefore upon the Wednesday following being the fifteenth of the same Moneth they made their absolute submission binding themselves in Verbo Sacerdotii not to make or execute any Canons or other Synodical Constitutions but as they were from time to time enabled by the Kings Authority But this submission being made unto the King in his single person and not as in conjunction with his Houses of Parliament could neither bring the Convocation under the command of Parliaments nor render them obnoxiâ—us to the power thereof as indeed it did not But to the contrary hereof it is said by our Author that Fol. 194. He viz. the King by the advice and consent of his Clergy in Convocation and great Councel in Parliament resolved to reform the Church under his inspection from grosse abuses crept into it To this I need no other Answer than our Author himself who though in this place he makes the Parliament to be joyned in Commission with Convocation as if a joynt Agent in that great businesse of Reforming the Church yet in another place he tels us another tale For fol. 188. It will appear saith he and I can tell from whom he saith it upon serious examination that there was nothing done in the Reformation of Religion save what was acted by the Clergy in their Convocations or grounded on some Act of theirs precedent to it with the Advice Counsel and Consent of the Bishops and most eminent Church-men confirmed upon the Postfact and not otherwise by the Civil Sanction according to the usage of the best and happiest times of Christianity So then the Reformation of the Church was acted chiefly by the King with the advice of the Clergy in their Convocation the confirmation on the post-fact by the King in Parliament and that by his leave not in all the Acts and Particulars of it but in some few onely for which consult the Tract entituled The Way and Manner of the Reformation of the Church of England Now as our Author makes the Parliament a joynt Assistant with the King in the Reformation so he conferreth on Parliaments the Supreme Power of ratifying and confirming all Synodical Acts. Fol. 199. The
Author hath all the reason in the world to desire to be admitted into their Communion and be made partaker of that happinesse which such Saints enjoy c. Fuller If God were not more mercifull unto us than we are charitable one to another what would become of us all I humbly conceive that these Exiles though I will not advocate for their carriage in all particulars had more liberty in modeling their own Church than such as live in England under a setled Government commanded by Authority Schismatick in my minde is too harsh for such who fled and suffered for their conscience However I conceive a Saint-ship not inconsistent with such Schismaticalnesse God graciously on their general repentance forgiving them their fault herein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 39. Trinity Colledge built by Sir Thomas Pope I shall not derogate so much from Sir Thomas Pope as our Author doth from Trinity Colledge naming no Bishop of this House as he doth of others He tells us that he liv'd in this University about 17 weeks and all that time Dr. Skinner the Bishop of Oxford liv'd there too Dr. Wright the Bishop of Liechfield probably was then living also for he deceased not till after the beginning of the year 1643. but he living at that time in his own House of Ecclesal Castle Both of them Members of this Colledge and therefore worthily deserving to have found some place in our Authors History And because our Author can finde no learned Writers of this Colledge neither I will supply him with two others â—n that kinde also The first whereof shall be Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer sometimes a Commoner of this House and here initiated in those Studies in which he afterwards attain'd to so high an eminence The second William Chillingworth an able and accute Divine and once a Fellow of this Colledge whose Book intituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation written in defence of Dr. Potters Book called Charity mistaken commended by our Author Lib 3. fol. 115. remains unanswered by the Iesuites notwithstanding all their brags before-hand to this very day Which Book though most ridiculously buried with the Author at Arundel get thee gon thou accursed Book c. by Mr. Francis Cheynel the usu fructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth shall still survive unto the world in its own value when the poore three-penny commodities of such a sorry Haberdasher of Small-weares shall be out of credite Of this Pageant see the Pamphlet call'd Chillingworthi Novissima printed at London Anno 1644. Fuller If the Animavertor had written an History of Cambridge perchance he would have made as many and great Omissions I have craved solem pardon of the Reader when such failings should occur Church History Book 3. pag. 67. I humbly request the Antiquaries of their respective foundations best skilled in their own worthy Natives to insert their own observations which if they would restore unto me against the next Edition of this work if it be thought worthy thereof God shall have the Glory they the publick thanks and the world the benefit of their contributions to my endeavours Bishop Wright is entred in where he ought a Warden of Wadham the rest shall be inserted in the next Edition with my worthy friend Mr. Gilbert Ironside of the same foundation Mr. Cheynel is now rather the object of the Animadvertors prayer and pittie than of his Anger Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 41. But now it is gone let it go it was but a beggerly Town and cost England ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof Admit it be so yet certainly it was worth the keeping had it cost much more The English while they kept that Town had a dore open into France upon all occasions and therefore it was commonly said that they carried the Keyes of France at their Girdles c. Fuller The Animadvertor might understand my meaning even to make the best of a bad matter when it cannot be helped A KEY falleth under a double valuation one for the intrinsicall works from the weight thereof in Metal which is very inconsiderable The other from the use thereof and thus it 's price riseth or falleth as it openeth to more or less treasure Calis I confesse in the second consideration was a place of main importance yet indeed it cost a vast expence in keeping it as by a Book in the Exchequer which some moneths since I perused doth appear the charge amounting to an innumerable Sum at the rate of Money in that Age. THE NINTH BOOK Containing the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Dr. Heylin THe short Reigns of King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary being briefly past over by our Author he spends the more time in setting out the affairs of the Church under Queen Elizabeth not so much because her Reign was long but because it was a busie Age and full of Faction To which Faction how he stands affâ—cted he is not coy to let us see on all occasions giving us in the very first entrance this brief but notable Essay viz. Fol. 51. Idolaty is not to be permitted a moment the first minute is the fittest to abolish it all that have power have right to destroy it by that grand Charter of Religion whereby every one is bound to advance Gods glory And if Sovereigns forget no reason but Subjects should remember their duty Our Author speaks this in behalf of some forward Spirits who not enduring the lazinesse of Authority in order to the great work of Reformation fell before hand to the beating down of superstitious Pictures and Images And though some others condemned their indiscretion herein yet our Author will not but rather gives these reasons for their justification 1. That the Popish Religion is Idolatry 2. That Idolatry is to be destroyed by all that have power to doe it 3. Which is indeed the main that if the Sovereigns do forget there is no reason but Subjects should remember their duty This being our Authors Master-piece and a fair ground-work for Seditious and Rebellious for the times ensuing I shall spend a little the more time in the examination of the propositions as before we had them c. Fuller The Animadvertor hath dealt most unfairly with me in citing by the halfs what I have written and leaving out what immediatly followed and what he ought to have inserted viz. For after I had presented the Judgement of these rigid and violent Hotspurs I subjoyned as followeth in confutation of their Extravagancies But others condemned their indiscretion herein for though they might reform the private persons and families and refrain to communicate in any outward Act contrary to Gods word yet publick reformation belonged to the Magistrate and a good deed was by them ill done for want of a calling to doe it I appeal to such who knew me in the Universitie to those that
have heard my many Sermons on this Subject in London and else where but especially to my Book called TRUTH MAINTAINED made against Mr. Saltmarsh wherein I have heartily to place that first largely and to my power strongly vindicated Non licet Populo renuente Magistratu Reformationem moliri Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 54. This Parliament being very active in matters of Religion the Convocation younger Brother thereunto was little imployed and less regarded Our Author follows this Design of putting matters of Religion into the power of Parliaments though he hath chosen a very ill Medium to conclude the point This Parliament as active as he seems to make it troubled it self so little with matters of Religion that had it done lesse it had done just nothing All that it did was the Repealing of some Acts made in the time of Queen Mary and setling matters in the same State in which she found them at her first coming to the Crown The Common Prayer Book being reviewed and fitted to the use of the Church by some godly men appointed by the Queen alone receiv'd no other confirmation in this present Parliament than what it had before in the last years of King Edward The Supremacy was again restor'd as it had been formerly the Title of Supreme head which seem'd offensive unto many of both Religions being changed into that of Supreme Governor nothing in all this done de novo which could intitle this Parliament to such activity in matters of Religion but that our Author had a minde to undervalue the Convocation as being little imployed and lesse regarded I grant indeed that the Convocation of that year did only meet for forms sake without acting any thing c. Fuller Yea God hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce And although the Animadvector is pleased to say That if this Parliament had done lesse it had done just nothing these truly were MAGNALIA so farre as the word is applyable to humane performances Dr. Heylin In the mean time I would fain know our Authors Reason why speaking of the Convocation and the Parliament in the notion of Twins the Convocation must be made the younger Brother Assuredly there had been Convocations in the Church of England some hundreds of years before the name of Parliament had been ever heard of which he that lists to read the collection of Councels published by that learned and industrious Gentleman Sir Henry Spelman cannot but perceive Fuller I confesse Convocations in their general notion more ancient and regular and completely constituted than Parliaments Yet of these Twins I called the Convocation the younger Brother properly enough First Because modern Convocations as modelled since the submission of the Clergy to Henry the eighth are many years junior to Parliaments Secondly The Convocations alwaies began the day after the Parliament the Archbishops and Bishops alwaies attending the King the first day in Parliament Lastly The Parliament hath made a younger Brother of the Convocation And there being a priority in Power he in effect is the Heir and elder Brother who confineth the other to a poor pittance and small portion as our Age can well remember Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 71. This year the spire of Poles steeple covered with lead strangely fell on fire More modestly in this than when he formerly ascribes the burning of some great Abbeys to Lightning from Heaven And so this steeple was both reported and believed to be fired also it being an ordinary thing in our common Almanacks till these latter times to count the time among the other Epoches of Computation from the year that St. Paul-steeple was fired with Lightning But afterwards it was acknowledged as our Author truly notes to be done by the negligence of a Plummer carelesly leaving his Coles therein since which acknowledgement we finde no mention of this accident in our yearly Almanacks But whereas our Author finds no other Benefactors for the repairing of this great Ruine but the Queens bounty and the Clergies benevolence I must needs tell him that these were onely accessories to the principal charge The greatest part hereof or to say better the whole work was by the Queen imposed on the City of London it being affirmed by Iohn Stow that after this mischance the Queens Majesty directed her Letters to the Major willing him to take order for the speedy repairing of the same c. Fuller Non est tanti all this Note The Queen and Clergy are onely mentioned by way of eminence not exclusion of others The Animadvertor commonly layeth it to my charge that in my writing I am injurious to the Church and Clergy and now he is offended with me for giving them too much honour Sure I am Mr. Camden speaking of the repairing of S. Pauls on this occasion ascribes it to the great bounty of the Queen and money gathered of the Churchmen and others where his particular nomination onely of the Queen and Church-men making them paramount Benefactors Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 72. In the Convocation now sitting the nine and thirty Articles were composed agreeing for the main with those set forth in the Reign of King Edward the sixth though in some particulars allowing more liberty to dissenting judgements This is the active Convocation which before I spake of not setâ—ing matters of Religion in the same estate in which they were left by King Edward but altering some Articles expunging others adding some de novo and fitting the whole body of them unto edification Not leaving any liberty to dissenting judgements as our Author would have it but binding men unto the literal and Grammatical sense Fuller But the literal and Grammatical sense is worded in so favourable and receptive terms that two opposite parties both wellâ—skilled in Grammer have with great assurance of successe pleaded them in their defence In such Cases when the Controversie is admissive of a latitude as not necessary to salvation the pious and learned Penners of the Articles though they did not purposely use Cheverel expressions to afford shelter to equivocation yet prudently seeing that all things in the Articles were not of equall concernment and politickly â—ore-seeing men would be divided and differ in their judgements about them selected phrases Grammatically admissive of several senses all consistent with Salvation and would draw their words no closer for fear of strangling tender Consciences Hence is it that in the Question Whether Concupiscence be properly a sin in the Regenerate both parties appeal unto the Article equally perswaded there so finde favour in their several Opinions as indeed like a well drawn Picture it seemeth to Eye them both and yet frown on neither And one may read in the works of King Iames that on this account he highly commendeth the discretion and moderation of the Composers of our Articles Dr. Heylin They had not otherwise attained to the end they aimed at which was ad tollendam opinionum
dissensionem consensum in vera Religione firmandum that is to say to take away diversitie of Opinions and to establish an agreement in the true Religion Which end could never be effected if men were left unto the liberty of dissenting or might have leave to put their own sense upon the Articles But whereas our instances in the Article of Christs descent into Hell telling us that Christs preaching unto the Spirits there on which the Article seemed to be grounded in King Edwards Book was left out in this and thereupon inferreth that men are left unto a latitude concerning the cause time manner of his discent I must needs say that he is very much mistaken For first the Church of England hath alwaies constantly maintained a local Descent though many which would be thought her Children the better to comply with Calvin and some other Divines of forain Nations have deviated in this point from the sense of the Church And secondly the reason why this Convocation left out that passage of Christ preaching to the spirits in hell was not that men might be left unto a latitude concerning the cause time and manner of his Descent as our Author dreams but because that passaage of St. Peter being capable of some other interpretations was not conceived to be a clear and sufficient evidence to prove the Article For which see Bishop Bilsons Survey p. 388.389 Fuller I cannot fully concur with the Animadvertor That the Church of England hath constantly maintained a LOCAL DESCENT though no man hath an higher esteem for those worthy Writers who are of that perswasion I will confess this hitherto hath staggered me viz. St. Peter his application of Davids words to Christ thou shalt not leave my soul in hel I appeal whether these words import not a favour to all unprejudiced hearers which God did to his Son bearing this natural and unviolated sense That had God left Christs soul in hell his soul had been in a bad condition as being there in a suffering capacity but Gods Paternal affection to his dear Son would not leave his soul in hell but did rescue it thence Now all our Protestant and especially English Writers who maintain a LOCAL DESCENT doe very worthily in opposition to the Romish Error defend that Christ was then in a good estate yea in a triumphing condition Now then it had been no favour not to leave his soul in Hell but a less love unto him to contract his happiness in his triumph I protest that in this or any other point I am not possest with a spirit of opposition and when I am herein satisfied in any good degree I shall become the Animadvertors thankful Convert in this particular Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 74. In a word concerning this clause whether the Bishops were faulty in their addition or their opposites in their substraction I leave to more cunning Arithmeticians to decide The Clause here spoken of by our Author is the first Sentence in the twentieth Article entituled De Ecclesiae Authoritate where it is said that the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of the Faith c. Fuller To this and to what ensueth in two leaves following I return no answer not because I am pinched therein with any matter of moment but for these reasons following First I understand That the Animadvertors Stationer taketh exception that I have printed all his book which may tend to his detriment Now I protest when I â—irst took up this resolution to present the Animadvertors whole Cloth List Fagg and all I aimed not at his damage but my own defence noâ— can I see how I could doe otherwise seeing the plaister must be as broad as the sore the tent as deep as the wound yea I have been inâ—ormed by prime Stationers the like hath formerly been done without exception taken on either side in the Replies and Rejoynders betwixt Dr. Whitgift and Mr. Cartwright and many others However being willing to avoid all appearance of injury I have left out some observations which I conceived might well be spared as containing no pungent matter against me Secondly I am confident That there needs no other answer to these notes then the distinct and serious perusal of my Church History with the due alteration of favour indulged to all writings Lâ—stly What of moment in these notes is omitted by me relateth to those two Church Questions in Law which I have formerly desired may fairly be ventilated betwixt the Animadvertor and me and if he be sensible That any thing herein tendeth to his advantage he may and no doubt will re-assume and enforce the same Dr. Heylin From the Articles our Author proceeds unto the Homilies approved in those Articles and of them he tels us Fol. 75. That if they did little good they did little harm With scorn and insolence enough Those Homilies were so composed as to instruct the people in all positive Doctrines necessary for Christian men to know with reference both to Faith and Manners and being penned in a plain style as our Author hath it were fitter for the edification of the common people than either the strong lines of some or the flashes of vain wit in others in these latter times c. Fuller With scorn and insolence I defie the words The Animadvertor might have added my words immediately following viz. They preached not strange Doctrines to People as too many vent DARKNESSES now a dayes intituled New Ligâ—ts And well had it been for the peace and happiness of the Church if the Animadvertor and all of his Party had had as high an esteem as the Author hath for the Homilies If none of them had called them HOMELY HOMILIES as one did And if they had conformed their practise to the second Homilie in the second Book and not appeared so forward in countenancing Images of God and his Saints in Churches Dr. Heylin The Author proceeds Fol. 76. The English Bishops conceiving themselves impowred by their Canons began to shew their authority in urging the Clergy of their Diocess to subscribe to the Liturgy Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church and such as refused the same were branded with the odious name of Puritans Our Author having given the Parliament a power of confirming no Canons as before was shewed he brings the Bishops acting by as weak Authority in the years 1563. 1564. there being at that time no Canons for them to proceed upon for requiring their Clergy to subscribe to the Liturgies Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church And therefore if they did any such thing it was not as they were impowred by their Canons but as they were inabled by that Authority which was inherent naturally in their Episcopal Office Fuller I profess my self not to understand the sense of the Animadvertor and what he driveth at herein And as soon as I shall understand him I will either fully concur with him or fairly
from Spalato nunc quidem parum Colitur ob Turcarum Viciniam A judicious Writer valuing his Arch-bishoprick as it seemeth to advantage estimateth it annually at 3000 Crowns which falleth a fourth part short of 1000 pounds sterling a summe exceeded in most of our middling Bishopricks Besides the Arch-bishoprick of Spalato was clogged and incumbred with a Pension of 500 Crowns the sixth part of his Revenues payable with the arrears by the Popes Command to one Andrutius The payment of which Sixt part went as much against Spalato's stomach as the payment of the Fifts now a dayes doth from the present Possessors to sequestred Minister Dr. Heylin He could not hope to mend his fortunes by his coming hither or to advance himself to a more liberal entertainment in the Church of England than what he had attained to in the Church of Rome Covetousness therefore could not be the motive for leaving his own Estate of which he had been possessed 14. years in our Authors reckoning to betake himself to a strange Country where he could promise himself nothing but protection and the freedome of conscience Our Author might have said with more probability that covetousness and not conscience was the cause of his going hence no bait of profit or preferment being laid before him to invite him hither as they were both by those which had the managing of that designe to allure him hence c. Fuller Dark men are the best Comment upon themselves whose precedent are best expounded by their subsequent actions Who so considereth the rapacity and tenacity of this Prelate in England will easily believe that a two-handed covetousness moved him to leave his native Country and come over hither One to save the other to gain To save that is to evade the payment of the aforesaid Pension with the arrears thereof To gain promising himself as by the future will appear not only protection but preferment not only safety but more plenty by coming hither He had Learning enough to deserve Ambition enough to desire Boldness enough to beg and presumed K. Iames had bounty enough to give him the highest and best prâ—ferment in England and he who publickly did beg York may be presumed privately to have promised the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury to himself Dr. Heylin All mens mouths saith our Author were now filled with discourse of Prince Charles his Match with Donna Maria the Infanta of Spain The Protestants grieved thereat fearing that his Marriage would be the Funerals of their Religion c. The business of the Match with Spain hath already sufficiently been agitated between the Author of the History of the Reign of King Charles and his Observator And yet I must add something to let our Author and his Reader to understand thus much that the Protestants had no cause to fear such a Funeral Fuller Hâ—d I said that the Protestants justly feared this Marriage then the Animadvertor had justly censured whereas now grant they feared where no fear was he findeth fault where no fault is Historians may and must relate those great and general impressions which are made on the spirits of people and are not bound to justifie the causes thereof to be sound and sufficient Ten thousand Persons of quality are still alive who can â—nd will attest that a pannick fear for that Match invaded the Nation Dr. Heylin They knew they lived under such a King who loved his Sovereignty too well to quit any part thereof to the Pope of Rome especially to part with that Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters which he esteemed the fairest flower in the Royal Garland They knew they lived under such a King whose interest it was to preserve Religion in the same state in which he found it and could not fear but that he would sufficiently provide for the safety of it Fuller Mr. Camden writing of the Match of Q. Elizabeth with Mounsier younger Brother to the King of France hath this presage that when Mr. Stubs whose hand was cut off said God save the Queen the multitude standing by held their peace rendring this as one reason thereof Ex odio Nuptiarum quas religione exitiosas futuras praesagierunt Out of hatred to that Match which they presag'd would be destructive to Religion Now may not the Animadvertor as well tax Mr. Camden for inserting this needless Note and tell the world that no Princess was more skild in Queen craft than Q Elizabeth and that this presage of her People was falsly foâ—â—deâ— I detract not from the policy or piety head or heart of K. Iames but this I say let Sovereigns be never so good their Subjects under them will have their own Ioyes Griefs Loves Hatreds Hopes Fears sometimes caused sometimes causless and Historâ—ans have an equal Commission to report both to posterity Dr. Heylin If any Protestants feared the funeral of their Religion they were such Protestants as had been frighted out of their wits as you know who used to call the Puritans or such who under the name of Protestants had contrived themselves into a Faction not only against Episcopacy but even Monarchy also Fuller I profess I know not who used to call Puritans Protestants frighted out of their wits who ever it was it was not Michael the Arch-angel who would not rail on the Devil By Protestants I mean Protestants indeed or if you will rather have it Christians sound in their Iudgement uncontriv'd into any Faction so far from being Anti-episcopal that some of them were Members of the Hierarchy and so far from destroying Monarchy that since they endeavoured the preservation thereof with the destruction of their own Estaâ—es As worthy Doctor Hackwel Arch-Deacon of Surrey was outed his Chaplainâ— place for his opposing the Match when first tendred to Prince Henry so many qualified as aforesaid concurred with his â—udgement in the resumption of the Match with K. Charles notwithstanding they were justly and fully possessed of integrity and ability of K. Iames. Their seriously considering the Zâ—â—l of the Spanish to promote Popery the activity of the Romish Priests to gain Proselites their dexterous sinisterity in seducing Souls the negligence of two many English Ministers in feeding their Flocks the plâ—usibility oâ— Popery to vulgar Iudgements the lushiousness thereof to the palaâ— of flesh and Blood the fickleness of our English Nation to embrace Novelties the wavering of many unsettled minds the substilty of Satan to advance any mischievous designe the justice of God to leave a sinful Nation to the Spirit of delusion feared whether justly or no let the Reader judge that the Spanish Match as represented attended with a Tolleration might prove fatall to the Protestant Religion Dr. Heylin And to these Puritans nothing was more terrible than the Match with Spain fearing and perhaps justly fearing that the Kings alliance with that Crown might arme him both with power and counsel to suppress those Practices which have since prov'd the funeral of the Church of England Fuller
By the Church of England the Animadvertor meaneth as I believ the Hierarchy the Funerals whereof for the present we do behold However I hope there is still a Church in England alive or else we were all in a sad yea in an unsaluable condition The state of which Church in England I compare to Eutichus I suspect it hath formerly slept too soundly in case and security Sure I am it is since with him fallen down from the third Loft from Honour into Contempt from Unity into Faction from Verity into dangerous Errorsâ— Yet I hope to follow the Allegory that her life is still left in her I mean so much soundness left that persons born living and dying therein are capable of salvation Let such who think the Church of England sick pray for her wonderfull Recovery and such as think her dead pray for her miraculous Resurrection Dr. Heylin But as it seems they feared where no fear was our Author telling us fol. 112. that the Spanish State had no minde or meaning of a Match and that this was quickly discovered by Prince Charles at his coming thither How so Because saith he fol. 112. they demanded such unreasonable liberty in education of the Loyal Offspring and other Priviledges for English Priests c. If this be all it signifies as much as nothing For thus the argument seems to stand viz. The Spaniards were desirous to get as good conditions as they could for themselves and their Party ergo they had no minde to the match Or thus The demands of the Spaniards when the businesse was first in Treaty seem'd to be unreasonable ergo they never really intended that it should proceed Our Author cannot be so great a stranger in the shops of London as not to know that Trades-men use to ask many times twice as much for a Commodity as they mean to take and therefore may conclude as strongly that they doe not mean to sell those wares for which they ask such an unreasonable price at the first demand Iniquum petere ut aequum obtineas hath been the usual practise especially in driving State-bargains or all times and ages And though the Spaniards at the first spoke big and stood upon such points as the King neither could nor would in honour or conscience consent unto yet things were after brought to such a temperament that the Marriage was agreed upon the Articles by both Kings subscrib'd a Proxie made by the Prince of Wales to espouse the Infanta and all things on her part prepared for the day of the Wedding The breach which followed came not from any aversness in the Court of Spain though where the â—ault was and by what means occasioned need not here be said Fuller I expected when the Animadvertor had knocked away my Bowl he would have layed a Toucher in the room thereof but if neither of us have a Bowl in the Alley we must both begin the Game again May the Reader be pleased to know that living in Exeter I had many hours private Converse with the Right Honourable Iohn Digby Earl of Bristow who favoured me so far much above my desert that at his last going over into France where he died he was earnest with me to goe with him promising me to use his own expression that I should have half a loaf with him so long as he had a whole one to himself This I mention to insinuate a probability that I may be as knowing in the Misteries of the Spanish Match as the Animadvertor Double was the Cause of the breach of the Spanish Match One such as may with no lesse truth than safety be related as publickly insisted on in the Parliament viz. the Spanish Prevarication to restore the Palatinate The other secret not so necessary to be known nor safe to be reported And I crave the liberty to conceal it seeing the Animadvertor himself hath his Politick Aposiopaesis breaking off as abruptly as the Spanish Match with this warie reservation though where the fault was and by what Means occasioned need not here to be said Dr. Heylin But well fare our Author for all that who finally hath absolv'd the Spaniard from this breach and laid the same upon King Iames despairing of any restitution to be made of the Palatinate by the way of Treaty Ibid. Whereupon King James not onely broke off all Treaty with Spain but also called the great Councel of his Kingdom together By which it seems that the breaking off of the Treaty did precede the Parliament But multa apparent quae non sunt every is not as it seems The Parliament in this case came before by whose continual importunity and solicitation the breach of the Treaties followed after The King lov'd peace too well to lay aside the Treaties and engage in War before he was desparate of successe any other way than by that of the Sword as was assur'd both of the hands and hearts of his subjects to assist him in it And therefore our Author should have said that the King not onely called together his great Councel but broke off the Treaty and not have given us here such an Hysteron Proteron as neither doth consist with reason nor the truth of story Fuller To be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Covenant-breaker is a foul fault as the Apostle accounteth it Far be it from me to charge it causlesly on any especially on a dead Christian especially on a King especially on King Iames generally represented over-fond of Peace and therefore the more improbable first to infringe it To prevent exception in the next Edition calling the Parliament shall have the precedency of breaking off the Treaty for the Match I suspect that the Animadvertor hath committed a greater transposition when affirming King Iames to have designed the Spanish Match in order to the recovery of the Palatinate Whereas it plainly appears that before any suspicion of troubles in the Palatinate occasioned by P. Fredericks accepting the Crown of Bohemia this Match was projected by K. Iames for P. Henry his eldest Son and after his death resumed for P. Charles without the least relation to the regaining of the not then lost Palatinate I have passed over some additory notes of the Animadvertor in this Kings Reign partly because I perceive my Book swels beyond the expected proportion partly that I may have the more scope to answer every particular objected against me in the Reign of K. Charles in such things which lie level to our own eyes and are within our own remembrance THE ELEVENTH BOOK Containing the Reign of K. Charls Dr. Heylyn THis Book concludes our Authour's History and my Animadversions And if the End be sutable unto the Beginning it is like to finde me work enough our Authour stumbling at the Threshold which amongst Superstitious People hath been counted for an ill Presage Fuller Who I pray stumbled in the beginning of his Animadversions when he said That the Brittains worshipped but one
declare his power over his people So that the King got not one single mite of Title more than he had before this four-fold Acclamation Dr. Heylyn And this I call piece of new State-Doctrine never known before because I find the contrary in the Coronation of our former Kings For in the form and manner of the Coronation of King Edward 6. described in the Catalogue of Honour set forth by Thomas Mills of Canterbury Anno 1610. we find in thus The King being carried by certain noble Courtiers in another Chair unto the four sides of the Stage was by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared unto the people standing round about both by Gods and Mans Lawes to be the right and lawfull King of England France and Ireland and proclaimed that day to be Crowned Consecrated and Annointed unto whom he demanded Whether they would obey and serve or not By whom it was again with a loud cry answered God save the King and Ever live his Majesty The same we have in substance but in fewer words in the Coronation of King Iames where it is said that The King was shewed to the People and that they were required to make acknowledgement of their allegiance to his Majesty by the Arch-Bishop which they did by acclamations Assuredly the difference is exceeding vast betwixt obeying and consenting betwixt the Peoples acknowledging their alliegance and promising to obey and serve their lawfull Soveraign and giving their consent to his Coronation as if it could not be performed without such consent Fuller The hinge of the controversie turneth on the criticall difference betwixt these two phrases Acknowledging their allegiance to their Soveraigne Giving consent to his Coronation The Animadvertor endeavours to widen the distance betwixt them and make the difference vast yea exceeding vast against the will of the words vvhich are well inclined to an agreement there being a Vicinity yea Affinity betvvixt them since such who vvill not acknowledge their Allegiance will not give-consent to his Coronation and such vvho will consent thereunto will acknowledge their allegiance I refer my self wholly in this difference to the Arbitration of Mr. Mills the same Author and Edition cited by the Animadvertor who speaking of the antient form of the Coronation of the Kings of England in reference to this passage thus expresseth himself After the King hath a little reposed himself in the Chair or Throne erected upon the Scaffold then the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall go unto the four squares of the Scaffold and with a loud voice Ask the good liking of the people concerning the Coronation of the King Small I am sure is the difference betwixt consenting and good-liking However the Kings Coronation though following after did not depend on such consent good-liking or acknowledging of Allegiance seeing amongst our English Kings an Vsurper's Title was not the better with nor a lawfull Prince's the worse without such ceremonies of State Dr. Heylyn pag. 202. Nor had the late Arch-Bishop been reproacht so generally by the common people and that reproach publish'd in severall Pamphlets for altering the King's Oath at his Coronation to the infringing of the Liberties and diminution of the Rights of the English Subjects had he done them such a notable piece of service as freeing them from all promises to obey and serve and making the Kings Coronation to depend on their consent For Bishop Laud being one of that Committee which was appointed by the King to review the form and order of the Coronation to the end it might be fitted to some Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England which had not been observ'd before must bear the greatest blame in this alteration if any such alteration had been made as our Author speaks of because he was the principall man whom the King relied on in that business Fuller This proceedeth on the former foundation which being false and confuted the superstructure sinketh therewith Dr. Heylyn But our Author tells us in his Preface that this last Book with divers of the rest were written by him when the Monarchy was turn'd into a State And I dare believe him He had not else so punctually conform'd his language to the State-doctrin by which the making and consequently the unmaking of Kings is wholly vested in the People according to that Maxim of Buchanan Populo jus est imperium cui velit deferat than which there is not a more pestilent and seditious passage in his whole Book De jure Regni apud Scotos though there be nothing else but treason and sedition in it Fuller What I wrote in this point I wrote in my PREFACE that it might be obvious to every Eye viz. That the first three Books of my Church History were for the main written in the Reign of the late King the other nine since Monarchy was turn'd into a State My language in the latter Books forbeareth such personall passages on the King and his Posterity which in his life-time were as consistent with my loyalty as since inconsistent with my safety I will instance in one of them Church-History Book 3. Page 52. Some of whose Offspring King Iohn 's shall flourish in free and full power on the English Throne when the Chair of Pestilence shall be burnt to ashes and neither Tripple Crown left at Rome to be worn nor any Head there which shall dare to wear it But if the Animadvertor or any by him employed can in any my nine last Books discover a syllable sounding to the disparagement of the Kings person or power to any impartiall Ear let me who so long fed on the King's large diet be justly famished for my unthankfulnesse As for Buchanan as I admire his Poetry so I dislike his Divinity especially in this point desiring that his Principles may never come South the River Tweed and if offering it may be drowned in their passage Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 123. Then as many Earls and Barons as could conveniently stand about the Throne did lay their hands on the Crown on his Majesty's head protesting to spend their bloods to maintain it to him and his lawfull Heirs A promise faithfully performed by many of them some losing their lives for him in the open field others exhausting their Estates in the defence of his many more venturing their whole fortunes by adhering to him to a confiscation A Catalogue of which last we may find subscribed to a Letter sent from the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled in Oxford to those at Westminster Anno 1643. And by that Catalogue we may also see what and who they were who so ignobly brake faith vvith him all those whose names we find not in that subscription or presently superadded to it being to be reckoned amongst those who instead of spending their blood to maintain the Crown to Him and to his lawful Successors concurred vvith them either in opere or in voto who despoiled him of it And to say truth they were revvarded as
no Topick so usefull in his Logick as the rule of Contraries Contraria juxta se posi a magis elucescunt Upon which ground the better to set off Bishop Andrews this poor Archbishop must be charged with want of moderation in enjoyning his own private practises and opinions upon other men And here that Bishop Iuxon might appear with the greater lustre the said Arch-bishop with all his passions and infirmities must stand by for a foil He had indeed no such command upon his passions as to be at all times of equall temper especially when wearied with the businesse of the Councill-Table and the High-Commission But as he was soon hot so he was soon cool'd and so much is observed by Sir Edward Dering though his greatest adversary and the first that threw dirt in his face in the late long Parliament who telleth us of him that the roughness of his uncourtly nature sent most men discontented from him but so that he would often of himself find waies and means to sweeten maâ—y of them again when they least looked for it In this more modest then our Author who gives us nothing of this Prelate but his vvants and vveaknesses But of this reverend Prelaâ—â— he vvill give cause to speak more hereafter Fuller There were other Clergy men Privy-Counsellors beside Arch-Bishop Laud Dr. Abbots Neil Harsnet Williams c. And therefore the Animadvertors Collection of my words cannot be conclusive in Reference to Arch-Bishop Laud I confesse else where I do reckon Anger amongst his personall imperfections which a Historian may do without any wrong at all The spirit of God saying Elias was subject to like passions as we are I am confident as angry as Arch-Bishop Laud was He would not have bin angry with me for writing of it as sensible of and sorrowfull for his owne imperfection therein I am much of the mind of Sr. Edward Dering that the roughnesse of his un-court-like nature sweetned many men when they least looked for it surprizing some of them and my selfe for one with unexpected Courtesies But whereas I am accused for giving in nothing of this Prelate but his wants and vveaknesses it vvill not be long before my innocence herein vvill appeare Dr. Heylyn Let us now on unto another of a different judgment his profest enemy Mr. Prin of whom thus our Author fol. 157. Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glostershire c. and began with the writing of some Orthodox Books In this story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings our Author runs into many errors which either his love to the man or zeal to the good cause or carelesnesse of what he writes have brought upon him Fuller If I have run into so many errours it will be charity in the Animadvertor fairly to lead me back again a foot-pace into the truth and then he shall have thanks for his pains alwaies provided he doth not pinch me by the arm as he conducteth me which will turn my thanks into anger But seeing the Animadvertor careth for both alike from my hands let him do as he pleaseth Next we have his tripartite History of my errors which he will have to proceed from one of these three causes 1. Love to the person of Mr. Prin. To whom I professe I have no fondnesse but likeing the Motto of Luther In quo aliquid Christi video illum diligo I must on that account have a kindness for him 2. Zeal to their good cause which I behold as a jeer and treading on the toes of Scripture Galatians 4.18 It is good to be zealously affected alwaies in a good thing 3. Carelesnesse of what I write But seeing now the Animadvertor's hand is in his Arithmetick in counting of causes of my mistakes his charity might have found a â—ourth worth all the other three and imputed my errors to that infirmity which alwaies attendeth human nature However let us proceed Dr. Heylyn Whereas our Author telleth us that Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire Bath is not in Glocester-shire but a chief City in the County of Somerseâ— Fuller These are ANI-MAD-VERSIONS indeed when a Writer's words are madly verted inverted perverted against his true intent and their Grammaticall sense My words run thus Mr. William Prin was born about Bath in Glocester-shire where Bath is walled about with a Parenthesis not essentiall to the Sentence thus perfect without it Mr. William Prin was born in Glocester-shire These walls the Animadvertor hath most dis-ingenuously dismantled to lay Bath open and if possible to bring it into Glocester-shire that so he may have something to cavil at me Indeed Bath is not in but within three miles of Glocester-shire and the next eminent place to the Village of Mr. Prin's nativity When Towns stand in the confines of two Counties is it not proper enough to say Such a one was born about London in Surrey though London be in Middlesex or about Windsor in Buckingham-shire though Windsor be in Bark-shire Mr. Fox writing in his own defence against such as traduced him Some saith he do not cavill because they have found fault but do find faults because they may cavill And be it reported to the Reader whether the Animadvertor may be accounted one of them And now the Animadvertor having a little refreshed himself in my Crosse-Bath and somewhat pleased his spirit of opposition he thus proceedeth Dr. Heylyn Secondly whereas he saith that he began with the writing of some Orthodox Books Though I look on Mr. Prin so far forth as I am able to judge by some Books of his not long since published as a man of a far more moderate spirit than I have done formerly yet can I not think his first Books to have been so Orthodox as our Author makes them For not to say any thing of his Perpetuity c. Fuller But I must and will say something of his Perpetuity of the Regenerate Man his Estate as being that which is particularly named in my Margin and chiefly intended by me A Book wherein an usefull necessary and comfortable Truth is learnedly defended A Book which will perpetuate the memory of the Writer who had he proceeded and continued as he began none could have took just exception at or got just advantage against him Dr. Heylyn As for the Books of Mr. Prin entituled Lame Giles his Haltings Cozen 's cozening Devotions and his Appendix to another they have many things repugnant to the Rules and Canons of the Church of England No greater enemy against howing at the Name of Iesus nor greater enemy to some Ceremonies here by Law established In which particulars if our Author think him to be Orthodox he declares himself to be no true son of the Church of England Fuller I confess in this his numerous offspring his younger children were nor so vigorous as his first born termed in the Scripture the might and beginning of their fathers strengâ—h they were of a weaker
and sicker constitution and some passages in them I do not approve I hope to acquit my self so dutifull a son to the Church of England that when in a reverent posture I shall crave her blessing she will give it me in as full and free a manner and measure as to the Animadvertor himself Dr. Heylyn Thirdly the Book called Histrio-Mastix was not writ by Mr. Prin about three years before his last sufferings as our Author telleth us for then it must be writ or published Anno 1634. whereas indeed that Book was published in Print about the latter end of 1632. and the Author Censur'd in Star-Chamber for some passages in it about the latter end of the year 1633. Otherwise had it been as our Author tells us the punishment must have preceded the offence and he must suffer for a Book which was not publisht at that time and perhaps not written But our Author hath a speciall faculty in this kind which few Writers have Fuller The Animadvertor hath a speciall faculty in cavilling without cause My Clock of time strikes true enough but that he is minded not to tell it aright My words are Some three years since which word SOME soundeth an interpretative plùs minus to all ingenuous Ears Besides this is our opposite marginall Note containing the contents of that Paragraph Mr. Prin accused for Libelling against Bishops which accusation was about two years before this his last Censure during which time he was imprisoned And my SOME three years are to bear date in the construction of any impartiall Reader from that his accusation and then nothing is mis-timed but falleth out in due season And now Reader judge where the many errors be into which I have run in the story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings seeing no one mistake can be produced and proved against me And seeing the first Book of Mr. Prin was â—ound in it self in my opinion and his last Books more moderate even in the judgment of the Animadvertor and his midling Books how faulty soever such for which he hath severally suffered let us even take a fair farewell of Mr. Prin and his Books and so proceed Dr. Heylyn Now as our Author post-dateth his Histrio-Mâ—stix by making it come into the world two years after it did so he ante-dates a Book of Dr. White then Lord Bishop of Ely which he makes to be publisht two years sooner then indeed it was That Book of his entituled A Treatise of the Sabbath came not out till Michaelmas Anno 1635. though placed by our Author as then written Anno 1633. for which see fol. 144. Fuller In answer hereunto May the Reader be pleased to take notice of these particulars 1. The revived controversie Lords-Day lasted ten years bandied with books from 1628. till 1638. 2. I was loath to scatter my Book with it but resolved on one intire Narrative thereof 3. I fixed on the yeare 1633. therein to insert the same because the middle Number from the rising to the sinking of the difference then came to the very heat and height thereof 4. Hence my Narrative retreated some years back to 1628. when Bradborn began the difference 5. Hence also it sallied forth to the year 1635. when Bishop White 's book was set forth and beyond it 6. The date of the yeare 1633. stands still unmoveable on my Margin the whole Relation being for the reasons aforesaid entered under it So that nothing is offered to the Reader unjoynted in Time if I be but rightly understood Dr. Heylyn Next unto Mr. Prinne in the course of his Censure comes the Bishop of Liâ—coln the cause whereof we have in our Author who having left a blank fol. 156. for somewhat which he thinks not fit to make known to all gives some occasion to suspect that the matter was far worse on the Bishops side than perhaps it was And therefore to prevent all further misconstructions in this businesse I will lay down the story as I find it thus viz. The Bishop's purgation depending chiefly upon the testimony of one Prideon it happened that the February after one Elizabeth Hodson was delivered of a base child and laid to this Prideon The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such a load of filth and infamy conceived it would invalidate all his testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruine therefore he bestirs himself amain And though by order of the Justices at the publick Sessions at Lincoln Prideon was charged as the reputed father the Bishop by his two Agents Powel and Owen procured that Order to be suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses at length in May 10 Car. procured the child to be fathered upon one Boon and Prideon acquit Which lewd practises for the supportation of his favourite's credit cost the Bishop as he confest to Sir Iohn Munson and others twelve hundred pounds so much directly and by consequence much more Fuller I have concealed nothing herein of Moment the Blank being insignificant and the mere mistake of the Printer and expect no considerable addition from the Animadvertor having in my Book truly and clearly stated the Bishops Cause from the best Records I appeal to the unpartiall Perusers of what I wrote whether by this Note any thing of moment is added to the matter in hand except the naming of a light houswife which I conceived beneath my History the rest being truly by me related before Dr. Heylyn But to proceed the cause being brought unto a censure fol. 157. Secretary Windebank motioned to degrade him which saith he was lustily pronounced by a Knight and a Lay-man having no precedent for the same in former Ages But first it is not very certain that any such thing was moved by Sir Francis Windebank A manuscript of that daies proceedings I have often seen containing the Decree and Sentence with the substance of every Speech then made and amongst others that of Sir Francis Windebank in which I find no motion tending to a Degradation nor any other punishment inflicted on him than Fine Suspension and Imprisonment in which the residue of the Lords concurred as we find in our Author Fuller It is very certain he moved it and I avow it from honourable Eyes and Ears The Animadvertor misguides the reference of those my words having no precedent for the same in former Ages making them relate to the Bishop's Degradation whereof one precedent since the Reformation Unus homo nobis which indeed refer to the Knight's and Lay-man's first mentioning thereof which is unprecedented I am sure that such a person should FIRST make such a motion against a Bishop I confess at Bp. Midleton's Degradation some of the Lay-Privy-Counsellors were present but acted little therein so far from FIRST mentioning of it onely concurring with the Court the matter being chiefly managed by Arch-bishop Whitgift and some other Bishops and Deans the Commissioners as most proper
persons to pass such a censure on one of their own profession Dr. Heylyn Secondly it had been more strange if the Knight had not been a Lay-man the Church of England not acknowledging any Order of Spirituall Knighthood Knights in Divinity are greater strangers in this Land then Lay-Divines these last being multiplied of late even ad infinitum the first never heard of Fuller The Pleonasm of the addition of Lay-man to Knight is not so culpable in it self but that it might have passed without censure and let not the Animadvertor be over-confident herein I have been credibly informed that Sir Miles Sandys third son to Edwin Arch-bishop of York Fellow of Peter-house in Cambridge and Proctor of the University Anno 1588. was made a Deacon and so no meer Lay-man and in his younger years a Prebendary of York Within this twenty years there was one Mr. Seaton beneficed in Hartfordshire a Scotish-man and at this day a Knight But the matter being of no more moment let us proceed Dr. Heylyn And thirdly had it been so mov'd and so lustily mov'd as our Author makes it the Knight and Lay-man might have found a precedent for it in former ages Which last clause is to be understood as I suppose with reference to the times since the Reformation For in the former times many precedents of like nature might be easily found And being understood of the times since the Reformation it is not so infallibly true but that one precedent of it at the least may be found amongst us Marmaduke Middleton advanced to the Bishoprick of Sr. Davids Anno 1567. after he had sat in that See three and twenty years was finally condemned for many notable misdemeanors not onely to be deprived of his Bishoprick but degraded from all holy Orders Which sentence was accordingly executed by and before the High-Commissioners at Lambeth-house not only by reading of it in Scriptis but by a formal divesting of him of his Episcopall Robes and Priestly Vestments as I have heard by a person of good credit who was present at it And somewhat there is further in the story of this Marmaduke Middleton which concerns the Bishop now before us of whom our Author telleth us further That being prest by two Bishops and three Doctors to answer upon Oath to certain Articles which were tendred to him in the Tower he utterly refused to do it claiming the priviledge of a Peer fol. 159. Which plea was also made by the said Bishop of St. Davids offering to give in his Answer to such Articles as were fram'd against him on his Honour onely but refusing to do it on his Oath Which case being brought before the Lords then sitting in Parliament was ruled against him it being ordered that he should answer upon Oath as in fine he did To this Bishop let us joyn his Chaplain Mr. Osbolstone who being engag'd in the same Bark with his Patron suffered shipwrack also though not at the same time nor on the same occasion Censured in Star-Chamber not onely to lose his Ecclesiasticall Promotions but to corporall punishments Fuller In my weak judgment the Animadvertor had better have omitted this passage of this Bishop's Degradation in this juncture of time where in the repute of that Function runs very low and their adversaries too ready to take all advantage to disgrace it The rather because Bishop Godwin taketh no notice at all thereof but beginneth continueth and concludeth the life and death of this Bishop in lesse then two lines Marmaduke Middleton translated from Ireland died Novemb. 30th 1592. Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceedeth fol. 166. But this last personall penalty he escaped by going beyond Canterbury conceived seasonably gone beyond the Seas whilst he secretly concealed himself in London And he had scap't the last penalty had he staid at home For though Mr. Osbolston at that time conceived the Archbishop to be his greatest enemy yet the Archbishop was resolved to shew himselfe his greatest friend assuring the Author of these Papers before any thing was known of Mr. Osbolstons supposed flight that he would cast himselfe at the Kings feet for obtaining a discharge of that corporal punishment unto which he was sentenced Which may obtain the greater credit First in regard that no course was taken to stop his flight no search made after him nor any thing done in Order to his apprehension And secondly by Mr. Osbolstons readinesse to do the Archbishop all good Offices in the time of his troubles upon the knowledge which was given him at his coming back of such good Intentions But of these private men enough passe we now to the publick Fuller Whether or no he was sought after I know not this I know he was not taken and more do commend his warinesse in his flight than would have praised his valour for staying in hope his Punishment should be remitted It had been most Mercy to stop the denouncing but was a good after-game of pitty to stay the inflicting of so cruell a censure on a Clergyman As the Animadvertor then had the Credit to know so the Author now hath the Charity to believe the Arch-Bishops good resolution However I cannot forget that when the Sentence in the Star-Chamber passed on Bishop Williams where he concurred with the highest in his Fine He publickly professed that He had fallen five times down on his knees before the King in the Bishop's behalf but to no purpose It might be therefore suspected that his intention to do it once for Mr. Osbolston might not have taken effect And therefore had the Arch-Bishop's good resolution been known unto him Mr. Osbolston might most advisedly conceale himselfe Lib. XI Part. II. Containing the last 12. Years of the Reign of King Charls Dr. Heylyn ANd now we come to the last and most unfortunate Part of this King's Reigne which ended in the Losse of his owne Life the Ruine of the Church and the Alteration of the Civill Government Occasioned PRIMARILY as my Author saith by sending a new Liturgy to the Kirk of Scotland Fuller I deny such a Word that I said the Liturgy did PRIMARILY occasion the War with Scotland Rather the cleane contrary may by Charitable Logick be collected from my Words when having reckoned up a Complication of Heart-burnings amongst the Scots I thus Conclude Church-History Book 11. Page 163. Thus was the Scottish Nation full of discontents when this Book being brought unto them bare the Blame of their breaking forth into more dangerous designes as when the Cup is brim-full before the LAST though LEAST superadded drop is charged alone to be the Cause of all the running over Till then that the Word PRIMARILY can be produced out of my Book let the Animadvertor be beheld PRIMARILY as One departed from the Truth and SECONDARILY as a Causelesse accuser of his Brother Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Folio 160. Miseries caused from the sending of the Book of Service or new Liturgy thither which may sadly be termed a
Rubrick indeed dyed with the blood of so many of both Nations slaine on that Occasion Our Author speakes this in Relation to the Scottish Tumults Anno 1637. In telling of which Story he runs as commonly elsewhere into many Errours For first those Miseries and that blood-shed was not caused by sending the Liturgy thither c. Fuller Seeing the Animadvertor denies the Liturgy to have had any Causall influence on the Scots War I must manifest my dissent from his Iudgement and here I crave the Reader 's leave to be his humble Remembrancer of the Kinds of Causes so far as they conduce to the clearing of the present Controversie Causes are twofold Solitary or Totall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ioynt and fellow Causes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The latter againe is twofold Proegumena long leading before and inwardly disposing and inclining to Action or Procatarctica called also Causa irritatrix or Primitiva provocans which is outwardly impulsive to Action The former is tearmed by Physitians Causa Antecedens the latter Causa Evidens of a disease Thus in a Feaver corrupt humours bred within and without the Veines are the Antecedent cause thereof whilst being in the hot Sun walking in the South-wind c. stopping the Pores and stirring the ill Humours to heat may be the evident cause of a Feaver I thus apply it The inward discontents of the Scots on severall accounts which follow on the next Paragraph were the Antecedent causes of their War whilst the evident Cause thereof was the Obtruding the Liturgy upon them And so much for my cleare sense in this Controversie Dr. Heylyn The Plot had been laid long before upon other grounds that is to say Questioning of some Church Lands then in the hands of some great Persons of which they feared a Rovocation to the Crown And secondly the manumitting of some poor subjects from the tyranny and vassallage which they lived under in respect of their Tithes exacted with all cruelty and injustice by those whom they call the Lords of new erection Which Plot so laid there wanted nothing but some popular occasion for raising a Tumult first a Rebellion afterwards and this occasion they conceived they had happily gain'd by sending the new Liturgy thither though ordered by their own Clergy first as our Author tells us at the Assembly of Aberdeen Anno 1616. and after aâ— Perth Anno 1618. and fashioned for the most part by their own Bishops also But of this there hath so much been said between the Observator and his Antagonist that there is nothing necessary to be added to it Secondly there was no such matter as the passing of an Act of Revocation for the restoring of such Lands as had been alienated from the Crown in the minority of the Kings Predecessors of which he tells us fol. 192. The King indeed did once intend the passing of such an Act but finding what an Insurrection was likely to ensue upon it he followed the safer counsell of Sir Archibald Acheson by whom he was advis'd to sue them in his Courts of Justice Which course succeeding to his wish so terrified many of those great persons who had little else but such Lands to maintain their Dignities that they never thought themselves secure as long as the King was in a condition to demand his own Thirdly though it be true enough that some persons of honour had been denied such higher Titles as they had desired fol. 163. yet was it not the denying of such Titles unto Men of Honour which wrought these terrible effects but the denying of an honorary Title to a man of no honour If Colonel Alexander Lesly an obscure fellow but made rich by the spoils and plunder of Germany had been made a Baron when he first desired it the rest of the male-contents in Scotland might have had an heart though they had no head But the King not willing to dishonour so high a Title by conferring it on so low a person denyed the favour Which put the man into such a heat that presently he joyned himself to the faction there drove on the plot and finally undertook the command of their Armies Rewarded for which notable service with the Title of Earl of Levin by the King himself he could not so digest the injury of the first refusall but that he afterwards headed their Rebellions upon all occasions Fuller Little opposition against some variation from and more addition unto what I have written is herein contained Which if tending to the Reader his clearer information I am right glad thereof and wish him all happinesse therein Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 163. Generally they excused the King in their writings as innocent therein but charged Arch-bishop Laud as the principall and Dr. Cousins as the instrumentall compiler thereof This is no more then we had reason to expect from a former passage liâ— 4. fol. 193. where our Author telleth us that the Scotish Bishops withdrew themselves from their obedience to the See of York in the time when George Nevil was Arch-bishop And then he adds Hence-forwards no Arch-bishop of York medled more with Church-matters in Scotland and happy had it been if no Arch-bishop of Canterbury had since interressed himsâ—lf therein His stomack is so full of choller against this poor Prelate that he must needs bring up some of it above an hundred years before he was born Fuller What could more calmly be written Perchance some cold flegme but nothing of choller is in the expression I say again It had been happy for King Queen Royall Issue Church State the Arch-bishop himself Animadvertor Author Reader All England Dr. Heylyn Hence is it that he takes together all reports which makes against him and sets them down in rank and file in the course of this History If Arch-bishop Abbot be suspended from his Jurisdiction the blame thereof was laid on Arch-bishop Laud as if not content to succeed he endeavoured to supplant him fol. 128. The King sets out a Declaration about lawfull Sports the reviving and enlarging of which must be put upon his account also some strong presumptions being urged for the proof thereof fol. 147. The reduction of the Church to her antient Rules and publick Doctrines must be nothing else but the enjoyning of his own private practises and opinions upon other men fol. 127. And if a Liturgy be compos'd for the use of the Church of Scotland Who but he must be charged to be the Compiler of it Fuller If all the places here cited are passed already they have received their severall Answers if any of them be to come they shall receive them God-willing in due time that so for the present we may be silent to prevent repetition Dr. Heylyn But what proofs have we for all this Onely the malice of his enemies or our Authors own disaffection to him or some common fame And if it once be made a fame it shall pass for truth and as a truth find place
in our Author's History though the greatest falshood Tam facilis in mendaciis fides ut quicquid famae liceat fingere illi esset libenter audire in my Author's language But for the last he brings some proof he would have us think so at the least that is to say the words of one Bayly a Scot whom it concern'd to make him as odious as he could the better to comply with a Pamphlet called The intentions of the Army in which it was declared That the Scots entred England with a purpose to remove the Arch-bishop from the King and execute their vengeance on him What hand Dr. Couzens had in assisting of the work I am not able to say But sure I am that there was nothing was done in it by the Bishops of England but with the counsel and co-operation of their brethren in the Church of Scotland viz. the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews the Arch-bishop of Glasco the Bishops of Murray Ross Brechin and Dunblane as appears by the Book entituled Hidden works of darkness c. fol. 150 153 154 c. And this our Author must needs know but that he hath a mind to quarrell the Arch-bishop upon every turn as appears plainly 1. By his Narrative of the Designe in King Iames his time from the first undertaking of it by the Arch-bishop of St. Andrewes and the Bishop of Galloway then being whose Book corrected by that King with some additions expunctions and accommodations was sent back to Scotland 2. By that unsatisfiedness which he seems to have when the project was resum'd by King Charls Whether the Book by him sent into Scotland were the same which had passed the hands of King Iames or not which he expresseth in these words viz. In the Reigne of King Charls the project was resumed but whether the same Book or no God knoweth fol. 160. If so if God onely know whether it were the same or no how dares he tell us that it was not And if it was the same as it may be for ought he knoweth with what conscience can he charge the making of it upon Bishop Laud Besides as afterward he telleth us fol. 163 The Church of Scotland claimed not onely to be Independent and free as any Church in Christendom a Sister not a Daughter of England And consequently the Prelates of that Church had more reason to decline the receiving of a Liturgy impos'd on them or commended to them by the Primat of England for fear of acknowledging any subordination to him than to receive the same Liturgy here by Law establisht which they might very safely borrow from their Sister-Church without any such danger But howsoever it was the blame must fall on him who did least deserve it Fuller I will return to my words which gave the Animadvertor the first occasion of this long discourse Generally they excused the King in their writings but charged Arch-bishop Laud. I do not charge the Arch-bishop for compiling the Book but say The Scots did Nor do I say That what they charged on him is true but it is true that they did charge it on him Had I denyed it I had been a liar and seeing I affirmed no more the Animadvertor is a caviller It is observable that when our Chroniclers relate how Queen Anne Bollen was charged for Incontinency Margaret Countess of Salisbury for treasonable compliance with the Pope Henry Earl of Surrey for assuming the Arms of England Edward Duke of Somerset for designing the death of some Privy Counsellors Thomas Duke of Norfolk for aspiring by the match of the Queen of Scots to the English Crown Robert Earl of Essex for dangerous machinations against the person of Queen Elizabeth Thomas Earl of Strafford for endeavouring to subject England and Ireland to the King 's arbitrary Power That the Historians who barely report these Persons thus charged are not bound to make the charge good it is enough if they name their respective accusers as here I have named the Scots It is also observable that some of the Persons aforesaid though condemned and executed have since found such favour or justice rather with unpartiall Posterity that though they could not revive their persons they have restored their memories to their innocence And if the like shall be the hap of this Arch-bishop I shall rejoyce therein I mean if the Animadvertor's defence of him seems so clear as to out-shine the evidence so weighty as to out-poize all allegations which in printed Books are published against him In testimony whereof I return nothing in contradiction to what the Animadvertor hath written and it is questionable whether my desire that he may or distrust that he will not be believed be the greater Whatever the success be I forbear farther rejoynder To fight with a shaddow whether one's own or another's passeth for the proverbiall expression of a vain and useless act But seeing the dead are sometimes tearmed shaddows umbrae to fall foul on them without absolute necessity is an act not onely vain but wicked not onely useless but uncharitable And therefore no more hereof Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceedeth 167. Thus none seeing now foul weather in Scotland could expect it fair Sun-Shine in England In this I am as little of our Author's Opinion as in most things else The Sun in England might have shined with a brighter Beam if the Clouds which had been gathered together and threatned such foule Weather in Scotland had been dispersed and scattered by the Thunder of our English Ordnance The opportunity was well given and well taken also had it not been unhappily lost in the Prosecution Fuller Grant the Thunder of our English Ordnance had scattered the Scottish Clâ—uds yet by the confession of the Animadvertor there must first be foul weather in England before there could be such fair weather to follow it The Skyes are alwayes dark and lowring even whilst the Thunder is Engendering therein Military preparations in order to a Conquest of the Scotts must needs give our Nation great troubles and for the time un-Sunshine England which is enough to secure my Expression from just exception Dr. Heylyn The Scots were then weak unprovided of all Necessaries not above three thousand compleat Armes to be found amongst them The English on the other side making a formidable appearance gallantly Horst compleaty Armed and intermingled with the Choisest of the Nobility and Gentry in all the Nation Fuller I am much of the mind of the Animadvertor that there was a visible Disparity betwixt the two Armies and the Ods in the eye of flesh on the side of the English They were Gallantly Horst indeed whether in Reference to their Horses or Riders and the King pleasantly said It would make the Scots fight against them were it but to get their brave Cloaths Indeed the strength of the Scots consisted in their Reputation to be strong reported here by such as Friended them and the Scotch Lyon was not half so fierce as he was
painted unto us On the other side The greatest disadvantage to the English was their owne injurious Modesty observed alwayes to over-prize strangers above themselves being ignorant of their owne Strength and Valour in War because they had been so long accustomed to Peace In all this Paragraph the Animadvertor and the Author may go abrest in their Judgments and to prevent Quarrells the Animadvertor shall have the right Hand that they do not justle one the other Dr. Heylyn And had the Scots been once broken and their Country wasted which had been the easiest thing in the World for the English Army c. Fuller This is consonant to what He hath written of the same Subject in the Short view of the Life and Reign of King Charls that the King set forth against the Scots accompanied with such an Army of Lords and Gentlemen as might ASSURE him of a cheap and easie VICTORY His Majesty I am sure had as it became a good Christian a more modest and moderate apprehension of his owne Army such as might give him pregnant Hopes but no ASSURANCE of Victory I never heard of an ASSURANCE-Office for the successe of Battels But all this is written by the Animadvertor like an Historian but not like a Doctor in Divinity This mindeth me of a Passage of King Henry the Second who standing on the Cliffes about St. David's in Wales and there viewing Ireland I with my Ships am able saith he to make a Bridge over it if it be no further Which speech of his being related to Murchard King of Lemster in Ireland he demanded if he added not to his speech with the Grace of God When it was answered that he made no mention of God Then said he more cheerfully I feare him the lesse which trusteth more to Himselfe then to the Help of GOD. When the Animadvertor tells us that it had been the easiest thing in the world for the English to have broken the Scots Army I must tell him here was one thing in the world easier namely the inserting of these words by God's Ordinary blessing or something to that purpose Otherwise we know who it was that said that the race is not to the Swift nor the battell to the Strong neither yet bread to the Wise nor yet riches to men of Understanding nor yet favours to men of Skill time and chance happeneth to them all Time was when the Animadvertor did needlessely Lavish a GOD-BLESSE God blesse not onely our Historian but Baronius himselfe from being held an Author of no * Credit He that then spent it when he should have spared it spares it now when he should have spent it Dr Heylyn The Scots had been utterly disabled from creating Trouble to their King disturbances in their owne Church and destruction to England So true is that of the wise Historian Conatus subditorum irritos imperia semper promovêre the Insurrections of the People when they are supprest do alwayes make the King stronger and the Subjects weaker Fuller All this proceeds as the former on the Supposition that the English had beaten the Scots which though in the eye of flesh probable was uncertain The Latines and English have the same word MOMENTUM MOMENT which signifieth as Time of the least Continuance so matters of most Concernment to shew that the Scales of Successe which God alone holds in his Hand are so ticklish that the MOTE of a MOMENT may turne them on either side which is the reason why no man can positively conclude of future Contingencies Dr. Heylyn The Sermon ended we chose Dr. Stewart Dean of Chicester Prolocutor and the next day of Sitting We met at Westminister in the Chappell of King Henry the Seventh Had it not been for these and some other passages of this Nature our Author might have lost the Honour of being took notice of for one of the Clerks of the Convocation and one not of the lowest forme but passing for some of those wise men who began to be fearfull of themselves and to be jealous of that power by which they were enabled to make new Canons How so Because it was feared by the Iudicious himself still for one lest the Convocation whose power of medling with Church-matters had been bridled up for many yeares before should now enabled with such Power over-act their Parts especially in such dangerous and discontented times as it after followeth Wisely fore-seen But then why did not WEE that is to say our Author and the rest of those Wise and Iudicious Persons fore-warne their weak and unadvised Brethren of the present danger or rather Why did they go along with the rest for company and follow thâ—se who had before out-run the Canons by their additionall Conformity Fuller Dear Honour indeed Honos Onus for which I was fin'd with the Rest of my Brethren two hundred Pounds by the House of Commons though not put to pay it partly because it never passed the House of Lords partly because they thought it needlesse to shave their Haire whose Heads they meant to cut-off I meane they were so Charitable as not to make them pay a Fine whose Place in Cathedralls they intended not long after to take away I insert the word WE not to credit my self but to confirm the Reader relations from an eye and ear-witness meeting with the best belief Such insinuations of the Writer being present at the actions he writeth of want not precedents in holy and profane Authors Hence it is collected that St. Luke accompanied St. Paul in his dangerous voyage to Rome Act. 27.37 WE were all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls Let the Animadvertor lay what load he pleaseth on me whose back is broad and big enough to bear it but O let him spare my worthy friends some now glorious Saints in Heaven Bishop Westfield Dr. Holmsworth and some of the highest repute still alive whom I forbear to name It comforteth me not a little that God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to conâ—ound the wise Dr. Heylyn How wise the rest were I am not able to say But certainly our Author shew'd himself no wiser than Waltham's Calf who ran nine mile to suck a Bull and came home athirst as the Proverb saith His running unto Oxford which cost him as much in seventeen weeks as he had spent in Cambridge in seventeen years was but a second sally to the first Knight-Errantry Fuller I can patiently comport with the Animadvertor's Ieers which I behold as so many Frogs that it is pretty and pleasing to see them hop and skip about having not much harm in them but I cannot abide his Railings which are like to Toads swelling with venom within them Any one may rail who is bred but in BILLINGS-GATE-COLLEDGE and I am sorry to hear such language from the Animadvertor a Doctor in Divinity seeing railing is as much beneath a Doctor as against Divinity When Dr. Turner a Physitian
lawfull and undoubted Soveraign Liege Lady and Queen Add unto these the Testimony of Sir Edward Cook though a private person who in his Book of the Jurisdiction of Courts published by order of the long Parliament chap. 1. doth exprâ—sly say That the Parliament consists of the Head and Body that the Head is the King that the Body are the three Estates viz. the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons In which words we have not onely the opinion and testimony of that learned Lawyer but the Authority of the long Parliament also though against it selfe Those aged Bishops had been but little studied in their owne concernments and betray'd their Rights if any of them did acknowledge any such mistake in challenging to themselves the name and priviledges of the third Estate Fuller In this long discourse the Animadvertor hath given in the severall Particulars whereof I in my Church-History gave the Totall summe when saying that there were passages in the old Statutes which did countenance the Bishops sitting in Parliament in the Capacity of a THIRD ESTATE I have nothing to returne in Opposition and heartily wish that his Arguments to use the Sea-man's phrase may prove stanche and tight to hold water when some Common-Lawyer shall examine them But seeing the Animadvertor hath with his commendable paines goâ— so farre in this point I could wish he had gon a little further even to answer the two Common Objections against the THIRD-ESTATE SHIP of Bishops The First is this The Bishop not to speak of Bishops Suffragan of the Isle of Man is a Bishop for all purposes and intents of Jurisdiction and ordination yet hath he no place in Parliament because not holding per In egram Baroniam by an Intire Barony Now if Bishops sat in Parliament as a THIRD-ESTATE and not as so many Barons why hath not the Bishop of Man being in the Province of York a place in Parliament as well as the rest Secondly If the Bishops sit as a THIRD-ESTATE then Statutes made without them are manâ— and defective which in law will not be allowed seeing there were some Sessions of Parliament wherein Statutes did passe Excluso Clero at least wise Absente Clero which notwithstanding are acknowledged Obligatory to our Nation I also request him when his Hand is in to satisfie the Objection taken from a passage in the Parliament at Northampton under Henry the Second when the Bishops challenged their Peerage viz. Non sedemus hîc Episcopi sed Barones Nos Barones vos Barones Pares hîc sumus We sit not here as Bishops but as Barons We are Barons You are Barons here we are peers which is much inforced by Anti-Episcopists And whereas the Animadvertor translated it not as Bishops onely it is more then questionable that this interpolation ONLY will not be admitted by such who have a mind curiously to examine the matter I protest my integrity herein that I have not started these Objections of my selfe having had them urged against me and though I can give a bungling Answer unto them I desire that the Animadvertor being better skill'd in Law would be pleased if it ever comes again in his way to returne an Answer as short and clear as the Objections are and I and many more will be bound to returne him thanks Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 196. The Conâ—ocation now not sitting and matters of Religion being brought under the cognizance of the Parliament their Wisdoms adjudged it not onely convenient but necessary that some prime Clergy men might be consulted with It seems then that the setting up of the new Assembly consisting of certain Lords and Gentlemen and two or more Divines out of every County must be ascrib'd to the not sitting of the Convocation Whereas if that had been the reason the Convocation should have been first warned to re-assemble with liberty and safe conducts given them c. Fuller The Animadvertor now enters the list with the WISDOMS in Parliament who are most able to justifie their owne Act. Mean time my folly may stand by in silence unconcerned to return any Answer Dr. Heylyn Fol. 198. It savours something oâ— a Prelaticall Spirit to be offended about Precedency I see our Author is no Changeling Primus ad extremum similis sibi the very same at last as he was at the first Certainly if it savour of a Prelaticall Spirit to contend about Precedencies that Spirit by some â—ythagorean Metempsychosis hath passed into the bodies of the Presbyterians whose pride had swell'd them in conceit above Kings and Princes and thus cometh home to our Author c. Fuller If it cometh home unto me I will endeavour God-willing to thrust it far from me by avoiding the odious sin of Pride And I hope the Presbyterians will herein make a reall and practicall refutation of this note in Evidencing more Humility hereafter seasonably remembring they are grafted on the Stock of the Bishops and are concerned not to be high-minded but feare lest if God spared not Episcopacy for what sins I am not to enquire peaceably possessed above a Thousand years of Power in the Church of England take heed that he spare not Presbytery also which is but a Probationer on its good behaviour especially if by their insolence they offend God and disoblige our Nation the generality whereof is not over-fond of their Goâ—ernment Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 203. We listen not to their fancy who have reckoned the words in the Covenant six hundred sixty six c. I must confesse my selfe not to be so much a Pythagorean as to find Divinity in Numbers nor am taken with such Mysteries as some fancy in them And yet I cannot chuse but say that the Number of Six hundred sixty six words neither more nor less which are found in the Covenant though they conclude nothing yet they signifie something Our Author cannot chuse but know what pains were taken even in the times of Irenaeus to find out Antichrist by this number Some thinking then that they had found it in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with reference to the persecuting Roman Emperours Some Protestants think that they had found it in a Dedication to Pope Paul the fifth which was Paulo V to Vice-Deo the numerall letters whereof that is to say D.C.L.V.V.V.I. amount exactly unto six hundred sixty six which is the Number of the Beast in Revelation The Papists on the other side find it in the name of Luther but in what language or how speld I remember not And therefore whosoever he was which made this Observation upon the Covenant he deserves more to be commended for his wit then condemned for his idlenesse Fuller The Animadvertor might herein have allowed me the Liberty of Preterition a familiar figure in all Authors managed by them with Taceo praetermitto transeo we passe by listen not c. when relating things Either Parva of small moment Nota generally known Ingrata unwelcome to many Readers Under which of
in truth must be confessed viz. That some of the ejected Clergy were guilty of foul offences to whom and whom alone the name of Baal and unsavory Salt did relate Nor was it a wonder if amongst Ten Thousand and more some were guilty of Scandalous enormities This being laid down and yeilded to the violence of the times I wrought my selfe by degrees as much as I durst to insert what followeth in vindication of many others rigorously cast out for following in their affections their preceding Iudgements and Consciences and no scandall could justly be charged upon them pleading for them as ensueth Church-History Book 11. pag. 207. 1. The witnesses against them were seldome deposed on Oath but their bare complaints believed 2. Many of the Complainers were factious People those most accusing their Sermons who least heard them and who since have deserted the Church as hating the profession of the Ministry 3. Many were charged with delivering false Doctrines whose Posiâ—ioâ—s were found at the least disputable Such those accused for Preaching that Baptism washeth away Originall Sin which the most learned and honest in the Assembly in some sense will not deny namely that in the Children of God it cleanseth the condemning and finall peaceable commanding power of Originall Sin though the stain and blemish thereof doth still remain 4. Some were meerly outed for their affections to the King's Cause and what was Malignity at London was Loyalty at Oxford 5. Yea many Moderate men of the opposite party much be moaned such severity that some Clergy men blamelesse for life and Orthodox for Doctrine were ejected onely on the account of their faithfullnesse to the King's cause And as much corruption was let out by this Ejection maâ—y scandalous Ministers deservedly punished so at the same time the Veins of the English Church were emptied of Much good blood some inoffensive Pastors which hath made her Body Hydropicall ever since ill humours succeeding in the room by reason of too large and suddain evacuation This being written by me some ten in the Paroxâ—sm of the Business and printed some four years since was as much as then I durst say for my Brethren without running my selfe into apparent danger If the Papists take advantage at what I have written I can wash my Hands I have given them no just occasion and I hope this my hust defence will prove satisfactory to the ingenuous That I did not designedly â—etract â—â—om any 〈◊〉 Brethren But if this my Plea finds no acceptance and if I must groan under so unjust an accusation I will endeavour to follow the Counsell of the Prophet I will beare the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him until He plead my Cause and execute Iudgment for me He will bring me forth to the Light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Dr. Heylyn But to say truth It is no wonder if he concurre with others in the Condemnation of particular persons since he concurrs with others in the condemnation of the Church it selfe For speaking of the separation made by Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye c. fol. 209. he professeth that he rather doth believe that the sinfull corruptions of the worship and Government of this Church taking hold on their Consciences and their inability to comport any longer therewith was rather the true cause of their deserting of their Country then that it was for Debt or Danger as Mr. Edwards in his Book had suggested of them What grounds Mr. Edwards had for his suggestion I enquire not now though coming from the Pen of one who was no friend unto the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England it might have met with greater credit in our Author For if these men be not allowed for witnesses against one another the Church would be in worse condition then the antient Borderers Amongst whom though the testimony of an English Man against a Scoâ— or of a Scoâ— against the English in matters of spoil and depredation could not find admittance yet a Scot's evidence against a Scâ—t was beyond exception Lege inter Limitaneos cautum ut nullus nisi Anglus in Anglum nullus nisi Scotus in Scoâ—um testis admitâ—atur as we read in Camden We see by this as by other passages which way our Author's Bowl is biassed how constantly he declares himselfe in favour of those who have either separated from the Church or appear'd against it Rather then such good people shall be thought to forsake the Land for Debt or Danger the Church shall be accus'd for laying the heavy burthen of Conformity upon their Consciences which neither they nor their fore-fathers the old English Puritans were resolved to bear For what else were those sinfull Corruptions of this Church in Goâ—erâ—ment and Worship which laid hold of their Consciences as our Author words it but the Government of the Church by Bishops the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church here by law establisht which yet must be allowed of by our Author as the more true and reall cause of their Separation then that which we find in Mr. Edwards Fuller I knew Mr. Edwards very well my contemporary in Queens Colledge who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagernesse of his spirit and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him especially being informed and assured the contrary from credible persons As for the five dissenting Members Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sympson Mr. Bridge Mr. Burroughs to whom Mr. Archer may be reduced they owed not eighteen pence a piece to any in England and carried over with them no contemptible summs in their purses As for Lay-Gentlemen and Merchants that went over with them such as peruse their names will be satisfied in their responsible yea plentifull Estates Sr. MATTHEW BOINTON Sr. WILLIAM CONSTABLE Sr. RICHARD SALTINGSTON Mr. LAWRENCE since Lord President of the Councill Mr. ANDREWES since Lord Major of London Mr. BOWRCHER Mr. ASK since a Judge Mr. JAMES Mr. WHITE And although the last of these failed beyond the Seas a cacching Casually with great undertakings yet was he known to have a very great Estate at his going over Yea I am most credibly inform'd by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein that Mr. Herbert Palmer an Anti-Independent to the heighth being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some false-hoods in one sheet of his Gangrena proffered to have that sheet re-printed at his own cost but some intervening accident obstructed it Dr. Heylyn Nor can our Author save himselfe by his parenthesis in which he tells us that he uses their language onely For using it without check or censure he makes it his own as well as theirs and justifies them in the action which he should have condemn'd Fuller This is an Hypercriticism which I never heard of before and now do not believe In opposition whereunto I return that if a Writer doth slily weave another Author's words into his owne
but on this condition to have all the Land he sued for with the full profits thereof to a minute past and his own costs and charges to a farthing Such and no other agreement will the court of Rome condescend unto Dr. Heylyn But as our Author sayeth that many of the Arch-bishops Equals adjudged that designe of his to be impossible so I may say without making any such odious Comparisons that many of our Author's betters have thought otherwise of it Fuller Amongst which many of his Betters the Animadvertor undoubtedly is one of the Principal Be it so I will endeavour to be as good as I can and will not envy but honour my Betters whose number God increase Sure I am amongst these many of my Betters the difference betwixt us and the Papists is made never a whit the better there remaining still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though many may manifest much good wil to advance nothing hath taken Effect to compleate such a composition Dr. Heylyn It was the Petulancy of the Puritans on the one side and the pragmaticalness of 〈◊〉 Jesuits on the other side which made the breach wider than it was at 〈◊〉 first and had these hot Spirits on both sides been charmed a while moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equal tearms as vvould have laid a sure foundation for the peace of Christendome Fuller Let us behold the Originall breach betvvixt the Church of Rome and Us. I name the Church of Rome first because confident they caused it so that vve may say unto them Pharez The breach be upon them This breach vvas made before either Puritans or Iesuits ever appeared in England As the Animadvertor skill'd in their dates knovveth full vvell It is therefore suspitious that the Wound vvhich vvas made before these parties vvere in being vvill continue if both of them vvere extinct I behold the Colledge of Sorbonists in Paris as far from Jesuitical pragmaticalness and Dr. I. Cosens as one free from puritanical petulancy Yet though the said Doctor hath complyed vvith them so far as he could doe vvith Christian prudence salâ—â conscientiâ And though the Sorbonists are beheld as the most learned and moderate Papists yet I cannot hear of any Accommodation betvvixt them but rather the contrary even in the point of the Apocrypha a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor they being as unvvilling to allovv so few as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical And here let me be the Animadvertor's Remembrancer of vvhat perchance he vvould vvillingly forget hovv it vvas not long since he tvvitted me for saying that the difference about the posture of the Communion Table might be accommodated vvith mutual moderation and novv he holdeth By the same means an expedient betvvixt us and the Papists may be advanced Dr. Heylyn Moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equall termes as would have laid a sure foundation for the Peace of Christendome Fuller My name is Thomas It maketh me the more distrust thereof because I see at this day most cruel Wars betwixt the Crowns of Spain and France both which agree to the heighth in the same Romish Religion I am sorry their differences are paralleled with a sadder instance of the deadly Wars betwixt the Swede and Dane both Lutherans alike And our Sea Wars betwixt us and the Hollander both wel paied for are not yet forgotten All I collect is this that if the agreement betwixt us and Papists were expedited to morrow yet so long as there be severall Greatnesses in Christendome there will be â—â—stlings betwixt them And although they are pleased to score their differences for the greater credit on the account of Conscience and Religion yet what saith St. Iames From whence comes Warres and fightings amongst you Come they not hence even of your Lusts that war in your members And it is a sad truth Such the corruption of the humane Nature that Mens Lives and Lusts will last and end together Dr. Heylyn Now that all these in the Church of Rome are not so stiffely wedded to their own Opinions as our Author makes them appears first by the Testimony of the Archbishop of Spaâ—ato declaring in the high Commission a little before his going hence that He acknowledged the Articles of the Church of England to be true or profitable at the least and none of them Heretical Fuller The Animadvertor hath instanced in an ill Person and in an ill time of the same Person It was just when he was a taking his return to his vomit and to leave the Land When knowing himselfe obnoxious and justly under the lash for his covetous compliance with forreign Invitations of King Iames to get leave to be gone he would say any thing here and unsay it againe elsewhere As little heed is to be given to such a Proteus as hold is to be taken of Him Dr. Heylyn It appears secondly by a Tractate of Franciscus de Sancta Clara as he calleth himself in which he putteth such a Glosse upon the nine and thirty Articles of the Church of England as rendreth them not inconsistent with the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Fuller By that Parenthesis as he calleth himselfe it is left suspitious that his true Name was otherwise And he who would not use his own but a false Name might for ought I know put a false Glosse upon our Articles and though he PUTTETH such a sense upon them it is questionable whether our Articles will accept thereof To PUT something upon sometimes answers to the Latin Word IMPONERE which is to deceive and delude and sometimes is Equivalent to our English Word IMPOSE which soundeth the forceable or fraudulent Obtruding of a thing against the Will and Mind of Him or That whereon it is imposed Lastly the Animadvertor cannot warrant us that the rest of the Church of Rome will consent to the Iudgement of Franciscus de Sancta Clara and if not then is the breach betwixt us left as wide as it was before Dr. Heylyn And if without Prejudice to the Truth the Controversies might have been composed it is most probable that other Protestant Churches would have sued by their Agents to be included in the Peace Fuller The Animadvertor's Prudent and Politick Probability that other Protestant Churches would by their Agents sollicite an Inclusion into such a peace mindeth me of the Distich wrot on the sumptuous Cradle gorgiously trimmed for the Child of Queen Mary by Philip King of Spain Quam Mariae Sobolem Deus Optime Summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege O may the Child to Mary God hath given For ENGLANDS good be guarded safe by Heaven Whereas indeed this Child pretended at White-hall may be said born at Nonsuch proving nothing but a Mock-mother-Tympany I cannot but commend the kindnesse and care of the Animadvertor for keeping this Babe when born I mean the agreement betwixt Us and the Papists But let us behold it born see
it first affected and then we shall know whether forreign Protestant Churches will dandle this Infant or destroy it I mean whether they will declare for or Protest and remonstrate against it It will be time enough then for both our Survivor to return an answer Dr. Heylyn If not the Church of England had lost nothing by it as being HATED by the Calvinists and not lov'd by the Lutherans Fuller Short and sharp much matter in few Words and little Truth in much Matter Our Church of England in Relation to forraign Protestant Churches is here by the Animadvertor represented in a strange posture like another Ishmael whose hand was against every one and every one 's against Him That our Church is not HATED by the Calvinists appears by many and plain passages in the Books of those who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seeming Pillars amongst them Calvin Beza Zanchy Deodat Mollinaeus c. who notwithstanding some small differences betwixt us lovingly give us the Right hand of Fellowship The Animadvertor discovers himselfe as little States-man as Divine in advising the Church of England by making Foes of her Friends to make Friends of her Foes by incurring the Enmity of forreign Protestants thereby to procure the Amity of Papists The best is there is no danger to see that day The poor Woman in the Gospel was troubled with a double Issue the one of Blood the Life in her Body and the other of Money the Life-blood of her Estate but the latter was quickly stanched having spent all her Living on Physitians to no purpose Thus successelesse have their pains proved hitherto who have endeavoured an accommodation betwixt us and Rome so that the Wound betwixt us may justly be beheld as incurable Dr. Heylyn But our Author will not here delist so soon hath he forgotten his own Rule made in the case of Mr. Love and therefore mustereth up his faults viz. 1. Passion though an humane frailty 2. His Severity to his Predecessor easing him before his time and against his Will of his jurisdiction 3. His over-medling in State-matters 4. His imposing of the Scottish Liturgy Of all which we have spoke so much upon other Occasions that is to say Numb 246.251.289.259 and therefore do not count it necessary to adde any thing here Fuller I shall God willing remember and practise my Rule in the Case of Mr. Love when the Animadvertor I sear will be sound to have forgotten it here are four faulâ—s of the Arch-bishop mustered up by me and is it not a thin Muster indeed When a Gentleman was told that he would be much ashamed if all his faults were written in his forehead he in my Mind modestly and wittily replyed that he should be right glad that his Face could hold them all Happy is that man whose faults may be reduced to the number of Four I have in my Reply to the forecited pages of the Animadvertor returned my answer unto them and therefore to use his language account it unnecessary to adde any thing here I have done no wrong to the Arch-bishop's Memory if I have charged him with four â—aults and to overpoize them have given him many Commendations in several places of my Book which here I will sum up to confute that Loud and late Untruth of the Animadvertor when saying Page 218. Our Author gives us nothing of this PRELATE but his WANTS and WEAKNESSES The Praise I gave him is reducible to four heads NATURALLS or Corporalls about his Body or Person MORALS or Civills touching his demeanor to others INTELLECTUALLS whether Innate or Acquisite by his own Industry SPIRITUALLS or Supernaturalls to which his Benefactions as the fruit of a Lively Faith are reduced NATURALLS 1. Nephew to a Lord Major of LONDON therefore not basely Born page two hundred and sixteen Paragraph 71. 2. Chearfull in countenance Page 119. paragraph 84. 3. A sharpe and pierceing eye Ibidem 4. Gravity and quicknesse were well compounded in his Face Ibidem 5. So chearfull his Countenance when ascending the Scaffold as rather to gain a Crown than lose his Head page 215. paragr 68. MORALLS 6. He was temperate in his dyet pag. 218. parag 78. 7. Chaste in his Conversation ibid. 8. Plaine in his Apparrel ibid. paragr 79. 9. Not preferring his owne Kindred without merit ib. pa. 80. 10. Promoting Men of Learning and Abilyties ibid. 11. Covetousnesse he perfectly hated ibid. parag 81. 12. Had no project to raise a Name or Family ibid. 13. Abridged Courtiers Bribes pag. 218. paragr 76. 14. But not their Fees for Church Preferments ibid. 15. Not ambitious as appears by his refusing a CARDINALL'S CAâ— once and again offered him page 149. paragr 47. INTELLECTUALLS 16. He had a cleare Iudgement pag. 119. paragr 84. 17. Of a firme Memory ibid. 18. One of the greatest Schollars of our Nation page 216. par 71. 19. Having an Experimentall knowledge of all conditions of Clergy-men page 217. par 72. SPIRITUALLS 20. A strict Observer of the Lords-day in his own Person pag. 147. para 38. 21. Moderate in pressing the Book of sports in his owne Diocese ibid. par 41. 22. A worthy Instrument in moving King Charles to so pious a Work as the restoring of the Irish Impropriations pag. 149. paragr 45. Thus I did vvrite in his due praise as much as I durst and though lesse then his Friends expected more than I am thanked for All I vvill adde is this seeing his Head vvas cut off by the â—xe it had been madnesse in me to run my Neck into the Halter in taxing those of cruelty and unjustice vvhich caused his Execution Dr. Heylyn And so I leave him to his Rest in the BOSOME OF ABRAHAM in the LAND OF THE LIVING Fuller Bosome of Abraham is a Scripture-Expression to signifie the repose of the souls of such Saints vvho departed this life before the asscention of our Saviour into Heaven Where ever the bosome of Abraham be it is good to be there and hence it is frequently used by the Fathers to denote the happy condition even of such vvhich departed in the Faith since Christs ascention Quicquid illud est saith St. Augustine quod illo significatur sinu ibi Nebridius meus vivit dulcis amicus meus For the main it is a Synonymon vvith Heaven and probably all the persons therein are receptive of a higher degree of Glory after the Day of Iudgement LAND OF THE LIVING is an Old Testament-Phrase vvhich some narrow-breasted Commentators have confin'd to Temporal Happinesse but importeth much more in my Opinion even final Felicity as may appear by David his Expression I had fainted unlesse I had beleeved to see the goodness of the Lord in the LAND OF THE LIVING I have stay'd the longer in the Stating of these two Expressions that I may the more safely and sincerely concurre as I do with the Animadvertor's charity in the final Estate of this Prelate with whose Memory my Pen here
Bill of Charges the Church paid the reckoning the Dominican Fryer who translated it being rewarded with a Benefice and a good Prebend as the Bishop himselfe did signifie by letter to the Duke of Buckingham Fuller I have been credibly informed by those who have best cause to know it That it was done not onely by his procurement but at his Cost Though I deny not but that a benefice might be conferred on the Fryer in reward of his paines Thus far I am assured by such as saw it That the Bishop who had more skill in the Spanish then his policy would publiquely own did with his owne hand correct every sheet therein Dr. Heylyn And as for the printing of the book I cannot think that it was at his charges neither but at the charges of the Printer it not being usuall to give the Printer money and the copy too Fuller The Animadvertor so well practised in printing knowes full well That though i◠be usuall to give Money and Copies too for a saleable book which being Printed in our owne tongue is every mans Money yet a Spanish Book printed in England is chargeable meeting with few buyers because few understanders thereof Dr. Heylyn And Thirdly Taking it for granted that the Liturgy was translated and printed at this Bishop's charges yet does not this prove him to be so great an honourer of it as our Author makes him For had he been indeed a true honourer of the English Liturgy he would have been a more diligent attendant on it than he shewed himself never repairing to the Church at Westminster whereof he was Dean from the 18. of February 1635. when the businesse of the great Pew was judged against him till his Commitment to the Tower in Iuly 1637. Fuller One reason why he seldome came to Prayers to Westminster Church was because he was permitted but little to live there after he fell into the King's displeasure being often sent away the day after he came thither On the same token that once Sr. Iohn Cook being sent unto him to command him to avoid the Deanery Mr. Secretary said the Bishop what Authority have you to command a Man out of his owne House Which wrought so much on the old Knight that he was not quiet till he had gotten his owne pardon Dr. Heylyn Nor ever going to the Chappell of the Tower where he was a Prisoner to attend the Divine Service of the Church or receive the Sacrament from Iuly 1637. when he was committed to November 1640. when he was enlarged A very strong Argument that he was no such Honourer of the English Liturgy as is here pretended A Liturgy most highly esteemed in all places wheresoever it came and never so much vilified despis'd condemn'd as amongst our selves and those amongst our selves who did so vilifie and despise it by none more countenanced then by him who is here said to be so great an Honourer o◠it Fuller Though for reasons best known to himselfe he went not to Prayers in the Tower Chappell yet was he his own Chaplain to read them in his own Chamber And let me add this memorable passage thereunto During his durance in the Tower there was a Kinsman of Sr. William Balforés then Lieutenant a Scotish man and his name Mr. Melvin too who being mortally sick sent for Bishop Williams to pray with him The Bishop read to him the Visitation of the sick having fore-acquainted this dying man That there was a form of Absolution in this Prayer if he thought fit to receive it Wherewith Mr. Melvin was not onely well satisfied but got himselfe up as well as he could on his knees in the bed and in that posture received Absolution Dr Heylyn But for this Blow our Author hath his Buckler ready telling us Ibid. Not out of Sympathy to Non-conformists but Antipathy to Arch-bishop Laud he was favourable to some select Persons of that Opinion An Action somewhat like to that of the Earl of Kildare who being accused before Henry the Eighth for burning the Cathedrall Church of Cassiles in Ireland profess'd ingeniously That he would never have burnt the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Hate to that Bishop an Arch-Bishop of Ireland incited that mad Earl to burn his Cathedrall Church And hate to Bishop Laud the Primate and Metropolitan of all England stir'd up this Bishop to raise a more unquenchable Combustion in the Church of England So that we may affirm of him as Tertullian in another case of the Primitive Christians viz. Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum But are we sure that he was favourable to the Non-Conformists out of an antipathy to Bishop Laud onely I believe not so His antipathy to the King did as strongly byass him that way as any thing else For which I have the Testimony of the Author of the History of King Charls publisht 1656. who telleth us of him That being malevolently inclin'd about the losse of the great Seal c. Fuller I will not advocate for all the actions of Bishop Williams and though the Animadvertor beholds my pen as over-partiall unto him yet I know who it was that wrote unto me Semper es iniquior in Archiepiscopum Eboracensem I am a true honourer of his many excellent virtues and no excuser of his Faults who could heartily wish That the latter part of his Life had been like the beginning thereof Dr. Heylyn And so I take my leave of this great Prelate whom I both reverence for his Place and honour for his Parts as much as any And yet I cannot choose but say that I find more reason to condemn then there is to commend him so that we may affirm of him as the Historian doth of Cajus Caesar Son of Agrippa and Nephew to the great Augustus viz. Tam variè se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficiat as my Author hath it And with the same Character accommodated to our Author and this present History I conclude these Notes subjoyning onely this old Saying as well for my comfort as defence viz. Truth though it may be blam'd can never be sham'd Fuller Here the Animadvertor doth Tickle and Pinch me both together yet neither will I laugh nor cry but keep my former composure I will take no notice of a piece of MEZENTISM in his joyning of the Dead and Living together and conceive my selfe far unworthy to be parallel'd in the least degree with his Eminences However I will endeavour with the Gladiators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honestè decumbere that when I can fight no longer I may fall handsomely in the Scene of this Life May God who gave it have the glory of what is good in me my selfe the shame of what is bad which I ought to labour to amend To the Reverend and his Worthy Friend Dr. Iohn Cosin Dean of Peter-burgh SIR You may be pleased to remember
that some two years since being informed by our friend Mr. Davenport that you took some exceptions at what I had written concerning you in my Church-History I returned you an Answer to this Effect That I would make you just reparation either in the next Edition of my History or in another Book which I was about to set forth Of the Worthies of England choosing therein the most proper and conspicuous place which might render it most visible to the Reader This last Book had since been printed had not the unhappy difference between Dr. Heylyn and me retarded it What I wrote concerning your Accusation in the House of Commons I transcribed out of the Manuscript journalls of that House As for your purgation in the House of Lords I knew not thereof which maketh such my omssion the more excusable I am now right glad that you did so clearly vindicate your innocence In my next Edition I will do you all possile right with improvement that my Pen can perform as also God Willing when I come to treat in my intended Book of the Cathedrall of Durham In the mean time joyning with Hundreds more of my Profession in thanks to you for your worthy Work on the Apocrypha and desiring the Continuation and increase of Gods blessing on your studies who do abide the Champion for our Religion in forraign parts know that amongst your many honourers you have none more affectionate than Your humble Servant Thomas Fuller To the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly placed in the front of a Book but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof If you have had the Leisure and Patience to peruse this Book you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed and I do as heartily wish as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee I must now accost thee in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell CONSULT CONSIDER and GIVE SENTENCE Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor please thine owne Conscience though thou displeasest us and adjudge in thy selfe where neither of Us where both of Us where one of Us which one of Us is in the right Onely this I will add for my Comfort and thy better Confidence in reading my Book that according to the received Rule in Law Exceptio firmat Regulam in non-Exceptis it followeth proportionably that Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis And if so by the Tacite Consent of my Adversary himselfe all other passages in my Book are allowed Sound and True save these few which fall under his reproof and how justly I submit my Cause to thy Censure and thy Person to Gods keeping remaining Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller Cranford Moate-House To my Loving Friend Doctor Peter Heylyn I Hope Sir that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us And now as Duellers when they are Both out of breath may stand still and Parley before they have a Second passe let us in cold Blood exchange a Word and mean time let us depose at least suspend our Animosities Death hath crept into both our Clay-Cottages through the Windows your Eyes being Bad mine not Good God mend them both And Sanctifie unto us these Monitors of Mortality and however it fareth with our Corporeall sight send our Souls that Collyrium and Heavenly Eye-salve mentioned in Scripture But indeed Sir I conceive our Time Pains and Parts may be better expended to Gods Glory and the Churches Good than in these needlesse Contentions Why should Peter fall out with Thomas both being Disciples to the same Lord and Master I assure you Sir whatever you conceive to the contrary I am Cordiall to the cause of the English Church and my Hoary Haâ—res will go down to the Grave in sorrow for her Sufferings You well remember the passage in Homer how wise Nestor bemoaned the unhappy difference betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O gods how great the grief of Greece the while And Priams selfe and Sons do sweetly smile Yea all the Trojan party swell with Laughter That Greeks with Greeks fall out and fight to Slaughter Let me therefore tender unto you an Expedient in Tendency to our mutuall Agreement You know full well Sir how in Heraldry two Lioncells Rampant endorsed are said to be the Embleme of two Valiant Men keeping appointment and meeting in the Field but either forbidden fight by their Prince or departing on Tearms of Equallity agreed betwixt themselves Whereupon turning Back to Back neither Conquerors nor Conquered they depart the Field severall wayes their Stout Stomacks not suffering them both to go the same way left it be accounted an Iâ—jury one to precede the other In like manner I know you disdain to allow me your Equall in this Controversie betwixt us and I will not allow you my Superiour To prevent future Troâ—ble let it be a Drawn Battle and let both of us abound in our owne sense severally perswaded in the Truth of what we have written Thus parting and going out Back to Back here to cut off all Contest about Precedency I hope we shall meet in Heaven Face to Face hereafter In Order whereunto God Willing I will give you a meeting when and where you shall be pleased to appoint that we who have Tilted Pens may shake Hands together St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou mightest receive him for ever To avoid exceptions you shall be the good Philemon I the fugitive Onesimus Wâ—o knoweth but that God in his providence permitted yea ordered this difference to happen betwixt us not onely to occasion a reconciliation but to consolidate a mutuall friendship betwixt us during our Lives and that the surviver in Gods pleasure onely to appoint may make favourable and respectfull mention of him who goeth first to his grave The desire of him who remaines SIR A Lover of your Parts and an Honourer of your Person THO. FULLER FINIS To Dr. Cornelius Burges SIR I could have wished that in your book entituled a Case concerning the buying of Bishops Lands with the lawfullnesse thereof c. you had forborn this following expression against me Part. 1. pag. 7. As that flashy jeering Author of the late published History of the Church upon hear-say onely and out of Resolution calumniari fortiter hath falsely reported him Let us go back to the occasion of these words When Dr. Hacket May the 11th 1641. made a Speech in behalfe of the Deans and Chapters of England for the preventing of the alienation of their Lands and revenues you returned an Answer thereunto and about the conclusive Result thereof is our present contest Dr. Burges You say you onely concluded those things unalienable from the Church
by Parsons to die a Jew ¶ 38. his bones burnt by Card. Poole p. 135. ¶ 54. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE paramount for Martyrs b. 5. p. 163. ¶ 2. Dr. Cernelius BURGES his speech against Deans and Chapters b. 11. p. 179. ¶ 73 74. Henry BURTON his character b. 14. p. 152. ¶ 59. cause of disconsent ¶ 60. degradea p. 143. ¶ 68. his words on the Pillory ¶ 69 70. brought back from Exile in Triumph p. 172. ¶ 32. C. Jack CADE his rebellion b. 4. p. 186. ¶ 22. CADOCUS his discreet devotion C. 6. ¶ 7. CADVVALLADER last K. of VVaks foundeth at Rome a Hospitall for the VVelch C. 7. ¶ 104. since injuriously taken from them ¶ 105. CAIUS Colledge in Cambridge founded by Dr. Caius Hist. of Camb. p. 133. ¶ 45. who bestowed good Lands building statutes Name and Armes thereon ¶ 46 47 c. fruitfull with famous Physicians ¶ 52. CAMBRAY a Nunnery therein founded for English women by the Spanish Ambassadour b. 6. p. 363. CAMBRIDGE reported to have received divers privileges from King Lucius C. 2. ¶ 12. her Christian Students reported slain by the Pagan Britans C. 4. ¶ 9. persecuted to the dissolution of the University by Pelagius C. 5. ¶ 2. reputed first founded by King Sâ—gebert C. 7. ¶ 46. Arguments to the contrary answered ¶ .47 c. called Schola which was in that Age the same with an Academy ¶ 54. restored by King Edward the Elder C. 10. ¶ 6 7. mistaken by John Rouâ—e for the founder thereof ¶ 8. renounceth the Popes supremacy in a publick instrument Hist. of Camb. p. 106. ¶ 50. the first generall visitation thereof jure Regio Hist. of Camb. p. 109. ¶ 55. King Henry his Injunctions thereunto p. 112. ¶ 56. Edmund CAMPIAN sent over by the Pope to pervert England B. 9. p. 114. ¶ 41. his journall letter p. 115 116 117. catch'd by secretary Walsingham ibid. falsly pretends to be cruelly racked p. 117. ¶ 117. ¶ 2. is at last executed CANONS made in the last Convocation with the c. Oath therein b. 11. p. 168 169. severall opinions about them p. 171. Mr. Maynard his speech against them p. 180. ¶ 77. the Clergy are judged in a Praemunire for making them ¶ 78. King CANUTUS his cruelty C. 11. ¶ 5. conversion and charity ibidem c. Jo. CAPON Bishop of Salisbury a cruell persecuter under Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 5. the bane of his Bishoprick b. 9. ¶ 21. Nic. CARR his Epitaph Hist. of Camb. p. 141. George CARLTON Bishop of Landaf sent by K. James to the Synod of Dort B. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. dieth Bishop of Chichester b. 11. ¶ 67. CARMELITES their first coming into England p. 271. ¶ 18. great priviledges ¶ 19. most carefull keepers of the Records of their order ¶ 20. a Catalogue of their Provincials p. 272. their first coming to Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 20. ¶ 5. where they would not commence Doctors and why ibid. till Humphry Necton first brake the ice ¶ 6. learned writers of their order which were Cambridge-men Hist. Camb. p. 30. ¶ 27. CARTHUSIAN Monks b. 6. p. 269. ¶ 9. Tho. CARTWRIGHT presents his admonition to the Parliament b. 9. p. 102. ¶ 5. bandying betwixt him and Dr. Whitgift ¶ 6 7. examined in the high Commission on 29. Articles b. 9. p. 198 c. sent to the Fleet for refusing to answer p. 203. discharged the Star-Chamber by favour of Arch-bishop Whitgift p. 204. ¶ 31. groweth rich at Warwick b. 10. ¶ 7. and very moderate ¶ 8. The reasons thereof ibid. His character ¶ 9. dedicates a Book to King James ¶ 18. His strange infirmity and death ¶ 19. his first cause of discontentment Hist. of Camb. p. 139. ¶ 2. clasheth with Dr. Whitgift p. 140. ¶ 3. by whom he is summoned p 141. and banished the University p. 142. John CASE Dr. of Physick b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 45. the great favour done by the University to his Scholars at Oxford ibidem CAURSINES what they were b. 3. p. 59. ¶ 6. the form of their cruell Obligations p. 60. with some notes thereon ibidem why they were called Caursines p. 61. ¶ 8. St. CEDDE his difference from St. Chad C. 7. ¶ 84. St. CHAD his difference from St. Cedde C. 7. ¶ 84. teacheth Wulfade the Christian faith ¶ 86. CHANTEREYES given to the King b. 6. p. 250. ¶ 3. what they were ¶ 5. Fourty seven founded in St. Pauls Church in London p. 351 352 c. vast though uncertain their number in England p. 354. ¶ 18. Free CHAPPELS given to the King b. 6. p. 354. ¶ 15. King CHARLES his solemn coronation b. 11. ¶ 19 c. restoreth Impropriations of Ireland to the Church p. 149. ¶ 45. unwillingly consenteth to the taking away of Bishops votes in Parliament p. 195. ¶ 29 and 30. his severall papers in the Isle of Wight in defence of Episcopacie p. 230 231 c. his death which endeth the eleventh Book CHARLES eldest Son to Kâ—ng Charles hâ—s short life b. 11. p 135. ¶ 1. an excellent Tetrastâ—ck on his death ¶ 2. CHARTER-HOUSE founded by Mr. Sutton b. 10. p. 65. in some respect exceeding the Annuntiata at Naples p. 66. ¶ 21. Thomas CHASE cruelly martyred b. 5. p. 164. ¶ 3. Geffery CHAWCER the famous Poet b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 46. his Parentage Armes and praise p. 152. ¶ 47 48. his enmity to Friers ¶ 49. Student sometimes in Cambridge Hist. Camb. p. 52. ¶ 38. as also in Oxford ibidem CHEALSEY Colledge a large dâ—scourse of the foundation thereof b. 10. p. 51 52 53 c. Sr. J. CHEEK Tutour to King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 422. ¶ 12. restored to health by King Edward's prayers p. 424. ¶ 13. A prime Exile in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 24. his sad return into England ¶ 30. orally recanteth ¶ 31. and dyeth for the grief thereof ibidem vindicated from slandring and mistaking Pens in his Parentage Parts and Posterity ¶ 32. Henry CHICHELEY Arch-bishop of Canterbury foundeth All-Souls Colledge b. 4. p. 181. ¶ 10. soberly returneth a tart jear p. 182. ¶ 11. saveth Abbies by sending King Henry the fifth into France b. 6. p. 205. ¶ 5. CHRIST-CHURCH in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 28 c. confirmed by King Henry the eighth ¶ 30. the Deans Bishops Benefactours c. thereof ¶ 32. John CHRISTOPHERSON Bishop of Chichester a learned man but great persecuter under Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 8. CHRISTS COLLEDGE founded by Margaret Countesse of Darby Hist. of Camb. p. 90. ¶ 55. endowed it with richlands ¶ 56. augmented by King Edward the sixth p. 91. ¶ 7. Their numerous worthies of this foundation ¶ 9. CIRCUMSPECTE AGATIS the form thereof b. 3. p. 79. ¶ 15. both a statute a writ grounded thereon p. 80. a large discourse of the severall branches thereof p. 81 82 83. CISTERTIANS being refined Benedictines b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. exempted by
Pope Adrian the fourth from paying of Tithes and why p. 283. ¶ 4. their freedome somewhat confined by the Lateran Councell ¶ 5. CLARE HALL founded by Elizabeth Countesse of Clare Hist. of Camb. p. 37. ¶ 41. The Masters Benefactours Bishops c. thereof ibidem anciently called Soler Hall p. 38. ¶ 44. ruinous and lately re-edified ¶ 45. Four hundred pounds worth of timber reported taken from it in these troublesome times which the Authour of this Book will not believe ibid. CLAUDIA mentioned by St. Paul 2. Tim. 4.21 probably a British Convert C. 1. ¶ 9. notwithstanding Parsons his Cavils to the contrary ¶ 10. CLUNIACK Monks being reformed Benedictines b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. Elianor COBHAM Dutchess of Glocester accused for a Sorceress by some made a Confessour by M. Fox b. 4. p. 171 c. COIFY a Pagan Priest his remarkable speech C. 7. ¶ 41. COLCHESTER claimeth Constantine to be born therein C. 4. ¶ 18. Augustinean Monks had there their prime residence b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 6. COLLEDGES not in the Universities but for superstitious uses given to the King b. 6. p. 350. ¶ 3 4 5. John COLLET Dean of St. Pauls b. 5. p. 167. ¶ 13. soundeth Pauls School ¶ 14. making the Mercers overseers thereof ¶ 15. out of provident prescience ¶ 16. Tho. COMBER Master of Trinity Colledge in Camb. highly commended by Morinus History of Camb. p. 123. ¶ 20. High COMMISSION arguments for and against it b. 9. p. 183. CONSTANTINE the first Christian Emperour proved a Britan by bâ—rth C. 4. ¶ 15. tâ—e obiections to the contrary answered ¶ 16. richly endoweth the Church ¶ 19. CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS the Roman Emperour and though no Christian a favourer of them C. 4. ¶ 12. buried at York and not in Wales as Florilegus will have it ¶ 13. CONVENTICLE the true meaning thereof b. 9. p. 102. ¶ 4. CONVENTS some generall conformities used in them all b. 6. p. 287 c. CONVOCATIONS three severall sorts of them b. 5. p. 190 191. they complain of erroneous opinions p. 209 210 c. CORPUS CHRISTI COL in Camb. See Bennet Colledge CORPUS CHRISTI COLL. in Oxford founded by Bishop Fox b. 5. p. 166. ¶ 11. called the Colledge of three Languages ibid. the worthies thereof ibid. Masse quickly set up therein in the first of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 8. ¶ 10 11. Dr. John COSEN charged with superstition his due praise b. 11. p. 173. ¶ 34 c. The Scotish COVENANT the form thereof b. 11. p. 201. ¶ 13 c. exceptions to the Preface and six Articles therein 203 204 205 206. never taken by the Authour of this Book p. 206. ¶ 30. Will. COURTNEY Bishop of London his contests about Wickliffe with the Duke of Lancaster b. 4. ¶ 135. ¶ 19. Arch-bishop of Canterbury p. 142. ¶ 24. COURTS SPIRITUALL began in the Reign of King William the first when severed from the Sherifs Courts b. 3. ¶ 10. Their contesting with the Common Law how to be reconciled ¶ 11. Richard COX Dean of Christs Church accused t is hoped unjustly for cancelling Manuscripts in Oxford Library b. 7. p. 392. ¶ 19 20. flies to Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary b. 8. p. 30. ¶ 3. where he headeth a strong party in defence of the English Liturgie p. 31 32. made Bishop of Ely b. 9. p. 63. his death and Epitaph p. 111. ¶ 34. Thomas CRANMER employed by King Henry to the Pope b. 5. p. 179. ¶ 9. to prove the unlawfulnesse of the Kings marriage ¶ 18. thence sent into Germany ¶ 22. made Arch-bishop of Canterbury against his will ¶ 27. defended against the cavils of Papists and Mr. Prin ¶ 28 c. his death b. 8. p. 203. ¶ 32. CREKELADE or GREEKLADE an ancient place where Greek was professed C. 9. ¶ 29. CROWLAND Monks massacred by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 19. Thomas CROMWELL first known to the World for defending his Mr. Card. Wolsey b. 5. p. 177 ¶ 1. as the Kings Vicar in Spiritualibus presidenteth it in the Convocation p. 206. ¶ 21. falls into the Kâ—ngs dâ—spleasure p. 231. ¶ 20. deservedly envyed ¶ 11. his admâ—rable parts ¶ 22. with the History of his death c. ¶ 23 c. Chancellour of Cambridge Hist. of Cambridge p. 108. ¶ 53. Richard CROMWEL alias Williams Knâ—ghted for his valour at a solemn tilting b. 6. p. 370. ¶ 11. giveth a Diamond Râ—ng in his Crest on an honourable occasion ¶ 12. CUTHBERT Arch-bishop of Canterbury by the Kings leave first brings Bodyes to be buried in the Church b. 2. p. 103. ¶ 27. D. DANES their first arrivall in England B. 2. p. 103. ¶ 29. why their countrâ— â—ormerly so fruitfull is lately so barren of people ¶ 30 31 32. the sad Prognosticks of their coming hither ¶ 33. make an invasion into Lincolnshire C. 9. ¶ 18. massacre the Monks of Crowland C. 9. ¶ 19. and burn the Monastery of Medeshamsted ¶ 20 21. why their fury fell more on Convents then Castles C. 10. ¶ 48. after sixty years absence re-invade England ibidem A dear peace bought with them ¶ 50. to no purpose ¶ 52. their Royall line in England suddenly and strangely extinct C. 11. ¶ 10. no hostile appearance of them in England ¶ 13. Thomas L. DARCY beheaded B. 6. p. 313. ¶ 5. his Extraction vindicated from the causelesse Aspersion of King Henry the eighth page 324 325. John DAVENANT sent by King James to the Synod of Dort B. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. made Bishop of Salisbury B. 10. p. 91. ¶ 35. questioned for his Sermon at Court B. 11. p. 138. ¶ 14 15. relates all the passages thereof in a Letter to Dr. Ward ¶ 16. his opinion about the suspension of Bishop Goodman p. 170. ¶ 23. his death p. 176. ¶ 53. St. DAVID a great advancer of Monastick life C. 6. ¶ 4. one of his paramount Miracles ¶ 5. St. DAVIDS or Menevia in Wales once an Arch-bishoprick B. 3. p. 24. ¶ 25. contesteth with Canterâ—ury ibidem but is overpowered ¶ 26. DEANES and CHAPTERS defended in the House of Commons by an excellent speech of Doctour Hackets B. 11. p. 177 178 179. Edward DEERING his death and praise B. 9. p. 109. ¶ 22. Sr. Anth. DENNIE his extraction issue death and Epitaph Hist. of Walt. p. 12 13. DERVVIANUS sent by Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to King Lucius to instruct him in Christianity C. 2. ¶ 8. DEVONSHIRE commotion begun out of superstition heightned with cruelty supprest by Gods blessing on the valour of the Lord Russell B. 7. p. 393 394 c. The DIRECTORY compiled by the Assembly of Divines B. 11. p. 221. ¶ 1. commanded by the Parliament ¶ 6. forbidden by the King to be generally used ¶ 7. it and the Liturgy compared together p. 223 224. DISSENTING BRETHREN B. 11. ¶ 35 why departing the Land ¶ 36. kindly entertained in Holland ¶ 37. their chief ground-works ¶ 39 40. manner of Church-service ¶ 41. Schism betwixt
Monarchy p. 39. ¶ 6. dies unfortunate in his Family p. 40. ¶ 7. King HENRY the third under Tutours and Governers b. 3. p. 54. ¶ 24. by what he so quickly recovered his Kingdome ¶ 25. forbiddeth an appeal to the Pope for the triall of Bastardy b. 3. p. 58 59. troubled a long time with the animosityes of his Subjects p. 66. ¶ 33 c. reformeth his faults ¶ 38. his quiet death p. 73. ¶ 1 2. King HENRY the fourth gaineth the Crown by deposing King Richard b. 4. p. 152. ¶ 52 53. bloudy against poor Innocents p. 155. ¶ 1. subjecteth Oxford notwithstanding many Papal exemptions thereof to the visitation of the Arch-bish of Cant. p. 164 165. his death p. 166. ¶ 28. King HENRY the fifth whilest Prince engaged himself in a bitter Petition with the Bishops against the poor Lollards b. 4. p. 162 163. when king the prelates afraid of him p. 166. ¶ 31. divert his activity on the French ¶ 32. his death King HENRY the sixth his piety b. 4. ¶ 1. foundeth Eaton Colledge p. 183. looseth all in France p. 184. ¶ 15 16. foundeth Kings Coll. in Camb. Hist. of C. p. 73 conquered by K. Edward the 4. p. 190. ¶ 26. returneth out of Scotl. fighteth and is routed ¶ 29. afterward enlarged out of prison and made King p. 191. ¶ 31. reâ—mprisoned and murdered p. 3. worketh many miracles after his death p. 154. ¶ 25. yet could be made a Saint by the Pope and why ¶ 27. King HENRY the seventh his sixfold title to the Crown b. 4. p. 194. ¶ 15. his extraction p. 200. ¶ 18. retrencheth the exorbitances of sanctuaries ¶ 19. endeavoureth in vain to get King Henry the sixth Sainted p. 153. ¶ 23. and converteth a lollard and then burneth him p. 155. ¶ 31. foundeth the Savoy b. 5. p. 165. ¶ 4. his death ibidem King HENRY the eighth marrieth the relict of his Brother Arthur b. 5. p. 165. ¶ 6. writes against Luther p. 168. ¶ 21. therefore stiled Defender of the Faith ¶ 22. embraceth the Motion to be divorced p. 171. ¶ 38. troubles before it could be effected p. 172. c. owned supream Head of the Church p. 187. 48. justified in abolishing the Papal power in England p. 194 and 195. his large Will from p. 243. to 253. observations thereon p. 252 253. his disease and death p. 254. ¶ 61. vices and vertues 64. imperfect Monuments 65. Prince HENRY his death and excellent Epitaph b. 10. p. 67. ¶ 22. HERBERT the simoniacal Bishop of Norwich b. 3. p. 11. ¶ 33. Charles HERLE prolocutour in the Assembly b. 11. p. 213. ¶ 53. HILDA the worthy Abbesse C. 7. ¶ 90 93. a Miracle imputed unto her ¶ 94. Arthur HILDERSHAM his remarkable life and death b. 11. p. 142. ¶ 22 c. John HILTON Priest solemnly abjureth his blasphemous heresies before Arch-bishop Whitgift in the Convocation b. 9. p. 175. ¶ 27. Robert HOLCOT a great School-man his sudden death C. 14. p. 98. ¶ 21. John HOLYMAN Bishop of Bristol no persecutour in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 4. HOMILIES of two sorts b. 9. p. 74. ¶ 60. their use ¶ 62. authenticalnesse unjustly questioned ¶ 63. Rich. HOOKER his character b. 9. p. 214. ¶ 15. and p. 216. ¶ 53. clasheth with Mr. Travers about a point of Doct. and overpowreth him ¶ 55 56 c. commended by his Adversaries for his holinesse p. 217. ¶ 59. his death p. 235. ¶ 40. John HOOPER Bishop of Glocester the first founder of non-conformity in England b. 7. p. 42 43 44. c. much opposed by Bp. Ridley ibid. till fire and fagots made them friends p. 405. ¶ 29. Robert HORNE chosen Reader of Hebrew to the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. p. 31. ¶ 6. His contest with M. Ashley ¶ 11 12 13. stickleth there for the Old discipline ¶ 14 c. chose a Disputant in the conference at Westminster b. 9. ¶ 10. consecrated Bishop of Winchester ¶ 31. his Sute against Bonner p. 77. ¶ 1 2 c. superseded by a provisoe in Parliament ¶ 7. his death p. 111. ¶ 32. Ancient HOSTLES in Cambridge before any Colledges therein were built or endowed Hist. of Camb. p. 26 27. though fewer greater then those in Oxford p. 27. ¶ 21 22. Richard HUN martyr barbarously murthered b. 5. p. 166. ¶ 9. Mathew HUTTON Arch-bishop of Yorke by his letter concurreth with Lambeth Articles b. 9. pag. 230. his death b. 10. p. 38. ¶ 42. and meniorie rectified from a foule mistake ¶ 43. I. St. JAMES how mistaken to have preached in Britain Cent. 1. ¶ 8. KING JAMES b. 9. p. 5. ¶ 13. his speech at Hampton Court p. 8. and discreet carriage therein p. 9.10 c. writeth against the Pope p. 45. ¶ 58 against Vorstius p. 27. ¶ 5. his discourse with the legate ¶ 7. happy in discovery of Impostors p. 73. ¶ 56.57 his Sicknesse p. 113. ¶ 21. increased with a plaister ¶ 23. his faith and Charity at his death ¶ 25. his peaceableness Eloquence piercing wit Judgement bounty and Mercy p. 114. ¶ 27.28 c. His funerall Sermon preached by Bp. Williams b. 11. pag. 117. ¶ 3. Doctor JAMES his good motion in the convocation at Oxford b. 11. 12. Queen JANE SEYMOUR marryed to King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 208. ¶ 25. her letter on her delivery to the Lords of the Councell b. 6. p. 421. ¶ 11. her death p. 422. ibidem JESUATES how differing from JESUITES b. 6. p. 278. ¶ 45. JESUITES their beginning just when other orders in England were dissolved b. 6. p. 278. ¶ 43. best Butteresses in the Romish Church p. 279. ¶ 56. their policie ¶ 57. how in Engl. like the Astrologers in Rome ¶ 58. their bitter contentions with Secular Priests b. 9. p. 225 226. JESUITESSES a Viraginous Order I think extinct b. 6. p. 364. JESUS COLL. IN CAMBRIDGE founded by Bp. Alcock Hist. Camb. p. 84. ¶ 42 c. called the Bp. of Ely'es house p. 84. ¶ 46. The Masters Benefactors Bishops c. thereof p. 86. JESUS COLL. IN OXFORD founded by Hugh Price b. 9. p. 96. ¶ 28. the Principalls Bps. Benefactors c. thereof ibidem IMPROPRIATIONS endeavoured to be bought in by Feoffees b. 11. p. 136. ¶ 5 6. crushed by Archbishop Laud p. 143. ¶ 26. c. those in Ireland restored to the Clergie by the bounty of King Charles b. 11. p. 149. ¶ 45. INNES of Bishops or their severall Lodging-houses in London b. 3. p. 63. INNOVATIONS in doctrine and discipline complained of b. 11. p. 174 175. JOHN JEWELL draweth up the Gratulatory letter of Oxford to Queen Mary b. 8. ¶ 6. driven out of Corpus Christi Colledge ¶ 11. his great fall ¶ 15. seasonable and sincere recovery ¶ 17. Vice-Master of P. Martyrs Colledge at Strasbourg Sect. 3. ¶ 24. one of the disputants against the Papists at Westminster b. 9. ¶ 10. his reasons against the
Councill of Trent ¶ 42. his death and deserved praise p. 101. ¶ 1.2 JEWES first came over into England under William the Conquerour b. 3. p. 9. ¶ 44. highly favoured by W. Rufus ibid. had a chief Justicer over them p. 84. ¶ 33. a High priest or Presbyter ¶ 35. their griping usurie p. 85. ¶ 36 c. unfortunate at Feast and Frayes p. 86 ¶ 40. cruelly used by K. Henry the 3d. ¶ 43. Misdemeanours charged on them p. 87. ¶ 46 cast out of the land by K. Edward the first 47. though others say they craved leave to depart ibid. c. ILTUTUS abused by Monkish forgeries C. 6. ¶ 8. IMAGE-WORSHIP first setled by Synod in England C. 8. ¶ 9 10. injoyned point-blank to poore people to practice it b. 4. p. 150. ¶ 40. IN A King of the West-Saxons hâ—s Ecclesiasticall Laws C. 7. ¶ 106. he giveth Peter-Pence to the Pope C. 8. ¶ 13. INDEPENDENTS vide dissenting Brethren Sr. Fra. INGLEFIELD a Benefactour to the English Coll. at Valladolâ—t b. 9. p. 87. yea to all English Papists p. 108. ¶ 20. St. JOHNS COLLEDGE in Cambridge founded by the Lady Margaret Hist. of Cam. p. 94. ¶ 11. the Masters Bishops c. thereof p. 94 95. St. JOHNS COLL. Oxford founded by Sr. Tho. White b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 44. The Presidents Bishops Benefactours c. thereof ¶ 45. King JOHN receives a present from the Pope b. 3. p. 48. ¶ 4. returns him a stout answer 5. for which the whole Kingdome is interdicted p. 49. ¶ 6 7 c. his Innocency to the Popes injustice ¶ 9. by whom he is excommunicated by name ¶ 10. yet is blessed under his curse ¶ 11. his submission to the Pope p. 51. ¶ 13. resigning his Crown ibid his unworthy Embassey to the King of Morocco p. 53. ¶ 21. lamentable death ¶ 22. and character ¶ 23. JOSEPH of ARIMATHEA said to be sent into Britain C. 1. ¶ 11. his drossy History brought to the Touch ¶ 12. severall places assigned for his buriall ¶ 14. the Oratours of Spain in the councill of Basel endeavour to disprove the whole story b. 4. p. 180. ¶ 8. whose objections are easily answered p. 181. ¶ 9. IRELAND excludeth their own Articles and receiveth the 39 Articles of England b. 11. p. 149. ¶ 46. ITALIANS had in England seventy thousand Marks a year of Ecclesiasticall revenues b. 3. p. 65. ¶ 29. held the best livings and kept no Hospitalitie b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 17. William JUXON Bishop of London made Lord Treasurer b. 11. p. 150. ¶ 48. his commendable carriage ¶ 49. K. Q. KATHARINE de Valois disobeyeth her Husband b. 4. p. 170. ¶ 46. therefore never buried ¶ 47 48. Q. KATHARINE Dowager for politick ends married to King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 165. ¶ 6. on what score the match was first scrupled by the King p. 171. ¶ 36 37 c. her Speech p. 173. her character and death b. 5. p. 206. ¶ 19. KATHARINE HALL founded by Robert Woodlark Hist. of Camb. p. 83. ¶ 40. in strictnesse of Criticisme may be termed Aula bolla ¶ 41. KEBY a British Saint fixed in Anglesey C. 4. ¶ 25. KENT the Saxons Kingdome therein when beginning how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. first converted to Christianity by Augustine the Monk b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 11. the Petition of the Ministers of Kent against subscription b. 9. p. 144. KENULPHUS King of the West-Saxons his Charter granted to the Abbey of Abbington proving the power of Kings in that Age in Church matters b. 2. p. 101. ¶ 25. notwithstanding Persons his objections to the contrary ¶ 26. putteth down the Arch-bishoprick of Lichfield KETTS Robert and William their Rebellion b. 7. p. 339. ¶ 2. their execution p. 397. ¶ 15. The KINGS EVILL a large discourse of the cause and cure thereof C. 11. p. 145 146 147. John KING Dean of Christ-Church b. 5. p. 170. present at Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. when Bishop of London graveleth Legate the Arrian p. 62. ¶ 8. condemneth him for a Heretick p. 63. ¶ 10. his cleare carriage in a cause of great consequence p. 67. ¶ 24 25. his death p. 90. ¶ 31. and eminencies in defiance of Popish falshood ¶ 32.33 Henry KING made Bishop of Chichester b. 11. p. 194. KINGS HALL built by King Edward the third Hist of Camb. p. 39. ¶ 46. three eminences thereof ¶ 47. KINGS COLLEDGE founded by K. Henry the sixth Hist. of Camb. p. 73. John KNEWSTUBS minister of Cockfield in Suffolk b. 9. p. 135. ¶ 16. a meeting of Presbyterians at his house ibidem against conformities at Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. his exceptions propounded p. 16 and 17. shrewdly checkt by King James p. 20. a Benefactour to Saint Johns Colledge Hist. of Camb. p. 95. ¶ 15. KNIGHTS of the Garter their Institution qualifications habilliments Oath and orders by them observed how their places become vacant b. 3. p. 116. KNIGHTS anciently made by Abbots b. 3. p. 17 18. untill it was forbidden by Canon ibidem Mr. KNOT the Jesuit his causelesse Cavills at Mr. Sutton confuted b. 10. p. 65. ¶ 17 c. John KNOX chosen their minister by the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 1. opposed in his discipline by Dr. Cox ¶ 3 4. accused for treacherous speeches against the Emperour ¶ 5. forced to depart Frankford to the great grief of his party ibidem L. Arthur LAKE Bishop of Bath and Wells his death and character b. 11. ¶ 45. LAMBETH Articles by whom made b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 23. nine in number p. 230. various judgements of them p. 231. ¶ 24 c. LANCASTER and York houses the Battels betwixt them for the Crown Place Time number slain and Conquerour b. 4. p. 1â—6 and 187. LANCK-FRANCK made Arch-bishop of Canterbury b. 3. ¶ 4. most kindly treated by the Pope ¶ 17. to whom he acouseth Thomas elect of York and Remigius elect of Lincoln ¶ 18 19. his return and imployment ¶ 20. Hugh LATIMER a violent Papist History of Cambridge p. 102. ¶ 33. converted by Bilney ¶ 34. his Sermon of Cards p. 103. ¶ 38. preacheth before the Convocation b. 5. p. 207. ¶ 23. deprived of his Bishoprick of Worcester p. 231. ¶ 18. why he assumed it not again in the Reign of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 405. ¶ 28. his judgement of the contemners of common prayer p. 426. ¶ 17. William LAUD made Bishop of St. Davids b. 9. p. 90. ¶ 30. a great Benefactour to St. Johns in Oxford b. 8. p. 40. ¶ 45. accused by the Scotch for making their Liturgy b. 11. p. 163. prepares for his death b. 11. p. 215. ¶ 68. his Funerall speech and burial p. 216. ¶ 69 70. his birth breeding and character p. 216 217 218 219. LAURENTIUS Arch-bishop of Cant. reconcileth the British to the Romish Church in the Celebration of Easter C. 7. ¶ 27. intending to depart England is rebuked in a vision
years after p. 147. ¶ 43. PSALMS of David by whom translated into English meeter b. 7. p. 406. ¶ 31. the mean doing thereof endeavoured to be defended ¶ 32. PURGATORY not held in the Popish notion before the Conquest b. 2. p. â— how maintained in the Mungrell Religion under King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 223. a merry Vision thereof b. 4. p. 107. PURITANS when the word first began in that odious sense b. 9. ¶ 67. vide Non-conformists The Arch-bishop of Spalato the first who abused the word to signifie the Defenders of matters Doctrinall Conformable Puritans by whom complained of b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 31. Q. QUEENS COLL. in Oxford founded by R. Eglesfield b. 3. p. 114 115. QUEENS COLL. in Cambridge founded by Q. Margaret History of Cambridge p. 80. ¶ 31. finished by Q. Elizabeth wife to King Edward the fourth ¶ 33. The Masters Benefactours Bishops ibidem R. READING a pleasant story between the Abbot thereof and King Henry the eighth b. 6. p. 299. ¶ 12 13. RECUSANTS for Papists when the name in England first began b. 9. p. 98. ¶ 29. Our REFORMATION under King Henry the eighth cleared from the aspersion of Schisme b. 5. p. 194 and 195. William REGINALD or Reinolds a zealous Papist his death and character b. 9. p. 224. ¶ 12. John REINOLDS against Conformity in Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7 8 9 c. his death p. 47. ¶ 3. admirable parts and piety p 48. ¶ 5. desireth absolution at his death ¶ 6. RELICTS their abominable superstition and Forgery b. 6. p. 331. ¶ 10 11 c. RENT-CORN by statute reserved to Colledges History of Cambridge p. 144. ¶ 6. procured by Sr. Tho. Smith ¶ 7. to the great profit of both Universities ¶ 8. R. Lord RICH his servants sad mistake b. 7. p. 408. ¶ 40. which cost his master the losse of his Chancellours place ¶ 41. King RICHARD the first endeavoureth to expiate his undutifulnesse by superstition b 3. p. 40. ¶ 8. dearly ransomed p. 44. ¶ 28 29. made better by affliction p. 45. ¶ 30. his death burial and Epitaph ¶ 32 c. King RICHARD the second b. 4. p. 137. ¶ 12. his loose life p. 152. ¶ 51. conspired against by Duke Henry ¶ 52. forced to depose himself or be deposed p. 153. ¶ 53. his death ibid. King RICHARD the third his pompous double Coronation b. 4. p. 196. ¶ 4. barbarously murthered his brothers Sons ¶ 5. endeavoureth in vain to be Popular p. 197. ¶ 6 and 7. unjustly commended by a Modern Writer ¶ 8. beaten and killed in the Battel of Bosworth p. 194. ¶ 14. RIPPON Collegiat Church endowed by King James b. 10. p. 29. ¶ 16. their Land since twice sold ¶ 17. John ROGERS prime Patron of Non-conformity b. 7. p. 402. martyred b. 8. p. 23. ¶ 32. Thomas ROGERS writeth on the Articles of the Church of England b. 9. p. 172. ¶ 22. first opposeth the opinion of the Sabbatarians bitterly enough p. 228. ¶ 22. ROME COLLEDGE for English fugitives b. 9. p. 86. The ROODE what is was and why placed betwixt the Church and Chancell History of Walt. p. 16. in the first item S. The SABBATH the strict keeping thereof revived by Doctour Bound b. 9. p. 227. ¶ 20. learned men divided therein p. 228. ¶ 21 c. liberty given thereon by King James his Proclamation in Lancashire b. 10. p. 74. ¶ 58 59. reasons pro and con whether the same might lawfully be read p. 74. ¶ 56. ministers more frighted then hurt therein p. 76. ¶ 62. no reading of it enforced on them ibidem controversie revived in the Reign of King Charles b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 13 c. SAINTS Numerous and noble amongst the Saxons C. 8. ¶ 6. ridiâ—uously assigned by Papists to the Curing of sundry diseases and patronage of sundry professions b. 6. p. 33. ¶ 13. SAMPSON an ancient British Bishop made fine Tiâ—ulo C. 6. ¶ 9. Thomas SAMPSON Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford the first that I find outed his place for Puritanisme b. 9. p. 77. ¶ 72. Edwin SANDYS Bishop of Worcester b. 9. p. 63. ¶ 31. Arch-bishop of York his death p. 197. ¶ 25. his Sermon before the Duke of Northumberland at Cambridge Hist. of Camâ— p. 131. ¶ 40. his ill usage for the same ¶ 43. SARDIS some representation of the British at the Generall Councill kept therein C. 4. ¶ 20. SARUM secundum usum thereof its originall and occasion b. 3. ¶ 23. William SAWTREE b. 4 p. 156. Articles against him ibidem degraded p. 157. ¶ 5. and the first man burnt for his Religion p. 158. SAXONS the first mention of them in Brit. C. 5. ¶ 9. unadvisedly invited over by King Vortiger ¶ 16. erect seven Kingdomes in Britain ¶ 17. The rabble of their Idols C. 6. ¶ 6. willfully accessorie to their own ruine by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 17. SCHISME unjustly charged on the English Church in their Reformation and returned on Rome b. 5. p. 194. and 195 SCHOOL-MEN nine eminent all of England most of Merton Colledge C. 14. p. 94 95. their needlesse difficulties p. 98. ¶ 24. barbarous Latine ¶ 25. divisions in judgement ¶ 26. why their Learning lesse used in after ages ¶ 28. SCOTLAND challenged by the Pope as his peculiar C. 14. ¶ 1. stoutly denied by the English ¶ 2. SCOTCH Liturgie the whole story thereof b. 11. p. 160. ¶ 95 c. John SCOTUS Erigena his birth-place C. 9. ¶ 32 33 34. miserably murthered by his Scholars ¶ 35. unmartyred by Baronius ¶ 36. causlesly confounded with Duns Scotus ¶ 37. John DUNS SCOTUS why so called C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 19. his birth claimed by three Kingdomes ibidem SEATER a Saxon Idol his shape and Office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. SECULAR Priests their contesting with Monks C. 8. p. 133 134. John SELDEN setteth forth his Book against Tithes b. 10. p. 70. ¶ 39 40. puzleth the Assembly of Divines with his queries b. 11. p. 213. ¶ 54. Richard SENHOUSE preacheth King Charles his Coronation and his own funerall b. 11. ¶ 18. Edward SEIMOUR Duke of Somerset Lord Protectour b. 7. p. 372. ¶ 3. his tripartite accusation p. 407. ¶ 36. imprisoned yet restored p. 408. ¶ 38. afterwards impeached of Treason ¶ 42. and executed p. 409. ¶ 43. unjustly saith a good Authour ¶ 44. though King Edward was possessed of his guiltiness as appeareth by his letter ibidem his character and commendation p. 410. ¶ 45. SIDNEY SUSSEX Colledge founded Hist. of Camb. p. 153. ¶ 23 c. SIGEBERT King of the East-Angles his Religion and Learning C. 7. ¶ 45. reputed founder of the University of Camb. ¶ 46. the Cavils to the contrary answered ¶ 49 c. SIGEBERT the pious King of the East-Saxons C. 7. ¶ 81. SIMON ZELOTES made by Dorotheus to preach in Britain C. 1. ¶ 8. SIVIL COLLEDGE in Spain for English fugitives b. 9. p. 88. Mr. SMARTâ—ernted â—ernted proto-Martyr of England b. 11.
Colledge TRINITY COLL. in Cambridge founded by King Henry the eighth Hist. of Cambridge p. 121. ¶ 17. enriched by Queen Mary p. 122. ¶ 18. and enlarged by Dr. Nevile ¶ 19. the Masters Bâ—shops Benefactours c. thereof ibidem States-men Divines Criticks p. 123. ¶ 20. James TURBER VILL Bishop of Exeter no active persecutor b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 2. findeth fair usage after his deprivation b. 9. ¶ 19. TURNAMENTS their ill effects History of Camb. p. 11. ¶ 39. forbidden within five mile of Camb. ¶ 40 c. Wat TYLER his rebellion b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 18 c. parallelled with Judas of Galilee p. 140. ¶ 21. the Wicklivites defended from having any hand in causing his Rebellion p. 141. ¶ 23. see Jack Straw William TYNDAL his story at large b. 5. p. 224 225. TUYSC a Saxon Idol his shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. William TWISSE prolocutor in the Assembly b. 11. p. 199. ¶ 4. his death p. 213. ¶ 53. V. VALLADOLIT COLL. in Spain for English fugitives b. 9. p. 87. Richard VAUGHAN Bishop of London his death b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 11. Master UDAL King James his letter for him b. 9. p. 203. ¶ 30. arraigned and condemned p. 221. ¶ 1. Richard VINES his argument at Vxbridge treaty to prove the sufficiency of ordination by Presbyters b. 11. p. 215. ¶ 65. Polydore VIRGIL Collector of Peter-Pence in England b. 5. p. 198. ¶ 51. Benefactour to the Church of Wells malefactour to the Church of England ¶ 52 53. Eight forrain UNIVERSITIES conclude it unlawfull to marry a Brothers Wife b. 5. p 183. ¶ 19. UNIVERSITY COLL. in Oxon founded by King Alfred C. 9. ¶ 30. the maintenance paid out of the Kings Exchequer ¶ 38. exhibitions allowed to the Scholars thereof why detained by William the Conqueror b. 3. ¶ 16. re-founded and endowed p. UNIVERSITY Hall in Cambridge founded by Richard Badew Hist. of Cam. p. 37. ¶ 40. burnt down ibidem see Clare Hall Conradus VORSTIUS his dangerous opinions b. 10. p. 60. opposed by King James p. 61. in his letter to the States ¶ 3 c. K. VORTIGER his incestuous match condemned by Germanus C. 5. ¶ 13. calleth in the Saxons ¶ 16. burning in lust is burnt to Ashes ¶ 27. URSULA her fabulous Martyrdome at Colen with 11000. Virgins attending her confuted C. 5. ¶ 21. USURPERS how far they are to be obeyed in the case of King Stephen b. 3. p. 25 26 27. UXBRIDGE treaty the fruitlesse fruits thereof b. 11. p. 214. ¶ 61. Conference about Church-matters therein ¶ 63. c. W. WADHAM COLLEDGE in Oxford founded by Nicholas Wadham b. 10. p. 68. ¶ 29 30. Peter of WAKEFIELD prophesied against K. John b. 3. p. 50. ¶ 12. hanged p. 52. ¶ 16. whether justly or unjustly disputed ibidem WALTHAM ABBEY why so named Hist. of Walt. p. 5. ¶ 2. the scituation thereof ¶ 3. excused for its bad aire p. 6. ¶ 1. the Town first founded by one Tovy ¶ 2. but Abby by Earle Harold ¶ 4. refounded by King Henry the second p. 7. Nicholas abbot of WALTHAM most eminent Hist. of Wal. p. 20. toward the end John de WALTHAM keeper of the privy seale to K. Richard the second Hist. of Wal. p. 30. near the end Roger de WALTHAM a great Scholar Hist. of Wal. p. 20. at the bottome William WARHAM Arch-bishop of Canterbury his death and character b. 5. p. 184 ¶ 26. John WARNER Bishop of Rochester chosen to sollicite the Bps. cause when charged with a premunire b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 7. pleadeth stoutly for their votes in Parliament p. 194. ¶ 25. William WATSON a Secular Priest his notorious railing against the Jesuites b. 10. ¶ 5 6. his Treason against K. James ¶ 14. and silly plea at his Execution ¶ 17. WEASEL the English Exiles under Q. Mary why quickly removing thence b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. WELCH two grand mistakes therein b. 11. p. 170. ¶ 21. committed to Welch Bps. to amend it ibidem WESTMINSTER pretends to a Massacre of primitive Monks therein Cent. 4. ¶ 9. a Church therein built by Edward the Confessor said to be consecrated by St. Peter himself C. 11. ¶ 22. five alterations in St. Peters therein within 30. yeares b. 9. p. 70. ¶ 43. Herbert WESTPHALING Bishop of Hereford sâ—â—dome seen to laugh b. 10. ¶ 10. WEST-SAXONS their Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. William WHITACRE Master of St. Johns in Camb. kindly resents are proofe from one of the fellowes Hist of Camb. p. 97. ¶ 18. his sicknesse and death p. 151. ¶ 18. his sad solemn funerall ¶ 19. John WHITE swalloweth Simony to get the Bishoprick of Winchester b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 42. preacheth a satyricall yet flattering Sermon at the Funeralls of Q. Mary ¶ 52. stirred against Q. Eliz. b. 9. ¶ 17. Sr. THO. WHITE Lord Maior of London foundeth St. Ionns Colledge in Ox. b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 44. Iohn WHITGIFT Dr. of D. after much clashing with Mr. Cartwright Hist. of Camb. p. 140. expelleth hâ—m ibid. his Letters when Archb. of Cant. to the L. Burleigh and other Lords in defence of Conformity â— 9. p. 145. c. his death b. 10. p 25. ¶ 2. just defence against the exceptions of Mr Pâ—in ¶ 2 3 4 c. William WHITTINGHAM head of the English non-conformists at Frankford b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 7. with whom he departeth to Geneva ¶ 10. a fierce Non-conformist though Dean of Durham in the beginning of Q. Eliz. b. 9. ¶ 71. John WICKLIFF his parentage learning and opinions b. 4. p. 130. ¶ 3. c. marvelously spread and why p. 142. ¶ 25. his quiet death ¶ 26. Richard WIGHTWICK an eminem Benefactor to Pembrook Colledge in Oxford b. 11. ¶ 41. Edward WIGHTMAN burnt for a Heretick b. 10. p. 64. ¶ 13. WILFRIDE a Champion for the Romish Easter C. 7. ¶ 90. his prevailing argument ¶ 91. envyed by Theodorus Arch-bishop ¶ 97. converteth the South-Saxons ¶ 98 c. persecuted by King Alfride C. 8. ¶ 1. appealeth to Rome ¶ 2. dyeth ¶ 3. WILLIAM the first conquereth King Harold in sight C. 11. ¶ 40. rebateth his conquering sword with composition ¶ 41. calleth a Synod of his Bishops at Winchester b. 3. ¶ 4. is civill to the Pope ¶ 5. yet so as he is true to his own interest ¶ 6. refuseth to do fealty to Pope Gregory the seventh ¶ 7 8. suffers none of his Barons to be excommunicated without his consent ¶ 9. divides the jurisdiction of the Bishops from the Sheriffs ¶ 10 11. quits the Crown by Conquest but kept it by composition ¶ 13. his death and buriall ¶ 25. WILLIAM Rufus crowned b. 11. p. 10. ¶ 27. his covetuousness ¶ 28 29. contests with Anselme p. 11. ¶ 3. John WILLIAMS Bishop of Lincoln made Lord keeper b. 10. p. 89. ¶ 24 25 c. preacheth King James his funerall Sermon b. 11. ¶ 3. exceptions thereat ¶ 4. excluded attendance at the