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Ad nobilem Britannium, or, An abstract for Englands royall peeres by W. Turner.
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Turner, William, d. 1568.
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1641
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Wing T3342; ESTC R27030
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Ad Nobilem Britannium OR AN ABSTRACT FOR ENGLANDS Royall Peeres By that worthie Gentleman M. W. Turner D. of Physicke Printed in the Yeare 1641. TO TO THE RIGHT HONORABE AND TRVELY NOBLE THE DVKES AND EARLES OF THE KINGDOME OF ENGLAND c. IT were Right Mighty Princes a thing worthy the moving of the High and Honorable assembly of Parliament to grant this licence that all Dukes Earles Lords Barons Knights and their right begotten Sonnes might have authoritie whensoever they saw any startup which could not spend two Hundred pounds a yeare of his own truely gotten lands wearing silke velvet or any Golden Chaine to carry this Crowe to the next Market Towne and there to pull his feathers that is to cut his cloathes all to peeces to take his chaine frō him and take the one halfe thereof himselfe and give the other halfe to the poore of the Towne Elizabeth the Countesse of East Freseland when she was certified that a certaine Yeamons wife had guarded her gowne with a broad guard of velvet she sent her officers unto her and caused them to cut all her guards in peeces and condemned her in a great some of money for her pride Mee thinkes you doe very ill to suffer every man that listeth to come into your livery apparrell fellowship and orders and refuse no man whatsoever hee bee Birds of a feather fly together beasts of a kind flocke together fishes of a sort swimme together onely the Nobility of England suffer all kindes of men to come into their order and livery Every company will receive none into their company but such as are of their company If a man put a Priests cap upon a sowes head and a tippet about her neck and set her up against a stall in Cheapeside and give her huskes to eate would not all the whole order of Sacrificers bee angry with him that cloathed the sow so If a man should shave an ape in the crowne and set a miter upon his head and put a rocket upon him would not the Bishops be displeased with him that did so But Oh ye Nobles doe not ye suffer Dicers and Carders and all kind of vnthrifts not onely to goe in Gentlemens apparrell but also receive them into your houses ye suffer also a sort of false Apostles to take your honour from you and to be your Lords and Masters and to occupy your offices which should belong onely unto your order and dignity is not this as it were a kinde of leprosie in your faces to be thus defaced and shamed by these crafty foxes These false named Bishops and Prelates become Embassadors or at least beare a great hand in it Also presidents Iustices of peace and some full Lordly sit at Sises and Sessions amongst temporall Iudges leaving their owne Courts to some single sir Iohn or to some blind Briber sometimes they are Councellors of State Knights of the Garter yea to be the High Chauncellor of England and president of the Councell aboue all the Lords Wee reade in Iosephus that the Nobility of the Jewes suffering them to partake with them in their office in the end became both Priests Kings and had all the Nobility under their girdle And thus it is at this day with the Bishops of Rome And if you saw but how they use heare to handle the Clargie in their Convocation House you would say that they were the Popes right shapen sonnes for whereas their sitteth seven or eight linnen wearing Bishops If there be fortie Pastors and Elders that are wolwearers yet in the coldest weather whilest they stand there before them they must stand bareheaded bee they never so old or sickley Is this pride to be suffered by this you may see how they would handle you if they could get the upper hand over you thus was it with the Bishops of Mense the Bishop of Wormes and the Bishop of Collen came impudently to Henry the fourth Emperour of that name tooke his Crowne from of his head And Anno Dom. 1260. two Canons under the Bishops bad the Governour of Colen to dinner and brought him to a faire Chamber wherein was an hungry Lyon and shut him in but the Governour whom God preserved put his left hand into the Lyons throate and with the other hand tooke out his dagger slew the Lyon and within few dayes after hanged up the two Canons as they well deserved The Bishop of Luke Anno Dom. 1460. would not heare of any mercy though the Citty petitioned for Peace but he caused his cosen Charles to kill 40000 men and to drowne 12000 women in the flood Mosa And in Jermany they made this rime of their Bishops tyrany Monkes Nunnes and Papes Goates Rats and Apes Flies Catterpillers and Mise Whores wivelesse and Lice Where they get the upper hand They destroy both Citty and Land And it may easily be perceived what an ambitious minde they beare amongst us and how they would gladly Raigne over you if they could effect it The only remedy therfore is to drive these idle ambitious Bishops home to their studies to cause them to preach Gods Word to the people cōmitted to their charge To make good and honest Civilians Scripture-learned honest men Lawyers no Priests to be Knights Lords Councellors Iustices of Peace Chancellors c. And to take your offices upon you to doe them your selves But hold in no case the Bishops from their Pulpits least the vengance of God fall both on you and them upon you for holding of them from doing of their duty upon them for not doing of their duty if yee drive these falsely named Lords and Gentlemen out of your order and company will doe your offices and duties in your owne persons as Almighty God would have you to do then shall ye have just honour in this world and in the world to come life everlasting FINIS