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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

fidelium Eleemosyuls reaedificare non segniter insudaret Fernotus miles Dominus de Bosworth dictum manerium de Northburt datum fuisse de progenitoribus ejus monasterio sanctae Pegae monachis ibidem Deo servientibus ex Abbatis propriis chirographis patenter ostendit Unde consequenter allegavit quod cum Deo sanctae Pegae Abbas Wulgatus monachi sui à modo ibidem non servirent dictum manerium à modo non haberent Acceptatum est hoc à Regis justitiario confestim adjudicatum est dictum manerium de Northburt cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedicto militi Fernoto tanquam jus suum haereditarium de monachis Ecclesiae sanctae Pegae alienatum perpetuò sublatum Quod cum per universum Regnum citius fuisset cognitum scilicet Abbatem de Peikirk prius amisisse monasterium suum consequenter manerium ad monasterium quondam pertinens similiter Edmerus miles Dominus de Holbrok calumniam movit contra eundem Abbatem monachos suos de manerio suo de Makley Horsingus de Wathe calumniatus est pro manerio suo de Badington Siwardus Comes de manerio suo de Bernack Hugolonus thesaurarius de manerio de Helieston alii plures de aliis maneriis dicto monasterio dudum pertinentibus omnes eadem ratione in dicta causa contra monachos obtinuerunt tam de maneriis quam de monasterio suo dictus Abbas de Peikirk monachi sui nequiter ac crudeliter ejecti sunt ut nunquam alicui veniat damnum solum Cum itaque Abbas Wulgatus conventus suus monachi scilicet 18. sic de monasterio destituti vagabundi in proximo dispergendi in omnem ventum pro extrema miseria fluctuarent misertus eorum piissimus rex Edwardus omnes in suam curiam suscepit usquequo eis provideret suam capellam ac aulam quotidie frequentare imperavit If then Lands formerly dedicated to God and Monasterial Churches may thus be taken away and recovered from them by Law without sacriledge or injustice they may by like reason upon most occasions be alienated and taken from them by the King Parliament and Temporal Lords Gualther Mapes and Mr. Cambden out of him inform us that in King Edward the Confessors reign Godwin Earl of Kent having a design to gain the Manor of Barkley in Gloucester-shire to himself belonging to a Nunnery there situated where the Castle now stands passing by the Nonnery left his Nephew a very beautifull and elegant young man in the Nunnery who lodged therein so long under pretext of sickness that with his costly Gifts Beauty and Courtship he so far corrupted the chastity of the Abbesse and Nuns who attended him by turns that he begat and left them all great with childe and turned these lambs into Wolves After which posting thence to Earl Godwin and acquainting him therewith he thereupon informing the King that the Abbesse and all the Nuns were pr●stituted Strumpets and great with Childe the King issued a Commission to enquire thereof and finding it to be true the Nuns were cast out and the Manor given to Earl Godwin who begged it of the King from whom it came to the Barons of Barkly who have enjoyed it as the Head of their Barony for any Generations without any Sacriledge or Impiety By the Common law of England our Kings in all Ages by their Prerogative Royal in times of war danger and upon sundry other occasions have seised the Lands Benefices Rents Revenues Monies Goods of Priors Abbots Monks and other Ecclesiastical Persons who were aliens to their own uses without Sacriledge or Impiety as is evident by the Fine Rolls of 23 E. 1. m. 1 2. claus 23 E. 1. dors 4. cl 24 E. 1. m. 11. claus 25 E. 1. dors 12 20 22. claus 20 E. 2. dors 9. Rot. Fin. 20 E. 2. m. 9. Rot. Fin. 14 E. 3. m. 11 12 18 19 20 c. cl 15 l● 3. pars 3. dors 6. Rot Fin. 16 E. 3. m. 26. cl 19 E. 3. pars 1. m. 17. Rot. Fin. ●3 E. 3. m. 26. and sundry other 〈◊〉 and Cla●s● Roll in t●● Tower ●y sundry Parliament l●o●ls and our l●●w●ooks too And upon the Commons Petition in the Parliament of 2. H. 4. the Prior aliens Lands we●e not only ●ei●ed into the Kings hands but likewise sold and ahea●red into Lay-mens hands to maintain the wars against the French and Welshmen To pre●e●mit all particular seisu●es alienations sale substractions of Abbots Priors Monasteries and Religions Persons Lands mentioned in our Histories and Record the respective Parliaments of 27 H. 8. 31 H. 8. c. 1● 37 H. 8. c. ●1 E. c. 14 by several Acts collected by Rastall Title Monasteryes upon Mr. Fish his supplication of Beggars several Petitions and Complaints of the Commons and Inquisition taken upon oath and returned into the Exchequer of the Sodomitical adulterous incontinent vitious lives of Abbots Monks Nuns and other religious Persons remaining on Record in the Exchequer published at large by Iohn Speed in his History Weaver and others totally suppressed all Monasteries Prio●ies Nunneries Cells and other religious Houses and setled the inheritance of all their Lands Rents Revenues Possessions whatsoever in the Crown of England and that without any sacriledge impiety or injustice never since resumed nor ever likely to be restored to them in succeeding Ages being for the most part alienated sold and distributed by our Kings into the hands of the Nobility Gentry Commonalty and Corporation of the Kingdom and into the hands of all or most of the Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Colleges in England Ireland who repute it neither Sin nor Sacriledge in themselves to receive detain enjoy these Monastical Lands and Possessions out of whose spoyle the Bishopricks Deans and Chapters of Glocester Ch●t●r Oxford Peterborough and Westminster it self were first erected by Parliaments and Statutes of 31 H. 8. c. 15.33 H. 8. c. 31 34 35 H 8. c. 12 15 17. and the Letters Patents of King Henry the eight under his Great Seal translating the Conventual Churches of Bristol Glocester Oxford Peterborough and VVestminster into Cathedral Churches and Sees of Bishops and the Abbots Priors Covents of these Churches into Bishops Deans Chapters limiting the bounds of their Diocesse taken out of other antient Bishopricks and granting them all their Episcopal and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as derived only from our Kings the Supream heads of the Church of England under Christ and to be exercised only in their Names Stiles Rights steeds by these Bishops and their Officers as the Statutes of 26 H. 8. c. 1. 37 H. 8. c. 16 17. 1 Edw. 6. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. and their very Patents resolve us not by any real or adherent Divine Episcopal Jurisdiction derived to them immediately from Christ himself

till September 11. An. 1100. at which time the King received him into his favour and restored him to his Bishoprick After which he fell again into the Kings displeasure and dyed of grief that he could not clear himself of the Rebellion charged against him which he was summoned to answer In the year of our Lord 1101. K. Henry the first upon the innumerable complaints to him made against Ranulph Flambard Bishop of Durham by the Vote of a whole Parliamentary Council clapt him up Prisoner in the Tower of London for a most notable Oppressor Extortioner Rebel Traytor prepared to act any wickednesse who was likewise created by VVilliam Rufus both Chancellor and Treasurer of England This Bishop afterwards escaping into Normandy perswaded Duke Robert to invade the Realm to the great disturbance thereof and effusion of much Christian bloud After which having purchased his peace with large Gifts ●et the K. exacted from him great sums seised on all his Goods Bishoprick Edgar King of Scots about the year 1100. gave the Town of Berwick to the Bishop of Durham but because he afterwards wrought Treason against him he lost the Gift the King thereupon resuming the Town into his own hands Hugh Pusar Bishop of Durham who purchased the Earldom of Northumberland of King Richard the first for giving a rude sawcy answer to King Henry the second had his Castle of Durham seised into the Kings hands Anno 1184. and otherwise was afflicted by him Anthony Beak or Bek Bishop of Durham excommunicating the Prior and Monks of Durham notwithstanding their Appeal to the Pope and King and going to Rome without the Kings License King Edward the first thereupon seised his Temporalties and Liberties and appointed a new Chancellour new Justices and other Officers of Durham During this his disgrace this King for his con●empts took away three Manors and the Church of Symondbury from the Bishoprick with divers other Lands He being with other Bishops put out of the Kings protection for denying to grant him an ayde he and they were forced to make their peace with large Gifts the grant of the fifth part of thier Ecclesiastical Goods and Revenues for one year After the death of Lewis Beaumont the Monks of Durham electing a Monk of their own for their Bishop the Archbp. of York consecrating him without the Kings License the King thereupon refused to restore his Temporalties to him and caused Richard de Bury without any election of the Monk or Chapter to be made and consecrated Bishop in his place whereupon the Monk retired into the Monastery Cuthert Tonstall Bishop of Durham for his disobedience to King Edward the 6th was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London Decemb. 20. 1551. where he continued all his Reign the King being so highly offended with him that in 7 E. 6. by a special Act of Parliament the Bishoprick of Durham was dissolved and all the Lands and Hereditaments thereof given to the King his Heirs and Successors though afterwards the Bishop and Bishoprick were restored by Queen Mary but in 1 Elizabeth this Bishop was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the Queens proceedings and committed Prisoner to Lambeth Our learned Martyr William Tyndal writing of this Bishop Tonstall observes That the cause why he left the Bishoprick of London for Durham was only covetousness and ambition Neither addes he is it possible naturally that there should be any good Bishop so long as the Bishopricks be nothing save wordly pomp and honour superfluous abundance of all manner of Riches and Liberty to do what a man list unpunished things which only the evil desire and good men abhor Roger the great rich Bishop of Salisbury who contrary to his Oath Duty and Allegiance to King Henry the first his Advancer and Maud his Daughter set up and made Stephen a Usurper King thereby involving the Kingdom in intestine bloudy wars and feuds all his Reign by a divine retaliation of his Perjury and Treachery had his Person imprisoned his 2. newly repai●ed Castles of Sh●rborn and Malmesbury with his stately new built Castle of Devises and all his ammunition and treasures in them seised upon with the ●astles of his Nephews and Creatures Nigellus Bp. of Ely Alexander Bp. of Lincoln for real or pretended offences which Castles K. Stephen refused to restore or to be judgd by the Bishops or their Canons in the Council of Winchester sommoned by the Popes Legate to debate the legality of their seisure by the King and to restore them to the Bishops which the King would by no means give his consent to do the Archbp. of Rhoan justifying the lawfulness of these Castles seisure in the Council as well as the Kings Lawyers Richard Milford Bishop of Salisbury was by order of the Barons in Parliament in XI R. 2. removed from the Court and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristol as a pernicious Whisperer Flatterer evil Counseller Traytor to the King and Kingdom William Ayscoth Bishop of Salisbury Confessor to King Henry 6. by his oppressions ill dealing and consenting to the yielding up of Anjou and Mayen to the hands of the French King so far incensed the Nobles and vulgar Rabble his Tenants too against him that in the insurrection of Iack Cade June 29. 1450. some of these Bishops Tenants coming to Ed●ndon in VVilishire whiles he was there saying Masse seised upon him even in the Church drew him from the Altar arrayed in his Pontifical Massing Vestments carried him to the top of a Hill not far off and there whiles he was kneeling on his Knees cleft his Head in two stript him naked to the skin and renting his bloudy shirt into several pieces took every man a rag to keep it as a monument of this their exploit Which though tumultuous and illegal in them was yet a just judgement of God upon himself for opre●sing his Tenants and other publick misdemeanours Anno. 873. Alfred Bishop of Leicester was deprived of his Bishoprick for his misdemeanours by King Elfred Vl● Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Realm and hardly escaped with his life together with Robert Archbishop of Canterbury and VVilliam Bishop of London by Edward the Confessor by the advise of his Nobles assembled in a Parliamentary Council for giving this good King wicked Counsel an incensing him against the English causing the King to infringe his good Laws and not to administer upright Justice to his People which he promised to reform upon their banishment Alexander Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Land forced to fly into Scotland and deprived of his Bishoprick Anno 1070. for opposing VVilliam the Conquerour as an Invador of the Church and ravishers of Ecclesiastical things the Norman Conquerors making bold with all the Money Chattels Charters they could find in any Monastery which they diligently searched by the Kings command who