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
superstition quarrelling at the Circumstances and Ceremonies which are used And this they doe saith he ibid. either displeased at the Collect consisting of the first nine verses of the Gospel of St. John as wholly improper and nothing relating to the occasion c. Our Author tels us more than once lib. 11.167 of his being a Clerk of the Convocation but I finde by this that he never came so high as to be Clerk of the Closet Fuller I never was nor the Animadvertor neither Clerk of the Closet Non tanto me dignor honore But I have had the honor to see the King solemnly Heal in the Quire of the Cathedral of Sarisbury though being so long since I cannot recover all particulars Dr. Heylin Which had he been he would not have mistaken the Gospel for a Collect or touched upon that Gospel which is lesse material without insisting on the other which is more pertinent and proper to the work in hand or suffered the displeased party to remain unsatisfied about the sign of the Crosse made by the Royal Hands on the place infected as it after followed when there is no such crossing used in that sacred Ceremony the King only gently drawing both his hands over the sore at the reading of the first Gospel Fuller I fully satisfie the displeased party if he be not through weaknesse nor wilfulnesse incapable thereof about the Sign of the Crosse in those my words immediately following All which exceptions fall to the ground when it shall be avowed That the Kings bare Hands notwithstanding the omission of such Ceremonies have effected the Healing Take it pray as since it is set down in more ample manner in a late Book which I know not whither it be more learned in it self or usefull to others All along K. Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth her reign when the Strumosi such as had the Kings-Evil came to be touch'd the manner was then for Her to apply the Sign of the Crosse to the Tumor which raising a cause of Jealousies as if some mysterious Operation were imputed to it That wise and learned King not only with his Son the late King practically discontinued it but ordered it to be expunged out of the prayers relating to the Cure which hath proceeded as effectually that omission notwithstanding as ever before Dr. Heylin But that both he and others may be satisfied in these particulars I have thought fit to lay down the whole form of prayers and readings used in the healing of that malady in this manner following The form of the Service at the healing of the Kings-Evil THe first Gospel is exactly the same with that on Ascension day At the touching of every infirm person these words are repeated They shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover The second Gospel begins the first of St. Iohn and ends at these words Full of grace and truth At the putting the Angel about their necks were repeated That Light was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name c. Min. O Lord save thy servants Answ. Which put their trust in thee Min. Send unto them help from above Answ. And evermore mightily defend them Min. Help us O God our Saviour Answ. And for the glory of thy Names sake deliver us be mercifull unto us sinners for thy Names sake Min. O Lord hear our prayer Answ. And let our cry come unto thee The Collect. Almighty God the eternal health of all such as put their trust in thee Hear us we beseech thee on the behalf of these thy servants for whom we call for thy mercifull help that they receiving health may give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The peace of God c. This is the whole form against which nothing is objected but the using of the words before mentioned at the putting on of the Angel the pertinency whereof may appear to any who consider that the Light which was the true Light and lighteth every man which cometh into the world did not shine more visibly at the least more comfortably upon the people than in the healing of so many sick infirm and leprous persons as did from time to time receive the benefit of it But it is time I should proceed Fuller I perceive by this office that I have mistaken the Gospel for the the Collect which in the next Edition God willing shall be rectified Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 148. These chose Harald to be King whose title to the Crown is not worth our deriving of it much lesse his relying on it A Title not so despicable as our Author makes it nor much inferiour unto that by which his predecessor obtain'd the Kingdome Harald being son to Earl Godwin the most potent man of all the Saxons by Theyra the natural daughter of Canutus the first was consequently Brother by the whole blood to Harald Harfagar and Brother by the half blood to Canutus the second the two last Danish Kings of England In which respect being of Saxon Ancestry by his Father and of the Danish Royal blood by his Mother he might be lookT on as the fittest person in that conjuncture to content both Nations But whatsoever his Title was it was undoubtedly better than that of the Norman had either his success been answerable or his sword as good Fuller It was a despicable Titâ—le even after the Animadvertor hath befriended it with his most advantageous representing thereof 1. From his Father Earl Godwin the most potent man of Saxon Ancestry 2. From his Mother Theyra the natural Daughter of Canutus the first As to his Paternal Title if his Fathers potencie was all can be alledged for it any Oppressor hath the same right His Maternal Title if from Canutus his natural understand base Daughter openeth a Dore as I may say for all who come in by the window Besides the Animadvertor is much mistaken in the name of his Mother seeing Mr. Camden saith E Githâ Suenonis Regis Danici Sorore natuâ— fuit He was born of Githa Sister to Sweno King of Denmark Dr. Heylin Upon occasion of which Conquest our Author telleth us that Ibid. This was the fifth time wherein the South of this Island was conquered first by Romans secondly by Picts and Scots thirdly by Saxons fourthly by the Danes and fifthly by the Norman But this I can by no means yeeld to the Scots and Picts not being to be nam'd amongst those Nations who subdued the South part of this Island That they did many times harrass and depopulate the South part of it I shall easily grant but to the subduing of a Countrey there is more required than to waste and spoil it that is to say to fix their dwelling and abode for some time at least in the
have thought that to call him an Advocate for the Stews had not been enough But that Doctor was not half so wise as our Author is and doth not fit each Argument with a several Antidote as our Author doth hoping thereby but vainly hoping that the arguments alledged will be wash'd away Some of our late Criticks had a like Designe in marking all the wanton and obscene Epigrams in Martial with a Hand or Asterism to the intent that young Scholars when they read that Author might be fore-warn'd to passe them over Whereas on the contrary it was found that too many young fellows or wonton wits â—s our Author calls them did ordinarily skip over the rest and pitch on those which were so mark't and set out unto them And much I fear that it will so fall out with our Author also whose Arguments will be studied and made use of when his Answers will not Fuller The commendable Act of King Henry the eighth in suppressing the Stews may well be reported in Church-History it being recorded in Scripture to the eternal praise of King Asa that he took away the Sodomites out of the Land I hope my collection of arguments in confutation of such Styes of Lust will appear to any rational Reader of sufficient validity Indeed it is reported of Zeuxes that famous Painter that he so lively pictured a Boy with a Rod in his hand carrying a Basket of Grapes that Birds mistaking them for real ones peckt at them and whilest others commended his Art he was angry with his own work-manship confessing that if he had made the Boy but as well as the Grapes the Birds durst not adventure at them I have the same just cause to be offended with my own indeavors if the Arguments against those Schools of Wantonnesse should prove insufficient though I am confident that if seriously considered they doe in their own true weight preponderate those produced in favour of them However if my well-intended pains be abused by such who onely will feed on the poisons wholy neglecting the Antidotes their destruction is of themselves and I can wash my hands of any fault therein But me thinks the Animadvertor might well have passed this over in silence for fear of awaking sleeping wontonnesse jogged by this his Note so that if my Arguments onely presented in my Book be singly this his Animadversion is doubly guilty on the same account occasioning loose eyes to reflect on that which otherwise would not be observed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 253. Otherwise some suspect had he survived King Edward the sixth we might presently have heard of a King Henry the ninth Our Author speaks this of Henry Fitz Roy the Kings natural Son by Elizabeth Blunt and the great disturbance he might have wrought to the Kings two daughters in their Succession to the Crown A Prince indeed whom his Father very highly cherished creating him Duke of Somerset and Richmond Earl of Nottingham and Earl Marshal of England and raising him to no small hopes of the Crown it self as appears plainly by the Statute 22 H. 8. c. 7. But whereas our Author speaks it on a supposition of his surviving King Edward the sixth he should have done well in the first place to have inform'd himself whether this Henry and Prince Edward were at any time alive together And if my Books speak true they were not Henry of Somerset and Richmond dying the 22 of Iuly Anno 1536. Prince Edward not being born till the 12 of October Anno 1537. So that if our Author had been but as good at Law or Grammar as he is at Heraldry he would not have spoke of a Survivor-ship in such a case when the one person had been long dead before the other was born Fuller Terms of Law when used not in Law-Books nor in any solemn Court but in common Discourse are weaned from their critical sense and admit more latitude If the word surviving should be tied up to legal strictnesse Survivour is appliable to none save onely to such who are Ioint-tenants However because co-viving is properly required in a Survivor those my words had he survived shall be altered into had he lived to survive Prince Edward and then all is beyond exception Dr. Heylin These incoherent Animadversions being thus passed over we now proceed to the Examination of our Authors Principles for weakning the Authority of the Church and subjecting it in all proceedings to the power of Parliaments Concerning which he had before given us two Rules Preparatory to the great businesse which we have in hand First that the proceedings of the Canon Law were subject in whatsoever touched temporals to secular Laws and National Customes And the Laitie at pleasure limited Canons in this behalf Lib. 3. n. 61. And secondly that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie Lib. 4. n. 88. And if the Ecclesiastical power was thus curbed and fettered when it was at the highest there is no question to be made but that it was much more obnoxious to the secular Courts when it began to sink in reputation and decline in strength How true and justifiable or rather how unjustifiable and false these two principles are we have shewn already and must now look into the rest which our Author in pursuance of the main Design hath presented to us But first we must take notice of another passage concerning the calling of Convocations or Synodical meetings formerly called by the two Archbishops in their several Provinces by their own sole and proper power as our Author grants fol. 190. to which he adds Fol. 190. But after the Statute of Premunire was made which did much restrain the Papal power and subject it to the Laws of the Land when Arcbishops called no more Convocations by their sole and absolute command but at the pleasure of the King In which I must confesse my self to be much unsatisfied though I finde the same position in some other Authors My reasons two 1. Because there is nothing in the Statuâ—e of Praemunire to restrain the Archbishops from calling these meetings as before that Act extending onely to such as purchase or pursue or cause to be purchased or pursued in the Court of Rome or elsewhere any such Translations Processes Sentences of Excommunication Bulls Instruments or any other things whatsoever which touch the King against him his Crown and his Regality or his Realm or to such as bring within the Realm or them receive or make thereof notification or any other Execution whatsoever within the same Realm or without c. And secondly because I finde in the Statute of the submission of the Clergy that it was recognized and acknowledged by the Clergie in their Convocation that the Convocation of the said Clergie is alwaies hath been and ought to be assembled alwaies by the Kings Writ And if they had been alwaies call'd by the Kings Writ then
Brimpton though not cleaving the pin touch the mark in this point Unde Anglis regnantibus laus CANTABRIGIENSIS PROVINCIAE splendide florebat Yet the dignity being but tempory and disposable at the Princes pleasure in reward of new Services the Kentish had it afterward bestowed on them and for a long time enjoyed it Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 141. It did not afterwards embolden him to the anticipation of the Crown attending till it descended upon him He speaks this of King Edward the Confessor who had he tarryed till the Crown had descended on him might possibly have found a place amongst the Confessors but not amongst the Kings of England For the truth is the right title to the Crown was at that time in Edward surnamed the Outlaw the eldest son of Edmund Ironside who flying into Hungary to avoid the fury of the Danes married the Kings sister of that Country and was by her the Father of Edgar Atheling and of Margaret wife to Malcolm Conmor King of the Scots But these being absent at that time Emma the Mother of Prince Edward and Widow to Canutus the Dane took the oportunity to set her son upon the Throne as being not onely half-brother to King Edmund Ironside but also half-brother and consequently nearest Kinsman to Canutus the second which if it were a good descent will plead almost as strongly for King Harald as it did for him Fuller My words are true and not subject to just exception which I confined onely to King Edward his relation to his own brethren The legend of his life reports him to be crowned when unborn in his Mothers Belly and having six elder Brethren by the same father King Ethelred 1. Ethelstan 2. Egbert 3. Edmond 4. Edred 5. Edwy 6. Edgar Some of which came to the Crown others died in their minority King Edward though thus pre-crowned did not endeavor to ante-date his possession of the Throne before his elder Brethren but waited till the title as it was derived unto him from his father descended on him Otherwise I advocate not for Him if He took it from any other who had more right to it than himself Dr. Heylin But by what means soever he got the Crown he deserved to weare it Fuller I cannot cordially close with the Animadvertors expression herein being sensible of no Desert which in this Case is not attended with a true Title For who shall judge of the desert of Competitors If the person himself then every usurper will cry up his own worthinesse If his party they will make him most meriting whom they favour most in their fancies This will unsettle all States cassat all Titles and cause much distraction But believing no Il at all intended in these his words let us proceed Dr. Heylin Our Author telleth us ibid. That whereas formerly there were manifold Laws in the Land made some by the Britains others by the Danes others by the English c. He caused some few of the best to be selected and the rest as captious and unnecessary to be rejected from whence they had the name of the Common Laws That the Common-Law was so call'd because compounded of the Saxon British and Danish Lawes which were before of force onely in such places where the Danes Britans and Saxons had the greatest sway though it be easie to be said will be hard to be proved The Britains at that time liv'd under their own Princes and were governed by their own Lawes and so they were for a long time after so that King Edward having no dominion over them could not impose a Law upon them Nor was it propable that he should borrow any of their Laws or impose them on his natural Subjects considering the antipathy and disaffection betwixt the Nations There were at that time indeed in England three kindes of Laws The first called Dane-lage or the Danish Laws prevailing for the most part in the Kingdome of the East-Angles and that of Northumberland Secondly Saxon-lage used generally in the Kingdoms of the West-Saxons East-Saxons South-Saxons and that of Kent And thirdly Mercen-lage extending over all the Provinces of the Kingdome of Mercia As for the Britans of Cornwall and Cumberland they had no distinct Law for themselves as had those of Wales but were governed by the Laws of that Nation unto which they were Subject By these three sorts of Laws were these Nations governed in their several and respective limits which being afterwards reduced into one body and made common equally to all the subjects did worthily deserve the name of the Common-Law But secondly I dare not give the honour of this Action to King Edward the Confessor The great Iustinian in this work was another Edward called for distinctions sake King Edward the elder who began his Reign Anno 900. almost 150 years before this Confessor to whom our Author hath ascribed it But the truth is that these Laws being suppressed by the Danish Kings who governed either in an arbitrary way or by Laws of their own Countrey they were revived and reinforced in the time of this Edward from whence they had the name of Edward the Confessors Laws and by that name were sued and fought for in the time succeeding of which more hereafter Now as this work may be ascribed to his love to Justice so from his piety his successors derive as great a benefit of curing the disease which from thence is called the Kings-Evill which some impute as our Author tells us to secret and hidden causes Fuller This long Note might well have been boiled down from a Gallon to a Gil to make it more cordial If the Reader can pick any information out of it much good may it doe him Let the honour of so good a Deed with all my heart be parted betwixt the two Edwards one the Beginner the other the finisher thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 145. Others ascribe it to the power of fancy and an exalted imagination Amongst which others I may reckon our Author for one He had not else so strongly pleaded in defence thereof But certainly what effect soever the strength of fancy and an exalted imagination as our Author calls it may produce in those of riper years it can contribute nothing to the cure of children And I have seen some children brought before the King by the hanging sleeves some hanging at their Mothers breasts and others in the arms of their Nurses all touch'd and cur'd without the help of any such fancies or imaginations as our Author speaks of Fuller If I be reckoned amongst them I am mis-reckoned for though I conceive fancy may much conduce in Adultis thereunto yet I believe it partly Miraculous as may appear by my last and largest insisting thereon I say partly because a compleat Miracle is done presently and perfectly whereas this cure is generally advanced by Degrees and some Dayes interposed Dr. Heylin Others lesse charitably condemn this cure as guilty of
the Canon devested of the power of Doing it such vendition and emption being by the Common-Law preserved unto them though now very commendably long disused And whereas the Clergy in their Answer pretend all their Canons grounded on the Word of God I would fain be informed where they finde in the New-Testament which ought to regulate their proceedings that the power of the Church extendeth to life limb or estate Sure I am her censures appear spiritual on the soul by those expressions Binde on Earth Cast out Deliver to Satan c. But because the Reader reserveth a lager prosecution of this point for another time we will also respit our larger answer hereunto Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 24. Indeed 1. Davids had been Christian some hundred of years whilest Canterbury was yet Pagan Not many hundred years I am sure of that nor yet so many as to make a plural number by the Latin Grammer Kent being conquered by the Saxons who brought in Paganism Anno 455. Converted unto Christianity by the preaching of Austin Anno 569. Not much more than 140. years betwixt the one and the other Fuller The Christian Antiquity of St. David bare a double Date one native or inherent the other adopted and Reputative 1. The Inherent from the time that St. David fixed there on which account I believe it was no more than 140. years senior to Canterbury 2. The Reputative from the first founding of a Bishoprick at Carleon by King Lucius which indifferently stated was about the year of our Lord 169 which was four hundred years before Canterbury Now it is notoriously known that the antiquity of Carleon whence the See was removed in computation of the seniority is adjected to St. Davids her adopted Daughter Hence was it that the Abbot of Bancar in his Answer unto Austin acknowledged himself and his Convent under the Government of the Bishop of Carleon upon Uske though then no Bishop therein meaning St. Davids thereby as Dr. Hammond and others doe unanimously allow Thus grafting St. Davids as it ought on the Stock of Carleon it is senior in Christianity to Canterbury four hundred years and FOUR may be termed Some in the stricktest propriety of Language Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 29. To whose honour he viz. King Stephen erected St. Stephens Chappel in Westminster neer the place where lately the Court of Requests was kept Our Author is here mealy mouth'd and will not parler le tout as the French men say For otherwise he might have told us that this Chappel is still standing and since the surrendry of it to King Edward the sixth hath been used for a Parliament House imployed to that purpose by the Commons as it still continueth What might induce our Author to be thus reserved I can hardly tell unless it be to prevent such inferences and observations which by some wanton wits might be made upon it Fuller I hope rather some gracious hearts will make pious improvement thereupon praying to God that seeing so many signal persons are now assembled therein the very place once dedicated as a Chappel to St. Stephen may be their more effectual Remembrancer to imitate the purity and piety of that renowned Saint That so God may be invited graciously to be present amongst them to over-rule all their consultations to his Glory the Good of the Church and State and the true honour of the Nation And to this let every good man say Amen Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 40. By the same title from his Father Jeffery Plantagenet be possessed fair lands in Anjou and Maine I had thought he had possessed somewhat more in Anjou and Maine than some fair Lands onely his Father Ieffrey Plantagenet being the Proprietary Earl of Anjou Maine and Toureine not a titular onely succeeded in the same by this King Henry and his two sons Richard and Iohn till lost unhappily by the last with the rest of our Estates on that side of the Sea From this Ieffery descended fourteen Kings of the name of Plantagenet the name not yet extinguished though it be improverished Our Author speaking of one of them who was found not long since at the Plow Lib. 2. p. 170. Another of that name publishing a Book about the Plantation of New-Albion Anno 1646. or not long before Fuller The frequent and familiar figure of MOISIS will rectifie all wherby lesse is said than meant and therefore more must be understood than is said Besides it made me mince my expression being loath to exceed because this Ieffery did not to me appear though the Earl so intire in those Dominions but that the Kings of France and England had Cities and Castles interposed therein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 53. King John sent a base degenerous and unchristian Embassage to Admitalius Mutmelius a Mahometan King of Morocco then very puissant and possessing a great part of Spain This Admiralius Murmelius as our Author and the old Monks call him was by his own name called Mahomet Enaser the Miramomoline of Morocco to whom if King Iohn sent any such Message it was as base unchristian and degenerate as our Author makes it Fuller I will ingenuously confesse that the first time I found this Story was in the Doctors Miâ—ro-cosm the novelty making me take the more notice thereof Though since I have met with it in M. Paris the fountain and other Authors the channels thereof I conceive it was as lawfull for me to relate it as for the Animadvertor who epitheis this Embassy BASE DEGENEROUS and UNCHRISTIAN the words which in me he reproveth Dr. Heylin But being the credit of the Tale depends upon the credit of the Monkish Authors to which brood of men that King was known to be a prosessed Enemy hating and hated by one another it is not to be esteemed so highly as a piece of Apocrypha and much lesse to be held for Gospel Fuller Here he rather speaks aliter than alia from what I had written on the same Subject who thus concluded the Character of King Iohn Church-Hist Book 3. pag. 54. We onely behold him Him thorough such a Light as the Friers his foes shew him in who so hold the candle that with the Shadow thereof they darken his virtues and present onely his Vices yea and as if they had also poysoned his memory they cause his faults to swell to a prodigious greatnesse making him with their pens more black in conditions than the Morocco King whose aid he requested could be in complexion Here I desire to give the Reader a â—aste of what doth frequently occur in this Book and of what I justly did complain viz. the Animadvertor sometimes not liking my language as not proper and expressive enough substituteth his own with little or no variation of matter I confesse he is not bound to use my words and such variations simply in it self is no wrong unto me but it becometh
alive to present it intire defecated from the calumniations of his Adversaries and therefore impossibilities are not to be expected from me Yet am I not such an Admirer of Wickliffe but that I beleeve he did defend some grosse Errors and it had been no wonder if it were but had been a miracle if it had not been so considering the frailty of flesh darknesse of the Age he lived in and difficulty of the Subject he undertook But because the Animadvertor referres to something following in my fifth Book I will also reserve my self for his Encounter in time and place appointed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 152. He lies buried in the South Isle of St. Peters Westminster and since hath got the company of Spencer and Drayton Not Draytons company I am sure whose body was not buried in the South-Isle of that Church but under the North wall thereof in the main body of it not far from a little dore which openeth into one of the Prebends houses This I can say on certain knowledge being casually invited to his Funeral when I thought not of it though since his Statua hath been set up in the other place which our Author speaks of Fuller I follow the Information in his Epitaph on his Tombe near the South dore in Westminster Abbey Doe Pious Marble let the Readers know What they and what their Children owe To DRAITONS name whose sacred Dust We recommend unto thy trust Preserve his Memory and protect his Story Remain a lasting Monument of his Glory And When thy Ruine shall disclaim To be the Treasurer of his name His name which cannot dye shall be An Everlasting Monument to thee Have Stones learnt to Lye and abuse posterity Must there needs be a Fiction in the Epitaph of a Poet If this be a meer Cenotaph that Marble hath nothing to doe with Draitons Dust but let us proceed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 153. The right to the Crown lay not in this Henry but in Edmund Mortimer Earl of March descended by his Mother Philippa from Lionel Duke of Clarence elder son to Edward the third I shall not now dispute the Title of the House of Lancaster though I think it no hard matter to defend it Fuller I think it is not onely difficult but impossible except the Animadvertor can challenge the Priviledge of the Patriarch Iacob to crosse his Hands and prefer the younger before the Elder Child in succession Again the Title of Lancaster may be considered either 1. As it was when Henry the fourth first found it 2. As it was when Henry the sixth last left it The latter of these was countenanced with many Laws corroborated with three descents and almost threescore years possession Know Reader my words are of the right where it was when Henry the fourth first seized the Crown and then he had not a Rag of Right to cover his Usurpation Instead of justifying whereof let us admire Gods free Pleasure in permitting the House of Lancaster to last so long his Iustice in assisting York afterwards to recover their Right and his Mercy at last in uniting them both for the happinesse of our Nation Dr. Heylin And much lesse shall I venture on the other controversie viz. whether a King may Legally be depos'd as is insinuated by our Author in the words foregoing Fuller If seems the Animadvertor finds little in my Book above ground for his purpose to cavil at because fain to Mine for my insinuations But let the Reader judge whether any man alive can from those my words the right lay not in this Henry but in Mortimer Earl of March infer an INSINUATION that Kings may legally be deposed This Insinuation must be in Sinu in the Bosom of the Animadvertor which never was in the breast of the Author More perspicacitie must be in the Organ than perspicuity in the Object to perceive such an Insinuation Dr. Heylin But I dare grapple with him in a point of Heraldry though I finde him better studied in it than in matter of History And certainly our Author is here out in his own dear Element Edmund Mortimer Earl of March not being the Son but Husband of the Lady Philippa Daughter of Lionel Duke of Clarence and Mother of Roger Mortimer Earl of March whom Richard the second to despite the house of Lancaster declared Heir apparent to the Kingdome of England 'T is true this Edmund was the Son of another Philippa that is to say of Philip Montacute wife of a former Roger Earl of March one of the founders of the Garter So that in whomsoever the best Title lay it lay not in this Edmond Mortimer as our Author makes it Fuller It is a meer casual slip of my Pen Edmund for Roger and this is the first time I crave the Benefit of this Plea in my defence Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 154. This is one of the clearest distinguishing Characters betwixt the Temporal and Spiritual Lords that the former are to be tryed per Pares by their Peers being Barons of the Realm Not shall I here dispute the point whether a Bishop may not challenge to be tryed by his Peers but whether the Bishops were not Barons and Peers of the Realm Our Author intimates that they were not but I think they were Fuller From a late Insinuation the Animadvertor now proceeds to a new Intimation of mine utterly unextractable from my words But know it never came into my minde to think that Bishops were not Peers who to my power will defend it against any who shall oppose it Dr. Heylin And this I think on the authority of the learned Selden in whom we finde that at a Parliament at Northampton under Henry the second the Bishops thus challenge their own Peerage viz. Non sedemus hic Episcopi sed Barones Nos Barones vos Barones Pares hic sumus that is to say We sit not here as Bishops onely but as Barons We are Barons and you are Barons here we sit as Peers Which last is also verified in terminis by the words of a Statute or Act of Parliament wherein the Bishops are acknowledged to be Peers of the Land And for further proof hereof Iohn Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury if I remember it aright being fallen into the displeasure of King Edward the third and denyed entrance into the House of Peers made his Protest that he was Primus par Regni the first Peer of the Realm and therefore not to be excluded from his place and Suffrage Fuller This indeed is one of the most ancient and pregnant Evidence of our Bishops sitting as Peers in Parliament But I suspect it may be mis-improved by the Back-friends to Bishops that they sate there onely in the Capacity of Peers and not a THIRD ESTATE Dr. Heylin But of this Argument enough if not too much as the case now stands it being an unhappy thing to consider what they have been formerly and what they are
that the Doctor sayes is this that as the University of Cambridge was of a later foundation then Oxford was so it was long before it grew into esteem that is to say to such a measure of esteem at home or abroad before the building of Kings Colledge and the rest that followed but that the King might use those words in his discourse with the Bishop of Winchester And for the Narrative the Doctor whom I have talked with in this businesse doth not shame to say that he borrowed it from that great Treasury of Academical Antiquities Mr. Brian Twine whose learned Works stand good against all Opponents and that he found the passage justified by Sir Isaack Wake in his Rex Platonicus Two Persons of too great wit and judgement to relate a matter of this nature on no better ground than common Table-talk and that too spoke in merriment by Sir Henry Savil. Assuredly Sir Henry Savil was too great a Zealot for that University and too much a friend to Mr. Wake who was Fellow of the same Colledge with him to have his Table-talk and discourses of merriment to be put upon Record as grounds and arguments for such men to build on in that weighty Controversie And therefore when our Author tells us what he was told by Mr. Hubbard Mr. Hubbard by Mr. Barlow Mr. Barlow by Mr. Bust and Mr. Bust by Sir Henry Savil. It brings into my minde the like Pedegree of as true a Story even that of Mother Miso in Sir Philip Sidney telling the young Ladies an old Tale which a good old woman told her which an old wise man told her which a great learned Clerk told him and gave it him in writing and there she had it in her Prayer-book as here our Author hath found this on the end of his Creed Not much unlike to which is that which I finde in the Poet Quae Phaebo Pater omnipotens mihi Phoebus Apollo Praedixâ—t vobis Furiarum ego maxima pando That is so say What Iove told Phoebus Phoebus told to me And I the chief of Furies tell to thee Fuller The controversie betwixt us consists about a pretended Speech of King Henry the sixth to Bishop Wainfleet perswading him to found a Colledge at Oxford To whom the King is said to return Yea rather at Cambridge that if it be possible I may have two Universities in England A passage pregnant with an Inference which delivereth it self without any Midwifry to help it viz. that till the time of King Henry the sixth Cambridge was no or but an obsâ—ure University both being equally untrue The Animadvertor will have the speech grounded on good Authority whilest I more than suspect to have been the frolick of the fancie of S. Isaack Wake citing my Author for my beliefe which because removed four descents is I confesse of the lesse validity Yet is it better to take a Truth from the tenth than a Falshood from the first hand Both our Relations ultimately terminate in Sir Isaack Wake by the Animadvertor confessed the first printed Reporter thereof I confess S. I. Wake needed none but Sr. Isaack Wake to attest the truth of such thing which he had heard or seen himself In such Case his bare Name commandeth credit with Posterity But relating a passage done at distance some years before his great Grandfather was rockt in his Cradle we may and must doe that right to our own Iudgement as civily to require of him security for what he affirmeth especially seeing it is so clog'd with such palpable improbabilitie Wherefore till this Knights invisible Author be brought forth into light I shall remain the more confirmed in my former Opinion Rex Platonicus alone sounding to me in this point no more than Plato's Commonwealth I mean a meer Wit work or Brain-Being without any other real existence in Nature Dr. Heylin But to proceed Fol. 190. This was that Nevil who for Extraction Estate Alliance Dependents Wisdome Valour Success and Popularity was superiour to any English Subject since the Conquest Our Author speaks this of that Richard Nevil who was first Earl of Warwick in right of Anne his Wife Sister Heir of Henry Beauchamp the last of that Family and after Earl of Salisbury by discent from his Father a potent and popular man indeed but yet not in all or in any of those respects to be match'd with Henry of Bullenbrook son to Iohn of Gaunt whom our Author must needs grant to have lived since the time of the Conquest Which Henry after the death of his Father was Duke of Lancaster and Hereford Earl of Leicester Lincoln and Darby c. and Lord High Steward of England Possessed by the donation of King Henry the third of the County Palatine of Lancaster the forfeited Estates of Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester Robert de Ferrars Earl of Darby and Iohn Lord of Monmouth By the compact made between Thomas Earl of Lancaster and Alice his Wife of the Honor of Pomfret the whole Estate of the Earl of Lincoln and a great part of the Estates of the Earl of Salisbury of the goodly Territories of Ogmore and Kidwelly in Wales in right of his descent from the Chaworths of the Honor and Castle of Hartford by the grant of King Edward the third and of the Honor of Tickhill in Yorkshire by the donation of King Richard the second and finally of a Moity of the vast Estate of Humphry de Bohun Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton in right of his Wife So royal in his Extraction that he was Grandchilde unto one King Cousin-german to another Father and Grand-father to two more So popular when a private person and that too in the life of his Father that he was able to raise and head an Army against Richard the Second with which he discomfited the Kings Forces under the command of the Duke of Ireland So fortunate in his Successes that he not onely had the better in the Battail mentioned but came off with Honor and Renown in the War of Africk and finally obtained the Crown of England And this I trow renders him much Superior to our Authors Nevil whom he exceeded also in this particular that he dyed in his bed and left his Estates unto his Son But having got the Crown by the murther of his Predecessor it stai'd but two descents in his Line being unfortunately lost by King Henry the sixth of whom being taken and imprisoned by those of the Yorkish Faction our Author telleth us Fuller It never came into my thoughts to extend the Parallel beyond the line of Subjection confining it to such as moved only in that Sphere living and dying in the Station of a Subject and thus far I am sure I am â—ight that this our Nevil was not equal'd much lesse exceeded by any English-man since the Conquest As for Henry Duke of Lancaster his Coronet was afterwards turned into a Crown and I never intended comparison with one who became a
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
and Author's Joynt-desires might have taken Effect there had been no difference about this passage in my Book Tuque domo proprià nos Te Praesul Poteremur Thou hadst enjoy'd thy house and we Prelate had enjoyed Thee But alas it is so He is still and still when all other Bishops are released detained in the Tower where I believe he maketh Gods Service his perfect freedom My words as relating to the time when I wrote them containe too much sorrowfull truth therein Dr. Heylyn Fourthly Archbishop Williams after his restoring unto liberty â—ent not into the Kings Quarters as our Author saith but unto one of his own houses in Yorkshire where he continued till the year 1643. and then came to Oxford not that he found the North too cold for him or the War too hot but to solicit for renâ—wing of his Commendam in the Deanry of Westminster the time for which he was to hold it drawing towards an end Fuller Nothing false or faulty The Arch-bishop of York stayed some weeks after his enlargement at Westminster thence he went privately to the house of Sir Thomas Hedley in Huntingon shire and thence to his Palace at Caâ—ood nigh York where he gave the King a magnificent Intertainment King James setled the Deanry of Westminster under the great Seal on Dr. Williams so long as he should continue Bishop of Lincoln Hinc illa Lacrimae hence the great heaving and hussing at Him because He would not resigne it which was so signal a Monument of his Master's favour unto him Being Arch-bishop of York King Charls confirmed his Deanry unto him for three years in lieu of the profits of his Arch-bishoprick which the King had taken Sede vacante So that it is probable enough the renuing that Tearm might be a Joynt-Motive of his going to Oxford But I see nothing which I have written can be cavilled at except because I call Yorkshire the King's Quarters which as yet was the Kings WHOLE when the Arch-bishop first came thither as being a little before the War began though few Weeks after it became the King's Quarters Such a Prolepsis is familiar with the best Historians and in effect is little more then when the Animadvertor calleth the Gag and Appello Caesarem the Books of Bishop Montague who when they were written by him was no though soon after a Bishop Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 196. Some of the aged Bishops had their tongues so used to the language of a third Estate that more then once they ran on that reputed Rock in their speeches for which they were publickly shent and enjoyned an acknowledgment of their mistake By whom they were so publickly shent and who they were that so ingenuously acknowledged their mistake as my Author telleth us not so neither can I say whether it be true or false Fuller I tell you again It is true The Earl of Essex and the Lord Say were two of the Lords though this be more then I need discover who checked them And of two of those Bishops Dr. Hall late Bishop of Norwich is gone to God and the other is still alive Dr. Heylyn But I must needs say that there was small ingenuity in acknowledging a mistake in that wherein they had not been mistaken or by endeavouring to avoid a reputed Rock to run themselves on a certain Rock even the Rock of Scandall Fuller Their brief and generall acknowledgment that they vvere sorry that they had spoken in this point vvhat had incurred the displeasure of the Temporall Lords was no trespass on their own ingenuity nor had shadovv of scandall to others therein I confess men must not bear fals-witness either against themselves or others nor may they betray their right especially when they have not onely a personall concernment therein but also are in some sort Feoffees in trust for Posterity However vvhen a predominant Power plainly appears which will certainly over-rule their cause against them without scandall they may not to say in Christian prudence they ought to wave the vindication of their priviledges for the present waiting wishing and praying for more moderate and equall times wherein they may assert their right with more advantage to their cause and less danger to their persons Dr. Heylyn For that the English Bishops had their vote in Parliament as a third Estate and not in the capacity of temporal Barons will evidently appear by these reasons following For first the Clergy in all other Christian Kingdoms of these Northwest parts make the third Estate that is to say in the German Empire as appears by Thuanus the Historian lib. 2. In France as is affirmed by Paulus Aemilius lib. 9. In Spain as testifieth Bodinus in his De Repub. lib. 3. For which consult also to the Generall History of Spain as in point of practise lib. 9 10 11 14. In Hungary as witnesseth Bonfinius Dec. 2. l. 1. In Poland as is verified by Thunus also lib. 56. In Denmark as Pontanus telleth us in Historia rerum Danicarum l. 7. The Swedes observing antiently the same form and order of Government as was us'd by the Danes The like we find in Camden for the Realm of Scotland in which antiently the Lords Spirituall viz. Bishops Abbots Priors made the third Estate And certainly it were very strange if the Bishops and other Prelates in the Realm of England being a great and powerfull body should move in a lower Sphere in England then they do elsewhere But secondly not to stand onely upon probable inferences we find first in the History of Titus Livius touching the Reign and Acts of King Henry the fifth that when his Funerals were ended the three Estates of the Realm of England did assemble togeâ—her and declared his Son King Henry the sixth being an Infant of eight months old to be their Soveraign Lord as his Heir and Successor And if the Lords Spirituall did not then make the third Estate I would know who did Secondly the Petition tendred to Richard Duke of Glocester to accept the Crown occurring in the Parliament Rolls runs in the name of the three Estates of the Realm that is to say The Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons thereof Thirdly in the first Parliament of the said Richard lately Crowned King it is said expresly that at the request and by the consent of the three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by Authority of the same it be pronounced decreed and declared That our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very and undoubted King of this Realm of England c. Fourthly it is acknowledged so in the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 3. where the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in that Parliament assembled being said expresly and in terminis to represent the three Estates of this Realm of England did recognize the Queens Majesty to be their true
Coronation ¶ 17. looseth the Keepers place ¶ 37 c. is sued in the Star-Chamber from p. 153 to 158. severely censured there ibidem fined the second time in the same Court p. 165 166. vindicateth his extraction p. 183. ¶ 9. the first and most active in the Bishops protestation p. 187. the brief account of his life and death p. 225 226. WINCHESTER pretends to a Massacre of Primitive Monks therein C. 4. ¶ 9. King Stephen summoned said to be present at a Synod there b. 3. p. 28. ¶ 43 44. a famous School therein founded by William Wickham b. 4. p. 133. ¶ 30. R. WINCELSEY Arch-bishop of Cant. humbled by King Edward the first C. 1. p. 90. ¶ 4 c. why finding no favour from the Pope p. 91. ¶ 7. restored to his Archbishoprick p. 91. ¶ 12. WINE when first permitted to English Monks to drink b. 2. p. 103. ¶ 28. Dr. Thomas WINNIFF preacheth in the convocation b. 11. ¶ 65. WODEN a Saxon Idol his name shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. WOMEN present at a Church-councill C. 7. ¶ 107. WOMENS brawles mens Thralls b. 7. p. 407. ¶ 34. 35. English WOOLS improvement in manufactures B. third but misprinted fourth p. 111. ¶ 6. when the Dutch workmen invited into England ¶ 7 8 c. WOOLFRED Arch-bishop of Cant. kept a Councell at Celichyth C. 9. ¶ 4. the acts thereof ibid. WOLPHERE King of Mercia his cruel murthering of his Sons C. 7. ¶ 86. Thomas WOLSEY Cardinal foundeth Cardinals Colledge in Oxford b. 5. p. 169. ¶ 27 c. would have his servants serve none but the King p. 171 ¶ 35. falleth into the Kings displeasure dyeth b. 5. p. 178. ¶ 2. c. WOLSTAN Bishop of Worcester the English Janus keeps his Bishoprick by resigning it b. 3. ¶ 22. his death 34. Nich. WOOTTON Dean of Cant. and York his death and character b. 9. p. 81. ¶ 11. Dr. WRIGHT a moderate Visitor in Oxford b. 8. ¶ 9. recanteth and dyeth a Protestant in his perfect senses notwithstanding Sanders Slanders to the contrary ibidem St. Tho. WYAT his rising to hinder the Spanish match b. 8. ¶ 25. how his fool abused the Queens Herauld ¶ 26 27 28. his insolent demands ¶ 30. entreth Southwark and quitteth it ¶ 31 32. retarded in his March ¶ 34. stopped at Ludgate and taken in Fleetstreet ¶ 37. penitent at his execution ¶ 38. Y. A YEAR ill lost and well found in the Saxon Chronologie C. 7. ¶ 62. Ed. YEAR if his name was not Anne his dear Poetry against the Masse wherein every verse cost him a lash b. 8. ¶ 14. YORK Constantius Chlorus buried there C. 4. ¶ 13. layeth claime to the birth of Constantine the Emperour ¶ 18. an Arch-bishops Pall bestowed thereon by Pope Gregory C. 7. ¶ 1. claimeth precedency of Canterbury b. 3. p. 38. ¶ 3. on what Title ibid. the Arch-bishops thereof not satisfied with the Popes nice distinction p. 39. ¶ 45. YORK and Lancaster houses the Battels betwixt them for the Crown Place time number slain and Conquerour b. 4. p. 186 and 187. YORK Clergy though late at last acknowledged the Kings Supremacy b. 5. p. 188. ¶ 49 50 c. Thomas YOUNG Arch-bishop of York lost by gaining b. 9. p. 83. ¶ 14. his death ibidem John YOUNG Bishop of Rochester his death b. 10. p. 39. ¶ 44. Z. Baltazer ZANCHES a Spanish protestant builds an Almes-house for the Eng. poore at Totnam b. 9. p. 234. ¶ 35. he the first his family since the best confectioners in England ibidem Eudo de ZOUCH the first person of honour Chancellour of Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 57. ¶ 62. therefore not exacted obedience of the Bishop of Ely ZURICH the Congregation of English most learned Exiles therein in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. who refuse to joyn with those at Frankford and why ¶ 46. ERRATA Book pag. lin  2 105 12 For Sarisbury read Sherborn 3 25 2 after since the Conquest add which left any issue 4 141 11 12 in these two lines transpose Harpsfield for Alanus Copus  185 22 read it thus of his Predecessâ—ur Wickham or Successour Wainfleet 5 156 15 for Dr. Greenhil read Dr. Daniel Greenwood  187 31 for But He read Be He therefore  196 39 for 8. shillings read four shillings  279 30 for Impunity read Impurity 6 344 15 for Briston read Bruiton  369 21 for St. Iohns read St. Maryes 7 388 15 for the second read the sixth 8 14 39 for Grandchild to Edward the fourth read great Grandchild to Edward the fourth his Father  40 40 for Faithfull read Thankfull Owen 9 70 43 for roasted read wasted  109 21 for Sr. Iames in some coppies not corrected read Sr. Henry  145 32 for Mr. Yeale read Master Beale  167 4 for Anthony read Christopher   8 for Anthony read Christopher  185 22 for Detestation read Detection 10 21 21 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  93 12 for can thereof read thereof can 11 119 39 for he left read fel.   40 for Sisters read Brothers Son  182 16 for greater read lesser  216 53 Prebendarie of Stanford dele Prebendarie  217 1 for Colchester read Glocester  235 28 for Truth is to be read belief is to be Hist. of Camb. 158 41 for Sciarum read Scientiarum  160 30 for Majestic read Majoraltie Courteous Reader I Am sensible of a mistake in the Catalogue of Vice-Chancellours and Proctours of Cambridge besides a needless repetition of two twice betwixt the years 1617 and 1620. inclusively It arose from some difference betwixt the written Coppies I used and such I believe the truer as are since printed I see what not whither to sly who can discover do confesse but for the present cannot rectify the Errour craving the charitable assistance of my Mothers Sons herein The best is all the mistake lyeth within the compasse of three years all officers being right before and after and the Fortunes of Greece the Truth I mean of our Church-History is not concerned therein FINIS ☜ Psal. 34 14. * Virgill Eg. * Rom. 12.19 * 1 Cor. 8.12 * Job 6.3 * Citâ—d in Cam. Romains pag. 241. * Meaning his Brother Alfred whom Godwin had shamefully murthered * Luke 2.28 * 1 Cor. 13.9 * St Augustin * Aulularia Plauti * Page 218 223 and often elsewhere * In Vit. Aesopi * Gen. 43.44 * Page 268. towards the bottom thereof * Amos 5.13 1 Cor. 7 26. Dan. 6.7 1 Tehss 5.17 Psal. 106.46 * Numb 12.14 * Luk. 18.13 * 2 Sam. 20.19 * Esaiah 61.3 * in his Life Page 103. * Esdr. 4.41 * Heb. 11.26 * Psal. 41.8 * Exod. 5.17 Diog. Laert. in vita Chrysippi * Math. 5.10 * As in the 〈…〉 whâ—ch I have seen under the hand of the Animadveâ—â—oâ— * In his
of parchment out of his bosome and gave it to the Lord Keeper Williams who read it to the Commons four severall times East West North and South fol. 123. Thirdly the Lord Keeper who read that Scrole was not the Lord Keeper VVilliams but the Lord Keeper Coventry the Seal being taken from the Bishop of Lincoln and committed to the custody of Sir Thomas Coventry in October before And therefore fourthly our Author is much out in placing both the Coronation and the following Parliament before the change of the Lord Keeper and sending Sir Iohn Suckling to fetch that Seal at the end of a Parliament in the Spring which he had brought away with him before Michaelmas Term. But as our Author was willing to keep the Bishop of Lincoln in the Deanry of Westminster for no less then five or six years after it was confer'd on another so is he as desirous to continue him Lord Keeper for as many months after the Seal had been entrusted to another hand Fuller This also is an errour I neither can nor will defend the Lord Keeper Williams put for the Lord Keeper Coventry which hath betrayed me to some consequentiall incongruities I will not plead for my self in such a Suit where I foresee the Verdict will go against me Onely I move as to mitigation of Costs and Dammages that greater slips have fallen from the Pens of good Historians Mr. Speed in his Chronicle first Edition page 786. speaking of Henry eldest son to King Henry the eighth maketh Arch-Bishop Cranmer mistaken for Warham his God-father twenty four years before Cranmer ever sat in that See I write not this to accuse him but in part to excuse my self by paralleling mine with as evident a mistake I hope my free confession of my fault with promise of emendation of It and the Appendants thereof in my next Edition will meet with the Reader 's absolution And let the Animadvertor for the present if so pleased make merry and feast himself on my mistake assuring him that he is likely to fast a long time hereafter Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 122. The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshal of England the Duke of Buckingham as Lord high Constable of England for that day went before his Majesty in that great Solemnity In this passage and the next that follows our Author shewes himself as bad an Herald in marshalling a Royal Show as in stating the true time of the creation of a noble Peer Here in this place he placeth the Earl Marshall before the Constable whereas by the Statute 31 H. 8. c. 10. the Constable is to have precedency before the Marshall Nor want there precedents to shew that the Lord High Constable did many times direct his Mandats to the Earl Marshall as one of the Ministers of his Court willing and requiring him to perform such and such services as in the said Precepts were expressed Fuller My Heraldry is right both in Place and Time The Earl of Arundel as Earl Marshall went after the Duke of Buckingham as Lord High Constable though going before him For Barons went in this Royall Procession at the Kings Coronation before Bishops Bishops before Viscounts Viscounts before Earls the meaner before the greater Officers of State Thus the Lord Constable though the last was the first because of all Subjects nearest to the person of the Soveraign It seemeth the dayes were very long when the Animadvertor wrote these causless cavills which being now grown very short I cannot afford so much time in confuting them This his cavilling mindeth me of what he hath mistaken in his Geography For the younger son of an English Earl comming to Geneva desired a Carp for his dinner having read in the Doctor 's Geography that the Lemman Lake had plenty of the Fish and the best and biggest of that kind The people wondred at his desire of such a dainty which that place did not afford but told him That they had Trouts as good and great as any in Europe Indeed learned Gesner doth observe that the Trouts caught in this Lake sent to and sold at Lions are mistaken for Salmons by strangers unacquainted with their proportions It seems the Animadvertor's Pen is so much given to cavilling that he turned Trouts into Carps though none of them so great as this his CARP at me for making the Lord Marshall to go before the Lord Constable at the King's Coronation Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Ibid. That the Kings Train being six yards long of Purple Vâ—lvet was held up by the Lord Compton and the Lord Viscount Dorcester That the Lord Compton was one of them which held up the Kings Train I shall easily grant he being then Master of the Robes and thereby challenging a right to perform this service But that the Lord Viscount Dorcester was the other of them I shall never grant there being no such Viscount at the time of the Coronation I cannot say but that Sir Dudley Carlton might be one of those which held up the Train though I am not sure of it But sure I am that Sir Dudley Carlton was not made Baron of Imber-court till towards the latter end of the following Parliament of Anno 1606. nor created Viscount Dorcester untill some years after Fuller It is a meer mistake of the Printer for Viscount Doncaster son of and now himself the Earl of Carlile whose Father having a great Office in the Wardrobe this place was proper for him to perform All will presume me knowing enough in the Orthography of his Title who was my Patron when I wrote the Book and whom I shall ever whilst I live deservedly honour for his great bounty unto me Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 122. The Lord Arch-bishop did present his Majesty to the Lords and Commons East West North South asking their minds four severall times if they did consent to the Coronation of King Charls their lawfull Soveraign This is a piece of new State-doctrine never known before that the Coronation of the King and consequently his Succession to the Crown of England should depend on the consent of the Lords and Commons who were then assembled the Coronation not proceeding as he after telleth us till their consent was given four times by Acclamations Fuller I exactly follow the Language of my worthy Intelligencer a Doctor of Divinity still alive rich in Learning and Piety present on the place and an exact observer of all passages and see no reason to depart to depart from it I am so far from making the Coronation of the Soveraign depend on the consent of his Subjects that I make not the Kingly power depend on his Coronation who before it and without it is lawfull and effectuall King to all purposes and intents This was not a consent like that of the Bride to the Bride-groom the want whereof doth null the Marriage but a meer ceremoniall one in majorem Pompam which did not make but manifest not constitute but
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
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
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
death b. 10. p. 4. ¶ 12. Iohn ELMAR Bishop of London his death and Character b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 10. ELVANUS sent by King Lucius to Eleutherius Bishop of Rome Cent. 2. ¶ 5. EMDEN a Congregation of English Exiles therein in the Reign of Q. Mary under I. Scory their Superintendent b. 8. Sect. 2. ¶ 41. Q. EMMA the miraculous purgation of her chastity Cent. 11. ¶ 14 15. EAST-ANGLES their Kingdome when begun how bounded Cent. 5. ¶ 27. converted to Christianity Cent. 7. ¶ 44. EAST-SAXONS the beginning and bounds of their Kingdome Cent. 5. ¶ 17. converted to Christianity by Mellitus Cent. 7. ¶ 23. after their apostasy reconverted under King Sigebert ¶ 81. ENGLAND when and why first so called Cen. 9. ¶ 5 6. the Kingdome thereof belongeth to God himself Cent. 11. ¶ 24. ENGLISHMEN drunk when conquered by the Normans b. 3. ¶ 1. EOVES a Swine-heard hence Eovesham Abbey is so called Cent. 8. ¶ 8. ERASMUS Greek Professour in Camb. complaineth of the ill Ale therein Hist. of Camb. p. 87. his Censure of Cambridge and Oxford p. 88. too tart to Townsmen ibid. ERASTIANS why so called and what they held b. 11. p. 21. ¶ 55. and 56. favourably heard in the assembly of Divines ¶ 57. ERMENSEWL a Saxon Idoll his shape and office b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 6. ETHELBERT King his Character b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 6. c. converted to Christianity ¶ 11. his death and the decay of Christianity thereon Cent. 7. ¶ 32. ETHELBERT the VVest-Saxon Monarch his pious valour Cent. 9. ¶ 23. King ETHELRED his Fault in the Font Cent. 10. ¶ 43. why Surnamed the unready ¶ 49. EXCOMMUNICATING of Q. Elizab. by Pius quintus displeasing on many accounts to moderate Papists b. 9. p. 59. ¶ 25. EXETER the description thereof b. 7. p. 393. ¶ 4. Loyall and Valiant against the Rebells though oppressed with faction p. 394. ¶ 7. and famine p. 396. ¶ 12. seasonably relieved p. 397. ¶ 14. F. FAGANUS sent by Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to King Lucius to instruct him in Christianity Cent. 2. ¶ 8. FAMILIE of LOVE their obscure original b. 9. p. 112. ¶ 36. worse in practise then opinion p. 113. ¶ 39. their Abjuration before the privy Councell Their tedious petition to King James b. 10. ¶ 18. desire to separate themselves from the Puritans to whom their looseness had no relation ¶ 19. turned into Ranters in our dayes ¶ 22. John FECKNAM Abbot of Westminster the Chronicle of his worthy life his courtesie and bounty b. 9. p. 178 179. FELIX Bishop of Dunwich instrumentall to the Conversion of the East-Angles Cent. 7. ¶ 45. and to the founding of an University in Cambrid ¶ 48. Nâ—cholas FELTON Bishop of Ely his death and commendation b. 11. ¶ 77. FENNES nigh Cambridge Arguments pro and con about the feacibility of their drayning Hist. of Camb. p. 70. 71. The design lately performed to admiration ibid. p. 72. FEOFFES to buy in improprâ—ations b. 11. p. 136. ¶ 5. hopefully proceed p. 137. ¶ 6. questioned in the Exchequer and overthrown by Arch-bishop Laud p. 143. ¶ 26 c. The FIFTH PART ordered by Parliament for the Widows and children of sequestred Ministers b. 11. p. 229. ¶ 34. severall shifts to evade the payment thereof p. 230. John FISHER Bishop of Rochester tampereth with the holy Maid of Kent b. 5. p. 187 ¶ 47. imprisoned for refusing the Oath of supremacy ¶ 47. his pitifull letter out of the Tower for new Cloaths p. 190 ¶ 12. the form of his inditement p. 191 ¶ 19. made Cardinal p. 201. ¶ 1. the whole Hist. of his birth breeding death and burial p. 202 203 204 205. Barnaby FITZ-PATRICK proxy for correction to King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 411. ¶ 47. the said Kings instruction unto him for his behavâ—our â—n France ibidem FLAMENS in Bâ—itain mere flammes of J. Monmouths makâ—ng Cent. 2. ¶ 9. FOCARIAE of Priests who they were b. 3. p. 27. ¶ 40. FORMOSUS the Pope interdicteth England for want of Bâ—shops Cent. 10. ¶ 1. On good conditions absolveth it again ¶ 3. Richard FOX Bishop of VVinchester foundeth Corpus Christi Colledge b. 5. p. 166. ¶ 11. John FOX flâ—es to Franckford in the Reâ—gn of Q. Mary b. 8. Sect. 2 ¶ 41. Thence on a sad difference removes to Basiâ— Sect. 3. ¶ 10. returning into England refuseth to subscribe the Canons b. 9. ¶ 68. Is a most moderate Non-conformist ibidem his Latine Letter to Queen Elizabeth that Anabaptists might not be burnt p. 104. ¶ 13. another to a Bishop in the behalf of his own Son p. 106. ¶ 15. his death p. 187. ¶ 63. FRANCISCAN Friers b. 6. p. 270. ¶ 16. their frequent Subreformation ¶ 17. admit boyes into their order Hist. of Camb. p. 54. ¶ 46 47 48. whereat the University is much offended ibid. FRANCKFORD the Congregation of English Exiles there in the Reign of Q Mary b. 8. Sect. 2. ¶ 41. They set up a new discipline in their Church ¶ 42 43. invite but in vain all other English 〈◊〉 to ioyn with them ¶ 44 45. FREEZLAND converted to Christianity by VViâ—hâ—d a â—axon Bishop Cent. 7. ¶ 97. FRIDONA the first English Arch-Bishop C. 7. ¶ 85. FRIERS and Monks how they differ b. 6. p. 269. FRIGA a Saxon Idoll her name shape and office b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 6. John FRITH his Martyrdome b. 5. p. 190 ¶ 11. Tho. FULLER unjustly hang'd and saved by miracle b. 4. p. 154. ¶ 25. John FULLER Doctor of Law pitifull when alone but when with others a persecutor b. 8. p. 22. ¶ 28. see Jesus Colledge of which he was master Nich. FULLER a Common Lawyer prosecuted to death by Bishop Bancroft b. 10. p. 55 56. ¶ 29 30. leaves a good memory behind him ibid. Nicholas FULLER a Divine his deserved commendation b. 11. ¶ 15. Robert FULLER last Abbot of Waltham a great preserver of the Antiquities thereof History of VValt p. 7. passeth Copt-Hall to King Henry 8. p. 11. his legacy to the Church p. 14. Thomas FULLER Pilot who steered the Ship of Cavendish about the world b. 11. p. 231. G. GANT COLL. in Flanders for English fugitives b. 9. p. 91. STEPHAN GARDINER Bishop of Winchester getteth the six bloudy Articles to be enacted b. 5. p. 230. ¶ 17 18. brâ—ngeth in a List of Latine words in the N. Test. which he would not have translated p. 238. for his obstinacie first sequestered then deposed from his Bishoprick b. 7. p. 400. and 401. a politick plotting Persecuter b. 8. Sect. 2. ¶ 6. yet courteous in sparing Mistris Clerk the Authors great Grandmother ¶ 7. his threatning of the English Exiles Sect. 3. ¶ 22. dieth a Protestant in the point of Iustification ¶ 42. Henry GARNET Iesuite his education and vitiousnesse b. 10. p. 39. ¶ 45. canvased in the Tower by Protestant Divines ¶ 46 c. overwitted with an equivocating room ¶ 48. his arraignment and condemnation p.
40.49 dejected carriage at his death 50. his Straw Miracle confuted ¶ 51. c. GENEVA such English who deserted the Church at Frankford settled there b. 8. p. 52. ¶ 10. their names ibid. they send a letter to those at Frankford about accommodation which cometh too late b. 9. p. 52. ¶ 3. the State thereof oppressed by the Savoiard sues to England for relief p. 136. their suite coldly resented and why p. 137. ¶ 20. yet some years after the necessity thereof bountifully relieved by the English Clergy b. 10. p. 4. ¶ 11. GENEVA Translation of the Bible made by the English Exiles there b. 8. p. 36. ¶ 27. the marginal notes thereof disliked by King James b. 10. p. 14. our Translatours enjoyned by him to peruse it p. 47. ¶ 1. the Brethren complain for the lack of their notes p. 58. ¶ 51. which Doctor H causelessely inveyed against 52. GERMANUS invited hither by the British Bishops Cent. 5. ¶ 4. assisted with Lupus ibid. His disputation with the Pelagians ¶ 6. in a most remarkable Conference at S. Albans ¶ 7 8. miraculously conquereth the Pagan Picts and Saxons ¶ 10. is said to exchange some Relicts for S. Albans ¶ 11. his return into Britain to suppresse resprouting Pelagianisme in a Synod ¶ 12 13. GILBERTINE Monks b. 6. p 268. ¶ 8. Ant. GILBY a â—ierce Non-conformist b. 9. p. 76. ¶ 70. GILDAS a British writer calleth his Country-men the Iâ—ke of the Age C. 5. ¶ 14. why he omitteth the worthies of his Nation C. 6. ¶ 2. GILDAS surnamed Albanius struck dumb at the sight of a Nun with Child the reported Mother of St. David C. 5. ¶ 23. Bernard GILPIN refuseth the Bishoprick of Carlile and why b. 9. p. 63. ¶ 32. his Apostolicall life and death ibid. GLASSE the making thereof first brought into England C. 7. ¶ 87. GLASSENBURY the most ancient Church in Christendome said to be erected therein C. 1. ¶ 13. The plain platforme thereof ibidem The story of the Hawthorn thereby budding on Christmas day examined ¶ 15 16 17. cut down lately by the Souldiers ibidem The twelve British Monks with their hard names dwelling there C. 5. ¶ 18. though St. Patrick never lived in that Monastery ¶ 20. the high praise of the place ibidem with profane flattery C. 10. p. 136. ¶ 46. Roger GOAD the worthy Provost of Kings Colledge Hist. of Camb. p. 143. ¶ 5. Thomas GOAD his Son sent to the Synod of Dort b. 10. p. 80. ¶ 71. GODFATHERS used to men of mature age C. 7. ¶ 103. Christopher GOODMAN a violent Non-conformist b. 9. p. 77. ¶ 72. Godfry GOODMAN Bishop of Glocester suspended for his refusing to subscribe to the New Canons b. 11. p. 170. ¶ 22 23. John GOODMAN a seminarie Priest bandied betwixt life and death b. 11. p. 173. ¶ 39 c. Earle GODWIN by cheating gets the Nunnery of Berkley C. 11. ¶ 19. and the rich Mannour of Boseham ¶ 20. Francis GODWIN Son of a Bishop and himself made Bishop of Landaff by Q. Elizabeth in whose Reign he was born b. 9. ¶ 4. Count GONDOMAR jeared by Spalato returns it to purpose b. 10. p. 95. ¶ 7 and 8. procureth the Enlargement of many Iesuites p. 100. ¶ 22. a bitten complement passed on him by the Earle of Oxford p. 101. ¶ 21. King James by him willingly deceived p. 114. ¶ 30. his smart return unto him ¶ 31. GRAVELIN Nunnery founded by the Gages for the English of the poore Order of St. Clare b. 6. p. 363. The GREEK-tongue difference about the pronunciation thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 119. ¶ 7 c. Rich. GREENHAM dieth of the Plague b. 9. p. 219. ¶ 64. humbled in his life time with an obstinate Parish which he left at last ¶ 66. but with his own disliking p. 223. ¶ 68. a great observer of the Sabbath ¶ 69. GREGORY the Greatâ—his â—his discourse with the Merchants at Rome about the English Slaves b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 1. would in person but doth by proxy endeavour Englands Conversion ¶ 2. his exhortatory letter to Augustine ¶ 3. St. GRIMBALD a prime Professour in Oxford C. 9. ¶ 30. his contest with the old Students therein and departure in discontent ¶ 39. Edmund GRINDAL made Bishop of London b. 9. p. 62. ¶ 31. his discourse with the Non-conformist then Arch-bishop of Cant. p. 108. ¶ 18. why he fell into the Queens displeasure p. 119. ¶ 1. the Latine Petition of the Convocation pen'd by Toby Matthews to the Queen in his behalf prevaileth not p. 120 121. his large letter to the Queen in defending prophecies from p. 123. to p. 130. offendeth the Earle of Leicester by denying Lambeth House p. 130 ¶ 4. our English Eli p. 163. ¶ 10. dyes poore in estate but rich in good works ¶ 11. Robert Grout-head Bishop of Lincoln b. 3. p. 65. ¶ 28. offendeth the Pope ¶ 29. Sainted though not by the Pope by the people ¶ 31. GUN-POWDER TREASON the story at large b. 10. p. 34 35 36 c. St. GUTHLAKE the first Saxon Eremite C. 8. ¶ 7. H. William HACKET a blasphemous Heretick his story b. 9. p. 204. ¶ 32 c. Dr. John HACKET his excellent speech in the behalf of Deans and Chapters b. 11. p. 177 178 179. Alexander HALES the first of all School-men C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 16. Sr. Robert HALES Prior of St. Joanes slain in Jack Straws rebellion b. 4. p. 140. ¶ 20. Sr. James Hales a Iudge refuseth to underwrite the disinheriting of Queen Mary and Q. Elizabeth b. 8. ¶ 4. Joseph HALL since Bishop of Norwich sent by K. James to the Synod of Dort b. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. his speech at his departure thence for want of health p. 79. ¶ 70. his letter to the Author in iust vindication of that Synod against Master Goodwin p. 85. ¶ 7. King HAROLD usurpeth the Crown C. 11. ¶ 39. killed and buried with much a do in Waltham Hist. of Walth p. 7. ¶ 2. Samuel HARSNET Arch-bishop of York his charging of Bishop Davenant b. 11. p. 138. ¶ 15. his death ¶ 31. HEAFENFIELD near Hexham in Northumberland why so called C. 7. ¶ 63. HEILE a Saxon Idoll their Aesculapius b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. destroyed by Augustine the Monk C. 7. ¶ 21. King HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark his Coronation b. 3. p. 13. ¶ 41. married Maud a professed Votary p. 15. ¶ 1 2 c. clasheth with Anselm p. 19. ¶ 4 5 c. his death on a surfeit p. 24. ¶ 27. bred in Camb. Hist. of Camb. p. 2. ¶ 3. King HENRY the second cometh to the Crown b. 3. p. 30. ¶ 52. his character 53. refineth the Common Law divideth England into Circuits p. 31. ¶ 54. politickly demolisheth many Castles ¶ 56. contesteth with Thomas Becket p. 32 33 c. heavy penance for consenting to his death p. 35. ¶ 68. afflicted with his undutifull Son Henry p. 37. ¶ 1. the farre extent of the English