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A13028	An assertion for true and Christian church-policie VVherein certaine politike obiections made against the planting of pastours and elders in every congregation, are sufficientlie aunswered. And wherein also sundrie projectes are set downe, how the discipline by pastors & elders may be planted, without any derogation to the Kings royal prerogatiue, any indignitie to the three estates in Parleament, or any greater alteration of the laudable lawes, statutes, or customes of the realme, then may well be made without damage to the people.	Stoughton, William, fl. 1584.; Knollys, Francis, Sir, d. 1643.	1604 (1604)	STC 23318; ESTC S117843	177,506	448

nominate and elect their new Mayor Sherifes and Baylifes But that the Aldermen principall Townsmen Boroughmaisters and men having borne chief offices in those Cities Townes Boroughes haue easilie bene wrought by ambitious persons to giue their consents vnto vnworthie men though it haue pleased the Ll. Bb. with seene and allowed to haue spred and published this saying yet that the same saying is wholy vnworthie of anie credite to be giuen vnto it or to bee regarded of any wise and indifferent man let the sober peaceable elections made of the worthies of the lande hereafter mencioned be witnesses And to leaue to speake of the election of the Lord The officers in Cities Townes corporate chosen without contentiō ambitious working of vnworthy men Mayor of the Citie of London Sherifes Aldermen Wardens of companies Chāberlaynes Bridge-maisters and other annuall officers of honor and dignitie let vs consider whether the Citizens of London haue bene wrought by ambitious persons to choose Maister Wilbraham Maister Onslie Mr Bromly to bee their Recorders all three afterwarde the Queenes sollicitors and Maister Bromly Lord Chancelour of Englande and let vs consider whether the same Citizens as men of affection and want of ●ight iudgement did elect to be Recorders of the same Citie Mai. Serieant Fleetwood Maister Serieant Fleming Maister Serieant Drue and now Maister Crooke a mā wise learned and religious a Coūseler and Iusticer within the Principalitie of Wales The Recorder of the Towne of Bedford is the right honorable the lord St Iohns of Bletsoe The Recorder of Bristoll was a long time Maister Poppam now Lord chief Iustice of England The Recorder of Northampton before he came to be Iudge in the Kings bench was Maister Serieant Yelverton a favourer of the trueth an vpright Iusticer The Recorder of Warwicke was Maister Serieant Puckering afterward Lord Keeper of the great seale And of the same Towne the Recorder now is a worthie Knight descended from a noble house Sir Foulke Grevile The Recorder of Covētrie is Sir Iohn Harrington Knight a man zealous for the true feare of God The Recorder of Chichester was Mai. Serieant Lewkner now chief Iustice in the principalitie of Wales The Recorder of Norwich was Maister Cooke the Kings Atturney generall And who soeuer shall enquire after the names after the maner of election of all the Recorders in all other Cities Boroughes of the land I doubt not but he shall find them all to haue bene farre frō any least shew of ambitious working the Citiezens and Townsmen to nominate and elect thē Moreover as these Noble persons these sage graue learned and christian Gentlemen quietlie and in all peaceable manner with vpright and good affectiō and iudgement without ambitiō haue bene chosen by the Citizens Townsmen Borough-masters to the offices of Recordershippes So likewise manie sundrie honorable Coūselors Honorable Counselors chosen high stewardes without ambitious working haue bene and as occasion is ministred are daily elected by Citizens Townsmen to be their high Stewards Sir Frācis Knolles an honorable Counsailour one whose faith was famous among the churches as well abroad as at home by the electiō of the Citizens of Oxford remayned vntill he died high Stewarde of the Citie of Oxford The right honorable Sir Francis Walsingam by the cōmon Counsayle of Ipswich was made high Steward of the same Towne after whose decease the same cōmon coūsell by their electiō surrogated into the same place the right honorable the L. Hunsdon late L. Chamberlaine the right honorable Sir Christopher Hattō L. Chancelour of Englande by the Townsmen of Cābridg was chosen to be high steward for the town of Cābridge The right honorable the old Earle of Arundell after him the right honorable Earle of Lincolne and after his death the right honorable the Lord High Admirall of England now Earle of Notingham by the Borough-maisters of the Towne of Gildforde was elected to be high steward of the Towne of Gildeford Of all which honorable persons and of all other their Peeres chosen in other places of the Kingdome by the same meanes to the like offices there is great reason iust cause for the reverend Bb. to cary a more reverend estimation towards thē then to burthen them as ambitious persons to haue sought their places at the hands of men affected wanting right iudgment As for any other offices of credite dignitie charge and gouerment in the common weale now remayning in the choyse of the commons it may easilie be proved that the common people in sundrie places haue bent and opposed thē selues against ambitious persons who by sinister indirect meanes haue hunted for preferrement at their handes And what if it can not be gayne-said but that some publicke officers chosen by publicke applause of the people haue corruptly behaued themselues in their charges and haue not so equally and indifferently distributed iustice to all degrees as it became them yet this their misdemeanor can no more iustly be laid as a fault nor any more disgrace or discountenance the ancient and commendable forme and manner of election then the hipocrisie or counterfeyt zeale of an euill man ordeyned by the Bishop to be a Minister can be imputed vnto his letters of orders or manner of ordination Besides if none bee able to proue that the choyse of the Knights Knights of the Shires other officers chosen by the people without trouble to the state of our Shires Coroners of the Counties Verderers of the Kings forrests resting in the free voices and consents of the freeholders that the nomination of the high Constables being in the disposition of the Iustices of peace at their quarter sessions that the choyse of our peti-Conestables third Boroughes Tything men Church wardens Wardens for the high wayes overseers for the poore side men such like remayning altogether in the free election of the sutors to courts leets and law dayes and of the inhabitants Parishioners of every Village Hamlet or Tything haue bene troublesome to the Lievetenants of the Shires to the Stewards of our Courts to the Lords of our liberties nor to the Ordinaries of the Diocesses If I say there be not any one man able to bring foorth some few persons for many yeres passed by whom the Officers and Magistrates of the Queenes peace haue bene sued vnto and importuned for the pacification of any strife contention or debate of any busy head or ambitious person raysed among the people about the choise of any one of these Officers then I say it is meete and it importeth the Lords Bishops very deepely that for ever hereafter they bee silent and never any more vtter so vile a slander against so Noble a people as are the people of England viz. that vpon affection and want of right iudgment they will easily be led by ambitious persons to preferre vnworthy persons vnto all Offices of gayne or dignitie Or that

did neuer yet stande by the authoritie of the three Estates I will take his meaning to be that the statute lawes of England to this day haue stood by authority of the three Estates which to alter nowe by leaving out the one c. and then therevnto I aunswere that not any one of the three The bringing in of the discipline by pastours and elders is not the leauing out of Parleament any one of of the three Estates Estates should be left out or barred frō having authoritie in making and promulging statute lawes though the goverment of the Church by Pastors and Elders were brought in For we which so much cry as he saith for this maner of gouerment to be planted are so farr from exempting or excluding any one of the three Estates from their auncient power priviledge and preheminence in the making of statute lawes as that we pronounce him to bee guilty of high treason to the King and to the Realme that avoweth the contrary And we affirme directly and confesse plainly that it belongeth onely wholy and altogether to the three Estates as well to roote out and to pull vp whatsoever goverment is not iustifiable by the holy law of God as also to plant to setle whatsoever discipline is warrantable by the same law And to speake as the thing is how were it possible to haue the discipline by Pastors Elders planted by authoritie of the three Estates if one of the three Estates should be left out Or can it be imagined that any one of the three Estates would euer consent to the bringing in of such a governement of the Church as whereby the same goverment being once brought in the same estate should ever afterwards cease to be any more an estate Besides we acknowledge that all powers are of God therfore euery one of the three Estates being a power wee graunt that the same hath his stateship by the authoritie of God And if all the three Estates be lawfull by the holie law of God how can it be verified against vs that we which vrge the same holy law for the bringing in of the discipline by Pastors and Elders should notwithstanding contrary to the same law intend the leaving out or altering of any one of the three Estates But which of the three Estates was it that he ment should be left out I trow there The state of the Prelacie is not one of the three estates in Parleament is none of the state of Prelacie so ill advised as to take vpon him the proofe of this position viz. That the Lords spirituall by them selves alone doe make one of the three Estates or that the statutes of England to this day haue stood by their authorities as by the authoritie of those who alone by themselves are to be accompted one of the three Estates For if that were so how much more thē might the great Peres Nobles and temporall Lords chalenge to make by them selves an other estate And without contradiction to this day the Commons summoned by the Kings writ haue ever bene reckoned a third Estate Now then if statutes haue hitherto stood by authoritie of the Lords spiritual as of the first Estate by authoritie of the Lordes temporall as of the second Estate by authoritie of the Commons as of the third Estate I would gladly be resolved what accoumpt the Admonitor made of the Kings Estate It had not bene liegnes nor loyaltie I am sure howsoever hee spake much of the Lords spirituals duty and fidelitie in the execution of our late Queenes lawes to haue set her Royall person authoritie and State behind the lobby at the Parliament doore Either the Kinges Royall person then as not comprised within the compasse and circumscription of the three Estates by his meaninge which had bene but a very bad meaning must be thought to haue bene hitherto secluded from authorizing the statute lawes made in Parliament Or it is a most cleare case that the Lords spiritual them selves alone do not make any one of the three Estates And what matter then of more weight may it happelie seeme to be to alter the authoritie of the Lords spirituall and to leaue them out of the Parliament when as notwithstanding they being left out the statutes of England may remaine continue by authoritie of the three Estates And it were not amisse for the Lords spirituall to consider that the bodie and state of the weale publike both now is and euer hath bene a perfect entire and complete body and State without the body and state of Prelacie And that the King the Nobles Commons of the Realme without Prelates Bishops or Clerckes do make vp all the members and parts of this body and of this state and may therefore ordaine promulge and execute all maner of lawes without any consent approbation or authoritie yeelded vnto the same Anno 36 H 8. fo 58. b. Anno 〈◊〉 j. fo 93. 2 by the Bishops spirituall or any of the Clergie And thus much our Divines Histories Lawes do iustifie Sir Iames Dier Lord chiefe Iustice of the cōmon pleas in his reportes telleth vs that the state and body of a Parliament in England consisteth first of the Kinge as of the head and chief part of the body secondlie of the Lordes as principall members and lastlie of the Commons as inferiour members of that bodie By a Statute of provisoes it appeareth 25. Ed. 3. holy church founded in the state of Prelacie by the King That the holy Church of England was founded into the state of Prelacie within the realme of England by the grandfather of King Edward the third and his progenitours and the Earles Barons and other Nobles of the Realme and their Auncestors for them to enforme the people of the law of God These vses are changed to the keeping of great horses great troupes of idlers with long hayre and great chaines of golde to make Hospitalities and almes and other workes of Charitie in the places where the churches were foūded From whence it followeth First that the Archbishoppes Bishoppes onelie alone doe not make of themselues any state of Prelacie but that the whole holy church of England was founded into a state of Prelacie Secondlie it is playne that the 6. Eliz. c. ● Kings of England before they and the Earles Barons and other Nobles and great men had founded the holy church of Englande into a State of Prelacie ought and were bounden by the accord The Kinge boūd to doe lawes made without assent of Prelates to bee kept as laws of the realm of their people in their Parleaments to reforme and correct whatsoeuer was offensive to the lawes and rightes of the Crowne and to make remedy and lawe in avoyding the mischieves damages oppression and greevances of their people yea and that the Kings were bound by their oathes to doe the same lawes so made to be kept as lawes of the