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A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

to the Rules afore-cited Doct. Featly Yea with all my heart said the Doctor God forbid else it is very fit that wee should labour to have our judgements informed in every thing Quater Then Sir in the first place I cannot sweare in truth and therefore if any should aske mee as Pilate did Christ what thing is truth I must answer him in this particular I cannot tell and that because truth is wrapt up and hid from mine eyes either in the administration of the Oath or in the Oath it selfe that I cannot see it Secondly I cannot sweare in judgement because my judgement wanteth information from my understanding by reason of the darknesse and obscuritie of the Oath and yee know what Salomon saith Where there is not judgement the minde is not good Thirdly I cannot sweare in righteousnesse for it is an unrighteous thing for me either to accuse my selfe or my brother and therefore I conceive by vertue of this Scripture this Oath can lay no waight on my conscience and therefore wee will bring it to the Rule as to the touchstone to try it by for I doe conceive the end of this Oath is voyde because neither is God glorified nor my brother edified which ought to be the end of every action And now as concerning the rise from whence it came wee will examine that Doct. Featly I pray doe so I like this very well Quater Then Sir you may remember the Oath was grounded on a Statute in Henry the fourths time and it was a cursed curbe or scourge invented by the Papists and Prelates to punish and put to death the people of God under the name of Lollords who then were true Christians And this Oath was supprest in King Edwards dayes and in Queene Maryes dayes it was set up againe and in the first of Queene Elizabeth it was supprest and the High Commission Court was establisht and hath continued by the Bishops ever since and they have made use of this Oath both to suppresse the people truth of God and therefore the rise of this Oath cannot be good Thirdly This Oath is contrary to all good meanes for by the Law of God every thing should be determined by two or three Witnesses and this Oath causeth a man to be his owne accuser witnes and judge contrary to the Law of God and of the Land and the Law of Nature and therefore this Oath as it is an action neither is nor can be good and therefore to be avoyded Quater Now Sir I pray let me aske you a question or two Doct. Featly What you will Mr Quatermayne and I will indeavour to answer you Quater What benefit shall I have by taking the Oath Doct. Featly A two fold benefit The first is your libertie and that is a great benefit as you know Secondly If you will call for it you may have a Promoter of the cause and he shall give you good securitie to pay the cost of the Suit if you overthrow him and this the Court cannot deny if you will challenge it at their hands Quater I doe acknowledge Sir that both these be good so that I might have them with a good conscience Now Sir I will bring it to the first Rule and that is this Thou mayst not doe evill that good may come thereof thy damnation is just in so doing for me to have my body at libertie and my conscience in prison it is an evill and a bitter thing so to doe and therefore by this Rule to be avoyded Againe secondly for me to have my cost allowed me and goe further in debt with God by reason of sinne that will not hold by this Rule and therefore as our Saviour saith What will it profit a man to winne the whole world and loose his owne soule Againe for the second bring the Oath Ex Officio to the second Rule and see what good report it hath among its neighbours I never heard wise man nor foole good man or bad speake a good word for it surely if it were good there would not yesterday have been at the Parliament House so many hundreds as was to speake against it Thirdly Bring it to the third Rule which is Shun and avoyd all appearance of evill and this is not onely an appearance but evill it selfe and therefore to be avoyded Doct. Featly Truly Mr Quatermayne you have reasoned to the purpose I am sorry that time calleth mee away from you What is it you would have mee to write I will write what you will have me to write Quater No good Sir by no meanes I will not appoint you what to write for then it will be my report and not yours therefore I will leave it to your wisdome and Gods guiding to direct you write what you please Doct. Featly Truly Mr Quatermayne I will write nothing that shall do you any hurt I pray will you fetch it upon thursday morning and my man shall deliver it unto you Quater This is the summe and substance of the Conference betweene Doctor Featly and my selfe being to him directed by the High Commission Court Here followeth a Copie of Doctor Featly's Report to the High Commission Court upon our Conference To the Right Honourable and most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and Mettopolitan IN obedience to an Order made by your Grace in the Honourable Court of High Commission on Roger Quatermayne Gent. Came to my House the fift of this instant May to conferre with mee whom I found conformable to the Doctrine Discipline and all holy Orders and Constitutions of our Church save onely he maketh some scruple in taking the Oath Ex Officio and in that also he seemeth to mee very desirous to receive satisfaction and if by your gracious favour and goodnesse he may obtaine a longer time of respit more maturely to consider of the point and resolve his Conscience I conceive good hope that he will conforme himselfe to the publike Justice of this Kingdome and submit in all things to the proceedings and Order of this Honourable Court Your gracious humbly devoted DANIEL FEATLY Quater My second appearance in the High Commission Court was the seventh of May 1640. Bishop Wrenne I being called by Bishop Wrenne the Arch-Bishop being absent that day the Bishop of Ely asked me if I would take the Oath Quater To whom I answered as before that I would not take it for I did not hold it lawfull Bish. Wrenne Why said the Bishop you were to goe to Doctor Featly and that he should report hither how he found you Quater To whom I answered I did goe according as I was directed Bish. Wrenne Well said the Bishop and what doe you say of Doctor Featly Quater I answered and said that he was a very wise and judicious Gentleman Bish. Wrenne How said the Bishop a wise and judicious Gentleman and yet not give you satisfaction concerning the lawfulnesse of the Oath Quater I

fat and 〈◊〉 promises of the Gos●…ell and yet remaine a starveling to thy great dishonour and the reproach of Religion But grant 〈◊〉 beseech thee that in the use of all holy meanes I doe so plentifully injoy I may grow up to that age stature fulnesse and 〈◊〉 of thy saints in Jesus Christ that so as thy band hath and still is upon mee for good so my heart may alwayes meditate on thy Statutes and my tongue may speake of all thy wondrous workes Blessed Father I be seech thee to anatomize my heart and spiritualize my soule and see if there be any wickednesse in mee and by thy Word and 〈◊〉 it divide between the Soule and Spirit and joynts and marrow of my corruption and so separate betweene the precious and the vile that all iniquitie may be removed farre away from my person and from my Tabernacle that so O Lord for the time that is to come I may walle evenly with thee in the path that is called holy that so I may have my fruit in holinesse and at the end eternall life that being guided by thy counsell here I may at last be brought to glory Good Lord grant that I may never be of that number that doth so we to the 〈◊〉 to reap●… corruption but of those that doth so we to the Spirit and reape life everlasting that I may never as formerly dig broken 〈◊〉 that will hold no water but that I may drinke deeply of that fountaine of the water of life my fresh springs being found in thee that so 〈◊〉 soule may be filled with the fruits of rightcousnesse which is to the prayse of thy rich grace by faith in Christ ●…esus Deare Father I have three grand enemies to grapple with the world th●…●…lesh and the Devill the least of which is too great for me to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if my weaknesse be not supported and my wants supplyed But yet I know that thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth mee I may by faith make the Devill flye overcome the world and get my owne heart purified 〈◊〉 although holy Father of my selfe being poore weake and contemptible I can doe nothing yet thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth me I can doe all things for he is the right hand of thy power and strong arme of thy salvation in and from whom thou hast received full compensation to divir●… just●…ce for the sinnes of all the Elect and in particular for mee thy unworthy servant I beseech thee 〈◊〉 Lord so long as thou hast any imployment for thy unworthy servant in this 〈◊〉 and transito●…y life so long as these few broken ends of mortalitie doth remaine be thou pleased who doth all things according to the counsell of thine owne will so to uphold mee in the way of holinesse that in all th●… actions of my generall and speciall calling I may glorifie thy great Name 〈◊〉 my Brethren propagate the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ stop the mouths and put to silence the tongues of wicked and ungodly men for this is the will of thee my God as touching thy servant I beseech thee O Lord be not angry with poore sinfull dust and ashes and I will speake but this one time and it is in the behalfe of the generation of thy first borne whom thou from eternitie hast set thy love upon and still 〈◊〉 delight in to extend mercy to It is the Vine which thine owne hand hath planted holy holy Lord looke downe from Heavn behold and visit this Vine The straits of thy people are great but deliverance is in thine owne hands thy mercyes are thine owne I beseech thee therefore O Lord consider how deeply thine owne glory is involved in the great cause of thy Church Behold the insolency pride and subtilti●… of thine enemies and looke upon the imbecilitie and weaknesse of thy people and let that auntient motive which from the beginning and 〈◊〉 ages did stirre thee up to doe good to thy people provoke thee at this time to be mercifull to thy Church because mercy 〈◊〉 thee O Lord thou h●…st in thy Word spoken great things of thy Servants concerning their deliverance and also gathering thy Churches from the foure Corners of the World and that thou wilt rayse up thy Jerusalem and make it the prayse of the whole Earth and is not now the time come wherein thou wil●… extend thy mercy to Sion O Lord is not yet the time fully come Hath shee not lyne long enough in the dust Hath not the Plowers plowed long furrowes on her bucke for a long s●…ason Hath not O Lord the Fox●… the subtill Foxes broke off her fruitfull bowes spoyled her grapes and would not let them cluster Good Lord hath not thine enemies mingled our Wine with water our silver with drosse and thy pure worship with superstitious vanities And shall they O Lord prosper that thus runne along in their wickednesse eating up thy pe●…ple even as bread ●…vouring thy precious Saints and sacred truthes as much as in them lyeth And will not our God returne and cause the light of his countenance to sh●…ne upon his Sanctuary Thou hast said O Lord that thou never biddest the sonnes of Iacob seeke thy face in vaine is not the time yet come that the Stone cut out of the mountaine without hands shall grow to be a Mountaine and fill the whole earth When O Lord wilt thou give the Kingdoms of the earth to the Saints of the most High When shall our Sister that hath no breast desire the sincere milke of the Gospell When Lord shall those dry bones live When deare Father shall the great River Euphrates be dryed up that thy redeemed may passe over When shall that Monarch of Rome and Hiera●…chy of England which makes the reall Antichrist not onely be discovered but rooted out and consumed that thy Saints may rejoyce their hearts and warme their hands at that great bonefire so long desired that the Lord Iesus Christ may raigne in his Church Deare Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Gird thy Sword upon thy thigh O thou most mightie strike thorow the loynes of thine and thy Churches enemies Root out all them that delight in superstitious vanities avenge the quarrell of thy Covenant and maintaine thine owne glory Blesse thine owne worke O Lord the great Reformation already begunne in this Kingdome yea blesse O Lord the Parliament that strong arme of flesh which thou hast sanctified and preserved to doe great things by let not our hopes be made frustrate let not the malicious purposes of thine enemies come to passe least they grow too proud O Lord Blesse the Kings Majestie with spirituall corporall and eternall Blessings that he may so comply with his Parliament that all differences may quietly be composed Religion may flourish scandalous dumb dogs removed and faithfull Pastors and Teachers planted in their roomes with those sacred Governours and government which Christ hath instituted in his Church Blesse the Queene the Prince and the rest of that royall Race Lord let thy blessing be upon all states and degrees of people as if their names were particularized before thee Good Lord cause Warres to cease in Ireland let justice and mercy meet together in that Kingdome that thy enemies may justly be punished and thy people mercifully delivered Blesse those Forces that are imployed for that service send more and prosper them also that the great good worke hoped for may be most blessedly accomplished Good Lord blesse thy blessed people of the Scots Nation by whom thou hast done so much good to this Kingdome and all others that thy poore servant is bound to pray for by dutie Religion or any band or tye of nature or grace even for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake In whom and for whom thou receivest poore sinners to mercy To whom with t●…ine own Majesty and God the holy Spirit three persons one onely holy wise God be rendred as is most due all honour prayse glory and thankes now hence forth and for ever AMEN FINIS Jo. Lincol now York My first Apprehension My Appearance The Conference Doctor Featly Dr Feally his report Bishop of Bathe Wells Pursevant Thomas Squire Diver●… spake A Doct●… Purs●…vant Officers Notary Clerke of the Co●…cell Privie Seale Lord privy Seale Lord of Dorset 〈◊〉 Francis Windebanke Secretary of State Friend Sir Nathaniel Brent Register Lord Newborg A Lord Sir Edward Littleton Lord Cottington Lord Privie Seale 〈◊〉 Tho. Row Sir Tho. Row and Lord Goring 〈◊〉 Generall Of Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper Said the Jury The Archbishop

such as wee could not reason together and therefore he did report to the Archbishop that after the Terme he would doe his best endeavour to give us satisfaction which gave me good content for by this means I was preserved out of prison To the Right Honourable and most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and METROPOLITANE MAY it please your Grace I understand by my servants that Master Roger Quatermayne and Io Garbraim and divers others were at my house since the beginning of the Terme appointed as they affirmed by order of this Honourable Court to conferre with me but being this Terme to provide for a tryall at the Exchequer Barre and being Sued both in Chancery concerning a Lease pretended to be made by the Provost and Fellowes of Chelsey Colledge and in the Kings Bench for the House wherein I dwell and by occasion of these Suits inforced to attend in divers Courts I could not appoint them any time or place where they should certainly meet me But as soone as the end of the Terme shall give me some respit from these vexatious Suits I will doe my best to give them satisfaction the rather be●…ause I finde them all willing to be informed as they professe to me and some of them conformable in all things to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England save onely they make scruple of the Oath Ex Officio Your Graces humbly devoted DANIEL FEATLY WHen I came and appeared in the Court I being called the Report was read and the Archbishop was so impatient that he would not indure to heare it read thorow but said Archb. That Mr Quatermayne was the Ring-leader of all the Separatists Quater Notwithstanding I was one of their greatest opposits in regard of some particulars then said Archb. The Archbishop Mr Quatermayne I perceive that Doctor Featly hath no time to reason with you by which you have a long time to consider and so have we also I pray doe you resolve your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme for wee will demur no longer you stand very much upon Scripture and Law Bish. Wrenne I said Bishop Wrenne he is a great Scriptureman I warrant you my Lord Quater My Lord if you please to make proofe of mee I shall be able to answer you if you please or any other to convince me by Scriptures as I said before I shall be willing to submit or suffer Archb. Well Mr Quatermayne I pray satisfie your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme and I pray let us request one thing at your hands when you are gone that you doe not report that wee are cruell and mercilesse and oppressors of mens consciences you have found no hard measure at our hands wee have not dealt unkindly with you but it is the course of you all to raise evill reports of us though wee in obedience to his Majesties command sit to doe justice Farewell Mr Quatermayne and God speed you and informe you against the next Terme Officers Then said the Officers wee are glad we shall be rid of the Puritans I pray take th●…m along with you Master Quatermayne Quater I answered where one will goe with thee ten will follow mee this is the summe and substance of my fourth appearance at Lambeth House Quater And home I went accompanyed with the Saints of God 〈◊〉 my house and Mayle the Pursevant like the Devill in the first of Job went with us My fift appearance at Lambeth-House was the fifteenth day of October 1640. When I came thither the Court was Adjourned to Pauls and I asked of Medall one of the Notaries where the Court was kept and he told me it was appointed to be kept in the Convocation-House all this Terme But said he let it be kept where it will there is nothing for you to doe for you are not in the Bill this weeke nor will you be called upon this weeke Quater I answered are you certaine of it Notary And he said yes Quater So I returned home accordingly and so much for that time yet neverthelesse there was a hubbub at the Convocation-House that day although I was not there and therefore I was not the cause of the tumult Quater My sixt appearance was at the Convocation House in Pauls the 22 day of October 1640. At which time the High Commission Court was pulled downe but for as much as the whole businesse was opened before the Lords of the Counsell and answered before the Justice of Oyer and Terminer by vertue of a Commission under the great Seale of England for the Prelates use when the King went into the North I was caused to answer three severall Sessions holden in the Guild-Hall for the Citie of London all which I shall hereafter lay downe therefore I refer all till its proper time and place Quater In the next place followeth my whole businesse before the Lords of his Majesties Privie Councell First my apprehension and secondly all our proceedings Quater On Satterday which was the 24th day of October 1640. about eight of the Clock at night as I was going to my House a Messenger from the Privie Councell came unto mee with a Warrant and ten Privie Councellors hands to it and carried me away prisoner to the Catterne wheele in Southworke for his Warrant was so strict that no Bayle would be admitted of for I had neighbours that offered body for body but the Messenger durst not accept of them Truly the Messenger was in such a condition that he trembled as if he would have sunke But I blesse the Lord I was never more chearefull in all my life but there was such vild aspersions cast upon me and such false informations given to the Lords against mee and the Messengers charge so strict that he wondred to see mee so chearefull and well contented and I told him there were three things that made a man chearefull a good God a good Cause and a good Conscience and I praise God in this thing all these I have Afterwards I understood that the Lords had given him order that I should not be carried to prison for the prison would be pulled downe and I rescued from him neither that he should carry me with any tumult for feare of the like danger that might insue so upon the Lords day following as aforesaid in the afternoone I was brought to White-Hall before the Lords of the Councell and when I came thither Sir Dudly Gaveston his Clerke began to examine the Messenger whether he had found me or no Pursevant To whom he answered yes what Quatermayne yes Quatermayne said the Messenger Where is he said the Clerke Here is he said the Messenger Quater Then the Clerke looking upon me supposing I had not heard them said he is a proper tall man but before God he will be hanged all the world cannot save him I nnderhearing of him thought though all the world cannot save mee yet God can