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A61091	The history and fate of sacrilege discover'd by examples of scripture, of heathens, and of Christians; from the beginning of the world continually to this day / by Sir Henry Spelman ...	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.	1698 (1698)	Wing S4927; ESTC R16984	116,597	303

Clergy had so disproportionable a share by way of excess in the Lands of the Kingdom yet when in 17 Edw. II. it came to the point that the Order of the Templars for their wickedness was overthrown the Parliament then wherein many of those no doubt that made the Statute of Mortmain were present would not give the Lands and Possessions of the Templars to the King or the Lords of whom they were holden but ordain'd that they should go to the Order of the Hospital of St. John's of Jerusalem then lately erected for the defence of Christendom and the Christian Religion Edward le Bruce brother to Robert le Bruce King of Scots invadeth the North parts of Ireland with 6000 Men and accompanied with many great persons of the Nobility conquer'd the Earldom of Ulster gave the English many overthrows and prevail'd so victoriously that he caus'd himself to be crown'd King of Ireland His Soldiers in the mean time burn Churches and Abbies with the People whom they found in the same sparing neither Man Woman nor Child And most wickedly entring into other Churches spoil'd and defac'd the same of all such Tombs Monuments Plate Copies and other Ornaments as they found there He thus prevailing and the Irish much revolting to him the Archbishop of Armagh blesseth and encourageth the English Army against him Whereupon they joyn'd battle overthrew the whole Power of the Scots slew 2000 of their Men and amongst them this their King Edward le Bruce himself King Edw. III. to begin his Wars with France in An. 1337. taketh all the Treasure that was laid up in the Churches throughout England for the defence of the Holy Land Speed p. 190. And whereas there were anciently in England many Cells and Houses of Religion 110 they were counted and more belonging to greater Monasteries beyond the Seas fraught with Aliens and Strangers especially French-men and those of the Orders of Clunis and Cistertien King Edward III. at his entry into his French Wars An. 1337 Regni 12. partly fearing that they might hold intelligence with his Enemies but seeking chiefly to have their Wealth toward the payment of his Soldiers confiscated their Goods and Possessions letting their Priories and Lands to farm for Rent and selling some of them right out to others of his Subjects Yet like a Noble and Religious Prince touch'd with remorse when the Wars were ended viz. An. 1361 regni 35. he granted them all save those few that he had put away back again unto them by his Letters Patents as freely as they had formerly enjoy'd them And divers of those that were purchas'd by his Subjects were by them new-founded and given back to Religious Uses This act of the King 's was a precedent of singular Piety yet was it but a lame Offering not an Holocaust He gave back the Possessions but he retain'd the Profits which he had taken for 23 Years Speed p. 211. King John whom they so much condemn did more than this if he had done it as willingly He restor'd the Lands with the Damages But let not this good King want the charitable Commendation due unto his Piety though having dipt his Hands in this We be driven by the course of our Argument to observe what after befell to him and his Off-spring There be some things saith ... are sweet in the Mouth but bitter in the Belly pleasant at the beginning but woful in the end If these Priories and their Churches were of that nature the sequel verifies the Proverb The middle part of the King's Life was most fortunate and victorious yea all the while that these things were in his Hands even as if God had bless'd him as he did Obed-Edom 1 Sam. 6. 10. whilst the Ark was in his House and had the King then dy'd he had been a most glorious pattern of earthly Felicity But the Wheel turn'd and his Oriental Fortunes became Occidental The Peace he had concluded with France for the solace of his Age brake out again into an unfortunate War Many of his Subjects there rebell Gascony in effect is lost Afflictions at home fall upon him in sequence his Son Lionel Duke of Clarence dieth without Issue-male and when he had greatest need of his renowned Son the Prince of Wales miracle of Chivalry and the Anchor of his Kingdom him even then did God take from him his Court and Nobles discontented and in Faction himself and all things much misgovern'd by his Son the Duke of Lancaster and others of that part who by the Parliament are therefore remov'd from him and by him recall'd notwithstanding to the grief of all the Kingdom Thus he dieth leaving his unweildy Scepters to the feeble Arms of a Child of Eleven Years old King Richard II. whose lamentable History for the honour of Kings is best unspoken of But so unfortunate he was among his other Calamities that he was not only deposed by his unnatural Subjects but imprison'd and murther'd dying without Issue and leaving an Usurper possessor of his Kingdoms which kindled such Fuel of Dissention as consum'd almost all the Royal Line and Ancient Nobility of the Kingdom by the Civil War between the Houses of York and Lancaster To return to the Restitution made by King Edw. III. of the Priories-Alien An Historian termeth it A rare Example of a just King it being seldom seen that Princes let go any thing whereon they have once fasten'd But this King having made a Door in this manner into the freedom and possession of the Church all the Power he had either ordinarily or by Prerogative could not now so shut it up but that this Precedent would for ever after be a Key to open it at the pleasure of Posterity which was well seen not long after For in the Parliament An. 9. of King Richard II. The Knights and Burgesses with some of the Nobility being in a great rage as John Stow saith against the Clergy for that William Courtney the Archbishop would not suffer them to be charged in Subsidy by the Laity exhibited a Petition to the King that the Temporalities might be taken from them saying That they were grown to such Pride that it was Charity and Alms to take them from them to compell them thereby to be more meek and humble And so near the Parliament-men thought themselves the point of their desire that one promised himself thus much of this Monastery another so much of another Monastery And I heard saith Tho. Walsingham one of the Knights deeply swear that of the Abbey of St. Albans he would have a thousand Marks by the Year of the Temporalities But the King hearing the inordinate crying out on the one side and the just defence on the other deny'd his consent and commanded the Bill to be cancell'd Stow p. 479. Two valiant Esquires John Shakel and Robert Hauley having taken the Earl of Dene Prisoner at the Battel of Nazers in Spain and receiv'd his Son Hostage for performing Conditions between

no it is said he died within nine Days and the truth is that he died indeed at his Age of thirty seven Years when he had Reigned sixteen Years and two Months Rog. Higd. Chr. p. 161. col 1. lib. 60. King Edgar understanding that the Welshmen were in Rebellion invaded the Countrey of Glamorgan with an Army and in spoiling of it the Bell of St. Ellutus was taken away and hang'd about an Horse's Neck Therefore in Vndertyde while King Edgar lay on his Bed to rest him saith the Chronicle one appeared to him and smote him on the Breast with a Spear Then when the King was waken he bad restore again all that was taken But the King died after nine Days or as Fabian saith within ten Days Ranulph Cestrens out of the British History This King Edgar was buried at Glastenbury and when Ayleward the Abbot there had unworthily digged open his Grave he the Abbot fell Mad and going out of Church brake his Neck and died Ibidem immediatè supra Griffith the Valiant and Victorious King of North-Wales in aid of Algar Earl of Chester whom King Edward the Confessor had expelled and banished invadeth Herefordshire putteth to flight Radulf Earl thereof and Son of Goda the Confessors Sister with his whole Army and taking the City of Hereford fired the Cathedral Church slew Leogar the Bishop and seven of the Canons that defended it burnt also the Monastery built by Bishop Aethelstane carried away the Spoil thereof and of the City with slaughter of the Citizens and fully restored Algar the Earl both now and a second time Upon this King Edward sent Harald against him who upon his second Voyage into North-Wales burnt his Palace and Ships After this Griffith raising an Army for Revenge and going to meet Harald was by his own People traiterously Murdered and his Head brought to Harald Alfgarus Stalhere that is Constable of the Army to Edward the Confessor invaded the Town of Estre otherwise called Plassie and pulling it from the Monastery of Ely converted it to his own use The Abbot and Monks there besought him by all fair means to restore it but prevailing not they proceeded to denounce daily Curses and Imprecations against him and at last altho' he were so great a Person in the Kingdom to excommunicate him Hereupon the King reproving him sharply and the People shunning his Company he at last sought to be reconciled to the Church and for obtaining thereof granted by his Deed and ratified it by his Oath that the Town after his decease should again return to the Monastery Yet after the Death of Edward the Confessor and Harald the Usurper he was by the Conqueror cast into Prison and there among others in Fetters of Iron ended his Life Jordan Prince of Capua hearing that the Bishop of Rosella had brought and laid up a good Sum of Money in the Monastery of Cassin in Italy sent his Soldiers and by force took it out of the Treasury of the Church but was shortly after strucken Blind Leo. Marsic lib. 3. cap. 45. Upon this Gregory the Seventh calleth a Council and maketh a Canon against Sacrilege and writing to Jordan reproveth him for this and other Offences admonishing him to amend them Baron An. 1078. 24. The Prince touch'd with Remorse granteth in Recompence the next Year after to the Monastery of Cassin divers great Territories and Privileges with a Penalty of 5000 l. of Gold upon the Violaters thereof Leo. Marsic in Chron. Cassin lib. 3. cap. 46. RIchard Robert and Anesgot Sons of William Sorenge in the time of William Duke of Normandy wasting the Countrey about Say invaded the Church of St. Gervase lodging their Soldiers there and making it a Stable for their Horses God deferred not the Revenge for Richard escaping on a Night out of a Cottage where he was beset with his Enemies a Boor whom he had fettered a little before light upon him and with an Hatchet clave his Head asunder Robert having taken a Prey about Soucer was pursued by the Peasants and slain Anesgot entring and sacking of Cambray was struck in the Head with a Dart thrown downward on him and so died Lo saith Gemeticensis we have here seen that truly perform'd which we have heard If any man shall violate the Temple of God God shall destroy him 1 Cor. 3. 17. And admonishing such as spoil Churches to look about them and not to sooth themselves in their Sin for that God often deferreth the Punishment he concludeth with these Verses of another Mans Lib. 6. cap. 13 14. Vos male gaudetis quia tandem suscipietis Nequitiae fructum tenebras incendia luctum Nam pius indultor justusque tamen Deus ultor Quae sua sunt munit quae sunt hostilia punit Dear bought for thou must one Day undergo The price of this Hell Darkness Fire and Woe God's Threats are sure tho' Mercy be among them He guards his Rights and pays them home that wrong them William the Conqueror in making the Forest of Ytene commonly called the New-Forest is reported to have destroy'd twenty six Towns with as many Parish-Churches and to have banished both Men and Religion for thirty Miles in length to make room for his Deer He had ruined also some other Churches in France upon occasion of War and in Lent-time in the fourth Year of his Reign he rifled all the Monasteries of England of the Gold and Silver which was laid up there by the richer of the People to be protected by the Sanctity of the Places from Spoil and Rapine and of that also which belonged to the Monasteries themselves not sparing either the Chalices or Shrines But he that in the like Attempt met with Heliodorus in the second of Machab. 3. met with him also grievously both in his Person and Posterity Touching his Person as God raised Absalom against David so raised he Robert Duke of Normandy against his Father the Conqueror and fought a Battle with him by the Castle of Gerborie in France where the Conqueror himself was unhorst his Son William wounded and many of their Family slain Hereupon the Conqueror as casting Oyl into the Fire of God's Wrath that was kindled to consume his own Family cursed his Son Robert which to his dying Day wrought fearfully upon him as shall by and by appear But to proceed with the Conqueror himself it is very Remarkable that being so great and renowned a King he was no sooner Dead but his Corps was forsaken of his Children Brethren Friends Servants and Followers and wickedly left saith Jo. Stow as a barbarous Person not one of his Knights being found to take care of his Exequies So that a Countrey Knight out of Charity was moved to take care thereof and conveying the Corps to Caen in Normandy the Abbots and Monks of St. Stephens there with the rest of the Clergy and Laity of the Town met it reverently but in conducting it to the Church a