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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62951	Innocency no shield against envy A sermon preached on Friday, April 11. being the fast-day appointed by the Kings proclamation to seek reconciliation with God, &c. By George Topham, rector of Boston in Lincolnshire. Perused and approved of by the right Reverend father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Topham, George, d. 1694.	1679 (1679)	Wing T1906; ESTC R220703	23,634	40

Kings nomination and refused to Consecrate others named by him At which the King as he had good reason being angry banished him out of his Kingdom But how this was resented at Rome and what troubles ensued thereupon to this Realm the Historians of that Age have sadly recorded After Henry the First came Stephen and after him Henry the Second A potent and warlike Prince who besides England held Normandy Anjou Poitou c. Yet this potent King was strangely disquieted by Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury A man abundantly stored with an ambitious turbulent and ungrateful Spirit as appeared by his disowning the Investiture of the King by whose favour and bounty he was promoted and receiving his Pall from the Pope At which the King being enraged exiled him out of him Dominions but he fled to Rome the Sanctuary in those days always open for such Traitors where he was not only entertained to the great grief of the King but countenanced encouraged and bid hearthy welcom by Pope Alexander the Third who vindicated the quarrel for indeed it was his own at so high a rate that this great Prince partly through necessity and fear of the power of the Keys which made wonderful clinking in those times and partly being perswaded by some Prelates Matth. Paris In Hen. Secund. p. 117. gave this Archbishop a meeting in hopes of a reconciliation at Froncevaux and did that which no man would have believed for he held the Bridle of Beckets horse and that proud Prelate not contented to have received the honour once alighted on purpose that the King should pay him submission twice as he also did Thus that Priest practised Apostolick humility After this Triumph highly applauded at Rome Becket returned into England full of glory Where instead of bringing Peace he was the Bearer and Proclaimer of an Excommunication and Sentence of deposition of the Archbishop of York and his Adherents for Crowning the young King in his absence The King being in Normandy and hearing of these procedures of the Archbishops sent four of his Attendants to require him to absolve those he had so unjustly excommunicated and take off his Suspensions from others Which command he refusing to obey the King began to lament his condition This moved the same four whom he had sent before to return into England and finding the Archbishop in the Church of Canterbury some say at the High Altar at three a clockiin the Afternoon calling him Traitor slew him No sooner did the news of this arrive King Henry still in Normandy but he shew'd a great deal of sorrow for it and though he protested his innocency as to the fact yet he sent an Embassie to the Pope to make satisfaction But the testy old man was so enraged that he would not so much as vouchsafe his Embassadours to kiss his feet but in great wrath spake of Interdicting the whole Kingdom which in those days was looked upon as the sending all the English into Hell The dread of which forced this Magnanimous King to buy his Absolution at a dear rate acquitting not only his right of investing but likewise engaging to keep two hundred men of Arms in pay for the service of the Holy War and the Popes Assigns to be the receivers And to make the satifaction compleat the Majesty of this great Monarch to the wonder of the world must be so far debased as to be stript naked and whipt by a company of Monks And that such Rebels as Becket might never want encouragement in succeeding Ages the Pope did not only defend him whilst he lived but Canoniz'd him when he was dead King Henry being gathered to his Fathers his Son Richard surnamed Cor de Lion succeeded him not only in his Throne but in his troubles too That Prince for the better securing Normandy was resolved to fortifie the Castle of Andeli See Mat. Paris p. 175. At which Walter Archbishop of Rouen being displeased immediately Interdicts all Normandy and flies to Rome where he found as kind entertainment as ever Becket did And now what must the King do Alas submit to contest was in vain for such was the fear of an Interdict in those times that there was nothing which the Pope could not obtain of Princes and Nations if he did but threaten them with it But above all that in the Reign of King John was the most dismal when England remained under the Interdict six years three months and an half Not only the King and his Court but all the People of the Nation were Excommunicated and that not for Heresie not for any Crime of theirs but for a quarrel between the King and the Pope about Investitures Collations and Money matters Matth. Paris in Johan p. 217. Then saith Matthew Paris who was an Eye-witness of all that disorder all the Sacraments of the Church ceased in England saving only the Confession and Communion of the Host in the last necessity and Baptism of little Children Then were the Dead carried out of Towns as if they had been Dogs and buried in High-ways and Ditches without Prayers and without Service of Priests Yet this not producing the end it was designed for the Balaam of Rome proceeds to curse the King by name and finally to pronounce sentence of Deposition against him discharging all his Subjects of their Oaths of Allegiance and sends his Legat to Philip Angust King of France that for the remission of his sins he should invade the Realm of England with force of Arms and giving to all those that would attend him in that Conquest forgiveness of all theirs and the same graces as to them that visit the Holy Sepulchre Whereupon Philip to obtain pardon of his sins or rather to make himself Master of this Land raised a mighty Army whilst Innocent by his Creatures was labouring to engage the English against their own King By this means King John was strangely and suddenly weakned and utterly disabled to hold his Kingdom and seeing strong invasions from without and daily revoltings within to open Insurrections and every man now counted a Saint and Martyr that would fight against him and considering that the Popes Bulls like Magick Spells had let loose many turbulent Spirits not to be laid again but by him that raised them After much debate and with a heart full of anguish and rage at last resolves to prostitute his Crown and Dignity to Pandulph the Legate that he might receive it again from him as from the Popes hands and be protected by him Thus the Pope taking advantage of this poor Princes misery made him a Vassal to his own greatness and his Kingdom a prop to uphold St. Peters Chair For these pretended Successors of that great Apostle fish not for Souls but for Empire even with the destruction of Millions if their own Doctrine be true which says that all that die under the Interdict without some special grace or priviledge and that not to be had without ready