these Westerne parts that both Catholik and Protestant Antiquaries thus deliuer vnto vs âraediâabat ad flumen vsque âordensâ ad mare Sâoâum vbi Caledonios Athalos Horestos ac vicinaâm Ion. Baâââ descript Briten in ãâã Albaniae regionum Inâolas docendo monendo âr ando ad veritatis obseruationeÌânstigauit Ex dâsâults suis quosdam ad Orchades Insulas ad Norweââ Islandiam misit vt âorum instructioniâus fiâi quo que lumen recipeâent Nam in Elguensi Collegio âcentos sexaginta quinque literatos viros ad id âmper paraâos habebat praetâr reliquos alijs exercitijs âditos He preached aâ farre as to the riuer of Forde â the Scotish sea where he stiâed vp the Caledoâns Athaliâns Hoâests and the Inhabitaâts of â neighboring kângdoms to Aâbion vnto the obseruaân of ââueâh by teaching admonishing and ãâã ing â sent some ãâ¦ã disciples to the Iles of Orâi ades to â waye and âsland that ãâ¦ã instruââions they ãâ¦ã receiue the light of âaith For in âhe Collâdge âââgue he âad 365. learned âân alwaise readie for â purpose besides others imploted in other exerââ Saint Asaph his scholler a Bishop of ââtanie who as Protestants saiâ from Roân power Auâhââitatem ânctânem acceâit â tooke authoritâ and ãâã Sucâceded hâm â that great charge and gouernment of at Apostolike Colledge in VVales This S. ântegern being by all accounts a Bishop â0 yeares and disciple to S. âââuanus conââaâed Bishop by S. Paââad itâs who was senâ ther from S. Celestine Pope in or about the are 431. must needâ be liuing with Saint âaph at or a litle before Saint Augustinââmâning And as our Protestants saâe Saâââaph ioyned with Saint Augustine So Saint Asaph writer of his maister S. Kentegerns liâ proueth that S. Kentegern was at Rome whâ S. Gregorie was Pope and submitted hiâselfe to him in all things and was approueâ by him also in his Apostolike proceedings 16. In this time in the yeare 596. Saiâ Augustine was sent Legate hither by the saâ holy and learned Pope S. Gregorie who bâ his supreame Pastorall power gaue him spârituall authoritie ouer all Bishops and otheâ here in these his owne words vnto him Bâ tanniarum omnes Episcopos tuae Fraternitati commiâmus Beda l. 1. Eccles hist gentis Angl. c. 27. vt indocti doceantur infirmi persuasione reborâtur peruersi authoritate corrigantur We commit â the Bishops of Britanie to your Fraternitie that the â learned may be taught the weake by persuasioÌ strengââned the wicked corrected by authoritie By this Papâ power and authoritie all things were ordeâ in the Church of EnglaÌd in S. Augustins tiâ and all his Successours by the same autâritie were setled in that Archiepiscopall Sâ which he translated after 400. yeares froâ London to CaÌterburie All those Bishops vâ to the first Protestant Bishop called Mathâ Parker who was made by Q. Elizabeth bâ will and manner receiued Consecratioâ Pall power and Iurisdiction from the See Rome and they swore obedience vnto it their owne Parker Godwin Ioceline aâ others in the liues of them and those Yorke together with all Registers Recorâ Annals and Antiquities doe prooue partiââarly In generall for this place it sufficeth in these Protestants publikely approued confessions to write it in their owne words Archbishop Parker being the 70. Archbishop after Augustine yet of all that number he was the onely man and the first of all which receiued Consecration without the Popes Bulls 17. They assure vs that vntill the 23. of King Henry the eight a ssuming supreamacie to himselfe euery Bishop in England swore âuch obedience vnto the Pope Hoc Iuramentum â singulis Episcopis Papae praestari consueuit Obediens âro Beato Petro Sanctaeque Romanae Ecâlesiae Domino meo Domino Papae suisque successoribus Papatum Romanum Râgalia S. Petri adiutor ero ad retinendum defendendum saluo meo ordine contra âmnem âominem This Oath was accustomed to be taken by âuery Bishop I will be obâdient to S. Peter and to the Lord my Lord the Pope and to his Successours I will âe an helpeâ to hold and defend the Popedome of Rome ând Râtâ of S. Peter against all men In the yeare of Christ 1536. and 23. of King Henry S. they âare and the Statuts themselues so prooue Leges in Parlamento lataesunt de Rege supremo Ecclesiae Anglicanae Capite declarando de Clero Anglicano Regifulijâiendo Ne quid deinceps amplius Papae aut Romanae Cuâiae quot unque praetextu ex Anglia pendatur De Episcopis consecrandis alijsque quae Roma anâea geâebantur intra Regnum persierendis De Eccleââasticorum beneficiorum primitijs atque decimis Principi in perpetuum soluendis His legibus potentia Papalis quae nongentis amplius annis in Angliâ durauis âentidiâ Lawes were enacted in the Parliament of declaring the King to be supreame head of the English Church of subiecting the English Cleâgie to the King That nothing heareafter vnder what pretence soâuer in England shall depend of the Pope or the Court of Rome Of consâcrating Bishops and performing other aââairââ within the kingdome which before were done at Rome Of paying pârpetually to the Prince the fiâst fruites of Ecclesiasticall Benefices and Tiâhes By these lawes the Papall power which hath bâne in forââ for these nine hundred yeares did fall And this was âo strang a thing and wonder in the world to see the supremacie of the Pope of Rome thus taken from him by a temporall Prince afâer so many hundreds of yeares continuance and a lay man to stile himselfe supreame head of the Church that his very flatterers themselues crye out Habetur Conâilium Londini iâ quo Eccleâia Angliâanâ formam potestaââs nullis aâte temporibus visum induit Henricus enim Rex caput iâsius Ecclâsiâ constituitur At London there is holden a Councell in which the English Church haâh put on a power which in no times past was seene For King Henry is constituted head of that Church So large testimonie haue we from our greatest Aduârsaries witnessing that the Catholikes of England giue no other power or Iurisdiction to tâe Pope of Rome then he had euer without any inteâruption And in this we haue âhe generall assent of all our Kings Princes Bishops and others and all the Christians in the world from the timâ of Christ vntill long aâter the greater part of King Henrie the eight his reigne No King against it but he whom the Protestant Sir VValter Ralegh sufficiently discribeth his young sonne King Edward the sixth of that name ouerruled by Protestant Protectours and Qâeene Elizabeth a woman King Iames wiser then any of them hath leât it thus publickây in open assembly declared by his Regall sentence The kings Resolution is that no Church ought further to seâerate heâselfe froÌ the Church of Rome either in doctrine or Ceremonies then she hath departed from herselfe when she was in her floâishing
great if euery one that is persecuted for Iustice shall haue his reward in heauen what will their honour be which haue suffered so much and so long time for that cause Your Protestant Aduersaries and Persecutours themselues taking the altitude of your miseries and suffrings for this greatest iustice haue found their eleuation to be raised to the hight of all former Persecutours who were Pagans professed enimies to Christ and all Christians They which professe Christ and Christianitie may not be such Great was the persecution of Nero and yet Britonie felt it not but was then a Refuge Aâyle and as a Sanctuarie to receiue and defend the persecuted Bitter was Dioclesiaus PersecutioÌ here in Britonie but as our Gildas telleth vs it was but Nâuânnis of nine yeares onely at which time the Scots ââcts Saxons Gormundians Aâricans and Dânes âll Pagans persecuted the Christiâs here But neuer any bearing the name of Christ before âhese dayes persecuted the Catholike Chriâtians of this Kingdome All those Pagans âersecuted Christians as enimies to their old Gods and Religion and for not ioyning âith them in Idolatrie deeming Christian âeligion newe and erroneous Our ProtestaÌt Persecutours persecute vs for defending the old Religion of Christ which cannot be vntrue and for not imbracing their newe which in the Schoole of Christ cannot be true 13. All the Pagans that euer persecuted here distroied not âo many Churches and Chappels as King Henrie the eight and his daughter Elizabeth nor tooke from the Church the halfe of that which they did Halse such a Fine and Ransome as the Catholikes paid to them aboue the third part of England in Religious Church-lands possessed by the Clergie here Sixhundred yeares since besides other for fitures would haue stopped the Pagans Persecution The Saxons greatest Persecution next to Dioclesians soone slacked and releÌted no soon âr had the Saxons driueÌ Theonus and Thadiocus Archbishops of LoÌdon and Yorke with other Bishops Priests and Religious from âheir Sees and Residences in the yeare of Christ 586. But King Ethelbert of Kent ruling vnto Húber by meanes of his blessed ChristiaÌ Queenâ Bertha and her holy Bishop S. Lethard gauâ ease and peace to Christians here before S. Augustines and his Associates comming hither and they were receiued by Ethelberâ not yet a Christian with honours and noâ indignities All they were strangers and forrainers to the persecuted Our Persecutourâ be of the same Nation blood and kinred and stiled Christians with them whom thus they persecute for Christs true Religion If King S. Ethelbert Queene S. Bertha and Bishop S. Lethard were now liuing Catholikes would not be persecuted THE II. CHAPTER That the Religion of our English Catholikes as well from the Saxons as Britons is the same with their first Apostles and deduced from them and first of the Saxons conuerted by S. Augustine and his Roman Mission NOw because our Protestants and Persecutours before haue deliuered it For greate glorie to our Nation to deriue our spirituall degree from so noble a Father as S. Peter We will âriue and deduce from him a continuall âd neuer interrupted Succession both of âiscopall and Priestlie function and doâine also in euery point now questioned by âr Persecutours froÌ that so noble a Father â these Protestant times And to begge more âce and fauour from these our enimies in âs cause they themselues shall briefly make âs deduction â And first concerning Bishops and Massing Priests sent hither or consecrated here by S. Peter's or his Roman Successours Iuâââdiction such as they now so greuiously dââ ãâã âhey confesse publickly that they had âo ãâã but so consecrated as the Roman Church did from the begining and stilâ doth consecrate vnâill their neââ booke oâ pretended Consecration maââ by King Edward thâ Sââth â child hiâââthoritie brought in theiâ ãâ¦ã aâd they acknowledge ãâ¦ã consecraâeâ ãâ¦ã Priesââ ãâ¦ã and doe ãâ¦ã ââstifie ãâ¦ã Engl. Proteââ in Rogers Booke of articles Annal. Burton an 140. Caiuâââtiq ãâ¦ã Annâl ãâ¦ã ân Mansââ ãâ¦ã 1. 6. Harrison descript of Brit. waâ oâr Archbishop ãâ¦ã moreouer that this our ãâ¦ã was seâlâd by this greaâest Aâostââ in âhe ãâã yâare of Nero and 67. ãâ¦ã â Peter returned againe to ãâ¦ã dâuers of thâse our Bishops and ãâ¦ã Nation as S. Manâuetus S. ãâã S. Maâcellus or Marcellinus the renoâned Priests and Preachers of Cambridge ân and afteâ the yeare 140. S. Marcellus being and liuinâ Bishop after King Lucius and Britonie waâ conuerted when three Archbisbops anâââventie eight Bishops were here placed anâ all Ecclesiasticall thinges established anâ confirmed by Papall power in this Kingdome â To make this Succession without aâ question they deliuer vnto vs the names aâ âme Episcopall Acts of our Archbishops Hollinâh Hist of England Stowâs Hist. Godwin conuers of Britan. Cataâ of Bishops in London Yorke and S. Dauids âf LondoÌ Yorke and Caerlegion In London âe chiefe Metropolitan See S. Theanus S. luanus Cadar Obinus Conanus Pallaâus Stephanus I'tutus Theodwynus or âedwynus Thedredus Hillarius Guiteliâs Restitutus Fastidius Vodinus Theoâs Others adde S. Augulus Ternokinus âd Gormcelinus They confesse that Theoâs the last Archbishop of London with full ârisdiction continued in his Archiepiscopall âe notwithstanding the Pagon Saxons inuaân and persecutioÌ vntill the yeare of Christ ââ which was but 10. yeares before S. Auguâââ coming hither So they testifie of Thaââus Matth. West an 586. Archbishop of Yorke the same yeââe âauing his See and with the Archbishop of ãâã and many of their Clergie flying into âalââ and Cornewall to the Christian Bisâps Priests and people there They reâpt in thâ Archbâââop See of Yorke Theoâsius Sampsoâââ Taurinus âeruanâs Sampsonââ ãâã and the âenamed Thadiocuâ ãâ¦ã âegion they â downe Tremonus S. ãâã S Daâid âiud Conanc Theliaus Eâbâdus wholiâd in S. Augustins time and after him imâediatly succeeding in Archiepiscopall digâtie fourty or more vntill the time of Berârd who in the yeare 1115. lost that honour âom that See by Papall order as all Antiâaries Catholikes and Protestants agree 4. These men also deliuer vnto vs a Catalogue of learned holy writers in euery agâ and in the age whâ S. Augustine came hitheâ they recount vnto vs the most noble Sainâ and Doctours Dubritius Iltutâs Congelluâ Dauid Gildas Kentigeânâs Brendant Asaphus and others whâly ând absolutâ agreeing with the Church of âome They ââ downe our Vniuârsiâies ãâ¦ã aâ among others ãâ¦ã from all eâror Our ãâ¦ã in the greââouncelâs ãâ¦ã âhe same faiâ with tâe whole ãâ¦ã they had mâ entercourâe ãâã âââmunicaââon next to tâ Popes of ãâ¦ã the moââ Catholike aâ renowââd ãâ¦ã Churcâ of Christ â Athanaââââ ãâ¦ã S. Martine and maâ more and bâth âââse Tertulââan S. Chryâstome with ãâã did highly commeÌd thâ our ãâ¦ã true Religion 5. Anâ becaâââ some Proâestants to muâ ãâ¦ã libertie cannot well eâdure ãâ¦ã ââckes and Religious sâ king wâaâ ãâ¦ã can âo disgrace suâ as oâherâ ãâã âânowned Clergie especialâ the ãâã of S. Benedicts Order
thât were coâsâcrated by theÌ is confesâ by all VVe haue the most worthie wiâââe of our old Bââtish antiquities written âut 1000 yeares since intituled euen by âestants glosses Prima ânstitutiâ varuâas âsiastiââ seruitij The first Institution and varâetie âââch sâruâce The Masse and publike officâ which in the time of S. German S. Lupus and S. Patricke was by theÌ and others vsed in Britanie Scotland and Ireland was the âame which was composed by Saint Marke the Euangelist And thus it continued here so long as the Britans ruled and after they were expelled by the Saxons with the which remained in wales ad Cornewall and theâ Scots and Irish. All our Archbishops both oâ London Yorke and Caârlegion Theonus Dubritiâs Sampson Dauid and the resâ with all Bishops and Priests vnder them werâ sacrificing and Massing Priests Altars foâ Masse were in all Churches and one tââ thâ sacrifice of Christs bodie and blood was offered in Masse All which appeareth in âannâ histories and their destructioÌ by the Pagaâ SaxoÌs in all Churches doth witnesse it Ecclââ Ecclesiastica omnia ad soluÌ vsâ destruebaÌâ Sacerdââes iuxta aâiaria trucidabaÌt They destroyed euen to ââ ground the Câurcâes and all Ecclesiasticall tâings tâe âilled the Priests at the Alâars Such were the Prâlats Bishops Priests Abbots and their Seââ Monasteries and Churches where Maââ was vsed in great number and aboundancâ in euery age ây the ârotestants confession âo Goââolin histor Eccles Matth. Parker Antiquis Britannis pag. 8. Tot tantâquâ Presâââârorum Mânacâorum Praesuluâ Episcoporum Ecclesiarum Coenobiorum Sâdiumâ vetusta nomina quae quosââ saculo extiterunt Se ãâã old names of Priests Monckes Prelats Bisâoâ Churches Monastericâ and Episcopall Seâs were in âuery ââge extante 13. And among the Saxons the first Christian Priests that were permitted here were Massing Priests their Sacrifice was the sacrifice of Masse their Church at Canterburie had Altars and Saint Leâhard the Bishop which came hither with the Fâenth Cathoâike Christian Ladie Queene Bertha married âo the Saxon king Etheâbert of kent and the Priests with him were all Massing Priests and âaied Masse in that Church allotted to theÌ to âhat end In antiquissima sancti Pâaesulis Marâinâ Ecclesiâ sub vrbe sua beato Pontisiâe Lethardâ praesiâente frequentabat Regina Missarum Oraâioâum âacra cum suorum coâitum samiliâ Christianâ ââ the auncient Chuâch of Saint Mârtin cituââd neare vnto the citie Lethardus the Bishop gouerâng it the Queene wiâh her Christian samilââ heard âasse frequently This was diuers yeares before âaint Gregâriâ that most holy and ââarned âope Gregoriâs magnus Romanus omnium âontisiâm Romanorum doctrinâ vitâ prâstantissimuâ âegorie the greate a Roman the worthiest of ad the âoman Bishops in doctrin and life As Protestants âle him sent Saint Augustine with his holy âmpanie hither and king Ethelbert as these âotestants saie by the persuasion of Queene ârtha his wise and her Clergie receiued the âole Roman Religion Conuârsus vxoris Berâ persuasione Ethelberius Rex Romanismum susceâ And Saint Augustine brought in among âher things Altars holy vestiments and âsselâ Relicks bookes of Ceremonies the Sacrafice of Masse and in a Councell assembled commaunded the Roman customes to be obserued euery where Introduxit Altaria vestimenta Vasa sacra Reliquias Ceremoniarum codices Prinum corum Studium erat cirâa Missarum oblationes Sedes âpiscopalââ ac deâimas coactà Syno do maÌdauit Romanas vâiq câsâctuâinâs sâruari And the Masse which S. Augustinâ brought hither fâom â Gâegoâie was the same which S. Gregoââe and the Roman Church then vsed and the present Râman Church and Catholikeâ of England doe vse at this time and the very same which was in vse before Saint Gregorie He onely addâââ vnto it as the Protestants themâelues confesse âew things not questioneâ by them as ãâ¦ã Lord haue mâââie âpon ââ to be diuers times ââiâerated which they confesse the Greeke Church dâd vse long before He added also Diâsque âostros in âuâ pace diââonas And dâspose our daiâs in thy peace And commaund we âe deliuered froÌ euerlasting damnatioÌ and numbred in the sâock of thy electâ But the Protestants allow and vse all these aâ also where they saâe he hadded Alleluia somâ times to be vsed it being vsed in Scripture and the saying or singing our Lords prayeâ Pater noster ordained by Christ and by Protestants confessâoÌ vsed in Masse in the Apostleâ time S. Aldeâme our holy Bishop and Countrie mâ who calâeth S. Gregorie his Maâââ writeth that he added in the daily Canon wââ the solenities of Masâe are celebrated in the Cââalogue of âââtyrâ S. ãâ¦ã ioyning the ãâã S. ãâã S. Anasââsiâ and âthers Qâââ ãâã Agatha âLuâia ãâã ãâã noster Gregoâââân Canone ãâ¦ã âmââa celeârâtur âopulâsse ãâ¦ã âââlogo ãâ¦ã âgaââa Luciâ VVhich S. ãâ¦ã and Pedagoge âregorie âs ãâ¦ã in the dââly Canon ãâ¦ã them after this mâner ãâã Catalogue ãâ¦ã Anastâsiâ Agaââa ãâ¦ã Saint Gregorie added no ãâ¦ã to the holy Masse For hereby ãâ¦ã the whole Canon was vsâd before anâ ãâã Saint Agatâa and Saint Lucia to the oâhâr holy women Martyrs proueth enough ãâã âis Act to be holy by former authoââtie and âxample those oââer holy Martyrs being by âhe Church of Christ placed and ãâã in âhe Canon before S. Gregorie hâs ãâã and S. âgatha and Sâinâ Lucia in the Caâââders of Protestants ãâã acknowledged and ãâã holy ãâã Saints and Martyrs For Saiââ Greâoââe to ioyne Saints to Saints in honour âould âe no ânsainctlike Act in him Nâither âhâ Priests of Engâand doe dâserue suâh peâalâies punishments and peâsââuciors as âhey naâe long suffered and now full âoe ândââe âor exeâcising their most honourablâ Functiâ ân offering their most diuine Sacriâiâe instituted by Christ offered by him his âoly Apostles and in all Ages after in this so approued and receiued Order and forme oâ Masse vntill it was first here disallowed by king Edward 6 a child and made so penall by Queenes Elizabeths strang proceedings in such affaires For king Henry 8. though otherwise a most strang Enimie to Christs âoly Church yet concerning Massing Priests anâ Masse he ordained by his laste will and Testament as is still to be seene Massââ That they should continue in England to the ând of the worlâ willing and charging Prince Edward his sonne aâ his Executors all his heires and Successours thâ should be kings of this Realme âs they will answear before allmightie God at the dreadfull daie of IudgmeÌt that they and euery of theÌ dreseâ it performed Neitheâ euer was there in England before that yoâ kings time or in any other nation wheâ Protestant Communion hath in these theiâ late daies opposed against Catholike Relâgion Priests and Masse any other Churcâ seruice but Catholike Masse and Sacriâieâ founde heard off or remembred in Antiquities 14. Therefore seeing the honour and dignitie of holy Priesthood in the respect oâ the most sacred and heauenlie
vntrue by their owne Parlaments testifying that in the very Primatiue Church and allwaies it was often ministred in one kinde onely Then no commandment of Christ contrary ca be brought to condemne all Churches times and places for such practise 8. Their 31. Article of the one oblation of Christ finished vpon the crosse denyâng against the whole Church of Christ in all ages and places and thereby depriuing God of all externall sacrifice contrary to scripture and all authoritie will not by the Rule of proportion giue more or so much honour vnto earthlie kings then Catâoliks doe giuing this tribute and Sacrifice to the king of heauen and all that is belonging or was euer giuen to their terrene Princes 9. Their 32. Articâe of the Marriage of Priests hath married this kingedome to many miseries it did not feele or know before The posteritie proceeded by such lawe or allowaÌce hath brought vs to number hundreds of thousands more then Britanie or England if it had remained Catholike should haue euer seene Many thousands of these are left vnprouided for and not a few are turned or wrested out of their possessions to furnish these Ministers children many of whom also haue fallen to such extreame wants that many of them haue taken desperate courses which the Catholike practise and Religion would haue preuented 10. Their 33. Article Of excommunicate persons how they are to be auoided Differeth not froÌ Cathoâikes but that Protestants commit the businesse of excommunication and absolution to such as Catholikes hold haue no power therein when both Catholikes and Protestants confesse that men assigned to such offices by Catholikes haue true lawfull and vndoubted authoritie 11. Their 34 Article Of Traditions of the Church is wholy Ceremonious by their owne expositioÌ and no man caÌ be so singular in this or any such matter but to thinke any particular Church or kingedome the more it agreeth with the vniuersall or most florishing Christian kingedomes to be more honourable and secure thereby then such as fall into Nouelties and singularities 12. Their 35. Article of homelies is nothing to this purpose And their 36. Article intituled Of Consecration of Biâhops and Ministers To whom they commit spirituall Businesse preaching ministring Sacraments and to excommunicate absolue and whatsoeuer in like kinde they take vpon them to practise is quite ouerthrowne by themselues before in their 22. Article where they saie that Order as they vse it Is no Sacrament or effectuall signe of grace and hath noâ any visible signe or ceremonie ordained of God Then not receiuing or hauing grace or such spirituall power it cannot coÌferre aÌd giue it vnto others or so exercise it especially in so many things as is required from truely and lawfully consecrated persons such as they acknowledg the Bishopâ and Priests of the Roman Church to be 13. Their 37. Article intituled of the ciuill Magistrate doth giue to teÌporall Princes supreamacie euen in spirituall things and denieth all Iurisdiction to the Pope of Rome in thiâ Realme in such affaires Of this sufficient is said before And euery equall minded man may easily see whether the temporall state of England was not more honourable noble powerfull and secure when the Popes Iurisdiction in spirituall thinges ruled here then now it is and euer since it hath beene and yet the Ritches and wealth which fell to our kings and Princes hands and commauÌde at such chang were as infinite and so great that king Henrie 8 to haue licence or assent to suruây them to make vse thereby promised to speake in Protestant witnesses words He would create anâ maintaine 40. Earles 60. Barons Edw. howe 's historicall pref in Henr. â three thousand knights and fourtie thousand souldiers with skilfull Captaines and competent maintenance for tâem all for euer ouâ of the auntieÌt Church reuenewes Neither should the people be any more charged with loane Subfidies and Fifteenes Since wâiâh time there âauâ bâene more statuts lawes subfidies and Fifteenes then in fiue hundred yeares before Thus in the publicke Protestant Historie in the yeare 1614. dedicated to our king now the Prince Charles Since we haue heard and tasted in EnglaÌd more matters of this nature And yet if we should make but Robin-hoods penâworthes and estimate of what hath beene taken away from holy constant Catholikes for proââssing their true and Apostolike Religâân in the Reigne oâ Queene Elizabeth king Iames and king Charles euen since he married a Queene prosessing for herselfe Catholike Religion It will amount to more then would haue deliuered a farâe meaner king and kingedome then ours of England haue beenâ accoÌpted from such complaintes of feares wants needs dislikes and variaââââ tâerein if God had well approued of such proceedingâ and such means of proceeding against his Catholike SeruaÌts our kings most faithfull ãâã 14. And the spirituall Supreamacie assumed by oâr Princes king Henry 8. king Edward 6 and Queene Elizabeth confirmed againe in this Article had wrought so good effects in so short time within 4. yeares of Q. Elizabeths obtaining the Crowne that Protestants in such order or rather disorder and number denied teÌporall power in Princes here to put any Rebell or whatsoeuer most greeuious offender to death and they weÌt further affirming that Protestants might not fight in defence of their Countrie though the Prince commaunded it wherevpon they were enforced to declare in this Article in this maner against such Protestant Brethren The lawes of the Realme may punish Christian men with death for heinous and greuious offences Is it lawfull for Christian men at the commaundment oâ the Magistrate to weare Armes and serue in the warrs And there were among them teaching and holding communitie of goods noâ theft spoiling or Roberie to be punished no iustice or lawe to be executed or Oath to be taken in Iudgement all Courts and Consistories to cease as is euident by the two last Articles 38. and 39. thus following the former intituled Of Christian mens goods which are not common And thus declaring The Riches and goods of Christians are not common as touching the right Title and possession of the same as certaine Anabâptists Protestants doe beast And the last â9 Article intituled of a Christian mans Oath And thus enacting and declaring We Iudge thaâ Christian Religion doth not prohibit but that a man may sweare when the Magistrate requireth in a cause of faith and charitie so it be done according to the Prophets teaching in Iustice Iudgment and truth This suffiââenâây witnesseth wâat goodly coÌmon-wealths-meÌ their Protestant Religion euân ãâã Infancie thereof had brought forth in this kingdome THE IX CHAPTER That true and obedient Catholikes be the truest and most obedient subiects 1. And in conclusion to come to the particulare Sâate and Regalitie oâ our most honoured King Charles and king Iames before him There neuer were any Protestants in England in their times or before which so truely and ducifully carried themselues towards their Monarchicall true Title Right
and Gouernment as generally Catholikâ euer haue done and will as they are bound by Religion to doe In the time of young king Edward 6. Cranmar and his Protestant Complices by that young kings will did their vttermost to extinguish and ouerthrowe it Queene Mary and her Catholike RegimeÌt did nothing against it but reuiued preserued and confirmed it In the ProtestaÌt reigne of Q. Elizabeth Statuts were made to auoide or hinder it It was enacted by Protestant Parlament Capitall to acknowledge it Hales an Engâish Protestant companion to the Scotish Knox wrote a booke expressely against the Title of king Iameâ No Protestant answeared confuted or seemed to disalowe it Onely Catholiks Sir Anthonie Browne a Iudge Doctour Morgaâ Doctour of Diuinitie and Doctour Smith of the Ciuill lawe confuted it The death of that glorious Catholike Queene Marie Grandmother to king Charles and true Heire of England was long sought and after contriued concluded and executed by Queene Elizabeth and her Protestants Many worthie Catholicks here for her cause loste their liues lands and what they possessed And all geârally for suspition of fauouring her and king Iames his Title and now of king Charles were much persecuted Yet no Persecution could euer force vs from that dutie to lawfull Princes and their Temporall Titles but we euer performed it though with daunger as we haue and doe our dutie to God and the holy Church No Catholike Clergie man aâ any time impugned it 2. William Bishop of Chaleedon and Richard now his persecured Successor maintained proued and confirmed it So haue all Archpriests Assistants and all in any authoritie among the Clergie either by opinion word or writing And some of vs that yet liue and write I might here catch hold of my owne penne with others haue as expressely plainely and effectuaâly taught and published it as king Charles can desire The Protestant writers of their great publike Theater of greaâ Britanie haue not giuen so great allowance vnto it The Lord Verulam in his historie of king Henrie 7. hath not asscribed too much a good Catholike writer would haue gâuen more vnto it 3. And to puâ all out of doubt or question in this businesse because Pââeâts and Catholikes are charged so much for adhearing to Papall poweâ in this they are assuredly knowne to be the truest Subiects to our king For all Popes actually or virtually in neuer approuing or legittimating Queene Elizabeth haue ratified and confirmed the iust Right of Scotland in thâs kingedome and Ireland And nothing can be saide to be more authentically approuâd and confirmed by Popes authoritie then Pope Innocentius 8. by his Papall Bull as our Protestants confesse and relate Bulla Innocentij S. in ââtrim Henrici Regiâ Ang. 7. Maâââ Parker Antiquit. Brit. in ââ Merit it confirmed both the marriadge of king Henry 7. with Elizabeth daughter and heire to king Edward 4. and his most lawfull and Iust ãâã to the Crowne of England By all Titles and Rights by Right of Inheritance right of warre right of marriage right of ElectioÌ and right of Parlament by hiâ Pontisicall power Paââ ad confirmandum illud legitimum diuinitusque conciliatum ac ad pacem tranquillitatem Anglorum maximè necessarium Matrimoniuâ suis Bullis opus esse putauit quia quarto cognationis gradu coniuncti nuptias contraxerunt In quibus etiam nè authoritate carere videretur regnum acquisitum RegeÌ confirmauit illudque iure hareditario Iure belli iure coniugali Iure elecââonis Iure Senatus seu Parliamenti Anglicani necnon Iure Pontificio atque suo ad Henritum Regem septimum eiusque Haredes in perpeââââ spectare debere pronuntiauit The Pope thoughâ iâ needefull by his Bulls to confirme that godly reconciled Marriage most nâââssarie for the peace and tranquillitie of English men for that they âad married in the sowerth degree In which also least it may seeme to want authoritie âe coâfirmed the obtained kingdome on the king and declared it to appertaine perpetually to king Henrie the 7. and his heires by âââeditarie right by right of warre by right of Marriage by righâ of election by right of the Counâell oâ Engliââ Parlament by Pontificall and his owne right This is so constringent and bindâng an obligation of all English Catholikes attributing so much to Papall powâr and Iuâiâdiction as Protestants saie we doe euer to performe all temporall dutie and obedience to our king Charles the vndoubted true lawfull Heâre of that so established king Heryââ to him and his heires for euer that no Catholike man allowing of Papall authoritie can euer be iustly suspected of disobedieÌce or vndutifulnesse to our Soueraigne And all the Protestants of ângland in their Religion cannot produce such a bonde testimonie or warrant foâ their like fidelitie 4. Therefore being thus clearely and manifestly made knowne and euident that the Religion of English Catholikes in euery point is most true and holy plensing to God and profitable in temporall Regiment the sacred Orders of our Bishop and Priest so honourable we hope our king and hiâ Councell hereafter will rather thinke of defending then offending protecting then persecuting K. Charles Declaration to all Subiects An. 1628. them And besides that is here saide his owne Regall declaration published with aduise of his Councell calleth vpon him and them so to doe For there with that aduise hâ thus publikly protesteth before God and mâ We âall God to record before whoÌ we standâ that it â and allwayes hath bâne our hearts desiâe âo be founâ worthie of that Title which we accompt the most glorious in all our Crowne Defendor of the saith 5. We must mâst humbly remember vnto him the saith whereof he is ââilcââ Defender wherein there is so mâch gloââeâ it is thaâ onely true saith of Caââoâiks as is here proued and no other true faith being but one â Ephes 4. Vnus Dominus vna sides vnum baptisâa One Lord one faith one Baptisme And this faith of Catholiks of Engâand is the true Catholike Apostolik faith and saith of the Church of Româ now and when that Title Defendor of ââ faith was giuen to king Henry the 8. beforâ his lapse from the Church of Rome by the Pope there for defending that faith against Luther The Title giuen must be interpreted by the giuer the Pope not the receiuer which could not receiue but what was giuen And this Title was giuen receiued and vsed many yeares before Queene Elizabeth or before her Religion the Religion of English ProtestaÌts now was borne aÌd was vsed both by king HeÌry 8. and Queene Mary not of this new Religion wherefore we hope our king calling God to Record will rather defend the faith of his Catholikes and them then to suffer them to be thus persecuted and his Councell which counsailed him in that declaration will so aduise and counsaile him And his Parlament that could not finde their Religion 80. yeares old will not hinder him in so good a deede seeing it is certaine by their owne accompt that the Title Defendor of the faith is about 30. yeares older then their Religion and so he cannot by that Title defend their faith A non ens can haue no defence It can neither be defended or offended FINIS FAVLTS ESCAPED AND CORRECTED Pag. 17. lin 3. Theanus for Theonus l. 15. Thadiacus for Thadiocus p. 21. l. 22. paene for penè p. 27. l. 28. most worthiest for worthiest p. 39. l. 28. were for was p. 42. l. 18. Phylosopho for Philosopho p. 43. l. 20. Huntingtonsyhre for Huntington shyre p. 47. l. 21. did increased for and encreased p. 51. l. 20. these man for these men p. 52. l. 19. Missae Papisticae for Missa Papistica p. 61. l. 19. Ireland for Iland p. 63. l. 6. translated them for translated p. 69. l. 22. euery one for and euery one p. 71. l. 7. formae for forma p. 80. l. 23. iurisdiction for iurisdiction on the Christians p. 91. l. 18. after S. Peter adde and to the holy Roman Church p. 100. l. 25. make no Parenthesis p. 111. l. 8. Omitt Theodoretus p. 120. l. 26. Omitt Thou shalt p. 123. l. 6. Amphilabus for Amphibalus Some other faults of lese moment I haue not put downe here they being easie for the Reader to correct in reading FAVLTS ESCAPED AND CORRECTED Pag. 13. lin 23. at which time for after which time pag. 17. l. 3. Theanus for Theonus l. 15. Thadiacus for Thadiocus p. 21. l. 22. paene for penè p. 23. l. 24. first to haue perswaded for before to haue brought p. 25. l. 5. as they most happely did for as soone after it most happely was p. 27. l. 28. most worthiest for worthiest p. 39. l. 10. S. Bonifacius for S. Benedict Biscop p. 35. l. 28. were for was p. 42. l. 7. yea 386 for yeare 586. p. 42. l. 18. Phylosopho for Philosopho pag. 43. l. 20. Huntingtonsyhre for Huntingtonshyre p. 47. l. 21. did increased for and encreased p. 51. l. 20. these man for these men p. 52. l. 19. Missae Papislicae for Missa Papistica p. 61. l. 19. Ireland for Iland pag. 63. l. 6. translated them for translated pag. 69. l. 22. euery one for and euery one pag. 71. l. 7. formae for forma p. 80. l. 23. iurisdiction for iurisdiction on the Christians p. 91. l. 18. after S. Peter adde and to the hoây Roman Church pag. 100. l. 25. make no Parenthesis p. 111. l. 8. Omit Theodoretus p. 120. l. 26. Omit Thou shalt p. 123. l. 6. Amphilabus for Amphibalus pag. 125. l. 1. allmost 1000 for aboue 1000. p. 150. l. 22. let for left pag. 156. l. 18. many for euery Some other faults of lese moment I haue not put downe here they being easie for the âeader to correct in reading
very aâciâââââââgland and doe endeuour all tâ can ââ diâinish the glorie of the Children so noble a Father and so doing for disliâ rather then loue either of them vs or oâ first Christian Saxons diuers among the doe very forwardly ascribe much to such hat labour And some of their prime Antiâuaries as some lately haue published haue âet downe vnder their hands that there were âoâ aunciently and but Egyptian and Beneâictine Monckes in this Kingdome of Britaâie no great glorie but rather diâhonour to his moât noble and auncieÌt Nation in Chriâian Religion A Nation that may iustly âaime prioritie in that kinde of honour âefore Egipt or any other Countrie in the âorld except they caÌ proue their Religious âore auncient then S. Ioseph and his holy âmpanie here in the yeare of Christs Natiâtie 63. by their owne confession and what âoÌckes of Egypt they were that came hither âey should if they could haue instanced â To performe which they will haue great âfficulâie sith that they themselues confesse âat diâers denie the Egyptian Rule was eâr receiued in the West and consequently âre Minimè credi volunt nonnulli Mo achorum Iohn Selden not spicileg in Eadmerum pag. 200. Egyptientium Instituta in Occidânte vnquam esse âepta Some will not haue it beleeued that the Inâute of the Eâyptian Monckes was euer receiued in west And yet it is certaine by their owne otestant writers that many Monckes and ânasterie were here in Britanie or in Enând Quouis saculo In euery age And before âyp had any Monasteries or Monâkes 6. We can and doe recount vnto them ânckes from Greece and Syria who came âo Britanie though longe after our first Conuersion and Religious were âetâed here So from the most âamous Monasterie of Lyrinum Veremunâ Hist. Sâât Hector Boeth Hist Scot. l. 6. Râphael âolâenshed âist of Scots our Greeke MoÌckes S. Regulus Albatus and his holy companie who brought the Relickes of Saint Andrewe the Apostâe into Scotland and were so nobly entertained by King Heirgâstus leauing Successouâs therâ who after were vnited to our old Briâisâ Monckes are âamouâ to posteritie S. Palladius who was sent Apostle hither by S. Caelestin the Pope as our Protestants writeâ was also a Grecian Palla lius Graecus And firsâ Ioan. Bal. l. de âcript ârit âentuâ 1. Nicolaus Hârlemân Paââââio Graeco a disciple to S. Iohn Patriarch of Hâerusaleâ that liued a Religious life in Syria especiallâ about Mount Carmelus Ioannis Hierosolymoruâ Patriarcha 44. dum adhuâ Eremi cultor solitaââ Syriae loca Carmelum praecipuè incoleret Nicolao Haâlemio teste Discipuluâ fuit As witnesseth Nicolaâ Haâlem he was tâe Disciple of Iohn the 44. Patriarcâ of Hierusalem whilst he was as yet a louer of the Heâmitâge and inhabited the desert places of Syria bâ especially the Mount Carmelus This may giâ antiquitie âere to our learned Carmelits tâking their name thence and as they saie comming from Syria S. Germanus and S. Lupâsent Britan. ãâã Antiq. in mââuscâipt hither Apostles by the same holy Popâ were first Monckes of LyrinuÌ Monasterie aâ brought that Church seruice hither And â Patriâke borre in this our Iland liuiâ sometimes with our Glastenburie Monckeâ and Scholler to S. Gââman was in the saââanner sent into Ireland These were tâ Rulers and Directours vnto all our British Scotish and Irish Monckes so much renowâed through the whole world 7. Both English and Scotiâh Antiquiâies Vâremund Hect. Boeth supra Man Antiq in vita S. Birini Capgââ in eodem witnesse that soone after S. Augustine of âippo his death and long before any Monckes of S. Benedicts Order came hither âhe Augustine Monckes Canon-Regulars âere seated and setled here who were most âoly and learned men Non tam eruâitionis ââam proâatissimarum viriutum veâaeque pieâatiâlââ insignes Not so much famous fââ learning aâ for âproued vertues and zeale oâ deuotion S Dauid âaint Brendanus Saint Columbanuâ Conâellus and others here wrote Rules of Monckes 8. To exemplifie but in the worthinesse of Sigibert ãâ¦ã vir Illustr in S. Câsâââo Caesar ArâlateÌsis Homilia 25. ad Monachos Tom. 2. Bââliotâââ Patrum âe Lyrian Monckes who ioyned with ours â Britonie as S. Caesarius Archbishop of ârles neare adioyning thereto and before âbbot there testifieth that Ab Orienâe vsque ad âccidentem ab omnibus paene locis in quibus Chriâiana Religio âolitur religiosâssima vestra conuersatio â Christi gloriaem praedicaâur From the East to the âst in all places almost where Chââstian Reâigion is âaintained thâre to Christ his glorie your most Chriâian conuersation was preached And ãâã saeâââsula Lyrinensis quae cum pâruula plana esse viâatur innumerabiles tamen monâes ad âaelum misisse âgnosciâur Haec est quae eximios nuâriâ Monâchos âastanââssimos per oânes Prouââciaâ erogat Saâerââes The blessed and hapâie ââand of âârinum though it seeme to be little and plainâ yet it is knowne to hauâ sent vnto heauen innumerable mountains This is sâe which bring th vp most famous Monckes and through all Prouinces sendeth forth most excellenâ Priests 9. This testimonie of such a witnesse being giuen a little before S. Gregories timâ who was so learned a Moncke and Father to many such in Rome argueth that his MoÌkes and the Monckes of Lyrinum could noâ be strangerââo eaâh other S. Gregorie also commanding his Monckes he sent into EnglaÌd to goe to the Archbishop of ârâeâ Successour to S. Cesarius so neare Lyrânum ãâã his assistance and they bringing from thencâ into England Assistants and Interpreter ânâ S. Augustine being consecrated after Bishoâ of EnglaÌd by Eâheââus Archbishop of Arles according to S. Gregories directions confirmeth the same the accesse of such hither theiâ preachingâ and directions here and our firsâ English Moncke after S. Augustine comming hither so honouring the Monckes anâ Monasterie of Lyrinum that they traâelleâ ouer all England and France with them anâ Saint Benedict Biscope who was brought ââ with our British Monckes when none other were here being professed in âyrinum Monâsterie showeth how little dâffeâence there waâ betweene the old Monckes of Britanie thâ Monckes of Lyrinum and Saint Augustinâ and his fellow Monckes sent hither bâ âly Saint Gregorie the Pope 10. By all accompts it is most certaine in âstorie that S. Benedict Biscope was proâled in Lyrinum went to Rome returned âo the North part of England where he as Abbot diuers yeares before S. Benedict â Rule was first giuen or receiued in these ârtes and was also Abbot at Canterburie âbey and gaue place to S. Adrian who was ât hither by the Pope with Saint Theodore âchbishop there before S. Wilfride the first âer of S. Benedict's Rule in the North was âleâ Archbishop of Yorke to giue it or gaue âe foresaid Rule to the Monckes as the âonckes themselues confesse And that he â not deliuer Saint Benedicts Rule to the âonckes in the
oldâesse of the Record is not remeÌbred Quis isâe Rex fuit scedulae veâustas negat scire he was their Beâefactour and gaue them or confirmed to âhem Inswitrin Terram quae appellatur Inswitrin âd Ecclesiam veâustam concessit ad petitionem Morâret âiusdem loci Abbatis The land which is called ânswitrin he granted to the old Church by the pâtiâioÌ of Morgret Abbot of that place and their Bishop Manuto wrote and coÌfirmed it Ego Manuto Episâopus hanc chartam scripsi I Bishop Manute wrote tâiââaper 14. Besides this Bishop England had then ât Saint Augustines coÌming diuers Bishops âere ordered or sent by the Popes authoriâie Saint Asaph in the west S. Iuo in Hunâingtonsyhre S. Lethard in Kent and others not vnprobably in other places besides ouâ British Bishops in VVales and those of Scotâand And to remember but the names of our first Bishops in England after S. Augustines comming besides Kent and London where âhe and his Associats were Bishops all which vndoubtedly by all writers Catholike and Protestant old or new Monasticall or others either were of our British old Order or ioyned with them that were at that time here 15. VVe haue in the North Saint Aidanâ Finan Colman Tuda Eata Cuthbert Foâ Yorke S. Paulinus the first by Marianus waâ ex Francia and staied but onely 6. yeares after him S. Cedda S. Wilfride Bosa Sainâ Iohn called of Beuerlaie brought vp in Sainâ Hilda her old Monasterie At winchester wâ had S. Birinus spoakeÌ of before who restored in that Monasterie our old MoÌckes and ioyâned with the Northumbers Agilbertus â Frenchman who preached long in Ireland ioyned âlso with the Northumbers VVinâ also a Frenchman and Eleutherius remembred before In Liâhfeild we had Diuma oâ Dwyna a Scot hauing all Middle England for his Dioces so had sixe or seuen of his Successours all such vntill the yeare 678. Cellacââ Scot Trumhere Ianuman Cedda winfride Saxulf I passe ouer all the old Sees iâ wales knowne and confessed by all to haue had none but such Bishops 16. Such also was the ordinarie aÌd vniuersall pietie and sanctitie of our old holy Priestâ and Preachers of that time before any later Order was receiued euen of the laie people conuerted and taught by them as the learned Saint Bede then liuing much be waileth the great change and alteration saying In tantum Beda l. 3. Hist âccles Angl. cap. 5. auââm vita illâus Aidani à nostri temporis segnitia distâbat vt omnes qui cum eo incedebant siue aettonsi ââue laici meditari debeâent id est aut legendiâ Scripturis aut Psalmis discendis S. Aidan his lifâ âas so farre different from the slouthfulnesse of our âe that all those which went with him wheather âonckes or Laickes were to meditate that is they âere to bestowe their time either in reading Scripture â learning the Psalmes And in an other place ââaieth thus of Bishop Colman who dispuâd with Saint VVilfrid and of his Predeâssours Bed histâ ecclesiast l. 3. ca. 26. Quantae autem parsimoniae âuiusque contiâtiae fueriâ ipse cum praedecessoribus suis testabatur âam ipse locu quem regebaâ Of how great abstinenâ and continencie he was with his Predecessours the âce it selfe which he ruled did witnesse where âen they went away very few howses besides the âurch remained and these howses onely without âch ciuill conuersation could not continue They had âonie nothing but cattell If they receiued any moâ of the riche presently they gaue it to the poore All care of those Doctours then was to serue God and not worlde All their desire was for the soule and noââbellie wherevpon in that time the habite of Reliâ was in greate reuerence so that wheresoeuer ââst or Moncke did come he was ioyfully receiued âll as the Seruant of God And if any trauailing âeir iornie did meete him a Priest bending âselues they reioyced to be signed with his hande âssed by his mouth They gaue diligent eare to his ârtatioÌs VpoÌ the sondayes they flocâed to the Church âonasteries to be instructed in the word of God If Priest chanced to come into a villadge the Inhaâts presently came together and desired to receiue âord of life from him For there was no other cause âriests or Ecclesiasticall men to goe to villadges but to speake briefely to âuer soules And they were so ãâã from all infection of couetousnesse that they would nâ except compelled by the riche men of the world ââceiue lands or possessions to build Monasteâies Whiâ custome was genârally obserued in the Churcâes of tââingdome of Northumberland sometime afâerwardâ Thus of Saint Aidan their first Apâstâe anâ of his Disâiples and people by him conueâced and although he kept Easter otherwiâ then those did which came from Rome yâ he was and worthily beloued of all euen â the Archbishop of Canterburie Honoriâ for his workes of faith pietie and charitiâ and during his life that difference was patieâtly endured And this was not an errour câmon to all Scots but to some of theÌ for Roâ and others impugned it And wheÌ it was roâted out it was not done by MoÌckes or otheâ Bed l. 3. 4. 5. Guliel Malmesb. Matth. Westm Floren. ââigârn from Rome but as Saint âede and otheâ prooue either by the Poâes admonitioÌ as â Ireland by Bishop Agilbertus and Saiâ Wilfride in Northumberland and in othâ place by Saint Egbertus Adamnanus aâ others of their old owne Order and profâsion 17. In this I haue the longer insisted ââ onely for the glorie and honour of those oâ Fathers in Christ not iustly to be takâ from them to be giuen vnto others and tâ it is the honor of our English Priests aâ Catholiks to be heires successours aâ children to such Antecessours and parentâ Religion But because it is the most common Dauid Pâwâll ââ annoâaâ in l. 2. ââraldi CaÌbren de ãâã Cambr. Io. Bal. in Act. Râman poââific l. 2 ââ Gâegor 1. Francis Godwin conuers of Bâiâ p. 4â Fulk answ ãâã cont Cain p 4 Middlâto papist pag. 202. Foxe Aââ and Meâ pag. 463. edit an 1576. Io. Gâsâ lin Hâââor eâclesiast Matth. parker Antiquiâ Brit. pag. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. receiued allowed and approued opinion and confession of our English Protestants and those their best learned in their estimatioÌ to write in their owne very words At the comming of Augustine there florished with âhe Britans the preaching of the truth sincere doâtrine liuelie faith and the pure worship âf God âuch as from the Apostles themselues was by Gods coÌâaundement deliuered to the Churches The Britans âefore Augustines comming continued in the âaith of âhrist euen from the Apostles time After the Britans âmbraced the saith of Christ they neuer forsooke iâ neiâer when Augustine came into the Iland So many ând so great a number of the old names of Priests âoncks Abbots Prelates Bishops Churches Abâeyes and Sees which haue beene in euery age doth âfficieÌtly
froÌ Rome wenâ into those pââ wâeâe the Scots now be aÌâ whether the PerâcutioÌ did not cumâ aÌd there they ioyned wâ those of Pope Victors Mission And in tâ Persecution among so many Archbishops aâ Bishops placed here by Papall authoritie â finde fewe if any at all then put to death â suruiuing after to haue consecrated Prieâ dedicated Churches and performed other âpiscopall duties and offices as the Prieâ and others did theirs also Bilustro supra â turbinis neâdum ad Iââegrum expleto emarcesâââ busque nece suorum authorum nesarijs decretis laeâââminibus omnes Christs Tyrones quasi post hiemaleâ prolixâm noctem temperiem lâcemque serenam â coeâestis excipiânt renouant Ecclesias ad solum vsâ destructââ Bâsiâitas Sanctorum Martyrum fundâ construunt perfiââunt ac veluâ Victricia signa paââ propalânt dieâsâstos celebrant sacra mundo corde â que âonficiunt omnes exultant filij gremio ac si Mâ Ecclesiae cânsoâi Mânsit namque haec Christs caâ membroâuÌ consonantia ãâã donec Ariânorum pâdia intrauit Tenue yeares of the foresaiâd Troubleâ âing as yet altogether compleate and the wicked deâes decaying in the dâth of their authouâs all the folâers of Christ wiâh iâyâull lâghâââ as âf aâtâr a ââng â er night they had receiued light aÌââpleasant tâpeâure of heauânââe aâre they âneweâ the ãâã ââich were fallen to the ground they âoânded builded â finished Cathedrall Churches of ãâ¦ã âââly did set forth as it were signes of Victorâ thây âeârated feastes thây saied Masses with pure heart and ãâã All ââildren in their mother ãâ¦ã âhey were begotten of the mother the Church and vâââ the wickednesse of the Arâââââred this swââte vâân of the members of Christ the head reâaââed So Gild as S. Bede and other great witnesses âd yeâ when Arianâsme was diâated âaâât âhan âsius S. Hâlary and other authorities âe cleare Britanie as much as any nation âroÌâ at insectââ For it remaânââ ââme and coÌânt obedience to the Popes ââ Roâe in that âwerth age both in Princes Bishops and âhers Great Constantine our Emperour âng and borne in Britanie with S. Helenâââ Mother a Briâan and Emâââsse hânoârâd âe See of Rome in the highâst maner They âd no doubt diueâs of our British Bishops â the Councelâ at Roââ of 284 westeââââshops were present and assenâed when iâââ decreed Nâââ ãâã it primâm sedem quoâm omnes âeâes a ãâ¦ã dâsidârant ãâã Neque aâ Augusto reâue ãâ¦ã Râgihus neque à popâââ Iudex ãâ¦ã â 4. Episâopâ 4. 5. Presbytârs 5. Diaconiââ duo sequentes Augustus Constantinus Mater eiâ Helena None shall iudge the first See for all Sees doâ desire that iustice be moderated by the first See neither by Augustus neither by the whole Clergie neither by Kings nor by the people the Iudg shall be Iudged Aâ heare vnto subscribed 2 4. Bishops 45. Priestes â Deacons and the two which followeth Constantine ââ Emperour and Helena his mother 13. VVe had our Bishops present and subscribing with generall assent of Britanie â the great Councell of Sardie assembled oâ of 37. Prouinces where the Popes Supreamâ spirituall power in all places is decreed aâ confirmed in two seuerall Canons and Aâpeales to be made to him as highest Iudgâ The Pope then did not onely rule the conueâted Christians But also sent Apostolike mâ Saint Ninian a Britan instructed at Româ with others to conuert the Pagan Picts â this Nation Audiens Pontifex Romanus quosdâ in Occiduis Britanniâ partibus necdum fidem Chââ suscepisse ad Episcopatus gradum Ninianum consecâuit Concreditum à Deo âalânâum per Britannorââ Scotorum Australium Pictorum terras ad seniâ vsâue latissimè profudit Ordinauit Presbyteros Epââopos consecrauit totam terram per certas Paâchias diuisit Pontifex Romanus Ninianum praemââgenti datâ bene lictione Apostolum destinauit Tâ Pope vnderstanding that some in the westerne parteâ Britanie had not as yet receiued the saith of Christ consecratâd Ninianus Bishop which Talent giâ vnto him from God he powred forth largly vntill wes agâd through all Britanie Scotland and the Southerne Picts He made Priests coÌsecrated Bishops and ânto certaine Parishes he denide the whole Land The Bishop of Rome sent Ninianus Apostle to the foresaied people giuing him his benediction 14. In the fiââe age Saint Celestine Pope sent S. Paâladius to the Irish and Scots S. Patrick after him to the Irish S Germanus Lupus and Seuerus to the Britans to roote out Pelagianisme to quiet and settle the Ecclesiasticall state here which they did consecrating Bishops Prâests and what else necessary in these Contries VVhich by their power Legatine they so happily performed that Protestants themselues so testifying among the Scots âalladius in hodres num diem Scotorum Apostolus appellatur Palladius vnto this day is called Apostle of the Scots Among the Irish Patricius incredibili spiritus feruore EuangeliuÌ Hibernis praedicans ad sinceram Christi fidem eos per 60. annos in vineâ Domini laborans conuertit Profanâ Deorum destruxit templa Ecclesias sundauit verbi ministros ordinauit Patrike preaching the Gospell to the Irish with incredible feruour of spirit laboring in the viniard of our Lord for the space of 60. yeares tenuerted them to the true faith of Christ the prophaine temples of the Gods ââ dâstroied he builded Churches he ordained Ministers of the word Old Nennius liuing soone after saith Ecclesias fundauit 365. Ordinauit Nenniuâ Episcopos 365. aut amplius in quibus spiritus Deminâ eâat Presbyteros autem vsque ad âriâ milliae ordinauit He founded 365. Churches he ordained â65 Bishops or more in which was the Spirit of ouâ Lord but Priestes he made 3000. VVhich must needs be done as the Popes Legate for other Countriâs also besides Ireland S. Germanus with Saint Lupâs at the first and second time wâth Saint Seuerus reformed all things amoÌg the Britans be made Bihops and Priestes aÌd among the rest S. Dubritius Aââhbishop âeauing him to be the Popes Legate here after their going hence 15. In the Sixt age Saint Dabritius still liued who resigning his Bââhoprike S. Dauid succeeded him both as Archbishop and Legate reforming all things and Ownes Briâanniae Eâclâsia modum Râgulam Râmanââuthoritate acceperunt All the âhurcheâ of Britaniâ by Roman authoritie receiued both then manner and Rule The Pope sent Saint Iuo an Archbishop inâo Britanie or then England who liued and died here Saint Kentegern Bishop receiued Power and Approbation from the Pope of Rome going thiter seuen times And Sanctus Papa illuÌ virum Dei Spiritus sanctâ graâiaÌ plenuÌ intelligens in âpus ministerij à Spirita Sancto illi iniunââi destinauit The holy Pope vnderstanding him âo be a man of God âeplenished with the grace of the holy Ghoste he sent him into the worke of the ministerie âhâch was enioyned him by the holy Ghoste So renowned was this holy Apostolicall Legate here and in all
Gospells from the shoulders of the ânsecrated But this maketh not much to the ârpose it being onely as I haue saied a Ceremonie and not essentiall to the Consecration of a Bishop and that true and vndouted Bishops were made before the Gospells were written Otherwise the wholâ Church then euer after and now and eueâ had wanted it and had no Ecclesiastical Order at all Which is the lamentable and desperate condition of such as persecute a truâ Bishop and Priest for their Order and power thereby confessing their want both of thaâ which is essentiall in this high office as alsâ consecratours to performe it consecrat truâ Priests or confer any Ecclesiasticall Ordeâ or degree at all not the meanest in that kinâ to any person 20. All Authors agree euen Protestants iâ their Catalogues of British and English Biâhops that we had continuall succession oâ such here in great numbers vntill Queen Elizabeth by her supreamacie depriued anâ deposed them And to keepe it farre from thâââme of an Innouation to haue one such Bishop Successour to so many if we haue thaâ libertie in time of Persecution when Bishop are driuen from their Sees vsuall in histories to remember and honour them in Exiâ and Persecution we haue still kept a Succesion of Bishops in or of this nation Of thoââ which were depriued of their Bishop pricke we haue Richard Pates Bishop of worcheste who subscribed to the Councell of Trent hâ being there present by this Title Richardâ Patus wigornieÌsis Episcopus Thomas Goldwell Bishop Godw. Catal. of Bish. in Worcest in Ric. Pates in S. Asaph in Thom. Goldwell of Asaph liued at Rome 20. yeares after that deposing Thomas watson Bishop of Lincolne was committed to prison in the I le of Elie and died about the yeare 1584. Thus the Protestants themselues deliuer and moreouer they deliuer much praise and commendatioÌs of theÌ and all others our renowned Bishops 14. or more in number who were deposed and persecuted by Queene Elizabeth yea far more and greater theÌ they doe of those which were intruded into their places Before or soone after the death of Bishop Waâson of Lincolne Owen Lew is of this our Nation was consecrated Bishop of Cassan in whose life-time our most Illustrious Cardinall William Allan was honoured with that dignitie and consecrated Archbishop of Maâkâen who liued with these honours vntill the 16. day of October in the yeare of Christ 1594. ân his time William Gifford was by Pope Clement the eight made Deane Ecclesiae Diui Petri Insulensis Of Saint Peters Church at Lile And afterward he was ordained Archbishop of Rhemes in Champaine in France where he lately liued And whilst he liued Archbishop both VVilliam of Chalcedon and Richard also who is now so persecuted were by highest Papall authoritie coÌsecrated ad sent into England And what man of ordinarie knowledge Iudgement or vnderstanding will aduenture to saie but all these were renowned men as also diuerse of our renowned Priests most worthie of Episcopall honour aÌd dignitie in equall times honourably stiled and registred for all posteritie not onely as great glories of their CouÌtrie England but the whole Church of Christ Therefore to haue one of such worthie men a Bishop in his natiue Countrie bearing for auoyding offence his Title of a place so farre hence which froÌ the first Conuersion thereof to Christ had 3. Archbishops aÌd many Bishops aboue 1400. yeares past should not in the new English Religion teaching the Church of God neuer wanted Bishops and acknowledging both him and all Catholikely consecrated Bishops and Priests to be true and lawfull Bishops and Priests vndoubtedly by right ordination be offensiue but desired such Order Function and dignitie being by their publike testimonies most needefull excelleÌt and honourable with all true Professours of Christian Religion 21. Thus we see a Succession of English Bishops though not all in England but in other CouÌtries some of them consecrated and remaining a thing not vnusuall in times of Persecution and bannishment of Bishops as in the great lights in their time of Gods Church S. Hilarius S. Athanasius S. Chrysostome and others loÌg time exiled yet thereby did not interrupt a continuall Succession in their Sees What least exception then can be taken against our renowned Bishop of Chalcedon for Order and degree so honourable and eminent by all testimonies for his owne worthines and worthily therefore to be had in high reuerence euen with his Persecutours he bringeth able witnesses with him his knowne loue aÌd honour to our king Queene and CouÌtrie his owne holy life and conuersation his learned works and writings with all at home and abroad he hath euer piously and gratefully conuersed and with honour defended and iustified himselfe against Maleâolants Among all English Catholickâ oâ Protestants few are to be found which haue more defeÌded the honour of our Soueraigne âone more acceptable to his Maiesties frieds ând Allyes in marriage no maÌ among so maây renowned Priests of England worthie of âreatest honour in equall times adiudged so ât to supply such place by that highest Paâor which hath shewed great care and loue four king Queene and hoped Posteritie ând Countrie And since Persecution and âroclamation against him what could such a âan in Persecution doe more then he hath âone in decreeing and Ordering that all âriests and Catholiks should daily with deâotion praie for our king Queene State and Countrie And both since the comming in of âim and VVilliam of Chalcedon of happie âemorie his Predecessour as likewise before âe Catholiks of England haue bene and now âe knowne to be the most loyall dutifull and liuing Subiects in our dearest Countrie of England THE VI. CHAPTER That our English Priests who teach alâ things with the Apostolicall Religioâ are truely coÌsecrated worthie men anâ are to be honoured and not persecuted 1. Hauing redeemed Episcopall Ordââ and dignitie conferred by the Sâ of Rome from all Imputation of wickâ obloquies and made it knowne to be so higâ and honourable we might spare all furthâ labour for exemption and defence of Prieââlie Function seeing euery Bishop of neceâsitie must be a Priest and whatsoeuer of thâ calling is noble and glorious in a Bishop must needs be such in Priests Episcopal hânour and consecration addeth an higher aâ greater worthinesse to him that was beforâ Priest but cannot take away or diminish aâ excellencie or renowne he had before Tâ Protestants of Scotland doe confesse whiââ all knowe that after Catholike ReligioÌ wâ ouerthrowne there they had not any preteâded Bishops before King Iames accordiââ to his manner of making such gaue suâ Titles to them And their Knoxe Buchanan Forbs Bale and others both of England ând Scotland are not ashamed to saie that âefore the sending of Saint Palladius thither ây Saint Celestine Pope about the yeare 430. âlonckes who were onely Priests supplied âhe place of that dignitie with that People âut malice to Episcopall worthinesse and âower their owne