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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

ordered to be banished the Realm his Temporalties seised his Lands and Goods forfeited Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury was committed Prisoner and impeached convicted of High Treason against Queen Mary for aiding the Usurper Queen Iane against her and his Goods and Temporalties seised Edmond Grindon Archbishop of Canterbury falling into Queen Elizabeths displeasure was suspended from his Archiepiscopacy by her order till his death Archbishop Abbot for killing his Keeper by Chance-medly in shooting at a Back was suspended from his Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction by King Charles the first for sundry years and his Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction power delegated to others And Will. Laud the last Archbishop of that See in the Parliament of 16 Caroli was impeached of sundry High Treasons and high Misdemeanours against the King and Kingdom by the Commons of England and Scots Commissioners for which he was upon full Tryal and Hearing imprisoned atttainted condemned and beheaded on Tower-hill his Goods and Temporalties sequestred seised sold by Judgment and Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament To these numerous Presidents of the Archbishops of Canterbury I shall annex some paralel ones of the Archbishops of York VVilfred Archbishop of York for his Treason in favouring and aiding the rebellious Danes and perswading Queen Ermenburga to desert her Husband the King was by King Egfreds prosecution twice condemned and deprived of his Archbishoprick in two several Councils his Temporalties and Goods seised his Person imprisoned his Archbishoprick divided into two or three more Bishopricks and himself exiled some write for ten others for eight years together till at last with much importunity many Letters from the Pope others he was restored to his See Wolstan Archbp. of York for his hamous Treason in deserting his natural Christian King Edgar against his Oath Allegiance Piety Function Christianity and adhering to the invading heathen Danes who wasted the Country and endeavoured to rout out the Christian Religion and for murdering divers Citizens of Hertford was deprived of his Bishoprick and imprisoned by the King for a year and at last murdered himself Turstan Archbishop of York for receiving his consecration from the Pope at the Council of Rhemes against King Henry the first his expresse command and his own Oath and Faith to the King was banish'd the Realm his Temporalties seised by the King for five years space and he hardly permitted to return into England after many mediations and menaces of the Pope in his behalf Geoffry Plantaginet Archbishop of York for breaking his Oath with King Richard the first was kept from his Temporalties and imprisoned by William Longchamp After this Anno 1194. upon several complaints against him in Parliament for hindering the Kings Officers to gather a Tax in his Diocesse and sundry contempts against King Iohn his Lands and Goods were seised and returned into the Kings Exchequer by the Sherift of York-shire by the Kings command for which he excommuniting the Sheriff was suspended his Bishoprick and forced to pay a Fine of 1000 l. for his restitution After which for excommunicating those who collected a Tax for the King he was banished the Realm and his Temporalties seised for above five years time the See being kept void above ten years space in the Kings hand when he was first made Archbishop Thomas Corbrig Archbishop of York for obeying and preferring the Popes commands before the Kings in admitting the Popes Clerk to the Chapel of St. Sepulchres in York and rejecting the Kings about the year 1300. had for this his contempt three Baronies antiently belonging and annexed to his Archbishoprick taken away and kept from him by King Edward the first during the Archbishops life without restitution Alexander Nevil Archbishop of York was attainted of High Treason in the Parliament of XI King Richard the second his Temporalties and Estate seised and his Person adjudged to perpetual imprisonment in Rochester Castle who flying the Realm Pope Vrban made him Archbishop of St. Andrews in Scotland but the Scots refusing to own his Papal Authority he was stripped of both Archbishopricks and forced to live a poor Parish-Priest in Lovain till his death Richard Scroop Archbishop of York was condemned and beheaded for High Treason against King Henry the fourth and all his Temporalties Monies Goods seised and consiscated to the King An. 1405. George Nevil Archbp. of York Brother to Henry Nevil the Great Earl of Warwick a perfideous Traytor both to King Edward the 6th and Edward the 4th in the year 1472. was arrested of High Treason at VVindsor by King Edward the 4th all his Plate Money and other movable Goods to the value of 20000 l. seised for the King together with a Miter of inestimable value by reason of the many rich stones adorning it which the King broke and made a Crown thereof for himself the profits temporalties of hi-Bishoprick were taken into the Kings hands for above 4. years space and himself long imprisoned at Calis Guisnes for his Treason against the King Cardinal Thomas Wolsie Archbishop of York a most insolent proud ambitious covetous Prelate for his manifold misdemeanours Oppressions and high crimes against the King kingdom people and Kings royal Prerogative was first attainted in a Praemunire An. 21 H. 8. whereupon the K. seised all his Goods and took away the Great Seal from him After which the Lords and Parliament exhibited sundry Articles of High Treason and other Misdemenours against him Upon which by the Kings command he was arrested at Cawood of High Treason by the Earl of Northumberland in November 1536. his Plate Goods and Temporalties seised himself caried Prisoner towards London with intent to bring him to the Tower to be further proceeded against to a void which infamy he poysoned himself with a strong Purgation whereof he died at Leycester Abby after which the King seised all his Lands and Manors though a Cardinal and Archbishop To these Presidents of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York I shall annex the like of some other inferiour Bishops William de sancta Maria Bishop of London for interdicting the whole Realm and excommunicating King Iohn together with Edward Bishop of Ely and Maugerus Bishop of VVorcester who concurred with him in this interdict and excommunication to gratifie the Pope had all their Goods and Temporalties seised upon by the King Anno 1201. their Castles demolished and themselves banished the Realm for five years space Fulco Basset Bishop of London a great Stickler for the Pope against King Henry the third whom he oft affronted ●●●●essed the King and Pope might take away his Bishoprick his Miter and Crosier but not his Helmet and Sword wherein he most gloried and consided Henry Sandwich Bishop of London against his corporal Oath of Fealty and Homage to King Henry the third was a prime Stickler in the Barons wars against this King and Promoter of the Articles of Oxford in the forty

second year of his Reign which took away his just Regal Power and Government of the Realm and delegated it to twelve Commissioners which Articles all the Bishops consented unto and sealed with their Seals and this Bishop amongst the rest for which in a Council held at VVestminster he was suspended both from his Episcopal Office and Bishoprick which were sequestred into the Kings hands Edmond Bonner Bishop of London a grand Persecuter and Burner of Gods true Saints yea a bitter Enemy to King Edw. the 6th and Queen Elizabeth was twice deprived of his Bishoprick for his Contempts and Misdemeanours once in King Edward the 6th his Reign and again in the first year of Queen Elizabeth for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance and murthering so many Protestants under Queen Mary and by Authority of the Queen and Parliament committed Prisoner to the Marshalsee among Rogues where he died amongst Rogues and Murderers and was buried at midnight in obscurity Wina Bishop of VVinchester so highly offended Kenewalchus King of the West Saxons who advanced him that in the year 666. he drave him out of his Country and deprived him of his Bishoprick About the year of Christ 1107. King Henry the first was so far incensed against VVilliam Gifford whom he had formerly invested in the Bishoprick of Winchester by the delivery of a Ring and Crosier for renouncing th●● 〈◊〉 Investiture and refusing his Consecration out of fear to displease Archbishop Anselm that he seised his Temporalties and banished him the Realm Henry de Bloys Bishop of VVinchester against his Oath of Fealty and Allegiance to Q● Maud dis-inherited her of the Crown and set up K. Stephen in her stead who not long after falling out with this Bishop seised all his Castles whereupon he revolted to Maude and procured a Pall from the Pope to be made Archbishop of VVinchester and to have seven Bishopricks annexed to his Province VVilliam Raley Bishop of VVinchester for excommunicating the Maior Citizens and Monks of VVinchester for obeying King Henry the third his Edict not to give him or his any victuals or lodging and interdicting the Cathedral there was forced to fly the Realm and relinquish his Bishoprick till by Archbishop Bonifaces and the Popes mediations which cost him a gratuity of 6000 l. he made his peace with the King Ethelmar Bishop of VVinchester caused the Barons assembled in a Parliamentary Council at Oxford to take up Armes against him for his intollerable Insolencies Tyrannies Exorbitancies Oppressions and to drive him out of the Realm who seising on all his Goods and Treasure they could meet with writ Letters and sent Agents to Rome to stop his return into England which neither the King Lords nor Commons would permit upon any Letters or sollicitations from the Pope on his behalf to King Henry the third and the Lords Iohn Gernsey Bishop of VVinchester was excommunicated by the Popes Legat his Temporalties seised and he forced to fly to Rome for an absolution for taking part with the Barons against King Henry the third subscribing and ratifying with an Oath the Antimonarchical Provisions of Oxford in derogation of the Kings Royal Power and Government against his Oath and Allegiance to the King Henry VVoodlock Bishop of VVinchester interceeding to King Edward the first for Robert VVinchessie Archbishop of Canterbury banished for Treason and calling him his good Lord had his Temporalties seised Goods confiscated and was put out of the Kings protection VVilliam VVickham Bishop of VVinchester for wasting and embesselling the Kings Treasure to a great value wherein he was condemned had all his Goods seised his Temporalties bestowed on the young Prince of VVales and was likewise banished above twenty miles from the Court Stephen Gardiner Bishop of VVinchester for a seditious Sermon preached before King Edward the sixth and disobeying the Kings Injunctions was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and afterwards to the Tower of London for two years space and an half after which he was deprived of his Bishoprick seised into the Kings hands and sent to Prison again being an implacable enemy to King Edward the sixth and the Lady Elizabeth afterwards Queen of England whose death he oft contrived and had well-nigh accomplished Iohn White Bishop of VVinchester to obtain this fat Bishoprick promised to give the Pope 1600 pounds a year out of it during his life which Sin the Pope seemingly detesting he was forced to pay much dearer ere he could obtain it he threatned to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth in the first year of her reign for which he was committed to Prison After that for refusing 〈◊〉 take the Oath of Supremacy and Allegi●●●● 〈◊〉 the Queen he and thirteen more Bishops were deprived of their Bishopricks and others placed in their roomes Kenulph the tenth Bishop of Durham in the year of Christ 750. was apprehended and committed Prisoner of the Castle of Bebba and his Church besieged by Egbert King of Northumberland for misdemeanours against him Fgelrick 16. Bishop of Durham charged with Treason and Conspiracy against VVilliam the Conqueror Pyracy on the Sea and disturbing the peace of the Kingdom was for these offences commited perpetual Prisoner to VVestminster Abby where he lamented his misdemeanours and dyed very penitently Egelwyn the 17. Bishop of Durham for raising two Rebellions against King William the Conqueror and excomm●● the King with all his Followers as Invadors and Robbers of the Church was banished the Realm deprived of his Bishoprick and at last invading the Realm was taken Prisoner in the Isle of Fly by the King and committed close Prisoner to Abyngdon Anno 1071. wher● refusing to take any sustenance he died of anger grief and hunger Not mention the tragedy of VVa●cher Bishop of Durham created Bishop and likewise Earl of Northumberland by VViliam the Conqueror the first Spiritual and Temporal Lords of this See who turning a very great Oppressor of the People so far incensed them by the murther of Leulsus by Leoswin and Gilbert his Chaplain and Kinsman that they assaulted him and his Followers in the Cathedral Church where they fortified themselves slew the Bishop himself and all his retinue to the number of one hundred Persons and set the Church on fire VVilliam Kairlipho his next Successor in the See of Durham though advanced to that Office by King VVilliam Rufus and made one of his Privy Counsel yet he most treacherously and ungratefully conspired with Odo Bishop of Bayon and other Great men Anno 1088. to deprive him of his Crown which the King who most trusted and favoured him of any other took very grievously at his hands whereupon he marched to Durham in person with his Army which this Bishop by strong hand held out against him till at last he was enforced to surrender the City and himself to the Kings mercy who thereupon banished him the Realm for three years taking the profits of his Temporalties

Evangelical Bishops from our Saviours time had no Temporal Lands or Possessions till the year of our Lord 319. when the Emperor Constantine the Great first endowed Bishops and Church-men with them as Matthew Westminster and others record though his pretended Donation of Rome and other Temporalties to Popes their successions as St. Peters Patrimonie be a mere forgery as Laurentius Vall● Dr. Crakinthor●e and others quoted by them prove at large Now Iohannis Pa●●siensis Higden Wickliffe the Lord Co●●am Purvey Iohn Frith Nauclerus Bishop Iewel Thomas Beacon and others relate That when Constantine endowed the bishops and Church with Temporal Lands and Possessions the voyce of an Angel was heard in the ayre crying Hodie venenum infunditur in Ecclesiam This day is Poyson powred into the Church of God and from that time they observe because of the great Riches and Temporalties the Church and Bishops had they were made the more Secular and had more worldly business than Spiritual devotion and more outward Pomp and Splendor than inward Holyness the Daughter riches which the Church brought ●orth devouring her Mother Which if an experimental verity as sundry of our own and foreign Writers attest as I have elsewhere proved at large then it can be no Sacriledge or Impiety but wholsom physick for the King and Temporal Lords and Commons in Parliament for just causes to take away this poyson from Bishops and Cathedral Churches which hath so much poysoned corrupted them and to reduce them to the condition of the Primitive Bishops who by the Decrees of the 4th Councel of Carthage c. 14 and the Exceptions of ●g●●rt Archbishop of York Anno 750. c. 26. were only to enjoy mean Houshold-stuff course Food and HOSPITIOLVM a little Cottage near the Church not a Royal Palace or Lordly Manors which made them more Proud Lordly Secular Tyrannical Pompous Covetous than any Temporal Lords and to take precedence of them both in great Councils Parliaments and other publick Assemblies yea to intrude themselves into the greatest Temporal Offices to the great neglect of their Spiritual Functions they scorning to hold and follow the Plough of Christ after they became Lords and Barons of the Realm as Bishop Latymer proves at large in his 4th Sermon of the Plough and forgetting these Canons of the 4th Council of Carthage c. 19 20. Vt Episcopus pro rebus transitoriis non litiget provocatus Vt Episcopus nullam rei familiaris curam ad se revocet sed Lectioni et Orationi et ver●i Dei praedicationi tantummodo vacet as the primitive Bishops did which would gain our present Bishops more love respect reverence with God and all good men than all their Lordly Pomp Temporal Lands or Baronies which in all Ages have made Bishops and Cathedral-men more Secular than Spiritual more proud luxurious covetous vicious than religious or vertuous as Gregory Nazianzen Oratio 26. 35. Isiodor Pelusiota Epist. l. 2. Epist. 125. l. 3. Epist. 223. Gregorius Magnus lib. Pastoralis Curae part 2. c. 6. Moralium in Job l. 24. c. 29 30. Homil. 17. in Evangelia Gildas acris Correptio c'eri Britanniae St. Bernard Sermo 22 23 77. Cantica ad Clerum in Concilio Rhemensi de Consideratione ad Eugenium l. 1 2 3 4. Epist. 42. Henrico Senoniensium Archiepiscopo Johannis Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curialum l. 8. c. 17 23. Petrus Blesensis Archdeacon of Bath Tractatus de constitutione Episcopi Johanni Wigorniensi Episcopo Epistola 15 18 22 25 43 64. Robertus Holcot in lib. 5. Sapientiae Lect. 77. Alexander Frabricus Destructorium Vitiorum pars 4. c. 8 14 21 22. pars 5. c. 2. pars 6. c. 2. 26 40. John Wickliff Dialogorum l. 3. c. 14 17 23. Alvarus Pelagius de plancotu Ecclesiae l. 1. Artic. 70. D. l. 2. Artic. 1. to Artic. 17. Nicholaus de Clemangis de Corrupto Ecclesiae statu c. 17 18 19. Episcopus Chemnensis Onus Ecclesiae cap. 14 to 27. Joannes Aventinus Annal. Boyorum l. 5 6 7 8. Albertus magnus in Evangelium Johannis c. 10. Picus Mirandula Oratio ad Leonem 10. Petrus de Aliaco de reformatione Ecclesiae Abbas Uspergensis Paralip p. 164. Fasciculus Rerum expetendarum p. 173. Ma●s●l Patavinus Defensoris Pacis part 2. c. 11. Theodoricus à Niem l. 3. c. 41 45. l. 2. Nemore Unionis c. 19 Guicciarden Historiae Ital. l. 6. St. Brigets Revelationes passim Petrus de Vinels Epist. l. 1. c. 35. Illi●icus Catologus Testium Veritatis Peirce Plowman his complaint of the Abuses of the World Sir Geofry Chaucer in his Ploughmans tale Lucifer Prince of Darkness his Letters to the Prelates of England written as is supposed by William Suinderby a Martyr Dr. Barnes his Supplication his Articles p. 210 to 216. and Mr. William Tyndal his obedience of a Christian man and Practise of Popish Prelates Iohn Bale de Vitis Pontificum Centuriae Scriptorum Brit. and Image of both Churches on the Apocalypse Iohn Frith a Martyr in his Answer to Mr. M●res Preface Roderick M●rs his Supplication to King Henry the 8th and Parliament c. 23 24. Another Supplication to King Henry the 8th printed 1544. The Image of a very Christian Bishop and of a counterfeit Bishop printed Cum Privilegio Regali under King Henry the 8th William Wraghton his Hunting and Rescuing of the Rhomish Fox dedicated to King Henry the 8th Henry S●albridge his Exhortatory Epistle to his True Country-men of England against the pompous Popish Bishop thereof printed in H. the 8th his reign at Basil Martin Bu●er Regins Professor of Divinity in Cambridge D● Regno Christi dedicated to King Edward the 6th l. 2. c. 1 2 12. De vi usu sancti Ministerii The Image of both Pastors printed at London Cum Privilegio 1550. Bishop Hooper on the 8th Commandement p. 78 79. Bishop Latymer his 4. Sermon of the Plough Matthew Parker or Iocelin Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brittannicae p. 139 to 144. Thomas B●acon his Reports of certain men and in his Supplication vol. 3. Bishop Iewel in his Sermon on Haggai 1. p. 176. and on Matthew 9. p. 198. All which the Studious may elsewhere peruse at leasure and sundry others joyntly attest Upon which consideration not only Wickliff and Hus but several of our Martyrs as William Suinderby Walter Bruce Iohn Purvey Sir Iohn Oldcastle Lord Cobham Sir Iohn Borthick justified the lawfullness and necessity of taking away the Bishops abused Temporalties which were such poyson to them 3ly That many of our Kings by the Laws and Customs of the Realm and by vertue of their Royal Prerogative have kept our Archbishops and Bishops Temporalties in their hands and taken the profits of them as their Demesn rents keeping their Sees when void by death translation or resignation for sundry years together as all the Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors

Archbishoprick at Litckfield took away six Bishopricks formerly subject to the See of Canterbury and detained the Lands above thirty years till at last restored by the judgement of two or three Parliamentary Great Councils after many Petitions and Complaints upon full hearing and examination Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury for refusing to Crown King William the Conqueror and holding the Bishoprick of Winchester in Commendam with his Archbishoprick together with many other Bishops and Abbots was deprived by the Kings procurement and kept Prisoner at VVinchester during his life receiving only a small allowance out of the Exchequer to support him dying in Prison his Bishoprick remained void two years space in the Kings hands no lesse than twenty five Manors being taken away from it till recovered by ● ansraue his Successor in a famous Council of the Noble and Elders of England held at Penindene King VVilliam Rufus banished Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury out of the Realm for Treason against him and his Soveraign Power and seised his Temporalties till his death after which King Henry the first recalling him he most trayterously and obstinately oppugned the Kings Prerogative of investing Bishops in their Bishopricks by a Ring and Pastoral-slast and refusing to do homage to the King or to consecrate any Bishops who received Investitures from him or did Homage to him for which he was banished for three years out of the Realm all his Temporalties and Goods moveable and immoveable seised into the Kings hands with the Temporalties Goods of those Bishops who renounced their Investistures by the Kings donation by Anselmes perswasion King Stephen seised all the Goods and Temporalties of Theobuld Archbishop of Canterbury and banished him the Realm for departing out of England to Rome upon the Popes summons contrary to his expresse royal Prohibition and for interdicting the King and whole Realm After which being restored to his Archbishoprick by the other Bishops mediation his Goods and Temporalties were again consiscated and seised into the Kings hands Anno 1152. for refusing to Crown Eustace King Stephens Son he forced to flye the Realm which he caused to be infested with fire sword and bloudy wars Thomas B●cket Archbishop of Canterbury an infamous perjured Traytor to and Rebel against King Henry the second his advancer and indulgent Soveraign grand Oppugner of his Royal Prerogatives and of the Customs of the Realm contrary to the Oath and Recognition of himself and all the Bishops Clergy and Temporal Lords in the famous Great Council of Clarindon endeavouring totally to exempt the Clergy from all Temporal power jurisdiction and judicature for the most detestable Crimes and Murders had all his Goods and Moveables by judgment of the Bishops and Peers condemned and confiscated to the King his Temporalties seised into the hands all his Moneys Jewels Plate confiscated together with all the Clergy-men goods who adhered to him all his Kindred Man Woman and Child secured and afterwards banished the Realm together with himself for sundry years and was at last slain in the Cathedral Church at Canterbury for his manifold Treasons Rebellions against the King to the great disturbauce both of the Churches and Kingdoms peace King Iohn An. 1205. seised upon all Archbp. Huberts Lands and Possessions after his death for his manifold Contempts and Oppositions against his Royal authoritie and resolutions during his life Stephen Langhton his next Successor in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury for his manifold Treasons and Rebellions against King John had all his Temporalties and Goods seised by the King and was suspended from his Archbishoprick and threatned to be deprived of it by the Pope Archbishop Boniface being commanded by King Henry the third to relinquish his Archbishoprick and depart the Realm by reason of the grievous Complaints both of the Clergy and Commonalty against him thereupon selled his Woods leased out his Lands extorted what moneys he could from his Tenants and carried all with him in to Savoy where he dyed King Edward the first Anno 1301. put Robert Winchelsie Archbishop of Canterbury with all the other Bishops and Clergy out of his Protection and the Parliament House and seised the Archbishops Temporalties Goods Debts After which divers High Treasons and Rebellious Conspiracies were laid to his Charge by the King who thereupon the second time seised all his Temporalties and Goods moveable and immoveable appealed him to the Pope banished him the Realm forbidding any of his Subjects under grievous penalties to harbour him and seised all the Lands of the Monks of Canterbury and banished them the Realm for furnishing this Arch-traytor secretly with necessaries King Edward the second caused all the Goods of Iohn Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury to be seised and his Temporalties to be sequestred into his hands whiles Bishop of Winchester for taking that Bishoprick by Provision from the Pope against his Royal command After which being advanced to Canterbury by King Edward the third he was soon after accused of Treason Treachery and Conspiracy with the French and Pope against the King whose designs against them he crossed all he could whereupon the King resolved to commit him Prisoner to the Tower of London whither he sent the Bishop of Chichesier then Lord Chancellor and the Bishop of Lichfi●ld then L. Treasurer Prisoners for the like offences Wherupon this Archbp. flying to Canterbury and there standing on his Gard refused to render himself carrying himself very insolently and rebelliously against the King both in his Sermons and Excommunication saying That he had received no honor nor advancement from the King but ONLY FROM GOD and that he would give an account of his Actions in no. Court and to no Person but in Parliament Whereupon a Parliament was summoned and divers hainous Crimes charged against him by the King which the King after great suit and intreaty pardoned Simon Langham Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England Anno 1371. was put from his Office his Temporalties seised and stripped of all his Archiepiscopal ensigns for receiving from Pope Vrban the Cardinalship of St. Sixtus without King Edward the third his privity who was highly offended with him for it Anno 1386. Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury in the insurrection of Iack Straw was beheaded on Tower-Hill his Head fixed on a Poll and set on London Bridge as a Traytor and Enemy to the King and People King Rich. the 2d highly offended with Will. Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury for receiving his Archbishoprick by provision from the Pope against the Law and his Prerogative Royal and for other Misdemeanours commanded all his Goods and Temporalties to be seised and forced the Archbishop himself to hide his Head for fear of imprisonment till he made his peace with him Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury was impeached and condemned of High Treason against the King in the Parliament of 21 Rich. 2. by judgement of Parliament for which he was

If then it were neither Sac●iledge Impiety nor Injustice in these Parliaments and our Kings to take away sell alienate these Lands and Revenue of Priors Monks Monasteries and divert them from their primitive uses as our Bishops Dean and Chapters must grant as well as others or else renounce resign most of the Temporalties Rents Appropriations and Revenue they now enjoy originally belonging to Monasteries then by the self-same reason it can be no Sacriledge impiety or injustice for the King Lords Commons and Parliament upon the like grounds and considerations to take away sell alienate the temporal Land of Bishops Deans and Chapters if they offend or obstinately refuse to give the late Purchasers of them competent satisfaction for the Kingdoms Peace and Tranquility upon their commands and votes 9ly That is evident by our Histories Records Leager-books that all or most of the Manors Lands Tenements in England and Wales now in the possession of the King Queen Nobility Gentry and Commons of England have heretofore in some Age or other been solemnly consecrated devoted and given by their Ancestors to some Cathedral or Collegiate Church Abby P●io●y Nunnery Cell religious House or other or else by art fraud monyes vested in and setled on them in perpetuity as the Churches Patrimony Yet notwithstanding they have been alienated substracted or taken wholy from them in successive Ages and the inheritances of them setled in our Kings Nobles Gentry and Yeomanry without any scruple of Consciences or real or imported guilt of Sacriledge From whence it inevitably followeth That is the greatest part of all the Temporalties Lands and Revenues which our Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbots Priors Monks Templars Hospitallers and other Ecclesiastical or religious persons formerly enjoyed by as good right title in Law Conscience as those now or any of them yet enjoy them might be lawfully alienated or justly taken from them by our Kings Parliaments and Temporal Lords and may be still detained from them by the Purchasers of them their Heirs or Assigns without Sacriledge Impiety or Injustice Then by the self same reason the Lands and Temporalties they lately possessed or yet possess may upon any publick necessity or just occasion be alienated sold and taken from them by our Kings Parliaments Lords and Common without the guilt of Sacriledge or Impiety so as there be a competent maintenance left for the Evangelical Ministers Bishops and Pastors of Parochial Churches for the instruction edification and salvation of the Peoples souls committed to their charge There being the self-same reason of Sacriledge and no Sacrilege in alienating substracting selling detaining the major part of their Lands temporalties as of the Minor Or else if it be real Sacriledge to alienate sell detain any parcels of Lands or Temporalties formerly given by our antient Parliaments to others or vested in the Church or Church-men then all our Kings Parliaments Nobles Commons must be actually guilty of these sins and as far forth obliged in Justice Conscience to make full restitution of all Church-lands whatsoever formerly alienated or substracted as the late Purchasers of Bishops and Cathedral Lands and then the whole Kingdom or farre greatest part thereof must henceforth become the Churches and Church-mens Patrimony and our Kings Nobles Gentry Commonalty of all degrees their mere Homagers Vassals Farmers and Tenants at sufferance the antiquity of former alienations sales of Church-lands by our Ancestors if Sacrilegious and Impious rather aggravating than extenuating the Crime but no wayes justifying the Legality thereof it being a Maxime in our Law Quod ab initio non valet tractu temporis non convalescit and a Principle in Divinity that the older any sin is and the longer persevered in the more execrable and fit to be repented redressed and that Heirs Assignees and Successors are obliged to make restitution of sacrilegious Rapines as well as the immediate Authors of them 10ly That the Dispensation and Indulgence of Pope Iulius the 3d. himself Cardinal Pole Archbishop of Canterbury his Legate upon the Petition of all the Bishops and Clergy of England though Papists and the memorable Act of the whole Parliament of 1 2 Philip Mary c. 8. reciting them and confirming all alienations seisures sales of the Lands Manors Rents Revenues Goods as well of Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Cathedrals as of Abbots Priors Monks and other Religious Persons and Monasteries made by our Kings or Parliaments to the Crown and the Purchasers of all and every of them and their Heirs from the twentyeth year of King Henry the 8th till the first of Queen Mary during their revolt and pretended scisme from the Church of Rome and of all Ordinations Presentations Ecclesiastical Sentences and Proceedings for the publick peace benefit tranquility of the Church and Realm of England and satisfaction of Purchasors may for ever silence our Prelates and Cathedral mens loud cryes against the sacriledge of the late Sellers and Buyers of Bishops and other Cathedral mens Lands and enduce them to give the Purchasors of them full satisfaction by confirming their sales for a competent time For which end I shall transcribe so much of that memorable Act as concerns our present case and condition We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled representing the whole body of this Realm reduced received by your Majesties intercession to the unity of Christs Church and the obedience of the Sea Apolike of Rome and the Popes holyness governing the same make most humble suite unto your Majesties to be likewise means and intercessours that all occassions of contention hatred grudge suspition and trouble both outwardly and inwardly in mens Consciences which might arise amongst us by reason of disobedience may by authority of the Popes holyness and by ministration of the same unto us by the most reverend Father in God the Lord Cardinal Poole by dispensation toleration or permission respectively as the case shall require be abolished and taken away and by authoritie sufficient these Articles following and generally all others when any occasion shall so require may be provided for and confirmed First that all Bishopricks Cathedral Churches Hospitals Colleges Schools and other such foundations now continuing made by authority of Parliament or otherwise established according to the order of the Laws of this Realm sithens this scisme may be confirmed and continued for ever Item that mariages made infra gradus prohibitos consanguinitatis affinitatis cognationis spiritualis or which might be made void propter impedimentum publicae bonestatis justitiae or for any other cause prohibited by the Canons only may be confirmed and children born of those mariages declared legittimate so as those mariages were made according to the Laws of the Realm for the time being and be not directly against the laws of God nor in such case as the Sea Apostolike hath not used to dispence withall That institutions of

preserve Your Sacred Person in perfect health and safety to reign over them in all Prosperity Tranquillity Felicity and Glory till extreme old age and no other casualty shall translate You from a temporal to an eternal Crown in the Highest Heavens Which bath been is and alwayes shall be the daily Prayer of From my Study in Lincolns Inne Novem. 24. 1660. Your Majesties dutifull and Loyal Subjects WILLIAM PRYNNE An Antient Plea in Justification of the late taking away and Sales of Cathedral-lands c. IN the year of our Lord 1378. Iohn Wickliffe in the University of Oxford in his Sermons and Writings publikely asserted That the Lords temporal may lawfully and meritoriously take away their Temporalties from the Church-men offending habitually That if any temporal Lord do know the Church so offending he is bound under pain of damnation to take the Temporalties from the same That it is lawfull for Kings in causes licensed by the Law to take away the Temporalties from the Spiritualty sinning habitualiter that is which continue in the customs of sin and will not amend That whether they be temporal Lords or any other men whatsoever they be which have endowed the Church with Temporalties it is lawfull for them to take away the same Temporalties as it were by way of medicine to avoid sin notwithstanding any Excommunication or other Ecclesiastical Censure for so much as they are not given but under a conditon The Bishops of England conceiving their Great Lordly Minors and Temporalties to be much endangered by these Positions of Wickliff drew up these and other Positions of his into Articles of complaint against him and sent them diligently to Pope Gregory the XI at Rome with other Articles of a diffrent nature to the Number of 18. where they were condemned for heretical and erroneous by 23. Cardinals Hereupon Pope Gregory sent his Bulls to the Chancellor Universitie of Oxford King Richard the 2d and the Archbp. of Cant. to apprehend imprison and persecute Wickliff who was thereupon summoned to appear before a certain Convocation of Bishops at the Archbishops Palace in Lambeth where he justified these Positions by reason Scripture Canon and Civil Law After Wickliffe death 45 Articles being exhibited against him in the Council of Constance and these 3. amongst the rest That to enrich the Clergy was against the rule of Christ. That the Pope with all his Clergy having those possessions as they have be hereticks in so having and the secular powers in so suffring them do not well That the Emperor and secular Lords be seduced which so enrich the Church with ample possessions Thereupon Iohn Hus a most learned pious Bohemian Divine particularly justified these Positions of his amongst others against the censure of the Pope and Council of Constance before the whole Universitie of Prague in Charls Colledge in a particular Treatise De ablatione bonorum temporalium a Clericis delinquentibus printed at large in his Works in Latine Novemb. 1558. pt 1 c. For the most part translated into English by Mr. Iohn Fox in his Acts and Monuments London 1641. Vol. 1. p. 595. Which Book all Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and Canons Residentiaries were bound to have in their Cathedrals Halls and Great Chambers that it might be publikely read by their Servants and Strangers by the Canons made in the Provincial Synod of London Anno 1571. p. 5 6 7. whereby this Doctrine of Wickliff and Hus is not only tolerated but justified by them as orthodox and no wayes sacrilegious or heterodox as some now repute it The second Disputation in the Vniversity of Prague upon the seventeenth Article of John Wickliffe most fruitfull to be read proving by 25 Reasons out of the Scriptures How that Princes and Lords Temporal have lawfull Authority and Iurisdiction over the Spiritualty Churche men both in taking from them their Temporalties and correcting their Doings and Deserts TO the honour of almighty God and of our Lord Jesus Christ both for the trying out of truth and the profit of holy mother the Church according to the congregation of our University of Prage which avoiding alwaies to do that which shall be prejudicial to the truth hath deferred to give their consent unto the condemnation of the forty five Articles wishing even unto this present sufficient probation to be given of the condemnation of the said Articles and particularly of every one of them Whereupon the said University doth alwaies require due proof of the same forsomuch as Pope Damasus in his canon distinction sixtie eight chapter Chorepiscopi saith thus That it is necessarie that whatsoever thing standeth not by due reason should be rooted out Whereby it appeareth that the condemnation of the five and forty Articles if it stand not with proof and sufficient demonstration for every Article is necessary to be rooted out But if any man will object and say that to require a reason of every thing is to derogate from Gods divine power Unto this answer Master William doth answer himself in his Philosophy the first book almost at the end where he intreating of the place in the second Chapter of Genesis God made man of the slime of the earth c. hath these words For in what point say we are we contrary to the holy Scriptures if we seek by reason to declare wherefore any thing is done which is said in the Scriptures to be done For if that a wise man should say that a thing is done and do not declare how it is done and another man speaketh the very self-same thing and declareth how it is done what contrariety is there But for so much as they themselves know not the force of nature to the intent that they might have all men partakers with them of their ignorance they would have no man to inquire it out But they would have us beleeve as ignorant people neither to seek any reason of our beleef that the prophecie might be fulfilled Such as the people is such shall be the priest But we truly do say that in all things a reason is to be sought if it may by any means be found But if that any man do stay at any thing which the Scriptures doth affirm let him commit the same unto Faith and unto the Holy Ghost For Moses saith If the lamb cannot be eaten let it not be by and by consumed in the fire but let him first call his neighbour which dwelleth next house unto him and if they also be not sufficient to eat the lamb then let it be turned in the fire So likewise when as we goe about to seek any thing as touching the Godhead and that we be not able of our selves to comprehend the same let us call our neighbour which dwelleth next house unto us that is to say let us seek out such a one as dwelleth in the same Catholick faith with us and if then neither we neither yet he be able to comprehend the same