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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74974	De non temerandis ecclesiis, churches not to be violated. A tract of the rights and respect due unto churches. Written to a gentleman who having an appropriate parsonage, imployed the church to prophane uses, and left the parishioners uncertainely provided of divine service, in a parish neere there adjoyning. / Written and first published thirty years since by Sir Henry Spelman knight.	Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Spelman, Clement, 1598-1679.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4921; Thomason E335_5; ESTC R200775	67,012	74

subjects of England eminent for Wit as Learning great in the esteeme and favour of his Prince laden with home and Forraigne dignities full of wealth as yeares in briefe he was while free from Sacriledge the great and successefull Counsellor of his Prince and indeed the Catalogue of humane blessings but about the 17th yeare of Henry the 8th Woolsey by consent and licence of the King and Pope Clement the 7th e Holl. f. 891. Stow. Good f. 67. dissolves forty small Monasteries in England to erect two Colledges the one in Oxford the other in Ipswich thou and I may think this a work of Piety to destroy the poor Idolatrous Cells of lasie and ignorant Monkes to erect stately Cottages for learned and industrious Divines this God must accept and prosper both the Act and Acter No thou art deceived he that would not that thou shouldest doe evill that good may come thereof will not accept an offering commenced by Sacriledge in the ruine of 40 Religious Houses Woolsey layes the foundation of his Colledges but never sets up their Gates About three yeares after the King possesseth his Pallace at f Good f. 104. Holl. 909. Westminster Whitehall the Great Seale is taken from him his great wealth seised and himselfe confined to a poore house at Assure where he remained a time saith g God f. 106. Godwin without necessaries driven to borrow furniture for his house money for his expences so as in his speech to the judges he complained that he was driven as it were to begge his bread from doore to doore 21. Hen. 8. he is convicted in a Premunire all his Lands and Estate seised by the h Holl. 909. Good f. 67. Good 108. King his Colledge at Ipswich destroyed before built that at Oxford receives some indowment and a new name from the King but is never to be finished In the 22. H. 8. at his Castle at Caywood he is by the Earle of i Holl. 915. Northumberland arrested of High Treason and fent towards London at Lecester the Lievtenant of the Tower met him at whose sight he was much affrighted and to prevent a publique and ignominious death which he feared he gave himselfe saith k Mart. 304.306 Martin a Purge * Hist Pont. Rom. Card. f. 1408. Venenum recepisse say they that write the lives of the Popes Cardinalls whereof he dyed and was obscurely buried in Lecester Abby without other memory then his Sacriledge The Cardinall in dissolving his forty Monasteries had used the help of five men besides Cromwell whereof two afterwards l Good f 67. fought a Duell in which one is slaine and the survivor hanged for the murther so each dyed guilty of his own and the others blood a third becomes Judas-like his own executioner for throwing himselfe into a well he is there drowned the fourth a great Richman to whom nothing is so terrible as poverty lives to begge his bread from doore to doore the fift a Bishop cruelly murthered in Ireland by m Stow. abridg f. 498. Thomas Fitz. Garret sonne to the Earle of Kildare I might here remember how Tope Clement the 7th after his voluntary consent to destroy poore Religious Houses is himselfe forced out of his n Speed fol. 996. Hist Pont. Rom. Card. stately Pallace at Rome and being besieged at his Castle of St Angelo is there constrained to eate Asses Flesh and taking such conditions as a Victorious Enemy would give is driven to plunder his own Church to pay his Enemies Army and at last dyes wretchedly of a miserable disease but this is Forraign and I tyed to home examples Thomas Lord Audley received the first fruits of H. 8 his Sacriledge for in the 24th of his Raigne the King dissolved by what meanes I finde not the Priory of Christ Church in London and gave saith o Stow. 24. H. 8. Stow the Church Plate Lands to Sir Thomas Audley who upon the dissolution of Monasteries got that of S. James in little Walden in Essex and made it both his Seate and Place of his Barony and after left it to Margaret his Daughter and Heire first married to Henry Dudley Sonne to the Duke of Northumberland slaine at St Quintynes and dyed without Issue and after she was second Wife to Thomas Duke of Norfolke who had issue Thomas Howard created Lord Walden being his Grandfathers Title and to credit his Mothers Inheritance upon the Scite of the Monastery he began a goodly p Audly Inne Structure but attended with the fate of sacrilegious foundations for that much impaires him and he never perfects that he met also with other misfortunes which betiding so Noble a Family and not yet published to the World are fitter for thy inquiry then my Penn. Cardinall Woolsey being dead his servant Cromwell succeeds him in his Court Favour and Fate as their birthes were alike obsure their rise alike eminent so alike miserable were their downefall wonder not at the first part of their fortune but contemplate the later Policy in Kings preferres able men to high places and honour for authority power and esteeme of the Persons advantages their actions of which wise Princes reap the Harvest the Actors get but gleanings while the King makes Cromwell a Baron his Seeretary Lord Privy Seale his Vicegerent in Ecclesiasticis he doth but faciliate his owne great work of dissolving q Speed 10.6 Monasteries a businesse wherein Cromwell was too much versed and unhappily too successefull Report spake him a great Stickler for the Protestant Religion and that although the Gospell had lost a Pillar in Queene Anne Bullen yet was another raised in r Speed 1016.92 Cromwell for he had caused the Bible to be read the Creed Pater Noster and Ten Commandements to be learned in English and expounded in every Å¿ Good f. 146. Church some thought that Cromwell hoped to bury Popery in the ruines of the Abbyes and thereby give the better growth to the more pure Protestant Religion how pious soever his intents were in reforming Religion yet was not the manner of effecting them it seemes acceptable to Heaven for by Parliament in the 31 of H. 8. he perfected his Dissolutions and in April in the 32 of H. 8. he is made t Holl. 950. Earle of Essex and Lord Great Chamberlaine of England high in the Kings favour and esteeme yet instantly while sitting at the Councell-Table he is suddainly apprehended and sent to the Tower whence he comes not forth untill to his u Goodw. fol. 174. Execution for in Parliament he is presently accused of Treason and Heresie and unheard is attainted Some do observe that he x Sir Edward Cook in his Iurisdiction of Courts f. 37. saith that Sir Tho. Gaudy then a grave Judge of the Kings Bench after told him that Cromvvell was commanded to attend the Chiefe Iustices to know whether a man that was forth comming as being in Prison might be