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A40122	The arraignment of popery being a short collection, taken out of the chronicles, and other books, of the state of the church in the primitive times : also, the state of the Papists, and how long it was before the universal pope and mass was set up, and the time of bringing in all their rudiments and traditions, beads and images, purgatory, tythes and inquisitions : also, a relation of their cruelties they acted after the Pope got up, being worse then the heathen and Turk, New Rome having proved like Old : also, what the people of England worshipped before they were Christians : with several other things, which may be profitable for people to read over, where all that fear God may see, read, try, and give judgment by the spirit of truth : to which is added, The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church / by G.F. and E.H.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hookes, Ellis, d. 1681.	1667 (1667)	Wing F1750A; ESTC R15884	93,976	138

them that believe and that unto all such as receive thee thou mayest be health of soul and body and that from out of the place thou shalt be sprinkled may flye away all Fancy Wickedness and Craftiness of the Devils subtilty and every foul spirit The Papists Conjurations of Water I conjure thee thou Creature of Water in the Name of Cross God the Father Almighty and in the Name of Cross Jesus Christ his Son our Lord and in the Vertue of Cross the Holy Ghost that thou become a Conjured Water to expel the power of the Enemy Here the Pope is smothered with his own smoak Pope Leo the thrid Pope John the seventh Pope Adrian the first with others made Decrees for establishing of Images Leo the third Emperor of Greece decreed that Images should be taken out of the Churches and burnt openly at Constantinople The said Emperor threw out of the Temple all the Images and burnt them in the open Market This was contrary to the Pope Pope Eugenius decreed that Children which were to be Christned should have a God-father and a God-mother A Council held at Rotomage decreed that their Sacrament the Priests should put it into the Lay-peoples mouths and that they should not touch it with their hands contrary to the use and practice of the primitive Christians many hundred years after Christ Lib. Concil Bec. fol. 329. In Pope Urban the First 's time was the Order of the Nunnes of Saint Briget invented by Brigeta and that the Nunnes should be closed above in a Closet and the men beneath Pop● Nicholas the first ordained that no temporal man whether King or Emperor● should have ought to do with those things that appertain to the Priest In the time of Pope Alexander the third there was one Vict●r a Pope so Alexander got his Popedom by money and force of Ships and Arms in the year One thousand one hundred sixty one And this Pope compelled Lewis King of France and Henry King of England to be his Lacquies and to run on foot by him holding his horse bridle one of the right hand and the other of the left leading him thorough the street in his pomp This is like the Glory of the world this is not like Peter In the year 757 Stephen the third he was the first Pope that was carried on mens shoulders Where was Christ or Peter so carried Pol. vit Pant. In the year 1075 the Emperor deposes the Pope and the Pope excommunicates the Emperor and ill requites the Emperor for his love who gave him power to be chosen Pope without his Election Pope Gregory the ninth ordained that the Sacring-Bell should be rung when the Priest lifteth up the Mystal-Bread and Chalice above his head to move the people to behold that new-found god which they worshipped in knocking kneeling and lifting up of hands to a piece of Bread Crates Malleotes a Heathen he brought the study of Gramar into Rome in the year of the World Three thousand seven hundred eighty nine Pope Boniface the seventh procured a company of men to take his part by whose means he took Pope John the fifteenth and put out his eyes and then threw him into prison Boniface dyed not many days after who after his death was drawn by the feet through the streets of Rome in the year Nine hundred seventy-six Pope Stephen the sixth so envied the Name of his predecessor For●●osus that he abrogated and dissolved his Decrees and taking up his body after it was buried he cut two of his fingers off his right hand and commanded them to be cast into the River Tyber Pope Sergius caused the body of Formosus where it was buryed to be taken up and afterwards sitting in the Papal See first degraded him then commanded his head to be smitten off with the other three fingers that were left as Sigeberius writeth which done he caused his body to be thrown into Tyber deposing all such as by the said Pormosus before had been consecrated and invested By this Murderer Pope Ser●ius first came up the use to bear about Candles on Candlemas-day for the purifying of the Virgin Mary Anno 684. Durand G. Achil. Becon fol. 351. It is recorded of Pope Hidlebrand tha● he enquired of the Sacrament a Divine answer against the Emperor and because it did not speak he threw it in the fire and burned it Sure the Papists will allow this Pope erred After the death of Pope Clement the fifth the Romish See stood vacant two years and three months Book of Mart. vol. 1 p. 487. Pope Gregory the third was the first that brought into the Masse the Canon or clause for Reliques also he brought into the Memorial the Offering and Sacrifice for the dead Pope Zachary brought in the Priests Vestures and Ornaments Constantius was the first that gave his feet to be kissed of the Emperors about the year Seven hundred Book of Mart. Volume 1. p. 176. Henricu the Emperor with his Wife and Child bare-footed and bare-legged waited on Pope Hidlebrand three days and three nights at the Gates of Conusium before he could be suffered to come in Pope Sylvester the second was accounted a great Sorcerer Pope Alexander the second was forced into a Chamber by Soldiers and there beaten by Pope Hidlebrand This is contrary to the Apostle who said A Bishop must be no striker King Ines ordained in England before the Conquest that Infants should be baptized within thirty days Pope Vrban the second amongst many other Enormities concluded that no Priests son should be capable of Orders And yet Priests must not marry Pag of Popes fol. 87. Bishop Bonner said If an Image be made a god it is no Idol Thus you may see the Papists are contrary to the Scriptures and God who forbiddeth to make Images of him or the likeness of any thing in He●●●● bo●● 〈◊〉 Earth be●●ath Fox Vol. 3. p. 262. CHAP. VII Concerning Hereticks Judas Iscariot was the first Apostate that fell from the truth who sold his Master to the covetous Priests for thirty pieces of silver and slew his Father married his Mother and in the end hanged himself Read Euseb Chr●n In the year 163 Demas which Paul spake of forsook the truth and became an Idol-priest at Thessalonica Pilate that gave sentence upon Christ afterward slew himself M●rcellina the Heretick worshipped and offered Incense unto the Images of Jesus and Paul c. In the year 81 Cerinthus the Heretick dreamed that the Kingdom of Christ should become Earthly and that Christ should reign on the Earth a thousand years Montanus the Heretick forbad Marriage and commanded abstinence from certain meats as unlawful In the year 287 Marcell●nas the Heretick Bishop of Rome denied Christ and offered sacrifice unto Idols for which he was condemned by a Council of three hundred Bishops called together at Sin 〈◊〉 Whereby it appears the Bishop of Rome erred and was fallible In the year 340 Eustathius the Heretick forbad Marriage 〈◊〉 Laws

Osburn 's Case of Tythes This Edgar was of a vicious life favourable to the Monks he displac'd the marryed Priests and brought in Monks of single life to possess their places he built and prepared several Monasteries and Nunneries He was cruel to Citizens and a deflowerer of Maidens he was joyned in the Act in shedding the blood of Earl Ethelwold that he might enjoy Elf●ida his Wife Canutus also the first Danish King who being guilty of the blood of Edward and Edmund Sons of Iron-side and Heirs to the Crown about the year 1016 confirmed Tythes and built the Abbey of St. Bennet so called in Norfolk● and in Suffolk he with great Devotion built the Monastery of St. Edmund so called which Saint he most dreadfully feared for the seeming Ghost of him often affrighted him for which cause as also to expiate the sins of his Fathers he confirmed Tythes See Osburn 's Case of Tythes Thus its plain that Tythes were given for the satisfaction of the sins of the Donor and to maintain the Popish Clergy to say and sing Mass to pray for the souls of the Donors Ethelwolfe King of England in the year 844 in his Devotion to holy Church and Religious Orders and for the remedy of their souls and that their sins might be remitted he gave the Tythe of all his Goods and Lands in West-Saxony with liberty and freedom from all servage and civil charge in the days of Pope Jone which Pope fell in labour as she was going a Procession and died being accompanied with Cardinals Patriarchs Arch-Bishops Bi-Deacons Monks Fryars and Nuns Pope Paschal about the year 1110 a Council being held in his time by his order it was decreed that it should be Heresie for any to deny obedience to the Pope and made a Canon for paying of Tenths to Priests concluding it sin against the Holy Ghost to sell the Tenths he renewed an Excommunication against the Emperor and thrust him from his Crown and Princely Title and provoked his Son Henry the Fifth and armed him to rebel against his Father The great Decree which speaks most plainly and till which nothing was given forth which did directly constitute them but rather still supposed them as due by some former right was made at the Council of Treat under Pope Plus the Fourth about the year 1560 and yet that great Council followed the Doctrine of their Fathers and said they were due to God and had no new Authority for their great Decree which they commanded to be obeyed under the penalty of Excommunication But notwithstanding the many Laws Canons and Decrees of Kings Popes and Councils and Bishops that every man ought to pay the tenth part of his encrease yet was it left to the Owners to ofter it where they pleased which made so many rich Abbeys and Monasteries And till the year 1200 or thereabouts every one gave their ●ythes as their own pleasure which made Pope Innocent the third send his Decretal Epistle to the Bishop of Canterbury commanding him to enjoin every man to pay his temporal goods to those that ministred spiritual things to them which was enforced by Ecclesiastical Censures And this was the first beginning of general Parochial payment of tythes in England and this Popes Decree is recorded by Cook in the second part of his Institutes who saith That because the Popes Decree seemed reasonable it was admitted and enjoyned by the Law of the Nation the King and People of England being then Papists Yet notwithstanding our English Parliaments not willing wholly to forget the poor for whose sakes tythes were chiefly given did make divers Laws that a convenient portion of the tythes should be set apart for the maintenance of the poor of the parish for ever 2 R. 15 16.4 H. 4 as the Statutes at large do witness The Pope having brought in tythes and made a pretended Title by prescription set up Courts to recover them which were called Ecclesiastical Courts where his own Creatures were Judges Afterwards Henry the Eighth King of England being a Papist and believing the Popes Doctrine as also did his Parliament That Tythes were due to God and holy Church made a Law that every one should set out and pay Tythes He made a second Law in his time to the like purpose in pursuance of the former and great reason he had and need there was for them for having dissolved many Monasteries after he denied the Pope to be the Supream Head of the Church and took it to himself which Monasteries had many Tythes and Rectories appropriated to them and either had them in his own hands or sold them to others to be held as Lay-possessions And they having no Law to recover them by the Popes Laws not reaching to Lay-persons so called he was nocessitated to make new Laws to enfore the payment of them but still restrained the Tryal of Tythes to Ecclesiastical Courts After him Edward the Sixth in pursuance of his Fathers Laws and upon the same grounds makes another Law for the payment of Predial and Personal Tythes uader penalty of double damages and cost who also restrains the Tryal of them to the Ecclesiastical Courts So here you may see the Papists were the first that set up Tythe and forced Maintenance and the Spiritual Courts contrary to Christ and the Apostles in the primitive times CHAP. XIV Concerning the Religion and Customs of the old Britans before they were Christians and after they were Christians VVHen they were Heathen in old time in England in their Worship they offered mens blood thinking that to be the most precious Sacrifice of all others and when the Priest by Lot cast who should dye they had all their brains knockt out at one 〈◊〉 and then they sought out the veins of the heart and drew 〈◊〉 blood and struck it upon the head of his friend then they ho●●●ed up the Sails And this they thought pleased their God The Danes and Normans in the Province of Selon every ninth year sacrificed and killed unto their gods ninety nine men and as many horses and dogs and cocks for Hawks which their gods sent them and said by the same they should please them And the blind ignorant people the Britans had Altars and they worshipped the Heads of great Rivers Camb. p. 698. Crysanthus was Bishop in B●itan and of all his Ecclesinstical Revenues and Prosits was wont to reserve for himself but two toaves of bread only on the Lords day Camb. p. 84. But u w-a-dayes neither Bishop nor Priest will think this sufficient but they would scorn it being grown so old in oppression In the River called Swale in Yorkshire Augustin baptized an innumerable multitude of Women and Children Camb. p. 136 137. Then they had no Fonts Augustin the bishop caused the people to enter into the Water and they were baptized And here was no talk of a Cross nor God-fathers Pauli us Bishop of York baptized the Inhabitants of Nottinghamshire in the River Irent Ca●●h

ERasmus testified that for above Four hundred years after C●●●● the Bishops did not seek the help of the Emperors again●● 〈◊〉 Hereticks and when they did seek it against the insufferable wickedness of the Donatists it did not please the good people that they should then seek the help of the Civil Powers for they then judged that it became not the Bishops to use any other Weapons or to have any other help then the Sword of the Spirit the Word of God although the evil was incurable yet would they have excluded it by Excommunication which is said to be the greatest Judgment or Punishment that then the Church had The Histories also sheweth how that some of the Clergy have said That the Princes ought to kiss the Son and to use their power for to preserve and defend Religion against all their Enemies though their Lands should therefore be spoiled In the year 553 Pelagius Bishop of Rome instituted first of all That Hereticks and Apostates should be forced by external compulsion And Clement the fifr made Laws that Hereticks should be burned Gerandus Naviomagns sheweth how that the Laws for putting Hereticks to death came not by the free-will of the Emperors but through the earnest importuning of blood-thirsty Bishops whose constant recourse was a burden to the Emperors so that finally they obtained what they desired but when the Clergy could not preva●l with one Emperor they excluded him out of Italy and excommunicated him and brought him in suspension and freed the Subjects from the Oath and stirred them up against the Power And thus have the Clergy handled when they could not have their wills And it might be plentifully manifested how that it hath been blood-thirsty Bishops with others of the Clergy that have provoked Kings and Potentates of the Earth to cruelty and who have counselled them to make bloody Laws like the Bishop Nestorius who in his Sermon spake unto the Emperor and said Oh Emperor give me a Land cleansed of Herticks and I will give thee Heaven help me against ●he Hereticks and I will help thee O subdue the Persians thy Enemies In the years 1538 and 1546 In like manner the Inquisitors and Clergy stirred up the Emperor the Kings of Spain and France to terrible persecution laying it upon their consciences to quit themselves severely against Hereticks if they would escape the Lords rep●o●● In the year 1545 Pope Paul the third counselled and entreated the Emperor Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their error CHAP. XXIV How since the Apostacy from the Truth the Pope Kings and Rulers makes Ministers and none must preach except they have a Licence from them IN the days of King Henry the Fourth it was agreed upon by the King and the Bishops with other Lords that no man within this Realm or other of the Kings Majesties Dominions presume to take upon him to preach privily or otherwise without special Licence of the Ordinary of the same place Statute Ex Officio R●g Hen. 4. And in the dayes of the same King Henry the Fourth Constitutions were made by Tho Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and others That no person being authorized to preach shall take upon him to preach in English to the Clergy and Laity except he first present himself and be examined of the Ordinary of the place For first the King he nominated who should be Bishop of such a Diocess and then being presented to the Pope he was to approve of him and being approved he was consecrated by the Arch-Bishop in England But when King Henry the Eighth cast off the Pope then it was enacted by King and Parliament that no Bishop should be commended to the Pope but that the King should both nominate them and approve of them to be sufficient Ministers In the year 1547 in Edward the Sixth's time Injunctions were set forth That none should preach except sufficiently Licensed In the Reign of King James Injunctions were made That none should preach except they were lawfully Licensed thereunto by the King or the Bishop Fox Acts and Mon. Vol 2. And likewise in the dayes of Queen Mary none was to preach but such as should be licensed or allowed by her Authority or by the Arch Bishop c. or by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridg● Anno 1. Mary 1 Pat C. 1. In the year 1559 Injunctions were likewise made in the first year of Queen Elizabeth that none should appear to preach not be admitted thereto but such as should be Licensed thereto by the Queen or the Arch Bishops or Bishops And thus she followed the Papists who were the first that set up this O●der In the year 1644 the Parliament made an Ordinance to give power to the Presbyter-Assembly of Divines for the Ordination of Ministers according to the Directory for Ordination and they gave the Ass●mbly of Divines Rules for Examination of them they ordained He that was to be ordained was to bring a testimony that he had sworn and taken the Covenant of the three Kingdoms and how long he had been in the University and what Degrees he had taken and whether he was twenty f●ur years old c. Note This was up●olding Popery still notwithstanding there was a pretence of Reformation And an Ordinance was made by Oliver Cromwel and his Council for Approbation of publick Preachers and for this end Commisioners were appointed and were authorized to judg of the Ability and Fitness of any man before he was admitted to any publick place to preach O. C. 1653 Can. 39. and Can. 57. CHAP. XXV Concerning the Priests turning as the Rulers turned to every Power that came up rather then they would lose their Benefices and how they petitioned several Parliaments and Rulers That they might have their Tythes paid them and that they would suppress the People called QVAKERS IN the year 1531 Pope Julius being angry with the King of France sent King Henry the Eighth the Cap of Maintenance and the Sword and gave him the title of Christianssimo that is The most Christian King And because King Henry wrote a Book against Luther the Pope ●ave him the title of Defender of the Faith In the year 1531 being the twenty second year of Henry the Eighth Tyndal did translate the New-Testament into English for reading of which many were sharply punished and the reading of it was forbidden by the Chancellor of England and the Papist-Bishops then in power caused all the Books to be brought into Pauls-yeard and there to be burned and the said Tyndal was shortly after burned beyond Sea for translating the same In the same year one Camphjus being sent Legate from the Pope in to England was at first in great request with King Henry the Eighth and had many honours conferred on him and great Benefices but the King taking dislike of the Popes proceedings with him concerning a Divorce the said Legate brought from the Pope to Divorce the King from his Wife who was the

before him never thought of Johannes Patriarch of Constantinople put forth himself and would needs be called the Universal Bishop of the World But the Bishop of Rome in no case would suffer that but put a stop to it but after the Bishop of Rome could take it to himself CHAP. VI. Concerning the several Reliques and Superstitious Practises in the Church of Rome Who were the first Institutors of them and what and how much of their Idolatry is still upheld by the Protestant Professors in England at this day which was set up since there was a Vniversal Pope IN the Year after Christ Six hundred and two Phocas murthered Mauritius his Master the Emperor and slew two of his Sons and put his Daughters and his Wife to death And then this Phocas this Murderer was crowned Emperor and Boniface the third Bishop of Rome he obtained of this Murderer Phocas to be the Universal Bishop over all the Bishops and so that the Bishop of Rome should be called Pope And here got in the Pope by murder Platina Christ Misseus Hen. Panteleon c. Epist lib. 4. Epist 32 33 34. cap. 76 77. See Becon sol 295. And then the Bishop lost the greatest part of Christendom and all the Churches went together by the ears about him and the Emperor lost the greatest part of his Empire And here you may see the Pope was set up six hundred and 〈◊〉 years after Christ And this Pope in the year 605 first decreed That white Linnen Clothes should be laid on the Altar And further in another Author concerning Phocas which murthered Mauritius his Master who was a Noble and Virtuous M●n he obtained through Treason the Empire he also treacherously slew his Children that none of his should claim the Crown 〈◊〉 him This Murdering Tyrant set up the Bishop of Rome contraa●● 〈◊〉 Ch●ists command who said You are all Brethren And so the Bishop of Rome Boniface the third Lucifer-like exalted in pride above all his fellow Bishops challenged to himself the Supremacy and Authority that he and his Successors after him for ever should be taken for the chief Bishop and Universal Head of the Church throughout all the world And that from that day forward the Church of Rome should be called the Head Church of all the whole World And that the Church of Rome should be in subject on to no other Church but that all other Churches should be in subjection to it For until that time Constantinople Church was counted the highest where the Emperor dwelt and before that time the Church in Jerusalem was called the highest for Constantine was a Christian but in Rome there was Heathen Emperor● a long time after Christ Otho frisin Gen. Chron. lib. 5. cap. 8. Marrian Scot. in Anno 608. Vsperg in Phoca Becon fol. 295. It is before recorded that Joseph of Arimathea first preached the Gospel in England amongst the Britans in the year sixty four and about six hundred and two the Pope sent over to them Augusti●● to spread his Doctrine with his silver Cross his Letany his Procession Images Reliques Canticles and Books of Ceremonies charging the Britans that they did many things contrary to the Custom of the Church of Rome in their preaching Baptism and keeping of Easter c. and that they regarded not mans traditions but the Britans refusing to follow his Commands he threa●●ed them with Warr and to revenge it by death which immediately ensued Read Beda in his Ecclesiastical History of England the second Book and second Chap. Here all people may see that Christianity was planted in 〈◊〉 some hundreds of years before the Popes Rudiments Cand●● 〈…〉 Letany Procession and Images with the rest of his Trumpery 〈◊〉 into England who lyeth in saying that Christianity came fi●st in by them who came in by Murder and the outward Sword and hath held up his outward Tradition by Murder and the outward Sword ever since Chron. Ranulph Chest Bec. fol. 323. In the year 606 Boniface the fourth he instituted the Feast of All-Souls and All-Saints and he got the Temple of Phocas built by Agrippa and consecrated it to the Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs Plat. volat Polydore Bec. fol 355. In the year 645 At Rome where Meletus was present it was ordered that Monasteries should be erected in England in Boniface the fourth's days and this Boniface the fourth instituted the Feast of All-Souls In the year 637 England first divided into Parishes In the year 640 Lent was first set up in England in Pope Severinus's time Carcumbertus King of England commanded the people to keep Lent in England Segeb. in Chron. Pautal In the year 643 Pope Martin the first ordained that a man should not lye with his Wife till the Priest had hallowed or blest his Bed and the same year he ordained Mass to be sung openly with a loud voice and that Churches should be trimmed and dressed on Holy-days Pol. Paulel Bec. fol. 322. In the year 650 Pope Eugenius the first ordained that Monks should be shut up in Cloisters for before that time they did go up and down Euseb Chron. Cantz In the year 603 Pope Sabiniani commanded Lamps should be kept continually burning in the Church he also instituted Bells in the Church and called them Saints Bells Plat. Albert. Crantz de Barns c. He also decreed in the same year That the People should be assembled together to their Serv●ce by ringing of Bells Plat. Durand de Barns Plantal Bec. fol. 322. In the year 636 the University of Cambridg founded or enlarged by Segebert King of the East-Angles So these things were not set up by the Apostles but by the Pope In the year 622 Honorius decreed That none should keep company with excommunicated persons He also devised the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross Plat. Pant. Bec. fol. 355. In the year 622 About this year being fifteen years after the Pope came Mahomet the Turk In the year 635 the first Cross was set up in England by Oswald King of No thumbe●land who fighting against Cadwalda in the same place set up a Cross kneeling and praying there for Victory In the year 653 Pope Vicilianus brought in Organs first into the Church to make the people merry Chron Volat. Plat. c. Eugenius the fourth was the first that appointed B●shops to have Prisons of their own to punish people in In the year 664 a Controversie was in England about the observing of Easter In the year 676 Pope Leo the second devised the Pax and that it should be kissed of the people Plat. festi temp In the year 684 the Election or chusing of Popes without the Emperors approbation was granted by the Emperor Whereby it may be noted that before that time the Emperor had power to chuse the Pope In the year 666 Pope Bennet the second obtained of the Emperor Constantine that the Bishop of Rome for ever after should be taken of all men for Christs true Vicar

p 549. And not in a Font in the St●ple-house and they baptized men and women after they belived In the first plantation of Christianity among the Gentiles such only as were of full age after they were instructed in Christian Religion were admitted to Baptism and that but twice in the year at Easter and Whitsuntide except upon urgent necessity Cambd. pag. 768. In Northumberland Paulinus baptized many thousands at a River Here was no Font. King Sigebert proffered them in old time that preached the Gospel Worldly Wealth and riches descended by inheritance but they refused and contemred them saying It became not them to embrace other mens riches who for Christs sake had forsaken their own Cambd. Record of Ireland p. 67 68. And the Bishops of Britan seemed no less to have despised riches and was but poor and had nothing of their own But now they are altered from that who will take all they can lay their hands on and imprison and persecute them they do not preach to if they will not give them Goods and Money and so will have both their own and other mens but forsake neither for Christs sake King Agharus being grievously diseased in his body and incurable by the skill of man was cured by Thadeus one of Christs Disciples without Medicine for which King Agharus commanded Gold coined and uncoined to be given him but he received it not saying I so much that we have forsaken our own how can we receive other mens This is not like the Pope and the Bishops wit is their great Parsonages and Revenues And the Irish Bishops had no more nor no other Rents and Revenues then three Milch-kine which the Parishioners charged for three other K●ne when they were dry Camb. p. 1●6 But the Bishops of our age and t●e Priests are changed from them s●●h●● age One Patrick a Britan ●orn Saint Martin's Sisters Son he was sold into Ireland where he became a Hereiman to King Milne and he Catechised there in the Christian Faith ●nd about that time he cryed ●ut against the shaving of Friens and said it was Simon Magus his shaving and not Saint Peters Can b. p. 10 108. Paulinus aforesaid came into Northumberland with the King and ●u●●en and ab●de thirty six dayes there employed wholly in Catechsing Baptizing and Instructing the people from Morning to Evening and being instructed he baptized them to the forgiveness of their sins in the River of Glen which was hard by the Kings Mannor-House Camb Brit. page 815. Here was no Fonts used at this time One Malachy in Ireland was the first that denied ●riests should marry where Armachanas detested against such voluntary Begging-Fryars p. 109. Robert Abbot of Molisme in Bur●undy perswaded his own Disciples to live with their handy-labour and to forsake Tythes and Oblations p. 110. At ●ell the Steeple-houses in Ireland were built with Timber but when one Malachy caused them to be built with stone the people cryed out saying What mean you to bring into our Countrey this new fashion for we are not French The first Duke in England was made by Edward the third who made his Son Duke of Cornwall The title of Marquess came in by Richard the second of late years Earls came in by the Ge●m●ns who ordered the Earls should always give attendance to their Princes and be at band in matters of Council Afterwards came in the Viscounts new title not heard of with us till Henry the Sixth Barons signifeth in the Ge●man tongue Hard Soldiers Knights took their Names s●●e the No man Conquest by serving with Horses Esquire doth signifie Shield-bearer Yeoman signifies Free-born or Freeholder lawful men of Forty shillings a year of Free-land Gentlemen some are from great Famillies and some take the Name from being raised in Wealth The Normans began the first Sealing with Print and Wax But before men made Bargains of Lands and Houses without Script Chart or Deed and many Tenements were demised with a Spur or Horse-Curry-comb with a Bow and some with an Arrow being given as a token of the thing Camb. p. 444. And when the King made any free and granted liberty these were the words without writings As free make I thee As Heart may think or Eye may see The Heathen-Priests under pretence of Religion wasted the Britant Goods and Claudius had a Temple in Britan whom they prayed to as God Canutus King of England and of Denmark said All things in his Realm was at his Command and therefore commanded his Chair to be set on the Sea-shore and when the Sea began to flow in the presence of many he said to the Sea as it flowed Thou art part of my Dominion and the ground on which I set is mine neither was there ever any that durst disobey my Command and went away free and unpunished wherefore I charge thee that thou come not upon my Land neither wet the clothes or body of thy Lord. But the Sea according to its usual course flowing still without any reverence of his Person wet his feet Then he retiring back said L●t all the Inhabitants of the Earth know That vain and frivolous is the power of Kings and that none is worthy of the Name of a King but he to whose Command the Heaven Earth and Sea by bond of an Everlasting Law are subject and obedient And never after that time set he the Crown upon his Head Cambd. Brit. p. 262. CHAP. XV. Concerning Singing of Psalms IN the Year 383 Psalms begun to be sung brought in by Damasius Bishop though not turned into Meeter Benedictus an Abbot of the Monastery of Peter and Paul at Wirr brought with him from Rome one John the Arch-Chanter who first taught in England how to sing in the Quire after the manner of Ro●e Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. p. 164. Anno 724. Laews made by the Saxon Kings in England concerning singing Psalms In the year 747 at the beginning of King Edgberts Reign the Synod of Bishops disputed the profit of singing of Psalms in the Church and made a Decree that with a modest voice they should sing in the Church so called In the year Nine hundred twenty four King Ethelston alias Atelston made a Law That fifty Psalms should be daily sung in the Church as he called it for the King Beza being much diverted with Poetry made his pastime to become a part of the vulgar devotion Hence th●● have been stiled by some Geneva-Jigs These are the express words of the Injunction given to the Clergy and Laity by Queen Elizabeth Item Because in divers Collegiate and also some Parish Churches heretofore there hath been Livings appointed for the mainrenance of men and children to use singing in the Church by means whereof the Laudable Science of Musick hath been had in estimation and preserved in knowledg the Queen willeth and commandeth that first no alteration be made of such assignments of Living as heretofore hath been appointed to the use of Singing or Musick in