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A70866	The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.; Exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing P4076; ESTC R14735	1,530,072	1,129

Januarii 3. 1664. Imprimatur WILL. MORICE THE SECOND TOME OF AN EXACT CHRONOLOGICAL VINDICATION AND HISTORICAL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings Supream Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Over all Prelates Persons Causes within their Kingdomes and Dominions From the First Year of the Reign of King John Anno Dom. 1199. till the Death of King Henry the III. in the year 1273. WHEREIN The several branches of our Kings Ecclesiastical Soveraignty are truly stated the Popes usurped Vniversal Monarchy subverted by their own Popish Assertions concerning the Virgin Mary Transubstantiation and Christs corporal presence on earth in every Hostia Popes Popish Prelates Intollerable USURPATIONS on Vnchristian Practises against the Persons antient undoubted ECCLESIASTICAL TEMPORAL PREROGATIVES JURISDICTIONS RIGHTS of these KINGS CROWNES PRIVILEGES the LIBERTIES PROPERTIES of the Churches Kingdomes Clergy Nobility Commonalty of ENGLAND and IRELAND By Legates Nuncioes Delegates Bulls Palls Exemptions Dispensations Non-obstantes Decretals Canons Appeals Citations Journeys to Rome Inhibitions Sequestrations Provisions Ratifying void vacating legal Elections Presentations to Ecclesiastical Dignities Benefices at their pleasures By Croysadoes Procurations Tenths Firstfruits illegal Oathes Extortions Rapines Excommunications Interdicts Absolutions from Oathes Vowes open Treasons Rebellions Wars to depose enslave our KINGS KINGDOMES and make them HOMAGERS VASSALLS TRIBUTARIES to the SEE OF ROME With their and our Parliaments Nobles Clergies Commons successive memorable Complaints Oppositions Letters Writs Prohibitions Proceedings against them in the height of Popery The principal Transactions of State between these Kings and the Popes Cardinals Legates Court of Rome with their unparallel'd Avarice Bribery Simony Treachery Tyranny Frauds Impieties Extortions Corruptions are impartially related out of the best Historians in or next that age and irrefragable rare Records in the Tower not formerly published With Vsefull Observations on from them And several Indexes to this Tome By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Bencher and Reader of the Honourable Society of LINCOLNES INNE Tit. 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work 2 Pet. 2. 14 15. An heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse LONDON Printed for the Author by Thomas Ratcliffe 1665. and are to be sold by Abel Roper at the Sun over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet Gabriel Bedell at the inner Temple Gate and Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britaine To the Right Honourable EDWARD Earle of CLARENDON Lord High Chancellor of ENGLAND Chancellor of the Vniversity of OXFORD and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Counsell MY LORD IT is the Institution of God and Nature that all things by a divine and natural right should terminate in their Original and revert to the Spring from which they issue Hence St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles and of our British Isle resolves that as all things in heaven and earth visible and invisible whether Thrones Dominions Principalities Powers or other Creatures were and are created By so likewise TO and FOR GOD their ALPHA and OMEGA Yea King Solomon long before him not only concluded in point of Divinity The Lord hath made all things FOR HIMSELF but thus demonstrates it by natural experimental Philosophy All rivers run into the Sea unto the place from whence the Rivers come THITHER THEY RETURN AGAIN This Contemplation hath excited yea obliged me in point of Right and Equity not only to return but dedicate this Large Chronological Vindication and Historical Demonstration to Your Lordship from whose unexpected Voluntary Motion and Subsequent Encouragements to collect publish it for the Honour of our Kings Nation Church Kingdome and benefit of Posterity it received its Original Conception Augmentation Production at vacant hours borrowed for the most part from my natural rest and repasts without the least neglect of my other distracting publick Imployments Which may justly excuse all Defects of Ornament Method Stile Substance any Curious Eyes shall discover therein or in my yet uncompleated Preceding or Succeeding Tomes of the same heroick subject not hitherto at large historically discussed by any Antiquary or Historian I have seen I have prefaced this Tome brought forth into the VVorld like Pharez before its elder brother with a brief necessary Introduction to supply the want of my Larger Introduction comprised in the First Book of the First Tome not yet compleated over-large to be annexed to this as I at first designed Wherein I have truly stated that antient Soveraign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction claimed exercised as there was occasion by our British Roman Saxon Danish Norman English Kings which I have historically vindicated in Fact and Right in this and my other intended Tomes Whereunto I have subjoyned a short Synopsis of Roman Popes and their Parasites impudent Claims to a Vniversal Antimonarchical if not Antichristian Soveraign Monarchy over all Churches Empires Kingdomes Nations Emperors Kings Prelates Priests persons throughout the world as well in Temporals as Spirituals under their own forged Titles of Christs Vniversal Vicars His and St. Peters Successors which Supremacy they have for sundry ages attempted to exercise and enlarge upon all advantages by scandalous Bulls Excommunications Interdicts Treasons Rebellions Absolutions of Subjects from their Oathes Allegeance deposals of Christian Emperors Kings wresting their Crownes Regal Authority and Kingdomes out of their hands by force and fraud to the grand disturbance of all Christian Realms to which they have forged Titles The sandy foundations of this their pretended Papal Monarchy I have utterly subverted in a new way by the avowed practises of their own Popes Church and Articles of their Romish Faith concerning the Vniversal Empire yea Deification of the Virgin Mary whom they have not only seated Soul and body in the very Throne of the sacred Trinity in heaven but elevated above God the Father and Christ her Sonne intituling her to all their Soveraign Power over all creatures in heaven earth hell to all their Divine Attributes Titles Offices Worship invoking adoring her in their publike private authorized Devotions more then them yea ascribing to her a commanding power over them in heaven it self And by their Doctrine of Transubstantiation or Christs real presence both in his human body soul Deity in every consecrated Host adoring it as God Christ himself seconded with their Legends of his frequent corporeal real visible apparitions on earth which infallibly overturn the foundations whereon they build St. Peters and their own Supremacy Upon which occasion I have briefly and I hope irrefragably refuted by new Topicks not hitherto used or not fully pressed by Protestant Divines their idolatrous Invocations Adorations of the Virgin Mary and other Saints wherein they not only imitate but farr exceed the antient

thus put the Realm or all or any one of their English subjects in subjection and obeysance to the kingdom and Crown of France as they were Kings of France when rightfull Kings both of France and England as this Act declares and resolves much lesse then could King John without their assent subject both himself his Crown kingdoms of England and Ireland and all his Successors to the Pope under Homage and an Annual Tribute he having not the least colour of Title or Right to either and to whom they were not formerly subject as the English were to King Edward before the Crown of France descended to him being their lawfull King 5ly In the Parliament of 2 E 3. The excessive Dower of Queen Isabel the Kings Mother was by common consent of Parliament resumed into the Kings hands as prejudicial to the King kingdom and not setled by Parliament and she reduced to an annual pension of One thousand pounds by the year in lieu thereof or 3000. Marks as Henry de Knyghton stories No Joyntures of our Queens being irrevocable in Law unlesse confirmed by Parliament as most have been 6ly All the Commons of England in their Petition with the King Lords Commons and whole Parliament of 16 R. 2. in c. 5. of Praemunire declare and resolve That the Crown and Kingdom of England hath been so free at all times that it hath been in subjection to no Realm or forreign power but immediately subject to God and to none other Which by Popes Provisions and suites in the Court of Rome for Benefices and other particulars restrained in this Act under the penalty of a Praemunire should in all things touching the Regality thereof be submitted to the Bishop of Rome and the Lawes and Statutes of the Realm be by him defeated and frustrated at his will to the destruction of the King his Soveraignty Crown Regality and of all his Realm in defence whereof in all points they would live and die against the Popes usurpation theron restrained highly punished by this Law If then the Resolution of this whole Parliament King kingdom be true King Johns subjecting and resignation of his Crown kingdoms to the Pope and his successors and Homage to them as their Vassal and Feudary by this Charter must needs be voyd null as being most destructive to his Soveraignty Crown Regality and both Realms of England and Ireland and the ground of all Papal Encroachments complained of in this Statute of King Richard 7ly It is often adjudged resolved in our Law-Books Histories and the Statutes of 16 R. 2. c. 1. 4. 1 H 6. c. 5. 1 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 18. 21 R. 2. c. 9. 7 H. 4. 6. 25 H 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 13. 35 H. 8. c. 1. 1 Mariae c. 1. Parl. 2. c. 1 2. 1 Eliz c. 13. 13 Eliz c. 1. 1 Jac. c. 1. That the Kings of England can neither by their Charters nor last Wills alter change entayl the hereditary discent and succession of the Crown of England or disinherit the heir thereof without the general consent of the whole Nation by special Acts of Parliament nor yet demise grant sell alien or pledge the antient Jewels goods lands rents revenues ships forts or ammunition of the kingdom without particular Acts of Parliament enabling them That all the Lands purchased by our Kings to them and their heirs either in Gavelkind Burrough English or other Tenure shall not descend to the Kings younger sons nor the Crown and Crown-lands where there are two daughters descend to or be divided between both as in cases of common persons but all Lands and possessions whereof the King is seised in Ius Coronae shall secundum jus Coronae attend upon and follow the Crown as all Wards presentations and debts to the Crown in the deceased Kings life-time do likewise follow and not go to the Kings Executors and shall all descend come to him or her alone to whom the Crown descends for the better support of the King kingdom and ease of the people from unnecessary Aydes As was resolved in the cases of Queen Mary Queen I●ne and Queen Elizabeth against the Will of King Edward the sixth setling the Crown on Queen Iane contrary to the Common Law and two Acts of Parliament whereupon it was adjudged void though ratified under the Great Seal of England and by the subscription of all the Privy Council Nobles and Judges except Hales Therefore à fortiori our Lawes must null these Alienations of King Iohn and Pension to the Pope as void and illegal to all intents being never ratified by common consent in Parliament but oft protested against therein as invalid as the premises demonstrate 8ly It is declared adjudged by several Acts of Parliament and all our Law-books That Feofments or Obligations made by menaces force and Duresse are voydable and not obligatory in point of Law To instance in particulars of greatest publike concernment In the Grand Parliamentary Council about the year of Christ 536. under our famous British King Arthur wherein were sundry Kings Princes Dukes Earls Nobles Archbishops and Bishops present this King receiving a Letter from the Roman Senate and their Procurator Lucius Tiberius exacting the payment of the annual Tribute due to the Roman Senate and State from the Britons which the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar reserved and commanded them annually to pay to the Romans upon their conquest of them The Letter being read before the King and this Great Council they all unanimously adjudged That this Tribute was exacted exirrationabili causa because it was exacted by Julius Caesar who invited by the divisions of the old Britons arived in Britain and by force and violence subiected it to their power shaken with domestick commotions Now for that they obtained it in this manner by force Uectigal ex ea injuste ceperunt Nihil enim quod vi et violentia acquiritur juste ab ullo possidetur qui violentiam intulit Irrationabilem ergo causam praetendit quamvis Iure sibi tributarios arbitratur Whereupon they all peremptorily resolved not to pay id quod iniu●tum est being thus extorted by force The very case of the Rent Pension annual Tribute and Surrender of King John extorted from him both by force and fraud 2dly Upon this very ground King Harold receiving a Message from William the Conquerour before he actually invaded England That according to his covenant with and Oath made to him whiles in Normandy that the Realm of England should remain unto him after the death of Edward the Confessor he would deliver him the possession thereof to avoid effusion of Christian blood returned this answer to him That he made this Oath through force and fear of death whiles under his power in Normandy That a forced Oath is not to be kept For if an Oath which a Virgin had knowingly made concerning her body in her fathers house without her parents assent was revocable and void

autem Rex Johannes ad maiorem securitatem et robur diuturnitatis haec inviolabiliter observari as if the Popes Bull were then more valid and perpetual then his own Charters misit ad Dominum Papam Innocentium rogans constanter ut huic piae concessioni et confirmationi suae favorem dignaretur exhibere et eandem Bullae munimine confirmare Quae quia jam factus fuit obsequens Papae vassallus an honourable Title for a King of England et Rex Apostolicus meruit quae petiit citius impetrare sub hac forma INNOCENTIUS Episcopus c. Venerabilibus fratribus dilectis filiis universis Ecclesiarum Praelatis per Angliam constitutis salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem Dignis laudibus attollimus magnificentiam creatoris postquam idem qui est mirabilis terribilis in consiliis super filios hominum aliquamdiu tolleravit ut per flando discurret per Areolam horti sui spem tempestatis quasi ludens taliter in orbe terrarum ut sic ostenderet infirmitatem insufficientiam nobis statim cum voluit dixit Aquiloni da Austro noli prohibere imperansque ventis per mare statuit procellam in aura ut nautae portum inveniant praeoptatum Cumque enim inter Regnum et Sacerdotium Anglicanum non sine magno periculo atque damno super electionibus Praelatorum gravis fuerit controversia diutius agitata illo tandem cui nihil impossibile est quique ubi vult spirat mirabiliter operante Charissimus Iohannes Rex Anglorum illustris liberaliter ex mera et spontanea voluntate Therefore an Act of grace though forced not of right duty to the Bishops and Church de consensu communi Baronum suorum pro salute animae suae et praedecessorum suorum et successorum nobis concessit et suis Literis confirmavit ut de caetero in universis et singulis Ecclesiis ac Monasteriis Cathedralibus et Conventualibus totius Regni Angliae in perpetuum liberae fiant electiones quorumcumque Praelatorum majorum et etiam minorum Nos igitur hoc gratum et ratum habentes concessionem hujusmodi vobis et per vos Ecclesiis et successoribus vestris prout in eisdem Literis Regis perspe●imus contineri authoritate Apostolica confirmamus et praesentis scripti patrocinio communimus Ad majorem autem firmitatem et perpetuam memoriam hujus rei praefatas Regis Literas super hoc confectas praesentibus misceri fecimus quarum tenor talis est JOHANNES Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normaniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegavensis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Ballivis omnibus has literas visuris salutem Quoniam inter nos et venerabiles patres nostros Stephanum Cantuariensem totius Angliae Primatem et sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae Cardinalem Willielmum Londinensem E. Elyensem E. Herefordensem Iohannem Bathoniensem et Glastonensem et Hubertum Lincolniensem Episcopos super damnis et ablatis eorum tempore interterdicti per Dei gratiam de mera et libera voluntate utriusque partis plene convenit volumus non solum eis quantum secundum Deum possumus satisfacere verum etiam toti Ecclesiae Anglicanae salubriter et utiliter in perpettum providere Inde est quod qualiscunque liscunque consuetudo temporibus et praedecessorum nostrorum hactenus in Ecclesia Anglicana fuerit observata et quidquid Juris nobis hactenus vendicaverimus de caetero in universis et singulis Ecclesiis et Monasteriis Cathedralibus et Conventualibus totius Regni Angliae liberae sint in perpetuum electiones quorumcunque Praelatorum Majorum et minorum salva nobis et Haeredibus nostris Custodia Ecclesiarum et Monasteriorum vacantium quae ad nos pertinent Promittimus etiam quod nec impedire permittemus per nostros nec procurabimus quin in universis et singulis Monasteriis et Ecclesiis postquam vacaverint praelaturae quemcumque voluerint libere sibi praeficient electores Pastorem petita tamen a nobis prius et Haeredibus nostris licentia eligendi quam non denegabimus nec differremus Et si forte accidat quod denegaremus vel differremus nihilominnus procedant electores ad electionem Canonicam faciendam Et similiter post celebratam electionem noster requiratur assensus quem non denegabimus nisi adversus eandem rationale proposuerimus et legitime probaverimus propter quod non debemus consentire Quare volumus et firmiter jubemus ne quis vacantibus Ecclesiis vel Monasteriis contra hanc nostram concessionem et constitution em in aliquo veniat vel venire praesumat Si quis vero contra hoc aliquo tempore veniat maledictionem Dei omnipotentis et nostram incurrat His Testibus P. Wintoniensi Episcopo W. Mareschallo Comite Penbrock Willielmo Comite Warrenniae R. Comite Cestriae S. Comite Wintoniensi G. de Mandevilla Comite Gloverniae Essexiae W. Comite de Ferrariis G. Briwere W. filio Geraldi W. de Cantelupo H. de Novilla Robertus de Wer W. de Huntinfeild Datum per manum Magistri Roberti de Marisco Cancellarii nostri decimo quinto die Januarii apud novum Templum Londini Anno Regni nostri decimo sexto Nulli ergo omnino homini liceat hanc paginam nostrae confirmationis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli Apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum Datum Laterani Tertio Calendas Aprilis Pontificatus nostri Anno Decimo Octavo That this Charter was originally contrived as well as promoted by the Archbishop is evident by this Record REX S. Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo c. Noverit sanctitas vestra quod grata est nobis accepta forma nobis nota de Electionibus faciendis Salvo in omnibus Jure nostro Dimittemus autem post nos Venerabilem Patrem nostrum P. Wintomensem Episcopum una cum aliis fidelibus nostris quos deputabimus potentes faciemus ad assensum nostrum praestandum in huiusmodi Electionibus salva dignitate nostra Sciatis etiam quod nulla inter nos est controversia Teste me ipso apud Turrim London Duodecimo die Jun. This Charter though it saved this part of the Kings Prerogative to petition him and his Heirs for licenses to elect for his assent gave a great wound to his Ecclesiastical Supremacy and made all Chapters Covents Bishops Monks yea Popes and their Agents to slight his Regal Authority and licenses too insomuch that he could preferre no person to any Bishoprick Monastery or Elective Dignity but whom the Electors pleased to make choice of and if he recommended any to them though never so fit and with great importunity courtship and submission to every Chapter or Covent yet they to shew their pride power and preserve their freedom in

confirmationis ejusdem Episcopo Londoniensi in dicto negotio excusato literatorie nos electionem ipsius Johannis in hunc modum confirmamus In nomine Patris Filij Spiritus Sancti Inquisitis secundum formam literarum Domini Papae quae circa personam Electi Sancti Albani fratris Johannis sunt inquirenda tum per testes juratos tum per propriae personae examinationem invenimus eum ad regimen dictae Abbatiae sufficientem Unde electionem tanquam de persona idonea de ipso factam authoritate Apostolica confirmamus In cujus rei testimonium his literis nostris Patentibus sigillum nostrum duximus apponendum Acta Anno Domini M. CC. XXXV die Lunae proxima post festum Sancti Laurentii apud Crucem Roisiae In crastino igitur scilicet Nativitatis beatae Virginis in Ecclesia Sancti Albani ad majus Altare in praesentia Episcopi London totius Conventus in Choro existentis idem Episcopus eidem electo munus impendit benedictionis Ubi apertae sunt literae inclusae bullatae Domini Papae quas oportuit Electum in Abbatem benedicendum profitendo palam legere sub hac forma Ego Johannes Monasterii Sancti Albani Abbas ab hac hora in antea fidelis et obediens ero Sancto Petro sanctaeque Apostolicae Romanae Ecclesiae et Domino meo Papae Gregorio ejusque Successoribus Canonice intrantibus Non ero in Cansilio aut consensu vel in facto ut vitam perdant aut membrum aut capiantur mala captione Consilium vero quod mihi credituri sunt per se aut per Nuntios suos sive per literas ad eorum damnum me sciente nemini pandam Papatum Romanum et Regalem sancti Petri Adjutor eis ero ad retinendum et defendendum salva ordine meo contra omnem hominem Not excepting the King himself as is usual in Homage and fealty to all other Lords Legatum Apostolicae sedis in eundo et redeundo honorifice tractabo et in suis necessitatibus adjuvabo Vocatus ad Synodum veniam nisi praepeditus fuero Canonica praepeditione Apostolorum limina singulis trienniis visitabo aut per me aut per Nuntium meum nisi absolvae Apostolica licentia Possestones vero ad Monasterium meum spectaiites non vendam neque donabo neque impignorabo neque de novo infeudabo vel aliquo modo alienabo inconsulto Romano Pontifice Sic me Deus adiuvet et haec sancta Evangelia This New Oath of allegiance and fealty to the Pope and See of Rome being the highest incroachment upon the Kings Rights and Prerogative making all who took it the Popes subjects vassals villains not the Kings was sealed up and concealed both from the King and Abbot elect till this very nick of his consecration and benediction for fear it should be opposed refused as the Historian observes and thus relates Haec cooperta fuerunt occulta et clausa sub bulla donec staret Pontificalibus ad Altare redimitus quando nullo modo poterat ab ista abligatione resilire Et cum rogasset Abbas ab Episcopo Londoniensi Rogero quid Romae faceret Episcopus sicut jocundus extitit jocose respondit sub ridens ait Amice ut offeras veritas in verbo latitavit Rex autem super praemissis certificatus Tenentibus de Sancto Albano scripsit in haec verba HENRICUS Dei gratia Rex Angliae c. Militibus liberis hominibus omnibus aliis Tenentibus de Abbatia de Sancto Albano salutem Sciatis quod electioni factae de fratre Johanne de Hertford in Abbatem S. Albani assensum Regium praebuimus favorem Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eidem sratri Johanni tanquam Domino vestro in omnibus quae ad praedictam Abbatiam pertinent intendentes sitis respondentes Incujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Augusti Anno Regni nostri Duodecimo EX tunc igitur Abbas plenarie constitutus cepit homagia Juramenta fidelitates omnium Abbatiae subditorum installatus in omnibus Abbas habitus firmatus Sed ut non lateat simpliciores qualiter se gessit dum Electus esset qualiter in posterum se gerere debet Electus praesentibus duximus inserendum In the beginning whereof he thus expresseth the New Abbots sence and detestation of this New Oath and yoak of bondage imposed by the Pope on this famous Monastery and on others by his ill president in submitting thereunto and of the Popes manifold superadded exactions ISte Johannes secundus Abbas Prior quando que de Hertford inde oriundus praeter opinionem omnium nutu Dei sublimatus in Abbatem Primo invitus et dolens Romanorum jugum subiit servitutis ut scilicet de triennio in triennium vel per se vel peralium limina adiret Apostolorum sicut in subdola professione ejusdem continetur in magnum Ecclesiae damnum et gravamen et insatiabilis Romanae Curiae emolumentum voluntarium et injuriosum Primus quidem fuit in Abbatem creatus post Concilium Laterense generale sub Papa Innocentio quarto celebratum in quo illud continetur cum aliis gravaminibus in Ecclesiae Sancti Albani quae a fundatione sui primitiva libera ingenua legitur extitisse praejudicium et si fas est dicere injuriam et jacturam Iste quoque Abbas in Novitate sua multis exactionibus fatigabatur et expensis sed prae omnibus Romanorum oppressionibus novis et inauditis coepit molestari Et quod obstantibus antiquis privilegiis quae non sine magna Sanctorum patrum injuria et Contemptu cassantur et spernuntur non permissa est tam Celebris Ecclesia suis libertatibus gratulari Id cujus rei triste praesagium paulo ante ejusdem Abbatis creationem cito post scilicet infra triennium bis supra Ecclesiam beati Albani visum est fulgur usque ad incendium cecidisse quod se meminit praevidisse nec audivit evenisse Et sicut non prodest sanctorum inniti Privilegiis aut indulgentiis sic non obstitit fulguri impressio Papalis Cerea in qua Agnus Dei figuratur quae in Summitate Turris nostrae collocatur quae ut dicitur contra tales procellas abigendas virtutem habet potestatem I have related these Passages at large to evidence the execrable Bribery Symony Rapine extortions and insufferable usurpations of this Pope on the Crown and Church of England recorded by Matthew Paris living in that age privy to all these Transactions being a Monk of St. Albans little redounding to the honour of the Pope Court or Church of Rome which though generally detested yet could not be resisted reformed in that age by the King Nobles or Clergy of England who only murmured and made some bootlesse

hath conusance of them 882 885. The Popes Bull to morgage them for 3. years for the holy war 449. Tithwite exemption from it 219. Toll exemption from it 229. exacted from Clerks 896. Transubstantiation subve●●● the foundation of St. Peters and Popes Universal Vicarship to Christ and Monarchy 10 11 15 97 98. proved by sundry Popish Miracles apparitions of Christ as an infant or blood in the consecrated Host all impostures or diabolical delusions 68 to 75. How stated asserted by their Treat Councils Doctors Canonists 15. 66 67 68. 71. 79. See 456. 504 707 1065. Not wrought nor proved by This is my body 77 78. Nor intended proved by Joh. 5 p. 79 10. Against Scripture Articles of our Faith sense reason experience 71 72 No Miracle 75 76. Invented asserted only to make their M 〈◊〉 a propitiatory sacrifice which else would be of no value See M●sse Treasure trove not incident to Bishops Liberties 398. Treason for Bishops to resort appeal to Rome and own any for Pope without the Kings license 4. To Interdict the Realm excommunicate or depose the King by the Popes Bulls See H n. 3. and King John Index 3 4 10. They and all other Clergymen punisha le for it by Kings and Temporal Magistrates as well as Laymen 2. ● See Bishop● Clerks Banishment for it See ●●●●shment P●o●h●cying the Kings deposal by a day Tr●a●●● 266 267. 268. To desert his service because excommunicated by the Pope 25● 267. To betray the right● of 〈◊〉 Crown 248. To detain the Kings Castles against him 3●2 See Castles To imagin his death of betray him to his Enemies 265. Truce continued between England and France Popes interp●sing therein 4●6 447 448. 244 945 With the Saracens broken by the Pope though 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the great scandal di●grace of Christians 4 8 Made by the Emperor with the Soldan upon honourable terms objected by the Pope as a crime 427. See Frederick and Gregory 9. V. VAcations of Bishopricks Abbyes the Custody of their Temporalties presentation to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to our Kings by their antient Prerogative of which some Prelates in England and Ireland endeavoured to 〈◊〉 them 2 3 236 237 2●8 272 37● 428 511 522 81● 627 687 913 9●8 993 96● 963 955. 96● 994 10●4 6●9 ●●1 782 9●● 636. Appendix 18 See Index 3. 4. The Custody of the Temporalties of 〈◊〉 granted to the Archbishop and his Successors 339. 819 877 O● Westminster Abby to the Monkes by spicial Charters 763 7●4 The Archbishops Jurisdiction claimed over the Church of Lincola during the Vacancy 805 And of the Prior Monks of Canterbury over their Diocesans as Gardians of the Spiritualties of Canterbury during vacancies thereof 597 to 6●0 Vexations by Ecclesiastical persons of the Kings Subjects complained of prohibited ● 4 699 704. 705. 706. 728. 830 832. 8●3 884. 969. 970. 992. V●cariges endowed by Kings directions 4●7 Append. 29. V●ca●s of God and Christ on earth Christian Kings are such in over their own Realms Churches not Popes 1. 3 4. 872. 873. See King Popes pretences to be Christs and Gods Universal V●●ars upon earth● claiming all his regal S●cerdoral Offices and S●veraign Universal authority by that pretex yea a power to excommunicate depose all Christian Kings Emperors nu●● all Laws c. p. 6. 7. 8. This their 〈◊〉 disproved by Scripture 9 10 11 D●●●ed by the G●●el Church S 〈◊〉 Antioch and Greek Church by the Emperor Frederick and others 360. 513 154 533 538 539. 560. Pope Alexander the 4. desires prayers so to govern the Church a● to deserve to be called Gods V●c●● and 〈◊〉 s●cc●ss●● claimed expressed in their own Bulls as unworthy of it 407 449. 449. 81● Vicats General of the King to take place of all Bishops and visit the Ecclesiastical state persons under him 3 4. Victuals to be sold to Jewes notwithstanding Bishops inhibitions 387. 475 476. not to Saracens 449. Villains soas not to enter into Religion without their Lords assent 4. Vi Laica amovenda to Sheriffs c. 6●8 689 867. 1004. 1005. Virgini y consecrated by Mary 32 a great virtue 350. Virgins consecrated by Mary internally externally only by ●ish●ps 19. Visitations of the Ecclesiastical state persons a prerogative of the King by such as he shall appoint by Letters Patents 3 4 Kings may exempt persons places from Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Visitations and Jurisdiction their Free Chappels exempted from them 3 4 720. 721 721. 727. 729. 748. 757. 559. 982 923. 1047. Vexatious illegall proceedings and procurations in them together with coertion and administing enforcing Oathes prohibited in them by Popes Bulls Canonists Kings Writs 699 704 to 713. 728 743 744 760 892 907 969 970 What procurations fees are to be demanded taken in them 233 743 744. 79● 791. Of Archbishop Boniface with the oppositions appeals against it 740 741 746 747 748 752 76● 789 790 791. Of the Bishop of Lincoln and oppositions appeals against it 698 699 704 705 706 709. 754. 761 76● 798 Of Monks by the Popes Visitors grievances and appeals against them 440 441 442. 789. By the Abbot of the Cistertians by the Kings license 601 789. By Bishops for Popes to get money from Monks to exempt them from it 798 799. The principal end to get mony not reform abuses 789 790 798. Exemptions of Abbots from Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Visitations for mony by Popes Bulls 384 791 79● 798. App. 22 23. The Emperor excommunicated for not suffering an Archbishop to come to his See to visit 410. Pope Innocent 4. his Decree concerning Visitations procurations and preaching at them 743 744 790 791. Usurpation of Jurisdiction punished by our Kings restrained by their Writs 3. See Prohibitions Usurpers Charters neither do nor ought to prejudice the right heir to the Crown resumed 324. Usurers of Popes Caursini and other Italian Merchants countenanced by them against the Lawes of God Man Bishops Excommunications their detestable Usury bonds undermining of Jewes Popes remitting the Usury of Jewes not theirs to such as crossed themselves for the Holy Land with other matters concerning Popes Usurers Usury 350. 371. 426. 427. 437. 448. 460. 462. 467. 4●8 469. 516. 522. 546. 560. 573. 654. 718. 753. 754. 802. 809. 845. 846. 848. 868. 869. 717. 821. 835. 859. 871. 877. 878. 1034 1035. U●f●ngthees 428 873. U lawry of King John against exiled Bishops and Clergymen reversed by his Patent his declaration he had no power to outlaw Clerks 270 272. W. VVApentake 228. Wa●peni exemption from it 229. Wards of body and lands of Tenants in Capite belong to the King 429 430. The Archbishop opposed this prerogative and complained to the Pope against it Ib. Granted maried to Aliens of mean fortune complained against as a grievance in Parliaments 444 721 991. Contribution out of Wardships to relieve the Holy Land 239. Warrants of Judges produced else coram non Judice 887. Warranty not in a suit between a Bastard and Mulier 474. Warre what a just cause