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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70721	News from Doctor's commons, or, A true narrative of Mr. Hickeringill's appearance there, June 8, 1681 upon a citation for marrying people without bannes or license, with a protestation against their spiritual court : to which is added, An essay concerning the virtue of sequestrations.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. Essay concerning sequestrations.	1681 (1681)	Wing N954; ESTC R21758	7,921	9

whereas he is neither Arch-Bishop of Canterbury nor so much as Dean of the Arches and therefore he being at best but a Surrogate or Deputy he cannot have nor constitute a Surrogate of Deputy under him III. I protest against your Proceedings because I am cited out of the Diocess where I dwell contrary to the 23. H. 8.9 IV. I protest against your Proceedings because there is no certain day nor time mentioned in your Citation to limit and direct my appearance at a time certain V. I protest against your Proceedings because there is no certain and particular penal Crime mentioned in particular in the Citation to which and for which I am bound to make answer For it is a duty not a crime for a Presbyter as I am to joyn People together in holy Matrimony nor any Profanation though the Register get not unmerciful and unjust Fees for a formal License nor any penalty for marrying People without Bannes or License nor any thing more cusromary or more universally practised among the Ministers in the Country where I live than to marry without Bannes or License Nor do I acknowledge that the sixty second Canon pretended to be consirmed by King James is a Law of England nor any other Canons or things that are not enacted and confirmed by King and Parliament the naked truth whereof none dare deny without incurring a Praemunire the King and Parliament together having in England the only Legislative power Besides the Canons clash one against another for those made in Queen Elizabeth's time order That such as marry without Bannes or License shall be suspended ab ossicio for six months only But the sixty second of King James's Canons decrees Suspension for three years whereby it seems the Synod-men the longer they lasted the more they grew and improved not in goodness and mercy but in rigour and severity God bless us and all Englishmen from such Legislators and the bottom of the Plot and design of that Canon and Prosecution upon the same seems to be calculated to get mony for Licenses for the benefit of Registers Commissaries Officials and such like motly-Crew and Lay-Elders those Ecclesiastical Fellows whilst the Ministers and Clergy do the drudgery and truckle under them and truckle for them And is it not a Soul-saving and wholesom Canon that stops a Ministers mouth and silences him from Preaching the Gospel for three years together because a couple are honestly married for Five Shillings without giving the Commissaries Officials and Registers those Poscinummia Crumine mulgae eleven shillings and four pence more for a License VI. I protest against your Proceedings Argumento ad Hominem because according to your own not my Canons no Sentence ought to pass upon a Presbyter but by a Bishop and here is no Bishop to hear the Proceedings and therefore if afterwards any Bishop do pass Sentence Re in anditâ in propriâ personâ He must do it by a blind implicit faith in the reports of other men which I suppose no Bishop will be so rash as to venture upon Edmund Hickeringill Mr. Hickeringill told Sir Robert the penalty and danger incur'd by the said Statute of 23. Hen. 8 9. for thus vexatiously citing him out of the Diocess and threatned Sir Robert that he would sue him and prosecute him according to that Statute But Sir Robert replied That he would stop proceedings Mr. Hickeringill not content with that replied Who shall pay me for the vexatious Citation and unwarrantable trouble and charge you have put me to But Sir Robert said nothing to that nor to the Protestation it might as well have been Greek for it non-plust all reply Nor are all the Sir Roberts or Wisemen in England able to answer that Protestation for who can patch up an old rotten foundation that at first and at best was but a Popish invention not warranted in the Holy Scripture for a Bishop to vex and domineer and pill and poll and plague his Brethren Clergy and Laity biting and devouring what even birds of prey will not do their Kind in spight of the Law of Christ Luk. 22.25 26 by illegal Fees Extortions Exactions Gitations Excommunications Absolutions Dispensations Commutations Procurations Visitations Sequestrations c. Which last is an art so dark and unintelligible and as little known as seldom or never insisted upon of all other the mysteries of Iniquity which makes me subjoin this following Essay But some will say if Bishops Courts be dissolved as seems to be undeniably prov'd in the Naked-Truth and in a Book so stiled lately published then what are Bishops good for And what shall they do To which I answer Let them sit in Parliament and other Councils when his Majesty shall think fit to call them let them say their Prayers Preach give Alms Baptize and Catechise and to the work of their Ministry and if that be not work enough for one man which was a great deal more than the Apostles ever did who never were Parliament-men nor Privy-Councellors then let them perswade the King and Parllament if they can to set up their High-Commission Court again and give them power as formerly to be mischievous Bless us good God! what would Ambition and Covetousness Rage and folly be at if it could speak Is not stately Lordships and Mannors City and Country-houses vast Revenues and great and manifold Preferments enough to satisfie men but they must rob the Spittle and he uneasie except they have power to be mischievous Well God forgive them and give them repentance that 's the worst I wish them and send them more money and when they have got more wit and more grace then also and not 'till then more Power An Essay concerning Sequestrations by Edm. Hickeringill IF ever any Rags of Popery remain in a Protestant Constitution and Government some think that old Popish Invention called Sequestration will still stand up and plead for its self Sequestration is a term of Art well known in the late Times namely when Lands in controversie or dispute or in Abeyance or in nubibus are put into the hands of an indifferent person or persons to retain the rents and profits or take them into custody till the controversie be decided and till there be a lawful Incumbent by Institution and Induction or if a Donative until the Patron do bestow the same upon a Clergy-man Sequestration is a Roman word and honest enough if it had not been so often abus'd and where Arbitrary Government as in the late times comes in fashion it is of use of wicked use For Silent leges inter arma we must not talk of Law of the ancient and fundamental Laws of England when either War Force Popery or its Twin Arbitrary Goverment comes into play and is on the winning-hand The Pope had a Trick of old when any Bishoprick or good Living became vacant it should go hard but he would have a snip out of it before he put in a new Incumbent and this taking the