Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	normandy_n	5,766	5	11.9981	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34480	Jura cleri, or, An apology for the rights of the long-despised clergy proving out of antient and modern records that the conferring of revenues, honours, titles, priviledges, and jurisdiction upon ecclesiasticks is consistent with Scripture, agreeable to the purest primitive times, and justified by the vsance and practce of all nations / by Philo-Basileus Philo-Clerus.	Philo-Basileus Philo-Clerus.	1661 (1661)	Wing C612; ESTC R23895	70,115	98

token of Reverence an honour which he shews not to any other Subject and will hardly vouchsafe the like to the mightiest Monarch upon earth Neither do the inferiour Degrees want their due esteem for after their Mufti they have their Cadelischers somewhat resembling the Christian Patriarchs next their Cades answerable to our Bishops then their Santons Talismans suitable to our Presbyters and Deacons the lowest of whose number is highly respected by the people Elma●in Hist Arab. Id. Then for the old Saracens t is a matter sufficiently known that with them for some 100 of years the same Person was both Prince and Caliph I might multiply innumerable instances to this purpose but I shall not weary my Reader Now let not any envious Momus imagine that all this while I drive on a design to have this revived and made a pattern for Christians no my only meaning is to put our Clergy-haters to the blush if they have so much of vertue left as the Colour when they see how by the common consent of Nations which Tully calls the Law of Nature the highest Honour was ever given to the Priest The Prince of Philosophers laying it down for an Axiom that t was a work most proper for the worthiest Aristotle 7. Polit. c. 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No Peasant no Artisan must defile these Sacred things quia par est Optimum ab Optimo coli Summum à Summo there must be some resemblance and Analogy between the Master and the Servant And therefore if we will beleive Trigautius amongst the wise Chinois olim Rex hodie soli litant Magistratus primarii Regnique Proceres No Inferiour person must come neer the Altar CHAP. III. Englands Respect to the Clergy FOr their Nobility in our own Nation Spelman and Lambard S●pelm C●●nc Ep. ad ●eg confessedly the Ablest Pair of our Saxon Antiquaries do avouch that the Saxons ever reputed the Bishops equal and in some points Superiour to their Greater Thanes whom Posterity call Barons and as may be seen in * Archaion Lambard the Laws of Ethelbert Ina and Aethelstan do rate them accordingly Nay in all the ancient Charters the first place was ever given to the Spiritual Lords In a Donation of Ethelbert A. 605. to the Monastery of S. Peter in Canterbury the first witnesse subscribing is Austin the Bishop and after him several Dukes and Earls In a Charter of King Ina's A. 725. to the Monastery of Glassenbury after the Bishops Beorthwald and Fordred we have Waldhere Ethelherd Umming and Winchelin the greatest Peers in the Nation putting their names Presently after in a Grant of Offa's to the Abby of Worcester A. 780 Brordran Berhtand Eadbald and Eadbald two Princes and two Dukes follow the Bishops Monast. Angl. Spelm. Conc●possim And at the same Kings Consecration of St. Albans A. 793. no lesse than ten Dukes besides other Nobles give place to the Prelates Come down an Age Lower in the Donation of Edgar to the Covent of Glassenbury the Bishops lead and Elphere Oslac Ethelwine three Dukes bring up the Rear And to make an end in a Charter of Edward the Confessors to the Monastery of Winchester immediatly after the King subscribed Plegmund and Frithestan the Bishops being followed by Ethelweard the Kings Brother Aethelstan and Aelfweard the Kings two Sons Ordluf Osred Brorhtulf Ordgar and Heethferth Dukes many more of this Nature might be produced out of the same Authors and others as standing monuments of the Clergies eminent Reputation the Reverence our Religious Ancestours bare to their Function And that this may not be thought to proceed meerly from the courtesie of England as in some other Cases t is familiar We have it confirmed by Statute 31. Hen. 8. c. 10. where in all Degrees and Offices are placed in Assemblies and Conferences and there the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury as Primus Par Regni the first Peer of the Kingdom is ranked before all the Nobility seated at the Kings right hand next and immediatly after the Royal Blood and the Vice-Gerent and the rest of the Bishops follow him in their due Precedency according to the Dignity and Anciancies of their Respective Sees And t is farther observable that they are ever named before the Temporal Lords in Magna Charta Charta de Forest c. Nor were they ever excluded from the greatest imployments of Honour and Trust in the Nation And to evidence that this is not spake without book I shall subjoyn a Catalogue of Church-men collected out of Malmesbury Harpsfield Godwin Spelman Isaacson c. that have borne all at least the most Honourable Offices of State and however bespattered by some discharged them with much integrity and repute England owing more of its happinesse to men of this Calling then any other Though it cannot be denied but some miscarriages may here and there be found yet as few as can be expected in such a multitude and if a man were disposed to carp he might without much sweat produce two for one in critically examining any other Profession I shall begin with the Metropolitan to whom this Primacy justly appertains and take the rest in order CANTERBVRY WE find fewer of this See upon the Civil Stage then any other most Offices being lookt upon as below the Archi-Episcopal Dignity and therefore a Nobleman upbraided Hubert with it when A. 1199. according to Spelman Godwin 93. he was made Chancellour of England Chief Justice and High Governour of all the Dominions under King Rich. 1. Afterwards King John entrusted the same Prelate with the Government of the whole Realm at his departure into Normandy Walter Reynalds Chancel A. 1310. John Stratford Chancel under Edw. 3. and when the King invaded France no person thought so fit in his absence to have the Government of the Nation entrusted to him Simon Islip of the Privy Council to Edw. 3. John Stafford to Hen. 5. John Moorton to Hen. 6. and Edw. 4. But why stand I upon this when in truth it has been seldom known that any of them have been omitted Fox Martyr Nor was this proper only to the times of Popery Come to the Reformation we find Cranmer of the Privy Council to Hen. 8. and Edw. 6. and very active in civil matters yet a man so averse to Rome so instrumental in planting the Gospel so laborious so holy that a great * * Brightman Com. Apocalytpical man and no friend to the Hierarchy takes him to be that Angel pointed at by the Spirit of God Revel 14. that had power over the fire Under the renowned Queen Elizabeth John Whitgift of the Council and the Government of the Principality of Wales given up to him YORK Walter Gray Chancellour under King John had the Government of the Realm entrusted to him under Hen. 3. William de Melton successively Treasurer and Chancellour of England A. 1317. William de Zouche Vice-Gerent to King Edw. A. 1346. John Kempe A. 1425.