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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

appointed how many Souldiers every Bishop Abbot which held of him by Barony should find for the King in times of war from which they were formerly exempted Alexander Bishop of Lincoln Nephew to Roger the great Bishop of Salisbury built three new Castles at Banbury Newark and Sleford which King Stephen seised upon and took from him upon some pretended or actual Misdemeanours together with all the Ammunition and Treasure this Bishop had laid up in them and imprisoned the Bishop himself for holding the Castle of Devises against him and refusing to surrender it till constrained St. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln did much oppose the payment of any Subsidies or Taxes to King Henry the second Richard the first and King Iohn he resisted King Richard the first to his face when he demanded Taxes from his Subjects by means whereof and of another Bishop joyning with him he could gain no moneys from them Whereupon the King in a great rage banished both these Bishops confiscated all their Goods and seised the Goods of the other Bishops who thereupon submitted to the King Hugh Wallis or de VVills Bishop of Lincoln about the year 1209. owning that Arch-traytor Stephen Langhton for Archbishop of Canterbury and receiving his consecration from him contrary to King Iohns expresse command had all his Temporalties seised and himself kept fasting for four years space before they were restored After which he joyning with Lewis the French King and the Barons siding with him against King Iohn he was for these new Treasons not only prosecuted by the King but also excommunicated by the Pope and not absolved till he paid the Pope one thousand Mark and his Legat one hundred Marks sundry other of our Bishops being then fined for the like Crimes and that so deeply that they were compelled to sell all they had to satisfie the King Hugh Burwash Bishop of Lincoln though advanced by the special favour of King Edward the second to that See fell so far into his Royal displeasure within two years after his consecration for some contempts and offences against him that the King seised his Temporalties into his hands for two years space Anno 1324. he being restored to the Kings favour and his Temporalties again the grudge thereof stuck so far in his stomach that none was so forward to assist the Queen with mony armes forces nor so eager against the King to depose him as this Bishop of Lincoln and the Bishops of Ely Dublin and Canterbury by whose assistance and advice the King was not only deposed but murdered Thomas VVatson Bishop of Lincoln in the first year of Queen Elizabeth ●as by the Queen and Parliament deprived of his Bishoprick and committed to Prison for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy and threatning to excommunicate the Queen for altering Religion King Stephen about the year 1140. banished Nig●llus Bishop of Ely for his Treason and Contempts against him seised his Castles and Temporalties during his life and kept them in his hands at least five years space after his death G●offry Rydel his next Successor commonly called the proud Bishop of Ely had all his Moneys to wit 3060 marks of Silver and 205 pounds of Gold seised upon and confiscated by King RICHARD the first William Longchamp Bishop of ●ly both Protector Chancellour and Chief Justice of the Realm and Popes Legat during King Richard 1. his absence in the holy wars as he seised and spoyled the Temporalties and Goods of Geoffry Plantaginet Archbishop of York stripped him and his Followers of all they had dragged him by his Officers out of St. Martyns Church in Dover by force from the very Altar it self without the least respect to the greatness of his Person or holyness of the Place and thrust him Prisoner into Dover Castle so himself was soon after seised upon dragged by the Heels and imprisoned at Dover by the vulgar Rabble then forced out of the Realm by the Nobles and other Prelates and his Estate confiscated for his intollerable Tyranny and Misdemeanours Eustathius Bp. of Ely for pronouncing the Popes excommunication against King Iohn interdicting the whole Realm had all his Temporalties seised into the Kings hands his Goods confiscated himself forced to fly the Realm and to continue in exile many years all the Prelates and Clergy of England confederating with him herein being likewise commanded to depart the Realm their Possessions Baronies temporalties Goods seised confiscated and all of them put out of the Kings proteon Anno 1208. King Henry the third was so highly offended with Hugh Balsam Bishop of Ely that he seised upon his Temporalties caused all the Woods thereon to be cut down and sold the Parks to be spoyled the Ponds to be fished and wasted and havock to be made of all things for harbouring the Rebels then in armes aganst him Thomas Lilde Bishop of Ely a furious indiscreet Prelate upon King Edward the third his complaint to the Parliament was banished the Court during his life his Possessions seised on by the King till his death Thomas Thurlby Bishop of Ely for denying the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the reformation of Religion intended by Queen Elizabeth was committed Prisoner to the Tower and deprived of his Bishoprick by the Parliament in the first year of Queen Elizabeth with other Popish Bishops deprived for the like offences the same year Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter Anno 1326. was assaulted by the people in London at the North-door of Pauls and dragged thence by them into Cheapside by the heels where they proclaimed him an open Traytor a Seducer of King Edward the second who left the charge of the City to him and a Subverter of their liberties after which stripping him of his Pontifical Garments they took off his Head from his Shoulders and set it on a Poll for a spectacle that the remembrance cause of his death never questioned might continue Living the 23d Bishop of Worcester Anno 1040. was accused by Elfrick Archbishop of York for procuring the death of Alfred eldest Son of Ethelred Whereupon King Hardeknute degraded him and gave his Bishoprick to Elfrick So Alfred Bishop of Worcester for his misdemeanours and opposition against King Hardeknute and having likewise a hand in the death of his half Brother Alfred was expulsed that See till his money purchased his peace Maugere the third Bishop of Worcester being one of the four Bishops who excommunicated King Iohn and put the whole Kingdom under an Interdict Anno 1208. had all his Goods confiscated his Temporalties seised by the King and being forced to fly the Realm for these misdemeanours died in exile Raynelmus the 30. Bishop of Hereford receiving his investiture from King Henry the first by the delivery of a Ring and Crosier according to the Law and Custom of that Age and afterwards resigning them into the Kings hands again to pleasure Anselme

de Bromfield the 48th Bishop of Landaff was for a long time committed Prisoner to the Tower his Temporalties seised and Goods confiscated by King Richard the second for procuring and bringing in the Popes Bulls of Provision contrary to his own Oath and the Laws of the Land to make himself Abbot of Bury Richard Bishop of Bangor siding against King Iohn his Soveraign with L●olin Prince of VVales was taken Prisoner by the King in his own Cathedral Church and put to a ransom of 200. Hawks Roger Young Bishop of Bangor was imprisoned two or three years for his disobedience against King Henry the 4th and confederating with that Rebel Owen Glendor Arthur Bishop of Bangor was attainted in a Praemunire in the 36. year of King Henry the 8th for suing for the right of Patronage and Tithes of the Church of Langeyneiin in his Spiritual Court which belonged only to the Kings Temporal Courts for which he was put out of the Kings protection his Goods confiscated Temporalties seized and his Person adjudged to be imprisoned according to the Statute he sold away 5. fair Bells out of the Steeple of his Cathedral Giso Bishop of Bath and Wells had many conflicts with King Herald who forced him to fly the Realm and seized his Temporalties all his Reign Ioceline Bishop of Bath and Wells joyned with Archbishop Langhton and other Bishops in excommunicating his Soveraign King Iohn and interdicting the Kingdom for which offences his Temporalties were seized his Goods confiscated himself forced to fly and banished the Realm for five years space Robert Stillington Bishop of Bath and Wells for siding with the bloudy Usurper Richard the third at whose Coronation he was specially employed and for yielding assistance to Lambert the Counterfeit Earl of Warwick and other Treacheries was publickly accused of High Treason against King Henry the 7th and also arrested of High Treason in the University of Oxford whether he fled for Sanctuary imprisoned in the Castle of Windsor till his death Anno 1491. and his Goods and Temporalties seized William Barlow Bishop of Bath and Wells was attainted in a Praemunire by which his Temporalties and Goods were forfeited to the King Gilbert Bourne the 47. Bishop of Bath and Wells for denying the Queens Supremacy and refusing the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance to her 1 Eliz. was deprived of his Bishoprick And to mention no more Presidents in so plain a Case August 4. 1641. Walter Bishop of Winchester Robert Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Godfry Bishop of Glocester Ioseph Bishop of Exeter Iohn Bishop of Asaph George Bishop of Hereford Matthew Bishop of Ely William Bishop of Bangor Robert Bishop of Bristol Iohn Bishop of Rochester Iohn Bishop of Peterborough Roger Bishop of Landaffe and William Bishop of Bath and Wells were all of them joyntly and 2. of them particularly impeached by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament for several high Crimes and Misdemeanors contrary to the Kings Prerogative the Fundamental Laws of the Land the Rights of Parliament the Property and Liberty of the Subject and matters tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence After which most of them with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were committed Prisoners to the Tower their Goods and Temporalties sequestred and sold by sundry Ordinances of Parliament If any out of Ignorance or Prejudice should deem all these proceedings against the Persons and Temporalties of our Archbishops and Bishops from age to age illegal unjust or sacrilegious let them peruse the Statutes of 1 E. 3. c. 2. 14 E. 3. c. 3. 25 E. 3. c. 6. 2 R. 2. c. 7. 13 R. 2. Stat. 2. c. 8. 43. 16 R. 2. c. 5. 6 H. 4. c. 7. And the year books of 20 E. 2 Fitz. Corone 237. 16 E. 3. and 14 E. 3. Fitz. Quare non admisit 3 7 8 11 21 E. 3. 3 30 60. Book Contempts 5. 19. 22 E. 3. 22 26. Ass. 19. Brook Forfeiture 82. 106. 29 E. 3. 42. Fitz. Execution 159. 38. Ass. 22. Grant 1. 38 E. 3. 12. 46 E. 3. Praemunire 1. 10 H. 4. 6. 14 H. 4. 14. 8 H. 6. 3. 9 E. 4. 28. 27 H. 8. 14. 22 Brook Exigent 3 Stamford l. 2. c. 45. Cook 5. Report f. 12 13. 8. Report f. 68. Cooks 3. Institutes c. 36. 54. Sir Iohn Davis Reports f. 84. the case of Praemunire Upon perusal of all which it will most evidently appear that both our Parliaments and Judges have frequently declared resolved that both their Persons may lawfully be attached imprisoned banished executed their Temporalties seized and Goods confiscated to the King for their Offences Contempts Rebellions both by the Common and Statute Laws of England and therefore by like reason their Lands may be alienated and taken from them for their offences or abuses of them without sin sacrilege or injustice by our Kings and Parliaments beyond all contradiction as they have been from time to time both by the Emperors of Rome Greece Germany the Kings and Kingdoms of France Spain Hungary Italy Denmark Sweden Poland Scotland and Ireland as well as England 6ly That as the Lands and Temporalties of Bishops Abbots Cathedrals by their very first Charters of Endowments and Foundations were alwaies lyable to these 3. Temporal charges and Secular services though dedicated to God and his Church to wit Military Expeditions and Charges of War for the defence of the King and Kingdom the building and repairing of Castles and Bridges commonly expressed in antient Charters under this exception Exceptis Expeditione Pontis Arcis constrictione vel necessariis defensionilus Arcium quae nulli unquam possint laxari So if the Bishops and Abbots upon the Kings writs of Summons refused to send in their Proportions of Horse and Armes according to the Number of the Knights sees they held by and perform these Services to our Kings in times of War or Danger or denied to grant competent Aydes and Subsidies to our Kings when demanded their Temporalties Lands Goods Movables were usually seized into the Kings hands for this Contempt as is evident by Claus. 4● H. 3. m. 3. 6. Dorso the presidents of Archbishop Winchelsie and other Bishops forecited p. 52 53 c. So our Kings in times of War have frequently seized upon Archbishops Bishops and Church-mens Lands and given them to their Commanders and Souldiers witnesse the presidents of King Osfa and Kenulphus of old who took away sundry Mannors and Lands from the Archbishops of Canterbury which they partly divided amongst their Captains and Souldiers and partly retained to themselves with other presidents since And not only so but the Knights Citizens Burgesses and sundry Lords in successive Parliaments even in times of Popery have often pressed our Kings to take away sell and alienate the great superfluous Mannors Lands Temporalties of Bishops Abbots and Church-men for easing the Kingdom and people from Taxes and maintaining of Earls Nobles

till September 11. An. 1100. at which time the King received him into his favour and restored him to his Bishoprick After which he fell again into the Kings displeasure and dyed of grief that he could not clear himself of the Rebellion charged against him which he was summoned to answer In the year of our Lord 1101. K. Henry the first upon the innumerable complaints to him made against Ranulph Flambard Bishop of Durham by the Vote of a whole Parliamentary Council clapt him up Prisoner in the Tower of London for a most notable Oppressor Extortioner Rebel Traytor prepared to act any wickednesse who was likewise created by VVilliam Rufus both Chancellor and Treasurer of England This Bishop afterwards escaping into Normandy perswaded Duke Robert to invade the Realm to the great disturbance thereof and effusion of much Christian bloud After which having purchased his peace with large Gifts ●et the K. exacted from him great sums seised on all his Goods Bishoprick Edgar King of Scots about the year 1100. gave the Town of Berwick to the Bishop of Durham but because he afterwards wrought Treason against him he lost the Gift the King thereupon resuming the Town into his own hands Hugh Pusar Bishop of Durham who purchased the Earldom of Northumberland of King Richard the first for giving a rude sawcy answer to King Henry the second had his Castle of Durham seised into the Kings hands Anno 1184. and otherwise was afflicted by him Anthony Beak or Bek Bishop of Durham excommunicating the Prior and Monks of Durham notwithstanding their Appeal to the Pope and King and going to Rome without the Kings License King Edward the first thereupon seised his Temporalties and Liberties and appointed a new Chancellour new Justices and other Officers of Durham During this his disgrace this King for his con●empts took away three Manors and the Church of Symondbury from the Bishoprick with divers other Lands He being with other Bishops put out of the Kings protection for denying to grant him an ayde he and they were forced to make their peace with large Gifts the grant of the fifth part of thier Ecclesiastical Goods and Revenues for one year After the death of Lewis Beaumont the Monks of Durham electing a Monk of their own for their Bishop the Archbp. of York consecrating him without the Kings License the King thereupon refused to restore his Temporalties to him and caused Richard de Bury without any election of the Monk or Chapter to be made and consecrated Bishop in his place whereupon the Monk retired into the Monastery Cuthert Tonstall Bishop of Durham for his disobedience to King Edward the 6th was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London Decemb. 20. 1551. where he continued all his Reign the King being so highly offended with him that in 7 E. 6. by a special Act of Parliament the Bishoprick of Durham was dissolved and all the Lands and Hereditaments thereof given to the King his Heirs and Successors though afterwards the Bishop and Bishoprick were restored by Queen Mary but in 1 Elizabeth this Bishop was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the Queens proceedings and committed Prisoner to Lambeth Our learned Martyr William Tyndal writing of this Bishop Tonstall observes That the cause why he left the Bishoprick of London for Durham was only covetousness and ambition Neither addes he is it possible naturally that there should be any good Bishop so long as the Bishopricks be nothing save wordly pomp and honour superfluous abundance of all manner of Riches and Liberty to do what a man list unpunished things which only the evil desire and good men abhor Roger the great rich Bishop of Salisbury who contrary to his Oath Duty and Allegiance to King Henry the first his Advancer and Maud his Daughter set up and made Stephen a Usurper King thereby involving the Kingdom in intestine bloudy wars and feuds all his Reign by a divine retaliation of his Perjury and Treachery had his Person imprisoned his 2. newly repai●ed Castles of Sh●rborn and Malmesbury with his stately new built Castle of Devises and all his ammunition and treasures in them seised upon with the ●astles of his Nephews and Creatures Nigellus Bp. of Ely Alexander Bp. of Lincoln for real or pretended offences which Castles K. Stephen refused to restore or to be judgd by the Bishops or their Canons in the Council of Winchester sommoned by the Popes Legate to debate the legality of their seisure by the King and to restore them to the Bishops which the King would by no means give his consent to do the Archbp. of Rhoan justifying the lawfulness of these Castles seisure in the Council as well as the Kings Lawyers Richard Milford Bishop of Salisbury was by order of the Barons in Parliament in XI R. 2. removed from the Court and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristol as a pernicious Whisperer Flatterer evil Counseller Traytor to the King and Kingdom William Ayscoth Bishop of Salisbury Confessor to King Henry 6. by his oppressions ill dealing and consenting to the yielding up of Anjou and Mayen to the hands of the French King so far incensed the Nobles and vulgar Rabble his Tenants too against him that in the insurrection of Iack Cade June 29. 1450. some of these Bishops Tenants coming to Ed●ndon in VVilishire whiles he was there saying Masse seised upon him even in the Church drew him from the Altar arrayed in his Pontifical Massing Vestments carried him to the top of a Hill not far off and there whiles he was kneeling on his Knees cleft his Head in two stript him naked to the skin and renting his bloudy shirt into several pieces took every man a rag to keep it as a monument of this their exploit Which though tumultuous and illegal in them was yet a just judgement of God upon himself for opre●sing his Tenants and other publick misdemeanours Anno. 873. Alfred Bishop of Leicester was deprived of his Bishoprick for his misdemeanours by King Elfred Vl● Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Realm and hardly escaped with his life together with Robert Archbishop of Canterbury and VVilliam Bishop of London by Edward the Confessor by the advise of his Nobles assembled in a Parliamentary Council for giving this good King wicked Counsel an incensing him against the English causing the King to infringe his good Laws and not to administer upright Justice to his People which he promised to reform upon their banishment Alexander Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Land forced to fly into Scotland and deprived of his Bishoprick Anno 1070. for opposing VVilliam the Conquerour as an Invador of the Church and ravishers of Ecclesiastical things the Norman Conquerors making bold with all the Money Chattels Charters they could find in any Monastery which they diligently searched by the Kings command who

fidelium Eleemosyuls reaedificare non segniter insudaret Fernotus miles Dominus de Bosworth dictum manerium de Northburt datum fuisse de progenitoribus ejus monasterio sanctae Pegae monachis ibidem Deo servientibus ex Abbatis propriis chirographis patenter ostendit Unde consequenter allegavit quod cum Deo sanctae Pegae Abbas Wulgatus monachi sui à modo ibidem non servirent dictum manerium à modo non haberent Acceptatum est hoc à Regis justitiario confestim adjudicatum est dictum manerium de Northburt cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedicto militi Fernoto tanquam jus suum haereditarium de monachis Ecclesiae sanctae Pegae alienatum perpetuò sublatum Quod cum per universum Regnum citius fuisset cognitum scilicet Abbatem de Peikirk prius amisisse monasterium suum consequenter manerium ad monasterium quondam pertinens similiter Edmerus miles Dominus de Holbrok calumniam movit contra eundem Abbatem monachos suos de manerio suo de Makley Horsingus de Wathe calumniatus est pro manerio suo de Badington Siwardus Comes de manerio suo de Bernack Hugolonus thesaurarius de manerio de Helieston alii plures de aliis maneriis dicto monasterio dudum pertinentibus omnes eadem ratione in dicta causa contra monachos obtinuerunt tam de maneriis quam de monasterio suo dictus Abbas de Peikirk monachi sui nequiter ac crudeliter ejecti sunt ut nunquam alicui veniat damnum solum Cum itaque Abbas Wulgatus conventus suus monachi scilicet 18. sic de monasterio destituti vagabundi in proximo dispergendi in omnem ventum pro extrema miseria fluctuarent misertus eorum piissimus rex Edwardus omnes in suam curiam suscepit usquequo eis provideret suam capellam ac aulam quotidie frequentare imperavit If then Lands formerly dedicated to God and Monasterial Churches may thus be taken away and recovered from them by Law without sacriledge or injustice they may by like reason upon most occasions be alienated and taken from them by the King Parliament and Temporal Lords Gualther Mapes and Mr. Cambden out of him inform us that in King Edward the Confessors reign Godwin Earl of Kent having a design to gain the Manor of Barkley in Gloucester-shire to himself belonging to a Nunnery there situated where the Castle now stands passing by the Nonnery left his Nephew a very beautifull and elegant young man in the Nunnery who lodged therein so long under pretext of sickness that with his costly Gifts Beauty and Courtship he so far corrupted the chastity of the Abbesse and Nuns who attended him by turns that he begat and left them all great with childe and turned these lambs into Wolves After which posting thence to Earl Godwin and acquainting him therewith he thereupon informing the King that the Abbesse and all the Nuns were pr●stituted Strumpets and great with Childe the King issued a Commission to enquire thereof and finding it to be true the Nuns were cast out and the Manor given to Earl Godwin who begged it of the King from whom it came to the Barons of Barkly who have enjoyed it as the Head of their Barony for any Generations without any Sacriledge or Impiety By the Common law of England our Kings in all Ages by their Prerogative Royal in times of war danger and upon sundry other occasions have seised the Lands Benefices Rents Revenues Monies Goods of Priors Abbots Monks and other Ecclesiastical Persons who were aliens to their own uses without Sacriledge or Impiety as is evident by the Fine Rolls of 23 E. 1. m. 1 2. claus 23 E. 1. dors 4. cl 24 E. 1. m. 11. claus 25 E. 1. dors 12 20 22. claus 20 E. 2. dors 9. Rot. Fin. 20 E. 2. m. 9. Rot. Fin. 14 E. 3. m. 11 12 18 19 20 c. cl 15 l● 3. pars 3. dors 6. Rot Fin. 16 E. 3. m. 26. cl 19 E. 3. pars 1. m. 17. Rot. Fin. ●3 E. 3. m. 26. and sundry other 〈◊〉 and Cla●s● Roll in t●● Tower ●y sundry Parliament l●o●ls and our l●●w●ooks too And upon the Commons Petition in the Parliament of 2. H. 4. the Prior aliens Lands we●e not only ●ei●ed into the Kings hands but likewise sold and ahea●red into Lay-mens hands to maintain the wars against the French and Welshmen To pre●e●mit all particular seisu●es alienations sale substractions of Abbots Priors Monasteries and Religions Persons Lands mentioned in our Histories and Record the respective Parliaments of 27 H. 8. 31 H. 8. c. 1● 37 H. 8. c. ●1 E. c. 14 by several Acts collected by Rastall Title Monasteryes upon Mr. Fish his supplication of Beggars several Petitions and Complaints of the Commons and Inquisition taken upon oath and returned into the Exchequer of the Sodomitical adulterous incontinent vitious lives of Abbots Monks Nuns and other religious Persons remaining on Record in the Exchequer published at large by Iohn Speed in his History Weaver and others totally suppressed all Monasteries Prio●ies Nunneries Cells and other religious Houses and setled the inheritance of all their Lands Rents Revenues Possessions whatsoever in the Crown of England and that without any sacriledge impiety or injustice never since resumed nor ever likely to be restored to them in succeeding Ages being for the most part alienated sold and distributed by our Kings into the hands of the Nobility Gentry Commonalty and Corporation of the Kingdom and into the hands of all or most of the Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Colleges in England Ireland who repute it neither Sin nor Sacriledge in themselves to receive detain enjoy these Monastical Lands and Possessions out of whose spoyle the Bishopricks Deans and Chapters of Glocester Ch●t●r Oxford Peterborough and Westminster it self were first erected by Parliaments and Statutes of 31 H. 8. c. 15.33 H. 8. c. 31 34 35 H 8. c. 12 15 17. and the Letters Patents of King Henry the eight under his Great Seal translating the Conventual Churches of Bristol Glocester Oxford Peterborough and VVestminster into Cathedral Churches and Sees of Bishops and the Abbots Priors Covents of these Churches into Bishops Deans Chapters limiting the bounds of their Diocesse taken out of other antient Bishopricks and granting them all their Episcopal and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as derived only from our Kings the Supream heads of the Church of England under Christ and to be exercised only in their Names Stiles Rights steeds by these Bishops and their Officers as the Statutes of 26 H. 8. c. 1. 37 H. 8. c. 16 17. 1 Edw. 6. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 8 Eliz. c. 1. and their very Patents resolve us not by any real or adherent Divine Episcopal Jurisdiction derived to them immediately from Christ himself