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A26737	The ancient liberty of the Britannick church, and the legitimate exemption thereof from the Roman patriarchate discoursed on four positions, and asserted / by Isaac Basier ... ; three chapters concerning the priviledges of the Britannick church, &c., selected out of a Latin manuscript, entituled, Catholico-romanus pacificus, written by F.I. Barnes ... ; translated, and published for vulgar instruction, by Ri. Watson.; De antiqua ecclesiae Britannicae libertate. English	Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.; Barnes, John, d. 1661. Catholico-romanus pacificus. English. Selections.; Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1029; ESTC R9065	27,797	82

was Legate of Gregory the Roman Bishop The same also appears out of the constancy of the Britains in their rejection of the said Augustin whom although sent Express by the Roman Pontifie that hee might preside over the Britains yet saith Bede All the Britain Bishops refused to acknowledge him for their Arch-Bishop as who had an Arch-Bishop of their own whosoever hee then was whom it would not bee hard to know from the prerogatives of his Metropoly and priviledge of his seat in Councils As for the state of the Britannick Churches and their partition it will bee worth our pains to search it in the undoubted Records of the British Antiquity From the very time therefore of Constantine the Great and so of the Nicene Council all Britany was in times past canton'd into three onely Provinces over which were after the Romane manner in temporal affairs three Romane Proconsuls or Praesidents as likewise in spiritual there praesided as many Arch-Bishops commonly called Metropolitans from their Metropolies or principal Cities wherein were resident both the secular and sacred Provost or Metropolitane The first of these three Provinces was called Maxima Caesariensis the Greatest Caesarian or inverted if either way to be Englished the Metropolitan whereof was the Bishop of York The second was called Britannia primo the first Britain the Metropolitane of which was the Bishop of London The third was Britannia secunda the second Britain called the Legionary Metropoly and thereof the Is●ane Bishop or Bishop of Ca●ruske in the Tract or County of Monmouth That was the state of this Metropoly from Lucius unto King Arthur in whose time the Metropolitical dignity was transferred to the Bishop of St. Davids to whom were subject as Suffragans the Welch Bishops until in the time of Henry the first or as some will have it Henry the third the same Metropolitane was reduced under the obedience of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Now whatsoever either in the Provinces themselves or Churches was afterward irregularly parjeted from abroad that cannot prejudice the Imperial authority to which belongs as we have before shewed both to dispense the external Government of the Church and to establish the jurisdictions which it limits Much less can a Usurpation advanced by force or fraud derogate from the Oecumenick decrees of the Ancient Fathers or frustrate so many most grave Canons venerable for their age published thereupon such as is the premised 6th Canon of the Nicene Council for the Ancient Prerogatives and the second Canon of the Constantinopolitan by which is charged That no Bishop approach any Churches situate without his bounds which most grave Canon I wish the Bishop of Rome had religiously observed the Peace of the Church had been better assured the Council goes on commanding that all bee kept according to what was defined at Nice And that these may not seem too remote from our Britain the Canon concludes in a general Sanction That all things ought to be done according to that custome of the Fathers in force But that such had been the custome of the Britains as to have all weighty affairs Synodically disputed within themselves appears out of Bede Moreover to have been in use that the Bishops of that Nation were consecrated by one Bishop Baronius himself somewhere observes At that time truly so beautiful was the state of affairs in Britain until some ages after the Council of Nice Augustin the Monk was sent by Gregory who what hee could not by right first by fraud then by the armed assistance of Ethelbert and his new-converted Anglo-Saxons indeavoured to force the Catholick Bishops of Britain to acknowledge and receive him for their Arch-Bishop but they couragiously replied That they could not abandon their ancient Priviledges and subject themselves to the mandates of strangers That any other custome had been in the sacred Government of the British Church no man can ever evince out of genuine Antiquity And so much concerning the second Position The third Position bearing proportion to the second The Britannick Church was 1 with very good right 2 restored by her Soveraign to her Ancient Ecclesiastical Liberty 3 and that according to the Rule of the Ancient Catholick Canons by which was confirmed for the future the intire Liberty of the Churches TO the first whatsoever the Rebels at this day on either side falsely alledge to the contrary it appears out of very many Histories and the Authentick Chronicles that the Kingdome of England hath been an Empire and so accounted in the world which was governed by one supream Head or King both in Spirituals and Temporals and that wholly independent of any forein Prince or Supremacy whatsoever on earth This is the very marrow expressed from the formal words of a statute at large set out to this purpose by the Assembly of Parliament that is of the whole Kingdome in the 24th year of King Henry the eighth chap. 12. At which time the three Estates of England to wit the Clergy Nobility and Commons willing to recall the Ancient Rights of the Kingdome taken away rather by force and power than any Rule of the Canons decreed to have controversies ended within the bounds of the Kingdome without any appeal to foreiners which indeed is one principal prerogative of a Patriarchal Jurisdiction But upon this whole Britannick affair the thing most worthy our observation is That this decree for the liberty of the Britannick Churches was not introductive of a new Law as in spight to the Kings of Britain new upstarts calumniate who are either ignorant of or opposite to the Britannick priviledge but the said decree was onely declarative of an Ancient Custome which had constantly prevailed in England eight hundred years since and so many ages before yea and was intirely renewed as often as occasion required Concerning this most just assertion wee attest the ample Margin filled with a long train of the Ancient Britannick Statutes which the ingenuous Reader may be pleased at leisure to view and consider Whence by induction of parts will appear that this was no new enterprize nor a single irregular act of Henry the eighth alone but that long before the time of Henry the eighth this had been the ancient Supremacy of all the Kings of England over all persons and in all causes whatsoever so well Ecclesiastick as Temporal Wee proceed to the second and prove the Ancient state of the Church to have been such out of the undoubted Monuments of the Britannick Church where first wee may collect out of the fore-cited Venerable Bede as also Henry of Huntington no less than the rest That Augustine the Monk stirred up Ethelbert King of Kent against the Bishops of the Britains because they in behalf of the Ancient Britannick Liberty denied to subject themselves and their Churches unto the Roman Legate Yet further Huntington adds that neither the Britains nor Scots that is the Irish would therefore communicate with the English and

THE Ancient LIBERTY OF THE Britannick Church AND THE Legitimate Exemption thereof from the Roman Patriarchate Discoursed on four Positions and asserted By Isaac Basier D.D. and Chaplain in ordinary to His late Majesty of Great Britain CHARLS the First Three Chapters concerning the Priviledges of the Britannick Church c. Selected out of a Latin Manuscript entituled Catholico-Romanus Pacificus Written by F. I. Barnes of the Order of St. Benedict yet living as is said in the Roman Inquisition Translated and published for Vulgar instruction By RI. WATSON London Printed for Iohn Mileson to bee sold by Elisha Wallis at the Horse-shooe in the Great Old-Bayley 1661. TO My Worthy good Friend Mr. Richard Watson c. At Caen. Sir THe cause why the abundant satisfaction I inwardly conceived at the receipt of your most obliging Letter and reading of that excellent Diatribe of Doctor Basiers which accompanied it by Mr. Coventrie's favour according to your direction hath no sooner thus dilated it self on Paper hath been that ingenious young Gentlemans absence these Holy-daies as hee himself will I doubt not for my further justification testifie I do therefore Sir with all gratitude acknowledge both Dr. Basier's and your ample favours in this whole design no less relating to what is already so worthily performed than to what is also so meritoriously projected and intended as that I should do my self great wrong to refuse the annex of my name where it should rather be my ambition to have it appear But on the other side give mee leave Sir to suggest one caution that you take heed since you intend it should pass currant in England the stamp of my name do not in regard of my Relation to my Royal Master I will not say adulterate the coin or abate the intrinseck value but make it less welcome to praeoccupated and misperswaded Readers The Doctor 's English Letter to mee I hold not only fit for the Press as a testimony of the Authors eminent industry and merit but also as it is useful to the publick indeed such a one written with so Apostolical a spirit as that I have been often heard to say that I could never read it but as a kinde of nine-and-twentieth of the Acts Use therefore I beseech you Sir my name with all freedome as you think good you cannot entitle mee to any thing of this kind which doth not add as to my honour so to my obligation to you whose prone and undeserved favour herein I shall upon all occasions ambitiously endeavour to requite by some more solid acknowledgement than this bare signing my self Most Worthy Sir Paris this first day of the year 1658. which I heartily wish you most happy Your most humble and obliged servant Richard Brown To the Honourable Sir Richard Brown Clerk of the Right Honourable Privy-Council TO His Majesty of Great Britain c. Sir THough I took the liberty some years since to publish the Latin Diatribe of the worthy Doctor which I found in my Lords Cabinet after his decease yet I could not so well presume to address it as I am confident intended by the Learned Author unto your noble self By my adventure in the Translation I have somewhat improv'd my Title to a degree of propriety and can so far justifie yours at least to what is mine if you please to own a Patronage of the work under so much disadvantage as the change of Language puts upon it Your approbation of it in the design gives mee no full assurance of your satisfaction at sight and reading but your ability to judge the difficulty of Englishing such matters in such a stile as they require and your incouragement of all that aims at the publick good yeeld mee hopes of your acceptance and dispensation with whatsoever unavoidable defects That it was presented to you no sooner you in part know the reason until of late it hath been as hard to finde a Press for any Treatise that vindicated our Church as for a Dedicatory Epistle to any Resident of our King But my long frustrated attendance for a Supplement from Mr. Justell was the first Dilatory it had and very lately I think it hath been discountenanced by an aversion if no more of some private Inquisitours where you are from all that hangs the Church of England on this hinge of Primitive Antiquity or the Authority of Ancient Councils It waits on you now accompanied with somewhat I communicated not before obtained by the friendly industry of that ingenious Gentleman who sent mee F. Barnes's Manuscript whence I selected what and more than what the Doctor directs us to though hee survives not to entertain the duplicate of my thanks nor to take pleasure in the effect of his own pains or mine and to actuate further the most commendable quality which happily discoverd it self very early in him a singular complacency in accommodating a private friend and a generous promptitude to advance any thing wherein publick interest was concerned I must needs in gratitude do him the honour of laying this leaf of Lawrel on his Hearse which hath passed through several hands of our Reverend Clergy and Gentry where hee died recommended Sir with your own serious condolence unto mine That he acquired the character of a prudent exemplary young Gentleman in his life and a very pious Christian in the self-discerned approaches to his death Sir for printing the Doctors Letter I should apologize unto him if you lent mee not yours to countenance it as your permitting it before to be read and copied had signified your inclination to have some such right done to our Church and him which could not better be than in company with another work of his own and what his approves The advertisement you further gave mee that his additional Relations were addressed to Sir George Radcliffe came too late for mee to recover them by the means I used out of his Papers as the notice of his death did for some other Letters that had passed to my knowledge between my Lord and Sir George upon Theological points of controversie wherein they differed and which they discussed with some little earnestness yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If the former be not irrecoverably disposed of Sir you have now a fair opportunity to secure them though if the good Doctor himself be living the late misfortune befallen the Country learned Travellers not to exercise their function where the duty of praying for the King should be prohibited And a signal instance it was of Christian courage in our Reverend Author when an Exile to refuse the offer of a plentiful support where that would not be allowed yet it had been worth his journey to Smyrna to convert the Consul who now I hope hath more than the Merchants argument which many times is more prevalent with men of business than the Divines I mean that of Interest to convince him Sir The benediction the Doctor gives to you and yours in

all these add what in conclusion is principally necessary to wit that the Britannick Church after the very sacred Canon of the Scriptures such as is defined in the † Conc. Laodic Can. ult ancient Councils adheres closely unto tradition truly universal as well Ecclesiastick as Apostolical both which lean on the testimony or authority of the truly Catholick Church according to that in Vincentius of Lirinum his fam'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or essay of ancient Catholicism Quod ubique quod semper quod ab omnibus c. That which every where which alwaies which by all c. It appeareth that the Britannick Church bears upon these two Catholick principles to wit Holy Scripture before and above all and then Universal Tradition not onely because the general Council of Nice wherein 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ancient Customes are underset and established but also the Britannick Church in a * The first Synod after her Articles of Religion were fixed An. 13. Regin Elizab. Provincial Council of her own hath most expresly ordained by a special Canon Wee conclude therefore That the Britannick Church such as shee was lately under Episcopacy rightly constituted was no way Schismatical neither materially nor formally since that she neither erected unto her self Chair against Chair which is the foul brand of Schismaticks in St. Cyprian Nor did that Church cut her self off from Episcopacy or made a Congregation at any time unto her self against her Canonical Bishops which ever is the formal character of Schismaticks by the definition of the o Concil Constantinop 1. Can. 6. vel 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Woe call them Hereticks which rend themselves from and set up Synagogues or Conventicles against our Canonical Bishops c. Constantinopolitan Council much less did she shake off her Bishops and with the continued succession of Bishops by consequence the succession of her Priests not interrupted as I may say from the very cradle of her Christianism And as for lawful ordination as well in the material part the imposition of hands as in the formal wherein signally by a set form of words both praerogative of Ordination and also jurisdiction is conferred on the Bishops this her ordination I say rightly and canonically performed by the Catholick Bishops shee proves out of the very Records or Monuments of Consecrations So that no man can by deserved right charge upon the Britannick Churches that ancient reproach of Schismaticks in p Matthew Parler a godly and learned man c. who was Chaplain to Henry the eighth c. being duly elected to the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury after a Sermon preached the Holy Spirit invoked and the Eucharist celebrated by the imposition of hands of three Bishops in former times William Barloe of Bathe Iohn Scory of Chichester Miles Coverdale of Exceter and Iohn Suffragan of Bedford was consecrated at Lambeth Hee afterward consecrated Edmund Grindal an excellent Divine to bee Bishop of London c. See Camdens Annals of the Affairs of England part 1. ad an 1559. Tertullian Vos ex vobis nati est is You are new Upstarts born yesterday of your selves Nay so tenacious are the genuine Britains of the ancient Religion and by consequence of her Catholick Discipline that for the intire restitution of their Bishops their most Gracious King himself Charls Emperour of Great Britain chuseth rather to suffer so many and so most undeserved injuries even which is horrid to be spoken to death it self which in dishonour and contempt of all q In good earnest this hainous fact so strikes at all Monarchs through the side of one King of Great Britain that unless it incense all Kings and Princes whatsoever as to a most just indignation so to a serious revenge it may be feared that the contagion of such a damnable example will diffuse its infection into Neighbour-Kingdomes it so threatneth and menaceth the destruction and ruine of Monarchy it self since that in the most seditious Epilogue of the perfidious Covenant in most express words they exhort and animate other Christian Churches as they love to speak which either groan under the yoak of Antichristian Tyranny or that onely are in danger of it that they would joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant with them forsooth to the enlargement of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ c. You hear the words yee Christian Princes yea and you see their deeds It is the affair of you all that is acted but of such among you especially whom particularly they will seem to have marked out with that black character of Antichristianism which in the sense of these Traitours is not so common to every meridian but that it seems to threaten some Region before other with its malignity God avert all of that nature portended by it Christian Monarchs those most desperate Rebels threaten to their King and not long since potent Monarch then abolish Episcopacy as mindful of that r At the Coronation of the King of England the Arch-Bishop consecrating in the name of the whole Clergy twice adjures the King in these words ss 1. † This is translated out of the Latin Copy My Liege Will you grant conserve and by your oath confirm the Laws Customes and Liberties given unto your Clergy by the Glorious King St. Edward your Predecessor The King answers I do grant and take upon mee to keep them Also ss 5. The Arch-Bishop advertiseth the King in these words My Lord the King Wee beseech you that you will conserve to us and the Churches committed to our trust all Canonical Priviledges and that you will protect and defend us so as every good King ought to be a Protector and Defender of Bishops and Churches put under his Government The King almost in the same words promiseth That hee to the uttermost of his power God helping him will keep the Canonical priviledges of the Churches and that hee will defend the Bishops themselves Afterward the King being lead to the Altar there touching with his hand the Holy Bible solemnly swears That hee will perform all these things adding moreover this Imprecation to be trembled at So help mee God and the contents of this holy Book I thought fit to insert here this form of the Kings Oath taken out of the Royal Records themselves that it may bee made manifest to the whole Christian world That His Majesties magnanimity and constancy hitherto is to be imputed not to pertinacy but Religion whatsoever otherwise is said by such as blaspheme or reproach him with their 〈◊〉 language Oath to be trembled at whereby hee religiously bound himself to God and the Church at his Coronation The Clergy and likewise better part of the Nobility as also the Britannick people dispersed here and there Rivals with their King in this part of his Religion refuse not to undergo the loss of all their estates persecutions banishments yea are ready to indure all kindes of extremity to their very last

in the Council Essebicus Monach. in Merlin Comment Nicolaus Trivet citat a Do Henr. Spelman Concil p. 111. Galfrid Monumet g 1. The King is a mixt person with the Priest because hee hath as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal Jurisdiction Statut. Anno decimo H. 7. fol. 8. 2. Anno Christi 755. King Kenulphus exempteth the Abbot of Abbington from Episcopal Jurisdiction and the fact of the Kings was judged for legitimate 1. H. 7. fol. 23 25. 3. Among the Laws of Edward the Confessor chap 19 It is said That the King is constituted Chief Vicar that hee may rule the Kingdome and People of the Lord and above all the Holy Church 4. In the time of Edward the First one had brought a Bull derogatory to this right of the Crown for which he was condemned to exile and it was judged that his crime had the nature of Treason 5. 4 Ed 1. The King in Parliament as they speak himself expounded the Canon made at the Council of Lions De Bigamis 6. 16. Ed. 3. The Excommunication of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was judged valid notwithstanding the contrary sentence of the Roman Pontifie 7. 17. Ed. 3.23 The King by his Supremacy ex-exempts the Archdeacon of Richmond from Episcopal Jurisdiction as also all Ecclesiastick Colledges and even Monasteries which the King founded were exempt by the same right 8. 27. Ed. 3.84 The King and supream Ordinary present by lapse 9. 33. Ed. 3. Aide du Roy. 103. Kings anointed with sacred Oyl are capable of spiritual Jurisdiction 10. 11. H. 4 37. The Pope cannot change the Laws of England 11. 12. Ed. 4.16 A Legate coming into England ought to take an oath That hee will attempt nothing in derogation to the rights of King and Crown 12. 2. Rich. 3.22 The Excommunications and Judgements of the Roman Pontifie are of no force in England 13. 1. H. 7.20 The Pope cannot erect the prviledge of a Sanctuary in England 14. 25. Ed. 3. It is determined That the Pope hath no right in England of conferring Archbishopricks or Bishopricks 15. 27. Ed. 3. Whosoever by Summons or Sute shall trouble any of the subjects of the King of England without the Realm of England shall incur the loss of all his goods which the Law of England calls Praemunire 16. 16. Rich. 2. cap. 5. It is provided by Law That because the King of England holdeth his Crown immediately from God therefore if any one shall pursue in the Court of Rome any translation whatsoever of process or excommunication c. hee shall incur the same forfeiture of his goods being beside put out of the Kings protection 17. 2. H. 4. It is decreed That the Popes Collectours by vertue of his Bulls have no authority nor jurisdiction in England but that the Archbishops and Bishops of England are the Kings spiritual Judges 18. 11. H. 4.69.76 The Commission of Judges pronounceth with one mouth That the premised Statutes are onely affirmative of the Common Custome of England but not introductive of a new Law It were an easie thing to accumulate six hundred more of this sort but these will bee enough for the Reader nor prejudicate yet hitherto perchance ignorant of these Statutes * Hist. Eccl. l. 1. c. 27. Et 2. c. 4. ad annum 883. † Hist. l. 36. h Hence is that sad complaint apud Bed l. 1. c. 27. of Gregory himself in his Epistle to Augustin In Anglia inqut tu solus Episcopus c. In England saith hee thou art the only Bishop How the onely since out of the Historical context Bed l. 2. c. 2. it appears clearer than the Mid-day light that there were at that time other Bishops in Britain beside Augustin but yet in very deed Augustin was alone because neither the Britains nor the Scots would communicate with Augustin as who accounted him a notorious violatour of the Ancient Ecclesiastick Liberties of the Britannick Island * Bed Histor. Eccl. l. 3. c. 3. † Lib. 3. c. 36. * Lib. 2. c. 2. * Tom. 2. Ephesin Synod append 1. cap. 4. Ep. 18. i Let the Reader see if hee can get Barnes's Manuscript the title whereof is Catholico-Romanus Pacificus chap. 3. De Insulae Magnae Brittanniae Privilegiis for which his sober work that good Irenaeus although hee were of an unblameable life and entire fame yet some years since was as they say carried out of the midst of Paris by force devested of his habit and like a four-footed Brute in a barbarous manner tied to the horse and so violently hurried away first into Flanders afterward to Rome where being first thrust into a dungeon of the Inquisition and then into the prison for Madmen hee died Yet those fierce people not content with his death have indeavoured to extinguish his fame boldly publishing that hee died distracted This Chapter is one of the three translated out of the said Manuscript and herewith published * Some of his own Order suppose him to be still living k Hence is it That Wini being ordained by the Gallick Bishops is received by the Britains even then when they rejected Augustin the Roman Bishop Witness Bede Lib. 3. c. 7. l So that G. Nazianzens Church was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Noah's Ark and St. Hierom breaks out into these horrid words Ingemuit orbis se Arrianum factum esse miratus est The world groaned and wondred that shee was become Arrian m For full ten years after the Reformation under Queen Elizabeth the Roman-Catholicks without scruple communicated with the Protestants until Pius the sixth by his interdictory Bull disturbed all n How well this new Interdiction agreeth with the ancient Oath of the Pope the Reader may judge when as Cardinal Deus-dedit very well notes in his Collection of the Canons the ancient form of the Popes Oath which is yet extant Canon Sanct. Dist. XVI quia Papa jurabat se 4. Concilia servaturum usque ad unum apicem was that wherein the Pope sweared Hee would observe the four Councils to a title Whence the most learned Laschasserius very wittily infers In Consult Venet. thus Non potest igitur Pontifex Romanus jure contendere c. The Roman Pontifie cannot therefore by right contend that hee is superiour to those Canons of the Councils unless hee will arrogate a power unto himself over the four Evangels To this Oath of the Pope agrees the ancient Profession of Pope Zozimus Can. Conc. Statut. 5. q. 5. To decree or change any thing contrary to the Statutes of the Fathers is not in the power or authority of this See See more at large concerning this subject Barnes's Manuscript quo supra Paralipomen ad ss 2. De Conciliis Papa Schismate * That Chapter is likewise herewith printed