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A60395	A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers, when the holy Communion was administered in the cathedrall church of Durham by prebendaries and petty-canons, in glorious copes embroidered with images, 1629 / written at the same time by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1643 (1643)	Wing S4014; ESTC R20243	26,828	32

A short Treatise of Altars Altar-furniture Altar-cringing and Musick of all the Quire Singing-men and Choristers when the holy Communion was administred in the Cathedrall Church of Durham by Prebendaries and Petty-Canons in glorious Copes embroidered with Images 1629. Written at the same time by Peter Smart senior-Prebendarie of the said Church a little before he was expeld deprived degraded and imprisoned for the space of twelve yeares till the second yeare of this present Parliament by the Bishops and Commissioners of Durham London and York for preaching against superstitious vanities and opposing then Thus by the meanes of B. Neal and his Chaplains Altars and Images c. were brought in Then after the death of B. Iames in May. 1617. There in the Cathedrall Church of Dutham frō which they spread over all England and alwayes before their unlawfull innovations brought into Durham Cathedrall by B. Neal and his Chaplains after the death of B. James who died in May. 1617. THus and then and there began the setting up of Altars and Images with a multitude of superstitious Ceremonies changing of services and corruptions of Sacraments which beginning in Durham have since that time spread themselves over all the Cathedrall Collegiate Churches and Colledges in this Realme yea and many parish Churches have set up Altars Images and Organs where they were never before since the reigne of K. Philip and Q. Mary of all such alterations and Popish Innovations in our Church Bishop Neale laid the foundation who being an old Courtier ambitious violent and cruell against all that gainsaid him and opposed his doings and dispairing to climbe to high preferment by learning and Preaching which he could not abide hee set his minde wholly upon advancing Cathedrall pomp and glorious Ceremonies easier a great deale to be performed and practised by an ignorant ideot who hath onely the outside of a man then the making of Sermons or writing books so that in few yeares he got the government of many Cathedrals first Westminster which once was a Bishoprick and yet hath Episcopall jurisdiction secondly Rochester thirdly Coventry and Lichfield fourthly Lincolne fifthly Durham sixtly Winchester seventhly the Archbishoprick of Yorke Thus sate Doctor Richard Neal upon 7. hils 7. Seas he Lorded it upon 7. thrones above thirty yeares in the last twenty of which he preached not three Sermons which is the principall office of a Bishop as S. Paul teacheth Yet at the censure of Doct. Bastwick he said openly that he was made Bishop by our Lord Jesus Christ and consecrated by the Holy Ghost unto what office and what to doe to hinder Preaching to persecute Orthodoxe and painfull Preachers to countenance cherish and maintaine schismaticall hereticall and traiterous Arminians and Papists Cosin Linsell Burgoin Duncan c. to heape livings and Church dignities upon his creatures and favourites idle loiterers unsatiable cormorants seven or eight a peece above all meane and measure for what good of the Church and Common-wealth did our Lord Jesus make him Bishop and the holy Ghost consecrate him to weare a Rochet to set out Ceremonies to defile the Church of God with Altars and Images to gather riches by oppression of his tenants and to play the ravenous Wolfe in devouring so many thousand flocks which he tooke upon him to feed in seven Bishopricks the hundred part of which he never saw nor one of a thousand ever heard the voice of their Lordly shepheard their Bishop their ghostly Father and the Pastor of their soules as he would be taken to be being chosen to the office of a Bishop by Christ and consecrated by the holy Ghost I have knowne this man about sixty yeares for we were schoole-fellowes in Westminster when he was plaine Richard Neal and I Peter Smart under Deane Goodman and Doctor Grant hee was then counted an heavy-headed lubber put out of that schoole for a dunce and a droane as himselfe confessed at his last Visitation in Durham 1627. saying openly in the audience of many that the three last yeeres when he was a Grammar scholar of Westminster he made no exercise at all whereupon it came to passe said he that when I went from Westminster to Cambridge I could not so much as write true Orthography put letters and syllables rightly together in Latin and I cannot do it yet What not make true Latin being a Doctor 60. yeares old when he had passed through five Bishopricks and was to be translated to Winchester and Yorke the two greatest in England This Bishop said M. Kirton in the Parl. 1628. though he hath leapt thorow many Bishoprtcks yet he hath left Popery behind him after Canterbury But howsoever he was an ignorant and unlearned Grammarian he profited better in divinity he had learning enough to run through 7. preferments seven Bishopricks containing the one half of England in all which his principall care and study was to enrich himself and his kindred Chaplains creatures and favourites which he made non-Residents and Tot-quots heaping upon them all manner of preferments benefices and Q. Mary of all such alterations and Popish Innovations in our Church Bishop Neale laid the foundation who being an old Courtier ambitious violent and cruell against all that gainsaid him and opposed his doings and dispairing to climbe to high preferment by learning and Preaching which he could not abide hee set his minde wholly upon advancing Cathedrall pomp and glorious Ceremonies easier a great deale to be performed and practised by an ignorant ideot who hath onely the outside of a man then the making of Sermons or writing books so that in few yeares he got the government of many Cathedrals first Westminster which once was a Bishoprick and yet hath Episcopall jurisdiction secondly Rochester thirdly Coventry and Lichfield fourthly Lincolne fifthly Durham sixtly Winchester seventhly the Archbishoprick of Yorke Thus sate Doctor Richard Neal upon 7. hils 7. Seas he Lorded it upon 7. thrones above thirty yeares in the last twenty of which he preached not three Sermons which is the principall office of a Bishop as S. Paul teacheth Yet at the censure of Doct. Bastwick he said openly that he was made Bishop by our Lord Jesus Christ and consecrated by the Holy Ghost unto what office and what to doe to hinder Preaching to persecute Orthodoxe and painfull Preachers to countenance cherish and maintaine schismaticall hereticall and traiterous Arminians and Papists Cosin Linsell Burgoin Duncan c. to heape livings and Church dignities upon his creatures and favourites idle loiterers unsatiable cormorants seven or eight a peece above all meane and measure for what good of the Church and Common-wealth did our Lord Jesus make him Bishop and the holy Ghost consecrate him to weare a Rochet to set out Ceremonies to defile the Church of God with Altars and Images to gather riches by oppression of his tenants and to play the ravenous Wolfe in devouring so many thousand flocks which he tooke upon him to feed in seven Bishopricks

the hundred part of which he never saw nor one of a thousand ever heard the voice of their Lordly shepheard their Bishop their ghostly Father and the Pastor of their soules as he would be taken to be being chosen to the office of a Bishop by Christ and consecrated by the holy Ghost I have knowne this man about sixty yeares for we were schoole-fellowes in Westminster when he was plaine Richard Neal and I Peter Smart under Deane Goodman and Doctor Grant hee was then counted an heavy-headed lubber put out of that schoole for a dunce and a droane as himselfe confessed at his last Visitation in Durham 1627. saying openly in the audience of many that the three last yeeres when he was a Grammar scholar of Westminster he made no exercise at all whereupon it came to passe said he that when I went from Westminster to Cambridge I could not so much as write true Orthography put letters and syllables rightly together in Latin and I cannot do it yet What not make true Latin being a Doctor 60. yeares old when he had passed through five Bishopricks and was to be translated to Winchester and Yorke the two greatest in England This Bishop said M. Kirton in the Parl. 1628. though he hath leapt thorow many Bishopricks yet he hath left Popery behind him after Canterbury But howsoever he was an ignorant and unlearned Grammarian he profited better in divinity he had learning enough to run through 7. preferments seven Bishopricks containing the one half of England in all which his principall care and study was to enrich himself and his kindred Chaplains creatures and favourites which he made non-Residents and Tot-quots heaping upon them all manner of preferments benefices and dignities to the intent they might flaunt it out bravely and assist him their Lord and Master couragiously in setting up Altars Images Organs Copes Candlesticks and all manner of Massing furniture especially in persecuting painfull Preachers under the name of Puritans though more conformable then themselves and in hindring Preachers from confuting Popish opinions and Arminian doctrines concerning Altars and Images and other superstitious trinkets with which he pestered the Church of Durham and many other places where he had authority as remaines upon Record in the Parliament 1628. and printed lately 1641. In the 45. page thus wee The Kings Chaplaine and Prebend of Winchest Pag. 45. reade Doctor More called in to the house of Commons saith he was referred to the Bishop of Winchester Doct. Neal to be censured for a Sermon preached by him The Bishop he had heard him preach and deliver many passages against Papists which pleased King Iames but he must not do so now this and more Doctor More himselfe told me before Doct. Sibs Againe the Bishop said to him you have a brother that preacheth against bowing at the holy name of Jesus and of bowing to the high Altar and that the Communion Table stood as in Ale-houses but he P●g 45. would have them set as high Altars This Doct. More delivered in writing to the Parliament And in pag. 33. we reade that Sir Dudley North informed the House how the said Bishop Neale told Doct. More that hee had often heard him preach against Popery which he said was well The Prince was then in Spain D. Marshall relat●d as much said to him by the Bishop of Winchester pag. 40. liked of then but now you must not doe so whereupon the Doctor said that if occasion did serve he would not spare to do the like now to whom the Bishop further replied the times were not the same therfore you must not Whereupon Sir Rob. Philips said By this you may guesse that this Bishop had a hand in setting up those Ceremonies in Durham and that he beares good will towards them labouring to make Durham and Winchester Synonimaes This reflects upon his Majesty said he as if the King should not be pleased that men in their Sermons should refell Popery pag. 33. The like D. More told me of Bishop Neals Chaplin D. D. Beard said that D. Alabasterpreached flat Popery at Paule Crosse The Bishop of Winchester commanded him as he was his Diocesan that he should preach nothing to the contrary pag. 40. Duncan now Prebendary of Durham how insolently he shooke him up being an ancient Doctor and Prebendary of Winchester about an high Altar to be set up there and to be bowed unto as in Durham But concerning Bishop Neals protection of his Chaplin Cozens when he was accused of high treason for denying the Kings Supremacy and giving as much authority to the fellow that rubs his horses heeles as to his Majesty you shall have more out of the Diurnal of the said Parliament 1628. when that Article of the impeachment and the proofe thereof shal be examined in its order and place To conclude that which Bishop Neale could not doe in his owne person his Chaplains and favourites of the Arminian faction did in other places D. Laud B. of S. Davids B. of Bath and Wels B. of London and Archbishop of Canterbury D. Linsell Dean of Lichfield B. of Peterborough and B. of Hereford D. Corbet B. of Oxford and B. of Norwich besides his followers B. Wren B. Mountague B. Howson B. Goodman B. Manwaring B. White B. Field B. Wright and B. Harsnet who made this Epitaph of himselfe Samuel Harsnet Episcopus Cicestrensis Indignus Episcopus Norwicensis Indignior Archiepis Eboracensis Indignissimus Most true he Lorded it so long til he should have come to Grace but the longer he lived he decreased in grace he descended from bad to worse from worse to worst as he ascended from high to higher from higher to highest even the titular grace of a most unworthy Archbishop Al these Bishops were zealous maintainers of Altars and Images and other superstitious ceremonies depending upon Altars so that B. Neal and B. Laud with their factious associates and creatures have beene Nostri fundi calamitas the ruine the calamity and misery of the noble Church of England which they have pestered with Ceremonies and corrupted with unlawful Innovations wherewith they have hindred edification and instruction of the people by preaching so that for the most part they are as ignorant as ever they were in the blinde times of Popery they are as ignorant in the grounds of Religion and as unable to render an account of their saith as they were when all the Service was in Latin before the first reformation in the reign of K. Edward the sixt And how can it otherwise be in those places where Liturgies are onely read by unlearned Curats or learned loyterers in the Ministery without preaching or with such scarcity of Sermons not above one in a moneth nay one in a whole yeare as it was and is in most Parishes if not all the countrey towns of Wales and too many in England where atheisme profanenesse or idolatrous Popery abound No one thing saith B. White hath been