it first affected and then we shall know whether forreign Protestant Churches will dandle this Infant or destroy it I mean whether they will declare for or Protest and remonstrate against it It will be time enough then for both our Survivor to return an answer Dr. Heylyn If not the Church of England had lost nothing by it as being HATED by the Calvinists and not lov'd by the Lutherans Fuller Short and sharp much matter in few Words and little Truth in much Matter Our Church of England in Relation to forraign Protestant Churches is here by the Animadvertor represented in a strange posture like another Ishmael whose hand was against every one and every one 's against Him That our Church is not HATED by the Calvinists appears by many and plain passages in the Books of those who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seeming Pillars amongst them Calvin Beza Zanchy Deodat Mollinaeus c. who notwithstanding some small differences betwixt us lovingly give us the Right hand of Fellowship The Animadvertor discovers himselfe as little States-man as Divine in advising the Church of England by making Foes of her Friends to make Friends of her Foes by incurring the Enmity of forreign Protestants thereby to procure the Amity of Papists The best is there is no danger to see that day The poor Woman in the Gospel was troubled with a double Issue the one of Blood the Life in her Body and the other of Money the Life-blood of her Estate but the latter was quickly stanched having spent all her Living on Physitians to no purpose Thus successelesse have their pains proved hitherto who have endeavoured an accommodation betwixt us and Rome so that the Wound betwixt us may justly be beheld as incurable Dr. Heylyn But our Author will not here delist so soon hath he forgotten his own Rule made in the case of Mr. Love and therefore mustereth up his faults viz. 1. Passion though an humane frailty 2. His Severity to his Predecessor easing him before his time and against his Will of his jurisdiction 3. His over-medling in State-matters 4. His imposing of the Scottish Liturgy Of all which we have spoke so much upon other Occasions that is to say Numb 246.251.289.259 and therefore do not count it necessary to adde any thing here Fuller I shall God willing remember and practise my Rule in the Case of Mr. Love when the Animadvertor I sear will be sound to have forgotten it here are four faulâ—s of the Arch-bishop mustered up by me and is it not a thin Muster indeed When a Gentleman was told that he would be much ashamed if all his faults were written in his forehead he in my Mind modestly and wittily replyed that he should be right glad that his Face could hold them all Happy is that man whose faults may be reduced to the number of Four I have in my Reply to the forecited pages of the Animadvertor returned my answer unto them and therefore to use his language account it unnecessary to adde any thing here I have done no wrong to the Arch-bishop's Memory if I have charged him with four â—aults and to overpoize them have given him many Commendations in several places of my Book which here I will sum up to confute that Loud and late Untruth of the Animadvertor when saying Page 218. Our Author gives us nothing of this PRELATE but his WANTS and WEAKNESSES The Praise I gave him is reducible to four heads NATURALLS or Corporalls about his Body or Person MORALS or Civills touching his demeanor to others INTELLECTUALLS whether Innate or Acquisite by his own Industry SPIRITUALLS or Supernaturalls to which his Benefactions as the fruit of a Lively Faith are reduced NATURALLS 1. Nephew to a Lord Major of LONDON therefore not basely Born page two hundred and sixteen Paragraph 71. 2. Chearfull in countenance Page 119. paragraph 84. 3. A sharpe and pierceing eye Ibidem 4. Gravity and quicknesse were well compounded in his Face Ibidem 5. So chearfull his Countenance when ascending the Scaffold as rather to gain a Crown than lose his Head page 215. paragr 68. MORALLS 6. He was temperate in his dyet pag. 218. parag 78. 7. Chaste in his Conversation ibid. 8. Plaine in his Apparrel ibid. paragr 79. 9. Not preferring his owne Kindred without merit ib. pa. 80. 10. Promoting Men of Learning and Abilyties ibid. 11. Covetousnesse he perfectly hated ibid. parag 81. 12. Had no project to raise a Name or Family ibid. 13. Abridged Courtiers Bribes pag. 218. paragr 76. 14. But not their Fees for Church Preferments ibid. 15. Not ambitious as appears by his refusing a CARDINALL'S CAâ— once and again offered him page 149. paragr 47. INTELLECTUALLS 16. He had a cleare Iudgement pag. 119. paragr 84. 17. Of a firme Memory ibid. 18. One of the greatest Schollars of our Nation page 216. par 71. 19. Having an Experimentall knowledge of all conditions of Clergy-men page 217. par 72. SPIRITUALLS 20. A strict Observer of the Lords-day in his own Person pag. 147. para 38. 21. Moderate in pressing the Book of sports in his owne Diocese ibid. par 41. 22. A worthy Instrument in moving King Charles to so pious a Work as the restoring of the Irish Impropriations pag. 149. paragr 45. Thus I did vvrite in his due praise as much as I durst and though lesse then his Friends expected more than I am thanked for All I vvill adde is this seeing his Head vvas cut off by the â—xe it had been madnesse in me to run my Neck into the Halter in taxing those of cruelty and unjustice vvhich caused his Execution Dr. Heylyn And so I leave him to his Rest in the BOSOME OF ABRAHAM in the LAND OF THE LIVING Fuller Bosome of Abraham is a Scripture-Expression to signifie the repose of the souls of such Saints vvho departed this life before the asscention of our Saviour into Heaven Where ever the bosome of Abraham be it is good to be there and hence it is frequently used by the Fathers to denote the happy condition even of such vvhich departed in the Faith since Christs ascention Quicquid illud est saith St. Augustine quod illo significatur sinu ibi Nebridius meus vivit dulcis amicus meus For the main it is a Synonymon vvith Heaven and probably all the persons therein are receptive of a higher degree of Glory after the Day of Iudgement LAND OF THE LIVING is an Old Testament-Phrase vvhich some narrow-breasted Commentators have confin'd to Temporal Happinesse but importeth much more in my Opinion even final Felicity as may appear by David his Expression I had fainted unlesse I had beleeved to see the goodness of the Lord in the LAND OF THE LIVING I have stay'd the longer in the Stating of these two Expressions that I may the more safely and sincerely concurre as I do with the Animadvertor's charity in the final Estate of this Prelate with whose Memory my Pen here
what as the Animadvertor saith I KNEW BEFORE that I protest I know IT NOT YET being left in such a Mist about this Oath of Discovery On the one side my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Gunning Fellow of Clare Hall eminent for his Learning and Honesty hath since assured me that such an Oath was offered and urged upon him by the Committee On the other side I am on just grounds daily confirmed in my Confidence that neither the Earl of Manchester nor any under him by his Command or Consent enforced such an Oath so that where to lay the Blame I know not and have neither List nor Leasure further to enquire who having Blistered my Fingers already will burn my Hands no more in so dangerous a subject Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds And on the reading of Mr. Ash his Answer declares expresly that no such Oath was tendred by him to that University But first Mr. Ash doth not absolutely deny that there was any such Oath but that he was a stranger to it and possibly he might be so far a stranger to it as not to be an Actor in that part of the Tragedy Secondly Mr. Ash onely saith that he cannot call to mind that any such thing was mov'd by the Earl of Manchester and yet I trow such a thing might be mov'd by the Earl of Manchester though Mr. Ash after so many years was willing not to call it to mind Or else if no such Oath was tendred by him as our Author is assur'd there was not that part of the Tragedy might be acted by Mr. Good the other Chaplain without communicating his Instructions to his fellow Visitor Fuller Mr. Ash on serious and Solemn recollection hath since given me Assurance both by his word of Mouth and Writing that no such Oath was urged to his knowledge and being a Minister of the Gospell I am in Charity and Conscience bound to believe Him Dr. Heylyn And therefore thirdly I would know why Mr. Good was not writ to also that having from him the like Certificate our Author might have had the better grounds for his unbelief before he had pronounc'd so positively against the Author of that Querela Fuller The reason was because Mr. Good was dead and had I known whither I did not know by what Carrier to convay my Letter unto him I pronounced not positively against Querela in point of the Oath which I left under very vehement Suspitions Dr. Heylyn Fourthly and finally it is not easie to be thought that the Author of that Book should have vented such a manifest falshood especially in a matter so derogatory to all Christian charity and that neither the Earl of Manchester nor either of these two Chaplains or any friends of theirs should in the space of ten years and more endeavour to wipe off such an odious imputation till our Author out of pure zeal to the Paramount-power played the Advocate in it Fuller I will freely give all my Fees for my Advocation to the Animadvertor and will Thank him too if he will be pleased to take them from me to himselfe It seemes I did not my Worke well who had nothing but displeasure for my Wages Possibly the Earl of Manchester might not know that the urging of such an Oath was objected against him and his and probably if he did know he satisfied himselfe in his own Integrity and Innocence leaving the Blame and Shame to fall on such as were guilty thereof Dr. Heylyn But to return again to Oxford one of the first effects which followed on the alteration before remembred though mentioned by our Author in another place was the rifling of the Treasury in Magdalen Colledge of which he tells us lib. 9. fol. 234. That a considerable sum of Gold being by Dr. Humphry who had been Master of that Colledge left in a Chest not to be opened except some great necessity urged thereunto was lately shar'd between Dr. Wilkinson who then held the place of President by the power of the Visitors and the fellows there But first Our Author is mistaken in Dr. Humphry though he be willing to entitle him whom he calls a moderate Non-conâ—ormisâ— to some benefaction The summe there found amounted to above twelve hundred double Pistolets the old Doctor having no fewer than one hundred for his part of the spoile and every fellow thirty a piece for theirs each Pistolet exchang'd at sixteen shillings six pence and yet the Exchanger got well by the bargain too Too great a sum for Dr. Humphry who had many Children and no provident Woman to his Wife to leave behind him to the Colledge had he been so minded The Money as the Tradition went in that Colledge was left there by the Founder to remedy and repair such ruines as either the casualty of fire or the ravages of a Civil warre might bring upon it to which the nature of the Coin being all French pieces remember that the English at that time were Masters of a great part of France gives a further testimony Fuller As I have been mistaken in the Person Dr. Humphry for Bishop Wainfleet Donour of this Gold following common Report therein so I could heartily have wished I had also erred in the Thing it self I mean that an A motion of such Devoted Treasure had never been done The Animadvertor might well have forborn his Sparring at the precious Memory of that learned and pious Dr. Humphry And the new mention of his name mindeth me of an old fault which the Animadvertor not long since laid to my charge viz. my calling of Thomas Bentham the DEANE saith he of Magdalens Oxford the CENSOR thereof Whereas I exactly followed the words of Dr. Humphry in his Latin Life of Iewel page 73. Tho. Benthamus quamvis CENSOR eo Anno c. And I humbly conceive that I having so good a Precedent as Dr. Humphry President of that Colledge I might as well call their Deane Censor in English as He doth in Latin Dr. Heylyn Secondly I would have our Author observe that those whom he accuseth of this act of Rapine vvere neither high Royalists nor covetous Conformists as vve knovv who vvords it but men agreeable to the times and of the same temper and affections vvhich himselfe is of the Conformists never being so covetous as to cast an eye tovvards it nor the high Royalists so ignoble in their greatest extreamities as to lay hands on it Fuller If I be one of their Persuasion who shared this Gold and I must be so because the Animadvertor doth say it I have acquitted my self a faithfull Historian in not consulting my own partie 's Credit but unpartially reporting the truth However I hope God will keep my hands that my fingers shall not have the GUILT of the Gold of Tholouse Dr. Heylyn And thirdly I must needs charge our Author vvith some partiality in aggravating this fact vvhich indeed cannot be excused vvith so many circumstances and passing over the like at Cambridge as
that some two years since being informed by our friend Mr. Davenport that you took some exceptions at what I had written concerning you in my Church-History I returned you an Answer to this Effect That I would make you just reparation either in the next Edition of my History or in another Book which I was about to set forth Of the Worthies of England choosing therein the most proper and conspicuous place which might render it most visible to the Reader This last Book had since been printed had not the unhappy difference between Dr. Heylyn and me retarded it What I wrote concerning your Accusation in the House of Commons I transcribed out of the Manuscript journalls of that House As for your purgation in the House of Lords I knew not thereof which maketh such my omssion the more excusable I am now right glad that you did so clearly vindicate your innocence In my next Edition I will do you all possile right with improvement that my Pen can perform as also God Willing when I come to treat in my intended Book of the Cathedrall of Durham In the mean time joyning with Hundreds more of my Profession in thanks to you for your worthy Work on the Apocrypha and desiring the Continuation and increase of Gods blessing on your studies who do abide the Champion for our Religion in forraign parts know that amongst your many honourers you have none more affectionate than Your humble Servant Thomas Fuller To the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly placed in the front of a Book but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof If you have had the Leisure and Patience to peruse this Book you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed and I do as heartily wish as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee I must now accost thee in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell CONSULT CONSIDER and GIVE SENTENCE Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor please thine owne Conscience though thou displeasest us and adjudge in thy selfe where neither of Us where both of Us where one of Us which one of Us is in the right Onely this I will add for my Comfort and thy better Confidence in reading my Book that according to the received Rule in Law Exceptio firmat Regulam in non-Exceptis it followeth proportionably that Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis And if so by the Tacite Consent of my Adversary himselfe all other passages in my Book are allowed Sound and True save these few which fall under his reproof and how justly I submit my Cause to thy Censure and thy Person to Gods keeping remaining Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller Cranford Moate-House To my Loving Friend Doctor Peter Heylyn I Hope Sir that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us And now as Duellers when they are Both out of breath may stand still and Parley before they have a Second passe let us in cold Blood exchange a Word and mean time let us depose at least suspend our Animosities Death hath crept into both our Clay-Cottages through the Windows your Eyes being Bad mine not Good God mend them both And Sanctifie unto us these Monitors of Mortality and however it fareth with our Corporeall sight send our Souls that Collyrium and Heavenly Eye-salve mentioned in Scripture But indeed Sir I conceive our Time Pains and Parts may be better expended to Gods Glory and the Churches Good than in these needlesse Contentions Why should Peter fall out with Thomas both being Disciples to the same Lord and Master I assure you Sir whatever you conceive to the contrary I am Cordiall to the cause of the English Church and my Hoary Haâ—res will go down to the Grave in sorrow for her Sufferings You well remember the passage in Homer how wise Nestor bemoaned the unhappy difference betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O gods how great the grief of Greece the while And Priams selfe and Sons do sweetly smile Yea all the Trojan party swell with Laughter That Greeks with Greeks fall out and fight to Slaughter Let me therefore tender unto you an Expedient in Tendency to our mutuall Agreement You know full well Sir how in Heraldry two Lioncells Rampant endorsed are said to be the Embleme of two Valiant Men keeping appointment and meeting in the Field but either forbidden fight by their Prince or departing on Tearms of Equallity agreed betwixt themselves Whereupon turning Back to Back neither Conquerors nor Conquered they depart the Field severall wayes their Stout Stomacks not suffering them both to go the same way left it be accounted an Iâ—jury one to precede the other In like manner I know you disdain to allow me your Equall in this Controversie betwixt us and I will not allow you my Superiour To prevent future Troâ—ble let it be a Drawn Battle and let both of us abound in our owne sense severally perswaded in the Truth of what we have written Thus parting and going out Back to Back here to cut off all Contest about Precedency I hope we shall meet in Heaven Face to Face hereafter In Order whereunto God Willing I will give you a meeting when and where you shall be pleased to appoint that we who have Tilted Pens may shake Hands together St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou mightest receive him for ever To avoid exceptions you shall be the good Philemon I the fugitive Onesimus Wâ—o knoweth but that God in his providence permitted yea ordered this difference to happen betwixt us not onely to occasion a reconciliation but to consolidate a mutuall friendship betwixt us during our Lives and that the surviver in Gods pleasure onely to appoint may make favourable and respectfull mention of him who goeth first to his grave The desire of him who remaines SIR A Lover of your Parts and an Honourer of your Person THO. FULLER FINIS To Dr. Cornelius Burges SIR I could have wished that in your book entituled a Case concerning the buying of Bishops Lands with the lawfullnesse thereof c. you had forborn this following expression against me Part. 1. pag. 7. As that flashy jeering Author of the late published History of the Church upon hear-say onely and out of Resolution calumniari fortiter hath falsely reported him Let us go back to the occasion of these words When Dr. Hacket May the 11th 1641. made a Speech in behalfe of the Deans and Chapters of England for the preventing of the alienation of their Lands and revenues you returned an Answer thereunto and about the conclusive Result thereof is our present contest Dr. Burges You say you onely concluded those things unalienable from the Church
those who have either Separated from the Church or appeared against it I return to prosecute his Metaphor that I have used as UPRIGHT BOWLES as ever any that enter the Alley of History since our Civil Dissentions I do freely declare my self that I in VVriting my Book am for the Church of England as it stood established by Law the Creed being the Contracted Articles and the 39. Articles the Expanded Creed of her Doctrine as the Canons of her Discipline And still I prise her Favour highest though for the present it be least worth as little able to protect and less to prefer any that are faithfull to her Interest As for pleasing of Parties I never Designed or Endevoured it There were a kind of Philosophers called ELECTICI which were of none yet of all Sects and who would not engage in gross in the Opinions of any Philosophers but did pick and choose here and there what they found Consonant to Truth either amongst the Stoicks Peripateticks Academicks or misinterpreted Epicures receiving that and rejecting the rest such my Project to commend in all Parties what I find praise-worthy and condemne the rest on which Account some Fleer some Frown none Smile upon me First for the Papists though I malice not their Persons and have a Pity as God I hope hath a Mercy for many amongst them yet I do as occasion is offered dislike their Errors whereby I have incurred and according to their principles deserved their Displeasure The old Non-conformists being the same with the modern Presbuterians but depressed and under as the modern Presbuterians are the old Non-conformists but vertical and in Authority do though the Animadvertor twiâ—teth me constantly to Advocate for them take great and general exception at me and it is not long since in a Meeting of the most Eminent amongst them I was told that I put too much Gall into my Inck against them The Independent being the Benjamin of Parties and his Mess I assure you is none of the least taxeth me for too much fieriness as the Animadvertor in his Expression lately cited chargeth me for too much Favour unto them Thomas Lord Coventry when coming from the Chancery to sit down at Dinner was wont to say Surely to day I have dealt equally for I have displeased both sides I hope that I have his Happiness for I am sure I have his Unhappiness that having disobliged all Parties I have written the very Truth Thus I can onely privately comfort my self in my owne Innocence and hope that when my Head is laid low what seems too sweet too bitter too salt too fresh to the present divided Age will be adjudged well tasted and seasoned to the Palate of Unpartial Posterity CHAP. XIII What Good the Animadvertor might but would not doe and what Good by Gods goodness he Herein hath done unto the Author WHen the Animadvertor had perused my Book marking some but making moe faults therein it was in his Power to have done me a Pleasure the greatest he could give or I receive viz. not to paradigmatize me but by Letter in an amicable way to impart my Mistakes unto me that I might amend them in my next Edition Say not He owed me no such thing who would have beheld it not as a Debt paid unto but Alms bestowed upon me I was not wholly without hope hereof having found such favour from some worthy Friends Had the Animadvertor done the like How had he obliged me As the Society of Peter-house do preserve the Pictures of their Benefactors in their Parlour so would I have erected unto him a Monument of Gratitude in my Heart besides my publick acknowledgement of the courtesie But it seems He intended not my Information but Defamation However he hath done to me a great good turn for which because not intended I will thank God viz. He by his causeless Carping hath allayed in me the delight in Writing of Histories seeing nothing can be so unpartially and inoffensively written but some will carp thereat Mothers minding to wean their Children use to put Soot Wormwood or Mustard on the Nibbles of their Breasts God foresaw I might Suck to a Surfet in Writing Histories which hath been a Thief in the Lamp of my Life wasting much Oyle thereof My Head and Hand had robb'd my Heart in such delightful Studdies Wherefore he raised the bitter Pen of the Animadvertor to wean me from such Digressions from my Vocation I now experimentally find the Truth of * Solomon's words of making many Books there is no End Not but that all perfect Books I mean perfect in sheets otherwise none save Scripture perfect have Finis in the Close thereof or that any Author is so irrational but He propounds an End to himself before he begins it but that in making of many Books there is no end that is the Writers of them seldome or never do attain that End which they propound to themselves especially if Squinting at sinister Ends as who is not flesh and blood Such as project wealth to themselves are commonly by unwise managing or casual miscarriage impaired thereby in their Estates Others who designed to themselves with the builders of Babel to get them a Name commonly meet with shame and disgrace Or else when their Books are ended yet they are not ended because though never so cautiously written some Antagonists will take up the Bucklers against them so that they must begin again after they have ended or sink in their credits to write in their own vindication which is my case enough to take off my edge formerly too keen in making multiplicity of Books I confess I have yet one History ready for the Press which I hope will be for Gods Glory and Honour of our Nation This new-built Ship is now on the Stocks ready to be lanched and being a Vessel of great Burden God send me some good Adventurers to bear part of the Expence This done I will never meddle more with making any Books of this Nature It is a provident way before Writing leave us to leave of Writing and the rather because Scribling is the Frequentative thereof If therefore my Petitioning and Optative Amen shall meet with Gods Commissioning and Imperative Amen I will hereafter totally attend the Concernments of my Calling and what directly and immediately shall tend to the advance of Devotion in my Self and in Others as preparatory to my Dissolution out of this state of Mortality CHAP. XIV That the Author is unjustly charged by the Animadvertor for being agreeable to the Times And how far forth such Agreeableness is consistent with Christian Prudence THe Animadvertor is pleased to Charge me to be a great Temporizer and agreeable to the Times In Order to my Defence herein let me premise this Distinction that there is a Sinful and Sinless Agreeableness with the Times be they never so bad It is a Sinful Agreeableness when People for their private profit or safety or both are resolved in
by an Arch-bishop attended with prayers and a Sermon 2. I never expected that a Chaplain to K. Charles should find fault with any thing tending to the honour of his Lord How can any good Disciple grudge at what is expended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the buriall of the Memory of his Master being the last in this kind 3. My Collections I mean printed by me but observed by my most worthy Friend are abating onely the uncertain place of the Lord Maior most critically exact Lastly though the Heralds Office doth carefully preserve all such Ceremonyes yet cannot all persons living at great distance and desiring information herein have on all occasions so facill and convenient access to their Office as to my Printed Book Dr. Heylyn The like may be said also of the quick and active Raigns of Edward the the sixth and Queen Mary in which the wâ—ole Body of the reformed Religion was digested setled and destroyed sufficient of it self to make a competent Volume but contracted by our Author like Homer's Iliads in the Nut-shell into less than 25. sheets And yet in that small Abstract we find many Impertinences as to the work he hath in hand that is to say the great proficiency of King Edward in his Grammar Learning exemplified in three pieces of Latine of his making when he was but eight or nine yerrs old Fuller Just reason of such contraction because of Mr. Fox his dilatation on the same Where he found my fault he if so pleased might have found my defence viz. If Papists preserve the Nailes and Hairs of their supposed Saints give me leave to Record the first Essays of this Pious Prince especially they being unprinted rarieties with which no Divine or Schollar save the Animadvertor alone would or could have found any fault Dr. Heylyn The long Narrative of Sir Edward Montague Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to vindicate himself from being a voluntary Agent in the business of the Lady Iane Gray needlesly inserted Fuller King Edward the sixth his passing the Crown over the heads of his two Sisters to his Cousin the Lady Iane is a piece of Church-History because the continuing of the Protestant Religion is all the plausible Plea for the same and the fair varnish of so foul a Ground-work This passage of Consequence is defectively delivered by our Historians some Circumstances thereof being hitherto lockt from the world Some have endevoured to force the lock by their bold Conjectures I am the first that have brought the true key and opened it from Judge Montague's own hand truely Passive though charged to be most Active therein driven with the Tempest of Duke Dudley's anger against the Tide of his own Inclinations I prize a Dram of acceptance from the Ingenuous Reader above a Pound of the Animadvertor's Cavilling which is offended with my inserting of so authentique and informative a Manuscript Dr. Heylyn Needless the full and punctual relation of Wyats Rebellion and the Issue of it though acted upon some false grounds of Civil Interess without relating to Religion or to Church Affairs Infinitum esset ire per singula c. Fuller This Rebellion was grounded on Erronious Principles of Religion and therefore Goodman Il-man did in his Book of that Subject entitle it GODS-CAUSE and though souly mistaken therein it is enough to reduce this Design to Church-concernment Had I omitted it the Animadvertor would have charged me with Puritanical pardon the Prolepsis compliance so hard it is to please him either full or fasting Dr. Heylyn But well it were if onely Aberrations from Historicall truth were to be met with in our Author In whom we find such a continual vein of Puritanism such dangerous grounds for Inconformity and Sedition to be raised upon as easily may pervert the unwary Reader whom the facetiousness of the style like a Hook baited with a painted Fly may be apt to work on Murthering of Kings avowed for a necessary prudence as oft as they shall fall into the power of their Subjects Lib. 4. fol. 109. Fuller The Page cited by him happily happeneth to be the Initial One of a Section and hath no more therein then as followeth Church-History Book 4. Page 109. Soon after his Death K. Edward was much lamented by those of whom in his liâ—e time he was never beloved Whether this proceeded from the meer mutaâ—ility â—f mens minds weary to loiter long in the lazie posture of the same affection Or whether it proceeded from the Pride of Mortimer whose insolence grew intolerable Or whether because his punishment was generally apprehended too heavy for his fault so that Deposition without Death or at the worst Death without such unhumane cruelty had been sufficient One of our English-Poet-Historians accquainteth us with a passage which to my knowledge appeareth not in any other Author This all in that page Reader I request thee do Me thy Self and Truth right Whether can my avowance of King-murdering be collected from any thing here written by me But because some will say the Quotation possibly may be mistaken If any thing sounding to that sense there or elsewhere be found in my Book may the Ravens of the Valleys whom I behold as loyall Subjects in Vindication of the Eagle their Soveraign pick out my eyes for delivering such rebellious Doctrine Dr. Heylyn The Coronation of Kings and consequently their succession to the Crown of England made to depend upon the suffrage and consent of the People Lib. 11. fol. 122. The Sword extorted from the Supream Magistrate and put into the hands of the common People whensoever the Reforming humor shall grow strong amongst them Lib. 9. fol. 51. The Church depriv'd of her Authority in determining controversies of the Faith and a dispute rais'd against that clause of the Article in which that Authority is declared whether forg'd or not Lib. 9. fol. 73. Fuller Stylus Equabilis Here is a continued Champian large Levell and fair Flat of fourteen untruths at least without any Elevation of Truth interposed No such matter in that place as hereafter shall appear False as the former as in due time and place cited now afterwards by him eagerly improved will appear I am depraved unjustly who never deprived ' the Church of her Authority I raised no such Dispute but would have quel'd it if in my power All which I refer to my Answer to these respective Quotations Dr. Heylyn Her power in making Canons every where prostituted to the lust of the Parliament contrary both to Law and constant practise Fuller Every where is No where And seeing no particular place is instanced to a General Charge a General Deniall shall suffice Let me add that whereas the Animadvertor hereafter taxeth me for calling the two Houses the Parliament we therefore may presume that he not running on the same rock by Parliament meaneth the King Lords and Commons which granted how much of loyalty and Discretion there is in these his words prostituted to the LUST
under a Stall no Father being found or Mother to maintaine it A Presumption that this Letter of Elutherius is supposititious I confesse this pretended Letter of Lucius hath something in it which doth act and personate primitive simplicity as that passage of Regal power in Church-matters but more which doth practise the Monkish ignorance of later times There were lately false twenty Shilling pieces commonly called Morgans coyned by a cunning and cheating Chymist whose part without the Rind was good Gold and would endure the touch whilst that within was base as but double guilded Brasse Such this Letter of Lucius some part whereof will endure the Test the other not the Monk who made it pretending something of antiquity so to palliate the deceit but having more of the Novelty of the middle age He lived in some six hundred years since May the Reader be pleased to take notice that the Animadvertor hath silently passed by the strongest Argument to shatter the credit of this Letter alledged by me and taken from a phrase unknown in that Age yet used in the Letter even MANU TENERE to Maintain or defend This the Animadvertor slips over in silence and that I believe for nineteen reasons whereof this was one because He himselfe was unable to answer it and knew Criticks would laugh at him if affirming those words in that sense contemporary with Pope Eleutherius Herein He appears like a Dunkerker who delights to prey on poore Marchants Ships passing on in their Calling but meeting an English Man of War He can look Big and fairly give him the goe-By He finds it more facile to carpe an easie inoffensive passage then to confute what hath difficulty and strength of reason therein I resume what I said before and what the Animadvertor hath gain-said to no purpose viz. that this Story of K. Lucius is not to be Refused but Refined and the drosse is to be put from the good Metall or as my own words also are the good Corn therein sifted from the Chaffe and amongst the Chaffe I have cast away this Letter But if the Animadvertor loves to eat both Corn and Chaffe much good may his Diet do him and let Him and Horse feed on their Loafe together Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us fol. 9. that he had ventured on this story with much aversnesse and we dare believe him He had not else laboured to discredit it in so many particulars and wilfully that I say no worse suppressed c. Fuller Can he say worse than wilfully except it be Maliciously Seeing in my conscience I believe the Story of the conversion of K. Lucius though this Letter and some other circumstances seem to me improbable I enter'd on this story with this much aversenesse as finding much difficulty and fearing not to give satisfaction therein to my self and others I see not how it can be inferred from such my aversenesse that I therefore laboured to discredit the story in so many particulars If this be a good consequence I desire the Reader to remember what the Animadvertor hath written in the latter end of the introduction to his Animadversions on my Book viz. I must needs confesse withall that I did never enter more unwillingly upon any undertaking then I did on this May I not then by the same Logick conclude his endeavouring to disparage my Book because he entered thereon so unwillingly Dr. Heylyn The best part of the Evidence in the words of Beda who being no friend unto the Brittains hath notwithstanding done them right in this great businesse And from him take the story in these following words Anno ab Incarnatione Domini 156. c. In the 156. year after Christs Nativity Marcus Antonius Verus together with Aurelius Commodus his Brother did in the fourteenth place from Augustus Ceasar undertake the government of the Empire In whose times when as Eleutherius a godly man was Bishop of the Church of Rome Lucius King of the Brittains sent unto him Obsecrans uâ— per eius mandatum Christianus efficeretur intreating by his means to be made a Christian. Whose vertuous desire herein was granted and the faith of Christ being thus received by the Brittains was by them kept inviolate and undefiled untill the time of Diocleâ—ian This is the substance of the story as by him delivered true in the main though possibly there may be some mistake in his Chronology as in a matter not so canvassed as it hath been lately Fuller I entered a grand Jury of Authors which mentioned the Conversion of Lucius amongst whom Bede is one I expressed none of them as I had no cause in their words at length neither can I properly be said to suppress any of them solemnly giving in their names and their severall Dates which they assigne to that memorable action Dr. Heylyn Now to proceed unto our Author he tells us Fol. 10. out of Ieffery of Monmouth That at this time there were in England twenty eight Cities each of them having a Flamen or Pagan Priest and three of them namely London York and Caer-lion in Wales had Arch-flamens to which the Rest were subjected and Lucius placed Bishops in the Rome of the Flamens and Arch-bishops Metropolitans in the places of Arch-flamens concluding in the way of Scorne that his Flamines and Arch-flamines seem to be Flams and Arch-flams even notorious False-hoods Fuller I would not willingly sit in the seat of the Scorner and if the Animadvertor by his force will thrust me down into it I will God willing rise up againe and leave the place empty to himselfe to stand or sit therein Pro libero suo Arbitrio I say no more nor so much as that Worthy Knight Sr. Henry Spelman so great an Antiquary that it is Questionable whether his Industry Iudgment or Humility were the Greatest hath said on the same Subject Who having learnedly confuted this Report of Geffery of Monmouth concludeth with the cause of his Mistake relying on some supposititious Epistles Sr. H. Spelman de Concilijs Page 13. Gaufrido autem atque alijs qui Flaminum Archiflaminum et Protoflaminum Commento capiuntur imposuisse videtur Gratiani authoritas Epistolis munita S Lucij c. See! He calleth that Commentum which our Dictionaries English a Flat Lye which I have mitigated into a Flamme as importing in common Discourse a Falshood which hath more of vanity then Mischiefe therein Dr. Heylyn And it is well they do but seem so it being possible enough that they may seem Falshoods to our Author even notorious Falshoods though they seem true enough to others even apparent Truths Fuller They seem so also to learned Sr. Henry Spelman lately alledged and to the Reverend Arch-bishop of Armagh and many others Dr. Heylyn And first though Ieffery of Monmouth seem to deserve no credit in this particular where he speaks against our Author's sense yet in another place where he comes up to his Desires he is otherwise thought of and therefore made
fine they did which notwithstanding our Author hereupon inferreth Fuller I onely humbly tendered my weak Opinion herein that Religion was a loser by such mixtures If it findeth no welcome in the brest of the Animadvertor and others no hurt is done let it fairly return into his Bosome who it seems first gave it a beeing though I could cite most Pious and Learned Authors of the same Judgement But for the present let all the weight of the guilt light on my selfe alone Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 13. They had better built new Nests for the holy Dove and not have lodg'd it where Schriech-owls and unclean Birds had formerly been harboured A prety piece of new Divinity and such as savours strongly of the Modern Anabaptist such as not onely doth reproach the practise of most pious Antiquity but layes a sure ground for the pulling down of all our Churches as having been abus'd to Popish Superstitions in the former times if ever that encreasing faction should become predominant What pitty is it that our Author had not liv'd and preacht this Doctrine in King Edwards time that the Parochiall Churches and Cathedrals being sent after the Abbies new Nests might have been built for the Dove in some tree or other under the shade whereof the people might assemble to their devotions and not new Nests provided only bur new feathers also the vestments prescribed to the Ministers by the Church of England being condemned and disallowed by the Puritan party because in use formerly with the Priests of the Church of Rome More of this stuffe but of a more dangerous consequence to the publick peace we shall see hereafter Fuller I do not quarrell with the posture of my Nativity knowing God hath determined the times fore-appointed and the bounds of their Habitation Nor would I have my beeing antedated in the dayes of K. Edward the sixt whereby my Soul should be degraded into a dimmer Light then what now I live in Had I lived in His Reigne I know not what I would have done seeing one may be lost in the Labyrinth of his owne Heart But though I know not what I would have done I know what I should have done viz. perswaded to my power all people to be sensible of the vast difference betwixt Heathen-Temples and Christian-Churches The former were the Styes of swine yea the Dens of Devils profaned to the foul Idols of Pagans The latter were dedicated to the true God and the memory of his glorious Saints out of zeal and wel-intended Devotion And though the same were abused by superstition yet the substantiall use of them might remain when their accidential abuse was removed and might be continued for God's service without any Sin not to say could not be aliened from it without some sacriledge Dr. Heylyn We have now done at last vvith the story of Lucius and must next follow our Author unto that of Amphibalus in prosecution whereof he telleth us of a great slaughter of Christians in or near the City of Litchfield from thence so denominated of vvhich thus saith he Fol. 19. This relation is favoured by the name of Litchfield which in the British tongue signifies a Golgotha or a place bestrewed with skuls It 's true indeed that Litchfield or Licidfield as Bedae calleth it is made by Iohn Rosse to signifie Cadaverum Campus or the field of dead bodies But that it doth so signifie in the British language I do more then doubt the termination of the vvord being meerly Saxon as in Hefensield Cock-field Camps-field and many others As little am I satisfied in the Etymon of the name of Maiden-head which he ascribes unto the worshipping of the head of one of those many Maidens vvhich vvere martyred with Ursula at Colen fol. 36. For vvhich though he cite Camden for his Author following therein but not approving the old Tradition yet vvhen I find in the same Camden that this Town was formerly called Maiden-hith that anciently there vvas a ferry near the place vvhere the Town now stands and that Hith in the old Saxon tongue did signifie a Wharf Haven or landing place I have some reason to believe that the Town took this name from the Wharf or Ferry belonging at that time to some neighbouring Nunnery or to some private Maidens dwelling thereabout vvho then received the profits of it Just so Queen-Hith in London took that appellation because the profits of that Wharf vvere antiently accompted for to the Queens of England and Maiden-bradly in Wilshire vvas so denominated because belonging to one of the inheretrices of Manasses Basset a most noble personage in his time who founded a House here for Maiden Lepers Fuller As for Litchfield thereof hereafter But whether it be Maiden-head or Maiden-hith is not a straw matter to me who cited the words out of Cambdens Latine Brittannia which is more properly Cambden than the English translation thereof Dr. Heylyn But to return again to Leitch-field It must needs seem as strange to my judicious Reader that one part of it should be borrowed from the Brittains and the other from the Saxons as it seems strange unto our Author and that justly too that Cern in Dorcetshire should anciently be called Cernel from the Latine vvord Cerno vvhich signifies to see and the Hebrew vvord El signifying God fol. 67. Fuller Nothing more usuall than for the same vvord to bear parly par pale two languages But such mixtures onely are made in such places vvhere those two Languages have entred common together And this is the reason that disapproveth the probability of Cern-el because Hebrew and Latine never incorporated together Greek as I may say being interposed betwixt them But such Conjunctions of two Languages vvhich in some sort indented one another are frequent and familiar Our Author lately presented us vvith two half-Greek half-Latine Archi-flamens and Proto-flamens He also just now mentioned a vvord halfâ—French half Saxon Camps-field Many towns names in England are half Saxons half British Up-Avon Neather-Avon tvvo villages in Wilt-shire Avon being a river in the Brittish tongue To put all out of doubt the Reader may rely on the judgement of this my vvorthy friend vvhose Letter I have here caused to be inserted Mr. Fuller As touching the Elymology of the City of Litchfield I can give you no satisfactory accompt being not well skill'd in the Saxon Tongue But if Mr. John Rosse hath ground for his Campus Cadaverum I conceive he deduced it from the British Tongues and Saxon. For in our Brittish language Llaith signifies death as may be seen in severall antient Brittish Authors as Taliefin and others Lleithfa may well bear a place of slaughter as wel as lladdfa the word lladd in the Brittish is the same with occidere in the Latine ma and Man denotes a place and ma being joyned with lleith or lladd the m by the rules of the Brittish language turns into f as lladdfa lleithfa lladdfaes Maes is the
Author hath all the reason in the world to desire to be admitted into their Communion and be made partaker of that happinesse which such Saints enjoy c. Fuller If God were not more mercifull unto us than we are charitable one to another what would become of us all I humbly conceive that these Exiles though I will not advocate for their carriage in all particulars had more liberty in modeling their own Church than such as live in England under a setled Government commanded by Authority Schismatick in my minde is too harsh for such who fled and suffered for their conscience However I conceive a Saint-ship not inconsistent with such Schismaticalnesse God graciously on their general repentance forgiving them their fault herein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 39. Trinity Colledge built by Sir Thomas Pope I shall not derogate so much from Sir Thomas Pope as our Author doth from Trinity Colledge naming no Bishop of this House as he doth of others He tells us that he liv'd in this University about 17 weeks and all that time Dr. Skinner the Bishop of Oxford liv'd there too Dr. Wright the Bishop of Liechfield probably was then living also for he deceased not till after the beginning of the year 1643. but he living at that time in his own House of Ecclesal Castle Both of them Members of this Colledge and therefore worthily deserving to have found some place in our Authors History And because our Author can finde no learned Writers of this Colledge neither I will supply him with two others â—n that kinde also The first whereof shall be Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer sometimes a Commoner of this House and here initiated in those Studies in which he afterwards attain'd to so high an eminence The second William Chillingworth an able and accute Divine and once a Fellow of this Colledge whose Book intituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation written in defence of Dr. Potters Book called Charity mistaken commended by our Author Lib 3. fol. 115. remains unanswered by the Iesuites notwithstanding all their brags before-hand to this very day Which Book though most ridiculously buried with the Author at Arundel get thee gon thou accursed Book c. by Mr. Francis Cheynel the usu fructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth shall still survive unto the world in its own value when the poore three-penny commodities of such a sorry Haberdasher of Small-weares shall be out of credite Of this Pageant see the Pamphlet call'd Chillingworthi Novissima printed at London Anno 1644. Fuller If the Animavertor had written an History of Cambridge perchance he would have made as many and great Omissions I have craved solem pardon of the Reader when such failings should occur Church History Book 3. pag. 67. I humbly request the Antiquaries of their respective foundations best skilled in their own worthy Natives to insert their own observations which if they would restore unto me against the next Edition of this work if it be thought worthy thereof God shall have the Glory they the publick thanks and the world the benefit of their contributions to my endeavours Bishop Wright is entred in where he ought a Warden of Wadham the rest shall be inserted in the next Edition with my worthy friend Mr. Gilbert Ironside of the same foundation Mr. Cheynel is now rather the object of the Animadvertors prayer and pittie than of his Anger Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 41. But now it is gone let it go it was but a beggerly Town and cost England ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof Admit it be so yet certainly it was worth the keeping had it cost much more The English while they kept that Town had a dore open into France upon all occasions and therefore it was commonly said that they carried the Keyes of France at their Girdles c. Fuller The Animadvertor might understand my meaning even to make the best of a bad matter when it cannot be helped A KEY falleth under a double valuation one for the intrinsicall works from the weight thereof in Metal which is very inconsiderable The other from the use thereof and thus it 's price riseth or falleth as it openeth to more or less treasure Calis I confesse in the second consideration was a place of main importance yet indeed it cost a vast expence in keeping it as by a Book in the Exchequer which some moneths since I perused doth appear the charge amounting to an innumerable Sum at the rate of Money in that Age. THE NINTH BOOK Containing the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Dr. Heylin THe short Reigns of King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary being briefly past over by our Author he spends the more time in setting out the affairs of the Church under Queen Elizabeth not so much because her Reign was long but because it was a busie Age and full of Faction To which Faction how he stands affâ—cted he is not coy to let us see on all occasions giving us in the very first entrance this brief but notable Essay viz. Fol. 51. Idolaty is not to be permitted a moment the first minute is the fittest to abolish it all that have power have right to destroy it by that grand Charter of Religion whereby every one is bound to advance Gods glory And if Sovereigns forget no reason but Subjects should remember their duty Our Author speaks this in behalf of some forward Spirits who not enduring the lazinesse of Authority in order to the great work of Reformation fell before hand to the beating down of superstitious Pictures and Images And though some others condemned their indiscretion herein yet our Author will not but rather gives these reasons for their justification 1. That the Popish Religion is Idolatry 2. That Idolatry is to be destroyed by all that have power to doe it 3. Which is indeed the main that if the Sovereigns do forget there is no reason but Subjects should remember their duty This being our Authors Master-piece and a fair ground-work for Seditious and Rebellious for the times ensuing I shall spend a little the more time in the examination of the propositions as before we had them c. Fuller The Animadvertor hath dealt most unfairly with me in citing by the halfs what I have written and leaving out what immediatly followed and what he ought to have inserted viz. For after I had presented the Judgement of these rigid and violent Hotspurs I subjoyned as followeth in confutation of their Extravagancies But others condemned their indiscretion herein for though they might reform the private persons and families and refrain to communicate in any outward Act contrary to Gods word yet publick reformation belonged to the Magistrate and a good deed was by them ill done for want of a calling to doe it I appeal to such who knew me in the Universitie to those that
painted unto us On the other side The greatest disadvantage to the English was their owne injurious Modesty observed alwayes to over-prize strangers above themselves being ignorant of their owne Strength and Valour in War because they had been so long accustomed to Peace In all this Paragraph the Animadvertor and the Author may go abrest in their Judgments and to prevent Quarrells the Animadvertor shall have the right Hand that they do not justle one the other Dr. Heylyn And had the Scots been once broken and their Country wasted which had been the easiest thing in the World for the English Army c. Fuller This is consonant to what He hath written of the same Subject in the Short view of the Life and Reign of King Charls that the King set forth against the Scots accompanied with such an Army of Lords and Gentlemen as might ASSURE him of a cheap and easie VICTORY His Majesty I am sure had as it became a good Christian a more modest and moderate apprehension of his owne Army such as might give him pregnant Hopes but no ASSURANCE of Victory I never heard of an ASSURANCE-Office for the successe of Battels But all this is written by the Animadvertor like an Historian but not like a Doctor in Divinity This mindeth me of a Passage of King Henry the Second who standing on the Cliffes about St. David's in Wales and there viewing Ireland I with my Ships am able saith he to make a Bridge over it if it be no further Which speech of his being related to Murchard King of Lemster in Ireland he demanded if he added not to his speech with the Grace of God When it was answered that he made no mention of God Then said he more cheerfully I feare him the lesse which trusteth more to Himselfe then to the Help of GOD. When the Animadvertor tells us that it had been the easiest thing in the world for the English to have broken the Scots Army I must tell him here was one thing in the world easier namely the inserting of these words by God's Ordinary blessing or something to that purpose Otherwise we know who it was that said that the race is not to the Swift nor the battell to the Strong neither yet bread to the Wise nor yet riches to men of Understanding nor yet favours to men of Skill time and chance happeneth to them all Time was when the Animadvertor did needlessely Lavish a GOD-BLESSE God blesse not onely our Historian but Baronius himselfe from being held an Author of no * Credit He that then spent it when he should have spared it spares it now when he should have spent it Dr Heylyn The Scots had been utterly disabled from creating Trouble to their King disturbances in their owne Church and destruction to England So true is that of the wise Historian Conatus subditorum irritos imperia semper promovêre the Insurrections of the People when they are supprest do alwayes make the King stronger and the Subjects weaker Fuller All this proceeds as the former on the Supposition that the English had beaten the Scots which though in the eye of flesh probable was uncertain The Latines and English have the same word MOMENTUM MOMENT which signifieth as Time of the least Continuance so matters of most Concernment to shew that the Scales of Successe which God alone holds in his Hand are so ticklish that the MOTE of a MOMENT may turne them on either side which is the reason why no man can positively conclude of future Contingencies Dr. Heylyn The Sermon ended we chose Dr. Stewart Dean of Chicester Prolocutor and the next day of Sitting We met at Westminister in the Chappell of King Henry the Seventh Had it not been for these and some other passages of this Nature our Author might have lost the Honour of being took notice of for one of the Clerks of the Convocation and one not of the lowest forme but passing for some of those wise men who began to be fearfull of themselves and to be jealous of that power by which they were enabled to make new Canons How so Because it was feared by the Iudicious himself still for one lest the Convocation whose power of medling with Church-matters had been bridled up for many yeares before should now enabled with such Power over-act their Parts especially in such dangerous and discontented times as it after followeth Wisely fore-seen But then why did not WEE that is to say our Author and the rest of those Wise and Iudicious Persons fore-warne their weak and unadvised Brethren of the present danger or rather Why did they go along with the rest for company and follow thâ—se who had before out-run the Canons by their additionall Conformity Fuller Dear Honour indeed Honos Onus for which I was fin'd with the Rest of my Brethren two hundred Pounds by the House of Commons though not put to pay it partly because it never passed the House of Lords partly because they thought it needlesse to shave their Haire whose Heads they meant to cut-off I meane they were so Charitable as not to make them pay a Fine whose Place in Cathedralls they intended not long after to take away I insert the word WE not to credit my self but to confirm the Reader relations from an eye and ear-witness meeting with the best belief Such insinuations of the Writer being present at the actions he writeth of want not precedents in holy and profane Authors Hence it is collected that St. Luke accompanied St. Paul in his dangerous voyage to Rome Act. 27.37 WE were all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls Let the Animadvertor lay what load he pleaseth on me whose back is broad and big enough to bear it but O let him spare my worthy friends some now glorious Saints in Heaven Bishop Westfield Dr. Holmsworth and some of the highest repute still alive whom I forbear to name It comforteth me not a little that God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to conâ—ound the wise Dr. Heylyn How wise the rest were I am not able to say But certainly our Author shew'd himself no wiser than Waltham's Calf who ran nine mile to suck a Bull and came home athirst as the Proverb saith His running unto Oxford which cost him as much in seventeen weeks as he had spent in Cambridge in seventeen years was but a second sally to the first Knight-Errantry Fuller I can patiently comport with the Animadvertor's Ieers which I behold as so many Frogs that it is pretty and pleasing to see them hop and skip about having not much harm in them but I cannot abide his Railings which are like to Toads swelling with venom within them Any one may rail who is bred but in BILLINGS-GATE-COLLEDGE and I am sorry to hear such language from the Animadvertor a Doctor in Divinity seeing railing is as much beneath a Doctor as against Divinity When Dr. Turner a Physitian
a thing incredible I cannot beleeve saith he Hist. Camb. fol. 38. what I have read in the Querela Cantabrigiensis That three or four hundred pounds worth of Timber brought to Clare-hall for the repair of that House was lately taken away that is to say inverted to the use of some private persons vvhom our Author hath befriended vvith this incredulity Fuller I did not aggravate the fact nor heavily lean on my Pen in relating this Passage nor layed more vveight thereon than meerly to make it cast Inke The Animadvertor hath more bitternesse vvrapped up in this one vvord RAPINE than I have stretched out in all my relation of this accident Dr. Heylyn Nay so extreamly favourable he is to his friends in Cambridge as to profess that had he seene it he would not have beleeved his own eyes vvhich is the highest poynt of partiality and most invincible unbelief that I ever met vvith Fuller Herein the Animadvertor is highly-just to say no more unto me Is it not cruelty to such as vvrite in distracted times and are as desirous to impart dangerous Truths to posterity so also to secure themselves as vvho can blame them as vvell as they may to hunt them out of the Covert of any figurative or vvary expression but none so deaf as He who will not hear I mean as to understand The Animadvertor knevv my Expression pointed at some too high for me safely to reach Knovv Reader that vvhat Need as pleaded in time of War took from Clare-hall that Conscience in the same person hath since restored to the full as Dr. Dillingham my vvorthy friend and Master of the Colledge hath enformed me Novv though Oxford challengeth antiquity to go before Cambridge yet herein let her not disdain to come after her and to follow so good an Example of Restitution for though I have heard and partly believe that Dr. Wilkinson did with might and main oppose the Seisure on that Gold and though they say it appeared vvhen seriously examined by the visitors that it vvas not so foul a fact as generally it is represented yet it cannot in all particulars be excused and therein concur vvith the Animadvertor So that Iacob's counsel to his Sons may here be seasonably prescribed Carry the Money back again peradventure it was an over-sight Dr Heylyn There remains nothing now to conclude these Animadversions but some passages relating to Archbishop Williams in which I must confesse my selfe not willing to meddle but that I think it is as much against the Rule of distributive Justice to give one man too much as to give another man too little Let us see therefore what he saith of this Prelate and how far he saith truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth And first saith he c. Fuller The Truth hereof will soon appear by the Sequele For if the Animadvertor shall inflame his smoaking faults hollow in the Ears of every Dormant Suspition to awaken it against the memory of this Prelate yea and hang the weight of his greatest Guiltinesse on the wyers of the slenderest proofe then notwithstanding this his plausibility to the contrary premised He will plainly appear to have a Pike the sharpnesse whereof his Death hath not blunted against Him When one was to Preach the Funeral Sermon of a most vitious and generally hated Person all wondered what He would say in his praise the Preachers friends searing his foes hoping that for his fee â—e would force his Conscience to flattery For one thing said the Minister this man is to be spoken well oâ— by all and for another thing He is to be spoken ill of by none The first is because God made Him the second because He is dead Now seeing besides the premises common to all Christians yea to all men many worthy works have been done by the Bishop and especially seeing known Animisities were betwixt him and the Animadvertor which with Ingenuity is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super-over-commanding motive to silence the Animadvertor had better forborn all which followeth in my judgement and in the Judgement of as many learned and Religious men of all orders and degrees in both Universityes as ever sollicited him to write against my Church-history Dr. Heylyn Fol. 227. He sueth to the Parliament for favour and obtained it whose General in a manner he becomes in laying siege to the Town and Castle of Abercon-way c. This is the truth but whether it be the whole truth or not I do more then doubt His suing for and obtaining pardon from the Parliament precedeth in the order of time his being their General and therefore it is not to be thought but that he had done some special service to the Parliament to prepare the way for such a favour Before his commitment to the Tower about the Bishops Protestation he was grown as odious to the Commons as before he had been honoured by them He had liv'd some time with the King at Oxford and is said to have done him good services in Wales and which is most he had a fair temporall Estate able to yeeld some thousands of pounds for Composition in Gold-smiths hall So that there must be somewhat in it more then ordinary which occasioned that he neither came under Fine nor Ransome as the rest of the Kings party did But what that was whether he serv'd them with intelligence when he was at Oxford or by inhibiting his Tenants and Neighbours to pay their accustomed Taxes to the Kings Forces when he liv'd in Wales I determine not Certain it is that before his redintegration with them he had been in a manner besieged in his House of Penrin by the Lord Byron for the prohibiting of sending in such provisions as had been required and that observing with what carelâ—ssenesse the Kings Souldiers did attend that service he caus'd a sally to be made out of the House and slew many of them Upon the merit of which service and the promise of greater it is no wonder if such Ministers and Sollicitors of his as were imploy'd in that businesse compounded for him without fine though not without money That which our Author tells us of his being their General seems to have been fore-signified some five or six years before the siege of Conway Castle For I remember that about such time as he was prisoner in the Tower with the rest of the Bishops his picture was sold commonly in black and white in his Episcopal Roabs with a squaâ—e Cap on his head a Rest in his hand a Musket on his shoulder and a Bandeleir about his neck For which fancy at that time I could learn no reason though he came up to it at the last Fuller This is not Contradictory but Additory to what I have written an Additory only of Suggestions and Suspitions no Probations The Animadvertor's arrow coming off without a Pile when he saith I DETERMINE NOT. I had thought when this DOCTOR CATHEDRAE for Historicall Matters had
Ibid. Much he expended on the Repair of Westminster Abbey-Church c. The Library at Westminster was the effect of his bounty This though it be true in part yet we cannot say of it that it is either the whole truth or nothing but the truth For the plain truth is that neither the charge of repairing that Church nor furnishing that Library came out of his own private Coffers but the Churches rents For at such time as he was made Lord Keeper of the great Seal he caused it to be signified unto the Prebendaries of that Church how inconvenient it would be both to him and them to keep up the Commons of the Colledge and gaind so farre upon them that they pass'd over to him all the rents of that Church upon condition that he should pay the annual pensions of the Prebendaries School-Masters Quire-men and inferiour Officers and maintain the Commons of the Scholars The rest amounting to a great yearly value was left wholly to him upon his honourable word and promise to expend the â—ame for the good and honour of that Church The surplusage of which expenses receiv'd by him for four years and upwards amounted unto more than had been laid out by him on the Church and Library as was offered to be proved before the Lords Commissioners at the visitation Anno. 1635. And as for the Library at St. Iohns it might possibly cost him more wit than money many books being daily sent in to him upon the intimation of his purpose of founding the two Libraries by such as had either suits in Court or businesse in Chancery or any wayes depended on him or expected any favours from him either as Bishop of Lincoln or Dean of Westminster Fuller As the worme on a sudden smot the gourd of Ionah and it withered so it is possible that the most verdâ—nt and flourishing Charity may be fretted and blasted by ill reports There is a Chapiter-Act subscribed with the hands of the Prebendaries of Westminster the Date whereof I do not at present remember and the Copy of it is in the hands of my Worthy friend wherein they thankfully acknowledge the great bounty of this Bishop in expending so much on the repaire of their Church If the Library of St. Iohns cost him more Wit then Money as the Animadvertor phraseth it sure I am that in the same sense The founding of Fellowships and Scholler-ships in that Colledge cost him more Money then Wit Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He hated Popery with a perfect hatred But Wilson in his History of great Brittain sings another song whether in Tune or out of Tune they can best tell who liv'd most neere those times and had opportunities to observe him Fuller I wonder That the Animadvertor who in the Preface to this his Book had branded Wilsons History with the name of a most Infamous Pasquill maketh mention of any passage therein to a Bishop's disgrace Dr. Heylyn There is a muttering of some strange offer which he made to King Iames at such time as the Prince was in Spain and the Court seemed in common apprehension to warp towards Popery vvhich declared no such perfect hatred as our Author speaks of unto that Religion Fuller The Prophet telleth us of Tongues which have MUTTERED perversnesse and such to me seem they that are Authors of this report Dr. Heylyn Not was he coy of telling such whom he admitted unto privacies vvith him that in the time of his greatnesse at Court he vvas accounted for the Head of the Catholick Party not sparing to declare what free and frequent accesses he gave the principall Sticklers in that cause both Priests and Iesuites and the speciall services vvhich he did them And it must be somewhat more than strange if all this be true that he should hate Popery vvith a perfect hatred yet not more strange then that he should so stickle in the preferment of Dr. Theodore Price to the Arch-Bishoprick of Armagh in Ireland who died a profest Catholick reconciled to the Church of Rome as our Author hath it Fol. 226. But if there be no more truth in the Bishop of Lincolns hating Popery then in Dr. 〈◊〉 dying a professed Papist there is no credit to be given at all to that part of the Character Dr. Price though once a great Favourite of this Bishop and by him continued Sub-Dean of Westminster many years together vvas at the last suppos'd to be better affected to Bishop Laud than to Bishop Williams Bishop Laud having lately appeared a Suiâ—or for him for the Bishoprick of St. Asaph And therefore that two Birds might be kild with the same bolâ— no sooner vvas Dr. Price deceased but the Bishop of Lincoln being then at Westminster calls the Prebends together tells them that he had been with Mr. Sub-Deane before his death that he left him in very doubtfull tearmes about Religion and consequently could not tell in what form to bury him that if the Dr. had died a profest Papist he would have buried him himselfe but being as it was he could not see how any of the Prebendaries could either with safety or with credit performe that office But the Artifice and design being soon discovered took so little effect that Dr. Newel one of the Senior Prebendaries performed the Obsequies the rest of the whole Chapiter attending the body to the grave with all due solemnity Fuller I deny not but as a States-man he might do some civill offices to the Romish party in that Juncture of time in compliance to King Iames his commands But this amounteth not to prove him a Lover of Popery As for Dr. Price I will not rake into his ashes If he dyed a protestant 't was the better for him but the contrary is generally reported printed believed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He was so great an honourer of the English Liturgy that of his owne cost he caused the same to be translated into Spanish and fairly printed to confute their false conceipt of our Church c. If this be true it makes not onely to his honour but also to the honour of the English Liturgy translated into more Languages then any Liturgy in the world whatsoever it be translated into Latine by Alexander Alesius a learned Scot in King Edwards time as afterward by Dr. Walter Haddon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and his translation mended by Dr. Mocket in the time of King Iames translated into French by the command of that King for the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey into Spanish at the charge of this Bishop as our Author telleth us and finally into Greek by one Mr. Petly by whom it was dedicated and presented to the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the greatest Patron and Advancer of the English Liturgy But secondly I have some reason to doubt that the Liturgy was not translated at the charges of Bishop Williams That it was done by his pocurement I shall easily grant but whosoever made the
Bill of Charges the Church paid the reckoning the Dominican Fryer who translated it being rewarded with a Benefice and a good Prebend as the Bishop himselfe did signifie by letter to the Duke of Buckingham Fuller I have been credibly informed by those who have best cause to know it That it was done not onely by his procurement but at his Cost Though I deny not but that a benefice might be conferred on the Fryer in reward of his paines Thus far I am assured by such as saw it That the Bishop who had more skill in the Spanish then his policy would publiquely own did with his owne hand correct every sheet therein Dr. Heylyn And as for the printing of the book I cannot think that it was at his charges neither but at the charges of the Printer it not being usuall to give the Printer money and the copy too Fuller The Animadvertor so well practised in printing knowes full well That though i◠be usuall to give Money and Copies too for a saleable book which being Printed in our owne tongue is every mans Money yet a Spanish Book printed in England is chargeable meeting with few buyers because few understanders thereof Dr. Heylyn And Thirdly Taking it for granted that the Liturgy was translated and printed at this Bishop's charges yet does not this prove him to be so great an honourer of it as our Author makes him For had he been indeed a true honourer of the English Liturgy he would have been a more diligent attendant on it than he shewed himself never repairing to the Church at Westminster whereof he was Dean from the 18. of February 1635. when the businesse of the great Pew was judged against him till his Commitment to the Tower in Iuly 1637. Fuller One reason why he seldome came to Prayers to Westminster Church was because he was permitted but little to live there after he fell into the King's displeasure being often sent away the day after he came thither On the same token that once Sr. Iohn Cook being sent unto him to command him to avoid the Deanery Mr. Secretary said the Bishop what Authority have you to command a Man out of his owne House Which wrought so much on the old Knight that he was not quiet till he had gotten his owne pardon Dr. Heylyn Nor ever going to the Chappell of the Tower where he was a Prisoner to attend the Divine Service of the Church or receive the Sacrament from Iuly 1637. when he was committed to November 1640. when he was enlarged A very strong Argument that he was no such Honourer of the English Liturgy as is here pretended A Liturgy most highly esteemed in all places wheresoever it came and never so much vilified despis'd condemn'd as amongst our selves and those amongst our selves who did so vilifie and despise it by none more countenanced then by him who is here said to be so great an Honourer o◠it Fuller Though for reasons best known to himselfe he went not to Prayers in the Tower Chappell yet was he his own Chaplain to read them in his own Chamber And let me add this memorable passage thereunto During his durance in the Tower there was a Kinsman of Sr. William Balforés then Lieutenant a Scotish man and his name Mr. Melvin too who being mortally sick sent for Bishop Williams to pray with him The Bishop read to him the Visitation of the sick having fore-acquainted this dying man That there was a form of Absolution in this Prayer if he thought fit to receive it Wherewith Mr. Melvin was not onely well satisfied but got himselfe up as well as he could on his knees in the bed and in that posture received Absolution Dr Heylyn But for this Blow our Author hath his Buckler ready telling us Ibid. Not out of Sympathy to Non-conformists but Antipathy to Arch-bishop Laud he was favourable to some select Persons of that Opinion An Action somewhat like to that of the Earl of Kildare who being accused before Henry the Eighth for burning the Cathedrall Church of Cassiles in Ireland profess'd ingeniously That he would never have burnt the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Hate to that Bishop an Arch-Bishop of Ireland incited that mad Earl to burn his Cathedrall Church And hate to Bishop Laud the Primate and Metropolitan of all England stir'd up this Bishop to raise a more unquenchable Combustion in the Church of England So that we may affirm of him as Tertullian in another case of the Primitive Christians viz. Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum But are we sure that he was favourable to the Non-Conformists out of an antipathy to Bishop Laud onely I believe not so His antipathy to the King did as strongly byass him that way as any thing else For which I have the Testimony of the Author of the History of King Charls publisht 1656. who telleth us of him That being malevolently inclin'd about the losse of the great Seal c. Fuller I will not advocate for all the actions of Bishop Williams and though the Animadvertor beholds my pen as over-partiall unto him yet I know who it was that wrote unto me Semper es iniquior in Archiepiscopum Eboracensem I am a true honourer of his many excellent virtues and no excuser of his Faults who could heartily wish That the latter part of his Life had been like the beginning thereof Dr. Heylyn And so I take my leave of this great Prelate whom I both reverence for his Place and honour for his Parts as much as any And yet I cannot choose but say that I find more reason to condemn then there is to commend him so that we may affirm of him as the Historian doth of Cajus Caesar Son of Agrippa and Nephew to the great Augustus viz. Tam variè se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficiat as my Author hath it And with the same Character accommodated to our Author and this present History I conclude these Notes subjoyning onely this old Saying as well for my comfort as defence viz. Truth though it may be blam'd can never be sham'd Fuller Here the Animadvertor doth Tickle and Pinch me both together yet neither will I laugh nor cry but keep my former composure I will take no notice of a piece of MEZENTISM in his joyning of the Dead and Living together and conceive my selfe far unworthy to be parallel'd in the least degree with his Eminences However I will endeavour with the Gladiators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honestè decumbere that when I can fight no longer I may fall handsomely in the Scene of this Life May God who gave it have the glory of what is good in me my selfe the shame of what is bad which I ought to labour to amend To the Reverend and his Worthy Friend Dr. Iohn Cosin Dean of Peter-burgh SIR You may be pleased to remember