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A56127	The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3891A; Wing P3891_vol1; Wing P4074_vol2_CANCELLED; ESTC R18576	670,992	826

verdict upon an Indictment for the King● against Innovating Clergie men as they were bound to doe both in Law and Conscience Witnesse the Case of Master Aske late Recorder of Colchester Mr. Burroughs and the grand Jury of that Towne who were thus vexed for finding an Indictment against Par●on Newcoman for refusing to deliver the Sacrament to those who came not up to his new raile And no doubt the Bishops secret Commands and Instructions were the Originall cause that moved Sir Robert Berkely Knight one of the Judges of the Kings Bench at the Generall Sessions at Har●ford in Ianuary 7. 1638. to fine Mr. Henry Browne one of the grand Jury men at that Sessions and lay him in Irons one night onely for finding an Indictment for rayling in the Communion Table at Hartford Altar-wise which indictment he caused the said Brown openly to teare trample under his feete and one tha● stayed other indictments of this nature in high affront bo●h o● Law and Justice onely to please the Prela●es whose commands threates and persecutions have beene the Originall causes of most of the Judges irregular proceedings Fourteenthly They have not onely cited but censured some of his Majesties Officers in the High-Commission for executing his Lawes according to their Oath and duty as the Major of Arundell for punishing a drumken Minister and likewise ci●ed Mr. Staple a Justice of peace in Sussex into the High-Co●mission for giving in charge at the quarter Sessions his 〈…〉 against Innovations and deaucht Clergie men Fift●●n●hly●●hey have most unjustly caused some Posters to be ●●opped af●●r ●●●dicts ●ound for the plaintiffes and dammages given by ●he Jury upon ●ul● hearing for Actions justly bro●ght agai●s● 〈◊〉 of ●h●ir Officers for dafamations and other 〈…〉 so that the Plaintiffes could never get judgement● w●●nesse ●he case of Master Bayton against Doctor Martyn Com●●ssary of Tomes and others Sixtee●●hly they haue caused some Solliciters Atturnies and Pla●n●iffes to be imprisoned untill they gave over such just actions as they had commenced and prosecuted against their Office●s for Extortions Opressions and unjust Excommuni●ations witnesse the case of Ferdinando Adams whose Atturny Master Letchford was committed to the Kings Bench by Judge Iones and some other Judges only for bringing an Action of the Case against Dade the the Bishop of Norwich Commissary at Ipswich for Excommunicating him maliciously and unjustly because he re●used to blot out this Text of Scripture written over the Commissaries Court in Saint Maries Church in Ipswich It is written My house shall be called an house of Prayer of all Nations but ye have made it a den of theeves detaining him in prison till he gave over the prosecution and discontinued the suite sundry others having since beene served in this kinde by the Prelates sollicitation Seventeenthly They have beene the Originall occasions of the late unhappy warre and differences betweene Scotland and England which they stiled Bellum Episcopale the Bishops warre to which they liberally contributed themselves and enforced others to do the like when these differences were comprimised and this warre happily concluded in peace they were the chiefe Authors of the breach of the pacifica●ion formerly made and of a second warre to the great danger trouble and unsupportable charge o● his Majesties three kingdomes Eighteenthly they have beene the prime causes of all or most of the grievances pressures distractions Schismes in our Church and Common-weale and chiefe instruments of the unhappy breaches of our former Parliaments to the infinite prejudice both of King and Subject Ninteenthly when as they had caused the last Parliament but this to be dissolved to manifest their omnipotency disloyalty and tyranny they caused a new Convocation to be immediately assembled without a Parliament wherein they compiled and prescribed New Canons with an c. Oath tending highly to the derogation of his Majesties prerogative royall in Ecclesiasticall matters the subversion of the ●undamentall Lawes of the Realme and Liberties of the Subject the affront of Parliaments the suppression of all faithfull ministers and ayming onely at the perpetuating of their owne Episcopall Lordly power and Popish Innovations And as if this were not sufficient they tooke upon them to grant sundry subsidies without a Parliament for the maintenance of a new war against the Scots and enjoyned all Ministers to pay these Subsidies peremptorily at the dayes assigned by them under paine of present deprivation for the first default Omni Appellatione semota without any benefit of appeale one of the highest straines of tyranny and injustice that ever I have met with For which Canons Oath and Subsidies they now stand impeached by the whole house of Commons as delinquents in a high nature and are like ere long to receive condigne punishment Twentiethly it is very suspicious that they or some of them had a hand in the late dangerous Treason and Conspiracie since the first clause of the Oath of Se●recy administred to the Conspirators was To maintaine the Bishops in their functions and votes in Parliament and the Clergie would at their owne charge as Serjant Major Wallis confesseth in his examination maintaine a thousand horse to promote this Trayterous designe and have now as some report an hundred thousand pound ready for such a service In the twentieth one place they have oppressed and ruined divers of his Majesties Loyall Subjects Ministers and others both in their bodies estates credits families caused many thousands of them to forsake the Realme and to transport their families into forraine parts to the great decay of trade and impoverishing of the Realme In which they have done his Majestie great dis-service whose Honour and safety consists in the multitude and wealth of his people and his destruction in want of people In the twenty second ranke they have most undutifully and disloyally cast the odium of all their late Innovations in Religion their new Canons and tyrannicall exorbitant proceedings on his Majestie proclaiming it openly to the people that all they did was onely by his Majesties speciall direction and command of purpose to alienate the hearts of the people from his Majestie as much as in them lay In the twenty third place they and their Officers have sorely fleeced and impoverished his Majesties Subjects in such sort by exacted Fees and vexatio●s suites in their Visitations High-Commissions and other Ecclesiasticall Courts and by putting them to unnecessary costs for raising and rayling in Comm●nion Tables and new adorning their Churches that they are unable to supply his Majesties and the Kingdomes necessities in that liberall proportion as they have formerly done the late Subsidies scarce amounting to halfe that summe as they did in former times Finally in their last High-Commission Pa●ent they obtained this strange Non-obstante which robs the King of his Supremacy and the Subjects of their Lawes and Liberties namely That their Lordships in all Ecclesiasticall causes specified in that Commission might proceede in a meere arbitrary manner as

Oath first and then administred it to others saying that he was glad in his heart that this Oath was imposed upon all the Clergie of England for now the true Children of the Church would bee knowne from the spurious and bastards And further hee hath de●yed to conferre Orders upon such who refused to take the said Oath as namely upon one Mr. Gibbon● And hath enforced the sayd Oath upon divers he hath ordained Ministers since the making thereof That the sayd Bishop hath beene a great fomentor and incourager of the late divisions and wars betweene the Kingdomes of England and Scotland conventing and urging the Clergie of his Diocesse in the yeares of our Lord 1638. 1639. to contribute a liberall benevolence towards the maintenance of the sayd wars using this speech as one motive to induce them to this contribution that it was Bellum Episcopale and saying that what ever cause the King had expressed in hi● Declaration yet in truth this war was for Vs meaning Vs the Bishops And whereas some of the Clergie denyed the payment of so large a Benevolence●s ●s the sayd Bishop demanded in regard of their poverty and because they were still in their first fruites when they were free from Subsidies the sayd Bishop threatned by his power to put more Armes and horses upon them saying that if they would not serve the King with their purses they should serve him with their Armes And thereupon compelled them to pay the summes he demaunded of them against all Law as namely Mr. Roswell Mr. Ioanes Mr. Abbot and others And not contented herewith the sayd Bishop pretending that there were divers poore Vicars and Ministers in his Diocesse that were no● able to pay the Benevolence ●o as hee could not raise the summe he expected thereupon directed his Letters to divers of his wealthier Cle●gie causing some of them to pay a second contribution 13. That the sayd Bishop not content with this first Benevolence hath since that in the yeare of our Lord 1642. compelled divers of his Clergie to pay all or part of the sixe illegall subsidies or Benevolences imposed by the late pretended Synod without confirmation of Parliament threatning to excommunica●e and deprive them ipso● facto who fayled paymen● of it at the dayes prefixed by the Synod and sent out a processe to Master Newton Minister of Tau●ton even whiles the sayd Town● was much visited by the Pestilence long before the sayd Subsidy or Benevolence was due to enjoyne him to pay it punctually at the day or else he would inflict on him the penalties prescribed by this Synod and used these speeches that if they did not pay the sayd Subsidie or Benevolence they should be ground to powder And the sayd Commons by pro●esta●ion s●●ing to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other accusation or impeachment against the sayd Bishop And also of replying to the answeres that he the sayd Bishop shall make unto the sayd Articles or to any of them and of offering proofes also of the premisses or any of them or any other impeachment or accusation that shall be exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliaments require doe pray that the sayd Bishop may be put to answere to all and every t●e premisses And that such proceedings examinations tryalls and judgements may be upon every of them had and used as is agreeable to Law and Justice By these Articles of impeachment you may easily discover what a prophane impious turbulent Prelate this Bishop is even such a one whom no age I thinke in many particulars is able to parallell whose prodigiously prophane speeches and actions proclaime to all the world that our present Prelates impieties have made them fit for judgement yea to be castout and trampled under feere of men as the very excrements and off-scouring of all things I have now runne through all our ancient Bishoprickes with that of Chester lately revived and given you a briefe account of the extravagant actions of some of those Lordly Prelates who possessed them I shall now in the close of this Chapter give you but a touch of some of the late Bishops of Oxford Bristoll Peterborough and Glocester which Bishopricks were erected out of dissolved Monasteries by King Henry the eight towards the end of his Reigne and so conclude Oxford TO passe by the first Bishops of this See none of the best there have beene three successions of Bishops in Oxford since I left the University Houson Corbet and Bancroft all of them Patriots of Innovations Erronious Popish Arminian Doctrines superstitious Ceremonies prophane Sports Revels and Bacchanals on the Lords day scandalous in their lives notoriously given to the flesh enemies to frequent preaching and the true Practise of Piety Of the two first of them I have given a touch in Durham and Norwich page 519. to which I shall referre you and for the last of them a Non-preaching Prelate who for ought I can learne never preached above one or two Sermons if so many all his life time he had a finger in the late Canons Oath lone in pressing whereof he was not negligent and had not death arrested him with the other two I doubt not but the Parliament had bin troubled with many complaints against them all which now being buryed together with them I will not revive Bristoll THE Bishopricke of Bristoll was first possessed by Paul Bush who was deprived in Queen Maries dayes for being married Iohn Holy-man a Papist succeeded him after whose death the See continued voyd some foure yeares Anno 1562. Richard Cheyny Bishop of Glocester and Iohn Bullingham his successor held Bristoll in Commendam so as it stood void o● a Bishop otherwise than as it was held by Commendam● one and thirty yeares Richard Fletcher next enjoyed it till he was translated to Worcester Anno. 1593. After which it stood vacant ten yeares to 1603. and then Iohn Thorneborough Bishop of Limbrick in Ireland and Commendatory Deane of York was translated to it This Bishop and some of his successors had great contests with the Major Aldermen and Citizens of B●istoll whom he would force to come every Lords day morning and solemne Holiday to the Cathedrall Sermon to dance attendance and doe their homage to their Lordships which they for some yeares refused till at last after sundry complaints to the King and Councel the Bishops and they according the Major and Citizens yeelded to come to the Colledge now and then on solemne days if the weather were faire and sometimes in the Sommer season Robert Wright one of the late Bishops of this See had a great contestation with the Deane and Chapter of Bristoll and Master George Salterne Steward of the City for opposing him in setting up Images in the Cathedrall and other Churches which gave great offence to the people he was a great Innovator and maintainer of Superstitious Ceremonies at Bristoll to humor

weapons of iniquity unto sinne This exasperates Gods wrath and accumulates the danger of eternall damnation on many that certaine of the chiefe Priests and Eld●rs of the people although they pronounce not judgement in cases of blood yet they handle the same things by disputing and debating of them and thinke themselves therefore free from blame that in decreeing judgement of death or truncation of members which some of them of late have judicially given sentence of they absent themselves onely from the pronunciation and execution of this penall sentence But what is more pernicious then this dissimulation Is it lawfull to discuss● and determine that which it is not lawfull to pronounce Verily Saul did many wayes handle and plot the death of David and that he might palliate his malice under the shadow of innocency he said Let not my hand be upon him but the hand of the Philistims be upon him Truely as much as this dissimulation did excuse him with men so much did it the more damnably accuse him with God We have an expresse forme of similitude in that Consistorie wherein Christ was condemned to death the Scribes and Pharisees said It is n●t lawfull for us to put any man to death And yet when they cryed saying Crucifie him they pronounced a sentence of death against him with bloody malignity whom they slew with the sword of the tongue they protested it was not lawfull for them to slay and their iniquity was in this very thing so much the more detestable because that they might escape the censure of men they covered it with a simulation of innocency Thou art set over the soules of men not over their bodies The Prelate hath nothing that is common with Pilate Thou art Christs Steward and the Vicar of Peter neither oughtest thou to give an account of the jurisdiction committed to thee to Caesar but to Christ yet some Bishops by usurped offices and administrations of the world make themselves obnoxious to the bent of the Court and as if they had renounced the priviledge of their dignity expect the sentence of an harder event He adds this more against the Lordlinesse and Dominion of Prelates in the same Treatise There are some who repute honours Vertues and ascribe the glory of their eminency to their merits which peradventure they have obtained in Gods wrath The assumption of honour becomes a temptation and an occasion of subvertion unto many Therefore thou must so preside as thou mayst profit Woe to those who rule over men if God set not president over them Paul glories not of his Dominion but of his Ministration In labours more abundant in prisons more frequent in stripes above measure in deaths often In these things a forme of glorying is prefixed thee not in precious aray not in much houshold-stuffe not in heaping up money not in Edefices or Cultures not in enlarging possessions not in multitudes of Horses not in pompous rayment not in a numerous traine For after all these things doe the Gentiles seeke But as the Doctor of the Gentiles glories in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ whereby the World was crucified to him and he unto the World Repute thy selfe an humble and abject Servant Let not humility be a disgrace to thee which adorned the Sonne of God Of Prelacy thou mayest have glory but not with God but if thou gloriest of humility thou shalt not be unwise The Kings of th● Gentiles exercise Lordship over them but ye shall not doe so● Therefore thou mayst not make thy selfe a Lord but a Servant The Apostle Peter saith Not Lording over the Clergie but being examples to the people It is pernicious to a Prelate gladly to heare of himselfe above that he discernes to be within him It is frequent to find one among the Bishops who may chance to dedicate the first yeare of his promotion to sanctity and when in his novelty he became a Lamb inveterated for some dayes he is made a most ravenous Wolfe The same Author in his 15.18.22 23.25 64. ●pistles hath sundry notable Passages against the Lordlinesse Pride and o●her vices of the Prelates in his age and of the danger of Episcopacy A Lord Prelate writes h●e there Observes not the face but hand of him who repaires to him as being alwayes ready to receive gifts he is of a shamelesse brow in demanding ingratefull when hee hath received inhumane if he receive not something he is unmercifull to the afflicted meeke to the most cruell unstable untractable tolerable to none hatefull to all an enemy of peace a contemner of faith an adversary of unity unfaithfull in his councels negligent in his actions furious in anger remisse in mercy dissolute in words gluttonous in banquets haughty in prosperity fearefull in adversity He doth nothing according to reason but all things according to will and as if he were degenerated into a beastiall sense casting away from him the counsell and judgement of reason he followes his owne appetite For man being in honour understandeth not but is compared unto the brute beasts and became like to them His ascent is pleasing neither to God nor man his whole study whole honour whole glory is the whole and sol● authority of his usurped Episcopall dignity the stretching out of his breast elevation of his necke statelinesse of his going distorsion of his eyes Vultuosity and thundring of his threatning countenance and that I may include many things in few words t●tum datur elationi nibil sanctitati c. All is addicted to pride nothing to sanctity nothing to chastity● nothing to amity and finally nothing at all is left to h●nesty Behold him speaking behold him walking Quas gerit ●re min●s quanto premit omnia fas●u What threatnings beares he in his mouth with how Great pride treads he upon all things below O curas hominum O quantum est in rebus i●ane O cares of men O how much emptinesse And vanity Lord Prelates Mindes possesse O vaine glory O bloody ambition O the unsatiable desire of terrene honour O the canker of hearts the subversion of soules the desire of dignities Whence hath this plagu● crept up Whence hath this execrable presumption prevailed that unworthy men should covet dignities and by how much the lesse they deserve to ascend to honours by so much the more importunately they thrust themselves into them At this day by right and wrong at this day to the hazard of soule and body unhappy men runne to the Pastorall chaire and doe not consider that it is a Chaire of pestilence to them whiles they are the cause of ruine to themselves and others In flocks and heards witnesse Hierome the Ramme and Bull which excels in corpulency and animosity goeth before the rest But a man more beastiall then all bea●ts presumes so much more indiscreetly and audaciously to be above his betters by how mnch lesse he confides to the titles of vertues or sincerity