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A54636	Miscellanea parliamentaria containing presidents 1. of freedom from arrests, 2. of censures : 1. upon such as have wrote books to the dishonour of the Lords or Commons, or to alter the constitution of the government, 2. upon members for misdemeanours, 3. upon persons not members, for contempts and misdemeanours, 4. for misdemeanours in elections ... : with an appendix containing several instances wherein the kings of England have consulted and advised with their parliaments 1. in marriages, 2. peace and war, 3. leagues ... / by William Petyt of the Inner-Temple, Esq.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1948; ESTC R15174	115,975	326

vain to sit here The Sheriff is again called to the Bar on his knees and sentenced to the Tower XI A Petition was preferred against one Lewis who said about the 25th of December The Devil take the Parliament which was avowed by two witnesses And although it was spoken out of Parliament yet it was resolved to be an offence to the Parliament And it was ordered he should be sent for § 4. Some Presidents for punishing of Misdemeanours in Elections I. IN the Parliament of the 18. of King James the Mayor of Winchelsey for misbehaving of himself at the Election of Parliament-men for that Town and making a false Return It was Resolved upon the Question 1. That the Mayor of Winchelsey had committed a Contempt and Misdemeanour against this House and therefore shall stand committed to the Serjeant till Saturday morning then making his Submission here at the Bar to be discharged of any further punishment here 2. But to make his Acknowledgment in the Town before the new Election II. Anno 20 Jac. Upon the Report of Mr. Glanvile concerning the Burrough of Arundel because the Mayor had misbehaved himself in the Election by putting the Town to a great deal of Charge not giving a due and general warning but packt a number of Electors It was Resolved 1. The Mayor not being in Town a Warrant be sent for him 2. Resolved upon another Question that Mr. Alford Mr. Bing and Mr. Lathorn shall set down the Charges III. Anno 21 Jac. Mr. Glanvile reports the Misdemeanour of the under-Sheriff of Cambridgshire who refused the Pole declaring Sir Thomas Steward promised him to defend him against Sir John Cutts and told him he should have no wrong nor damage Resolved upon the Question That this under-Sheriff shall be committed to the Serjeant's Custody till Thursday next Resolved also upon the Question That making his Submission at the Bar and acknowledging his offence he shall be discharged from any further punishment in this place Resolved also upon a third Question That the under-Sheriff shall make a further Submission openly at the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden in the County and acknowledge his faults Edward Ingry brought to the Bar and kneeling upon his knees Mr. Speaker denounced upon him the Judgment of the House IV. Mr. Hackwell reports from the Committee about the Sheriffs of York and others for the Election of Sir Thomas Savill The two Sheriffs and two Aldermen are Delinquents one of the Sheriffs and one of the Aldermen are most faulty Sheriff Thompson had committed two offences First his hasty and precipitate Judgment of the Election to prevent the Election of Hoy Secondly in denying the Poll being required First his hasty and precipitate Judgment was done without acquainting his fellow Sheriff and it was within a quarter of an hour after the reading of the Writ and half an hour after nine a clock and while he was doing of it he was admonished and told that he could not answer it and that he might defer it yet he did obstinately proceed and answered them frowardly and said he would do it and that he would justifie it His excuse was thus that it was indeed suddenly done but it was done so formerly But to that it was replied That never before above two were in Election Secondly he answered That it was not of his own head but some Aldermen advised it but that was Alderman Cooper a Delinquent for that offence For the other offence in denying the Poll after it was demanded and that was before he had pronounced any Judgment but he was willing that Robinson should have the Poll for he knew he could not carry it but he refused Hoy and he was required ten times but gave no answer at all His behaviour before the Committee was impudent and he would answer nothing directly The Committee found this man to be an engaged man and that he was promised to be saved harmless For Alderman Henlow he procured the Company of Taylors two days before the Election and published Sir John Savill's Letters and pressed it and upon some he pressed it so much that they should elect Sir Thomas Savill and said the Parliament will not hold He dealt with the Sheriffs also and told them divers words of Sir John Savill that he would take it very ill and said he if you will choose Sir Thomas Savill you shall be saved harmless Also he endeavoured to procure a Certificate that Sir Thomas Savill was duly elected when any refused he said they were factious Fellows and otherwise threatned The Committee censured Sheriff Thompson and this Alderman Henlow First that they should stand committed to the Serjeant during pleasure Secondly that they should acknowledge their offences at the Bar in the full House and pay all due Fees before they be discharged Also they should defray all the charges of the Witnesses of Alderman Hoy to be assessed by four of the Committee And that they should make acknowledgement of their fault before the Court of Aldermen at York and that the Mayor should certifie their submission to the House As for Alderman Cooper he assembled the Company of Merchants and read Sir John Savill's Letter for the Election of his Son and also he at the Election perswaded the Sheriff to give Judgment Sheriff Atkins was only passive and did not refuse to joyn with the other Sheriff As for the point of charges given to the Witnesses of Hoy it was doubtful and objected against by some whether it lay in our power But it was replied That in every Court it is necessary to have power to impose Fines and why we should want power for offences that lye in our cognizance is not to be questioned else the party that is duly elected and that justifies the free Election and maintains the freedom and liberty of the Common-wealth shall be more punished then the Delinquent Also we have power to imprison which is more then a Fine Also we have as much as the Lords House in those things that lye in our Jurisdiction 13 Eliz. 10 Maii The Mayor of Westbury in Wiltshire took 4 l. for a Return Mr. Long fined 20 l. and ordered to bring in a Bond made him for a greater sum 23 Eliz. 5 Januar. Mr. Arthur Fall writ a Book to the dishonour of this House It was ordered that the Serjeant should go to apprehend him assisted by two Knights of this House 14 Febr. he was brought to the Bar and sent to the Tower and fined 500 Marks and expelled the House and kept in the Tower six months 23 Eliz. 18 Martii a Fine was assessed on every one that was absent without leave 6 H. 8. cap. 16. our Clerks Book is termed a Record 21 Jac. the Election of the Burgess of Arundel in Sussex and there it was ordered that the Witnesses charges should be born And then there was 10 l. paid down by one a

Majesties Command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entered among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber And according to the said agréement of the said Justices and Barons Judgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said Sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Process depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of Charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs All which Writs and Proceedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Charge imposed upon the Subjects for the providing of Ships commonly called Ship-meony and the said extrajudicial Opinion of the said Justices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said Agreement or Opinion of the greater part of the said Justices and Barons and the said Judgement given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of Propeety the Liberty of the Subjects former Resolutions in Parliamrnt and the Petition of Right made in the the third year of the Reign of His Majesty that now is And it is further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in Execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed And that all and every the Records and Remembrances of all and every the Judgments Inrollments Entry and Proceedings as aforesaid and and every the Proceedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be deemed and adjudged to all Intents Constructions and Purposes to be utterly void and disanulled and that all and every the said Judgment Inrollments Entries Proceedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such Manner and Form as Records use to be that are vacated FINIS By reason of the hast and throng of the Press the Reader is desired to correct those Errata in the Book pa. 85. ommons r. Commons pa 119 in Mar. for Witnesses r. Members pa. 137. for § 4 r. § 5 p. 185. in Mar. for Sir Cooke r. Sir Edward Cooke Errata in the Appendix pa. 3. l. 19. proditoriae r. proditorie n. 29. in Mar. H 5 r. H. 6. n. 35. the next p. l. 15. Archeipis r. Archiepo l. 19. Universitatis r. Vniversitas p. 29. l. 4. for sive r. sine l. 13. praedica vistis r. praedicavistis p. 30. l. 15. tacites r. tacite The Antient Right of the Commons of England Asserted or a Discourse proving by Records and the best Historians that the Commons of England were ever an Essential Part of Parliament By William Petyt of the Inner-Temple Esq JANI ANGLORUM Facies Nova Or several Monuments of Antiquity touching the Great Councils of the Kingdom and the Court of Kings immediate Tenants and Officers from the first of William the first to the forty ninth of Henry the Third Reviv'd and Clear'd Wherein The sense of the Common-Council of the Kingdom mentioned in King John's Charter and of the Laws Ecclesiastical or Civil concerning Clergy-men's Voting in Capital Cases is submitted to the Judgment of the Learned Apud Foxum vol. 2. col 3. 4 The Bishop of Winchester's Letter to the Duke of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Plutatchus lib. cum Principibus Philosophos debere disputare Qui semper corrumpunt principes Reges ac Tyrannos nempe Delatores Criminatores Adulatores ab omnibus exiguntur puniunturque ut qui non in unum Calicem lethale venenum mittant sed in fontem publicitus scatentem quo vident omnes uti Quemadmodum non uno supplicio dignus est qui fontem publicum unde bibant omnes veneno infecit ita nocentissimus est qui principis animum pravis infecerit opinionibus quae mox in tot hominum permiciem redundent Nam si capite plectitur qui principis monetam vitiarit quanto dignior est eo supplicio qui principis ingenium corruperit Osorius lib. 5. de Regis institutione Occurrit alia adulatorum turba prudentiae nomine commendata qui utse in gratiam Regum iusinuent illis persuadent eos esse supra leges post aliqua Nunquam in Regnis Civitatibus homines scelerati defuerunt nec hodie desunt qui principes erroribus turbulentis iuficiant quibus illi quidem annumerandi sunt qui cum se jure consultos existimari velint Regibus persuadent illos omnino solutos esse legibus Observ. 1. Cardan lib. de utilitate ex adversis capiend● cap. de Principis Incommodis p. 288. Observ. 2. Rot. Parl. 32. H 8. Act 60. The Attainder of the L. Cromwel A dangerous Boast of any one Minister Actus Parl. An 3 and 4. E. 6. no. 31. An Act touching the Fine and Ransome of the Duke of Somerset A remarkable Instance how Dangerous it is for one single Minister to have a Monopoly of the King Observ. 3. Apud Foxum vol. 2 d. Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester his Letter to the D. of Somerset Protector to E. 6. Coke 4. Inst so 89. Ld. Herbert Hist. of H. 8. fo Rast. Stat. 31. H. 8. cap. 8. Observ. 4. Rastal's 3 and 4. E. 6. cap 5 Coke 3. Inst. fo 12. Rastals Stat. 7. Ed. 6. cap. 12. Out of a Paper in the hands of my good Friend Mr. John Rawley a Worthy Citizen of London Nephew and Executor to Dr. Rawley first and last Chaplain to the L. Bacon My Lord Bacons Memento Ex Journali Domus Procerum Annis 21 and 22. Jacobi Regis 14 Maii 16 24 This Bill after pass'd unto a Law Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts p. 7 8 9 10 11. 34 H. 8. An. Dom. 1542. Breach of Priviledge Ferrers arrested going to the Parl. house The Serjeant of the Parliament sent to the Compter for him And demands the Prisoner But the Officers deny him And assault the Serjeant Breaks the Crown of the Mace strikes down his Man Complains of it to the Sheriffs and demands the Prisoner Who contemptuously reject the same The Serjeant returns and acquaints the House Who highly resent it It was ordinary for either House upon emergent occasions to give an account to each other as in the time of R. 2. H. 6. H. 8. E. 6. Queen Mary the great Officers of State as the Chancellor Treasurer c. went down to the House of Commons to give them particular accounts The Ld. Chancellor in

must without doubt fall upon them But to return back V. Anno 3 Caroli primi Dr. Manwaring was impeached in Parliament by the Commons for preaching and printing several Sermons with a wicked and malicious intention to seduce and misguide the Conscience of the King touching the observation of the Laws and Customs of this Kingdom and the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects thereof and to incense his Royal Displeasure against his Subjects and to scandalize subvert and impeach ●he good Laws and Government of this Realm and the Authority of the High Court of Parliament to alien his Royal Heart from his People and to cause Jealousies Seditions and Divisions in the Kingdom Whereupon he had Judgment 1. To be imprisoned during pleasure of the House of Lords 2. Was fined a 1000 l. to the King 3. To make such submission and acknowledgment of his Offences in writing both there and at the Bar of the Commons House 4. Suspended for the term of 3 years from exercising the Ministry 5. Fo● ever disabled to preach at Court 6. That he should be for ever disabled to have any Ecclesiastical Dignity or Secular Office 7. That his said Books were worthy to be burnt and that for the better effecting of that his Majesty was to be moved to grant a Proclamation to call them in to be burnt in London and both the Vniversities and to prohibit their Reprinting This was the Judgment of the Lords The Doctor made his submission upon his knees first at the Bar of the House of Lords and after on his knees at the Bar of the House of Commons His Submission was this I do here in all sorrow of heart and true repentance acknowledge those many Errors and Indiscretions which I have committed in preaching and publishing those two Sermons of mine I call Religion and Allegiance and my great fault in falling upon this Theam again and handling the same rashly scandalously and unadvisedly in mine own Parish-Church in St. Giles in the Fields the 4th of May last past I do humbly acknowledge those three Sermons of mine to be full of many dangerous passages and inferences and scandalous aspersions in most parts of the same And I do humbly acknowledge the Justice of this Honourable House in that Sentence and Judgment pass'd upon me for my great offence and I do from the bottom of my heart crave pardon of God the King this Honourable House the Church and the Commonwealth in general and those worthy Persons reflected upon by me in particular for these great Errors and Offences Roger Manwaring After all which the Lords ordered the Bishop of London to suspend him according to the Clause expressed in the part of the Judgment against him The Doctor after got a Pardon and was made a Bishop which occasioned great Disturbances in the House of Commons in 4 Car. 1. The Charge and Articles against the Doctor drawn out of his own Books Article I. 1. That his Majesty is not bound to keep and observe the good Laws and Customs of the Realm concerning the Right and Liberty of the Subject to be exempted from all Loans Taxes and other Aids laid upon them without common Consent in Parliament 2. That his Majesties Will and command in imposing any charges upon his Subjects without such consent doth so far bind them in their consciences that they cannot refuse the same without peril of eternal damnation Article II. 1. That these Refusers had offended against the Law of God 2. Against the Supreme Authority 3. By so doing were become guilty of impiety disloyalty rebellion disobedience and liable to many other Taxes Article III. 1. That Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies 2. That the slow proceedings of such Assemblies are not fit to supply the urgent necessity of the State 3. That Parliaments are apt to produce sundry impediments to the just designs of Princes and to give them occasion of displeasure and discontent It was a saying of Themistius in his Consular Oration to Jovinian the Emperor that Some Bishops did not worship God but the Imperial purple This Dr. as I said before after this so solemn a Judgment did in the time of Prorogation between 3 4 Car. 1. get a Pardon and not only so but the Bishoprick of St. Davids which occasioned great debates and disturbances in the Parliament when they reassembled again the power and validity of his Pardon being brought in question and several times argued but the dissolution of the Parliament put an end to the dispute for that time But in the Parliament before the Long Parliament of 1640. the Lords highly resented it as may appear by following proceedings This day was read the Declaration of the House of Commons made tertio Caroli Regis against Dr. Manwaring since Lord Bishop of St. Davids and likewise the Sentence pronounced against him by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the High Court of Parliament which is committed to the consideration of the Lords of the Grand Committee for Priviledges and it was moved that what can be alledged on the Lord Bishop of St. Davids part either by Pardon License or otherwise that it may be produced and seen at the sitting of the Lords Committees for theirfull and clear understanding and better expedition in the business Having taken into consideration the business concerning Dr. Manwaring it was ordered that upon Munday next the Records be brought into the House that the House may determine the Cause touching Dr. Manwaring The business appointed this day concerning Dr. Manwaring is referred until to morrow morning viz. 28 Aprilis The Lord Keeper by command from his Majesty was to let their Lordships know that his Majesty had understood that there was some question concerning Doctor Manwaring now Bishop of Saint Davids and that his Majesty had given command that the said Dr. Manwaring shall not come and fit in Parliament nor send any Proxy to the Parliament thereupon it was ordered to be entred so And between that and the next Parl. as I am informed he died VI. Anno 3 Caroli primi Dr. Mountague was complained of in the House of Commons for writing and publishing several Tenents tending to Arminianism and Popery and that he had committed a contempt against the House Heli the Priest who teaching from without Corrupted Faith bound under Laws of might Not feeling God but blowing him about In every shape and likeness but the right We are to desire to conform our selves to former Parliaments this Cause began here 21. Jac. and then it was commended to the Archbishop But after it was so far from cure that another Book of Appeal came out and the Parliament 1 Caroli sent to the Archbishop to know what he had done who said he had given Mountague Admonition and yet he Printed that second Book without his consent and so it was then debated and the

one Court day to another from Northampton to Rowell 10 miles off to the great hindrance of his Master and at length they enjoyned him to pay 3 s. 8 d. which for fear of Excommunication he was forced to borrow and so to pay them And she was threatned by the Chancellor that he would make her keep her Brother's Parish Church when she came to the Town 4. And because Mr. Martin and divers other Townsmen refused to give him their Voices to be one of the Burgesses of Parliament for Northampton which he would fain have obtained both by fair means and threatnings he presently cited many to the Court and there troubled them And amongst the rest the said Mr. Martin having about 3 years past by the Consent of the Minister Churchwardens and Parishioners built a Seat in the Church for his Children and Servants for their better hearing of Divine Service and Sermons was cited before him about the said Seat and the Chancellor took it away from him most unjustly having cost him 3 l. building of it and gave it to 3 of the stubbornest Fellows in the Town all opposers to Authority and one of them for his vicious life bound over to the Sessions and put out of the Common-Counsel of the Town for the same and since presented into the Spiritual Court for Incontinency with 2 Women and yet Mr. Middleton one of the Surrogates graced him publickly in that Court and said he was thrust out of the Common-Councel for his honesty Thomas Martin 15 May 19 Jac. Whereas divers Complaints have been made against John Lamb Doctor in the Civil Laws Chancellor to the Bishop of Peterborough for divers Extortions Oppressions and Misdemeanours by him and his under Officers committed in the execution of the said Office in the said Diocess and elsewhere And whereas also it is informed that you whose Names are hereafter set down can testifie mutually against the said John Lamb These are therefore by the direction and on the behalf of the said House of Commons to require you and every of you that you make your personal appearance at the said House of Commons the 29th day of this instant Month of May to testifie your knowledge in the premisses Thereof I require you not to fail as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my Hand this 15th day of May 1621. And it was further Ordered that Robert Sibthorp and Richard Stockwell should be sent for as Delinquents X. Mr. Glandvile reports from the Committee of Priviledges the Election of Monmouth and by an Order from the Committee Monmouth was heard yesterday And they received this morning a Petition that Mr. Walter Steward was returned and that they think his Election not good They object against him because a Scotchman and not Naturalized He forbore to come into the House till he had leave The Case of one Lennis Monck a Denizen returned and sate here and so Sir Horace Palavicino The Committee delivered no opinion in it Two Orders and two Petitions delivered in to have these heard in order as they come in Resolved that those which are already in shall be proceeded in in order as the Petitions were delivered Mr. Glandvile thinks Mr. Steward ought not to sit here because at the time of his Election he was uncapable of it he that is made a Denizen is not as an Englishman That but only personal Sir Dudley Diggs in that Parliament when Bacon Attorney was in question whether he ought to sit here or no Over-ruled he ought not yet in favour of him he was suffered to sit here and an express Order that never any other Attorney after should To do the like by this Gentleman Sir Edward Cook No Alien Denizated ought to sit here Tros Tiriusque mihi nullo discrimine habetur the other passed sub silentio Some sit here that are under age and ought not to sit here because not questioned Resolved that Mr. Steward hath dealt very worthily in forbearing to come and sit in this House Mr. Glandvile goes on with his Report Resolved upon Question the Election of Mr. Walter Steward being no natural born Subject is void and a Warrant to go for a new Writ for Monmouth XI Sir Robert Phillips reports from the Committee for Courts of Justice 3 Heads First The Petition of the Lady Darcy in it is a Recital of her Husband 's dying seised of the Mannor of Sutton in Surrey with the Advowson a Grant was made to her and another by the Court of Wards of the Body and Estate of her Son 1 Aug. 21 Jacobi the Incumbent died so she presented her Clerk to the Bishop so the Lord Keeper 3 Septemb. presented Doctor Grant the King's Chaplain She was advised to seek her ordinary Course by a Quare impedit which was denied by the Cursitor who said the Lord Keeper gave directions for it to be sued to the King desires of this Assembly to have relief this Petition was retained by the Committees Parties on both sides appeared and Councel It came into question whether an original Writ might be stayed the Lawyers vouched some Presidents for it in Chancery the Committee concluded these were not proper in the Cause and not to be followed desires an Accommodation of this Business between the Lady and the Doctor they gave a time for yet they are clearly of opinion that the Lady had lost her Right and to the Heir doubtful for him They received a Petition from Dr. Grant who made four proffers First he would willingly go to a Tryal with this Lady without taking advantage of lapse of time If that could not be he would pass an Act of Parliament to set her in statu quo 3ly would refer it to four Judges to six Lawyers of this House if they should say the Right was hers he would resign The Committee had an Answer from the Lord Keeper of two parts First for the denial of the Quare Impedit not his purpose to justifie it but to extenuate his proceedings therein A Question there was between the two Courts and no good correspondency between the Judges it was presently after his coming into the place neither corruption nor malice was in his proceedings he offered a Living equivalent of this to the Lady he would satisfie the Lady by any means this House should direct and would labour to get Grant from his Majesty to sell to the Heir he had never before nor would do the like and returned thanks to the House for their favourable Interpretation of this his Error The Lady Darcy gave a Negative Answer to all she had appealed to the House could find no better Judgement and to this she would stand The Committee took two things into their consideration the Ladies own particular and the publick For the first they thought it the safest way to put in a Bill she was satisfied with this answer For the second the denial of

the Writ divers proposals made but at last resolved to present it to the House without any Opinion of theirs touching the Offence and Error of the Lord Keeper was directed to report the whole Narrative to the House Mr. Brook said he had never any person in admiration for advantage had read the Law there is a Market overt of the Law the Common Pleas and the Chancery the Shop of Justice the Chancery First No doubt it 's a great fault to deny an original Writ in the Chancery but not so much as to deny a Fine in the Common Pleas just Excuse and the offer of Amendments doth much extenuate the Offence which is but singular the Lord Keeper might do this to vindicate his Right from the Vsurpation of the Court of Wards it cannot stand with the Gravity of this House to transmit it a man for one single offence this will be admonition enough to him that it hath been thus agitated in this House Sir James Parrot argued the offence of the Lord Keeper in the denial of an original Writ some Excuses are alledged First done within a short time after he came in ignorantia Juris in a Judge Another Excuse offered a Contention between two Courts this rather aggravates than extenuates his offence being his own Case he ought not to have stayed Justice this thought a sole fault yet a great fault But he thinks it not a sole fault He is informed that there are more Faults of the like kind objected to the Lord Keeper Proposed To have that examined then it will be a sole fault two other Petitions before the Committees before the Lord Keeper of Mrs. ' Thomas and Sir Francis Fuliambe to have these two fully heard tomorrow and then to grow to a Resolution of this in the mean time to have the Cursitor examined about the other whether another Quare impedit or Ne admittas was not denied Sir Thomas Hobby moved to begin in order with the parts of the Reports First To the Writ that which is amiss in the Inheritance and then to consider of the Faults to have the Bill read Mr. Price alledged no corruption nor ill intention appears in the Lord Keeper a difference between things evil in themselves and evil by success the Lord Keeper came young to his Place and from a strange speculation and found this President therefore to have some course taken to right the Lady and to limit that vast Court Mr. Sollicitor thinks the Answer of the Lord Keeper's very fair and satisfactory if it be rightly understood and so the Debate went off XII Sir Edward Cook reports from the Committee of Grievances a Complaint against the Bishop of Norwich the charge is great and strange consisting of four parts First the City of Norwich having 34 Parishes he sent for the Preachers of the City and told them they had preaching enough and the morning preaching needless wished them to cease the Mornings Exercise this aggravated by divers Circumstances a Letter written to him by the Metropolitan about the Kings pleasure for preaching after this his Inhibition the Cathedral Church the Elbow of the City not above 2000 can hear yet all to come thither above 20000 people in Norwich The second There came up Images and Crucifixes counted Laymens Books and the Lord Bishop blessed those that set up those Ornaments a Dove in the Font fluttering over the water to sanctifie it Rot. Parl. 18 E. 3. num 32 33 34. the Commons dealt with the Provisors they complained they had not Spiritual food for Cardinals put into Churches Shoemakers and Taylors 50 E. 3. called bonum Parliamentum a complaint of the Popes usurpation not feeding the Flock Rome called the Sinful City and that all the Ill that hath befaln this Kingdom hath come from thence 17 R. 2. num 22. 11. H. 4. and a great many more Presidents so that this complaint is proper for this place The third was Extortion by orders of the Archbishop and by their own Canons the Iees set down these very much exceeded 4. Old Institutions now registred which is very dangerous for disherisons They have not heard his defence 40 E 3 inter Brevia a complaint against the Bishop of Hereford for Non-residency not lying within his Diocess all Bishops ought to be Resident unless they be in the Kings Service where the People are not taught the King hath but half Subjects the readiest way to make Rebellions The Committee thought it worthy to be transmitted up to the Lords Resolved upon Question without a Negative That this matter shall be transmitted up to the Lords Sir Edward Cook to do it and a Message to be sent to the Lords for a Conference about it The Commons desire their Lordships for a Conference touching some Accusations against the Lord Bishop of Norwich unto which his Lordship hath not yet been heard Humbly leaving the time and place to their Lordship The Lords appointed the 15 th of this Month to confer with the Commons touching their Complaint against the Lord Bishop of Norwich being returned the Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury reparted the same to the House to this effect viz. That the Commons had received of Complaint exhibited by the Citizens of Norwich against the said Lord Bishop and to shew that it was ordinary for the Commons to complain of the Governours of the Church divers Records of Parliament were cited viz. Anno 25 E. 3. 17 R. 2. and 11 H. 4. all which were cited to satisfie tacite objectionis for their medling with a cause of this nature That the charge against the Lord Bishop consisted of six parts 1. That he inhibited or dishartned Preachers on the Sabath day in the Forenoon 2. That Images were set up in the Church and one of the Hoey Ghost fluttering over the Font and a Marble Tomb pulled down and Images set down in the room and the Bishop blessed them that did it 3. That he punished those that Prayed not toward the East 4. That he punished a Minister for Chatechising his Family and Singing of Psalmes 5. That he used Extortion many ways 6. That he did not enter Institutions to the prejudice of Patrons For the first it was said that there was 34. Churches in Norwich and in those Parishes 30 or 40000 People That the Lord Bishop sent for the Preachers by Apparitor and told them there was no need of Preaching on Sunday in the Forenoon except in the Cathedral Church where 2 or 3000 only could hear many dwelling three quarters of a Mile off and many being old and not able for their Age to come so far That this Inhibition was when the King had commanded more Preaching That his Lordship connived at Recusants All which was to the disheartning of good Professors It may be objected his Lordship allowed of Catechizing ergo no Preaching