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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43643	A vindication of the naked truth, the second part against the trivial objections and exceptions, of one Fullwood, stiling himself, D. D. archdeacon of Totnes in Devonshire, in a libelling pamphlet with a bulky and imboss'd title, calling it Leges Angliæ, or, The lawfulness of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the Church of England : in answer to Mr. Hickeringill's Naked truth, the second part / by Phil. Hickeringill.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1681 (1681)	Wing H1832; ESTC R13003	47,957	41

have lost those two main Pillars I do not see but it may be yet in great measure true what the Learned Spelman sayes was Currant of Old even to a Proverb Os Sacerdotis Oraculum esset Plebis Os Episcopi Oraculum Regis Reipublicae Both King People and Common-wealth took all for Gospel that the Bishops and Priests said and perswaded And therefore no wonder at what Mr. Archdeacon sayes p. 49. That our great Church-men had no small hand in making all our Laws both Ecclesiastical and Civil and made bold to sit upon the Benches with the Judges in the Kings Palace and Court in the Councel and Parliament In the County with the Earl and Justices of the County in the Sheriffs County-Court with the Sheriff and in the Hundred-Courts with the Lords of the Hundred All true to a Tittle why who durst take them by the Lawn-sleeves and ask them what they had to do there They had as good have taken a Bear by the Tooth the stoutest Lay-man of them all Besides a Scholar was a rare Bird in those daies Ignorance is the Mother of Popish Devotion and therefore neither Lords nor Parliament-men nor Judges had any more Learning than needs must no nor skill in Laws So that the Clergy did all who sway'd the Kings Councels but they who were Lord Chancellors Lord Treasurers Lord Chief Barons Lord Chief Justices Master's of the Rolls but they Was not Nigel Bishop of Eli in H. 1. time Lord Treasurer and wonderful skilful in the Laws and Court of the Exchequer Was not Martin de Patishal Clerk and Dean of Paul's made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench in H. 3. time because of his skill in Law Brail So also was William de Raleigh Clerk made one of the Judges of the Kings-bench Henry de Stanton Clerk Lord Chief Justice of the common-Common-pleas and the Parson of Oundell in Northamptonshire made Master of the Rolls with thousands more even to our times Bract. Rot. Pat. 17. E. 2. and in man's memory was not the Bishop of Lincoln William's Lord Treasurer so also Bishop Juxton Bishop of London And Archbishop Laud did all in all with King Charles 1. And in the Case of Ship-money and the Loans and Benevolences those hard shifts that good King might well repent that ever he followed such precipitate Counsels And therefore Mr. Archdeacon it is no great Credit to you nor for your Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical to quote all the 12 Judges and their Subscriptions to vouch your Citations in your own Name and not in the Name and Stile of the King because that Opinion was subscribed by 12 Judges John Brampston L. C. J. John Finch L. C. J. Humph. Davenport L. C. B. Will Jones Jo. Dinham Ri. Hutton George Crook Tho. Trevor George Vernon Ro. Berkley Fr. Crauly Ri. Weston For they were very man of them except Hutton and Crook condemn'd by Parliament for betraying the Rights and Properties of the Kingdom in the case of Ship-money And therefore Mr. Archdeacon I except against the Judgment and Opinion of your 12 Judges very legally in the cons truction of the Statute of Edw. 6.2 Alas good men to say otherwise it was as much as their places were worth besides the Terrour of the Star-chamber and High-Commission-Court and indeed every Spiritual Court which were then as horrible as the Spanish Inquisition and so much the more cruel that by the Oath ex Officio a man was bound to accuse himself which is not required by the Inquisition of Spain And therefore some have observed that when the severe part of the Law as in Sentences Fines c. has been put to the Vote in the Star-chamber and other Courts against Offenders the Clergy-Men there who should have been Exemplary in Mercy and Charity and not for summum Jus were alwayes more rigid and fierce than the Laity As for Instance when Mr. Chambers 5 Carol. 1. said and only privately to the Privy Councel call'd thither to answer for not paying Customs That the Merchants in England were more wrung and screwed than in foreign parts And what if it had been true why may not our Laws screw them and enact bigger Customs and Excise as of Wines c. we do where 's great mischief Why for this he was to be fined in the Star-chamber for the words are not other where actionable And the Chancellour of the Exchequer he was for fining him for those words 500 l. so also voted the two Lord Chief Justices Ay but when it came to the Bishops Doctor Neal Bishop of Winchester cryes 3000 l. then also Doctor Laud Bishop of London 3000 l. At last the business was adjusted and the Fine settled 2000 l. Therefore Mr. ARchdeacon do not vapour and tell us of the opinion of the Judges when High-Commission-Court and Star-chamber were up do not we know who penn'd the Proclamation 's and who did the business and every man's business that durst st and in his way You may as well say That Atturny General Noy was a great Lawyer who doubts it does it therefore follow that Ship-money his Invention was Legal Anno Domini 1632. And the Judgment of a whole House of Commons might surely stand in Competition with the opinion of a single Archdeacon though he had some of the Judges on his side although it was that House of Commons in 1640. for not one in Ten of them were Rumpers Resolved That the Clergy in a Synod or Convocation hath no power to make Canons Vote of the House of Commons Constitutions or Laws Ecclesiastical to bind either Laiety or Clergy without a Parliament And that the Canons are against the fundamental Laws of this Realm against the Kings Prerogative Property of the Subjects the Right of Parliaments and do tend to Faction and Sedition And therefore your Doughty work and Leges Angliae which you seem to commend as the sence of a Convocation and you their Prolocutor saying p. 66. So whether it seem good to the King and his High Court of Parliament to augment or lessen it Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction or to continue it as it is we we again shall still maintain our Loyalty that 's kind and manifest our duty and chearfully submit our selves I am glad to hear it if this chearful submisson be the sence of your Brethren and that you have Mr. Archdeacon from them authentick Letters of Credence for this Manifesto But I doubt it for certainly your Brethren are better Scholars and better principled than to own such an idle and impertinent Discourse as this of yours that is throughout so loose futile and tending to such arbitrary Principles that indeed none are so fit to answer you as a Parliament if they do not think it beneath them to take notice of such a Prater that has so little Judgment as to think it possible to prove the Spiritual Courts and Jurisdiction as now practised to be Common-Law Courts much less Statute-Law-Courts which is next to be