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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

de Bromfield the 48th Bishop of Landaff was for a long time committed Prisoner to the Tower his Temporalties seised and Goods confiscated by King Richard the second for procuring and bringing in the Popes Bulls of Provision contrary to his own Oath and the Laws of the Land to make himself Abbot of Bury Richard Bishop of Bangor siding against King Iohn his Soveraign with L●olin Prince of VVales was taken Prisoner by the King in his own Cathedral Church and put to a ransom of 200. Hawks Roger Young Bishop of Bangor was imprisoned two or three years for his disobedience against King Henry the 4th and confederating with that Rebel Owen Glendor Arthur Bishop of Bangor was attainted in a Praemunire in the 36. year of King Henry the 8th for suing for the right of Patronage and Tithes of the Church of Langeyneiin in his Spiritual Court which belonged only to the Kings Temporal Courts for which he was put out of the Kings protection his Goods confiscated Temporalties seized and his Person adjudged to be imprisoned according to the Statute he sold away 5. fair Bells out of the Steeple of his Cathedral Giso Bishop of Bath and Wells had many conflicts with King Herald who forced him to fly the Realm and seized his Temporalties all his Reign Ioceline Bishop of Bath and Wells joyned with Archbishop Langhton and other Bishops in excommunicating his Soveraign King Iohn and interdicting the Kingdom for which offences his Temporalties were seized his Goods confiscated himself forced to fly and banished the Realm for five years space Robert Stillington Bishop of Bath and Wells for siding with the bloudy Usurper Richard the third at whose Coronation he was specially employed and for yielding assistance to Lambert the Counterfeit Earl of Warwick and other Treacheries was publickly accused of High Treason against King Henry the 7th and also arrested of High Treason in the University of Oxford whether he fled for Sanctuary imprisoned in the Castle of Windsor till his death Anno 1491. and his Goods and Temporalties seized William Barlow Bishop of Bath and Wells was attainted in a Praemunire by which his Temporalties and Goods were forfeited to the King Gilbert Bourne the 47. Bishop of Bath and Wells for denying the Queens Supremacy and refusing the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance to her 1 Eliz. was deprived of his Bishoprick And to mention no more Presidents in so plain a Case August 4. 1641. Walter Bishop of Winchester Robert Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield Godfry Bishop of Glocester Ioseph Bishop of Exeter Iohn Bishop of Asaph George Bishop of Hereford Matthew Bishop of Ely William Bishop of Bangor Robert Bishop of Bristol Iohn Bishop of Rochester Iohn Bishop of Peterborough Roger Bishop of Landaffe and William Bishop of Bath and Wells were all of them joyntly and 2. of them particularly impeached by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament for several high Crimes and Misdemeanors contrary to the Kings Prerogative the Fundamental Laws of the Land the Rights of Parliament the Property and Liberty of the Subject and matters tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence After which most of them with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were committed Prisoners to the Tower their Goods and Temporalties sequestred and sold by sundry Ordinances of Parliament If any out of Ignorance or Prejudice should deem all these proceedings against the Persons and Temporalties of our Archbishops and Bishops from age to age illegal unjust or sacrilegious let them peruse the Statutes of 1 E. 3. c. 2. 14 E. 3. c. 3. 25 E. 3. c. 6. 2 R. 2. c. 7. 13 R. 2. Stat. 2. c. 8. 43. 16 R. 2. c. 5. 6 H. 4. c. 7. And the year books of 20 E. 2 Fitz. Corone 237. 16 E. 3. and 14 E. 3. Fitz. Quare non admisit 3 7 8 11 21 E. 3. 3 30 60. Book Contempts 5. 19. 22 E. 3. 22 26. Ass. 19. Brook Forfeiture 82. 106. 29 E. 3. 42. Fitz. Execution 159. 38. Ass. 22. Grant 1. 38 E. 3. 12. 46 E. 3. Praemunire 1. 10 H. 4. 6. 14 H. 4. 14. 8 H. 6. 3. 9 E. 4. 28. 27 H. 8. 14. 22 Brook Exigent 3 Stamford l. 2. c. 45. Cook 5. Report f. 12 13. 8. Report f. 68. Cooks 3. Institutes c. 36. 54. Sir Iohn Davis Reports f. 84. the case of Praemunire Upon perusal of all which it will most evidently appear that both our Parliaments and Judges have frequently declared resolved that both their Persons may lawfully be attached imprisoned banished executed their Temporalties seized and Goods confiscated to the King for their Offences Contempts Rebellions both by the Common and Statute Laws of England and therefore by like reason their Lands may be alienated and taken from them for their offences or abuses of them without sin sacrilege or injustice by our Kings and Parliaments beyond all contradiction as they have been from time to time both by the Emperors of Rome Greece Germany the Kings and Kingdoms of France Spain Hungary Italy Denmark Sweden Poland Scotland and Ireland as well as England 6ly That as the Lands and Temporalties of Bishops Abbots Cathedrals by their very first Charters of Endowments and Foundations were alwaies lyable to these 3. Temporal charges and Secular services though dedicated to God and his Church to wit Military Expeditions and Charges of War for the defence of the King and Kingdom the building and repairing of Castles and Bridges commonly expressed in antient Charters under this exception Exceptis Expeditione Pontis Arcis constrictione vel necessariis defensionilus Arcium quae nulli unquam possint laxari So if the Bishops and Abbots upon the Kings writs of Summons refused to send in their Proportions of Horse and Armes according to the Number of the Knights sees they held by and perform these Services to our Kings in times of War or Danger or denied to grant competent Aydes and Subsidies to our Kings when demanded their Temporalties Lands Goods Movables were usually seized into the Kings hands for this Contempt as is evident by Claus. 4● H. 3. m. 3. 6. Dorso the presidents of Archbishop Winchelsie and other Bishops forecited p. 52 53 c. So our Kings in times of War have frequently seized upon Archbishops Bishops and Church-mens Lands and given them to their Commanders and Souldiers witnesse the presidents of King Osfa and Kenulphus of old who took away sundry Mannors and Lands from the Archbishops of Canterbury which they partly divided amongst their Captains and Souldiers and partly retained to themselves with other presidents since And not only so but the Knights Citizens Burgesses and sundry Lords in successive Parliaments even in times of Popery have often pressed our Kings to take away sell and alienate the great superfluous Mannors Lands Temporalties of Bishops Abbots and Church-men for easing the Kingdom and people from Taxes and maintaining of Earls Nobles

Knights and other Military men to ayd our Kings in their Wars and have actually taken away divers Mannors Lands and Tenements from our Archbishops Bishops and Cathedrals as well as from Abbots Priors Monasteries and given them to our Kings or such as they should appoint The House of Commons in two several Parliaments held in the years of our Lord 1403. and 1404. under King Henry the 4th when this King wanted and demanded aydes and monies from them to carry on his Wars against the Welch-men at home and the French with other Enemies abroad counselled and pressed the King to seize upon the Lands of the Bishops Abbots and Spiritualtie to supply his wants with their Temporalties and Superfluities Whereupon there grew a great contest in the Parliament between the Clergy and Laity the Speaker of the Commons House and the Knights affirming That they had often served the King in his Wars not only with their Goods but also with their Persons in very great Dangers and Ieopardies whiles the Prelates and Spiritualty sate idle at home and helped the King nothing at all Whereupon the Bishops and Clergy to preserve their Temporalties from being taken away in these two Parliaments readily gave the King a Tenth in the first of these Parliaments and a Tenth and an half in the second After this the Knights and Commons in the year 1410. presented this Petition to King Henry the 4th and the Lords in Parliament To our Most Excellent Lord the King and all the Nobles in this present Parliament assembled all your faithfull Commons humbly demonstrate and truly affirm that our Lord the King might have out of the Temporal Possessions Lands and Tenements which are occupied and proudly leudly and unprofitably spent consumed and wasted by the Bishops Abbots and Priors within this Realm so much in value as would suffice to sustain in food 15. Earles 1500. Knights 6200. Esquires and 102. Hospitals more then now be Pressing the King and Lords to take away these Temporalties which they proudly and unprofitably consumed and to imploy them on other publick uses But by the subtilty and potency of the Bishops Abbots and Clergy from whom the King demanded a Tenth to be annually granted to him during his life wherein they were ready to gratifie him they preserved their Temporalties for that present Yet afterwards the Commons in Parliament Anno 1414. renewed this their old Petition to King Henry the 5th and the Lords to seise upon the Bishops and Abbots Temporalties shewing how many Earls Knights and Esquires they would maintain exhibiting a Bill to that purpose Hereupon the Bishops and Abbots whom it touched very near much fearing the issue determined to assay all wayes to put by and overthrow this Bill minding rather to bow than break agreeing first to offer the King a great sum of mony to put by his demand and afterwards intituling the King to sundry Provinces and the whole Realm of France in this Parliament and stirring up the King and Nobles to regain the same by force of armes Towards the recovering and regaining of which antient Right and Inheritance they granted the King in their Convocation such a sum of mony as by Spiritual persons never was to any Prince though the whole Christian world before these times given and advanced By which policy and grant they preserved their Temporalties from being taken away from them by that Parliament Yet some of their Manors and Temporalties were parted with to the King and Lords to purchase their peace after every of these Parliaments In the Parliament of King Henry the 8th in the 22d year of his Reign there were sundry Bills exhibited in Parliament against the abuses of the Bishops and Clergy and many hot contests between the Commons and Prelates who at the last brought them within the compasse of a Praemunire in this Parliament to the confiscation of all their Goods Temporalties and imprisonment of their Persons for submitting to Cardinal Wolsie his Power legatine from the Pope contrary to the Laws of the Realm and the Kings Prerogative Whereupon upon the Bishops and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury proferred to give the King the sum of one hundred thousand pounds and those of the Provinces of York eighteen thousand pounds more and likewise agreed to give the King the Title of THE SUPREAME HEAD OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEXT UNDER CHRIST which they would never do before to take off the forfeiture of the Praemunire Which the King accepting of granted all the Bishops and Clergy a General Pardon in Parliament out of which Iohn Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Hereford with six more Clergy-men only were excepted and soon after this Parliament many of the Bishops Temporalties and Manors were granted by them to the King by their special conveyances besides others of them leased or granted to Courtiers great Officers and Favourites to preserve the remainder of them In the Parliament of 37 H. 8. by a special Act of Parliament printed in our Statutes at large under a feined pretext of Exchanges and other Recompences the Manor of Rippon in Yorkshire together with 69. other Manors there named their members and appurtenances were alienated and taken away from the Archbishoprick and Archbishop of York nine Manors one Castle with sundry Parks and Rectories belonging to the Archbishoprick to Canterbury the Manors of Chelmesford and Crondon with the Park of Crondon and all their Members Rights and Appurtenances were alienated and taken quite away from the Archbishops of Canterbury and Bishops of London and their Successors and by these Bishops Indentures and this Act of Parliament setled on the King his Heirs and Successors for ever as well against the said Archbishops and Bishop of London and their respective Successors as against the respective Deans and Chapters of York Canterbury London and their Successours and every of them any Law Custom Statute or other thing to the contrary hereof had or made notwithstanding as in and by the said Act worthy perusal is more at large recorded Besides these the City of Bath the Manors Markford Chedder Chew Claverton Compton Dando Compton Panel Congesbury Clanmore Everchurch H●riton Kineston L●d●ord Pucklechurch Wellington Westerleigh VVatton VVecke VVile Yatton with sundry other Farmes Tenements Hundreds and Appropriations have been alienated by and taken from the Bishoprick of Bath and VVills the Manors of Sherburn Sunning and sundry others from the Bp. of Salisbury and sundry other Manors Lands Tenements Farmes from the Bishops of VVinchester Lincoln Ely Chichester Norwich Exeter Hereford Coventry and Litchfield Durham Carlisle before and since 37. Henry the 8th And had not the Statute of 1 Lac. c. 3. restrained the Alienations of Bishops Lands and Revenues they had long ere this had no Lands or Rents at all to dispose of In the Parliament of 7 E. 6. by a special Act of Parliament the Bishoprick of Durham with all the Lands and Hereditaments thereof were

by consequent since this way should be a falshood it followeth that it would be contrary to the holy Scripture And certain it is that it is pertinaciously and strongly defended because Kings and Princes believe that it pertaineth to their Soveraignty to have this powers for grant the contrary it will follow that Ecclesiastical persons seeing they are great Trangressors may destroy both Kingdoms and their People to prevent which it may be lawfull for the King to resist the Clergy or to impugn his Charity by the ablation of his proper Almes and those Temporal goods which are the Fire exciting hereunto Now the King could not lawfully punish the bodies of such Traytors if he could not lawfully take from them and alienate their Temporal estates over which he hath a special Dominion And since this power is the chiefest Royalty of the King it would be the same thing to infringe this power and subtilly to overthrow the Government of the Kingdom Again seeing many Kings and Nobles being Catholicks have oftentimes exercised that power it were the same according to such a form to assert the assumption and afterwards to condemn the Lives and Souls of those Hereticks which the Heirs of Kings and especially their Sons have stoutly opposed for thus according to the Priests and Pharises accusing Christ of Heresie they would impose a manifest Error and Heresie on the King of whom they have so great a Temporal assistance But God when he pleaseth will move the heart of the King to overthrow their madness Again Ecclesiastical persons are either the Chief Lords of those Revenues and Temporal estates which the King hath given to them or they are not if they are it truly followeth that for the greatest part those Ecclesiastical men are the chief Lords of our Kingdoms and so as to their Temporals not subject to the King which it seemeth they themselves do conceive The first consequence is manifest by this because the Clergy-men of our Kingdom have the fourth or third part of the Revenues of it And from hence it is that they will not be called Presbyters but Lord Prelates L. Praepositors L. Canonicals L. Prebends L. Presbyters And if any man shall call them Presbyters they are presently angry as if you had called them Common-cryers or Tormentors But if the Clergy-men are not the chief Lords of those Revenues and Temporal estates which the King hath given them as holy men are of opinion who say That Ecclesiastical Persons are not Lords but Attornies or Procurers only for poor men it then followeth That the King is the Soveraign Lord of their Goods and Estates and by consequent can take them away from those Ecclesiastical persons who are Delinquents and bestow them on the poor of Christ. And from hence it is the Canon affirmeth that in the time of necessity to provide for the poors relief the Goods of the Church may be sold by the Priests 12. quest 2. cap. Sicut Ecclesiast Parag. Secundo On which St. Ambrose limiteth the cases in which they may break and sell the Vessels consecrated to the Church as it is manifest Dist. 96. Whatsoever in Gold Pearls or Iewels or in Silver or in Vestments shall appear to be less usefull which cannot long be kept or continue for the service of the Church let them be sold according to their full value and the profit thereof be given to the poor Saint Ambrose doth insist also at large upon this particular in his fifth book of Offices Again many Kings have oftentimes wholly taken away the Temporal estate from the Clergy as it is manifest by the destruction of the Templers and many other private ablations but they never did or could do so lawfully as is manifest by the Adversaries Therefore in this they did that which lawfully they could not do And moreover in this they did that which they could not do meritoriously or according to the law of God And seeing that every work of man proceeding from deliberation is either lawfull or unlawfull meritorious or demeritorious it followeth that they did it unlawfully or demeritoriously and it followeth moreover that inso doing they fell into a dangerous error and as destructive to the Soul as to the Body and that this error is directly contrary to the Catholick truth it doth appear by a threefold consideration First That Kings by so doing did that which neither was nor could be lawfull Secondly Because they took away the Goods of other men against a commandement of the second Table And thirdly Because they did it not in Almes which is against the Catholick truth Let all things what you do be done in Almes All the Antecedent is granted by the Adversaries and this error being in Fact i● Kings pertinaciously shall defend it resolving by their power as if a lawfull one to take away from Ecclesiastical persons though Delinquents their Temporal Goods they are in a Heresie From which it further followeth that Kings persisting in so doing are Hereticks and if they shall defend what they have done unto death it followeth that they are Hereticks and damned and from this again it farther followeth that Clergy-men benesiced who do believe what here is said should not pray for the said Kings deceased Again the Emperour or a King not only oughteth but it becommeth him so to indow the Church that he may lawfully take from it his gifts of Almes in case that the abuse thereof doth tend to the detriment of his Kingdom and the hinderance of the preaching of the Gospel Suppose therefore that under such a condition he hath endowed such a Church it may thereupon be thus argued If according unto that form the Emperour or the King had endowed the Church of Prague he might lawfully in the case of the Detriment of his Kingdom or in the contempt of his own person or in the case of the not preaching of the Gospel take away his gifts of Almes But the Emperour or the King could under such a condition have endowed the Church of Prague Therefore for the contempt of the Clergy he could lawfully take away the said gifts of Almes he had given The condition therefore being lawfull and honest and the custom both of the King and kingdom do show that condition in facto to be added It seemeth to be too presumptuous an assertion that our Princes cannot take from them their gifts of Alms be the faults they have commited never so enormous yea when it was properly in their power to adde such a condition And again when as those who received those gifts of Almes could commit never so grievous offences as already I have said It is manifest that our Princes have a simple and an absolute power to withdraw their gifts of Almes a possible danger being imminent and by the same rule it followeth that on the like po●sible emergencies they may do it for the time to come Again the King of Bohemia or the

Emperour indowing his Church neither ought or 〈◊〉 it to the weakning or the worsting of his kingdom For all power is from God which cannot give any power to this end But suppose it so should come to pass that a King or the Emperour had absolutely indowed a Church without such a condition to be understood yet such a condition ought to be understood and by consequent when such a condition of the Clergy doth fall out the King by taking the Temporals from them into his own hands doth do no injury to the Clergy the condition being dissolved and made null by his or their defect The minor of the Argument is thus proved If all those Goods with which our Church is indued did immediately and directly so pertain to the Pope that the King had no interest neither in the possessions nor the persons the fourth part of the kingdom and more being devolved to a Mortmayn it would follow that our King is not King of all Bohemia more than the fourth part thereof being fallen into a Mortmayn for the Clergy and the possessions of the Clergy every day increasing and the possessions of the Barons Knights and other Seculars every day decreasing it may easily come to pass that the whole possession of the Kingdom of Bohemia may be devolved to the Clergy as it hath come to passe in the Rhene If this comes to pass the Dominion of our King and of the Barons will be extinguished and by consequence all Soveraignty for it is not lawfull for the King as the Clergy do affirm to interpose in matters concerning themselves or their possession be their offences never so haynous neither is it lawfull for the King to meddle with their Temporals how great soever the abuse doth tend to the indangering of the kingdom because they say they are exempted from all Kingly jurisdiction both in Body and in Goods and immediately subject to the Pope And thereupon committing insolencies in the kingdom they will not be corrected by the King but are like good or evil Angels not subject to the King in his own kingdom Again according to the Decrees of Gregorie 2. quaest 3. He ought altogether to lose his privilege who abuseth the Power that is committed to him but every Clergy-man abusing the Kings gifts of Almes doth abuse the power committed to him That indowment therefore being a Privilege it directly followeth that he ought altogether to lose it And to whom but to the King who did impriviledge him for it is his priviledge to interpret and to defend or take away whose priviledge it is to make It is confirmed by that of Matthew Chap. 23. To every one that hath it shall be given and he shall abound and to him that hath not even that shall be taken which he hath When the King is obliged so to abound by the Title of his Justice it seemeth that the Ablation or the taking away from him whom he hath indowed with Church gifts ought to proceed from the King himselfe it being supposed it may so come to pass that he may seem to have those gifts of Almes which he hath not It is confirmed also by the law and due of these Spiritual gifts of Almes for the King is bound by the laws of God and of his Kingdom to preserve Justice for the safety of his Liege-people But the chief work of such a mercy which belongeth to a King is a coactive castigation to continue such works of Almes which he ought to see performed The Clergy-men therefore who take the greatest offence at the taking away of Temporals do yet challenge that the Seculars do defend the gifts of their Progenitors remaining in their strength which cannot be unlesse the Church hath the profit from such gifts of Almes in such a manner that being put together it may remain upon the account of Priviledge or of free gifts of Almes which is extinguished when the said Clergy-men do abuse their gifts according to the Decrees of Gregory alledged in the foregoing confirmation If therefore the Temporal Lords as the Clergy-men who enjoy these Gifts of Alms do challenge are bound to continue the charitable Donations of their Fathers whose Heirs they are they are then bound to conform themselves to that which followeth for otherwise they would be obliged to Contradictories against the possibility of the Divine law viz. both to continue the said Gifts of Almes and to defend their abuses in the several species of them according to which sense they do want the form and the very essence of a spiritual Gift of Alms. Therefore when Kings and Secular Lords are bound to continue the Almes of their Progenitors in the perpetuity of them they are obliged also by the law of Spiritual almes to chastise their Liege-people abusing them They are obliged also by that Obligation to do justice to their Subjects and to extinguish those injuries which most dangerously tend to the ruine of their Subjects It is manifest that in some case they are bound to restore their Goods to the Holy Church and to take them away from the Despisers of God and his Kingdom for this was the condition of the first and antient Donation Therefore if our King have not the power over these his Peers to correct the abuse of Almes in his Clergy he hath not the power of governing politickly over all his Kingdom But yet if we do well attend to the holy Scripture we shall know what is spoken of the priviledge of the King to wit that he hath a coercive power over the Clergy and the Clergy have a priviledge also that they have such a One set over them to whom deservedly they may submit themselves Again Kings and Princes and all Lords Temporal are bound to a Brotherly correction some circumstances concurring which require such a correction But it may well come to pass that a Clergy-man may transgresse with such a circumstance that a Brotherly correction of him may be most needfull and effectual by merely taking away from him those Temporals which he abuseth Therefore it may so come to pass the Temporal Lords by the Law of Christ are bound unto it neither doth it any thing avayl to say that the Dispens●cion of the Pope or any Priviledge or Exemption doth exclude it for God forbid that a Catholick should affirm that it is lawfull for Christs Vicar to do that by his Traditions which may hinder or derogate from the Practick law of Christ and impede Catholick Lords from an effectual and a profitable correction of the Church for it is not lawfull for a man so to exempt any as if he shall fall into a sin it shall not be in his Power to correct him Upon this account it is that St. Bernard in his third Book to Pope Eugenius calls a Dispensation which is not for the Publick good a Dissipation And hereupon he hath these words What Do you forbid to dispence No but to dissipate I

and Great-men of the Realm acknowledged and ratified by their Oaths in their famous Recognition in the Great Council held at Clarendon Anno Domini 1164. which these Presidents will abundantly evidence In the year of Grace 653. after the death of Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury that See continued void 18. months Anno 669. after Adeodatus his death it remained void almost 4. years Anno 690. after Theodorus his death it was kept void almost two years and as long after T●twins decease Anno 734. After Cuthberts death Anno 758. it was vacant above one year Anno 7. 2. two years after Bregwins death Anno 790. three years after Lamberts death Anno 830. above one year after VVilfreds decease Anno 958. almost three years after Odo his expiration Anno 1089. four years after Lanfrankes departure Anno 1109. five years after Anselmes death Anno 1136. two years after VVilliam Corbel Anno 1151. three years after Richard VVethershed Anno 1242. two years after St. Edmond Anno 1270. as long after Boniface Anno 1502. two years after Henry Dean An. 1558. one year after Cardinal Poole Anno 648. After Paulinus the first Archbishop of York that See was kept vacant 20. some say 30. years Anno 1114. sundry years after Thomas the second Anno 1140. almost two years after Thurstan Anno 1151. ten years after Rogers death Anno 1213. four years after Geoffry Anno 1255. thirteen months after VValter Gray Anno 1303. after Thomas de Corbridge above two years Anno 1315. two years after VVilliam de Greenfield Anno 1240. two years after VVilliam de Melton Anno 1405. two yearrs and an half after Henry Scroop an Arch-traytor beheaded for Treason Anno 1423. two years after Henry Bluet Anno 1449. almost four years after Iohn Kemp Anno 1464. two years after VVilliam Booth almost a full year both after Cardinal VVolsie and Edward Lee Anno 1559. after Nicholas Heath two years 1568. after Thomas Young above one year Thus long have both our Archbishopricks been kept void and their Temporalties held in our King hands to their own use by vertue of their Prerogative Royal without any Sacriledge Injustice Impiety or any reall prejudice to Church or State An. 619. after M●llitus Bp. of London his translation to Canterbury that See continued void 32. years together An. 664. 2 years An. 1133.7 years after Gilbert Anno 1187. after Gilbert Foliot above two years An. 1279. above one year after Iohn de Chishul Anno 1303. almost two years after Richard de Graneford Anno 1●01 after Thomas Savage above two years Anno 1171. after the death of Henry de Bloyes the Bishoprick of VVinchester was kept void above 3. years Anno 1238. after Peter de la Roch five years Anno 1243. after VVilliam de Rawley sixteen years Eth●lmarus by the Kings donation holding it nine years without consecration Anno 1259. after Henry de VVengham six years Anno 1493. after Peter Coventry above one year Anno 1500. after Thomas Langton two years Anno 1528. after Richard Fox two years Anno 1530. after Cardinal VVoolsey almost 4. years Anno 1131. after the death of Hervetus first Bishop of Ily that See was void above two years Anno 1169. after Nigellus the second Bishop five years Anno 1197. after VVilliam Longchamp above one year Anno 1214. after Eustachius above five years Anno 12. 6. after VVilliam de Rilkenny above one year Anno 1297. after VVilliam de Luda two years Anno 1373. after Iohn Barnet two years Anno 1434. after Philip Morgan three years Anno 1500. after Iohn Alcock one whole year Anno 1533. as long after Nicholas VVest Anno 1581. after Richard Coxe almost twenty years together Anno 1163. after the death of Robert de Chisney the fourth Bishop of Lincoln that See continued vacant almost seventeen years Geoffry Henry the second his base son taking the profits thereof without any consecration by the Kings Concession Anno 1584. after VValter de Constantiis two years Anno 1200. after St. High almost three years Anno 1206. after VVilliam de Breyos three years Anno 1●90 after Iohn Russel two years Anno 1513. after VVill. Smith one year Anno 1085. the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichfield was kept vacant two years after the death of Peter and as long An. 1127. after Robert Peach as long An. 1180. after Guaccus P●●●n as long An. 1208. after G●●ffry de Muschamp An. 1238. almost 3. years after Alexander de Savenshy An. 1243. after Hugh Pat●shull 2. years An. 1386. as long after Richard Scroop An. 1490. as long after Iohn H●sse An. 1099. after Osmond his death the second Bishop of Salisbury that See was 8. years kept vacant An. 1225. after Richard Poore ● years An 1270. 4. years after VValter de la Vaile An. 1588. 3. years after Iohn Pierce 1596. 2. years after Iohn Co●●well An. 1166. the Bishoprick of Bath and VVels upon the death of Robert continued void 8. years 8. months and 15. daies An. 1242. after Ioceline 2. years An. 1262. after VVilliam Burton An. 1503. as long after Oliver King An. 1547. as long after VVilliam Knight An. ●3●● 3. years after Gilbert Barkely An. 1590. 2. years after Thomas Godwin An. 1103. the Bishoprick of Exeter after O●bertus decease was kept vacant 4. years An. 1182. after Bartholmeus Iscanus 2. years An. 1119. after VVilliam Herbert the last Bishop of Thetford his death that See now Norwich was kept vacant 2. years 1214. after Iohn de Grey it was kept vacant 7. years 1222. after Pandulfus 3. years An. 1236. after Rodulphus almost 3. years and as long after VVilliam de Raleigh An. 1240. after Henry Spencer An. 1406. almost 2. years An. 1095. after the death of VVolstan Bishop of VVorcester that See was kept vacant 2. years An. 1113. as long after Sampson An. 112● almost as long after Theulphus and An. 1179. after Rog●● An. 1184. after VVilliam de Northale 5. years An. 119● after Iohn de Constantiis two years An. 1212. as long after Maugere An 1373. as long after VVilliam de Lyn An. 1417. as long after Thomas Pondrell An. 1427. 7. years after Thomas Polton An. 1590. 3. years after Boniface Brent An. 1056. the Bishoprick of Hereford after Leoneards death continued four years vacant An ●127 after Richard above 4. years An 1167. after Robert de Melim above 6. years An. 1539. after Iohn Skip above 13. years An. 1585. after Herbert West full 17. years An. 1526. the Bishoprick of Chichester was void almost 4. years after Iohn Reempale his death An. 1006 after Richard Fitz-Iames 2. years An. 1235. the Bishoprick of Rochester after Henry de Sandfords death was kept vacant 3. years An. 1277. 2. years after VValter de Merton An. 1316. after Thomas de VValdham 3 years An. 1401. as long after Iohn Baltisham An. 1538. after Iohn Fisher two years An. 1557. the new created Bishoprick of Oxford after the decease

Archbishoprick at Litckfield took away six Bishopricks formerly subject to the See of Canterbury and detained the Lands above thirty years till at last restored by the judgement of two or three Parliamentary Great Councils after many Petitions and Complaints upon full hearing and examination Stigand Archbishop of Canterbury for refusing to Crown King William the Conqueror and holding the Bishoprick of Winchester in Commendam with his Archbishoprick together with many other Bishops and Abbots was deprived by the Kings procurement and kept Prisoner at VVinchester during his life receiving only a small allowance out of the Exchequer to support him dying in Prison his Bishoprick remained void two years space in the Kings hands no lesse than twenty five Manors being taken away from it till recovered by ● ansraue his Successor in a famous Council of the Noble and Elders of England held at Penindene King VVilliam Rufus banished Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury out of the Realm for Treason against him and his Soveraign Power and seised his Temporalties till his death after which King Henry the first recalling him he most trayterously and obstinately oppugned the Kings Prerogative of investing Bishops in their Bishopricks by a Ring and Pastoral-slast and refusing to do homage to the King or to consecrate any Bishops who received Investitures from him or did Homage to him for which he was banished for three years out of the Realm all his Temporalties and Goods moveable and immoveable seised into the Kings hands with the Temporalties Goods of those Bishops who renounced their Investistures by the Kings donation by Anselmes perswasion King Stephen seised all the Goods and Temporalties of Theobuld Archbishop of Canterbury and banished him the Realm for departing out of England to Rome upon the Popes summons contrary to his expresse royal Prohibition and for interdicting the King and whole Realm After which being restored to his Archbishoprick by the other Bishops mediation his Goods and Temporalties were again consiscated and seised into the Kings hands Anno 1152. for refusing to Crown Eustace King Stephens Son he forced to flye the Realm which he caused to be infested with fire sword and bloudy wars Thomas B●cket Archbishop of Canterbury an infamous perjured Traytor to and Rebel against King Henry the second his advancer and indulgent Soveraign grand Oppugner of his Royal Prerogatives and of the Customs of the Realm contrary to the Oath and Recognition of himself and all the Bishops Clergy and Temporal Lords in the famous Great Council of Clarindon endeavouring totally to exempt the Clergy from all Temporal power jurisdiction and judicature for the most detestable Crimes and Murders had all his Goods and Moveables by judgment of the Bishops and Peers condemned and confiscated to the King his Temporalties seised into the hands all his Moneys Jewels Plate confiscated together with all the Clergy-men goods who adhered to him all his Kindred Man Woman and Child secured and afterwards banished the Realm together with himself for sundry years and was at last slain in the Cathedral Church at Canterbury for his manifold Treasons Rebellions against the King to the great disturbauce both of the Churches and Kingdoms peace King Iohn An. 1205. seised upon all Archbp. Huberts Lands and Possessions after his death for his manifold Contempts and Oppositions against his Royal authoritie and resolutions during his life Stephen Langhton his next Successor in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury for his manifold Treasons and Rebellions against King John had all his Temporalties and Goods seised by the King and was suspended from his Archbishoprick and threatned to be deprived of it by the Pope Archbishop Boniface being commanded by King Henry the third to relinquish his Archbishoprick and depart the Realm by reason of the grievous Complaints both of the Clergy and Commonalty against him thereupon selled his Woods leased out his Lands extorted what moneys he could from his Tenants and carried all with him in to Savoy where he dyed King Edward the first Anno 1301. put Robert Winchelsie Archbishop of Canterbury with all the other Bishops and Clergy out of his Protection and the Parliament House and seised the Archbishops Temporalties Goods Debts After which divers High Treasons and Rebellious Conspiracies were laid to his Charge by the King who thereupon the second time seised all his Temporalties and Goods moveable and immoveable appealed him to the Pope banished him the Realm forbidding any of his Subjects under grievous penalties to harbour him and seised all the Lands of the Monks of Canterbury and banished them the Realm for furnishing this Arch-traytor secretly with necessaries King Edward the second caused all the Goods of Iohn Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury to be seised and his Temporalties to be sequestred into his hands whiles Bishop of Winchester for taking that Bishoprick by Provision from the Pope against his Royal command After which being advanced to Canterbury by King Edward the third he was soon after accused of Treason Treachery and Conspiracy with the French and Pope against the King whose designs against them he crossed all he could whereupon the King resolved to commit him Prisoner to the Tower of London whither he sent the Bishop of Chichesier then Lord Chancellor and the Bishop of Lichfi●ld then L. Treasurer Prisoners for the like offences Wherupon this Archbp. flying to Canterbury and there standing on his Gard refused to render himself carrying himself very insolently and rebelliously against the King both in his Sermons and Excommunication saying That he had received no honor nor advancement from the King but ONLY FROM GOD and that he would give an account of his Actions in no. Court and to no Person but in Parliament Whereupon a Parliament was summoned and divers hainous Crimes charged against him by the King which the King after great suit and intreaty pardoned Simon Langham Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of England Anno 1371. was put from his Office his Temporalties seised and stripped of all his Archiepiscopal ensigns for receiving from Pope Vrban the Cardinalship of St. Sixtus without King Edward the third his privity who was highly offended with him for it Anno 1386. Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury in the insurrection of Iack Straw was beheaded on Tower-Hill his Head fixed on a Poll and set on London Bridge as a Traytor and Enemy to the King and People King Rich. the 2d highly offended with Will. Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury for receiving his Archbishoprick by provision from the Pope against the Law and his Prerogative Royal and for other Misdemeanours commanded all his Goods and Temporalties to be seised and forced the Archbishop himself to hide his Head for fear of imprisonment till he made his peace with him Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury was impeached and condemned of High Treason against the King in the Parliament of 21 Rich. 2. by judgement of Parliament for which he was

till September 11. An. 1100. at which time the King received him into his favour and restored him to his Bishoprick After which he fell again into the Kings displeasure and dyed of grief that he could not clear himself of the Rebellion charged against him which he was summoned to answer In the year of our Lord 1101. K. Henry the first upon the innumerable complaints to him made against Ranulph Flambard Bishop of Durham by the Vote of a whole Parliamentary Council clapt him up Prisoner in the Tower of London for a most notable Oppressor Extortioner Rebel Traytor prepared to act any wickednesse who was likewise created by VVilliam Rufus both Chancellor and Treasurer of England This Bishop afterwards escaping into Normandy perswaded Duke Robert to invade the Realm to the great disturbance thereof and effusion of much Christian bloud After which having purchased his peace with large Gifts ●et the K. exacted from him great sums seised on all his Goods Bishoprick Edgar King of Scots about the year 1100. gave the Town of Berwick to the Bishop of Durham but because he afterwards wrought Treason against him he lost the Gift the King thereupon resuming the Town into his own hands Hugh Pusar Bishop of Durham who purchased the Earldom of Northumberland of King Richard the first for giving a rude sawcy answer to King Henry the second had his Castle of Durham seised into the Kings hands Anno 1184. and otherwise was afflicted by him Anthony Beak or Bek Bishop of Durham excommunicating the Prior and Monks of Durham notwithstanding their Appeal to the Pope and King and going to Rome without the Kings License King Edward the first thereupon seised his Temporalties and Liberties and appointed a new Chancellour new Justices and other Officers of Durham During this his disgrace this King for his con●empts took away three Manors and the Church of Symondbury from the Bishoprick with divers other Lands He being with other Bishops put out of the Kings protection for denying to grant him an ayde he and they were forced to make their peace with large Gifts the grant of the fifth part of thier Ecclesiastical Goods and Revenues for one year After the death of Lewis Beaumont the Monks of Durham electing a Monk of their own for their Bishop the Archbp. of York consecrating him without the Kings License the King thereupon refused to restore his Temporalties to him and caused Richard de Bury without any election of the Monk or Chapter to be made and consecrated Bishop in his place whereupon the Monk retired into the Monastery Cuthert Tonstall Bishop of Durham for his disobedience to King Edward the 6th was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London Decemb. 20. 1551. where he continued all his Reign the King being so highly offended with him that in 7 E. 6. by a special Act of Parliament the Bishoprick of Durham was dissolved and all the Lands and Hereditaments thereof given to the King his Heirs and Successors though afterwards the Bishop and Bishoprick were restored by Queen Mary but in 1 Elizabeth this Bishop was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the Queens proceedings and committed Prisoner to Lambeth Our learned Martyr William Tyndal writing of this Bishop Tonstall observes That the cause why he left the Bishoprick of London for Durham was only covetousness and ambition Neither addes he is it possible naturally that there should be any good Bishop so long as the Bishopricks be nothing save wordly pomp and honour superfluous abundance of all manner of Riches and Liberty to do what a man list unpunished things which only the evil desire and good men abhor Roger the great rich Bishop of Salisbury who contrary to his Oath Duty and Allegiance to King Henry the first his Advancer and Maud his Daughter set up and made Stephen a Usurper King thereby involving the Kingdom in intestine bloudy wars and feuds all his Reign by a divine retaliation of his Perjury and Treachery had his Person imprisoned his 2. newly repai●ed Castles of Sh●rborn and Malmesbury with his stately new built Castle of Devises and all his ammunition and treasures in them seised upon with the ●astles of his Nephews and Creatures Nigellus Bp. of Ely Alexander Bp. of Lincoln for real or pretended offences which Castles K. Stephen refused to restore or to be judgd by the Bishops or their Canons in the Council of Winchester sommoned by the Popes Legate to debate the legality of their seisure by the King and to restore them to the Bishops which the King would by no means give his consent to do the Archbp. of Rhoan justifying the lawfulness of these Castles seisure in the Council as well as the Kings Lawyers Richard Milford Bishop of Salisbury was by order of the Barons in Parliament in XI R. 2. removed from the Court and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristol as a pernicious Whisperer Flatterer evil Counseller Traytor to the King and Kingdom William Ayscoth Bishop of Salisbury Confessor to King Henry 6. by his oppressions ill dealing and consenting to the yielding up of Anjou and Mayen to the hands of the French King so far incensed the Nobles and vulgar Rabble his Tenants too against him that in the insurrection of Iack Cade June 29. 1450. some of these Bishops Tenants coming to Ed●ndon in VVilishire whiles he was there saying Masse seised upon him even in the Church drew him from the Altar arrayed in his Pontifical Massing Vestments carried him to the top of a Hill not far off and there whiles he was kneeling on his Knees cleft his Head in two stript him naked to the skin and renting his bloudy shirt into several pieces took every man a rag to keep it as a monument of this their exploit Which though tumultuous and illegal in them was yet a just judgement of God upon himself for opre●sing his Tenants and other publick misdemeanours Anno. 873. Alfred Bishop of Leicester was deprived of his Bishoprick for his misdemeanours by King Elfred Vl● Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Realm and hardly escaped with his life together with Robert Archbishop of Canterbury and VVilliam Bishop of London by Edward the Confessor by the advise of his Nobles assembled in a Parliamentary Council for giving this good King wicked Counsel an incensing him against the English causing the King to infringe his good Laws and not to administer upright Justice to his People which he promised to reform upon their banishment Alexander Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Land forced to fly into Scotland and deprived of his Bishoprick Anno 1070. for opposing VVilliam the Conquerour as an Invador of the Church and ravishers of Ecclesiastical things the Norman Conquerors making bold with all the Money Chattels Charters they could find in any Monastery which they diligently searched by the Kings command who

appointed how many Souldiers every Bishop Abbot which held of him by Barony should find for the King in times of war from which they were formerly exempted Alexander Bishop of Lincoln Nephew to Roger the great Bishop of Salisbury built three new Castles at Banbury Newark and Sleford which King Stephen seised upon and took from him upon some pretended or actual Misdemeanours together with all the Ammunition and Treasure this Bishop had laid up in them and imprisoned the Bishop himself for holding the Castle of Devises against him and refusing to surrender it till constrained St. Hugh Bishop of Lincoln did much oppose the payment of any Subsidies or Taxes to King Henry the second Richard the first and King Iohn he resisted King Richard the first to his face when he demanded Taxes from his Subjects by means whereof and of another Bishop joyning with him he could gain no moneys from them Whereupon the King in a great rage banished both these Bishops confiscated all their Goods and seised the Goods of the other Bishops who thereupon submitted to the King Hugh Wallis or de VVills Bishop of Lincoln about the year 1209. owning that Arch-traytor Stephen Langhton for Archbishop of Canterbury and receiving his consecration from him contrary to King Iohns expresse command had all his Temporalties seised and himself kept fasting for four years space before they were restored After which he joyning with Lewis the French King and the Barons siding with him against King Iohn he was for these new Treasons not only prosecuted by the King but also excommunicated by the Pope and not absolved till he paid the Pope one thousand Mark and his Legat one hundred Marks sundry other of our Bishops being then fined for the like Crimes and that so deeply that they were compelled to sell all they had to satisfie the King Hugh Burwash Bishop of Lincoln though advanced by the special favour of King Edward the second to that See fell so far into his Royal displeasure within two years after his consecration for some contempts and offences against him that the King seised his Temporalties into his hands for two years space Anno 1324. he being restored to the Kings favour and his Temporalties again the grudge thereof stuck so far in his stomach that none was so forward to assist the Queen with mony armes forces nor so eager against the King to depose him as this Bishop of Lincoln and the Bishops of Ely Dublin and Canterbury by whose assistance and advice the King was not only deposed but murdered Thomas VVatson Bishop of Lincoln in the first year of Queen Elizabeth ●as by the Queen and Parliament deprived of his Bishoprick and committed to Prison for refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy and threatning to excommunicate the Queen for altering Religion King Stephen about the year 1140. banished Nig●llus Bishop of Ely for his Treason and Contempts against him seised his Castles and Temporalties during his life and kept them in his hands at least five years space after his death G●offry Rydel his next Successor commonly called the proud Bishop of Ely had all his Moneys to wit 3060 marks of Silver and 205 pounds of Gold seised upon and confiscated by King RICHARD the first William Longchamp Bishop of ●ly both Protector Chancellour and Chief Justice of the Realm and Popes Legat during King Richard 1. his absence in the holy wars as he seised and spoyled the Temporalties and Goods of Geoffry Plantaginet Archbishop of York stripped him and his Followers of all they had dragged him by his Officers out of St. Martyns Church in Dover by force from the very Altar it self without the least respect to the greatness of his Person or holyness of the Place and thrust him Prisoner into Dover Castle so himself was soon after seised upon dragged by the Heels and imprisoned at Dover by the vulgar Rabble then forced out of the Realm by the Nobles and other Prelates and his Estate confiscated for his intollerable Tyranny and Misdemeanours Eustathius Bp. of Ely for pronouncing the Popes excommunication against King Iohn interdicting the whole Realm had all his Temporalties seised into the Kings hands his Goods confiscated himself forced to fly the Realm and to continue in exile many years all the Prelates and Clergy of England confederating with him herein being likewise commanded to depart the Realm their Possessions Baronies temporalties Goods seised confiscated and all of them put out of the Kings proteon Anno 1208. King Henry the third was so highly offended with Hugh Balsam Bishop of Ely that he seised upon his Temporalties caused all the Woods thereon to be cut down and sold the Parks to be spoyled the Ponds to be fished and wasted and havock to be made of all things for harbouring the Rebels then in armes aganst him Thomas Lilde Bishop of Ely a furious indiscreet Prelate upon King Edward the third his complaint to the Parliament was banished the Court during his life his Possessions seised on by the King till his death Thomas Thurlby Bishop of Ely for denying the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the reformation of Religion intended by Queen Elizabeth was committed Prisoner to the Tower and deprived of his Bishoprick by the Parliament in the first year of Queen Elizabeth with other Popish Bishops deprived for the like offences the same year Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exeter Anno 1326. was assaulted by the people in London at the North-door of Pauls and dragged thence by them into Cheapside by the heels where they proclaimed him an open Traytor a Seducer of King Edward the second who left the charge of the City to him and a Subverter of their liberties after which stripping him of his Pontifical Garments they took off his Head from his Shoulders and set it on a Poll for a spectacle that the remembrance cause of his death never questioned might continue Living the 23d Bishop of Worcester Anno 1040. was accused by Elfrick Archbishop of York for procuring the death of Alfred eldest Son of Ethelred Whereupon King Hardeknute degraded him and gave his Bishoprick to Elfrick So Alfred Bishop of Worcester for his misdemeanours and opposition against King Hardeknute and having likewise a hand in the death of his half Brother Alfred was expulsed that See till his money purchased his peace Maugere the third Bishop of Worcester being one of the four Bishops who excommunicated King Iohn and put the whole Kingdom under an Interdict Anno 1208. had all his Goods confiscated his Temporalties seised by the King and being forced to fly the Realm for these misdemeanours died in exile Raynelmus the 30. Bishop of Hereford receiving his investiture from King Henry the first by the delivery of a Ring and Crosier according to the Law and Custom of that Age and afterwards resigning them into the Kings hands again to pleasure Anselme

against the Kings Prerogative the King was so highly offended with him as he had just cause that he presently banished him the Realm and seised his Temporalties Giles de Bruse Bishop of Hereford for siding with the Barons in their wars against King Iohn and consenting to the Interdict had all his ●oods and Temporalties seised and was banished the Kingdom by King Iohn Peter de Eveblancks 42. Bishop of Hereford for his intollerable Oppressions Treacheries and Exorbitances was arrested by the Barons in the year 1263. in his own Cathedral Church where they seised upon his Goods divided his Treasure amongst their Souldiers before his face and then imprisoned him a long time in Ordley Castle as a mere Pest and Traytor both to Church and State Adam de Orlton or Tarleton the 46. Bishop of Hereford was arrested of High Treason for aiding the Mortymers with men and armes against King Edward the second and being indicted and brought to the Kings-bench Bar at Westminster to be arraigned for this Treason the Archbishops of Canterbury York and Dublin accompanied with their Suffragan Bishops came forcibly with their Crofiers rescued took him away from the Bar and protected him from the Kings Justice but the Indictment being found true upon proof his Temporalties were thereupon seised into the Kings hands till by this Bishops instigation he was deposed from the Crown and soon after murdered by his advice When Queen Isabel and her Son Prince Edward were with their Army at Oxford this Bishop steps up into the Pulpit and there taking these words for his Text My Head grieved me he made a long Discourse to prove That an Evil Head not otherwise to be cured must be taken away applying it to King Edw. the 2 d. that he ought to be deposed and afterwards he counselled the Queen to depose make him away which being effected at Berkley Castle by thrusting a hot Spit into his fundament none then appeared so earnest a Prosecutor of these Murderers as this Traitorous Bishop who set them on work to whom when many of his own Letters were produced and shewed concerning this most traytorous inhuman Act he eluded them by sophistical interpretations and utterly denyed he was any way consenting thereunto when as in truth he was the chief occasion and adviser thereof Iohn Trevenant the 51. Bishop of Hereford was one of the prime Actors in the deposition of King Richard the second and setting up King Henry the 4th in his Throne for which he demerited not only a sequestration of his Temporalties but a Decollation though he escaped both Charles Booth Bishop of Hereford was excepted out of the General pardon of the Praemunire granted by King Henry the 8th to the Clergy in Parliament 22 H. 8. c. 15. for which his Goods and Temporalties were confiscated to the King Agelrick Bishop of the South-Saxons since Chichester was deprived by VVilliam the Conqueror Anno 1078. with sundry other Bishops and Abbots in the Councils of VVinchester and VVindsor for their Treasons and Conspiracies against him and afterwards imprisoned Thomas Rushock the 20th Bishop of Chichester a lewd pernicious Prelate Anno 1388. was banished the Court as a Traytor and pernicious Counsellor to King Richard the second his Lands and Goods confiscated himself banished and deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament and had suffered death too as a Traytor but that his Guiltiness made him fly before he could be apprehended Richard Sampson the 37th Bishop of Chichester Anno 21 H. 8. was committed Prisoner to the Tower for relieving certain trayterous Persons who denyed the Kings Supremacy George Day Bishop of Chichester Octob. 10. 1551. was deprived of his Bishoprick for denying the Kings Supremacy maintaining the Popes and other Misdemeanours and his Temporalties seised Iohn Christopherson Bishop of Chichester was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament 1 Eliz. for denying the Queens Supremacy and to take the Oath of Supremacy and Allegiance Henry Spencer Bishop of Norwich a Martial Prelate more imployed in the Field than in the Pulpit and the Popes General against the Flemmings Anno 1385. had all his Temporalties seised into the Kings hands for two years for raising an Army and passing the Seas without and against King Richard the second his command and was likewise questioned fined and ransoned in Parliament for his misdemeanours in that military imployment Alexander Bishop of Norwich being elected by the Monks against the Kings consent Anno 1406. had his Temporalties kept from him by the King and his Person imprisoned at Windsor almost a year Richard Nyx Bishop of Norwich in the 25 of H. 8. was attainted in a Praemunire put out of the Kings protection his Person imprisoned his Lands Goods and Chattels seised and forfeited to the King for citing the Maior of Thetford into his Spiritual Court and forcing him to revoke a Presentment upon Oath contrary to Law Hugh Novant Bishop of Chester or Coventry and Litchfield as some stile him for conspiring with the King of France and Earl Iohn against his Soveraign King Richard the first to detain him still in Prison and plotting all the Mischief he could for the destruction of the King and Kingdom was in a Grand Parliamentary Council held at Nottingham about the year 1198. adjudged to Ecclesiastical censures and the seisure of his Temporalties as a Bishop and also to banishment and a Fine of 5000 Marks by the Temporal Lords as an Officer to the King VValter Langton Bishop of Chester by King Edward the second his command was arrested by the Constable of the Tower and imprisoned above two years space in several Castles his Lands and Temporalties seised into the Kings hands his Goods confiscated and after that compelled to answer to divers hainous Crimes whereof he was accused Cutbert Scot Bishop of Chester for his disobedience to Queen Elizabeth was committed Prisoner to the Fleet and displaced Edilred King of M●rcia for some just displeasure against Putta Bp. of Rochester burned his Church and City and forced him to desert his Bishoprick to which he would never afterwards return Godwin Bishop of Rochester was for many months besieged in his City of Rochester by King Ethelred for some contempts against this King who would not raise his Siege upon any intreaty till the Bishop had submitted himself and likewise paid him an hundred pounds Fine Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was grievously questioned in Parliament by the House of Commons Anno 25 H. 8. for saying That all their doings against the Clergy was for lack of Faith after which he was indicted and condemned of High Treason for countenancing the Revelations of Elizabeth Barton and denying to acknowledge the Kings Supremacy over Ecclesiastical Persons and Causes for which Treason be was executed upon Tower-hill though a Bishop and new-made Cardinal June 21. 1535. and his Head set upon London Bridge Edmond

otherwise and understanding that the whole full and most gracious intent mind and determination of your most excellent Majestyes be that all and every person and persons bodies politick and corporate their heirs successour and assignes and every of them shall have keep retain and enjoy all and every their estates rights possessions and interests that they and every of them now hath or hereafter shall have of and in all and every the Mannors Graunges Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Pentions Portions Advousons Nominations Patronages Annuities Rents Revertions Services Hundreds Wapentakes Liberties Franchises and other the possessions and hereditaments of the said Monasteries Abbies Priories Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Colleges Prebends Hospitals houses of Fryers Chantries Rectories Vicareges Churches Chaples Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Religious or Ecclesiastical houses or places or of any of them within this Realm or the Dominions of the same by such Laws and Statutes as were in force before the first day of this present Parliament and by other lawfull conveyance to them thereof made That it may be therefore enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that as well your Majesty our Soveraign Lady your heirs and successors as also all and every other person and persons bodies politick and corporate their heirs successors and assigns now having or that hereafter shall have hold or enjoy any of the scites of the said late Monasteries and other the Religious or Ecclesiastical houses or places and all the said Mannors Graunges Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Pentions Portions Glibe-lands Advousons Nominations Patronages Annuities Rents Revertions Services Hundreds Wapentakes Liberties Franchises Profits Commodities and other the possessions and hereditaments of the said late Monasteries Abbies Priories Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries Colleges Prebends Hospitals houses of Fryers Rectories Vicariges Chauntries Churches Chapels Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Religious and Ecclesiastical houses and places or any of them of what name nature or kind soever they be shall have hold pos●ede retein keep and enjoy all and every the said Scites Manuors Graunges Messuages Lands Tenements Possessions Profits Commodities and other Hereditaments according to such Interests and Estates as they and every of them now have or hold or hereafter shall have or hold of and in the same by due order and course of the laws and Statutes of this Realm which now be or were standing in force before the first day of this present Parliament in manner and form as they should have done if this Act had never been had ●e made This Act or any thing herein conteined to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Saving to you our said Soveraign Lady your heirs and successors and every of them and to all and every other person and persons Subjects of this Realm and bodies politick and corporate and to their heirs and successors and to the heirs and successors of all and every of them other then such whose right title or interest is bounded or taken away undone or extinct by any Act of Parliament heretofore made or otherwise all such right title claim possession interests rents annuities commodities commons offices fees leases liveries livings pentions portions debts duties and other profits which they or any of them lawfully have or of right ought to have or might have had in of or to any of the premisses or in of or to any part or parcel thereof in such like manner form and condition to all intents respects constructions and purposes as if this Act had never been had he made And that it may be further enacted by authority aforesaid that all and every Article Clause Sentence and Proviso contained or specified in any Act or Acts of Parliament concerning or touching the assurance or conveyance of any the said Monasteries Priories Nunnerie Commaundries Deaneries Prebends Colleges Chantries Hospitals houses of Fryers Rectories Vicariges Churches Chaples Archbishopricks Bishopricks and other Religious and Ecclesiastical houses and places or any of them in any wise concerning any Mannors Lands Tenements Profits Commodities Hereditaments or other the things before specified to the said King Henry the 8th or King Edward the 6th or either of them or any other person or persons or body politick or corporate and every of them and all and every Writing Deed and Instrument concerning the assurance of any the same shall stand remain and be in as good force effect and strength and shall be pleaded and taken advantage of to all intents constructions and purposes as the same should might or could have been by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm in case this present Act had never been had ne made And that all Feostaments Fines Surrenders Forfeitures Assurances Conveyances Estates and Interests in any wise conveyed had or made to our said late Sovereign Lord King Henry the 8th or to our said late Sovereign Lord King Edward the 6th or either of them or to any other person or persons bodies politick or corporate or to any of them by Deed or Deeds Act or Acts of Parliament or otherwise of any of the Sites Mannors Lands Tenements Possessions Profits Commodities or Hereditaments of any of the said Archbishopricks Bishopricks late Monasteries Priories Nunneries Commaundries Deaneries houses of Fryers Colleges Chantries Hospitals Prebends free Chaples or of any Mannors Lands Tenements Revertions Services Tithes Pensions Portions Annuities or of any other Hereditaments of by or from any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual person or persons or by or from any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical corporation or body politick shall be as good and available in the Law to all Intents Constructions and Purposes as they were by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm standing in force before the first day of this present Parliament And that the same may and shall be pleaded alleged and taken advantage of in such sort and to such effect as they should could or might have been by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm standing in force before the said first day of this present Parliament And that all and every Clause and Article of saving conteined in all and every the said Acts and Statutes shall stand remain and be in such force strength and effect as they were before the said first day of this present Parliament any thing conteined in this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And that it may be in like manner enacted by authority aforesaid that whosoever shall by any processe obteined out of any Ecclesiastical Court within this Realm or without or by pretence of any Spiritual Jurisdiction or otherwise contrary to the Laws of this Realm inquiet or molest any person or persons or body politick for any of the said Mannors Lands Tenements Hereditaments or things above specified contrary to the words sentences and meaning of this Act shall incur the danger of the Act of Fraemunire made in the 16. year of King Richard the 2d and shall suffer and incur the forfeitures and pains contained in the same To which