and Author's Joynt-desires might have taken Effect there had been no difference about this passage in my Book Tuque domo proprià nos Te Praesul Poteremur Thou hadst enjoy'd thy house and we Prelate had enjoyed Thee But alas it is so He is still and still when all other Bishops are released detained in the Tower where I believe he maketh Gods Service his perfect freedom My words as relating to the time when I wrote them containe too much sorrowfull truth therein Dr. Heylyn Fourthly Archbishop Williams after his restoring unto liberty â—ent not into the Kings Quarters as our Author saith but unto one of his own houses in Yorkshire where he continued till the year 1643. and then came to Oxford not that he found the North too cold for him or the War too hot but to solicit for renâ—wing of his Commendam in the Deanry of Westminster the time for which he was to hold it drawing towards an end Fuller Nothing false or faulty The Arch-bishop of York stayed some weeks after his enlargement at Westminster thence he went privately to the house of Sir Thomas Hedley in Huntingon shire and thence to his Palace at Caâ—ood nigh York where he gave the King a magnificent Intertainment King James setled the Deanry of Westminster under the great Seal on Dr. Williams so long as he should continue Bishop of Lincoln Hinc illa Lacrimae hence the great heaving and hussing at Him because He would not resigne it which was so signal a Monument of his Master's favour unto him Being Arch-bishop of York King Charls confirmed his Deanry unto him for three years in lieu of the profits of his Arch-bishoprick which the King had taken Sede vacante So that it is probable enough the renuing that Tearm might be a Joynt-Motive of his going to Oxford But I see nothing which I have written can be cavilled at except because I call Yorkshire the King's Quarters which as yet was the Kings WHOLE when the Arch-bishop first came thither as being a little before the War began though few Weeks after it became the King's Quarters Such a Prolepsis is familiar with the best Historians and in effect is little more then when the Animadvertor calleth the Gag and Appello Caesarem the Books of Bishop Montague who when they were written by him was no though soon after a Bishop Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 196. Some of the aged Bishops had their tongues so used to the language of a third Estate that more then once they ran on that reputed Rock in their speeches for which they were publickly shent and enjoyned an acknowledgment of their mistake By whom they were so publickly shent and who they were that so ingenuously acknowledged their mistake as my Author telleth us not so neither can I say whether it be true or false Fuller I tell you again It is true The Earl of Essex and the Lord Say were two of the Lords though this be more then I need discover who checked them And of two of those Bishops Dr. Hall late Bishop of Norwich is gone to God and the other is still alive Dr. Heylyn But I must needs say that there was small ingenuity in acknowledging a mistake in that wherein they had not been mistaken or by endeavouring to avoid a reputed Rock to run themselves on a certain Rock even the Rock of Scandall Fuller Their brief and generall acknowledgment that they vvere sorry that they had spoken in this point vvhat had incurred the displeasure of the Temporall Lords was no trespass on their own ingenuity nor had shadovv of scandall to others therein I confess men must not bear fals-witness either against themselves or others nor may they betray their right especially when they have not onely a personall concernment therein but also are in some sort Feoffees in trust for Posterity However vvhen a predominant Power plainly appears which will certainly over-rule their cause against them without scandall they may not to say in Christian prudence they ought to wave the vindication of their priviledges for the present waiting wishing and praying for more moderate and equall times wherein they may assert their right with more advantage to their cause and less danger to their persons Dr. Heylyn For that the English Bishops had their vote in Parliament as a third Estate and not in the capacity of temporal Barons will evidently appear by these reasons following For first the Clergy in all other Christian Kingdoms of these Northwest parts make the third Estate that is to say in the German Empire as appears by Thuanus the Historian lib. 2. In France as is affirmed by Paulus Aemilius lib. 9. In Spain as testifieth Bodinus in his De Repub. lib. 3. For which consult also to the Generall History of Spain as in point of practise lib. 9 10 11 14. In Hungary as witnesseth Bonfinius Dec. 2. l. 1. In Poland as is verified by Thunus also lib. 56. In Denmark as Pontanus telleth us in Historia rerum Danicarum l. 7. The Swedes observing antiently the same form and order of Government as was us'd by the Danes The like we find in Camden for the Realm of Scotland in which antiently the Lords Spirituall viz. Bishops Abbots Priors made the third Estate And certainly it were very strange if the Bishops and other Prelates in the Realm of England being a great and powerfull body should move in a lower Sphere in England then they do elsewhere But secondly not to stand onely upon probable inferences we find first in the History of Titus Livius touching the Reign and Acts of King Henry the fifth that when his Funerals were ended the three Estates of the Realm of England did assemble togeâ—her and declared his Son King Henry the sixth being an Infant of eight months old to be their Soveraign Lord as his Heir and Successor And if the Lords Spirituall did not then make the third Estate I would know who did Secondly the Petition tendred to Richard Duke of Glocester to accept the Crown occurring in the Parliament Rolls runs in the name of the three Estates of the Realm that is to say The Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons thereof Thirdly in the first Parliament of the said Richard lately Crowned King it is said expresly that at the request and by the consent of the three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by Authority of the same it be pronounced decreed and declared That our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very and undoubted King of this Realm of England c. Fourthly it is acknowledged so in the Statute of 1 Eliz. cap. 3. where the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in that Parliament assembled being said expresly and in terminis to represent the three Estates of this Realm of England did recognize the Queens Majesty to be their true
Rubrick indeed dyed with the blood of so many of both Nations slaine on that Occasion Our Author speakes this in Relation to the Scottish Tumults Anno 1637. In telling of which Story he runs as commonly elsewhere into many Errours For first those Miseries and that blood-shed was not caused by sending the Liturgy thither c. Fuller Seeing the Animadvertor denies the Liturgy to have had any Causall influence on the Scots War I must manifest my dissent from his Iudgement and here I crave the Reader 's leave to be his humble Remembrancer of the Kinds of Causes so far as they conduce to the clearing of the present Controversie Causes are twofold Solitary or Totall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Ioynt and fellow Causes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The latter againe is twofold Proegumena long leading before and inwardly disposing and inclining to Action or Procatarctica called also Causa irritatrix or Primitiva provocans which is outwardly impulsive to Action The former is tearmed by Physitians Causa Antecedens the latter Causa Evidens of a disease Thus in a Feaver corrupt humours bred within and without the Veines are the Antecedent cause thereof whilst being in the hot Sun walking in the South-wind c. stopping the Pores and stirring the ill Humours to heat may be the evident cause of a Feaver I thus apply it The inward discontents of the Scots on severall accounts which follow on the next Paragraph were the Antecedent causes of their War whilst the evident Cause thereof was the Obtruding the Liturgy upon them And so much for my cleare sense in this Controversie Dr. Heylyn The Plot had been laid long before upon other grounds that is to say Questioning of some Church Lands then in the hands of some great Persons of which they feared a Rovocation to the Crown And secondly the manumitting of some poor subjects from the tyranny and vassallage which they lived under in respect of their Tithes exacted with all cruelty and injustice by those whom they call the Lords of new erection Which Plot so laid there wanted nothing but some popular occasion for raising a Tumult first a Rebellion afterwards and this occasion they conceived they had happily gain'd by sending the new Liturgy thither though ordered by their own Clergy first as our Author tells us at the Assembly of Aberdeen Anno 1616. and after aâ— Perth Anno 1618. and fashioned for the most part by their own Bishops also But of this there hath so much been said between the Observator and his Antagonist that there is nothing necessary to be added to it Secondly there was no such matter as the passing of an Act of Revocation for the restoring of such Lands as had been alienated from the Crown in the minority of the Kings Predecessors of which he tells us fol. 192. The King indeed did once intend the passing of such an Act but finding what an Insurrection was likely to ensue upon it he followed the safer counsell of Sir Archibald Acheson by whom he was advis'd to sue them in his Courts of Justice Which course succeeding to his wish so terrified many of those great persons who had little else but such Lands to maintain their Dignities that they never thought themselves secure as long as the King was in a condition to demand his own Thirdly though it be true enough that some persons of honour had been denied such higher Titles as they had desired fol. 163. yet was it not the denying of such Titles unto Men of Honour which wrought these terrible effects but the denying of an honorary Title to a man of no honour If Colonel Alexander Lesly an obscure fellow but made rich by the spoils and plunder of Germany had been made a Baron when he first desired it the rest of the male-contents in Scotland might have had an heart though they had no head But the King not willing to dishonour so high a Title by conferring it on so low a person denyed the favour Which put the man into such a heat that presently he joyned himself to the faction there drove on the plot and finally undertook the command of their Armies Rewarded for which notable service with the Title of Earl of Levin by the King himself he could not so digest the injury of the first refusall but that he afterwards headed their Rebellions upon all occasions Fuller Little opposition against some variation from and more addition unto what I have written is herein contained Which if tending to the Reader his clearer information I am right glad thereof and wish him all happinesse therein Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 163. Generally they excused the King in their writings as innocent therein but charged Arch-bishop Laud as the principall and Dr. Cousins as the instrumentall compiler thereof This is no more then we had reason to expect from a former passage liâ— 4. fol. 193. where our Author telleth us that the Scotish Bishops withdrew themselves from their obedience to the See of York in the time when George Nevil was Arch-bishop And then he adds Hence-forwards no Arch-bishop of York medled more with Church-matters in Scotland and happy had it been if no Arch-bishop of Canterbury had since interressed himsâ—lf therein His stomack is so full of choller against this poor Prelate that he must needs bring up some of it above an hundred years before he was born Fuller What could more calmly be written Perchance some cold flegme but nothing of choller is in the expression I say again It had been happy for King Queen Royall Issue Church State the Arch-bishop himself Animadvertor Author Reader All England Dr. Heylyn Hence is it that he takes together all reports which makes against him and sets them down in rank and file in the course of this History If Arch-bishop Abbot be suspended from his Jurisdiction the blame thereof was laid on Arch-bishop Laud as if not content to succeed he endeavoured to supplant him fol. 128. The King sets out a Declaration about lawfull Sports the reviving and enlarging of which must be put upon his account also some strong presumptions being urged for the proof thereof fol. 147. The reduction of the Church to her antient Rules and publick Doctrines must be nothing else but the enjoyning of his own private practises and opinions upon other men fol. 127. And if a Liturgy be compos'd for the use of the Church of Scotland Who but he must be charged to be the Compiler of it Fuller If all the places here cited are passed already they have received their severall Answers if any of them be to come they shall receive them God-willing in due time that so for the present we may be silent to prevent repetition Dr. Heylyn But what proofs have we for all this Onely the malice of his enemies or our Authors own disaffection to him or some common fame And if it once be made a fame it shall pass for truth and as a truth find place
THE APPEAL OF Iniured Innocence UNTO The RELIGIOUS LEARNED and INGENUOUS READER In a CONTROVERSIE betwixt the Animadvertor Dr. PETER HEYLYN AND The Author THOMAS FULLER 1 King 5.7 See how he seeketh a Quarrel against me Terent. in Eunucho Responsum non dictum est quia laesit prior LONDON Printed by W. Godbid and are to be sold by Iohn Williams at the Crowne in St. Paul's Church-yard M. DC LIX To the Right Honorable GEORGE BERKELEY L. Berkeley Moubray Segrave and Bruce my most Bountiful and most Exemplary Patron SIR MY Church-History was so far from prostituting her Self to Mercenary Embraces She did not at all Espouse any Particular Interest but kept her self a Virgin However a Dragon is risen up with much Fiercenesse and fury threatning this my Virgins destruction Your Name is GEORGE and for you it is as easie as Honourable to protect Her from violence If any Material Falshood or Forgery be found in my Book let LIAR be branded in my face But oh suffer not my Injured Innocence to be over-born in such things which I have truly clearly and warily written Thus shall you encourage Me leaving off such Controversal deviations from my Calling to PREACH and to perform in my Ministerial function somewhat worthy of the Honour to be Your Lordships most oblieged Servant and Chaplain THOMAS FULLER Cranford Moat-house March the 21 th THE APPEAL OF INJUR'D INNOCENCE CHAP. I. That it is impossible for the Pen of any Historians writing in as our's a divided Age to please all Parties and how easie it is to Cavil at any Author SUch as lived after the Flood and before the Confusion of Tongues were happy in this particular that they did Hear to Understand and Speak to be Understood with all persons in their Generation Not such their Felicity who lived after the Confusion of Languages at the Tower of Babel when the Eloquence of the Best was but Barbarisme to all save a few Folk of his owne Familie Happy those English Historians who wrote some Sixty years since before our Civil Distempers were born or conceived at leastwise before there were House-burnings though some Heart-burnings amongst us I mean before Mens latent Animosities broke out into open Hostility seeing then there was a generall right understanding betwixt all of the Nation But alass Such as wrote in or since our Civil Wars are seldome apprehended truely and candidly save of such of their owne perswasion whilest others doe not or what is worse will not understand them aright And no wonder if Speeches be not rendred according to the true intent of the Speaker when Prejudice is the Interpreter thereof This I foresaw when I entred upon my Church-History but comforted my self with the counsel of Erasmus Si non possis placere Omnibus place to Optimis If thou canst not please all please the best In order whereunto I took up to my self this Resolution to Stere my course betwixt the two Rocks of Adulation and Irritation though it seems I have run upon both if the Animadvertor may be beleeved whereof hereafter As it is impossible in distracted Times to please all so is it easie for any at any time to Cavil at the best Performance A Pigmey is Giant enough for this purpose Now Cavils may be reduced to these two heads Cavils Without Cause Without Measure Causeless Cavils are such as the Caviller himself doth create without any Ground for the same such find a Knot in a Bulrush because they themselves before had ty'd it therein and may be compared to Beggers who breed Vermine in their owne bodies and then blow them on the cloaths of others Cavils without measure are when the anger and bitterness of the Caviller exceedeth due proportion and the demerit of the Fault as when he maketh Memorie to be Iudgement-mistakes Casual to be Voluntary Errors the Printers to be the Authors faults And then brags every Foil to be a Fall and Triumpheth at the Rout of a small Party as at the Defeat of the whole Army This Distinction is here premised whereof hereafter we shall make use as we see just occasion CHAP. II. Why the Author desired and hoped never to come under the Pen of the Animadvertor in a Controversal Difference IT was ever my Desire â—nd Care if it were possible not to fall under the Pen of the Animadvertor having several reasons thereof to my self which now I publickly profess 1. I knew him a Man of able Parts and Learning God sanctifie both to his Glory and the Churches Good 2. Of an Eager spirit with him of whom it was said Quicquid voluit valde voluit 3. Of a Tart and Smart Style endevouring to down with all which stood betwixt him and his Opinion 4. Not over Dutiful in his Language to the Fathers of the Church what then may Children expect from him if contrary in Judgment to him Lastly and chiefly One the Edge of whose keenness is not taken off by the Death of his Adversary witness his writing against the Archbishops of York and Armagh The Fable tells us that the Tanner was the Worst of all Masters to his Cattle as who would not onely load them soundly whilest living but Tan their Hides when dead and none could blame one if unwilling to exasperate such a Pen which if surviving would prosecute his Adversary into his Grave The premises made me though not servilely fearful which I praise God I am not of any Writer yet generally cautious not to give him any Personal provocation knowing that though Both our Pens were Long the World was Wide enough for them without Crossing each other As I desired so I partly hoped that my Church-History would escape the Animadvertor First because a Gentleman came to me sent from him as I supposed informing me That had not Dr. Heylin been visited with blindness he had been upon my bones before Then I desired him to return this Answer That as I was sorry for the Sad Cause the Doctors Blindness I was glad of the Ioyful Effect my owne Quiet Nor hearing any more for many moneths after I conceived my self secure from any wind in that corner It increased my Confidence because I conceived Dr. Heylin neither out of Charity or Policy would write against one who had been his Fellow-Servant to and Sufferer for the same Lord and Master King Charles for whose Cause I lost none of the worst Livings and one of the best Prebends in England Onely thus happy I was in my very unhappiness to leave what was taken away from the rest of my Brethren In a word seeing no Birds or Beasts of Prey except Sharp-set indeed will feed on his own Kind I concluded Dr. Heylin would not write against me who conceived my self to be One of his owne Party But it seems I reckoned without my Host and now am call'd to a Rear-account I cannot say with Iob The thing that I feared but The thing that I feared not is faln upon me
in that time are not Precedential to warrant Posterity and the Air of that Torrid Zone will not fit the Bodyes in our Temperate Climate Dr. Heylyn Nor find we any thing of the Convocations of Queen Elizabeths time except that of the year 1562. and that not fairly dealt with neither as is elsewhere shewed though there passed many Canons in the Convocation of the year 1571. and of the year 1585. and the year 1597. all Printed and still publickly extant besides the memorable Convocation of the year 1555. in which the Clergy gave the Queen a Benevolence of 2 s. in the pound to be levyed by Ecclesiastical Censures without relating to any subsequent confirmation by Act of Parliament as had accustomably been used in the Grant of Subsidies Fuller Bernardus non vidit omnia I could not come to the knowledge of every particular But I confess I cannot conjecture the cause of the Animadvertor's retrogradâ— motion who after so many years in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth goeth back again to the year 1555. Which was four years before she came to the Crown Dr. Heylyn It might have been expected also that we should have found in a Church-History of Brittain the several degrees and steps by which the Heterodoxies and Superstitions of the Church of Rome did creep in amongst us and the degrees by which they were ejected and cast out again and the whole Reformation setled upon the Doctrine of the Apostles attended by the Rites and Ceremonies of the Primitive times Fuller I hope the peruser of my Book will be sensible of no defect but that the same in a good degree is performed by me on several occasions Dr. Heylyn As also that some honorable mention should be found of those gallant Defences which were made by Dr. Bancroft Dr. Bilson Dr. Bridges Dr. Cosins and divers others against the violent Batteries and Assaults of the Puritan Faction in Queen Elizabeths time and of the learned Writings of B. Buckeridge B. Morton Dr. Sutcliff Dr. Burges c. in justification of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England against the remnants of that scattered and then broken Faction in the time of King Iames of which we have Ne gry quidem not a word delivered Nor could it stand with his design which will discover it self in part in this Introduction and shall more fully be discovered in the Animadversions that it should be otherwise Fuller I answer First no Drag-net can be so comprehensive as to catch all Fish and Fry in the River I mean no Historian can descend to every particular Secondly What if I left that piece in the Dish for manners sake I must not ingross all History to my self but leave some to such as shall succeed me in the same Subject Thirdly the Reader in perusing my Book will bear me witness that most of these have their true Encomiums on the same account and especially Dr. Bancroft Dr. Bilson Dr. Cosins Fourthly if my omission of his Book hath offended B. Morton my asking will be having the pardon of so vivacious a piety who being past the age of a man now leads the life of an Angel Lastly I have a Book of the Lives of all English Worthies God send it good success which had been in print if not obstructed by the intervening of this Contest And coming forth will be suppletory of all such defects Dr. Heylyn All which together make it cleer and evident that there is too little of the Church or Ecclesiastical History in our Authors Book And that there is too much of the State or Civil History will be easily seen by that unnecessary intermixture of State-Concernments not pertinent to the business which he hath in hand Fuller I answer first in general Such the sympathy betwixt the embracing Twins Church and State that sometimes 't is both painful and pity to part them More particularly such passages have at the least a cast or eye of Church-colour in them or else they are inserted for necessity Ne detur vacuum for meer lack of Church-matter All the Ecclesiastical History in Mr. Fox during the Reign of Edward the fourth will not fill his hollow Pen the cause why he makes it up with History of the State and I sometimes do the like Lastly it is done for Variety and then commonly I crave the Readers leave which I hope is no offence Must I turn School-boy again and the Animadvertor be my School-master to give me a Theam that I must write on no other Subject but what he appoints me Dr. Heylyn Of this sort to look no further is the long Will and Testament of King Henry the eighth with his Gloss or Comment on the same taking up three whole sheets at least in which there is not any thing which concerns Religion or which relates unto the Church or Church-affairs although to have the better colour to bring it in he tells us that he hath transcribed it not onely for the rarity thereof but because it contained many passages which might reflect much light upon Church-History Fuller I answer first All ancient Wills have something of Sacredness in them beginning In the name of God Amen Secondly they are proved in the Court-Christian which evidenceth something of Ecclesiasticalness in them Thirdly Kings have ever been beheld as mixt Persons wherein Church and State are blended together Fourthly the Will of King Henry the eighth in that Active-juncture of times is more than the Will of an ordinary King Fiftly it is most remarkable even in Church-History if only on this Account to shew that he who had violated the Testaments of so many Founders and Benefactors had hardly any one Particular of his own Will performed Sixthly it never was and perchance had I not done it never had been Printed Seventhly false and imperfect Copies thereof pass about in Manuscript Lastly I have received so much thanks from the Animadvertor's Betters for printing of it that I will freely pardon and pass by his causless cavil against me for the same Dr. Heylyn Lib. 5. fol. 243. Of this sort also is his description of the pomp and order of the Coronation of King Charles which though he doth acknowledge not to be within Pale and Park of Ecclesiastical History yet he resolves to bring it in because it comes within the Purlews of it as his own words are But for this he hath a better reason than we are aware of that is to say That if hereafter Divine Providence shall assign England another King though the transactions herein be not wholly precedential something of State may be chosen out gratefull for imitation Lib. 11. fol. 124. As if the Pomp and order of a Coronation were not more punctually preserved in the Heralds Office who have the ordering of all things done without the Church and are eye-Witnesses of all which is done within than in our Authors second-hand and imperfect Collections Fuller I answer first a Coronation is Church-work performed therein
a Reverend Prelate and as knowing as any of his Order in this point of Antiquity knew this to be in his Diocesse yet never manifested the least Regreet at the Chappelizing of this Place As for consecration of Churches and Chappels I say first is no Sacramental action Secondly It is not of Evangelical Institution as Bellarmine himself doth freely confesse no Express for it in the New-Testament De cultu Sanctorum lib. 3. cap. 5. In statu Evangelii non habemus tam expressa testimonia Scripturae Thirdly It is charitably to be presumed that when Dr. Montague and the fellows first entred the Dormitory sequestring that place for a Chappel they by Prayers and a Sermon did solemnly consign it to the Service of God seeing no man of common Principles of Piety will offer to eat meat before he hath said Grace Fourthly Such Prayers did in some sort Dedicate the place wanting no formality save because not done by a Bishop and if this be all the fault can be found therein let the Animadvertor prove probatio incumbit affirmanti that in the primitive Times consecrating of Churches was only an Episcopal Act. Fifthly What was wanting in the consecration at the first hath since sufficiently been supplyed and corroborated by usance thereof to Gods Service only If factious people should in peaceable times against lawfull Authority conventicle in a Barn or Stable their Meetings sinfull in themselves could not derive any Sacrednesse to the place whilst the World lasteth But if Persecution which God of his goodness avert though we by our wickednesse deserve it should invade our Land I conceive Stables are by Prayers and presence of God's suffering Servants and chiefly by God's presence with them at the minute of their entrance thither elevated into Holy places Dr. Heylyn And if the Brethren think it not enough for their ease to be pent up in so narrow a Room t is but repairing to the next Grove or Coppise and that in a like traet of time shall become as holy as Solomons Temple or any consecrated place whatsoever it be Fuller Not the solemnest Consecration can advance our Churches into the same degree of Sacredness with Solomon's Temple which was yea might bee but one dignified when dedicated with God his Glorious Presence 2 Chro. 7.12 Who chose that place to himself for an house of Sacrifice It was the Type of our blessed Saviour perfect in all Points as made by inspired Architects and the utensils in the Holy of Holiest the self same which Moses made according to the pattern in the Mount But I hold English Churches may amount to the Holinesse of the Jewish Synagogues Dr. Heylyn Churches may well be spared pulled down and their Materials sold for the use of the Saints Fuller God forbid The clean contrary followeth from my Position wherein I do offer an Argument for the Sacredness of Places the Register of whose Consecration is lost as Time out of Mind so that now they can no otherwise prove it no Record being extant thereof save by pious Prescription Enough in my Judgement to give Sacriledge a Rap over the fingers if offering to lay hold on such places and buildings and turn them to her private Profit Were it in my power I would have built a Church where I only made my Church-History But the worst is the Animadvertor would then have quarrelled the contriving and adorning of my Church as much as now he doth the matter and making of my Book and therefore I leave it to others of more ability first to do and then to defend their good Actions from his Morosity Dr. Heylyn A Tub by this our Author's Logick will be as useful as the Pulpit unto Edification Fuller This is a Tale for I am sure it is no Truth of a Tub indeed I ever beheld a Pulpit as in some sort jure divino ever since I read Nehem. 8.4 that Ezrah stood upon a Pulpit of Wood. However if called thereunto I pray God I may make but as good a practical Sermon as Iohn Badby effectually preached in a Tub of Constancy and Christian Patience when put into such a Vessel and burnt therein for the testimony of the Truth in the Reign of K. Henry the fourth Dr. Heylyn And that we may perceive that nothing is more precious with him then an irregular unconsecrated and unfurnished Chappel c. Fuller Next to an Heart such as David had made the best Coppy of the best Original after Gods own heart I most highly prize a regular and consecrated Chappel furnished with Matron-like not Meritricious Ornaments Dr. Heylyn Melvin's infamous Libel against the Furniture of the Altars in the Chappels Royall for which he was censur'd in the Star-Chamber must be brought in by head and shoulders out of time and place for fear lest such an excellent piece of Puritanical Zeal should be lost to posterity These things I might have noted in their proper places but that they were reserv'd for this as a taste to the rest Fuller I account not those his verses worth the translating though easie and speak of his censure as well as of his offence I mis-timed nothing having entered this passage near the year wherein he was setled a Professor beyond the Seas Dr. Heylyn Et jam sinis erat And here I thought I should have ended this Anatomy of our Author's Book but that there is another passage in the Preface thereof which requires a little further consideration For in that Preface he informs us by the way of caution That the three first Books were for the main written in the Reign of the late King as appeareth by the Passages then proper for the Government The other nine Books were made since Monarchy was turned into a State Fuller The Animadvertor hath fairly and fully no constant Practice cited my words I request the Reader to take especial notice of those three FOR THE MAIN I presume the Reader conceiveth such a caveat not improper or impertinent but safe and seasonable for my Defence and his Direction especially seeing the like happened not to any English Historian this thousand years that his Pen during the writing of his Book should pass through Climates of different Governments Dr. Heylyn By which it seems that our Author never meant to frame his History by the line of Truth but to attemper it to the palat of the present Government whatsoever it then was or should prove to be which I am sure agrees not with the Laws of History And though I can most easily grant that the fourth Book and the rest that follow were written after the great alteration and change of State in making a new Common-wealth out of the ruines of an ancient Monarchy yet I concur not with our Author in the time of the former For it appears by some passages that the three first Books either were not all written in the time of the King or else he must give himself some disloyal hopes
that the King should never be restored to his place and Power by which he might be called to a reckoning for them Fuller It Seems Multa videntur quae non sunt The Inference is false and forced Titus Livius lived in Imperial yet wrote of Regal Consulatory Tribunitial at Rome without the least imputation of falshood I conceive Monarchical Aristocratical and Democralical truth to be One and the Same It followeth not that two-faced Ianus as beholding two worlds one before the other after the Flood had also two Hearts I did not attemper my History to the Palat of the Government so as to sweeten it with any Falshood but I made it Palatable thus far forth as not to give a wilful disgust to those in present Power and procure danger to my self by using any over-salt tart or bitter Expression better forborn than inserted without any prejudice to the Truth Dr. Heylyn For in the second Book he reckons the Cross in Baptism for a Popish Trinket by which it appears not I am sure to have been written in the time of Kingly Government that being no expression sutable unto such a time Fuller Should I simply and absolutely call the Cross in Baptisme a Popish Trinket my fore-head Signed therewith would give my Tongue the lye and return the Popery in the teeth thereof I behold it as an Ancient and Significant Ceremony but in no degree essentiall to or completory of the Sacrament witness the wisdome of the Church of England which in private Baptism permitteth the omitting thereof But when Ceremonyes shall devour their distance and intrude themselves necessary and essential it is high time to term them Superstititious Trinkets The rest I referr to what I have written when this passage recurreth in the place cited by the Animadvertor Dr. Heylyn Secondly speaking of the precedency which was fixt in Canterbury by removing the Archiepiscopal See from London thither he telleth us that the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike level in their Graves But certainly the Government was not changed into a State or Commonwealth till the death of the King and till the death of the King neither of those Episcopall Sees nor any of the rest were laid so level in their Graves but that they were in hope of a Resurrection the King declaring himself very constantly in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight as well against the abolishing of the Episcopal Government as the alienation of their Lands Thirdly In the latter end of the same Book he makes a great dispute against the high and sacred priviledge of the Kings of England in curing the disease comonly called the Kings Evil whether to be imputed to Magick or Imagination or indeed a Miracle next brings us in an old Wives Tale about Queen Elizabeth as if she had disclaimed that power she daily exercised and finally manageth a Quarrel against the form of Prayer used at the curing of that Evil which he arraigns for Superstition and impertinencies no inferior Crimes Are all these passages proper to that Government also Finally in the third Book he derogates from the power of the Church in making Canons giving the binding and concluding Power in matters which concern the civil Rights of the Subjects not to the King but to the Lay-people of the Land assembled in Parliament which game he after followeth in the eighth and last And though it might be safe enough for him in the eighth and last to derogate in this manner from the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs yet certainly it was neither safe for him so to do nor proper for him so to write in the time of the Kingly Government unless he had some such wretched hopes as before we spake of Fuller I desire the Reader to remember my late words as the Animadvertor recited them FOR THE MAIN I confess though these Books were written in the Reign of King Charles yet after his Death I interpolated some lines and amongst others that of levelling all Bishopricks I raised no dispute against the Kings curing the Evil it being raised before I was born and which I endeavoured to allay referring it to Miracle as to the peruser of my History in that place will appear I tell no old Wives Tale of Queen Elizabeth it being a Masculine Truth from most authentick Authors I derogate not in the least degree from the power of the Church but the Animadvertor doth arrogate unto it more then is due by the Lawes of God and Man maintaining that Church-men may go beyond Ecclesiastical Censures even to the Limbs and Lives of such as are Recusants to their Constitutions WRETCHED and what formerly he said DISLOYAL HOPES I defie and return them in the Teeth of him that wrote the words He had WRETCHED AND DISLOIAL HOPES who wrote that King Iames went to New-market as Tiberius to his Capreae he waved his Loyalty and Discretion together who so saucily and un-subject-like counted how often King Charles waved his Crown Here give me leave to tell the Animadvertor that such whom he slighteth for LOW-ROYALISTS were whilst they had a King in England as HIGH in their Loyalty to him Prayers and Sufferings for him as those HIGH-ROIALISTS who maintain that all goods of the Subjects are at the King 's absolute Dispose and yet since those Kings are departed this life can write of them in so base and disparaging Language that any one of the LOW-ROIALISTS would have his right hand cut off rather then write the like Reader pardon my too just passion when DISLOIALTY is laid to my charge It is with me Either now speak or else for ever hereafter hold your Peace Dr. Heylyn I must needs say that on the reading of these Passages and the rest that follow I found my self possest with much Indignation And I long expected when some Champion would appear in the Listes against this Goliah who so reproachfully had defied the whole Armyes of Israel And I must needs confess withal that I did never enter more unwillingly on any undertaking But beeing solicited thereunto by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by Men of all Orders and Dignityes in the Church and of all degrees in the Universities I was at last overcome by that Importunity which I found would not be resisted Fuller Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height What just cause I have given for so great passion the Reader will judge If I be a Goliah in this point may I have his Success to be conquered killed and my head cut off even with my own Sword If I be none May the Animadvertor be graciously pardoned And it may be he shall never come off any undertaking more unhappily I could mate him with telling him that Men of all Sorts and Sizes their Equals in Number and Quality have likewise importuned me not tamely to sit down but to vindicate my own credit and conscience Dr. Heylyn
fol. 10. gives us some other in their stead which he thinks unanswerable Fuller I deny not that P. Eleutherius might or did send a Letter to K. Lucius but I justly suspect the Letter novv extant to be but-pretended and forged I never thought by the vvay hovv came the Animadvertor to knovv my thoughts my Arguments unanswerable but now I say they are unanswered standing in full force notvvithstanding any alledged by the Animadvertor to the contrary I confesse a Memory-mistake of Sicilia for Galatia and as it is the first fault he hath detected in my Book so shall it be the first by me God Willing amended in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Our Author First objects against the Popes answer to the King that Fol. 11. It relates to a former letter of King Lucius wherein he requested of the Pope to send him a Copy or Collection of the Roman Lawes which being at that time in force in the I le of Britain was but actum agere But certainly though those parts of Brittain in which Lucius reign'd were governed in part and but in part by the Lawes of Rome yet were the Lawes of Rome at that time more in number and of a far more generall practice then to be limited to so narrow a part of their Dominions Two thousand Volumes we find of them in Iustinians time out of which by the help of Theophilus Trebonianus and many other learned men of that noble faculty the Emperour compos'd that Book or body of Law which from the universality of its comprehension we still call the Pandects Fuller One who hath taken but two Turnes in Trinity hall Court in Cambridge knowes full well what PANDECTS are and why so called All this is but praefatory I waite for the answer to the Objection still to come Dr. Heylyn In the next place it is objected that This letter mounts King Lucius to too high a Throne making him the Monarch or King of Britain who neither was the Supreme nor sole King here but partial and subordinate to the Romans This we acknowledge to be true but no way prejudiciall to the cause in hand Lucius both was and might be call'd the King of Britain though Tributary and Vassal to the Roman Emperors as the two Baliols Iohn and Edward were both Kings of Scotland though Homagers and Vassals to Edward the first and third of England the Kings of Naples to the Pope and those of Austria and Bohemia to the German Emperors Fuller A Blank is better then such writing to no purpose For first both the Baliols in their severall times were though not SUPREME SOLE Kings of Scotland So were the Kings of Naples and the King of Austria there never being but one the first and Last viz. Fredoritus Leopoldus and the Kings of Bohemia in their respective Dominions Not so Lucius who was neither Supreme nor Sole King of Brittain Besides the Baliols being Kings of Scotland did never Style themselves or were Styled by other Kings of Brittaine The Kings of Naples never entituled themselves Kings of Italy Nor the Kings of Austria and Bohemia ever wrote themselves or were written to as Kings of Germany Whereas Lucius Ruler onely in the South West-part of this Isle is in this Letter made King of Brittain more then came to his share an Argument that the Forger thereof was unacquainted with the Constitution of his Kingdom And this just Exception stands firme against the Letter what ever the Animadvertor hath alledged in the excuse thereof Dr. Heylyn Nor doth the next objection give us any trouble at all that is to say that The Scripture quoted in that Letter is out of St. Hieroms Translation which came more then a hundred years after Unless it can be prov'd withall as I think it cannot that Hierom followed not in those Texts those old Translations which were before receiv'd and used in the Western Churches Fuller See the different tempers of men how some in point of Truth are of a tenderer constitution than others The Primate Armach was so sensible of the strength of this reason that it made him conclude against the authenticallnesse of the Letter Dr. Heylyn Lesle am I mov'd with that which follows viz. That this letter not appearing till a thousand years after the death of Pope Eleutherius might probably creep out of some Monks Cell some four hundred years since Which allegation being admitted the Monks Cell excepted it makes no more to the discredit of the letter which we have before us then to the undervaluing of those excellent Monuments of Piety and Learning which have been recovered of late times from the dust and moths of ancient Libraries Such Treasures like money long lock't up is never thought lesse profitable when it comes abroad And from what place soever it first came abroad I am confident it came not out of any Monks Cell that generation being then wholly at the Popes devotion by consequence not likely to divulge an Evidence so manifestly tending to the overthrow of his pretensions The Popes about four hundred years since were mounted to the height of that power and Tyranny which they claimed as Vicars unto Christ. To which there could not any thing be more plainly contrary then that passage in the Pope's letter whereto he tells the King That he was Gods Vicar in his owne Kingdom vos estis Vicarius Dei in Regno vestro as the Latin hath it Too great a secret to proceed from the Cell of a Monk who would have rather forg'd ten Decretals to uphold the Popish usurpations over Soveraign Princes then published one onely whether true or false to subvert the same Nor doth this Letter onely give the King an empty Title but such a Title as imports the exercise of the chief Ecclesiastical Power within his Dominions For thus it followeth in the same The people and the folk of the Realm of Britain be yours whom if they be divided ye ought to gather in concord and peace to call them to the faith and law of Christ to cherish and maintain them to rule and govern them so as you may reign everlastingly with him whose Vicar you are So far the very words of the letter as our Author rendereth them which savour far more of the honest simplicity of the Primitive Popes then the impostures and supposititious issues of the latter times Fuller I confesse some pretious pieces of Antiquity long Latent in Obscurity have at last broke forth into the Light with no little advantage to Learning But then such were intire Books and we know how when where and by whom they were found out and brought forth Whereas this loose Letter secretly and slily slid into the World unattended with any such Cicumstances to attest the Genuinesse thereof Children casually lost are no whit the lesse Legitimate and beloved the more when found and owned of their Parents But give me leave to suspect that Babe a Bastard which is left on a bulk or
the Canon devested of the power of Doing it such vendition and emption being by the Common-Law preserved unto them though now very commendably long disused And whereas the Clergy in their Answer pretend all their Canons grounded on the Word of God I would fain be informed where they finde in the New-Testament which ought to regulate their proceedings that the power of the Church extendeth to life limb or estate Sure I am her censures appear spiritual on the soul by those expressions Binde on Earth Cast out Deliver to Satan c. But because the Reader reserveth a lager prosecution of this point for another time we will also respit our larger answer hereunto Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 24. Indeed 1. Davids had been Christian some hundred of years whilest Canterbury was yet Pagan Not many hundred years I am sure of that nor yet so many as to make a plural number by the Latin Grammer Kent being conquered by the Saxons who brought in Paganism Anno 455. Converted unto Christianity by the preaching of Austin Anno 569. Not much more than 140. years betwixt the one and the other Fuller The Christian Antiquity of St. David bare a double Date one native or inherent the other adopted and Reputative 1. The Inherent from the time that St. David fixed there on which account I believe it was no more than 140. years senior to Canterbury 2. The Reputative from the first founding of a Bishoprick at Carleon by King Lucius which indifferently stated was about the year of our Lord 169 which was four hundred years before Canterbury Now it is notoriously known that the antiquity of Carleon whence the See was removed in computation of the seniority is adjected to St. Davids her adopted Daughter Hence was it that the Abbot of Bancar in his Answer unto Austin acknowledged himself and his Convent under the Government of the Bishop of Carleon upon Uske though then no Bishop therein meaning St. Davids thereby as Dr. Hammond and others doe unanimously allow Thus grafting St. Davids as it ought on the Stock of Carleon it is senior in Christianity to Canterbury four hundred years and FOUR may be termed Some in the stricktest propriety of Language Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 29. To whose honour he viz. King Stephen erected St. Stephens Chappel in Westminster neer the place where lately the Court of Requests was kept Our Author is here mealy mouth'd and will not parler le tout as the French men say For otherwise he might have told us that this Chappel is still standing and since the surrendry of it to King Edward the sixth hath been used for a Parliament House imployed to that purpose by the Commons as it still continueth What might induce our Author to be thus reserved I can hardly tell unless it be to prevent such inferences and observations which by some wanton wits might be made upon it Fuller I hope rather some gracious hearts will make pious improvement thereupon praying to God that seeing so many signal persons are now assembled therein the very place once dedicated as a Chappel to St. Stephen may be their more effectual Remembrancer to imitate the purity and piety of that renowned Saint That so God may be invited graciously to be present amongst them to over-rule all their consultations to his Glory the Good of the Church and State and the true honour of the Nation And to this let every good man say Amen Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 40. By the same title from his Father Jeffery Plantagenet be possessed fair lands in Anjou and Maine I had thought he had possessed somewhat more in Anjou and Maine than some fair Lands onely his Father Ieffrey Plantagenet being the Proprietary Earl of Anjou Maine and Toureine not a titular onely succeeded in the same by this King Henry and his two sons Richard and Iohn till lost unhappily by the last with the rest of our Estates on that side of the Sea From this Ieffery descended fourteen Kings of the name of Plantagenet the name not yet extinguished though it be improverished Our Author speaking of one of them who was found not long since at the Plow Lib. 2. p. 170. Another of that name publishing a Book about the Plantation of New-Albion Anno 1646. or not long before Fuller The frequent and familiar figure of MOISIS will rectifie all wherby lesse is said than meant and therefore more must be understood than is said Besides it made me mince my expression being loath to exceed because this Ieffery did not to me appear though the Earl so intire in those Dominions but that the Kings of France and England had Cities and Castles interposed therein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 53. King John sent a base degenerous and unchristian Embassage to Admitalius Mutmelius a Mahometan King of Morocco then very puissant and possessing a great part of Spain This Admiralius Murmelius as our Author and the old Monks call him was by his own name called Mahomet Enaser the Miramomoline of Morocco to whom if King Iohn sent any such Message it was as base unchristian and degenerate as our Author makes it Fuller I will ingenuously confesse that the first time I found this Story was in the Doctors Miâ—ro-cosm the novelty making me take the more notice thereof Though since I have met with it in M. Paris the fountain and other Authors the channels thereof I conceive it was as lawfull for me to relate it as for the Animadvertor who epitheis this Embassy BASE DEGENEROUS and UNCHRISTIAN the words which in me he reproveth Dr. Heylin But being the credit of the Tale depends upon the credit of the Monkish Authors to which brood of men that King was known to be a prosessed Enemy hating and hated by one another it is not to be esteemed so highly as a piece of Apocrypha and much lesse to be held for Gospel Fuller Here he rather speaks aliter than alia from what I had written on the same Subject who thus concluded the Character of King Iohn Church-Hist Book 3. pag. 54. We onely behold him Him thorough such a Light as the Friers his foes shew him in who so hold the candle that with the Shadow thereof they darken his virtues and present onely his Vices yea and as if they had also poysoned his memory they cause his faults to swell to a prodigious greatnesse making him with their pens more black in conditions than the Morocco King whose aid he requested could be in complexion Here I desire to give the Reader a â—aste of what doth frequently occur in this Book and of what I justly did complain viz. the Animadvertor sometimes not liking my language as not proper and expressive enough substituteth his own with little or no variation of matter I confesse he is not bound to use my words and such variations simply in it self is no wrong unto me but it becometh
an Injury when they must passe for necessary Animadversions on my Book to the defaming thereof as if it were defective without them which were there though perchance not so finely as fully and clearly before Dr. Heylin Possible it is that being overlaid by his own Subjects and distressed by the French he might send unto that King for aid in his great extremities And doing this if this were all he did no more than Nature and indignation and the necessity of his affairs did provoke him to not half so much as was done afterwards upon far weaker grounds by King Francis the first employing the Turks Forces both by Sea and Land against Charles the fifth But the Monks coming to the knowledge of this secret practise and construing his actions to the worst improv'd the Molehill to a Mountain rendring him thereby as odious to posterity as he was to themselves Fuller How much is this different from what I have written before but that the Animadvertor will not wear words at the second hand of my using but will have them spick and span new of his own making Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 63. I question whether the Bishop of Rochester whose Country house at Bromley is so nigh had ever a House in the City There is no question but he had Stow finding it in Southwark by the name of Rochester house adjoyning on the South side to the Bishop of Winchesters ruinous and out of reparation in his time as possibly not much frequented since the building of Bromley House and since converted into Tenements for private persons Fuller It was a Question to me though none to the Animadvertor now it is a question neither to him nor to me who by him am informed I see that men may learn by what boyes learn in their Qui mihi Sed qui nil dubitat nil capit inde boni Had I not questioned this once publickly probably I had questioned it ever privately and gone in my self without satisfaction Dr. Heylin But since our Author hath desired others to recover the rest from oblivion I shall help him to the knowledge of two more and shall thank any man to finde out the third The first of these two is the Bishop of Lincolns House situate neer the old Temple in Holborn first built by Robert de Chesney Bishop of Lincoln Anno 1147. since alien'd from that See to the Earls of Southampton and passing by the name of Southampton House The second is the Bishop of Bangors a fair House situate in Shoe-lane neer St. Andrews Church of late time leased out by the Bishops and not since the dwelling of Dr. Smith Doctor in Physick a right honest and ingenuous person and my very good friend Of all the old Bishops which were founded before King Harry the eight there is none whose House we have not found but the Bishop of Asaph to the finding whereof if our Author or any other will hold forth the Candle I shall follow the light the best I can and be thankfull for it Fuller I faithfully promise so to doe as soon as I arrive at any good intelligence thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 67. And though some high Royalists look on it as the product of Subjects animosities improving themselves on their Princes extremities c. Our Author telleth us in his Epistle to the Reader that the three first Books of this Volume were for the main written in the reign of the late King and that it would appear so by some passages which were then proper for the Government But certainly if these words were written in the time of the late King they were written in the time of his distresse when his affairs were desperate and his Party ruin'd the name of Royalists had not else been used here in the way of reproach nor any new matter charg'd upon them which might render them more obnoxious to fine and ransome than the crime of Loyalty Fuller My Loyaltie did rise and fall with his Majesties successe as a Rock in the Sea doth with the ebbing and flowing of the Tyde I had more pitty but not lesse honour for him in his deepest distresse God knows my heart I use not the word High-Royalist here as by way of reproach and the unpartial Reader niether will nor can so understand it Some there are who maintain that a King is no way confined with his own Laws but that without any fault he may by his own lâ—st limit his Demands on his Subjects taking from them without any wrong what they refuse to pay unto him There the Animadvertor will call Royalists and I dare call them High-Royalists beholding as I have said the Grand-Charter as the product of Subjects animosities improving themselves on their Princes extremities Dr. Heylin But whatsoever our Author thinks it cannot but appear to any who consults the story of former times that the original of this Charter was first writ in blood obtain'd by working on the necessities of some Princes extorted in the minority of another and finally confirm'd by him who had not power to justifie his denial of it Fuller I could heartily have wished that the Animadvertor had expressed the names of these Kings Who now onely hope that I conjecture them aright 1. King Iohn on the working of whose necessities it was first obtainned 2. Henry the third whose consent thereto was extorted in his minoritie 3. Edward the first confirming it when not in power to justifie his denial during his durance as a Prisoner taken in Battail Here I confesse are three sad conditions necessity of the first minority of the second captivity of the third But know that the last of these when at liberty and not onely endued with freedome but impowered with force and being as wise and successefull a Prince as ever sate on the English Throne found it advantagious for his Interest to observe what formerly when a Prisoner he had confirmed Otherwise his Sword was so long reaching as farre as Palastine it self and so sharp hewing his conquering way through Wales and Scotland that therewith enforced with his arm he might have rescinded the Seals of the Grand-Charter and put himself into the condition of an absolute command But he preferred the strict observation thereof partly out of Piety because solemnly sworn thereunto partly out of Policy as sensible that therein the Rights of Sovereigns and Subjects were indifferently contempered to their mutual happinesse it being Fetters to neither but Girdles to both to be strengthned by such restraints Dr. Heylin And if our Author be so certain that those Kings flourihed most both at home and abroad who tyed themselves most conscientiously to the observation thereof I would fain know how some of our Kings who have most conscientiously tied themselves to that observation became so unprosperous or how some others came to flourish both at home and abroad who have made it their great work to infringe the same in almost all the
as Authors generally agree King Edward instituted the Order of the Garter Right enough as unto the time but much mistaken in some things which relate unto that ancient and most noble Order our Author taking up his Commodities at the second hand neither consulting the Records nor dealing in this businesse with men of credit Fuller I am now come under the Roof of the Animadvertor who by the Laws of Hospitality is bound to treat me the more courteously I mean I am entred into a Subject wherein he is well seen and therefore might favourably connive at my small slips being therein best studied It is severely said that in this businesse I dealt with no men of credit The highest person next the Son of the King wearing a blew Ribbon was pleased so far to favour me as that from his own mouth I wrote the last sheet of my History his Grace endeavouring to be very exact in all particulars Dr. Heylin For first there are not fourteen Canons resident in the Church of Windsor but thirteen onely with the Dean it being King Edwards purpose when he founded that Order consisting of twenty six Knights himself being one to institute as many greater and lesser Canons and as many old Soldiers commonly called poor Knights to be pensioned there Though in this last the number was not made up to his first intention Fuller The mistake such an one as it is shall be amended in my next Edition Dr. Heylin He tells us secondly that if he be not mistaken as indeed he is Sir Thomas Row was the last Chanoellor of the Order Whereas Sir Iames Palmer one of the Gentlemen Huishers of the Privy Chamber succeeded him in the place of Chancellor after his decease Anno 1644. Fuller The Animadvertor is very discourteous to deny me the benefit of the Parenthesis If I be not mistaken The best Authors have their Ni fallor Si quid video Si bene intelligo and the like These are Grains allowed to all Pieces currant in payment Sir Thomas Roe was the last Chancellor who effectually officiated in his place Winsor before the year 1644. being a chief Garrison of the Parliament Tully calls a Consul chosen in the morning and put out before night a Vigilant Consul who never slept in all his Coâ—sulship But on another occasion one may say of Sir Iames Palmer otherwise a worthy Gentleman well deserving that and a better place that He was a very watchfull Chancellor who never slept in Winsor whilst invested in his Office Dr. Heylin He tels us thirdly That there belongs unto it one Register being alwayes the Dean of Winsor which is nothing so For though the Deans of late times have been Registers also yet ab initio non fuit sic it was not so from the beginning The first Dean was also Register being Iohn Boxul Anno 1557. Before which time beginning at the year 1414. there had been nine Registers which were not Deans but how many more before that time I am not able to say their names not being on Record Fuller I say not that the Register alwaies Was the Dean but being alwaies the Dean which relating to our and our fathers memories is right enough but it shall be reformed Dr. Heylin And fourthly he tels us That the Garter is one of the extraordinary Habiliments of the Knights of this Order their ordinary being onely the blew Ribbon about their necks with the Picture of St. George appendant and the Sun in his glory on the left shoulder of their Cloak whereas indeed the Garter is of common wearing and of such necessary use that the Knights are not to be seen abroad without it upon pain of paying two Crowns to any Officer of the Order who shall first claim it unlesse they be to take a journey in which case it is sufficient to wear a blew Ribbon under their Boots to denote the Garter Lastly whereas our Author tells us that the Knights hereof doe weare on the left shoulder of their Cloaks a Sun in his glory and attributes this wearing as some say to King Charles I will first put him out of doubt that this addition was King Charles his then shew him his mistake in the matter it self And first in the first year of that King Apr. 26. 1626. it was thus enacted at a publick Chapter of the Order viz. That all Knights and Companions of the Order shall wear upon the left part of their Cloaks Coats and riding Cassocks at all times when they shall not wear their Roabs and in all places of Assembly an Escocheon of the Armes of St. George id est a Crosse within a Garter not enriched with Pearls or Stones in token of the honour which they hold from the said most noble Order instituted and ordained for persons of the highest worth and honour Our Author secondly may perceive by this Act of the Kings that St. Georges Crosse within the Garter is the main device injoyned to be worn by all the Knights of that noble Order to which the adding of the Sun in his glory served but for ornament and imbellishing and might be either used or not used but onely for conformities sake as they would themselves Fuller This Sun in Glory affords me small light so that I can see but very little if any thing at all which I have to alter Dr. Heylin So many Errors in so few lines one shall hardly meet with Fuller Yea with more in fewer lines even in the Animadvertor himself in laying down the Root and Branches of the noble family of the Montagues Mistakes the more remarkable because done in correction of Mr. Sanderson and making more faults that He mendeth Or rather all is but one mistake resulting from a continued complication of omissions confusions and transpositions Advertisements on the History of the Reign of King Iames pag. 21 22. Fol. 490. Sir Edward Montague had three sonnes Edward the eldest Knight of the Bath c. The Author here is much mistaken in the House of the Montagues For first that Edward Montague who was Knight of the Bath c. was not Brother to Iames Bishop of Winchester and Henry Earl of Manchester but their Brothers Son that is to say the Son of another Edward their eldest Brother Secondly besides that Edward Iames and Henry there was another Brother whom the Author names not though he could not chuse but know the man viz. Sir Sidney Montague one of the Masters of the Requests to the late King Charles Therefore to set this matter right I am to let both him and his Readers know that Sir Edward Montague chief Justice in the time of King Edward the sixth was father of another Edward who lived peaceably and nobly in his own Country To whom succeeded a third Edward who sought for honour in the Wars and gained the reputation of a good Commander the elder Brother of Iames Henry and Sidney before mentioned and the father of a fourth Edward who
was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames Anno 1603. and afterwards created Lord Montague of Boughton in the nineteenth year of that King Anno 1621. which honourable Title is now enjoyed by his Son another Edward Anno 1658. And thirdly though I grant that Dr. Iames Montague Bishop of Winchester the second Brother of the four was of great power and favour in the time of King Iames. Thus far Dr. Heylin out of his Advertisements written in correction of Mr. Sandersons History of the Reign of King Iames. To rectifie this heap of Errors not to be paralleled in any Author pretending to the emendation of another I have here plainly set down the Male-pedegree of this Noble Numerous and successfull Family 1 Sir Edward Montague Lord Chief Justice in the Reign of King Henry the eighth 2 Sir Edward Montague a worthy Patriot in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Sir Walter Montague Knight second Son died without Issue Sir Henry Montague third Son Earl of Manchester Lord Chief Justice Lord Treasurer c. Edw. Montague now Earl of Manchester besides other Sons 3 Sir Edward Montague made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames never a Martialist and created by Him Baron Montague of Boughton dying in the beginning of the Civill Warres William Mountague Esq of the Middle-Temple second Son 4 Edward now Lord Montague of Boughton Ralfe Montague Esq second Son Edward Montague Esq eldest Son Christopher Montague third Son died before his Father being a most hopefull Gentleman Sir Charles Montague fourth Son who did good service in Ireland and left three Daughters and Co-heirs Iames Montague fifth Son Bishop of Winchester died unmarried Sir Sidney Montague sixth Son Master of the Requests Edward Montague now Admirall and one of the Lords of the Councel I presume the Animadvertor will allow me exact in this Family which hath reflected so fauourably upon me that I desire and indeed deserve to live no longer than whilest I acknowledg the same THE FOURTH BOOK From the first preaching of Wickliffe to the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the eighth Dr. Heylin OUR Author begins this Book with the Story of Wickliffe and continueth it in relating the successes of him and his followers to which he seems so much addicted as to Christen their Opinions by the name of the Gospel For speaking of such incouragements and helps as were given to Wickliffe by the Duke of Lancaster with other advantages which the conditions of those times did afford unto him he addeth That Fol. 129. We must attribute the main to Divine Providence blessing the Gospel A name too high to be bestowed upon the Fancies of a private man many of whose Opinions were so far from truth so contrary to peace and civil Order so inconsistent with the Government of the Church of Christ as make them utterly unworthy to be look'd on as a part of the Gospel Or if the Doctrines of Wickliffe must be call'd the Gospel what shall become of the Religion then establisht in the Realm of England and in most other parts of the Western World Were all but Wickliffes Followers relaps'd to Heathenism were they turn'd Jews or had imbrac'd the Law of Mahomet If none of these and that they still continued in the faith of Christ delivered to them in the Gospels of the four Evangelists and other Apostolicall Writers Wickliffes new Doctrines could not challenge the name of Gospel noâ— ought it to be given to him by the Pen of any But such is the humor of some men as to call every separation from the Church of Rome by the name of Gospel the greater the separation is the more pure the Gospel No name but that of Evangelici would content the Germans when they first separated from that Church and reformed their own And Harry Nichols when he separated from the German Churches and became the Father of Familists bestows the name of Evangelium Regni on his Dreams and Dotages Gospels of this kinde we have had and may have too many quot Capita tâ—t Fides as many Gospels in a manner as Sects and Sectaries if this world goe on Now as Wickliffes Doctrines are advanc'd to the name of Gospel so his Followers whatsoever they were must be called Gods servants the Bishops being said fol. 151. to be busie in persecuting Gods servants and for what crime soever they were brought to punishment it must be thought they suffered onely for the Gospel and the service of God A pregnant evidence whereof we have in the story of Sir Iohn Oldcastle accused in the time of King Harry the fifth for a design to kill the King and his Brethren actually in Arms against that King in the head of 20000 men attainted for the same in open Parliament and condemn'd to die and executed in St. Giles his Fields accordingly as both Sir Roger Acton his principal Counsellor and 37 of his Accomplices had been before For this we have not onely the Authority of our common Chronicles Walsingham Stow and many others but the Records of the Tower and Acts of Parliament as is confessed by our Author fol. 168. Yet coming out of Wickliffes Schools and the chief Scholar questionlesse which was train'd up in them he must be Registred for a Martyr in Fox his Calendar And though our Author dares not quit him as he sayes himself yet such is his tendernesse and respect to Wickliffes Gospel that he is loath to load his Memory with causlesse Crimes fol. 167. taxeth the Clergie of that time for their hatred to him discrediteth the relation of T. Walsingham and all later Authors who are affirm'd to follow him as the Flock their Belweather and finally leaves it as a special verdict to the last day of the Revelation of the righteous Iudgements of God Fuller First I fain would know whether the Animadvertor would be contented with the Condition of the Church of England as Wickliffe found it for Opinions and Practise and doth not earnestly desire a Reformation thereof I am charitably confident that He doth desire such an Emendation and therefore being both of us agreed in this Point of the convenience yea necessity thereof in the second place I would as fain be satisfied from the Animadvertor whether He conceived it possible that such Reformation could be advanced without Miracle all on a sodain so that many grosse Errors would not continue and some new one be superadded The man in the Gospel first saw men walking as trees before he saw perfectly Nature hath appointed the Twilight as a Bridge to passe us out of Night into Day Such false and wild opinions like the Scales which fell down from the Eyes of St. Paul when perfectly restored to his sight have either vanished or been banished out of all Protestant Confession Far be it from me to account the rest of England relapsed into Atheism or lapsed in Iudaism Turcism c. whom I behold as Erronious Christians
that the Doctor sayes is this that as the University of Cambridge was of a later foundation then Oxford was so it was long before it grew into esteem that is to say to such a measure of esteem at home or abroad before the building of Kings Colledge and the rest that followed but that the King might use those words in his discourse with the Bishop of Winchester And for the Narrative the Doctor whom I have talked with in this businesse doth not shame to say that he borrowed it from that great Treasury of Academical Antiquities Mr. Brian Twine whose learned Works stand good against all Opponents and that he found the passage justified by Sir Isaack Wake in his Rex Platonicus Two Persons of too great wit and judgement to relate a matter of this nature on no better ground than common Table-talk and that too spoke in merriment by Sir Henry Savil. Assuredly Sir Henry Savil was too great a Zealot for that University and too much a friend to Mr. Wake who was Fellow of the same Colledge with him to have his Table-talk and discourses of merriment to be put upon Record as grounds and arguments for such men to build on in that weighty Controversie And therefore when our Author tells us what he was told by Mr. Hubbard Mr. Hubbard by Mr. Barlow Mr. Barlow by Mr. Bust and Mr. Bust by Sir Henry Savil. It brings into my minde the like Pedegree of as true a Story even that of Mother Miso in Sir Philip Sidney telling the young Ladies an old Tale which a good old woman told her which an old wise man told her which a great learned Clerk told him and gave it him in writing and there she had it in her Prayer-book as here our Author hath found this on the end of his Creed Not much unlike to which is that which I finde in the Poet Quae Phaebo Pater omnipotens mihi Phoebus Apollo Praedixâ—t vobis Furiarum ego maxima pando That is so say What Iove told Phoebus Phoebus told to me And I the chief of Furies tell to thee Fuller The controversie betwixt us consists about a pretended Speech of King Henry the sixth to Bishop Wainfleet perswading him to found a Colledge at Oxford To whom the King is said to return Yea rather at Cambridge that if it be possible I may have two Universities in England A passage pregnant with an Inference which delivereth it self without any Midwifry to help it viz. that till the time of King Henry the sixth Cambridge was no or but an obsâ—ure University both being equally untrue The Animadvertor will have the speech grounded on good Authority whilest I more than suspect to have been the frolick of the fancie of S. Isaack Wake citing my Author for my beliefe which because removed four descents is I confesse of the lesse validity Yet is it better to take a Truth from the tenth than a Falshood from the first hand Both our Relations ultimately terminate in Sir Isaack Wake by the Animadvertor confessed the first printed Reporter thereof I confess S. I. Wake needed none but Sr. Isaack Wake to attest the truth of such thing which he had heard or seen himself In such Case his bare Name commandeth credit with Posterity But relating a passage done at distance some years before his great Grandfather was rockt in his Cradle we may and must doe that right to our own Iudgement as civily to require of him security for what he affirmeth especially seeing it is so clog'd with such palpable improbabilitie Wherefore till this Knights invisible Author be brought forth into light I shall remain the more confirmed in my former Opinion Rex Platonicus alone sounding to me in this point no more than Plato's Commonwealth I mean a meer Wit work or Brain-Being without any other real existence in Nature Dr. Heylin But to proceed Fol. 190. This was that Nevil who for Extraction Estate Alliance Dependents Wisdome Valour Success and Popularity was superiour to any English Subject since the Conquest Our Author speaks this of that Richard Nevil who was first Earl of Warwick in right of Anne his Wife Sister Heir of Henry Beauchamp the last of that Family and after Earl of Salisbury by discent from his Father a potent and popular man indeed but yet not in all or in any of those respects to be match'd with Henry of Bullenbrook son to Iohn of Gaunt whom our Author must needs grant to have lived since the time of the Conquest Which Henry after the death of his Father was Duke of Lancaster and Hereford Earl of Leicester Lincoln and Darby c. and Lord High Steward of England Possessed by the donation of King Henry the third of the County Palatine of Lancaster the forfeited Estates of Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester Robert de Ferrars Earl of Darby and Iohn Lord of Monmouth By the compact made between Thomas Earl of Lancaster and Alice his Wife of the Honor of Pomfret the whole Estate of the Earl of Lincoln and a great part of the Estates of the Earl of Salisbury of the goodly Territories of Ogmore and Kidwelly in Wales in right of his descent from the Chaworths of the Honor and Castle of Hartford by the grant of King Edward the third and of the Honor of Tickhill in Yorkshire by the donation of King Richard the second and finally of a Moity of the vast Estate of Humphry de Bohun Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton in right of his Wife So royal in his Extraction that he was Grandchilde unto one King Cousin-german to another Father and Grand-father to two more So popular when a private person and that too in the life of his Father that he was able to raise and head an Army against Richard the Second with which he discomfited the Kings Forces under the command of the Duke of Ireland So fortunate in his Successes that he not onely had the better in the Battail mentioned but came off with Honor and Renown in the War of Africk and finally obtained the Crown of England And this I trow renders him much Superior to our Authors Nevil whom he exceeded also in this particular that he dyed in his bed and left his Estates unto his Son But having got the Crown by the murther of his Predecessor it stai'd but two descents in his Line being unfortunately lost by King Henry the sixth of whom being taken and imprisoned by those of the Yorkish Faction our Author telleth us Fuller It never came into my thoughts to extend the Parallel beyond the line of Subjection confining it to such as moved only in that Sphere living and dying in the Station of a Subject and thus far I am sure I am â—ight that this our Nevil was not equal'd much lesse exceeded by any English-man since the Conquest As for Henry Duke of Lancaster his Coronet was afterwards turned into a Crown and I never intended comparison with one who became a
Soveraign having learnt primum in unoquoque Genere est excipiendum The Animadvertor hath here taken occasion to write much but thereof nothing to confute me and little to informe others He deserved to be this King Henry's Chaplain if living in that Age for his exactnesse in the distinct enumeration of all his Dignities and Estate before he came to the Crown Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 190. That States-men do admire how blinde the Policy of that Age was in keeping King Henry alive there being no such sure Prison as a Grave for a Capâ—ive King whose life though in restraint is a fair mark for the full Aim of mal-contents to practise his enlargement Our Author might have spar'd this Doctrine so frequently in practise amongst the worldly Politicians of all times and ages that there is more need of a Bridle to holde them in than a Spur to quicken them Parce precor stimulis fortiùs utere loris had been a wholesome caveat there had any friend of his been by to have advis'd him of it The murthering of depos'd and Captive Princes though too often practised never found Advocates to plead for it and much lesse Preachers to preach for it untill these latter times First made a Maxim of State in the School of Machiavel who layes it down for an Aphorisme in point of policy viz. that great Persons must not at all be touched or if they be must be made sure from taking Revenge inculcated afterwards by the Lord Gray who being sent by King Iames to intercede for the life of his Mother did underhand solicite her death and whispered nothing so much in Queen Elizabeths eares as Mortua non mordet if the Scots Queen were once dead she would never bite But never prest so home never so punctually appli'd to the case of Kings as here I finde it by our Author of whom it cannot be affirm'd that he speaks in this case the sense of others but positively and plainly doth declare his own No such divinity preach'd in the Schools of Ignatius though fitter for the Pen of a Mariana than of a Divine or Minister of the Church of England Which whether it passed from him before or since the last sad accident of this nature it comes all to one this being like a two-hand-sword made to strike on both sides and if it come too late for instruction will serve abundantly howsoever for the justification Another note we have within two leaves after as derogatory to the Honour of the late Archbishop as this is dangerous to the Estate of all Soveraign Princes if once they chance to happen into the hands of their Enemies But of this our Author will give me an occasion to speake more in another place and then he shall heare further from me Fuller My words as by me laid down are so far from being a two-handed sword they have neither hilt nor blade in them only they hold out an Handle for me thereby to defend my self I say States-men did admire at the preserving King Henry alive and render their reason If the Animadvertor takes me for a Statesman whose generall Judgement in this point I did barely relate he is much mistaken in me Reason of State and Reason of Religion are Stars of so different an Horison that the elevation of the One is the depression of the other Not that God hath placed Religion and Right Reason diametrically opposite in themselves so that where-ever they meet they must fall out and fight but Reason bowed by Politicians o their present Interest that is Achitophelesme is Enmity to Religion But the lesse we touch this harsh string the better musick Dr. Heylin Now to goe on Fol. 197. The Duke requested of King Richard the Earldome of Hereford and Hereditary Constableship of England Not so it was not the Earldom that is to say the Title of Earl of Hereford which the Duke requested but so much of the Lands of those Earls as had been formerly enjoy'd by the House of Lancaster Concerning which we are to know that Humphry de Bohun the last Earl of Hereford left behinde him two Daughters onely of which the eldest called Eleanor was married to Thomas of Woodsâ—ock Duke of Gloster Mary the other married unto Henry of Bullenbrook Earl of Darby Betwixt these two the Estate was parted the one moity which drew after it the Title of Hereford falling to Henry Earl of Darby the other which drew after it the Office oâ— Constable to the Duke of Gloâ—ester But the Duke of Glocester being dead and his estate coming in fine unto his Daughter who was not able to contend Henry the fifth forced her unto a sub-division laying one half of her just partage to the other moity But the issue of Henry of Bullenbrook being quite extinct in the Person of Edward Prince of Wales Son of Henry the sixth these three parts of the Lands of the Earls of Hereford having been formerly incorporated into the Duchy of Lancaster remained in possession of the Crown but were conceiv'd by this Duke to belong to him as being the direct Heir of Anne Daughter of Thomas Duke of Glocester and consequently the direct Heir also of the House of Hereford This was the sum of his demand Nor doe I finde that he made any suit for the Office of Constable or that he needed so to doe he being then Constable of England as his Son Edward the last Duke of Buckingham of that Family was after him Fuller The cause of their variance is given in differently by several Authors Some say that at once this Duke requested three things of King Richard 1. Power 2. Honor 3. Wealth First Power to be Hereditary Constable of England not to hold it as he did pro arbitrio Regis but in the right of his descent Secondly Honor the Earldome of Hereford Thirdly Wealth that partage of Land mentioned by the Animadvertor I instanced onely in the first the pride of this Duke being notoriously known to be more than his covetousnesse not dâ—nying but that the Kings denyal of the Land he requested had an effectual influence on his discontent Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 169. At last the coming in of the Lord Stanley with three thousand fresh men decided the controversie on the Earls side Our Author is out in this also It was not the Lord Stanley but his Brother Sir William Stanley who came in so seasonably and thereby turn'd the Scale and chang'd the fortune of the day For which service he was afterward made Lord Chamberlain of the new Kings Houshold and advanc'd to great Riches and Estates but finally beheaded by that very King for whom and to whom he had done the same But the King look'd upon this action with another eye And therefore when the merit of his service was interposed to mitigate the Kings displeasure and preserve the maâ— the King remembred very shrewdly that as he came soon enough to win
a Priest he could not but retain that Learning which he had acquired and reckon it amongst the fairest Flowers which adorned his Diadem Too great a Clerk he was to be called Beauclerk junior as iâ— he were as short in learning of King Henry the first whom commonly they called Beauclerk as he was in time though so our Author would fain have it Hist. Cam. p. 2.3 A little Learning went a great way in those early dayes which in this King would have made no shew in whose time both the Arts and Languages began to flourish And if our Author doth not suspect this Kings lack of learning he hath no reason to suspect his lack of time the work being small the glory great and helps enough at hand if he wanted any But of this enough Fuller No considerable variation from what I have written so that my Answer thereunto is not required Let him be another Beauclerk instead of Beauclerk junior Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 196. Which when finished as White-Hall Hampton-Court c. he either freely gave to the King or exchanged them on very reasonable considerations That Hampton-Court was either freely given by Wolsey or otherwise exchanged on very reasonable tearms I shall grant as easily but Whitehall was none of his to give as belonging to the Archbishop in the right of the See oâ— York and then called York place But the Kings Palace at Westminster being lately burnt and this house much beautified by the Cardinal the King cast a longing eye upon it and having attainted the Cardinal in a Praemunire he seised upon this house with all the furniture thereof as a part of the spoil Which when he found he could not hold as being the Archbishops and not the Cardinals he sent an Instrument unto him to be signed and sealed for the surrendry of his title and estate therein and not content to have forc'd it from him the Cardinal honestly declaring his inability to make good the grant he caused the Dean and Chapter of York to confirm the same unto him under their Common Seal in due form of Law which being obtained and much cost bestowed upon the House he caused it to be called Whitehall gratifying the Archbishops of York with another House belonging then to the See of Norwich and now called York-house Fuller My words are he either freely gave to the King or exchanged them but I say not FREELY on very reasonable tearms Now though he did not freely give Whitehall to the King he exchanged it though unwillingly on very reasonable considerations seeing for bignesse building and circuit of ground it then was worth Ten of York-house given to his See in lieu thereof However the Animadvertor is exact in some circumstances of this Exchange which I knew not before Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 170. So that lately there were maintained therein one Dean eight Canons three publique Professors of Divinity Hebrew and Greek sixty Students c. Our Author tells us Lib. 4. that he spent seventeen weeks in this University but he that looks on this and some other passages would think he had not tarryed there above seventeen hours Fuller Yea the Animadvertor would perswade his Reader That I never spent seaventeen weekes in Oxford or in any other University if all the errors be so many and great as he accuseth me of But I prepare my selfe to heare his Charge Dr. Heylin For besides his omitting of Dr. Newlin spoken of before and his giving of the name of Censors to the Deans of Magdalen which I finde afterwards Lib. 8. fol. 7. he is very much mistaken in the matters of Christ Church Fuller What Dr. Newlen again What if I called the Dean of Magdalen Colledge the Censor Grande piaculum Doe I not confesse it possible That my Cambridge Sibboleth may make me lisp and mispronounce the topicall offices in Oxford and publiquely desired pardon when such mistakes are committed Where hath the Animadvertor left or lost his ingenuity that so another may looke after and make use of it if so pleased Hereafter I shall remember that there is though not a Censor now living in Magdalen Colledge yet there was therein a Censurer the Animadvertor when no just cause is given him I expected rather that he would have thanked than censured me Who being a Cambridge man and finding their printed Catalogue of the presidents of Magdalen Colledge imperfect as set forth by their own Antiquary Bryan Twyne did amend the same by inserting in his due time no meaner man than Dr. Walter Haddon that famous and learned Civilian formerly omitted Dr. Heylin For first the three Professors of Divinity Hebrew and Greek are no necessary parts of that foundation nor can be properly said to be founded in it Till of late times they were and might be of other Colledges as they are at this present this Colledge being onely bound to pay them for their annuall Pensions fourty pounds a piece In after times King Iames annexed a Prebends place in this Church to the Professor of Divinity as King Charles did another to the Hebrew Reader But for the Greek Reader he hath only his bare pension from it and hath no other relation to it but by accident onely the last Greek Reader of this House being Dr. Iohn Perin who dyed in the yeare 1615 Fuller I say not that those three professors were founded in that Colledge but that they are maintained therein And seeing the Colledge as the Animadvertor confesseth payes them their salaries my words are subject to no just Exceptions Dr. Heylin And secondly he is very far short in the number of Students diminishing them from an hundred to sixtie there being an Hundred and one of that foundation by the name of Students equivalent to the Fellowes of most other Colledges in the Revenues of their place and all advantages and incouragements in the way of learning But this perhaps hath somwhat in it of design that by making the foundations of Oxford to seeme lesse than they are those in the other University might appear the fairer Fuller 'T is a meere pen-slip and shall be amended accordingly God knowes I hatch no such envious design who could wish that not onely sixty but six score six hundred were founded c. therein Alwayes provided That the Nursery exceed not the Orchard And that the Universities by too large a Plantation breed not more Scholars than the Kingdome is able to prefer and imploy Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 171. And here Wolsey had provided him a second Wife viz. Margaret Countesse of Alanzon sister to Francis King of France As much out in his French as his English Heraldry For first the Lady Margaret here spoken of was never Countesse though sometimes Dutchesse of Alanzon as being once wife to Charles the fourth Duke thereof And secondly at the time when King Henries Divorce from Queen Katherine was first agitated this Lady was not in a capacity of being projected for a
from Spalato nunc quidem parum Colitur ob Turcarum Viciniam A judicious Writer valuing his Arch-bishoprick as it seemeth to advantage estimateth it annually at 3000 Crowns which falleth a fourth part short of 1000 pounds sterling a summe exceeded in most of our middling Bishopricks Besides the Arch-bishoprick of Spalato was clogged and incumbred with a Pension of 500 Crowns the sixth part of his Revenues payable with the arrears by the Popes Command to one Andrutius The payment of which Sixt part went as much against Spalato's stomach as the payment of the Fifts now a dayes doth from the present Possessors to sequestred Minister Dr. Heylin He could not hope to mend his fortunes by his coming hither or to advance himself to a more liberal entertainment in the Church of England than what he had attained to in the Church of Rome Covetousness therefore could not be the motive for leaving his own Estate of which he had been possessed 14. years in our Authors reckoning to betake himself to a strange Country where he could promise himself nothing but protection and the freedome of conscience Our Author might have said with more probability that covetousness and not conscience was the cause of his going hence no bait of profit or preferment being laid before him to invite him hither as they were both by those which had the managing of that designe to allure him hence c. Fuller Dark men are the best Comment upon themselves whose precedent are best expounded by their subsequent actions Who so considereth the rapacity and tenacity of this Prelate in England will easily believe that a two-handed covetousness moved him to leave his native Country and come over hither One to save the other to gain To save that is to evade the payment of the aforesaid Pension with the arrears thereof To gain promising himself as by the future will appear not only protection but preferment not only safety but more plenty by coming hither He had Learning enough to deserve Ambition enough to desire Boldness enough to beg and presumed K. Iames had bounty enough to give him the highest and best prâ—ferment in England and he who publickly did beg York may be presumed privately to have promised the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury to himself Dr. Heylin All mens mouths saith our Author were now filled with discourse of Prince Charles his Match with Donna Maria the Infanta of Spain The Protestants grieved thereat fearing that his Marriage would be the Funerals of their Religion c. The business of the Match with Spain hath already sufficiently been agitated between the Author of the History of the Reign of King Charles and his Observator And yet I must add something to let our Author and his Reader to understand thus much that the Protestants had no cause to fear such a Funeral Fuller Hâ—d I said that the Protestants justly feared this Marriage then the Animadvertor had justly censured whereas now grant they feared where no fear was he findeth fault where no fault is Historians may and must relate those great and general impressions which are made on the spirits of people and are not bound to justifie the causes thereof to be sound and sufficient Ten thousand Persons of quality are still alive who can â—nd will attest that a pannick fear for that Match invaded the Nation Dr. Heylin They knew they lived under such a King who loved his Sovereignty too well to quit any part thereof to the Pope of Rome especially to part with that Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters which he esteemed the fairest flower in the Royal Garland They knew they lived under such a King whose interest it was to preserve Religion in the same state in which he found it and could not fear but that he would sufficiently provide for the safety of it Fuller Mr. Camden writing of the Match of Q. Elizabeth with Mounsier younger Brother to the King of France hath this presage that when Mr. Stubs whose hand was cut off said God save the Queen the multitude standing by held their peace rendring this as one reason thereof Ex odio Nuptiarum quas religione exitiosas futuras praesagierunt Out of hatred to that Match which they presag'd would be destructive to Religion Now may not the Animadvertor as well tax Mr. Camden for inserting this needless Note and tell the world that no Princess was more skild in Queen craft than Q Elizabeth and that this presage of her People was falsly foâ—â—deâ— I detract not from the policy or piety head or heart of K. Iames but this I say let Sovereigns be never so good their Subjects under them will have their own Ioyes Griefs Loves Hatreds Hopes Fears sometimes caused sometimes causless and Historâ—ans have an equal Commission to report both to posterity Dr. Heylin If any Protestants feared the funeral of their Religion they were such Protestants as had been frighted out of their wits as you know who used to call the Puritans or such who under the name of Protestants had contrived themselves into a Faction not only against Episcopacy but even Monarchy also Fuller I profess I know not who used to call Puritans Protestants frighted out of their wits who ever it was it was not Michael the Arch-angel who would not rail on the Devil By Protestants I mean Protestants indeed or if you will rather have it Christians sound in their Iudgement uncontriv'd into any Faction so far from being Anti-episcopal that some of them were Members of the Hierarchy and so far from destroying Monarchy that since they endeavoured the preservation thereof with the destruction of their own Estaâ—es As worthy Doctor Hackwel Arch-Deacon of Surrey was outed his Chaplainâ— place for his opposing the Match when first tendred to Prince Henry so many qualified as aforesaid concurred with his â—udgement in the resumption of the Match with K. Charles notwithstanding they were justly and fully possessed of integrity and ability of K. Iames. Their seriously considering the Zâ—â—l of the Spanish to promote Popery the activity of the Romish Priests to gain Proselites their dexterous sinisterity in seducing Souls the negligence of two many English Ministers in feeding their Flocks the plâ—usibility oâ— Popery to vulgar Iudgements the lushiousness thereof to the palaâ— of flesh and Blood the fickleness of our English Nation to embrace Novelties the wavering of many unsettled minds the substilty of Satan to advance any mischievous designe the justice of God to leave a sinful Nation to the Spirit of delusion feared whether justly or no let the Reader judge that the Spanish Match as represented attended with a Tolleration might prove fatall to the Protestant Religion Dr. Heylin And to these Puritans nothing was more terrible than the Match with Spain fearing and perhaps justly fearing that the Kings alliance with that Crown might arme him both with power and counsel to suppress those Practices which have since prov'd the funeral of the Church of England Fuller
God and that Diana was none of their originall Deity What if I stumbled yea and should fall too Hath not the Animadvertor read Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall rise again Dr. Heylyn Having placed King Charls on the Throne our Author saith fol. 117. On the fourteenth day of May following King James his Funeralls were performed very solemnly in the Collegiat Church at Westminster Not on the fourteenth but the fourth saith the Author of the History of the Reign of King Charls and both true alike It neither was on the fourth nor on the fourteenth but the seventh of May on which those solemn Obsequies were performed at Westminster Of which if he will not take my word let him consult the Pamphlet called The Observator observed fol. 6. and he shall be satisfied Our Author's Clock must keep time better or else we shall never know how the day goes with him Fuller I will take his word without going any further and this erroneous Date in my next Edition shall God-willing be mended accordingly That Clock which alwaies strikes true may well be forfeited to the Lord of the Manour though mine I hope will be found to go false as seldom as another's Dr. Heylyn Our Author saith As for Dr. Preston c. His party would perswade us that he might have chose his own Mitre And some of his party would perswade us That he had not onely large parts of sufficient receipt to manage the Broad Seal it self but that the Seal was proffered to him fol. 131. But we are not bound to believe all which is said by that Party who looked upon the Man with such reverence as came near Idolatry Fuller I do not say they do perswade but they would perswade us And here the common expression takes place with me Non persuadebunt etiamsi persuaserint Grant I do not believe all which is said by his Party yet I believe it was my duty as an Historian to take notice of so remarkable a passage and to report it to Posterity charging my Margin as I have done with the name and place of the Author wherein I found it related Dr. Heylyn His Principles and Engagements were too well known by those which governed affairs to venture him unto any such great trust in Church or State and his activity so suspected that he would not have been long suffered to continue Preacher at Lincolns-Inne As for his intimacy with the Duke too violent to be long-lasting it proceeded not from any good opinion which the Duke had of him but that he found how instrumentall he might be to manage that prevailing Party to the King's advantage But when it was found that he had more of the Serpent in him than of the Dove and that he was not tractable in steering the Helm of his own Party by the Court-Compass he was discountenanced and laid by as not worth the keeping He seemed the Court-Meteor for a while raised to a suddain height of expectation and having flasht and blaz'd a little went out again and was as suddainly forgotten Fuller This is onely Additionall and no whit Opposite to what I have written and therefore I am not obliged to return any answer thereunto Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 119. Next day the King comming from Canterbury met her at Dover whence with all solemnity she was conducted to Somerset-House in London where a Chappel was now prepared for her Devotion with a Covent adjoyning of Capuchin-Fryers according to the Articles of her marriage In all this nothing true but that the new Queen was conducted with all solemnity from Dover to London For first although there was a Chappel prepared yet was it not prepared for her nor at Somerset-house The Chappel which was then prepared was not prepared for her but the Lady Infanta built in the Kings house of St. Iames at such time as the Treaty with Spain stood upon good tearms and then intended for the Devotions of the Princess of Wales not the Queen of England Secondly the Articles of the Marriage make no mention of the Capuchin-Friers nor any Covent to be built for them The Priests who came over with the Queen were by agreement to be all of the Oratorian Order as less suspected by the English whom they had never provok'd as had the Iesuits and most other of the Monastick Orders by their mischievous practises But these Oratorians being sent back with the rest of the French Anno 1626. and not willing to expose themselves to the hazard of a second expulsion the Capuchins under Father Ioseph made good the place The breach with France the action at the Isle of Rhee and the losse of Rochel did all occur before the Capuchins were thought of or admitted hither And thirdly some years after the making of the Peace between the Crowns which was in the latter end of 1628. and not before the Queen obtain'd that these Friers might have leave to come over to her some lodgings being fitted for them in Somerset-house and a new Chappel then and there built for her Devotion Fuller Here and in the next Note the Animadvertor habet confitentem reum And not to take covert of a Latine expression in plain English I confess my mistake which is no originall but a derivative errour in me who can if so pleased alledge the printed Author who hath misguided me Yet I will patiently bear my proportion of guilt and will provide God-willing for the amendment in the next Edition Thus being so supple to confesse my fault when convinced thereof I therefore may and will be the more stiff in standing on the tearms of mine own integrity when causlesly accused But if the Animadvertor be too Insulting over me let him remember his own short view of the life of King Charls vvhere he tells us of the three Welch Generals that they submitted to mercy which they never tasted naming Laughern Powel and Poyer whereas two of them did find mercy a little male-child being taken up who did cast Lots at White-hall and by Providence ordering Casualty Laughern and Powel were pardoned and lately if not still alive But I forgive the Doctor for this errour being better then a truth two Gentlemen gaining their lives thereby Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 121. The Bishop of Lincoln Lord Keeper was now daily descendant in the Kings favour who so highly distasted him that he would not have him as Dean of Westm. to perform any part of his Coronation As little truth in this as in that before For first the Bishop of Lincoln was not Lord Keeper at the time of the Coronation Secondly if he had been so and that the King was so distasted with him as not to suffer him to assist at his Coronation how came he to be suffered to be present at it in the capacity of Lord Keeper For that he did so is affirmed by our Author saying That the King took a scrowl
declare his power over his people So that the King got not one single mite of Title more than he had before this four-fold Acclamation Dr. Heylyn And this I call piece of new State-Doctrine never known before because I find the contrary in the Coronation of our former Kings For in the form and manner of the Coronation of King Edward 6. described in the Catalogue of Honour set forth by Thomas Mills of Canterbury Anno 1610. we find in thus The King being carried by certain noble Courtiers in another Chair unto the four sides of the Stage was by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared unto the people standing round about both by Gods and Mans Lawes to be the right and lawfull King of England France and Ireland and proclaimed that day to be Crowned Consecrated and Annointed unto whom he demanded Whether they would obey and serve or not By whom it was again with a loud cry answered God save the King and Ever live his Majesty The same we have in substance but in fewer words in the Coronation of King Iames where it is said that The King was shewed to the People and that they were required to make acknowledgement of their allegiance to his Majesty by the Arch-Bishop which they did by acclamations Assuredly the difference is exceeding vast betwixt obeying and consenting betwixt the Peoples acknowledging their alliegance and promising to obey and serve their lawfull Soveraign and giving their consent to his Coronation as if it could not be performed without such consent Fuller The hinge of the controversie turneth on the criticall difference betwixt these two phrases Acknowledging their allegiance to their Soveraigne Giving consent to his Coronation The Animadvertor endeavours to widen the distance betwixt them and make the difference vast yea exceeding vast against the will of the words vvhich are well inclined to an agreement there being a Vicinity yea Affinity betvvixt them since such who vvill not acknowledge their Allegiance will not give-consent to his Coronation and such vvho will consent thereunto will acknowledge their allegiance I refer my self wholly in this difference to the Arbitration of Mr. Mills the same Author and Edition cited by the Animadvertor who speaking of the antient form of the Coronation of the Kings of England in reference to this passage thus expresseth himself After the King hath a little reposed himself in the Chair or Throne erected upon the Scaffold then the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall go unto the four squares of the Scaffold and with a loud voice Ask the good liking of the people concerning the Coronation of the King Small I am sure is the difference betwixt consenting and good-liking However the Kings Coronation though following after did not depend on such consent good-liking or acknowledging of Allegiance seeing amongst our English Kings an Vsurper's Title was not the better with nor a lawfull Prince's the worse without such ceremonies of State Dr. Heylyn pag. 202. Nor had the late Arch-Bishop been reproacht so generally by the common people and that reproach publish'd in severall Pamphlets for altering the King's Oath at his Coronation to the infringing of the Liberties and diminution of the Rights of the English Subjects had he done them such a notable piece of service as freeing them from all promises to obey and serve and making the Kings Coronation to depend on their consent For Bishop Laud being one of that Committee which was appointed by the King to review the form and order of the Coronation to the end it might be fitted to some Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England which had not been observ'd before must bear the greatest blame in this alteration if any such alteration had been made as our Author speaks of because he was the principall man whom the King relied on in that business Fuller This proceedeth on the former foundation which being false and confuted the superstructure sinketh therewith Dr. Heylyn But our Author tells us in his Preface that this last Book with divers of the rest were written by him when the Monarchy was turn'd into a State And I dare believe him He had not else so punctually conform'd his language to the State-doctrin by which the making and consequently the unmaking of Kings is wholly vested in the People according to that Maxim of Buchanan Populo jus est imperium cui velit deferat than which there is not a more pestilent and seditious passage in his whole Book De jure Regni apud Scotos though there be nothing else but treason and sedition in it Fuller What I wrote in this point I wrote in my PREFACE that it might be obvious to every Eye viz. That the first three Books of my Church History were for the main written in the Reign of the late King the other nine since Monarchy was turn'd into a State My language in the latter Books forbeareth such personall passages on the King and his Posterity which in his life-time were as consistent with my loyalty as since inconsistent with my safety I will instance in one of them Church-History Book 3. Page 52. Some of whose Offspring King Iohn 's shall flourish in free and full power on the English Throne when the Chair of Pestilence shall be burnt to ashes and neither Tripple Crown left at Rome to be worn nor any Head there which shall dare to wear it But if the Animadvertor or any by him employed can in any my nine last Books discover a syllable sounding to the disparagement of the Kings person or power to any impartiall Ear let me who so long fed on the King's large diet be justly famished for my unthankfulnesse As for Buchanan as I admire his Poetry so I dislike his Divinity especially in this point desiring that his Principles may never come South the River Tweed and if offering it may be drowned in their passage Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds f. 123. Then as many Earls and Barons as could conveniently stand about the Throne did lay their hands on the Crown on his Majesty's head protesting to spend their bloods to maintain it to him and his lawfull Heirs A promise faithfully performed by many of them some losing their lives for him in the open field others exhausting their Estates in the defence of his many more venturing their whole fortunes by adhering to him to a confiscation A Catalogue of which last we may find subscribed to a Letter sent from the Lords and Commons of Parliament assembled in Oxford to those at Westminster Anno 1643. And by that Catalogue we may also see what and who they were who so ignobly brake faith vvith him all those whose names we find not in that subscription or presently superadded to it being to be reckoned amongst those who instead of spending their blood to maintain the Crown to Him and to his lawful Successors concurred vvith them either in opere or in voto who despoiled him of it And to say truth they were revvarded as
painted unto us On the other side The greatest disadvantage to the English was their owne injurious Modesty observed alwayes to over-prize strangers above themselves being ignorant of their owne Strength and Valour in War because they had been so long accustomed to Peace In all this Paragraph the Animadvertor and the Author may go abrest in their Judgments and to prevent Quarrells the Animadvertor shall have the right Hand that they do not justle one the other Dr. Heylyn And had the Scots been once broken and their Country wasted which had been the easiest thing in the World for the English Army c. Fuller This is consonant to what He hath written of the same Subject in the Short view of the Life and Reign of King Charls that the King set forth against the Scots accompanied with such an Army of Lords and Gentlemen as might ASSURE him of a cheap and easie VICTORY His Majesty I am sure had as it became a good Christian a more modest and moderate apprehension of his owne Army such as might give him pregnant Hopes but no ASSURANCE of Victory I never heard of an ASSURANCE-Office for the successe of Battels But all this is written by the Animadvertor like an Historian but not like a Doctor in Divinity This mindeth me of a Passage of King Henry the Second who standing on the Cliffes about St. David's in Wales and there viewing Ireland I with my Ships am able saith he to make a Bridge over it if it be no further Which speech of his being related to Murchard King of Lemster in Ireland he demanded if he added not to his speech with the Grace of God When it was answered that he made no mention of God Then said he more cheerfully I feare him the lesse which trusteth more to Himselfe then to the Help of GOD. When the Animadvertor tells us that it had been the easiest thing in the world for the English to have broken the Scots Army I must tell him here was one thing in the world easier namely the inserting of these words by God's Ordinary blessing or something to that purpose Otherwise we know who it was that said that the race is not to the Swift nor the battell to the Strong neither yet bread to the Wise nor yet riches to men of Understanding nor yet favours to men of Skill time and chance happeneth to them all Time was when the Animadvertor did needlessely Lavish a GOD-BLESSE God blesse not onely our Historian but Baronius himselfe from being held an Author of no * Credit He that then spent it when he should have spared it spares it now when he should have spent it Dr Heylyn The Scots had been utterly disabled from creating Trouble to their King disturbances in their owne Church and destruction to England So true is that of the wise Historian Conatus subditorum irritos imperia semper promovêre the Insurrections of the People when they are supprest do alwayes make the King stronger and the Subjects weaker Fuller All this proceeds as the former on the Supposition that the English had beaten the Scots which though in the eye of flesh probable was uncertain The Latines and English have the same word MOMENTUM MOMENT which signifieth as Time of the least Continuance so matters of most Concernment to shew that the Scales of Successe which God alone holds in his Hand are so ticklish that the MOTE of a MOMENT may turne them on either side which is the reason why no man can positively conclude of future Contingencies Dr. Heylyn The Sermon ended we chose Dr. Stewart Dean of Chicester Prolocutor and the next day of Sitting We met at Westminister in the Chappell of King Henry the Seventh Had it not been for these and some other passages of this Nature our Author might have lost the Honour of being took notice of for one of the Clerks of the Convocation and one not of the lowest forme but passing for some of those wise men who began to be fearfull of themselves and to be jealous of that power by which they were enabled to make new Canons How so Because it was feared by the Iudicious himself still for one lest the Convocation whose power of medling with Church-matters had been bridled up for many yeares before should now enabled with such Power over-act their Parts especially in such dangerous and discontented times as it after followeth Wisely fore-seen But then why did not WEE that is to say our Author and the rest of those Wise and Iudicious Persons fore-warne their weak and unadvised Brethren of the present danger or rather Why did they go along with the rest for company and follow thâ—se who had before out-run the Canons by their additionall Conformity Fuller Dear Honour indeed Honos Onus for which I was fin'd with the Rest of my Brethren two hundred Pounds by the House of Commons though not put to pay it partly because it never passed the House of Lords partly because they thought it needlesse to shave their Haire whose Heads they meant to cut-off I meane they were so Charitable as not to make them pay a Fine whose Place in Cathedralls they intended not long after to take away I insert the word WE not to credit my self but to confirm the Reader relations from an eye and ear-witness meeting with the best belief Such insinuations of the Writer being present at the actions he writeth of want not precedents in holy and profane Authors Hence it is collected that St. Luke accompanied St. Paul in his dangerous voyage to Rome Act. 27.37 WE were all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls Let the Animadvertor lay what load he pleaseth on me whose back is broad and big enough to bear it but O let him spare my worthy friends some now glorious Saints in Heaven Bishop Westfield Dr. Holmsworth and some of the highest repute still alive whom I forbear to name It comforteth me not a little that God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to conâ—ound the wise Dr. Heylyn How wise the rest were I am not able to say But certainly our Author shew'd himself no wiser than Waltham's Calf who ran nine mile to suck a Bull and came home athirst as the Proverb saith His running unto Oxford which cost him as much in seventeen weeks as he had spent in Cambridge in seventeen years was but a second sally to the first Knight-Errantry Fuller I can patiently comport with the Animadvertor's Ieers which I behold as so many Frogs that it is pretty and pleasing to see them hop and skip about having not much harm in them but I cannot abide his Railings which are like to Toads swelling with venom within them Any one may rail who is bred but in BILLINGS-GATE-COLLEDGE and I am sorry to hear such language from the Animadvertor a Doctor in Divinity seeing railing is as much beneath a Doctor as against Divinity When Dr. Turner a Physitian
these three notions the point in hand doth fall I am not bound to discover Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 207. Now began the great and generall purgation of the Clergy in the Parliaments Quarâ—ers c. Some of whose offences were so foul it is a shame to report them crying to justice for punishment And it was time that such a purgation should be made if their offences were so â—oul as our Author makes them But first our Author might have done well to have satisfied himselfe in all particulars before he rais'd so foul a scandall on his Christian Brethren and not to have taken them up upon hear-say or on no better grounds then the credit of the first Century which he after mentions Which modesty he might have learnt 1. From the Author of that scandalous and infamous Pamphlet whatsoever he was desisting from the writing of a second Century as being sensible that the Subject was generally odious And certainly if it were odious in that party to write the same it must be much more odious in our Author to defend the writing He might have learnt it 2. from the most excellent Master in the Schools of Piety and Morality which this Age hath given us even the King himselfe who as our Author telleth us fol. 208. would not give way that any such Book should be written of the vicious lives of some Parliament Ministers when such an undertaking was presented to him But if their Offences were so foul the Writer of the Century had some reason for what he did and our Author had some reason for what he saith especially if the putting in of one Herb had not spoil'd all the Pot of Pottage But first Qui alterum incusat probri seipsum intueri oporiet is a good rule in the Schools of Prudence and therefore it concerns our Author to be sure of this that all things be well at home both in his owne Person and in his Family before he throw so much foul dirt in the face of his Brethren In which respect Manutius was conceived to be the unfittest man in Rome as indeed he was to perform the Office of a Ceâ—sor though most ambitiously he affected and attain'd that Dignity of whom it is affirmed by Velleius Paterculus Nec quicquam objicere potuit Adolescentibus quod non agnosceret Senex that is to say that he was able to object no crime to the younger sort of which himselfe being then well in years was not also guilty And secondly Non temerè de fratre malt aliquid credendum esse was antiently a Rule in the Schools of Charity which our Author either hath forgotten or else never learned He would otherwise have examin'd the Proofs before he had pronounced the Sentence and not have positively condemned these poor men for such foul offences as cryed to justice for punishment and of such scandalous enormities as were not fit to be covered with the Mantle of Charity But he takes himselfe up at last with a doubt that there might want sufficient proof to convict them of it Nothing saith he can be said in their excuse if what was the main matter their crimes were sufficiently proved And if they were not sufficiently proved as indeed they were not no witnesse coming in upon Oath to make good the Charge our Author hath sufficiently prov'd himselfe an unrighteous Iudge an Accusator stratrum as we know who is in accusing and condemning them for scandalous enormities and foul offences branding them by the name of Baal and calling them unsavory Salt not fit to be thrown upon the Dunghill yet all this while to be unsatisfied in the sufficiency of the proof Decedis ab Officio Religiosi Iudicis is the least that can be said here and I say no more Onely I note what sport was made by that Century then and may be made hereafter of this part of the History in the Court of Rome to which the libellous Pamphlets of Martin-Mar-Prelate publisht in Queen Elizabeths time serv'd for Authentick Witnesses and sufficient evidence to disgrace this Church Nor have they spar'd to look upon this whole businesse as an act of divine Retaliation in turning so many of the Regular and Orthodox Clergy out of their Benefices and Preferments by our new Reâ—ormers under colour of some Scandalous Enormities by them committed under pretence whereof so many poor Monks and Fryers were as they say turn'd out of their Cells with like humanity by those which had the first hammering of the Reformation here by law estalisht Fuller First as to my selfe who am most knowing of my owne infirmities I will confesse them to God and not plead for them before man If God's restraining grace hath bridled â—e from Scandalous obnoxiousnesse may he alone have the honour thereof As for other paines and spots in my Soul I hope that He be it spoken without the least verball reflection who is the Fullers sope will scoure them forth with his Merit that I may appear clean by Gods Mercy I know full well who it is that is tearmed the Accuser of his Brethren even Satan himself Hence it is that one observeth he hath his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabolus Divell and so also in Italian French Spanish with some small variation It being good reason that he should keep his name in all Countries who keeps his nature in all places being a constant delator and traducer of Gods servants often without cause alwayes without measure But I hope I may say in this point Get thee behind me Satan I meane I may justly thrust both Name and Thing farre from me even to light where it deserveth Some of my Brethren or Fathers rather I reverence and admire for their eminences others I commend and will endeavour to imitate others guilty of humane infirmities I desire to conceale their faults and that not taking effect to excuse their persons Such as are past my pleading for fall under my pitty and have my Prayers that God would amend them But willingly much lesse causlessely I will not accuse any and my Pen and Tongue hath been and shall be tender of their Reputations Proceed I now to what I have written concerning the Sequestred Clergy of England wherein I will freely God-willing unbosome my mind and if I perish I perish I appeal to the Searcher of hearts if I did not desire to do them all just favour as I hope to find favour from him when I most need it But as Marriners when they have both Wind and Tide against them cannot make their desired Port in a straight Line and therefore are fain to fetch a compass Semnably I desiring to graâ—ifie my Brethren and not destroy my selfe was â—aine to go about that in any measure I might with safety do it And there was no compassing of it without compaceing it No reaching the End without going out of the Way First therefore I did acknowledge what indeed could not be concealed and what
but on this condition to have all the Land he sued for with the full profits thereof to a minute past and his own costs and charges to a farthing Such and no other agreement will the court of Rome condescend unto Dr. Heylyn But as our Author sayeth that many of the Arch-bishops Equals adjudged that designe of his to be impossible so I may say without making any such odious Comparisons that many of our Author's betters have thought otherwise of it Fuller Amongst which many of his Betters the Animadvertor undoubtedly is one of the Principal Be it so I will endeavour to be as good as I can and will not envy but honour my Betters whose number God increase Sure I am amongst these many of my Betters the difference betwixt us and the Papists is made never a whit the better there remaining still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though many may manifest much good wil to advance nothing hath taken Effect to compleate such a composition Dr. Heylyn It was the Petulancy of the Puritans on the one side and the pragmaticalness of 〈◊〉 Jesuits on the other side which made the breach wider than it was at 〈◊〉 first and had these hot Spirits on both sides been charmed a while moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equal tearms as vvould have laid a sure foundation for the peace of Christendome Fuller Let us behold the Originall breach betvvixt the Church of Rome and Us. I name the Church of Rome first because confident they caused it so that vve may say unto them Pharez The breach be upon them This breach vvas made before either Puritans or Iesuits ever appeared in England As the Animadvertor skill'd in their dates knovveth full vvell It is therefore suspitious that the Wound vvhich vvas made before these parties vvere in being vvill continue if both of them vvere extinct I behold the Colledge of Sorbonists in Paris as far from Jesuitical pragmaticalness and Dr. I. Cosens as one free from puritanical petulancy Yet though the said Doctor hath complyed vvith them so far as he could doe vvith Christian prudence salâ—â conscientiâ And though the Sorbonists are beheld as the most learned and moderate Papists yet I cannot hear of any Accommodation betvvixt them but rather the contrary even in the point of the Apocrypha a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor they being as unvvilling to allovv so few as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical And here let me be the Animadvertor's Remembrancer of vvhat perchance he vvould vvillingly forget hovv it vvas not long since he tvvitted me for saying that the difference about the posture of the Communion Table might be accommodated vvith mutual moderation and novv he holdeth By the same means an expedient betvvixt us and the Papists may be advanced Dr. Heylyn Moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equall termes as would have laid a sure foundation for the Peace of Christendome Fuller My name is Thomas It maketh me the more distrust thereof because I see at this day most cruel Wars betwixt the Crowns of Spain and France both which agree to the heighth in the same Romish Religion I am sorry their differences are paralleled with a sadder instance of the deadly Wars betwixt the Swede and Dane both Lutherans alike And our Sea Wars betwixt us and the Hollander both wel paied for are not yet forgotten All I collect is this that if the agreement betwixt us and Papists were expedited to morrow yet so long as there be severall Greatnesses in Christendome there will be â—â—stlings betwixt them And although they are pleased to score their differences for the greater credit on the account of Conscience and Religion yet what saith St. Iames From whence comes Warres and fightings amongst you Come they not hence even of your Lusts that war in your members And it is a sad truth Such the corruption of the humane Nature that Mens Lives and Lusts will last and end together Dr. Heylyn Now that all these in the Church of Rome are not so stiffely wedded to their own Opinions as our Author makes them appears first by the Testimony of the Archbishop of Spaâ—ato declaring in the high Commission a little before his going hence that He acknowledged the Articles of the Church of England to be true or profitable at the least and none of them Heretical Fuller The Animadvertor hath instanced in an ill Person and in an ill time of the same Person It was just when he was a taking his return to his vomit and to leave the Land When knowing himselfe obnoxious and justly under the lash for his covetous compliance with forreign Invitations of King Iames to get leave to be gone he would say any thing here and unsay it againe elsewhere As little heed is to be given to such a Proteus as hold is to be taken of Him Dr. Heylyn It appears secondly by a Tractate of Franciscus de Sancta Clara as he calleth himself in which he putteth such a Glosse upon the nine and thirty Articles of the Church of England as rendreth them not inconsistent with the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Fuller By that Parenthesis as he calleth himselfe it is left suspitious that his true Name was otherwise And he who would not use his own but a false Name might for ought I know put a false Glosse upon our Articles and though he PUTTETH such a sense upon them it is questionable whether our Articles will accept thereof To PUT something upon sometimes answers to the Latin Word IMPONERE which is to deceive and delude and sometimes is Equivalent to our English Word IMPOSE which soundeth the forceable or fraudulent Obtruding of a thing against the Will and Mind of Him or That whereon it is imposed Lastly the Animadvertor cannot warrant us that the rest of the Church of Rome will consent to the Iudgement of Franciscus de Sancta Clara and if not then is the breach betwixt us left as wide as it was before Dr. Heylyn And if without Prejudice to the Truth the Controversies might have been composed it is most probable that other Protestant Churches would have sued by their Agents to be included in the Peace Fuller The Animadvertor's Prudent and Politick Probability that other Protestant Churches would by their Agents sollicite an Inclusion into such a peace mindeth me of the Distich wrot on the sumptuous Cradle gorgiously trimmed for the Child of Queen Mary by Philip King of Spain Quam Mariae Sobolem Deus Optime Summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege O may the Child to Mary God hath given For ENGLANDS good be guarded safe by Heaven Whereas indeed this Child pretended at White-hall may be said born at Nonsuch proving nothing but a Mock-mother-Tympany I cannot but commend the kindnesse and care of the Animadvertor for keeping this Babe when born I mean the agreement betwixt Us and the Papists But let us behold it born see
in Hampton-Court Conference p. 9. et sequentibus violently prosecuteth Mr. Fuller unto his death in Prison p. 55 56. ¶ 29 30. his death 34. vindicated from cruelty covetousness and Popish inclinations 44 45 46. his crossing a Court project 47. BANGOR the Monks therein massacred b. 2. ¶ 9. Peter BARO why leaving his Professours place Hist. of Cam. p. 125. ¶ 21. different judgements about his departure ¶ 22. William BARRET Fellow of Cajus Coll. his solemn recantation Hist. of Cam. p. 150. BARDS their powerfull practices on the Pagan Britans Cent. 1. ¶ 4. BARNWELL nigh Cambridge the Original of Midsummer fair therein Hist. of Cam. p. 3. ¶ 9. a Priory therein founded by Paine Peverell p. 7. ¶ 16. BASIL Councill English Ambassadours sent thither b. 4. p. 178. observations on their Commission p. 179 180. John BASTWICK his accusation b. 11. p. 151. ¶ 58. his plea 152. ¶ 64. his speech on the Pillory p. 155. ¶ 71. BATTEL ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 1. the large Priviledges thereof ibidem and ¶ 15. Thomas BECKET b. 3. p. 32. ¶ 57. Arch-bishop of Canterb. 58. stubborn in defending the Clergy 59 c. slain by 4 Knights in his own Church ¶ 66 67. the great superstition at his shrine p. 36. ¶ 70. Rob. BEALE Clark of the Councill zealous against Bishops b. 9. p. 47. Arch-bishop Whitgift complains of his insolent carriage ibidem BEDE though sent for went not to Rome C. 8. ¶ 15. yet probably went out of his Cell ¶ 16. why sur-named VENERABLE ¶ 17. the last blaze going out of the Candle of his life ¶ 18. BENNET COLL. in Cambridge the foundation thereof Hist. of Cam. p 43 44 c. Archb. Parker a paramount benefactor thereunto p. 46. ¶ 11. BENEDICTINE Monks b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. most ancient of all orders in England p. 267 268. BERKLEY Nuns all with child at once C. 11. ¶ 19. and b. 6. p. 301. ¶ 2. BERKLEYS their Armes relating to their service in the Holy Land b. 11. p. 43. ¶ 23. their great Benefaction to Abbeys Hist. of Abb. p. 326. sers by their dâ—ssolution 327. The L. BERKLEY Patron to John de Trevisa b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 43. at whose command be translated the Bible into English ¶ 44. BERTHA the Christian Wife of King Ethelbert as yet a Pagan a great Promotresse of Religion b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 9. St. John of BEVERLEY his Miracles C. 8. ¶ 11. Theodorus BEZA his letter to Mr. Travers to crave contribution for the City of Geneva b. 9. p. 136 137. why coldly resented ibid. BIBLE three severall Translations thereof b. 7. p. 387. a fourth and best by the appointment of King James b. 10. p. 45 c. Vide Translatours BIRINUS converts the West-Saxons C. 7. ¶ 65. breaketh his promise yet keepeth it ¶ 66. made Bishop of Dorchester ¶ 67. BISHOPS their judisdictions first severed from the Sheriffs b. 3. p. 5. ¶ 10. BISHOPS in the late long Parliament being charged with a Premunire for making the late Canons b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 6. legally defend themselves ¶ 7. acquit themselves from Feculencie of Extraction wherewith a Lord aspersed them ¶ 8 9. symptomes of their dying power in Parliament p. 184. ¶ 10. being petitioned against p. 185. ¶ 12. and assaulted ¶ 13. twelve of them subscribe and present a protest p. 186. ¶ 16. for which they are imrâ—soned p. 188 ¶ 18. enlarged on bayle p. 196. ¶ 34. BISHOPRICKS when and why removed from small Towns to great Cities b. 3. ¶ 21. Five on the destruction of Abbies erected by King Henry the eighth b. 6. p. 338. ¶ 3. BLACK-FRIERS the dolefull downfall or fatall Vespers thereof b. 10. p. 102. ¶ 29 30 c. Q. Anna BOLLEN hath amatorious Letters written unto her from King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 175 ¶ 49. preserved as some say in the Vatican ibidem her character p. 206. ¶ 20. solemnly divorced from King Henry the eighth p. 207. ¶ 2. Robert BOLTON an eminent Divine his death b. 11. p. 143. ¶ 25. EDMUND BONNER Bishop of London begins to bonner it b. 5. p. 231. ¶ 19. deprived under Ed. 6. b. 7. p. 414. his cruell articles Hâ—st of Walth p. 18. whom all generations shall call Bloudy b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 11. why imprisoned in the Marshalsey b. 9. ¶ 17. traverseth a suite with Horn Bishop of Winchester S. 4. ¶ 1. his Counsells plea in his behalf ¶ 2 3. 4. A drawn Batel betwixt them occasioned by a provisoe in a new Statute ¶ 7. BONNES HOMMES why so called b. 6. p. 273 ¶ 24. Rich Eremites in pretended povertie ¶ 25. BOOKS embezeled at the dissolution of Abbies b. 6. p. 334. to the great losse of learning ibidem BOOKS preparatory to reformation set forth by King Henry the eighth b. 7. p. 375. Gilb. BOURN Bâ—shop of Bath and Wells why milde in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 3. his death b. 9. p. 96. ¶ 26. Theoph. BRAD BURN his Sabbatarian fancies b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 32. Thomas BRAD WARDINE a great Schoolman C. 14. p. 98. ¶ 23. his just praise ibidem afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury BRANDONS Brothers successively Dukes of Suffolk die of the sweating sicknesse Hist. of Cam. p. 128. ¶ 70. Bishop Parkhurst his Epitaph on them ibidem Thomas BRIGHTMAN his birth breeding b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 12. preferment ¶ 13. writings ¶ 14. good life ¶ 15. and sudden death ¶ 16 17. BRITANS their dolefull case whilst Pagans C. 1. ¶ 1. their principall Idols ¶ 2. in vain they crave help of the Roman Emperour against the invasion of the Picts C. 4. ¶ 22. and C. 5. ¶ 14.15 BRITAIN the causes hastning the Conversion thereof before other Countries nearer Palestine C. 1. ¶ 6. why the first Planters of Christianity therein are unknown ¶ 8. not beholden to Rome for her first Preachers ¶ 18. not divided into five Roman Provinces as Giraldes Cambrensis mistakes untill the time of Flavius Theodosiâ—s C. 2. ¶ 10. Christianity continued therein after the death of King Lucius C. 3. ¶ 2. by the Testimony of Gildas Tertullian and Origen ¶ 3. in defiance of Dempster a detracting writer ibid. Why so little left of the primitive Church-History thereof ¶ 6. and C. 4. ¶ 11. BRITISH CLERGIE refuse submission to the Pope of Rome C. 7. ¶ 3. the Dialogue betwixt them and an Anchoret ¶ 6. BRITISH LANGUAGE the commendation thereof C. 7. ¶ 17. vindicated from causlesse cavils ¶ 18. Robert BROWN his gentile Extraction b. 9. p. 166. ¶ 2. deserted by his own Father p. 167. his opinions p. 168. spared when his Followers were executed ¶ 45. the odd occasion of his imprisonment and death ¶ 46. BRUXELS Benedictine rich Nunnery for English Gentle-women with good portions b. 6. p. 363. Martine BUCER called to Cambridge History of Camb. p. 128. ¶ 32 33 34. the various dates of his death p. 130. ¶ 37. belyed
them ¶ 42 c. Sr. Th. DOCKWRAY Lord Prior of St. Joanes B. 6. p. 359. ¶ 4. and p. 361. in the dedication John DOD his birth and breeding b. 11. p. 219. â— 85. his peaceable disposition ¶ 86. improving of piety p. 220. ¶ 87 c. an innocent deceiver ¶ 90. excellent Hebrician ¶ 91. last of the old Puritans ¶ 92. DOGGES meat given to men b. 3. p. 29. ¶ 46 DOMINICAN Friers their first coming over into England b. 6. p. 270. ¶ 15. after their expulsion set up again by Q. Mary p. 357. the learned men of this order who were bred in Cambrid Hist. of Cam. p. 30. De DOMINIS Marcus Antonius see SPALATO John DONNE Dean of St. Pauls prolocutour in the Convocation b. 10. p. 112. ¶ 15. his life excellently written by Mr. Isaack Walton ¶ 16. DOOMES-DAY Book composed by the command of Will the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 3. DORT Synod b. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. four English Divines sent thither ibidem King James his Instructions unto them p. 77 78. Oath at their admission into it p. 78. ¶ 66. liberall allowance from the State p. 77. ¶ 77. various censures on the decisions thereof p. 84. ¶ 5 c. The DOVE on King Charles his Sceptre ominously broken off b. 11. ¶ 16. Thomas DOVE Bishop of Peterborough his death b. 11. p. 41. ¶ 17. DOWAY COLL. in Flanders for English fugitives b. 9. p. 85. A Convent there for Benedictine Monks b. 6. p. 365. And another for Franciscan Friers 366. DRUIDES their office and imployment amongst the Pagan Britans C. 1. ¶ 3. The DUTCH Congregation first set up in London b. 7. p. 407. ¶ 33. priviledges allowed them by King Edward the sixth ibidem under Queen Mary depart with much difficulty and danger into Denmark b. 8. p. 8. ¶ 13. DUBLIN University founded by Queen Elizabeth b. 9. p. 211. ¶ 44. the severall benefactours whereof Mr. Luke Chaloner a chief p. 212. no rain by day during the building of the Colledge ibidem The Provosts thereof p. 213. ¶ 47. DUBRITIUS Arch-bishop of Caer-lion a great Champion of the truth against Pelagius C. 6. ¶ 3. A DUCATE worth about four shillings but imprinted eight b. 5. p. 196 ¶ 37. Andrew DUCKET in effect the founder of Queens Colledge in Cambridge Hist. of Cambridge p. 80. ¶ 33. St. DUNSTAN his story at large Cent. 10. ¶ 11. c. his death and burial in Canterbury ¶ 44. as appeared notwithstanding the claim of Glassenbury by discovery ¶ 45 46. DUNWOLPHUS of a swine-heard made Bishop of VVinchester C. 9. ¶ 41. DURHAM the Bishoprick dissolved by King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 419. ¶ 2. restored by Queen Mary ¶ 3. VVil. DYNET the solemn abjuration injoyned him wherein he promiseth to worship Images b. 4. p. 150. E. EASTER-DAY difference betwixt the British Romish Church in the observation thereof Cent. 7. ¶ 5. the Controversie stated betwixt them ¶ 28. reconciled by Laurentius ¶ 30. the antiquity of this difference ¶ 31. spreads into private families ¶ 89. A counsell called to compose it ¶ 90. setled by Theodorus according to the Romish Rite ¶ 96. EATON COLLEDGE founded by K. Henry the sixth b. 4. EDGAR King of England Cent. 10. ¶ 24. disciplined by Dunstan for viciating a Nun. ¶ 26. The many Canons made by him why in this book omitted ¶ 29. A most Triumphant King ¶ 30. his death ¶ 34. EDMUND King of the East Angles cruelly Martyred by the Danes Cent. 9. ¶ 22. EDWARD the Elder calls a Councell to confirm his Fathers acts Cent. 10. ¶ 5. gives great Priviledges to Cambridge ¶ 6. EDWARD the Martyr Cent. 8. ¶ 34. Barbarously murthered ¶ 42. EDWARD the Confessour his life at large Cent. 11. ¶ 11 c. King EDWARD the first his advantages to the Crown though absent at his Fathers death b. 3. p. 74. ¶ 3. his atchievements against the Turkes ¶ 4. Casteth the Iews out of England p. 87. ¶ 47. chosen arbitratour betwixt Baliol Bruce claiming the Kingdome of Scotland p. 88. ¶ 49. which Kingdome he conquereth for himself ¶ 50. stoutly maintaineth his right against the Pope p. 90. ¶ 2. humbled Rob. Winchelsey Arch-bishop of Cant. ¶ 4 5. the Dialogue betwixt them 6. his death and character p. 92. ¶ 11. his Arme the standard of the English yard ibid. King EDWARD the second his character b. 3. p. 93. ¶ 13. fatally defeated by the Scots ¶ 14. his vitiousnesse p. 100. ¶ 28. accused for betraying his Priviledges to the Pope ¶ 29. his deposing and death p. 103. King EDWARD the third a most valiant and fortunate King both by Sea and Land foundeth Kings Hall in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 39. ¶ 36. his death and Character b. 4. p. 136. ¶ 12. King EDWARD the fourth gaineth the Crown by Conquest b. 4. p. 190. ¶ 46. Beaten afterwards in Battel by the Earle of VVarwick p. 191. ¶ 31. escapeth out of prison flyeth beyond the Seas returneth and recovereth the Crown ¶ 32 33. A Benefactour to Merton Coll. in Oxford b. 3. p. 75. ¶ 7. but Malefactour to Kings Coll. in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 76. ¶ 19. his death b. 4. p. 199. ¶ 42. King EDWARD the fifth barbarously murthered by his Vncle Richard Duke of York b. 4. p. 196. ¶ 5. King EDWARD the sixth his Injunctions b. 7. ¶ 3. observations thereon p. 374. his severall proclamations whereof one inhibiteth all Preachers in England for a time p. 388 389. his TEXT ROYAL and our observations thereon p. 397 398. c. Giveth an account by letter to B. Fitz-Patrick of his progresse p. 412 413. severall letters written by him p. 423 424. his diary p. 425. ¶ 14. quâ—ck wit and pious prayer ¶ 17. at his death ibid. EDWIN King of Northumberland and in effect Monarch of England after long preparatory promises Cent. 7. ¶ 39 c. at last converted and baptised ¶ 43. slain by the Pagans in Battel ¶ 60. EGBERT Arch-bishop of York famous in severall respects b. 2. p. 101. ¶ 23. his beastly Canons ¶ 24. EGBERT first fixed Monarch of England Cent. 8. ¶ 41. First giveth the name of England Cent. 9. ¶ 5 6. Is disturbed by the Danes ¶ 7. ELEUTHERIUS Bishop of Rome his Letter to King Lucius Cent. 2. ¶ 6. pretendeth to an anâ—câ—enter date then what is due thereunto ¶ 7. sends two Divines into Britain ¶ 8. ELIE Abbey made the See of a Bishop b. 3. p. 23. ¶ 23. the feasts therein exceed all in England b. 6. p. 299. ¶ 11. Q. ELIZABETH proclaimed b. 8. p. 43. ¶ 56. assumeth the title of supream head of the Church b. 9. p. 152. ¶ 4. defended therein against Papists p. 53. ¶ 5 6. c. Excommunicated by Pope Pius quintus b. 9. p. 93 94. Her farewell to Oxford with a Latine Oration b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 7 8. Her well-come to Cambridge with a Latine Oration Hist. of Cambridge p. 138. her
¶ 34 35. LECHLADE or LATINELADE a place where Latine was anciently taught Cent. 9. ¶ 30. Thomas LEE or LEAH a prime Officer imploied in the dissolution of Abbeys Hist. of Ab. 314. visiteth the University of Camb. Hist. Cam. of p. 109. ¶ 55. his injunctions to the University ibidem Barthol LEGATE burnt for an Arrian b. 10. p. 62. ¶ 6 7 8. c. Dr. LEIGHTON his railing book severely censur'd b. 11. p. 1-36 ¶ 3. recovered after his escape and punished ¶ 4. The first LENT kept in England C. 7. ¶ 74. Jo. LEYLAND an excellent Antiquary follow of Christs Coll. Hist. of Cam. p. 90. ¶ 7. wronged in his works by Polydore Virgil and another namelesse Plagiary b. 5. p. 198 ¶ 54. imployed by King Henry 8. to collect and preserve Rarityes at the dissolution of Abbeys b. 6. p. 339. ¶ 8. died distracted ¶ 9. LICHFIELD bestrewed with the dead bodies of Martyrs C. 4. ¶ 8. made the See of an Arch-bishop by King Offa b. 2. p. 104. ¶ 34 the builders of the present almost past Cathedral b. 4. p. 174. the praise and picture thereof p. 175. LIEGE Coll. in Lukeland for English fugitives b. 9. p. 91. William LILLY the first schoolmaster of Paul's b. 5. p. 167 ¶ 17. the many Editions of his Grammar p. 168. ¶ 18. LISBON a rich Nunnery for Engl. Bridgitines b. 6. p. 262. ¶ 5 6 c. LITURGIE an uniformity thereof when prescribed all over England b. 7. p. 386. three severall editions thereof with the persons employed therein ibid. Bishop Latimer his judgement against the contemners thereof p. 426. LONDON why so called C. 1. ¶ 2. layeth claime to the birth of Constantine the Emperour C. 4. ¶ 18. the walls thereof built with Jewish stones b. 3. p. 86. ¶ 42. the honourable occasion of an Augmentation in their Armes b. 4. p. 141. ¶ 21. William LONGCAMPE Bp. of Ely his pride b. 3. p. 43. ¶ 24. his parallell with Cardinal Wolsey ¶ 28 c. LOVAINE Colledge in Brabant for English fugitives b. 9. p. 90. a nunnery or rather but halfe a one therein for Engl. women b. 6. p. 364. ¶ 2. LINCOLN Coll. in Oxford founded by Richard Fleming b. 4. p. 168. The Rectors Bps. c. thereof p. 169. William LINWOOD writeth his Provincial constitutions his due praise b. 4. page 175. ¶ 71. c. LUCIUS the different dates of his conversion C. 2. ¶ 1. do not disprove the substance of his story ¶ 3. might be a British King under the Romans ¶ 4. several Churches in Britain said to be erected by him ¶ 13. confounded by unwary writers with Lucius a German preacher in Suevia ¶ 14. said to be buried in Gloucester with his Dunsticall Epitaph C. 3. ¶ 1. LUPUS assisteth Germanus in his voyage into Britain to suppresse Pelagianisme C. 3. ¶ 4. M. MADRID Coll. in Spain for English fugitives b. 9. p. 90. MAGDALEN Coll. in Ox. founded by William Wainsleet b. 4. p. 188. ¶ 24. Scarce a Bp. in England to which it hath not afforded one prelate ¶ 25. sad alterations therein by the Visitors in the first of Q. Mary b. 8. ¶ 8. the character of this Coll. with the violence of rigid non-conformists therein presented in a latine letter of Mr. Fox b. 9. p. 106. ¶ 14 15. MAGDALEN Colledge in Cambridge founded by Thomas Lord Audley History of Cambridge p. 120. ¶ 8 c. MALIGNANT whence derived and first fixed as a name of disgrace on the Royall party b. 11. p. 195. ¶ 32. Roger MANWARING charged by Mr. Pym in Parliament b. 11. ¶ 61. for two Sermons preached ibidem his censure ¶ 62. and submission ¶ 63. MARRIAGE of the Priests proved lawfull b. 3. p. 20 21 22 23. MARRIAGE of a Brothers Wife is against Gods Word and above Papal dispensation b. 5. p. 179 180 181. Tho. MARKANT Proctor of Cambridge made and gave a rare Book of her priviledges to the university which was lost found lost found lost Hist. of Camb. p. 65. ¶ 33 34. Q. MARY quickly recovereth the Crown in right of succession b. 8. ¶ 1. in her first Parliament restoreth Popery to the height ¶ 20 21. makes a speech in Guild-Hall ¶ 30. her character S. 2. ¶ 34. valiant against the Pope in one particular S. 3. ¶ 41. very Melancholy with the causes thereof ¶ 46 47. dyes of a Dropsey ¶ 48. two Sermons preached at her funerall ¶ 52. her deserved praise ¶ 53. for refounding the Savoy ¶ 54. her buriall ¶ 55. MARY Queen of Scots flies into England and is there imprisoned b. 9. S. 2. ¶ 13. her humble letter to Pope Pius the fifth ibidem her second letter unto him b. 9. p. 99. her death Poetry buriall removal to Westminster and wel-Latined Epitaph p. 181. Queen MARY Wife to King Charles her first landing at Dover b. 11. ¶ 9. delivered of a Son by a fright before her time b. 11. p. 135. ¶ 1. Toby MATTHEW Arch-bishop of York dying yearly dyes at last b. 11. ¶ 74. is gratitude to God ¶ 75. MAUD for four descents the name of the Queens of England b. 7. p. 25. ¶ 28. MAXIMUS usurpeth the Empire and expelleth the Scots out of Britain C. 4. ¶ 22. draineth the Flower of the British Nation into France ¶ 23. slain in Italy ¶ 24. his memory why inveighed against ibidem Mr. MAYNARD his learned speech against the late Canons b. 11. p. 180. ¶ 77. MEDUINUS sent by King Lucius to Eleutherius Bishop of Rome C. 2. ¶ 5. MEDESHAMSTED Monastery burnt by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 20. MELLITUS Bishop of London converteth the Kingdome of Essex C. 7. ¶ 23. departeth England and why ¶ 33. returneth ¶ 35. and is rejected at London 36. his character 37. MERCIA a Saxon Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. converted to Christianity under Prince Peada C. 7. ¶ 83. Thomes MERKES Bishop of Carlile his bold speech in the behalf of King Richard the second b. 4. p. 153. ¶ 55. tried for Treason not by his Peers but a Common lury p. 154. ¶ 57 58. his life spared and he mad Bishop of Samos in Greece ¶ 59. MERLIN two of the name C. 5. ¶ 20. his magicall Pranks ¶ 26. questionable whether ever such a man ¶ 32. fitted with two other fowles of the same Feather ibidem MERTON Coll. in Oxford founded by Walter Merton b. 9. p. 75. ¶ 7 c. Wardons Bishops Benefactours and thereof ¶ 8. a by-foundation of Post-masters therein p. 76. happy in breeding Schoolmen p. 99. ¶ 27. a petty rebellion therein supprest by Arch-bishop Parker b. 9. p. 71. ¶ 47 48. not founded before Peter-house in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 32. ¶ 33 c. Sr. Walter MILD MAY foundeth Emanuel Colledge Hist. of Cam. p. 146. ¶ 11 12. c. The MILLENARIE petition b. 10. p. 22. the issue thereof p. 23. ¶ 25 26. the Millenarie is equivocall p. 24. MINSHULLS their honourable Armes atchieved in the