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A retrospect into the Kings certain revenue annexed to the crown under the survey of His Majesties court exchequer : with the proceedings upon two sevral petitions presented to His Majesty, concerning the chauntry rents, &c. and the first fruits, and tenths of the clergy ... / by George Carew.
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Carew, George, Esq.
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in those times All which I have according to my promise avoiding Prolixity put into some kind of Method under several Titles describing the several Tempers of such Persons as are guilty of defrauding the Crown I have been true to my own Resolutions and dealt impartially with all Men as the Creditors desired I did also according to their Request before Apply my self to his Majesty at White-Hall where I found many Petitioners some craving Reward others begging Relief for Sufferings and Services done both to his Majesty and His Royal Father of ever Glorious Memory neither of them minding how the King should now support himself in his Imperial Estate answerably to the Majesty of so great a Prince and the Honour of so great a Nation I then cast about me to find out some expedient whereby I might be rather Serviceable to the King than Burthensome or Grievous to the People and yet satisfie my self In order thereunto I presented these Petitions following according to their several Dates Whereupon there have been some Proceedings but nothing finally determined All which rest under the Consideration of his Majesty and his most Honourable Councel in Parliament I have contracted all things into as narrow a compass as I could of so much matter not doubting but that it may find Room amongst other Weighty Affairs I leave it therefore at the Parliament-Dore for them to do what in Honour and Equity the Merits of the Cause require April 23. 1661. Veritas non quaerit Angulos George Carew To the King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY The Humble Petition of Walter Devereux and George Carew Esquires SHEWETH THAT there are divers Collections in your Majesties Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales that were formerly Granted to several Men of mean Quallity and Condition by Patents out of the Exchequer during pleasure to receive the Chantry Rents Pensions Portions and Forreign Rents amounting formerly to Six Thousand Pounds yearly or thereabouts belonging to the Crown of England And that the said Collectours were allowed the certain Fees or Sallaries which were annexed to those Collections in the Times of the Abbots and Friers That through the Neglect Poverty or other Dafault of the said Collectours and Accomptants the Crown of England hath lost Two hundred thousand Pounds in that Part of the Revenue since the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign which stands charged in Super upon those Bayliffs or Collectours in the several Auditours and Receivers Accompts to the great prejudice and Dishonour of your Majesties Revenue which may hereafter be more faithfully discharged with advantage and conveniencie to your Majestie and your Subjects Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray That your Majesty would be graciously pleased to Grant your Petitioners a Patent under the Great Seal for their Lives to Collect the said Chantry Rents Pensions Portions and Forreign Rents allowing them the said Fees of the several Collections and your Petitioners shall give good Assurance of their Fidelity and Trust in your Majestie 's said Service And your Petitioners shall pray c. Walter Devereux Geo. Carew His Majesty was graciously pleased afterwards to refer the Contents of the Petition to the Lord High Treasurer of England who made another Reference as followeth viz. September 17. 1660. I Desire the Lord Chief Baron and the rest of the Barons of his Majesties Exchequer and Master Surveyour General of his Lands calling to them the Clerk of the Pipe his Majesties Auditours and Receivers of his Revenue in the several Counties or whom else they please to examine the Reason why this Part of his Majesty Revenue mentioned in this Petition is so ill Answered and so great Arrears upon it And to Consider the best way to prevent it in the future And in Case the Proposition of the Petitioners for reducing all into one Hand or Collection may contribute thereunto to Certifie me there Opinion And to that end I pray them to hear what the Petitioners shall in that kinde Propose and what Security the Petitioners will give to acertain those Rents And upon the whole Matter to certifie their Opinions what is best to be done in Order to this Part of his Majesties Revenue and his Majesties Service therein THO. SOVTHAMPTON To the King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY The Humble Petition of George Carew Thomas Gould and John Culpeper Esquires on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Creditours of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pinder Knights Deceased SHEWETH THAT King CARLES the First of ever Blessed Memory for the ordinary support of himself in his Royal Estate at home and for the necessary supply of his Embassadours abroad borrowed several great Sums of Money of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pinder and others amounting to 150000. Pounds and upwards which was taken up by the said Sir William and Sir Paul and others of several Men upon Bonds That many of those Persons are since deceased and have left their Widows and Orphants in a sad and perishing Condition for want of Bread That for security and re-payment of the said Money with Interest his late Majesty did for himself His Heirs and Successours before the year 1640. by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England and other Assignments upon the Lands and Revenues within the Snrvey of the Exchequer give Warrant and Commandment to the Lord High Treasurer Chancellour Vnder-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being to pay the said Debt That there is yet notwithstanding resting due unpayed of the said Debt the Sum of 140000. Pounds or thereabouts as by the Books of Issues remaining with Sir Robert Pye Auditour of the Receipts and the Accompts stated remaining with the Auditours of the Imprest may plainly appear That the Money now belongs to your Petitioners by Virtue of Letters of Administration to them granted in right of themselves and other Creditours and the poor Orphans and Widows aforesaid That the Revenue of First-Fruits and Tenths is not duly answered by the Clergie into your Majesties Exchequer according to Law and the Rights of Proportion which belongs to the Crown of England there being great Improvements made of New-buildings draining of Fens taking in of Sea-grounds breaking up of Parks and Chases Increase of Rents and many other wayes of advantage and profits to the Clergy which ought to be accordingly considered to your Majesty and paid in proportion into your Exchequer as a means to give satisfaction to your Petitioners most just Demands The Premises considered and for as much as your Petitioners may be partly satisfied out of the improvement of First-Fruits and Tenths and your Majesties Revenue made treble as much as hath been formerly paid into your Treasury The Nation generally satisfied therewith Religion and Learning both advanced by considerable Augmentations that may be further given to poor livings besides Your Petitioners therefore do humbly pray that your Majesty would Grant them a Patent of the First-Fruits and Tenths for the Term of one and thirty
under the Law the Priests and Levites took them for expounding the Law serving at the Altar and Tabernacle and offering up the Sacrifices for the sins of the people the Preachers and Ministers of the Gospel receive the Tythe and offerings for administring the Word and Sacraments teaching the mysteries of Salvation and offering up Prayers as daily sacrifices for the People in the first 150 Years after Christ the Apostles and Preachers of the Gospel were dispersed and had no settled maintenance but the voluntary contributions of those that imbraced their Doctrine and some that received their glad tydings of Salvation sold all that they had and layd it at their feet Tertullian Cyprian Clemens-Alexandrinus Eusebius Irenaeus and others writ of their Dyet Habitation and apparel and of severall things indifferent in themselves which altered with time and place according to the Rules of Princes and established Laws of their Government The people of God in the Primitive times desired a King to protect them from their Enemies and by Divine institution Kings were appointed to govern and rule over them who received the power both Spiritual and temporal into one and the same hand he made choyce of the Priests and deposed them as Solomon did Abiather and placed Zadock in his rome And the Law both Judaicall and Levitical was made Canonicall Scripture by Josiah The Rites and Seremonies of the Church after Christ were debated and determined at national Synods and general Councils and were made Cannon laws by the Emperours The Apostles perswaded the people to believe Christ's Doctrines not upon payn of death but damnation and taught them to be obedient to their Civil Magistrates for conscience sake for that an Oath was the end of all strife The old and new Testaments were preserved by the holy Spirit and Preached publickly in England in the Year 250. The Reverend and Learned Bishops in England in those days much Honoured for their Constancy and Zeal in Religion were summoned to the Generall Councils of Sardice and Nice and much approved of for their Doctrine all the time of Constantine the Great The Originall of the POPE's Usurpation over CHRISTIAN PRINCES AS to the English Monarchical Government under which our Lives Liberties and Estates are best secured by Magna charta and the Petition of Right it is agreed there is but one man Supream all others act under his name by commision The Clergie being subordinate to the Prince having the superiority over them do submit themselves to his Government in all things according to Gods commands knowing there is no power but of God and they are ordained of God That Kings are the Lords Anointed his Image upon Earth Nursing Fathers of the Church and Princes of the people of God The Pope or Bishop of Rome usurped his Authority of late times Emperours and King's formerly elected degraded and censured them Theodoret imployed John the first Bishop of Rome in the nature of an Embassador to Justinian the Emperour and for exceeding his Commission he kept him in Prison until he dyed In the year 679. Pope Agatho besought the Emperour to forgive him the Tribute which the Pope of Rome usually payd for his Consecration One Almaine Emperour chose Pope Leo the eight John the Fourteenth and Benedict the Fifth and so successicely but as the Emperours did fall so the Popes did rise The Pope himselfe will rather renounce the succession of Peter then the Donation of Charlemane The Church of Rome once a Member of the true Catholick Church is fallen from the Principles of the Apostolick and primitive puritie both in Doctrine and Manners and came to that swelling greatness by six steps Gradatim The first by Constantines departing from Rome to Constantinople The Second by the fall of the Empire in the West The Third by the donation of Phocas The Fourth by the voluntary Charter that the Emperour of Constantinople made to Benedict the Second In the Year 684. The Fifth by the amity between Zachary Bishop of Rome and King Pipin of France In the Year 751. The Sixth and last step by the Constitution of Seven Electours by Gregory the Fifth a Germane born and Kinsman to Otâ—o the Emperour So the Beast that Obscurely sprung up increased and became insolently Triumphant over Kings and Emperours and sent their Popish innovasions of Doctrine and discipline into England iâ— the Saxons time A Foundation layd in Blood Treason and Rapine cannot support a Fabrick from falling to the ground IT is in vain to read the Desputations and Volumnes of Bellarmine and others that writ in the defence of the Church of Rome that swept away the mony of England under Colour of indulgencies that caused the Common people to rob their Children to Inrich the Fryars and make their posterity poor by such Charity and Devotion not by the Scripture required The Church of God is built upon his name and word that unmoveable Rock The keys of heaven are Faith and good works The people are admitted in or kept out of the Church by the Ministers of the Gospel according to the ordinances of God The Prophets foretold the Jews of a Messiah to re-establish amongst them the Kingdome of God which was rejected by them in the time of Samuel This expectation made them obnoxious to impostures that have had the Ambition and art by plausible and false Doctrines to attempt and deceive the people Christ himselfe and the Apostles forewarned them of such false Prophets and told them further that his Kingdom was not of this world that the Kings of Nations had Dominion over their subjects but his Kingdom purchased by his Blood was not to be possessed untill his second comming The Devil seeks by suggesting a present Dominion to weaken the Faith of Christians Saint Peter and the rest of the Apostles had Power given them to teach the people the Gospel and the mysteries of their salvation in the Faith of Christ and him crucified when Christian Sovereigns were Baptised into the Faith by vertue of their office they obliged themselves to preserve the Doctrine of Christ God requiring the account from them and at their hands being not only Pater Patirae but Pater Ecclesiae therefore Tythes the patrimony of the Church should be maintained and kept inviolate by Kings the nursing fathers of the Church AMongst the Emperial laws was omitted the punishment for killing their Fathers supposing no man to be so horridâ—y impious and wicked to commit such an act of Paricide against the law of nature It may be sayd as much of those men that Robbed and destroyed their mother the Church of England The Pope perswaded the Kings of England that he was the universal Governour of the Church and he received the revenue of first Fruits and Tenths from the Clergie which was due to the Crown and the four orders of Fryars perswaded the people that tythes were given ex debito Charitatis and not ex