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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96459	Sr. Tho. VViddringtons speech at a conference betweene both Houses on Tuesday the 20. of July 1641. At the transmission of the impeachment against Matthew Wren Doctor in Divinity, late Bishop of Norwich, and now Bishop of Ely.	Widdrington, Thomas, Sir, ca. 1600-1664.	1641 (1641)	Wing W2088; Thomason E199_4; ESTC R8408	4,134	8

the party desired publique thanksgiving in the Congregation the Minister finding no forme for that purpose reads the Collects for Churching of women Next for preaching That he is most able in this kinde is agreed by all But that he ever preached himselfe in this Dioces saving once I never heard affirmed by any His next care was that others should not preach too often if they did they must be put into his black bill He changed that golden sentence of vae mihi si non praedicavero into vae aliis si praedicaverint he was so far from the practise of Saint Paul the great Preacher of the Gentiles who we reade preached till midnight that there must be no Sermons in the afternoone there may be nay there must be sports and pastimes then And as if he had stood in fear of the inarticulate language of bels which might foretell a Sermon he cannot endure to heare the noise of a Sermon in the toll of a Bell. In a word he adorned Churches at the charge of other men and spoyled Pulpits which ought to have beene the greatest part of his owne charge My Lords you have now presented to your Lordships a brother nay one whose place ingaged him to be a father of the Clergy yet one who like Josephs brethren hath taken the coats from Joseph nay they were forced to flye from him as Joseph from his Mistris or else they must taste of his forbidden waters but in their going away he rents their skirts nay their whole garments and lively hoods from them he hath taken the locks from many Sampsons and done what he could to put out their eyes and to make them grinde in the mill of his pernicious and dangerous innovations He should like Moses have led his flocke Moses led the children of Israel through the red Sea this man drives part of his flocke over the Sea but went not himselfe Like Nimrod he hath invaded the lawes and liberties of the subject he hath beene as great a robber as ever was presented to your Lordships He hath robbed the King of his Subjects the greatest glory of Kings the Kingdome of trade of tradesmen the supporters of it He that deprives the King of one subject you know his punishment and what shall be the punishment of him who hath robbed the King of so many subjects In the time of King Henry the third we finde a tenant in Dower punished 16. H. 3. F. wast 128. in action of waste because she had destroyed two rich villeynes and made them beggers I appeale to your Lordships what is his offence who hath committed so much wilfull wast and spoyle beggered hundreds not villaines but free borne subjects He robbed the soules of that sweet Manna which is pabulum animarum the Word of God My Lords I have not yet recounted all his robberies he hath robbed God of part of his day makes part of that a day of sports he hath robbed the subjects of their indubitable birth-right the Lawes of the Kingdome The Citizens of Norwich must pay tythes for the rents of houses there 's no Law in England nor custome in Norwich for it Nay and that they may be sure to be robbed of justice too the suit for these tithes must be in his owne Consistory from whence there must be no appeale no prohibition The true Patrons of Churches they are robbed of their presentations others who had none or small pretence of right are admitted upon this unhallowed maxim That if he should institute those who had right the pretendor was without remedy by this he inverted a fundamentall Law of this Nation to invest remedilesse rights with unjust possessions My Lords I cannot tell you all but you can measure a Lyon by the paw I am commanded to lay this great malefactour at your doores one who hath beene a great oppugner of the life and liberty of Religion and who set a brand of infamy to use his owne words upon Ipswich education In summe one who is a compleate mirrour of innovation superstition and oppression he is now in the snare of those articles which were the workes of his owne hands The rod of Moses at a distance was a serpent it was a rod againe when it was taken into his hands this Bishop was a serpent a devouring serpent in the Dioces of Norwich your Lordships peradventure will by handling of him make him a rod againe or if not I doubt ●●t but your Lordships will chastise him with such rods as his cri●es 〈◊〉 deserve My Lords I am commanded by the House of Commons to des●● your Lordships that this Bishop may be required to make answer 〈◊〉 these Articles and that there may be such proceedings against him 〈◊〉 the course and justice of parliament doth admit FINIS