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

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

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

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

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

If then it were neither Sac●iledge Impiety nor Injustice in these Parliaments and our Kings to take away sell alienate these Lands and Revenue of Priors Monks Monasteries and divert them from their primitive uses as our Bishops Dean and Chapters must grant as well as others or else renounce resign most of the Temporalties Rents Appropriations and Revenue they now enjoy originally belonging to Monasteries then by the self-same reason it can be no Sacriledge impiety or injustice for the King Lords Commons and Parliament upon the like grounds and considerations to take away sell alienate the temporal Land of Bishops Deans and Chapters if they offend or obstinately refuse to give the late Purchasers of them competent satisfaction for the Kingdoms Peace and Tranquility upon their commands and votes 9ly That is evident by our Histories Records Leager-books that all or most of the Manors Lands Tenements in England and Wales now in the possession of the King Queen Nobility Gentry and Commons of England have heretofore in some Age or other been solemnly consecrated devoted and given by their Ancestors to some Cathedral or Collegiate Church Abby P●io●y Nunnery Cell religious House or other or else by art fraud monyes vested in and setled on them in perpetuity as the Churches Patrimony Yet notwithstanding they have been alienated substracted or taken wholy from them in successive Ages and the inheritances of them setled in our Kings Nobles Gentry and Yeomanry without any scruple of Consciences or real or imported guilt of Sacriledge From whence it inevitably followeth That is the greatest part of all the Temporalties Lands and Revenues which our Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Abbots Priors Monks Templars Hospitallers and other Ecclesiastical or religious persons formerly enjoyed by as good right title in Law Conscience as those now or any of them yet enjoy them might be lawfully alienated or justly taken from them by our Kings Parliaments and Temporal Lords and may be still detained from them by the Purchasers of them their Heirs or Assigns without Sacriledge Impiety or Injustice Then by the self same reason the Lands and Temporalties they lately possessed or yet possess may upon any publick necessity or just occasion be alienated sold and taken from them by our Kings Parliaments Lords and Common without the guilt of Sacriledge or Impiety so as there be a competent maintenance left for the Evangelical Ministers Bishops and Pastors of Parochial Churches for the instruction edification and salvation of the Peoples souls committed to their charge There being the self-same reason of Sacriledge and no Sacrilege in alienating substracting selling detaining the major part of their Lands temporalties as of the Minor Or else if it be real Sacriledge to alienate sell detain any parcels of Lands or Temporalties formerly given by our antient Parliaments to others or vested in the Church or Church-men then all our Kings Parliaments Nobles Commons must be actually guilty of these sins and as far forth obliged in Justice Conscience to make full restitution of all church-Church-lands whatsoever formerly alienated or substracted as the late Purchasers of Bishops and Cathedral Lands and then the whole Kingdom or farre greatest part thereof must henceforth become the Churches and Church-mens Patrimony and our Kings Nobles Gentry Commonalty of all degrees their mere Homagers Vassals Farmers and Tenants at sufferance the antiquity of former alienations sales of Church-lands by our Ancestors if Sacrilegious and Impious rather aggravating than extenuating the Crime but no wayes justifying the Legality thereof it being a Maxime in our Law Quod ab initio non valet tractu temporis non convalescit and a Principle in Divinity that the older any sin is and the longer persevered in the more execrable and fit to be repented redressed and that Heirs Assignees and Successors are obliged to make restitution of sacrilegious Rapines as well as the immediate Authors of them 10ly That the Dispensation and Indulgence of Pope Iulius the 3d. himself Cardinal Pole Archbishop of Canterbury his Legate upon the Petition of all the Bishops and Clergy of England though Papists and the memorable Act of the whole Parliament of 1 2 Philip Mary c. 8. reciting them and confirming all alienations seisures sales of the Lands Manors Rents Revenues Goods as well of Archbishops Bishops Deans Chapters Prebends Cathedrals as of Abbots Priors Monks and other Religious Persons and Monasteries made by our Kings or Parliaments to the Crown and the Purchasers of all and every of them and their Heirs from the twentyeth year of King Henry the 8th till the first of Queen Mary during their revolt and pretended scisme from the Church of Rome and of all Ordinations Presentations Ecclesiastical Sentences and Proceedings for the publick peace benefit tranquility of the Church and Realm of England and satisfaction of Purchasors may for ever silence our Prelates and Cathedral mens loud cryes against the sacriledge of the late Sellers and Buyers of Bishops and other Cathedral mens Lands and enduce them to give the Purchasors of them full satisfaction by confirming their sales for a competent time For which end I shall transcribe so much of that memorable Act as concerns our present case and condition We the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled representing the whole body of this Realm reduced received by your Majesties intercession to the unity of Christs Church and the obedience of the Sea Apolike of Rome and the Popes holyness governing the same make most humble suite unto your Majesties to be likewise means and intercessours that all occassions of contention hatred grudge suspition and trouble both outwardly and inwardly in mens Consciences which might arise amongst us by reason of disobedience may by authority of the Popes holyness and by ministration of the same unto us by the most reverend Father in God the Lord Cardinal Poole by dispensation toleration or permission respectively as the case shall require be abolished and taken away and by authoritie sufficient these Articles following and generally all others when any occasion shall so require may be provided for and confirmed First that all Bishopricks Cathedral Churches Hospitals Colleges Schools and other such foundations now continuing made by authority of Parliament or otherwise established according to the order of the Laws of this Realm sithens this scisme may be confirmed and continued for ever Item that mariages made infra gradus prohibitos consanguinitatis affinitatis cognationis spiritualis or which might be made void propter impedimentum publicae bonestatis justitiae or for any other cause prohibited by the Canons only may be confirmed and children born of those mariages declared legittimate so as those mariages were made according to the Laws of the Realm for the time being and be not directly against the laws of God nor in such case as the Sea Apostolike hath not used to dispence withall That institutions of

Act I shall annex Pope Iulius his Letters and Reasons sent to Queen Mary Anno 1554. for the granting of the forecited Dispensation which occasioned this Statute That all such as by just Title according to the Laws or Statutes of this Realm for the time being have any Possessions Lands or Tenements lately belonging to Monasteries Priories Bishopricks Colleges Chantries Obits c. whether they have purchased them for their money or are come to possesse them by gift grant exchange or by any other legal means whatsoever may retain and keep the same in their Possessions and have the same ratified and established unto them by the confirmation and dispensation of the Sea Apostolick Causes and Reasons why such Dispensations may be justly granted with honour and conscience 1. The State of the Crown of this Kingdom cannot well be sustained to govern and rule with honour if such Possessions be taken from it for at this day the greatest part of the Possessions of the Crown consisteth of such Lands and Possessions 2. Very many men have with their monies bought and purchased great portions of those Lands from the most Excellent Kings Henry the VIII and Edward the VI. who by their Letters Patents have warranted the same of which Lands and Possessions if the Owners should now be dis-possessed the King should be bound to repay unto them all their money which would arise to such an huge Masse that it would be a very hard matter for the Crown to restore it 3. The Nobles and Gentry of this Realm most of whom have sold and alienated their antient inheritances to buy these new cannot live according to their degrees if these Possessions should be taken from them 4. The Purchasors or Owners of such Lands and Possessions in as much as they came to them by just Title according to the Ordinance of the Kings of this Kingdom have held and do still hold a good and justifiable course in obtaining of them 5. The enjoying of such Lands and Possessions is so common unto every state and condition of Men Cities Colleges and Incorporations that if the same be taken from them there will necessarily follow thereupon throughout the Kingdom a sudden change and confusion of all Orders and Degrees 6. Seeing the Goods and Possessions of the Church even by the authority of the Canon Laws may be aliened for the redemption of Captives and that the same may be done by that Church only to whom such Possessions do belong It is fit and reasonable that such Dispensations should be granted for continuing of possession already gotten for so great a good of publick concord and unity of the Church and preservation of this State as well in body as in soul. The consideration of this Statute Letter and Reasons of the Pope himself and our Popish Prelates Clergy in Queen Maries daies may perswade our present Prelates and Cathedral men to the like Moderation Candor and Ingenuity for the satisfaction of the King Parliament Purchasors and preservation of the Kingdoms Churches Tranquility now and hereafter Finally because there is now an extraordinary great clamour against Sacriledge in most Pulpits new Pamphlets and in the Commons House it self by many who understand not truly and thoroughly what Sacriledge is I shall for a close of this Appendix inform them 1. That the word Sacriledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is only once and no more used in sacred writ Rom. 2. 22. What the Apostle there means by committing Sacriledge and what this Sin should be both old and new Expositors do very much disagree I shall render them an account of 10. several opinions of Expositors concerning it who comment on this Text neither of them suiting with that which now alone is declamed against as the sole and only Sacriledge 1. Origen Ambrose and some others interpret Sacrilege The Iews violating of Christ the true Temple of God by crucifying him with their sins stealing him out of the Scripture and denying Christ MAGNO SACRILEGIO 2ly Chysostome Theodulus Theophylact Peter Martyr Dr. Willet expound it to be the Iews sparing of Idols and using of things consecrated to idolatry out of covetousness to their own private commodity which by the Law of God they should have destroyed which Calvin and Gualter mislike not And Peter Martyr thence infers Potest quidem Respublica Magistratus noster ea quae superstitiosa sunt auferre et corum pretia in usus pios et bonos convertere without any Sacriledge 3ly Gorhan defines this Sacriledge to be the giving of divine worship unto Idolls 4ly Calvin and Piscator expound it to be the contempt of the Divine Majesty 5ly Haymo informs us that Spiritual sacrilege est sacrorum verborum prevaricatio the praevarication of Gods word but according to the Letter he defines it Sacrarum rerum surtum verbi gratia Quisquis de the sauro Ecclesiae vel de substantia Dei familiarium aliquid occulte abstrahit Sacrilegium perpetrat which extends only to Goods not Lands with whom Lyranus the Syriack interpretation some Popish Commentators accord 6ly Peter Martyr and Lucas Osiander interpret it to be the buying and selling of the Priests Office Orders Benefices Bishopricks as many have done and still do who are really guilty of Sacrilege as well as Symony 7ly Paraeus and others expound it of polluting Gods Service with Iewish and humane inventions 8ly Grynaeus understands it of arrogating to their own merits that which was peculiar to the grace of God 9ly Peter Martyr applyes it to Fly his Sons and such other Priests who violently took away and appropriated to themselves the things offered and consecrated unto God 10ly Primasius Bishop of Vtica in Africk St. Augustine Disciple flourishing in the year 440. in his Commentary on this Text resolves SACRILEGIVMEST QUOD PROPRIE IN DEVM COMMITTITVR QVASI VIOLATIO VEL PRAEVARICATIO MANDATORVM Adding that the Apostle in the next words Per praevaricationem legis Deum inhonoras EXPOSVIT SACRILEGIVM Rhemigius and Haym● concur in substance with him And indeed this definition of Sacriledge that it is the breach or violation of the sacred law of God is most agreeable to the Apostles meaning and proper etymology of the word Hence Laurentius de Pinue a great Canonist and Angelus de Clavafio in his Summa Angelica Sacrilegium derive and define Sacrilegium quasi Sacrae legis lesio a more proper etymology than that of Innocentius the Pope quasi Sacriledium Now none of all these antient or modern Expositors define Sacrilege to be a taking away alienating or selling the Lands of Bishops Deans Abbots Priors Cathedrals Covents or Chapters never intended by the Apostle in those primitive times of the Gospel when the Apostles themselves and Evangelical Bishops in and immediately after their Age had neither Silver nor Gold nor Temporal Lands or Possessions to take away plunder steal or alienate as is evident by Acts 3. 5 6.

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