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A31591 Englands wants, or, Several proposals probably beneficial for England humbly offered to the consideration of all good patriots in both houses of Parliament / by a true lover of his country. Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703. 1667 (1667) Wing C1839; ESTC R24257 15,973 43

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enacted for the encrease of Tillage where more people may be set on work and they rendred more strong and stout for service of their Country against an Enemy And likewise the Laws made for encrease of Fishing whereby more people may be fitted for Sea-service whereof this Kingdom surrounded almost with the Sea will ever have special occasion XLI That according to the good Policy of our Ancestors all the married Nobility and Gentry of England without special leave of his Majesty to do otherwise may be obliged to keep house in the Country every one at his own Manerium so named a Manendo of abiding there Vt semper presto essent ad Servitia Regis Patriae per implenda to be ready there to serve his King and Country and by a laudable Hospitality to gain the affections and dependances of the Peasantry XLII That according to antient Canons of the Church and according to divers other Reformed Churches and according to the custom of the Primitive Christians no dead body may be hereafter interred in any Church especially in London or the Suburbs thereof but either in some Vault or else in the Church-yard or rather in some decent enclosed place without the City To bury in Churches is to the dead but a superstitious custom first brought in by the Franciscan and Dominican Fryars about the year One thousand one hundred when Superstition was almost at the height invented to get Money perswading the people that to be buried within the Church or near the High Altar was more availeable to their souls and to the Living it is not onely chargeable but most unwholesome that so many putrified Carcasses should be so near under their Noses all the time of their Devotion XLIII That as all Clergy-men are by Common Law exempted from all inferior Offices as Bailiff Bedel Constable c. to serve neither per se nec per alium to the end that they may attend their function so that they may according to meer reason and according to a Statute 8. H. 4 num 12. in the unprinted Parliament Rolls be exempted from arraying and mustring of Men or Horse for the War For their Glebe Lands and Spiritual Revenues being held in Pura perpetua Eleemosyna i. e. in Frank Almoyne ought by Magna Charta to be exempted from all such burthens And as for their persons they serve their Countrey otherwise and for that service ought to be counted worthy as well if not better then the Levites of old of their Spiritual Profits and Revenues and also worthy of the Kings Protection not only for their Service but also in that they pay to the King the first years Profits and every year the Tenth of all Spiritual Benefices Besides the Clergy being by their Function prohibited to wear swords may neither serve in person nor can be capable of any Honour as Knighthood usually conferred on Warriours XLIV That as nullum tempus occurrit Regi no Custom nor prescription may be pleaded to the prejudice of the King so also with much more reason that no Custom nor Prescription may be pleaded to the prejudice of the King of kings That all Compositions or Customs of paying a little money for a great Tythe may be every where abrogated and all Tythes taken again in kind or a new Composition according to the present value which is but justice and more concerns this Parliament to do for the Church then it concerned the Parliament 18 of Eliz. to do for Colledges by obliging their Tenants to pay onethird part of their old Rent in Corn. XLV That all Lands antiently belonging to the Knights Templars Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem or to the Order of Cistercian Monks which by Popish dispensation were antiently exempted from paying Tythes may de novo be obliged as all other Lands in England to pay Tythes at least all those Lands given to those Orders since the time they were so exempted as by all Law and Justice they ought to do XLVI That our Ecclesiastical Officers as Chancellours Commissaries Officials c. may be in Holy Orders as the Canonists and modern Legists in the Romish Church are for the most part that so neither the Romanists on one hand nor Presbiterians on the other may have so much reason to except against them in the matter of Excommunication as executed by Lay Hands Vtcunque illi non assumunt clavium potestatem sed tantummodo poenam Canonis declarant infligunt ob contumaciam XLVII That Registers may be setled in every Hundred or in every County at least and all Lands and Houses may be entred into that Book and therein all Alienations to be set down in Alphabetical Order and none to be authentick if not there entred that so no man hereafter may be cheated by a Premorgage or any other way but that all men may be satisfied in what they possess and what they may call their own XLVIII That as among the Jews whereby immediate Divine appointment the chief Clergy man Aaron was Brother to the Supream Magistrate Moses and the Priests and the Levites were all of Noble stock and as amongst Christians even here in England antiently and at this day in forreign Christian States the chief Clergy have been oft of Noble and sometimes Royal bloud and the ordinary Priests usually sons of the Gentry whereby they come to be more highly Honoured and their just Authority better obeyed so now in England that the two Archbishops may be if possible of the Highest Noble if not Royal bloud of England and all the Bishops of Noble bloud and the inferior Priests sons of the Gentry and not after the example of that wicked Rebel Jeroboam and our late Republicans to make Priests of the lowest of the People whilst Physick and Law Professions inferior to Divinity are generally embraced by Gentlemen and sometimes by persons Nobly descended and preferred much above the Divines Profession XLIX That as in the Universities all Heads of Colledges if their Founders intentions were rightly observed and all Fellows of Colledges are obliged communi jure so long as they hold those places to abstain from Marriage and the carnal knowledge of Women so in the Church that not only Archbishops and Bishops but all others that take any Ecclesiastical Benefice may by a Statute be obliged so long as they hold those Benefices to abstain in like manner and as without a Dispensation no man can hold two Benefices with Cure of Souls so no beneficed man should take a wife without either Dispensation in some few cases to be allowed or resigning his Benefice To say they cannot abstain or shall be occasioned for want of Wives to do worse all Fellows of Colledges who commonly there pass the very heat of their Youth might with much more reason plead the same and yet would be derided for their pains By which abstinance the Clergy would be enabled to be much more hospitable and charitable and so better beloved they would