in the following Parliament we are to follow him to that Parliament for our satisfaction And there we find that Mr. Maynard made a Speech in the Committee of Lords against the Canons made by the Bishops in the last Convocation in which he endeavoured to prove c. Fuller Diogenes being demanded what one should give him to strike on the head as hard as he could Give me sayed he but an Helmet Well fare my Helmet the seasonable interposition of the word ENDEAVOURED which hath secured me from the blowes of the Animadvertor and perchance his hand thereby retunded Besides I have a double Helmet Master now Serjeant Mainard no lesse eminently known for his skill in Law than for his love to the Clergy by pleading so effectually in his success as well as desire for their Tithes Wherefore being weary with this long contest I resolve for a while even to take my naturall rest and will quietly sleep untill Iogged by that which particularly concerneth me Dr. Heylyn Endeavoured to prove that the Clergy had no power to make Canons without common consent in Parliament because in the Saxon's times Lawes and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall had the confirmation of Peers and sometimes of the People to which great Councills our Parliaments do succeed Which Argument if it be of force to prove that the Clergy can make no Canons without consent of the Peers and People in Parliament it must prove also that the Peers and People can make no Statutes without consent of the Clergy in their Convocation My reason is Because such Councels in the times of the Saxons were mixt Assemblies consisting as well of Laicks as of Ecclesiasticks and the matters there concluded on of a mixt nature also Laws being passed as commonly in them in order to the good governance of the Common-wealth as Canons for the regulating such things as concern'd Religion But these great Councels of the Saxons being divided into two parts in the times ensuing the Clergy did their work by themselves without any confirmation from the King or Parliament till the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the Eighth And if the Parliaments did succeed in the place of those great Councells as he saies they did it was because that antiently the Procurators of the Clergy not the Bishops onely had their place in Parliament though neither Peers nor People voted in the Convocations Which being so it is not much to be admired that there was some checking as is said in the second Argument about the disuse of the generall making of such Church-Laws But checking or repining at the proceeding of any Superiour Court makes not the Acts thereof illegall for if it did the Acts of Parliaments themselves would be reputed of no force or illegally made because the Clergy for a long time have checkt and think they have good cause to check for their being excluded Which checking of the Commons appears not onely in those antient Authors which the Gentleman cited but in the Remonstrance tendred by them to King Henry the Eighth exemplified at large in these Animadversions lib. 3. n. 61. But because this being a Record of the Convocation may not come within the walk of a Common Lawyer I shall put him in mind of that memorable passage in the Parliament 51 Edw. 3d. which in brief was this The Commons finding themselves aggrieved as well with certain Constitutions made by the Clergy in their Synods as with some Laws or Ordinances which were lately passed more to the advantage of the Clergy then the Common People put in a Bill to this effect viz. That no Act nor Ordinance should from thenceforth be made or granted on the Petition of the said Clergy without the consent of the Commons and that the said Commons should not be bound in times to come by any Constitutions made by the Clergy of this Realm for their own advantage to which the Commons of this Realm had not given consent The reason of which is this and 't is worth the marking Car eux ne veulent estre obligez a nul de vos Estatuz ne Ordinances faitz sanz leur Assent Because the said Clergy did not think themselves bound as indeed they were not in those times by any Statute Act or Ordinance made without their assent in the Court of Parliament But that which could not be obtain'd by this checking of the Commons in the declining and last times of King Edward 3. was in some part effected by the more vigorous prosecution of King Henry 8. who to satisfie the desires of the Commons in this particular and repress their checkings obtained from the Clergy that they should neither make nor execute any Canons without his consent as before is said so that the Kings power of confirming Canons was grounded on the free and voluntary submission of the Clergy and was not built as the third Argument objecteth on so weak a foundation as the Pope's making Canons by his sole power the Pope not making Canons here nor putting his Prescripts and Letters decretory in the place of Canons but onely as a remedy for some present exigency So that the King's power in this particular not being built upon the Popes as he said it was it may well stand That Kings may make Canons without consent of Parliament though he saith they cannot But whereas it is argued in the fourth place that the clause in the Statute of Submission in which it is said that the Clergy shall not make Canons without the Kings leave doth not imply that by His leave alone they may make them I cannot think that he delivered this for Law and much less for Logick For had this been looked on formerly as a piece of Law the Parliaments would have check'd at it at some time or other and been as sensible of the Kings enchroachments in executing this power without them as antiently some of them had been about the disuse of the like generall consent in the making of them Fuller DORMIT SECURUS Dr. Heylyn Fol. 180. In the next place our Author tells us that Mr. Maynard endeavoured also to prove that these Canons were against the King's Prerogative the Rights Liberties and Properties of the Subject And he saith well that it was endeavoured to be proved and endeavoured onely nothing amounting to a proof being to be found in that which followes It had before been Voted by the House of Commons that the Canons are against fundamentall Laws of this Realm against the Kings Prerogative Property of the Subject the Right of Parliament and do tend to faction and sedition And it was fit that some endeavours should be used to make good the Vote But this being but a generall charge requires a generall answer onely and it shall be this Before the Canons were subscribed they were imparted to the King by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and by the King communicated to the Lords of the Councill who calling to them the assistance of the Judges and
some of the Kings Councill learned in the Laws of this Realm caus'd the said Canons to be read and considered of the King being then present By all which upon due and mature deliberation the Canons were approv'd and being so approv'd were sent back to the Clergy in the Convocation and by them subscribed And certainly it had been strange that they should pass the approbation of the Judges and learned Lawyers had they contained any thing against the fundamentall Laws of the Land the Property of the Subject and the Rights of Parliament or been approv'd of by the Lords of his Majesties Councill had any thing been contained in them derogatory to the Kings Prerogative or tending to faction and sedition So that the foundation being ill laid the superstructures and objections which are built upon it may be easily shaken and thrown down To the first therefore it is ansvvered that nothing hath been more ordinary in all former times than for the Canons of the Church to inflict penalties on such as shall disobey them exemplified in the late Canons of 1603. many of which extend not onely unto Excommunication but even to Degradation and Irregularity for which see Can. 38.113 c. To the second that there is nothing in those Canons which determineâ—h or limiteth the Kings Authority but much that makes for and defendeth the Right of the Subject for which the Convocation might rather have expected thanks then censure from ensuing Parliaments To the third That when the Canon did declare the Government of Kings to be founded on the Law of Nature it was not to condemn all other Governments as being unlawfull but to commend that of the Kings as being the best Nor can it Logically be inferr'd that because the Kingly Government is not receiv'd in all places that therefore it ought not so to be or that the Government by this Canon should be the same in all places and in all alike because some Kings do and may lawfully part with many of their Rights for the good of their Subjects which others do and may as lawfully retain unto themselves To the fourth That the Doctrine of Non-Resistance is built expresly on the words of St. Paul Rom. 13. v. 2. and therefore to condemn the Canon in that behalf is to condemn the Word of God upon vvhich it is founded Finally to the fifth and last That the Statute of 5 6 Edw. 6. declaring that the daies there mentioned shall be kept for Holy-daies and no other relates onely to the abolishing of some other Festivalls which had been formerly observ'd in the Realm of England and not to the disabling of the Church from ordaining any other Holy-dayes on emergent causes in the times to come Fuller DORMIT SECURUS Dr. Heylyn Assuredly that able Lawyer would have spoke more home unto the point could the cause have born it Eloquentem facit causae bonitas in the Orator's language And therefore looking on the heads of the Arguments as our Author represents them to us I must needs think that they were rather fitted to the sense of the House than they were to his own Fuller I now begin to awake and rub my Eyes hearing somewhat wherein I am concerned as if I had unfaithfully related these Arguments I confesse it is but a Breviat of them accommodated to the proportion of my Book and had they been at large much lustre must be lost whilst related seeing none but Mr. Mainard can repeat the Arguments of Mr. Mainard to equal advantage However I had them from as observant and judicious a Person as any in house of Lords and if I should name Him the Animadvertor would believe me herein Dr. Heylyn What influence these Arguments might have on the House of Peers when reported by the Bishop of Lincoln I am not able to affirm But so far I concur with our Author that they lost neither life nor lustre as they came from his mouth who as our Author sayes was a back friend to the Canons because made during his absence and durance in the Tower A piece of ingenuity which I did not look for Fuller There are some Pens that if a Man do look for Ingenuity from them he may look for it Dr. Heylyn The power of Convocation being thus shaken and endangered that of the High Commission and the Bishops Courts was not like to hold the one being taken away by Act of Parliament and the other much weakned in the coercive power thereof by a clause in that Act of which our Author tell us that Fol. 182. Mr. Pim triumphed at this successe crying out digitus Dei it is the finger of God that the Bishops should so supinely suffer themselves to be surprised in their power And well might Mr. Pim triumph as having gain'd the point he aim'd at in subverting the coercive power and consequently the whole exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction But he had no reason to impute it to the finger of God or to the carelesnesse of the Bishops in suffering themselves to be so supinely surpris'd For first the Bishops saw too plainly that those general words by which they were disabled from inflicting any pain or penalty would be extended to Suspension Excommunication and other Ecclesiastical censures But secondly they saw withall that the stream was too strong for them to strive against most of the Lords being wrought on by the popular party in the House of Commons to passe the Bill Thirdly they were not without hope that when the Scots Army was disbanded and that Nation satisfied by the Kings condescensions to them there might be such an explication made of those general words as to restrain them unto temporal pains and civill penalties by which the censures of the Church might remain as formerly And fourthly in order thereunto they had procured a Proviso to be entred in the House of Peers That the general words in this Bill should extend onely to the High Commission Court and not reach other Ecclesiastical jurisdiction for which consult our Author fol. 181. Having thus passed over such matters as concern the Church we will now look upon some few things which relate to the Parliament And the first is that Fuller I said not Mr. Pim had just cause to triumph yea somewhat followeth in my History to the contrary shewing He had no reason to rejoyce and condemn the Bishops herein seeing not Supinesse but Prudentiall condescention for the time made them rather sufferers then surprized herein Onely I say there are many alive who heard him sing aloud this his Victoria and the Eccho thereof it still soundeth in their Eares The Animadvertor himselfe sometimes triumpheth over my mistakes and carrieth me away in his own conceit whilst still I am sensible of my owne Liberty that I am in a free condition Dr. Heylyn Fol. 174. Dr. Pocklinton and Dr. Bray were the two first that felt the displeasures of it the former for preaching and printing the latter for licensing two Books
at this present Fuller It is a sad Truth which the Animadvertor sayeth And here I cannot but remember David his expression when flying from Absalom If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again But if he say I have no delight in thee behold here I am c. If it be coâ—sistent with the good will and pleasure of God in due time he will Boy up again the sunk credit of the Clergy if not all must submit to him whose wayes are often above reason never against right Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 156. Yea this very Statute which gave power to a Bishop in his Diocess to condemn an Heretick plainly proveth that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in Cases of Heresie The Bishops and Clergy in their Convocations had anciently the power of declaring Heresie the Bishops singly in their Consistories to proceed against them by injoyning penance and recantation or otherwise to subject them to Excommunication The Statute which our Author speaks of being 2 H. 4. c. 15. proceedeth further and ordain'd in favour of the Church that the Ordinary might not onely convent but imprison the party suspected of Heresie and that the party so convented and convicted of Heresie and continuing obstinate in the same should upon a certificate thereof made and delivered to the Secular Judge be publickly burned before the People In order whereunto as in a matter which concern'd the life of a Subject the King with the advice of his Parliament might lay down some rules for the regulating the proceedings of the Bishops and other Ordinaries Fuller There be two distinct things which in this Point must be severally considered 1. To declare and define what shall be accounted Heresie 2. To condemne to Death a declared Heretick The Power of the former was in this Age fixed in the Bishops without any competition and is so clear none can question it Yea by the same Power they might proceed against a declared Heretick without any leave or liceence from King or Parliament so far as Church-Censures Suspensions Excommunications c. could extend But as for the latter to condemn them to Death herein the common-Common-Law began where the Cannon Law ended and regulated their proceedings accordingly Dr. Heylin But certainly it is a sorry piece of Logick to conclude from hence that generally in all cases of Heresie the King with advice of his Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts A piece of Logick shall I call it or a Fallacy rather a Fallacy à dâ—cto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter committed commonly when from a proposition which is true onely in some respect with reference to time place and other circumstances the Sophister inferreth something as if simply true though in it self it be most absolutely false As for example The Pope even in matters of spiritual cognisance for so it followeth in our Author had no power over the life 's of the English Subjects and therefore had then no power to proceed against them in point of Heresie Fuller I intended not nor have I abused the Reader with any fallacious argumentation It is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King and Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie I mean not to decide which were Heresies but to order the Power of the Bishop over declared Hereticks without the direction of the Statute not to proceed to Limb and Life And I believe my words will be found transcribed out of Sir Edward Coke his most elaborate Report of the Kings power in Ecclesiastical matters Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 161. Henry the seventh born in the Bowels of Wales at Pembroke c. some years after plucked down the Partition Wall betwixt them Neither so nor so For first Pembroke doth not stand in the Bowels of Wales but almost on the outside of it as being situate on one of the Creeks of Milford-Haven Fuller Pembroke though verging to the Sea may properly be called in the Bowels of Wales beholding the Marches next England as the outward Skin thereof Bowels are known to the Latines by the name of Penetralia à penetrando one must pierce and passe so farre from the outward skin before one can come at them So is Pembroke placed in the very Penetrals of Wales seeing the Travailer must goe six-score miles from England before he can come thither Dr. Heylin And secondly King Henry the seventh did not break down the Partition Wall between Wales and England That was a work reserved for King Harry the eighth in the 27. of whose Reign there past an Act of Parliament by which it was enacted That the Country of Wales should be stand and continue for ever from thenceforth incorporated united and annexed to and with this Realm of England And that all and singular person and persons born and to be born in the said Principality Country or Dominion of Wales shall have enjoy and inherit all and singular Freedoms Liberties Rights Priviledges and Laws within this Realm and other the Kings Dominions as other the Kings Subjects naturally born within the same have and injoy and inherit And thirdly between the time which our Author speaks of being the 14 year of King Henry the fourth and the making of this Act by King Henry the eighth there passed above an hundred and twenty years which intimates a longer time than some years after as our Author words it Fuller Far be it from me to set variance betwixt Father and Son and to make a Partition Wall betwixt them which of them first did break down the Partition Wall betwixt Wales and England The intentions of King Henry the seventh were executed by King Henry the eighth and all shall be reformed in my Book accordingly Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 168. I will not complain of the dearnesse of this Universitie where seventeen weeks cost me more than seventeen years in Cambridge even all that I had The ordinary and unwary Reader might collect from hence that Oxford is a chargeable place and that all commodities there are exceeding dear but that our Author lets him know that it was on some occasion of disturbance Fuller He must be a very Ordinary and unwary Reader indeed or an Extraordinary one if you please of no common weakness or willfulnesse so to understand my words which plainly expound themselves Dr. Heylin By which it seems our Author doth relate to the time of the War when men from all parts did repair to Oxford not as a University but a place of safety and the seat Royal of the King at which time notwithstanding all provisions were so plentifull and at such cheap rates as no man had reason to complain of the dearnesse of them No better argument of the fertility of the soil and richnesse of the Country in which Oxford standeth than that the Markets were not raised on
Parliament saith he did notifie and declare that Ecclesiastical Power to be in the King which the Pope had formerly unjustly invaded Yet so that they reserved to themselves the confirming power of all Canons Ecclesiastical so that the person or property of Refusers should not be subjected to temporal penalty without consent of Parliament But certainly there is no such matter in that Act of Parliament in which the submission of the Clergy and the Authority of the King grounded thereupon is notified and recorded to succeeding times nor any such reservation to themselves of a confirming power as our Author speaks of in any Act of Parliament I can knowingly and boldly say it from that time to this Had there been any such Priviledge any such Reservation as is here declared their Power in confirming Ecclesiastical Canons had been Lord Paramount to the Kings who could have acted nothing in it but as he was enabled by his Houses of Parliament Nor is this onely a new and unheard of Paradox an Heterodoxie as I may call it in point of Law but plainly contrary to the practise of the Kings of England from that time to this there being no Synodical Canons or Constitutions I dare as boldly say this too confirmed in Parliament or any otherwise ratified than by the superadding of the Royal assent For proof whereof look we no further than the Canons of 603 and 640 confirmed by the two Kings respectively and without any other Authority concurring with them in these following words viz. We have therefore for Us our Heirs and lawfull Successors of our especial Grace certain knowledge and meer motion given and by these presents doe give our Royal assent according to the form of the said Statute or Act of Parliament aforesaid to all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and to all and every thing in them contained And furthermore we doe not onely by our said Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in causes Ecclesiastical ratifie confirm and establish by these our Letters Patents the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and all and every thing in them contained as is aforesaid But doe likewise propound publish and straightly enjoyn and command by our said Authority and by these our Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept by all our loving Subjects of this our Kingdome both within the Province of Canterbury and York in all points wherein they doe or may concern every or any oâ— them according to this our Will and Pleasure hereby signified and expressed No other Power required to confirm these Canons or to impose them on the People but the Kings alone And yet I trow there are not a few particulars in which those Canons doe extend to the propertie and persons of such Refusers as are concerned in the same which our Author may soon finde in them if he list to look And having so done let him give us the like Precedent for his Houses of Parliament either abstractedly in themselves or in cooperation with the King in confirming Canons and we shall gladly quit the cause willingly submit to his ter judgement But if it be objected as perhaps it may That the Subsidies granted by the Clergy in the Convocation are ratified and confirmed by Act of Parliament before they can be levied either on the Granters themselves or the rest of the Clergy I answer that this makes nothing to our Authors purpose that is to say that the person or property of Refusers should not be subjected to temporal penalty without consent of Parliament For first before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the 8. they granted Subsidies and other aids unto the King in their Convocations and levied them upon the persons concerned therein by no other way than the usual Censures of the Church especially by Suspension and deprivation if any Refuser prove so refractary as to dispute the payment of the sum imposed And by this way they gave and levied that great sum of an Hundred thousand pounds in the Province of Canterbury onely by which they bought their peace of the said King Henry at such time as he had caused them to be attainted in the Praemunire And secondly there is a like Precedent for it since the said Submission For whereas the Clergy in their Convocation in the year 1585. being the 27 year of Queen Elizabeth had given that Queen a Subsidy of four shâ—llings in the pound confirmed by Act of Parliament in the usual way thâ—y gave her at the same time finding their former gift too short for her present occasions a Benevolence of two shillings in the pound to be raised upon all the Clergy by virtue of their own Synodical Act onely under the penalty of such Ecclesiastical Censures as before were mentioned Which precedent was after followed by the Clergy in their Convocation An 1640. the Instrument of the Grant being the same verbatim with that before though so it hapned such influence have the times on the Actions of men that they were quarreld and condemned for it by the following Parliament in the time of the King and not so much as checkt at or thought to have gone beyond their bounds in the time of the Queen And for the ratifying of their Bill by Act of Parliament it came up first at such times after the Submission before mentioned as the Kings of England being in distrust of their Clergy did not think fit to impower them by their Letters Patents for the making of any Synodical Acts Canons or Constitutions whatsoever by which their Subsidies have been levied in former times but put them off to be confirmed and made Obligatory by Act of Parliament Which being afterwards found to be the more expedite way and not considered as derogatory to the Churches Rights was followed in succeeding times without doubt or scruple the Church proceeding in all other Cases by her native power even in Cases where both the persons and property of the Subject were alike concerned as by the Canons 1603 1640 and many of those past in Queen Elizabeths time though not so easie to be seen doth at full appear Which said we may have leisure to consider of another passage relating not unto the Power of the Church but the wealth of the Churchmen Of which thus our Author Fuller I conceived it Civil to suffer the Animadvertor to use his own phrase parler le tout to speak all out in this long Discourse which although it consisteth of several Notes yet because all treat of the same subject and because a Relative strength might result thereby to the whole I have presented it intire Yet when all is said I finde very little I have learnt thereby and lesse if any thing which I am to alter These my two preparatory Rules as the Animadvertor terms them I have formerly stated and proved and here intend no repetition It is no Beame and but a Moat-fault at most if
likewise fear that the Animadvertor will lay so much weight of ill words upon me that the profit I shall reap will not countervail the pain I must endure in my rectification Dr. Heylyn Our Author saith Ibid. It would be of dangerous consequence to condemn him by the Canons of forrain Councils which were never allowed any Legislative power in this Land Which words are very ignorantly spoken or else very improperly Fuller Did I not foretell aright that my rectification would cost me dear even the burden of bad words Here I have a dolefull Dilemma presented unto me to confesse my self speaking either very ignorantly or very improperly But might not one of these two VERY's have very well been spared Well è malis minimum if it must be so that my choice must be of one of these let it be rather but Impropriety than Ignorance But Reader I see no necessity of acknowledging either but that my words are both knowingly and properly spoken and now to the triall Dr. Heylyn For if by Legislative power he means a power of making Lawes as the word doth intimate then it is true That the Canons of forrain Councells had never any such power within this Land But if by Legislative power he means a Power or Capability of passing for Lawes within this Kingdom then though he use the word improperly it is very fals that no such Canons were in force in the Realm of England The Canons of many forrain Councells Generall Nationall and Provinciall had been received in this Church and incorporated into the body of the Canon-Law by which the Church proceeded in the exercise of her Jurisdiction till the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the Eighth And in the Act confirmative of that submission it is said expresly That all Canons Constitutions Ordinances and Synodals Provinciall as were made before the said Submission which be not contrary or repugnant to the Laws Statutes and Customs of this Realm nor to the dammage or hurt of the Kings Prerogative Royall were to be used and executed as in former times 25 H. 8. c. 19. So that unlesse it can be proved that the proceedings in this case by the Canons of forrain Councels was either contrary or repugnant to the Laws and Customs of the Realm or to the dammage of the Kings prerogative Royall There is no dangerous consequence at all to be found therein Fuller By Legislative power of the Canons of forrain Councels I understand their power to subject the People of our Nation to Guiltiness and consequently to Penalties if found infringing them Now I say again such forrain Canons though not against but onely besides our Common Law and containing no repugnancy but disparateness to the Lawes of our Land either never had such power in England since the Reformation or else disuse long since hath antiquated it as to the rigid exercise thereof For instance a Bishop I am sure and I think a Priest too is in the old Canons rendred irregular for playing a game at Tables Dice being forbidden by the Canons Yet I conceive it would be hard measure and a thing de facto never done that such irregularity should be charged on him on that account We know it was the project of the Pope and Papall party to multiply Canons in Councels meerly to make the more men and men the more obnoxious unto him that they might re-purchase their innocence at the price of the Court of Rome I believe the Animadvertor himself would be loth to have his canonicalness tried by the Test of all old Canons made in rigorem disciplinae yet not contrariant to our Laws and Customs seeing they are so nice and numerous that Cautiousnesse it self may be found an offendor therein I resume my words That it would be of dangerous consequence to condemn the Arch-Bishop by Canons of forrain Councels which never obtained power here either quoad reatum or poenam of such as did not observe them Dr. Heylyn But whereas our Author adds in some following words That eversince he means ever since the unhappy accident he had executed his jurisdiction without any interruption I must needs add That he is very much mistaken in this particular Dr. Williams Lord Elect of Lincoln Dr. Carew Lord Elect of Exeter and Dr. Laud Lord Elect of St. Davids and I think some others refusing to receive Episcopall Consecration from him on that account Fuller Must the Animadvertor needs add this I humbly conceive no such necessity being but just the same which I my self had written before Church-History Book 10. Pag. 88. Though some squemish and nice-conscienced Elects scrupled to be consecrated by him But I beheld this as no effectuall interrupting of his Jurisdiction because other Bishops more in number no whit their inferiour received Consecration Dr. Davenant Dr. Hall and King Charls himself his Coronation from him Dr. Heylyn Far more mistaken is our Author in the next when he tells us fol. 128. Though this Arch-bishop survived some years after yet hence-forward he was buried to the world No such matter neither For though for a while he stood confined to his house at Ford yet neither this Confinement nor that Commission were of long continuance for about Christmas in the year 1628. he was restored both to his Liberty and Jurisdiction sent for to come unto the Court received as he came out of his Barge by the Arch-Bishop of York and the Earl of Dorset and by them conducted to the King who giving him his hand to kiss enjoyned him not to fail the Councill-Table twice a vveek After which time we find him sitting as Arch-Bishop in Parliament and in the full exercise of his Iurisdiction till the day of his death which happened on Sunday August the 4th 1633. And so much of him Fuller An Historian may make this exception but not a Divine my words being spoken in the language of the Apostle The world is crucified unto me and I unto the world I had said formerly that the Keeper's death was this Arch-Bishop's mortification But from this his Suspension from the exercise of his Iurisdiction he was in his own thoughts buried it reviving his obnoxiousness for his former casuall Homicide so that never he was seen hartily if at all to laugh hereafter though I deny not Much Court-savour was afterwards on designe conferred on him Here I hope it will be no offence to insert this innocent story partly to shew how quickly tender guiltiness is dejected partly to make folk cautious how they cast out gaulling speeches in this kind This Archbishop returning to Croidon after his late absence thence a long time many people most women whereof some of good quality for good will for novelty and curiosity crouded about his Coach The Archbishop being unwilling to be gazed at and never fond of Females said somewhat churlishly What make these women here You had best said one of them to shoot an arrow at us I need not tell the Reader
let others judge Dr. Heylyn The Heterodoxies of Wickcliff Canoniz'd for Gospel and Calvin's Opinions whatsoever they were declar'd for Orthodox Fuller The Animadvertor's words are more than Apocrypha even a very untruth Dr. Heylyn The Sabbatarian Rigors published for Divine and Ancient Truths though there be no antiquity nor divinity in them The Hierarchy of Bishops so coldly pleaded for as shewes he had a mind to betray the cause c. Fuller Most false as in due time and place shall abundantly appear Weakly it may be for lack of Ability not coldly for want of affection But rather than the Cause I so cordially wish well to should miscarrie by my well-intended weakness hence-forward I will stand by and resign my place at the Bar to better Pleaders in its behalf Dr. Heylyn Whilst all things pass on smoothly for the Presbyterians whom he chiefly acts for And this is that which we must look for par my par tout as the Frnchmen say Nor deals he otherwise with the Persons which are brought before him than he doth with the Causes which they bring No profest Puritan no cunning Non-conformist or open Separatist comes upon the Stage whom he follows not with Plaudite's and some fair Commends Fuller He means Mr. Carlwright Travers Stone Udal Greenham Hildersham Dod all though dissenting from the Church in Ceremonyes eminent in their Generations I commend them not for their Non-conformity but other qualities of Piety Painfullness Learning Patience c. Doth not Mr. Camden give Babington who suffered as a Traitor to Q. Eliz. the commendation of Wealth Wit Learning and Handsomness Yea doth not the holy Spirit praise Absalom for his blamless Beauty and Achitophel for his oraculous wisdome The worst of moral men may be commended for their Naturals and the worst of Spiritual men for their Morals Dr. Heylyn When as the Fathers of the Chuch and conformable Children of it are sent off commonly in silence and sometimes with censure Fuller The Reader by perusing my Book will find I have embalmed their memoryes with my best spices Dr. Heylyn The late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury so eminently deserving of the Church of England must be raked out of his Grave arraigned for many misdemeanors of which none could accuse him when he was alive all his infirmities and weaknesses mustered up together make him hatefull to the present and succeeding Ages when Mr. Love's Treasonable practises and seditious Speeches must needs forsooth be buried in the same Earth with him Fuller I have in this my Appeal collected twenty two commendations of the Arch-Bishop out of my Church-History and had made them up forty save that the Press prevented me The best is what is lost in the Hundred is found in the Shire I mean may be though not in this my Defence found in my Book at large Dr. Heylyn The University of Oxford frequently quarrelled and exasperated upon sleight occasions The late King's party branded by the odious Title of Malignants not better'd by some froth of pretended Wit in the Etymology Fuller When and Where being now left at large without any direction to the place I am more troubled what my Offence is than what my Defence shall be I am sure the Animadvertor as a dutifull Son to his Mother will in due time and place discover it and unwilling to antedate my own molestation my answer is deferred or rather referred thereunto As for my using the term Malignant in due time I shall make a satisfactory Answer Dr. Heylyn The regular Clergy shamefully reproached by the Name of covetous Conformists Lib. 9. fol. 98. Fuller Who would not think but that as the Charge standeth against me I had branded all Conformists with the Note of Covetous which had been an Abominable Scandall indeed Whereas my words only relate to some particular persons whom if the Animadvertor will say they were Conformists as indeed they were I dare sweare if called thereunto that they were Covetous as who by Unreasonable Leases as the Statute calleth them wasted the Lands of the Church till they were seasonably retrenched by that wholesom Law made the 13. th of Q. Elizabeth Regular Clergy they might be as the Animadvertor termeth them in other things but in this particular Regular only to the Rules of Avarice making such Leases against Reason and common Equity though in the Rigor of the then Law justifiable I wonder that the Animadvertor will advocate for their Actions so detrimental to the Church Nor doth this dash the least disgrace on Conformity it self they not doing it quà Conformists It was not their Conformity made them Covetous though perchance their Covetousnesse might make them conformable but their own Corruption But if the Epithet of Covetous be so offensive I will in my next Edition to mend the Matter change it into Saâ—rilegious Conformity and justifie my Expression according to the Principle of the Animadvertor's own Judgement because they enriched themselves with impayring the goods of the Church Dr. Heylyn And those poor men who were ejected by this late long-Parliament despitefully called Baal's Priests unsavory salt not fit to be thrown upon the Dunghill though he be doubtfull of the Proofs which were brought against them Lib. 11. fol. 207. Fuller I have at large defended my self against this foul and false accusation when the place cited doth occur Dr. Heylyn So many of all sorts wronged and injured him that should they all study their personal and particular Revenges he were not able to abide it And therefore we may justly say in the Poet's Language Si de tot laesis sua Numina quisque Deorum Vindicet in poenas non satis unus erit Which may be Englisht in these words Should all wrong'd parties seek t' avenge their fame One man were not enough to bear the shame Fuller If I stand endebted to so many for wronging of them the fairest way is for them jointly to seize on what I have that so my small Estate may be shared amongst them all so far as it will go and every one have his Proportion thereof Whereas now the Animadvertor taking all and more then all his Penny-worths out of Me he hath injuriously dealt with the rest of the Creditors thereby However I hope to appear responsible seeing no debt is soon satisfied and the Animadvertor himself in due time will be found in my debt if all accounts be equally audited betwixt us This I dare boldly say though I confess his faults excuse not mine if guilty that he hath wronged more and Persons of higher quality in his late Books Bishop Iames Montague a known eminent Scholler vilified by an odious and indiscreet comparing him with another of his Sirname Judge Hutton and Crook scandalously abused by him for consenting privately to the SHIP-MONY who as well privately in the King's presence as publikely opposed it though they subscribed their hands in Conformity to the greater number as the Animadvertor more knowing in Law than my self
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
Brimpton though not cleaving the pin touch the mark in this point Unde Anglis regnantibus laus CANTABRIGIENSIS PROVINCIAE splendide florebat Yet the dignity being but tempory and disposable at the Princes pleasure in reward of new Services the Kentish had it afterward bestowed on them and for a long time enjoyed it Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 141. It did not afterwards embolden him to the anticipation of the Crown attending till it descended upon him He speaks this of King Edward the Confessor who had he tarryed till the Crown had descended on him might possibly have found a place amongst the Confessors but not amongst the Kings of England For the truth is the right title to the Crown was at that time in Edward surnamed the Outlaw the eldest son of Edmund Ironside who flying into Hungary to avoid the fury of the Danes married the Kings sister of that Country and was by her the Father of Edgar Atheling and of Margaret wife to Malcolm Conmor King of the Scots But these being absent at that time Emma the Mother of Prince Edward and Widow to Canutus the Dane took the oportunity to set her son upon the Throne as being not onely half-brother to King Edmund Ironside but also half-brother and consequently nearest Kinsman to Canutus the second which if it were a good descent will plead almost as strongly for King Harald as it did for him Fuller My words are true and not subject to just exception which I confined onely to King Edward his relation to his own brethren The legend of his life reports him to be crowned when unborn in his Mothers Belly and having six elder Brethren by the same father King Ethelred 1. Ethelstan 2. Egbert 3. Edmond 4. Edred 5. Edwy 6. Edgar Some of which came to the Crown others died in their minority King Edward though thus pre-crowned did not endeavor to ante-date his possession of the Throne before his elder Brethren but waited till the title as it was derived unto him from his father descended on him Otherwise I advocate not for Him if He took it from any other who had more right to it than himself Dr. Heylin But by what means soever he got the Crown he deserved to weare it Fuller I cannot cordially close with the Animadvertors expression herein being sensible of no Desert which in this Case is not attended with a true Title For who shall judge of the desert of Competitors If the person himself then every usurper will cry up his own worthinesse If his party they will make him most meriting whom they favour most in their fancies This will unsettle all States cassat all Titles and cause much distraction But believing no Il at all intended in these his words let us proceed Dr. Heylin Our Author telleth us ibid. That whereas formerly there were manifold Laws in the Land made some by the Britains others by the Danes others by the English c. He caused some few of the best to be selected and the rest as captious and unnecessary to be rejected from whence they had the name of the Common Laws That the Common-Law was so call'd because compounded of the Saxon British and Danish Lawes which were before of force onely in such places where the Danes Britans and Saxons had the greatest sway though it be easie to be said will be hard to be proved The Britains at that time liv'd under their own Princes and were governed by their own Lawes and so they were for a long time after so that King Edward having no dominion over them could not impose a Law upon them Nor was it propable that he should borrow any of their Laws or impose them on his natural Subjects considering the antipathy and disaffection betwixt the Nations There were at that time indeed in England three kindes of Laws The first called Dane-lage or the Danish Laws prevailing for the most part in the Kingdome of the East-Angles and that of Northumberland Secondly Saxon-lage used generally in the Kingdoms of the West-Saxons East-Saxons South-Saxons and that of Kent And thirdly Mercen-lage extending over all the Provinces of the Kingdome of Mercia As for the Britans of Cornwall and Cumberland they had no distinct Law for themselves as had those of Wales but were governed by the Laws of that Nation unto which they were Subject By these three sorts of Laws were these Nations governed in their several and respective limits which being afterwards reduced into one body and made common equally to all the subjects did worthily deserve the name of the Common-Law But secondly I dare not give the honour of this Action to King Edward the Confessor The great Iustinian in this work was another Edward called for distinctions sake King Edward the elder who began his Reign Anno 900. almost 150 years before this Confessor to whom our Author hath ascribed it But the truth is that these Laws being suppressed by the Danish Kings who governed either in an arbitrary way or by Laws of their own Countrey they were revived and reinforced in the time of this Edward from whence they had the name of Edward the Confessors Laws and by that name were sued and fought for in the time succeeding of which more hereafter Now as this work may be ascribed to his love to Justice so from his piety his successors derive as great a benefit of curing the disease which from thence is called the Kings-Evill which some impute as our Author tells us to secret and hidden causes Fuller This long Note might well have been boiled down from a Gallon to a Gil to make it more cordial If the Reader can pick any information out of it much good may it doe him Let the honour of so good a Deed with all my heart be parted betwixt the two Edwards one the Beginner the other the finisher thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 145. Others ascribe it to the power of fancy and an exalted imagination Amongst which others I may reckon our Author for one He had not else so strongly pleaded in defence thereof But certainly what effect soever the strength of fancy and an exalted imagination as our Author calls it may produce in those of riper years it can contribute nothing to the cure of children And I have seen some children brought before the King by the hanging sleeves some hanging at their Mothers breasts and others in the arms of their Nurses all touch'd and cur'd without the help of any such fancies or imaginations as our Author speaks of Fuller If I be reckoned amongst them I am mis-reckoned for though I conceive fancy may much conduce in Adultis thereunto yet I believe it partly Miraculous as may appear by my last and largest insisting thereon I say partly because a compleat Miracle is done presently and perfectly whereas this cure is generally advanced by Degrees and some Dayes interposed Dr. Heylin Others lesse charitably condemn this cure as guilty of
Countrey conquered to change the Laws alter the Language or new mould the Government or finally to translate the Scepter from the old Royal Family to some one of their own None of which things being done in the Invasions of the Scots and Picts they cannot properly be said to have subdued the South parts of the Island as our Author out of love perhaps to the Scots would perswade the Reader Fuller I confesse of all Five the Picts and Scots had the most short and uncertain abode in the South The distinction is very nice betwixt harrassing or depopulating of a Countrey and subduing it If I could but harrasse and depopulate that is but deargumentaâ—e the Animamadvertors Book against me I doubt not but I should be accounted to subdue it Why is not my Pen charged with a love to the Picts whom I also equally with the Scots intitle to this subduing and is a Nation now no where extant to be the object of my affection But this five-times subduing of the South of this Island is in all Authors as generally known and received as that a man hath five fingers on his hand Wherefore no more in Answer to just nothing THE THIRD BOOK From the time of the Norman Conquest to the first preaching of Wickliffe Dr. Heylin WE are now come unto the times of the Norman Government when the Church began to settle on a surer bottom both for power and polity the Bishops lesse obnoxious to the Kings than formerly because elected by the Monks and Canons of their own Cathedrals their Consistories free from the intermixture of Lay-assistance and their Synods manag'd by themselves Wherein though they had power of making such Synodicall Constitutions as did ipso facto binde all parties yet our Author is resolv'd to have it otherwise Fuller All this is but perfatary and therefore my Answer not necessary thereunto The Animadvertor seemeth to congratulate the Condition of the English Church as better hereafter in the following than in foregoing Ages He instanceth in two particulars POWER and POLITIE omitting a third worth Both Piety to which Purity in Doctrine may be reduced which now began more and more to be impaired Let me add that after the Kings of England had parted which indeed was wrested from them with the Investing of Bishops Bishops became lesse managable by and dutiful to their Prince and more insulting over the People and being lesse OBNOXIOUS to use the Animadvertors word to the Soveraign were more NOXIOUS to the Subjects Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 19. The Proceedings saith he of the Canon Law were never wholly received into practice in the Land but so as made subject in whatsoever touched temporals to Secular Lawes and National Customes And the Laity as pleasure limited Canons in this behalf How false this is how contrary to the power and practice of the Church before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the eight and finally how dangerous a ground is hereby laid to weaken the Authority of Convocations will best appear by laying down the sum of a Petition presented by the House of Commons to the same King Henry together with the Answer of the Prelates and inferior Clergy then being Synodically assembled to the said Petition The substance of the Petition was as followeth viz. THat the Clergy of this your Realm being your Highnesse Subjects in their Convocation by them holden within this your Realm have made and daily make divers Sanctions or Laws concerning Temporal things and some of them be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of your Realm not having ne requiring your most Royal assent to the same Laws so by them made nother any assent or knowledge of your Lay Subjects is had to the same nother to them published and known in their Mother tongue albeit divers and sundry of the said Laws extend in certain causes to your excellent Person your Liberty and Prerogative Royal and to the interdiction of your Laws and Possessions and so likewise to the Goods and Possessions of your Lay Subjects declaring the infringers of the same Laws so by them made not onely to incur the terrible censure of Excommunication but also to the detestable crime and sin of Heresie by the which divers of your humble and obedient Lay Subjects be brought into this Ambiguity whether they may doe and execute your Laws according to your jurisdiction Royal of this Realm for dread of the same Censures and pains comprised in the same Laws so by them made in their Convocations to the great trouble and inquietation of your said humble and obedient Lay Subjects c. the impeachment of your Jurisdiction and Prerogative Royal. The Answer thereunto was this TO this we say that forasmuch as we repute and take our Authority of making Laws to be grounded upon the Scripture of God and the determination of holy Church which must also be a rule and squier to try the justice and righteousnesse of all Laws as well Spiritual as Temporal we verily trust that considering the Laws of this Realm be such as have been made by most Christian religious and devout Princes and People how both these Laws proceeding from one fountain the same being sincerely interpretrd and after the good meaning of the makers there shall be found no repugnancy nor contrariety but that the one shall be found as aiding maintaining and supporting the other And if it shall otherwise appear as it is our duty whereunto we shall alwayes most diligently apply our selves to reform our Ordinances to Gods Commission and to conform our Statutes and Laws and those of our predecessors to the determination of Scripture and holy Church so we hope in God and shall daily pray for the same that your Highnesse will if there appear cause why with the assent of your People temper your Graces Laws accordingly Whereby shall ensue a most happy and perfect conjunction and agreement as God being Lapis angularis to agree and conjoyn the same And as concerning the requiring of your Highnesse Royal assent to the authority of such Laws as have been by our Predecessors or shall be made by us in such points and Articles as we have by Gods authority to rule and order by such Provisions and Laws we knowing your Highness wisdome and vertue and learning nothing doubt but the same perceiveth how the granting hereunto dependeth not upon our will and liberty And that we your most humble Subjects may not submit the execution of our charge and duty certainly prescribed by God to your Highnesse assent although in very deed the same is most worthy for your most Noble Princely and excellent vertues not onely to give your Royal assent but also to devise and command what we should for good order and manners by Statutes and Laws provide in the Church neverthelesse considering we may not so ne in such sort refrain the doing of our office in the feeding and ruling of Christs people your Graces Subjects we most
humbly desiring your Grace as the same hath heretofore so from henceforth to shew your Graces minde and opinion unto us what your high Wisdome shall think convenient which we shall most gladly hear and follow if it shall please God to inspire us so to doe with all submission and humility beseech the same following the steps of of your most Noble Progenitors and conformably to your our own Acts doe maintain and defend such Laws and Ordinances as we according to our calling and by Authority of God shall for his honour make to the edification of vertue and maintaining Christs faith of which your Highnesse is named Defender and hath been hitherto indeed a special Protector Furthermore whereas your said Lay Subjects say that sundry of the said Laws extend in certain causes to your excellent Person your Liberty and Prerogative Royal and to the interdiction of your Land and Possessions To this your said Orators say that having submitted the tryal and examining of the Laws made in the Church by us and our Predecessors to the just and straight Rule of Gods Laws which giveth measure of Power Prerogative and Authority to all Emperors Kings Princes and Potentates and all other we have conceiv'd such opinion and have such estimation of your Majesties goodnesse and vertue that whatsoever any persons not so well learned as your Grace is would pretend unto the same whereby we your most humble Subjects may be brought in your Graces displeasure and indignation surmising that we should by usurpation and presumption extend our Laws to your most noble Person Prerogative and Realm yet the same your Highnesse being so highly learn'd will of your own most bounteous goodnesse facilly discharge and deliver us from that envy when it shall appear that the said Laws are made by us or out Predecessors conformable and maintainable by the Scripture of God and determination of the Church against which no Laws can stand or take effect Somewhat to this purpose had been before endeavoured by the Commons in the last Parliament of King Edw. 3. of which because they got nothing by it but only the shewing of their teeth without hurting any body I shall lay nothing in this place reserving it to the time of the long Parliament in the Reign of King Charles when this point was more hotly followed and more powerfully prosecuted than ever formerly What sayes our Author unto this Findes he here any such matter as that the Laity at their pleasure could limit the Canons of the Church Or that such Canons in whatsoever touched temporals were subject unto secular Laws and National Customes And here of I desire the Reader to take special notice as that which is to serve for a Catholicon or general Antidote against those many venomous insinuations which he shall meet with up and down in the course of this History As for the case in which our Author grounds this pestilent Position it was the Canon made in a Synod at Westminster in the time of Anselm Anno 1102. prohibiting the sale of men and women like brute beasts in the open Market Which Canon not finding presently an universal obedience over all the Kingdome as certainly ill customes are not easily left when they are countenanced by profit occasioned our Author to adventure upon this bold assertion Fuller I conceived it uncivil to interrupt the Animadvertor in his long discourse until he had ended it and now professe I know not how it maketh in opposition to what I said and heartily wish that the Reader may understand it better than I doe It cannot be denyed but that the Clergy did claim and challenge a power and sometimes de facto executed it over the temporal Estates of the Laâ—ty for I behold the Clergy more bound because binding themselves by their representatives unto their Canons yet they never peaceably injoyed their Power as constantly checkt and controled by the Laws of the Land in such things wherein the Temporal Estate Life and Limb of Persons were concerned We have an eminent instance hereof in the Canon occasioning this discourse Anselme makes a Constitution and that indeed charitable and Christian against the sale of men and women like brute beasts in the open market place Now such persons sold slaves and Vassals as I understand it being the Goods and Chattels of their Masters the proprietaries and owners of their Bodies they would not part with their right in obedience to the Canon Suppose a Convocation some thirty years agoe should have made a Canon without any confirmation from Parliament That no Merchant living in England should by his Factors sell any Negroes or Blacks in the Barbadoes which formerly he had bought in Guinnie it would not oblige to the observation thereof because in such matters wherein propertie was concerned the Canon must say to the Common-Law By your leave Sir I have writen nothing in this point buâ— what I have a good Author for And seeing the Animadvertor in his Geography hath been pleased to tell a passage betwixt him and his fathers man let me relate another wherein my self was concerned knowing it to be as true and hoping it to be as well applyed Some three years since walking on the Lords day into the Park at Copthall the third son a child in coats of the Earl of Dorset desired to goe with me whereof I was unwilling fearing he should straggle from me whilest I meditated on my Sermon And when I told him that if he went with me he would lose himself he returned Then you must lose your self first for I will goe with you This rule I alwayes observe when medling with matters of Law because I my self am a child therein I will ever goe with a man in that faculty such as is most eminent in his profession à cujus latere non discedam so that if he lose me he shall first lose himself as hereafter when we grapple together in this Controversie will appear As for this particular case for I will engage no further for the present this Canon did not dispossesse Masters of their property in their Vassals and no meaner than Mr. Selden is my conductor herein stiled hereafter by the Animadvertor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renowned Humanitian and Philologer Yea I entred my Author in the Margin had the Animadvertor been pleased to take notice thereof Spiceleg ad Edmerium page two hundred and eight Neque sane Canon hic aut alia apud nos lata Lex id juris hactenus adeo refixit quin in Iurisconsultorum nostratium Commentariis passim Legibus quibus utimur consonum agnoscatur Neither truly this Canon or any other Law made amongst us hath hitherto unfastened this right but that in the Comments or Reports of our Common Lawyers it is acknowledged consonant to those Laws which we use And though in processe of Time first conscientious then all Masters laudibly submitted themselves to this Canon forbearing such sales yet were they not by
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
principal Articles and main branches of it Fuller It is an hard question and yet perchance more dangerous than difficult to answer but the reason I dare alledge is this Even so Father because it pleased thee Let me add that such conscientious observers thereof which have proved unsuccessefull may esteem their losses as Sweet-Bryar and Holy-Thistle and more cordially comfort themselves in such sanctified afflictions than the Infringers of their Charter could content themselves in their successefull oppression I cannot part from this point till I have inserted that Sir Robert Cotton one who had in him as much of the Gentleman Antiquarie Lawyer good Subject and good Patriot as any in England was the Author in his short view of the long reign of King Henry the third who made the observation of those most successefull Kings by whom the Grand-Charter was most conscienciously observed Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 88. The poor Jews durst not goe into France whence lately they had been solemnly banished but generally disposed themselves in Germany and Italy The poor Iews are more beholding to our Author for his commiseration than the high Royalists as he cals them in the former passage But poor or rich they might have passed safely into France had they been so minded For though he tell us that they had been solemnly banished out of France before this time yet either such banishment was repealed or temporary only or as I rather think not so much as sentenced Certain I am our learned Brerewood upon a diligent enquiry hath found it otherwise than our Author doth letting us know That the first Countrey in Christendome whence the Jews were expelled without hope of return was our Countrey of England whence they were banished Anno 1290. by King Edward the first and not long after out of France Anno 1307. by Philippus Pulcher. Not out of France first out of England afterwards as our Author would have it Fuller I wonder any good Christians would be offended with me for pittying them by the name poor Iews If any High royalist as I fear there is too many be in low Estate would it were as well in my power to relieve as to pitty them Till when they shall have my prayers that God would give them patience and support them in their deepest distresse The Author will find that though the Great General and Final banishment of the Jews out of France was Anno 1307. under Philip the Fair yet formely there had been Edicts for their Exile thence Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 100. Thus men of yesterday have pride too much to remember what they were the day before An observation true enough but not well applyed The two Spencers whom he speaks this off were not men of yesterday or raised out of the dirt or dunghill to so great an height but of as old and known Nobility as the best in England insomuch that when a question grew in Parliament whether the Baronesse de Spencer or the Lord of Aburgaveny were to have precedency it was adjudg'd unto de Spencer thereby declar'd the ancientest Barony of the Kingdome at that time then being These two Hughâ—he â—he Father was created Earl of Winchester for term of life and Hugh the Son by marrying one of the Daughters and co-heirs of Gilbert de Clare became Earl of Glocester Men more to be commended for their Loyalty than accused for their pride but that the King was now declining and therefore it was held fit by the prevalent faction to take his two supporters from him as they after did Fuller The two Spencers fall under a double consideration and are beheld in History for their extraction either as Absolutely in themselves Comparatively with others Absolutely they were of honourable parentage and I believe the Elder might be born a Baron whose Baronry by the Heir general is still extant in Mildmay Fane Earl of Westmorland and from the younger House of a Male Heir the Lord Spencer of Wormelayton now Earl of Sunderland doth as I have seen in his Pedigree derive himself Comparatively So were they far inferiour to most of those great persons over whom they insulted being originally Earls and some of them of Royall extraction Again the Two Spencers may and ought by an Historian to be considered as to be 1. Commended for their Loyalty 2. Condemned for their Insolency On the first account they deserve just praise and it is probable enough that they finde the lesse Favour from some Pens for being so Faithfull to so unfortunate a Soveraigne The latter cannot be excused appearing too plain in all our Histories Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 113. The Lord Chancellor was ever a Bishop If our Author by this word ever understands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most commonly or for the most part he is right enough but then it will not stand with the following words viz. as if it had been against equity to imploy any other therein And on the other side if he take the word ever in its proper and more natural sense as if none but Bishops had ever been advanced unto that office he doth not onely misinform the Reader but confute himself he having told us fol. 31. of this present book that Thomas Becket being then but Archdeacon of Canterbury was made Lord Chancellor and that as soon as he was made Archbishop he resign'd that office But the truth is that not onely men in holy Orders but many of the Laity also had attained that dignity as will appear to any who will take the pains to consult the Catalogue of the Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal in the Glossary of Sir Henry Spelman in which appear not onely some of inferior dignity as Deans Archdeacons House-hold Chaplains but many also not dignified with any Ecclesiastical Title or Notification and therefore in all probability to be looked on as meer Lay-men Counsellors and Servants to the Kings in whose times they lived or otherwise studied in the Laws and of good affections and consequently capable of the place of such trust and power Fuller May the Reader take notice that this complaint was made by the Commons in the 11th of Edward the 3d Anno 1336. Now Ever I here restrain to the oldest man alive then present in Parliament who could not distinctly remember the contrary from the first of King Edward the first who began his Reign 1272. so that for full 64. years an uninterrupted series of Bishops except possibly one put in pro tempore for a moneth or two possessed the place of Chancellors This complaint of the Commons occasioned that the King some three years after viz. in the fifteenth year of his reign conferred the Chancellors place on a Layman But it was not long before things returned to the old channel of Clergy-men and so generally for many years continued with some few and short interpositions of Lay-men Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 116. This year viz. 1350.
take notice thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 21. This Conference was partially set forth only by Dr. Barlow Dean of Chester their professed Adversary to the great disadvantage of their Divines If so how did it come to passe that none of their Divines then present nor any other in their behalf did ever manifest to the world the partialities and falshoods of it The Book was printed not long after the end of the Conference publickly passing from one hand to another and never convicted of any such Crime as it stands charged with in any one particular passage to this very day c. Fuller I only said that some did complain that this Conference was partially set forth I avowed not that they complained justly I believe their complaint causlesse and let it be remedilesse for me seeing I my self professe verbo Sacerdotis that I have been accused that I have abridged this Conference to the disparagement of Dr. Reynolds though my Conscience be clear herein Dr. Heylin However our Author telleth us that he viz. Mr. Nicholas Fuller left behind him the reputation of an honest man No question of it It is a thing so incident to the Name that whatsoever they doe or say they are honest still Fuller All his jeering on my Name shall not make me goe to the Heraulds Office to endeavor the altering thereof I fetcht it from my great-great Grand father and hope shall leave it to my great-great Grand-child A Name which no doubt originally was taken from that usefull trade without which Mankind can neither be warm or cleanly The like is frequent in many respectfull Families in England as the Antiquary hath observed From whence came Smith al be he Knight or Squire But from the Smith that forgeth at the fire Yet considering the narrownesse of my name it is inferiour to few having produced the best of English Pilots T. Fuller who steered Captain Cavendish round about the World the best of English Criticks N. Fuller so famous in forain parts for his Miscellany's and none of the worst of English Benefactors I. Fuller one of the Judges of the Sheriffs Court in London who built and endowed an Almeshouse for twelve poor men at Stoken-heath and another at Shorditch for as many poor Women Besides he gave his Lands and Tenements of great yearly valuation in the Parishes of S. Bennet and Peters Pauls Wharf London to Feoffees in Trust to release Prisoners in the Hole of both Counters whose Debts exceeded not twenty shillings eight-pence Yea it hath at this Day one Bishop one Dean one Doctor two Batchelour of Divinity and many Masters of Arts of no contemptible condition Pardon Reader this digression done se defendendo against one by whom my Name is too much undervalued by Ironical over-valuing thereof Dr Heylin Before we had the story of Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith condemn'd for felony but still so honest and so entirely beloved by King Harry the sixth after his decease that he appeard to him on the top of the Gallows incourag'd him and so charm'd the Rope that it did not strangle him lib. 4.154 Afterwards we meet with Iohn Fuller Doctor of the Laws a better than he a Persecutor in Queen Maries dayes but a pittiful man as the Index telleth us Here we have Nicholas Fuller a Counseller the best of the three decrying openly the Authority on the High Commission and thereby giving a legal advantage to Archbishop Bancroft by whom imprisoned and there dying but dying with the reputation of an honest man And then another Thomas Fuller a Minister the best of all the company and an honest man too so well deserving of the Church and all good Church-men both alive and dead by this notable History as not to doubt of the like favour at their hands should there be occasion as Thomas of Hammersmith receiv'd of King Harry the sixth Fuller Here are four Gradations of Fullers good better best best of all which in the language of jeering speaking alwayes by the contraries amounteth unto bad worse worst worst of all As for the first T. Fuller I answer First the tale is not made but related by me who have charged my Margin with the Author thereof Harpsfeild not inconsiderable for Learning Religion amongst his own party Secondly not the least credit is given thereunto in my reporting it matching it with another miracle which I call equally true that is equally untrue in the interpretation of any unpartial Reader Thirdly seeing I followed Harpsfeild in relating his Miracles in other places if here I should have deserted him probably it would have been by others condemned in me for a sullen omission as by the Animadvertor for a light Insertion because T. F. was my Namesake The good nature and pittiful disposition of Dr. I. Fuller plainly appeareth in Mr. Fox and as for his bounty to Iesus Col. in Cambridge I leave it to some of that foundation to give testimony thereof As for the third N. Fuller be it reported to the IESSES of Grayes-Inne I mean such Benchers as pass amongst them for Old Men and can distinctly remember him whether he hath not left a pretious and perfumed memory behinde him of one pious to God temperate in himself able in his Profession moderate in his Fees carefull for his Client faithfull to his Friend hospital to his Neighbour pittifull to the Poor and bountifull to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge in a word blamless in all things save this one Act of Indiscretion which could not make him forfeit the reputation of his honesty especially seeing he paid dear for it and died in durance Thus though Mr. Stubbs was so obnoxious to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth that hâ—s Right-hand was cut off for writing a Libel against Her Match with Monseir yet Mr. Camden does call him Virum famae integerrimae For the fourth and last I will make the Animadvertor the self same Answer which the Servants of Hezekiah returned to Rabsecah But they held their peace and answered him not a word Dr. Heylin The Author saith and as about this time some perchance over-valued the Geneva Notes out of that especial love they bare to the Authors and place whence it proceeded So on the other side same without cause did sleight or rather without charity did slander the same I trowe our Author will not take upon him to condemn all those who approve not of the Genevian Notes upon the Bible or to appear an Advocate for them though he tells us not many lines before that they were printed thirty times over with the general liking of the people Fuller Had I said two and thirty times though past the Head Game I had not been out And now the Reader shall have my full and free sense of the Genevian Notes I remember the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Head of Polypus is had What is good and what is bad Such a mixture is in these
Notes wherein the most pious and proper to expound their respective places but some And those too many though never so few false factious dangerous yea destructive to Religion I could therefore wish some godly and discreet persons impowred and imployed to purge forth the latter that the rest may remain without danger for the profit of plain people But till this be done I am I thank God old enough to eat fish feeding on the flesh thereof and laying by the bones on my Trencher or casting them down to the Doggs Dr. Heylin I hope he will not condemn all those who approve not those Notes for K Iames who in the Conference at Hampton Court did first declare that of all the Translation of the Bible into the English tongue that of Geneva was the worst And secondly that the Notes upon it were partial untrue seditious and savouring too much of dangerous and traiterous conceits For proof whereof his Majesty instanced in two places the one on Exod. 1. ver 19. where disobediance to the King is allowed of The other in 2 Chron. 8.15 16. where Asa is taxed for deposing his Mother only and not killing Her A note whereof the Scottish Presbyterians made special use not only deposing Mary their lawfull Queen from the Regal Throne but prosecuting Her openly and under hand till they had took away her life These instances our Author in his Summary of that Confererence hath passed over in silence as loath to have such blemishes appear in the Genevians or their Annotations And I hope also that he will not advocate for the rest Fuller Down with these Bones to the Dogs indeed which alone are proper for their palate The Scots are old enough being reputed by Historians one of the most ancient Nations of Europe let them answer for themselves though I beleeve they cannot answer this foul fact but by penitent confession thereof But whereas the Animadvertor taxeth me for wilfully omitting those Instances of K. Iames in favour to the Genevians I protest my integrity therein It was only because I would have my Summary a Summary no Abridgement being adequate to the Narration abridged therein Dr. Heylin For let him tell me what he thinks of that on the second of St. Matthews Gosspel ver 12. viz. Promise ought c. Fuller Let him shew me what commission he hath to enquire into my thoughts However to doe him a pleasure I will tell him what I think in the point Dr. Heylin Promise say the Genevians in their Note Matthew 5.12 ought not to be kept where Gods Honour and preaching of his Truth is hindred or else it ought not to be broken What a wide gap think we doth this open to the breach of all Promises Oathes Covenants Contracts and Agreements not only betwixt man and man but between Kings and their Subjects What Rebel ever took up Arms without some pretences of that nature What Tumults and Rebellions have been rais'd in all parts of Christendom in England Scotland Ireland France the Netherlands Germany and indeed where not under colour that Gods honour and the preaching of the truth is hindred If this once pass for good sound Doctrine Neither the King nor any of his Good Subjects in what Realm soever can live in safety Gods Honour and the preaching of his Truth are two such pretences as will make void all Laws elude all Oaths and thrust out all Covenants and agreements be they what they will Fuller I behold this Note as impertinent to that place seeing it appears not in the Text that those wise men made Herod any promise to return unto him Secondly Had they made him any promise yea bound it with an Oath by the living God such an Oath had not been obligatory because God to whom the forfeiture was due released the Band in an extraordinary Vision unto them such that our Age doth not produce As the Note is impertinent in that place so it is dangerous at all times and mans corruption may take thence too much mischievous advantage which is partly given because so perilous a pit is left open contrary to the Iudicial Law and not covered over with due caution requisite thereunto I concurre therefore with the Animadvertor in the just dislike thereof Dr. Heylin Next I would have our Author tell me what he thinks on this Note on the ninth of the Revelation vers 3. where the Locusts which came out of the smoak are said to be false Teachers Hereticks and wouldly subtil Prelats with Monks Friers Cardinals Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops Doctors Batchelours and Masters Does not this Note apparently fasten the Name of Locusts on all the Clergy of this Realm that is to say Archbishops Bishops and all such as are graduated in the University by the name of Doctors Batchelours and Masters And doth it not as plainly yoke them with Friers Monks and Cardinals c. Fuller It was in my opinion both indiscretly and uncharitably done to jumble them together being of so different not to say contrary originations Sure I am though they are pleased to match them by force yet the Parties were never agreed They might as well have added Superintendents Lecturers Assistants and whole Classesses seeing all such it victous in Life or Heretical in Doctrine notwithstanding their reformed Names are Locusts as well that is as ill as any of the other But let us return to those my words which first gave the first occasion to these four last Animadversions Church-History 10 Book Page 59. And as about this time some perchance over-valued the Geneva Notes out of the especial love they bare to the Authors and Place whence they proceeded soon the other side some without cause did sleight or rather without charity did slander the same For in this or the next year a Doctor in solemn assembly in the University of Oxford publickly in his Sermon at St. Maries accused them as guilty of mis-interpretation touching the Divinity of Christ and his Messiah-ship as if symbolizing with Arrians and Jews against them both For which he was afterwards suspended by Dr. Robert Abbot propter conciones publicas minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Fain would I know first whether these my words import my inclination to defend all in the Geneva Notes Secondly though I neither can nor will as by the premisses doth appear excuse all passages in them I am confident that neither the Animadvertor nor all those of all degrees and qualities in both Universities urging him to write against me are able to finde out any Arianisme or Anti-Messâ—anisme in those Notes And therefore as an Historian I was bound to take notice of the fault and censure of that Doctor onely expressed in the Margin by the initial letter of his sirname Dr. Heylin Our Author goeth on Fol. 77. At this time began the troubles in the Low-Countries about matters of Religion heightned between two opposite parties Remonstrants and Contra-Remonstrants their Controversies being chiefly reducible
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
not of the Bishop And though the Tithing-man have some relation to Church-matters and consequently to the Bishop in the way of presentments yet was he noâ— bound to execute any such Commands because not tyed by an Oath of Canonicall Obedience as the Ministers were So that the Bishops did no more than they were commanded in laying the Publication of these Declarations on the backs of the Ministers and the Ministers by doing less than they were required infring'd the Oath which they had taken rendring themselves thereby obnoxious to all such Ecclesiasticall Censures as the Bishops should inflict upon them Fuller I said That there was no Express order in the Declaration that the Minister of the Parish should be pressed to the publishing of it Now the Animadvertor hath done me the favour to prove my words to be true acknowledging the Declaration onely enjoyned That the Bishop of the Diocess should order the publishing thereof through all the Parishes in his Iurisdiction And so consequently as the Animadvertor inferreth the Ministers must do it Hereby the truth of my words do appear that there was no express command seeing an EXPRESS and an INFERENCE are two things of a different nature Whereas I said That many thought it a more proper work for the Constable or Tithing-man then for the Minister There are thousands now alive which will justifie the truth thereof Yea their thoughts which otherwise I confess came not under my cognizance expressed themselves in their words wherewith they affirmed and professed the same Dr. Heylyn It seems that in our Authors judgment it was well done by the Judges for the County of Somerset to impose upon the Ministers of that County over whom they could challenge no authority to publish their own Declarations against Wakes and Feasts and that it was well done of the Ministers to obey the same for which see fol. 147. These Bishops are beholden to him for giving greater power to the Iudges and Iustices over his brethren of the Clergy then he yields to them and as much beholden are the Clergy for putting so many Masters over them instead of a Father The difference of the case will not serve the turn the King having a greater power to indulge such freedom to his Subjects then the others could pretend unto to restrain them from it If he object that the Ministers are most unfit to hold the Candle to lighten and let in licentiousness as he seems to do he must first prove that all or any of the sports allowed of in those Declarations may be brought within the compass of licentiousness which neither the Word of God nor the Canons of the Christian Church nor any Statutes of the Realm had before forbidden Lastly whereas he tells us That because the Iudges had enjoyned the Ministers to read their Order in the Church the Kings Declaration was enforced by the Bishops to be published by them in the same place There is no such matter The Declaration of King Iames appointed to be read and read by order of the Bishop in the Parish Churches doth evince the contrary Fuller I did not say The Judges did well or did ill therein but I said The Judges did order that the Ministers should publish their Declaration against Wakes and Feasts I have not nor can quickly procure a copy of their order whether it were mandatory or by way of advice did desire Ministers to do that which might be advantagious to Religion But I vvill not judge the Iudges but leave them as best skilled in their own faculty to make good their own acts If such Grandees in the Law exceeded their bounds in this their injunction to Ministers over whom they had no command how many mistakes should I run into if once offering to meddle with this matter being out of my profession And therefore no more thereof Dr. Heylyn Now for our Authors better satisfaction in the present point I shall lay down the judgment of one so high in his esteem and once in the esteem of that party too that I conceive he will not offer to gainsay him It is the Author of the Book called the Holy Table Name and Thing vvho resolves it thus All the commands of the King saith he that are not upon the first inference and illation without any Prosyllogisms contrary to a clear passage in the Word of God or to an evident Sun-beam of the Law of Nature are precisely to be obeyed Nor is it enough to find a remote and possible inconvenience that may ensue therefrom which is the ordinary objection against the Book of Recreations for every good subject is bound in conscience to believe and rest assured that his Prince enviâ—oned with such a Councell will be more able to discover and as ready to prevent any ill sequel that may come of it as himself possibly can be And therefore I must not by disobeying my Prince commit a certain sin in preventing a probable but contingent inconveniency This if it were good Doctrine then when both the Author and the Book were cryed up even to admiration is not to be rejected as false Doctrine now truth being constant to it selfe not varying nor altering with the change of times Fuller I want no satisfaction I thank God in the point and therefore the Animadvertor might have spared his pains As an Historian I have truly related de facto what vvas done and though the Animadvertor may conjecture at my judgment in this controversie he cannot be confident thereof by any thing I have vvritten All I will add is this Because I may write the more I will write the lesse of this subject I have good povver to back me for the present in this controversie and might securely express my self therein When my Text shall lead me in my Vocation to treat of the Observation of the Lords Day I shall not be sparing to express my opinion therein and will endeavour God-vvilling to justifie it Mean time I vvill not go out of mine own house which is my castle I mean I will not be drawn out into the open field of a controversie but keep my self under this COVER That matters of fact in this difference have been truly related by me and let the Animadvertor disprove it if he can Dr. Heylyn But our Author will not stop here he goes on and saith Ibid. Many moderate men are of opinion that this abuse of the Lords-day was a principal procurer of Gods anger since poured out on this Land in a long and bloudy Civill war And moderate perhaps they may be in apparell diet and the like civil acts of life and conversation but sure immoderate enough in this Observation For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath â—een his Counsellor saith the great Apostle But it is as common with some men of the newest Religions to adscribe Gods secret judgements to some speciall Reasons as if they had the Key which opens into his Cabinet at their
by Pope Adrian the fourth b. 3. p. 29. ¶ 49. ALL-SOULS Colledge in Oxford founded by Hen. Chichely Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 4. p. 182. ARROW a small city in Switzerland where a Congregation of English Exiles in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 26. ¶ 41. ALCUINUS or Albinus an eminent Scholar and opposer of Image-worship Cent. 8. ¶ 40. ALFRED the Saxon Monarch his admirable act Cent. 9. ¶ 25. c. foundeth an University at Oxford ¶ 29. c. a solemn Councill kept by him ¶ 42. with the Canons made therein ibidem his death ¶ 44. ALIEN Priors b. 6. p. 33. ¶ 1.2 of two natures ¶ 3. shaken by other Kings ¶ 4. but dissolved by King Henry 5. ¶ 5. William ALLEN Cardinal his death and character b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 12. William AMESE his bitter Sermon against Cards and Dice Hist. of Cam. p. 159. ¶ 41.42 leaveth Christs Colledge for his non-Conformity ¶ 43. AMPHIBALUS so named first by I. Munmoth Cent. 4. ¶ 6. Martyred at Redbourn in Hartfortshire ¶ 7. The fancies about his stake confuted ibidem ANABAPTISTS their beginning in England b. 5. p. 249. ¶ 11. discovered in London b. 9. p. 104. ¶ 12. eleven condemned and two burnt ¶ 13. Lancelot ANDREWS his death and character b. 11. ¶ 46 47 48 49. ANNA King of the East-Saxons happy in his children Cent. 7. ¶ 82. Q. ANNE Wife to King Iames her signal letter to the Town of Rippon b. 10. ¶ 15. ANSELME Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 3. p. 11. ¶ 30. refuseth to lend King Rufus a 1000. pounds ¶ 32. Variance betwixt him and King Rufus p. 12. ¶ 36. c. holdeth a Synod at Westminster p. 16. ¶ 3. the constitutions thereof p. 16 17 18 19. sent to Rome p. 20. ¶ 5. forbids Priests marriage ¶ 7. but dyeth re infecta p. 23. ¶ 18. Io. ARGENTINE challengeth all Cambridge to dispute with him Hist. of Cam. p. 64. ¶ 28. c. ARIMINUM British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. And why they refused to receive a Salary from the Emperour ibidem ARLES British Bishops present at the Councell kept therein Cent. 4. ¶ 20. ARISTOBULUS fabulously made by Grecian writerâ— a Bishop of Britain Cent. 1. ¶ 8. ARMES la noble Families still extant relating to the Atchievements of their Ancestours in the holy Land b. 3. p. 40 41 42 43. ARRIANISME infected England as appeares by Gildas his complaint Cent. 4. ¶ 21. King ARTHUR a real worthy of Britain though his actions be much discredited with Monkish fictions Cent. 6. ¶ 2. The SIX ARTICLES contrived by Bishop Gardiner b. 5. p. 203 ¶ 17. to the great trouble of poore Protestants ¶ 18. The 39. ARTICLES composed b. 9. p. 72. ¶ 51. why drawn up in generall terms ¶ 52. by those who had been Confessours 53. confirmed by Statute 55. imposed onely on the Clergy ¶ 56. The 20th ARTICLE concerning the Authority of the Church questioned b. 9. p. 73. inserted in some omitted in other Editions p. 74. ¶ 85. defended by Bishop Laud against Mr. Burton ¶ 59. ARTICLES of Lambeth see Lambeth Thomas ARUNDEL when Arch-bishop of York a cruel persecutour b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 42. when Arch-bishop of Cant. active in deposing King Rich. the second p. 153. ¶ 54. visiteth the Vniversity of Cambridge and all the Colledges therein Hist. of Cam. p. 59 60 c. Affronted at Oxford b. 4. p. 164. ¶ 125. but by the Kings help too hard for the Students p. 165. ¶ his wofull death p. 166. ¶ 30. St. ASAPH his pious Expression Cent. 6. ¶ 13. Iohn ASCHWELL challengeth all Camb. Hist. of Camb. p. 104. ¶ 44. his bad successe ¶ 45. c. Anne ASCOUGH b. 5. p. 242. ¶ 44. Plea for leaving her Husband ¶ 45. first wracked then burnt 46. her prose and poetry 47. Mr. ASHLEY his difference at Frankford with Mr. Home book 8. p. 32 33. ¶ 11. The sad consequences occasioned thereby ¶ 12.13 ASSEMBLEY of Divines their first meeting b. 11. ¶ 1. consisteth of four English quarters p. 198. ¶ 2. besides the Scotish Commissioners p. 199. ¶ 3. the reasons of the Royalists why they would not joyne with them b. 11. p. 199. ¶ 5. first petition for a fast p. 200. ¶ 8. troubled with Mr. Selden b. 11. p. 213. ¶ 54. and with the Erasâ—ians ¶ 55. c. shrewdly checkt for exceeding their bounds p. 214. ¶ 58. their Monuments p. 215. ¶ 66. rather sinketh then endeth ¶ 67. King ATHELSTAN his principle Laws enacted at Greatlea Cent. ¶ 9.10 ATHELWOLPHUS Monarch of the Saxons maketh equivalently a Parliament act for the paying of Tithes Cent. 9. ¶ 8. Objections against the validity thereof answered ¶ 9 10. et sequentibus Granteth Peter-Pence to the Pope ¶ 15. St. AUDRE her chastity Cent. 7. ¶ 108. twice a Wife still a Maid ¶ 109. c. her miraculous monument confuted ¶ 111. c. St. AUGUSTINE the worthy Father Bishop of Hippo said to be born on the same day with Pelagius the Heretick Cent. 5. ¶ 2. AURELIUS AMBROSIUS erecteth a monument in Memory of his Conquest over the Britans Cent. 5. ¶ 25. Causelesly slandered by an Italian writer ¶ 28. AUGUSTINE the MONK sent by P. Gregory to Convert England b. 2. Cent. 6. ¶ 2. by him shrinking for fear is encouraged ¶ 3. mocked by women in his passage ¶ 4. landeth in England ¶ 5. why chusing rather to be Arch-bishop of Cant. then London C. 7. ¶ 1. summons a Synod under his AKE ¶ 2. his proud carriage therein towards the British Clergy ¶ 3. c. his prophesy ¶ 8. arraigned as guilty of murderâ—ng the Monks of Bangor ¶ 10. c. acquitted by the moderation of Mr. Fox ¶ 14. baptiseth ten thousand in one day ¶ 19. his ridiculous miracle ¶ 22. death and Epitaph ¶ 24. without the date of the year ¶ 25. a farewell to him with his character ¶ 26. AUGUSTINEAN Monks b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 67. Colcheâ—er their chief seat ibidem AUGMENTATION court the erection use cause name abolishing thereof b. 6. p. 348 349. AUGUSTINEAN Friers b. 6. p. 273. ¶ 1. The same in Oxford turned into Wadham Coll. b. 10. p. 68. ¶ 30. learned writers of their Order bred in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 30. B. Gervase BABINGTON Bishop of Worcester his death and praise b. 10. p. 56. ¶ 32 33. Roger BACON a great School-man and Mathematician falsly accused for a Conjurer C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 17. many of that name confounded into one ¶ 18. John BACONTHORP a little man and great Scholar p. 97. ¶ 20. BAILIOL COLL. founded by J. Bailiol b. 3. p. 67. and 68. Philip BAKER Provost of Kings an honest Papist Hist. of Cam. p. 142. ¶ 4. John BALE Bishop of Ossory his death character and excusable passim b. 9. p. 67. ¶ 37 38 39. Bishop BANCROFT causlesly condemned for keeping Popish Priests in his house b. 10. ¶ p. 1. his behaviour
Pope Adrian the fourth from paying of Tithes and why p. 283. ¶ 4. their freedome somewhat confined by the Lateran Councell ¶ 5. CLARE HALL founded by Elizabeth Countesse of Clare Hist. of Camb. p. 37. ¶ 41. The Masters Benefactours Bishops c. thereof ibidem anciently called Soler Hall p. 38. ¶ 44. ruinous and lately re-edified ¶ 45. Four hundred pounds worth of timber reported taken from it in these troublesome times which the Authour of this Book will not believe ibid. CLAUDIA mentioned by St. Paul 2. Tim. 4.21 probably a British Convert C. 1. ¶ 9. notwithstanding Parsons his Cavils to the contrary ¶ 10. CLUNIACK Monks being reformed Benedictines b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. Elianor COBHAM Dutchess of Glocester accused for a Sorceress by some made a Confessour by M. Fox b. 4. p. 171 c. COIFY a Pagan Priest his remarkable speech C. 7. ¶ 41. COLCHESTER claimeth Constantine to be born therein C. 4. ¶ 18. Augustinean Monks had there their prime residence b. 6. p. 268. ¶ 6. COLLEDGES not in the Universities but for superstitious uses given to the King b. 6. p. 350. ¶ 3 4 5. John COLLET Dean of St. Pauls b. 5. p. 167. ¶ 13. soundeth Pauls School ¶ 14. making the Mercers overseers thereof ¶ 15. out of provident prescience ¶ 16. Tho. COMBER Master of Trinity Colledge in Camb. highly commended by Morinus History of Camb. p. 123. ¶ 20. High COMMISSION arguments for and against it b. 9. p. 183. CONSTANTINE the first Christian Emperour proved a Britan by bâ—rth C. 4. ¶ 15. tâ—e obiections to the contrary answered ¶ 16. richly endoweth the Church ¶ 19. CONSTANTIUS CHLORUS the Roman Emperour and though no Christian a favourer of them C. 4. ¶ 12. buried at York and not in Wales as Florilegus will have it ¶ 13. CONVENTICLE the true meaning thereof b. 9. p. 102. ¶ 4. CONVENTS some generall conformities used in them all b. 6. p. 287 c. CONVOCATIONS three severall sorts of them b. 5. p. 190 191. they complain of erroneous opinions p. 209 210 c. CORPUS CHRISTI COL in Camb. See Bennet Colledge CORPUS CHRISTI COLL. in Oxford founded by Bishop Fox b. 5. p. 166. ¶ 11. called the Colledge of three Languages ibid. the worthies thereof ibid. Masse quickly set up therein in the first of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 8. ¶ 10 11. Dr. John COSEN charged with superstition his due praise b. 11. p. 173. ¶ 34 c. The Scotish COVENANT the form thereof b. 11. p. 201. ¶ 13 c. exceptions to the Preface and six Articles therein 203 204 205 206. never taken by the Authour of this Book p. 206. ¶ 30. Will. COURTNEY Bishop of London his contests about Wickliffe with the Duke of Lancaster b. 4. ¶ 135. ¶ 19. Arch-bishop of Canterbury p. 142. ¶ 24. COURTS SPIRITUALL began in the Reign of King William the first when severed from the Sherifs Courts b. 3. ¶ 10. Their contesting with the Common Law how to be reconciled ¶ 11. Richard COX Dean of Christs Church accused t is hoped unjustly for cancelling Manuscripts in Oxford Library b. 7. p. 392. ¶ 19 20. flies to Frankford in the Reign of Queen Mary b. 8. p. 30. ¶ 3. where he headeth a strong party in defence of the English Liturgie p. 31 32. made Bishop of Ely b. 9. p. 63. his death and Epitaph p. 111. ¶ 34. Thomas CRANMER employed by King Henry to the Pope b. 5. p. 179. ¶ 9. to prove the unlawfulnesse of the Kings marriage ¶ 18. thence sent into Germany ¶ 22. made Arch-bishop of Canterbury against his will ¶ 27. defended against the cavils of Papists and Mr. Prin ¶ 28 c. his death b. 8. p. 203. ¶ 32. CREKELADE or GREEKLADE an ancient place where Greek was professed C. 9. ¶ 29. CROWLAND Monks massacred by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 19. Thomas CROMWELL first known to the World for defending his Mr. Card. Wolsey b. 5. p. 177 ¶ 1. as the Kings Vicar in Spiritualibus presidenteth it in the Convocation p. 206. ¶ 21. falls into the Kâ—ngs dâ—spleasure p. 231. ¶ 20. deservedly envyed ¶ 11. his admâ—rable parts ¶ 22. with the History of his death c. ¶ 23 c. Chancellour of Cambridge Hist. of Cambridge p. 108. ¶ 53. Richard CROMWEL alias Williams Knâ—ghted for his valour at a solemn tilting b. 6. p. 370. ¶ 11. giveth a Diamond Râ—ng in his Crest on an honourable occasion ¶ 12. CUTHBERT Arch-bishop of Canterbury by the Kings leave first brings Bodyes to be buried in the Church b. 2. p. 103. ¶ 27. D. DANES their first arrivall in England B. 2. p. 103. ¶ 29. why their countrâ— â—ormerly so fruitfull is lately so barren of people ¶ 30 31 32. the sad Prognosticks of their coming hither ¶ 33. make an invasion into Lincolnshire C. 9. ¶ 18. massacre the Monks of Crowland C. 9. ¶ 19. and burn the Monastery of Medeshamsted ¶ 20 21. why their fury fell more on Convents then Castles C. 10. ¶ 48. after sixty years absence re-invade England ibidem A dear peace bought with them ¶ 50. to no purpose ¶ 52. their Royall line in England suddenly and strangely extinct C. 11. ¶ 10. no hostile appearance of them in England ¶ 13. Thomas L. DARCY beheaded B. 6. p. 313. ¶ 5. his Extraction vindicated from the causelesse Aspersion of King Henry the eighth page 324 325. John DAVENANT sent by King James to the Synod of Dort B. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. made Bishop of Salisbury B. 10. p. 91. ¶ 35. questioned for his Sermon at Court B. 11. p. 138. ¶ 14 15. relates all the passages thereof in a Letter to Dr. Ward ¶ 16. his opinion about the suspension of Bishop Goodman p. 170. ¶ 23. his death p. 176. ¶ 53. St. DAVID a great advancer of Monastick life C. 6. ¶ 4. one of his paramount Miracles ¶ 5. St. DAVIDS or Menevia in Wales once an Arch-bishoprick B. 3. p. 24. ¶ 25. contesteth with Canterâ—ury ibidem but is overpowered ¶ 26. DEANES and CHAPTERS defended in the House of Commons by an excellent speech of Doctour Hackets B. 11. p. 177 178 179. Edward DEERING his death and praise B. 9. p. 109. ¶ 22. Sr. Anth. DENNIE his extraction issue death and Epitaph Hist. of Walt. p. 12 13. DERVVIANUS sent by Eleutherius Bishop of Rome to King Lucius to instruct him in Christianity C. 2. ¶ 8. DEVONSHIRE commotion begun out of superstition heightned with cruelty supprest by Gods blessing on the valour of the Lord Russell B. 7. p. 393 394 c. The DIRECTORY compiled by the Assembly of Divines B. 11. p. 221. ¶ 1. commanded by the Parliament ¶ 6. forbidden by the King to be generally used ¶ 7. it and the Liturgy compared together p. 223 224. DISSENTING BRETHREN B. 11. ¶ 35 why departing the Land ¶ 36. kindly entertained in Holland ¶ 37. their chief ground-works ¶ 39 40. manner of Church-service ¶ 41. Schism betwixt
40.49 dejected carriage at his death 50. his Straw Miracle confuted ¶ 51. c. GENEVA such English who deserted the Church at Frankford settled there b. 8. p. 52. ¶ 10. their names ibid. they send a letter to those at Frankford about accommodation which cometh too late b. 9. p. 52. ¶ 3. the State thereof oppressed by the Savoiard sues to England for relief p. 136. their suite coldly resented and why p. 137. ¶ 20. yet some years after the necessity thereof bountifully relieved by the English Clergy b. 10. p. 4. ¶ 11. GENEVA Translation of the Bible made by the English Exiles there b. 8. p. 36. ¶ 27. the marginal notes thereof disliked by King James b. 10. p. 14. our Translatours enjoyned by him to peruse it p. 47. ¶ 1. the Brethren complain for the lack of their notes p. 58. ¶ 51. which Doctor H causelessely inveyed against 52. GERMANUS invited hither by the British Bishops Cent. 5. ¶ 4. assisted with Lupus ibid. His disputation with the Pelagians ¶ 6. in a most remarkable Conference at S. Albans ¶ 7 8. miraculously conquereth the Pagan Picts and Saxons ¶ 10. is said to exchange some Relicts for S. Albans ¶ 11. his return into Britain to suppresse resprouting Pelagianisme in a Synod ¶ 12 13. GILBERTINE Monks b. 6. p 268. ¶ 8. Ant. GILBY a â—ierce Non-conformist b. 9. p. 76. ¶ 70. GILDAS a British writer calleth his Country-men the Iâ—ke of the Age C. 5. ¶ 14. why he omitteth the worthies of his Nation C. 6. ¶ 2. GILDAS surnamed Albanius struck dumb at the sight of a Nun with Child the reported Mother of St. David C. 5. ¶ 23. Bernard GILPIN refuseth the Bishoprick of Carlile and why b. 9. p. 63. ¶ 32. his Apostolicall life and death ibid. GLASSE the making thereof first brought into England C. 7. ¶ 87. GLASSENBURY the most ancient Church in Christendome said to be erected therein C. 1. ¶ 13. The plain platforme thereof ibidem The story of the Hawthorn thereby budding on Christmas day examined ¶ 15 16 17. cut down lately by the Souldiers ibidem The twelve British Monks with their hard names dwelling there C. 5. ¶ 18. though St. Patrick never lived in that Monastery ¶ 20. the high praise of the place ibidem with profane flattery C. 10. p. 136. ¶ 46. Roger GOAD the worthy Provost of Kings Colledge Hist. of Camb. p. 143. ¶ 5. Thomas GOAD his Son sent to the Synod of Dort b. 10. p. 80. ¶ 71. GODFATHERS used to men of mature age C. 7. ¶ 103. Christopher GOODMAN a violent Non-conformist b. 9. p. 77. ¶ 72. Godfry GOODMAN Bishop of Glocester suspended for his refusing to subscribe to the New Canons b. 11. p. 170. ¶ 22 23. John GOODMAN a seminarie Priest bandied betwixt life and death b. 11. p. 173. ¶ 39 c. Earle GODWIN by cheating gets the Nunnery of Berkley C. 11. ¶ 19. and the rich Mannour of Boseham ¶ 20. Francis GODWIN Son of a Bishop and himself made Bishop of Landaff by Q. Elizabeth in whose Reign he was born b. 9. ¶ 4. Count GONDOMAR jeared by Spalato returns it to purpose b. 10. p. 95. ¶ 7 and 8. procureth the Enlargement of many Iesuites p. 100. ¶ 22. a bitten complement passed on him by the Earle of Oxford p. 101. ¶ 21. King James by him willingly deceived p. 114. ¶ 30. his smart return unto him ¶ 31. GRAVELIN Nunnery founded by the Gages for the English of the poore Order of St. Clare b. 6. p. 363. The GREEK-tongue difference about the pronunciation thereof Hist. of Camb. p. 119. ¶ 7 c. Rich. GREENHAM dieth of the Plague b. 9. p. 219. ¶ 64. humbled in his life time with an obstinate Parish which he left at last ¶ 66. but with his own disliking p. 223. ¶ 68. a great observer of the Sabbath ¶ 69. GREGORY the Greatâ—his â—his discourse with the Merchants at Rome about the English Slaves b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 1. would in person but doth by proxy endeavour Englands Conversion ¶ 2. his exhortatory letter to Augustine ¶ 3. St. GRIMBALD a prime Professour in Oxford C. 9. ¶ 30. his contest with the old Students therein and departure in discontent ¶ 39. Edmund GRINDAL made Bishop of London b. 9. p. 62. ¶ 31. his discourse with the Non-conformist then Arch-bishop of Cant. p. 108. ¶ 18. why he fell into the Queens displeasure p. 119. ¶ 1. the Latine Petition of the Convocation pen'd by Toby Matthews to the Queen in his behalf prevaileth not p. 120 121. his large letter to the Queen in defending prophecies from p. 123. to p. 130. offendeth the Earle of Leicester by denying Lambeth House p. 130 ¶ 4. our English Eli p. 163. ¶ 10. dyes poore in estate but rich in good works ¶ 11. Robert Grout-head Bishop of Lincoln b. 3. p. 65. ¶ 28. offendeth the Pope ¶ 29. Sainted though not by the Pope by the people ¶ 31. GUN-POWDER TREASON the story at large b. 10. p. 34 35 36 c. St. GUTHLAKE the first Saxon Eremite C. 8. ¶ 7. H. William HACKET a blasphemous Heretick his story b. 9. p. 204. ¶ 32 c. Dr. John HACKET his excellent speech in the behalf of Deans and Chapters b. 11. p. 177 178 179. Alexander HALES the first of all School-men C. 14. p. 96. ¶ 16. Sr. Robert HALES Prior of St. Joanes slain in Jack Straws rebellion b. 4. p. 140. ¶ 20. Sr. James Hales a Iudge refuseth to underwrite the disinheriting of Queen Mary and Q. Elizabeth b. 8. ¶ 4. Joseph HALL since Bishop of Norwich sent by K. James to the Synod of Dort b. 10. p. 77. ¶ 63. his speech at his departure thence for want of health p. 79. ¶ 70. his letter to the Author in iust vindication of that Synod against Master Goodwin p. 85. ¶ 7. King HAROLD usurpeth the Crown C. 11. ¶ 39. killed and buried with much a do in Waltham Hist. of Walth p. 7. ¶ 2. Samuel HARSNET Arch-bishop of York his charging of Bishop Davenant b. 11. p. 138. ¶ 15. his death ¶ 31. HEAFENFIELD near Hexham in Northumberland why so called C. 7. ¶ 63. HEILE a Saxon Idoll their Aesculapius b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. destroyed by Augustine the Monk C. 7. ¶ 21. King HENRY the first surnamed Beauclark his Coronation b. 3. p. 13. ¶ 41. married Maud a professed Votary p. 15. ¶ 1 2 c. clasheth with Anselm p. 19. ¶ 4 5 c. his death on a surfeit p. 24. ¶ 27. bred in Camb. Hist. of Camb. p. 2. ¶ 3. King HENRY the second cometh to the Crown b. 3. p. 30. ¶ 52. his character 53. refineth the Common Law divideth England into Circuits p. 31. ¶ 54. politickly demolisheth many Castles ¶ 56. contesteth with Thomas Becket p. 32 33 c. heavy penance for consenting to his death p. 35. ¶ 68. afflicted with his undutifull Son Henry p. 37. ¶ 1. the farre extent of the English
Councill of Trent ¶ 42. his death and deserved praise p. 101. ¶ 1.2 JEWES first came over into England under William the Conquerour b. 3. p. 9. ¶ 44. highly favoured by W. Rufus ibid. had a chief Justicer over them p. 84. ¶ 33. a High priest or Presbyter ¶ 35. their griping usurie p. 85. ¶ 36 c. unfortunate at Feast and Frayes p. 86 ¶ 40. cruelly used by K. Henry the 3d. ¶ 43. Misdemeanours charged on them p. 87. ¶ 46 cast out of the land by K. Edward the first 47. though others say they craved leave to depart ibid. c. ILTUTUS abused by Monkish forgeries C. 6. ¶ 8. IMAGE-WORSHIP first setled by Synod in England C. 8. ¶ 9 10. injoyned point-blank to poore people to practice it b. 4. p. 150. ¶ 40. IN A King of the West-Saxons hâ—s Ecclesiasticall Laws C. 7. ¶ 106. he giveth Peter-Pence to the Pope C. 8. ¶ 13. INDEPENDENTS vide dissenting Brethren Sr. Fra. INGLEFIELD a Benefactour to the English Coll. at Valladolâ—t b. 9. p. 87. yea to all English Papists p. 108. ¶ 20. St. JOHNS COLLEDGE in Cambridge founded by the Lady Margaret Hist. of Cam. p. 94. ¶ 11. the Masters Bishops c. thereof p. 94 95. St. JOHNS COLL. Oxford founded by Sr. Tho. White b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 44. The Presidents Bishops Benefactours c. thereof ¶ 45. King JOHN receives a present from the Pope b. 3. p. 48. ¶ 4. returns him a stout answer 5. for which the whole Kingdome is interdicted p. 49. ¶ 6 7 c. his Innocency to the Popes injustice ¶ 9. by whom he is excommunicated by name ¶ 10. yet is blessed under his curse ¶ 11. his submission to the Pope p. 51. ¶ 13. resigning his Crown ibid his unworthy Embassey to the King of Morocco p. 53. ¶ 21. lamentable death ¶ 22. and character ¶ 23. JOSEPH of ARIMATHEA said to be sent into Britain C. 1. ¶ 11. his drossy History brought to the Touch ¶ 12. severall places assigned for his buriall ¶ 14. the Oratours of Spain in the councill of Basel endeavour to disprove the whole story b. 4. p. 180. ¶ 8. whose objections are easily answered p. 181. ¶ 9. IRELAND excludeth their own Articles and receiveth the 39 Articles of England b. 11. p. 149. ¶ 46. ITALIANS had in England seventy thousand Marks a year of Ecclesiasticall revenues b. 3. p. 65. ¶ 29. held the best livings and kept no Hospitalitie b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 17. William JUXON Bishop of London made Lord Treasurer b. 11. p. 150. ¶ 48. his commendable carriage ¶ 49. K. Q. KATHARINE de Valois disobeyeth her Husband b. 4. p. 170. ¶ 46. therefore never buried ¶ 47 48. Q. KATHARINE Dowager for politick ends married to King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 165. ¶ 6. on what score the match was first scrupled by the King p. 171. ¶ 36 37 c. her Speech p. 173. her character and death b. 5. p. 206. ¶ 19. KATHARINE HALL founded by Robert Woodlark Hist. of Camb. p. 83. ¶ 40. in strictnesse of Criticisme may be termed Aula bolla ¶ 41. KEBY a British Saint fixed in Anglesey C. 4. ¶ 25. KENT the Saxons Kingdome therein when beginning how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. first converted to Christianity by Augustine the Monk b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 11. the Petition of the Ministers of Kent against subscription b. 9. p. 144. KENULPHUS King of the West-Saxons his Charter granted to the Abbey of Abbington proving the power of Kings in that Age in Church matters b. 2. p. 101. ¶ 25. notwithstanding Persons his objections to the contrary ¶ 26. putteth down the Arch-bishoprick of Lichfield KETTS Robert and William their Rebellion b. 7. p. 339. ¶ 2. their execution p. 397. ¶ 15. The KINGS EVILL a large discourse of the cause and cure thereof C. 11. p. 145 146 147. John KING Dean of Christ-Church b. 5. p. 170. present at Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. when Bishop of London graveleth Legate the Arrian p. 62. ¶ 8. condemneth him for a Heretick p. 63. ¶ 10. his cleare carriage in a cause of great consequence p. 67. ¶ 24 25. his death p. 90. ¶ 31. and eminencies in defiance of Popish falshood ¶ 32.33 Henry KING made Bishop of Chichester b. 11. p. 194. KINGS HALL built by King Edward the third Hist of Camb. p. 39. ¶ 46. three eminences thereof ¶ 47. KINGS COLLEDGE founded by K. Henry the sixth Hist. of Camb. p. 73. John KNEWSTUBS minister of Cockfield in Suffolk b. 9. p. 135. ¶ 16. a meeting of Presbyterians at his house ibidem against conformities at Hampton-Court conference b. 10. p. 7. his exceptions propounded p. 16 and 17. shrewdly checkt by King James p. 20. a Benefactour to Saint Johns Colledge Hist. of Camb. p. 95. ¶ 15. KNIGHTS of the Garter their Institution qualifications habilliments Oath and orders by them observed how their places become vacant b. 3. p. 116. KNIGHTS anciently made by Abbots b. 3. p. 17 18. untill it was forbidden by Canon ibidem Mr. KNOT the Jesuit his causelesse Cavills at Mr. Sutton confuted b. 10. p. 65. ¶ 17 c. John KNOX chosen their minister by the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 1. opposed in his discipline by Dr. Cox ¶ 3 4. accused for treacherous speeches against the Emperour ¶ 5. forced to depart Frankford to the great grief of his party ibidem L. Arthur LAKE Bishop of Bath and Wells his death and character b. 11. ¶ 45. LAMBETH Articles by whom made b. 9. p. 229. ¶ 23. nine in number p. 230. various judgements of them p. 231. ¶ 24 c. LANCASTER and York houses the Battels betwixt them for the Crown Place Time number slain and Conquerour b. 4. p. 1â—6 and 187. LANCK-FRANCK made Arch-bishop of Canterbury b. 3. ¶ 4. most kindly treated by the Pope ¶ 17. to whom he acouseth Thomas elect of York and Remigius elect of Lincoln ¶ 18 19. his return and imployment ¶ 20. Hugh LATIMER a violent Papist History of Cambridge p. 102. ¶ 33. converted by Bilney ¶ 34. his Sermon of Cards p. 103. ¶ 38. preacheth before the Convocation b. 5. p. 207. ¶ 23. deprived of his Bishoprick of Worcester p. 231. ¶ 18. why he assumed it not again in the Reign of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 405. ¶ 28. his judgement of the contemners of common prayer p. 426. ¶ 17. William LAUD made Bishop of St. Davids b. 9. p. 90. ¶ 30. a great Benefactour to St. Johns in Oxford b. 8. p. 40. ¶ 45. accused by the Scotch for making their Liturgy b. 11. p. 163. prepares for his death b. 11. p. 215. ¶ 68. his Funerall speech and burial p. 216. ¶ 69 70. his birth breeding and character p. 216 217 218 219. LAURENTIUS Arch-bishop of Cant. reconcileth the British to the Romish Church in the Celebration of Easter C. 7. ¶ 27. intending to depart England is rebuked in a vision