would have suffered him to take that place upon him so contrary to the command of Christ and the Practice of the Apostles if it had been so indeed Or would they have suffer'd their Preachers which then attended their Commissioners at London not only to meddle with but to preach so much temporal Stuff as little belonged to the Purity of the Gospel had they been of this Lord's Opinion Surely I cannot think it But let the Bishops do but half so much yea though they be commanded to do that which these Men assume to themselves and 't is a venture but it shall prove Treason against the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom and an endeavouring to bring in an Arbitrary Government Well! I 'll tell you a Tale. There 's a Minister at this day in London of great Note among the Faction well esteem'd by this Lord and others of this Outcry against the Bishops Votes in Parliament and their meddling in Civil Affairs this Man I 'll spare his Name being pressed by a Friend of his how he came to be so eager against the Church of which and her Government he had ever heretofore been an Upholder and had Subscribed unto it made this Answer Thou art a Fool thou knowest not what it is to be the Head of a Party This Man is one of the great Masters of the present Reformation and do you not think it far more inconsistent with his Ministerial Function to be in the Head of a turbulent Faction to say the least of them than for a Bishop to meddle in Civil Affairs Yet such is the Religion of our Times But 't is no matter for all this his Lordship hath yet more to say against the Ambition of the Prelates For Their Ambition and intermeddling with Secular Affairs and State Business hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World and this no Man can deny that is versed in History This is the same over and over again saving that the Expression contains in it a vast Untruth For they that are versed in History must needs say 't is a loud one that Bishops meddling in Temporal Affairs hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World What a happiness hath this Lord that his pale Meagerness cannot blush at such thing as this Yea but he will prove it here at home in this Kingdom For says he We need not go out of our own Kingdom for Examples of their Insolency and Cruelty When they had a dependency upon the Pope and any footing thereby out of the Land there were never any that carryed themselves with so much Scorn and Insolency towards the Princes of this Kingdom as they have done Two of them the Bishop that last spake hath named but instances of many more may be given whereof there would be no end 'T is true indeed we need not go out of our own Kingdom for Examples of their Insolency and Cruelty For in so many Ages 't is no wonder in any Kingdom to find some bad Examples be it of Insolency Cruelty or what you will Especially in the midst of so much Prosperity as accompanied Clergy-Men in those times But 't is true too that there are far more Examples of their Piety and Charity would this Lord be pleased to remember the one with the other As for their bad Examples his Lordship gives a Reason why not all but some of them carryed themselves with so much Scorn and Insolency towards their Princes even with almost as much as this Lord and his Faction carry themselves at this day towards their mild and gracious King And the Reason is a true one it was their dependency upon the Pope and their footing which thereby they had to subsist out of the Land which may and I hope will be a sufficient warning to his Majesty and his Successours never to let in again a foreign Supream Power into any of his Dominions For 't is to have one State within yet not dependent upon the other which can never be with Safety or Quiet in any Kingdom And I would have the World consider a little with what Insolency and perhaps Disallegiance this Lord and his Round-head Crew would use their Kings if they had but half so strong a foreign dependance as the Bishops then had that dare use the most gracious of Kings as they do this present day Two of these Insolent ones this Lord says the Bishop that last spake named Lincoln stands in the Margin by which it appears that Dr. John Williams then Bishop of Lincoln and since Arch-Bishop of York was the Man that named two but because this Lord names them not I know not who they are and therefore can say nothing for or against them but leave them to that Lord which censured them As for that which follows that the instances of many more may be given whereof there would be no end This is a piece of this Lord 's loud Rhetorick which can have no Truth in it especially relating as it doth to this Kingdom only But whereas this Lord said immediately before that their meddling in State business hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World and in the very next words falls upon the proof of it in this Kingdom I must put him in mind that one Parliament in England namely that which most irreligiously and trayterously deposed Richard II. was the cause of the effusion of more Christian Blood amongst us than all the Bishops that ever were in this Kingdom For that base and unjust Parliament was the cause of all the Civil Wars those Bloody Wars which began in the Heir's time after the Usurpation of Henry IV. and ceased not till there were slain of the Royal Blood and of Nobles and the common People a Numberless Number And I heartily beg it of God that no disloyal Parliament may ever bring this Kingdom into the like distress For our Neighbours are far stronger now than they were then and what desolation it might bring upon us God in Heaven knows So this Lord may see if he will what a Parliament it self being misgoverned may do But will his Lordship think it Reason to condemn all Parliaments because this and some few more have done what they should not do as he here deals by Bishops Sure he would not But having done with the Bishops dependency on the Pope he goes on and tells us farther that Although the Pope be cast off yet now there is another Inconvenience no less prejudicial to the Kingdom by their sitting in this House and that is they have such an absolute dependency upon the King that they sit not there as free Men. I am heartily sorry to see this Lord thus far transported The Pope is indeed cast off from domineering over King Church and State But I am sorry to hear it from this Lord that this other
Houses most of them poor mean Persons seven or eight in all here a Pistol and there a Sword rusty and elsewhere a Birding-Piece so we are safe enough from them God keep us from the Scots In that View I found two Convicted One here below East-Gate a sorry labouring Mason The other one Mr. Hunt by the Castle a Stranger staying here only a while in a House of his own till he can find some Brewer to take it being fit for that purpose and standing void November ult 1640. Ch. Potter I Thank you for your Pains in your Search for Arms among Recusants and am glad you find all so safe and them so unfurnish'd As for Mr. Hunt if he be a Stranger the sooner the Town is rid of him the better For the Confirmation of your Endowments upon your Professors and Orators you shall do well when the great Businesses are more over for till then it will not be intended to move for Confirmation in Parliament And in the mean time it may be very for you fit to prepare a Bill by some good Council which may contain them all in one if it may be It is true you write that most Colleges have upon Christmas-day a Sermon and a Communion in their private Chapels and by that means cannot come to the publick Sermon of the University at Christ-Church And whereas you write farther that some have wished that in regard of this the Morning Sermon for the University might be put off to the Afternoon as it is upon Easter-day for the like occasion I for my part think the motion very good it being a day of Solemn Observation Yet I would have it proposed to the Heads and then that which you shall do by publick Consent shall very well satisfie me Lambeth Dec. 4. 1640. W. Cant. MR. Wilkinson complained in Parliament against the Vice-Chancellor for Censuring of his Sermon The Vice-Chancellor according to the Command of the Committee for Religion in the House of Commons sent up the Copy of Wilkinson's Sermon and his Exceptions against it upon Tuesday December 8th the time appointed for the Committee But the Carrier's late coming in hindred the delivery for that time but it was deliver'd the next Morning by Dr. Baylie W. Cant. WHereas upon Enquiry made by Dr. Frewen late Vice-Chancellor of Oxford in two several Assemblies of the Heads of Houses there none of them could inform him of any University-Man whom he knew or probably suspected to be a Papist or Popishly affected Notwithstanding which Care of the Governors and clearness of the Vniversity it could not be avoided but some Persons suggestions should be put up to the High Court of Parliament as if Mass were ordinarily said in the University and frequented by Vniversity-Men without any Controll of the Governors there We therefore the present Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Houses for the better clearing of our University from such foul Imputations have thought fit under our Hands to testifie That we are so far from conniving at the Celebration of Mass here or knowing of any such Matter that we neither know nor can probably suspect any Member of our University to be a Papist or Popishly addicted In witness whereof we have Subscribed Decem. 4. 1640. Christo. Potter Vice-Chancel Oxon. Nat. Brent Praefect Coll. Mert. Ro. Kettle President of Trin. Coll. Jo. Prideaux Rector Coll. Oxon S. T. P. Regius Jo. Wilkinson Aul. Magd. Princ. Samuel Radclif Coll. AEr Nas. Princ. Jo. Tolson Coll. Oriel Praepos Paul Hood Rector Coll. Lincoln A. Frewen Pres. Coll. Magd. Rich. Baylie Praesid S. John Tho. Clayton Coll. Pembr Magr. Med. Prof. Reg. Tho. Lawrence Magist. Coll. Bal. Fran. Mansel Coll. Jesu Princ. Tho Walker Universit Mr. Gilbert Sheldon Ward of All-Souls Coll. Daniel Escott Ward of Wadh. Coll. Guil. Strode Eccl. Christ. Subdec Adam Airay Princip of Edmond-Hall Ro. Newlin Praes Coll. Corp. Christ. Rich. Zouch Aul. All. Princip Philip. Parsons Aul. Cervin Princip John Saunders Aul. Mur. Princ. Degory Wheare Princ. Glouc. Hall P. Allibond Proct. Sen. N. Greaves Proct. Jun. The other Headsof Houses were not in Town when this was Subscribed MY Present Condition is not unknown to the whole World yet by few pitied or deplored The righteous God best knows the Justice of my sufferings on whom both in life and death I will ever depend the last of which shall be unto me most welcome in that my life is now burdensome unto me my mind attended with variety of sad and grievous thoughts my soul continually vexed with anxieties and troubles groaning under the burden of a displeased Parliament my name aspersed and grosly abused by the multiplicity of Libellous Pamphlets and my self debarred from wonted access to the best of Princes and it is Vox Populi that I am Popishly affected How earnest I have been in my Disputations Exhortations and otherwise to quench such sparks lest they should become Coals I hope after my death you will all acknowledge yet in the midst of all my afflictions there is nothing more hath so nearly touched me as the remembrance of your free and joyful acceptance of me to be your Chancellor and that I am now shut up from being able to doe you that Service which you might justly expect from me When I first received this honour I intended to have carried it with me to my Grave neither were my hopes any less since the Parliament called by his Majesties Royal Command committed me to this Royal Prison But sith by reason of matters of greater consequence yet in hand the Parliament is pleased to procrastinate my Tryal I doe hereby as thankfully resign my Office of being Chancellor as ever I received that Dignity entreating you to Elect some Honourable Person who upon all occasions may be ready to serve you and I beseech God send you such an one as may do all things for his glory and the furtherance of your most famous Vniversity This is the continual Prayer of Tower June 28. 1641. Your dejected Friend and Chancellor Being the last time I shall write so W. Cant. FINIS AN ANSWER TO THE SPEECH OF The Right HONOURABLE WILLIAM Lord Viscount Say and Seal c. SPOKEN IN PARLIAMENT Upon the BILL about BISHOPS POWER in CIVIL AFFAIRS AND COURTS of JUDICATURE Anno 1641. By the Most Reverend WILLIAM LAUD Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Then Prisoner in the TOWER Non apposui ultimam manum W. CANT Arch-Bishop LAVD's ANSWER TO THE Lord SAY's SPEECH Against the BISHOPS THIS Speech is said to have done the Bishops their Calling and their present Cause a great deal of harm among the Gentry and divers sober-minded Men and therefore I did much wonder that so many learned Bishops present in the House to hear it should not some of them being free and among their Books so soon as it was printed give it Answer and stop the venom which it spits from poysoning so many at least as it 's said to
The Second Volume OF THE REMAINS OF THE Most Reverend Father in God And Blessed MARTYR WILLIAM LAUD Lord Arch-Bishop OF CANTERBURY Written by HIMSELF Collected by the late Learned Mr. Henry Wharton And Published according to his Request by the Reverend Mr. Edmund Wharton his Father LONDON Printed for Sam. Keble at the Turk's-Head in Fleet-street Dan. Brown without Temple-Bar Will. Hensman in Westminster-Hall Matt. Wotton near the Inner-Temple Gate and R. Knaplock at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard 1700. TO THE READER THE late Learned Mr. H. Wharton when he publish'd the History of the Troubles and Tryal of Arch-Bishop Laud in the Year 1695 finding that all the Papers to be printed with that Work could not be brought within the compass of one Volume reserv'd these for a Second Part If God had pleas'd to continue his life they had been publish'd much sooner together with such an account of them as he would have thought necessary But he was prevented in so good a Work by that stubborn and incurable Distemper of which he dyed In his Last Will all the Manuscript Papers relating to Arch-Bishop Laud are order'd forthwith to be deliver'd to his Father the Reverend Mr. Edmund Wharton now Rector of Saxlingham in Norfolk that so he might cause them to be transcrib'd and fitted for the Press In complyance therefore with that his dying Request these Papers are now sent into the World AN Historical Account OF ALL Material Transactions Relating to the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FROM ARCH-BISHOP LAUD's Being ELECTED CHANCELLOR To his RESIGNATION of that OFFICE Written by Himself ALL THE PASSAGES From April 12. 1630. Which concern the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD since the first Nomination and Election of the Right Reverend Father in God WILLIAM LAVD Lord Bishop of LONDON to be CHANCELLOR Anno 1630. Pars Anni ab Electione mea ad Cancellariat OXON DIE Lunae viz. 12 die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1630. habita erat Convocatio in qua significavit Dr. Frewen Vicecancellarius accepisse se à nunciis fide dignis Honoratis Academiae Cancellarium Guilielmum Pembrochiae Comitem fatis concessisse ideoque ad Electionem novi Cancellarii procedendum esse Deinde succincta praefatione Venerabilem illum Senatum hortatus est ut hoc in negotio seposito partium studio solius Academiae commodo honori studeret cum hoc habuerit remedium quo affectum dari possit ut desider at issimus Pembrochius minùs desideraretur Quibus praefatis ad Scrutinium pro Electione Novi Cancellarii Universitatis hujus Oxoniensis processerunt QVo Scrutinio per Venerabiles Viros Doctorem Frewen Vicecancellarium Magistrum Rodulphum Austen Magistrum Henricum Stringer Procuratores Vniversitatis accepto fideliter computato Honoratiss Vir Reverendus in Christo Pater Dominus Guilielmus Episcopus Londinensis à Sanctioribus consiliis Serenissimae Regis Majestati numerosiore Suffragiorum calculo electus erat in Cancellarium Vniversitatis Oxon Et pro Electo per Magistrum Austen Procuratorem Seniorem pronunciatus est Deinde statuit Convocatio decrevit Doctorem Bancroft Doctorem Prideaux Doctorem Smith Doctorem Duppa Doctorem Juxon Doctorem Aylworth Doctorem Clayton Magistrum Estcot Coll. Wadhami Magistrum Williamson Magistrum Cooke Coll. Magd Magistrum Stroud AEdis Christi Magistrum Hunt Coll. Novi Magistrum Johnson Coll. Magd. Magistrum Barker Coll. Novi unà cum Vicecancellario Procuratoribus Registrario Vniversitatis tribus Bedellis superioribus duobus inferioribus Stationario Londinum mittendos vel majorem partem eorum qui Convocationem Londini haberent in quâ simpliciter rogarent Honoratiss Virum Reverendum in Christo Patrem Dominum 〈◊〉 Episcopum Londinensem à Sanctioribus Consiliis Sereniss Regis Majestati ut Vniversitatis nostrae Patriocinium Tutelam in se susciperet Literas Patentes Vniversitatis quibus Officium Cancellariatûs Oxon. ei conceditur acceptaret ut interesse possint ejus Admissioni Juramentorum praestationi aliis actis in hoc negotio expediendis Placuit eodem tempore Venerabili Coetui Convocationis Doctorum Magistrorum Regentium non-Regentium ut Literae Patentes quibus Officium sive Munus Cancellariatûs tenetur stabilitur Communi Sigillo Vniversitatis munirentur antequam Delegati praedicti Londinum proficiscerentur Acta habita gesta Londini 28 die Mensis Aprilis Anno Dom. 1630. viz Die Mercurii post Meridiem inter horas secundam quartam pro Admissione Honoratissimi Viri GUILIELMI Providentiâ Divinâ Episcopi Londinensis à Sanctioribus Consiliis Sereniss Regis Majestati ad Cancellariatum Universitatis Oxon. QVibus die horis in loco Celebri Civitatis London vulgariter vocato The Doctors Commons convenerunt Venerabilis Vir Dr. Frewen in SS Theologiâ Professor Vicecancellarius Vniversitatis Oxon. Reverendus in Christo Pater ac Dominus Dominus Johannes Providentiâ Divinâ Episcopus Dunelmensis Insignissimi Viri Dominus 〈◊〉 Paddye in Medicinâ Doctor Eques Auratus Dominus Henricus Marten in Legibus Doctor Eques Auratus Dominus Nathanael Brent in Legibus Doctor Eques Auratus Dominus Carolus Caesar in Legibus Doctor Eques Auratus cum longâ numerosâ serie Doctorum in omnibus Facultatibus Magistro Rodolpho Austen Magistro Henrico Stringer Procuratoribus Vniversitatis cum multis Baccalaureis in SS Theologiâ Magistrorum Regentium non Regentium magno comitatu Quo in loco Reverendus in Christo Pater ac Dominus Dominus Johannes Episcopus Dunelmensis habitu Episcopali indutus Doctores Purpurâ Magistri ornamentis Gradui suo competentibus amicti justis ordinibus bini atque bini procedunt tribus Bedellis superioribus aureis Monilibus decoratis duobus Bedellis inferioribus unà cum Stationario Vniversitatis Oxon. erectis Columnis praeeuntibus ad Palatium 〈◊〉 in Christo Patris ac Domini Domini Guilielmi Episcopi Londinensis c. Vbi ad Palatium devenerint in augustam Cameram ascenderunt Ibi Vicecancellarius in Cathedrâ in superioriparte Camerae sibi destinatâ insedit hinc atque hinc Doctores deinde Procuratores more Academico coram Vicecancellario postea Magistri reliqui sedilibus recto ordine collocatis consedêre Ac statim Venerabilis Vir Doctor Frewen Vicecancellarius causam illius Convocationis significavit ut cum Honoratiss Pembrochiae Comes Academiae nostrae Oxoniensis nuper Cancellarius animam exhalasset suam Reverendusque in Christo Pater ac Dominus Dominus Guilielmus Providentiâ Divinâ Episcopus Londinensis c. ad Cancellariatum Academiae Oxon. sit electus ad Ejus Admissionem procederetur Quibus praefatis ex altiore Cubiculo Palatii descendunt Honoratiss Comes de Dorset Honoratiss Comes de Danbye Honoratiss Comes de Cleveland Vicecomes Dorchester Honoratiss Vicecomes Wentworth Praeses Concilii partium Borealium Reverendus in Christo Pater Episcopus Winton Episcopus Bathon Wellensis Episcopus Landavensis qui in intervallo jusdem Camerae
Praesidem te nacti Mores integerrimo cultu refingere ardemus Leges ipsas sanare limam expolire qud sumus formandi omnia denique conari ut prudentissimae vestrae Praefecturae obsequium geramus excultissimum Hortatu molli nos adhuc duxit Clementia vestra parituro simillimus imperasti Lora jam accipe quibus impellas Vltrò compegimus jugum quod pronis Cervicibus annectas vestrisque manibus recepta jura obsequendi praestituent affectum libertatem ex onere ferent Vestrum itaque Patrocinium implorant unà nobiscum Statuta quae olim congesta intra manus Cancellarii Pole tantum consenuerunt suisque funeribus jam revirescentia Praesulatum vestrum 〈◊〉 sunt visa ut Gratiam pondus authenticum à Te accipiant vestrum annexum Diploma Statutis ipsis valentiùs nos componant Quibus ad umbilicum perductis si manum ultimam adjicias obsignando non Chartis 〈◊〉 Sigillum quà m Animo nostro insiges Beneficium Dat. in Domo Congregationis 12 Cal. Sept. Amplitudini vestrae supplex Acad. Oxon. Honoratissime 〈◊〉 LIteras adhuc quod recordari non parùm juvat rogante Calamo conscriptas misimus nullas adeo praepropera votis obvia semper fuit Humanitas vestra ut Academia Clientis negotio defuncta solo beneficiorum argumento laboraverit Ex omni parte Teipsum 〈◊〉 magnificum Antistitem attestatus es in omni genere vestra erga nos claruit indulgentia indigenti Academiae te Benefactorem experti sumus periclitanti Advocatum utpote qui meritissimum vestrum Vicecancellarium in jus discrimen vocatum non modo incolumem securum praestitisti sed etiam potiorem Chartaeque victrici interpretatione illustrem Cui quidem pro Humanitate suâ candidiori fortasse quà m oportebat Chartae interpreti venia habenda fuit maxima Quid enim verisimilius fuit quà m quòd illic delitescerit hujusmodi Privieglium Caelestium tranquillitas orbium non statim in ventos tempestates desinit quae adjacet regio aliquomodo caelestis est pluviasque tonitrua ruptisque nubibus emicantem fulguris stricturam ex intervallo despicit ità profecto aequissimum fuit ut Academia nostra illud Coeli emblema sua privilegia immunitates ad finitimos transmitteret tam sacra 〈◊〉 ut otium suum libertatem etiam jumentis impertiret Quod quidem privilegium utcunque antehac in gratiam honestatem Academiae minimè sancitum fuit nihilominus nunc demum summâ vestrâ prudentiâ authoritate confirmatum accepimus Tuum est meherclè quod Domini commune cum Bobus suis jugum non subeunt quòd adobeunda Reipublicae munia non stimulis urgentur eadem necessitate agitantur aurigae quâ jumenta Itaque non est ut fugendis Reipub. negotiis ingemiscant Operarii quod eorum Sarracae ut Bootae plaustrum pigro nolenti gradu procedant sed laeto alacri Quippè quòd solet esse maximo vehiculis gravamini Tuo Patrocinio sublevatur convectandi necessitas Adeo hoc insigne Privilegium consecuti sumus ut emancipato vehiculi usu Principi nostro Reique publicae non morigeri sed benefici habeamur in gloria 〈◊〉 cedat parere Has Gratias solenni formula charactere Amplitudini Tuae consecravimus hoc exploratum habentes fore ut expeditius ita sincerius 〈◊〉 magnificentiâ dignius Gratiarum genus agnoscere quà m rependere Beneficium Dat. in Domo Congregationis 12. Cal. Septemb. 1633. Amplitudini vestrae devinctissima Acad. Oxon. Reverendissime Cancellarie ACcepimus Membranam vestrâ Prudentiâ cogitatam gratiâ imimpetratam nobis autem vix desideratam quidem Itaque rursus agnoscimus affectus viri plusque Sympathiam Quis enim non suspiceret alternis malo vehementiùs laborantem quis non miraretur Medicum magis affectum morbi aestimatione quam aegrotantem dolore Hujusmodi tamen experimentum in Te Reverendissime Praesul comptum habemus Fateri cogimur vestram erga nos solicitudinem curam nostro sensu acriorem esse Academiae inopiam Tibi clariùs certiùs innotescere quà m patientibus Ante Chartam à Te impetratam Pecunia aliis Regina nostris ne Ancillae quidem officia praestitit Aurum abiit in contemptum stercoris jacuitque magis sepultum in Academico AErario quà m in Fodina Passi sumus prodigium Midae contrarium Aurum inter manus adulterium evasit quod defoecatissimum fuit tactu nostro pulchritudinem suam naturae precium amisit Hoe nobis quidem ingens magnificum indulgentissimo autem vestrae Prudentiae oculo parum videbatur Quemadmodum enim rei ita dignitatis nostrae Curam egisti Non satis esse Academiae existimabas praediis annuisque Redditibus foras ditescere nisi habitâ etiam pulchritudinis honestatis ratione domi floreret Magalia Collegiis admota aegrè tuleris iniquissimum enim videbatur ut mendicantium querelis adderetur Societatis fastidium iisque qui tantum auribus debent nec oculis parcerent ulterius progrederis Nostrûm adeo Studiosus es ut dignatus sis obicibus quoque viarum moris prospexisse omnem angulum velis verè Academicum ipsas Plateas Scholarum elegantiam induere Quod solum restat candidissimo vestro imperio ceriè morem quas possumus gratias praestabimus Angiportus dilatabimus transeuntes praeclusura impedimenta amovebimas viasque quantum in nobis est sternemus decoras latas quo nihil majus polliceri audemus vestrae quoque amplitudinis capaces Dat in Domo Con. gregationis 14. Cal. April Gratiae Amplitudini vestrae devinctissima Academia Oxon. TO all Christian People to whom these presents shall come William by God's Providence Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan Chancellour of the University of Oxon. sendeth greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas by the Customs Liberties and Privileges of this University of Oxon. by Kings and Queens of this Realm of England granted and by Acts of Parliament confirmed unto the said University amongst other noble Privileges and Favours the Clerkship of the Market within the said University and the allowing approving and correcting of Weights and Measures and the well ordering and governing the sd Market for the benefit of the sd University and the Buyers and Sellers therein is granted and confirmed to the Chancellour Masters and Scholars of the said University of Oxon. and the Execution thereof to the Chancellour or his Deputy the Vice-Chancellour of of the said University for the time being And whereas we find that heretosore in our Predecessors times there hath been a publick Officer by them assigned and appointed to look to the cleansing and keeping sweet the Market Place and to take the just and due Toll for the Measuring of Corn and Grain and to keep true and equal Bushels Pecks and Half-Pecks that there be no fraud committed between the
Buyer and the Seller which said Office hath of late times been discontinued By reason whereof as we are certainly informed divers Citizens of the City of Oxon. inhabiting in or near the said Corn-Market have of their own will without any approbation of us or our Vice-Chancellour taken upon them to keep and set forth on Market days publick Bushels and Measures for the measuring of Corn and Grain and take Toll for the same without stint or Limitation sometimes a Pint sometimes a Pint and an half and sometimes a Quart for the measuring of a Bushel whereas the ancient and laudable due is but half a Wine Pint at the most for such measure And also that divers Maltsters Bakers and Brewers do keep in their Private Houses two Bushels a bigger wherewith to buy and a lesser to sell whereby the Country that bring in their Corn and Grain to the said University are deterred to furnish the said Market in regard the measure of Grain will not hold out fully with the said great Bushels We therefore for the future prevention of the said Inconveniences and for the better Government of the said Market that there be no fraud used Have given granted and confirmed and do by these presents give grant and confirm unto Christopher 〈◊〉 val Inhabitant within the said University of Oxon. Licence power and authority to keep and set forth every Market-Day in the place of the Corn-Market so many lawful Bushels and Measures by us or our Deputies to be allowed and sealed as shall be sufficient for the Measuring of the said Corn or Grain so brought to be sold in the said University and to take the due and lawful Toll for the same viz. the Quantity of half a Wine Pint at the most in every Bushel and not above To have and to hold the said Office of keeping the said Buthels and Measures and receiving the Toll as aforesaid to him the said Christopher Dival during his natural life without the lett trouble hindrance or denial of any the Inhabitants of the City and University of Oxon keeping Bushels as aforesaid or any other Person whatsoever And we do also by these presents straitly prohibit and discharge all the Inhabitants of the University or City of Oxon. from keeping and setting forth any publick Bushel or other measure and to receive any Toll or profit for the same And also all Malsters Bakers and Brewers for keeping in their Houses any more than a lawful and sealed Bushel by which they shall sell as well as buy Provided always that the said Christopher Dival demean himself honestly uprightly and indifferently in the Execution of the said Office or place as aforesaid and that he take a Corporal Oath yearly before us or our Deputy the Vice-Chancellour to that effect and purpose according to the Law and the Use Custom and Privilege of the said University And provided also that the said Christopher Dival in Consideration of the Premises do take diligent care to view the Pitching Paving and Cleansing of the Streets within the said University and to make known unto us or our Deputy by whose fault and negligence the same is left undone and also that twice every Week after the end of the said Market he cleanse and keep sweet or cause to be cleansed and kept sweet the said Corn-Market Place the Inhabitants there paying to the Scavinger as now they do for the same In witness whereof We have to these Presents put our Hand and Seal Dated the 2d day of May Anno Dom. 1634. And in the Tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. WHereas John Oxenbridge Master of Arts and Commoner of Magdalen Hall in Oxford both by the Testimony of Witnesses upon Oath examined and by his own Confession hath been found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of Dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several Articles framed by himself as he pretends for their better Government as if the Statutes of the Place he livesin and the Authority of the present Governours were not sufficient These are to signifie that I Bryan Duppa Vicechancellor of the University for the time being duly weighing the Quality of the fact and the ill consequences which might follow upon the insnaring of young and tender Consciences with the Religion of a Vow do Order and Decree that the said John Oxenbridge shall no longer be trusted with the tuition of any Scholars or suffered to read to them publickly or privately or to receive any Stipend or Sallary in that behalf And to this end I require you that are the Principal of the said Hall to dispose of those Scholars that are now under his Tuition to such other Tutors who by their discreet and peaceable Carriage shew themselves freest from Faction and not to suffer the same or any other to live under his Charge or him to receive any Salary or Stipend from them And this Censure you are presently to put in execution by taking away his Scholars and to take care that no part of it hereafter be eluded Of the performance of which you are to stand accomptable to the Chancellor or his Vicechancellor whensoever you shall be called After I had received Letters from the University of the 12. of Sept. 1633. which gave me the whole power to order and settle the Statutes which had now hung long in the hands of the Delegates though before they had put me to much pains and the writing of many Letters both to call upon and direct the Delegates yet now I set my self to it with so much the greater alacrity because the University having in Convocation put the whole business into my Hands I thought my self sure against all practice by faction or otherwise To the end therefore that I might have no more Jealousie nor Crossing in the Business I put the Review of all that had been done formerly by the Delegates into the Hands of Mr. Peter Turner of Merton College reserving to my self the last Consideration of all By this means and God's Blessing upon my endeavours I did at last not without a great deal of pains get through this work and settled the Statutes as will after appear in its proper time and place In this Year the West-side of Vniversity College was new built from the Ground John Dunn of C. C. Mr. of Arts for the supposed killing of a Boy called Humphry Dunt And John Goffe of Magd. Coll. for the supposed killing of one Boys Mr. of Arts These two were legally tryed before the under-Steward of the University Mr. Vnton Crooke the 26. of August 1634. and acquitted AFter my very hearty Commendations c. I have laid the pains of tho Vicechancellorship now two years together upon Dr. Duppa who hath discharged that place with extraordinary Care as well for the good as
animitus devoti E. Domo nostra Congregationis Mart. 20. 1635 6. Sanctitatis vestrae Colentissima Oxon. Acad. Reverendissime Cancellarie CVM in corpore Academiae sim ipse Lingua in Oratorum serie membrum illud quod primum degustaverit vestroe munificientioe fructum liceat mihi oceano rivum immensurabili gratiarum acervo peculiarem sementem vestrâ cum veniâ subministrare Dum totum se exerit Gladiator vim ponit in lacerto Qui totus venerationem exhibet genu tantum oslendit Ne succenseat paternitas vestra si Academiae Lingua praesertim in re sua vehementius assici gestiat Ideoque infinito gratiarum ponderi aliquid amplius addere plus toto afferre conetur Simulachri parte interiore nomen suum inscripsit Phidias Mihi non arrogantiae ut illi vertatur sed gratitudini si in maternoe Epistolae visceribus privati Officii tesseram concludam vestrae memor memoriae Curaeque tam longe infra vestram Celsitudinem non possum non esse gratus tametsi gratitudini peccavero Martii 20. 〈◊〉 Sanctitati vestrae humillime devotissimus Guilielm Strode Academiae tuae Orator publicus In this year the Northside of Vniversity College was finisht Upon a Difference betwixt the University and Town of Oxford touching Felons Goods Court-Leets and taking Toll a Hearing was appointed by consent of the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Chancellour of the University and of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Berks Steward of the Town aforesaid as likewise by the mutual consent of both Parties divers of the University and Town aforesaid being then present who assumed in the name of the rest that whatsoever should be ordered or directed upon this hearing should be final and binding and that either Party would for ever observe hereafter and stand to it In Witness whereof the Lords above mentioned and others then present have hereunto set their Hands Dated at Lambeth this 28th day of April in the Year of our Lord 1636. W. CANT John Oxon Bryan Duppa William Smith Bryon Twyne Barkshire John Whistler Oliver Smith John Sare Tmothy Carter S. in Christo. NON diu abhinc est quo Literas Patentes Libertates avitas confirmantes conferentes Novas accepistis Munus Regium erat Cura autem mea Nunc Statuta mitto Illa vincula secum ducunt sed accommoda ne Libertates licentiam induerent sed vobis grata Non vellet enim Academia esse sine Fraeno sed in ordinem redacta ne amplius confusione contradictionibus subditos oneraret sed antiquis valdè consona nisi ubi temporum ratio aliud exigit ne quid novi videretur pati celeberrima simul vetustissima Academia Saepius tentatum hoc opus à Viris saeculis suis celeberrimis frustra tamen Nec enim quidquam in hac re ad optatum sinem perduxerunt Sed utrum Operis ipsius difficultas an aliqua alia interventens remora obstiterit planè nescio Quo magis gratulor Academiae 〈◊〉 quibus Miseratione Divinâ datum est opus hoc ad talem saltem perfectionem redactum videre qualem ferre solent Leges Statuta quae de quovis particulari cavere nequeunt Nec Academioe tantum vobis sed mihimetipsi gratulor quod Statuta situ pulvere tantùm non sepulta in lucem redacta suis numeris titulisque distincta video Multò magis tamen quòd placuit Academiae in frequenti Convocatione ne uno refragrante rem totam ad me Curamque meam referre ut sub Incude med Statuta haec limarentur à me Confirmationem acciperent Summa haec vestra Confidentia fuit certê gratias omnibus singulis ago summas ob fidem mihi in re tantâ ac tali jam liberaliter praestitam Quâ in re certe non fidem 〈◊〉 nec spem vestram fefelli Verum enim est ausim dicere me summa cum aequitate cum aequalitate pari omnia transegisses Et potestatem à venerabili Domo mihi commissam it a moderatum ut nihil prae oculis habuerim nisi quod planè in publicum Ecclesiae Academiae bonum cederet Et hoc Deum Testor omnt affectione partialitate privato respectu praesentium temporum personarum locorum officiorum qualiumcunque sepositis Vnum superest non tacendum Transmisi vobis Statuta quae annum probationis suae apud vos complevere jam ex usu illo in nonnullis emendata pro potestate à vobis concessa misi sub sigillis meo vestroque in debitâ Juris formâ confirmata Quum ecce placuit Regi Serenissimo Musisque vestris addictissimo suam etiam superadjicere confirmationem manu propriâ sigillo magno munitam Quod Academiae honorem moribus Disciplinam Statutis reverentiam firmitatem nequit non conferre Ob quam Regiae Majestatis gratiam insignem gratias referre pares nec ipse nec vos potestis Quin Commissionarios misit suos qui ob majorem negotii dignitatem Statuta haec exhiberent Collegiorum Aularum Praefectos Statutis sic exhibitis confirmatis subscribere curarent Reliquum postea erit ut Statutis sic confirmatis Obedientia praestetur qud nihil magis poterit augere Academiae splendorem Et licet primo loco authoritas vestra Legis hasce condendas curavit ea tamen natura legis est ut semel condita promulgata non alios tantum sed condentes liget Huic Obedientiae Reliquisque virtutibus quibus polletis vos semper affines futuros spero ut tales sitis supplicibus precibus se à summo Numine impetratum non dubitat Vestris mihi amicissimis Doctori Pink Vice-Cancel lario reliquisque Doctoribus Procuratoribus nec non singulis in Domo Convocationis intra Almam Universitatem Oxon. Congregatis Datum ex AEdibus nostris Lambethanis Junii 15. 1636. Amicus vester Cancellarius W. CANT These Letters were read in Convocation upon the 22 of June 1636. wherein Mr. Secretary Cook made a weighty Speech fitting the occasion and so likewise did the Vice-Chancellour Mr. Secretary's Speech follow 's in haec verba Reverend Vice-Chancellour Doctors and Masters YOU have heard with due respect and attention the Letters brought by us to his Sacred Majesty you have also heard in Conformity thereunto other Letters sent from your most Reverend Chancellour signifying his Majesty's Grace and Goodness in recommending unto you this Volume of Statutes which we now deliver and you are to receive as the Rules by which you must be governed hereafter You have also seen and heard the Confirmation and Establishment of these Statutes First by his Majesties Royal Signature and under the great Seal of his Kingdom And respectively under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Arch-Bishop both as Primate and Metropolitan of England and as most worthy
habentium ac non habentium longe munificentissimus Siste manum siste ne premat Te virtus nimia totum enim Te figis atque insumis emolumento nostro Nullus 〈◊〉 Filius sic Matrem sugendo exhausit ac Te Patrem filia Academia 〈◊〉 nunc dicas quae suit Mater cum eam ex ruinis regenitam lautiori Fronte perpoliveris Ore novo mox loqui docueris Nos itaque licet nondum Sermone Arabico Donum enim hoc vestrum est certe gentium omni genere pectore gratias conceptissime recumulamus semperque retinebimus sub linguis omnibus unam animi devotissimi Effigiem E Dome nostrae Congregat ionis Aug. 10 1636. Sanctitatis vestrae humillima Cultrix Oxon. Acad. THis year his Majesty and the Queen invited themselves to me to Oxford and brought with them Charles Prince Elector Palatine and his Brother Prince Rupert being both then in England They came into Oxford at the end of this Summer's Progress on Munday August 29. The Vice-Chancellour made a very good Speech unto them where my self and the University met them which was a mile before they entred the Town That Speech ended they passed along by St. John's where Mr. Tho. Atkinson made another Speech unto them very brief and very much approved of by his Majesty afterwards to me Within Christ-Church Gate Mr. William Strode the University Orator entertained them with another Speech which was well approved Thence the King accompanied his Queen to her Lodging and instantly returned and went with all the Lords to the Cathedral There after his Private Devotions ended at the West Door Dr. Morris one of the Prebendaries entertained him with another short Speech which was well liked And thence hisMajesty proceeded into the Quire and heard Service After Supper they were entertained with a Play at Christ-Church which was very well penn'd but yet did not take the Court so well The next day being Tuesday the King came to Service soon after 8 in the Morning It was at Christ-Church and Mr. Thomas Brown being then Proctor made an excellent Sermon which gave great Content The Sermon ended The Prince Elector and his Brother Prince Rupert attended by many of the Lords came to the Convocation-House where the Place was full of University-Men all in their Forms and Habits very orderly And the two Princes with divers Lords were pleased to be made Masters of Art and the two Princes Names were by his Majesty's leave entred in St. John's College to do that House that Honour for my sake In Convocation the Vice-Chancellour having first placed the Princes and briefly exprest the cause of that Convocation I made a short Speech which here follows in haec verba Florentes Academici hoc tempore florentissimi quibus Caroli Regis Pientissimi Prudentissimi simulque Mariae 〈◊〉 Heroinae Consortis suae charissimae praesentiâ frui datur Nec eâ solum sed praesentiâ eximiae spei Principum Nepotum M. Jacobi Sacratissimoe Memoriae Monarchae de Academia Literatisque omnibus optimè meriti Principes hi sunt hoc Titulo suo omni honoris genere dignissimi Vos eos omni quo 〈◊〉 prosequimini Quid expectatis ultrà Academici An ut ego Oraetorio in hoc Senatu fungar munere At illud memoria curis simul annis fracta lingua per se inculta desuetudine loquendi 〈◊〉 praesens 〈◊〉 quod ad alia festinat omnino Prohibent Nec Principes hi Preceresve illud à me expectant Cui aliud satis jam incumbit negotium qui illis 〈◊〉 in omnibus sum pollicitus Breviter itaq quod ad vos attinet Principes non Ortu magis quà m Virtutibus illustres Non expectat à vobis Academia ut possitis totam Entis prosunditatem exhaurire ut sic sitis Artium Magistri sed liceat dicere Freta aetatis vestrae nondum transiistis AEstus jam urgent juveniles Hos discite superare fluctus procellas has in auras redigere omnium insimul Artium Magistrieritis quid ni fortunoe Atque utinam nostrae potestatis esset coecoe illi Deoe oculos dare quibus virtutes vestras cerneret agnosceret jura Et vos etiam Proceres Principum horum Cultores convocata hac Academia exultat videre non solum conferre gradus suos in vos gestit quos omni honoris cultu veneratur sed potiùs eos conferendo honorem summum gradibus suis quaerit quod placeat Principibus hisce vobisq Pannis suis nam 〈◊〉 in purpura est inaugurari Floreat sic soepius Academia Nativis simul Adoptivis Filiis gaudeat Egregie Vice Cancellarie ad Creationem Admissionem simul pro Officio tuo descende AFter this the Vice-Chancellour proceeded made another short Speech and after Creation and Admission of the Princes and and other Honourable Persons ended the Convocation That finisht they all returned to Christ-Church to attend upon the King the Princes having formerly in the Morning seen some of the fair Colleges Then the Queen being not ready the King with the Princes and the Nobles my self also waiting upon him went to the Library where the King viewed the New Buildings and the Books and was entertained with a very neat Speech made by the Son of the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery then Lord Chamberlain Then word was brought up that the Queen was come So the King went into the 〈◊〉 to her and they went away to St. John's to dinner the Princes and Nobles attending them When they were come to St. John's they first viewed the New-Building and that done I attended them up the Library Stairs where so soon as they began to ascend the Musick began and they had a fine short Song fitted for them as they ascended the Stairs In the Library they were Welcomed to the College with a short Speech made by one of the Fellows And Dinner being ready they passed from the old into the new Library built by my self where the King the Queen and the Prince Elector dined at one Table which stood cross at the upper end And Prince Rupert with all the Lords and Ladies present which were very many dined at a long Table in the same Room All other several Tables to the number of 13 besides these two were disposed in several Chambers of the College and had several Men appointed to attend them and I thank God I had that happiness that all things were in very good order and that no man went out at the Gates Courtier or other but content which was a Happiness quite beyond Expectation When Dinner was ended I attended the King and the Queen together with the Nobles into several withdrawing Chambers where they entertained themselves for the space of an hour And in the mean time I caused the Windows of the Hall to be shut the Candles lighted and all things made ready for the Play
me for Assistance according to the Proclamation and are now busie in calling their scatter'd Forces together again Oxford Wednesday the 15th of July 1640. A. Frewen At Whitehall the 22th of July 1640. PRESENT The KING's MAJESTY Lord Arch-Bishop of Cant. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Marquis Hamilton Lord Admiral Earl of Berks Earl of Holland Earl of Traquare Lord Goring Lord Cottington Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Windebanke Sir Tho. Rowe WHereas His Majesty being present at the Board did this day hear the Complaints of the Mayor Recorder and others of the City of Oxford expressed in two Letters the one of the 15th of June to the Board the other of the 4th of June to the Earl of Berks a Member of the Board concerning their Liberties in the Presence of the Vice-Chancellor and other Doctors of the University and Mr. Allibond one of the Proctors whom the said Complaint did concern After mature Debate it was ordered That the University of Oxford according to his Majesty's Gracious Letter shall have the sole Licensing of Victualling-Houses in that City and Suburbs in like manner as the University of Cambridge hath in the Town of Cambridge And for that purpose it is ordered by His Majesty with advice of the Board That the Commission for the Peace in Oxford shall be renewed and the Vice-Chancellor only made of the Quorum Secondly for the Complaint of the Building of Cottages it is ordered That the Vice-Chancellor and the Mayor shall make several Certificates of all the new Cottages built within Twenty Years and shall distinguish which of them have been built by Privileged Persons upon College Lands and which by Townsmen and which by Privileged Persons upon the Town Wast by their leave Upon return of which Cerficates their Lordships will give such farther Order therein as shall be fit Thirdly it was order'd That his Majesty's Attorney and Sollicitor-General shall examine how the Orders set down by Mr. Justice Jones for preventing of Disputes and Controversies between the University and City of Oxford have been observed and by whom there hath been any defailer therein admitted Upon Certificate whereof their Lordships will take such Order as shall be fit for the due Observance of the same Fourthly it was ordered That according to the Statute of Winchester those to whom it belongeth ought to set Watches at the Gates of the City according to the said Statute and that the said Watch continue there without walking of the Streets or moving from their Station except it be for the suppressing of any sudden Tumult or other Malefactors whereof there is not time to give notice to the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors of the said University Lastly it is ordered That the Constable committed to Prison shall be delivered but not without paying of Fees After my hearty Commendations DR Frewen hath now born the troublesom Office of the Vice-Chancellorship of that University for the space of two whole Years which is the time now usually given to execute that Office And is certainly weight enough for any Man to bear so long In the discharge of this Office he hath through the whole course of his time carried himself with great Care Moderation and Prudence and that as well in all Businesses which relate to the Town as in those which look more immediately upon the University And among other great Services perform'd by him I cannot forbear to single out one and here publickly to give him Thanks for it even above the rest And that is the great Pains he hath taken and the singular Dexterity which he hath used in bringing the Statutes concerning the Examinations into Use and Settlement Which Statute I dare be bold to say being continued and kept up in the same Vigour to which it is now raised by his Care and Providence will be of such singular use as that for my part I cannot easily tell whether it will be greater Honour or Benefit to that University but sure I am it will be the one by the other if it be kept up to the Life as I hope it shall be Dr. Frewen's time being thus happily spent both for his own Honour and the University's Good the Care now lies upon me to name another to take up that Burthen which he lays down and to go in those steps which he hath trod out before him And I thank God for it there is such Choice of able Men in that Place for this Service that I cannot be to seek whom to name unto it But I have for the present thought upon Dr. Potter Dean of Worcester and Provost of Queen's-College as a Man whom I know to be of great Integrity and Sufficiency for that Place and of whose Care and Industry therein I am very confident To him together with the Office I do more especially recommend the Care of the Examinations in point of Learning and a most strict Watchfulness and Observance against all haunting of Taverns or any other Meetings private or publick which may any way help to suppress the base Sin of Drunkenness the Mother or the Nurse of almost all other Distempers which may bring Obloquy upon that Place These are therefore to let you know that I do hereby nominate and chuse Dr. Potter to be my Vice-Chancellor for this Year ensuing And do hereby pray and require you to allow of this my Choice and to give him all due Respect and Assistance in all things necessary for that Government and more especially in the two Particulars above-named that so Sobriety and good Manners as well as Learning may flourish in that Place And thus not doubting of your readiness and willing Obedience herein I leave both him and you to the Grace of God and rest Lambeth July 24. 1640. Your Loving Friend and Chancellor W. Cant. AND for the future I pray let not the Town so much as begin to lay the Foundation of any Cottage or any other House whatsoever in any Place but send me word of it presently that I may acquaint the Lords with it and command a stay August 3. 1640. W. Cant. UPON a late Warrant from the Deputy-Lieutenants the Mayor hath freshly pressed and set out ten new Soldiers Coat and Conduct-Money for these in their several Parishes was taxed upon all Privileged Persons not only Stationers Apothecaries that trade and use Merchandize who are more liable but upon Doctors Clayton Sanders Bambridge and all Physicians upon Mr. Crosse our Beadle on our Butlers Manciples Cooks who are our immediate Servants and deal not with any Trade All profess themselves very willing to advance His Majesty's Service especially in these base and broken Times Yet they hope by your Grace's Favour to enjoy the benefit of that Privilege which being anciently granted to our University was of late confirmed by His Majesty's Charter and is enjoy'd by the other University At my intreaty all of them in a manner have paid but their
be quieted by this Assurance that neither the Law nor their Liberty as Subjects is thereby infringed And for Physick the Profession is honourable and safe and I know the Professors of it will remember that Corpus Humanum Man's Body is that about which their Art is conversant not Corpus Ecclesiasticum or Politicum the Body of the Church State or Commonwealth Bastwick only hath been bold that way But the Proverb in the Gospel in the Fourth of St. Luke is all I 'll say to him Medice cura teipsum Physician heal thy self And yet let me tell Your Majesty I believe he hath gained more by making the Church a Patient than by all the Patients he ever had beside Sir both my self and my Brethren have been very coursely used by the Tongues and Pens of these Men yet shall I never give Your Majesty any sow'r Counsel I shall rather manifie Your Clemency that proceeded with these Offenders in a Court of Mercy as well as Justice Since as the Reverend Judges then declared You might have justly called the Offenders into another Court and put them to it in a way that might have exacted their Lives for their stirring as much as in them lay of Mutiny and Sedition Yet this I shall be bold to say and Your Majesty may consider of it in Your Wisdom That one way of Government is not always either fit or safe when the Humours of the People are in a continual Change Especially when such Men as these shall work upon Your People and labour to infuse into them such malignant Principles to introduce a Parity in the Church or Commonwealth Et si non satis sua sponte insaniant instigare And to spur on such among them as are too sharply set already And by this means make and prepare all Advantages for the Roman Party to scorn Vs and pervert Them I pray God bless Your Majesty Your Royal Consort and Your hopeful Posterity that You may Live in Happiness Govern with Wisdom Support Your People by Justice Relieve them by Mercy Defend them by Power and Success And Guide them in the true Religion by Your Laws and most Religious Example all the long and lasting Days of Your Life Which are and shall be the daily Prayers of Your Sacred Majesty's most Loyal Subject and Most Dutiful Servant as most bound W. Cant. Arch-Bishop LAVD's SPEECH AT THE CENSURE OF J. Bastwick H. Burton and W. Prinn My LORDS I Shall not need to speak of the infamous Course of Libelling in any kind Nor of the Punishment of it which in some Cases was Capital by the Imperial Laws as appears Cod. l. 9. T. 36. Nor how patiently some great Men very great Men indeed have born Animo civili that 's Sueton. his word laceratam existimationem The tearing and rending of their Credit and Reputation with a gentle nay a generous Mind But of all Libels they are most odius which pretend Religion As if that of all things did desire to be defended by a Mouth that is like an open Sepulchre or by a Pen that is made of a sick and a loathsom Quill There were Times when Persecutions were great in the Church even to exceed Barbarity it self Did any Martyr or Confessor in those Times Libel the Governours Surely no not one of them to my best Remembrance yet these complain of Persecution without all shew of cause and in the mean time Libel and Rail without all measure So little of kin are they to those which suffer for Christ or the least part of Christian Religion My Lords It is not every Man's Spirit to hold up against the Venome which Libellers spit For S. Ambrose who was a stout and a worthy Prelate tells us not that himself but that a far greater Man than he that 's King David had found out so it seems in his Judgment 't was no matter of ordinary Ability Grande inventum a great and mighty Invention how to swallow and put off those bitter Contumilies of the Tongue And those of the Pen are no whit less and spread farther And it was a great one indeed and well beseemed the greatness of David But I think it will be far better for me to look upward and practise it than to look downward and discourse upon it In the mean time I shall remember what an Antient under the name of S. Hierom tells me * Indignum est praeposterum 'T is unworthy in it self and preposterous in demeanour for a Man to be ashamed for doing good because other Men glory in speaking ill And I can say it clearly and truly as in the presence of God I have done nothing as a Prelate to the uttermost of what I am conscious but with a single Heart and with a sincere Intention for the good Government and Honour of the Church and the maintenance of the Orthodox Truth and Religion of Christ professed established and maintained in this Church of England For my Care of this Church the reducing of it into Order the upholding of the external Worship of God in it and the setling of it to the Rules of its first Reformation are the Causes and the sole Causes whatever are pretended of all this malicious Storm which hath lowred so black upon me and some of my Brethren And in the mean time they which are the only or the chief Innovators of the Christian World having nothing say accuse us of Innovation They themselves and their Complices in the mean time being the greatest Innovators that the Christian World hath almost ever known I deny not but others have spread more dangerous Errors in the Church of Christ but no Men in any Age of it have been more guilty of Innovation then they while themselves cry out against it Quis tulerit Gracchos And I said well Quis tulerit Gracchos For 't is most apparent to any Man that will not wink that the Intention of these Men and their Abettors was and is to raise a Sedition being as great Incendiaries in the State where they get Power as they have ever been in the Church Novatian himself hardly greater Our main Crime is would they all speak out as some of them do that we are Bishops were we not so some of us might be as passable as other Men. And a great trouble 't is to them that we maintain that our Calling of Bishops is Jure Divino by Divine Right Of this I have said enough and in this place in Leighton's Case nor will I repeat Only this I will say and abide by it that the Calling of Bishops is Jure Divino by Divine Right tho' not all Adjuncts to their Calling And this I say in as direct opposition to the Church of Rome as to the Puritan Humour And I say farther that from the Apostles times in all Ages in all Places the Church of Christ was governed by Bishops And Lay-Elders never heard of till Calvin's new-fangled Device at Geneva Now this