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A75650 Articles of accusation and impeachment of the House of Commons, and all the Commons of England against VVilliam Pierce Doctor of Divinitie and Bishop of Bath and Wells. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1642 (1642) Wing A3832; Thomason E238_25; ESTC R19350 7,684 10

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punished one Master Thomas ●●ford a Minister for Preaching at the Parish of Mountagu upon the Revell day upon the Praphet Ioels exhortation to fasting weeping and mourning charging him that not onely his Sermon but his very Text was * A pious ●…pall reason fitter for an Alewife then a Bishop an Atheist then a Prelate scandalous to the Revell and gave offence to the meeting And or the same reason the said Bishop commanded the said Church-warde's of the Parish of Batcombe to blot out of the Church wall this Text of Scripture therein written taken out of Esay 58.13.14 * O blasphemy why was not the Revell rather scandalous to the text If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabboth from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honorable and shalt honour him not doing the owne waie●s nor finding thine owne pleasure nor speaking thine owne words then shalt thou delight thy selfe in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feede thee with heritage of Jacob thy Father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And he likewise caused to be rased out this clause in Doctor Bisse his monument in that Church formerly P●stor there he was an enemy to heathenish Revell To countenance which Revells the said Bishop in opposition to the orders of the Judges of Assise and Justices of Peace of Somerset-shire for the suppressing of Sports and Revells and their Petition to the King to that purpose did call before him divers ministers of his Diocesse and presented unto them a writing in approbation and commendations of the said sports and Revells whereupon many of the said Ministers subscribed their names by the Bishops perswasions which writing the said Bishop sent up to the Archbishop of Canterbury who after the receipt thereof suppressed the Justices Petition And partly after the booke for sports and Revells on the Lords day was published 6. That hee hath both by example and cammand contrary to the Lawes of the Land introduced into all or most Churches in his Diocesse sundry Innovations in the Rives and Ceremonies of the Church and other new inventions of his owne tending to Popery and Superstition as namely setting up of Alters and enjoyning the seats about them to be taken away saying * O the desperate impiety and prophanenesse of this Bishop who might as well obliterate this Scripture out of the Bible as out of the Church wall This speech he borrowed from Canterbury who might doe well to prove that God almighty sits actually on the Lords Table that as well when there is no Communion there as when there is none shall sit equall with or above God Almighty bowing and crin●ing to the said Altars and reading the second and third service at the Alter and enjoyned the strict observation of them under the heaviest Censures of the Church in so much that the Communion Table of Stretton in his Diocesse which he had caused to be railed in Altarwise being brought downe againe in his former place and not turned to the East thereupon no Communion was there permitted to the Parishioners on Palme-Sunday and Easterday 1637. the minister having received an Order from the said Bishop * O monstrous superstition sacriledge impiety to deprive the people of the Sacrament because the Table stood not after his new ●ancy No age I am certain yeelds such a president not to administer the Communion untill the Table was againe set up Alterwise and caused deverse to be punished for not standing up at the Gospel and Gloria Patri And he hath likewise forced divers parishes as Tanto Shepton Mallet and others to their intolerable cost to set up Organs * It seemes his Lordship delighted more in piping then preaching and will have men goe merrily dancing not mouthing to heaven where there were none at all or not a long time before causing the Churchwarden to levie mony towards the building of them upon the Parishioners against their wills and punishing them in his Ecclesiasticall Court that would not pay towards them and that hee hath put the County of Somerset to excessive oxpences by reason of such Innovations as aforesaid 7. That he hath contrary to Law vexed and molested in his Ecclesiasticall Courts divers of the Clergy and Laity of his Diocesse for triviall and small matters excommunicated and vexed divers Churchwardens for not rayling in the communion Table and placing it Alterwise against the East wall of the Chancell and by name the Churchwardens of Beckington whom he not excommunicated but likewise caused them and others to be unjustly indicted at the open Assizes held in the County in Lent 1636. as for a Riot in hindring the removing of the Table in that Church putting the said Parish to the expence of 1800. pound or more and not absolving the Churchwardens from their excommunion till the they had done such open and ignominious pennance as the said Bishop enjoyned them in three eminent Parish Churches within his Diocesse as likewise at the Market-crosse at Wells The performance of which pennance wrought so farre upon Iames Wheeler one of the said Churchwardens that thereupon he fell into a consumption through griefe and so dyed saying often before his death that the performance of the said pennance being so ignominious and against his Conscience was the cause of his death and by his vexatious suites in his Ecclesiasticall Courts he hath raised his Registers office in former Bishops time not worth above 60 pound per annum to the value of 3 or 4 hundred pounds or more by the yeare 8. That the said Bishop hath undoubtedly and against Law pressed the Oathes Ex Officio upon divers inhabitants of Wells without complaint or accusation and likewise the Oath of Deanes Rurall with other unlawfull Oathes both upon the Clergie and Laity within his Diocesse and other places and suspended and excommunicated divers of them that ref●sed to take the said Oathes and that not only in his Consistory Court but in his owne private Chamber there being none but a R●g●ster with him 9. That he hath for his owne Lucre and gaine extorted divers summes of money against Law as of one Fort one of the Churchwardens of South Pederton twenty pounds And also of one Master Francklyn the sorne of three pounds besides the some of ten pounds given in Fees and rewards to the Bishops servants for instituting him into the Personage of Standerweeke And hath likewise exacted the summe of sixe shillings eight pence or more of divers Churchwardens and Parishes within his Diocesse onely for not ringing the Bells when hee passed through the bounds of their severall Parishes in his Uisitation though privately without giving them any notice of his comming that way 10. That he hath against Law deferred and denyed Institutions upon presentations to Benefices practising in the interim under hand to consetre the sonie upon his