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A96350	The first centvry of scandalous, malignant priests, made and admitted into benefices by the prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been. Or, A narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of severall ministers complained of before them, for vitiousnesse of life, errors in doctrine, contrary to the articles of our religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious innovations against law, and for malignancy against the Parliament. It is ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, [The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, &c.] be printed by George Miller.	White, John, 1590-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W1777; Thomason E76_21; ESTC R19192	42,473	60

and said that the House of Commons in Parliament was an unjust Court and doth ordinarily sweare and curse and useth superstitious bowing and cringing to the Communion Table 8. The Benefice of Iohn Gordon Rector of the Parish Church of Ockley in the County of Sussex is sequestred for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes sitting and tipling there night after night and hath spent the whole Sabbath there so that no Service nor Sermon was in his Church by reason thereof and is a common drunkard and hath not preached on any Fast day since it was enjoyned by King and Parliament and hath published in his Church all those to be Traitours that lent to the Parliament and hath deserted his said Church for about six Moneths last past and is reported to have been seene in the Army of Cavalieres raised against the Parliament 9. The Benefice of Lawrence Washington Rector of Purleigh in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses not only himselfe sitting daily tipling there but also incouraging others in that beastly vice and hath been oft drunke and hath said That the Parliament have more Papists-belonging to them in their Armies then the King had about him or in his Army and that the Parliaments Army did more hurt then the Cavaleeres and that they did none at all And hath published them to be Traitours that lend to or assist the Parliament 10. The Benefice of Philip Leigh Vicar of the Parish Church of Redburne in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and haunter of Alehouses usually drinking healths and pressing others thereunto a common swearer and quarreller and hath expressed much malignancy against the Parliament 11. The Benefices of Francis Fothersby Vicar of S. Clements in Sandwich and Parson of Lingsteede in the County of Kent are sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and common swearer and curser and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament in not only refusing to contribute to the publike defence of but saying that they that would not lend the Parliament money should be sent with Ordinances to Hell 12. The stipend of Daniel Tutivall Preacher of Suttons Hospitall in the County of Middlesex commonly called Charterhouse is sequestred for that he hath been often drunke and that on the Lords day and hath taught in his Sermons to the said House that Moses and Aaron being before them meaning two Pictures set up in the Chappell and the Organs behind them newly also set up there they were a happy people and what greater comfort could mortall men have and hath wholy neglected the observation of the Monethly Fast not preaching thereupon and procured scandalous and Malignant Ministers to preach there to corrupt his people 13. The Benefice of Iohn Gorsuch Doctor of Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Walkerne in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes and often drunke and oft sitteth gaming whole nights together and is seldome in the Pulpit preaching scarce once a quarter And hath often denied many of his Parishoners the Sacrament of the Lords Supper without any cause shown and refused to administer it to such as would not come up to the railes And endeavoured to hire one Ioanes to ride a Troope-Horse for Prince Rupert to serve under him against the Parliament saying withall he had a snotty nose Iade to send to the Parliament to poison the whole Band and hath published a wicked Libell against the Parliament That some of the Lords whom he Named were Fooles Bastards and Cuckhoulds 14. The Benefice of Edward Thurman Rector of the Parish Church of Hallingbury in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a Common drunkard and hath presented his Parishioners for going from their own Church to heare Sermons when they had none at home and hath affirmed that he would drive away all the Puritans out of his Parish and enforced his Parishioners to come to the railes and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for the space of halfe a yeare now last past 15. The Benefice of Robert Snell Vicar of the Parish Church of Maching in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath often refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parish that refused to come to the railes to receive it and there being a Crucifix in the window over the Altar he useth to bow towards it and would not suffer it to be pulled downe notwithstanding the Order of Parliament for it And hath taught his people that God hath now an Altar and that the Table set Altar-wise put him in mind of God to worship him the better and in administring the Sacrament called one of the Communicants Puppy for that being left-handed he put forth that hand to receive the Bread and caused the Church-wardens to present such as would not come up to the railes to receive there and kneele before them and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament 16. The Benefice of Robert Hiliard Vicar of the Parish Church of Ewell in the County of Surry is sequestred for that he said The Parliament is a Parliament for the Devill and the Devils Court and that the Petitions of the Parliament to the King are like the Petitions of Jeroboam to Rehoboam commands and not Petitions and hath discouraged divers from giving or lending towards the publike defence expressing that he hoped they that did so should never see penny of it againe and that he would rather live under the government of a Heathen then of the Parliament and is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses sitting tipling and quarrelling there and is often drunke and is a common curser and swearer and hath jeared the holy Spirit of Grace saying We have Ministers now will preach forsooth and pray by the Spirit and hath threatned to kill those that have exhibited Articles against him in Parliament in case they should proceed against him and went about with the Cavalieres at Kingstone directing them to plunder honest men there 17. The Benefice of Ioseph Soane Vicar of Aldenham in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common Gamester a common Ale-house haunter and frequently drunke and a common quarreller and hath called the Parliament Souldiers under the command of his Excellency the Earle of Essex Parliament doggs 18. The Benefices of William Fairefax Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of S. Peters in Cornhill London and Vicar of East-Ham in the County of Middlesex are sequestred for that he hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as refused to come up to the railes and refused to let his Parish have a Lecturer on the Lords day in the after-noone except he might have 50lb. given unto him for the same And for the space of eight yeares refused to let his Parishioners have a Lecturer on a weeke day

his house on Sundayes after prayers to sit there with him and consume their time in drinking and tipling 35. The Benefice of Henry Hancocks Vicar of the Parish Church of Fornax-Pelham in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he hath preached That it is as lawfull for a woman if she dislike her Husband to leave him and take another as for one to goe out of his Parish to heare another Minister And that to goe to another Church was as the sinne of Witch-craft and Idolatry and filleth as well his Sermons as his ordinary discourses with bitter invectives and slanders against those that are religiously affected especially presenting them under the names of Puritans and Round-heads and hath said in his Sermons That the Puritans forced the Parliament to make Lawes according to their own fantasies and not according to the Law of God And after the fight at Edge-hill said in his Sermon That he was overjoyed to thinke that God should put it into the heart of the King to fight the Lords battell on the Lords day to uphold the ould antient Catholike Faith And fearing the pulling up of the railes about the Communion-Table he walked with his Sword about the Church-yard in the night saying he would rather loose his life then suffer them to be pul'd up and that if the Bishops should command him to weare a Kettle upon his head he would doe it and is a common tipler and haunter of Ale-houses and a prophane swearer of bloudy oathes 36. The Benefice of Alexander Clarke Vicar of the Parish Church of Bredfield in the County of Suffolk is sequestred for that he hath used very frequent bowing to the Altar in his going and returning from it and hath pressed the observing thereof upon his Parishioners and refused to let the Church-wardens levell the ground where the Altar stood because it was holy and consecrated and not fit to be throwne out or mixed with common earth and hath enveighed in his Sermons aginst praying by the Spirit calling it a Monster conceived borne and dying all in an instant and hath read the Booke of Sports on the Lords day and incouraged his Parishioners to observe the same telling them that it was sitter to play and follow their businesse on the Lords day then on holy dayes and hath publikely sported himselfe with his parishioners on the Lords dayes at Barly-breake and hath taught to the people that he hath absolute power to forgive sinnes blaming them that they did not send for their ghostly Father to have them forgiven and hath seldome observed the monethly Fast enjoyned by Parliament and hath endeavoured to draw his Parishioners to the Forces raised against the Parliament affirming that the Parliament had driven the King away from them and that the proceedings of them about the King were just and that there was not a Papist neere him And hath affirmed that the Earle of Strafford did die wrongfully and that the Parliament put him to death without a cause and hath spoken reproachfully of the Earle of Pembrooke and hath threatned his neighbours to give a list of the Names of them to the King that incouraged any to contribute to the Parliament 37. The Benefice of Zachary Tusham Vicar of the Parish Church of Dallington in the County of Sussex is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and hath solicited the chastity of one Alice Thorpe and is a common quarreller and did way-lay one Edmund Gore about mid-night and fell upon him and beare him and hath greatly neglected his Cure sometimes deserting the same for two-Moneths together without any supply and hath spoken very disgracefully of the Earle of Essex and expressed great malignity against the Parliament 38. The Benefice of Nicholas Wright Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Thoydon-Garnon in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath not preached above twice or thrice a yeare to his Parishioners and yet hath presented divers of them and put them to great charges in the Ecclesiasticall Courts for going to heare Sermons in other Churches when they had none at home and brought also such Ministers as they heard so preach into trouble And hath procured the Communion-Table to be set Altar-wise with stepps to it and railes about it and constantly bowed towards it at his coming and going out of the Church refusing to administer the Sacrament to divers of his Parishioners without any cause other then his own wilfulnesse and read the Booke for Sports on the Lords day in his said Church and preached to maintaine the lawfulnesse of it by meanes whereof the Lords day hath ever since been much prophaned by Foot-ball playing and other ungodly practises and hath deserted his said Cure ever since Palme-Sunday last and betaken himselfe to the Army of the Cavaleeres and is in actuall War against the Parliament and Kingdome And hath brought and continued long under him for his Curate a drunken lewd and scandalous person that hath been indited and found guilty at the Sessions for a common drunkard 39. The Benefice of Iohn Woodcock Vicar of the Parish Church of Elham in the County of Kent is sequestred for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses and commonly drunke and abuseth them that will not keepe company with him at the Ale-house and is a common swearer by Wounds Bloud and other like execrable Oathes and a common curser and hath deserted his said Cure ever since the first of August last and hath expressed great Malignity against the Parliament and the proceedings thereof 40. The Benefice of Iohn Manby Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge is sequestred for that while the Table was set Altar-wise he did constantly bow to it eight or nine times in a fore-noone and though he knew that the Parishioners could not heare him yet did alwayes reade second Service at the Altar and affirmed That it was no matter whether they heard or not for he prayed for them at the Altar which was Sanctum Sanctorum and affirmed That God was there more peculiarly present then in any other place of the Church and hath pressed his people in his Sermons That they ought to bring their offerings to the Altar and offer them there to him for that he was there in Gods stead to receive them and preached That he had power not only to pronounce absolution but had undoubted power to forgive sinnes and that the same was given him by the Bishops laying on of hands and that the Holy-dayes ought to be kept with as much reverence as the Lords day and that he read the late new Cannons and exhorted the people to receive and observe them as Scripture affirming them to be drawn out of Scripture And refused to Baptise children brought to the Church on the Lords day at evening Prayer though earnestly desired giving no other reason for it but because it was not his pleasure and hath preached openly

vice a common swearer by great and bloudy oaths and hath bin very carelesse and negligent of his Cure seldome preaching above once a month and never on the Fast-dayes and is seldome present at Church on the Past-dayes and often absent on the Lords-day when he hath drunke hard the day before and hath carried himself very lasciviously towards severall women and is greatly suspected of Incontinency 50. The stipend and Benefice of Iohn Man Curate of the Parish Church of Stroode neare Rochester in the County of Kent is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and frequenter of Ale-houses and Tavernes drawing others to the same excesse with him and is a common swearer by bloudy oathes and useth to curse and is a common quarreller and fighter and said That he scorned the Parliament and that the Parliament-men were not Gentlemen of quality and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament 51. The Benefice of Nicholas Lowes Vicar of the Parish Church of Much-Bently in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath beene often drunke and useth to sit tipling in Ale-houses seven or eight houres together even on the Lords dayes and affirmed That he hoped to see them all hanged that had set their hands against Bishops and Papists and he and by his example the people spend the greatest part of the Lords day in pastimes and drinking at the Ale-house and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 52. The Benefice of William Evans Parson of the Parish Church of Sandcroft in the County of Suffolk is sequestred for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and notorious drunkard and campanion of Ale-house haunters and hath altogether neglected the publike Fast even since the Order of Parliament for the better observation thereof and spent the same dayes or the greater part of them in Ale-houses and wholy neglected to preach in the after-noones on the Lords day or to suffer any other to doe it And hath driven divers of his Parishioners out of the Parish by prosecuting them in the Ecclesiasticall Courts for going to other Churches to heare Sermons when himselfe preached not and in his Pulpit delivered That those that did give or lend to the Parliament were accursed and insteed of a Sermon on the Lords day read to his people a Declaration set forth in his Majesties name concerning the Militia the Ships Fortes and Towne of Hull 53. The Benefice of Iohn Squire Vicar of the Parish Church of Shorditch in the County of Middlesex is sequestred for that he hath publikely in his Sermons affirmed the Papists to be the Kings best Subjects for their Loyalty and for their liberality and that like Arauna many had given like Kings to the King to maintaine his Honour against the rebellious Scots and for their patience that enduring the many grievances under his Majesty they had buried all in oblivion and the Protestants would afford him nothing but in a Legall way yea but in their own way and exhorting that none should come to the Sacrament unlesse they were so affected to his Majesty as the Papists were and compared his Majesty to the man that went from Hierusalem to Jericho and fell among theeves that wounded him of his Honour robbed him of his Castles and hearts of his people the Priest passing by was the Protestant the forward professour the Levite but the Papist was the good Samaritan especially the Irish Papist and that the Subjects and all they have are at the Kings command 54. The Benefice of Iohn Clarke Rector of the Parish Church of S. Ethelburrough within Bishops-gate London is sequestred for that he hath endeavoured to corrupt his auditory with the leaven of Popish doctrine that the Bread and Wine after the words of consecration cease to be Bread and Wine and differ specie from what they were before and that the Virgin Mary was the window of Heaven and the very clouts and raggs wherein Christ was wrapped were glorious raggs and that the crosse whereon Christ was crucified was made of foure sorts of wood and that he is a common haunter of Tavernes and Ale-houses and useth to sit tipling there till he be drunke and hath exprest great malignity against the power and proceedings of Parliament saying That the Parliament could not meddle or settle the businesse of the Church they being not Schollers but Mechanick men 55. The Benefice of Richard Nicholson Parson of the Parish Church of Stapleford Tawny in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and swearer and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament saying They were a company of Factious fellowes and that this Parliament is no Parliament and that the major part of the Lords and Commons being with the King they were the Parliament and used divers other wicked speeches against the Parliament and against severall Lords in the House of Peeres and had three wicked and scandalous Libells against the Parliament found in his Study and did sing one of them in an Ale-house 36. The Benefice of Francis Wright Vicar of the Parish Church of Witham in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath tempted divers women both his servants and Parishioners to uncleannesse and is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes and a common drunkard and prophaner of the Worship of God by publike performing of the same in his drunkennesse and a common swearer and common user of corrupt communication and hath not officiated in the said Cure for the space of twelve Moneths last past before the sequestration 57. The Benefice of Curthbert Dale Rector of the Parish Church of Kettleburrough in the County of Suffolk is sequestred for that he was a constant observer of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God and presented and troubled his Parishioners in the Ecclesiasticall Courts for not comming up to the railes to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and not observing other of the said Innovations and is a common swearer and curser and in his Sermons hath maintained That the Angells did mediate for the children of God and that men might drinke one pot for necessity a second for recreation and a third for good-fellowship and that it is not the blood of Christ that takes away sinne before God but it is repentance and teares that washes away sinnes and hath read the Book of sports on the Lords day and hath slighted and neglected the Monethly Fast and suffered his servants to worke thereupon And seeing a stranger in the Church put on his hat in Sermon time he openly then called him sawcy unmannerly Clowne and bid the Church-wardens take notice of him and the next Lords day tooke occasion in his Sermon againe to speake of him being then absent and to call him Lobb sawcy Goose Idiot a Wigeon a Cuckoe saying he was a scabbed Sheepe a stragler and none of his flock and is a common Ale-house and Taverne haunter and hath been often drunke and

frequently in his Pulpit upbraideth his Parishioners calling them Knaves Devills Raskalls Rogues and Villaines using other opprobrious speeches against them and in one of his Sermons affirmed That he hoped the late Lord Cooke was in Hell for maintaining Prohibitions and hath been very negligent in his Cure oft absenting himselfe from it for many weekes together and leaving the same in his absence to very scandalous Curates and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for above nine weekes last past and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament 58. The Benefice of Thomas Goade _____ of the Parish Church of East-Hatley in the County of Cambridge is sequestred for that he was for his scandalous life and misdemeanours deprived of his Benefice at Guningson in the County of Nottingham about 20. yeares since and hath not since reformed his life but is still a common frequenter of Ale-houses and very often drunke and oft on the Lords day And on Newyeares-day was twelve-moneth the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being to be administred in his Church he came from an Ale-house where he had been all night and was so drunke that he fell downe twice or thrice in the presence of the Parishioners who expected him at the Church-doore And hath beene oft likewise drunke when he should have been preaching and taken up drunke in the Church-yard coming to performe that duty by reason whereof divers times his Parishioners have had neither prayers nor preaching on the Lords day And hath oft sate so long drinking that he hath bepist himselfe and sometimes the roome where he sate and is an outragious common swearer and curser and in his Tipling useth to say Now Devill doe thy worst and caused his servants to goe to their earthly laboures upon the Fast-dayes and finding his neighbours Hoggs trespassing wished the plague of God in Hell might take her and her Hoggs and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God And because his Parishioners would not come up to the railes to receive caused the Parish-Clarke to carry away the Bread and Wine and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 59. The Benefice of Nicholas King Vicar of Friston and Snape in the County of Suffolk is sequestred for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and companion of scandalous persons and men of evill fame and oft drunke and attempted the chastity of Elizabeth Scotchmer who going to his house to pay him some moneyes he inticed her to lye with him and did strive a long time with her to abuse her by force and would have corrupted her thereunto with moneyes but she protesting unto him she would not sell her soule to the Devill for money he replied to her She was a foole for God did forgive the greatest sinners and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 60. The Benefice of Edward Turner Parson of the Parish Church of S. Lawrence in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a common swearer and common Ale-house haunter and strong to beare strong drinke and useth to sit five or six houres together tipling at Tavernes sometimes whole dayes and nights tipling and drinking and sometimes drunke a common practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations and hath deserted his Cure for the space of a yeare now last past 61. The Benefice of Iohn Wells Parson of the Parish Church of Shimplyn in the County of Suffolk is sequestred for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and common drunkard and in his drunkennesse hath layne abroad in the fields lost his hat fallen into ditches and so bemired himselfe that he hath been faine to be washed and hath attempted the chastity of divers women and sould his Calves for kisses with them and having lockt himselfe up in a chamber in an Inne with a lewd woman after a long time the doore was broken open upon him upon his refusall to unlock it and he found in a very suspitious manner upon a bed with her after which he conveyed her secretly away and sent guifts unto her And hath affirmed That the Land was governed by wicked men and that the Papists were the Kings best subjects and is a common swearer of very great Oathes 62. The Benefice of Thomas Geary Vicar of the Parish Church of Beddingfield in the County of Suffolke is sequestred for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses often drunke even to vomit and hath been and is a common swearer of bloody oathes and curser in a fearfull manner as God damne me the Devill damne me refused to preach for many Sabbath dayes together and said he thought preaching would doe his Parishioners no good and useth in his Sermons to raile upon his Parishioners calling them sowded Piggs Bursten Rammes and speckled Frogs and one of the chiefe women of the Parish greatly grieved at such miscarriages and going out of the Church the said Geary openly in his Pulpit thereupon said that if there were but one Whore in the Parish she would kick and fling and never keepe her seate and affirmed that he had absolute power to forgive sinnes and said that though this doctrine had laine hid for many yeares yet he blessed God that it was now revived againe and on a Fast-day disheartend men from attending on that sacred Ordinance and was a great promotor practiser and urger of the late illegall Innovations and when the railes were taken away affirmed that the place was the worse for thowant of them and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 63. The Benefice of Thomas Darnell Vicar of the Parish Church of Thorpe in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is an usuall prophaner of the Lords day by sports and playes and by making cleane his Cow-house and out-houses and other like servile workes and read the Book of sports on the Lords day in the Church with approbation thereof and is a common swearer and curser and a notorious drunkard and Ale-house haunter even upon the Fast-dayes and is a common Gamester at unlawfull games and hath been convicted of incontinency and adultery before Doctor Warren and others Justices of peace and began suite at Law in an action of slander for the same but durst never proceed therein and hath preached That he that would not conforme to his Prince in any Religion ought to be burnt and was a constant practiser of the late Innovations and put such of his Parish from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper as would not come to receive it at the railes and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 64. The Benefice of Iohn Wood Vicar of the Parish Church of Marden in the county of Kent is sequestred for that he did reade the Booke of sports upon the Lords day in his Parish Church and did preach for the maintenance thereof and is notoriously infamous for sundry adulteries a common Ale-house haunter oft drunke a common gamester and quarreller in

he would bring no such new orders among them and in his Sermons usually enveighs against his parishioners for going to heare Sermons at other Churches when they had none at home and finding his Curate painefull in preaching twice on the Lords day he put him away and entertained in his roome a most drunken scandalous and idle Curate and is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses sitting ripling there foure or five dayes in a weeke and oft till mid-night and hath been often drunke and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 72. The Benefice of Samuel Alsop Vicar of the Parish Church of Acton in the county of Suffolk is sequestred for that he hath attempted the chastity of divers married women and frequented the company of women greatly suspected to be lewd and of ill fame and got a maid with child in the house where he sojourned and hath set up in his chancell the Jesuits Badge in gold in divers places thereof and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for halfe a yeare last past before the said sequestration 73. The Benefice of Robert Senior Vicar of the Parish Church of Feering in the county of Essex is sequestred for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses and commonly drunke and hath been admonished by his Ordinary for it and yet hath not left it and was for his continuance therein suspended by the Ordinary and yet still persisteth in the same and commonly marries any manner of persons even without licence and of the monethly Fast said he wondred who a pox devised it and sware by his Maker that he would preach no more on it and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament and great affection to the Cavaleeres and Army raised against the Parliament as more suitable to his spirit 74. The Benefice of Henry Kybert Parson of the Parish Church of S. Katherine-Coleman London is sequestred for that he got into the said parish indirectly by meanes of a false Certificate subtilly procured by false suggestions from divers of the parishioners of the said parish who having complained and Articled against him and Percivall Hill his predecessor for great misdemeanours pretended that he was upon some hope of preferment else where and that if his parishioners would subseribe to a Certificate and testimoniall of his good behaviour they should be rid of him and having thereby obtained such subscriptions the said Hill and he went to the Bishop of London Patron of the said Church and the said Hill to flie from the censure of Parliament upon the said Articles resigned the said Church and upon vehement affirmation that the said Certificate was true and fairely gotten procured the said Bishop to present the said Kybert to the said Church who was thereupon instituted and inducted And the said Kybert is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses and commonly frequents the company of a married woman of very ill fame and hath been seen to imbrace and kisse her very lasciviously and hath been in a very suspitious manner in private with her and hath not been ashamed in Divine-service publikely to expresse unseemely gestures and behaviours towards her in the Church and being told that he was seen to be in such private miscarriage with her answered that he would after be more cautions which accordingly he observed resorting commonly to her house afterwards by night and not by day and hath since his institution into the said Church seldome preached and in his absence committed the Cure to drunken lewd and lascivious Curates and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament and hath deserted his said Cure for more then foure Moneths last past before the said sequestration 75. The Benefice of Walter Mattock Parson of the Parish Church of Storrington in the county of Sussex is sequestred for that he is a zealous practiser of the late illegall Innovations and hath not preached above once or twice in foure or five yeares in his Parish and refuseth to Church women if they have not on a Vaile and come not up to the raile and hath given his Curate charge to observe the same And is a common swearer and curser and a common gamester at Cards and Dice and useth to sit tipling with loose and lewd companions and hath been over-seen in drinke and hath said That none but a company of giddy-headed fellowes would preach twice a day and caused and countenanced the reading of the Book of Sports in his Church to prophane the Lords day and hath sent his Armes to assist the illegall Commission of Array and to oppose the Forces of the Parliament and hath otherwise expressed great malignancy against the Parliament and hath wholy deserted his said Cure ever since the first of February last 76. The Benefice of Clement Vincent Rector of the Parish Church of Danbury in the county of Essex is sequestred for that he is a great practiser of the late illegall Innovations and doth not only encourage sports and playing on the Sabbath-day before his own doore but hath also been a practiser himselfe thereof giving ill example thereby and neglected the keeping of the monethly-Fast and instead of fasting suffered on the Fast-day Foot-ball playing in his own ground himselfe being a spectator thereof and is a common drunkard and common swearer and curser and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament 77. The Benefice of Matthew Clay Vicar of the Parish Church of Chelsworth in the county of Suffolk is sequestred for that he hath very little resided upon his Parsonage-house but letteth one live in it that turneth it to an Ale-house in which there is very much disorder even upon the Lords dayes and hath neglected the observation of the monethly-Fast affirming that the time for them is expired and is a common swearer a haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes and hath been oft very drunke And hath often preached That sinnes of ignorance and sinnes of infirmity doe not grieve the Spirit of God and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for above foure Moneths before the said sequestration leaving upon his departure a scandalous Curate a drunkard that state in the stocks for his misdemeanours and for divers Lords-dayes the Church doores have been shut up and the Parish left without prayer or preaching 78. The Benefice of Daniel Horsmande● Doctor in Divinity Parson of the Parish Church of Vlcomb in the county of Kent is sequestred for that he did affirme That the late Deputy of Ireland was put to death wrongfully and was sacrificed as our Saviour Christ was to give the people content and is and hath been for eleven yeares last past a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes and very often exceeding drunke and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament and preached That to heare a

for not coming up to the railes though some of them begged it with teares and openly reviled them for not conforming to that superstitious Innovation calling them Doggs Rogues and Beggers and presented them to the Commissaries Court for the same to their great damage and vexation and hath published in his Church the Booke of Sports on the Lords day and commended the same and hath publikely in his Sermons affirmed That preaching is not necessary for the sanctification of the Sabbath and that the Sabbath was made for Ministers to rest in as well as for the people and that Lay-men ought not to meddle with the Scriptures but must beleeve as the Church beleeves which Church he made to be Arch-bishops and Bishops And the railes being removed he placed formes instead of them making his people kneele at them to receive the Lords Supper And hath preached That if the King should set up flat Idolatry we ought to submit and not to take up Armes as some doe now and enveighed against the Parliament for endeavouring to take away Episcopacy and hath not only refused to joyne in the publike defence but hath also discouraged such as have so done 25. The Benefice of Iohn Peckham Rector of the Parish Church of Hosteede parva in the County of Sussex who giveth out that he is the Kings Chaplaine is sequestred for that he hath been very negligent in his Cure absenting himselfe from his Parishioners sometimes a whole Moneth together without leaving any to Officiate for him and hath refused to administer the Lords Supper to those of his Parish that would not come up to the Railes and is a common drunkard and notorious adulterer and uncleane person having drawne divers women to commit uncleannesse with him and hath bragged that he could lie with women and never get them with child and hath used sordid and beastly carriages towards women to intice them to satisfie his lust not to be named among the Heathen and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament and proceedings thereof and hath affirmed publikely that a man might live in murther adultery and other grosse sinnes from day to day and yet be a true penitent person 26. The stipend of Iohn Kidd Curate of Egerton in the County of Kent is sequestred for that he preacheth not to his Parish above once in a fort-night sometimes not once in a Moneth or two Moneths though there be in the said Parish neere 400. Communicants nor provided any other to instruct them and hath used frequent and unreasonable bowing to the Communion-Table in his said Church and perswaded his people so to doe and called them openly unreverent Puppies that passed by it without such bowing and in administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper when he had received himselfe and was going to administer the Bread to his people assaulted one of the Communicants and pulled him by the haire of the head and thrust him out of the Church and Congregation without any just cause and hath never preached to his Parishioners upon any of the Fast dayes 27. The Benefice of Griffith Roberts Vicar of the Parish Church of Ridge in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he hath not only practised the late Innovations and neglected the publike Fast and imployed his neighbours to carry home wood for him upon a Fast day but hath openly declared the Earle of Essex and all his followers and Armies of the Parliament to be Traitours and that whosoever sent Horses Money or Plate to the Parliament were also Traitours and that this Land was governed by Children and Fooles and that the Parliament had done that that they must die for even the best of them if ever the Lawes were setled and that the said Roberts is a common drunkard and tipler in Ale-houses and drinker of healths quarrelling with them that will not pledge him therein 28. The Benefice of Peter Dausem Vicar of the Parish Church of Camberwell in the County of Surry is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and drunke at the times of his officiating at Burials and Baptizings and hath by his debaushed conversation disabled himselfe from preaching and hath not preached for these 12. yeares and upwards and did protect and hide a Romish Priest in his house from the Officers that came to seek him and hath extorted undue and unreasonable fees from his Parishioners and after the administring of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper expended the money given to the poore in Sack and dranke it in the Church And in delivering the Sacrament to one Mistris Wilson one of his Parishioners cast the Bread upon the ground saying to her take it there if thou wilt have it and is a common curser and swearer and hath read in his Church his Majesties Declaration against the Parliament concerning Levies and being told of an Ordinance of Parliament against the reading of such things answered He cared not for it 29. The Benefice of Iohn Mountford Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Austie in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he hath introduced into his said Church and other Churches a turning of the Communion-Table Altar-wise and having a great Crucifix and Picture of the Virgin Mary in the East window over the said Table used bowings and cringings before the said Table and Crucifix set Altar-wise and caused the said Table to be railed in and the Jesuits Badge to be set upon the Carpet there compelled the people to come up to the railes there to kneele to receive the sacrament teaching them that God was alwayes present at the Altar by the presence of his grace and was therefore to be bowed unto and in his going up to the Table to reade second Service usually caused that part of the 43. Psalme to be sung viz. Then shall I to the Altar goe of God c. And hath endeavoured to leaven his people with the doctrines of Arminianisme and hath forbidden by vertue of a Commissary or Surrogates place he held under the Deane and Chapter of Paules preaching in the afternoone on the Lords day and expounding of the Catechisme within his Jurisdiction only tying them to use the same by bare Questions and Answers and pressing the reading of the Booke of Sports on the Sabbath day and usually enveighed in his Sermons against those that went out from his said Parish Church to heare Sermons when they had none at home and did arrest the Church-wardens of the said Parish and the Glasier for pulling downe the said scandalous Pictures in the said window in obedience to Order of Parliament and hath preached against praying ex tempore as unlawfull and hath in his absence substituted a very scandalous Curate very superstitious in his practises who preached that that conscience was neither good nor quiet that could not be content with one Sermon a day on the Lords day and charged them as Rebells that did not observe his superstitious practises of the late