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A60393	A catalogve of superstitons innovations in the change of services and ceremonies, of presumptuous irregularities, and transgressions, against the Articles of Religion, Act of Parliament for uniformity, canons, advertisements, injunctions, and homilies and lastly, of sundry perjurious violations of the locall statutes of Durham Cathedrall church, which the dean and presendaries, and all other members of the said church, took their corporall oaths, to observe, and obey, at their admittance and installation, according to that in the 13. Chap. De admissione Canonicorum ... / opposed by Peter Smart ...	Smart, Peter, 1569-1652?	1642 (1642)	Wing S4013; ESTC R560	24,629	36

or Bishops Tables and Eucharists In the after times the Fathers presumed to take a greater liberty of speech but they never meant to defend such popish sacriledge as is the having of Priests Sacrifices and Altars And because ages more degenerating did set as it were a Byas upon the phrases Priests Sacrifices Altar which had been used by the Fathers improperly to draw them to a proper signification flat contrary to their first Institution therefore did Protestants wish That those ancient Fathers had rather contained themselves within their more ancient bounds than that their liberty of speech should have occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine Thus much saith Doctor Morton 9. They notoriously offended in removing the Font so often from the ancient usuall place where heretofore it stood contrary to the advertisement The Font shall not be removed and the 81 Canon The Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10. They offended highly in adoring the Altar falsly so called for when it is gorgeously adorned with brave and rich Furniture and set up on high at top of the Quire or Chancell removed from the base and prophane multitude as they account them and carrying a greater Majesty than it had being a plain Communion Table standing in the Body of the Church then they bowed down to it and worshipped it more than ever the papists did making it thereby an execrable Idoll they bow down I say their bodies before the same Altar and towards no other thing or place in the Church as if it were the most holy thing the Church of God hath as Doctor Duncomb blasphemously writeth in his Determination holyer than the Bible it self to which none make legs or bow their bodies 11. They have offended in contradicting the Church of England and endamaging our reformed Religion in not defacing nor abolishing monuments of Idolatry but repairing adorning beautifying and multiplying them more than ever they were in time of popery contrary to the 23 Injunction in which charge is given for the abolishing of things superstitious That Candlesticks Pictures Paintings and all manner of Monuments of Idolatry be taken away utterly extinct and destroyed So that there remain no memory of the same in Walls Windows or elsewhere Item In the Articles of the first yeer of the Queens visitation 1559. The second Article enquireth whether Candlesticks Images Pictures and other Monuments of Idolatry and Superstition be abolished Hereby it appeareth that the intention of the Church of England was at the reformation thereof from Popish Superstition and Idolatry that Massing Copes and other Altar Cloaths embroydered with Images That Candlesticks Tapers Crosses Crucifixes c. being once ejected must not be brought in again and set upon the Communion Table or in Windows above the Table as is done in Durham and other Churches adjoyning 12. They offended in rejecting the Homilies and Injunctions and consequently the doctrine of the Church of England because they condemn Images Altars and other superfluous ornaments The Homily of the place and time of prayer hath these words of a woman saying to her neighbour at the first reformation of Churches in England Alas alas what shall we now do at Church since all the Saints are taken away seeing all the goodly fights we were wont to have are gone seeing we cannot have the like piping and chanting and playing on the Organs that we had before But dearly beloved saith the Homily we ought greatly to rejoyce and give God thanks that our Churches are delivered from all these things which displeased God so sore but now those abominations which were taken away at Durham are restored again with great advantage 13. They offended in calling their superstitious Trinkets Ornaments of the Church which our Church disalloweth and condemneth as being disgracements of Religion and abominations in the Church of God Thus saith the Homily against the perill of Idolatry and Superstitious decking of Churches The Lords holy Name ought to be called upon by publike prayer and thanksgiving his holy Sacraments ought duly and reverently to be administred not gaudily flauntingly theatrically histriorically due reverence is stirred up in the hearts of the godly by the confideration of those true ornaments of the house of God and not by any outward Ceremonies or costly and glorious deckings of the said House or Temple of the Lord as Saint Bernard saith Orantium in se retorquent aspectum impediunt affectum Such glorious spectacles draw away from God the minde of them that pray and they hinder holy affections or meditations Praetendunt ornatum saith Heming●us in his Enchiridion speaking of Images Si illi ornat●● adjunctum sit ullu● periculum sit maledictus They pretend that they are set up for Ornaments but cu●sed be such Ornaments to which the perill of Idolatry is joyned And again Spiritus Sanctus saith Ezekiel Chr. 20. Vocat Idola abominationes oculorum sed puluis ciuis ea vocat ornamenta oculorum The holy Ghost calls Images the abhomination of the eyes but man that is but dust and ashes calls them the ornaments of the eyes and then he concludeth Verus ornatus Templorum utilis Deo gratus est concio cantio oratio communio non haec quae vel impediunt vol vitiant The true Ornaments of the Church profitable to men and acceptable to God is the preaching of Gods Word the singing of Psalms the administration of the Sacraments and Prayer and not such things as do hinder and defile the same 14. They have offended against their Mother the Church of England in taking away the ten Commandments where they placed their Altar for having cast out the decent Communion Table at the same time they sent away into the Countrey the Decalogue fairly written in golden Letters contrary to the expresse words of the 82. Canon and practise of all our Churches The ten Commandments shall be set upon the East end of every Church or Chapell where the people may best see and read the same So they were placed in Durham Cathedrall very fairly written and hanging upon the Wall till the Lords Table was taken away and a brave sumptuous Altar daily adored by all sorts of people specially Priests and Clerks with bowing down their bodies before it Till I say a glorious high Altar was erected with Crucifixes and other Images of Saints and Angels even of the Trinity it self Which Idols as the Church of England calls them in her Homilies could not endure the presence of Gods second Commandment which forbids Images and Idolatry and much more reason had they to remove the Decalogue out of their sight since the fourth Commandment also was by them abrogated which commandeth the observation of the Sabbath Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work At the end of the fourth Commandment our Church enjoyneth the people to kneel down and say Lord have

A CATALOGVE OF SUPERSTITIOUS INNOVATIONS IN The change of Services and Ceremonies of presumptuous irregularities and transgressions against the Articles of Religion Act of Parliament for uniformity Canons Advertisements Injunctions and Homilies And Lastly Of sundry perjurious Violations of the locall Statutes of Durham Cathedrall Church which the Dean and Prebendaries and all other Members of the said Church took their corporall Oaths to observe and obey at their admittance and installation according to that in the 13. Chap. Deadmissione Canonicorum Omnes cujuscunque nominis conditionis fuerit jurabunt Brought into Durham Cathedrall by Bishop Neal and the Dean and Prebendaries of the said Church Opposed by Peter Smart Prebendary of Durham lately restored to his said Prebend All censures and sentences of the Commissioners and other Judges being Reversed and Cancelled by the High Court of Parliament after his eleven yeers imprisonment and fourteen yeers persecution in the severall High Commissions of Durham London and York for Preaching against the Superstitious Innovations in Durham aforesaid London Printed for Joseph Hunscott 1642 A Catalogue of Superstitious Innovations in the change of Services and Ceremonies Of presumptuous irregularities and transgressions against the Articles of Religion Act of Parliament for uniformity Canons Advertisements Iujunctions and Homilies c. INnovators in Durbam offended against the Church of England in taking away the Communion-Table and in place thereof erecting an Altar contrary to the Injunction for Tables in Churches which commandeth Altars to be removed and Communion-Tables brought into all Churches and Chappels both Cathedrall and others that uniformity might be observed 2. They likewise offended against the Church of England in all her Church-Books in which the word Altar for Communion-Table is never put I mean the new Testament the Book of Common-prayer the Injunctions Canons Articles of Religion and Homilies they offended I say in that they give to the holy Table the name of an Altar it being no true Altar not so much as the Image of an Altar or having any likenesse or resemblance of an Altar 3. They offended in making it a brave and sumptuous Altar with much gay and gaudy superstitious and unlawfull furniture whereas according to the advertisements and eighty two Canon it ought to be a Table not an Altar a decent Table not curiously carved not gorgeously beautified painted and guilded to move admiration nor vile filthy and rotten to make it base and contemptible in the sight of the people 4. They offended in making it of stone whereas it should be of Wood and setting it upon stone Pillars or upon a Wall whereas it should stand upon a frame according to the Injunctions Can. de Ae●ituis Ecclesiarum And the Latine Canon which saith Curabunt Mensam ex asseribus compositè junct●m quae administrationi sacro-sancte communionis inseruiat and practise of Durham and other Cathedrall and Parish Churches since the reformation 1. Eliz. when stone Altars were demolished because they were unmoveable fastned to the ground and so heavy that twenty men could not bear one stone Altar but they should be light and portable for it is the Deacons Office to carry or remoue the Table and how can it be portable if it be like to Durham Altar on stone columes or Wormeth Altar on a stone Wall and how can the Deacons do their Office in removing the Table from place to place as occasion serveth and our Church enjoyneth which is unpossible if it be of Marble stone● and a double Table as Durham is so heavy as a Wain-load of stones and fastned to the ground also 5. They impudently transgressed especially in some Parish Churches in not placing the holy Table where morning Prayer and evening Prayer are appointed to be said but at the East end of the Church or Chancell whereno part of evening Prayer is ever said in any Church at an Altar or Table but in Parish Churches where there are long and narrow Chancels the people in the Body of the Church neither hear nor see the Priest at his Altar in the East and consequently cannot be edified Also in Cathedrall Churches where the Table is placed so far from the Congregation the Minister officiating thereat cannot so well be heard nor the people so well be edified as when the Table standeth in the Body of the Church or Quire neer amongst the people 6. Innovators in Durbam and York have notoriously transgressed against the Book of common Prayer both in Cathedrall and Parish Churches and Chappell 's in setting the Communion Table with neither side toward the North so that the Minister cannot stand at the North side as the Rubrick enjoyns him to do and as the custome is of all Ministers officiating 7. Innovators in Durham and York have grievously offended in teaching falsly and maintaining That Priests Sacrifices and Altars are indifferently used for Ministers Sacraments and Communion Tables in the Liturgy of the Church of England for those things are indifferently used which are used pr●miscuè as Synonimous words of the same signification are used commonly But our Church Liturgy useth not the words Priest Sacrifice and Altar indifferently and so commonly as the words Minister Sacrament and Communion Table For Altar is never mentioned in our Liturgie but the Lords Table and Lords Boord nor Sacrament is ever tearmed a Sacrifice in the Liturgy for at the Communion all that receive are appointed to say Accept O Lord this our Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving And again not the Minister alone but all the Communicants must say We offer and present unto thee O Lord our souls and Bodies to be an holy and lively Sacrifice neither is the word Priest ever so much as once mentioned in the Text of our Liturgy save onely in the Rubrick which are rules and directions how to use the Liturgy As for example In the Absolution God hath given power and commandment to his Ministers not Priests to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sinnes And in the Letany That it will please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church c. And another place Endues by Ministers with righteousnesse not Priests because the word Priest implyes a Sacrifice as saith Bishop Latimer and it is never used in the Word of God for a Minister of the Gospel so that by using the words Altar Priest Sacrifice they speak not the language of their Mother the Church of England 8. They offended in opposing the Fathers and the primitive Church against the Church of England and the grave and learned Bishops which reformed the same in defence of Altars Priests Sacrifices c. which they preferre before Communion Tables Ministers and Sacraments Doctor Morton now Bishop of Durham in his Apologie pag. 165. saith Primitive antiquity as hath been confessed by Papists themselves did abstain from the names of Priest Altar and Sacrifices tearming them according to the tenor of the new Testament Elders

mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law What Law The Law for observing the Christian Sabbath which word Doctor Linsell said My stomack riseth when I hear Sabbath call it no more Sabbath And Bishop Neal said at his visitation in Durham I see no reason but that the Festivall day of a Saint may be preferred before Sunday what is Sunday 15. They have ridiculously and superstitiously offended in the use of Copes and other superstitious Vestments falsely called Copes at unlawfull times and places And they continued even till this time 1642. in the same abuse being admonished and taught the truth they will not amend nor acknowledge their errour The 24. Canon saith thus in all Cathedrall and Colligiat Churches the holy Communion shall be administred by the Bishop or a Prebendary the principall Minister using a decent Cope and being assisted by the Epistoler and Gospeller agreeably according to the advertisements published Anno 7. Eliz. The advertisements made by Commissioners authorized under the great Seal of England saith thus At the administration of the holy Communion in Cathedrall and Collegiat Churches the principall Minister shall use a Cope with the Epistoler and Gospeller agreeably and at all other prayers at the Communion Table to use no Copes but Surplesses The 45. Canon saith the same When there is no Communion it shall be sufficient to wear Surplesses By this it is manifest That the Copes must be decent and they must never be used save only at the administration of the holy Communion But Durham Innovators did say their second Service daily when there was no Communion at their Altar and after every Sermon one of the Priests did put on a Cope to say two or three Prayers at the Altar not suffering the Minister to dismisse the Congregation with blessing of Gods peace as was wont to be done in Durham and all other Cathedralls of England till very lately some new fangled Deans and ignorant Canons absurdly have imitated Durhams fooleries 16. They offended in using and justifying him that used a Cope in the Pulpit a Hood being appointed and sitting in his Stall in a Cope at time of divine Service and Sermon at which times Hoods are alwayes commanded to be worn by Graduates which are never put on with Copes and Copes are alwayes forbidden save only at the administration of the holy Communion This was done in Durham contrary to the example of all Churches either popish or Reformed contrary also to the expresse words of the Canon and Injunctions In the 25 Canon thus we reade In the time of Divine Service in all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches Deans and Prebendaries being Graduates shall dayly at the times of Prayers and Preachings wear with their Surplices such hoods as are agreeable to their Degrees The Advertisement saith the same Item That the Dean and Prebendaries wear a Surplice with a Silk Hood in the Quire and when they preach in the Cathedrall or Collegiate Church to wear their Hoods Master Burg●yn the first setter up of Altars and introducer of other popish Ceremonies in that Countrey having taken three Degrees in Cambridge offended thrice in wearing a Cope without his Hood without which Hood he preached twice and once sate in his stall in a Cope when he preached not as if he had been some Sir John lack-latine or simple petty-Canon 17. They offended both in using sumptuous Copes glittering with Images and among the rest of the blessed Trinity God the Father in the likenesse of an old man God the Son in the likenesse of a younger man the holy Ghost in the similitude of a Dove wrought upon red Velvet with Gold Silver and Pearl one of which was taken from a Masse-priest As also in using scurvie py-bald curtal'd and ridiculous Vestments falsly called Copes being indeed very fools coats at the Communion Table and that dayly at the Administration of the holy Communion whereas by the aforesaid 24 Canon a decent Cope is onely commanded and by the Latine Canon all Vestments defiled with superstition are forbidden in the latine Canon de officio Decani thus we are taught Nullus ex ordine Ecclesiastico quocunque nomine censeatur utetur ulla veste superstitione contaminata No Ecclesiasticall person by what name soever he be called shall use the gray Amice as they call it or any other Vesture defiled with like superstition 18 They have wickedly transgressed against the 49. Injunction in abusing the laudible Science of Musicke every day and every Service without understanding of the people and edification The 49. Injunction willeth and commandeth the laudible Science of Musick be so preserved that the same in any part of Service he not so abused in the Church that thereby the Common Prayer should be the worse understood of the hearers That there be a modest and distinct song so used in all parts of the Common Praiers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understood as if it were read without singing And although one Hymne of more exquisite Musick in the beginning or end of Common Prayers may be sung yet respect must be had that the sentence of the Hymne may be understood and perceived Notwithstanding this Injunction our Durhamers have been so eager upon piping and singing that in stead of the Morning Prayer at 6. of the clock which was wont to be read distinctly and plainly for Schollers and Artificers before they begin their work they brought in a solemne Service with singing and Organs Sackbuts and Cornets little whereof could be understood of the people neither would they suffer the Sacrament to be administred without a continuall noise of Musick both instrumentall and vocal to the great disturbance of those holy actions 19 They offended in multiplying unlawfull Anthemes and disallowing lawfull Psalms-singing by the whole Congregation before and after Sermons according to the custome of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches and of Durham it self before Doctor Cosins and other of Bishop Neals Chaplains became Cannons of that Church which unlawfull forbidding of Psalms to be sung in a vulgar tune according to the custome of all other Churches they have continued to this present yeer 1642. 20 They offended in singing the Nicene Creed not after the manner of distinct reading as the aforesaid Injunction commands and as that which is called the Apostles Creed is sung yet forcing the people with brawling in the time of Divine Service to stand up upon their feet all the time that it is sung though they understand nothing neither can they perceive whether it be a prayer or a Creed contrary to the Rubrick and Injunction and 18 Cannon which injoyneth the people to stand up when the Apostles Creed is said saying with the Minister in an audible voice which none can do when the Nicene Creed is sung by the whole Quire with all their musical instruments 21 They offended in taking pipers and singers for assistants at the Administration of the holy

part of which I should have recovered of Doctor Carre and his heires which because the Deane and Chapter hinder me from obtaining being mine owne which hee wrongfully got and possessed I am to have it of the Deane and Chapter of Durham and by their oath they are bound and must pay it me besides satisfaction they must make for other wrongs they have done to me and mine They perfidiously granted the registers office to Thomas Bullock and Abraham Clarke there being a Chapter Act for my Sonne William Smart to succeed Mr. Browne according to his petition granted upon a great Chapter day themselves perswading mee to take him from the universitie to put him to the Inns of Court and to make him a notary publique which being done they being offended with mee for withstanding their Popish innovations in the Church treacherously beguiled my said sonne to his great losse and undoing and they suffered Mr. Browne who enjoyed the said office to sell the same to the said Bullocke and Clarke contrary to a Chapter Act expresly forbidding him to sell it but to leave it to the Chapters free gift as he freely received it they committed a double perjury in this first in making two Registers put joyntly in one patent whereas by statute custome there must be but one register and in swearing Bullock and not Clarke contrary to the expresse words of the statute Omnes prater pueros jurabunt All members of tge Church except Boies must take their oath 46 They made a lease to Mr. Toby Blaxton for the use of Mr. Cosin of hay ground belonging to mee which I had enjoyed many yeares by custome of the Church as ten prebendaries alwayes have done they made a lease I say of that which by custome only useth to be holden and not by lease which is manifest perjury of which no president can be shewed never any lease was heard of before to be made in that kind 47 They prejuriously offended in making to the said Cosin a lease of the Tith Corne of Pittington allotted to the 4. Prebend which was mine They granted likewise to Doctor Carre a lease of my Tyth Corne of Shadforth belonging to the 4. Prebend They perfidiously wrought meanes to put me out of my living and brought in Doctor Carr who had got in the space of 11. yeares above 4000. pound out of my livings which they doe all they can to keepe from me though the Parliament acquitted me of all censures whereby it is manifest that Doct. Carre was never prebendary of Durham the 4. Prebend which was mine being never actually void 48 The statutes of the Church viz. Cap. 17. have these words Volumus ut singulis Anni terminis stipendia omnia tam Decano Canonicis quam aliis Ministris numrecentur solvantur And againe Statuimus ordinamus ut Thesaurarius qui pro tempore fuerit stipendia omnia prout statutis nostris assignantur tempore suo numeret persolvat illa etiam quae sub anni exitum pro Communi dividenda sunt solvenda Stat. cap. 22 De officio Thesaur These clauses of the statutes some of the treasurers have not observed as well in not paying where it was due as also in paying where it was not due where both the statutes and Custome of the Church forbid them to pay and as I understand they have made Chapter Acts against me to keepe me and mine from my owne they conspired altogether to be perjured and to divide my moneyes amongst themselves Doctor Duncon late treasurer of Durham refuseth to pay me the stipends belonging to my prebend which were unpaid to Doctor Carre amounting to the sum of about 40. pound and neither he nor Doctor Nayler now treasurer will pay to William Withrington my servant the stipend due to him though by their oath they are bound to pay stipends Decano Canonitis aliis Ministris whereof he is one to the Deane and Cannons and other officers whereof he is one 49 Yet the most prophane Epicurisme and Sacralegious implety of the Deane and Prebendaries appeareth in bestowing of Church livings with charge of soules of which if they be very commodious they will accept of themselves as Doctor Cradock did North Allerton worth 200. pound per annum having above 600. pound per annum before hee tooke it not to preach therenor reside upon it being Bishop Neales Chancellor Prebend of Durham and Vicar of Gain●ord for he never preacht there nor ministred the Sacraments nor said service but to sell it for 500. pound which the minister that bought it held but two yeares till Cradock dyed afterward Mr. Blaxton got the same North-Allerton having a Prebend of Durham and parsonage of Sedgefield worth 800. pound per annum at which living he never preacht for 16. yeares nor said service being lusty and able enough to doe any thing saving the duties of his calling This man resigned and bargained away many livings Woodhorne Red Marshall his Arch-Deaconry of Yorke to his Sonne in law Doctor Cosin his Prebend of Yorke and Vicaridge of Allerton to his Sonne Thomas Blaxton and lastly his rich personage of Sedgefield and Prebend of Durham to his Sonne Robert Blaxton both worth 800. pound por annum 50 Of all other their execrable impiety is seene in committing the charge of soules to them that they know are uncapable as namely Witton Gilbert to Joseph Cradock the foresaid Doctor Cradock Sonne who was not full minister nor yet is neither did he ever preach or say Service there not long after they gave to the same Ioseph Cradock another called Walsend worth about 60. pound per annum where likewise he never officiated but presently he sold them both one to Henry Hutton Clerke and the other to Sir Nicholas Tempest for 220. pound after these two he got a third living called Middleton George where he never did any service nor liveth there but with the money he got for these places hee bought a Commissary ship of Richmond in Yorkeshire whereof he hath made extraordinary great profit whereby divers complaints have beene made against him Likewise they have given to William Smith a Minor Cannon the Vicaridge Edlingeham about 40. miles from Durham contrary to the statute in the 24. Chap. that the benefice must not bee above twenty foure miles from Durham where he seldome or never commeth nor keepeth a sufficient Curate But they refuse to collate upon one Master Carwardine a painfull preacher the Vicaridge of Aycliffe which by the order and custome of the Church I Peter Smarth Senior Residentiary have presented him unto having right so to doe as was proved this Parliament by the testimony of two witnesses and they keepe in a deboyst and scandalous minister one George Leake as appeares by a petition at this time preferr'd to the Lords of the Parliament by the parishioners there OF all the aforesaid Fifty Superstitious Innovations in Services and Ceremonies of irregularities and transgressions against the