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A74974 De non temerandis ecclesiis, churches not to be violated. A tract of the rights and respect due unto churches. Written to a gentleman who having an appropriate parsonage, imployed the church to prophane uses, and left the parishioners uncertainely provided of divine service, in a parish neere there adjoyning. / Written and first published thirty years since by Sir Henry Spelman knight. Spelman, Henry, Sir, 1564?-1641.; Spelman, Clement, 1598-1679. 1646 (1646) Wing S4921; Thomason E335_5; ESTC R200775 67,012 74

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subjects of England eminent for Wit as Learning great in the esteeme and favour of his Prince laden with home and Forraigne dignities full of wealth as yeares in briefe he was while free from Sacriledge the great and successefull Counsellor of his Prince and indeed the Catalogue of humane blessings but about the 17th yeare of Henry the 8th Woolsey by consent and licence of the King and Pope Clement the 7th e Holl. f. 891. Stow. Good f. 67. dissolves forty small Monasteries in England to erect two Colledges the one in Oxford the other in Ipswich thou and I may think this a work of Piety to destroy the poor Idolatrous Cells of lasie and ignorant Monkes to erect stately Cottages for learned and industrious Divines this God must accept and prosper both the Act and Acter No thou art deceived he that would not that thou shouldest doe evill that good may come thereof will not accept an offering commenced by Sacriledge in the ruine of 40 Religious Houses Woolsey layes the foundation of his Colledges but never sets up their Gates About three yeares after the King possesseth his Pallace at f Good f. 104. Holl. 909. Westminster Whitehall the Great Seale is taken from him his great wealth seised and himselfe confined to a poore house at Assure where he remained a time saith g God f. 106. Godwin without necessaries driven to borrow furniture for his house money for his expences so as in his speech to the judges he complained that he was driven as it were to begge his bread from doore to doore 21. Hen. 8. he is convicted in a Premunire all his Lands and Estate seised by the h Holl. 909. Good f. 67. Good 108. King his Colledge at Ipswich destroyed before built that at Oxford receives some indowment and a new name from the King but is never to be finished In the 22. H. 8. at his Castle at Caywood he is by the Earle of i Holl. 915. Northumberland arrested of High Treason and fent towards London at Lecester the Lievtenant of the Tower met him at whose sight he was much affrighted and to prevent a publique and ignominious death which he feared he gave himselfe saith k Mart. 304.306 Martin a Purge * Hist Pont. Rom. Card. f. 1408. Venenum recepisse say they that write the lives of the Popes Cardinalls whereof he dyed and was obscurely buried in Lecester Abby without other memory then his Sacriledge The Cardinall in dissolving his forty Monasteries had used the help of five men besides Cromwell whereof two afterwards l Good f 67. fought a Duell in which one is slaine and the survivor hanged for the murther so each dyed guilty of his own and the others blood a third becomes Judas-like his own executioner for throwing himselfe into a well he is there drowned the fourth a great Richman to whom nothing is so terrible as poverty lives to begge his bread from doore to doore the fift a Bishop cruelly murthered in Ireland by m Stow. abridg f. 498. Thomas Fitz. Garret sonne to the Earle of Kildare I might here remember how Tope Clement the 7th after his voluntary consent to destroy poore Religious Houses is himselfe forced out of his n Speed fol. 996. Hist Pont. Rom. Card. stately Pallace at Rome and being besieged at his Castle of St Angelo is there constrained to eate Asses Flesh and taking such conditions as a Victorious Enemy would give is driven to plunder his own Church to pay his Enemies Army and at last dyes wretchedly of a miserable disease but this is Forraign and I tyed to home examples Thomas Lord Audley received the first fruits of H. 8 his Sacriledge for in the 24th of his Raigne the King dissolved by what meanes I finde not the Priory of Christ Church in London and gave saith o Stow. 24. H. 8. Stow the Church Plate Lands to Sir Thomas Audley who upon the dissolution of Monasteries got that of S. James in little Walden in Essex and made it both his Seate and Place of his Barony and after left it to Margaret his Daughter and Heire first married to Henry Dudley Sonne to the Duke of Northumberland slaine at St Quintynes and dyed without Issue and after she was second Wife to Thomas Duke of Norfolke who had issue Thomas Howard created Lord Walden being his Grandfathers Title and to credit his Mothers Inheritance upon the Scite of the Monastery he began a goodly p Audly Inne Structure but attended with the fate of sacrilegious foundations for that much impaires him and he never perfects that he met also with other misfortunes which betiding so Noble a Family and not yet published to the World are fitter for thy inquiry then my Penn. Cardinall Woolsey being dead his servant Cromwell succeeds him in his Court Favour and Fate as their birthes were alike obsure their rise alike eminent so alike miserable were their downefall wonder not at the first part of their fortune but contemplate the later Policy in Kings preferres able men to high places and honour for authority power and esteeme of the Persons advantages their actions of which wise Princes reap the Harvest the Actors get but gleanings while the King makes Cromwell a Baron his Seeretary Lord Privy Seale his Vicegerent in Ecclesiasticis he doth but faciliate his owne great work of dissolving q Speed 10.6 Monasteries a businesse wherein Cromwell was too much versed and unhappily too successefull Report spake him a great Stickler for the Protestant Religion and that although the Gospell had lost a Pillar in Queene Anne Bullen yet was another raised in r Speed 1016.92 Cromwell for he had caused the Bible to be read the Creed Pater Noster and Ten Commandements to be learned in English and expounded in every Å¿ Good f. 146. Church some thought that Cromwell hoped to bury Popery in the ruines of the Abbyes and thereby give the better growth to the more pure Protestant Religion how pious soever his intents were in reforming Religion yet was not the manner of effecting them it seemes acceptable to Heaven for by Parliament in the 31 of H. 8. he perfected his Dissolutions and in April in the 32 of H. 8. he is made t Holl. 950. Earle of Essex and Lord Great Chamberlaine of England high in the Kings favour and esteeme yet instantly while sitting at the Councell-Table he is suddainly apprehended and sent to the Tower whence he comes not forth untill to his u Goodw. fol. 174. Execution for in Parliament he is presently accused of Treason and Heresie and unheard is attainted Some do observe that he x Sir Edward Cook in his Iurisdiction of Courts f. 37. saith that Sir Tho. Gaudy then a grave Judge of the Kings Bench after told him that Cromvvell was commanded to attend the Chiefe Iustices to know whether a man that was forth comming as being in Prison might be
attainted of high Treason by Parliament and not called to answer The Judges ansvvered It was a dangerous question and they thought a Parliament would never doe it But being by the expresse command●ment of the King and they pressed by the said Earle Cromwell Earle of Essex to ansvver directly said That if he was attainted by Parliament it could not be questioned whether the Party was called to answer or not but the Party against whom this was intended said he was never questioned but that the first man that suffered by that proceeding was the said Cromvvell himselfe procured that Law of Attainting by Parliament without hearing the Party and that himselfe was the first that by that Law dyed unheard for in July following he was thereupon beheaded Next consider that King Henry the eight who ingrossed Sacriledge and retailed it to Posterity what the Pope permitted Woolsey saith Cambden H. 8. with the assent of his Parliament permits himselfe the first to catch the Pope pretends charity and good workes Colledges shall be built the later to winne the Layety in Parliament was offered with the revenue of religious houses to maintain 40 y M. Howe 's his Preface to Stowes Annals Sir Ed Cooks Jurisdiction of Courts fol. 44. Earles 60 Barons 300 Knights 40000 Souldiers and for ever ease the Subject of Taxes and Subsidies both obtained their desires in dissolving neither perform the ends promised H. 8th had first furthered Woolsey in his dissolution and thereby found the way to ruine all the rest In the z Vid. the severall Acts. 27. H. 8.31 27th year of his raign by Parliament he dissolves the lesser houses in the a H. 8. 31th the great ones in the b 37. H. 8. c. 4. 37th all the Colledges Hospitalls and Free-chappells except some few and possesseth all their lands goods and treasure For the first halfe of his Raigne while free from Sacriledge he was honoured of his Allies abroad loved of his subjects at home successefull in his actions and at peace as it were with God and Man but after his Sacriledge as in disfavour with both his Subjects Rebell first in Suffolke after in Lincolne Somerset Yorkeshire and the Northerne parts as also in Ireland such dearth of Bread and Corne in England the Grainery of Christendome that many dye starved which hath not been since the 40 of H. 3. And now like Saul forsaken of God he falls from one sinne to another Queen Katherine the Wise of his Bosome for 20 years must now be put away the marriage declared voyd and he desirous of sonnes rather then Pillars to bear his name marryes the Lady c Speed fol. 1040. Anne Bullen and by her had the Lady Elizabeth in the 27th of his Raigne a sonne borne dead to his great affliction the 19 of May 1536. The 28th of his Raigne she is beheaded and the next day he d Speed 1039. marryes the Lady Jane Seymore who being with Child by him she nature unwilling to give birth to the sonne of such a Father wants strength to bring forth the Father Commands e Speed 1040. her inseition and the Mother the 12 of Octob. dyes to give a short life to her sonne and the fixt of Ianuary in the 31th year the King weds the Lady Anne f Speed 1039. Ibid. of Cleve and in July after is divorced and in August following he marries the Lady Katherine Howard and in December in the 33 of his Raign she is attainted and dyes on the block and in July in the 35th of his Raigne he marryes the Lady Katherine Parre Here 's Wives enough to have peopled another Canaan Ibid. had he had Jacobs blessing but his three last are childlesse and the Children of the two first are by Statute declared g 28. H. 8. c. ●● illegitimate and not inheritable to the Crowne But himselfe growing aged and infirme hopelesse of more Children and not willing to venture the support of his Crowne and Family upon a single and so weake a propt as was his Sonne Prince Edward In the h 35. H. 8. c. 1. 35 year of his Raign he intailes the Crowne upon his Children after his death they all successively sway his Scepter and all dye Childlesse and his Family is extinct and like Herostratus his name not mentioned but with his Crimes His Crowne happily descends to the issue of his eldest Sister and a Forraign Nation like Cyrus his fill his Throne Among the many great and active men ayding H. 8. in his dissolution of Monasteries receiving great reward out of his Churchspoyle Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke was the cheife he had four wives his first the daughter of Nevile Marqueste Mounteagle who dyed without issue By His second wife he had one Daughter marryed to Stanly Lord Mountague but dyed without issue His third wife was Mary Queen Dowager of France and Sister to Henry 8th by her he had one sonne Henry and two Daughters Francis and Elianor His sonne was created Earle of Lincolne but dyed a Child his Daughter Francis marryed Gray Marquesse Dorset and after Duke of Suffolke who had one sonne Henry who dyed young Jane Gray his eldest Daughter marryed to i Speed 1111. Holl. 1099. Guilford Dudley and was with him Beheaded about 5 Mary Katharine his second Daughter was marryed to Edward Lord Seymore Eldest Sonne to the Duke of Somerset Mary his third Daughter marryed to Martin Keyes and dyed without Issue k God f. 244. Ellenor second Daughter to Charles Brandon marryed to Clifford Earle of Cumberland a gallant Family lately extinct The Queen Dowager dying Charles Brandon Marryed the Daughter and Heire of the Lord Willoughby of Eresby who inriched him with two sonnes Henry and Charles but the Duke dying about the 36. of H. 8. left his Title and Estate to his sonne Henry who enjoyed it untill 5. E. 6. then dying of the Sweating sicknesse left them to his brother l Holl. f. 1066. God f. 244 Speed 1100. Charles who only lived to be his brothers Heire and Duke of Suffolke and the same day and of the same Disease which his brother dyed and with him the Title Name and Family of Brandon The Statute of H. 8. c. 13. gives the Monastery of Sibeton in Suffolke to the Duke of Norfolke and the Chauntry of Cobham in Kent to the Lord Cobham since which time how heavy the hand of Justice hath fallen upon these Noble Families informe thy selfe from our Annalls Consider next the Duke of Somerset Protector to Edward the sixth Godwin in his Annalls saith m Godwin fo 252. He was a just and pious man a zealous Reformer of Religion a faithfull preserver of the King and Common-wealth save that with the common Error of the time his hands were deep in sacriledge In the first yeare of n Stat. 1. E. 6. c. 14. Edward the 6th he procured the Dissolution of some Chantryes Free-Chappells and Hospitalls