Articles of Religion and Homilies And whether their Cathedralls Chappell 's and Churches wherein they have sett up such Crosses to crucify their Saviour owne whose holy paynefull dayly preaching life they have never before their eyes and therefore represent his death in these dumbe Pictures because they are growne so lazy that they seldome or never preach it be not ipso facto forfeited to the King by the Statute of 13. E. 1. c. 33. against setting up of Crosses and Crucifixes and their very Bishopprickes too which they better deserve to loose for this their open insolent erecting of Crucifixes Altars Tapers and other Romish superstitions to usher in Popery then any Godly Ministers to be deprived of their livings for not wearing of a Surpluse or not bowing at the Name of Iesus or not kneeling at the Sacrament or not yeelding to any other late Innovations for which their Lordships against all Law and conscience have deprived and suspended so many of their Godly Brethren more worthy a Bishoppricke and farr more innoxious pious obedient to his Majesties and Gods Lawes then themselves XV. Whether the Prelates for disguising themselves with strangevestments disguises vizors and playe like apparell as Rochetts Copes Stoles Abbies and other massing trincketts to difference themselves from all other men and daunceing cringing and playeing the Mummers with divers new antique gestures piping Organs and Minstrelsy before their new erected Altars hopping limping and dauncing before them like the ancient Pagan Priests about their Idolatrous Altars or like Mummers about a cobloase and putting on a meere vizor of piety gravity on their faces when as they have neither of them nor any other true Christian graces in their hearts and under these disguises doeing greater hurt and mischiefes both in Church and State be not finable and to be imprisoned for the space of three monethes without buyle or mayneprise for every time they shall be thus masked and disguised by the expres words of 3. H. 8. c. 9. intituled An Act against Mummers and Delinquents within that Law And whether the best use these Lord Bishops thus disguised in their Pontificallibus can be put unto be not to make Skarrecrowes in some Cornefeild or other or to stand in the Church-porch to keepe out Dogges from their holy consecrated Temples which would be so affrighted with their mumming vestments and disguises that they never durst come neare the Corne or Church for feare of these terrible Lordly Bugbears and Skarre-crowes XVI Whether by the Statutes of 25. Ed. 1. c. 4. and 34. Ed. 1. c. 5. every Arch-Bishop and Bishop of England ought not personally to read the Statutes of Magna Carta and of the Forest with King Edward the first his Confirmations of them in their severall Cathedrall Churches twice every yeare and upon the reading thereof openly to denounce excommunicated banned and accursed all those that willingly doe or procure to be done any thing contrary to the tenour force and effect of them or either of them by word deed or counsell Whether they ought to be destrayned suspended and excommunicated for not doeing of it with farr greater justice and reason then themselves suspend and silence Ministers for not reading their Lordships Declaration for Sports on the Lords day coulored over with his Majesties Name to dishonor his Highnes and excuse themselves these two Statutes enjoyning them the one in expresse termes and inflicting these Penalties on them for neglecting it but no Law Precept or Canon prescribing Ministers the other nor yet that Booke it self Whether their Lordships both by word deed and counsell infringing Magna Carta these Statutes sundry wayes especially by their imprisoning fining excommunicating suspending and depriving men against Law and by their new invented Taxes and Talleges to pill and poll the Subjects and in procuring Iudges and others by menaces flatery or ill counsell to deny Prohibitions and habeas corpore to doe many things against the tenour and effect of these good Lawes now miserably every-where trampled vnder feet be not ipso sacto excommunicated by divers ancient excommunications fulminated against such desperate infringers and transgressors of those Acts in a most direfull manner by their Predecessors and by the tenour of these Statutes themselves and so altogether Irreguler and to be shut out of all Churches his Majesties Court and Chapple all Christian mens societie and sequestred both from their Office and Benefice till they have done publicke penance and given sufficient satisfaction to the whole Realme of England for their enormious dayly multiplyed crimes under which both Church and Kingdome groane and languish at this present FINIS * See Summa Angelica Summa Rosella tit Simonia * 2. Chron. 6 c. 7. 7. †Exod. 30. 22. c. c. 40. * Summa Angelica Rosella tit Simonia consecratio Ecclesiaelig †Lindwode de Censibus procurationibus where all this is resolved * Lindwode ibid. 23. Eli. c. 1. * 28. Ass. 19. 40. Ass. 40. 43. Ass. 30. Stamford l. 2. c. 60. Fitz. Ca. 27. 30. 36. 51. 53. 56. 58. 71. 72. 191. 218. 225. 233. 283. 359. Br. Pa. 1. 2. 4. 5. 8. 9. 12. 13. 14. 15. 19. * Petition to Q. Eliz. p. 77. * Luke 19. 47. c. 20. 1. c. 21. 37. 38. c. 22. 53. †Acts 20. 20. 21. 31. c. 19. 9. * Regist. par 2. f. 36. Ras. Prohibition 5.
the Temple was consecrated by Salomon and the Tabernacle and Altar by Moses the one a King the other a temporall Magistrate who consecrated Aaron alsó and bis sonnes and ordained them Priestes neither of them a Bishop or High-Priest therefore if any such consecrations are to be made the King and temporall Magistrats ought to make them not their Lordships as Hospinian prooves at large de Origine Obedirationum c. 1. fol. 104. where hee concluds thus Hoc autem authoritas antiquitus semper fuit Politici Magistratus and that as well among the Pagans as Christians Secondly They had a commaund from God for the one but their Lordships have none for the other Thirdly These Consecrations and purifyings were part of the Ceremoniall Law and so quite abolished by Christ Acts 10. 14. 15. Iohn 4. 20. to 26. 1. Tim. 2. 8. Col. 2. 13. to the end Heb. 8. and 9. therefore not now to be used Fourthly The Temple Tabernacle and Iewish Altars were consecrated and hallowed because Types of Christ of which our Churches Chappell 's and Church-yards are no Types Fiftly The Iewes never consecrated their Synagogues in which they had no Altars nor yet their Burying-places in lieu of which our Churches and Church-yards succeed Therefore if their Lordships will imitate them they must not consecrate Churches Chapples or Altars nor yet have any Altars in our Churches much lesse take 20. 30. or 40. p. for consecrating them as some of them have done it being Simony in the highest degree and nothing due by the Cannon Law but a dinner III. By what Law of the Land can our Bishops Arch-Deacons and their visitors in their visitations take money for procurations of those Churches which they visite not in persone or more money for procurations then will defray their dyet and horse-meat there being no more due by their owne Canon Law and that onely for the Churches they personally visite Or by what Law or Canon can they take money of Ministers or Scholemasters for shewing their letters of order or lycenses to preach or teach schoole or of Church-wardens and others for presentments There being not one penny due by Law or Canon to them much lesse by Patent or graunt from the King And whether may not his Majestie lawfully call all our Arch-Bishops Bishops Arch-Deacons and their visitors to an account for all the money and extorted Fees thus taken by them in their visitations and likewise in their Consistories for probate of wills and Letters of administrations where they take twice thrice yea 4. or 5. times as much as the Statute of 21. H. 8. c. 5. allowes them which is but 5. s. at the highest where the goods amount to 40. p. or vpwards and punish them all in Starre-Chamber for extortion as hee hath lately done many Officers in his temporall Courts since these their execrable extortions taken duering his Highnes raygne will amount at least to 100000. p. as much as the Cleargie gave to King Henry the 8. to exempt themselves from that premunire they had incurred by submitting themselves to Cardinall Woollseyds power legatine IV. Quo Iure Can any D. of the civill Law or other Chancelor Vicar generall Officiall or Commissarie to any Prelate or Arch-Deacon exercise any Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction vnder them without speciall lycense and Patent from his Majestie or his predecessors Royall it being directly contrary to the expres Statute of 37. H. 8. c. 17. which ordaines that the Kings Majestie his Heires and Successors shall ordaine constitute and depute all Bishops and Arch-Deacons Chauncellors Vicars generall Commissaries Officialls Scribes and Registers or els it gives them no power to execute any Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction and that by speciall letters Patents as appeares by 1. Eliz. c. 1. and 8. Eliz. c. 1. which Patents they all now wanting cannot exercise any such Iurisdiction and so all their proceedings are meerely voyd and their places in his Majesties disposall to whom they ought to be accountable for all the proffits they have already unjustly received in these their usurped offices V. Whether is it not now meete and convenient for his Majestie to appoint one of his Nobles or some other learned Layman to be his Vice-gerent generall for good and due ministration of Iustice to be bad in all causes and cases touching the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and for the godly Reformation and redresse of all errors heresies and abuses in our Church to take place of and sit aboue the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and all other Lord Bishops in all places according to the Statute of 31. H. 8. c. 10. yet in full force to bridle the pride curbe the insolencies redresse the usurpations Extravagances Innovations and take away the pretended Ius Divinum of our Lordly Prelates directly repugnant to this Act and to 26. H. 8. c. 1. 28. H. 8. c. 10. 31. H. 8. c. 9. 31. H. 8. c. 31. 34. and 35. H. 8. c. 17. 35. H. 8. c. 1. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. On which I would desire their Lordships to chew the cudd to abate their favour VI. By the Statute of 37. H. 8. c. 6. Every person or persons that shall cut out or maliciously cause to be cut out the tongue of any person or shall maliciously cut off or cause to be cut of the eare or eares of any his Majesties Subjects is to render trible damages to the partie and so forfeite 10. p. sterling for every such an offence to the Kings Majesty and his Heires And 5. H. 4. c. 5. makes it felony for any man maliciously to cut off any mans tongue or put out his eye Whether then our Lord Prelates and their Officers for cutting out our faithfull Ministers tongues and closing up their mouthes that they may not preach Gods word to their people and cutting of some Laymens eares and threatning to have the eares of more that they may not heare Gods word and that maliciously against the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme are not fellons within the latter of these two Acts and Malefactors in the first to render ireble damages to the parties greeved and maymed by them and to make a fine to his Majestie is a question worthy resolution VII Whether these Lordly Prelates that have stood mute for one two or three yeares space and more and never preached nor given answer to these Quaeligres refusing to put themselves to the tryall of God and their Countrey for their Episcopall pretended Ius Divinum and other their fore-mentioned usurpations and exactions upon his Majestie and his Subjects are not by the Common Law of the Land to be pressed for Mutes as other malefactors that stand mute and silent are in like cases VIII Whether if the Apostles were now in England and should preach Jesus Christ dayly in our Temples and from house to house without ceasing as they did Acts 5 42. our Lord Prelates would not presently
Administration Probat of wills c. in the Kings name and stiâ—e alone and under his Seale according to 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. A non molestando to hinder them from molesting good Ministers Preachers people and other his Majesties Subjects without just cause A moderata misericordia to moderate their illegall and excessive fines and teach these holy Fathers more mercy A writt of false imprisonment for pursevanting and imprisoning men against Law which they have no power at all to doe A writt de odia atia to examine their malicious unjust accusations imprisonments and proceedings of and against his Majesties Subjects A parco fracto for breaking the pales and hedges both of the Lawes of God and the Realme and ruling onely by their meere lusts and wills A perambulatione facienda to bound out the true limites of their Ecclesiasticall and Episcopall Iurisdiction Courts and power and to cause them to give those prisoners they have a long time shut vp and the common Law and course of Prohibitions which they have pent up of late to walke freely abroad A ponendo in Ballyam to enforce them to dischardge and bayle those they have unjustly imprisoned A praeligcipe in capite to render to God and the King those their severall rights Iurisdictions and prerogatives they have a long time unjustly detayned from them as their owne A Prohibition to hinder all their Innovations Oathes Visitations Articles extravagant proceedings fines imprisonments extortions excommunications suspentions encroachments on the Common Law and the like A Pro rata portione to give them onely that power and authority and such competent maintenance as Gods Lawes allowes them and no more A Quale jus to examine their Divine title of their Bishopprickes what right it is A Quare impedit to force them to shew good cause why they hinder Ministers from preaching to their people and prohibit those to heare Sermons abroad who have none at home A Quare incumbravit to shew cause why they have lately incombred our Churches Ministers people with so many innovations Alterations Injunctions Articles Oathes Fees Taxes Rayles Ceremonies Erronious and licentious Bookes and false doctrines and to censure them severely for doeing it A Quare non admisit to shew cause why they permit not Ministers to preach on Lords dayes afternoone on lecture dayes and other occasions or so osten as heretofore and why they resuse to admit those into the ministry or to livings who will not subscribe to their new Innovations and those Articles they secretly tender to them under hand A Quod permittat To permit the Lords table to stand quietly in the midst of the Church or Chauncell without being rayled in and remooved Altar-wise against the wall and to suffer Ministers to preach and people to heare and receive the Sacrament in such manner as they have formerly used A Querela coram Rege consilio discusiendo terminando to bring all these Quaeligres and the complaints of the Subjects against the Bishops and their Officers before the King and his Counsell to be there heard and determined by them A Quo Iure To examine by what Law they have turned Communion Tables into Altars set up Crucifixes silenced our Ministers put downe Lectures and preaching made and printed new Oathes Articles and Injunctions in their owne names c. and by what Law and in what Court they may be punished for them A Restitutione abstracti ab Ecclesia To restore our silenced Ministers and Preachers to their Chruches A salva conductus to suffer his Majesties Subjects to goe peaceably and safely about their busines and Ministers without danger of their Pursevants and Catch-poles A Securitate pacis to bind them to the peace and good behaviour that they may no longer disturbe the peace both of our Church State and people A supersedeas to stay all their Innovations and proceedings in their Consistories and visitations till they have a Patent and Commission under the Kings great Seale to keepe them in his name and right alone A writt of trespase against them and their Pursevants for rifling and breaking vp mens Howses Clossets Trunckes Chests and carrying away their Bookes and Papers violently against Law and Iustice as if they were Felons and Traytors An Action upon the Statute of vagarant Rogues and Vagabonds for wandering abroad from their owne callings Ecclesiasticall Imployments and Diocoeligse into temporall carnall worldly State affaires and following the Court like a company of flattering fawning Beggers hunting after greater preferments and revenues and being seldome resident at their Cures A writt of ventre inspiciendo To inquire after and inspect how many great Bellyes their Lordships with their Officers and servants have impregnated of late yeares and to take the full measure of their Lordships pampered bellyes which they onely feed and take care of which must needs be monstrous great when as their very tayles are so vaste as to require an whole Cathedrall Church to make a seat for them Pauls it self being litle enough to make a Lord Prelates Chayre and two or three sheires scarce able to make up one Diocoeligse or Parish bigge enough for his oversight A vi laica removenda To remoove all lay force and violence out of the Church and take away the temporall power of fining imprisoning pursevating breaking open mens houses c. from their Lordships with all other lay power and Iurisdiction now crept into the Church And A fieri facias For their Lordships to shew cause why they with their oppressing Arch-Deacons Commissaries Registers and other Officers should not forthwith be indicted and convicted in a Premunire and that Ex officio by his Majesties Atourney generall and his Iudges or deepely fined in Starre-chamber for all their severall misdemeners specified in the premises XIV Whether those bloudy Prelates who out of their desperate malice to our Saviour to evacuate the use of this his last Supper instituted purposely by himself to shew forth his death till he come 1. Cor. 11. 25. 26. Coll. 3. 1. which now these Crucifixes must doe as if this Sacrament were not sufficient to doe it no not when it is administred unlesse there be a Crucifixe then standing on or over the Altar and to reduce us backe againe to Rome now crucify him dayly in their new erected Crosses and Crucifixes both in Cathedralls private Chapples and elsewhere and that in the direct opposition to the 35. Article of our Church and the Homilie of the perill of Idolatry which they have prescribed ost times too expresly prohibiting the very making and setting up of Crucifixes and other Images in Churches or Chappell 's as unlawfull and Idolatrous Yea to his Majesties Declarations prohibiting all Innovations and backesliding unto Popery in the least degree To be guilty of perjury to God and disobedience to his Majestie in the highest degree and to be deprived of their Bishopprickes for it by the Statute of 13. Eliz. c. 12. confirming the sayd