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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 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

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

Church of England Articles of Religion Injunctions Rubricks Cannons c. Now let us take a view and see of which amongst the 50. I or my accusers and persecuters of Durham London and Yorke are most guilty and deserve more to be punished 1 Innovators in Durham contrarie to the Injunction commanding Altars to be removed and Communion Tables set up have done quite otherwise they have cast out of the Church lawfull Tables and brought in unlawfull Altars 2 They have left the language of their Mother the Church of England in using the word Altar and leaving Table 3 Instead of a decent Table they have set up a brave and sumptuous Altar with much Superstitious and unlawfull Furniture 4 Instead of a Wooden Table standing on a Frame they made a Stone Altar on a Wall or St one Pillars and consequently heavie and unmovable wheras it should be light and portable that it might be removed as occasion requireth 5 The Rubricke commands the Communion Table be placed where Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said that is in the body of the Church or Chancell but they place their Altars at the East end of their Chancells or Quires where Evening Prayer is never said nor all Morning Prayer so that the People cannot well heare nor be so well edified 6 Our Church commands that the Minister Officiating shall stand at the North-side of the Table but they set up Altars or Tables Altar-wise along by the Wall with neither side toward the North. 7 Our Lyturgie and all our Church Books use constantly the words Minister Sacraments Communion Table but our Durhamors and Yorkers say falsly that the words Altar Sacrifice Priest are indifferently used in our Lyturgie where indeed they are never used only in the Rubricks Priest is used somtimes never in the Text Minister is used alwayes in the Text and somtimes in the Rubricks 8 They preferre Altars Priests Sacrifices before Communion Tables Ministers Sacraments alleadging falsly that the Fathers of the Primitive Church did so I say the learned Divines that reformed the church of England rejected many things which some of the Fathers erroneously maintained as namely this of Altar Priest Sacrifice and our learned Bishop Morton saith the same That their libertie of Speech occasioned in Romanists that prodigall error in Doctrine 9 They removed the Font from place to place from the East end of the Church to the West end from the North to the South where lately it stood I say with the Injunction the Font must not be removed and 81 Cannon the Font shall stand in the ancient usuall place 10 They adored their brave Altar making legges to it and bowing down their bodies oftentimes and profoundly before it more then ever the Papists use to doe I say the Table is as holy as the Altar yet none make legges to the Communion Table when it stands as the Church appoints in the body of the Church In these 10. points concerning Altars judge rightly ô Bishop and High Commissioner who maintains the truth who obeyes the Laws and orders of the Church of England they that did all things wrong or I that opposed my selfe lawfully against their unlawfull Innovations yet you have condemned me only for doing my duty But did you ever punish the wrong doers mine adversaries did you ever call them in question did you amend any thing that was done amisse in the Church No verily but you have assisted cherished and rewarded them with great preferments you have joyned with them in persecuting me with all rigour and extremitie As for example Doctor Duncon one of my spightfullest persecutors hath written a Treatise call'd A Determination in defence of Altars and bowing down before Altars which is a Ceremonie not allow'd by the Church of England but forbidden by the Act of Parliament for uniformitie yet he proveth it by many foolish reasons amongst which this is a principallone the Altar is the most holything the Church of God hath therfore it must devoutly be bowed unto His words are these or to this effect Sanctitas excellentia Altaris prae reliquis omnibus in Ecclesia and againe Altare est optima praecipua sanctissima pars universae supellectilis Ecclesiasticae The sanctitie the excellencie of the Altar above all other things in the Church The Altar is the best the noblest the holyest part of all Ecclesiasticall stuffe or implements And againe thus he writeth The Latine Worthies Heroes terme it Sacrum Sanctum Venerandum Altare sacred holy venerable Altar and they make comparison saith he Inter Altare apud Christianos et Sanctum Sanctorum apud Judaeos illudq multis nominibus praeferunt Hinc etiam est quod Altaria septis et cancellis undiquaque munire et vallare consueverunt ne laicorum aliquis propius quam par est ad Altare ccederet Heroes scilicet rather Blasphemous wretches which dare compare their false Imaginary Idolized Altar set up in Churches by Antichristian Priests in the place of Gods holy Table compare it I say and in many respects preferre it also before the sanctum sanctorum of the Iewes the inward most holy Sanctuary into which the High-Priest alone might goe and that no more then once in a whole yeare read what Saint Paul writes Heb. 9. 2 3. to the 11. And as the most holy inward Sanctuary where the Arke of the Covenant the Tables of the Law the 10 Commandements c. were placed was divided from the outward Sanctuary by a second Vaile so must our Priests have a holy Chancell parted from the Church with Railes and within that Holy Holy Holy Sanctuary or Chancell where the Altar that glorious S●at must stand enclosed with Rails to keep our laiks from aproaching to neer the Sacred Altar Thus much and twenty times more writeth Bishop Neales Chaplaine Duncon in justification of Altars and Altar cringings I wonder that none of you Bishops Deanes and arch-Deacons have taken this Duncon with his determination unto examination that it might be purged with fire as many better Bookes have bin I know some of you have seene it and perused it The learned Bishop of Lincolne in his Holy Table Name and thing writes that lately there came to his hands a certaine Determination concerning Altars a Treatise well Languaged but of poore stuffe poor● God knowes hungry and ragged nasty and scab'd and swarming with loathsome vermine as by Gods helpe I shall make manifest to the world hereafter if no man else will take it in hand 11. The Church of England commands that all Monuments of Idol●try and Superstition Images pictures paintings crosses Crucifixes Candlesticks c. be defaced and abolished that no memory of them remaine in walls windowes or elsewhere These I preached against and for preaching this truth I have bin persecuted by them who instead of defacing Images they have given them new faces bravely painted and guilded instead of abolishing them they have multiplied them and renewed their memory in