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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

me for Assistance according to the Proclamation and are now busie in calling their scatter'd Forces together again Oxford Wednesday the 15th of July 1640. A. Frewen At Whitehall the 22th of July 1640. PRESENT The KING's MAJESTY Lord Arch-Bishop of Cant. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Marquis Hamilton Lord Admiral Earl of Berks Earl of Holland Earl of Traquare Lord Goring Lord Cottington Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Windebanke Sir Tho. Rowe WHereas His Majesty being present at the Board did this day hear the Complaints of the Mayor Recorder and others of the City of Oxford expressed in two Letters the one of the 15th of June to the Board the other of the 4th of June to the Earl of Berks a Member of the Board concerning their Liberties in the Presence of the Vice-Chancellor and other Doctors of the University and Mr. Allibond one of the Proctors whom the said Complaint did concern After mature Debate it was ordered That the University of Oxford according to his Majesty's Gracious Letter shall have the sole Licensing of Victualling-Houses in that City and Suburbs in like manner as the University of Cambridge hath in the Town of Cambridge And for that purpose it is ordered by His Majesty with advice of the Board That the Commission for the Peace in Oxford shall be renewed and the Vice-Chancellor only made of the Quorum Secondly for the Complaint of the Building of Cottages it is ordered That the Vice-Chancellor and the Mayor shall make several Certificates of all the new Cottages built within Twenty Years and shall distinguish which of them have been built by Privileged Persons upon College Lands and which by Townsmen and which by Privileged Persons upon the Town Wast by their leave Upon return of which Cerficates their Lordships will give such farther Order therein as shall be fit Thirdly it was order'd That his Majesty's Attorney and Sollicitor-General shall examine how the Orders set down by Mr. Justice Jones for preventing of Disputes and Controversies between the University and City of Oxford have been observed and by whom there hath been any defailer therein admitted Upon Certificate whereof their Lordships will take such Order as shall be fit for the due Observance of the same Fourthly it was ordered That according to the Statute of Winchester those to whom it belongeth ought to set Watches at the Gates of the City according to the said Statute and that the said Watch continue there without walking of the Streets or moving from their Station except it be for the suppressing of any sudden Tumult or other Malefactors whereof there is not time to give notice to the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors of the said University Lastly it is ordered That the Constable committed to Prison shall be delivered but not without paying of Fees After my hearty Commendations DR Frewen hath now born the troublesom Office of the Vice-Chancellorship of that University for the space of two whole Years which is the time now usually given to execute that Office And is certainly weight enough for any Man to bear so long In the discharge of this Office he hath through the whole course of his time carried himself with great Care Moderation and Prudence and that as well in all Businesses which relate to the Town as in those which look more immediately upon the University And among other great Services perform'd by him I cannot forbear to single out one and here publickly to give him Thanks for it even above the rest And that is the great Pains he hath taken and the singular Dexterity which he hath used in bringing the Statutes concerning the Examinations into Use and Settlement Which Statute I dare be bold to say being continued and kept up in the same Vigour to which it is now raised by his Care and Providence will be of such singular use as that for my part I cannot easily tell whether it will be greater Honour or Benefit to that University but sure I am it will be the one by the other if it be kept up to the Life as I hope it shall be Dr. Frewen's time being thus happily spent both for his own Honour and the University's Good the Care now lies upon me to name another to take up that Burthen which he lays down and to go in those steps which he hath trod out before him And I thank God for it there is such Choice of able Men in that Place for this Service that I cannot be to seek whom to name unto it But I have for the present thought upon Dr. Potter Dean of Worcester and Provost of Queen's-College as a Man whom I know to be of great Integrity and Sufficiency for that Place and of whose Care and Industry therein I am very confident To him together with the Office I do more especially recommend the Care of the Examinations in point of Learning and a most strict Watchfulness and Observance against all haunting of Taverns or any other Meetings private or publick which may any way help to suppress the base Sin of Drunkenness the Mother or the Nurse of almost all other Distempers which may bring Obloquy upon that Place These are therefore to let you know that I do hereby nominate and chuse Dr. Potter to be my Vice-Chancellor for this Year ensuing And do hereby pray and require you to allow of this my Choice and to give him all due Respect and Assistance in all things necessary for that Government and more especially in the two Particulars above-named that so Sobriety and good Manners as well as Learning may flourish in that Place And thus not doubting of your readiness and willing Obedience herein I leave both him and you to the Grace of God and rest Lambeth July 24. 1640. Your Loving Friend and Chancellor W. Cant. AND for the future I pray let not the Town so much as begin to lay the Foundation of any Cottage or any other House whatsoever in any Place but send me word of it presently that I may acquaint the Lords with it and command a stay August 3. 1640. W. Cant. UPON a late Warrant from the Deputy-Lieutenants the Mayor hath freshly pressed and set out ten new Soldiers Coat and Conduct-Money for these in their several Parishes was taxed upon all Privileged Persons not only Stationers Apothecaries that trade and use Merchandize who are more liable but upon Doctors Clayton Sanders Bambridge and all Physicians upon Mr. Crosse our Beadle on our Butlers Manciples Cooks who are our immediate Servants and deal not with any Trade All profess themselves very willing to advance His Majesty's Service especially in these base and broken Times Yet they hope by your Grace's Favour to enjoy the benefit of that Privilege which being anciently granted to our University was of late confirmed by His Majesty's Charter and is enjoy'd by the other University At my intreaty all of them in a manner have paid but their

Buyer and the Seller which said Office hath of late times been discontinued By reason whereof as we are certainly informed divers Citizens of the City of Oxon. inhabiting in or near the said Corn-Market have of their own will without any approbation of us or our Vice-Chancellour taken upon them to keep and set forth on Market days publick Bushels and Measures for the measuring of Corn and Grain and take Toll for the same without stint or Limitation sometimes a Pint sometimes a Pint and an half and sometimes a Quart for the measuring of a Bushel whereas the ancient and laudable due is but half a Wine Pint at the most for such measure And also that divers Maltsters Bakers and Brewers do keep in their Private Houses two Bushels a bigger wherewith to buy and a lesser to sell whereby the Country that bring in their Corn and Grain to the said University are deterred to furnish the said Market in regard the measure of Grain will not hold out fully with the said great Bushels We therefore for the future prevention of the said Inconveniences and for the better Government of the said Market that there be no fraud used Have given granted and confirmed and do by these presents give grant and confirm unto Christopher 〈◊〉 val Inhabitant within the said University of Oxon. Licence power and authority to keep and set forth every Market-Day in the place of the Corn-Market so many lawful Bushels and Measures by us or our Deputies to be allowed and sealed as shall be sufficient for the Measuring of the said Corn or Grain so brought to be sold in the said University and to take the due and lawful Toll for the same viz. the Quantity of half a Wine Pint at the most in every Bushel and not above To have and to hold the said Office of keeping the said Buthels and Measures and receiving the Toll as aforesaid to him the said Christopher Dival during his natural life without the lett trouble hindrance or denial of any the Inhabitants of the City and University of Oxon keeping Bushels as aforesaid or any other Person whatsoever And we do also by these presents straitly prohibit and discharge all the Inhabitants of the University or City of Oxon. from keeping and setting forth any publick Bushel or other measure and to receive any Toll or profit for the same And also all Malsters Bakers and Brewers for keeping in their Houses any more than a lawful and sealed Bushel by which they shall sell as well as buy Provided always that the said Christopher Dival demean himself honestly uprightly and indifferently in the Execution of the said Office or place as aforesaid and that he take a Corporal Oath yearly before us or our Deputy the Vice-Chancellour to that effect and purpose according to the Law and the Use Custom and Privilege of the said University And provided also that the said Christopher Dival in Consideration of the Premises do take diligent care to view the Pitching Paving and Cleansing of the Streets within the said University and to make known unto us or our Deputy by whose fault and negligence the same is left undone and also that twice every Week after the end of the said Market he cleanse and keep sweet or cause to be cleansed and kept sweet the said Corn-Market Place the Inhabitants there paying to the Scavinger as now they do for the same In witness whereof We have to these Presents put our Hand and Seal Dated the 2d day of May Anno Dom. 1634. And in the Tenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Charles of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. WHereas John Oxenbridge Master of Arts and Commoner of Magdalen Hall in Oxford both by the Testimony of Witnesses upon Oath examined and by his own Confession hath been found guilty of a strange singular and superstitious way of Dealing with his Scholars by perswading and causing some of them to subscribe as Votaries to several Articles framed by himself as he pretends for their better Government as if the Statutes of the Place he livesin and the Authority of the present Governours were not sufficient These are to signifie that I Bryan Duppa Vicechancellor of the University for the time being duly weighing the Quality of the fact and the ill consequences which might follow upon the insnaring of young and tender Consciences with the Religion of a Vow do Order and Decree that the said John Oxenbridge shall no longer be trusted with the tuition of any Scholars or suffered to read to them publickly or privately or to receive any Stipend or Sallary in that behalf And to this end I require you that are the Principal of the said Hall to dispose of those Scholars that are now under his Tuition to such other Tutors who by their discreet and peaceable Carriage shew themselves freest from Faction and not to suffer the same or any other to live under his Charge or him to receive any Salary or Stipend from them And this Censure you are presently to put in execution by taking away his Scholars and to take care that no part of it hereafter be eluded Of the performance of which you are to stand accomptable to the Chancellor or his Vicechancellor whensoever you shall be called After I had received Letters from the University of the 12. of Sept. 1633. which gave me the whole power to order and settle the Statutes which had now hung long in the hands of the Delegates though before they had put me to much pains and the writing of many Letters both to call upon and direct the Delegates yet now I set my self to it with so much the greater alacrity because the University having in Convocation put the whole business into my Hands I thought my self sure against all practice by faction or otherwise To the end therefore that I might have no more Jealousie nor Crossing in the Business I put the Review of all that had been done formerly by the Delegates into the Hands of Mr. Peter Turner of Merton College reserving to my self the last Consideration of all By this means and God's Blessing upon my endeavours I did at last not without a great deal of pains get through this work and settled the Statutes as will after appear in its proper time and place In this Year the West-side of Vniversity College was new built from the Ground John Dunn of C. C. Mr. of Arts for the supposed killing of a Boy called Humphry Dunt And John Goffe of Magd. Coll. for the supposed killing of one Boys Mr. of Arts These two were legally tryed before the under-Steward of the University Mr. Vnton Crooke the 26. of August 1634. and acquitted AFter my very hearty Commendations c. I have laid the pains of tho Vicechancellorship now two years together upon Dr. Duppa who hath discharged that place with extraordinary Care as well for the good as

animitus devoti E. Domo nostra Congregationis Mart. 20. 1635 6. Sanctitatis vestrae Colentissima Oxon. Acad. Reverendissime Cancellarie CVM in corpore Academiae sim ipse Lingua in Oratorum serie membrum illud quod primum degustaverit vestroe munificientioe fructum liceat mihi oceano rivum immensurabili gratiarum acervo peculiarem sementem vestrâ cum veniâ subministrare Dum totum se exerit Gladiator vim ponit in lacerto Qui totus venerationem exhibet genu tantum oslendit Ne succenseat paternitas vestra si Academiae Lingua praesertim in re sua vehementius assici gestiat Ideoque infinito gratiarum ponderi aliquid amplius addere plus toto afferre conetur Simulachri parte interiore nomen suum inscripsit Phidias Mihi non arrogantiae ut illi vertatur sed gratitudini si in maternoe Epistolae visceribus privati Officii tesseram concludam vestrae memor memoriae Curaeque tam longe infra vestram Celsitudinem non possum non esse gratus tametsi gratitudini peccavero Martii 20. 〈◊〉 Sanctitati vestrae humillime devotissimus Guilielm Strode Academiae tuae Orator publicus In this year the Northside of Vniversity College was finisht Upon a Difference betwixt the University and Town of Oxford touching Felons Goods Court-Leets and taking Toll a Hearing was appointed by consent of the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Chancellour of the University and of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Berks Steward of the Town aforesaid as likewise by the mutual consent of both Parties divers of the University and Town aforesaid being then present who assumed in the name of the rest that whatsoever should be ordered or directed upon this hearing should be final and binding and that either Party would for ever observe hereafter and stand to it In Witness whereof the Lords above mentioned and others then present have hereunto set their Hands Dated at Lambeth this 28th day of April in the Year of our Lord 1636. W. CANT John Oxon Bryan Duppa William Smith Bryon Twyne Barkshire John Whistler Oliver Smith John Sare Tmothy Carter S. in Christo. NON diu abhinc est quo Literas Patentes Libertates avitas confirmantes conferentes Novas accepistis Munus Regium erat Cura autem mea Nunc Statuta mitto Illa vincula secum ducunt sed accommoda ne Libertates licentiam induerent sed vobis grata Non vellet enim Academia esse sine Fraeno sed in ordinem redacta ne amplius confusione contradictionibus subditos oneraret sed antiquis valdè consona nisi ubi temporum ratio aliud exigit ne quid novi videretur pati celeberrima simul vetustissima Academia Saepius tentatum hoc opus à Viris saeculis suis celeberrimis frustra tamen Nec enim quidquam in hac re ad optatum sinem perduxerunt Sed utrum Operis ipsius difficultas an aliqua alia interventens remora obstiterit planè nescio Quo magis gratulor Academiae 〈◊〉 quibus Miseratione Divinâ datum est opus hoc ad talem saltem perfectionem redactum videre qualem ferre solent Leges Statuta quae de quovis particulari cavere nequeunt Nec Academioe tantum vobis sed mihimetipsi gratulor quod Statuta situ pulvere tantùm non sepulta in lucem redacta suis numeris titulisque distincta video Multò magis tamen quòd placuit Academiae in frequenti Convocatione ne uno refragrante rem totam ad me Curamque meam referre ut sub Incude med Statuta haec limarentur à me Confirmationem acciperent Summa haec vestra Confidentia fuit certê gratias omnibus singulis ago summas ob fidem mihi in re tantâ ac tali jam liberaliter praestitam Quâ in re certe non fidem 〈◊〉 nec spem vestram fefelli Verum enim est ausim dicere me summa cum aequitate cum aequalitate pari omnia transegisses Et potestatem à venerabili Domo mihi commissam it a moderatum ut nihil prae oculis habuerim nisi quod planè in publicum Ecclesiae Academiae bonum cederet Et hoc Deum Testor omnt affectione partialitate privato respectu praesentium temporum personarum locorum officiorum qualiumcunque sepositis Vnum superest non tacendum Transmisi vobis Statuta quae annum probationis suae apud vos complevere jam ex usu illo in nonnullis emendata pro potestate à vobis concessa misi sub sigillis meo vestroque in debitâ Juris formâ confirmata Quum ecce placuit Regi Serenissimo Musisque vestris addictissimo suam etiam superadjicere confirmationem manu propriâ sigillo magno munitam Quod Academiae honorem moribus Disciplinam Statutis reverentiam firmitatem nequit non conferre Ob quam Regiae Majestatis gratiam insignem gratias referre pares nec ipse nec vos potestis Quin Commissionarios misit suos qui ob majorem negotii dignitatem Statuta haec exhiberent Collegiorum Aularum Praefectos Statutis sic exhibitis confirmatis subscribere curarent Reliquum postea erit ut Statutis sic confirmatis Obedientia praestetur qud nihil magis poterit augere Academiae splendorem Et licet primo loco authoritas vestra Legis hasce condendas curavit ea tamen natura legis est ut semel condita promulgata non alios tantum sed condentes liget Huic Obedientiae Reliquisque virtutibus quibus polletis vos semper affines futuros spero ut tales sitis supplicibus precibus se à summo Numine impetratum non dubitat Vestris mihi amicissimis Doctori Pink Vice-Cancel lario reliquisque Doctoribus Procuratoribus nec non singulis in Domo Convocationis intra Almam Universitatem Oxon. Congregatis Datum ex AEdibus nostris Lambethanis Junii 15. 1636. Amicus vester Cancellarius W. CANT These Letters were read in Convocation upon the 22 of June 1636. wherein Mr. Secretary Cook made a weighty Speech fitting the occasion and so likewise did the Vice-Chancellour Mr. Secretary's Speech follow 's in haec verba Reverend Vice-Chancellour Doctors and Masters YOU have heard with due respect and attention the Letters brought by us to his Sacred Majesty you have also heard in Conformity thereunto other Letters sent from your most Reverend Chancellour signifying his Majesty's Grace and Goodness in recommending unto you this Volume of Statutes which we now deliver and you are to receive as the Rules by which you must be governed hereafter You have also seen and heard the Confirmation and Establishment of these Statutes First by his Majesties Royal Signature and under the great Seal of his Kingdom And respectively under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Arch-Bishop both as Primate and Metropolitan of England and as most worthy

habentium ac non habentium longe munificentissimus Siste manum siste ne premat Te virtus nimia totum enim Te figis atque insumis emolumento nostro Nullus 〈◊〉 Filius sic Matrem sugendo exhausit ac Te Patrem filia Academia 〈◊〉 nunc dicas quae suit Mater cum eam ex ruinis regenitam lautiori Fronte perpoliveris Ore novo mox loqui docueris Nos itaque licet nondum Sermone Arabico Donum enim hoc vestrum est certe gentium omni genere pectore gratias conceptissime recumulamus semperque retinebimus sub linguis omnibus unam animi devotissimi Effigiem E Dome nostrae Congregat ionis Aug. 10 1636. Sanctitatis vestrae humillima Cultrix Oxon. Acad. THis year his Majesty and the Queen invited themselves to me to Oxford and brought with them Charles Prince Elector Palatine and his Brother Prince Rupert being both then in England They came into Oxford at the end of this Summer's Progress on Munday August 29. The Vice-Chancellour made a very good Speech unto them where my self and the University met them which was a mile before they entred the Town That Speech ended they passed along by St. John's where Mr. Tho. Atkinson made another Speech unto them very brief and very much approved of by his Majesty afterwards to me Within Christ-Church Gate Mr. William Strode the University Orator entertained them with another Speech which was well approved Thence the King accompanied his Queen to her Lodging and instantly returned and went with all the Lords to the Cathedral There after his Private Devotions ended at the West Door Dr. Morris one of the Prebendaries entertained him with another short Speech which was well liked And thence hisMajesty proceeded into the Quire and heard Service After Supper they were entertained with a Play at Christ-Church which was very well penn'd but yet did not take the Court so well The next day being Tuesday the King came to Service soon after 8 in the Morning It was at Christ-Church and Mr. Thomas Brown being then Proctor made an excellent Sermon which gave great Content The Sermon ended The Prince Elector and his Brother Prince Rupert attended by many of the Lords came to the Convocation-House where the Place was full of University-Men all in their Forms and Habits very orderly And the two Princes with divers Lords were pleased to be made Masters of Art and the two Princes Names were by his Majesty's leave entred in St. John's College to do that House that Honour for my sake In Convocation the Vice-Chancellour having first placed the Princes and briefly exprest the cause of that Convocation I made a short Speech which here follows in haec verba Florentes Academici hoc tempore florentissimi quibus Caroli Regis Pientissimi Prudentissimi simulque Mariae 〈◊〉 Heroinae Consortis suae charissimae praesentiâ frui datur Nec eâ solum sed praesentiâ eximiae spei Principum Nepotum M. Jacobi Sacratissimoe Memoriae Monarchae de Academia Literatisque omnibus optimè meriti Principes hi sunt hoc Titulo suo omni honoris genere dignissimi Vos eos omni quo 〈◊〉 prosequimini Quid expectatis ultrà Academici An ut ego Oraetorio in hoc Senatu fungar munere At illud memoria curis simul annis fracta lingua per se inculta desuetudine loquendi 〈◊〉 praesens 〈◊〉 quod ad alia festinat omnino Prohibent Nec Principes hi Preceresve illud à me expectant Cui aliud satis jam incumbit negotium qui illis 〈◊〉 in omnibus sum pollicitus Breviter itaq quod ad vos attinet Principes non Ortu magis quàm Virtutibus illustres Non expectat à vobis Academia ut possitis totam Entis prosunditatem exhaurire ut sic sitis Artium Magistri sed liceat dicere Freta aetatis vestrae nondum transiistis AEstus jam urgent juveniles Hos discite superare fluctus procellas has in auras redigere omnium insimul Artium Magistrieritis quid ni fortunoe Atque utinam nostrae potestatis esset coecoe illi Deoe oculos dare quibus virtutes vestras cerneret agnosceret jura Et vos etiam Proceres Principum horum Cultores convocata hac Academia exultat videre non solum conferre gradus suos in vos gestit quos omni honoris cultu veneratur sed potiùs eos conferendo honorem summum gradibus suis quaerit quod placeat Principibus hisce vobisq Pannis suis nam 〈◊〉 in purpura est inaugurari Floreat sic soepius Academia Nativis simul Adoptivis Filiis gaudeat Egregie Vice Cancellarie ad Creationem Admissionem simul pro Officio tuo descende AFter this the Vice-Chancellour proceeded made another short Speech and after Creation and Admission of the Princes and and other Honourable Persons ended the Convocation That finisht they all returned to Christ-Church to attend upon the King the Princes having formerly in the Morning seen some of the fair Colleges Then the Queen being not ready the King with the Princes and the Nobles my self also waiting upon him went to the Library where the King viewed the New Buildings and the Books and was entertained with a very neat Speech made by the Son of the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery then Lord Chamberlain Then word was brought up that the Queen was come So the King went into the 〈◊〉 to her and they went away to St. John's to dinner the Princes and Nobles attending them When they were come to St. John's they first viewed the New-Building and that done I attended them up the Library Stairs where so soon as they began to ascend the Musick began and they had a fine short Song fitted for them as they ascended the Stairs In the Library they were Welcomed to the College with a short Speech made by one of the Fellows And Dinner being ready they passed from the old into the new Library built by my self where the King the Queen and the Prince Elector dined at one Table which stood cross at the upper end And Prince Rupert with all the Lords and Ladies present which were very many dined at a long Table in the same Room All other several Tables to the number of 13 besides these two were disposed in several Chambers of the College and had several Men appointed to attend them and I thank God I had that happiness that all things were in very good order and that no man went out at the Gates Courtier or other but content which was a Happiness quite beyond Expectation When Dinner was ended I attended the King and the Queen together with the Nobles into several withdrawing Chambers where they entertained themselves for the space of an hour And in the mean time I caused the Windows of the Hall to be shut the Candles lighted and all things made ready for the Play

would have suffered him to take that place upon him so contrary to the command of Christ and the Practice of the Apostles if it had been so indeed Or would they have suffer'd their Preachers which then attended their Commissioners at London not only to meddle with but to preach so much temporal Stuff as little belonged to the Purity of the Gospel had they been of this Lord's Opinion Surely I cannot think it But let the Bishops do but half so much yea though they be commanded to do that which these Men assume to themselves and 't is a venture but it shall prove Treason against the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom and an endeavouring to bring in an Arbitrary Government Well! I 'll tell you a Tale. There 's a Minister at this day in London of great Note among the Faction well esteem'd by this Lord and others of this Outcry against the Bishops Votes in Parliament and their meddling in Civil Affairs this Man I 'll spare his Name being pressed by a Friend of his how he came to be so eager against the Church of which and her Government he had ever heretofore been an Upholder and had Subscribed unto it made this Answer Thou art a Fool thou knowest not what it is to be the Head of a Party This Man is one of the great Masters of the present Reformation and do you not think it far more inconsistent with his Ministerial Function to be in the Head of a turbulent Faction to say the least of them than for a Bishop to meddle in Civil Affairs Yet such is the Religion of our Times But 't is no matter for all this his Lordship hath yet more to say against the Ambition of the Prelates For Their Ambition and intermeddling with Secular Affairs and State Business hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World and this no Man can deny that is versed in History This is the same over and over again saving that the Expression contains in it a vast Untruth For they that are versed in History must needs say 't is a loud one that Bishops meddling in Temporal Affairs hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World What a happiness hath this Lord that his pale Meagerness cannot blush at such thing as this Yea but he will prove it here at home in this Kingdom For says he We need not go out of our own Kingdom for Examples of their Insolency and Cruelty When they had a dependency upon the Pope and any footing thereby out of the Land there were never any that carryed themselves with so much Scorn and Insolency towards the Princes of this Kingdom as they have done Two of them the Bishop that last spake hath named but instances of many more may be given whereof there would be no end 'T is true indeed we need not go out of our own Kingdom for Examples of their Insolency and Cruelty For in so many Ages 't is no wonder in any Kingdom to find some bad Examples be it of Insolency Cruelty or what you will Especially in the midst of so much Prosperity as accompanied Clergy-Men in those times But 't is true too that there are far more Examples of their Piety and Charity would this Lord be pleased to remember the one with the other As for their bad Examples his Lordship gives a Reason why not all but some of them carryed themselves with so much Scorn and Insolency towards their Princes even with almost as much as this Lord and his Faction carry themselves at this day towards their mild and gracious King And the Reason is a true one it was their dependency upon the Pope and their footing which thereby they had to subsist out of the Land which may and I hope will be a sufficient warning to his Majesty and his Successours never to let in again a foreign Supream Power into any of his Dominions For 't is to have one State within yet not dependent upon the other which can never be with Safety or Quiet in any Kingdom And I would have the World consider a little with what Insolency and perhaps Disallegiance this Lord and his Round-head Crew would use their Kings if they had but half so strong a foreign dependance as the Bishops then had that dare use the most gracious of Kings as they do this present day Two of these Insolent ones this Lord says the Bishop that last spake named Lincoln stands in the Margin by which it appears that Dr. John Williams then Bishop of Lincoln and since Arch-Bishop of York was the Man that named two but because this Lord names them not I know not who they are and therefore can say nothing for or against them but leave them to that Lord which censured them As for that which follows that the instances of many more may be given whereof there would be no end This is a piece of this Lord 's loud Rhetorick which can have no Truth in it especially relating as it doth to this Kingdom only But whereas this Lord said immediately before that their meddling in State business hath been the cause of shedding more Christian Blood than any thing else in the Christian World and in the very next words falls upon the proof of it in this Kingdom I must put him in mind that one Parliament in England namely that which most irreligiously and trayterously deposed Richard II. was the cause of the effusion of more Christian Blood amongst us than all the Bishops that ever were in this Kingdom For that base and unjust Parliament was the cause of all the Civil Wars those Bloody Wars which began in the Heir's time after the Usurpation of Henry IV. and ceased not till there were slain of the Royal Blood and of Nobles and the common People a Numberless Number And I heartily beg it of God that no disloyal Parliament may ever bring this Kingdom into the like distress For our Neighbours are far stronger now than they were then and what desolation it might bring upon us God in Heaven knows So this Lord may see if he will what a Parliament it self being misgoverned may do But will his Lordship think it Reason to condemn all Parliaments because this and some few more have done what they should not do as he here deals by Bishops Sure he would not But having done with the Bishops dependency on the Pope he goes on and tells us farther that Although the Pope be cast off yet now there is another Inconvenience no less prejudicial to the Kingdom by their sitting in this House and that is they have such an absolute dependency upon the King that they sit not there as free Men. I am heartily sorry to see this Lord thus far transported The Pope is indeed cast off from domineering over King Church and State But I am sorry to hear it from this Lord that this other