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A43633	Scandalum magnatum, or, The great trial at Chelmnesford assizes held March 6, for the county of Essex, betwixt Henry, Bishop of London, plaintiff, and Edm. Hickeringill rector of the rectory of All-Saints in Colchester, defendant, faithfully related : together with the nature of the writ call'd supplicavit ... granted against Mr. Hickeringill ... as also the articles sworn against him, by six practors of doctors-common ... Published to prevent false reports.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1825; ESTC R32967	125,748	116

not well how to avoid it And therefore Powel being first ask'd the Question and the rest of them after him one after another was at a stand and knew not what to say Let 's have no Pumping no Pumping I beseech you good Mr. Powel answer directly said the Defendant Is it not an ill thing for a Minister to be Non-Resident ever since before Mid-Summer last Yes replyed he and they there was no help for it Well then Has not Mr. Harris been non-Resident and deserted his Flock ever since Mid-summer last Yes replyed Mr. Powel and the rest of them and yet before they knew no ill thing But says Mr. Powel there has been some Differences and Contentions about the Parishes of St. Buttolphs and St. Leonard's in Colchester which the Bishop gave to Mr. Harris by Sequestration But replyed the Defendant What is that to Fingringhoe to which Vicaridge Harris is Instituted and Inducted to your knowledg for you were present at his Induction and so was Thompson and Shelton the other Witnesses which all of them confest for they could not avoid it by any Evasion or Equivocation only said there was no Vicarage-House at Fingringhoe to whom the Defendant retorted That it might be a good excuse for not residing upon his Vicarage if he resided in any other House of the Parish but what is that to his leaving his Flock at the distance of fourty Miles namely at London and taking upon him another Cure and Charge as Curate under Mr. Grove and leaving none to supply the place for three quarters of a Year nor four Sermons from Mid-summer to Michaelmas and those preach'd by a quondam Logg-river one Mr. Sills Rector of Dounyland a good Rectory but the Man tho a Rector never yet could nor ever was able so much as to read his Accidence yet he that knows not how to supply his own Cure as he ought must for cheapness mumble to boot a little for this prime and single Episcopal-Witness good doings the while This 't is to be in Favour with a Prelate and this 't is to incur the Displeasure of a Prelate and tell bold Truths behold the difference The Defendant silenc'd stigmatiz'd bely'd and slander'd vilify'd as a Common-Varlet and Common-Barretor paid off with Indictments Informations Actions and Accusations in Spiritual Court in Temporal Courts Henry Bishop of London Promoter Suspensions Supplicavits Excommunications Fines outragious Verdicts Plots and Complots Conspiracies and Horrid Plots to ruine him and his Family by enriching the Rich Bishop and all for what For a little Naked-Truth Sir George Jefferies brought the Books and pointed with his Index to the two last Lines of the Black Non-Conformist namely A Bishop sayest Thou lyest Him Cornet call Of the Black-Regiment that Jayles us all The Welsh-man looking merrily at the Defendant and glaring in his Face For Sir George insisted more to the Jury concerning the Defendant's Books and his writing and speaking against Lordly Prelacy than upon the Declaration producing two Letters writ by the Defendant to the Bishop wherein he complain'd to the Bishop how hardly he was used I wish they would Print those Letters as well as produce them to the Jury as if it were a Sin to groan when a Man is pinch'd and tormented First they make us sigh and then accuse us for sighing to ease our Hearts But first Sir George insisted upon the Title and Superscription of those Letters To the Bishop of London which was descanted upon notably by that Critick in Law Sir George Jefferies namely this To HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON These Do you see Gentlemen quoth Sir George Henry Lord Bishop no more I Sir quoth he to the Defendant It might have become you to have styl'd him Reverend Father in God you have not said To the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop c. That quoth Sir George is omitted and seems to be an Aggravation at least if not another Scandalum Magnatum nothing but plain Henry Lord Bishop A Gentleman of a noble Extract and Pedigree I hope the Jury will take notice of this Omission here is no Reverend Father in God That is replyed the Defendant the very Naked-Truth on 't you say right Sir George there is no Reverend Father in God in the case who denies it But said the Defendant I am not innur'd nor desire to be innur'd to Court-Complements I think to say Henry Lord Bishop is pretty fair for him and pretty fair from me Sir George makes little or nothing of a Lordship belike whereas the Bishop of London's Grand-Father William Compton liv'd the greatest part of his Life without the Title of Lordship For indeed William Compton this Bishop's Grand-Father was the first of the Compton's that ever was an Earl since Adam And King James created him Earl of Northampton I could tell the Reader how and for what too Anno Dom. 1618. There are thousands alive that remember the Business But no doubt but the Bishop did come of a noble Extract But if Sir George had not taken notice of it the noble Family would have been never the worse for when Men are always dung in the Teeth with the same and the same Bastinado Self-Preservation makes them stand upon their Guard and perhaps take the length on 't and as it happens this Pedigree that Sir George did so bluster with is not so long neither not so long as a Welsh-Pedigree ap Lewis ap George ap Morgan ap Taphee ap Lloyd is a Pedigree more than twice so long But I should have wondred if the Welsh-man on this occasion too you 'll say had not vapour'd with his Extract and Pedigree But to the Business Here 's no Reverend Father in God 'T is readily granted nor is the Omission a Sin of Omission 't is no Crime For a younger Brother to be a Lord that 's pretty fair and more honour than his Grand-Father arriv'd unto at his Years For a Man that was but the other day a Cornet in Captain Compton's Troop in the Earl of Oxford's Regiment I think by the King's Grace to be made a Prelate and a Lord Bishop there 's no reason in the World that he or any Body else should take it so in disdain to be called only Lord Bishop since that old Complement of Popish-Times namely Reverend Father in God was never given 'till Priests grew abominably and loathsomely Proud and Ambitious when Pride and Prelacy came in Fashion The Defendant in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Arch-Bishop to avoid offence in his Book called the Black-Non-Conformist does give that old Father The Stile namely the Stile that Sir George does so want and does so stare about to the Jury to find it missing To the Reverend Father in God William c. But the Bishop of London is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 newly come to the Faith as being young in Years and a Cornet of Horse within the memory of Youth and unmarried and much a younger Brother to the

opened It is not to be done now in England If we may judg at the Minds of the People more by the last Parliaments than the last Addresses which I like well enough of But were there not as many and as numerous Subscriptions to that Usurper Richard Protector nay more zealous Expressions and Promises But when he needed them not a Man stood by him I know the case is vastly different but not different in zealous Promises and Protestations But as little Rivulets alter their Motions to follow the great Tyde and the Stars obey the motion generally of the Primum Mobile though they may have some little excentrick motions of their own For whatever the generality of this Nation does affect or disaffect it shall become a Law it is naked Truth Oh! but we have a Law and Act of Vniformity and must not Laws be put in Execution I answer No not with partiality but either hand all or save all either punish all Nonconformists or none make not Fish of one and Flesh of another say In your Conscience and Honour is there any Conscience or Honour in this Partiality Hang it It breeds ill Blood Shall a Non-conformist-Bishop send Men to the Devil for Non-conformity Hey-day where live we Besides Cruelty Severity and Persecution does ill become a Protestant Bishop the Servant of the Lord should not strive but with meekness instructing not Jayling nor Cursing those that oppose mark that themselves Should they indeed Curse them and Jayl them and send them to the Devil by Excommunication and tossing them to the Magistrate as nimbly as if they were but Tennisballs and all this Racket about a Moot-case or Mony matter by Significavits in order to Jayl them And then the nimble Magistrate tosses them to the Bishop again As the Justices of Middlesex admonish or desire you in their late printed Declaration to deliver Men to Satan by Excommunication that so also and likewise they may not be capable of suing for their lawful Debts nor be Competent Witnesses nor Jury-men nor Testators This is no Persecution to speak of but except death what is worse Nay 't is worse than Death to be thus us'd for a Bawble Time was when I writ Curse ye Meroz that I was just of those Mens scandling And in this particular had no more wit than Sir George Jefferies who then admir'd my folly for such it was as all Men admire those things that sit their own size their pitch and their attainment their honour and their scantling But I confess my Lord at that time I knew no better How does Interest blind the Eyes of the wisest 'till I consider'd the Golden Rule of our Saviour in this case of doing as we would be done unto And how loth we should be that the rigour of Law should be exacted for our Non-conformity or Premunires And that Empson and Dudley were hang'd for being so rigerous against the general sence in exacting the penalty of Statutes in force too Some Justices now admire this Policy Hullou Let them go on They got the Law in their own Hand Time was when I look'd upon all Non-conformity to proceed from Humour Frowardness Self-conceit or Design rather than from tenderness of Conscience the mock of Atheists that have none until I had impartially weighed their Arguments which I could never as yet meet with any Man that was able to answer if you can you understand more than I. No not that Argument of King Charles the First mentioned just before the last Verses of my Black Nonconformist concerning Conscience God's Throne And therefore refrain Do not like the Giants attempt to scale Heaven the Babel is in vain to boot though Pope and Devil High-Commission or Inquisition should confederate against Conscience God's Throne it is hard for such Persecuting Saul's to kick against the Pricks Besides the great Friend of Persecutors innuendo the aforesaid Devil usually leaves them as he does Witches when he had brought them to the Gallows I do not desire you should in a sowr humour turn the Cordial Wine in this Letter to Vinegar and cavil at it as formerly and make it my Accuser but do if you have the boldness for I will justify it to a Tittle and that there is no Scandalum Magnatum in it to any but the Wicked who have most need on 't and therefore much good may it do them There is a Divine Nemesis a Divine Vengeance the Heathens could say that pursues bloody and cruel Men they shall not live out half their days like that Heathen Adonibezeck I shall live to hear them say As I have done so God hath required me And my Lord you have not such Enemies under Heaven in time you will believe me as these Ecclesiastical Fellows that egg you on and hearten you on to stalk as their Promoter for their own little and baser Ends and Gain in their dear-bought Offices and Places to these harsh Methods so below the dignity of a Bishop saying What will become of Discipline what of the Church Fie on them What care they for Discipline that as well as they love Mony coine but little out of Whores and Rogues Swearers Drunkards Tories and Blasphemers except of a poor Whore now and then but Mony will redeem or buy off a white Sheet But if there be a consciencious Non-conformist they coin him presently or if he will not down with his Dust and ready Darby then curse him and Jayl him Brave doings and yet what Wretches in England are greater contemners of the King's Laws than they or greater Oppressors And how can you answer it to talk of Discipline and Excommunication and be a Promoter and yet not deliver these Fellows to the Devil amongst other vile Sinners What has the House of Prayer to do with a Den of Thieves For shame for shame for shame of the World and speech of People abhominate this Partiality or pretend to no Discipline at all The very Heathen Romans did so hate Partiality that Brutus sacrificed his Son to Justice And shall a Christian nay a Protestant nay a Protestant Bishop be guilty of Partiality and draw his two-edged Sword against some Dissenters and some Non-con's and some that marry without Blanck-Licences or Banes and yet connive at others nay at the impudent contempt of the King's Laws in Extortions and Oppressions and illegal Fees of his own Servants and Officers just in his Eye and under his Nose It admits no Answer no Cavil to evade it A Premunire is not harsh for harsh Men and partial and unjust cruel Men. Augustus busy to reform the State blusht when a Peasant bid him go home and reform his own House first his Wife and Daughters being the veryest Whores in Rome Whose Vices what Sins what Oppressions does your Discipline-mongers correct no not their own good doings the while when Vice corrects Sin nay it does not that neither if there be Friendship Tory-ship Tantivee-ship or Mony

depending in the King's-Bench Hah where Sir John Shaw had no Authority to give or take an Oath Hah in private Hah against the Laws of the Land Hah and made them ready against the Bishop came down to set the Bishop to Roil Mr. Hickeringill whom he knew would not tamely suffer himself and his Reputation to be illegally and publickly brought in question by any Bishop in Christendom Hah This was the Sum and Substance of those two Letters which the Defendant writ to the said Bishop that were never answered but only as Men are when they are prest to Death with more Weight more Weight The Defendant in vain opposed the reading of his private Letters saying it was not genteel civil nor manly to produce such Evidence and nothing to the present Declaration and that tho there was nothing in them but what was modest and true yet private Letters are and ought to be sacred in their Privacy and that Si liceat parvis componere magna King Charles 1. If it be lawful to compare great with small did justly upbraid the Parliament with the Incivility of publishing his private Letters taken at Naseby tho there was nothing in them nor in this Defendants Letters for which any Man need blush or be blam'd But this is the Ecclesiastical-Candor any Method to expose the Defendant no Vengeance is great enough no Fine or Verdict outragious enough to crush one that dares as the Defendant has discover the Mystery of Iniquity Ecclesiastical in Extortions illegal Fees Oppressions and Courts kept in dessance of the Statutes of this Realm Excommunications Absolutions Prophanations Procurations Visitations namely Vexations c. There 's a Villain indeed Plague him All Hands aloft all 's at Stake down goes if you do not help This Fellow is another Germana illa Bestia quae non curat Aurum a German Beast that regards not Preferment as the Cardinal told the Pope when he chid him because he could not by tampering with Luther and the proffer of Gold and a Cardinal's Cap prevail with him nor take him off from writing and preaching against the Abominations and Corruptions of the Church and Church-men Church and Church-men Ay set but the Clergy upon a Man and you need not set any Dogs upon him to worry him Church and Church-men Ha! do you know who you speak against what Find fault with Oppressions and Extortions of Ecclesiastical-Courts with Apparitors Registers Commissaries and all that Fry of Lay-Elders Church and Church-men Ha! Do you speak against Prelacy Say that Word again say it again before Witness Sirrah Villain Rogue How dare you at this time of day speak Scripture dangerous Scripture Scripture against Statute-Law 2 Rich. 2. 5. which Statute makes a Prelate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 8. 9. some great One and you Sirra would have him as your Saviour and the Gospel would have him as lowly as Christ or his Apostles you Sirra do you speak Scripture in a Court of Law Ha! what do you produce a Bible instead of a Breviate Do you plead Gospel against Law and Christ and his Apostles in defiance of Rich. 2 An Aggravation an Aggravation as Sir Francis Withins said the Defendant justifies in a Plea of Non-Culp this is rich indeed These Errors will be committed when you suffer Parsons to be Pleaders and plead their own Cause and understand not the Punctilio's and Methods of nice-pleading very fine What suffer Scripture to be quoted instead of Law and Christ and his Apostles instead of Cook and Littleton for Shame And yet the Defendant ignorant Man did not understand the mischief of urging a little Scripture in this Cause betwixt two Church-men and already there decided namely that of Christ St. Paul and St. Peter against all Prelacy Pride Lordliness and Dominion one Brother over another not Lording it over God's Heritage But Christ and St. Paul and St. Peter were poor Men Silver and Gold had they none they were meek humble and lowly and when they were reviled reviled not again nor brought an Action of Scandalum Magnat nor did Fee a pack of Lawyers to mouth it upon an old Statute made in the time of Popish Prelacy and when Antichrist was Rampant and when the Devil raigned a time as the Defendant told the Court when the Prelates did all and all ill a time when the Prelates were grand Rebels as ever were in England For then in the Raign of Rich. 2. was this Statute made when the Clergy were as very Rebels as Wall the Priest Wat. Tyler or any of that wicked Crew 'T is true Henry Spencer Bishop of Norwich was General for the King both in England and France did not Armour disgrace Bishop Henry's Lawn-Sleeves The Bishop of Ely was Lord Chancellor Countez Two Tho. Arundel Bishop of Hereford Countez Three Lord Treasurer Nicholas Abbot of Waltham Lord Privy-Seal Four William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Five Alexander Arch-Bishop of York Countez Six William Bishop of Winchester Seven And Thomas Bishop of Exeter Eight Good Men and True that 's a Lye a Pack of damnable Villains and Rebells as ever were in England for taking upon them by Commission to rule the King and Kingdom and so the Judges concluded that Commission of thirteen Persons to rule the King and Kingdom of which eight were Prelates with five Lay-men for fashion-sake for the Prelates could out-vote them when they list a Devilish Rebellion abominable Prelates in Rich. 2d's time when the Statute of Scandalum Magnatum was made and struck at it has been by the last Parliament at Westminster and others as a Statute obsolete or in the Judgment of the Wisdom of the Nation the Honourable House of Commons to be repealed being made in the wicked time aforesaid when the Devil danc'd and Simon Magus vaunted himself to be one of the Magnat some Great One and yet also the Successor of Simon Peter who was a poor Fisher-man and a Fisher of Men not a Pick-Pocket nor a Promoter of Law-Suits nor did he mend his Market by turning Church-man as some have done too well known but to his dying day was poor and pennyless having his Faith and Hope in another World and being a Disciple of him whose Kingdom is not of this World All this and more the Defendant told the Court and the Men that were sworn for to give the Judge his due he gave the Defendant sufficient leave and leisure for three hours to defend himself against the crafty Suggestions and dirty Language thrown at him on purpose to vilify him with Dirt which the Counsel had rak'd up together and in two set-Speeches made on purpose fetch'd it far and not at all to the purpose or to the matter in hand villifying him with the Miseries and Vexations with which they had loaded him in the Barretry and Supplicavit as if his Sufferings were his only Crime But something they must say for their Guinies and for their Lord Prelate and in hopes of Preferment and his