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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66733	The law of laws, or, The excellencie of the civil law above all humane laws whatsoever by Sir Robert Wiseman ... ; together with a discourse concerning the oath ex officio and canonical purgation.	Wiseman, Robert, Sir, 1613-1684.; Lake, Edward, Sir, 1596 or 7-1674.	1664 (1664)	Wing W3113A; ESTC R33680	273,497	368

on that subject entituled Tenenda non tollenda or the necessity of preserving Tenures in capite c. and if it should be thought fit still to continue the abolition of Wardships c. whether the Tenures notwithstanding should be continued and whether a fitter retribution to His Majesty should be made then by Excise of Ale c. I need say no more of this but let Mr. Philipps book plead for it And also if it shall be thought fitting Rates to be set upon some Commodities for the sale of them that upon many more commodities then are yet the known rate and value of what they should be sold for should by indifferent and knowing men be set down considering the great hurt done by selling many commodities at unreasonable rates upon some accidental straits in regard of some accidents of time place or persons and many imposing upon the unskilful and unwary buyer very often as is notorious demanding more the double the price they will take In forreign parts both upon books and other commodities fitting rates are by Authority set down whereby the seller may have a just gain and the buyer not be over-reached Certum quid is the great satisfaction to the Subjects as in Fees certain in all Courts so at least in many commodities Also if it be thought fit that in point of dignity and precedency About dignity and precedency a fixt certain plain rule might be set down which probably would take away much emulation and grudging and quarrels oftentimes amongst many if it were clearly once determined And amongst others if it were so determined who should have precedency the eldest son of him whose father was a Knight and the first Knight of the Family or the eldest son of him whose father was but an Esquire but the eldest son of a Knight Senior to the Knight father of the former or whose Grandfather or direct Ancestor from whom he is lineally descended and is eldest son and heir was a Knight the second conceiving it is his right in regard he is the direct descendant and heir to the Senior Knight And that if it shall be thought fitting no person that bore Arms against the late King or His Majesty that now is or had any pretended Commission or authority so to do shall own the Title of General Lieutenant General Major General Commissary General Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Major Captain Lieutenant Cornet Ensign or any other Title by reason of any such pretended Commission or Authority nor any person shall so call them by any such Title under pain of a great Mulct toties quoties to be inflicted both upon the person that owns such Title and on the person that gives it or so calls them Nemo ex delicto consequitur beneficium and so bad a cause ought not in any implicite manner to be approved and rightly considered 't is an infamy to the parties to be called so And also Against the Act of limitation of actions in some cases if it be thought fitting that in regard that many who took the Kings part in the late wars could not have their right of suing for their own just due debts owing them and contracted either before the wars or in the time of the wars in the Courts of Justice then in being so that six years were elapsed according to that Act of 21 Jacobi 16. touching limitation of Actions and so they are thereby excluded to their great impoverishment There should be an abrogation or suspension of that Act so as to give remedy in this case that the spoiled may have reparation or retribution of justice if not reward for his Loyalty And also Against multiplicity of Statutes upon one and the same subject if it be thought fit that where Laws are doubtfully penned they may be explained and where there are multiplicity of several Statutes touching the same subject some repealing part of a statute some enlarging and altering so that the true meaning of the Statute becomes difficult and perplexed that in such cases all the said Statutes several so concerning the same subject may be repealed and one plain and clear Statute thereof to be made as namely these several Statutes in the Reigns of King Edward 6. Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles 1. touching the prohibition of eating Flesh in Lent and other Fish-dayes and concerning Fasting-dayes may be so repealed and made void and one Statute made clearly and plainly to comprehend all that is necessary upon that subject Touching Ecclesiastical Persons Courts and Causes SOme have wished if it were thought fit The Clergies Proctors in the House of Commons that now the Lords Spiritual the Bishops being restored to their right in the Lords House that the Clergy should have their Proctors to sit in the House of Commons if they desired it representing the body of the Clergy as they used to do till about Henry the sixths time or not long before as it was then used since which time it hath been disused Some have affirmed that a Clergy-man of competent temporal estate having in King James's time been chosen Burgesse for a Corporation was not suffered to sit there nor a Clergy-man to say Prayers there Nor will some yield they can vote to chuse a Parliament-man either in County or borough so little of representation have they and yet when in Convocation they give the King Subsidies their grant must be confirmed by Act of Parliament Anciently such care was taken that Bishops should be present in Parliament that in their absence their Chancellors were summoned to sit there Also if it be thought fit About augmentation of Vicaridges that whereas before the dissolution of Monasteries the Bishops had power to augment poor Vicaridges out of the Tithes of Impropriations so they are now commonly called though the true name is Appropriations the Tithes having been appropriated to some Monastery or Religious house or other before the dissolution and after that falling into Lay-mens hands who held them improperly living by the Altar and doing nothing there got the Nick-name of Impropriators and Impropriations which now holds good such is the tyranny of Custom in this and many other cases Or if there were no Vicaridge endowed the Bishops might endow one nay and go so far as to leave to the Appropriator which then was that Religious house to which it was appropriated who then thought themselves as worthy to be kindly used as a man would think our Lay-Impropriators can do now not much more then a 50. part of the Tithes or thereabout It seems hard that the Lay-Impropriator should have a matter of 200. or 300 l. per annum Against Mensals or more and the poor Vicar a matter of 20. marks or 20. Pounds or thereabout and hardest in Mensals that is as it was usual when a Religious house could procure from the Patron the right of Presentation to some Living near their Monastery whither one of their

in a Statute since repealed by Queen Mary a great number of particular causes of Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical are there by the way rehearsed that Ordinaries and other Ecclesiastical Judges might and did then put in execution So 1 Mar. c. 3. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz c. 23 9. That Perjury or Subornation in a Court Ecclesiastical shall and may be punished by such usual and ordinary Laws as heretofore have been and yet are used and frequented in the said Ecclesiastical Courts Which proveth the usual practice of Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical hitherto used without any special assent to be lawful So 13 Eliz. c. 4. c. 10. and many more in the same Queens time and King James and King Charles the First that blessed King and Martyr I say many are the Laws that have been made for the strengthning of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and the more effectual execution of it and some of these Laws were enlarged altered and explained But never was there any Law Custom or Act of Parliament that required a several Royal assent to the executing of every particular Canon Many are the reasons which Dr. Cosens gives in the first Chapter of his Apology against that particular Assent wherein he shews his great candor and ingenuity and desire to give abundant satisfaction to all Opponents though never so unreasonable that were it not as clear as the Noon-tide light that no such particular assent is needful some might think that he fear'd his cause and be ready to say that Desensio nimis operosa reatum quasi arguit But touching the validity of the Ecclesiastical Laws there needs I conceive no more be said then what is expressed in that Act of Parliament 25 H. 8.19 the Ecclesiastical Laws that were in use and practice before that Statute are thereby established thus Provided that such Canons Constitutions Ordinances and Synods Provincial being already made which be not contrariant nor repugnant to the Laws Statutes and Customs of this Realm nor to the damage or hurt of the Kings Prerogative Royal shall now still be used and execrated as they were before the making of this Act untill such time as they be viewed c. by the 32. persons mentioned in that Act which is not yet done The Ecclesiastical Laws which have been made since that Act and all that ever hereafter shall be made so long as tht Statute stands in force the requisites in that Act being observ'd are thereby I conceive confirmed or to be confirmed The Submission and Petition of the Clergy mentioned in that Act is That they would not enact or put in ure any new Canons c. in their Convocation without the Kings Royal assent and authority in that behalf There it is said That the Convocation in the time coming shall alwayes be assembled by authority of the King Writ and that the Clergy must have the Kings most royal assent and licence to make promulge and execute such Canons Constitutions and Ordinances Provincial and Synodal else they may not enact promulge or constitute any such Canons c. And this course hath ever since been observed Every Convocation called by His Majesties Writ and the Clergy had especial license from His Majesty to enact such Canons c. and to execute them The Provision following being observed which is this Provided that no Canons Constuurions or Ordinances shall be made or put in execution in this Realm by authority of the Convocation of the Clergy which shall be contrariant or repugnant to the Prerogative Royal or the Customs Laws or Statutes of this Realm any thing contained in that Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding If any be put in execution contrary to this Proviso and contrary to any after-Acts of Parliament whereby His Majesty hath further power acknowledged in causes Ecclesiastical then 't is illegal but that is much sooner alledged than proved The particular Ecclesiastical Laws in force have by Dr. Cosens and others been sufficiently demonstrated I humbly conceive In case any Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical or Civil within this Realm be not derived or claimed from the Crown as to the execution of it at least then the former objection were of force but another Act of Parliament 8 Eliz. c. 1. shews the contrary sufficiently where all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction is acknowledged United to the Crown as there fully and that very clause 1 Eliz. 1. together with His Majesties Letters Patents directed forth for confirming Archbishops and Bishops is brought in the preamble thereof as a strong proof without scruple or ambiguity that the authority and jurisdiction by the Clergy executed is thereby given them from Her Majesty This also were there nothing else were sufficient to entitle them the Kings Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws as well as other Laws are called the Kings Majesties Laws But they are up and down in the Acts of Parliament called the Kings and the Queens Ecclesiastical Laws 1 Eliz. c. 2. 5 Eliz. c. 25. 25 H. 8.27 c. and even by the Note gatherer that great oppugner against whom the Doctor writeth they are called the Ecclesiastical Laws of England And in this late Act above mentioned they are called the Kings Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws Yet for executing of these Laws by the Ecclesiastical Judges what out-cries were made against them especially in the beginning of the late Long Panliament by His late Majesty of blessed memory called the Black Parliament Summa imis miscendo and what favours were then afforded to those Boutefeu's as we have since had sad experience of them God grant we may be cafeful of them for the future I am unwilling to recite Ecclesiastical Judges are not onely tyed by their offices and * Canon 117. Canon Constitut 1604. Oaths but at least in some particulars for which they have though most unjustly been much clamour'd against are most severely by Act of Parliament charged to see the execution of if not of others too yet of one especial Ecclesiastical Law for their care wherein some of them have been well-nigh ruined that is that according to that Act of Parliament 1 Eliz. c. 2. For uniformity of Prayer and Administration of Sacraments every person should diligently and faithfully resort to their Parish Church or Chappel where Common prayer and such Services of God shall be used upon every Sunday and other dayes ordeined and used to be kept as Holy-dayes and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of Common prayer Preaching or other Service of God to be used and ministred c. Then follows thus And for due execution hereof the Queens most excellent Majesty the Lords Temporal and all the Commons in this present Parliament assembled doth in Gods name earnestly require and charge all the Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries that they shall endeavour themselves to the utmost of their knowledge that the due and true execution hereof may be had throughout their Dioceses and charges as they will answer before God for such evils and