1624. His Appello Caesarem London 1625. His Originum Ecclesiasticarum Pars prior Londini 1636. and Pars Posterior Londini 1640. His Anti-Diatribae Londini 1625 and Visitation Articles Printed at Cambridge and London 1638. Master Iohn Cosens his Houres of Prayer London 1627. Edmund Reeves Communion Catechisme expounded London 1635. Henry Cholmly His State of the Now Roman Church London 1629. Master Butterfield His Maschil London 1629. Doctor Iohn Pocklington his Sunday No Sabbath licensed by Doctor Bray the Arch-Bishops Chaplaine 24. Febru 1635. and his Altare Christianum licensed by the same Doctor Bray 7. March 1636. both printed at London Ann 1636. and 1637. Doctor Peter Heylyns History of Saint George London 1630. His Coale from the Altar London 1636. His Antidotum Lincolniense with His Moderate Reply to Henry Burton London 1637. and History of the Sabbath London 1636. Francis Sales A Popish Prelate his Introduction to a devout life licensed by the Archbishops Chaplaine Doctor Haywood 3. Febr. 1636. An Epistle or Exhortatory Letter from Jesus Christ for every faithfull Soule devoutly affected written by a Friar and licensed by Doctor Weekes both his and the Bishop of Londons Chaplain 3. Febr. 1636. The Female Glory by Anthony Stafford London 1635. Master Yates his Tract of the Honour of Gods House London 1637. Sparrowes Sermon of Confession London 1637. The Churches Authority asserted by Samuell Hoard Lond. 1637. Mortification Apostolicall by William Watts London 1637. Doctor Thomas Laurence his Sermon preached before the King at White-Hall London 1637. Iohn Elborow his Evodias and Syntyche London 1637. Robert Shelford his five Treatises Cantabrigiae 1635. Richard Tedder his Sermon preached at Wimondham Anno 1637. Collectiones Theologicae by Chunaus London 1634. Christopher Dow against Master Henry Burton London 1637. Iohn Browning concerning publike Prayer and the Fasts of the Church London 1636. Sir Thomas Ridleys his Review of the Civill Law Oxford 1634. Iohn Swan his Redde debitum London 1640. Bishop Halls Reconciler his Episcopy by Divine Right with infinite other Books Sermons and Treatises of this kinde which we pretermit Before wee proceed any further in this subject we must acquaint Your Lordships with one memorable Passage concerning the Licencing and printing of Francis Sales his Introduction to a devout life and Christs Epistle to a devout Soule The first of these Bookes being written by a Popish Prelate having many Doctrinall and Practicall points of Popery interlarded with good meditations and Devotions comprised in it was translated into English by J. Y. a Priest and Jesuite dedicated by him to Mistres Anne Roper a Popish Recusant and twice printed by Papists in forraigne parts in the yeares 1617. and 1622. with all the Popery in it about which time it was likewise translated into English by a Protestant who lest out all the Popery and superstition couched therein reteining only what was Orthodox and Pious which was licenced for the Presse and printed by Nicholas Oakes On the 3. of February 1636. Doctor Hayward the Archbishops Chaplain at the instigation of some Popish persons licensed the very Popish Translation of this Booke by I Y the Iesuite for the Presse most likely by the Archbishops approbation who had one of these Bookes formerly printed in his Study produced by Master Prynne endorsed with his owne hand which was forthwith entered in Stationers Hall for one W. Brookes a Popish Stationer and presently sent to the Presse to be printed One part of it comming to Nicholas Oakes his House to be printed he perceiving divers dangerous Popish Passages in it and among others one touching the Popes supremacy repaired to Doctor Hayward who licensed it and acquainted him therewith desiring him to purg out these Popish Passages else he durst not proceed to print it Whereupon the Doctor checking him for making such a scruple bid him go on and say nothing and he would beare him out and save him harmlesse from any danger that might befall him for printing it adding that he himself would preach as much as that he complained off before the King and therefore he needed not feare to proceed Whereupon Oakes went on and the Book with the Epistle Dedicatory to Mrs. Anne Roper a Papist was printed published about Easter 1637. neare the time the Archbishop caused an Information to be Exhibited in Star-chamber by Sir John Banks his Majesties Atturney Generall against D. Bastwick Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne one of the Copies whereof comming to Mr. Pryns hands he finding it full of Popery superstition and the very same with the old English Popish Edition and being informed by Oakes others of Dr. Haywards words to Oakes when he complained to him of it he inserted the Licensing and printing of this Popish Booke among others into his Crosse Bill in Starre Chamber against the Archbishop his Chaplaines and others his Popish Confederates which Bill he tendring to the Lord KEEPER Coventry to admit the Archbishop getting possession of it upon view thereof and some complaints at Court against this Popish Booke by the Right honourable Earle of Pembrook and other well-affected Courteours thereupon to colour his owne and his Chaplaines practicall knavery in Licensing and promoting this Booke by laying all the blame and punishment upon others and the poor Printer Ooaks who complained against it and would have stopped it at the Presse to give som shew of satisfaction to the people much offended at the printing of this Popish Booke especially in that nick of time when he had brought Dr. Bastwick Mr. Burton Mr. Pryn into the Star-chamber for charging him with introducing Popish Doctrines and Innovations into our Church caused his Majesty to publish this following Proclamation for calling in and burning the said book wherein he falsly suggested to his Majesty and his Subjects that his Chaplaine purged out diverse Passages therein tending to Popery which the Stationer and Translater afterwards inserted againe when as there was no such thing but his Chaplaine licensed all of them at first and would not purge them out at last when Oakes complained of them The Proclamation was this By the King A Proclamation for calling in a Booke entituled An Introduction to a Devout life and that the same be publikely burnt VVHereas a Booke entituled AN INTRODVCTION TO A DEVOVT LIFE was lately printed by Nicholas Oakes of London and many of them published and dispersed throughout the Realme the Copy of which Booke being brought to the Chaplaine of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for Licence and allowance was by him upon diligens perusall in sundry places expunged and purged of divers passages therein tending to Popery Neverthelesse the same Book after it was so amended and allowed to be printed was corrupted and falsified by the Translater and Stationer who betweene them inserted againe the same Popish and unsound passages And the Stationer is now apprehended and the Translator sought for to be proceeded against according to Justice His Majesty out of His pious and
told him he was the most odious man at Rome of any or of any that had sate in that Sea The Arch-bishop then averred that he used these speeches to him at dinner at Lambeth at a time when Auditor Phillips was there who demanded of Sir Henry whether he saw the Pope when he was at Rome and what manner of man he was Who replied that he saw him in his Garden out of a window riding a great horse in a morning and that he was very like the Auditor Sir Henry confessed this discourse with the Auditor but absolutely denied he ever said he was the most odious man at Rome of any c. and desired him to prove it Wherupon the Archbishop asked of his Secretary Dell whether he did not heare Sir Henry tell him so much at dinner Who answered that he did not heare him say so but that his Grace told him after dinner that he said so which Sir Henry peremptorily denied After which Sir Henry being demanded by Master Serjeant Wild who they were that spake against the Arch-bishop who for him and what he conceived to be the cause why some spake thus against him others in his behalf He answered that there were two factions in Rome one of the Jesuits some of these disliked the Arch-bishop and spake against him because they conceived he aimed at too great an Ecclesiasticall power in these Kingdomes for himself The other was of the Secular Priests who all spake very well of him and commended him because he carried himselfe in such sort in the government of our Church as to draw it neerer unto the Church of Rome and shewed himselfe favourable to their party Whereupon the Arch-bishop said that Sir Henry never told him this before Who answered it was true and the reason was because he never demanded of him any such Question but now he was demanded the Question upon his Oath and therefore he must speak the truth At which passage most of the Auditory smiled and the Committee of Commons who managed the Evidence thanked the Arch-bishop for this good testimony on his behalfe desiring him to furnish them with some more such witnesses Adding that seeing Sir Henry was but a single witnesse in this case and so perhaps the Arch-bishop would evade his testimony though produced by himselfe and since he had given them this occasion to examine what opinion the Priests and Jesuits had of him at Rome they therefore humbly desired that they might now produce the testimonies of some other Gentlemen of note who had been at Rome as well as S. Hen. could give as good or better an account of his credit there as he had done Whereupon they poduced Captain Authony Mildmay brother to Sir Henry to testifie his knowledge in this particular who deposed at the Bar upon oath That he was at Rome at the time when Con the Popes Nuncio was to come over into Eng. as Nuncio who then enquired of him concerning the infirmities and age of Arch-bishop Abbot and thereupon said Bishop Laud who is to succeed him will be more favourable to us then he hath been That there were two great factions in Rome one of the Jesuits another of the Secular Priests that the Jesuits faction did not like the Archb. because he usurped too much Ecclesiasticall power to himself and endeavoured to make himselfe a Patriarke over all his Majesties Kingdomes but the Secular Priests and their faction loved and spake very well of him because they said they knew him to be their friend and that he had a designe to bring the Popish Religion into England That Father Fitton and Father John told him that there was a designe to reconcile England to the Church of Rome that Bishop Laud was the chiefe instrument in it that other English Bishops did joyne with him in the designe and that he should find that there should be none preferred in the Court but such as were Papists or affected to popery That Father Fitton being the generall agent for the Secular Priests had extraordinary good intelligence from England and that Master Walter Mountague when he was at Rome lay at his house that Father John was the generall agent at Rome for the Benedictines and that Father Talbot a Jesuit had told him as much as these two had done concerning Bishop Laud who yet spake somewhat ill of him because said he he intends to make himselfe a Patriark of all the Kings Dominions out of his pride which he said would eclipse the Popes authority and therefore he said he was condemned at Rome by their party the Jesuits for this particular although otherwise he was a great favourer of their Religion This testimony even from Rome it selfe is very full and punctuall to our purpose that there was no difference at all between the Secular Priests and the Archbishop nor yet between the Jesuits and him but only this that he out of his ambition would like his Predecessor Anselme be Papa alterius orbis the Pope or Patriark of our other world and of the Kings Dominions which the titles of Sanctitatis Vestrae Sanctissime Pater attributed to him by the University of Oxford and Master Croxton made them jealous of which the Jesuits could not well brook at Rome But to make this more cleer we shall adde one witnesse more who hath been often times at Rome and spent divers yeers among papists in foraigne parts and that is one Master Thomas Challoner a Gentleman of quality who thereupon being sworn gave in this following testimony viva voce upon oath which he set downe under his owne hand MY LORDS TOuching the Arch-bishop of Canterbury I can say little in particular but in generall thus First that for these fourteen or fifteen yeers last past it hath been my fortune divers and sundry times to be in France Flanders Holland and Italy where very often happening into the company of Lawyers priests and men of the long Robe I found them alwayes very forward in their discourse of England and of the great hopes they had to see it suddenly reduced to the catholike faith that they had many great parsons in England who were secretly of their religion and in particular the Arch-bishop whom they avowed to be wholly theirs a good Roman Catholike a politike propagator of the Roman faith by minutes and degrees wherein he used great subtilty and craft which they called wisdom and that both he and others would openly declare themselves so to be in time convenient beseeching God the blessed Virgin to prosper his designes And this is so notorious as I beleeve no man of any experience in foraigne parts who hath had an eare to hear or a tongue and heart to speak the truth but hath heard the same often re-iterated and will attest it Yet upon what foundation these opinions should be built I am not precisely able to determine Secondly that eleven or twelve yeers since I being at Bruxels in Brabant
to and hardened in it by his meanes Their Objection being He was a meanes of seducing many to and obdurating thousands in popery by his introducing popish Doctrines Innovations Ceremonies c. Ergo he went about to bring in popery and reduce us back to Rome That he reduced any from popery is but his owne bare allegation in his first Speech and generall Defence without any proofe at all but his owne bare word which the Commons denied himselfe confessing that some of the eminentest of them presently relapsed after their conversion and lived and dyed Papists See then the falshood and fallacy of this mis-repeating Sophister in the very first entrance and principall argument of his generall Defence Secondly to his second and third arguments we retort That the Commons never gave in evidence against his making or imposing the c. Oath or third new Canon to prove him guilty of introducing popery or endeavoring to reconcile us to Rome but to two other different purposes which he wholly pretermits therefore his two arguments from them as the Commons own are meer forgeries impostures of his owne As for the c. Oath it hath no such clause in it as is pretended indeed it hath this clause That I will not endeavour by my selfe or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which is established which is but a meere pretence and policy all or most popish Doctrins and Ceremonies being introduced licensed established among us when this Oath was made as the premises evidence and no Doctrine being then esteemed Popish but what the Archbishop pleased though truly such As for the third Canon it enjoynes onely private conference with popish Recusants and presentments excommunications of such of them who are obstinate and if they conforme not then that their names shall be presented to the Judges of the Assiâ—e which is no more then other Canons formerly enjoyned to no purpose or 〈◊〉 at all and was but a meer State-policy to stay the present elamours of the people and Scots against the Prelats for their connivance at popery and confederacy with Papists against those they stiled Puritans and a thing not really intended but pretended onely Thirdly his fourth fift and fixt arguments are of the same nature meer Chimeraes of his owne forging which he would father on the Commons who pressed these particulars against him in a far other manner to which he gives no answer His refusing of a Cardinals Cap was onely because he desired to be an absolute independent Patriarch and Pope within the Kings Dominions His Book against Fisher was published in his owne name upon entreaty of others onely to blind the world and stop the clamours against him in making them beleeve thereby he was no friend to Papists or popery when as we have proved the contrary out of that and other of his books To that of Habernfield we shall answer in due season some deeming it onely a forgery or plot of his owne devising to justifie himselfe others a reall truth Fourthly his seventh argument is a most wilfull perversion of the Commons charge who expresly impeach him for endeavouring to cause division and discord between our owne and other reformed Churches that so Papists might have the more advantage which we have abundantly proved And he makes the charge to be that he endeavoured a reconciliatiou between the Lutherans and Calvinists of which good act he was never guilty in the least degree for ought he makes appeare but of the quite contrary Ergo to reconcile the Church of ENGLAND to the Church of ROME By which strange prevarication and Jesuiticall sophistry the world may cleerly discerne the sophistry fallacy and apparent Legerdemaine of this his generall Defence and impertinency of his Answers encountring onely his owne ridiculous fictions not the Commons reall Objections Having recited these his generall Answers we shall pursue him to his particular evasions to the evidence and proofes produced to make good the second Branch of his first generall Charge wherein he thus proceeded The first thing objected against me is That I have ever been generally reputed a Papist or person popishly affected both in the University of Oxford whiles resident there and ever since as likewise in Rome and in other forraigne parts for proofe whereof the testimonies of Doctor Featly Sir Nathaniel Brent Doctor Abbots Sermon Doctor Hals Letter Francis Harris his Deposition with the testimonies of Sir Henry Mildmay Master Anthony Mildmay and Master Thomas Challoner have been produced To this I answer First that all these are but hear-sayes or reports and no convincing Evidence that I was really a Papist or inclined unto popery Doctor Featlies testimony is but a report from one who said he was my Pupill and that at Paris many yeers since in forraigne parts Sir Nathaniel Brents testimony is but a report from Master Dale of a thing long since that my supposition was taken out of Bellarmine which I deny His further testimony is onely this That Browne with whom I kept company was but a reputed not an actuall Papist during his life and what he subjoynes that he was found to be such a one after his death is very consecturall for it appeares not that the Book objected was of his owne penning though it were his hand-writing for it might be a transcript That I petitioned to King James that I was traduced to be a Papist is true and I had good reason so to doe when I was thus traduced and upon my Petition the businesse was referred to the examination of divers worthy persons and I cleered upon full hearing by the King For Doctor Abbots Sermon I complained of it as I had cause as being traduced by it he was knowne to be my enemy and to doe me wrong herein therefore his words are not to be valued in this case nor Doctor Hals Letter to W. L. which might be to some other as well as to me who am not nominated therein For Francis Harris his testimony I never knew nor saw the man to my knowledge and it is but a hearsay from one Ireland many yeers since and that beyondthe Sea for Ireland himselfe I onely knew but had nofamiliar acquaintance with him Secondly for Sir Henry Mildmayes testimony it is onely a bare rumour and report from some persons at Rome unknowne both to me and him purposely raised by the Papists to blast or wound my reputation and what he now attested is quite contrary to that himselfe informed me at my Table at Lambeth immediatly after his returne from Rome as I am ready to depose upon my corporall Oath if I may be permitted His Brother Master Anthony Mildmay his testimony is but an incertaine report from I know not whom at Rome that I was somewhat more favourable to their Religion then my Predecessors and what he heard from Father Fitton is but his report and a false one too of purpose to slander
pursue him from Lamb crosse the Thames to the Kings own Royall Chapell at White-Hall where upon his comming to be Dâ—â—e of his Majesties Chapell and after that Archb. of Canterbury he introduced bowing to the Altar himselfe there constantly practising this Ceremony at his ingresse egresse a Lane being made for him to see the Altar and do his Reverence to it and at all his approaches towards or to the Altar which bowing and Veneration his Majesties Chaplaines were there likewise enjoyned by him to practise and by his means in Passion week in the years 1636. 1637. c. a rich large Crucifix imbroydered with Gold Silver in a faire peece of Arras was hung up in his Majesties Chappell over the Altar to the great scandall and offence of many For proofe whereof so experimentally known to most of the Lords and Courtiers who were eye-witnesses of and disliked it Sir Henry Mildmay Knight a Member of the House of Commons and Master of the Jouell House was produced who deposed as followeth That before the Archbishop came to be Deane of his Majesties Chappell there was little or no bowing at all used by any to or towards the Altar except only at St. George his Peast when the Knights of the Gartor going up to offer at it made a civill kinde of obeysance towards it not out of any religious respect but at a 〈◊〉 Ceremony anciently used by them only at this solemnity and by those of the Garter 〈◊〉 But after hee came to be Deane of the Chappell he constantly used bowing to the 〈◊〉 at his ingresse egresse and approaches to the Altar causing his owne and His Masties Chaplaines to doe the like That after he become Deane of the Chappell for two three yeares togegether or more there was in Passim worke a peece of Arras with a 〈◊〉 embroidered Crucifixe the full length of a man hanged over the Altar on 〈…〉 Chappell at White-Hall which was never done before in his memory nor in the memory of any Courtier that he could heare of which Crucifixe he believed was never therâ— used since King H. the 8. his Reigne till of late That this grosse notorious Innovation â—ave great scandull and generall offence to many well-affected Courtiers who spake muâ—â— against it and to himselfe in particular who openly complained of it to the King and spâ—ke to the Archbishop himselfe about it yet it continued there sundry Passion weekes And to manifest the truth hereof more clearely to all the world the very Crucifixe it selfe was by speciall order sent for and brought into the Lords House by the â—erjeant of the Vestry at White-Hall who likewise attested the hanging of it up â—ver the Altar in His Majesties Chappell in the Passion Weekes It was very large rich naked scandalous offensive never used since the Reformation but onely in tiâ—es of Popery yet this most scandalous Idoll did this Arch-Prelate cause to be thaâ— hanged up in His Majesties Chappell as a patterne of imitation for all others well nowing the ancient Proverbe to bean experimentall truth Regis ad exemplum 〈◊〉 componitur orbis c. When he hath thus introduced these Romish Innovations into hs Majesties Chappel then the Altar Crucifix other Innovations in his Royal Chaâ—â—el must be made the Canon whereby to regulate all Cathedrall and Parochiall Churches and so declared publikely in print by himselfe his Confederates both in an Order made at the Councell Table concerning the placing of the Table in Saint Gregonies Church Altarwise 3. Novemberis 1633. by this Archbishops owne procurement published by Doctor Heylen his Greature in his Câ—ale from the Altar page 62. and Antidotum Lincolniense cap. 2. page 62 63. by Peter Heylyn in his Coale p. 27. Antidotum Lincolni cap. 2. p. 29. to 67. his Moderate answer to Henry Burton p. 57. 176. by Christopher Dewe in his answer to Mr. Henry Burton cap 20. p. 191. the New Canons 1640. can 7. Now what a capital transcendent offence this was in this Arch-Prelate principally intrusted with the care of Religion contrary to his trust and dutie to introduce these scandalous Innovations into His Majesties owne Royall Chappell will appeare by these particulare First that hereby he made the world believe His Majesty was a publike countenancer of these Popish Innovations and 〈◊〉 making him a Royall open Patron of them as much as in him lay contrary to his owne printed Declarations to all his loyall Subjects before the 39. Articles and after the dissolution of the Parliament Anno 16â—8 Wherein he professed he would neuer 〈…〉 in the least degree to Popery or superstition Secondly That he hereby give just occasion both to Protestants and Papists at home and in forraigne parts openly to report and believe that wee were now relapsing to those ancient Romish superstitions Idolatries corruptions we had formerly spired one 3ly That hereby he endeavoured to corrupt his Majesty his Nobles Courtiers Chaplaine and by consequence all his dominions in their Religion Fourthly That by this meanes he perverted seduced many thousands of His Majesties subjects who from this patterne fell to a studious practise of bowing to Altars â—â—erecting Altari 〈◊〉 in most Chappell 's Churches by degrees Fifthly That hereby hee scandalited discouraged grieved the well affected Protestants both at home and abroad encouraged hardned Papists in their superstitions and gave them great hopes of a speedy alteration of religion 〈◊〉 they seconded with al their power and pollicy Sixthly That by this practise he ingendred great discontents 〈…〉 misunderstanding 〈◊〉 â—is Majestie and his subjects which could never yet be cordially reconciled since that time but have grown wider every day almost to the utter ruine of our three whole kingdomes To the former evidence this further memorable testimony was subjoyned by way of corroboration and aggravation Mistres Charnock a Gentlewoman of good quality and her Daughter joyntly deposed before the Lords that on Maundy Thursday about 6. yeares since they being at Whitehall with some other of their friends whereof one was a Papist went into the Kings Chapell there to see it where they saw an Altar with Tapers other Furniture on it a Crucifix over it whiles they were in the Chappell Dr. Browne of Saint Faiths Church under Paules then a Deane one of the King's Chaplaines with his Curate came together into the Chappell and bowed three severall times almost to the ground to the Altar and Crucifix as they all conceived and then kneeled down on their knees before them A little after there came two Semenary Priests into the Chappell and bowed downe very low three severall times to the Altar and Crucifix over it as they apprehended just in the very same manner as Dr. Browne and his Curate did and then kneeled downe before the Altar and Crucifix for a little space as they had done At which strange sight Mistresse Charnocke very much admiring said to those in her company J never thought to
money too But howsoever his Lordship hath get a very full estate in that Kingdome and hee doth very wisely to fortifie it as well as hee can But besides these I have long since heard though you now mention it not that his Lordship hath done greater service to the Church in some other particulars as namely to the Bishoprick of Lismore and the Colledge of Yong-Hall for which it is great pitty but that his Lordships memory should bee preserved in the Church Thus I have given Your Grace a distinct answer to all the Particulars in Your Letter But for the Tombe which occasioned all the rest I will not take upon mee to judge unlesse I were upon the place how fitly or unfitly it stands there but shall wholly leave it to the view and resolution which shall thereupon bee taken in that place So I leave you to the Grace of God and rest Your Lordships very loving friend and Brother Will Cant. Lamb. March 1633. But some may perchance inquire what was the ground of this Archbishops introduction of these Innovations first of all into Cathedrall Churches Certainly one principall cause of this his method was to make these Mother Churches as he stiled them patterns of imitation for all Daughter Churches and Chapells within the the whole Diocesse that so the Proverbe in Ezech. 16. v. 44. 45. might be verified of them Behold every one tht useth Proverbes shall use this Proverbe against thee saying AS IS THE MOTHER SO IS HER DAVGHTER Thou art thy Mothers Daughter That this was one chiefe end of his to corrupt all Parish Churches and Chappell 's by these Cathedralls examples was infallibly manifested First by the very words of the Order made at the Councell Table at White Hall the third of November 1633 concerning the standing of the Communion Table in Saint Gregories Church neere Paules printed in Dr. Heylins Coale from the Altar and in his Antidotum Lincolniense Sect. 1. c. 2. p. 62. which order was thus printed by the Archbishops direction the chiefe stickler in the procuring and prime Clerke in the penning of it wherein it is positively resolved That all other Churches ought to be guided by the Cathedrall Mother Church whereon they depend and that the Communion Table in Saint Gregories Church removed from the middle of the Chancell to the upper end and there placed Altar-wise in such manner as it standeth in the Cathedrall and Mother Church of St. Paul should so continue that so there might be no difference betweene it and the said Cathedrall Mother Church Secondly by diverse bookes published in print by the Arch-Bishops speciall direction and app obation expresly averring That all Parochiall Churches ought to be guided by the patterne of the Mother Church upon the which they doe depend The Arch-Bishop himselfe in his discourses and these creatures of his in their Bookes applying and urging this leaden rule of theirs in particular for the rayling in of Communion Tables placing them Altarwise against the East end of the Quire and bowing unto them in all Parish Churches because this was done and practised in all Cathedrall Churches by vertue of his New Statutes and Injunctions though not in former times This foundation being layd in our Cathedralls for the like Popish Innovations in all Parochiall Churches wee shall in the next place prosecute this pursuite of his Innovations from our Cathedralls to Parochiall Churches and Chappell 's Wee shall begin with Saint Gregories Church neare Paules where the case was thus About tenne yeares since this Church was repaired by the Parishoners to their great cost at which time the Deane and Chapter of Pauls under whose jurisdiction it is caused the Picture of Saint Gregory to bee set up in the Church and the Communion Table to bee removed rayled about and set Altarwise against the East-end of the Chancell Whereupon Master Wyan and diverse of the Parishioners being offended at it appealed from the Deans and Chapters Order as being against Law to the Arches upon which by the Archbishops means an Order came from Secretary Windebank to call the Parishioners to the Councell Table concernning this Appeale the removing of the Table where they appeared at the appointed time with their Councell The King himselfe the Arch-Bishop and many of the Lords were then present where the businesse being debated before them the Archbishop stood up and with great earnestnesse more like an Advocate then Judge justified maintained this removing and rayling in the Table reading Queene Elizabeths Injunctions to warrant it but left out this most materiall clause that made quite against him Saving when the Communion of the Sacrament is to be administred at which time the same shall be so placed in good sort within the Chancell as whereby the Minister may bee more conveniently heard of the Communicants in his prayer and ministration and the Communicants also more conveniently and in greater number communicate with the said Minister And after the Communion done from time to time the said holy Table to be placed where it stood before The King said hee liked it well that the Table should stand as it used to do heretofore to which the Archbishop answered that if it stood so the Minister could not so well see who kneeled at the Sacrament and who kneeled not To which the King replied then let the seates bee pulled downe Then the Councell for the Parish alleadged that Bishop Jewell in his Reply to Harding Artic. 3. Diuis 26. and Artic. 13. Diuis 6. and Master John Fox in his Acts and Monuments Edit 1610. pag. 1211. 1212. both which Books were enjoyned to be kept in every Church for the people to read in as containing the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England and nought repugnant thereunto maintained and asserted That the Communion Table ought to stand in the MIDST OF THE CHVRCH AMONG THE PEOPLE and not Altar-wise against the wall Hereupon the Archbishop stood up in an angry manner and sayd If this be the use they make of these Books Jewell Fox I desire they may be taken out of Churches and Sir Henry Martin saying merrily that this Table placed close along the wall would make a good Court-cupboord The Archbishop therupon replied that Sir Henry was a stigmaticall Puritan in his bosome All which particulars were proved upon oath by Master Wyan Mr. Clearke and Captain Stackhouse Wherupon by the Archbishops violence this Order was then made against the Parishioners for the standing of that Table Altar-wise as it was situated by the Deanes and Chapters Order and appointment At Whitehall the third day of Novemb 1633. Present the KINGS most Excellent Maiestie Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper Lord Archbishop of Yorke Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seale Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Chamberlaine Earle of Bridgwater Earle of Carlile Lord Cottington Master Treasurer Master Comptroller Lord High Chamberlain Earle Marshall Master Secretary Cooke Master Secretary Windebanke THis Day was Debated before
the parties lay there buried And is it not then a far greater madnesse superstition and ridiculous frenzie for this domineering Arch-Prelate to deem these two Chappels prophane places unfit to administer the Sacraments and celebrate divine Service in because never yet consecrated by a Bishop not onely after three but almost three-score yeares use and practise of divine Service Sermons Sacraments in them When as neither his predecessors Whitgift Bancroft and Abbot men very ceremonious and two of them much addicted to superstition ever so much as moved any such question concerning the necessity of their consecration Especially since there is no such Canon Law to enforce the consecration of them now as was to justifie the re-hallowing of S. Maries Church in Queen Maries time which the Popish Canon Law then approved in the case of Bucer and Fagius We read in the Ecclesiasticall Constitutions of Otho the Popes Legat made in an English Synode in the Raigne of King Henry the third that even in those dark times of Popery there were not only divers Parish Churches but some Cathedrals in England which were used as such for many yeares yet never consecrated by a Bishop as appears by these words of the Constitution it self Multas invenimus Ecclesias aliquas Cathedrales quae licet fuer unt ab antiquo constructae nondum tamen sunt sanctificationis Oleo consecrate Whereupon this Popish Legat for his own lucher Enjoyned all Churches then built or to be built to be consecrated within two years space under pain of interdiction from having Masse said in them unlesse some reasonable cause were shewed to the contrary By colour of which Popish constitution this Prelate it seems urged the consecration of these ancient Chappels there being no other shaddow of reason Canon or authority for it After this Archbishop had thus procured a power to himself to visit the Vniversity of Cambridge Matthew Wren Bishop of Ely Decemb. 1. 1639. Sent him up an account signed with his own hand of some things amisse within his Diocesse and that University which he left to his Graces consideration to amend which account was seized by Master Prynne in his study at Lambeth and thus indorsed with the Arch-bishops own hand My Lord of Elyes Account 1639. In which there were these two Passages concerning consecration of Chappels The first concerning a Chappell in Sir John Cuts house in the town of Childerley which Chappell the Knight said was consecrated by Bishop Heton producing an Instrument under seal purporting that on such a day at Childersly Bishop Heton did consecrate a Chappell by saying Service there himselfe and having a Sermon this was all the Solemnity of its Consecration I questioning the whole matter have required him to waiteupon your Grace to see whether that consecration must be allowed of The second concerning some Chappels in Colledges never yet consecrated which is thus expressed in this Account It was presented unto me That in the Colledges of Emanuel Sidney and Corpus Christi there have been Roomes built within the memory of man which are used for common Chappels wherein they have dayly prayers and do Preach there without any faculty or license granted unto them so to do And wherein also they ordinarily celebrate the holy Communion The said places never having been consecrated thereunto Ma. Elie. The Scottish troubles it seems prevented his consecration of these Chappels which were sufficiently hallowed before by the Divine Duties exercised in them The last Chappell we finde consecrated was that in Covent Garden which was hallowed or rather prophaned with all Popish Ceremonies expressed in the Roman Pontificall and far more than were used at Creed-Church The Arch-bishop having thus far advanced his Popish designes in consecrating Churches Chappels and Church-yards proceeded one step further even to set up the exploded Annuall Baccanalian feasts of Dedication whereon Churches were hallowed prescribed at first onely by the Decrees of Pope Felix Pope Gregory recorded by Gratian De Consecratione Distinct 1. who Decreed thus Solennitates Ecclesiarum dedicationem per singulos annos solemniter sunt celebrandae Those Feasts of Dedication turned by the people into meer Bacchanals were exceedingly declaimed against as necessary to be suppressed by Nicholaus de Clemangiis in his Tract De Novis Celebritatibus non instituendis suppressed by the Injunctions of King Henry the S. An. 1536. As the occasion of much idlenesse excesse riot and pernicious to the Souls of men Whereupon they were all of them restrained to the first Sunday in the moneth of October not to be kept on any other day and afterwards totally abolished by the statute of 5. and 6. E. 6. c. 3. Of holy-dayes Which being revived again by degrees with their Baccanalian disorders in sundry places of this Realm under the names of Wakes or Revels and suppressed by some Judges in their Circuits and Justices of Peace in Sessions this Arch-bishop in the year of our Lord 1633. by a Declaration compiled by himselfe but published in his Majesties Name intituled The Kings Majesties Declaration concerning Lawfull Sports to be used revived and enjoyned the Observation of these Wakes and Feasts of Dedication never formerly established by any Christian Prince together with the use of divers Sports and pastimes on the Lords own Sacred day after Divine Service ended to the great Dishonour of God of his Majesty of our Religion the disturbance of the Civill Government encrease of all Licensiousnesse prophanenesse impiety and great griefe of all godly peoples Souls This Book he enjoyned all Ministers to read and publish openly in the Church in time of Divine Service though not commanded by the King and those who out of conscience refused to read it in this kinde were by his means suspended excommunicated prosecuted in the High-Commission Sequestred from their Livings yea many of them enforced to desert their Cures and depart the Kingdome this book being made a snare onely to entrap or suppresse most of the painfull godly preaching Ministers throughout the Realm who were all more or lesse prosecuted about it Yet such was this Arch-Prelates unparallel'd impiety transcending all examples in former Ages that he not onely caused his Instruments Edmond Reeve Dr. Heylyn Christopher Dowe and others to defend the Lawfulnesse and usefulnesse of this prophane licentious Declaration but also to justifie the persecution silencing suspending depriving of those Godly Ministers who out of Conscience refused to publish it in sundry Printed Books authorized by him and his Chaplaines for the Presse Quis talia fando temperet à Lachrymis at leastwise can refrain from the heaviest censures against this prophane Arch-bishop That this Declaration since ordered to be publikely burnt by the common hangman by Order of both Houses of Parliament was Printed published by the Archbishops procurement and upon what Occasion was thus attested upon Oath by Master Edward Richardson and Master Prynne Sir Thomas Richardson Lord chiefe Justice
himselfe if questioned for it upon any future occasion CHARLES R. CAnterbury See that Our Declaration concerning Recreations on the Lords day after Evening Prayer be Printed By all these Premised evidences it is most apparent that the Archbishop was the principall Actor in the publication of this Licentious Book to Gods and his Majesties dishonour which we shal further evidence by this writing under his owne hand The Declaration concerning Lawfull sports on the Lords day His Majesty Commanded me to se it Printed The motives to it were 1. A generall and superstitious opinion conceived of that day 2. A Booke set out by Theophilus Brabourne 1628. Iudaisme upon Christian principles and perverted many 3. A great distemper in Somerset-shire upon the forbiding of the wakes in the sowernesse of this opinion an Act of a Iudge that rid that Circuit March 15. 1627. And followed by another 1630. And his Majesty troubled with Petitions and motions by some cheife men of that county on both sides 4. His Royall Fathers example upon the like occasions in Lancashire After the publishing of this Declaration the Lord Richardson returning from his Circuit was by the Archbishops means convented before the King and Lords at the Councell Table about the forementioned Passages in his Charge in justification of the order against Wakes according to his duty and for revoking it in such a slight manner as much as in him lay for which he was so shaken up by the Archbishop that comming very dejectedly with tears in his eyes out of the Councel Chamber the Earle of Derset seeing him in such a sad condition and demaunding him how he did he answered Very ill my Lord for I am like to bee choaked with the Archbishops Lawn-sleeves And for this cause alone as he and others conceived he was by the Archbishops means to his great griefe and losse put from Riding the Westerne and enforced to Ride the Essex Circuit reputed the meanest of all others which no Chiefe Iustice but the puny Iudge or Serjeants only used to Ride notwithstanding the Lord Cottington and others earnestly moved His Majesty that he might ride some other Circuit After this the Archbishop intending to make this Declaration for Sports an Engine to insnare suspend silence and root out all conscientious preaching Ministers throughout the Realm by degrees the better to usher in Popery Ignorance and prophanesse enjoyned all Ministers to read this Declaration personally in their Churches in time of Divine Service such who out of conscience refused to read it were by the Archbishops own speciall direction suspended from their office and Benefice Excommunicated vexed in the High-commission and some of them there sentenced and deprived of their livings for this pretended crime though against no Law or Canon of God or man for proofe whereof these ensuing testimonies were produced First Sir Nathaniell Brent attested upon Oath that when he was appointed by the Archbishop as his Vicar Generall to Visit within the Diocesse of Canterbury the Archbishop himselfe gave him a speciall charge to convent all Ministers before him who would not read the Booke for sports on the Lords day and to suspend them for it and that he gave them particular order by name to suspend Mr. Culmer Master Player and Mr. Hieron three eminent preaching Ministers in Kent for not reading the sayd Booke of Sports Whereupon he did much against his will and judgement suspend them all ab Officio Beneficio and forced some of them to allow twenty pound a peice or more to Officiate the Cure during their suspension After which he received another speciall command from the Archbishop to suspend Mr. Wilson for the selfe-same cause whereupon he did accordingly suspend him Master Richard Culmer deposed at the Lords Barre upon oath that he being Minister of Goodneston in the County of Kent Mr. John Player Minister of Kennington and Mr. Thomas Hieron Minister of Hornhill in the said County they were all three convented by the Archbishops direction before Sir Nathaniell Brent for not reading the Booke for Lords-day sports and after that all three of them suspended from their Ministry and Livings in the Archbishops Consistory for the same Whereupon they soone after repaired to Lambeth to the Archbishop and there joyntly Petitioned him for Absolution from this unjust Suspension who reading their Petition and understanding the cause of their suspension for not reading that unwarrantable Declaration the Archbishop gave them this peremptory Answer If you know not how to obey I know not how to grant whereupon they continued thus suspended about three whole yeares and seven Moneths not being permitted to preach or instruct their people to their great griefe and the profits of their Livings were sequestred towards the maintenance of Deboist unedifying Curates who seldome preached And though this Deponent did divers times afterwards Petition the said Archbishop to take off his suspension yet he refused to do it calling him refractory fellow and saying it should continue and so it did he being not only deprived of his Ministry but also of all the profits of his Living having himselfe his Wife and 7. small Children to provide for which suspension and sequestration continued upon him till the Scotts comming in and then the Archbishop Absolved him more out of feare of the Scots than good will so as hee might justly say Gramercy good Scott for his liberty Master Thomas Wilson a godly learned Minister now of the Assembly deposed at the Barre that the Archbishop himselfe sent for him to Lambeth and demanded of him whether he had publikely read the Booke of Sports in the Church to which he answered no whereupon the Archbishop replied I Suspend you for ever from your office and Benefice till you read it whereupon hee was suspended and his Living sequestred for foure years space After which he was brought into the high-Commission at Lambeth by the Archbishops means and there Articled against for not reading the said Booke to his great cost and vexation Master Prynne attested that Mr. Wrath and M. Erbery were brought up out of Wales Mr. William Iones out of Glocestershire and divers others from other parts into the High-Commission at Lambeth for not reading this Declaration for Pastimes on the Lords day and the keeping of Wakes and Church-ales and that hee found this following Petition concerning the same subject among Sir Iohn Lambs sequestred papers with an Answer to it under the Archbishops owne hand manifesting his owne direction for prosecuting of one Henry Page a godly Vicar in the high-Commission for refusing to read this Declaration and expressing his dislike thereof To the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate c. The humble Petition of Francis Thompson Gent. IN all Duty sheweth That whereas one Henry Page Vicar of Sedbury in the County of Hereford having taken upon him the Cure of Soules there hath many times used divers and sundry scandalous and ignominious
Master Pryme IF you heare Fa. Francis his Booke or person touched let them know that we understand assuredly that it proceeds from the Jesuits most likely also by this last Letter of Mr. Midleton to the Archbishop who imploy others in it as they did against Father Leanded till it cost him his life and if that upon their informations they proceed against such persons who THOUGH IN ALL THINGS CATHOLIKE yet are more discrect and temperate and not intermedling in matters of State THE KING WILL BE MUCH OFFENDED Thus much for this Book of Sancta Clara and the Author of it The fifth Evidence we shall pitch upon to prove a designe to reconcile and reduce us back to Rome is the Popes and his Agents promises tenders of Cardinals Caps and Places to some prime English men and to this Archbishop himselfe in particular the end whereof could be no other but to enthrall us againe to the superstitious jurisdiction of the Papall See The first proffer we find of a Cardinals Cap made to any English Prelat since the Reformation was to this Archbishop who thus records the time and manner thereof with his owne hand in his Diary Aug. 4. 1633. Sunday news came to Court of the Lord Archbishop of Canterburies death and the King RESOLVED PRESENTLY to give it me which he did Aug. 6. That very morning at Greenwich there came one to me seriously and THAT AVOWED ABILITY TO PERFORME IT AND OFFERED ME TO BE A CARDINALL I went presently to the King and acquainted him both with the thing and person It is very considerable that Master Anthony Mildmay deposed that Con the Popes Nuncio told him at Rome before Archbishop Abbots death that Bishop Laud should succeed him and that he would be more favourable to the Catholikes then Abbot By which it appeares that Bishop Laud was long before Abbots death designed to the place if not at the solicitation yet at least by the approbation of the Roman party No sooner comes newes to Court of Archbishop Abbots death but the King presently resolves that Bishop Laud should succeed him and no sooner is this known at Court but that very morning as himselfe records he is thus seriously offered to be a Cardinall by one who avowed ability to performe it and that at Greenwich in the Kings own Court. Who it was that made this offer were worth the discovery but this mystery he couceales The Plot against the King discovered to him by Habernfield informes us That Con the Popes Nuncio had a command to offer A CARDINALS CAP TO THE ARCHBISHOP in the name of the Pope of Rome and that he should allure him also with greater promises but this first offer was before Con's arrivall here Were the person an English Subject of what rank soever this proffer of his to to revive this popish dignity of a Cardinall among us and to receive it from the Popes exploded forraigue power which drew Cardinall Woolsey into a Premunire if not under the guilt of high Treason though this honour was procured him not only by King Henry the 8th his assent but solicitation deserved the severest exemplary punishment especially since it tended to engage the Primate and Metropolitan of all England most obliged by his place and office against all Popish power offices superstitious doctrines to submit unto them and become the Popes sworne vassall If the Popes owne Nuncio Panzani which is probable or any other forraigne Agent the affront had been so great both to the Archbishops person place had he been cordial to our Church our Religion being both a Privy Counsellour the Kings grand favorite and he who steard our Churches helm to the honour of our Church Religion of the King himselfe and his Royall Court that it could not patiently be put up or pretermitted without some eminent satisfaction But be the person one or other certaine it is he was never once questioned or molested by the Archbishop for this proffer who took it so well at the parties hands or rejected it so coldly that on the 17. day of the same Moneth he had a second serious offer made to him of the selfe-same dignity most probably by the same person which himselfe thus Registreth in his Diary Aug. 17. 1633. Saturday I had A SERIOUS OFFER MADE ME AGAIN TO BE A CARDINALL I was then from Court but so soon as I came thither which was August 21 I acquainted his Majesty with it But my answer againe was that somewhat dwelt within me which would not suffer that till Rome were other then it is What it was that dwelt within him which made him not absolutely but for the present only to refuse this offer till Rome was other then it is we may learn from Sir Hen. Mildmay's Mr. Anth. Mildmay's Mr. Challoner's depositions forementioned and his owne Reply to Fisher pag. 171. to wit an ambitious Papall spirit he would like his worthy Predecessor Saint Anselme so he stiles him be both in Title and Jurisdiction Papa alterius Orbis Pope of our British world and Vniversall Patriarch of all the Churches within his Majesties Realmes and Dominions which Rome as it then was and the Jesuiticall party there as these witnesses have deposed distiked and would not suffer and for this cause onely he refused this dignity which would have more enthralled him to the Popes and Romes jurisdiction not to their Religion then his ambitious spirit could well brook This double serious proffer of a Romish Cardinalship to the Archbishop is an infallible Argument First that the Pope and his Conclave at Rome had an extraordinary good opinion of his favour his good affection to Popery and their Antichristian Church else they would not have profered him such a dignity incompatible to any Protestant English Prelat Secondly that they deemed him the aptest activest Instrument to reconcile and re-unite us to Rome of all other in respect of his favour at Court power with the King and inclination to Popery as Sir Henry Mildmay Master Anthony Mildmay Master Challoner have attested therefore they would honour him with a Cardinals Hat to the end that as his Predecessor Cardinall Poole Archbishop of Canterbury the last English Cardinall of any of our Prelats reconciled our revolted Kingdom to Rome in Queen Maries dayes as appeareth at large by the Statute of 1. 2. Phil. Mary ch 8. So he invested with the same Papall dignity and fitting in the self-same See might once more as easily reduce us to the bosome of the Roman Church in the dayes of this Queen Mary as Popish as the former as he did then As this Archbishop so Master Walter Mountague not long after had good hopes given him at Rome to be made a Cardinal as the Archbishop himself was informed by Mr. Middleton's forecited Letter which dignity he should have lately received thence had he not been imprisoned if Sir Kenelme Digbies Letter may be credited to help on this work
Papists and Protestants is one and the same Fourthly that men may be saved in the Church of Rome and Romish Religion therefore we need not pray for any Papists conversion no not for the Queens which he specially prohibited and questioned those who thus prayed for her Fifthly that the Pope is not Antichrist nor ought to have this title given him which he expunged both out of the publike Books of our Church and private mens impressions Sixtly that the Pope is supream head of the Church the first and greatest Patriarch and to make this doctrine passe more current he suffered the Popes own Titles of Sanctitatis Vestrae Sanctissime Pater Spiritus Sancti effusissime plenus Optimus Maximusque in terris Ille quo rectior non-stat Regula quo Prior est corrigenda Religio to be attributed to him successively in sundry Letters from the University of Oxford Master Croxton and others without controll and proclaims himself a Patriarch in his own book against Fisher pag. 171. Seventhly his own Chaplain Doctor Bray by his speciall direction in two Books of Doctor Pocklingtons severally printed and reprinted with authority proclaimed that he derived his lineall succession and Episcopacy from Pope Gregory and Saint Peters Chair at Rome and that our Church was miserable if he could not doe so which Doctor Heylen by his speciall command seconded in print which Bishop Mountague thus trebles in his Originum Ecclesiasticarum Tomi Priorus pars posterior pag. 465. In Pontificali seu libro quam vocamus Ordinationum Episcopus AB AUGUSTINO LEGITIME DERIVATA SUCCESSIONE ET GREGORIO ROMANO DEDUCTUS Sacros Ordines secundum veteris Ecclesiae Cannores conferens Ordinandum Sacerdotem sic affatur Accipe Spiritum Sanctum c. Deriving not only this Archbishop but all our other Bishops successions and Episcopacy from Augustine the Monk and Pope Gregory of Rome a goodly Romish pedegree to be much insisted on directly reducing us back to Rome from whence it was derived as to our Mother Church Fourthly he with his Instruments and Chaplains vented authorized not only in the Pulpit but Presse all manner of popish erronious doctrines never heard amongst us in former yeers comprizing the whole body of Papistry of purpose to reduce us back to Rome the particulars whereof you have heard refusing suppressing orthodox Books written against popish errours and purging the chiefest passages against the Church Pope Prests Jesuits and errours of Rome out of all old reprinted and new licensed books before they could passe the Presse as we have abundantly proved inserting popish pictures and a popish Index into our very Bibles the more easily to seduce men to Popery Fiftly he advanced the most corrupt popish superstitious persons of all sorts to Bishopricks Deaneries Prebendaries Head-ships of houses in the University Chaplains to the King and Prince and the greatest Benefices suppressed silenced deprived censured banished the most zealous preaching orthodox Ministers in all places and kept them from preferment the better to facilitate and effect this design Sixthly he caused sundry books tending to Reconciliation of us to Rome to be printed and published especially Bishop Mountague's Appeal and other Books since of which Sancta Clara took speciall notice and made bold to proclaim a peace and reconciliation in most points between us Seventhly he suppressed all Lectures and after-noon Sermons on the Lord's day in most places that the people through ignorance might be more easily seduced and instead of strict sanctification of the Lords day the principall means of encreasing piety knowledge and keeping men off from popery and prophannesse he caused a new Declaration to be printed and published in his Majesties name for the use of prophane sports and pastimes even on Gods own day and under pretext thereof caused hundreds of our most consciencious Ministers whom otherwise he could not tax or quarrell to be silenced suspended imprisoned yea driven out of the Realm to forreign Countries and Plantations that so these grand obstructions of our reconciliation with Rome being removed we might without any great difficulty or opposition be reduced reconciled to her and least any impediment should arise to crosse this Unity from the Dutch French or Walloon Churches in our Realms not any ways poysoned with his popish drugs and Romish innovations he attempted their extirpation too and had almost effected it All which particulars we have already proved We shall now proceed to some further evidence manifesting his compliancy intelligence and concurrence with the Pope and his Instruments in this hellish plot what evidence of this kind common fame and report both at home at Rome and elswhere hath given in against him Sir Henry Mildmay Master Anthony Mildmay Master Challoner and others have already attested what reall evidence we have yet remaining to make good this fame we shall now produce It had been too grosse too palpable an oversight in such a politician as this Archbishop was reputed and very prejudiciall to his designs considering the place he sustained his pretended profession of the Protestant Religion his dislike of Rome and the many vigilant eyes that were continually fixed on his actions to have held any open or immediate intelligence with the Pope or his known Agents here and therefore it can not reasonably be expected from us to produce direct proofs of any such grosse intelligence what then he could not act publikely and immediatly in person he contrived to effect more courtly and mediatly by fitting instruments who held strict correspondence with the Roman Pontife and his Negotiators The two trustiest persons he could call out for such a purpose were Master Francis Windebank a lay man and Richard Mountague a Divine who had other associates joyned with them to accomplish this reducement To enable them the better to carry on this work with more advantage to the Catholike cause he procured Mountague in despight of severall Parliaments opposition to be made a Bishop heaped sundry preferments on him in our Church of which he so ill deserved as we have already proved and shall not here insist on As for Windebank he advanced him to one of the greatest places of trust and secrecy in the Kingdom making him a principall Secretary of State to his Majesty which he thus expresseth with his own hand in his Diary June 15. 1632. Master Fancis Windebank MY OLD FRIEND was sworn Secretary of State WHICH PLACE I OBTAINED FOR HIM of my gracious Master King CHARLES so that he was a creature of his own advancing No sooner was he setled in this place of honour and trust but he presently fals to his designed work he protects releaseth popish Priests Jesuits Fryars and held familiar correspondency with them entertaining them in his house Study Coach Garden and feasting them at his Table imprisons molests reviles the Messengers who by office duty were bound to apprehend them suspends the execution of all penall laws against them and popish Recusants by his Letters and Warrants of
Fathers I knowing with what love and care you were pleased to comply your self in this work the which besides the merit of charity hath been most gratefull to his most Christian Majesty who in this doth with great satisfaction acknowledge the good will of his Majesty of great Brittain in the person of his Minister in these Occurrences which he well polisheth If in any occasion I can serve your Excellence you shall find me most ready to render you proofs of my devotion and observance beseeching you to continue the favourable effects of your benignity towards our Fathers And with this I end augurating unto you all compleat felicity Your Excellencies most devout and most humble Servant in Christ Fryar Joseph of Paris Capucine From Paris the 23. of Novemb. 1634. By this Letter it is evident what a Professed Patron this Secretary was of popish Priests and Fryars and what correspondency he held with them The third is a Letter to Secretary Windebank from Father Phillips the Queens Confessor to inform him of Sir William Hamiltons departure from Paris towards Rome where he resides as Our Agent to the Pope and of Con the Popes Nuncioes departure from Rome towards England a pregnant evidence of his privity and compliancy with this Negotiation Right Honourable YEster night after your Honours departing from Hampton-Court I received this inclosed The Gentleman who sent it to me from Paris writeth that Sir William Hamilton departed from thence the third of June that is our 24. of May so that now he must be neer unto Rome He writeth also that Seignior Georgio Gâ—â—es whom the Pope doth send to the Queen was to depart from Rome about the twentieth of May if he have heard of Sir Williams hasty going it may be he will stay till his arrivall which I could wish because he both can and would help him better at the beginning then any other I know I rest ever Your Honours most humble and devoted Servant R. PHILLIPS From Hampton-Court the 9. of June 1636. The fourth is a Letter of Master Thomas Windebank writ to the Secretary his Father from Rome thus endorsed with his own hand 6. Septemb. 1626. Tom from Rome recei 22. our stile SIR MY most humble duty remembred c. In my last of the sixt of this present I have given an account of my arrivall at Rome and of the favour Sir William Hamilton was pleased to doe me to invite me to his house this note that he did it with so much earnestnesse that I could not avoid the receiving of that honour I have been to visit the Cardinal Barbarino who having had notice of my arrivall here sent to visit me first He is so obliging and curteous to all our Nation that I the lesse wonder at the honour he doth me to take notice of me but I hope his favour will stay there I see no reason I should think otherwise c. Your most obedient Son THO. WINDEBANK Rome Sept. 10. stilo novo 1636. The fift is a Letter from his Son Tom from Rome thus endorsed by the Secretary Tom from Rom Rec. 30. Sept. our stile Wherein thus he writes SIR MY most humble duty remembred c. Sir William Hamilton hath been pleased to put so great an Obligation upon me as to invite me to his house for the time that I am in Rome I would very willingly have avoided the putting him to such an inconvenience but he pressed it so far that I could not refuse the receiving of that favour the Cardinal Barbarino I understand HATH LONG EXPECTED ME HERE hauing had notice of my being in Italy and I am afraid THAT OUT OF RESPECT TO YOU he will put some honour upon me but I will avoid all engagements as much as with civility I may Your most obedient Son THO. WINDEBANK Rome Sept. 6. stilo novo 1636. These two Letters cleerly manifest his Son 's being respect and great entertainment at Rome both by Sir William Hamilton our popish Agent there and Cardinal Barbarino The sixt is a Letter of his said Son from Padoa thus endorsed by Master Secretary 16. March 1637. Tom from Padoa Rec. 8. April our stile SIR I Gave advice in some of my former of a Trunk I sent from Livorno into England unto Master Richant to be delivered unto you but have not as yet received any news of the arrivall of it I sent not the keys as not desirous it should be opened untill my comming home because few of the things in it are mine but the CARDINAL BARBARINES TO MASTER CON he told me there was no haste in the delivery of them so that I might doe it my self Your most obedient Son THO. WINDEBANK Padoa 26. March stilo no. 1637. Here his Son becomes an Instrument to convey popish Trinkets from Cardinal Barbarino at Rome to Con the Popes Nuncio then in England The seventh is a Letter from the Lord Scudamore to Secretary Windebank from Paris informing him of a Statue sent from Cardinal Barbarino from Rome to be transported to him into England Right Honourable HEre is come to Paris one Master Chambers with the Statue from Cardinal Barbarino another the servant of him that made the Statue comming along in company to take it forth but no where upon any tearms till it be in England Upon Munday next Master Chambers intends to set forwards for Deepe c. Your Honours to command JOHN SCUDAMORE Paris June 16. 1637. The eighth is a Letter written to him from his Son Christopher Windebank from Rome informing this Secretary how many Friends and Servants he had there who much respected and honoured him for his sake among others Panzani who had been here a Nuncio and Father John agent to the English Benedictines in Rome which he thus endorsed Kit from Rome Most dear Father I Salute you c. especially not being in any place my self where I am not looked upon by all those who professe themselves SERVANTS of your most Illustrious Honour HERE IN ROME your most Illustrious Lordship hath many amongst the which Sir William Hamilton Seignior Gregorio Panzani and Father John kisse your hands c. Your most obedient Son CHRIST WINDEBANK From Rome the 15. of April 1639. If we compare these Letters with the forementioned Instructions of this Secretary to his Son Thomas at Paris concerning Ludovicus â Sancta Maria Franciscus de Sancta Clara his Book and Father Leander it is past all controversie that he held most strict and constant intelligence with the Pope Cardinal Barbarino the Popes Nuncio's Priests Jesuits and contributed all possible assistance to them in their confederacy of reducing us back to Rome The reallity whereof and this Archbishop's cognizance of it was thus attested to the Archbishop himself by Andreas ab Habernfield and Sir William Bosel in the Plot they sent him from the Hague found in his chamber in the Tower endorsed with his own hand SEcretary Windebank a most fierce Papist is the
me or deceive their Proselites there For Master Challoners testimony it is but a report too from I know not whom and a discourse of others to him without any ground arising from me and I have cause to feare that what he testified was meerly out of spleen and a meer engine to ruine me because upon complaint I caused him to be Committed for some high Offences charged against him amounting to little lesse then Treason to avoyd which he was enforced to fly beyond the Seas where he heard these reports concerning me it we may beleeve him which are no evidence at all in Law To this the Commons replied First that though common fame be no convincing evidence of it self yet in many cases both in common Civill and Canon Law it is a good ground of suspition inquisition accusation and apprehension too especially if it be a generall universall and long continued fame both abroad and beyond the Seas as this is but being seconded with concurrent actions as his it is a most satisfactory proofe and in such a case vox populi est vox Dei Besides himselfe gave the occasion of this evidence by his examining Sir Henry Mildmay to know what report they gave and what opinon or repute they had of him at Rome when he was there Whether he were not the most odious man to them of any living c. If the reports and common fame they heard of him at Rome were no evidence at all to cleer him as he reputed it why then did he produce Sir Henry as a principall witnesse for him and examine him meerly what report and repute he had at Rome If he conceived it good evidence to cleere him in case Sir Henries testimony had proved answerable to his expectation then certainly it must be as available to confirme and prove his guilt yea Sir Henries testimony falling quite crosse to what he pretended must needs be farre stronger against him then it could have been for him had he testified what the Archbishop pretended because he is a witnesse of his owne producing and had been but a single witnesse for him but is seconded with two more concurrent testimonies against him even concerning the opinion they had of him in Rome it selfe which is backed with a generall opinion of the same kind both among Papists and Protestants too who concurred in their judgements and reports concerning his good affection to Popery and endeavours to reconcile us to the Church of Rome Yea as this good opinion and report concerning him was universall in all places both abroad and at home so it is fortified by a publike charge in Parliament given in against him by the two whole Kingdomes of England and Scotland and confirmed by so many pregnant evidences of all sorts that it must made be granted to be a most enforcing convincing argument of his guilt the rather because himselfe gave the first occasion of this kind of euidenes For Doctor Featlies testimony it is a report of one of the Archbishope owne Pupils who hast knew his opinions Sir Nathaniel Brents testimony is upon his owne knowledge ratified by the concurrent opinions of others grounded upon his popish supposition taken out of Bellarmine his familiarity with Master Browne a reputed Papist Noscitur ex Comite Upon his owne confession in his Petition and the common fame of the University that he was cleered upon his Petition of this imputation he produceth no evidence at all neither mentions he any particular time when nor persons by whom he was cleered For Doctor Abbots Sermon it is the clearest testimony in the world that he was then generally reputed a Papist in the University both by Protestants and Papists and likewise in forraigne parts for which cause alone and no other this Doctor was his enemy As for his complaint against it as injurious it no way extenuates nor takes off the common fame and reputation of being a Papist which Doctor Hals 〈◊〉 not denied by him to be written and meant of himselfe and Francis Harris his testimony second and confirme Whereas he faith he never know nor saw this Harris this invalids not his testimony and his little acquaintance in reallity that he knew him if not 〈◊〉 in â—ute by 〈◊〉 Fame and â—â—putation to be a Papist in heart opinion and the onely thing for which are produce his testimony Secondly for Sir Henry Mildmayes testimony it is more then a bare report for he testifies on his owne certaine knowledge that which the Archbishop produced him to prove what opinion the Jesuits Priests and Popishâ—â—ad of him at Rome when he was there together with the reasons of their opinions and report and he deposeth the truth hereof quite contrary to what the Archbishop suggested whose Oath is not to be credited in his owne case to impeach Sir Henries testimony fortified with two others concurring with it The like we answer to Captaine Anthony Mildmayes and Master Challoners testimonies they both depose what opinions and reports the Popes Nuncio Con Father Fitton Father Talbot and other English Jesuits Priests and forraigne Papists had of the Archbishops good affection to their Religion and how instrumentall he was to introduce Popery and reduce us backe to ROME declaring punctually each particular Therefore their testimonies are all reall and no hear-sayes or bare reports as he pretends As for Master Challoners pretended malice it is but a bare surmise and being a Gentleman of quality and integrity this poore pretence is altogether insufficient to disparage his testimony upon Oath The rather because the Archbishops endeavours to imprison and bring him into the High Commission heretofore was onely for speaking of the Priests and Jesuits Plots to bring in Popery and some of our Bishops compliance with them the party who complained against him being both a Priest and Jesuit now in actuall Armes against the Parliament in the Kings Army as Master Challoner deposed a great confirmation of the truth of his Testimony and of the Archbishops guilt In few words all these recited testimonies what opinion they had at Oxford heretofore and at Rome and other places since of his being a Papist and confederating with them in their Designe of introducing Popery by inches and reducing us backe to Rome compared with his preceding practises doe fix this charge so fast upon him that all his Sophistry or Oratory cannot shake it off The second thing objected is this That there was a dangerous Plot laid and seriously pursued to introduce Popery and reconcile the Church of England to the Church of Rome to which I was privy and had certaine notice of it yet I complyed with it and never laboured to prevent it which the Commons laboured to prove by divers generall instances First by the Spanish Match propounded to the King when Prince of Wales and his sending over into Spaine of purpose to pervert him in his Religion as appeares by the Articles of the Treaty the Popes Letters to the
seduce him to popery and reconcile our Churches and Kingdomes to Rome by this meanes contained in their mutuall Articles of Impeachment the Copies of which Letters and Articles were found in his owne Study by Master Prynne must needs concerne him since he could not be ignorant that the Pope and his Instruments would use their utmost diligence to seduce the Prince to their Religion when they had him thus sent and betrayed into their power for that very purpose and his Letter to Bishop Hall though written but of late long after that intended Match yet fully relates his privity to the most secret Instructions before it to gratifie and please the very Pope himselfe and prevent his Objections against the Match or King James For the French Match the Evidence proves he was both privy consenting and assisting to it even after he knew the danger of it in point of Religion both to the King and Kingdome by the proceedings and Articles in the Spanish Treaty being both the very same in substance whereas his intimacy power with the King Duke and quality of his place as he was a Bishop yea Confessor to one or both of them should have engaged him had he been a reall Protestant to have used his utmost endeavours to disswade the King and Duke from both these Popish Matches as most perilous destructive to our Religion the sad effects whereof we now visibly behold in our civill wars and read In Characters written with our owne blood For his intimacy with the Queen it favours of farre more then civility or duty and her extaordinary favours to him proceeded from no other cause but his compliance with her Majesty to introduce popery and reduce us back to Rome as appeares by his proceedings against Master Gellibrand in the High Commission for his Almanack wherin the popish Saints were expunged and our Martyrs inserted at her Majesties request by his prohibiting Ministers to pray and censuring them for praying for her conversion to our Religion which we have punctually proved and of Master Howe for praying to God to preserve the young Prince from being brought up in Popery of which there was great feare a harmlesse yea necessary prayer both in respect of the Queen Mother then too neer him and the Queen who by the Articles of the Match was to have a great hand in his Education till he was fourteen yeers of age as also in regard of the Popes Nuncioes the seducing Jesuits Priests and Capucines about the Queen Court Him and childrens naturall prouenesse unto errour Which prayers admit they had been an oversight yet proceeding from a godly Christian Zeale deserved onely a private admonition not open prosecution or High Commission censure but his making of them so publickly criminall and censuring those so severely for them of purpose to deterre all others from praying for the Queens conversion or against the Princes perversion is an undeniable argument of his good affection to Popery and attempts to reduce us thereunto For his extolling Queen Maries and depressing King Edwards and Queen Elizabeths dayes the words sufficiently declare it was as well in reference to the Religion then professed as to the Vniversity Statutes and the Preface it selfe is of his owne making as well as the Statutes as we shall more fully manifest in due place by his own letters Secondly to the particular instances the Commons made this reply First that their maine end in producing them was onely to demonstrate that the Pope and his Instruments had a reall Plot and designe to introduce Popery and reduce us back to Rome and that the Archbishop could not but know and take speciall notice thereof by all these particular Letters Papers Books found in his owne Study sent written to himselfe endorsed with his owne hand or recorded in his Diary which should have engaged him with greater vigilancy care animosity to have opposed them and their designes In which regard the three first of them with all the rest most neerly concerned him neither doth nor can he plead ignorance of them Secondly that though all these particulars prove not that he promoted confederated with them in their designes yet some of them directly prove it as his countenancing of Sancta Clara his Books his maintaining of Saint Giles a most dangerous seducing Popish Priest many yeers in the University of Oxford his opposing answering the Commons Remonstrance against the dangerous open encrease and practises of Papists in Ireland to set up Popery there and branding it as a scandalous untruth Thirdly for Habernfields plot we shall prove how it makes against him in due time and for Sancta Clara his Book of Reconciliation we have proved First that he knew of it and had both the Book and Author brought to him by his Favourite Doctor Linsey before it was printed this we have under his owne hand therefore it is monstrous impudency in him to deny it Secondly that this Book when printed was presented to reserved by him in his study and the Author with him there some three or four times afterwards Thirdly that it was printed and publickly sold here in Londō without controll Fourthly that his creatures both abroad and at home much applauded it Fiftly that Saint Giles was the Author of it a popish Priest whom himselfe sent to and maintained in the University of Oxford to pervert and seduce Schollers there That he had the Kings Warrant for it is no excuse and the Warrant being without date written with his owne hand and signed by the King to help at a dead list savours of meer fraud circumvention and will amount to an aggravation but no extenuation of his crime Fourthly the proffer of a Cardinalship twice unto him even at Court so soon as he was nominated Archbishop proves the good opinion that the popish party had of his inclination to their party and Religion his concealing the names of the parties that made him the offer which he will not disclose and his not prosecuting and complaining against them to bring them to publique justice prove that he deemed this proffer no injury nor disparagement if a poor Puritan did but write against Popery or Popish Innovations he presently prosecuted him in the High Commission or Star-chamber where he was sure to be fined imprisoned pillored stigmatized scourged banished but he that seriously tendred him a Cardinals Cap twice one after another escaped scot-free without so much as being once questioned for it As for his informing the King thereof it was not by way of complaint but advice and his answer to the King if true is no absolute rejection of the Dignity but rather an adjournment for the present his ambitious itching desire of being a Pope and Patriarch throughout his Majesties Dominions testified by Sir Henry and Master Anthony Mildmay with Master Challoner making him refuse the present offer not any detestation of Popery or reconciliation with Rome To the sixt was replied that it appeared by the Bishops Protestation in
gratifie the Queen and promote the Roman Catholick Cause therefore to shew his forwardnesse his hand must be first to this Priests discharge that so he might the more freely walk abroad to seduce his Majesties Subjects Seventhly for Panzanies Father Josephs Father Phillips with his sonnes and the Lord Scudamores Letters to Secretary Windebank though they are nothing to the Archbishop in point of charge simply considered in which sense we urge them not yet they are infallible evidences of Secretary Windebanks correspondency and intelligence with the Popes Nuncioes Priests Jesuits of Cardinall Barbarinoes and others respects to him and his Sonnes of his extraordinary protection of Priests Jesuits and that he was their instrument the onely end for which we produced them and being compared with his advancement of and intimacy with Windebank notwithstanding the frequent complaints to himselfe and the Counsell of his releasing protecting Priests Jesuits and with that generall good opinion the Priests and Papists had generally at Rome and in other forraigne parts of of the Archbishops owne reall endeavours to promote their Religion here and reduce us back to Rome testified by Sir Henry and Master Anthony Mildmay Master Challoner and others it will amount to a full proof of a confederacy between them to effect this dangerous Romish Designe notwithstanding all his evasions to accomplish which this Secretary was as active an instrument for him in the State as Mountague and other Prelats in the Church The fift thing objected to prove my reall intentions endeavours to introduce popery and reconcile us unto Rome is my intimacy and correspondency with divers dangerous Priests and Jesuits as Saint Giles Sir Toby Matthew Smith the Jesuit Leander Price the Bishop of Calcedon Doctor Smith and others one of which Saint Giles I am charged to have maintained in the University of Oxford sundry yeers to corrupt and seduce Schollers there my discouraging threatning and abusing Pursevants for their diligence in apprehending Priests and Jesuits my not committing Priests or discharging them when brought unto me by them my imprisoning Gray and calling him Priest-catching knave my connivance at the liberty that Priests and Jesuits had in the New-prison Clink and elswhere my causing many popish Books to be restored to the owners when seized contrary to the Statute that so they might be dispersed to seduce his Majesties Subjects some of which particulars are proved by papers under my owne hand seized by Master Prynne who ransackt my Study and Chamber others by the testimonies of Waddesworth Newton Deuxell Mayo Goldsmith Cooke Egerton Elizabeth Gray and Thatcher And out of my owne Book they alleage I never perswaded nor practised any persecution against popish Priests or Jesuits To this I answer in generall First that if the designe charged against me were onely to reconcile the Church of England and Rome together in a just and Cstristian way so farre as it might stand with truth and piety I hope no Christian can blame but rather commend me for such an enterprize Such a reconciliation between both Churches as this I confesse I have long desired endeavoured and published as much to the world in my Reply to Fisher p. 388. in these words I have with a faithfull and single heart laboured the meeting the blessed meeting of TRUTH AND PEACE in Christs Church which God I hope will in due time effect But other reconciliation then this to the prejudice of truth and piety I never attempted as my Epistle to that Book will manifest Secondly for my pretended intimacy correspondency with Priests and Jesuits I dare confidently affirme that never any man that sate in my place since the Reformation had lesse acquaintance familiarity correspondence with Priests and Jesuits then I some of my late Predecessors by name Archbishop Bancroft and Abbot never suspected of any inclination to popery have usually held intelligence with and received sundry Letters from Priests Jesuits in forraigne parts yea entertained some of them at their Tables and that no doubt for good purposes and the advancement of the Protestant Religion But I for my part never held correspondency nor received Letters from any of them and I blesse God for it for had I done it I must have suffered very deeply and my Chamber Study Closet being so diligently searched no doubt their Letters would have been seized and given in evidence by Master Prynne as well as others but no such Letters are or can be produced and to my knowledge I never entertained knowingly any Priest or Jesuit at my Table nor gave them any countenance though my Predecessors have usually done it to prove which I desire Master Dobson may be examined who being examined accordingly without Oath affirmed That he was an houshold servant to Archbishop Bancroft who received divers Letters of intelligence from Priests and Jesuits in forraigne parts and sometimes admitted them to his Table that he was after servant to Archbishop Abbot who for a moneth or two dieted one Julius Maria and another popish Priest as he taketh it the one a Spaniard the other an Italian at his Table in hopes of their conversion who faltered wish him in the end and were thereupon discarded That he was likewise a servant to this Archbishop and never saw Sir Toby Matthewes nor any other Priest or Jesuit to his knowledge at his Table Who being crosse interrogated Whether he knew Julius Maria and the other to be popish Priests He answered he did not certainly know them to be so but they were so reputed and professed Papists To which the Archbishop added That King James had conference with and extended favour to some Priests making good use thereof to set them at variance among themselves and induce them for to write one against another as Watson and Preston who wrote divers Books in defence of the Oath of Alleagiance and did good service therein whereupon my Predecessor Abbot granted Preston a kind of protection under his hand and Seale And why I might not doe as much as my predecessors in countenancing Sancta Clara were I guilty of it without any Guilt of TREASON or just Offence I yet know not any reason Thirdly I utterly deny that I held any correspondency with Sir Toby Matthew Smith Price Leander Sancta Clara or Saint Giles neither is there any cleer proofe thereof but admit I did yet there 's no proof at all that I knew them to be Seminary Priests and if I knew them not to be Priests no Law takes hold upon me though I harboured them which I never did Fourthly the witnesses produced to prove my intimacy with these Priests are persons of very meane condition against whom there have been many great complaints made heretofore at the Counsell-Table and against one or two of them of late for dishonest practises in seizing other mens goods and moneys under pretext of searching after Priests and Jesuits pretending the goods were theirs which complaints were referred to some Justices of Peace to
to tell him what harme this example might doe and how much hereby the secret Papists would be stirred up to rejoyce hoping for that which they have long looked for now to be neere at hand Was there no man had any sparke of Elias spirit to speake a word in Gods behalfe O lamenrable times in which we live that these things are swallowed downe by your Preachers in silence I forbeare to say much till I bee certified from you the truth of all matters I hope it is not so for I cannot thinke your Prebends would be so fainte hearted having also the Law of the Land on their side that it ought not to stand there where the Altar stood as to shrink at the first wetting without any pressing Speedily send me word I pray you and so with my hearty commendations I end Your loving Friend Iohn White Winchcombe 12th of Feb. 1616. A Copy of this Letter which this Archbishop stiled a Lible was soone after found in the Pulpit of Saint Michaels Church and sent up to the Deanes own hands who made much stir at Gloucester and the Court about it as appeares by these three Letters sound in his Study by Master Prynne and endorsed with his owne hand The first is a Letter sent by two of the Prehends to the Now Archbishop when he was Deane of Glocester upon this occasion Right Worshipfull OUr dutifull love remembred Wee have heard somewhat within these two or three dayes and this day more certainly of a certaine Libell or scandalous writing found in the Pulpit of Saint Michaells within the Citie of Gloucester upon the 14th of this instant Februarie about seaven of the Clocke in the morning when the Parish Clarke there did lay the Pulpit Cloth for Master Prior who was then to preach this scandalous writing was taken up by John Wells Curate there and by Thomas Smith the Clarke and by them read and by their meanes divulged so that all in the Citie well neare doe new speake of it The effect of the writing was as we learne a dislike for the Removing of the Communion Table within our Cathedrall Church affirming untruly that it tended to the animating of the Papists that it savoured of superstition that it was translated from a Communion Table to an High Altar and that Worship and obeysance were made unto it The Libeller marveileth that it is suffered as now it standeth and that there is not one Elias amongst us to reforme it Master John Jones one of our Aldermen and Justice of Peace hath examined some of them and they answer that they are advised by their Counsell not to confesse the effect of that Libell if they give not this day a better answer hee saith his purpose is to binds them ever to answer before the Judges at the next Assizes Master Jones his opinion is that it is very fit that there bee a Commission speedily procured from His Majesties High Commissioners for the examining of this matter and directed to some of the Clergie here and to sence Justies of Peace here provided alwayes that there be none such in that Commission of what degree or dignitie so ever they be that favour that schismaticall faction of the Puritans But now we learne that this Libell was presently delivered by the Curate or Clark unto our now Master Sub-Deane and therefore we assure our selves you are enformed of it by him and Master Robinson 5. or 6. dayes before this day If there be not a speedy course taken for the supressing of this their malicious and scandalous dealing it will in short time breed no small inconvenience within this plâ—â—â— c. Assuredly these zealous people are our Precisians the number whereof is great in this place Thus being bold to manifest unto you our love and dutie as we take it in this behalfe We humbly take our leave with our prayers unto God for Your health and welfare and rest Your Worships assuredly at Command Henry Aisgill Elias Wrench Gloucester Febr 21. 1616. The second is a Letter writ by him on this occasion to the Bishop of Glocester to this effect My Lord MY love and service remembered unto your Lordship when I came to doe my duty to his Majesty at Christmas it seemed by the speech he uttered to me that some body had done the poore Church of Glocester no very good office For his Majesty was graciously pleased to tell me He was informed that there was scarce ever a Church in England so ill govern'd and so much out of order And withall required me in generall to reforme and set in order what I there found amisse Hereupon at my being at Glocester I acquainted the Chapter with that which his Majesty had said to me and required at my hands And tooke as good order as in so short a space I could both for repaire of some parts of the edifice of the Church and for redresse of other things amisse Among the rest not rashly and of my selfe but by a Chapter Act I removed the Communion Table from the middle of the Quier to the upper end the place appointed to it both by the Injunctions of this Church and by the practise of all the Kings Majesties Chappell 's and all other Cathedrall Churches in the Kingdome which I have seene This Act since my comming thence as I am by letters informed is very much traduced by some in the City and a libell against it layd in the Pulpit of St. Michaells where Master Subdeane preaches to the great scandall of the Church and the Lawes established Good my Lord let me desire this favour in enquity at your Lordships hands that these things may be ordered and that your Lordship will joyne to reforme such tongues and penns as know not how to submit to any Law but their owne I must upon this of force have his gracious Majesty acquainted both with the thing it selfe and the entertainment which it hath found among turbulent Spirits And I presume his Majesty will be well pleased to heare that your Lordship as in other things so in this is carefull to preserve order and peace after it in the Church Thus not doubting but your Lordship will be carefull to rectifie what is amisse I for this time being full of my businesse for Scotland humbly take my leave and shall ever rest Your Lordships in all love and service WILLIAM LAVD Saint Iohns Feb. 27. 1616. The third was a letter writ by him to the Bishop of Lincolne Dr. Neale his great Patron then at Court MY humble duty and service remembered unto your Lordship c. When I was at London at Christmas to doe my duty unto his Majesty he was pleased very graciously to tell me that the Church of Glocester as his Majesty had been informed was more or as much out of order as any Church in England and to require me to order such things as I there found amisse upon this admonition of his gratious Majesty
1. That he had disturbed the Peace of the Church by publishing Doctrine contrary to the Articles of the Church of England and the Booke of Homilies 2. That there are divers Passages in his Booke especially against those hee termeth Puritans apt to move sedition betwixt the King and his Subjects and between Subject and Subject 3. That the whole frame and scope of his Booke is to discourage the wellaffected in Religion from the true Religion Established in the Church and to incline them and as much as in him lay TO RECONCILE THEM TO POPERY This Report was no sooner made but this Bishop Mountagues great Patron who engaged him in this Popish service had a Coppy thereof and of all other proceedings therein delivered to him which he endorsed with his owne hand but the Parliament being soone after disolved Mountague instead of a severe censure for the Arminian Popish Assertions in his book was punished with the Bishoprick of Chichester to which he was advanced by this Prelates meanes to affront the Parliament and his Predecessor Bishop Carleton who answered Mountagues Booke in print during the Parl. which book was then likewise answered by Francis Rouse Esquier in a Booke called King James his Religion No sooner was the Parliament ended but both these Bookes were suppressed by this Bishops meanes though recommended to the Presse by the House of Commons order and Mountagues offensive Booke publikly sold without restraint Michaell Sparke the Elder deposed that Bishop Carlton sent for him sitting the Parliament and desired him to print his Book against Mountague and to encourage him the more granted him a protection under his owne hand whereupon he printed it After which Doctor Goad Archbishop Abbots Chapline Doctor Ward and Dr. Belcankwell licenced it for the Presse with a special recommendation whereupon he reprinted it yet notwithstanding immediatly after the Parliament ended by Bishop Lauds meanes this Licensed booke was called in seised on and burned in private and he questioned in the High Commission for printing it After which this Book of Mountagues and his Arminian Popish Tenents were severally answered by Dr. Featley and Doctor Goad Chaplines to Archbishop Abbot in their Paralells by Mr. Henry Burton in his Plea by M. Ward Mr. Yates and Master Wotton in severall Tracts by Master Prynne in his Perpetuity and by Doctor Sutclife But these Bookes of theirs though licenced by Archbishop Abbots Chaplines were called in and suppressed by this Bishops meere Arbitrary Power the Authors Printers sellers of most of them brought into the High Commission as Mr. Prynne Mr. Burton Mr. Sparkes Mr. Jones Mr. Bowler Mr. Bourn with others as was attested by the three first of them upon Oath and manifested by the Articles in the High Commission yet these their authorised orthodox bookes were all seized on and some of them burnt in private and Dr. Sutcliffes Booke against Mountague suppressed in the Presse when foure sheets thereof were printed which printed sheets Mr. Prynne found in this Archbishops Study with this endorsment under his own hand read at the Lords Barre The beginning of Dr. Sutcliffes Censure upon Mr. Mountagues Appeale It was prohibited in the Presse Here upon the Arminian party both in Court our Vniversities and else where grew very great bold insolent their opinions spread themselves like a dangerous Leprosie over the whole body of our Church to the grand exultation advantage of the Iesuits who first planted this soveraigne drugge of Arminianisme among us to reduce us backe to Rome as appeares by these Passages in a Jesuites letter sent to the Rector at Bruxels a little before the Parliament which begun at Westminster the 17. of Mar. 1627. The Copy of which Letter endorsed with the Archbishops own hand was seized on in his Study at Lambheth and attested before the Lords by M. Prynne Father Rector c. We have now many strings to our Bow and have strongly fortified our faction and have added two Bulworkes more For when King Iames lived we know he was very violent against Arminianisme and interrupted with his Pestilent wit deep learning our strong designes in Holland c. NOW WE HAVE PLANTED THE SOVERAIGNE DRVGGE ARMINIANISME which we hope will purge the Protestants from their Heresy and it flourisheth and beares fruit in due season c. For the better prevention of the Puritans the Arminians have already locked vp the Dukes eares and we have those of our Religion which stand continually at the Dukes Chamber to see who goes in and out We cannot be too circumspect and carefull in this regard I cannot chuse but laugh to see how some of our own rank have encountred themselves you would scarce know them if you saw them and t is admirable how in speech and gesture they Act the Puritans The Cambridge Schollers to their wofull experience shall see we can act the Puritan a little better then they have don the Iesuits I am at this time transported with joy to see how happily all instruments and meanes as well great a lesser co-operate unto our purposes But to returne unto the maine Fabricke OVR FOVNDATION IS ARMINIANISME The Arminians affect mutation this we second and enforce by probable arguments c. From which Letter was observed 1. That the Jesuites were the Originall planters of Arminianisme among us 2. That they reputed it the foundation of their Romish Fabricke intended to bee here erected among Vs the chiefe instrument to effect their Jesuiticall purpose and to purge out the Protestant Religion 3. That the Arminians were but the Jesuites Agents to promote their ends that both of them were very intimate with the Duke of Buckingham at whose lodgings they usually mette 4. That this Archbishop knew all this he receiving the Copy of this Letter upon the 27. of Mar. 1628. as appeares by his own endorsment of it yet notwithstanding hee promoted Arminians and propagated Arminianisme all he could but in a most cunning Jesuiticall way for perceiving the whole Parliament generally bent against Arminianisme and Mountagues Booke hereupon this Jesuiticall Prelate abusing both the Parliament and His Majesty to set up Arminianisme more securely projected a new way of advancing it under a specious pretence of silencing both sides by which policy hee inhibited all writing preaching and disputes against it and quelled the opposite Anti-Arminian party To which end he procured His Majestie by a printed Declaration prefixed to the 39. Articles compiled by himselfe and other Bishops of which the most part were Arminians pretended principally to suppresse Arminianisme but intended really for advancing it to prohibit all unnecessarie disputations altercations or questions to be raised which might nourish faction both in Church and Common-wealth That in these both curious and unhappy differences which had for so many hundred yeares in different times and places exercised the Church of Christ all further curious search should bee layd aside and these disputes shut up in Gods
Lord Bishop of Exeter signifying His Majesties pleasure that in case the said Thomas Foard should be elected to the said Lectureship or procure the said Advowson he doe not give any approbation thereof procured ut supra dated 12. Septem 1631. These Letters were drawne by the Bishops owne direction not by the Secretary of State or Clarkes of the Signet being not entred at large in the Letter Signet Booke but only this note of them entred in the Docquet Booke by which his implacable transcendent malice appeared against the opposites to Arminianisme that not satisfied with their unjust banishment out of Oxford he endeavoured by indirect means to hinder them from Ecclesiasticall preferments in the Church whereas hee advanced those of the Arminian faction to places of highest eminency in the Church as wee shall manifest in due season After these severe proceedings against these Anti-Arminians in the Vniversitie the Arminians there grew very numerous insolent few or none dating to oppose them but Doctor Prideaux with two or three more in some passages in their Sermons for which they were presently questioned by the Arminian Faction and enjoyned publike Recantations witnesse the Recantation of William Hobbes Fellow of Trinitio Colledge the 25. of January 1632. for preaching against falling from Grace contrary to the intent and purpose of His Majesties Declaration in a Sermon on a Tuesday at St. Maries Recorded in the Oxford Register f. 54 The Recantation of Master Thomas Cooke of Brase-Nose the 19th of July 1634. for using some passages in a Latine Sermon in Saint Maries which by consequence might imply connivency and partiality in the Vice-Chancellour Doctor Duppa towards some of the Arminian party that had violated the Kings Edicts concerning such points of controversie as are forbidden Registred in the Vniversity Register pag. 90. with the convention and submission of Master Kichard Kilby of Lincolne Colledge before Doctor Bayley Vice-Chancellour and others March 13. 1637. for reviving some controversies concerning Arminianisme contrary to His Majesties Declaration entred in the Vniversitie Register fol. 152. About September 1632. there were some Satyricall Verses scattered abroad in Oxford against the Arminians thus intituled The Academicall Army of Epidemicall Arminians To the tune of the Souldieur wherein Doctor Corbet Doctor Duppa Doctor Iackeson Doctor Marsh Doctor Turner with others of the Arminian faction were mentioned and Bishop Laud as their Generall who receiving a Coppie of them December 19. 1632. writ this endorsment on it Oxford Libell against such as they will needs call Arminians Who were all backed by Bishop Laud their grand Patron and preferred to the highest Ecclesiasticall preferments How the Arminian party prevailed in the Vniversitie of Cambridge by this Arch-Prelates abetment so farre as to procure Barrets Recantation of the Arminian Tenets solemnly made in that Vniversity in 37. of Q. Elizabeths Raigne and then printed to be rased out of the Vniversity Register where it was Recorded and to prosecute Mr. Bernard whom he caused to be censured ruined in the High-Commission for preaching against the increase of Popery and Arminianisme of which hereafter is so well knowne to most that wee shall not insist upon it most of the heads of Houses there as Doctor Brookes Doctor Beale Doctor Martin Doctor Paske Doctor Cosens Doctor Lany c being professed Arminians and this Archbishops Creatures to prosecute his designes How diligent the Bishops were by colour of His Majesties Declarations and Instructions to suppresse all preaching against all Arminianisme in their Diocesse by this Arch-Prelates instigation will appeare by their printed Visitation Articles for this purpose particularly by the Articles of enquiry and direction for the Diocesse of Norwich in the first Visitation of Rich. Mountague Bishop of that Diocesse An. Dom. 1638 Tit. 5. Artic. 22. in Church-Wardens Doth your Minister commonly or of set purpose in his populer Sermons full upon those much disputed and little understood doctrines of Gods eternall Predestination of Election antecedaneous of Reprobation irrespective without sinne foreseene of Freewill of Perseverance and not falling from Grace points obscure unfoldable unfoordable untractable at which that great Apostle stood at gaze with Oh the height and depth of the riches of the Wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his wayes past finding out Rom. 11. 33. By the Archbishops Injunctions prescribed to them in His Majesties Name whereof this was one That they should take speciall care that no Minister nor Lecturer in their Diocesse should preach upon the prohibited controverted points contrary to His Majesties Declarations and Instructions and that they should give an yearely account to the Archbishop of their proceedings herein which they did accordingly By meanes whereof the Arminian Errors were freely vented in all Diocesses without any publike opposition and those who out of zeale to truth durst open their mouthes to refuse them were silenced suspended and brought into the High Commission by this Archbishops practise to their undoing whiles the Arminians on the contrary had free liberty to broach their Erronious Tenets without controle and were advanced to the greatest benefices and Ecclesiasticall Dignities Besides this Arch-prelate not satisfied with propagating these dangerous Arminian Novelties throughout the Realme of England endeavoured to infect by degrees the whole Church of Irel therewith To which end he not only caused Bishop Downehams book of perseverance there printed against the Arminians to be suppressed as you heard before but the very Articles of the Church of Ireland made in a full Nationall Synod and Convocation held at Dubline 1615. and ratified by King Iames wherein all the Arminian Errors are terminis terminantibus condemned as Erronious to be repealed the L. Deputy Wentworth by high hand being but the Archbishops instrument herein enforcing the Convocation at Dublin An 1634. by sundry threatning Messages full fore against their wills to condescend to the repealing of them under pretext of establishing the 39. Articles of the Church of England comprised in the former for the only Articles of that Church for Vnity and Vniformity sake as was attested by Dr. Hoyle a Member of that Irish Convocation at the Lords Ear long since published in print with the Archbishops privity if not command by Dr. Heylin in his History of the Sabbath Part. 2. chap. 8. sect 9. pag. 259. in these very tearmes And here unto they were encouraged a great deale the rather because in Ireland what time his Majesties Commissioners were employed about the settling of that Church Anno 1615. there passed an Article which much confirmed them in their courses and hath been often since alleaged to justifie both them and their proceedings the Article is this The first day of the weeke which is the Lords Day is wholy to be dedicated to the service of God and therefore we are bound therein to rest from our common and daily businesse and to bestow that leasure upon holy exercises both private publique What moved
cap. 1. and in Master Fox his Acts and Monuments pag 635. 621. Whereupon those Annotations and Preambles were cut and blotted out accordingly in sundry old Bibles yet extant Yea the first Booke in the Roman Indices Librorum prohibitorum in Forraigne parts is the Bible of some Translations especially Bibles in the Vulgar Tongue with Notes and Prologues the Bibles of Rob. Stephanus Vatablas â—agnine others though Papists with the Arguments of Raynerius upon the Psalms expresly ordered to be expunged as you may read in the Index Librorum Expurgatorum set forth by Gaspar Quiroga Archbish of Toledo Generall Inquisitor of Spaine Salmuri 1601. p. 7. to 18. 151. to 152. in Bochellus Decreta Ecclesia Gal. l. 1. Tit. 10. Delibris vetitis c. 1. 11. Dr. Iames his Index Generalis Librorum prohibitorum with others So one of the first Bookes most strictly prohibited to be printed imported or sold by this Archb was the English Geneva Bible with Marginal Notes and Prefaces though printed here in Engl. not only without the least restraint but Cum Privilegio Regia Majestatis during all Q. Elizabeths and K. James their Reigns by the Queens and Kings Printers and since our Printers have neglected to reprint them for feare of hundering the sale of Bibles of the last Translation without Notes they have been sold without any contradiction till this Archbishop began to domineere yet no sooner was hee advanced to his Papall See but the printing importing and sale of all these Bibles with Notes was most strictly inhibited the Bibles searched for seized confiscated the importers and Sellers of them imprisoned vexed and some of them ruined in the High-Commission Court Michaell Sparke Senior deposed that himselfe and sundry other Stationers had divers of their English Bibles with Notes seized and taken from them by the Archbishops meanes which were commonly sold before his time without restraint but contradicted and suppressed by him and that himselfe with diverse others had been prosecuted in the High-Commission for selling of Bibles with Notes and some imprisoned and fined for this cause Mr. Prynne produced an Abstract of a Letter dated Septem 30. 1633. from Sir William Boswell His Majesties Agent in the Low-Countries endorsed with Mr. Dells hand and found in the Archbishops Study wherin among other accounts of his good services for the Archbishop he certified His Grace that there had beene two Impressions of English Bibles at Delfe and Amsterdam with the Geneva Notes c. Whereof he might be pleased to make such use as seemeth best for suppressing the abuse at home whether they are likewise transported under pretence of White-paper And April 14. 1638. he received another Information out of Holland from I. S. endorsed with Master Dells hand concerning the Printing of English Bibles there in Quarto and Folio with Notes in the Margent intended to bee transported thence into England A cleare Evidence that his Grace was the Originall cause of suppressing these Bibles not only at home but in fortaigne parts and all for feare the Notes in them should over-much instruct the people in the knowledge of the Scriptures which Notes though highly esteemed of in all reformed Churches and printed not onely with their Latine Bibles but with the English French Dutch German and Italian Bibles in vulgar use among them and in the Folio Bible printed in Scot. 1610 yet now they must be totally prohibited suppressed only in England by this Popish Prelate though here formerly printed Cum Privilegio and freely vended read approved used in our Church for above 60. years space together How much Impiety and Popery lies coucked in this notorious fact of his not to be paralleld by any Protestant Prelates but Popes and Popish Prelates only whom hee imitated herein wee must humbly submit to Your Lordships and all Protestants considerations In the Yeare 1631. William Beale Servant to Master Henry Gellibrand Professor of the Mathematickes at Gresham Colledge London set forth an Almanacke for that Yeare by His Masters Approbation printed for the Company of Stationers agreeing with the Kalendar before Master Fox his Acts and Monuments printed oft times by publike Authority without the least exceptions both in Queene Elizabeths King James and King Charles Reignes in which Almanacke the names of the Popish Saints Canonized by Popes and thrust into our Kalendars were omitted and the names of reall Saints and Martyrs mentioned in the Booke of Martyrs inserted just as they are in Master Foxes his Kalendar This Prelate being then Bishop of London taking great exceptions against this Almanack brought both Mr. Gellibrand and his man into the High Commission for compiling and publishing it where hee prosecuted them with great violence At the hearing of the cause it appearing to the Court that it was Verbatim the same with Mr. Foxe his authorized Kalender and that some Almanackes of this kind had formerly bin printed as tending only to the honour of our owne reall Martyrs and the disparagment onely of false Popish Saints Master Gellibrand was acquitted by Archbishop Abbot and the Generall Vote of the High-Commission Court none censuring him but this Bishop who perceiving Master Gellibrand to be acquitted He thereupon stood up in a great passion and publikely informed the Court That the Queene her selfe sent for him and specially complained to him against this Almanacke which gave great offence to those of her Religion and desired him to prosecute the Author of it and suppresse the Book and therefore he hoped he should not passe unpunished in this Court yet notwithstanding the Court acquitted him Hereupon the Bishop stood up again in a fury and said to Mr. Gellibrand Sir Remember you have made a Faction in this Court for which you ought to be punished and know that you are not yet discharged hence I will sit in your Skirts for I heare you keepe Conventicles at Gâ—esham-Colledge after your Lectures there Whereupon he gave Order for a second prosecution against him in the High-Commission which so afflicted this good man that it put him into a Feaver fit whereof he died And because the Bishop could not procure Master Gellibrand to be censured and this Almanacke burned as he desired the Papists thereupon bought up most of them and made them Martyrs by burning them in the fire All which was deposed at the Lords Bar by Mr. Gellibrand of Bread-street London and ready to be attested by sundry others had not the Bishop himselfe acknowledged the truth thereof In this Evidence there are foure things very remarkable FIrst That this Bishop was so shamelesse as to professe in open Court that in this Prosecution of Master Gellibrand hee was but the Queenes and Papists Agent proceeding thus against him at their speciall request Secondly That he was extraordinary violent if not extreamely irregular and unjust in this prosecution making no Conscience to ruine a Learned Pious Protestant without any just Cause to pleasure the Papists notwithstanding hee was generally
and prejudice of Religion grew conscious to himself that this passage if un-expunged might one day rise up in judgement against him and be applied to himselfe in after times wherefore out of a provident foresight he thought it a poynt of wisdome to expunge it But since divine providence hath brought it to publike light we conceive it will be a very good president to direct your Lordships judgement in the sentence of this Haman this Arch-Malefactor against our State and Religion The the third expunged clause was this And whereas there is not onely a law of God but even of man against Sabbath-breaking which concernes the fourth Commandement and divers against Popery which trencheth upon the first and second Commandement c. let not the other which concernes the Sabbath seem to have been consented to onely upon the importunity of a few Precise persons but never intended for execution least God set such a Memorandum upon them and you who will not be carefull of the Memento set upon that Commandement that whoso heareth of it both his eares shall tingle as stories tell us he hath done upon both Prince and People in France Denmarke yea and here in England offending in that kind Let not all the other Statutes tending towards the first and second Commandement seem meer engines of state to draw reward for toleration dispensation and connivancy least God connive not at nor dispence with such intolerable dissimulation least he make the gaine gotten by this dividing of Adoration between him and Idols to be like that of Solomens in that case which was recompenced with the losse and dividing of his Kingdome betwixt his sonne and astranger 1 Reg. 11 and 12. Chapters But ob farre be that from the State of this Iland and from you to be instruments in it And in the Margin this Note affixed to the word stories was quite purged out Greg. Turonensis Magdeburg cent 12. c. 6. at London 1583 c. in which places meaner persons working greater sporting Kings fighting battatles on the Sabbath dayes are all reported to be overthrowne and destroyed with fearfull judgements These being the onely pious Orthodox passages in all this Sermon against popery Papists Sabbath-breaking and ill Counsellours were quite crossed out with this Bishops owne hand who altered and added many things in it for the worse and all to this very purpose that the people might not take notice of any designe in forraigne parts to extirpate the Protestant Religion or to tolerate set up Popery or suspend the Lawes against it or Papists Priests and Sabbath-breakers at home whereof these Clauses gave them notice which this Doctor as had as he was foresaw world produce that devision in our Kingdom which we now experimentally suffer under threatning uttter desolation to us all these purgations in one Sermon were made by polupragmaticall Prelat before he had any legall power to license Books for the Presse 〈…〉 â—econdly we shall proceed to some higher attempts after he had gained such 〈…〉 of them even upon the publike Records of our Church 〈…〉 of 3. Jacobi ch 1. intituled An Act for a publike Thanksgiving 〈…〉 every yeere on the fifth day of November ordaineth this day to be had perpetuall remembrance that all ages to come might yeeld prayses to God for our deliverance from the most inhumane cruell and barbarous Gunpowder-plot of the Papests and hate in memory this joyfull day of deliverance Hereupon there was a speciall booke of Prayers and Thanksgiving compiled and enjoyned by authority to be used on this day in one of the prayers whereof there was this clause Root out the Babylonish and Antichristian Sect which say of Ierusalem downe with it downe with it even to the ground and to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles Magistrates of the Land with judgement and justice to cut off these workers of iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose practice is murdering of soules and bodies and to root them out of the confines of this Kingdome c. This clause continued in all these publike books without the least exception or alteration from the yeere of our Lord 1606. till 1635. and then this Arch-bishop conceiving this passage to lay an imputation and seandall First upon the profession of Romish Priests Jesuits and blood-thirsty papists by stiling them a Babylonish and Antichrian sect Secondly upon their Romish Religion whose religion is rebellion whose faith is faction Thirdly upon their Rebellious and traiterous practises in stiling them these workers of iniquity whose practice is murdering of soules and bodies Fourthly upon their persons as unfit to be tolerated in the Realm and meet to be rooted out of the confines of this Kingdom by the King Nobles and Magistrates a clause altogether inconsistent with our toleration of and his reconciliation of us our religion with them and Rome then actually intended endeavoured by this Arch-prelat and his Confederates he thereupon in the yeere 1635. caused this Book to be re-printed and altered the forementioned clauses in this ensuing forme only to gratifie the Jesuits Priests popish Recusants and take off these just charges against them and their Religion both for the time past and future by turning the edge of this prayer upon the Puritanes on whom the Papists would have fathered this their horrid treason had it taken effect Root out that Babylonish and Antichristian sect of them which say of Ierusalem c. And to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with justice and judgement to cut off those working of iniquity who turne Religion into Rebellion and faith into Faction c. Master Henry Burton in his Sermons on the fifth of November 1636. intituled For God and the King p. 130. to 142. informed the people of this most grosse alteration and charged the Arch bishop to be the Author of it aggravating his offence to the full Master Prynne doing the like in his Epistle Dedicatory to his Quench-Cole For this good service among others they were brought into the Star-chamber by the Archbishops instigation who in his Speech in that Court at their consure published by speciall command First of all confessed that he made this alteration Secondly justified the making of it because it gave offence and scandall to the Papists which ever ought to be avoyded as much as may be adding that it laid an imputation on their Religion as if it were rebell on spending sundry pages in justification of this alteration as most fitting and necessary averring that our religion and the Papists was all one and rendring three reasons why this change was made Thirdly he addes by way of justification excuse that though he made this alteration yet he did it by his Majesties command p. 33. 34. His Majesty expresly commanded me to make the Alterations and see then printed and here are both the Books with his
secure your conscience for the antiquity of the building their continued Priest-hood their daily sacrifice their satisfaction for sinne their works of merit page 62. I was withall perswaded in my conscience and so rest yet that this transcendent power and usurpation of the Roman Bishop in the spirituall and civill Regiment of the world is so farre a stranger to the Church of God as that it could be no other but the Kingdome of that man of sin which agreeable to the prediction of the holy Ghost was to be raised in the bosome of the Church for the last the most powerfull the most dangerous delusion of the christian world Verely any reall cordiall Protestant might stand amazed that an Arch-bishop's Chaplaine professing himselfe a Protestant should so farre scruple at such passages as these against the Popes supremacy in the spirituall and civill Regiment of the world and those other dangerous poynts of Popery censured in these passages but especially at this relation of Guicciardine a Popish Author concerning the Viciousnesse and Exorbitances of some Popes lives recorded by sundry other of their owne Popish Writers and that passages of this nature must not now be remembred by our Writers or suffered to passe our Presses without an Index Expurgatorius yet such was the condition and degeneracy of these times that Doctor Bray told Sir Edward Hungerford he must give way for all these offensive passages to be expunged else neither of these Treatises should be printed At which Sir Edward admiring demanded the reason why these clauses against Popery writ by his Father once a Papist to satisfie others of that Religion might not passe at this time as they did commonly in other English licensed Authors heretofore without exception Who answered that we were now in a faire way to win the Papists and therefore we must not use any harsh phrases against them adding that these passages would give offence to those of that Religion and therefore unlesse he would yeeld to have them expunged he would by no means license the Books To which Sir Edward replyed that he being his Father's Executor and trusted with his writings would never consent they should be so mangled but would have all printed or none Yet all the perswasions and friends he could use would not prevaile unlesse these clauses were omitted naught would be licensed Whereupon Sir Edward went to the Arch-bishop himselfe and acquainted him with all the premises earnestly desiring his Grace that the Treatises might be printed without these purgations which would much muilate the Treatises and prejudice the Author To whom the Arch-bishop gave this answer Sir I have many imployments and am very busie now and have trusted my Chaplaines with those things to whom you must repaire Then Sir Edward pressing him againe that they would not license them unlesse these passages were rased out the Arch-bishop answered I referre this wholy to my Chaplaines having many other imployments my selfe and therefore what they thinke fit to be done you must submit unto Whereupon these Treatises were then stopt from printing till Sir Edward some two or three yeers after got them printed at Oxford in the yeere 1639. without these expunctions or the Arch-bishop's privity Doctor Daniel Featly deposed upon Oath that he having printed seventy Sermons of his preached upon severall occasions formerly licensed for the Presse when the Book was ready to be published the Arch-bishop having notice of it sent for him to Lambeth and demanded of him whether he was not about to publish some Sermons of his owne in print who answered yes my Lord then he demanded of him whether his Sermons were licensed and whether any of his Chaplaines had perused them or not he answered that they were licensed long since when himselfe had power to license books and printed by vertue of that license and that none of his Graces Chaplaines had perused them Then the Arch-bishop said he thought being so neere a neighbour to him he would not have published any thing without acquainting him first therewith To which the Doctor answered that he intended as soone as ever the book was published to presen his Grace in the first place with one of them Then the Arch-bishop commanded him before he published these Sermons to carry them to Doctor Bray his Chaplaine to peruse to see if there were any offensive or unfitting passages in them to the end that if any such were they might be corrected or expunged To which the Doctor replied that he hoped there were no such offensive clauses in them and that the book was already printed off so as no alterations could conveniently be made therein without new printing the sheets wherein they were made yet in obedience to his Graces command he would attend Doctor Bray with his Sermons to the end he might license them before they should be published which he did accordingly Doctor Bray having read over his Sermons gelt them exceedingly and and purged out all the smart and masculine passages against both the Papists Jesuits and Arminians to his great griefe Whereupon he expostulated the matter with him why these passages of his which passed currently without exceptions at White hal before King James King Charles the University and other publike Auditories when they were preached and were highly approved of in former times might not passe the presse without an Index expurgatorius now alleaging that it would be a great injury to himselfe and much cost and prejudice to the Stationer to re-print so many whole sheets as he had altered But all this would not prevaile these passages could not suit with the present times therefore they must stand purged or the book be totally suppressed Hereupon the Doctor acquainted Sir Edmund Scot therewith by way of complaint and moved him to informe the Arch-bishop of it who answered him that he conceived it would be to no purpose to complaine for he thought the Archbishop's Chaplaines had directions from their Lord for what they did and that his Grace would not alter any thing of this kind done by his Chaplaines whereupon he submitted and complained no further and so the Stationer was enforced to re-print some sixteen or eighteen sheets anew that Doctor Bray had thus altered and purged which Master Bourne the Stationer likewise deposed to his great prejudice and cost Master Thomas White a Minister deposed that Doctor Clarke one of the Prebends of Canterbury a very learned pious Divine and one of the Translaters of the Bible leaving the copyes of diverse of his choysest Sermons written with his owne hand in his custody at his death which he desired him to see carefully printed for the publike good after his decease he thereupon in discharge of this his trust repaired to Doctor Heywood the Arch-bishop's houshold Chaplaine to peruse and authorize for the presse who receiving no lesse then forty shillings for his fee for perusing and licencing them expunged all the chiefe passages in them against the Pope
Popery to be an Antichristian Yoake Fifthly to the Hymne printed in the end of all our Psalmes and Common-prayer books From Turke and Pope defend us Lord which both would thrust out of his throne our Lord Jesus Christ thy deare Sonne and the prayer for private families bound up with our Bibles and Common-prayer-books confound Satan and Antichrist c. Sixthly to the whole torrent of our Protestant Martyrs Writers who define the Pope to be Antichrist yea the great Antichrist prophesied of in Scripture This was the direct position of our godly learned Martyr Walter Brute who maintained it in a large discourse recorded by Master Fox in his Acts and Monuments edit 1641. vol. I. p. 622. to 632. of our English Apostle Iohn Wickliffe Fox ibid. p. 594. justified by John Hus and Joan Wicklif Dialog l. 4. c. 15. Rich. Wimbledon in his Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse anno 1389. Fox vol. 1. p. 718. Sir Geofry Chaucer in his Plough-mans Tale Lucifers letters to the Prelats of England supposed to be written by William Swinderly Martyr Fox Acts and Monuments edit 1610. p. 482. 483. Sir Iohn Oldeastle that famous Knight and Martyr Fox ibid. p. 417. 418. Pierce Ploughman his complaint of the abuses of the World Fox ibid. 1. edit 1641. p. 520. to 532. Mr. Wil. Tyndall a godly learned Martyr in his Obedience of a Christian man p. 214. 215 c. in his Revelation of Antichrist and Practice of Popish Prelats The Author of the image of a very christian Bishop and of a counterfeit Bishop printed about the yeere 1538. Rodericke Mors his complaint to the Parliament of England about 37 of King Henry 8. c. 23 24. William Wraughter his Hunting and resening of the Romish Fox dedicated to King Henry the eighth Henry Stalbridge his Exhortatory Epistle to his dearly beloved Country of England in King Henry the eighth his Reigne Iohn Bale Bishop of Osyris in his Image of both Churches and Scriptorum Illustrium Brittaâ—dae p. 33. 116. 117. 161. 286. 287. 471. 481. 633. to 640. 647. 702. de Vitis Ponrificum Romanorum Father Latymer Master Bilney Master Rogers Shetterdon and other of our Martyrs William Alley Bishop of Exeter in his Poore mans Library part 1. sol 56. Bishop Iewell in his Defence of the Apology of the Church of England p. 593. 449. 480. to 497. 508. and Reply to Harding p. 220. to 230. Master Thomas Beacon his Acts of Christ and Antichrist his Supplication unto Christ his Reports of Certaine men Reliques of Rome Master Iohn Fox in his Meditations upon the Apocalips Bishop Bilson in his book of Christian Subjection and unchristian Rebellion Doctor Whitaker Doctor Robert Abbot Bishop of Sarum Doctor George Downham Bishop of Derry Doctor Beard Master Powel Doctor Willet Doctor Fulke Doctor Sutcliffe Doctor Sharp Master Squire in their severall Treatises and discourses concerning Antichrist Doctor Iohn White in his way to the true Church Sect. 61. Num. 4. Master Brightman upon the Revelation Doctor Crakenthorpe his defence of Constantine and of the Popes temporall Monarchy and generally all other our eminentest English Writers of any note till this Arch-bishops reigne have positively defined the Pope and Papacy to be the great Antichrist and proved the same at large We shall close up this with two of the Arch-bishops predecessors resolutions in this point The first is Arch-bishop Cranmer who as he refused to move or stirre his cap to the Popes Commissioners when he was converted before them for his Religion so he likewise professedly averred the Pope to be the Artichrist in these very termes recorded by Master Fox in his Acts and Monuments Vol. 3. Edit 1641. p. 653. 660. 661. The Bishop of Rome unlesse he be Antichrist I cannot tell what to make of him wherefore if I should obey him I cannot obey Christ he is like the Devill in his doings for the Devill said to Christ If thou wilt fall downe and worship me I will give thee all the Kingdomes of the world thus he tooke upon him to give that which was not his owne even so the Bishop of Rome giveth Princes their Crownes being none of his owne for where Princes either by election either by succession either by inheritance obtaine their Crowne he saith that they should have it from him Christ saith that Antichrist shall be and who shall he be forsooth he that advanceth himselfe above all other creatures Now if there be none already that hath advanced himselfe after such sort besides the Pope then in the mean time let him be Antichrist c. After which he desired all them present to beare him witnesse that he tooke the traditions and Religion of that usurping Prelat to be most erronious false and against the doctrine of the whole Scripture which he had often times wel proved by writing and the author of the same to be very Antichrist so often preached of by the Apostles Prophets in whom did most evidently concur al signes and tokens whereby he was painted out to the world to be known for it was most evident that he had advanced himselfe above all Emperours and Kings of the world whom he affirmed to hold their estates and Empires of him as of their chiefe c. He hath brought in gods of his owne framing and invented a new Religion full of gaine and lucre quite contrary to the holy Scriptures onely for the maintaining of his Kingdome displacing Christ from his glory and holding his people in a miserable servitude of blindnesse to the losse of a great number of soules which God at the latter day shall exact at his hand boasting many times in his canons and decrees that he can dispence contra Petrum contra Paulum contra vetus novum testamentum and that he plenitudine potestatis tantum prtesi quantum Deus that is against Peter against Paul against the old and new Testament and of the fulnesse of power may doe as much as God O Lord who ever heard such blasphemy if there be any man that can advance himselfe above him let him be judged Antichrist This enemy of God and our Redemption is so evidently painted out of the Scriptures by such manifest signes and tokens which all so cleerly appeare in him that except a man will shut up his eyes and heart against the light he cannot but know him and therefore for my part I will never give my consent to the receiving of him into this Church of England thus Cranmer resigned at his death This Arch-prelat therefore hath shut his eyes and heart against this shining truth in his godly Predecessors judgement who not onely doubts but denies the Pope to be the Antichrist The second is Arch-bishop Whitguift who when he commenced Doctor and answered the Divinity act at Cambridge anno 1569. publikely maintained this assertion in the Schooles Papa est ille Ancichristus as Sir George Paul records in his life p. 5. which this Arch-bishops immediate Predecessor Abbot
Clerks Sermons page 237. after the word wickednesse these words are blotted out Becket did 't is in his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sinne I fetch his name from Hebrew because I have read his father was a Jew he sinned against his Country and his King betrayed both to the Pope and dyed though not directly yet deservedly In Master Wards Comentary upon Matthew fol. 178. the last line but two this is gelded out Where a Papist prayes to any Saint in Heaven for sometimes they pray to those who in all probability are in hell as Thomas Becket Hildebrand and divers cheating Impostors Doctor Featlies Clavis Mystica page 604. Postremum genus eorum est qui oves Christi pascunt sed cibo insalubri quo magis inficiuntur quam reficiuntur Christi oves agnique eorum dico qui floribus fructibus Paradisi aut noxias herb as admiscent aut flores Adonidis adspergunt cujusmodi sunt ista dogmata Vires liberi arbitrij ab Adami lapsu ad bonum spirituale fract as debilitat as non penitus profligatas amissas labem originis nemini unquam fraudi fuisse unumquemque enim suum scelus luere Gratiam novo foedere promissam omnibus expositam esse nec cuiquam unquam defuisse nisi qui ei defuerit imputatam Christi justiciam absque inhaerente non plus prodesse quam inducium candidum Aethiopi superinductum fiduciam salutis propria a praesumptione parum aut nihil differre Genevates Presbyterianos infestiores Ecclesiae hostes quam Pontificios Calvinum in commentariis foede Hallucinari non unquam ut ipsorum verbis utar Judainare in multis Arrianizare quid hoc sibi vult calumniae nunquid Calvinus ejusque discipuli qui in Arrianos non stilum modo sed gladium strinxere nuper evaserunt Arriani quam praepostere a Bellarminus Pontificiorum Corypheus hanc notam a quibusdam imperitis ipsisque adeo Papistis Calvino inustam eluit qui religionis reformatae vindices audire volunt banc ei notam inurunt Doctor Iones his Comentary on the Hebrewes in the written copy page 150. As for the calling of Luther Calvin Beza and of the Ministers of the Gospell it is watrantable by the Word we can shew our letters of Orders from Jesus Christ the great Bishop of our soules 16. Passages deleted concerning Bishops IN Doctor Clarks Sermons page 173. the Licenser hath put out these words Why may I not adde a Bishop too let another take his Bishopricke sayes Saint Peter in the Acts and meanes it of Iudas Idem page 398. after Amasiah these words Arch-bishop of that Province are blotted out Doctor Iones his Comentary on the Hebrewes in the written Copy page 138. It may be Bishops and Arch-bishops have little feeling of the burden poore Ministers in the Country are faine to sustaine 17. Passages expunged against the Blindnesse Superstition Idolatrous Pompous worship and Adoration of Papists prophane persons Popish Saints Reliques IN Master Wards Comentary on Matthew page 35. 36. written copy this passage is evpunged What blindnesse are we subject unto without Christ There is a double blindnesse which men are subject and incident unto to wit First the blindnesse of Superstition which is apparently seen in the Papists who first teach us to worship Demoniacks or damned soules in hell or traitors as Thomas Recket and impious Gregory the seventh called Heldibrand And secondly teacheth us to worship Chimeâ—â—es fictious and things that never were in rerum natura Thus they teach us to worship Saint Christopher Sanit George Saint Katherine and many hundreds more which cannot be proved to have been or at least not Saints but some of them grand impostors Thirdly they teach us to worship vile and base things as peeces of rotten wood making then beleeve they were peeces of Christs Crosse and old thred-bare garments for some sacred Vestments although the Priests themselves knew them to be otherwise yea the Eucharisticall wafer-cakes although they have been consecrated flightly the Priest thinking of some other thing else and not intending the consecration thereof which according to their owne doctrine is not then transubstantiated and therfore is palpable idolatry to fal down to a bare piece of bread Fourthly they teach us to place Religion in outward things as in the observation of dayes meats apparrell and the like Col. 2. 17. 18. None of all which things we are taught to doe in the Word of God and therefore we had need beware of this blindnesse of superstition Secondly there is a blindnesse of prophanenesse which is twofold to wit either Pura negationis or Pravae dispositionis i. e. either naturall or affected ignorance First there is in us a naturall ignorance we by nature not knowing those things which concerne the glory of God or our owne salvation and this blindnesse is in all even in the elect untill they be enlightned by the Spirit of God Secondly there is an affected ignorance when men refuse the meanes of knowledge like those deafe Adders that stop their eares against the voyce of the charmer charme he never so wisely Now this blindnesse of heart is also in every man by nature for as naturally we know not our duty towards God so naturally we desire not the knowledge thereof but are backward and negligent in the use of those meanes which God hath appointed for the curing of this blindnesse And this Ibidem page 365. Because our Saviour doth acknowledge the powring of this precious oyntment upon him to be a good work it may therefore be demanded if the Papists doe not well who worship the Lord in great cost and pomp First Christ praysed the precious oyntment not as an ordinary worship which should alwayes afterwards he imitated but onely as a singular ministery of his funerall ver 12. shee did it for my buriall But Christ now is ascended into Heaven and is no more to be buried and therefore this fact of Maries will he no ground for the Popish pompom worship Secondly the Popish pompous worship is full of superstition and idolatry but in this anointing there was none and therefore it will not support their pomp Thirdly when Christ departed from the world to Heaven he left behind him in his stead the poore commanding us to honour him by our bounty toward them and therefore if we would bestow our liberality aright we should enrich or refresh with our substance the poore members of Christ for he doth accept of that which is done unto them as done unto himselfe Heb. 13. 16. 18. Passages deleted against Superstitious Popish Ceremonies and the abolition of them IN Master Wards Comentary upon Matthew page 212. this clause is obliteraned Adde nothing unto the Word of God neither first the chaffe of Superstition with the Papists neither secondly Machiavillianisme and unwarrantable policy with some statists neither thirdly new opinions Secondly indeed if any ceremony which our Church useth should be
but very poore faine to fetch instance from hell Dives prayed for his brethren Bellarmine's reason worthy a Cardinals hat Happily In Master Wards Comentary on Matthew page 82. this is gelded out When a Papist prayeth to any Saint in heaven for sometimes they pray to those who in all probability are in hell as Thomas Becket Hildebrand and divers cheating impostors Ibip page 164. 161. 168. 169. this is deleted Let those therefore who call upon the name of the Lord depart from all iniquity and let them labour to abound in all vertues both morall and theologicall that so our profession may be praised both of prophane and civill men Thirdly the Papists have Rimes which must be said over three or four times every day certainly with a little paines a man might make a good Parret a good Papist for he might be taught all this therefore they were forced to cry much and long The Papists say prayer is a Meritorious work as hath been elsewhere shewed Against which we urge this place thus we must not pray as the heathen did for they thought to be heard for the merit of their long prayers therefore it becommeth not Christians to pray with any opinion to be heard Answ 2. Spirituall graces are to be demanded before temporall good Thirdly we have no true right unto temporall things nor proper interest in them nor any true warrant to beg them untill we be converted and therefore temporall things are not first to be desired Our Saviour teacheth onely those to pray for temporall blessings that can call God father as we see in the preface of the Lords Prayer which we cannot doe aright untill we be converted Ibidem page 341. this is deleted Object It is controverted betwixt us and the Papists concerning the formes of Churches and Bellarmine affirmes that they should be built East and West that so when we pray therein our faces might be turned towards the East and for the proose hereof he produceth this place Ab oriente venturus ereditur ad judicium It is beleeved that Christ will come unto judgement from the East therefore we ought to pray towards the East Answ First creditur it is beleeved saith he namely by those who can beleeve what they list though never so absurd c. See page 299. 60. Passages obliterated concerning Predestination Gods Decree and Reprobation See Election page 303. IN Master Ward 's Comentary on Mathew in the writen copy fol. 172. this clause is expunged How is the Kingdome of God attained unto First the foundation of it is the eternall love of God Secondly from this love proceedes the Decree of Predestination Thirdly from this Decree followes Redemption wrought by Christ Fourthly thence followes the Promises of the Gospell applying Christ to our hearts Fistly and lastly followes Faith which apprehends both the Promises and Christ What reason can there be that God should prepare vessels unto dishonor How can God create men to destroy them I Answer Neither is reason dumbe here but can speake something in Gods behalfe viz. First we for our food kill Sheep Oxen Birds and Fowle who never wronged vs yea for this end we fat and cram them although we did not create them How much more then may God destroy a creature which he hath made and for his glory passe by a man who hath infinitely offended him Secondly Artificers often make peeces of worke and breake them againe for the praise of their skill and Art why then may not the Lord doe so Obj. God gave nothing unto man but a being therefore it was unjust to doe more unto him then to take away his being God who created man of nothing or of earth might justly have reduced him againe to his first matter but not make him worse then he was now to be damned is much worse then not to be I answer Artificers and Craftsmen make vessels for their owne service yea even to serue for base offices and that for a long time yea even for ever if they and their vessels could endure for ever And therefore why should we dispute against God Saint Paul durst not doe it Rom. 9. 13. c. What reason is there that God should condemne us for Adams fault Reason answers That for treason against the King the Father is beheaded and the children disinherited yea because old Wolves and Foxes endanger and injure us therefore we kill the young ones that never harmed us because they are of a ravenous nature also and will doe hurt if they live why then should we plead against God c. See more of this Sect. 25. concerning Election In Doctor Clerk's Sermons page 91. l. 12. after these words Saint Ambrose doth warrant it should follow this large discourse of Predestination which the Licenser hath totally expunged I will not be peremptory in so perplex a Question as is Predestination I will say as I conceive it and submit me to your censure In the great Councell in Heaven why name I heaven heaven was not yet God meaning to make manifest both his justice and his grace to the world which he purposed to create in time for the glory of them both out of the whole masse of man selected some and refused the rest whom his mercy pretermitted those his justice predessigned unto damnation but whom his love elected those his grace ordained to finall salvation The Tragick Poet could say God whom he loveth he saveth what then his grace fore-purposeth his power in time effecteth and his wisdome manages and marshalleth all the meanes salvation onely is the end intended by his grace but the meanes are many that might come between Grace hath a golden chaine of many links salvation the last but so fastened to his fellows that it cannot fail adoption redemption regeneration vocation justification sanctification adoption to the right and title of Gods sonnes redemption from death regeneration by baptisme vocation by the Gospell iustification by faith sanctification by the spirit all these Paul hath omitted and named but the last both as the most comfortable and to which all the rest doe purposely tend Damnation is the doome decreed to the reprobate Gods justice sentenceth them but how and in what order I list not to discourse for offending of weak consciences For the execution of which sentence there was ordained death and hell and satan and the evill day death to attend them hell to enjoy them satan to torment them and the evill day to judge and deliver them The Elect also doe deserve that doome Gods curse is justly incurred by their sinne but Gods goodnesse travelled with good which decreed they should be saved Aske me not the Question why God Almighty dealt not equally with all It is already answered God is just as well as gracious Had he saved all where then were his justice had he damned all where then were his grace Reply not in thy reason that God had he so pleased might have been both just and gracious
protection under the privy Signet held familiar intelligence with Cardinal Barbarino and Panzani Con Rossetti the Popes Nuncioes during their abode in England sends two of his sons to Rome in their travels where this Cardinall entertains them with all curtesie and respect for their Fathers sake and sends sundry Letters to Con from Rome in one of their Trunks all which being largely proved and published to the world in other Impressions we shall but point at here First For Windebank's release of Priests and Jesuits for which he was impeached by the Parliament and fled the Kingdom we have elswhere given you a Catalogue of 27. Priests discharged by him out of prison the Original Warrants for whose discharge we have ready to produce under his hand and printed the Copies of them we shall mention only one or two Warrants wherein this Archbishop concurred with Windebank in the release of two popish Priests from their prisons though we never heard of such a favour extended by him to any Puritan or Zealot against Papists whom he shut up close prisoners even in forraign parts from Wives Children Friends and all humane comforts The first is a Warrant for the release of one Robert Hais a Priest so proved upon Oath by Master Thomas Mayo a Pursevant dated 13. Decemb. 1633. the Originall whereof under Seal was read At Whitehall the 18. of December 1633. present Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Cottington c. Archbishop of York c. Master Secretary Windebank WHereas a Petition was this day presented to the Board by Robert Hais prisoner in the New-prison shewing that the Petitioner is much impoverished in his estate by his long imprisonment and is now grown so weak through infirmities that unlesse by their Lorships favour he may enjoy the benefit of fresh ayre for the recovery of his health his life is in great danger and therefore made humble suit to be discharged from prison for preservation of his life aforesaid upon good security to attend the Board within ten days after notice in that behalfe Forasmuch as his Petition was recommended to the Board BY THE QUEENS MAJESTY their Lordships doe think fit and order that the said Hais first giving good security to attend the Board within ten dayes after notice given as aforesaid shall be discharged from his imprisonment and enjoy his liberty without molestation or trouble of any Messengers or other his Majesties Officers whatsoever whereof the Keeper of the said prison and all other whom it may concern are to take notice Ex. WIL. BECHER The second is a Warrant for the enlarging of William Walgrave deposed to be a dangerous seducing Priest by Master Francis Newton subscribed with the Archbishops own hand and others the Original whereof was produced These are to will and command you to set at full liberty the person of William Walgrave formerly committed to your custody and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Dated at Star-chamber the last of January 1633. Wil. Cant. R. Ebor c. Secondly for Letters of grace and protection granted by Windebank under the Privy Signet for the stay of all proceedings against Recusants and suspension of penall Laws against them there are multitudes of them printed by Authority of Parliament in the Popish Royall Favourite to which we shall remit the Reader Thirdly for his holding intelligence with the Popes Nuncioes Cardinal Barbarino Jesuits Priests and dangerous Papists with his sons resort to and entertainment at Rome we shall evidence it by these ensuing Letters the Originals whereof under hand and seal endorsed with Secretary Windebanks own hand were produced and read at the Lords Bar. The first is a letter written from Rome it selfe from Gregorio Panzani the Popes first Nuncio sent thence into England dated May 31. 1637. wherein he returnes harty thanks to this Secretary for the many favours he daily received from him whiles he was Nuncio in England in behalfe of the poore Catholicks makes mention of his Sonnes being entertainment at Rome and Cardinall Barbarino his extraordinary commendations of them the Originall whereof was shewed written in Italian and a true translated copy thereof attested upon oath by one Master Godfry read in these ensuing words Most Excellent Sir Patron most honoured I Would have contained my selfe from writing to your most illustrious Lordship for feare of being some impediment I knowing your many occupations but I having heard from many persons in particular by letters of Segnior Francisco sometimes my Secretary the honourable mention that otherwhiles your most illustrious Lordship is wont to make of any person and having also oftentimes understood from your most famous Segnior Cavaliere Hamilton and from Father John the Benedictin how much your most illustrious Lordship straineth your selfe in favouring of me I have been forced to commit this rude civility taking in hand my Pen to give you trouble I assure your most famous Lordship that I live so much obliged to you that I shall never be able to pretend to satisfie one and the least particle of that which I owe seeing that during my abode in London most rare were those dayes in which I did not receive from your most illustrious Lordship some grace in the behalfe and favour of the poore Catholicks I must also congratulate my selfe with your most famous Lordship concerning the most noble manners and behaviours of your Lordships Sonnes the which with their singular modesty and other most lavdable vertues have gained such an opinion amongst them that have knowne them in this Court that I could never be able to expresse it and the Lord Cardinall Barbarino in particular cannot satiate himselfe in praising them It grieves me not to have had the fortune to meet with them in this Citie because willingly I would have attested my devotion towards your most famous Lordship to the which and to all your most illustrious Family I rest desiring eternall felicity from heaven in the meane while I humbly intreat you to favour me with some Commandement and I kisse your hands Your most illustrious Lordships most devoted and most obliged Servant GREG PANZANI From Rome the 31. of May 1637. This Letter is most full and punctuall to prove Secretary Windebanks intelligence and correspondence with Rome the Pope and his Agents The second is a Letter from Father Joseph then a kind of Confessor to the French King by whose special command it was writ Confessor afterwards to our Queen and one of the Capucines in Somerset-House written from Paris in Italian to Secretary Windebank the translation whereof into English by Master Godfrey who attested the truth of it upon oath was read as followeth Most excellent Sir My Patron most worshipfull I Should be too much wanting in my duty if I did not render my most humble thanks to your Excellency having after so many other favours conferred upon our Mission received for a compleat height the singular proof of your affection in the delivery of our
thus enlarged one Davis brought him four pound in money from the said Archbishop as he told him towards the payment of his fees And he further deposed that he hath often met Father Price a Priest Superiour of the English Benedictines and Father Leander a Benedictine Monk and Priest going as themselves said and confessed to Lambeth to the Archbishop to see and speak with him which they oft times spake in a vanting manner and that Leander was commonly reported to have been the Archbishops Chamber-fellow in Oxford That Smith alias Loyd the Jesuit did usually meet at the Lord Cottingtons house in Breadstreet at a Juncto every Friday night where were usually present the said Lord Sir Toby Matthew the Spanish Embassadour Sir Arthur Hopton Endimion Porter James Hammond a great Papist and Secretary Windebank Which Juncto sometimes met at Sir Arthur Hoptons house in the Pallace-Yard at Westminster Francis Newton of Saint Giles Creplegate London Gent. deposed both in writing and by word of mouth at the Lords Bar that he by vertue of a generall Warrant from the Lords of the Counsel for the apprehending of Jesuits and popish Priests among others apprehended one Henry Morse a grand Jesuit and great seducer of his Majesties Subjects who had perverted 500. persons in and about London as appeared by certificats at his Triall who being like to be discharged before his Triall this Deponent by the appointment of Secretary Cooke the Lord Keeper Coventry and Lord Privy-Seale repaired to Lambeth to the Archbishop to desire him to give this Deponent order that the said Morse might not be discharged they saying it is now time to look about us so many being seduced by one person Whereupon he repairing to Lambeth desired Master Dell the Archbishops Secretary to help him to speak with the Archbishop from these Lords about the Priests discharge Master Dell answered that the Archbishop was busie with Sir Toby Matthews commonly reputed a Jesuit and an arch-intelligencer of Rome in the Garden and this Deponent being earnest with Master Dell to have an answer from the Archbishop to return to the Lords he brought answer from him That the Deponent should bring him the next day before the Councell-booâ—d and sent Dell the next morning to Master Secretary Cooke to know whether he had sent the Deponent to him or no. After which the said Priest being sent to Newgate and arraigned upon two Bils found against him was by Order form the King put by his judgement and soone after released He further depâ—sed that one Henry Loyd alias Francis Smith alias Rivers alias Sinâ—us Provinciall of the Jesuites and a chiefe actor in the Gunpowder-treason as this deponent was informed by one Stukely a Priest who bid this deponent remember him of 5. die Novembris meaning the Gunpowder-plot was by the Deponent and one Tho Mayo Indited and Out-lawd of High-treason and afterwards being protected by Secretary Windebank from the arrests of Messengers this Deponent oftentimes meeting of him in the streets on horsback and telling him that a sledg and three horses were fitter for him then one horse to ride on he replyed some two or three times when the Deponent used these speeches holding up his finger well Newton you rogue I have done your arrand to my Lords grace of Cant. already and shall do it to Secr. Windebank also And he deposed that he hath seen the said Jesuit once at Lambeth-house and there entertained by Mr Del the Archb Secretary in a room neer the Archbishops Study where being in familiar conference with the said Mr Del he did whisper to him often cast an eye toward this Depont as if he were speaking of him He likewise further deposed that he hath oft times seen the said Smith the Jesuit at Secr. Windebanks house talking very familiarly w th him and clapping him on the back that he met divers times sundry of the imprisoned popish Priests freely walking without a keeper in Grays-Inne walks and in other places and that they lay abroad out of prison in Towne and in the Country many weeks together he hath gone into the Newprison Clinck where there were about 20 Priests imprisoned and found not above one or two there Richard Dâ—unel Gent. deposed upon oath that he being a prisoner in the New-prison some yeers since the Priests and Jesuits committed thither by the Archbi had the best rooms in the prison a Cook Steward and coÌ„mon table at which they dicted al together Masse said in their chambers divers Ladies GentlemeÌ„ in â—â—â—ches frequently visiting them without restraint and great store of Venison sent them in its season when as Mr Huntly and other godly Ministers there imprisoned by the Archb. were thrust into the worst lodgings denied liberty to diâ—â— together and were not suffered to goe out of prison upon any occasion but with a costly keeper attending on them though they had given bond for their true imprisonment neither had their friends free accesse to them but were many times questioned and restrained Thomas Mayo a Messenger of Saint Andrewes Holborne testified upon Oath That about nine yeers since the Archbishop of Canterbury having committed one John Evans a Minister to the Gate-house for printing of Bils setting forth the use of the Antimonial Cup he did thereupon repaire with a Petition in his behalfe to the Archbishops house at Lambeth where he then saw Master Henry Moore and Henry Loyd alias Smith two dangerous Jesuits in the great Chamber above stairs neer the Archbishops Study waiting there as he conceiveth to speak with the said Archbishop and very familiarly entertained in discourse by Master Dell who carried himselfe very respectively towards them which he well remembreth for that he then delivered an Antimoniall Cup to the said Master Dell to be delivered to the Archbishop from Master Evans And he further deposed that he hath often seen Sir Toby Matthewes whom this Deponent hath seen in Saint Johns Colledge in Lovain in Brabant who there was reputed a Jesuit at Lambeth house and there walking in a friendly manner with the said Archbishop and at other times hath seen Sir Toby riding with him in his Coach once in the Strand and passing with him in his Barge from White-hall to Lambeth that he often assisting other Messengers to discover and apprehend Priests and finding some neglect in them in that service did thereupon desire the said Archbishop That he might have a Warrant for himselfe to apprehend Priests and Jesuits To which the said Archbishop answered You are too hot and nimble for that service saying He had Messengers enough already and refused to grant his request And withall by order from the said Archbishop he was imployed to attend popish Ambassadours houses Denmark-house and the Popes Nuncioes Lodging to view and returne unto him the number of popish Priests and Recusants which resorted thither to Masse which accordingly he did every Munday for the space of halfe a yeer and more
such trifling matters Whereupon Gray said He hoped to see better days for he saw now how the game went The next day after Gray was sent for by a Messenger to the Counsel Table and then the Archbishop said at the Table This fellow railed on me and bid them have him away whereupon Gray was committed to the Fleet where he lay twelve weeks upon the Archbishops complaint and after that seven weeks more by Secretary Windebanks Warrant who refused to release him unlesse he would give bond and bail never to prosecute Priests and Jesuits more He further deposed that in his hearing one Loyd a dangerous Jesuit desired Sir Kenelm Digby to tell the Bishop of Canterbury that he could not that day dine with him and bid him remember his love to the Archbishop and desire him to be mindfull of the businesse that they and he had formerly speech about And that he hath often seen the said Loyd Sir Kenelm Digby Sir Toby Matthews and one Gray a great Papist at Lambeth at the Archbishops house Master Thomas Thacher of Barkin Parish London attested upon Oath That he having a Warrant from the High Commissioners to apprehend popish Priests and Jesuits did by vertue thereof apprehend Master Henry Morse a Jesuit and one Gârdiner a Priest great seducers who being committed to Newgate were soon after discharged thence by Secretary Windebank's Warrant to whom he repairing for his fees the said Secretary demanding a sight of his Warrant which he shewed detained it from him and would not restore the same Whereupon he repaired to the Archbishop and desired of him a new Warrant to apprehend Priests and Jesuits who thereupon told him That Secretary Windebank had complained of this Deponent to the Queen and demanded of him if he kept not company with one Gray who gave him intelligence of the persons and lodgings of Priests and Jesuits and wished him not to keep company with him any more for if he did he would lay him by the heels and turn him out of his Place He further deposed that he having a speciall Warrant from the Lords of the Counsel for the apprehending of Sir Toby Matthew a dangerous Papist and apprehending him accordingly the late Lord Strafford Deputy of Ireland sent for this Deponent to bring Sir Toby to him which he did who thereupon discharged Sir Toby by word of mouth and promised to save the Deponent harmlesse who thereupon repairing to the Archbishop acquainted him therewith the Archbishop said it is well I shall speak with him anon John Egerton of the Minories deposed That he being at Lambeth-house upon occasion did see Sir Toby Matthew there two severall times with the Archbishop That he being one of the Searchers of the Custom-house in London did on the 28. of December 1633. seize four hundred Popish books in English written by one Lewes of Puente a Jesuit with divers popish Primmers and Catechismes brought over from beyond the Seas to seduce his Majesties Subjects contrary to the statute of 3 Jacobis cap. 5. which gives the forfeiture of 40s. for every Book so imported against the Importers of them Which Books he carried to the now Archbishop of Canterbury who commanded him to deliver them to Master Mottershead Register of the High Commission which he did and that about a fortnight after he comming to the said Mottershead to demand satisfaction for his pains and charge in seizing the said Books and demanding of him where the said Books were he answered and affirmed to the Deponent That he had delivered them to the owners of them by the Archbishops direction and command and Motteshead appointed him only forty shillings for his pains when the charge he had been at in carrying them from place to place cost him five pounds After which he was troubled in the High Commission for importing English Bibles and there put from his Searchers place imprisoned and fined two hundred pounds when as the Importers of popish books were never questioned In the yeer 1640. May 16. upon the Letter of Doctor Thomas Weeks Chaplain both to the Archbishop and Bishop of London there were eleven Cases of popish Books belonging to one John Weld a Popish Recusant and others delivered out of the Custom-house where they were seized to the owners to be dispersed to seduce his Majesties people contrary to the Statute as Master Jones Master Dent and others of the Custom-house attested under their hands Viz. Holy Courts 456. Key of Paradice 603. Manuels 661. The life of Eleazar Count of Sabri◠259. The following of Christ 116. Popish Catechismes 344. dozens Fronts for Altars 39. Ladies Psalters 24. The Mirrour of new Reformation 134. Offices of our Lady 558. Masse books 9. and two great ones more The Devout heart 101. Vade Mecum 276. A Method to serve our Lady 570. Most of these were very richly bound up and some of them delivered to Knight the Register of the High Commission by the Archbishops order and by him restored to the owners when as on the contrary he was very strict in seizing all puritanicall Books and punishing the dispersers of them witnesse this his subscription to the Petition of one Francis Wallis Gentleman who complaining to him against one Thomas Abbis of London for selling and transporting beyond the Seas an Abstract of the Laws of New-England The whole proceedings against Doctor Bastwick Master Burton and Master Prynne and against the Bishop of Lincoln the Archbishop subscribed it in this sort I desire Sir John Lambe to be very carefull of this businesse and that he imploy a trusty and discreet Messenger for the apprehending of the party here complained of and seizing his Books and let me have an account thereof March 14. 1637. W. CANT For the Archbishops intimacy with Doctor Smith the Bishop of Calcedon we have no direct proof at hand but two very suspicious passages in his own Diary which seem to intimate it wherein we read as followeth Jan. 26. 1631. My neerer acquaintance began to settlewith D◠S. I pray God blesse us in it June 25. 1632. Do. S. with me c. Cum Ma. Which Do. S. we conceive to signifie either Smith the Arch-Jesuit of whose familiarity with him the former witnesses have deposed or Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon with whom if not this Archbishop yet his Minion Secretary Windebank at least held strict intelligence as appeares by this Originall Letter to his Sonne at Paris under his owne Hand and Seale found among his sequestred Papers by MASTER PRYNNE TOm c. If you see Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon there who is a great Confident of the Cardinals he may be A FIT INSTRUMENT TO MAKE SOME DISCOVERY OF THE INTELLIGENCE THE SCOTS HOLD THERE but this must be done with great caution Your very loving Father FRANCIS WINDEBANK Drury-Lane Decemb. 12. 1630. The benefit of this intelligence being principally to redound to the Archbishop the originall cause and grand fomenter of the Scottish
and had as great an influence upon it if not power and activity in it as in Oxford giving all encouragement to the Arminian party there advancing them to Headships and other preferments For the Considerations they are written with his owne hand savour of his stile spirit That Bishop Harsnet was the compiler of them is but his owne averment without proofe or probability and admit they were his in the penning yet certainly they were his owne in the contriving executing and so were the Instructions though drawne up in his Majesties name and sent to Archbishop Abbot who must be ordered to send them inclosed in a Letter unto him onely to colour the Plot as if it were not his whereas the Originall under his owne hand discovers the contrary Fiftly the purging of those objected innocent orthodox passages even out of two Bishops Letters by his Chaplaine was certainly by his owne command else his Chaplaine durst not be so bold with his Superiours of such note and eminency who if they consented to this purgation at all it was onely as Mariners consent to throw over some of their goods into the Sea in a storme least the whole Ship and fraight should be lost either this must be expunged or the whole Book suppressed and all under pretext of his Majesties Declaration and the Churches peace neither of which could restaine Arminian Books from the Presse And whether the Stationer Butter deserved to be imprisoned without Baile or Mainprize in the Fleet to be Articled against in the high Commission to sustaine the losse of all his Books and suffer other penalties for printing these passages the best part of his Book without which the Letters themselves were meere Ciphers fragments let the indifferent judge till the Archbishop can produce an Arminian Stationer punished in this sort for printing Arminian Treatises contrary to the Kings Proclamation and Declaration Sixtly our Evidence sufficiently proves that the revocation of the Articles of Ireland proceeded orinally from him who was virtually though not corporally present there in Doctor Bramhall Master Chapple and his other Arminian instruments and the Lord Deputy Wentworth who had neither power nor malice sufficient to effect such an Arch-exploit without his omnipotent concurrence and abuse of his Majesties authority For that of King James that he never censured Arminius for an Heretick nor his opinions for Heresie but onely Vorstius the contrary is most apparent by his very words in his Declaration against Vorstius pag. 15. to 33. where he stiles Arminius that Enemy of God Arminianisme HERESIE Arminians Heretiks and Atheisticall Sectaries Bertius his Book of the Apostacy of the Saints a blasphemous Book and this his Doctrine a wicked Doctrine an abominable Heresie So that all particulars of this his heavy Charge stick still fast upon him Tenthly I am charged with various attempts and endeavours to undermine the true Protestant Religion established in our Churches and set up Popery in its stead by maintaining Printing publishing all kind of doctrinall points of Popery and hindering all publike opposition against them which generall was branched forth into sundry particulars which I shall answer in their Order The first is The authorizing printing dispersing of sundry popish Doctrines Books and the prohibiting the contary impressions to refute them by vertue of a Decree made in Star-Chamber by my Procurement the 1. of July 1637. by colour whereof it is objected divers old printed Books were prohibited to be reprinted imported as the English Geneva Bible with marginall Notes the printing whereof I endeavoured to suppresse abroad in the Netherlands as well as at home The questioning of Master Gellibrand in the high Commission for his mans publishing an Almanack according to Master Fox his Calander in the Book of Martyrs wherein our English Martyrs names were inserted in stead of popish Saints whom Doctor Pocklington abused in print my checking threatning of Mistris Griffin for reprinting Thomas Beacons Display of the Poposh Masse my calling in of the Palsgraves Religion the deniall of reprinting Master Fox his Acts and Monuments Bishop Jewels Works and some part of Doctor Willets for refusing to license new Books against Popish errours and calling in of Mr. Prynnes Master Burtons and others Books against popery yea questioning them with sundry Printers and Stationers in the high Commission for printing publishing Books against the Papists and Arminians my licensing countenancing divers popish bookes lately printed dispersed to infect and poyson his Majesties people with popish errours as Francis Sales his Book Christs Epistle to a devout Soule Bishop Mountagues Doctor Pocklingtons Doctor Heylins Doctor Lawrences Reeves Shelfords Chownaeus Staffords Books and Sermons The lives of the Emperours the popish Index Biblicus my owne Speech in Star-chamber and others wherein divers grosse points of popery and superstition mustered up under divers heads are comprized many of which were complained of by Master Prynne in his Crosse Bill in Star-Chamber suppressed by my meanes and by Master Burton in his For God and the King for which they were unjustly censured in the Star-Chamber to which Master Croxtons Letter to me with a crosse in the front approving most grosse Auricular confession in the open Church is subjoyned To which I answer First That the Decree in Star-Chamber was the act of the whole Court who likewise ordered it to be printed not mine That it was made onely to regulate the abuses of printing That the Stationers themselves desired approved and gave me thanks for it Secondly That the English Bible with Geneva Notes was onely tolerated and connived at not allowed heretofore that some passages in it were abused and very ill use made of them as among others that in the first of Exodus which teacheth men not to obey the commands of Kings King James himselfe in the Conference at Hampton Court pag. 47. publikely declared his dislike of this translation as the worst of all and thereupon took care for a new translation to be made but withall gave this Caveat that no marginal Notes should be added to it having found in them annexed to the Geneva translation some Notes very partiall untrue seditious and savouring too much of dangerous and traiterous conceits As for example the first chapter of Exodus and the 19. verse where the marginall Note alloweth disobedience unto Kings The endeavour to suppresse it in the Netherlands was not any extent of my power thither but the act of Sir Will. Boswell the Kings Agent there who did but his duty therein Thirdly for Master Gellibrands Book it was printed not in forme of a Calender but Almanack it was published to discountenance the old Saints and was a meer innovation contrary to all former Almanacks in use among us and to that in the Common-prayer book That the Queen sent to me about it I could not help that That I told Master Gellibrand he laboured to raise a faction in the Court I remember not the words and if he did
373. Rome justified by Laud and his complices to be a true Church not to have erred in fundamentals that men may be saved in it that her Religion is the same with ours and that our Bishops derive their succession from it p. 220 221 239 to 243 364 365 390 391 393 441 551 to 555. Rossetti the Popes Nuncio committed to Sir Toby Matthewes tuition by the Popes Bull p. 445 446. Master Ruly Bishop Lauds harshnesse towards him and why p. 391 392. S Sabbath Books written by Lauds instigation against the morality and strict sanctification of it sports works pastimes authorized and used by his meanes clauses for its sanctification morality the very name of Sabbath expunged opposers of its prophanation suspended prosecuted censured p. 128. to 155. 223. to 226 246. 337 338. 376 377. 382. 504 505 506 521. Sacraments ex opere operato convey not grace deleted p. 338 339. Sacrifice of the Masse Altar maintained passages against it deleted p. 201 202 225. 279. 339. 425. Saints Invocation and popish Saints justified passages against it deleted p. 213 214 293 425. Sales his popish Booke licensed by Lauds Chaplaine called in and burnt by Proclamation p. 186 187 188. the 513 514 515. popish poynts in it p. 191 195 to 215 Master Salisburies Sermon against popery and Arminianisme questioned by Laud p. 362. Satisfaction popish passages against it deleted p. 340. Second Service at the Altar enjoyned p. 378 379. Scriptures themselves expunged passages against their light and common peoples reading of them deleted p. 341. Shelfords popish Book opinions p. 186 196 199 209 210 225 226 c. Master Sherfields censure in Star-chamber for breaking an idolatrous popish Image and Lauds bitternesse against him for it p. 102 103 488 489 491 494 495. Doctor Sibthorps Sermon purged by Laud himselfe p. 245 246. 521 522. Sinne passages against living and continuing in it expunged p. 347. Skinner an Arminian made Bishop of Bristoll by Lauds meanes p. 354. Master Peter Smarts case and testimony p. 93 353 360 481 493 530. Smith a dangerous Jesuit and Smith Bishop of Calcedon intimate with Laud and Windebank who protected him p 448 to 456 557 to 562. Master Snellings censure in the High Commission by Lauds meanes for not reading the Declaration for sports p. 151 152. 504 505. Sparroes Sermon in justification of Confession p. 186 189 190 211. Anthony Staffords popish Booke Deifying the Virgin Mary justified by Laud p. 212 216 217 218 513 514 515 Doctor Sterne a popish and Arminian Divine preferred by Laud his defence of Confessions and Priests obsolution p. 193 396 359. Succession personall of Bishops made a Note of the Church and our Bishops lineally derived from Rome p. 220 221. Superstition passages against it deleted p. 294 295 296. Master Sparks testimony p. 183 184 243. T Baron Tanfields Order against Churchales p. 153. Tertullian mis-recited perverted by Laud for the use of Images who expresly condemnes all Images and the very art of making them p. 463 465. Master Thatchers testimony of Lauds favouring Priests c. p. 413. Master Thornes expulsion out of Oxford for opposing Arminianisme p. 174 175. Toleration of Papists passages against it deleted p. 245 246 342. Doctor Towers Letter to Sir John Lambe to prevaile with Laud to make him a Bishop and Orders for Lectures when made Bishop p. 354 378 379. Traditions justified p. 213. Transubstantiation and reall presence of Christs body in the Sacrament justified in new Books and by Laud himselfe passages against it deleted p. 35 202 203 204 322 323 324 332 333 342 514 515 526. Trent Councill magnified in printed Books p. 243. Master Bernard questioned for dispraising it p. 364. Treason against the Church and State as well as against the King c. held dangerous seditious Doctrine by Laud who questioned Master Bernard for it p. 364 365 366. Doctor Turners Letter of information to Laud against Doctor Prideaux in behalfe of Master Mountague p. 157 158. V Master Valentines suspention for not reading the Book for-Sunday-sports p. 382. Master Udney a Lecturer his permission by Abbot complained of to Laud p. 373. Veniall sins maintained in printed Books p. 211. Passages against them deleted out of orthodox Books p. 343. Veron his answer to Clampneyes p. 169 184. Master Vicars History of the Gun-powder Treason denied license p. 184. Vocation effectuall passages concerning it deleted p. 341 342. Vowes of Poverty and perpetuall Virginity Justiâ—â—cal and clauses against them deleted p. 222 225 325. Bishop Usher his strange speech to Sir Charles Coot and want of zeale to maintaine the Protestant Religion in Ireland Epist Dedic Very great with Laud Ibid. His Letter to Laud concerning the calling in of Bishop Downhams Book against the Arminians p. 172. concerning the Popes being Antichrist and the Papists brags of our Apostacy towards Rome p. 554. W Master Waddesworths testimony against Laud p. 449 559 561. Master Wakerlies testimony of Lauds carriage in purging the Kings Patents and ill opinions of the Protestant Churches p. 391 392. Wakes Churchales and Feasts of Dedication suppressed by the Judges revived by Laud and justifies their mischiefe and his pretences for them answered p. 128 to 149 505 to 507. Master Wallies testimony p. 184 109 110. Mr. Sam. Wards censure for preaching against popish Innovations and the encrease of popery by Lauds meanes p. 361. Mr. Rich. Wards Comentary on Matthew strangely purged p. 255 to 348. Dr. Weeks Lauds Chaplain denied by him yet proved under his hand a licenser of popish and purger of orthodox books p. 184 to 350. 357 528. Mr. Joh. White one of the Feoffees for Impropriations his testimony of Lauds carriage in this businesse p. 386 387. Master Thomas White his testimony touching the purging of Doctor Clarkes Sermons p. 254 255. Serjeent Wildes Speech at the beginning of Lauds Tryall p. 51 52. 53. Doctor Willets Works denied to be reprinted p. 134. Bishop Williams orders concernieg railing in Communion Tables p. 100. Master Willinghams testimony p. 109 110. 113 114. Mr. Th. Wilson suspended by Laud for not reading the book for sports p. 199 505 506. Wil-worship passages against it deleted p. 345 364. Secretary Windebank advanced by Laud intimate with the Popes Nuncioes Agents respected and his sons entertained at Rome by Cardinall Barbarino and others Panzani Father Joseph Father Phillips and his sons Letters to him a great protector enlarger of Priests Jesuits and Lauds instrument herein his imprisonment of Pursevants till they promised never to discover or prosecute Priests any more p. 443 to 452 554 to 562. Cardinall Woolseys charge for suffering innovations in Religion p. 458. Word of God passages for the reading hearing and diligent preaching of it deleted p. 345 346. See Preaching and Ministers Works passages that they merit not and are imperfect expunged p. 313 to 318 346 4â—5 Master Workmans censure in the High commission and Lauds most viollent barbarous proceedings against him for