Jan. 10. Les plus Grands du Berray rapporterent au Roy qu'il troubloit le repose du publie qu'il S'emparoit contre toute la Justice de son domaine c. Il depublia la Bulledecernee par le Pape pour faire la guerre aux Albegiois auec tant de zele de fruict que plusieurs a sa parole S'y croâ—serent courageusement La guâ—rre eut une issue houreuse car les Heretiques furent tellement deconfits qu'ils ne purrent depuis seremetter on campagne c. Ribadeniera Flures des Vies des Saincts p. 124. Note Note * Page 14. 15. 25. Note * See the Kings Cabinet opened * Officium Beatae Mariae secundum Vsum Sarum Paristis 1919. p. 12. Bishop Jewels Defence of the Apology part 2. c. 18. Divis 1. p. 295. 296. Object 1. Answ 1. Object 2. Answ 1. Object 3. Answ * See his late Libell intituled Innocency and Truth Justified Answ 2. Note Note Note * See the Irish Cabinet * Note f Jer. 31. 23. c. 50. 7. g Deut. 33. 21. h Psal 82. 3. i Iohn Lilburn in his late Libels Englands Birth-right with others k Isa 59. 4. 9. 14 l I say 5. 7. m Eccl 3. 16. n Isa 1 21. o Ier. 9. 22. Ier. 9. 22. q 2 Sam. 8. 15. r Deut. 16. 18. 19. 20. a Plin. Nat. Hist lib. 10. c. 63. a See the Breviate of his Life p. 1. 2. 3. b Se his Conference with Fisher p. 171. A necessary Introduction to his Tryall p. 148. 149. c Annaliuâ—â— Pars posterior p. 680. b Claudian in Eutropium l. 1. p. 67. c Rerum Ang. licarum l. 4. c. 14. d 1 Tim. 3. â—ir 1. 7 8. * Ovid Metam l. 2. * See the Breviate of his life pag. 22. and Diurnall Occurrences pag. 13. and 14. the Commons Journall NOTE f Clandian in Rufinum I. 2. p. g Pag. 23. 24. Master Pyme Speech See the Charge of the Scottish Commissioners against Canterbury * Which Doctor Pierce Bishop of Bath and Wels in his speech to his Clergy to set on this contribution stiled Bellum Episcopale adding that what ever his Majesty had expressed in his Declarations to be the cause of this warre yet in truth this warre is FOR VS Bishops NOTE * NOTE NOTE * Therefore the fitter to make a Popish Priest Prelate Cardinall * He knew he could not have done them half the service by going over from hence to Rome as by staying here to promote their designes and that made him stay * In secular imployments inconsistent with not in preaching and paines in his Calling Note this impudent asseveration here abundantly refuted * In secular imployments inconsistent with not in preaching and paines in his Calling Note this impudent asseveration here abundantly refuted * Belike he was born a Popeling * It was onely by bringing Rome home to them or meeting them more then halfe way in their journey thither * A great Actor in the late Irish Rebellion against the Protestants * All know what a good Protestant he lived and died * Both desperate Apostate Papists Mr Chainels Sermon at his Funerall informe us how good a Protestant he lived and dyed * Cambdens Britannias p. 229. * Artit Orig. 7. Additionall 7. * Artit Orig. 210. 1. His Popish superstitious Innovations in Lambheth Chappell * Bishop Iewels his defence of the Apology of the Church of England 5. Part c. 5. Diuis 1. to 3 p. 551. c. Reply to Harding Artit 14. p. 496. to 518. Thomas Becons Reliques of Rome Catechisme on the second commandement Mr. Fox Acts Monuments vol. 1. p. 167. 168. 255. vol 2. p. 388. 389. 394. 658. 669. 409. 410. vol 3. p. 992. to 993. with infinit others * Bochellus Decreta Ecclesiae Gallicanae lib. 4. Tit. 1. c. 80. p. 556. 557 NOTE * See Ribadeniera Flevers des vies des Sainctes pars â—ap 104. Apres Compline et Matines il visi oit tous les Rutols de 〈…〉 Eglile faisant a chacun vne Prostration et reverence * Apud Bochellum Decreta Eccles Gal. l. 4 Tit. 1. c. 81. p. 558. Salamantinae 1588. 8. 9. 21. * See the Archbishops speech in Star chamber p. 47. 48 49. * De Hey Iyns Cole from the Altar and Antidonum Lincolniense Dr. Pocklington Reeue Shelford and others * See Lame Giles his Haultings Anti-Armianisme p. 191 Appendix and Queeres concerning Bowing at the name of Iesus * Laurentius Surius concil Tom. 3 p. 6. 741. 810. * Platina in vita ejus Volateran Thomas Beacons Reliques of Rome ch Of the Ornaments of the Church Of plain-song Prick-song Organs and singing in Churches Histriomastix p. 283. to 287. * See A Necessary Introduction to his Tryall p. 15â— to 164. * Exod. 20 4 5 Lev. 26. 1. Deut 4. 14. to 25. 1. 5. 8 9. Isay 2. 20 c. 30. 27. c. 31. 7. c. 44. 9. c. Hoses 14. 8. Rom. 1. 23. 24 25. 1 Iohn 5. 21. 2. His Popish Innovations in his Majesties Chapell at White-Hall * Claudian His Popists Innovations at Westminster Abbey at his Majesties Coronation †See the Breviat of his life p. 7. †Page 69. 70. 9. 43. 78. 110. 157 162. 165. 4 His Popish Innovations in the Vniversities of Oxford and Cambridge * Dabis fidem ad observandum statuta istius Vniversitatis c. Statuta selectae Corpore statutum Vniversitatis Oxon Tit. 9. Sect. 6. Paragr 1. p. 114. * Acts and Monuments Edit 16. 40. â— vol. 3. p. 773. Edit 1610. p. 1781. His Popish Innovations in the Vniversity of Cambridge Object Answer * De summo Bono l. 2. c. 20. †Cicero de legibus l. 3. * Gratian distinct 86. * Foutes venero inficere est non tantum contra morem Majorum sed etiam contra fas Deorum Florus Historiae lib. 1. Grotius de Iure Belli lib. 3. c. 4. Sect. 16. p. 444. See 22. H. 8. c. 10. 5. His Popish Innovations and superstitions in Cathedrall Churches NOTE NOTE NOTE * This was then a grosse untruth for it then stood not so in any Cathedralls NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE * See Master Francis Rouse his printed Speech at the Transmission of Master Smarts cause to the Lords Innovations in Canterbury Cathedrall Innovations in VVinchester Cathedrall NOTE Innovations in Litchfield Cathedrall Innovations at Hereford NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE * A notorious untruth of an Arch-Prelate NOTE NOTE * Doctor Heylyns Antidotum Lincolniense pag. 37. 39. 65. c. his Coale from the Altar p. 26 27. with Pocklington Dow Reeve Shelford Bishop Pierce and others Innovations in Parish Churches Chappell 's The case of St. Gregories Church NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE 19. 20. 21. NOTE 22. NOTE 23. 24. 18. 19. 20. 21. 21. 22. 23. NOTE 24. NOTE NOTE Note Note
the whole Kingdome of England be committed to the safe custody of the Gentleman Vsher attending this high Court and that he be sequestred from the said House untill his Grace shall cleare himselfe of the Accusations that shall be laid against him by the said House This proud imperious Arch-Prelate who had close-imprisoned others for sundry yeares in remote Castles in forraigne Islands meerely for opposing his Tyranny and Innovations excluding not only their Friends but Wives Children from the least accesse unto their Prisons or the Isles wherein they were exiled for their comfort or reliefe was yet so impatient of restraint himselfe that immediatly after his Commitment to Master Maxwels house at Chearing Crosse though he had convenient lodgings more liberty by farre then he demerited and all his friends free accesse to visit him yet hee became an humble suiter to the House of Peers even in the wet cold winter season when a warme lodging in most mens judgment was more wholesome for him then cold moist walkes that he might have liberty to goe abroad with his Keeper to take the Ayre which liberty himselfe would never indulge to any Prisoner committed by him for the least offence especially under the Notion of a Puritan O strange impatience worthy admiration that he who had close Imprisoned many Godly Christians Ministers mobscure holes and Dungeons without the least pity or indulgence divers yeares even for well doing or petty offences against himselfe should not be able to endure a few weekes imprisonment when charged with high Treason it selfe against the King and Kingdome without Petitioning for liberty to take the Ayre A request so unseasonable that no wise Man in his condition would have demanded it and the Parliament in Justice or Honour could not condescend to it But this suit of his being deemed unseasonable was rejected And here behold the common Genius of Tyrannicall domineering spirits none so inexorable mercilesse insensible of others unjust oppressions as they in the ruffe of their prosperity none more degenerous pusilanimous querulous impatient or sordidly base then they in the stormes of adversity Let this Arch-Prelates suddaine downe-fall from the Pinnacle of Honour Power into a restrained despicable condition and his impatience under it be a future admonition to all Lording Prelates and Tyrâ—nizing Grandees to carry themselves with all moderation in their places and to learne this good lesson from an heathen Poet which most men in the hight of their felicity are over-apt to forget Desinat elatis quisquam confidere rebus Jnstabilesque Deos et Lubrica Numina discat Illa manus quoe sceptra sibi gestanda parabat Cuius se toties submisit ad oscula supplex Nobilitas digitos ductis inflectere nervis Cogitur c. Aspiciat ne quis nimium sublata secundis Colla gerat What occurrences happened betweene the Archbishops restraint and his commitment to the Tower you may read in his Diary and in the â—roviat of his life On the 22. of February 1640. the House of Commons Ordered that to morrow morning the Report concerning the Articles against the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury be first reade if it be ready On February 23. they further Ordered Mr. Pym to make the report of the Articles against the Archbishop of Cant. the next morning February 24. Mr. Pym presented from the Committee appointed for that purpose the Articles against the Archbishop of Canterbury The Title to the Articles the Articles themselves and the conclusion to them were all severally twice read and all severally voted and past upon the question and afterwards by resolution upon the Question it was ordered that these Articles so read and voted should be ingrossed February 26. The Articles against the Archbishop of Canterbury which were formerly ordered to be ingrossed were now read and it was resolved upon the question that the Articles thus ingrossed and read should be sent up to the Lords in maintenance of the Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury whereby he stands charged of high Treason Mr. Pymme Mr. Hampden and Mr. Maynard went up with the Articles according to the former Order Vpon the reading of these Articles the Lords made this Order for his the Archbishops commitment to the Tower 26. February 1640. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament that the Lord Archbishop of Cant. his Grace shal stand comitted to the Tower of London But the pleasure of this house is that he continue still in the safe custody of the Gentleman Vsher of this House till Mâ—nday the first of March 1640 and then that the Letutenant receive his Grace into his safe Custody until the pleasure of this House he further known and in the meane time Mr. Maxwell is to be responsible for him and not to permit him to goe abroad and that the Archbishop os Canterbury and the Earle of Strafford shall not come together Mr. Pym returnes and acquaints the House that according to his Abilities he had performed their commands and it was ordered that thankes shold be given him for the good service he had therein done this House Thus the Commons Iournall relates the times and manner of these proceedings and Articles against Canterbury unanimously voted by all when both Houses were fullest with the concurring suffrages of all those Members who have since deserted the Parliament and repaired to Oxford some of whom made bitter Invectives against him whose mouths must be for ever stopped by their own suffrages in full Parliament from uttering any thing in lustification of this Arch-Traitor or in derogation of the Iudgment execution passed against him upon the several Articles of his Impeachment which I shall here Present you with altogether beginning with the Originall Articles of the House of Commons carried up by Master Pym and others whose speech at their delivery I have here annexed to them as they were printed by order of the house long since next adioyning the Scottish Commissioners Charge against him and then the Commons Additionall Articles ARTICLES OF The COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT In maintenance of their Accusation against WJLLJAM LAVD Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY whereby he stands Charged with High Treason Presented and carryed up to the LORDS by Mr. John Pym Febr. 26. 1640. Mr. Pym comming to the Lords barre to present the Articles spake as followeth My LORDS I Am commanded by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled for the Commons in Parliament to deliver to your Lordships these Articles in maintenance of their Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury Their desire is that first your Lordships would be pleased to heare the Articles read and then I shall endeavour to present to you the sense of the Commons concerning the nature of the Charge and the order of their proceedings FIRST THat he hath traiterously endeavoured to subvert the Fundamentall Lawes and government of this Kingdome of England and instead thereof to introduce an Arbitrary and tyrannicall Government against law and to that end
such Reliques of Rome to pollute them or corupt young Schollars with the superstitious Rites and Caeremonies of the Babilonish Strumpet but no sooner was he becom a Royal favorite Privy Councellor of state and Dominus factetum in Church and Republik but by his pestiferous influence practises and example these Popish weeds sprung up a pace by degrees in these choycest Seminaries of Piety and literature till they quite over-spread them at the last We shall begin with the University of Oxford whereof by indirect meanes this Prelate procured himselfe to bee elected Chancellour upon the death of the Right Honourable Will Earle of Pembrooke in Apr. 1630. whose Noble brother now Chancellour thereof was then really elected by most voyces though miscalculated by practise in the scrutiny by this Prelates Creatures What alterations were there made upon his advancement and Chancellorship will appeare by these subsequent depositions given viva voce against him at the Lords Barre Sir Nathaniell Brent deposed that before this Archbishop came to have power in this Universitie and to bee Chancellour thereof there were no Copes Altars nor Communion Tables turned and rayled about Altarwise in Churches or Colledges nor any bowing to or towards the Altar nor any Crucifixes but such as were either defaced or covered over with dust and quite neglected but since his being Chancellour the Tables in al or most Churches Colledges were turned into Altars or rayled in Altarwise and usually bowed unto the old Crucifixes repaired adored and new Crucifixes set up where there were none before yet he never heard that the Archb. disliked or reproved the same though he was Chancellour and saw these Innovations but liked them very well That since the Archb. was Chancellour there was a New Church-Porch built to St. Maries Church at the charge of Dr. Owen since made a Bishop where was none before standing in the very heart of the Vniversity towards the street to which Church all the University resorted in the front of which Porch was a statue of the Virgin Mary cut in stone with the Picture of a child in her Armes commonly taken to be the Picture of Christ Master Corbet a Fellow of Merton Colledge deposed that in the Yeare 1638. the Arch-Bishop being Visitor of that Colledge began his Visitation there by Sir Iohn Lambe his Deputy that one Article propounded to the Warden and Fellows was this Whether they made due Reverence by bowing towards the Altar or Communion Table when they came into the Chappell That himselfe and Master Channell were injoyned by the Visitors and Commissioners to use this Ceremonie but they refused to do it Whereupon Sir Iohn Lamb pressed them very much to practise it but they still refused propounding their reasons against it then he threatned him for it in particular After this Dr. Frewin Vice-Chancellour of the Vniversity told him that he was sent to him from the Archb. he being then Proctor pressing and requiring him as from the Archb. to use this Ceremony in regard of his place else it would be ill taken Afterwards the Archb. sent injunctions to Merton Colledge whereof this was one Habeant debitam Reverentiam ad mensam Domini where by hee meant this bowing to the Altar as the Visitors and common practise expounded it the Visitors afterwards questioning those who bowed not That this course continued till this present Parliament and was generally practised at Saint Maries and throughout the Vniversitie He further testified that in Magdalen Colledge there was a Crucifix placed over the Communion Table and Pictures in the Windowes and a new Crucifixe set up in Christ-Church none of which Innovations were there heard of before this Archbishops time Master William Bendy witnessed upon Oath that in the Yeare 1637. Since the Archbishop was Chancellour of Oxford there was a statue of the Virgin Mary With a Child in her Armes set up in the front of Saint Maries Church-Porch towards the open streete which gave great offence to many That there was a Crucifix set up in Lincolne Colledge and a Picture of the Holy Ghost another Crucifixe in Christ-Church another in New-Colledge and the like in diverse other Colledges That Latine Prayers were injoyned to be used in Lent and Studients to be present at them That the Tables in most Churches Colledges were turned into Altars railed in Altarwise and bowed to That in some Colledges they used Copes and hee heard a stranger who had bin a Travailer say that one of the Copes he saw at Oxford was just like that he had seene at ROME on the POPES backe Master Nixon one of the Aldermen of Oxford deposed viva voce that there was a Picture of Stone set up in the New-Church porch at Saint Maries Church towards the high Street of a Woman holding a Babe in her Armes which they cald the Picture of the Virgin Mary and Christ standing almost opposit to his House which was very scandalous offensive both to him others that himselfe had seene some passengers as they rode along by it to bow very low to their Horses manes and put off their Hats unto it that hee observed one Passenger both going and returning to bow thus unto it and put off his Hat who as he heard belonged to the Portugall Embassador and was a Papist that there was one who kneeled downe before this Image and held up his hands as if he prayed unto it He further deposed that not only in sundry Colledges but in the Parish Church of Carfolks the principall Church for the City whether the Major and Aldermen resorted there was a great large Crucifix with the Picture of Christ upon it set up in the Window by Giles Widdowes who was Parson there and one whom the Archbishop countenanced That this Archbishop was both the Author and encourager of all these innovations not heard of there since the Reformation is evident because they sprung up there in the time of his Chancellorship and were introduced by those who were his greatest Creatures enjoyned by his Visiters as you heard before and most of them prescribed in the Vniversity Statutes made by himselfe which all were bound by Oath to observe To cleare this we shall produce this Memorable passage Sect 1. paragr 2. De Precibus solennibus Oblationibus in Die Comitiorum which you may finde in the select Statutes of Oxford there printed in a small volume Anno 1638. p. 79. In die Comitiorum Moris est ut post pulsationem parvae campanae circa hor am nonam matutinam omnes Inceptores in qualibet facultate per Bedellos suae Facultatis à Collegijs Aulis deducti in Capella orientali Ecclesiae B. Mariae Virginis unà conveniant ijsque sic congregatis preces Divinae ab ejusdem Ecclesiae paraecialis Vicario aut illius Deputato solenniter habeautur Quibus peractis primum Vice-Cancellarius posteà singuli Inceptores in Facultatibus deinde Procuratores Bedellis praecuntibus ad Mensam Eucharistiae sacram CVM DEBITA
were Pictures of the Holy Ghost in forme of a Dove that in Peter House there was likewise a carved Crosse at the end of every seat and on the Altar a Pot which they usually called the incense pot that the Master Fellows and Schollers of that house at their entring into going out of the Chappell made a low obeysance to the Altar being enjoyned by Doctor Cosens under a penalty as they reported to doe it and none of them might tume their backs towards the Altar going in nor out of the Chappell That divers Schollers of other houses usually resorted thither some out of Curiosity only to behold others to learne and practise the Popish Ceremonies and Orders used in that Chappell and the common report both among the Schollers of that House and others was that none might approach to the Altar in Peter house but in Sandalls and that there was a speciall consecrated Knife there kept upon the Altar to cut the sacramental bread that was to be consecrated Master Lazarus Seman deposed that he left the Vniversity of Cambridge about ten yeares since and that in his time none of the forementioned Innovations were so much as known or used there but of late times they have all beene introduced Many more witnesses were ready to depose the like and more then this but the Innovations of this kinde were so notoriously knowne to all and so fully proved before the Parliament in Master Peter Smarts Articles against Doctor Cosins that the Commons thought to produce more witnesses herein would bee a meere mispence of time to no purpose but to tyre out the Lords and Auditory But perchance the Archbishop will object what are these Innovations in the Vniversity of Cambridge unto me who was neither Chancellor there to councell or countenance them nor immediatly introduced them To which was Answered 1. That his publike example and practise in his own Chappell at Lambheth formerly manifested was both a president precept for this their imitation and one chiefe cause of these Innovations It was a true rule of Isiodor Hispalensis Dupliciter reus est qui apertè delinquit quia agit docet And a just verdict of the Roman Orator Perniciosius de Republica merentur vitiofi Rectores quod non solum vitia concipiunt ipsi sed ea infundunt in Civitatem neque solum obsunt quod illi ipsi corumpuntur sed etiam quod corumpunt Since then his own preceeding Innovations were the occasions of these Corruptions in this Vniversity they must be laid upon his score 2ly His owne Introduction of the selfesame Popish Innovations into the Vniversity of Oxford by Lawes and Injunctions at the selfe-same time or a little before these sprung up in Cambridge is a strong presumption that both of them issued from the very same roote 3ly His owne chiefe Favorites Chaplaines Creatures who were most intimate frequent with him at London and advanced to Headships in Colledges by his meanes were the only active Instruments to bring in and promote these Corruptions therefore questionlesse they had directions at least incouragment from him for their proceedings in this kinde 4ly His not being Chauncellor of this Vniversity was rather an obstacle to the speedy Introduction of these Innovations then otherwise as appeares by Oxford where he prescribed them by publique Laws and Injunctions which was not done in Cambridge because he was not Chauncellor yet he would needs be their Immediate Visitor as Archbishop of Canterbury contesting with them for this Authority before his Majestic and Privie Councell where hee obtained a Decree and Patent to him and his Successors to be their Visitors in regard of which Jurisdiction over this Vniversity as their Visitor and likewise as an High Commissioner hee wanted no authority but only will to prohibit suppresse these Popish Novelties and punish the promotors of them but this for certaine he never did but countenanced advanced them all hee could as shall be manifested in due place Therefore if the old Maxime of Law may take place Qui non vetat peccare cum posset jubet he must bee really guilty of all these Anti-Christian Innovations in both our Vniversities whom he thus miserably corrupted to the unspeakeable prejudice of Church and State since from these two Fountaines these Popish superstitions corruptions diffused themselves over all our Dominions like a most contagious Leprosie It hath alwayes been a Capitall crime and an offence against the Law of God of Nations to poyson common Naturall fountaines how much more then these two publike Fountaines of more transcendent use and excellency From our Vniversities wee shall in the next place pursue this Romish Reinold unto our Cathedrall Churches where hee began his Popish Innovations very early Master Iohn Laugly late Schoole-Master of the City Glocester but now of Pauls Schoole deposed that in the yeare 1616. the now Archb. being made Deane of Glocester and comming downe to the Cathedrall there intended to turne the Communion Table into an Altar and place it Altarwise at the East end of the Quire removing it from its former station in the midst Doctor Smith then Bishop of GLOCESTER opposed it with much earnestnesse and seriously protested to the DEANE and the Prebends that if the Communion Table were removed or any such Innovations brought into that Cathedrall as this Deane intended to introduce hee would never come within the Walls of the Cathedrall more yet notwithstanding the Deane was then so violent that in despite of the Bishops direction and opposition hee caused the Lords Table to be removed and placed Altarwise at the East end of the Quire close under the Wall with the ends North and South with Popish furniture upon it bowed towards it himselfe and commanded the singing-men Choristers and other Officers of the Church to make like obeysance to it Whereat the Bishop was so much offended that hee made good his protestation and never came more within the Cathedrall till his dying day This single testimony of Mr. Langlies we finde seconded with a Letter of this Bishops Chaplaine to the Chancellour at Glocester thus indorsed with the Archbishops owne hand and found at Lambeth among his Papers by Master Prynne Febr. 12. 1616. A Coppy of the Libell against the removing of the Communion Table in the Church of Glocester MAster Chancellour I pray you certifie me how things stand at Gloucester wee heare strange things of late here with us that seeme almost incredible It is reported here for a truth that the Communion Table in your Cathedrall Church is removed by your new Deane and put up close at the upper end in the place where the high Altar heretofore stood and that they make low obeysance to it with great Reverence as if Christ were there upon it and that this hath much offended the whole Citie almost And yet that not any one of the Prebends did so much as offer by word or deed to resist him or
to me when I came to Glocester I passed with the consent of the Chapter two Acts One for the repaire of the Edifice of the Church which is extreamely decayed in the fairest places The other for the remove of the Communion Table which stood almost in the midest of the Quier and I with the generall consent of all the Prebends present after the Act made removed it and plac'd it as it stands in his Majesties Chappell 's and all well ordered Cathedrall Churches and thus much I signified to your Lordship from Gloucester since which time there hath beene a letter or Lybell found in a Pulpit of one of the Churches in the City against both me and that Act in which the Author as yet not knowne wonders that the Prebends would not resist me and complaines that there was in none of them the spirit of Elias c. To prevent further stir in the City some thinke it very fit that the High Commission would take some speedy order about it to send a Commission downe or otherwise as they in their wisedome thinke fit The Circumstances because they are many I will omit and instead of them I have herein sent your Lorship a Copy of the Libelling letter as it was sent to me and a Coppy of a letter sent to me subscribed by two of the Prebends and a Coppy of so much of a letter as concernes this businesse sent by Master Pryor now Sub-Deane that so your Lordship may see the whole sum of the busines Vpon the receipt of these letters I writ unto my Lord of Gloucester but what course for redresse of these things his Lordship will take I knowe not I beseech your Lordship let me have your lawfull assistance that so long as I do nothing but that which is established and practis'd in our Church I may not be brought in contempt at my first entrace upon that place by any turbulent spirits and so disinabl'd to do that good service which I owe to the Church of God And if it stand with your Lordships liking I will humbly desire that his gracious Majesty might know what successes I have in beginning to reforme what J found most ancisse in that place In the close of our Sub-Deanes letter your Lordship shall see a strange Monster lately home in that City of Glocester I pray God the Puritanes which swarme in those parts doe not say it was one of Gods judgments for turning the Communion Table into an Altar I would have waited upon your Lordship for all my businesse and have brought these papers my selfe but that I am unable at this time by sicknesse to come out of my Chamber Therefore I take my leave and shall ever rest Your Lordships in all love and duty WILLIAM LAVD St. Johns Colledge upon March 3. 1616. So soone did this Prelate begin to introduce these Popish Innovations into our Cathedralls only at first against Law to the great scandall of well affected Protestants and encouragment of Papists In the Yeares 1626 and 1627. Master Iohn Cosens a great acquaintance and Camrade of this Archbishops set up a goodly stone Altar rayled in Altarwise adorned with Pictures Candlesticks Tapers Basons Altarcloths having superstitious Images upon them instead of a Communion Table bowed constantly to it repaiting and erecting diverse unlawfull Images some of Christ Himselfe in that Cathedrall where the likewise introduced Copes and Chalices having Crucifixes and Pictures of the HOLY GHOST upon them together with many other Popish trinkets setting up a multitude of Candles Tapers in that Church on Candlemasseday after the Popish manner Against which Innovations Master Peter Smart the ancientest Prebend of that Church preaching openly in the Cathedrall and then complaining in Parliament Anno 1628. after the dissolution of that Parliament by this Arch-Innovators means as appeares by sundry Letters concerning this businesse between Dr. Coseus and him found in the Archbishops Study he was successively brought into the High Commission Courts both a Durham Lambeth and Luke for vexation and at last there most unjustly deprived of all his Ecclesiasticall livings fined imprisoned diverse yeares and his livings conferred upon others by this Arch-Prelates meanes as his owne Letters manifest All which particulars having beene lately heard proved by sundry depositions before the Commons and Lords and published in Print to the World by Master Smart himselfe in his Catalogue of Superstitious Innovations brought into Durham Cathedrall London 1642. and in his Cantus Epithalamicus were onely mentioned not insisted on by the Commons as were his severall Innovations in the Cathedrall of Pauls whiles he was Bishop of London as notoriously visible to most as his very repairing of Pauls at other mens costs These Innovations in these 3. Cathedralls were introduced somented by him before his advancement to the Archi-Episcopal Sea of Canterbury after which hee became more bold and violent enforcing them by new Injunctions Statutes Oathes upon all or most Cathedralls of which the ensuing Instances were produced insteed of many more No sooner was this active Prelate promoted to the Archbishop ricke of Canterburie but presently he began to pollute the Cathedrall of Canterbury with his popish Innovations First hee caused an Altar to be there erected by the Deane and Chapter and much monies to bee expended by them upon Basons Candlesticks Altar-Cloaths and other furniture to adorne it as appeares by a Letter written to him from the Deane and Chapter of Canterbury found in his study by Master Prynne under their hand and Seale dated the 4. Iuly 1634. wherein among other things they write thus 5ly We have obeyed Your Graces directions in pulling down the exorbitant States within our Quire whereby the Church is very much beautified Lastly wee most humbly beseech Your Grace to take notice that many and most necessary have beene the occasions of extraordinary expences this Yeare FOR ORNAMENTS OF THE ALTAR c. Your Graces most humble SERVANTS Isaue Bargrave Iohn Warner Thomas Iackson Thomas Paske Merie Casâ—uâ—on Iohn Iefferay Humfrey Peake Thomas Blechonden Christ-Church Canterb 8 Iuly 1634. After this new Altar was thus erected and furnished some of the Prebends and other Officers belonging to this Church had private instructions given them to how unto it but this not sufficing that this Ceremony might bee there perpetually observed under paine of Perjury in the Yeare 1634 the Archbishop compiled New Statutes for the Government of that Cathedrall which were sent thither under the Great Seale with his owne hand subscribed to every leafe wherein there was this Statute among others which the Prebends Chapter and Officers there were bound by Oath to observe that they should SUMMA REVERENTIA ADORARE DEUM VERSVS ALTARE as was manifest by the Statutes themselves and attested upon Oath by Doctor Thomas Blechenden one of the Prebends there at the Lords Barre who confessed hee was sworne to observe all the statutes of that Cathedrall and this among the rest
pressed as spatingly as he might it being against his owne judgment and thereupon obedience was yeelded in most places and such as refused to Raile in their Tables were questioned and proceeded against by others but as for himselfe he never troubled any for it That the Archbishop himselfe gave both command and approbation for these Innovations was proved by this ensuing Petition to which an Answer was underwriten by Master Dell subscribed with the Archbishops owne hand found among Sir Iohn Lambes sequested Papers by Master Prynne To the right Reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Cant. his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan The Petition of Philip Davies Clerke Hunry Demery and Abrah am Cobb Churchwardens of the Parish Church of Hill alias Hull in the Dioces of Glocester Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners in obedience to your Graces special directions in your Graces Metropolitan Visitation did take care and order for the raysing of the Chancell and Rayling in the High Altar or Communion Table in the said Church for the doing of which with the necessary beautifying of the said Church there were divers rates made by the Churchwardens for the time being and major part of the Inhabitants of that Church for to defray the Charge thereof In which assesements one Henry Heathfield who was and is commonly reputed and taken to be of that Parish was rated after the usuall manner as he and his Predecessors had alwayes beene his divers rates amounting to 28. shillings six pence To avoyd the payment of which the said Henry Heathfield appealed to your Graces Court of the Arches where the cause hath depended for these eleven Monethes last past to your Petitioners great Charge and hinderance May it therefore please your Grace for the better incouragement of your Petitioners in performing your Graces Commands which we have hitherto done in preserving the decency and ornaments of the said Church as much as in us lyes to give order that the said Cause may be speedily determined and that your Petitioners may not be unnecessarily vexed and molested for endeavouring to performe what in your Graces Visitation was publikely enjoyned but so farre as truth shall appears we may shroud our selves under your Graces Protection And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. I desire Sir John Lambe in case he finde the Suggestions true to take care that this Cause may come to hearing with all convenient speed possible Febr. 9. 1637. W. CANT By answering of which Petition the Archbishop acknowledgeth that the rayling in of Communion Tables and imposing illegall Rates for the same was done by HIS GRACES SPECIALL DIRECTION in his Metropoliticall Visitation and thereupon he thus desired Sir John Lambe to expedite the hearing of the Cause yet he had so Little Grace as openly to deny it with solemne protestations The falsity whereof was further evidenced by this Copy of Injunctions given in his Metropoliticall Visitation to the Cathedrall Church of Winchester 19. July An. 1635. by Sir Nathaniell Brent his Vicar Generall found in his owne Study at Lambheth so as he could not be ignorant of them attested by Master Prynne the last whereof was this Deinde Dominus injuaxit Gardianis Ecclesiae parochialis sancti Mauritij infra Civitatem Wintoniae quod duo sedilia ex utraque parte Cancellorum ibidem removeantur quod nullum sedile ibidem collocatur aut erigatur Distuque Dominus ad Petitionem Willielmi Newton unius Parochianorum praefatae Ecclesiae Parochialis decrevit Mensam sacram Eucharistiae decenter circum-sepiendam viz. TO BEE RAYLED ABOVT IN DECENT MANNER citra festum Omnium Sanctorum proximè sequens Moreover A paper of Informations of divers Abuses in the City and Diocesse of London was found in the Archbishops Study attested by Master Prynne whereof this was one There are many Communion Tables in severall Churches of the City of London that are not rayled in and some of them are placed in the middle of the Church when as they may be placed more conveniently at the East end thereof At the Chappel at Highgate the Boyes use to leane on the Communion Table in the time of Divine service under which Mr. Dell the Archbishops Secretary Writ this direction to Sir Nathaniel Brent his Visiter subscribed with the Archbishops owne hand I require you that besides my other Instructions you give me an account of all particulars within named Whereupon an Account was given to him in writing accordingly thus entituled An Account of the Metropoliticall Visitation of the Diocesse of London Aano 1636. found in his Study with the foresaid Informations and indorsed thus with his owne hand 1636. March The Course of my Visitation in London Diocese Wherein are these Particular Passage touching the railing in of Communion Tables Mr. Rogers of Massing mentioned in your Graces Paper came not to me for an order for the setting up of a Raile about his Communion Table But I GAVE A GENERALL ORDER FOR IT BOTH THERE AND IN ALL OTHER PLACES WHERE I PASSED The Communion Table in the Chappell of Highgate mentioned in your Graces paper is already placed at the upper end of the Quire and a decent Raile made about it as J am informed by divers To which the Archbishop with his owne hand adds this Note in the Margin See it be don In the Parish Church of Edmonton a fair Monument is set at the upper end of the Chancell which I have ordered to be taken downe without delay and the Communion Table to be set in the place of it with a comely raile about it Yet had this Archbishop the Impudency to protest to the Lords he never gave any order to Sir Nathaniell Brent for removing or railing in Communion Tables that it was done without his Privity or direction O portet mendacem esse memorem Adde to this that in an Abstract of this Archbishops Metropoliticall Visitation endorsed by himselfe and found among his papers there were these observable informations given to him by his Visitor Sir Nathaniel Brent July 16. 1635. At Lyn in the principall Church called St. Margarets the Communion Table wanted a rayle which I have ordered At Northampton no man boweth at the pronouncing of the name of Iesus in all the Churches in Shrewsbury many things were out of Order especially about the Communion Table But the Officers in every Parish Church most willingly submitted to what I ordered Mr. Speed of Saint Pancrosse in Chicester is very willing the Gallery in his Church should be pulled down which was built to receive strangers as also to remove the seates which stand even with the Altar Besides it appeares by a letter of Wil. Kingsley Arch-deacon of Cant. to this Archbishop dated Aprill 13 16 6. that he gave him order to survay all the Churches in Canterbury and to certine him what Monuments placed the Eastland Galleres were in them to the end they might be removed who gave him this account thereof in writing found
as followeth My most honoured Lord I Humbly thanke your Grace for very many Demonstrations of your Love to me and particularly for your last favourable mediation to his Majesty in my behalfe for a Prebend in Windsor The conveniency of that preferment if my Soveraign Master please to confer it on me I shall value much more then the profit But how ever resolve not to prescribe to your Grace much lesse to his Majestie or with immodesty or importunity to presse you I blesse God for what I have and hope he will give me the grace to rest well contented with my present condition what soever it is In the means while my Lord the Obligations which I have to you are such as I can never satisfy but with my prayers which shall be constant that your Grace may long live with honour and comfort to serve God his Majesty and this Church which daily feeles the benefit of your wisdome and goodnesse c. Your Graces in all humility Chr. Potter Octob. 6. 1633. Queenes Colledge In April 1635. We find in the Docques Book a Presentation of Dr Richard Bayly generally reputed an Arminian and Popishly affected to the Deanery of Sarum by Order from this Archbishop In October 1638. Dr Thomas Jackeson a professed Arminian as Doctor Daniel Featly his fellow-Collegian attested was made Dean of Peterborough by the order and procurement of this Archbishop By his meanes Bishop Wren was made Dean of his Majestics Chappell And to conclude with one notable instance more instead of all others October 16. 1640. the Deanery of Peterborough was granted to Doctor John Cosin by signification and order from this Archbishop who promoted him to this dignity by his own confession thâ—â— written with his own hand attested by M. Prynne I presented four of his Majesties Chaplaines in ordinary to his Majestie for the Deanery of Peterborough His Majesty pitched upon Doctor Cosia in regard his meanes lying in the Bishoprick of Durham was in the Scots hands and nothing left to maintain him his wife and children but a poor Headship worth 40. l. per anuum And out of the same consideration and no other did I put his name with the rest to his Majesty What an Arch-Promoter of Popish Doctrines Ceremonies Innovations this Dr Cosin was appeares by the premises and Master Peter 〈◊〉 testimony of him upon Oath and what a recall intimate friend this Arch bishop was to him what a Patriâ—t and Protector of him against al Prosecutions might be evidenced by sundry Letters passing between them over tedious to recite the Originals whereof found in the Archbishops Study we have ready to produce For Clergy men infected with Arminianisme Popery and devoted to Popish Ceremonies 〈◊〉 by him to be Chaplaines in ordinary to his Majesty the Prince his Highnesse to corrupt their Persons Courts in the Theory and Practise of Religion we shall instance only in these ensuing Dr Richard Bayly Deane of 〈◊〉 Dr Thomas Turner Dr William Heywood Dr Richard Marsh Dr William Hutchinson all formerly his own Chaplaines as appears by a list of his Chaplaines since he was Bishop written with his own hands Dr Peter Heylin Dr William Brough Dr William Lewes Dr Thomas Laurence Dr Samuel Baker Dr Richard 〈◊〉 Dr Iohn Cosin Dr Walter Raleigh Dr William Watts Dr Benjamin Layney Dr Thomas Bletchenden Dr William Beal Dr Iames Browne advanced to be Deane of Hereford by his means of whose Popish Practises we formerly gave evidence Dr Andrew Clare Dr Christopher Dow Dr Lushington and Dr John Pocklington How much many of these were addicted to Arminianisme Popery and all Popish Ceremonies hath been formerly attested upon other occasions that the rest of them were of the selfe same strain is so notoriously known in the Court our Universities the places where they live to your Lordships and the Archbishop himself that it needes no other proofe That these were made his Majesties and the Princes Chaplaines by this Archbishops procurement who usurped upon the Lord High Chamberlaines office to nominate Chaplaines in ordinary to his Majestie which stone of his Predecessors did since the Reformation was attested by Mr Oldisworth a Member of the Commons House who deposed That upon his knowledge for 25. years space it did belong to the Lord Chamberlaines office to nominate and appoint the Kings Chaplains in ordinary and so it continued all the old LordWill Earle of Pembrookes Chamberlainship And this the difference of the Warrants proves For where the Kings Warrant runnes These are to signifie his Majesties pleasure there the King is to be consulted with before the place is granted as in the Warrant and case of the Bedchamber-men But where the Warrant is These are to Will and require you to admit such a one as in the case of the Kings Chaplains there the Lord Chamberlaine doth all by his owne authority without consulting with the King That since the present Earle of Pembrooke was Lord Chamberlain the Archbishop took upon him to recommend all Chaplaines to the King and many of them were his own Chaplaines first which the Earl of Pembrooke himselfe seconded Mr Oldisworth likewise delivered in a list of the Kings and Princes Chaplaines in ordinary as they stood Feb. 12. 1640. produced at the Barre Two of these Chaplaines to wit Doctor William Heywood and Doctor Samuel Baker with his owne Arminian Chaplaines Doctor Edward Martyn Doctor William Bray and Doctor Thomas Weekes whom he openly denyed to be his Chaplaine before the Lords till Mr Prynne proved the contrary by a list of his Chaplaines under his owne hand affixed to the end of his Written Diary were the Licensers of all the forementioned Arminian and Popish Bookes published in our Realme and the Purgatory Doctors who obliterated all the fore-cited Passages against Popery Arminianisme Popes Jesuites Papists out of our orthodox Writers Others of them were Authours of sundry Arminian licentious Popish Impressions As Doctor Heylin Doctor Laurence Doctor Cosin Doctor Watts Doctor Dowe and Doctor Pocklington Whose Bookes were some of them written others of them printed by the Archbishops command some of them with others without the Authours privity Amongst these we shall instance onely in Doctor Pocklingtons Bookes the most Popish Impious and profane of any other Who though lately dead before this Triall yet speakes loud enough to this purpose in his Petition to the House of Peeres before his censure here remaining upon the File of Petitions A Copy whereof we have here subjoyned compared with the Originall by which you may clearly discerne by whose command his Popish Impressions were Printed and Published even by this Archbishops who perused them before they were printed To the right Honourable the Lords spirituall and temporall now Assembled in the High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of John Pocklington Doctor in Divinity and Rector of Yevelden in the County of Bedford Most humbly sheweth THat he is right hearty sorry for doing or bringing any thing
frequent disputes a defender and setter up of Images and Altars That he said in his hearing That none but ignorant Calvinist Bishops did put down Altars at the beginning of reformation and that they were worse then Jesuites That he was much offended with the Homilyes against the Perill of Idolatry against setting up Images in Churches and said that he would have these Homilyes put out of the Homily-Book and wondred why they were suffered to continue in it so long A fit Cathedralist to make a Bishop afterwards and a great companion and friend of Sancta Clara. In Octob. 1631. Peter Heylin this Arch-Prelates great Creature and Votary who resigned himselfe to his directions and command in all things as appeares by an Epistle in a Manuscript Sermon of his found in the Archbishops study was by his order and procurement presented to the Rectory of Hemingford and in November following to a Prebendary in Westminster and in November 1632. he procured him a Presentation to the Rectory of Haughton in the Diocesse of Durham In September 1631. Dr Thomas Bletchenden by his order and procurement was promoted to a Prebends place in the Cathedrall of Canterbury and Dr William Bray to another Prebendary in the same Church November 13. 1637. by his order too Mr Thomas Lushington was by his order presented to a Prebendary in the Cathedrall Church of Sarum in June 1931. Dr John Weekes in December 1633. was by his order presented to a Prebendary in the Cathedrall of Bristol Dr Brian Duppa Jan. 1633. was by his order presented to the Chancellorship of Sarum and the Prebendary of Bridgenorth thereto annexed and May 19. 1638. to the Rectory of Petworth Dr Iohn Bramhall June 1632. was by his order presented to a Prebendary in York Cathedrall Dr William Beale Octob. 1637. was by his order and procurement presented to the Rectory of Pauls Perry of which two others were unjustly deprived in the High Commission to make way for his promotion to it Dr William Brough Jan. 19. 1938. by his order was presented to a Prebends place in the Church of Windsor In May 1639. by his order Dr Samuel Baker was preferred to a Prebends place in the Cathedrall of Canterbury and Tho. Brown to a Prebends place in the Collegiate Church of Windsor July 29 1640. Dr Mumford by his order was presented to the Rectory of Anesby what other Arminian Popish Superstitious Scandalous Persons were advanced to livings by him and how he poysoned our Church with such almost in every place the World may see at large in Mr John Whites first Century of Scandalous Ministers We shall only add this one thing more that even after his Commitment for high Treason he still interposed in preferring Superstitious Episcopall Clergy men of his faction to his Majesties livings as well as to those in his own gift as we shall evidence by this Letter of his to the King seised by Mr Prynne among his other Papers all written and thus endorsed with his own hand For the Kings most Excellent Majestie which was answered by the King himselfe in the Margent with his own hand in this ensuing forme May it please your Majestie I Conceive the Great Seal being left as it is your Majestie will bestow all such livings as shall be voyde and were usually in the gift of the Lord Keeper of what value soever they be You are right This I tooke my duty to put your Majestie in minde of since it in part belongs to the service which your Majestie was wont to trust me with And I am the more bold to put your Majestie in minde of this because by this meanes if you please to make use of it you may the sooner provide both for the Scottish-men which suffer and for other men which have served your Majesty at sea At this time I am informed that the Rectory of Ashen in Northamptonshire is voyd and in your Majesties gift It is thought not to exceed one hundred pound a year The Bishop of Brechen hath a sonne if your Majestie please that is ready to take Orders and may be fit for it Give Order accordingly C. R. And by that meanes may be some helpe to his father who certainly needes it If your Majestie like of this and let me know so much I shall give warrant for it accordingly But I submit all this and my own unhappy condition to Gods will and your Majesties Your Majesties most humble servant though unfortunate W. Cant. Jan. 3. 1640. What a Plague and Poyson these Arminian Popish Prelates Deanes Prebends Heades of houses Parsons and Vicars thus advanced by him proved to our Church how near they had reduced us back to Rome and how much they endangered the utter extirpation of our Protestant Religion is so experimentally knowne to all men so plentifully evidenced in the premised proofes that we may confidently averr had not God himself miraculously from heaven by the late Scottish Troubles and happy convention of this present Parliament retarded prevented and utterly frustrated their dangerous proceedings and Jesuiticall designes in these three kingdomes in all probability we had long ere this been totally over-run with Popery and the zealous Professors of the Protestant Religion in all three been either totally extirpated and massacred as some hundred thousands of them have been of late in Ireland or banished their own Countrey into forraigne Climes or left to the mercy of the bloody Papists and these their Popish Confederates whose tender mercies are but cruelties This crime then of his is no lesse then treasonable and capitall being so destructive both to Church and Kingdome As he thus preferred Popish and Arminian Clergy men to the chiefe Ecclesiasticall preferments in our Church so on the contrary following the counsell of Contzen the Mogountine Jesuit in his Politicks he discountenanced suspended silenced suppressed censured imprisoned persecuted most of the prime orthodox diligent preaching Ministers in the Realme and forced many of them to fly into America Holland and other forraigne places to avoyd his fury only for opposing his Popish Innovations and expressing their feares of the change of our religion by the encrease of Popery and Popish Superstitions Not to trouble you with any forementioned instances of Master Peter Smart Mr Henry Burton Mr Snelling and others we shall instance in some fresh examples Mr Samuel Ward of Ipswich a most reverend orthodox and learned Minister of speciall eminency was by this Archbishops meanes on the 26. of Novemb. 1635. as appeares by the High Commission Records censured in the High Commission at Lambeth and there suspended from his Lecture and Ministry and every part thereof till absolved by his Majesty enjoyned a publike submission and recantation such as the High Commissioners should prescribe condemned in expences and costs of suite and committed to prison For preaching in some of his Sermons at Ipswich against Bowing at the name of Iesus the Booke of sports on the Lords day and saying that
private Letters to his Vicar General enjoyned all Lords Tables to be placed and rayled in Altarwise yea excommunicated censured fined in the High Commission such Ministers and Church-Wards as opposed or refused to obey his Injunctions herein as the Cases of Master Chancy the Church-Wardens of Beckington John Premly Ferdinando Adams and others evidence Fourthly We reply that the Archbishop in his Starchamber-speech p. 45. 46. makes this averment And yet the Government is so moderate God grant it be not too loose the while that NO MAN IS CONSTRAINED NO MAN QUESTIONED only religiously called upon venite Adoremus Come let us Worship that is bow to and toward the Altar Yet here we have himselfe confessing and others testifying upon Oath that he enjoyned all Schollers in the University of Oxford all Officers Prebends in Cathedrall and Collegiat Churches by speciall Statutes to which they were all compelled to sweare Obedience and Conformity to worship God with highest Reverence towards the Altar to bow devoutly to towards it at their approaches thereunto which none were ever thus strictly obliged to do by speciall Lawes and Oathes in the very darkest times of Popery That Doctor Jackson did approve practise this bowing to the Altar for a time it was by force only of these new Statutes and Oath as himselfe deposeth for which he professeth his hearty sorrow and whereas Doctor Blechenden sweares that some Prebends used to bow before these new Statutes it was only by reason of this Archbishops Injunctions and daily practise both at Court and in Lambeth Chappell For his expunging of the prayer for King Henry the 8. after his death out of these Statutes it no way justifies nor extenuates his Injunction of such Popish Altar-Adorations For the 95. Psa it commands us only to worship fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker not towards or before an Altar which is not the Lord our Maker Neither did the Archbishop himselfe not the most superstitious Popish Prelate or Clergie man in England ever yet use to Worship and fall down to God before or towards the Altar just when this Venite Adoromus was read which requiring no such Worship at the very instant it is reading much lesse exacts it after or before its reading For the Knights of the Garters Chapter-Order made in times of Popery in imitation of Popish Priests it is no binding Law to any but those of that Order in their solemnitie which being meerely Civill and if it bee Deo Altars ejus joyntly then certainely superstitious Popish nay Idolatrous too cannot be fit for imitation of Protestants Fifthly We reply that these Crucifixes Images being unlawfull to be made condemned by Our Statutes Homilies Injunctions Writers Church and all sound Antiquity as wee have proved and Constantine the great condemning them their pretended Antiquity or use in the Kings Chappell can no wayes justifie his re-erecting them in Cathedralls And here we cannot but observe the Archbishops Legerdemain and grosse abuse of his Majesties Chappell First himselfe introduced Crucifixes with other Popish Innovations into it which he afterwards by way of imitation prescribed to Cathedralls And then being charged with this practise in Cathedralls he justifies himselfe by His Majesties Chapell where he takes Sanctuary just as if a Cutpurse should justifie the cutting of a mans purse in Pauls Cathedrall because hee formerly picked another mans pocket in Whit-Hall Chapell which is nothing else but to wipe off the present charge by the next preceeding which lyes so heavy upon him and to justify this subseouent crime of his by another anteceeding it But in truth this is a meere devise 〈◊〉 draw an Odium on His Majesty and his Chappell who must Patronize 〈…〉 Popish Traiterly Actions since we have proved these Innovations of his in Cathedralls to bee directly taken out of the Roman Ceremoniall Pontificall and brought in by their prescription not learned from the Kings own Chappell as he falsly pretends Sixthly To his Altar Ornaments and trinkets in Cathedralls which he would justifie by the Kings Chapell too when expresly taken out of the Roman Pontisical and Ceremoniall in imitation of forraigne Popish Cathedralls we shall returne the selfe same answer and close up all with his own sentence in his Star-Chamber Speech pag. 55. where he passeth judgment against himselfe in these following words Nor hath the Kings Chappell any Prerogative if that may be called one above any ordinary Church to disserve God in any superstitions Rites Where give mee leave to tell you that the King and his Chappell are most wrongfully and with scorne abused Undoubtedly they are so by these undutifull answers of his whereby hee hath justified to the utmost each particular of this his charge which he hath in no sort extenuated nor taken off from himselfe in any particle Sixthly They proceeded in the next place from Cathedralls to charge me with Pepish Innovations in Parish Churches and Chappell 's which charge is reducible to these heads First my enjoyning Church-Wardens to remove and rayle in Communion Tables Altarwise as in the case of Saint Gregories and other Parishes Secondly Prescribing the people to receive the Communion at the new rayles kneeling Thirdly Enjoyning Ministers to say Second service at the Communion Table rayled in Altarwise Fourthly setting up of Crucifixes and other Images in Churches Chappell 's Glasse-windowes particularly in the new Chappell by Tuttle-fields in Westminster Fifthly Prescribing these Innovations in visitation Articles by Bishop Wren Bishop Mountague Bishop Peirce and others and forcing Church-Wardens upon Oath to present all those who submitted not to them Sixthly punishing and censuring those in the Star-Chamber High Commission and elsewhere who opposed or submitted not to these Innovations by name Master Peter Smart Master Charles Chancy Master Miles Burkit the Church-Wardens of Beckington Ferdinando Adams John Premly Mr. Henry Sherfeild Mr. John VVorkman Mr. Prynne Mr. Burton and Doctor Bastwick Seventhly my Chaplaines purging out a passage against Images taken out of the very Homilies in Doctor Featlies book Eightly My licensing of Popish Pictures and Crucifixes to be printed in London by one â—â—â—ke and to be bound up with our English Bibles To the first I answer in Generall that this removing and placing Lords Tables Altarwise is warranted by the Queens Injunctions as I have formerly evidenced As for the case of Saint Gregories the Table was not turned by mee but by the Deane and Chapter of Paules And when it came to the Councell Table I did there only deliver my opinion and oppose the Queens Injunctions against Bishop Jewels opinion and Master Fox there pressed and the Order made therein was made by the King and Councell then present not by me alone Secondly I pressed none to come up to receive at the Rayles no further then the Common Prayer Booke prescribes which enjoynes the people to draw weare and take the Holy Sacrament for their comfort 3ly Reading Second service at the Lords table is no
the hearing And whereas he pretends he was not present at his censure which he proves not we know he was vertually if not personally present thereat yea his unjust suppression of his tendred Answer and defence was the onely cause of his censure which if received were so learned solid satisfactory that prophanenesse and injustice it selfe could not have imposed such a censure on him Thirdly annuall Feasts of Dedication of Churches are not so ancient but that we know their Originall The Feast of Dedication of the Altar instituted by Judas Maccabeus was the first of this kind we read of Indeed Solomon kept a Feast for seven dayes space when the Temple was dedicated And Constantine the great with some others in his dayes when Churches were dedicated made a great Feast but that those Feasts continued annuall in perpetuity I find no mention in any approved Antiquity These annuall Feasts of dedication were first invented by the spurious popish Decrees of Pope Felix and Gregory thus recorded by Gratian Solennitates dedicationum Ecclesiarum Epissoporum Saterdotum per singulos annos sunt celebrandae Solennitates Ecclesiarum dedicationum Sacerdotum per singulos annos solenniter sunt celebrandae ipso Domino exemplum dante qui ad festum dedicationis Templi omnibus id faciendi dans formam cum reliquis populis eandem festevitatem celebraturus venit sicut scriptum est Facta sunt Encoenia in Hieru olymis hyems erat ambulabat Jesus in Temple in porticu Solomonis Quod autem octo diebus encaenia sint celebrando in libro Regum perfecta dedicatione Templi cernas Other Decrees then these of these two Popes the latter whereof is built upon cleer mistakes of Scripture cannot be produced These Bacanalian feasts are thus censured by Aretius Problem 126. Hodie verò Solennitates instituuntur tote die bibitur tote die luditur saltatur lascivi cantus audiuntur quae omnia magis spirant Bacchi quoddam festum à Maenadibus celebrandum quam piam Christianismi antiquitatem And were wholly abolished among us by the Injunctions of King Henry the eighth and Statute of 6 Edw. 6. c. 3. by reason of the idlenesse excesse and great mischiefes they produced to mens soules Yea many Judges riding the Westerne Circuit suppressed the Wakes and Revels kept upon them from time to time for these abuses and other weighty Reasons Yet this prophane Arch-prelate revives re-establisheth them by this DECLARATION causeth those Judges Orders to be reversed with a strong Hand by a Plot and Certificate from Bishop Pierce and others checks nay punisheth Chiefe Justice Richardson removes him from that Circuit and le ts loose the Reines to all Licentiousnesse prophanenesse whereby infinite mischiefs ensued as we have fully proved So that this whole Charge sticks still upon him Ninthly from these ceremoniall and practicall they proceed to doctrinall innovations in matters of Religion wherein I am charged First with an endeavour to introduce and propagate Arminianisme in our Church the rediest inlet to Popery and a part thereof though I knew it to be a plot of the Jesuits to subvert our Religion as appears by the Jesuits Letter and that principally First in being a common Patriot of Arminians together with their Books Tenets and a preferrer of such by name of Bishop Mountague and his Appeale complained of in Parliament Doctor Jackson and others for which I was taxed by a Declaration of the Commons in Parliament Secondly in censuring the Commons Declaration in Parliament against the Arminians and their Vote too Thirdly in calling in and suppressing Books against Arminianisme though licensed and questioning censuring the Authors Printers dispersers of them in the high Commission as Bishop Carltons and Bishop Downames Books Doctor Featlies Doctor Goads Master Rouses Doctor Sutcliffes Master Prynnes Master Burtons Books and others when as the Arminian Authors went unquestioned and their Books printed by authority as Doctor Jacksons Book and the Historicall Narration licensed by my owne Chaplaine Doctor Martin Fourthly In abusing his Majesties Proclamation his Declaration before the 39. Articles of our Church with the subsequent Instructions prohibiting controversies against the Article especially in the controverted points of Arminianisme to suppresse all preaching against Arminian errours and punish such as durst oppose them by silencing suspending censuring them in the high Commission or elswhere and conniving at the Arminians to vent and preach their errours freely under pretext thereof without restraint or opposition both in the University and City Fiftly for purging passages against Arminianisme and Arminians out of Books tendred to the Presse and particularly out of Bishop Hals and Bishop Davenants Letters with some other incident particulars which fall under these heads Sixtly in repealing the Articles of Ireland against Arminianisme which King James declaimed against as damnable heresie To this I answer in generall that I never endeavoured to introduce Arminianisme into our Church nor ever maintained any Arminian opinions For the Jesuits Letter it is nothing at all to me it layes nothing to my charge in particular and it was lawfull for me to read and keep it it containes many strange vile things in it against the Parliament which I approve not but detest To the particulars I answer First that I did neither protect nor countenance the Arminians persons books or tenets for Bishop Mountague I had no hand in his Book I countenanced it not it was suppressed and called in by Proclamation he was preferred by Sir Dudly Carltons meanes not mine who was then a stranger to me True is is I was in a Declaration of the Commons house taxed as a favourer advancer of Arminians and their opinions without any particular proofe at all which was a great slander to me Secondly I answer that being publickly traduced in that Declaration I did returne an answer to vindicate my owne innocency as was necessary for me to doe to free my selfe from that scandall without any derogation to the Parliaments authority Neither did I this till I was expresly commanded by the King himselfe as appeares by the endorsment whose command it was lawfull yea necessary for me to obey and I durst not have done it without such his Royall command After which I penned it with all due respect to the Parliament and it was never published For my answer to the Parliaments Vote it was onely a private paper kept in my Study and communicated to none written for my owne private satisfaction and derogating noting from the power of Parliaments it belonging properly to the Convocation and Church of England by the Lawes and Statutes of the Land to make Canons and settle controversies in Religion as the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. c. 19. 1. Eliz. c. 1. evidence Thirdly the calling in and suppressing of these Books and prosecuting the Authors Printers of them in the High Commission was the Courts act not mine For Bishop Carltons Book it was called
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
herein Seventhly himselfe if not immediatly yet originally and mediatly hindered the printing of all the new Books against Popery refused at the Presse and denied license by his Instruments Chaplaines Doctor Bray Doctor Haywood Doctor Weekes Doctor Baker unlesse first purged by them Ninthly the questioning of Master Prynne Master Burton with their Printers and Stationers in the High Commission for their Books against Doctor Cosins his popery Babel no Bethel Baiting of the Popes Bull and the like was originally his act alone not the Courts which did naught in it but by his instigation Their getting off thence was by Prohibitions sore against his will where else he resolved to ruine them Master Burtons answering the Popes Bull by license deserved no questioning at the Counsell Table and was certainly no Libell at all unlesse the Pope or his Partisans deemed it such to them His Books then were no trouble to the Church and therefore it was strange and most unjust he should be troubled for them yea his imprisonment without Baile which he tendered when bailable by Law was contrary to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right though the cause of it not warranted by Law was expressed in the Warrant Tenthly his owne Chaplaines oversights and offences in licensing popish Books even with this speciall Encomium that there was nothing in them contrary to faith and sound Doctrine the forme of licensing himselfe prescribed them under his owne hand is certainly both in law and justice his owne crime more then theirs who must answer for it much more then they the trust of licensing books being originally reposed in himselfe by the State and in his Chaplaines onely by his owne Deputation for whom he must answer at his perill To prove this and take away this poore evasion which he so much insists on we shall put but these few cases adjudged in Law If a Bailiffe under Jaylor or under Sheriffe suffer a prisoner to escape or any way to misdemeane themselves in their office an action of escape debt an fine in cases of felony and treason and action of the case lyeth against the high Sheriffe and chiefe Jaylor for it who must undergoe the penalty and blame because they are their servants entrusted by themselues And to put a case which comes neerer home and is farre stronger then this of a Chaplaine 21. E. 1. membr 3. Dorso Clauso and in the Pleas of that Parliament placit 17. John Archbishop of Yorke was questioned in Parliament for excommunicating William of Willicon and John Rowman servants to the Bishop of Durham then imployed in the Kings service the Archbishop pleaded just as this Archbishop doth now That they were not excommunicated by himselfe but onely by his Commissary who must answer for it and so no act of his for which he ought to answer But yet notwithstanding it was upon serious debate resolved in Parliament that the Act of his Commissary being his owne immediate Officer was his owne act for whose misdemeanour he must answer and thereupon he was fined 4000. markes to the King and forced to pay it a great fine in those times for such an offence yea gladed to make many friends to the King to avoid a further censure which is farre stronger then the case of this Arch-prelate For this Commissary was an Officer established by Law which the Archbishop could not remove at pleasure without just cause but his Chaplaines were no Officers by Law but meer meniall servants under his immediate command and removable at pleasure therefore certainly they durst license nothing especially against our established Religion without his privity and command Besides there were never any such popish Books authorized since the beginning of Reformation in any of his Predecessors times by themselves or their Chaplaines neither durst such erronious pamphlets appeare publickly amongst us till he grew great to patronize them yea when they were thus licensed and publickly complained against as Popish erronious and destructive to our Religion he censured persecuted such who durst complaine or write against them never questioning nor punishing the Licensers Printers or Authors of them exemplarily as he should have done to discharge the trust reposed in him and vindicate his sincerity herein whereas if any new Book against Arminians or Popish Innovations did but privily passe the Presse by license of his Predecessors Chaplaines as Bishop Carltons Book against Mountague Master Prynnes Perpetuity his Survey of Master Cozens his Cozening Devotions Histriomastix with other forenamed Impressions did he presently suppressed burnt them questioned the Authous Printers Dispersers Licensers of them both in the High Commission and Star-chamber too where Master Prynne by his meanes was censured in the highest degree of extremity for his Histriomastix a licensed Book and Master Buckner too who licensed it fined by this Archbishop himselfe and that Court therefore this act of his Chaplaines must rest upon his own head and the guilt thereof lye heaviest upon him whose fault it was to make choyce of such and to entrust them in this kind As for his excuse of his many other grand imployments which so engrossed his time that he had no leisure to peruse what Books were tendred and licensed for the Presse it is so farre from being any excuse that it aggavates his crime Certainly the preservation of our Religion in its purity the keeping out all Popish innovations in Ceremony Doctrine Worship and the suppression of Popish errours Books Doctrines were the principall things of all others which his Place Calling yea his Majesties trust engaged him to look unto for him then to neglect this principall part of his Episcopall duty the frequent preaching of Gods Word he seldome appearing in the Pulpit after he became Archbishop and a Privy Counsellour to drowne himselfe in all manner of secular imployments in the Star-chamber Counsel-Chamber Exchequer spending his time in proling about Tobacco Licenses illegall Taxes Projects Monopolies of all sorts contrary to the Lawes and Liberties of the Subjects in undermining Parliaments oppressing the people every where and managing the Kings Revenues things no way suitable to his spirituall Function is so farre from extenuating that it puts the highest degree of aggravation upon this his negligence and Chaplaines misdemeanours which he should have better looked too But admit the reall duties of his Place alone had been overburthensome to him he should then have intrusted imployed such in Licensing and perusing Books who would have discharged the trust reposed in them in farre better manner then his knowne Popish and Arminian Chaplains did Tenthly to his excuses touching the particular Popish Books objected We answer first that Sales his Booke was Licensed by Doctor Haywood his own Chaplain that he was not abused in it but the Printer whom he checked for complaining to him of the Popish passages in the Booke and encouraged to proceed in the printing of it which otherwise he durst not have printed That it was afterwards
called in and publickly burnt was no thanks to him or his Chaplain but to Master Prynnes crosse Bill against him and his Chaplaine in Star-Chamber for licensing it As for the Proclamation for calling it in it was but a meere device to abuse the King Kingdome to justifie or excuse his peccant Chaplain and himselfe by a most false relation of the carriage of the businesse Besides if his Chaplain was innocent Why then doth he pretend he punished him by turning him out of his service If guilty Why doth he justifie him to the King and Kingdome by this Proclamation But indeed this pretended punishment was but a meere pretence for he punished him onely with a good Living to wit Saint Giles in the Fields sending him from Lambeth thither to infect that Parish with his Popish Leprosie or to please the Papists Priests Jesuits of which there were more residing in that Parish alone then in all the Parishes about London For Christs Epistle to a Devout Soule that it was licensed by Doctor Weekes at London-house the self-same day that Sales was at Lambeth is true but yet it is as true that Doctor Weeks was this Archbishops owne Chaplaine and the Bishop of London his meer creature Servant yea it appears there was a strong confederacy between the Chaplaines of Lambeth and London-house in licensing both these Popish Books for the same Stationer the self-same day to propagate and license Popery with a witnesse even just at that very season which makes it more remarkable when Master Prynne Master Burton and Doctor Bastwicke were prosecuted by their good Lord and Master Canterbury in the Star-chamber for opposing their Popish Innovations Impositions Doctrins and just when the gaudy Crucifix was erected by him at White-hall in the Kings owne Chappell in Passion week they then thinking all cock-sure on their side That this Epistle was suppressed we may thank not the Archbishop but Master Prynn's Crosse-bill who but a few weeks after was ill requited with a bloody barbarous censure for his paines and sent away hence close prisoner first into North-Wales then into Jersey where none must have accesse unto him to prevent any more such oppositions discoveries of popish Bookes and Bils against them For Doctor Heylins Books complained of they were some of them purposely written by the Archbishops owne command as he hath confessed to wit that against Mr. Burton Antidotum Lincolnienses licensed by his own Chaplaines therefore they concerne him much For Doctor Pocklingtons Popish Impressions they were perused by himselfe yea published by his direction without the Doctors privity as his Petition manifests therefore his censure for writing them will be no excuse for his owne publishing or his Chaplaines authorizing them without the Doctors knowledge or desire For Bishop Mountagues Books they were all bound up most of them with his Armes very rightly gilt and presented to him by Mountague himselfe after that entertained by him in his Study justified by him in private conferences yea the later of them expresly submitted to his judgement dispose and licensed by his Chaplaines and yet are they nothing to him For the Epitome of the Lives of the Emperours it was licensed by his owne Chaplaine Doctor Weekes at London-house as the license and entry of it in the Stationers Hall which we have here ready to produce attests That he took no notice of it nor of what was in it was his owne voluntary negligence who could take notice of any the least pretended Puritannicall Anti-episcopall or Anti-Arminian passages in all new printed Books whatsoever yea of any harsh passages against the Pope Papists Jesuits and cause them to be suppressed expunged and the Authors of them sometimes to be deeply censured For the Popish Index Biblicus being printed here in London then publikely bound up with our Latin Bibles of Junius and Tremelius translation with which they as well accorded as Fire doth with Water or Popery with Protestanisme it concerned him most of any thing to take notice of and have most severely punished But this vigilant Argus against Protestanisme or any thing that trenched upon Episcopacy Popish Ceremonies Arminianisme or the High Commission was here as blind as a Beetle and could espye no Books at all though never so grosse that made for Popery and popish Innovations or else fell fast asleep when he should watch against these popish enemies who sowed their Tarts so fast among us For the objected popish passages out of these now Authorized Printed Authors himselfe must answer for them First because many of them were particularly complained against by Master Burton in his Sermon for God and the King by Master Prynne in his Crosse Bill which he read and by sundry printed Books which he could not but take notice of yet he neither suppressed the Books nor questioned the Authors Printers or dispersers of them Secōdly because never any such large crop or harvest of Popish Books and Tares appeared or sprung up in our English Church before his time since the beginning of Reformation it being the chiefe part of his place and Office as Archbishop of Canterbury to suppresse and extirpate whereas he authorized and propagated them all he could For the rejecting of Master Prynnes Crosse Bill in Star-chamber against him his Chaplaines and Confederates for Writing Licensing Publishing these Popish Books and Passages it was principally his owne Act who stopped it at the Lord Keepers was present when it was rejected in open Court where he sat as one of the most swaying Judges and endeavoured to have brought him in danger of his life onely for preferring it in a Legall manner whereas had he his Chaplaines Confederates been Innocent they would have Petitioned the Court it might have been received that so they might legally have cleared themselves if they could of that which now blessed be God we have fully proved before an Higher Tribunall for which this cause by Gods providence was reserved as the fittest Court both to heare and censure it For Master Croxtons Letter he was his owne creature specially recommended by him to the Lord Deputy Wentworth who preferred him for his sake and he that durst preferre such a Popish Priest in that Popish Kingdome who dared thus openly to put the Masse-Priests yea Jesuits badge of a Crosse in the Front of his Letter to him and acquaint him with this open practice of Auricular Confession must doubtlesse be no wel-wisher to our Religion and assured of the Archbishops readinesse to concur with him in the approbation of his courses else he durst not write thus to him As for that passage in his Speech in Star-chamber we have already proved that it necessarily implyes a Transubstantiation or corporall presence of Christ on the very Altar For there saith he not in and to the beleevers heart receiving him spiritually by faith t is Hoc est corpus meum c. and A greater reverence no doubt is due TO THE BODY then to the word of
he avers that the Pope is Antichrist and p. 810. where he cals the Pope the whore of Babylon Therefore these could not be thought to be crossed out in favour of Papists and Popery but because the expressions in them were such as might give just occasion of distaste Fourthly I shall by your Lordships favour demand of Doctor Featly himselfe two questions and desire his answer to them First Whether when he was a Licenser in my Predecessors time it was not usuall for his Chaplaines to qualifie or rase out some unfitting expressions when they saw cause out of Books tendered to them to license and whether they were not liable to censure if any such escaped them upon complaint Secondly Whether himselfe since the sitting of this Parliament hath not written a Book afterwards licensed and whether the Licenser did not alter and blot something out of it what was it and who did it To which sodaine questions the Doctor being commanded by the Lords to give an answer replyed to the first Question That he and his fellow-Licensers did sometimes use to qualifie or obliterate some passages savouring of Puritanisme or in favour of it especially after the burning of Doctor Mockets Booke for which the Licenser was reprehended and that himselfe was once questioned before King James for a Booke licensed about a passage concerning the calling of the Jewes and for Master Eltons Booke upon the Commandements savouring of Puritanisme but he never knew in his time of any Passages against the Papists Popery Arminianisme or the like expunged out by Archbishop Abbot or his Chaplaines nor any one questioned for licensing any such but rather encouraged till of late times To the second he confessed that he and Master Rouse did joyntly write and publish a Booke fince this Parliament intituled Vertumnus Romanus and that Master Rouse caused him to strike out a Passage in it that was somwhat sharpe against the Separatists which he did at his desire Whereupon the Archbishop urged that then he hoped his Chaplaines might have the same liberty to crosse what they thought fitting out of the Books they licensed though it were against Popery To this was answered First that by Queene Elizabeths Injunctions Numb 51. The Archbishops of Canterbury York Bishop of London themselves not their Chaplains are appointed to License Books and trusted with this charge which they personally performed as appeares by sundry Entries of Books licensed by them in the Stationers Register of Entries And why their Successours in these dayes should not personally license Books and discharge this trust as well as their Predecessours making 〈◊〉 of their Chaplains onely for their assistance to report the substance of the 〈◊〉 unprinted to them no reason can be given but either their carelesnesse 〈◊〉 or overmuch intermedling with secular affaires no wayes concerning or beseeming them Secondly that his Chaplaine made these Purgations not himselfe is no excuse since he did it by his speciall command and direction as Sir Edmond Scots words and Doctor Featlies testimony evidence Thirdly his Chaplains death is no excuse of his own guilt That Doctor Featly complained not to him of these Purgations is no excuse for if he had Sir Edward Hungerfords example his owne answer to him then his present expressions at the Barre now and Sir Edmond Scots words to Doctor Featly clearly prove it had been bootlesse and he remedilesse Legem sibi dixerat ipse he was resolved to admit and redresse no complaints of this nature against his Chaplaines Fourthly the permitting of some Passages against Popery to stand in the Doctors Sermon is an aggravation of his Chaplaines crime in purging out others of the same nature for why should not all stand as well as some especially that against Popish worshiping of Images taken verbatim out of our Homilies there quoted and the very words of the Scriptuze it selfe against conniving at Popish Seducers to Idolatry Indeed those that remained are more generall these obliterated more particular sharpe piercing and more concerned our present times practises therefore lesse reason to be expunged Fiftly these expunctions out of the Doctors Sermons were so many that the Printer was enforced to new print some 16. or 18. sheets in folio to his great prejudice That those Passages he cites escaped their purgation was because the Booke being large they passed undiscerned till after its publication else doubtlesse the Archbishop and his Chaplaines would have crossed them out in Doctor Featlies Sermons as well as in Doctor Sibthorps or in Doctor Potters Bishop Hals owne Booke Doctor Jones and Doctor Clerke and not have permitted his Brother Pontiffe of Rome to be stiled Antichrist and the whoore of Rome and his Priests compared unto Baalists Sixtly Doctor Featlies testimony is a very strong evidence against the Archbishop for before his time there were never any such Purgations made but onely of Passages in favour of Puritanisme nor any Books questioned or Passages deleted that were against the Pope Popery Arminianisme Jesuits Seminary Priests or Papists which the Archbishop and his Chaplaines first introduced As for his Vertumnus Romanus being joyntly written by Master Rowse and himselfe it was just that Master Rowse should have liberty to crosse out by the Doctors consent any passage he disliked and the Doctor consented to have this deleted this Passage therefore not being obliterated by any Licenser but by the Authors themselves by joynt consent and being not against Popery or Papists but Separatists onely who professe the same Doctrine with us and were then ready to joyne with us in one way of Worship of Government is no extenuation or justification of his and his Chaplaines purging this Doctors Booke so grosely as they did of Passages against the Pope Popery and Arminianisme The next Purgations objected were made in Doctor Clerks Doctor Jones and Master Wards Books by Doctor Heywood Doctor Baker Doctor Weeks To this I answer First that there are divers sharpe Passages yet remaining in Doctor Clerkes Sermons against Papists that they were licensed part of them by Doctor Weekes none of mine but the Bishop of Londons houshold Chaplain and part of them by Doctor Heywood my Chaplain That Master White distinguished not what Sermons were Licensed by the one what by the other Besides Master White is but a single witnesse Secondly Doctor Jones his Commentary on the Hebrewes was licensed and purged by Doctor Baker the Bishop of Londons Chaplaine and Master Wards Booke by Doctor Weeks not by me or my Chaplaines therefore they concerne me not To this was replyed First that the most pungent and pregnant Passages in Doctor Clerkes Sermons against the Popes Authority tyranny pride Jesuits Priests Papists Arminians Arminianisme Popery and Popish errours are 〈◊〉 tally wiped out by the Licensers and very few such escaped their spunge 〈…〉 leaving therefore of a few inconfiderable Passages against them unexpungâ—â—◠〈…〉 no more excuse the obliterating of the rest then a thiefes leaving of a
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