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

should please God to make me able to do it I pray do this with as much convenient speed as you can and privately without noise So to God's Blessing and Protection c. Lambeth F. omnium Sanctorum 1639. W. Cant. THE University of Oxford in the time of King Edw. III. had the sole keeping of the Assize of Bread and Drink in Oxford and the Government and Correction of all manner of Victuallers and Victualling and Tippling-Houses there This Power continued in the University for about 200 Years without Interruption until the Statute of 5 6 Edw. 6. which gave power to two Justices of Peace in every Shire or City to License Ale-Houses and ordained That none should keep any Ale-House but such as should be so Licensed By colour of this Statute in regard there was therein no express saving of the Privileges of the University the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford being Justices there have Licensed Ale-Houses The Chancellor of the University and his Vice-Chancellor Commissary and Deputy at the time of the making of the said Statutes were Justices of Peace within the City And the Privileges of both Universities were afterwards in 13 Eliz. confirmed by Act of Parliament and in all Acts of Parliament since made touching Ale-Houses the Correction and Punishment of all Ale-House-keepers and Tipplers in Ale-Houses in the University is reserved solely to the Governor of the University The University of Cambridge in the Fifth Year of King Richard II. had their Privileges by Parliament granted to them such as the University of Oxford had and no other Yet when the Officers of the Town in the Sixth Year of Queen Elizabeth attempted to License Ale-House they were restrain'd by the Queen's Letter and that University hath ever since quietly enjoy'd the Privileges of the sole Licensing of Ale-Houses In the Book of Directions touching Ale-Houses set forth 1608. His late Majesty declared that the Officers of both Universities should have the Power of Licensing and ordering of Ale-Houses and not the Officers or Justices of the Town And His Majesty in his Charter of Confirmation of the Liberties of the University of Oxford in the Eleventh Year of his Reign hath been graciously pleased to grant that no License shall be made to any Victualler or Ale-House-keeper without the special assent of the Chancellor There are now 300 Ale-Houses Licensed in Oxford which occasion great Disorder in the University It is therefore most humbly desired on the behalf of the said University That his Majesty would be pleased by his gracious Letters to be directed to the Mayor and Commonalty of Oxford to command them not to intermeddle in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-House or Tap-House within the Jurisdiction or Liberty of the said University or City of Oxford TRusty and Well-beloved we Greet you well We are informed that our University of Oxford had heretofore the Government Correction of all manner of Ale-House-keepers Ale-Houses and Tippling-Houses within the Liberties thereof And we were graciously pleased lately by our Letters Patents to grant to our said University That no Ale-Houses without the special consent of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor should be Licensed there It seems strange to us which we hear that there should be now Three hundred Ale-Houses in Oxford And we believe they would not have risen to that number had the power of Licensing them rested only with the Vice-Chancellor and other Governors of our said University as it doth in our University of Cambridge We do therefore charge and require you as you tender our Pleasure and mean to enjoy the Liberties which you use under our Favour and Goodness that you henceforth meddle not in the Licensing of any Person to keep Ale-Houses Tap-Houses or Victualling-Houses within the Jurisdiction or Liberty of the said University and City of Oxford but that you leave the same to the Vice-Chancellor and other Justices of Peace there who are Members of the said University Given at Westminster the 27th of October 1639. To our Trusty and Well-beloved the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of our City of Oxford I sent away these Letters to the Vice-Chancellor upon Friday November 8th W. Cant. UPON pretence that it was not in me alone to absolve the Chandlers on Monday last I brought them to the Meeting of the Heads Where having in the first Place pleaded Ignorance in excuse of their Contumacy they then confessed openly That it belonged to the Vice-Chancellor to regulate them in their Trade and humbly besought me to raise their Price This done I dismissed them caused the Register to make an Act of what had passed and four days after viz. on the first of November granted their Request so that I hope the University's Right in this particular is now settled for ever hereafter Novemb. 4. 1639. A. Frewen I Am informed by Mr. Lenthall That for the Physick-Garden the Earl of Danby intends to put his Heir the Vice-Chancellor the Dean of Christ-Church and the President of St. Mary Magdalen-College in trust to see his promised 100 l. per Annum for ever hereafter imployed as he shall direct A. Frewen To this my Answer was as followeth I Like the Earl of Danby's Business worse and worse and the joining of his Heir to those Heads you mention worst of all For if he may not ever do and have what he list you shall have greater Imputations of Ingratitude thrown upon you than the thing is worth And now I begin to believe you will have nothing settled till his Death Lambeth Novemb. 7. 1639. W. Cant. EVery Body speaks well of the Examinations And tho' I would not put any such Burthen upon the Heads of Houses yet you should do very well if you could handsomly insinuate it to them what an Advance it would be to the University in that Business if now and then at their leisure some one or other of them would come thither and sit with the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors to hear the Examinations But this I leave free to you and them Lambeth November 7. 1639. W. Cant. AT this time the Vice-Chancellor sent me word that after they had visited Sir Thomas Bodley's great Library they went to see my Books and Coins and that having compared them with their Catalogue they found all well and safe But yet the Library-keepers had a great charge given them to look carefully to them being they stood unchained and the place where they stand almost hourly frequented by Strangers who come to see them Novemb. 11. 1639. A. Frewen My Answer to this was as followeth SIR I Thank you heartily for your Care of my Books And I beseech you that the Library-keeper may be very watchful to look to them since they stand unchain'd And I would to God the Place in the Library for them were once ready that they might be set up safe and and chained as the other Books are and yet then if there be not care

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

Honours to their Schools and Universities for a popular Applause or out of meer Bounty or for honour or for opinion of merit by which the Art of Clergy-men transported them heretofore But the very truth is that all wise Princes respect the welfare of their Estates and consider that Schools and Universities are as in the Body the noble and vital parts which being vigorous and sound send good Blood and active Spirits into the Veins and Arteries which cause health and strength Or if feeble or ill affected corrupt all the Vital Powers whereupon grow Diseases and in the end death it self What inconveniencies have grown in all Ages by the ill Government and Disorders of Schools your Books can inform you And to come home to your selves have not our late Parliaments complained Nay hath not the Land exclaimed that our great Schools of Virtue were become Schools of Vice This I mention unwillingly but withal do most willingly tell you to your eternal praise That fince it pleased his Majesty to take to heart a Reformation and by advice of your never too often named Chancellor sent you down some temporary Orders whereby to reduce you to some reasonable moderation thereupon by the Wisdom and Resolution of you the worthy Governours and by the inclinable conformity of all the Students in general it is now come to pass that Scholars are no more found in Taverns or Houses of Disorder nor seen loytering in the Streets or other places of Idleness or ill Example but all contain themselves within the Walls of their Colleges and in the Schools or publick Libraries Wherein I must confess you have at length gotten the start and by your Virtue and Merit have made this University which before had no Paragon in any forreign Country now to go beyond it self and give a glorious Example to others not to stay behind And if those temporary and unperfect Orders produced so good effect what may now be expected from this Body of Laws and Statutes so compleat and so digested that no former Age did ever enjoy the like Thus you have understood how the Goodness of our great King how the Care and respect of your Chancellor and how the worth and substance of the work it self may forcibly induce you to congratulate your own Happiness And therefore I might here forbear to trouble you any longer with a harsh interrupted Speech but that I cannot omit to put you in mind of one thing which I know you will hear with willingness and attention because it tendeth chiefly to the honour of our God and then by his power to the honour of our King and thence to the comfort of every true hearted Subject who will readily acknowledg with Reverence and thankfulness the great blessings we now enjoy above all other Nations I will tell you but what I know for I speak within my Element I have seen our neighbouring Countries in great Prosperity and Renown their Cities stately built and strongly fortified with Walls raised up to Heaven full of People full of Trade so full of peace and plenty that they surfeited in all excess but from hence they are since fallen partly by the boundless Ambition of great Princes partly by the Factions and Divisions in Religion and generally by their Disorders into such condition that men of great Honour sent in remote Employment found whole Provinces so sack'd and depopulated that in divers Journeys they incountred scarce a Man and of those they found dead some had Grass in their Mouths and Stomachs and some were torn in pieces by Beasts and ravenous Fowls and those that were alive had no other Care or Study than how to save themselves from Fire and Sword In general there is such Desolation that without a kind of Horror the Horror thereof cannot be express'd Now we by God's Blessing are in a better Case we sit here in God's House thankful in true Devotion for this wonderful Favour towards us We enjoy Peace and Plenty we are like to those who resting in a Calm Haven behold the Shipwrack of others wherein we have no part save only in compassion to help them with our Prayers which we all ought to do as interested in their sufferings lest the like may fall on us What then remaineth but seriously to consider how all these great Blessings are conferred upon us not for our Merits or for our more virtuous and Holy Lives but only by God's favour to his true Religion and under him by the happy Government of our Gracious King which should confirm us all to a Constancy in our Obedience and to a ready subjection to all those Rules and Orders which his Majesty shall prescribe for the Publick good Wherein this general Admonition may fruitfully be applied to the Business now in hand whereof I make no doubt So I crave your pardon and your good acceptance of that which I have rudely spoken but with a true affection to this whole Body whereof though I had my Education from another-Nurse yet I had the Honour to be an Adopted Son and as I suppose one of the ancientest that lives amongst you at this day It remaineth that Mr Vice-Chancellour perform his part and proceed to the Subscriptions and Depositions of you the Heads John Coke DIE Mercurii inter horas secundam tertiam post Meridem viz. vicessimo secundo die Junii Anno Dom. 1636. unà fuerunt in Hospitio venerabilis Viri Doctoris Pink S. Theologiae Professoris Vicecancellarii Vniversitatis Oxon. notoriè sito situato in Collegio Sanctae Mariae Winton in Oxon. vulgo voca't Collegio Novo Reverendus in Christo Pater Dominus Johannes Episcopus Oxon. honoratissimi dignissimi venerabiles Viri Dominus Johannes Cook Eques auratus Serenissimae Regis Majestati Secretarius Principalis Dominus Henricus Martyn Eques auratus Judex Admiralitatis Curiae Praerogativae Thomas Rives Legum Doctor Regis Advocatus Commissionarii Domini Regis specialiter missi ad exhibendum Librum Statutorum Vniversitatis eorum confirmationem sub magno Sigillo Angliae Coram quibus comparuerunt venerabilis Vir Christopherus Potter Collegiae Reginae Praepositus Mr. Loughe Mr. Stannix Socii Collegii praedicti qui ante Convocationem eodem die habendam pro Statutorum Confirmatione Protestationem suam in scriptis Communi Sigillo Collegii sui munitam exhibuerunt eamque in Personâ suâ legit Mr. Stannix coram Commissionariis praedictis Doctore Pink Vice-Cancellario tum praesente sub hâc verborum formulâ Protestatio Declaratio Praepositi Scholarium Collegii Reginae in Vniversitate Oxon. de Jure Titulo Interesse suis in Electione Nominatione Principalis Aulae Sancti Edmundi in Vniversitate Oxon. per quam palàm publicè in quocunque celebri dictae Vniversitatis Coetu vel alibi intimari notum fieri in perpetuam rei memoriam obnixe rogant se solos in solidum habuisse habere debere