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peace_n	county_n	justice_n	session_n	5,221	5	10.3826	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83647	Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament, in maintenance of their accusation, against William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury, whereby he stands charged with high treason. Also, further articles of impeachment by the Commons in Parliament, against the said Archbishop of Canterbury, of high treason, and divers high crimes and misdemeanors. Die Mercurii, 17 Jan. 1643. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that these articles and impeachment, be forthwith printed and published. John Brown Cler. Parliamentor.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing E2527; Thomason E29_15; ESTC R8429	7,331	16

Execution upon the said Iudgment to be stayed And being moved therein and made acquainted with the bad life and conversation of the said parson he said that he had spoken to the Iudges for him and that he would never suffer a Iudgement to passe against a Clergy-man by nihil dicit 5. That the said Archbishop about eight yeares last past being then also a privy Counsell or to his Maiesty for the end and purpose aforesaid caused Sir John Corbet of Stoake in the County of Salop Baronet then a Iustice of peace of the said County to bee committed to the prison of the Fleet where he continued prisoner for the space of halfe a yeare or more for no other cause but for calling for the Petition of Right and causing it to be read at the Sessions of the peace for that County upon a iust and necessary occasion And during the time of his said imprisonment the said Archbishop without any colour of right by a writing under the Seale of his Archbishopricke granted away parcell of the Glebe land of the Church of Adderley in the said County whereof the said Sir John Corbet was then patron unto Robert Viscouns Kilmurrey without the consent of the said Sir John or the then Incumbent of the said Church which said Viscount Kilmurrey built a Chappell upon the said parcell of Gleve land to the great preiudice of the said sir John Corbet which dath caused great suits and dissentions betweene them And whereas the said Sir John Corbet had a Iudgement against Sir James Stonehouse Knight in an action of Waste in his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas at Westminster which was after wards affirmed in a Writ of Error in the Kings Bench and Execution thereupon awarded yet the said Sir John by meanes of the said Archbishop could not have the effect thereof but was committed to prison by the caid Archbishop and others at the Councell Table untill he had submitted himselfe unto the Order of the said Table whereby he lost the benefit of the said Iudgement and Execution 6. That whereas divers gifts and dispositions of divers summes of money were heretofore made by divers charitable and well disposed persons for the buying in of divers Impropriatrons for the maintenance of preaching the word of God in severall Churches the said Archbishop about eight yeares last past wilfully and maliciously caused the said gifts feoffements and conveyances made to the uses aforesaid to bee overthrowne in his Maiesties Court of Exchequer contrary to Law as things dangerous to the Church and State under the specious pretence of buying in Appropriations whereby that pious worke was suppressed and trodden downe to the great dishonour of God and scandall of Religion 7. That the said Archbishop at severall times within these ten yeeres last past at Westminster and elsewhere within this Realme contrary to the known Laws of this Land hath endeavoured to advance Popery and Superstition within the Realm And for that end and purpose hath wittingly and willingly received harboured and relieved divers Popish Priests and Iesuits namely one called Sancta Clara alias Damport a dangerous Person and Franciscan Fryer who having written a Popish and seditious Booke intituled Deus natura gratia wherin the thirty nine Articles of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament were much traduced and scandalized The said Archbishop had divers conferences with him while hee was in writing the said Book and did also provide maintenance and entertainment for one Mouns●er St. Giles a Popish Priest at Oxford knowing him to be a Popish Priest That the said Archbishop about foure yeers last past at Westminster aforesaid said that there must be a blow given to the Church such as hath not bin yet giuen before it could bee brought to conformity declaring thereby his intention to be to shake and after the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England 9. That in or about the month of May 1641. presently after the dissolution of the last Parliament the said Archbishop for the ends and purposes aforesaid caused a Synod or Convocation of the Clergy to bee held for the seuer all Provinces of Canterbury and York wherein were made and established by his meanes and procurement divers Canons and Constitntions Ecclesiasticall contrary to the Laws of this Realme the Rights and Priviledges or Parliament the Liberty and property of the Subiect tending also to sedition and of dangerous consequence And amongst other things the said Archbishop caused a most dangerous and illegail Oath to be therein made and contrived the tenor whereof followeth in these words That I A. B. doe sweare that I doe approve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government established in the Church of England as containing all things accessary to Salvation And that I will not endeavour by my selfe or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish Doctrine contrary to that which Is so established Nor will I ever give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Archbishops Bishops Deanes and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstitions of the Sea of Rome And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to the plain and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And this I doe heartily willingly and truly upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Iesus Christ Which Oath the said Archbishop himself did take and caused divers other Ministers of the Church to take the same upon paine of suspension and deprivation of their Lviings and other severe penalties And did also cause Godfrey then Bishop of Gloucester to bee committed to prison for refusing to Subscribe to the said Canons and to take the said Oath And afterward the said Bishop submitting himselfe to take the said Oath he was set at liberty 10. That a little before the calling of the last Parliament anno 1640. a Vote being then passed and a resolution taken at the Councell Table by the advice of the said Archbishop for assisting of the King in extraordinary wayes if the said Parliament should prove peevish and refuse to supply his Maiesty The sayd Archbishop wickedly and malitiously advised his Maiesty to dissolve the said Parliament and accordingly the same was dissolved And presently after the said Archbishop told his Maiesty that now he was absolved from all rules of Government and left free to use extraordinary wayes for his supply For all which matters and things the said Commons assembled in Parliament in the name of the ●●●●●es and of all the Commons of England doe impeach the said Archbishop of Canterbury of high Treason and other crimes and misdemeanours tending to the subversion of our Religion Lawes and Liberties and to the utter ruine of this Church and Common-wealth And the said Commons by protestation saving to themselves the libertie of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further or other Accusation or Impeachment against the said William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury and also of replying to the answer that he shall make unto the said articles or any of them Or of offering proofe of the premisses or any other Impeachment or accusations that shal be exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliaments require Doe pray that hee the said William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury may be called to answer the said several crimes and misdemeanours and receive such condigne punishment as the same shall deserve and that such further proceedings may be upon everie of them had and used against him as is agreeable to Law and Iustice FINIS