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A45227	A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ...; Determinatio de ablatione temporalium a clericis. English	Hus, Jan, 1369?-1415.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3802; ESTC R8509	98,591	126

till September 11. An. 1100. at which time the King received him into his favour and restored him to his Bishoprick After which he fell again into the Kings displeasure and dyed of grief that he could not clear himself of the Rebellion charged against him which he was summoned to answer In the year of our Lord 1101. K. Henry the first upon the innumerable complaints to him made against Ranulph Flambard Bishop of Durham by the Vote of a whole Parliamentary Council clapt him up Prisoner in the Tower of London for a most notable Oppressor Extortioner Rebel Traytor prepared to act any wickednesse who was likewise created by VVilliam Rufus both Chancellor and Treasurer of England This Bishop afterwards escaping into Normandy perswaded Duke Robert to invade the Realm to the great disturbance thereof and effusion of much Christian bloud After which having purchased his peace with large Gifts ●et the K. exacted from him great sums seised on all his Goods Bishoprick Edgar King of Scots about the year 1100. gave the Town of Berwick to the Bishop of Durham but because he afterwards wrought Treason against him he lost the Gift the King thereupon resuming the Town into his own hands Hugh Pusar Bishop of Durham who purchased the Earldom of Northumberland of King Richard the first for giving a rude sawcy answer to King Henry the second had his Castle of Durham seised into the Kings hands Anno 1184. and otherwise was afflicted by him Anthony Beak or Bek Bishop of Durham excommunicating the Prior and Monks of Durham notwithstanding their Appeal to the Pope and King and going to Rome without the Kings License King Edward the first thereupon seised his Temporalties and Liberties and appointed a new Chancellour new Justices and other Officers of Durham During this his disgrace this King for his con●empts took away three Manors and the Church of Symondbury from the Bishoprick with divers other Lands He being with other Bishops put out of the Kings protection for denying to grant him an ayde he and they were forced to make their peace with large Gifts the grant of the fifth part of thier Ecclesiastical Goods and Revenues for one year After the death of Lewis Beaumont the Monks of Durham electing a Monk of their own for their Bishop the Archbp. of York consecrating him without the Kings License the King thereupon refused to restore his Temporalties to him and caused Richard de Bury without any election of the Monk or Chapter to be made and consecrated Bishop in his place whereupon the Monk retired into the Monastery Cuthert Tonstall Bishop of Durham for his disobedience to King Edward the 6th was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London Decemb. 20. 1551. where he continued all his Reign the King being so highly offended with him that in 7 E. 6. by a special Act of Parliament the Bishoprick of Durham was dissolved and all the Lands and Hereditaments thereof given to the King his Heirs and Successors though afterwards the Bishop and Bishoprick were restored by Queen Mary but in 1 Elizabeth this Bishop was deprived of his Bishoprick by Act of Parliament for refusing the Oath of Supremacy and opposing the Queens proceedings and committed Prisoner to Lambeth Our learned Martyr William Tyndal writing of this Bishop Tonstall observes That the cause why he left the Bishoprick of London for Durham was only covetousness and ambition Neither addes he is it possible naturally that there should be any good Bishop so long as the Bishopricks be nothing save wordly pomp and honour superfluous abundance of all manner of Riches and Liberty to do what a man list unpunished things which only the evil desire and good men abhor Roger the great rich Bishop of Salisbury who contrary to his Oath Duty and Allegiance to King Henry the first his Advancer and Maud his Daughter set up and made Stephen a Usurper King thereby involving the Kingdom in intestine bloudy wars and feuds all his Reign by a divine retaliation of his Perjury and Treachery had his Person imprisoned his 2. newly repai●ed Castles of Sh●rborn and Malmesbury with his stately new built Castle of Devises and all his ammunition and treasures in them seised upon with the ●astles of his Nephews and Creatures Nigellus Bp. of Ely Alexander Bp. of Lincoln for real or pretended offences which Castles K. Stephen refused to restore or to be judgd by the Bishops or their Canons in the Council of Winchester sommoned by the Popes Legate to debate the legality of their seisure by the King and to restore them to the Bishops which the King would by no means give his consent to do the Archbp. of Rhoan justifying the lawfulness of these Castles seisure in the Council as well as the Kings Lawyers Richard Milford Bishop of Salisbury was by order of the Barons in Parliament in XI R. 2. removed from the Court and imprisoned in the Castle of Bristol as a pernicious Whisperer Flatterer evil Counseller Traytor to the King and Kingdom William Ayscoth Bishop of Salisbury Confessor to King Henry 6. by his oppressions ill dealing and consenting to the yielding up of Anjou and Mayen to the hands of the French King so far incensed the Nobles and vulgar Rabble his Tenants too against him that in the insurrection of Iack Cade June 29. 1450. some of these Bishops Tenants coming to Ed●ndon in VVilishire whiles he was there saying Masse seised upon him even in the Church drew him from the Altar arrayed in his Pontifical Massing Vestments carried him to the top of a Hill not far off and there whiles he was kneeling on his Knees cleft his Head in two stript him naked to the skin and renting his bloudy shirt into several pieces took every man a rag to keep it as a monument of this their exploit Which though tumultuous and illegal in them was yet a just judgement of God upon himself for opre●sing his Tenants and other publick misdemeanours Anno. 873. Alfred Bishop of Leicester was deprived of his Bishoprick for his misdemeanours by King Elfred Vl● Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Realm and hardly escaped with his life together with Robert Archbishop of Canterbury and VVilliam Bishop of London by Edward the Confessor by the advise of his Nobles assembled in a Parliamentary Council for giving this good King wicked Counsel an incensing him against the English causing the King to infringe his good Laws and not to administer upright Justice to his People which he promised to reform upon their banishment Alexander Bishop of Lincoln was banished the Land forced to fly into Scotland and deprived of his Bishoprick Anno 1070. for opposing VVilliam the Conquerour as an Invador of the Church and ravishers of Ecclesiastical things the Norman Conquerors making bold with all the Money Chattels Charters they could find in any Monastery which they diligently searched by the Kings command who

taken away and setled in the King his Heirs and Successors And no longer since than 21 Iac. c. 30. York-house in the Strand was by special Act of Parliament by way of Exchange taken from the Archbishop of York and setled on King Iames his Heirs Successors and Assigns and after that on the Duke of Buckingham upon pretext that it was for the benefit of the Archbishops By all which Acts and Presidents it is most evident that our Kings Parliaments and Temporal Lords may not only seise sequester the Temporal Lands Goods Estates of Bishops and Church-men in cases of Delinquency and Contumacy but likewise substract alienate and sell them to supply the necessities of the King and Kingdom in times of war and extreme necessity without Sacriledge or Impiety which should cause our present Archbishops Bishops and Cathedralment to carry themselves with greater Loyalty and Dutifullnesse towards his Sacred Majesty with greater humility sobriety meeknesse and respect towards the Temporal Lords Commons and People than their Predecessors have done and make them very carefull of giving just offence or provocation to all or any of them especially at this present juncture of our Ecclesiastical and Civil Officers in so hopefull a way of future Settlement if their pride avarice ambition or indiscretion do not interrupt them 7ly That Archbishops Bishops Deans and Chapters themselves by their common consent may lawfully alienate sell and give away not only their Lands and Possession which were never solemnly consecrated but even their very consecrated Chalices Vestments and Ornaments of their Churches themselves though more peculiarly consecrated by Episcopal benedictions more immediately devoted to Gods service than their Lands and other Temporalties and that in cases of publick necessity or charity as to relieve the Poor in time of famine to redeem Captives to ransom their lawfull Kings to support their decayed Patrons and Benefactors to defend their native Country against invading Enemies or Christians against Infidels to prevent a greater mischief and for the benefit of the Church in general as sundry antient Councils and the Popish Canonists themselves have resolved Yea by the Popes consent without any of these Causes our Archbishops and Bishops might alienate sell morgage give away and dispose of the Lands belonging to their Bishopricks as the express clause in their Oath to the Pope not to do it without the Popes council and consent imports When our King Richard the first was most injuriously taken in his return from the Holy Land and for a whole year and three months space kept Prisoner by the Emperour of Germany and at last put unto a ransom of one hundred thousand pounds of Silver after the weight of Colen Anno 1093 the Kings Collectors being unable to levy so great a masse of moneys thereupon Majores quidem Ecclesiae thesauros ab antiquis congestos temporibus Ecclesiae Parochiales argenteos calices praemiserunt the Archbishops Bishops Abbots and Priors of all Conventual Churches gave the fourth part of their annual Rents and other inferiour Clergy-men the Tenth of their Tithes and the Cistercian Monks all their Wools towards his speedy ransom Yea the Chronicle of Brompton and others inform us that the Kings Collectors wanting monies after a double exaction of what they could scrape together from all parts Postrenis ut nulla vacaret occasio ad vasa sacra et utensilia Ecclesiae ventum est Ieaque per omnem Anglica regni latitudinem sacri Calices exactoribus regiis traduntur vel paulo infra pondus redimuntur Vasa etiam alia Cruces Praelatorum anu●● cum auro de Sanctorum fere●ris abra●o sunt conflaia Nec erat hoc secundum Patrum decreta illicitum cum urgen●tisimus necessiiatis ar●●enlus instaret Nec ulla erat distin●●●o in this necessity Clerici Laici secularis religiosi rustici urbani s●à omnes indifferenter juxtà substantiae suae vires vel redditum quantitatem pro redemptione Regia portionem suam solvere cogebantur Privilegia Praerogativae Iunnunitates Ecclesiarunt tunc silebant penitus et vacabant Omnis enim dignitas libertas os suam oppilabat Cisterciensis quoque ordinis Monachi qui ab omni exactione Regie hactenus immunes extiterant tantò magis tunc onerati suerant quantò minus antea publici oneris senserant gravitatem Exacti quoque conctilanam suarum ovium resignarunt And should not our Bishops and Cathedral men now for and towards his Majesties most glorious redemption and his three whole Kingdoms ransom from near twelve years exile and captivity and for the future settlement of our Churches Kingdoms in sound and lasting peace in pursuance of his Majesties most gracious Declarations and Engagements at Breda and the Generals Parliaments Engagements before his happy return into England to give competent satisfaction to Purchasers of their Lands not only part with their antient Treasures Chalices Miters Crosiers Church Ornaments Copes but likewise with their late alienated Temporalties and Revenues for competent terms of years of lives reserving the antient or an improved rent rather than violate the publick saith peace of the King Kingdom Parliament oppugn his Majesties royal Commands the Lords Commons Parliaments Souldiers and Peoples desires by unreasonable demands or indiscreet covetous and violent proceedings against Purchasors and Tenants which may indanger if not demerit the forfeiture reseisure and new sales of all their Lands and Temporal Revenues in case of obstinacy and dis-satisfaction herein The rather because our Bishops by the Laws of England before the Statute of 1. Iac. c. 3. and other restraining Acts might with the consent of their Deans and Chapters not only lawfully lease their Lands for how many years or lives they pleased but likewise alien and sell the Inheritance thereof or charge them with what Rent-charges they pleased especially by the Kings consent as the grant of a Rent-charge out of the Glebe of a Parsonage by the Patron or Ordinary in time of vacancy or of the Parson Patron and Ordinary joyntly to a Layman shall bind the Successours in perpetuity as is evident by the Statutes of 37 H. 8. c. 16. 1 Jac. c. 3. 33 H. 8. c. 31. Littleton sect 648. Cooks 1. Institutes f. 343 344 44 45. and many other Lawbooks Not to adde many Presidents to those forecited in so clear a case it is registred by Bishop Godwin of Iohn V●sly Bishop of Exeter in King Edward the 6th his Reign That of all the Bishops of the Land he was esteemed the best Courtier being better liked for his civil Behaviour than his Learning which in the end turned not so much to his credit as to the spoyle of his Church for of twenty two Lordships and Manors which his Predecessors had left unto him of a goodly yearly Revenue he left but three and them also leased out and where he found 13. Houses and Palaces too many by 12. for any one Apostolical Bishop well