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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43633	Scandalum magnatum, or, The great trial at Chelmnesford assizes held March 6, for the county of Essex, betwixt Henry, Bishop of London, plaintiff, and Edm. Hickeringill rector of the rectory of All-Saints in Colchester, defendant, faithfully related : together with the nature of the writ call'd supplicavit ... granted against Mr. Hickeringill ... as also the articles sworn against him, by six practors of doctors-common ... Published to prevent false reports.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1825; ESTC R32967	125,748	116

Look to 't 'T is readily granted that there is a disserence betwixt the Bishop and the Defendant as to Riches c. But what then As a Prelate a poor Prelate has as much right to his Priviledges as the Rich and more need of it a great deal It is hard to pull off Hairs from the bald Crown or to rob the Spittle but there is no charity nor reason to take the few Hairs from the bald Crown to make a Wigg on for him that has a good Head of Hair of his own and needs no Wigg nor such superfluous Additaments I grant indeed Bishops are Prelats and Barons too So is the Defendant a little one and more than so the Defendant's Barony cannot be seized into the King's Hands as the Bishop's may for Contempt therefore I called the Bishops a sort or kind of Barons Not such Barons as the Temporal Lords who cannot forfeit them to the King nor the King cannot seize them for Contempt as aforesaid therefore there is a vast difference betwixt a Baron who is a Peer of the Realm and a Spiritual Baron the one is Magnas natus born a Peer and sits in the House of Lords as his Birth-right and Inheritance the other is Greatus and sits ex Gratiâ Regis and may upon the King's Displeasure or Contempt lose his Seat near the Wool-Packs and his Baronies and Temporalities forfeited into the King's Hands But what non-sence is it for Heraclitus to prate Numb 59. Jest says They the Whiggs clamour and say the Dammages are excessive Honestly said for a Fool or Jester Why so says Earnest or Sober-sides I think and so must every Man that thinks at all in one Doctor 's Opinion he might have said 't is a very cheap penny-worth to that which the honest Man Honest Man quoth he and a Proctor's Boy good sence and Tory-like had that pull'd off Hick's what plain Hick still no dread of the 2. Rich. 2 Will Men never take warning till they be maul'd 2000 l. thick Sure the Fellow thinks the Defendant cannot get as good a Jury in London or Middlesex as was lately in Essex Hicks Hat except the Privileges of the Saintship be as great as those of the Peerage Peerage The wise Fellow thinks that Bishops are Peers and thinks there 's no difference betwixt Words that are but wind and Blows or Assault and Batteries and Challengings to fight The Bishop is great Who denies it But 't is not so long ago since the Defendant being then as now for he is no Changling Rector of All-Saints and Cornet Compton quartering in Colchester I doubt the Defendant being an old Captain by Commission from two Kings of Sweden and Portugal by Sea and by Land would not have thought himself obliged in good Manners to give him the Wall except he had as Sir George did first told of his Pedigree then indeed then I grant But not a word of this should have been said but that they come so with their Comparisons when the Defendant had told them in the first words of the Naked Truth Second Part that he honoured Bishops but did not Idolize them could say my Lord but not my God But these Hireling Pamphletiers do so deify them that they are netled when Men do not fall down and worship the The Distance is great None envies his Lordships greatness the Distance is great the King made it so great as it is and can as easily make the Distance less when he list But enough of this Folly for such I acknowledg it but only that the Wise Man bids us answer a Fool according to his folly that is beat the Fool at his own Weapon 45. Edw. 3. The two Houses join Counts Barons Communes and represent to the King how the Government of the Kingdom had been a long time in the Hands of the Clergy do you see an old Complaint they were Papists indeed but true born Englishmen and could not tell how to buckle to a Mitre or Lawn-sleeves or that Westminster-Hall should truckle to Doctor's-Commons a great Indignity and a shameful Purent grant Mischiefs Dammages sont avenoz c. for the great Mischiefs and Damages that came thereby c. says the Parliament-Rolls But notwithstanding all this the Prelates baffled both King Lords and Commons having their Spiritual Weapons eek't out with two Temporal Writs namely de Heretico comburendo the other de Excommunicato capiendo The former with much adoe is damn'd to Perdition for the flames it made in Smithfield and all the Kingdom over the other de Excommunicato capiendo is yet in force and fills the Jayls dayly with Men Excommunicated many about Mony-matters and Fees Illegal-Fees and Oppressions Extortions as not paying the Knave a Groat c. For when the Popish Prelates could not burn any that stood in their way for a Heretick yet as obstinate and contemptuous they sent him to the Divel and then he and the Chancellours and the King's-bench and the Sheriffs got the poor Soul buryed alive in a Jayl till he dyed or submitted and swore future Obedience to Holy-Church Seven Years after this of 25. Edw. 3. the Prelates having got the whipping hand claw'd it away and to stop Men's Mouths from muttering got this Statute 2. Ric. 2. 5. Nay they are as cunning to preserve their Prelacy as for the Holy Scripture Christ and his Apostles having declar'd an Abhorrence of Spiritual Pride and Ecclesiastical Tyranny and Oppression calling them greedy Dogs that can never have enough and Wolves in Sheep's cloathing not sparing the Flock but tearing rending and devouring it It concern'd them to fly to Force and Temporal Power for aid of their abominable Hierarchy and the Magistrate in those days what for Fear and what for Folly what for Preferment or to keep Preferment since there was no other way gave his Assistance to the Beast and the false Prophet caw me and I 'le caw thee Rev. 13. 15 16 17. And he had power to give Life unto the Image of the Beast that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed And he causeth all both smal and great rich and poor free and bound to receive a Mark in their right hand or in their foreheads And that no Man might buy or sell save he that had the Mark or the Name of the Beast or the number of his Name Yet in 20. Ric. 2. Eighteen Years after this Statute the House of Commons forgot not that they were Englishmen still and remonstrated to the King complaining that he kept so many Bishops about him in his Court and advanced them and their Partakers The King did not or the Bishops would not suffer him to heed his Subject's herein as aforesaid And Poor King it prov'd his ruine for after he had lost the hearts of his People it was not a few Lawn Sleeves and flattering Sycophants and Parasitical