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A02679	The excommunication published by the L. archbishop of Dublin Thomas Flemming aliàs Barnwell friar of the Order of S. Francis, against the inhabitants of the diocesse of Dublin, for hearing the masses of Peter Caddell D. of Divinity, and Paul Harris priests, is proved not onely injust, but of no validity, and consequently binding to no obedience. In which treatise is also discovered that impious plot and policy of the aforesaid archbishop and his friars in supplanting the pastors and priests of the clergy, thereby to bring all into the hands of the friars, of whose disorders and foule abuses (especially in this kingdome) something is noted. The second edition, enlarged. By me Paul Harris priest.	Harris, Paul, 1573-1635?; Caddell, Peter. aut; Fleming, Thomas, 1593-1666. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 12810; ESTC S116899	71,181	112

of the See Apostolicke Obedience Obedience But if on the contrary by reason of my just complaint made against them by the Bishops Preats of the Clergy any restraint or limitation of their power be made or diminutiō of their greatnes which may but eclipse the smallest glimpse of their accustomed splendor then shall such Apostolicall letters be viewed reviewed they shall be searched weighed pondered they shall be construed glossed interpreted yea every point and iota shall be examined pryed into if happily by any meanes they may be avoyded But if no such flaw can be found in them then forsooth they were obtayned by sinister wrong information so subject unto obreption or else their Generalls have not signified them so no reckoning to be made of them Example where of wee have lately seene in the Bull of the Revocation of Facultyes And now since that againe in the Inhibition De non admittendis Novitijs in Hibernia I say then since the time that our Fryars began to give their habit to take in Probationers in the Kingdome which before in much fewer numbers were bred for them beyond seas they are increased to such a height as they are become not onely terrible unto the Bishops Clergy but whosoever shall oppose them shall find of what power they are of And this may well be understood if wee doe but observe what Inwardnesse or rather I may call it a kinde of Kinred alliance they have contracted not onely with the common people but with them also of best note and ranke by drawing unto them this sonne that Daughter this brother that sister this uncle that aunt this Nephew that Niece this Kinsman that Apprentice So as they are become farie more deare neere unto the Inhabitants then were ever in times past Fosters or Gossips So as by their owne multitudes this intaylemente of their Devotoes they are now able in two houres to make the worthy est man either of our Clergy or Laity within the Citty of Dublin or where else they reigne as odious and hatefull unto the people as any Malefactour whatsoever What shall I say of that hereditary disease of lying which raignes among our Mendicants by which they compasse their ends prevayle marveilously in their designments yea beyond all expectation I call lying an hereditary disease among Fryars For that Thomas Walsingham sometimes a Cistertian Monke of S. Albons a most pious and a learned man among other writers most renowned in the Chronicle of such English Kings whose lives he writ observed committed the same to posterity That it was a good argument in his dayes in every mans mouth Tenens tum de for●●a quam de matonia Hic est frater Ergo m●ndax ficat illud Hoc est album Ergo ●oloratum As much to say It was in those times a very good reason to say such a one is a Fryar therefore a Lyar. Even as to say This thing is white and therefore hath a colour This testimony of Walfinghams shal you find in the life of Richard the second of which author who lived in the raigne of Henry the sixt Iohn Leland in his booke De illustribus 〈◊〉 scriptoribus writeth of him That he was in perscrutandis antiquitatib●s diligens in conscribendis historijs industrius in searching out of antiquities diligent in writing of histories industrious And Doctor Iohn Pits a moderne writer in his booke de illustribus Anglia script●●ibus gives him this praise Quòd vir erat qui ita pietatem coluit ut bonas literas intereà non negligeret 〈◊〉 compilavit historias tanta fide ut verax semper habitus sit That he was a man who so loved piety that he neglected not good letters that he compiled many historyes with that faithfulnesse that he ever was held a true Writer Well then what this true writer hath left recorded of Fryars untruthes and lea●ings in his dayes I am sure the Fryars of our times will make good being nothing degenerate or inferiour unto their predecessours in this winde witnesse this kingdome but especially the Citty of Dublin where by their lying backbiting detraction they have purchased more beliefe especially among the vulgar then he that comes with the gospell of S. Iohn in his mouth For whensoever a Fryar is disposed by lying and back●iting to take away the good name of a Priest or any other man whosoever hee presently be takes himselfe unto his begging vocation which is a sufficient colour to bring him to any mans house and so very dextrously he can stop two shards with one bush for hee can both begge and slander at one time For say his principall busines that which he cheifly intends is to defame to backbite his neighbour yet his begging shall bee the stalking horse unto that foule businesse so as the detraction shall onely seeme to come by way of discourse communication accidentally And this advantage hath the Friar of all men in the world who say they were malitiously minded intended never so much evill against their neighbour yet are they to seeke of an occasion an excuse to bring them to this that bodies house whereby they might vent the poyson malice of their hearts of which pretext by reason of his begging the Friar is ever provided and therefore in flandering backbiting defaming whensoever it pleaseth the Friar to be so wicked as I said before he hath the advantage of all men upon earth In confideration whereof I lesse muvaile at the speech of a certaine Gentleman who in a familiar discourse said that he had rather have the displeasure of any Nobleman in the country then of the meanest Fryar of any order being asked the reason thereof he answered he would keepe that to himselfe And whence may we thinke all these lyes tales with which this country more of late then ever heeretofore is abused I say from what fountaine by all probability doe they descend but from these Fryar limitours who passing from parish to parish from house to house are lurking and scouting in every corner For albeit I confesse the needy beggar is also commonly a lyar yet neither hath he the wit or the boldnesse to vent such lewd repo●ts neither if he did is there any so light of beliefe is to give credit unto him No no it is not the wanting beggar that sits at the gate with a messe of broth and a piece of bread in his hand who bruiteth all these lyes and slanderous detractions of this that party whom they disaffect but it is the wanton beggar who sits above the salt because he hath a better coat upon his back authorized by his profession which in this kingdome is made too often a Pandor to wicked abuses And I am the rather induced so to thinke for that in this City of Dublin we never yet found any lye or wicked slander