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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43524	Cyprianus anglicus, or, The history of the life and death of the Most Reverend and renowned prelate William, by divine providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... containing also the ecclesiastical history of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from his first rising till his death / by P. Heylyn ...	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1668 (1668)	Wing H1699; ESTC R4332	571,739	552

Patience perforce as the Proverb hath it For much they feared that Abbot would unravel all the Web which Bancroft with such pains had weaved and that he was as the same Author well observes better qualified with Merit for the Dignity than with a spirit answering the Function Follow his Character to the end and you shall be told That in the exercising of his Function he was conceived too facil and yielding His extraordinary Remisness in not exacting strict Conformity to the prescribed Orders of the Church in point of Ceremonie seemed to resolve those Legal Determinations to their first Principle of Indifferency and led in such an habit of Inconformity as the future Reduction of those tender Conscienced men to long discontinued Obedience was at the last interpreted an Innovation If Andrews had succeeded Bancroft and Laud followed Andrews the Church would have been setled to sure on a Foundation that it could not easily have been shaken to the preventing of those deplorable Miseries which the Remiss Government of that Popular Prelate did so unfortunately bring both on the Church and State But to go forward where we left Laud was no sooner setled in the Presidentship of his Colledge but he conceived himself advanced one step at the least towards a Precedency in the Church and therefore thought it was high time to cast an eye upon the Court His good Friend and Patron Bishop Neile then being of Rochester had procured him a Turn before the King at Theobalds on the 17th of September 1609. and by the power and favour of the same man being then translated unto Litchfield he was sworn one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary on the third of November Anno 1611. yet so that he continued his dependencies on his former Lord to whom he was as dear and necessary as before he was injoying freely all the accomodations of his House whensoever his occasions brought him to London Having thus set foot within the Court he promised himself great hopes of some present preferment but those hopes deceived him Nothing is more uncertain than Court Preferments Some have them suddenly at the first and then continue at a stand without farther Additions as in the case of Doctor Young Dean of Winchester Some attend long and get nothing as in the case of Mr. Arthur Terringham and many others and some are in the same case with the Apostles in St. Iohn when they went a fishing of whom it is said That having caught nothing all the night they cast their net the next morning on the right side of the Ship and then they were not able to draw it for the multitude of Fishes And so it was with this new Chaplain many Preserments fell but none fell to him For whensoever any opportunity was offered for his Advancement Archbishop Abbot who had before defamed him to the Lord Chancellor Egerton and by his mouth unto the King would be sure to cast somewhat in his dish sometimes inculcating to him all his actings at Oxon. and sometimes rubbing up the old sore of his unfortunate business with the Earl of Devonshire These Artifices so estranged the Kings Countenance from him that having waited four years and seeing his hopes more desperate than at the first he was upon the point of leaving the Court and retiring wholly into his Colledge But first he thought it not amiss to acquaint his dear Friend and Patron Bishop Neile both with his resolution and the reasons of it But Neile was not to be told what he knew before and therefore answered That he was very sensible of those many neglects which were put upon him and saw too clearly that he had been too long under a cloud but howsoever advised him to stay one year longer and that if he had no better encouragement within that year he would consent to his retirement In the mean time to keep him up in heart and spirit as he had given him the Prebendary of Bugden belonging to the Church of Lincoln to which See he had been translated Anno 1613. but the year before so in the year of his complaint which was 1615. he conferred upon him also the Archdeaconry of Huntington It had pleased God so to dispose of his Affairs that before the year of expectation was fully ended his Majesty began to take him into his better thoughts and for a testimony thereof bestowed upon him the Deanry of Glocester void by the death of the Reverend Right Learned Doctor Feild whose excellent Works will keep his Name alive to succeeding Ages A Deanry of no very great value but such as kept him up in reputation and made men see he was not so contemptible in the eyes of the King as it was generally imagined But before we follow him to Glocester we must take Oxon. in our way in which had hapned no small alteration since we left it la●t Doctor Henry Holland Rector of Exceter Colledge and his Majesties Professor for Divinity having left this Life in the end of the year 1611. it seemed good to Archbishop Abbot to make use of his Power and Favour with King Iames for preferring to that place his elder Brother Doctor Robert Abbot being then Master of Baliol Colledge and Rector of Bingham in the County of Nottingham He had before been Fellow of it and Doctor Lilly dying so opportunely for the furtherance of his Preferment in the University he succeeded Master in his place March 9. 1609. being the next Month after his Brother had been advanced to the See of London A man he was of eminent Learning as his Works declare and a more moderate Calvinian than either of his Predecessors which he expressed by countenancing the Sublapsarian way of Predestination by means whereof he incurred the high displeasure of the Supralapsarians who until then had carried all before them without gaining any thing on those who liked well of neither But depending altogether on the will of his Brother he thought he could not gratifie and oblige him more than in pursuing his old quarrels against Laud and others whom he knew to be disrellished by him which he thus pursued It hapned that Laud preaching on Shrove-Sundar Anno. 1614. insisted on some points which might indifferently be imputed either to Popery or Arminianism as about that time they began to call it though in themselves they were no other than the true and genuine Doctrines of the Church of England And having occasion in that Sermon to touch upon the Presbyterians and their Proceedings he used some words to this effect viz. That the Presbyterians were as bad as the Papists Which being so directly contrary to the Judgment and Opinion of this Doctor Abbot and knowing how much Laud had been distasted by his Brother when he lived in Oxon. conceived he could not better satisfie himself and oblige his Brother the Archbishop than by exposing him on the next occasion both to shame and censure which he did accordingly For being Vice-chancellor

Revenue thought it not fit in that low ebb of the Exchequer that the Church of Winton should be filled with another Bishop before the Michaelmas Rents at least if not some following Pay-days also had flowed into his Majesties Coffers Which though it were no very long time compared with the Vacancies of some former Reign yet gave it an occasion to some calumniating Spirits to report abroad That this Bishoprick was designed to be a Subsistence for one of the Queen of Bohemia's younger Sons who was to hold it by the Name of an Administrator according to an ill Custom of some Princes amongst the Lutherans But this Obstruction being passed by Neile with great chearfulness in himself and thankfulness unto the King proceeded in his Translation to the See of Winton his Election being ratified by his Majesty and confirmed in due form of Law before the end of the next year 1627. In Mountains hands the business did receive a stop He had spent a great part of his Life in the air of the Court as Chaplain to Robert Earl of Salisbury Dean of Westminster and Bishop Almoner and had lived for many years last past in the warm City of London To remove him so far from the Court and send him into those cold Regions of the North he looked on as the worst kind of Banishment next neighbour to a Civil death But having a long while strived in vain and understanding that his Majesty was not well pleased with his delays he began to set forward on that Journey with this Proviso notwithstanding That the utmost term of his Removal should be but from London-House in the City to Durham-House in the Strand And yet to beget more delays toward Laud's Advancement before he actually was confirmed in the See of Durham the Metropolitan See of York fell void by the death of the most Reverend Prelate Doctor Toby Matthews This Dignity he affected with as much ambition as he had earnestly endeavoured to decline the other and he obtained what he desired But so much time was taken up in passing the Election facilitating the Royal Assent and the Formalities of his Confirmation that the next Session of Parliament was ended and the middle of Iuly well near passed before Laud could be actually Translated to the See of London These matters being in agitation and the Parliament drawing on apace on Tuesday the fifth of February he strained the back-sinew of his right Leg as he went with his Majesty to Hampton-Court which kept him to his Chamber till the fourteenth of the same during which time of his keeping in I had both the happiness of being taken into his special knowledge of me and the opportunity of a longer Conference with him than I could otherwise have expected I went to have presented my service to him as he was preparing for this Journey and was appointed to attend him on the same day seven-night when I might presume on his return Coming precisely at the time I heard of his mischance and that he kept himself to his Chamber but order had been left amongst the Servants that if I came he should be made acquainted with it which being done accordingly I was brought into his Chamber where I found him sitting in a Chair with his lame leg resting on a Pillow Commanding that no body should come to interrupt him till he called for them he caused me to sit down by him inquired first into the course of my Studies which he well approved of exhorting me to hold my self in that moderate course in which he found me He fell afterwards to discourse of some passages in Oxon. in which I was specially concerned and told me thereupon the story of such oppositions as had been made against him in that University by Archbishop Abbot and some others encouraged me not to shrink if I had already or should hereafter find the like I was with him thus remotis Arbitris almost two hours It grew towards twelve of the clock and then he knocked for his Servants to come unto him He dined that day in his ordinary Dining-room which was the first time he had so done since his mishap He caused me to tarry Dinner with him and used me with no small respect which was much noted by some Gentlemen Ephilston one of his Majesties Cup-bearers being one of the Company who dined that day with him A passage I confess not pertinent to my present Story but such as I have a good precedent for from Philip de Comines who telleth us as impertinently of the time though he acquaint us not with the occasion of his leaving the Duke of Burgundies Service to betake himself to the Imployments of King Lewis xi It is now time to look into the following Parliament in the preparation whereunto to make himself more gracious in the eyes of the People his Majesty releaseth such Gentlemen as had been formerly imprisoned about the Loan which in effect was but the letting loose of so many hungry Lions to pursue and worry him For being looked upon as Confessors if not Martyrs for the Common-wealth upon the merit of those sufferings they were generally preferred afore all others to serve in Parliament and being so preferred they carried as generally with them a vindicative Spirit to revenge themselves for that Restraint by a restraining of the Prerogative within narrower bounds At the opening of this Parliament March 17. the Preaching of the Sermon was committed to the Bishop of Bath and Wells who shewed much honest Art in perswading them to endeavour to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Ephes. 4.3 which he had taken for his Text In which first laying before them the excellency and effects of VNITY he told them amongst other things That it was a very charitable tie but better known than loved a thing so good that it was never broken but by the worst men nay so good it was that the very worst men pretended best when they broke it and that it was so in the Church neuer yet Heretick renting her Bowels but he pretended that he raked them for Truth That it was so also in the State seldom any unquiet Spirit dividing her Vnion but he pretends some great abuses which his integrity would remedy O that I were made a Iudge in the Land that every man which hath any Controversie might come to me that I might do him Iustice and yet no worse a man than David was King when this cunning was used 1 Sam. 15. That Vnity both in Church and Common-wealth was so good that none but the worst willingly broke it That even they were so far ashamed of the breach that they must seem holier than the rest that they may be thought to have had a just cause to break it And afterwards coming by degrees to an Application Good God saith he what a preposterous Thrift is this in men to sow up every small rent in their own Coat and not care what