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England enslaved under popish successors being a true history of the oppressions this nation groaned under in times of popery.
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paid for the same 5. The Gift of all Bishopricks Abbeys Monasteries c. in England whereof the present Incumbent died in the Court of Rome 6. The Provisions procured from Rome for the best Bishopricks Abbeys c. when they fell void or were voidable by the Law 7. The Appcllations to Rome to stay all ordinary Law and Justice of Courts 8. The Citations from Rome in arrest of Judgment procured from Rome when Men knew or suspected the Law would pass against them 9. The Bishops Suit at Rome for their Pall. 10. The Abbots Suit at Rome for the confirmation of their Elections 11. The prefering of Strangers to the best Promotions of the Realm as hath been largcly shewn before 12. The procuring of Bulls by Bishops Abbots Priors and Colledges to be out of the Kings Vâ—sitation and Prerogative 13. The First-fruits and Tenths of all Spiritual Promotions The First fruits of vacant Benefices were granted by pope Innocent IV. to Archbishop Boniface for seven years to raise Ten thousand Marks to pay pretended Debts of the Bishoprick an unheard of Innovation in England opposed by the Bishops Nobles and the King at first yet inforced by Excommunications But the Benefices of Noblemens and Lay-mens Patronage and the King 's free Chappels were exempted from them by Order of Parliament and the Kings Writs 14. Peter-pence granted by the Kings Ina and Offa to the English School at Rome not to St. Peter called Peter-Pence because payable upon St. Peter's day excepted in King John's Charter to the Pope frequently demanded by the Popes Granted to St. Albans Abbey by King Offa confirmed since by Popes Bulls 15. The strange number and kinds of Pardons to allure all sorts of Sleidon's Comment lib. 15. People to take and purchase them Frier Tecel to set forth the glory and prevalency of the Popes Pardons whereof he was the Pedler in Germany for the comfort and incouragement of Harlots and Whoremongers so far forgot the Honour and Reverence he should have given to the chaste Virgin Mary that he impiously averred If a Man had lain with our Blessed Lady the Mother of Christ and gotten her with-child yet the Popes Pardon was able to set him free from this Offence Pardons were granted from the Pope for Eighty two thousand years for saying a short Prayer at Christs Sepulchre in Venice toties quoties For saying every Ave Maria in our Ladies Crown consisting of 63 Aves Two hundred eighty eight days Pardon of all sins and every Holy Mary in it 40 days Pardon and for saying the whole Crown of 63 Aves and 12 Pater-nosters by several Popes Indulgences Two hundred seventy three thousand seven hundred fifty eight days of Pardon And by the Bull of Pope Sixtus IV. Twelve thousand years of Pardon for every time any Person in the State of Grace shall say this Prayer Haâ—l most holy Mary Mother of God Queen of Heaven Gate Bernardinus de Eusti Martiale part 12. of Paradice Lady of the World Singular and Pure Thou art a Virgin thou hast conceived Christ without sin Thou hast brought forth the Creator and Saviour of the World in whom I doubt not Deâ—ivâ—r me from all Evil and pray for my Sins Amen Here I shall present you with some Indulgences granted by Pope Gregory XIII at the instance of the Popish Bishop of St. Asaph in favour of one Mr. John Swynborn an English man the last day of March 1574. 1. WHosoever having one of these blessed Grains or Beads viz. some consecrated Grains and Beads sent by the Pope among his other Beads and shall being confessed and communicated say over his Beads or the Rosary or shall read the passion of Christ our Saviour or say the Seven Psalms with the Letanies praying for the Pope's Holiness or for the Unity of the whole Common-wealth of Princes and Christian people with the See Apostolick and for the Reduction of the Hereticks Septentrional shall for every time obtain full Remission of their Sins as is granted in the Holy Wars against Infidels 2. And in the days of the Conception Nativity Annunciation Visitation Purification and Assumption of Our Blessed Lady being confessed and communicated and saying over your Beads or the Office of our Lady and praying for the Reduction of the Hereticks of England and other Countries Septentrional shall obtain in every the above-named days all the Indulgences that be granted to our Lady of Loretto of Monteserato of St. Angelo and of Sta. Maria Maggiore of Rome and any other Churches of our Lady in the whole World 3. And so often as any having Contrition of their Sins shall devoutly hear Mass or Sermon or say the Ave Mary in the Morning Mid-day and at Night when the Bell tolleth they being bare-headed and kneeling upon their Knees or shall bear with them three Beads at their Girdle or other place open to be seen or shall do reverence to the Image of the Cross of our Lady or any other Saint or shall examine their Conscience at Night before they go to sleep or shall going in or out of the Church or their Chamber take Holy Water or perswade or move others to do the same or shall charitably reprehend Blasphemers and other Sinners shall for every time so doing obtain an hundred years of Indulgences 4. And such as shall teach the Ignorant the Matters of the Faith according to his or their Estate or openly defend in every place the Catholick Church by Writing Catechising Preaching or by any other means they then shall obtain thereby the third part of their sins to be forgiven 5. Also thrice in a mans life-time after he shall have fasted three days and said over the whole Psalter and his Beads once or given sufficient Alms or done some other good Deed equivalent making to a Confessor appointed by his Ordinary or Superiour a general Confession that is either of his whole life or of that which is passed since his last general Confession was made and being communicated shall obtain thereby full remission of all his other sins 6. Moreover every day in Lent saying over with Devotion and Contrition of Heart and Desire of the Increasing of the Holy Faith his Beads Fasting also if he may otherwise praying or doing some other Charitable Works according to his Confessors Counsel shall obtain therefore all the stations of Rome day by day as they be appointed in divers Churches thorowout the whole year 7. Moreover Every Friday of the Moneth of March and in the days of the Invention and Exaltation of the Cross saying over the Corona or Beads or the Office of the Cross and upon Good-Friday the Seven Psalms with the Litanies being confessed or having purposed to be consest as soon as they may shall obtain therefore all the Indulgences of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem of St. Cross in Rome of the Holy Chappel in Paris and all the places where any Relicts be of our Saviour Christ's Passion 8. Item Upon All souls day
Paris fol. 1002. the place of the Abbot being void 1000 Marks and would not confirm the Election of the new Abbot until the Monks had promised to pay 800 Marks In the Reign of King Edward the Second Pope John XXII reserved to his See the First-fruits of all vacant Benefices for the space of three years At that time also certain Usurers set up in England called Caursins who by Usuries and strange Arts devised in Italy did eat up the poor People and the Clergy The King himself was much indebted to them The Bishop of London would have repressed them but because they were maintained by the Pope he was not able to effect it The Franciscans and Dominicans preached up the Popes Power and drew all the Confessions to themselves and every day obtained Priviledges to the prejudice of the Parochial Priests who became almost useless The State of England was deplorable for hungry Italians of the baser sort with Bulls and Warrants from the Pope came daily to fleece the People and to raise such sums of Money as they would demand upon the Clergy If any denied what they demanded he was presently Excommunicated And they that held the great Benefices were Strangers who were but the Popes Farmers This caused Matthex Paris that lived then and beheld these things to lament That the Daughter of Sion was become like a shameless Harlot that could not bâ—ush by the just Judgment saith he of him that made an Hypocrite to reign and a Tyrant to domineer Sometimes the Pope made his advantage by Grants made to other Bishops to spoil the Realm as to the Bishop of Rochester whose Name was Laurentim de Sancto Martino a Chaplain and Counsellour of King Henry the Third This Man got a Dispensation from the Pope to hold all his former Livings in Commendam with this Bishoprick And yet alledging that his Bishoprick was the poorest of England and therefore his Living yet unable to maintain the Port of a Bishop he never ceased till he had extorted from the Clergy of his Diocess a Grant of a fifth part of all their Spiritual Livings for five years and appropriated unto his See for ever the Parsonage of Friends-bury The Pope at the same time granted a Bull to the Archbishop of Mat. Paris fol. 1000. Canterbury to collect the Fruits of all vacant Benefices within his Province for one year SECT 18. The way that yielded to the Pope his greatest Harvest was by The Popes Legats Legats sent into this Realm for they coming hither under a plausible title of care to reform things that were amiss within the Realm and the presence of a Legate having an Authority little inferior to the Pope himself being terrible to the Subject they had opportinity not not only to gather to their Masters whatsoever they liked to demand but also provailed intollerably for themselves and some of them with such insolence as it is strange that any Prince could ever suffer them in his Realm I shall here speak something of the Original of these Legats and shew how by degrees the Legatâ— Ã latere were brought in Authority amongst the Nations and how they did inlarge the Popes Phylacteries At first because Rome was the chief City of the Empire from thence as from a Seminary were preachers sent to sundry Nations to preach and plant the Gospel or to confute Heresies afterwards to provide vacant Benefices and to supply the absence of the Roman Bishop in Synods in all which they did no other thing but as other Bishops might have done and also did But when the Bishops of Rome were made Patriarchs and became ambitious these Legats did the same Offices at some times but therewith they began craftily to injoyn unto Archbishops and Metropolitans to execute some things which they were commanded by the Word of God to do and they would give them power within their own Diocesses as if Bishops had been Vicars of the Roman Parriarchs or his Legat. These Primats did gladly imbrace the show of Honour that for Petrie's Church History p. 272. reverence of the Roman Church they might be the more respected in their own Jurisdiction and sometimes the more easily advance themselves above their Competitors Sometimes the Popes sent Legats into other Diocesses with such modesty that they had Authority to attempt nothing without concurrence of the Bishops or Synod of that Countrey Albeit these Legations were partly good and just and at the worst were tollerable yet they were not potestativae or imperious but charitativâ— or exhortatory nevertheless the Popes brought the Churches and Bishops into subjection by such means for afterwards they were sent only for ambitious Usurpation Covetousness and Worldly Affairs The ordinary Legats at Pisa Romandiola Bononia Ferrara Avignon and if there be any other such are Provincial Deputies Prâ—tores or Vice-Roys The Nuncio's at the Court of the Emperor or of any King Prince or State are Ambassadors or Spies for Secular Affairs The Affairs of any Church that are gainful if they be of less account are reserved unto the Judgment of the Nuncio yet not definitively but to be determined at Rome And things of greater importance are wholly reserved for the Court of Rome The Ancient Bishops of Rome did severely in joyn their Legats to acknowledge duly the inferâ—oâ— Bishops within their own Jurisdiction but now they passby the Metropolitans and draw all Actions unto themselves and the Court of Rome Likewise their Ambition and Avarice have so provoked some Nations that they will scarce admit any Legat as Sicily and France have intrâ—nched their Office These particultrs are more largely written by Antoniuâ— de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato de Republ. Ecclesiast lib. 4. cap. 12. Of these some had the Titles and Ensigns others the power of Legats or more without the Title or Badges Some were sent successively into England Wales Ireland France and elsewhere to publish Popes Excommunications Interdicts Bulls Croisados Disms Suspensions Citations Mandats c. to and against Emperors Kings Princes Bishops Abbots Priors and all sorts of Persons to exact collect Moneys Pillage Sacred Churches Monasteries Mansions founded by our devout simple Ancestors for relief of the poor of Strangers and Sustentation of Religious Persons c. It was an Ancient Priviledge of the Kings of England and Scotland that no Legat à latere should come into any of their Dominions by the Popes Mission unless at the Kings special instant request to the Pope who eluded this priviledge by sending Nuncio's Chaplains Clerks Friers Minors or Prâ—dicants sometimes into their Realm with the full power not Titles or Ensigns of Legats Some Irish Bishops without the Kings Privity endeavouring to procure a Legat to be sent into Ireland the King upon notice thereof by his Chief Justice and others writes to the Pope to send no Legat thither against his will Pope Gregory the Ninth his Legat was imprisoned for stirring up Sedition in Lombardy against the Emperor Three Legats