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A67908	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. vol. 1 wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1695 (1695)	Wing L586; Wing H2188; ESTC R354	691,871	692

ARCH-BISHOP LAUD's HISTORY Effigies Reverendissima et Sanctissimi Praesulis Willelmi LAUD Archepiscopi Cantuariensis Qui pro Christi Ecclesiā Martyrium passus est Anno 1644 5 Ianuar 10 AEtatis suae 72. THE HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES AND TRYAL OF The Most Reverend Father in God and Blessed Martyr WILLIAM LAUD Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Wrote by HIMSELF during his Imprisonment in the Tower To which is prefixed THE DIARY OF HIS OWN LIFE Faithfully and entirely Published from the Original Copy And subjoined A SUPPLEMENT to the Preceding HISTORY The Arch-Bishop's Last Will His Large Answer to the Lord SAY's Speech concerning Liturgies His Annual Accounts of his Province delivered to the King And some other Things relating to the History IMPRIMATUR Martij 7 1693 4. JO CANT LONDON Printed for Ri Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard M DC XCV THE PREFACE THAT the Reader may be satisfied how it came to pass that an History wrote of and by a Person of so great a Character in this Nation and by him designed for the Publick hath lain hid and been suppressed for near Fifty Years through whose Hands it hath passed and by what means and by whose Labour it is at last Published he may be pleased to take the following Account The Most Reverend Arch-Bishop the Author and Subject of this History was very exact and careful in keeping all Papers which concerned himself or any Affairs of Church and State passing through his Hands not only kept a Journal of his own Actions but from time to time took minutes of whatsoever passed at Council-Table Star-Chamber High-Commission-Court c. Digested all his Papers in most exact Order wrote with his own Hand on the back or top of every one what it Concerned when it was Received when Wrote or Answered c. This his Enemies knew full well and therefore when after they had caused him to be Impeached of High Treason of endeavouring to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government and to be Imprisoned upon the Impeachment in the end of the Year 1640. and had now in vain laboured for two Years and an half to find out Evidence to prove this their Accusation but the more they sought they found to their confusion so much the greater Evidence of the contrary After they had in vain ransacked all Papers left by the Arch-Bishop in his Study at Lambeth and Examined all his Intimate Friends and subaltern Agents upon Oath when nothing did appear they hoped to find somewhat against him either in his private Journal of his Life which they knew to be kept by him or in those Papers which he had carried with him from Lambeth at his first Commitment in order to his future Defence Vpon these hopes they with great privacy 〈◊〉 an Order for the searching his Chamber and Pockets in the Tower in May 1643. and committed the Execution of it to his inveter ate Enemy William Prynne who thereupon took from the Arch-Bishop Twenty One Bundles of Papers which he had prepared for his Defence his Diary his Book of Private Devotions the Scotch Service-Book and Directions accompanying it c. And although he then faithfully promised Restitution of them within three or four days yet never restored any more than three Bundles employed such against the Arch-Bishop at his Trial as might seem prejudicial to his Cause suppressed those which might be advantageous to him Published many Embezzeled some and kept the rest to the day of his Death As soon as Prynne was possessed of the Arch-Bishop's Papers he set himself with eager Malice to make use of them to his Defamation and to prove the charge of Popery and abetting Arbitrary Government by the Publication of many of them His first Specimen in this kind was a Pamphlet which came out in August following Entituled Rome's Master-piece in Five Sheets in Quarto containing the Papers and Letters relating to the Plot contrived by Papists against the Church and State then Established in England and discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeild But never did Malice appear so gross and ridiculous together as in this case For from this Plot if there were any Truth in it it appeared that the Life of the Arch-Bishop was chiefly aim'd at by the Plotters as the grand Obstacle of their Design and one who could by no Arts be wrought to any connivance of them much less concurrence with them This Pamphlet being after the Publication of it carried to the Arch-Bishop in the Tower he made several Marginal Annotations on it in Answer to Prynne's Falsifications and Malitious Calumnies intermixed therein Which Copy coming afterwards into the Hands of Dr Baily the Arch-Bishop's Executor was by him given to the Learned Antiquary Mr Anthony Wood and by him Transmitted to me in order to be placed among the other Papers and Memorials which are to follow this History according to the Arch-Bishop's own Direction But Prynne's Malice could not be abated by the shame of one Miscarriage In the next place he bethought himself of Publishing the Arch-Bishop's Diary as soon as his Trial ended wherein it had been often produced as Evidence against him This then he Published in the beginning of September 1644. in Nine Sheets in Folio with this Title A Breviat of the Life of c. intending it as he saith for a Prologue to the much desired History of his Tryal but neither entire nor faithfully as far as he did Publish it but altered mangled corrupted and glossed in a most shameful manner accompanied with desperate Untruths as the Arch-Bishop complains in this History and therefore addeth For this Breviat of his if God lend me Life and Strength to end this History first I shall discover to the World the base and malitious Slanders with which it is fraught This the Arch-Bishop wrote when he despaired that ever his Diary should be recovered out of those vile Hands in which it then was and be Published faithfully and entirely which would be the most effectual discovery of the Baseness and Malice of Prynne therein Yet notwithstanding so vile and corrupt an Edition of it all those who have wrote any thing of this Excellent Prelate have been forced to make use of it not being able to gain the sight of the Original nor perhaps so much as suspecting any such fraud in the Edition of it Particularly it is much to be lamented that Dr. Heylin who wrote the History of the Arch-Bishop's Life with great Care and Elegance was forced in most things to borrow his Account from this corrupted Edition of his Diary and hath thereby been led into many and great Errors Others also have since him taken up and divulged many false Opinions concerning the Diary it self as that it was wholly wrote in Latin by the Arch-Bishop that it was by himself Entituled A Breviat of his Life and that it was Translated and Published entire 〈◊〉 Prynne The True and Faithful Publication of it which I have made from the

Fundamental Points or whether he know that the Brownists do differ from us in them I shall not take on me to declare till his Lordship open himself farther In the mean time his Lordship goes on to tell us wherein these Brownists fail though they do not differ in Fundamental Points to his Knowledge Their failing is in this They hold that there is no true Church in England no true Ministry no true Worship which depend the one upon the other they say all is Antichristian Here is their Error they distinguish not between the bene esse or Purity of a true Church and the esse or true being of it though with many Defects and gross Corruptions But conclude because such things are wanting which are indeed necessary to the well-being of a true Church and to be desired therefore there is none at all in being Here my Lord shews a great deal of sharp and good Apprehension And distinguishes very rightly between the entire being of a true Church which is her bene esse and the true Being of a Church which is her esse only And my Lord doth farther fairly acknowledge that this is the Brownists Error To conclude no Church in being because it hath many Defects and gross Corruptions in it to hinder its well-being So then my Lord here grants two things First that to hold there is no True Church in England no True Ministry no true Worship which depend one upon another but that all is Antichristian is an Error And Secondly that it is the Brownists Error How and how far these Three No True Church no True Ministry no True Worship depend one upon another And in what cases it may in some Exigents be otherways I will not now dispute nor divert from the main Business 1. First then if it be an Error to say there is no True Church no True Ministry no True Worship in England Then I hope it will be found Truth to say there is a True Church a True Ministry and a True Worship in England And he that shall avow the contrary must needs differ from the Church of England in Fundamentals For these Contradictions a True Church and no True Church a True Ministry and no True Ministry a True Worship of God and no True Worship cannot be built up but upon different Foundations And as for that which my Lord affirms is added by the Brownists That there are many Defects and gross Corruptions in it So long as this is said and not proved 't is enough without farther Proof to deny both the Defects and Corruptions both the many and the gross As I doubt not but the Church of England can make good against both my Lord and all the Brownists in England 2. Secondly if to affirm this be the Brownists Error then I would fain know of my Lord how he can say the Brownists do not differ from or with us in any fundamental Point of Doctrine or saving Truth For if this be no fundamental Point or no saving Truth that we be in and of a true Church that this Church hath a true Ministry to be between God and us in all the Duties of their Function whether upward to God in Prayer and Spiritual Sacrifice or downward to us in the Word and Sacraments that in this Church and by this Ministry there is a true Worship and that without gross Corruptions What can be accounted next the Creed it self fundamental or saving So that in one Line my Lord is pleased to say the Brownists do not differ with us in any fundamental Point of Doctrine or saving Truth and in the very next Line his Lordship confesses they differ from us in these three things which if not several yet altogether as they depend one upon another are saving and fundamental Nor can this cautelous close help my Lord one jot that he adds The Brownists do not differ from us in any fundamental point of Doctrine or saving Truth as his Lordship knows For were his Lordship of a shallow or narrow Comprehension 't were another matter But since he is so full of understanding in these things 't is impossible but he must know these three together are fundamental and being so he must needs know also that the Brownists differ with us in Fundamentals which is that which he denyed If therefore my Lord will say he knows not this to be the Brownists Error why doth he take upon him to say it is If he will grant that he knows it he must needs know withal if he will not shut out the Light of his Conscience of which a little before he is so tender that the Brownists or Separatists call them what you will differ from us in some fundamental Points of Doctrine or saving Truth Thus far then my Lord relates the failing of the Brownist I hope he will be so careful as not to fail with them himself Yes sure for he adds I hold no such Opinion but do believe to the contrary That there are in England many true Churches and a true Ministry which I do hear and with which Churches I could joyn in Communion were those Yokes of Bondage which are laid upon them taken off and those Corruptions removed which they do contrary as I think to their Duty yield unto and admit of And this I am sure no Separatist in England holds that deserves that Name And therefore I hope your Lordships will in that respect let me stand right in your Opinions Here my Lord tells us he holds no such Opinion but does believe to the contrary But I doubt he so believes to the contrary as that he is of the same Opinion For he believes that there are in England many true Churches and a true Ministry And so do all the Brownists For no doubt but they believe that all their Congregations or Conventicles are true Churches in England and that the Ministers which they hear are true Ministers And this is plainly my Lord's Belief For he saith he believes there is a true Ministry in England 〈◊〉 he doth hear But what Ministers they are which he doth hear he does not say Or if this be not my Lord's meaning but that there are some true Churches and some true Ministers in England though ordained as in England they are yet my Lord continues a Separatist still For his Lordship doth not say either that he doth or that he will or that he can joyn in Communion with any of these Churches or this Ministry which he says are true But only that he could joyn with them if If what Why if these Yokes of Bondage were taken off which are laid upon them and those Corruptions removed By the Yokes of Bondage he means the Injunction of a set Form of Prayers which he hath so often mentioned in this Speech But what Corruptions he means I know not till his Lordship shall be pleased to tell us Only this I conceive I may add That all things are not Corruptions in the Church

some known Bounds might be set to each Court that the Subject might not to his great Trouble and Expence be hurried as now he was from one Court to another And here I desired a Salvo till I might bring Arch-Bishop Parker's Book to shew his Judgment in this Point in the beginning of the Reformation if it shall be thought needful According to whose Judgment and he proves it at large there is open Wrong done to the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction by Prohibitions The next Charge is about my undue taking of Gifts A Charge which I confess I did not think to meet here And I must and do humbly desire your Lordships to remember that till this Day I have not been Accused in the least for doing any thing Corruptly And if I would have had any thing to do in the base dirty Business of Bribery I needed not have been in such Want as now I am But my Innocency is far more to my Comfort than any Wealth so gotten could have been For I cannot forget that of Job That Fire shall consume the Tabernacles of Bribery And in the Roman Story when P. Rutilius a Man Summâ Innocentiâ of greatest Integrity was Accused Condemned and Banished 't is observed by the Story that he suffered all this not for Bribery of which he was not Guilty but Ob Invidiam for Envy against which when it Rages no Innocency no Worth of any Man is able to stand 1. But to come to the Particulars the first is the Case of Sir Edward Gresham's Son unhappily Married against his Father's will a Suit in the High Commission about it and that there he had but Fifty Pounds Damages given him That was no fault of mine my Vote gave him more but it was carried against me The Bond of two Hundred Pounds which was taken according to Course in the Court was demanded of me by Sir Edward to help himself that way and 't is confessed I granted it But then 't is Charged that in my Reference to Sir John Lambe to deliver him the Bond I required him to demand one half of the Forfeiture of the Bond toward the Repair of St. Pauls 'T is true I did so But First I desire it may be considered that it was wholly in my Power whether I would have delivered him the Bond or not Secondly That upon this gross Abuse I might have sued the Bond in my own Name and bestowed the Money upon what Charitable Uses I had thought fit Thirdly That I did nothing herein but what the Letters-Patent for Repair of St. Pauls give me power to do Fourthly That this is the third time St. Pauls is urged against me Which I am not sorry for because I desire since 't is once moved it may be sifted 〈◊〉 the uttermost And whereas to make all Ecclesiastical Proceedings the more odious it was urged that the Rubrick in the Common-Prayer Book mentions no License but asking of Banes That Rubrick is to be understood where no License is granted For else no License at all for Marriage without Banes-asking can be good which is against the Common both Law and Practice of the Kingdom 2. The second Particular was Charged by one Mr. Stone of London who said he sent into Lambeth two Butts of Sack in a Cause of some Chester-Men whom it was then in my Power to relieve and mitigate their Fine set upon them in the High Commission at York about Mr. Pryn's Entertainment as he passed that way And that this Sack was sent in before my Composition with him what should be mitigated and so before my return of the Fine mitigated into the Exchequer The Business my Lords was thus His Majesty having taken the Repair of the West End of St. Pauls to himself granted me to that end all the Fines in the High-Commission Court both here and at York and left the Power of Mitigation in me The Chester-Men which this Witness speaks of were deeply Sentenced at York for some Misdemeanours about Mr. Pryn then lately Sentenced in the Star-Chamber One or more of them were Debtors to this Mr. Stone to the value of near Three Thousand Pounds as he said These Men for fear of the Sentence kept themselves close and gave Mr. Stone to know how it was with them and that if he could not get me to moderate the Fine they would away and save themselves for they had now heard the Power was in me Upon this Mr. Stone to save his own Debt of three Thousand Pounds sends his Son-in-Law Mr. Wheat and Dr. Bailie Men that were bred in the College of S. John under me and had ever since good interest in me to desire my Favour I at first thought this a pretence and was willing to preserve to St. Pauls as much as fairly I might But at last upon their earnest pleading that the Men were not Rich and that Mr. Stone was like without any fault of his to be so much damnified I mitigated their Fines which were in all above a Thousand Pounds to two Hundred I had great Thanks of all Hands and was told from the Chester-Men that they heartily wished I had had the Hearing of their Cause from the beginning While Mr. Wheat and his Brother Dr. Bailie were Soliciting me for Favour to Mr. Stone He thinks upon sending Sack into my House and comes to my Steward about it My Steward acquaints me with it I gave him absolute Command not to receive it nor any thing from any Man that had Business before me So he refuses to admit of any Mr. Stone presses him again and tells him he had no Relation to the Chester-Men's Cause but would give it for the great Favour I had always shew'd to his Son-in-Law But still I Commanded my Steward to receive none When Mr Stone saw he could not fasten it he watches a time when my Steward was out of Town and my self at Court and brings in his Sack and tells the Yeoman of my Wine-Cellar he had leave to lay it in My Steward comes home finds the Sack in the Cellar tells me of it I Commanded it should be taken out and carried back Then Mr. Stone comes intreats he may not be so Disgraced protests as before that he did it meerly for my great Favour to his Son-in-Law and that he had no Relation to the Chester-Men's Business And so after he protested to my self meeting me in a Morning as I was going over to the Star-Chamber Yet afterwards this Religious Professour for so he carries himself goes Home and puts the Price of the Sack upon the Chester-Men's Account Hereupon they complain to the House of Commons and Stone is their Witness This is the truth of this Business as I shall answer it to God And whether this do not look like a thing Plotted by the Faction so much imbittered against me let understanding Men judge Mr. Wheat his Son-in-Law was present in Court and there avowed that he Transacted the Business