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A43611	The black non-conformist, discover'd in more naked truth proving, that excommunication, confirmation, the two great Episcopal appurtenances & diocesan bishops, are not (as now in use) of divine, but human make and shape, and that not only some lay-men, but all the keen-cringing clergy are non-conformists ... : also a libel, and answer (thereunto) fitted to every man's case (be it what it will) that is cited to ecclesiastical courts, whose shallow foundation is unbared, and a true table of ecclesiastical court fees, as it was return'd into the star-chamber, Anno Domini 1630, by the ecclesiastical fellows themselves, and compar'd with the statutes : also concerning the unlawfulness of granting licences to marry, Quakers-marriages, folly, as well as other evil consequences of that new law-maxim, viz. that no non-conformists ought to be jury-men : shewing also, that, religion, religion, that should have been the world's great blessing, is become the plague of mankind, and the curse of Christendom ... / by Edm. Hickeringill ...	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1797; ESTC R22899	136,499	106

or Commissary might testifie Excommengement that is make a S●gnicavit of Excommunication into the Kings Court Note by the way that Spiritual-Courts were not esteemed the Kings-Courts they must be the then Pope's Courts or no bodies Courts except they themselves be Soveraigns and for mischief that ensued thereupon Ay Ay that work was worthy a Parliament if they knew but how to 'mend a r●tten Spiritual-Fabrick that has no foundation in the Word of God it was ordained by Parliament for Remedy But was not the Remedy still the same with the Disease that none should certifie Excommengement but the Bishop only there they hit it Did no body ever hear of a Gentleman he shall be nameless for me that would needs have a Hat button'd up of the right side but happening to put it on the wrong way stamp'd and star'd like mad at the Haberdasher Sirrah quoth he did not I speak for a Hat that button'd up on the right side yea quoth the Haberdasher but that will cost ten shillings more cost what it will cost quoth Gallant that had more Money than Wit I 'le have it so he was glad to go home and bring him the same Hat again and putting it on right all parties were pleas'd Or him that bespoke a Picture of a Horse lying tauveing upon his Back and the Painter brought it and set it before him en passant at which disappointment the Gallant rav'd 'till going home and for more Money he brought him the same Picture turn'd topsie-turvy and so the fool was pleas'd Was fault found with the Significavits of Officials Commissaries c. Oh then let the Bishop for the future send them to the Kings-Courts Ay well 't is done And what are you better when Bishops signifie just as Officials certifies Hixius doxius Face about as you were now the Cap I hope is Button'd upon the right side Are you now pleas'd Gentlemen Surely you are well helpt up now When God knows the Bishop is not ubiquitary Can he be here and there and every-where he is but a man What would you have Can he signifie of his own knowledg the merit of the Cause Or who ought or ought not to be Excommunicate when he judges meerly by hear-say and 20 Miles of and by Implicite Faith in his Proxies and of his own knowledg knows nothing whether he does well or ill right or wrong a meer Lottery for Souls And if as Cook Inst 1. Sect. 201. a Certificate upon another Bishop's report is not sufficient much more a Certificate upon a Register Surrogate or Officials report is illegal and insufficient An error in the first concoction Physicians say can never be amended in the second and third so here if the Official miss the mark the Bishop never mends it but shoots at random lets sly at all in Course and after him in Course too the Writ follows in Course Course-doings to be sure though the Sell-souls think 't is very sine It makes them sine that 's certain that 's all the good is got by this great mischief to the Kings Liege-people this 't is to be wiser than God and to set up an Ecclesiastical Discipline unknown to Holy Scripture and the Primitive times For what should a blind man do in the Gun-room he may Fire a Canon and kill a Friend as like as an Enemy or fight against God with Gods own Sword by Coring his Servants this is to kick against the pricks to bind and loose before Christ has breathed on us and given us the Gift of the Holy-Ghost the Gift of Dis●…rning of Spirits or Spirit of Discerning take the Sword out of the Mad-mans hand or the Blind-mans hand he 's more like to do mischief with it than good Except it were lawful to have an Ecclesiastical Discipline that like an Essex● Jury hang half and save half or like drawing of Cuts for Souls long Cut or short Cut or like David's Revenge upon Moab making them all lie down in a Field Men Women and Children then stretching a Line through the middle of them on one side to put to death and with one full Line to keep alive 2 Sam. 8.2 A most nimble dispatch and compendious way of Execution There 's some hopes yet for a true man to escape by this Lottery but we are worse Is there any Whores Whoremasters Swearers Blasphemers c. let them live and 'mend what Ecclesiastical Discipline did ever correct a Debauchee But is there ever a true man or one that dares speak truth in a Province S●…ner search him out Cite him to Court Come hither Sirrah Vallain you Rogue you speak truth in an Age of Sycophantry Pimping and Pandering make an example of him Indict him Sue him Article against him Swear against him get Witnesses to swear that he spoke scandalous Words against the great Lord Bishop Ha Sirrah Have we got you within the swing of a Statute of Scandalum Magnatum we 'll swinge him with a Vengeance Ay Ay it is even so you are in the right on 't Who dare deny you have got the whipping hand of him be sure you keep it it shall go hard else if power can but be persuaded to make curt'sie to Revenge Yea yea Did you never see the Character of a keen over-grown Churchman Drawn by a Pen not a Pencil in all his Bloody and Bloaty Features 't would make a man Spew to look at him in that trim with his two Appendixes Hell and the Gaol attending his Beck In good time I have it at their Service so Drawn to the Life that he that runs may read his Name in Characters and digito monstrarier dicier hic est I 'le let you see your own Faces in my Mirrour the Successors of the cruelty of Bloody Bonner Men born to ruin will never take warning yet History will tell them that a Bloody Joab never came to the Grave in Peace and the Persecuters were choak't with the Blood they spilt or drown'd in the tears of the Widows and Orphans that they made For Heaven has ears and there is a secret Nemesis a Divine Vengeance that pursues him and finds him out Lurk he behind what power he will to hide his hated Head from God's Justice Hodg like a Horse-leech still for Blood doth thirst By Blood the Villain liv'd by Blood he burst Come strike then and feel how hard it is to kick against the pricks you 'll find that striking the Naked Truth is striking a naked Weapon with a naked Hand the harder you strike the deeper you are gasht try as soon and as often as you will Iniquity and Cruelty will in time meet with its match in this World at least truth shall Conquer as Christianity got ground in the World by suffering when the Blood of the Martyrs were the seed of the Church Therefore let false men strike and spare not show as much Plodding-Policy after Revenge Craft and Cruelty as the Devil can teach them when they lay their Heads

Souls The Apostolical pretenders Preach not one farthing better many much less I do not say much worse than when they were poor Priests Peter set ope ' the Prison-Doors and made a Goal-delivery But some the Goals would fill if they might have their Will Peter said indeed Silver and gold have I none And these indeed scarce know when nor think they have enough In short as I said once before I protest I do not know wherein St. Peter's pretended Successor imitates Peter but in denying his Master I wish I could see him on the stool of Repentance and weep as Peter did weep bitterly Instead of making others weep with their Inquisitions High-Commissions and their Tricks and Shams making the poor Widow and Orphans weep and curse them Apostolical men Successors and Imitators of the Apostle For shame no more With what Forehead I hate the Impudence more than the Hypocrisie Paul labour'd with his hands to get a Living others labour to undo men and their Families Paul had a Viper on his hand did him no hurt others have Vipers in their hearts and do as much hurt and mischief as in them lyes Paul raised Jairus's Daughter to life these breathe nothing but Goals Pillories Excommunication and Destruction Paul Excommunicated Swearers and Blasphemers and some Popes History says and Apostolical men would Blaspheme upon occasion Curse and Swear like Hectors But what and wherefore in nomine Domini do these men pretend Right to Excommunicate because St. Paul did it or the Primitive Church of Corinth that had both St. Paul's special order for it and his Spirit and his Sentence 1 Cor. 5.3 4. They had Gifts of the Holy-Ghost particularly that without which no man was so impudent to bind or loose or pretend to the power of the Keys in the Primitive times that wanted it namely the Gift of Discerning of Spirits St. Paul could see through a man into him into his very heart so could St. Peter and therefore did that which is a sin in any of us to do that have not the gift of Discerning of Spirits Therefore St. Paul called the Conjurer Elymas Enemy of all righteousness and Son of a Devil and St. Peter by his Spirit perceiv'd that Simon Magus was in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity The Pope and Popelings are ready enough at calling of Names but clavis errans they Nick-name men and call him a Child of the Devil that is more a Child of God a thousand times than themselves and yet they 'l be doing their endeavour and good-will to deliver them to Satan and yet God will not suffer Satan to take one of them that they Excommunicate that we know of no signs nor marks on 't but rather as they say of the Foxes proverbially The more they are curst the better they thrive Take him Satan Satan will not then take him Magistrate he must Whereas the Apostle Paul that made the Church of Corinth Excommunicate the Incestuous person it was for the destruction of the Flesh and Diseases as they did Job when God Excommunicated him or delivered him to Satan either kill'd him or brought him nigh unto the Grave if great Godly sorrow did not intervene Away with this Mimickry and Pageantry and Apish Imitation If we have the Spirit of the Apostles we are Apostolical men indeed they Peter and John Acts 8.17 Layd their hands on the Disciples and they received the gifts of the Holy-Ghost So the Pope and Cardinals c. they will be imitating and seem to do something and they 'l Confirm by Laying on of Hands but not that neither right according to their own Rubricks as I 'le show by and by but cui bono Away with Lying and Vanity let God be True and every man a Lyar I would appeal to any mans Conscience If ever he received any Gift of the Holy-Ghost by such Imposition of Hands and speak the naked-Naked-Truth now and do not cogg lye and flatter your self nor dissemble any of you that ever was B Be-Pop't or that any Pope would tell truly and not lye Whether he felt whilst he was at it with Imposition of Hands that any vertue went out of him as it did out of our Saviour when he did the Woman good Away Away with Folly and Pageantry at this time of day God will not be mocked And every Plant that my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out saith our Blessed Redeemer and I believe him let Hell and the Pope think themselves never so cock-sure and culminant 'T is readily granted that if any man was a Heretick they should avoid him or reject him and cast off his Company in ordinary Conversation and if any Brother walked disorderly they should not eat nor drink nor dine nor sup with him that he might be ashamed But to think that God or good Men the Prophets Christ or his Apostles did ever in the Old or New Testament command any Men Synod or Synagogue Church or Court that they should shut the Church Doors and shut out the worst of Sinners from the Sacraments or Communion or hale them into Church either by the Head and Ears or which is the same Excommunicate him or put him out of Commons or the Communion of the Church the only Food and Cure of our Souls and made on purpose for Sinners is an opinion as senceless and groundless as it has been baneful and mischievous to all Societies and the Peace of Christendom I grant though sacra sacris and Holy things ought not to be cast to Dogs therefore the Text says Examin your selves and so eat of this bread and drink of this cup. Examin himself It is not said examin him Priest and confess him you Priest and Catechize him John Presbyter nor you Lay-Elder But let him examin himself and so let him come but sao piculo at his own Peril But the Church nor the best of men are not defiled with communicating with the vilest of sinners Was there ever any better than our Blessed Saviour or worse than Judas yet Christ eat the Passeover with him and probably the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper yet he then knew him and had Publisht him a Traytor whom before he call'd Devil I hate the Puritanical Pharisaical Hypocrisie of any Religion they shall be defiled with communicating with Sinners Drunkards c. And yet St. Paul and the Church of Corinth as good as the best of them are not commanded to forsake the Lords-Table though we read that some came thither Drunk and to fill their Bellies with the Bread and Wine 1 Cor. 11.21 Alas every man has enough to do if he mind it well to look after his own Preparation but that any that had not the Gist of Discerning of Spirits nor these neither did Excommunicate or forbid the Communion to any in the Old or New Testament I boldly say 't is false Nor can they prove but that he that was delivered to Satan did also come if

I know many People think 't is a hard world since the Inquisition and High-Commission-Court were dissolved now that Curst Cows have short Horns yet let them comfort themselves with Excommunication and the Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo for though the Writ de Heretico comburendo be burnt and we cannot burn an Heretick for our Lives yet the Writ de Excommunicato Capiendo shall imprison the Heretick and bury him alive in a Jayl and what would men have Methinks that should content them Enough Enough in all Conscience a man would think if they have any Conscience in them What would they be at Do they know Do they not know when they are well Will nothing serve but Hang the Rogue burn the Heretick or crop the Roundhead in a Pillory Time was Ay Ay Time was when a bold Fellow that durst speak the naked-Naked-Truth or tell Rich men of their Roguery he had as good have eat his Ears in the merry days of the Inquisition and High-Commission But who can help the thing that will away Truly my Lord I daily expect the Effects of the Fury and Rage of the Devil and devilish men that rage so much the more as foreseeing their time is short But blessed be God my shoulders are as big and large of the largest size as the most of Mortals and can bear as much I doubt not but they 'll try my strength A whole Legion of Sell-Souls will fall upon me for this little Book better make one Back crack than not load the Wretch that takes away the Trade of the Higlers and Retailers of Heaven and Hell by which they have liv'd so long and so plentifully But I believe in God not without some Faith and Hope sure I have some grounds for it in your Grace and Clemency And for all your sayings that yet you will alter your word and not leave me to your Under-Officers Alas I am in their Clutches already they have begun to squeeze me already When shall I get out of their hands can you tell me How well will it become your Lordship to heal the Breaches and not stretch the Wounds wider they gape and are ghastly enough already and all that I have hitherto writ I told them so before but they would not believe is but an Earnest-penny of what I have at their service And to serve you and the Church I have much more in my head and heart I am scarce yet warm in my work extorted from me too and I do but play a little about the skirts of the business though some perhaps could wish me warm in Smithfield their Christian requital for my great pains if they might have leave to carry me and the Fagots thither But those days are not yet come To confute the Naked-Truth with the Arguments of Bloody Bonner a Bone-fire or a Jayl a Dungeon and a Pillory Here 's enough in all Reason for a Letter writ Raptim and in Haste I dare say your Grace never had such another Letter for length in your life And take it not in dudgeon that in memory of our mutual and spiritual Alliance I make bold to subscribe my self MY LORD Your most loving Brother Most obedient Son And most humble Servant Edm Hickeringill COLCHESTER Decemb. 4. 1681. POSTSCRIPT THE said Bishop St. Ambrose was not asham'd of his spiritual Kindred to his Flock Vos miht est is Parentes qui Sacerdotium tulistis vos inquam filii vel parentes filii singuli universi Parentes Ambrose Tom. 3. p. 89. in Luk. 18. No no Bishop Ambrose was not asham'd of his poor Kinsmen and Relations spiritual as high and stout as he was and scorn'd to Try them Judge them much less Curse them Silence them Stop their Mouths and Excommunicate them by Proxy or by his Vnder-Officers And yet he was a great Ecclesiastical Judge as well as your Lordship not a Judge at or of Common-Law Statute-Law the Municipal-Law but a Judge by and according to Canon-Law Canon-Law Ay if any Body can or does Judge by it this day Canon-Law Canon-Law four or five great Folio's of it too bulky to get well into any man's head that is already stufft full of Divinity Canon-Law 'T is as easie to make a Rope of Sand as to make the Canon-Law agree with its self one Canon and one Council does so thwart and thwack one another Canon-Law in which whosoever is vers't shall find enough to fit almost any purpose Had we not as good keep to the Canon of Holy Scripture as to be led to Sentence by Proxy and Lay-Doctors of Canon-Law even just as they shall nuzzle things into our heads But give me leave to mind you of one Canon-Law more most agreeable to our English Laws Concil Carthag 4. Can. 22 23 29 30 32. Episcopus si Clerico vel Laico crimen imposuerit deducatur ad probationem in Synodum Can. 30. Caveant Judices Ecclesiae ne absente eo cujus causa ventilatur sententiam proferant quia irrita erit imo causam in Synodo pro facto dabunt Let the Ecclesiastical Judges have a care and look to that they pronounce no Sentence in the absence of the Party accus'd nor without consent of a Synod of Presbyters if otherwise it shall be null and void c. And most reasonable such Presbyters too as are of the Neighborhood for shall not our Temporal Estates Free-holds or Monies no not in Trifles be given away from us without a Jury of the Neighborhood And shall our everlasting Souls and the liberty of our Bodies be given away by Proxy and a blind implicit Faith in the Certificavit or Significavit of a single malicious peevish interested and revengeful Sell-Soul Surrogate Official or Register King Balak himself could not with all his Gifts persuade the wicked and mercenary Prophet Balaam to curse whom God had not cursed but in spight of his teeth he was glad to say How can I desie whom the Lord hath not defied Yet he loved Cursing and Mischief in his heart and accordingly gave King Balak most wicked counsel which ended in mischievous Events on all sides No Judge that has any thing of a Man in him can pass Sentence of Death upon a Malefactor that deserves it without some yernings of the Bowels of Humane Compassion to Humane Kind And shall a keen-spiritual Judge make no more of it than to be yare and brisk and ready prest and bent to anathematize excommunicate silence suspend and curse to eternal death the Souls of poor Christians for every Trifle to the Pit of Hell and his Body to the Jayl Is this Christianity Is this Religion Learnt we this of our Saviour God forbid God forbid that Protestant-Bishops should be like the Bishops Lather speaks of for this cause To. 2. p. 310. Adversus falsum nominatum ordinem Episcop Perinde c. It is with these wicked Bishops all one as if the Devil himself should sit Mitred in the Chair and Rule the People The

Introduction SOME that have thought my Pen already too sharp and smart those especially that have been gall'd sore men where the skin 's off and have therefore long lay'n at catch for somewhat whereby they might accuse me will now good men upon the reading of this Title-Page Hug themselves for joy to see me again treat at this time of day too upon such touchy Subjects and Discourse that a man had need have the dexterity to split a hair that shall handle them pertinently usefully and yet safely and warily Besides a Coxcomb knows not how to write of such deep and high dark and mysterious points of Divinity Law and Policy and none but a Coxcomb say others will speak Truth in this lying coging fawning dissembling perfidious and treacherous Age. So that if I discuss these Arguments never so well and warily yet if I speak out plain and home there 's Piety in 't indeed but where 's the Wisdom and the Policy of it says Sir Politick Would-be And therefore as for the Naked-Tiuth-men tear them rend them fleece them shear them hire Thompson and the Be-Jesuited Heraclitus to Libel them bely and slander them all the Kingdom over hire some Welsh-Taffee of a Hackney-Tongue and Prostituted Conscience with broad staring eyes brim-full of Pride Self-conceit and Fury in all Companies on all Occasions to bespatter them Trepan them Teague them Taffee them and Man-catch them nay if they cannot be Godfreydiz'd nor Arnoldiz'd yet if you can hang them out of the way What should they do living here Make an Example of such fellows as have so little wit as to speak plain Truths in an Age of Hypocrisie Did you never see a Crow or Magottepye sit pecking and cawing crowing and chattering upon an Asses back or a Swines back Why these tame creatures are born for affronts However if they be rich use all Arts and Stratagems imaginable to beggar them that Truth if it will live and walk may yet walk only the length of a Jayl and in a Threadbare-Coat Which puts me in mind of that Jeering Leering old Doggerel Rhithmer that said of old Curia Romana non captat ovem sine lana The Roman-Wolf is no such fool To worry Sheep that have no Wooll Some have antiently render'd it in English thus The Court of Rome does think it brave To Man-catch such as Money have If any man think my style too Jocular and Airy for the gravity of a Divine and so grave a Subject let such busie Censurers use their own Lumpish Dumpish grave way and lull themselves and their Readers asleep and so get applause beyond the fame of Opium whil'st this facetious I was going to say this Erasmus his way of writing catches the Reader gently and insensibly making him a Captive Volunteer and once entred he knows not how to desist though call'd away by business hunger or sleep What has any man to do with my way of writing I do as little care as I have little cause to hope for a Plaudite let Fame-catchers mind their stops their cadences and their periods I hate Affectation as much as I do Hypocrisie or the Vulgar I 'le follow my own humor my Genius and Inclination that which is most natural is most to the life and I had rather please my self than any man alive let Knaves and Slaves and Pimps and Sycophants cringe and skrew their faces after the fashion the French mode or after the fashion of others and Pimp for Preferment I need none I am a plain free English-man that love my Country and my Countries welfare beyond their applause I had almost said or mine own repose and so God willing I 'le live and die Yet not to vapour too much of my Publick Spirit I must confess the Naked Truth on 't what if the publick-weal be gratified by any thing here writ not I but the men of Doctors-Commons merit the thanks For I am by my temper complexion choice and inclination of a retir'd Genius I hate the crowd a noise a stage or to be pointed at or to appear in publick but especially in Print though thank my fate it falls out otherwise of late and contrary to my beloved obscurity Yet this I can truly say in my just Apology that I never appear'd in Print of late years but as I was hall'd hurried and irritated by men that never yet medled with me but to their hurt But malice like Murder and Gunpowder will break out as it did on this occasion which forc'd me in my own defence thus to take the length of their Sword I mean their weapon their only and none-such weapon Excommunication Which might have slept for me in the peaceful Scabbard but that four or five Lay-Elders four Lay-Doctors of the Canon-Law and a Lay-Register drew it upon me a Divine the last week Bless me thought I here 's courage with a witness for Lay-men to attack a Spiritual person and at his own Spiritual-weapon too Excommunication And all this Delivery to Satan without the least fair Warning to bid me stand to my Arms shift for my self and stand upon my Guard against the foul Fiend The best on 't was I was not so soon Thunderstrook with Excommunication for a Nonne-no but I was sooner Absolv'd namely within half an hour and less after I first heard of it but not without delivering my Purse for the delivering to Satan by Excommunication together with the delivery from Satan by Absolution in Doctors-Commons cost me a Guiney not to dissemble the matter neither more nor less I believe I shall love a Guiney for this trick if it be but for this vertue inherent in it the better as long as I live Old Poets tell a Tale of Charon the Ferry-man of Hell that wafts men thither over the dismal River Styx but he makes them pay Ferriage a Naubum in Scotch money Sex pennies or a Baubee in English two farthings for fraight but what they paid for being Sculler'd back again is not in the Book of Rates I suppose because 't is needless for Charon's boat is always empty of Passengers back again They tell a tale of no man that ever return'd from Hell except one Bag-piper called Orpheus and all may be but Fiction But I tell you a real Truth and that every man knows to be true the Trade is currant and setled long ago first by the Pope betwixt himself and the Devil and a brisk Trade there has been between the Devil and him though of late somewhat decay'd and the price of Souls to the Devil and Hell and back again is much lower'd of late days though three hundred times better and more advanc'd than what it was in Charon's time for the Pope I say really and truly without a Fiction I know it to my cost to be true made himself the real Ferry-man of Hell and though he did not carry Souls thither always himself as did his Predecessor Charon yet he sent them thither by his Emissaries for

Pope hard-hearted wretch can deliver them but not a Soul of them except they or some-body for them down with their dust and ready Darby they will not trust for a twelve-penny piece which is the price of a Mass it seems now a days but when I was in Spain and Portugal they were cheaper one might have had two for a shilling and thank you too nay an Irish-Fryar a Teague Benedicite would make you twenty Legs too into the bargain with Abou bou bou by Chrees and by St. Patrick Fait and Trot by my Shoule Joy Never did such a silly cheat reign so long before in the whole World but it was only because they kept the people in ignorance and if any man durst offer to enlighten them and speak the naked-Naked-Truth the Pope and his Inquisition and Emissaries were as spightful cruel and devillishly bloody as any are now amongst us at this day against the Naked-Truth They are vildly loth to lose their domineering insulting Kingdom of Darkness and are as mad as Bethlehem if men will not be Asses and tame Beasts and suffer themselves as of old to be caw'd crow'd over and Priest-ridden 'T is said of the Germans That just before God had raised up Luther to awake them and rowze them they were grown so fottish and be-jaded having so long been Priest-ridden that their Priests might almost have perswaded them not only to lye down and let the Priest whip them or which is as bad or worse make them whip themselves both of them daily Penances at this day in Popish-Countries but also they might easily have been perswaded poor Asses to eat Grass Surely English men are not so dull and tame to be Hen-peckt or to be rid and bestrid at such a rate I hope I confess I have not the patience to endure it But though the Pope says Christ gave Peter that is himself he says though his name be Pius Sergius Innocent or Alexander the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven be it so we will not now quarrel about it yet how the Devil and he should be so kind that the Devil should trust him or prefer him to a Porters place in the Kingdom of Hell I cannot imagin I am sure there is no Scripture for it Nor any reason or any thing else in the case but the Money-case I think I have sufficiently evidenc't that in Matt. 18.17 there 's nothing like it nor from or in imitation of the Jewish-Church and Gods Platform of his own making neither God nor Christ in the Old nor New Testament ever gave Authority Power or Command to any man High-Priest or Low-Priest or any Assembly of men Clergy or Lay-Elders to turn men out of the Church and shut and lock them out from Divine Ordinances the comfort as well as cure of Sinners much less did ever prostitute such Sacred Mysteries to sale and make a Money-matter or a Money-business of it this was the inyention of Pluto the Money-God or Money-Merchant or his Factors the Popelings Nevertheless though I assert this yet I do not deny but the King and Parliament may impower Bishops or who they please to Excommunicate but I say I see no Scripture for Excommunication Indeed in our Saviours time the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sanhedrim or Synagogue or Courts of Justice were Jewish-Justice but put into Commission by the Roman Governour the High-Priest was a Jew but ordain'd by the Emperor or Roman Governour nor durst not call a Court or Sanhedrim but by permission of the Romans Archelaus the Son of Herod was by his Father constituted and appointed in his lust Will and Testament King after his Fathers Death but he durst not own the Name of King till Caesar confirm'd him Nor durst the High-Priest act till confirm'd by the Roman-Governour in any great affair as Josephus relates in his 20th Book of Antiquities and he was in a grievous quandary for procuring the Death of James the Just the Brother of our Lord during the interregnum after Festus his Death and before Abbinas his Successor was arriv'd in Judaea in his Government But I say the Romans usually granted the Conquer'd Jews to use their own Laws and to be govern'd by their own High-Priest and Countrymen and Sanhedrim but always under favour and under correction still of the Romans This Sanhedrim or a Synagogue then was the same in Christ's time as appointed in the Law of Moses namely the High-Court of Justice and the Lower-Courts of Justice and all the Magistracy they ever had But our Blessed Saviour he never changed the Government that was enacted and established by Moses's Law nor suffered his Disciples to innovate any thing in the Civil-Government or which is all one Spiritual-Government Sanhedrim or Synagogue Which if our Saviour had ever spoke against no doubt but his Adversaries that lay at catch would have accused him of it and laid it to his charge when they so thirsted after his Blood Of this Court of Jewish-Magistracy our Saviour speaks when he says in Matt. 18.17 tell it to the Church or Synagoge or Sanhedrim Which I say was not a meer Spiritual Court no no it was no Bawdy-Court but a Court of Justice for Trying Causes whipping men beating them stoning them to Death In this Court St. Peter and St. John were threatned and St. Stephen stoned Acts 7. And the same Court had stoned Peter and John too but that they durst not for fear of the people that were so taken with them for that a notable Miracle had been done by them in curing a Cripple that was born Lame from his Mothers Womb Acts 3. and this was such an evident demonstration of the hand of God going along with them and done so publickly and only with a word in the powerful Name of Jesus that the people could not but admire it and applaud it Whereupon they were put to a notable plunge and when they had laid their Heads together Acts 4.15 They were at their Wits end and knew not what to do Acts 4.16 For on the one hand they resolv'd to do all the mischief they could or durst and on the other hand they had no other colour for doing mischief to the Apostles but only that they had done good and cured a poor Cripple and that would bear no colour for their intended cruelty against them What shall they do What shall they do They were mischievously bent and were resolv'd to do as much mischief as in them lay but that that perplext them and put them to this sad perplexity the people the people could not be gull'd with any colourable mist to blind their eyes and make them believe they punisht the Apostles for Treason or Sedition or Heresie therefore the Text says Act. 4.21 Finding they sought but they could find nothing how they might punish them the Apostles why could they find nothing 't is answered in that Text Because of the people for all men glorified God for

look't ugly and deform'd ever since to all Christendom that have but eyes of Reason or Religion or any heart of a man in them to see with pity the Butcheries of that cruel man of sin surrounded and upheld by Curses Excommunications Absolutions Inquisitions Writs and Goals St. Peter indeed was put into a Goal but he got out without paying any Fee and never help't any man to a Goal by cursing him or help't the Goaler to his Fees much less Gregory Of old the Heathens Persecuted the Christians now Christians in name I mean Persecute Christians more cruelly than those under Mahomet and the Great Turk Oh the Impudence as well as the Villany and Bloody Hypocrisie of such Religion 't was this Blood-red Religion that made the Indian Heaven to forswear because he heard the Spaniards were there Gore-blood Religion thus Confounds The Naked Truth with Blood and Wounds Conniving at known Whores and Whoremasters Atheists Infidels Debauchees Drunkards Cursers Swearers and Blasphemers I wonder who ever saw a Whore or Whoremaster call'd to Doctors-Commons or other Court-Ecclesiastical and do Penance in a White-Sheet since the Restauration of his Gracious Majesty I never did they find fairer Quarter Spiritual-Courts are no Bawdy-Courts I would have you know But does any man speak against their Fees or bring down the Fee of a Marriage from 15 s. to poor 5 s. or dare speak against Illegal Ceremonies bowing and ducking and cringing to the East to the Altar towards the lighted Candles Where is the Villain stop his Mouth Gagg him Pillory him Crop him Curse him Excommunicate him Gaol him nay Man-catch him Indict him Sue him Vex him Plague the tom-tell-Tom-Tell-Truth nay hang him if possible What should he do in a Church where a Tory-Teague newly Converted thereunto Fait and Trot Joy shall have fairer Quarter But is there any Christianity Law Equity Reason or Conscience for such Methods or to damn a man by Proxy or Deputy Gaol a man by Proxy feed the Flock by Proxy well let men do to themselves what they do to others and feed themselves too only by Proxy and Deputy and see if in a little while they do not look as lean and cadaverous as the poor starv'd Flock that is fed by Proxy and rul'd by Proxy and Deputies and under Officers Chancellors Officials Surrogates Registers and Apparitors Shall Wolves in Sheeps-cloathing that have Nayls and Teeth and Fangs behold the Print govern the Sheep of Christ that neither knows them nor are known by them jealous and zealous far more for the breach of a Ceremony Human Laws their own profit and honour at ten thousand times more than Adulterers Blasphemers c. breaker of Laws Divine and dishonourers of the Almighty God oh the abominable Hypocrisie of such Religion Worms-meat Acts 12.23 shall know that God will not be mocked The CONCLUSION THus you see my gentle Readers what an Example the Ecclesiastical-men have made of me in plaguing me in their Spiritual-Courts as you have heard and at the Assizes and Ctown-Office and in the name of our Good and Gracious King too for Barretry Barretry And will not this be a terror to all English-men for the future for ever writing or speaking any more Naked-Truths against them and their Extortions and Illegal and unconscionable Fees in the Courts of Conscience or Courts-Christian in Probates of Wills Letters of Administrations Ordinations Institutions Inductions and Sequestrations Licences Indulgences and Dispensations Absolutions Suspensions and Excommunications Synodals Procurations and Visitations c. There were more old Naked-Truths to the same purpose made against them for the like Crimes namely the said Statutes as 31 Edw. 3.5 3 Hen. 5.1 and 21 Hen. 8.5 c. And why did they not fret and gnash their Teeth as well also against those Naked-Truths They durst not but they dare and do to this day live in defiance of the said Naked-Truths and Statutes the more bold and overbold they you 'l say but they cannot for fear of a Praemunire call a Statute and Parliament-men to account before them coram nobis as formerly into the Star-Chamber and High-Commission-Court no not now Dat Deus immiti cornua curti bovi Curst Cows have short Horns saith the Proverb But foenum in cornu still I had need be shie of them For besides the said Promotion of the said Henry Bishop of London against me in the Arches and Barretry in the Kings-Bench in both which they have hitherto no cause to glory or rejoice praised be Almighty God for his help and assistance There is Still another Vexation and Law-Suit brought against me and in the Kings-Bench too and at the Suit of the said Henry Bishop of London upon the Statute Scandalum Magnatum 2 Rich. 2.5 Help me still good God! when shall we have done Burthen upon Burthen Suit upon Suit Vexation upon Vexations Canons upon Canons Burthens and Canons enow one would think almost to sink a stout Frigat or Bluffe Man of War Indeed that Statute was made when Popish Prelacy was in its Splendor and Meridian they even made what Laws they lift yet the House of Commons have attempted at it more than once and our blessed Saviour absolutely condemns all Clergy-Domineering one over another that whatever the Princes of the Gentiles do in exercising Lordship and Dominion over one another yet his Clergy shou'd not do so 't is a shame especially for Apostolical men and such as pretend to be the Successors of the Apostles that they should not be as ambitious also to succeed them in their Christian humility and Brotherly kindness And I have read somewhere I think in Cook 's Institutes That all Laws of men are ipso facto null and void if contrary to the Laws of Christ And this Scandal forsooth must be sworn too by the said little Vicar Harris an incomparable person that not being able to defeat me of my ancient Rights and Profits of my said Parish of St. Buttolphs in Colchester which have been enjoyed by me above 20 years and by my Predecessors Rectors of All-Saints about Sixscore years before even since the dissolution of Monasteries yet the said Henry Bishop of London granted the said Harris a Sequestration of them but in vain yet some hope 't is not in vain to bring the said Action of Scandalum Magnatum against me and the said Harris has sworn it already and the said Bishop has declar'd against me accordingly That I should say the said Bishop was ignorant and impudent and had a hand in the Plot and that I thereby meant that the said Bishop had a hand in the Popish Plot or to that effect I have heard that the said Bishop has of all Bishops been accounted without reflection the Protestant Bishop with an Emphasis But that ever any Man should imagine that he was Popishly affected much less that ever he had a hand in the Popish Plot many People say also there is no such Plot never never sure yet came into any

Man's Noddle how extravagant soever to conceive And if I had hapned to have such a sensless Thought that I should be so Bedlam-mad to make the said Harris my Privy-Councellor that came to eat the Bread out of my mouth and I thank God never frequented such Mens Companies much less Familiarity is no more possible for any reasonable and unprejudic'd Men to credit or believe than that I should impart and communicate such fond Scandals to some Irish Tories Man-catching will in time be out of Fashion surely and I live in hopes that Honesty and Christianity will never be so much decry'd in England as it is at this day in Italy where when they would express Emphatically that a Man is an Errant-Fool they describe him with this opprobrious Paraphrase saying The Man is a Christian meaning thereby he is so much a Coxcomb that he ought to be beg'd for a Fool. 'T is a mighty pretty Age we live in to be Recorded and Chronicled to Posterity new and monstrous Diseases require new and sharper Remedies And I wish there were a Law a severe Law made against Suborners and Man-catchers that they might fall into the same Pit that they dig for others or as Perillis might hansel their own Brazen-Bull or like Adonibezek undergo the same Punishment cruelly invented for others And that like him they might have cause to say Judges 11.7 As I have done or endeavor'd to do for here as in Treasons we must take the Will for the Deed so God hath requited me Nec Lex est Justior ulla Quam necis Artifices arte perire sua 'T is fit Death's Engineers handsel and try Their own Inventions of Mortality Or thus 'T is fit Men witty to destroy should try Their own Machines of Death and by them dy And then from the least of us even to the greatest of us we might well tremble to do to others what we should be loth to be done to us to the hazard or loss not only of Life Liberty but Estate and Family Honours and Inheritance in urging moving stimulating persuading and tempting with Money Lands Preferment Preferment for there are two sorts of Preferment belike and sometimes with Menaces and Threatnings to enforce men to damn their own Souls to murder the Innocent by form of Law Jezabel nick't it in Politicks when by the plausible assistance of False Swearers and Man-catchers by her and her Ministers suborn'd thereunto she made the Law the righteous Law contribute and club to the knocking out Naboth's brains in hopes and prospect of the pleasant Vineyard Heaven be prais'd in England for a Prince made up of Mercy and Goodness admitting no Impressions to gratifie sinister Ends and Designs or Revenge Revenge Which to a polluted Palate and Gusto out of taste and contaminated with malice and wickedness relishes and smach's more sweet as he said than Muscadine and Eggs Yet it leaves a cursed Farewell Will it not be bitterness in the latter end 'T is an unhappy time and miserable when in a Christian Realm it happens to prove dangerous or fatal to a man to speak Truth Tacitus tells us That it was the happiness of the glorious Reign of Nerva that every man might think what he pleas'd and speak what he thought nor was it to be fear'd that any man should speak against Nerva's Government wherein no good man could possibly live uneasie But now since our late unhappy Confusions it has been thought meet and without all Controversie upon legal and substantial Reasons to alter that old English Maxim That words may make an Heretick but not a Traytor Who if I might have my wish should not live a moment For Treason as it is the blackest of Crimes on this side Hell so it is attended and most justly with the most dismal punishments and everlasting reaching not only to the loss of the Traytor 's Life Honour and Estate but extending for ever to his Posterity And therefore the Law of England that is so tender of the Life of a Man that a Butcher us'd to Blood though but of Bullocks and Beasts is not permitted to be empanel'd upon a Jury of Life and Death as I have heard is much more tender of the Life and Livelihood of a whole Family and Posterity And therefore it does well to require that such a Crime as Treason should be well prov'd by honest and legal men such as fear God and an Oath not such vile Shacks as will swear an hundred Oaths for Nothing or a Whisker for Something Nay by the Civil Law which is the Municipal Law of most Nations in Christendom a poor beggarly Rascal is not admitted to be a Witness in any case Personae vili non facile creditur For Poverty is a temptation to Perjury with very very easie Subornation and therefore Suborners do usually as Jaundice-People do for Lice search the Gaols for such kind of Cattel and for Men in Necessity Wisely for this cause does Agur pray to God against Poverty lest he should take the Name of God in vain that is lest he should through Poverty be the more easily tempted to Perjury or to forswear himself Prov. 30.9 And God forbid that Villany should ever be more prosperous than Innocence or that the Devil should Reign so powerfully in Mens Hearts and Consciences that Truth should not dare to walk Naked in Christendom but be forc'd never to appear in Publick but like a Champion in the Lists arm'd Cap-a-pee for fear of the Enemy God forbid That England should have the Plague again and waste and consume with so mortal a Malady without a Remedy or that the righteous Law the best Remedy should so be abus'd as to make the Remedy worse than the Disease or exasperating the Humors confederate with the Disease That High-Priest was a Devil Incarnate that under colour of his Sacred Robe and Function poyson'd his Adversary with the Consecrated Host or Sacrament making the Bread of Life his Bane And hard is the hap of those Patients that are left to the sad choice either to dye by their Disease or by the Remedy the hand of the Physician hang such choice Thus Statesmen that consider not the design of God and the order of Nature in such infinite variety of Faces Features and Complexions in defiance and despight thereof will not follow those best and surest Guides but by excentrick motions of their own to make all men alike and uniform which is impossible sometimes deform all things The Church is not the less but the more beautiful for its precious stones although they be of different and divers colours and this is promis'd Isa 54.11 Nor is it to be done what some People contrive to make all men or all Christians alike and uniform except by putting out all mens Eyes and cutting off their Noses which is a bloody bungling ugly monstrous mishapen unnatural massacring horrid and cruel method and yet then even then there will be some Non-conformity Alas alas

and no man of my Quality m●…e Blest and Protected depressa resurgo says the Palm-tree more weight more ●…ght like Israel the more they were afflicted the more they grew God give a blessing to my poor endeavours to do much good if at least they have but so much vertue as Common Ink to allay the spreading venom of such Ring●…ms whose fingers itch to be at it in the Portugal and Spanish-mode of Inquisition and Persecution which has made a Desolation Rebellion Poverty want of Trade and Depopulation in those Countries rather than any great Conversion how Hypocritical soever to the Roman Faith But ye fools when will ye be wise saith holy David Psal 94.8 as if he should say Will you ne'r be good 'till you 're beaten to 't with your own rods Go to and let men of little and narrow Souls uncapable of any love or regard to the publick good and their Countries welfare smile at the Improvidence of such as like Lamps and Torches waste scorch and consume themselves to enlighten others And if the Cathedral Highflyers or any Bishops be offended that I have thus publickly rebuk't before all their publick transgressions and defiance of the Act of Vniformity in the said Illegal Rites and Ceremonies they may in part thank the peevishness and frowardness of some that occasion'd it irritated perhaps thereunto by that old inveterate and everlasting piece of malice and hatred S. J. S. who has always though always in conclusion to his own shame and loss endeavour'd to set men upon me by getting false Calumnies and Slaunders invented in his hollow and canker'd Breast to which one-ear'd men giving credit and therewith also prejudic't and pre-possest and knowing my Spirit and Temper not over-patient to bear Affronts he knew there would be what he labour'd for a Quarrel I know it is a Devilish thing and the very daily work of the Devil to devise wicked imaginations and with a proud look lying tongue hands ready to shed innocent Blood and feet that be swift in running to mischief to be a false witness that speaketh lies only to sowe discord amongst Brethren And are the six or rather seven things that are abomination to the Almighty Prov. 6.16 17 18 19. Yet he that created Light out of Darkness and life preservation to Israel ought of the malice of Joseph 's Brethren in selling him to the Gypsies and unity and amity to his people by mens Differences and Dissentions can and I hope will create beauty and order out of our Confusions Chaos Disorders and Discords and out of the eater bring forth meat and out of the strong sweetness and Truth and Light from the Collisions Interferings and mutual strikings of the hardest and blackest Flints Thus the contentions of Paul and Barnabas tended by their Parting and Dissentions to the more nimble Propagation of the Naked Truth Therefore be not all of a flame like that fiery-fac'd bloody Bishop Bonner against all Dissenters and Non-conformists Bandying and Ecchoing the word Heretick Heretick at one another and to and again For the servant of the Lord should not strive should not be a Jupiter Altitonans a Boanerges all for consuming and destroying with fire from Heaven or Earth ye know not what manner of spirits ye are of A Bishop should not be a striker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is no Persecutor no striking at second hand signifying and giving aim to the Magistrate where and whom and when to strike as well as no Gladiator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not a litigious Informer former nor Promoter but a stranger to Law-Suits and Contentions as Plaintiff especially either through covetousness in hopes thereby to enrich themselves by beggaring their Brethren like the said old Bonner that seem'd to be in Fee with the Gaolers and the Hangman But bid farewel to the plum'd Troops and the big Wars that make Revenge vertue but in patience forbearance temperance and in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves or are Non-Conformists concluding as I will with wise Gamaliel that even for your own sakes ye ought to take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these men Act. 5.35 38 39 40. And now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let them alone For if this counsel or work be of men it will come to nought But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God And to him they agreed Discite Justinian moniti non temnere Divos Omnia cum liceant non licet esse pium Take warning whilst you may and dread Heavens Rod Do not with Gyant-Force brave the Great God Shall he that checks sin have for Tears more Cause Than those Suborning Pimps that break the Laws In Dangers Cowards Bold at Heaven to strike Are these true English-men Tories more like A True Table of all such FEES as are Due or can be Claimed in any Bishops-Courts in all Cases As they were Given in to the Commissioners of His Majesty King Charles I. Nov. 1630. By the Commissaries Registers Proctors c. under their own Hands in the Star-Chamber Necessary to be known by all Persons liable to be Concerned in the said Bishops-Courts 'T IS no part of the Scope of the ensuing Table to debate the Legality Expediency or Inconveniency of those Courts and Jurisdictions commonly called Spiritual or Ecclesiastick as they are now managed Nor whether the Persons that hold them and grant forth Citations in their own Names and Stiles and not in the KINGS do not thereby Incur the Penalty of a Praemunure But its Business is to Present you with an Exact Copy of their FEES as they were stated by themselves to certain Commissioners appointed by King Charles I. to Inspect them Nov. 1630. which Table being long since stifled as much as in them lies it is thought fit to Re-print the same from the Original first Printed Anno Dom. 1631. In cases of Instance that is between Party and Party To the Comissary To the Register To the Apparitor   s. d. s. d. d.   IMprimis For Decreeing the Original Citation and for Sealing of it 00 06 00 06 00   Item For Decreeing the Original Citation in a Matrimonial Cause with an Inhibition and for Sealing of it 01 00 01 00 00   Item For the Decree of every Party principal 00 09 00 09 00   Item For every Decree V●is Modis 00 09 00 09 00   Item Only at the Release For every Excommunication or Suspension in Writing 00 09 00 09 04   Item For every Absolution from an Excommunication or Suspension 00 09 00 09 04   Item For Letters Testimonial to be made upon a Search or any other Cause 06 08 06 08 00   Item For the Oath of every Witness upon any matter 00 00 00 00 02   Item For Examination of every First Witness upon any matter 00 09 00 09 00   Item For Examination of

Or Munster's Bishop made to hew and strike Black mouth to damn and Bloody Arms to fight When Hand-cuff't good we 'll do the Devil right Of Flaming-Comet long since have you heard With Tayl hung down to Earth and grisly Beard I 'm skill'd i' th' Language of the Stars and know That horrid Meteor what it meant 't was thou Thou Bonner London's Bishop seem'd to be Arm'd with this Hellish Black-Guard Cap-a-pee Ordain'd it seems and good for naught but harms Like the French Bishop Odo clad in Arms That Coat of Mail ill suits that Coat so Gay Filii tui Haeccine Tunica Satan once came like a Py'd-Piper now This was a Fiend in Jeast in Earnest Thou By the Black-Regiment Martyrs chose to die That Naked Truth might live and so will I. After the French Religion must we Dance Now Persecution's A la mode de France Or shall the French find fairer Quarter here Than we to one another make appear A Bishop sayst Thou ly'st Him Cornet call Of the Black Regiment that Gaols us all FINIS ERRATA THE Introduction Page 4. Line 30. for every word in that weeks Read most words in the two Weeks p. 42. l. 14. for efflagitantes sollicitescit read efflagitates and sollicites it with several other escapes by reason of the Author's absence from the Press but not many NEWS FROM Doctor 's Commons Or A True NARRATIVE OF Mr. HICKERINGILL'S Appearance there June 8. 1681. Upon a Citation for Marrying People without Bannes or License WITH A PROTESTATION AGAINST THEIR SPIRITUAL COURT To which is Added An ESSAY Concerning the Virtue of SEQUESTRATIONS IT is too notorious and vulgarly known that the Waspish Swarms in Doctors Commons have been as stinging as stingy against Mr. Hickeringill and the little Infects as full of malice as venom against him as their hearts could hold ever since the Publication of the Naked Truth the Second Part. And yet poor Hearts they had better have been quiet and let him alone for they always meddle with him to their hurt as well as shame and confusion and come home by weeping-cross But some men will never take warning Quos Deus intendit perdere de mentat Prius was once accounted truth though spoke by a Stoick Men doom'd to Ruin when their Facts are bad Do blindly run upon their Death like mad We will begin as the Men of Doctors Commons did begin with Mr Hickeringill namely with the Citation in these words following RObertus Wiseman Miles Legum Doctor Almae Curiae Cant. de Archubus London Officialis Principalis legitimè constitutus Vniversis singulis Clericis Literatis quibuscunque in per rotam Provinciam Cant. ubilibet constitut salutem Vobis conjunctim divisim committimus ac firmiter injungendo mandamus quatenus ratione literarum requisitorialium ab Ordinario loci obtent Citetis seu citari faciatis peremptoriè Edmundum Hickeringill Clericum Rectorem Rectoriae Ecclesiae Parochialis omnium Sanctorum in Villa Col●…striae in Com. Essex Diaec Lond. Cantiaeque Provinc quod compareat coram nobis rostróve Secretario aut alio Judice in hac parte competen quocunque in Aula publica infra Hospitium Dominorum Advocatorum London locoque judiciali ibidem sexto die post Citationem hujusmodi ei in hac parte factam si Juridicus fuerit alioquin proximo die Juridico ex hinc sequen● haris causarum ibidem ad jura reddenda consuet certis Articulis Capitulis sive Interrogatoriis meram animae suae salutem morumque excessuum suorum reformationem praesertim ejus solemnizationem seu potius prophanationem Matrimonii inter diversas personas clandestinè absque eorum Bannis in Ecclesiis suis Parochialibus trinâ vice publicatis vel Licentiis sive facultatibus in ea parte legitimè obtent juxta Canones Constitutiones Ecclesiae Anglicanae in ea parte editas provisas aliaque crimina delicta concernen ei cum venerit ex officio nostro ad promotionem Thomae Doughty Generosi objiciend ministrand de Justitia sive juramento responsur ulteriusque factur receptur quod justum fuerit in hac parte quid in praemissis feceritis Nos nostrumve surrogatum aut alium Judicem in hac parte competen quemcunque debite certificetis una cum presentibus Dat. Tricesimo May 1681. WE live in an Age wherein some men are grown Libertines and since the Dissolution of the Parliament at Oxford some are grown so wonderful light and wanton that they kick up their Heels at all Correction and defie a Parliament with as much courage as they defie God and the Day of Judgment when they cry God-damn-me These are very merry days if they would but last When Mr. Hickeringill came into the Hall at Doctors Commons June 8. 1681. He went up to the Doctors Habited in their Formalities and with their Caps on and he also put on his Hat which Sir Robert Wiseman no sooner espyed but he bid Mr. Hickeringill be uncovered But Mr. Hickeringill replyed to him in Greek and to all Sir Robert's Repartees and discoursed for a considerable time Mr. Hickeringill discoursed still in Greek at length Sir Robert's patience being spent and none of the Doctors would find any more Greek to answer Mr. Hickeringil than Sir Robert did it was ordered that this appearance and Answer in Greek only should be Registred as a Non-appearance Wherefore then Mr. Hickeringill did Repeat in English that he had said in Greek telling Sir Robert that he first demanded to see or hear their Commission and Authority for citing him thus from his Family and Home and out of the Diocess where he dwells contrary to 23 H. 8.9 And that till it did appear to him that this was his Majesties Court Ecclesiastical he would pay no respect to it nor be uncovered before men that were all except Sir Robert his Juniors at the University and most of them very much his Inferiors in many other respects not suitable to his modesty there to particularize Degrees so easily purchas'd and empty Titles being admir'd by none but Women and Fools Whereupon instead of shewing a Commission Sir Robert again bid him be uncovered which still he refused Then Sir Robert made signs to an old Fellow a kind of Sumner to come behind Mr. Hickeringill and snatch his Hat off which he did but Mr. Hickeringill forthwith snatcht his Hat from the said Fellow and clapt it fast upon his Head and there kept it during his stay there throwing amongst them a Protestation which was read in Court and to this effect The Protestation of Mr. Edmund Hickeringill Rector of the Rectory of All-Saints in Colchester in the County of Essex Delivered to Sir Robert Wiseman at the Hall at Doctors Commons June 8. 1681. I. I Protest against all your Proceedings as contrary to his Majesties Laws and Prerogative since you will shew no Commission derived from his Majesty for such Proceedings and whereby you