but two Objections should Malice it self go to work The one is That I moved His Majesty to command the Change And the other That now when I saw my self challeng'd for it I procured His Majesty's Hand for my security To these I Answer clearly First That I did not move the King directly or indirectly to make this Change And Secondly That I had His Majesty's Hand to the Book not now but then and before ever I caused them to be Printed as now they are And that both these are true I here again freely offer my self to my Oath And yet Fourthly That you may see His Gracious Majesty used not his Power only in commanding this Change but his Wisdom also I shall adventure to give you my Reasons such as they are why this Alteration was most fit if not necessary My first Reason is In the Litany in Henry VIII his time and also under Edward VI. there was this Clause From the Tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable Enormities from all false Doctrine c. Good Lord deliver us But in the Litany in Queen Elizabeth's time this Clause about the Pope was left out and it seems of purpose for avoiding of Scandal And yet the Prelates for that not accounted Innovators or Introducers of Popery Now 't is a far greater Scandal to call their Religion Rebellion than 't is to call thir chief Bishop Tyrant And this Reason is drawn from Scandal which must ever be avoided as much as it may My second Reason is That the Learned make but Three Religions to have been of old in the World Paganisns Judaism and Christianity And now they have added a Fourth which is Turcism and is an absurd mixture of the other Three Now if this ground of theirs be true as 't is generally received perhaps it will be of dangerous Consequence sadly to avow that the 〈◊〉 Religion is 〈◊〉 That some Opinions of theirs teach Rebellion that 's apparently true the other would be thought on to say no more And this Reason well weighed is taken from the very Foundations of Religion it self My third Reason is Because if you make their Religion to be Rebellion then you make their Religion and Rebellion to be all one And that is against the ground both of State and the Law For when divers Romish Priests and Jesaits have deservedly suffered Death for Treason is it not the constant and just Profession of the State that they never put any Man to Death for Religion but for Rebellion and Treason only Doth not the State truly affirm That there was never any Law made against the Life of a Papist quatenus a Papist only And is not all this stark false if their very Religion be Rebellion For if their Religion be Rebellion it is not only false but impossible that the same Man in the same Act should suffer for his Rebellion and not for his Religion And this King James of ever blessed Memory understood passing well when in his Premonition to all Christian Monarchs he saith I do constantly 〈◊〉 that no Papist either in my time or in the time of the late 〈◊〉 ever died for his Conscience Therefore he did not think their very Religion was Rebellion Though this Clause passed through Inadvertency in his time And this Reason is grounded both upon the Practice and the Justice of the Law Which of these Reasons or whether any other better were in His Majesty's Thoughts when he commanded the Alteration of this Clause I know not But I took it my Duty to lay it before you that the King had not only Power but Reason to command it 10. The Tenth Innovation is That the Prayer for the Navy is 〈◊〉 out of the late Book for the Fast. To this I say There is great Reason it should For the King had no declared Enemy then nor God be thanked hath he now 〈◊〉 had he then any Navy at Sea For almost all the Ships were come in before the fast-Fast-Book was set out But howsoever an excellent Consequence it is if you mark it The Prayer for the Navy was left out of the Book for the Fast therefore by that and such like Innovations the Prelates intend to bring in Popery Indeed if that were a piece of the Prelates Plots to bring in Popery from beyond Sea then they were mightily overseen that they left out the Prayer for the Navy But else what Reason or Consequence is in it I know not unless perhaps Mr. Burton intended to befriend Dr. Bastwick and in the Navy bring hither the Whore of Babylon to be ready for his Christening as he most prophanely Scoffs Well I pray GOD the time come not upon this Kingdom in which it will be found that no one thing hath advanced or ushered in Popery so fast as the gross Absurdities even in the Worship of God which these Men and their like maintain both in Opinion and Practice 11. The Eleventh Innovation is The Reading of the Second Service at the Communion-Table or the Altar To this First I can truly say That since my own Memory this was in use in very many Places as being most proper for those Prayers are then read which both precede and follow the Communion and by little and little this antient Custom was altered and in those Places first where the Emissaries of this Faction came to Preach And now if any in Authority offer to reduce it this antient Course of the Church is by and by called an Innovation Secondly With this the Rubricks of the common-Common-Prayer Book agree For the first Rubrick after the Communion tells us that upon Holy-Days though there be no Communion yet all else that 's appointed at the Communion shall be read Shall be read That 's true but where Why the last 〈◊〉 before the Communion tells us That the Priest standing at the North-side of the Holy Table shall say the Lord's Prayer with that which follows So that not only the Communion but the Prayers which accompany the Communion which are commonly called the Second Service are to be read at the Communion Table Therefore if this be an Innovation 't is made by the Rubrick not by the Prelates And Mr. Burton's Scoff that this Second Service must be served in for Dainties savours too much of Belly and Prophanation 12. One think sticks much in their Stomachs and they call it an Innovation too And that is Bowing or doing Reverence at our first coming into the Church or at our nearer Approaches to the Holy Table or the Altar call it whether you will in which they will needs have it That we Worship the Holy Table or God knows what To this I Answer First That God forbid we should Worship any thing but GOD Himself Secondly That if to Worship GOD when we enter into his House or approach his Altar be an Innovation 't is a very old one For Moses did Reverence at the very Door of the
the Delegacy for the Statutes that there may be a setled and a Known Body of them My ever honoured Predecessour began That work with Care I know you will give me leave to pursue it to your good and His honour In the next long Vacation it were happy if that Body of Statutes might be finish'd But whether it can or not I heartily pray you against Michaelmas Term look the Register and provide such Tables as were wont to be published upon S. Mary's doors for observance of the known Statutes and that then you proceed to the execution of them accordingly I know you and the Governours There will pardon me this Care when you shall know what lies upon me here and what begins already to be expected from me by a most Gracious Prince who is very Zelous of the honour of That Place And this yet I shall promise and perform I will not be sudden upon you nor 〈◊〉 with you in any your businesses Neither will I proceed in any thing but that which shall promote the honour and good of your selves and That famous University And in this way he that gives me best assistance shall be most welcome to me So for this time I take my leave Commending you All to God's gracious Protection and shall rest May 28. 1630. Your very Loving Friend GVIL London S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. This is the first Occasion which I have had to trouble the Convocation And before I begin with the Business I think it very fit to give you all very hearty thanks for the great Love and undeserved Favour which you would needs bestow upon me quite beyond my Expectation and cross to my desires Yet since it hath pleased God so to dispose both of you and me in this business I shall endeavour to the utmost of my power to answer your expectation and to discharge the burden of this Honour to as much advantage of That Venerable Mother of my self and you as the best understanding I have can lead me to And whensoever any thing shall come to your knowledge in which I may do That Body service I hope you will not fail to acquaint me with it and in such time as the opportunity of doing what is fit may not be lost Else I may be disenabled to serve you by your own default But these are but Verbal Thanks and I have desired to be as real as I might and therefore shall trouble you with no more of this The Business I am to acquaint you with is to let you know that his Majesty did very graciously accept your Letter of Thanks for the 〈◊〉 bestowed upon the Hebrew = Reader Whose Patent I caused to be sent and approved by you before I would suffer the Seal to pass And now it is pass't and That Place so both enriched and honoured I hope you will take care that the Reader thereof as well as the rest do the Duty of his Place For the study of That Language is too much neglected and not without the great prejudice both of That University and the Church Since this I have received from you the Book of Verses in honour of the Prince which I have likewise delivered to his Majesty with a full representation of your humble and dutiful Respects to his Majesty and of your hearty Prayers both for himself and his Royal Posterity Which he with all Grace and Favour accepted I could heartily have wish'd the Book had been here any time of the last week that it might have prevented the Christning But howsoever 't is very welcome Now. It is not long since I writ to Mr. Vicechancellour about some care to be taken for Formalities both against the Act and so after to continue at Michaelmas Term. And I make no doubt but all men will be willing to continue the honour of That Place and in That kind It is the Hedg and the Fence of those things which are of far greater consequence In those Letters I omitted one thing which I think fit now to be remember'd It is a great Abuse and long continued against the Degree of a Master of Arts. I know 't is very fit that That Degree upon which the Orders of the University do so much rely both in Convocations Congregations and elsewhere should be had in more esteem than it is But this can no ways so well be done as by their due Obedience to Governours in their several Places and by their own Valuing and Esteeming themselves above all Inferiours And for my part I shall do my best to keep up the price they set upon themselves For 't is a great dishonour to That Place that in all Publick Assemblies yea and when they meet in open street Bachelours of Art nay Boys will not know their places I hope the Delegacy will so order the Statutes which they have in hand to the lasting honour of my most Worthy and Honourable Predecessour as that the Degree of a Master of Arts shall hereafter be better esteemed in That Place which is the only way to recover the ancient Credit of it Abroad The last thing which I have at this time to recommend unto you is that you would All be careful that the University may stand right in his Majesties Good Opinion for not spoiling His Game There was very lately a Complaint made to me about it and I fearing the worst writ to the Vicechancellour But he gave me so discreet and so sufficient an Answer that I not only did but had cause to think all was well Since this I find that Complaint or some other hath gone farther I heartily pray you therefore to take the best care you can especially You that are Governours and in Office to look to the Abuses tho and then with Gods assistance I will take care that no man's sinister Report shall do you prejudice Here. Thus not doubting of the Love and Affection the Care and the Moderation of any man for the Good and the Honour of That most noble Body I leave you all to the Grace of God and shall ever rest To my very Loving Friends the Vicechancellour the Doctors the Proctours and the rest of the Convocation of the Vnivsierty of Oxford Your very loving Friend and Chancellour GVIL London S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. The time now draws on for the Nomination of a New Vicechancellour according to the Course held by my Honourable Predecessours in That famous University In this little time in which by your Favours I have had the Honour to Govern I have found the present Vicechancellour Dr. Frewen so Careful and so Discrect in That buisy Place that I should though it were to his great pains put him to the trouble of another year were it not that I consider how full of able and sufficient men the University is for the Discharge of That Office Besides I have ever thought it most for the
to begin When these things were fitted I gave notice to the King and the Queen and attended them into the Hall whither I had the happiness to bring them by a Way prepared from the President 's Lodging to the Hall without any the least disturbance And had the Hall kept as fresh and cool that there was not any one person when the King and Queen came into it The Princes Nobles and Ladies entred the same way with the King and then presently another Door was opened below to fill the Hall with the better sort of Company which being done the Play was begun and Acted The Plot was very good and the Action It was merry and without offence and so gave a great deal of content In the middle of the Play I ordered a short Banquet for the King the Queen and the Lords And the College was at that time so well furnisht as that they did not borrow any one Actor from any College in Town The Play ended the King and the Queen went to Christ-Church retired and supped privately and about 8 a Clock went into the Hall to see another Play which was upon a piece of a Persian Story It was very well penn'd and acted and the strangeness of the Persian Habits gave great Content so that all Men came forth from it very well satisfied And the Queen liked it so well that she afterwards sent to me to have the Apparel sent to Hampton Court that she might see her own Players act it over again and see whether they could do it as well as t' was done in the University I caused the University to send both the Clothes and the Perspectives of the Stage and the Play was acted at Hampton Court in November following And by all Men's confession the Players came short of the University Actors Then I humbly desired of the King and the Queen that neither the Play nor Cloathes nor Stage might come into the Hands and use of the Common Players abroad which was graciously granted But to return to Oxford This Play being ended all Men betook themselves to their rest and upon Wednesday Morning August 31. about Eight of the Clock my self with the Vice-Chancellor and the Doctors attended the coming forth of the King and Queen and when they came did our Duties to them They were graciously pleased to give the University a great deal of thanks and I for my self and in the Name of the University gave their Majesties all possible thanks for their great and gracious Patience and Acceptance of our Poor and mean Entertainment So the King and the Queen went away very well pleased together That Wednesday Night I entertained at St. John's in the same Room where the King Dined the Day before at the long Table which was for the Lords all the Heads of Colleges and Halls in the Town and all the other Doctors both the Proctors and some few Friends more which I had employed in this time of Service which gave the University a great deal of Content being that which had never been done by any Chancellor before I sat with them at Table we were merry and very glad that all things had so passed to the great satisfaction of the King and the honour of that place Upon Thursday September 1. I Dined privately with some few of my Friends And after Dinner went to Cuddesden to my ancient Friend my Lord the Bishop of Oxford's House there I left my Steward and some few of my Servants with him at Oxford to look to my Plate Linnen and other things and to pay all Reckonings that no Man might ask a Penny after we had left the Town which was carefully done accordingly Upon Friday September 2. I lay at a house of Mr. Justice Jones's of Henley upon Thames upon his earnest Invitation And upon Saturday September 3. God be thanked I returned sase home to my House at Croyden The week after my Steward and other Servants which staid with him came from Oxford to me where the Care of my Servants with God's Blessing upon it was such as that having borrowed all the King's Plate which was in the Progress and all my Lord Chamberlain's and made use of all mine own and hired some of my Gold-smith I lost none but only two Spoons which were of mine own Plate and but little of my Linnen My Retinue being all of my own when I went to this Entertainment were between 40 and 50 Horse though I came privately into Oxford in regard of the nearness of the King and Queen then at Woodstock There was great store of Provision in all kinds sent me in towards this Entertainment and yet for I bare all the Charge of that Play which was at St. John's and suffered not that poor College to be at a penny Loss or Charge in any thing besides all these sendings in the Entertainment cost me ........ Salutem in Christo. SIR THE Sickness of these Times and my many other occasions made me forget to write to you before the beginning of Michaelmas Term last concerning the Sermon and Prayers usually had at St. Maries at the beginning of Terms which were wont to be not so orderly as they should nor with so good Example to other places at large in the Kingdom as such a University should give For First the Communion was Celebrated in the Body of the Church and not in the Chancel which tho' it be permitted in the Church of England in some cases of necessity where there is a Multitude of People yet very undecent it is and unfitting in that place where so few the more the pity use to communicate at these Solemn times But this abuse I caused to be rectified in Dr. Duppa's time and I hope neither you nor your Successors will suffer it to return again into the former Indecency Secondly tho' none do come to those Solemn Prayers and Sermons but Scholars and those too of the best Rank yet to no small dishonour of that place the Sermon is in Latin and the Prayers in English As if Latin Prayers were more unfit for a Learned Congregation than a Latin Sermon And the truth is the thing is very absurd in it self and contrary to the Directions given at the beginning of the Reformation of this Church for in the Latin Service Books which were first Printed in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth there is an Express both Direction and Charge that notwithstanding the altering of the ordinary Form of Prayers throughout the whole Body of the Kingdom from Latin into English Yet in the Universities such Prayers unto which none but they which were Learned did resort should be in Latin And for my part I do much wonder considering how Publick that Direction was that the University at the beginning of Terms should fall from this Ordinance and so divide the Service and Sermon between Latin and English Upon Consideration of this I acquainted His Majesty both with that Printed Direction of Queen
defire your Lordships to give me leave to recite briefly all the Innovations charged upon us be they of less or greater Moment and as briestly to answer them And then you shall clearly see whether any cause hath been given of these unsavory Libels and withall whether there be any shew of cause to fear a change of Religion And I will take these great pretended Innovations in order as I meet with them First I begin with the News from Ipswich Where the First Innovation is that the last Years Fast was enjoyned to be without Sermons in London the Suburbs and other infected Places contrary to the Orders for other Fasts in former times Whereas Sermons are the only means to humble Men c. To this I say First That an after-Age may without Offence learn to avoid any visible Inconvenience observed in the former And there was visible Inconvenience observed in Mens former flocking to Sermons in Infected Places Secondly This was no particular Act of Prelates but the business was debated at the Council-Table being a matter of State as well as of Religion And it was concluded for no Sermons in those Infected Places upon this Reason that Infected Persons or Families known in their own Parishes might not take occasion upon those by-days to run to other Churches where they were not known as many use to do to hear some humorons Men Preach For on the Sundays when they better kept their own Churches The Danger is not so great altogether Nor Thirdly is that true that Sermons are the Only means to humble Men. For though the Preaching of God's Word where it is performed according to his Ordinance be a great means of many good Effects in the Souls of Men Yet no Sermons are the only means to humble Men. And some of their Sermons are fitter a great deal for other Operations Namely to stir up Sedition as you may see by Mr. 〈◊〉 for this his printed Libel was a Sermon first and a Libel too And 't is the best part of a Fast to abstain from such Sermons 2. The Second Innovation is That Wednesday was appointed for the Fast-day and that this was done with this Intention by the Example of this Fast without Preaching to suppress all the Wednesday Lectures in London To this I answer First That the appointing of Wednesday for the Fast-day was no Innovation For it was the day in the last Fast before this And I my self remember it so above forty years since more than once Secondly If there be any Innovation in it the Prelates named not the day my Lord Keeper I must appeal to your Lordship The day was first named by your Lordship as the usual and fittest day And yet I dare say and swear too that your Lordship had no aim to bring in Popery nor to suppress all or any the Wednesday Lectures in London Besides these Men live to see the Fast ended and no one Wednesday Lecture suppressed 3. The Third Innovation is that the Prayer for seasonable weather was purged out of this last Fast-Book which was say they one cause of Ship-wrecks and tempestuous weather To this I say First in the General this Fast-Book and all that have formerly been made have been both made and published by the command of the King in whose sole Power it is to call a Fast. And the Arch-Bishop and Bishops to whom the ordering of the Book is committed have power under the King to put in or leave out whatsoever they think fit for the present Occasion as their Predecessors have ever done before them Provided that nothing be In contrary to the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England And this may serve in the General for all Alterations in that or any other fast-Fast-Book or Books of Devotion upon any particular Occasions which may and ought to vary with several times and we may and do and will justifie under his Majestys Power all such Alterations made therein Secondly For the particular When this last-Book was set out the weather was very seasonable And it is not the custom of the Church nor fit in it self to pray for seasonable weather when we have it but when we want it When the former Book was set out the weather was extreme ill and the Harvest in Danger Now the Harvest was in and the weather good Thirdly 〈◊〉 most inconsequent to say that the leaving that Prayer out of the Book of Devotions caused the Shipwrecks and the Tempests which followed And as bold they are with God Almighty in saying it was the cause For sure I am God never told them that was the cause And if God never revealed it they cannot come to know it yet had the Bishops been Prophets and foreseen these Accidents they would certainly have prayed against them Fourthly Had any Minister found it necessary to use this Prayer at any one time during the Fast he might with ease and without Danger have supplied that want by using that Prayer to the same purpose which is in the Ordinary Liturgy Fifthly I humbly desire your Lordships to weigh well the Consequence of this great and dangerous Innovation The Prayer for fair weather was left out of the Book for the Fast Therefore the Prelates intend to bring in Popery An excellent Consequence were there any shew of Reason in it 4 The Fourth Innovation is That there is one very useful Collect left out and a Clause omitted in another To this I answer First As before It was lawful for us to alter what we thought fit And Secondly Since that Collect made mention of Preaching and the Act of State forbad Sermons on the Fast-days in infected Places we thought it fit in pursuance of that Order to leave out that Collect. And Thirdly For the branch in the other which is the first Collect though God did deliver our 〈◊〉 out of Romish Superstition yet God be blessed for it we were never in And therefore that clause being 〈◊〉 expressed we thought fit to pass it over 5. The Fifth Innovation is That in the sixth Order for the Fast there is a passage left out concerning the abuse of Fasting in relation to Merit To this I answer That he to whom the ordering of that Book to the Press was committed did therefore leave it out because in this Age and Kingdom there is little Opinion of Meriting by Fasting Nay on the contray the Contempt and Scorn of all Fasting save what humorous Men call for of themselves is so rank that it would grieve any Christian Man to see the necessary Orders of the Church concerning Fasting both in Lent and at other set times so vilified as they are 6. The Sixth Innovation is That the Lady Elizabeth and her Princely Children are dashed that 's their phrase out of the new Collect whereas they were in 〈◊〉 Collect of the former Book For this First The Author of the News knows full well that they are left out of the
Popery to set a Rail to keep Prophanation from that Holy Table nor is it any Innovation to place it at the upper end of the Chancel as the Altar stood And this appears both by the Practice and by the Command and Canon of the Church of England First By the Practice of the Church of England For in the King 's Royal Chapels and divers Cathedrals the Holy Table hath ever since the Reformation stood at the upper end of the Quire with the large or full side towards the People And though it stood in most Parish Churches the other way yet whether there be not more reason the Parish Churches should be made conformable to the Cathedral and Mother Churches than the Cathedrals to them 〈◊〉 leave to any reasonable Man to judge And yet here is nothing done either by violence or command to take off the Indifferency of the standing of the Holy Table either way but only by laying it fairly before Men how fit it is there should be Order and Vniformity I say still reserving the Indifferency of the standing But howsoever I would fain know how any discreet moderate Man dares say that the placing of the Holy Table Altar-wise since they will 〈◊〉 call it so is done either to advance to usher in Popery For did Queen Elizabeth banish Popery and yet did she all along her Reign from first to last leave the Communion Table so standing in her own Chapel Royal in St. Paul's and Westmidster and other places and all this of 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 on usher in that Popery which she had driven out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 since her Death have two Gracious Kings kept out Popery all their 〈◊〉 and yet 〈◊〉 the Holy Table standing as it did in the Queen's time and all of purpose to advance or usher in Popery which they kept out 〈◊〉 what 's the matter May the Holy Table stand this way in the 〈◊〉 Chapel or Cathedrals or Bishops Chapels and not elsewhere 〈◊〉 if it be decent and fit for God's Service it may stand so if 〈◊〉 please in any Church But if it advance or usher in any 〈◊〉 and Popery it ought to stand so in none Not hath any King's Chapel any Prerogative if that may be call'd one above any ordinary Church to dis-serve God in by any Superstitious 〈◊〉 Where give me leave to tell you that the King and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most 〈◊〉 and with Scorn abused in the last Leaf of Mr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Appeal for such it is 〈◊〉 This appears by the Canon or Rule of the Church of 〈◊〉 too for 't is plain in the last Injunction of the Queen That the Holy Table ought to stand at the upper end of the Quire North and South or Altar-wise For the words of the Queen's Injunctions are these The Holy Table in every Church mark it I pray not in the Royal 〈◊〉 or Cathedrals only but in every Church shall be decently made and set in the place where the Altar stood Now the Altar stood at the upper end of the Quire North and South as appears before by the 〈◊〉 of the Church And there to set it otherwise is to set it cross the place not In the place where the Altar stood and so Stulti dum vit ant vitia weak Men as these Libellers are run into one Superstition while they would avoid another For they run upon the Superstition of the Cross. while they seek to avoid the Superstition of the Altar So you see here 's neither Popery nor Innovation in all the Practice of Queen Elizabeth or since These words of the Injunction are so plain as that they can admit of no shift And give me leave to tell you That a very learned Prelate of this Church and one whom I think these Men will not accuse as a Man like to advance or usher in Popery is of the same Opinion 'T is my Lord the Bishop of Salisbury Some difference was lately rising about placing the Communion-Table in a Parish Church of his Diocese The Bishop careful to prevent all Disorder sends his Injunction under his Hand and Seal to the Curate and Church-Wardens to settle that business In which he hath these two Passages remarkable I have seen and read the Order The first Passage is this By the Injunction of Queen Elizabeth saith he and by Can. 82. under King James the Communion Tables should ordinarily be set and stand with the side to the East Wall of the Chancel Therefore this is 〈◊〉 since there is Injunction and Canon for it The other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this 'T is Ignorance saith that learned Bishop to think that the 〈◊〉 of the Holy Table there relishes of Popery Therefore if it do not to much as relish of Popery it can neither advance it nor usher it in 〈◊〉 therefore this is a most odious Slander and Scandal cast upon 〈◊〉 So here 's enough 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Rule of the Church of England since the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that time both in this and other Churches of 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and West ordinarily the Holy Table or Altar stood so 〈◊〉 this Mr. Burton says little But the Lincolnshire Minister comes in to play the Puritan for that Concerning which Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in my way and the Nameless Author of it I shall only 〈◊〉 these two things The one is that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the first word to the 〈◊〉 in the Book for he 〈◊〉 on him both for the Name and for the placing of the Holy Table and the like to prove that Generally and Vniversally and Ordinarily in the whole Catholick Church both East and West the Holy Table did not stand at the upper end of the Quire or Chancel And this he must prove or he doth nothing Now when he comes to make his Proofs they are almost all of them particular few or none general and concludent for he neither brings Testimonies out of the General and received Rituals of the Easteru and Western Churches nor of Fathers and Histories of the Church which speak in General terms of all but where they speak of particular Churches only So that suppose the most that can be that is suppose his Quotations be all truly alledged and true too in the sense that the Minister takes them though in very truth the 〈◊〉 most of them are neither truly alledged nor sensed yet they 〈◊〉 but exceptions of and exemptions from the general Practice And you know both in Law and Reason Exceptio firmat Regulam in non 〈◊〉 So that upon the sudden I am not able to resolve whether this Minister hath done more wrong to himself or his Readers for he hath abused both The other is that in the Judgment of very many learned Men which have perused this Book the Author is clearly conceived to want a great deal of that learning to which he pretends or 〈◊〉 to have written this Book wholly and resolvedly against both his Science and his Conscience And for my own part I am 〈◊〉 of
Doctori Bancroft Dom. Doctori Zouch de aliis negotiis ut videbatur brevi Londinum profecturis commendare ut hujusmodi Commissionis copiam impetrarent quâ obtentâ meliùs consulere cum Honoratissimo Cancellario nostro valeamus ne quid gravius patiatur Vniversitas nostra Oxon. per Commissionem praedictam contra Consuetudines Privilegia antiquitùs indulta Vniversitati praedictae Acta habita gesta fuerunt suprascripta die anno praedictis in praesentiâ mei JOHANNIS FRENCH Registrarii Universitatis OXON EA est Beneficiorum tuorum amplitudo Honoratissime Cancellarie quibus Academiam nostram indies cumulare satagis ut conturbare nobis necesse sit ac ne verbis quidem quorum interim apud nos vilem parabilem esse oportet annonam paria cum meritis Tuis facere liceat Te tamen quae est Benificentiae tuae indolet ne ingrati quidem debitores nedum tarda vel cassa nomina deterrent quo minus beneficia tua beneficiis ne perpluant porro pertegere eaque ultrò auctum ire pertendas Veluti quod nuper Academiae nec huic tantùm sed saeculo imputasti cum Tuâ unius operâ habitus est Musis is honos ut honoratissimus Senatus Regius legem quam aliis dare consueverat à nobis acciperet Hancque 〈◊〉 sibi legem in posterum dixerit ut si quid in suis Edictis scriptum fuerit quod per Privilegia Academica jus non sit juberi ejus iis Edictis nihilum jubeatur Circumcisum scilicet abrasum est hac Cautione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quodcunque cujus obtentu antehà c Villani jura ac privilegia Vniversitatis invadere involare solebant Honoratissimi Senatùs jussa capessere simulantes reverà juris sui pomaeria ultrà quà m jus fas est proferentes Et hujus quidem Benesicii gratiam Tibi Honoratissime 〈◊〉 in solidum 〈◊〉 agnoscimus Quo adnitente factum est ut Honorissimus Senatus Jussa sua in antecessum simul ac semel interpretari consultiùs duxerit quam Villanis dubiam ancipitem eorum Syntaxin permittere qui ea interpretari quam exequi malunt Plus tamen est quod Honoratissimis Viris hoc nomine debetur quà m cui solvendo unquam pares esse possumus Quamvis igitur in tali obligationum genere nulla praestatio functionem recipiat aut in solutum imputetur nisi ab ipso reo siat numeratio Quia tamen Veneratio Honotarissimo Senatui debita majorem à nobis exigit reverentiam quam ut Scholasticis inanibus Literularum formulis ipsorum tempora morari audeamus de quibus nihil deliberari potest sine publico dispendio Nostri officii partes optimo quidem nomini sed tamen vicario Tibi Honoratissime Cancellarie delegamus Tu Illis pro nobis nos Tibi pro Te pro Illis gratias agemus Deus O. M. Te quam diutissime Ecclesiae Academiae huic nostrae sospitem incolumem praestet Sic vovent To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bp. of London Chancellour of the University of OXFORD Honori Tuo addictissimi Clientes Magistri Scholares Universit Oxon. Mr. BRUCH è Coll. AEn Nas. Procurat Mr. DOUGHTY è Coll. Merton Procurat S. in Christo. Sir THese are to Pray and Require you in his Majesties name that a Book lately Printed at Oxford and made by Mr. Page of All Souls-College be presently put to sale and published It is as I am inform'd in defence of the Canon of the Church about Bowing at the name of JESUS and modestly and well written And his Majesty likes not that a Book boldly and ignorantly written by Mr. Prinne against the Church should take place as the Churches Opinion against her self or as unable to be answered by the Church If Mr. Page stick at your Commands shew this Letter for your Warrant and his So I leave you to the Grace of God and shall ever rest Fulham June 22. Your Loving Friend GVIL London The occasion of this Letter was that Mr. Baker Secretary to my Predecessour who no doubt was privy to the business had written to Mr. Page touching the contrary whose Letter here follows Good Mr. Page MY Lord of Canterbury is inform'd that you are publishing a Treatise touching the Question of Bowing at the Name of JESUS an Argument wherein Mr. Widdowes foolishly and Mr. Prinne scurrilously have already to the scandal and disquiet of the Church exercised their Pens His Grace hath formerly shew'd his dislike of them both and hearing that you take up the Bucklers in a Theme of so small necessity and of so great heat and distemper which will draw on new Replies for Prinne will not sit down as an idle Spectatour and beget bitterness and intestine contestations at home amongst our selves he is much offended that you do stickle and keep on foot such questions which may better be spoiled and silenced than maintain'd and draw into sideings and partakings And therefore I am wish'd to advise you to withdraw your self from these or the like domestick broils and if your Treatise be at the Press to give it a stop and check and by no means to suffer the same to be divulged For if you do notwithstanding this Admonition proceed in the same intention of publishing it you will repent you and perhaps draw more on your self of trouble and discontent than you will reap Credit or Advantage by the pursuance of so useless an Argument If you were out of your Cell and saw the World abroad you would not meddle with things of this nature wherein the Governours and chief Pilots of the Church discern more harm and tempest to the Church than you that are unacquainted with Ecclesiastical Estate and the well ordering of it can any way by Speculation attain unto no more than a Scholar that can read a Lecture of Theorical Musick is able to play on a Lute or a Viol by his Bookish Rules and proportions of Sounds which are there taught I pray you to look hereunto and say that a Friend advised you And put not your self on a Business whereof you see but the Beginning So with my Love remembred unto you I rest Lambeth May. 31. 1631. Your very loving Friend Will. Baker S. in Christo. AFter my hearty Commendations c. The year is now at an end of my Vice-Chancellour's Government And when I look back upon it I must needs acknowledge he hath taken a great deal of pains and shew'd himself a very discreet able and worthy Governour And in all the passages of this year I do not find but that he hath given you all great satisfaction especially in his Care for Order and Formalities which I hope you will so far like as that you will make it away to recover the Ancient Honour of that famous University in things of greater Consequence And though the University be full
habentium ac non habentium longe munificentissimus Siste manum siste ne premat Te virtus nimia totum enim Te figis atque insumis emolumento nostro Nullus 〈◊〉 Filius sic Matrem sugendo exhausit ac Te Patrem filia Academia 〈◊〉 nunc dicas quae suit Mater cum eam ex ruinis regenitam lautiori Fronte perpoliveris Ore novo mox loqui docueris Nos itaque licet nondum Sermone Arabico Donum enim hoc vestrum est certe gentium omni genere pectore gratias conceptissime recumulamus semperque retinebimus sub linguis omnibus unam animi devotissimi Effigiem E Dome nostrae Congregat ionis Aug. 10 1636. Sanctitatis vestrae humillima Cultrix Oxon. Acad. THis year his Majesty and the Queen invited themselves to me to Oxford and brought with them Charles Prince Elector Palatine and his Brother Prince Rupert being both then in England They came into Oxford at the end of this Summer's Progress on Munday August 29. The Vice-Chancellour made a very good Speech unto them where my self and the University met them which was a mile before they entred the Town That Speech ended they passed along by St. John's where Mr. Tho. Atkinson made another Speech unto them very brief and very much approved of by his Majesty afterwards to me Within Christ-Church Gate Mr. William Strode the University Orator entertained them with another Speech which was well approved Thence the King accompanied his Queen to her Lodging and instantly returned and went with all the Lords to the Cathedral There after his Private Devotions ended at the West Door Dr. Morris one of the Prebendaries entertained him with another short Speech which was well liked And thence hisMajesty proceeded into the Quire and heard Service After Supper they were entertained with a Play at Christ-Church which was very well penn'd but yet did not take the Court so well The next day being Tuesday the King came to Service soon after 8 in the Morning It was at Christ-Church and Mr. Thomas Brown being then Proctor made an excellent Sermon which gave great Content The Sermon ended The Prince Elector and his Brother Prince Rupert attended by many of the Lords came to the Convocation-House where the Place was full of University-Men all in their Forms and Habits very orderly And the two Princes with divers Lords were pleased to be made Masters of Art and the two Princes Names were by his Majesty's leave entred in St. John's College to do that House that Honour for my sake In Convocation the Vice-Chancellour having first placed the Princes and briefly exprest the cause of that Convocation I made a short Speech which here follows in haec verba Florentes Academici hoc tempore florentissimi quibus Caroli Regis Pientissimi Prudentissimi simulque Mariae 〈◊〉 Heroinae Consortis suae charissimae praesentiâ frui datur Nec eâ solum sed praesentiâ eximiae spei Principum Nepotum M. Jacobi Sacratissimoe Memoriae Monarchae de Academia Literatisque omnibus optimè meriti Principes hi sunt hoc Titulo suo omni honoris genere dignissimi Vos eos omni quo 〈◊〉 prosequimini Quid expectatis ultrà Academici An ut ego Oraetorio in hoc Senatu fungar munere At illud memoria curis simul annis fracta lingua per se inculta desuetudine loquendi 〈◊〉 praesens 〈◊〉 quod ad alia festinat omnino Prohibent Nec Principes hi Preceresve illud à me expectant Cui aliud satis jam incumbit negotium qui illis 〈◊〉 in omnibus sum pollicitus Breviter itaq quod ad vos attinet Principes non Ortu magis quà m Virtutibus illustres Non expectat à vobis Academia ut possitis totam Entis prosunditatem exhaurire ut sic sitis Artium Magistri sed liceat dicere Freta aetatis vestrae nondum transiistis AEstus jam urgent juveniles Hos discite superare fluctus procellas has in auras redigere omnium insimul Artium Magistrieritis quid ni fortunoe Atque utinam nostrae potestatis esset coecoe illi Deoe oculos dare quibus virtutes vestras cerneret agnosceret jura Et vos etiam Proceres Principum horum Cultores convocata hac Academia exultat videre non solum conferre gradus suos in vos gestit quos omni honoris cultu veneratur sed potiùs eos conferendo honorem summum gradibus suis quaerit quod placeat Principibus hisce vobisq Pannis suis nam 〈◊〉 in purpura est inaugurari Floreat sic soepius Academia Nativis simul Adoptivis Filiis gaudeat Egregie Vice Cancellarie ad Creationem Admissionem simul pro Officio tuo descende AFter this the Vice-Chancellour proceeded made another short Speech and after Creation and Admission of the Princes and and other Honourable Persons ended the Convocation That finisht they all returned to christ-Christ-Church to attend upon the King the Princes having formerly in the Morning seen some of the fair Colleges Then the Queen being not ready the King with the Princes and the Nobles my self also waiting upon him went to the Library where the King viewed the New Buildings and the Books and was entertained with a very neat Speech made by the Son of the Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery then Lord Chamberlain Then word was brought up that the Queen was come So the King went into the 〈◊〉 to her and they went away to St. John's to dinner the Princes and Nobles attending them When they were come to St. John's they first viewed the New-Building and that done I attended them up the Library Stairs where so soon as they began to ascend the Musick began and they had a fine short Song fitted for them as they ascended the Stairs In the Library they were Welcomed to the College with a short Speech made by one of the Fellows And Dinner being ready they passed from the old into the new Library built by my self where the King the Queen and the Prince Elector dined at one Table which stood cross at the upper end And Prince Rupert with all the Lords and Ladies present which were very many dined at a long Table in the same Room All other several Tables to the number of 13 besides these two were disposed in several Chambers of the College and had several Men appointed to attend them and I thank God I had that happiness that all things were in very good order and that no man went out at the Gates Courtier or other but content which was a Happiness quite beyond Expectation When Dinner was ended I attended the King and the Queen together with the Nobles into several withdrawing Chambers where they entertained themselves for the space of an hour And in the mean time I caused the Windows of the Hall to be shut the Candles lighted and all things made ready for the Play
Distemper from Proctor to Proctor which must needs do a great deal of harm considering how much they must be trusted with the Execution of the Statutes Therefore I pray deal seriously with both the Proctors but especially with Proctor Brown and let him know that he can give me no Content if for the remainder of his time he be not careful of the Statutes and their due performance And at Easter when the new Procters are chosen I must desire you to look to them if they do not look carefully to the Duty of their places and in this particular especially Besides I hear a whispering from thence that during your short abode at Sarum in this Term-time the Schools were scarce ever called so much as once I pray God it may be found they have called the Schools at all since the Publication of the new Statutes You shall do well to examin this and by the answer which the Proctors give you you will be able to discover something both of their diligence and intentions besides it cannot be but that Mr. Belle's death and a new and unexperienced Successor must needs give some hindrance to the Statutes which pertain to Service But I hope this will be but a temporary inconvenience and soon blown over by the diligence of Mr. Gayton and tell him I expect it Besides you shall do well to have a care of Noctivagation and other disorders else you will quickly have the Distempers of the Night break out in the Day and now the Spring comes on if your self do not take some pains that way I doubt the Proctors will be negligent enough though of their negligence I can give no reason unless it be because by the new Statutes the University is made half sharer in the Mulcts which how small they are will appear by their accounts With a special Caution for the observation of the Statute for speaking Latin Lambeth Feb. 24. 1636 7. W. Cant. SIR I Had almost forgotten a business to you of greater consequence than this and I cannot well tell whether Mr. Vice-chancellor hath acquainted you with it or no for I writ not unto him very expresly in the business but now recalling it I thought fit to write thus much to your self You know that Mr. Chillingworth is answering of a Book that much concerns the Church of England and I am very sorry that the young Man hath given cause why a more watchful eye should be held over him and his Writings But since it is so I would willingly desire this favour from you in the Church's Name that you would be at the pains to read over this Tract and see that it be put home in all Points against the Church of Rome as the Cause requires And I am confident Mr. Chillingworth will not be against your altering of any thing that shall be found reasonable And to the end that all things may go on to the Honour of the Church of England I have desired Dr. Potter who is particularly concern'd in this business so soon as ever he is returned from London to speak with you about it And when all these Tryals are over I would be content that both this Book and all others that shall be hereafter licensed in the University have such an Imprimatur of the Licencer before it as we use here above which I shall leave to the Wisdom of the Vice-chancellor and the Heads Lambeth March 3. 1636 7 W. Cant. A Passage out of a Letter of the Vice-chancellor's THE University do now generally resent that your Grace obtained and the King confirmed unto us the greatest Benefit that ever came to the Publick and God willing no Man shall disturb it while I sit Vice-chancellor My Answer to it IT is a hard thing in this Age to bring Men to understand the good that is done them and therefore I am the more glad that the University doth it that so great a Benefit given them by such a King may not only be received but acknowledged by them and the Memory of it delivered to Succession And I shall hope that your Successors after you will keep it in that way into which it is now put unless they can find a better and more useful for the Learned Press April 10. 1637. W. Cant. Mr. Vice-chancellor THERE was an English Translation of a Book of Devotion Written by Sales Bishop of Geneva and Entitl'd Praxis Spiritualis sive Introductio ad vitam devotam Licensed by Dr. Haywood then my Chaplain about the latter end of November last but before it passed his hands he first struck out divers things wherein it varied from the Doctrin of our Church and so passed it But by the Practice of one Burrowes who is now found to be a Roman-Catholick those Passages struck out by Dr. Haywood were interlined afterwards as appears upon Examination before Mr. Attorney-General and by the Manuscript Copy and were printed according to Burrows's Falsifications The Book being thus Printed gave great and just offence especially to my self who upon the first hearing of it gave present Order to Seize upon all the Copies and to Burn them publickly in Smithfield Eleven or Twelve Hundred Copies were Seized and Burnt accordingly buut it seems Two or Three Hundred of the Impression were dispersed before the Seizure Now my desire is that if any Copies of this Translation be or shall be sent to Oxford you would call them in and take such Order for the Suppressing of them there as is here already taken And so I commend you to God's Grace and rest Lambeth May 4. 1637. Your Loving Friend W. Cant. SIR YOU are now upon a very good way toward the setting up of a Learned Press and I like your Proposal well to keep your Matrices and your Letters you have gotten safe and in the mean time to provide all other necessaries that so you may be ready for that work For since it hath pleased God so to bless me as that I have procured you both Privilege and means for that work I should be very glad to see it begun in my own Life-time if it raight be And because the beginning of such a work will be very difficult as also the procuring of a sussicient Composer and Corrector for the Eastern Languages you have done exceeding well to think of him at Leyden and to get him over upon as good Terms as you can and to give him an Annual Pension in the mean time that he may not be tempted from your Service So God speed you I have sent you down by this Carrier my Book of the University Statutes which I give that the Library-keepers may read their own Duties in it for having none I doubt they keep neither old Statutes nor new so well as they should And it may be if you and the rest of the Curators would look well to it you might find many things there out of order and sit to be amended And
1639. A. Frewen IN the interim hearing that Wilkinson had under-hand gotten a Recommendation from my Lord the Earl of Holland Chancellor of Cambridge and having occasion one day to meet with my Lord I spake to his Lordship about it but my Lord remembred no such thing Yet told me he would speak to his Secretary about the Business and then give me a farther Account Which the very next day he did and confessed unto me that he had given him a Recommendation but thought Wilkinson had come attested from the University And withal his Lordship said that the Reason which he gave him why he went to Cambridge for his Degree was because the Fees were greater in Oxford Upon this his Lordship promised me that he would write to Cambridge that the University should be very careful to keep the Agreement made with Oxford concorning Degrees Lambeth Dec. 26. 1639. W. Cant. CHristmas-day falling upon a Wednesday this Year the Mayor of Oxford stept in before the University Clerks and proclaim'd no Market This he did grounding himself as 't is conceived upon the strength of Justice Jones his Arbitration In the which tho' altogether beside the Question he told the Vice-Chancellor That he thought the Market belong'd to the City tho' the Government of it to the University The Vice-Chancellor doubted not but that he should be able to right the University in this particular Dec. 23. 1639. A. Frewen THE Violence of the Storm on St. John's Night threw down the Battlements over the Room where Your Grace's Manuscripts are billited but did no more hurt Fearing that the Leads might be bruised and a passage through them for the Rain made by the fall I caused it to be throughly search'd and presently repair'd so that now the Books are out of all danger Oxford Jan. 6. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen One John George Deputy-Register to old Mr. Jones petitioned me for a Reversion of the Registership it self of the Vice-Chancellor's Court But I refused him and writ to the Vice-Chancellor to know the Conditions of the Man who sent me word as follows HEartily glad I am that your Grace hath refused this John George for having a Reversion of Mr. Jones's Office For he is a sawcy insolent Companion And should he once come to enjoy the Place in his own Right 't is likely would prove insufferable What yearly Rent he pays for his Deputation or what he is to give for the Resignation I cannot tell Yet thus much I know through the greediness of the Register and Proctors the Court begins to hear ill nor am I able to redress it so fully as I would there being no Table of Fees whereby to regulate them Oxford Jan. 13. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen UPON the Vice-Chancellor's mentioning to me the having no Table of Fees for the regulating of that Court I writ to him to draw me up one and send it me And that then I would consult with the Doctors of the Arches and some well experienced Proctors what Fees might be fittest for such a Court and send it him back perfected to be confirmed in Convocation if it be thought fit Lambeth Jan. 17. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. ON Saturday Jan. 25. died Mr. Robert Burton of christ-Christ-Church who hath given 5 l. per Annum for ever to the University-Library besides a considerable Number of Books to be taken out of his Study And because a Benefactor to the University I was present at his Funeral At our last Examinations we repulsed a Dunce of New-Inn who was not able so much as to give us a difference betwixt Quisquis and Quisque though a Candidate to be Master of Arts. To put an end to the Town 's snarling at us for taking from them the power of Licensing Ale-Houses I last Week cast them out a Bone which hath set them at odds amongst themselves Understanding that some sold Ale without my leave I sent out a Warrant to the Officers in every Parish They finding by it that their Poor should reap the Fruit of their Pains readily obey make a strict search inform and press to have the Penalty exacted which hath bred a strange Distemper amongst them and a strange one it must be that can disjoin them as this hath done in their feud against the University Here follows the Copy of the Vice-Chancellor's Warrant THESE are to require you and every of you immediately upon Receipt hereof to make diligent Inquiry in your Parish after all and every Person and Persons that do take upon them to sell Ale or Beer within your said Parish besides them whose Names are under-written And that you do certifie me who they are and he ready to prove and justifie their selling without License that I may exact thereupon the Penalty of 20s for the use of the Poor of your Parish from each of them so offending Also I require you to make diligent search taking with you a Constable what quantity of Ale or Beer the said Persons have in their several Houses and to inform me what Brewer or Brewers have served the same That I may punish them according to the Law Hereof fail you not as you will answer the contrary at your Perils Given c. Our University Coroner being last Week to sit upon the Body of a Privileged Person drowned near Christ-Church sends his Warrant according as the Statute directs him to the Constable of St. Olave's to warn a Jury He presently consults the Mayor and the Mayor the Town-Clerk the City Oracle and both instruct him to disobey because by their Charter they are exempted from all Service without their Liberties as this Place was though yet within the Parish of St. Olave's which forced us for the present to send into the Country for a Jury which lost time and cost trouble Of the Legality of this their Plea we here are not able to judge yet much suspect that no Exemption in any Charter reaches to Service of this Nature But admit it to be legal yet was it withal uncivil and were not the Times as they are I should e'er long make some of them smart for it And on Friday last I brought one of their Bailists almost upon his Knees for furnishing an unlicensed Tippling-House with Beer And easie 't will be for a Vice-Chancellor if he intend to correct them at any time invenire baculum Oxford Jan. 27. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen AT this time I writ to the Vice-Chancellor to speak to the Heads before Lent begin and to desire them that they would be very careful of their several Companies that the publick Disputations then may be quick and Scholar-like and yet without Tumult And this I left principally upon his Care to look to calling the Proctors to his Assistance I received a Letter this last Week from a Reverend Bishop in this Kingdom in which he complains that Amesius and Festus Hommius though I think before your time have been Reprinted in the University They
Collect in the latter Editions of the Common prayer-Prayer-Book as well as in the Book for the Fast. And this was done according to the Course of the Church which ordinarily names none in the Prayer but the Right Line descending Yet this was not done till the King himself commanded it as I have to shew under his Majesty's Hand Secondly I beseech your Lordships to consider what must be the Consequence here The Queen of Bohemia and her Children are left out of the Collect therefore the Prelates intend to bring in Popery For that you know they say is the end of all these Innovations Now if this be the end and the Consequence truly the Libellers have done very dutifully to the King to poyson his People with this conceit that the Lady Elizabeth and her Children would keep Popery out of this Kingdom but the King and his Children will not And many as good Offices as these have they done the King quite thorow these Libels and quite thorow his Kingdoms For My part I honour the Queen of Bohemia and her Line as much as any Man whatsoever and shall be as ready to serve them but I know not how to depart from my Allegiance as I doubt these Men have done 7. The Seventh Innovation is That these words who art the Father of thine Elect and of their Seed are changed in the Preface of that Collect which is for the Prince and the King's Children And with a most spiteful inference that this was done by the Prelates to exclude the King's Children out of the number of God's Elect. And they call it an intolerable Impiety and horrid Treason To this I answer First That this Alteration was made in my Predecessor's time before I had any Authority to meddle with these things farther than I was called upon by him Secondly This is not therefore to lay any 〈◊〉 upon my Predecessor for he did in that but his Duty For his Majesty acknowledges it was done by his special Direction as having then no Children to pray for And Thirdly This Collect could not be very old for it had no being in the Common Prayer Book all Queen Elizabeth's time she having no Issue The Truth is it was made at the coming in of King James and must of necessity be changed over and over again pro ratione Temporum as Times and Persons vary And this is the Intolerable Impiety and horrid Treason they charge upon Vs. In this Method the Innovations are set down in the News from Ipswich But then in Mr. Burion's News from Friday-street called his Apology they are in another Order and more are added Therefore with your Lordship's leave I will not repeal any of these but go on to the rest which Mr. Burton adds 8. The eighth Innovation is That in the Epistle the Sunday before Easter we have put out In and made it At the Name of Jesus every knee shall bow which Alteration he saith is directly against the Act of Parliament Here give me leave to tell you 't is At the Name of Jesus in the late Learned Translation made in King James his time About which many Learned Men of best note in the Kingdom were imployed besides some Prelates But to this I Answer First 'T is true the Common Prayer Book was confirmed by Act of Parliament and so all things contained in it at the passing of that Act. But I hope if any thing were false Printed then the Parliament did not intend to pass those slips for current Secondly I am not of Opinion that if one word be put in for another so they bear both the same Sense that there is any great matter done against the Act of Parliament Thirdly This can make no Innovation For In the Name and At the Name of Jesus can make no Essential Difference here And Mr. Pryn whose Darling business it hath long been to cry down the Honour due to the Son of God at the mentioning of his saving Name Jesus knows the Grammar Rule well In a Place or at a Place c. Fourthly If there were any Errour in the change of In into At I do here solemnly protest to you I know not how it came For authority from the Prelates the Printers had none and such a word is easily changed in such a negligent Press as we have in England Or if any altered it purposely for ought I know they did it to gratifie the Preciser sort For therein they followed the Geneva Translation and Printed at Geneva 1557 where the words are At the Name of Jesus And that is 94 years ago and therefore no Innovation made by us Fifthly This I find in the Queen's Injunctions without either word In or At. Whensoever the Name of Jesus shall be in any Lesson Sermon or otherwise pronounced in the Church 't is injoyned that due Reverence be made of all Persons Young and Old with lowliness of Coursy and uncovering of the Heads of the Men-kind as thereunto doth necessarily belong and heretofore hath been accustomed So here 's necessity laid upon it and custom for it and both expressed by Authority in the very beginning of the Reformation and is therefore no Innovation now 9. The Ninth Innovation is That two places are changed in the Prayers set forth for the Fifth of November And ordered to be read they say by Act of Parliament The first place is ohanged thus from Root out that Babylomish and Antichristian Sect which say of 〈◊〉 c. Into this form of Words Root out that Babylonish and Antichristian Sect of them which say c. The second place went thus in the old Cut off these Workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion But in the Book Printed 1635 't is thus altered Cut 〈◊〉 those Workers of Iniquity who turn Religion into Rebellion c. To this I say First 'T is a notorious Vntruth that this Book was ordered to be Read by Act of Parliament The Act of Parliament indeed is Printed before it and therein is a Command for Prayers and Thanksgivings every Fifth of November but not one Word or Syllable for the Form of Prayer That 's left to the Church therefore here 's no Innovation against that Act of Parliament Secondly The Alteration first mentioned that is That Sect or That Sect of 〈◊〉 if of so small Consequence as 't is not worth the speaking of Besides if there be any thing of moment in it 't is answered in the next Thirdly Both for that and the second place which seems of more moment and so for the rest not only in that Book but that other also for His Majesty's Coronation His Majesty expresly commanded Me to make the Alterations and see them Printed And here are both the Books with His Majesty's Warrant to each of them So that herein I conceive I did not offend unless it were that I gave not these Men notice of it or asked them leave to obey the King Against this there can be
the malicious cunning of that Opposite Faction And though I shall spare dead Men's Names where I have not certainty Yet if you be pleased to look back and consider who they were that Governed businesses in 1571 and rid the Church almost at their pleasure And how potent the Ancestors these Libellers began then to grow you will think it no hard matter to have the Articles Printed and this Clause left out And yet 't is plain That after the stir about Subscription in the Year 1571 the Articles were setled and subscribed unto at last as in the Year 1562 with this Clause in them for the Church For looking farther into the Records which are in mine own Hands I have found the Book of 1563 subscribed by all the Lower House of Convocation in this very Year of Contradiction 1571 Dr. John Elmar who was after Lord Bishop of London being there Prolocutor Alexander Nowel Dean of St. Paul's having been Prolocutor in 1563 and yet living and present and subscribing in 1571. Therefore I do here openly in the Star-Chamber charge upon that pure Sect this foul Corruption of falsifying the Articles of the Church of England let them take it off as they can I have now done and 't is time I should with the Innovations charged upon the Prelates and fit to be answered here Some few more there are but they belong to matter of Doctrine which shall presently be answered Justo Volumine at large to satisfie all Well-Minded People But when Mr. Burton's Book which is the Main one is answered I mean his Book no this Railing neither Prynn nor Bastwick nor any Attendants upon Rabshakeh shall by me or my care be answered If this Court find not a way to stop these Libellers Mouths and Pens for me they shall rail on till they be weary Yet one thing more I beseech you give me leave to add 'T is Mr. Burton's Charge upon the Prelates That the Censures formerly laid upon Malefactors are now put upon God's Ministers for their Vertue and Piety A heavy charge this too But if he or any Man else can shew that any Man hath been punished in the High Commission or elsewhere by the Prelates for Vertue and Piety there is all the Reason in the World we should be severely punished our selves But the Truth is the Vertue and Piety for which these Ministers are punished is for Preaching Schism and Sedition many of their Sermons being as bad as their Libels As Burton's Libell was one of his Sermons first But whether this stuff have any Affinity with Vertue and Piety I submit to any Christian Reader And yet Mr. Burton is so confident of his Innocency even in this Cause wherein he hath so fouly carryed himself that he breaks forth into these words I never so much as once dreamed that Impiety and Impudency it self in such a Christian State as this is and under such a gracious Prince durst ever thus publickly have called me in Question and that upon the open Stage c. You see the boldness of the Man and in as bad a Cause as I think in this kind ever any Man had I shall end all with a passage out of S. Cyprian when he then Bishop of Carthage was bitterly railed upon by a pack of Schismaticks his answer was and 't is now mine They have railed both bitterly and falsly upon me and yet non oportet me paria cum illis facere it becomes not me to answer them with the like either Levities or Revilings but to speak and write that only which becomes Sacerdotem Dei a Priest of God Neither shall I in this give way though I have been extremely vilified to either Grief or Passion to speak remembring that of the Psalmist Psal. 37. 8. Fret not thy self else shalt thou be moved to do Evil. Neither yet by God's Grace shall the Reproaches of such Men as these make me faint or start aside either from the Right-way in matter of practice they are S. Cyprian's words again or a certa Regula from the certain Rule of Faith And since in former times some spared not to call the Master of the House Beelzebub how much more will they be bold with them of his Houshould as it is in St. Matthew 10. 25. And so bold have these Men been but the next words of our Saviour are Fear them not I humbly crave Pardon of your Lordships for this my necessary length and give you all hearty thanks for your Noble Patience and your Just and Honowable Censure upon these Men and your unanimous dislike of them and defence of the Church But because the business hath some Reflexion upon my self I shall forbear to censure them and leave them to God's Mercy and the King's Justice FINIS Dr. Frewen Vicechancellour The Election of the R. R. Father William Laud Bp. of London to be Chancellour Convocation At London-House for Admission of their Chancellour Elect. The Letters Patents of the University Dr. Frewen continued Vicechancellour The Chancelor's Speech Order taken for weekly Letters from the Vicechancellour Concerning the making and settling the Statutes To Dr. Tolson the Vicechancellour's Deputy about two disorderly Sermons To Dr. Frewin Vicechancellor about observing Formalities My first Letters to the Convocation A 〈◊〉 in Christ Church given to the Hebrew Reader for ever The observing of Formalities The not spolling of his Majesty's Game Dr. Smith Warden of Wadham College apopinted Vicechancellour Dr. Smith A Letter of Thanks from the Vniversity for my Letters to Them Dr. 〈◊〉 the Hebrew Reader 's Thanks for the Prebend of Christchurch procured by me Certain Advertisements given the Vicechancellour at Michaelmas 〈◊〉 Octob 6 1630. An Order De accumulandis Gradibus Octob. 11. 1630. Dr. Prideaux his Letter De Accumulandis Gradibus My Answer to Dr. Prideaux his Letter de accumulandis gradibus Concerning Act Questions A Clause of my Letters to the Vicechancellour de susceptione Gradûs Baccalur in SS Theologiâ Octob. 15. 1630. De gradibus accumulandis Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and an Answer to my former Letters 〈◊〉 The Act Question Dr. Prideaux his Thanks and Acknowledgement of the Justness of my Proceedings The Proctors of the University their Thanks concerning Reformation Concerning the Principal of St. Edmund's Hall To the Vice-Chancellour concerning the Choice of a Principal of St. Edmund's-Hall An Act concerning the Commission for Fees Thanks from the University for my Care of their Liberties My Letters to the Vicechancellour about the publishing of Mr. Page's Book concerning Bowing at the Name of Jesus The occasion of the next foregoing Letter Mr. Baker's Letter to Mr. Page about the not publishing of his Book c. In my Predecessour's time Annus Cancellarii Secundus Dr. Smith continued Vice-Chancellour a Second year My Letters sent with his Majesties to the University about Fees July 4. 1631. His Majesties Letters to be Register'd The Delegates to settle presently the Business of Fees His Majesties Letters to me
the University-Letters concerning the 〈◊〉 Dr. Lawrence chosen to be the Lady Margaret's Reader Mar. 20. To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Non-Incorporation of Masters of 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 ult 〈◊〉 Masters and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Restored Two Passages of my Letter to the Vice-chancellor April 13. about strengthening the Schools About Martin Wescombe to be Master this next All. Notice of some disorders of the Youth this Week against the Proctor with my Answer 〈◊〉 Mr. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Coll. Mr. 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Coll. April 27. 1638. Concerning Gilpin's Expulsion from Magdalen Hall Concerning the Riotous Disorder against Proctor Lawford May 4. My dislike of the Punishment resolved on by the Heads for the late Disorder Upon this the in his 〈◊〉 May 7. 〈◊〉 that he could not make full 〈◊〉 against any else he would have been more Severe May 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cafe in Residing in the University and having two 〈◊〉 with Cure He hath obeyed and is 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 upon one of his 〈◊〉 An 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in liturgia 〈◊〉 â justam 〈◊〉 Scandali Materiam Hereupon the Respoadent and 〈◊〉 were changed 〈◊〉 upon the Receipt of these Letters The Suppressing of the Act or 〈◊〉 it only left to the choice of the Heads The Sickness encreasing in all these neighbouring Parts the Act was supprest in Convocatition on Thursday the 28th of June 1638. Dr. Frewen chosen my Vice-chancellor Aug. 3. 1638. To the Vice-chancellor to look to Scholars for Taverns c. Aug. 10. For Care about Ale-houses To look to the Scholars at his Majesty's coming to Woodstock by reason of my Absence which was never before since I was Chancellor Aug. 17.1638 To the Vice-chancellor about Gowns The fault appeared to be the Taylors only and so I gave order for Punishment From the Vice-chancellor Aug. 27.1638 To the Vice-chancellor Sept. 20. concerning the placing at St. Maries the Sons of Earl's Daughters marryed to Knights Passages out of the Vice-chancellor's Letters with Answers to them 1. Concerning Examinations in Term time It needs not the one being in Statute the other being by Statute put into the Hands of the Proctors 2. Concerning Proctor Corbet of Merton-College about his assisting at the Communion at the begining of Term. Proctor Corbet's Petition Notwithstanding this to your 〈◊〉 you shall give the Proctor no Answer at all from me 〈◊〉 Every 〈◊〉 to have a distinct Bell tolled to his Lecture This is since ordered by the Heads and settled The New Convocation-House in use Octob. 10. Examination for Degrees Out of the Vice-chancellor's Letter Octob. 15. The Manner of Proctor 〈◊〉 Conformity To the Vice-chancellor Octob. 18. to send away Mr. Little and Mr. Verier to reside upon their several Benefices It was time to take this 〈◊〉 for the Vice-chancellor sent me word Octob. 22. that there is much declaiming at St. Maries against Non-Presidents in general Of which these give too just Cause Woodruff's Non-Resistence To the Vice-chancellor Octob. 31. My Resolution about Non-Residents in general A Note to be brought in of all the Beneficed Men in every College and Hall Which was done accordingly The Guernsey Man's Incorporation Mr. Vane incorporated Master A Petition against the 〈◊〉 of Oxford for spoyling the High-ways by their too great Carriages My Answer for redress of this abuse directed to the Vice-chan cellor Out of Dr. Turner's Letter to me of Merton-College of the good Success of the new Statute de Examinandis Candidat sent about 〈◊〉 time The Care and Moderation of the Vice-chancellor herein No more than 15 Doctors to attend His Majesty at Woodstock The King's Letters to Christ-Church for suppressing their Westminster Supper dated about the 20. of December Out of my Letters to the Vice-chancellor for Privileged Men to provide Arms January 17th 20 Priviledged Men charged with Corslets and 30 with Musquets To the Vice-chanceller Feb. 7. for watchfulness against the Jesuites * His Name is Weale To the Vice-chancellor concerning the Masters wearing their Hats and Lawyers Gowns and for him to look to them Feb. 20. 〈◊〉 I approve their sitting bare so long as they go along the Streets in their Caps and keep Form which the Vice-chancellor assures me they do To the Vice-chancellor Feb. ult the forbidding of Set Coursing betwixt Colleges in Lent From the Vice-chancellor March 4. Circuiting for Degrees to begin from the Schools Batchelors Disputations in Lent The Vice-chancellor concerning the Towns requiring Contributions of the Priviledged Persons towards their 15 Soldiers out of his Letters April 15. Procuratores Mr. Fulbamex AEd. Christi Mr. Heywood E. Coll. AEr Nas. An Information how divers Discontinuers from Oxford resort to Cambridge for their Degrees to elude the Statutes of their own University A Branch of my Letter of April 25. to the Vice-chancellor upon this Information The Vice-chancellor of Cambridge his Answer to Dr. Frewen's Letter touching the Business aforesaid To Dr. Fell Dean of Christ-Church concerning his private Examinations after the publick Dr. Fell hath assured that there shall be no Examination in the College hereafter but it shall preceed Examinations of the University To the Vice-chancellor concerning Adamus Francius Both the Vice-chancellors sent me word that they could hear of no such Man for the present but that they would enquire further after him The Difference between Proctor Fulham and Dr. Fell Dean of christ-Christ-Church in the case of Moore My Letters to Dr. Fell about the aforesaid Business My Letters to the Convocation the third time when I sent them my Manuscripts and Coins with the Book belonging to them Entituled Elenchus Numismatum Thanks from the University for my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Volumina quae misi de proprio fuere Mille 〈◊〉 duo July 10. Two ignorant Batchelors repelled by the Vice-chancellor from their Admission They were of Glocester-Hall 831 l. brought into the University Chest for this Year Annuity of 8 l. per Ann. bought in The University stock at present Dr. Frewen continued Vice-chancellor a second year Warning given that the Masters keep their Seats whilest either any publick Letters are read or solemnSpeeches made in Convocation No Man to enter the Convocation-House upon pain of Imprisonment that is not a Member of that Body The Vice-chancellor sent his Warrant for three Scholars who had shewn College-plate in Town which 〈◊〉 had batter'd together Fixt Seats for the Examiners and the Candidates A Branch of my Letters of Octob. 4. to the Vice-chancellor about the observing of Formalities Elzy the Attorney The Chandlers about the Price of Candles A Passage out of the Vice-Chancellor's Letters touching the Seats for the Examinations A Passage of my Letters to Dr. Fell D. of Christ Church concerning a 〈◊〉 made to him by the Students there for the change of their hour of Vespers from four to five Sir H. 〈◊〉 Greek Letters in Turner the 〈◊〉 hands On Thursday 〈◊〉 13. the Greek Letters and deliver'd them by weight as 〈◊〉 receiv'd them there were 〈◊〉 any wanting He came very unwillingly 〈◊〉 To Mr. Thomas