from Spalato nunc quidem parum Colitur ob Turcarum Viciniam A judicious Writer valuing his Arch-bishoprick as it seemeth to advantage estimateth it annually at 3000 Crowns which falleth a fourth part short of 1000 pounds sterling a summe exceeded in most of our middling Bishopricks Besides the Arch-bishoprick of Spalato was clogged and incumbred with a Pension of 500 Crowns the sixth part of his Revenues payable with the arrears by the Popes Command to one Andrutius The payment of which Sixt part went as much against Spalato's stomach as the payment of the Fifts now a dayes doth from the present Possessors to sequestred Minister Dr. Heylin He could not hope to mend his fortunes by his coming hither or to advance himself to a more liberal entertainment in the Church of England than what he had attained to in the Church of Rome Covetousness therefore could not be the motive for leaving his own Estate of which he had been possessed 14. years in our Authors reckoning to betake himself to a strange Country where he could promise himself nothing but protection and the freedome of conscience Our Author might have said with more probability that covetousness and not conscience was the cause of his going hence no bait of profit or preferment being laid before him to invite him hither as they were both by those which had the managing of that designe to allure him hence c. Fuller Dark men are the best Comment upon themselves whose precedent are best expounded by their subsequent actions Who so considereth the rapacity and tenacity of this Prelate in England will easily believe that a two-handed covetousness moved him to leave his native Country and come over hither One to save the other to gain To save that is to evade the payment of the aforesaid Pension with the arrears thereof To gain promising himself as by the future will appear not only protection but preferment not only safety but more plenty by coming hither He had Learning enough to deserve Ambition enough to desire Boldness enough to beg and presumed K. Iames had bounty enough to give him the highest and best prâ—ferment in England and he who publickly did beg York may be presumed privately to have promised the Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury to himself Dr. Heylin All mens mouths saith our Author were now filled with discourse of Prince Charles his Match with Donna Maria the Infanta of Spain The Protestants grieved thereat fearing that his Marriage would be the Funerals of their Religion c. The business of the Match with Spain hath already sufficiently been agitated between the Author of the History of the Reign of King Charles and his Observator And yet I must add something to let our Author and his Reader to understand thus much that the Protestants had no cause to fear such a Funeral Fuller Hâ—d I said that the Protestants justly feared this Marriage then the Animadvertor had justly censured whereas now grant they feared where no fear was he findeth fault where no fault is Historians may and must relate those great and general impressions which are made on the spirits of people and are not bound to justifie the causes thereof to be sound and sufficient Ten thousand Persons of quality are still alive who can â—nd will attest that a pannick fear for that Match invaded the Nation Dr. Heylin They knew they lived under such a King who loved his Sovereignty too well to quit any part thereof to the Pope of Rome especially to part with that Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters which he esteemed the fairest flower in the Royal Garland They knew they lived under such a King whose interest it was to preserve Religion in the same state in which he found it and could not fear but that he would sufficiently provide for the safety of it Fuller Mr. Camden writing of the Match of Q. Elizabeth with Mounsier younger Brother to the King of France hath this presage that when Mr. Stubs whose hand was cut off said God save the Queen the multitude standing by held their peace rendring this as one reason thereof Ex odio Nuptiarum quas religione exitiosas futuras praesagierunt Out of hatred to that Match which they presag'd would be destructive to Religion Now may not the Animadvertor as well tax Mr. Camden for inserting this needless Note and tell the world that no Princess was more skild in Queen craft than Q Elizabeth and that this presage of her People was falsly foâ—â—deâ— I detract not from the policy or piety head or heart of K. Iames but this I say let Sovereigns be never so good their Subjects under them will have their own Ioyes Griefs Loves Hatreds Hopes Fears sometimes caused sometimes causless and Historâ—ans have an equal Commission to report both to posterity Dr. Heylin If any Protestants feared the funeral of their Religion they were such Protestants as had been frighted out of their wits as you know who used to call the Puritans or such who under the name of Protestants had contrived themselves into a Faction not only against Episcopacy but even Monarchy also Fuller I profess I know not who used to call Puritans Protestants frighted out of their wits who ever it was it was not Michael the Arch-angel who would not rail on the Devil By Protestants I mean Protestants indeed or if you will rather have it Christians sound in their Iudgement uncontriv'd into any Faction so far from being Anti-episcopal that some of them were Members of the Hierarchy and so far from destroying Monarchy that since they endeavoured the preservation thereof with the destruction of their own Estaâ—es As worthy Doctor Hackwel Arch-Deacon of Surrey was outed his Chaplainâ— place for his opposing the Match when first tendred to Prince Henry so many qualified as aforesaid concurred with his â—udgement in the resumption of the Match with K. Charles notwithstanding they were justly and fully possessed of integrity and ability of K. Iames. Their seriously considering the Zâ—â—l of the Spanish to promote Popery the activity of the Romish Priests to gain Proselites their dexterous sinisterity in seducing Souls the negligence of two many English Ministers in feeding their Flocks the plâ—usibility oâ— Popery to vulgar Iudgements the lushiousness thereof to the palaâ— of flesh and Blood the fickleness of our English Nation to embrace Novelties the wavering of many unsettled minds the substilty of Satan to advance any mischievous designe the justice of God to leave a sinful Nation to the Spirit of delusion feared whether justly or no let the Reader judge that the Spanish Match as represented attended with a Tolleration might prove fatall to the Protestant Religion Dr. Heylin And to these Puritans nothing was more terrible than the Match with Spain fearing and perhaps justly fearing that the Kings alliance with that Crown might arme him both with power and counsel to suppress those Practices which have since prov'd the funeral of the Church of England Fuller
my owne Action too high have not farced the first page of my Book like a Mountebanks Bill pretending no higher but to ENDEVOUR CHAP V. The Second Generall Answer That many especially MEMORY Mistakes and Pen-slips must be expected in a great Volume IT is the Advantage of a Small Book that the Authors Eye may in a manner be Incumbent at once over it all from the Beginning to the End thereof a Cause why they may be more exactly corrected A Garden hard by ones House is easier Weeded and Trimmed than a Field lying at some distance Books which swell to a great Volume cannot be spun with so even a Thread but will run courser here and there yea and have Knots in them sometimes whereof the Author is not so sensible as the Reader as the Faults in Children are not so soon found in them by their own Fathers as by Strangers Thus the Poet Verum opere in Longo Fas est obrepere somnum As for MEMORY-MISTAKES which are not the Sleeping bnt Winking of an Author they are so far from overthrowing the Credit of any Book as a speck not paring-deep in the rind of an apple is from proving of the same rotten to the core Yea there want not learned Writers whom I need not name of the Opinion that even the Instrumental Pen-men of the Scripture might commit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though open that window to profaneness and it will be in vain to shut any dores Let God be true and every man a lyer However I mention their judgments to this purpose to shew that Memory-mistakes have not been counted such hainous matters but venial in their own nature as not only finding but deserving pardon I confess when such mistakes become common and customary in an Author they mar the credit of his Book and intollerably abuse the Reader Nothing is lighter in it self than a single crumb of Sand yet many of them put together are the heavyest of bodily burdens Heavier than the Sand on the Sea What is slight in it self if numerous will become ponderous but I hope that Memory-mistakes and Pen-slips in my Book will not be found so frequent and desire the benefit of this Plea to be allowed me but four times in my Answer to the Animadvertor A Number low enough I hope for the Ingenuous Reader to grant though perchance too high for me to request CHAP. VI. The Third General Answer That in Intire Stories of impregnable Truth it is facile for one to Cavill with some Colour at Dismembred Passages therein IT is an Act as easie as unjust for one to assault a naked Sentence as it stands by it self disarmed of the Assistance of the coherence before and after it all Sentences except they be intire and independent have a double strength in them one Inherent the other relative and the latter sometimes greater than the former when what in a Sentence is doubtful is explained difficult expounded defective supplyed yea seemingly false rendred really true by the Connexion We read in the Life of St. Edward that Harold Cup-bearer to the King chanced to stumble with the one foot that he almost kissed the Ground but with the other Leg he recovered himself whereat his Father Godwin Earl of Kent then dining with the King said Now one Brother doth help another to whom the King replyed And so might my Brother have helped me if it had so pleased you Many times when one Sentence in my Book hath had a Casual slip the next to it out of Fraternal kindness would have held it up in the apprehension of the Reader from falling into any Great Error had the Animadvertor so pleased who uncharitably cutteth it off from such support so that one Brother cannot help another whilest he representeth mangled and maimed Passages to the Disadvantage of the Sense and VVriter thereof Thus one may prove Atheisme out of Scripture it self There is no God But what went before The fool hath said in his heart I have dealt more fairly in this my Appeal with the Animadvertor and have not Here and There picked out Parcels and cut off Shreads where they make most for my advantage but have presented the whole Cloath of his Book as he will find so if pleasing to measure it over again Length and Breadth and List and Fag and all that so the Reader may see of what Wool it is made and what Thread it is spun and thereby be the better enabled to pass his verdict upon it CHAP. VII The Fourth General Answer That FAVOVR of COVRSE is indulged to the first as least perfect Edition of Books THe first Edition of a Book in a difficult Subject hath ever been beheld as less complete and a liberty of Correcting and Amending hath been allowed to all Authors of this kind I will instance in his Book whose Books would I was worthy to bear Mr. Camden's Britania His first Edition was a Babe in a little the second a Childe in a bigger Octavo the third a Youth in a Quarto but Map-less the last a Man in a fair Folio first and last differing more then a Gally and Galeas not onely in the Greatness but Perfection every newer Edition amending the Faults of the former Next we will insist in another Author above all exception even the Animadvertor himself who in his Epistle to the Reader before the Second and much altered Edition of his MICROCOSME thus expresseth himself not unhappily either for his owne or my purpose I am not the first of whom it was said Secundae Cogitationes sunt meliores neither is it a thing rare for Children of this nature to be as often perfected as born Books have an Immortality above their Authors They when they are full of Age and Guiltiness can be retaken into the wombe which bred them and with a new Life receive a greater Portion of Youth and Glory Every Impression is to them another being and that alwayes may and often doth bring with it a sweeter Edition of Strength and Loveliness Thus with them Age and each several Death is but an Usher to a new Birth each several Birth the mother of a more vigorous Perfection Had the like liberty of a Second Edition been allowed me which the Animadvertor assumed his pains had been prevented and most of the Faults he hath found in my Book being either derected by my self or discovered by my Friends communicating the same unto me had been rectified Thus in the Latin Tongue the same word SECUNDUS signifieth both Second and Successful because Second Undertakings wherein the failings of the former are observed and amended generally prove most Prosperous But it will be Objected Such Second Editions with new Insertions Additions and Alterations are no better than Pick-pockets to the Reader who having purchased and perused the first Edition is by this new one both in his purse and pains equally abused and his Book rendred little better than Waste paper I Answer First I am
of these un-confessed-Faults and I sometimes plead the mistake of the Press for my Answer though seldome save when some similitude of form in the mistaken letter rendreth it probable for a Prelial Error CHAP. X. The Seventh and last General Answer That an Author charging his Margin with his Author is thereby Himself discharged HIstorians who write of things done at distance many miles from their dwellings and more years before their Births must either feign them in their owne Brains or fetch them from other credible Authors I say credible such as carry worth and weight with them Substantial Persons Subsidie men as I may say in Truths Book otherwise for some Pamphlets and all Pasquils I behold them as so many Knights of the Post even of no Reputation Now for the more credit of what is written and better assurance of the Reader it is very expedient that the Author alledged be fully and fairly quoted in the Margin with the Tome Book Chapter Leaf Page and Columne sometimes seldome descending so low as the Line where the thing quoted is expressed and this done the Author is free from fault which citeth it though He may be faulty who is cited if delivering a falshood Indeed if one become bound as Surety for another he engageth Himself to make good the Debt in the Default of Principal But if he onely be Bail for his Appearance and accordingly produceth his Person in Publick Court He ought to be discharged without farther trouble Semblably if one not onely cites but commends the words of an Authour then He undertakes for him adopts his words to be his owne becomes his Pledge and consequently is bound to justifie and maintain the truth of what he hath quoted But if he barely alledgeth his words without any closing with them in his Judgement he is onely bound for that Author's appearance Understand me to justifie that such words are exactly extant in manner and form in the place alledged easy to be found by any who will follow the Marginal direction This I reserve for my Eighth and last Answer when taxed by the Animadvertor for such things for which I have presented my Author in the Margin In such cases I conceive I should be discharged and if any Fees at all be to be paid I hope the Courteous Reader on my request will remit them and dismiss me without more molestation CHAP. XI That many of the Animadvertors Notes are onely Additional not Opposite to what I have written And that all things omitted in an History are not Defects WHo so beholdeth the Several places in my Book noted on by the Animadvertor hath cause at the first Blush to conclude my Church-History very Erroneous and full of Faults out of which so bigg a Bundle of Mistakes have been collected but upon serious Perusal of these Notes it will appear that a third part of them at the least are meerly Additional not opposite to what I have written so that they render my Book not for Truth the lesse but his for Bulk the greater Herein he seemeth like unto those Builders who either wanting Materials to erect an intire house or fearing so frail and feeble a Fabrick will not stand by it self run it along the side-walls of another house whereby they not onely save Timber but gain strength to their New Edifice The Animadvertor had a Mind to communicate some new Notions he had to the World but he found them not many and weighty enough to fill a just Book for Sale whereupon he resolves to range his Notions against my Church-History that so partly carping thereat and partly adding thereto he might betwixt both make up a Book Competent for Sale Hence it is that sometimes not liking my Language as not proper and expressive enough he substituted his owne with little or no variation of Matter and sometimes adds new Passages some whereof I could formerly have inserted but because I perceived my Book as the Reader is sensible by the price thereof grown already to too great a Volume When Additional Notes frequently occur I conceive my self not obliged in the least degree to return an Answer thereunto as being rather besides than against what I have written However if I have left out any thing it would have been suspected I had omitted that which most had made against me to prevent which Jealousie such Additional Notes are also here verbatim represented To such as object that the Animadvertor's Additions are Suppletory of the Defects in my Church-History I answer that a Defect properly is Absentia debiti adesse the Absence of what ought to be there so that a thing is maimed or lame without it But Additions to an History are reducible to these two Heads viz. either such as they Must without Imperfection be added May without Impertinency be added Few if any of the former some of the latter kind are found in the Animadvertor's Additory Notes And let me tell Him that if He writes Books against all who have written Books and have not written all which may be said of their Subject he may even write against all who have ever written Books and then He will have work enough Let us go no farther then to his own Geophraphy being sure he is too Iudicious to be so conceited of his own pains as to think he hath inserted all that may be said of so large a Subject The Story is well known of Aesop's Master who buying two Servants together in the Market-place demanded of one of them what he could doe He answered that he would doe all things doe all things Then the other Aesop himself being askt what he could doe answered He could doe nothing His Master seeming angry to keep so unprofitable a Servant How can I returned Aesop doe any thing when my Fellow-servant will doe all and leave me nothing to doe If Dr. Heylin hath done all things in his Geography he hath given a Writ of Ease for ever to Posterity who may Despair to merit more of that matter All who hereafter shall write a new Book of Geography must also find out a new World with Columbus as anticipated by the Doctor having formerly completed all on that Subject I presume not to say that I have in my Church-History done all things having written many and most material Passages leaving the rest to others But this I say that all things left out in a History are not wanting neither are all things wanting Defects if not essential thereunto As for some of the Animadvertors added Notes they are no more needful or useful than a sixth finger to a mans Hand as God willing in due time shall appear CHAP. XII That the Author Designed unto himself no Party-pleasing in Writing his Church-History PArtiality is constantly charged on me by the Animadvertor and once with a witness as followeth pag. 257. We see by this as by like Passages which way our Author's Bowle is BY ASSED how constantly he declares himself in Favour of
the Time of Tiberius must be before his Preaching in the Citty of Rome to which he came not till the Reigne of the Emperour Claudius And thereupon it followeth by the Iesuit's Logick that the Brittains by sparing their Apostle to preach at Rome did lay an Obligation upon that Citty but received none from it Fuller Yea but if Simeon Metaphrastes be to be believed on whose testimony Parsons Principally relieth being the selfe same Author whom the Animadvertor within few lines hereafter doth so highly commend and extoll St. Peter preached here not before but long after his being at Rome and but a little before his Death namely in the twelfth year of Nero Cesar. Dr. Heylyn Or granting that St. Peter did first preach at Rome yet would this draw upon us no such engagement to the Pope and the Church of Rome as our Author fears and other German Nations by Boniface Willibade Willibad Willibidd and Swibert English Saxons all might or did draw the like Dependance of those Churches upon this of England Fuller The proportion I confesse is Good and well-grounded but I answer great the difference betwixt the Natures of England and Rome England never pretended Superiority over other Churches which Rome doth prosecuting even Shadowy pretences with all violence What the Talent-hiding servant said of his Master may be justly said of moderne Rome She reapeth where she hath not strowed demanding Officium where she never bestow'd Beneficium and requiring duty where she never conferred Courtesie Rome therefore being no faire Creditor but so cruell an Extortioner I conceive my paines well imployed to quit England from a Debt of Obligation unjustly exacted of her by Parsons the Iesuite on the pretence of St. Peter's preaching here Dr. Heylyn So that this fear being overblown we will consider somewhat further of St. Peters first Preaching in this Island not as deliver'd by Tradition from the Church of Rome which is suspected to have pleaded their own Interest in it but as affirmed positively by the Greek Menologies and in the works of Simeon Metaphrastes an approved Greek Author Of the Menologies though vouched by Camden to this purpose our Author takes no notice at all but lets the weight of his displeasure fall on Metaphrastes Fuller The best way to over-blow this feare is to confute the five Arguments alledged by Parsons for St. Peters Preaching here which I hope is done effectually by me in my Church-History where I follow the Iesuite verbatim in answering to his Reasons And this is the Reason that I took no notice of the Greek Menologies because not mentioned by Parsons whence I collect that either he had never seen them which is very improbable or else he conceived that no great beliefe was to be given unto them or advantage thereby to be gotten for his Cause Dr. Heylyn Our Author saith Metaphrastes is an Auâ—hor of no Credit as Baronius himselfe doth confesse But first Baronius himselfe makes no such Confession that which our Author tells us from him being onely this In alijs multis ibi ab ipso positis errare eum certum est that is to say that he hath err'd in many things by him delivered Assuredly if to erre in many things delivered in so great a Work as that of Simon Metaphrastes may forthwith be conceived sufficient to make an Author of no Credit God blesse not onely our Historian but Baronius himselfe from being held Authors of no Credit in both whom there are many Errours not possible to be reconciled to the Truth of Story Fuller THREE is a perfect Number let therefore the Animadvertor be put in also partly to make up a Compleate company partly that he may have the Benefit of his owne JEAR-PRAYERS to himselfe Baronius being Dead to pray for him is Popery and to take God's Name in vain to Jear us both is Prophanenesse The Animadvertor who now inserts GOD-BLESSE when it might have been omitted will omit it when it should be inserted as God willing I shall take notice of in due time and place hereafter Dr. Heylyn But secondly as Baronius did not so he could not say that Metaphrastes was an Author of no credit the Man being not onely pious but Learned also for the times wherein he lived honoured as a Saint in the Greek Menologies on the 27. day of November and graced with a Funeral Oration by Michael Psellus a Renouned Scholler highly extolled by Balsamon for his paines and industry in this present work and no lesse magnified by the Fathers in the Councill of Florence Anno. 1436. All which had never set such an Estimate upon him in their severall Times had he been an Author of no Credit as our Author makes him Fuller I shall hereafter have an higher esteem for Metaphrastes However to return to the words of Baronius which in the last Note gave the occasion of this contest In aliis multis IBI ab ipso positis errare eum certum est It is certain that he hath erred in many things THERE delivered by him The Animadvertor in his Translation omitteth THERE the most emphaticall word in the whole Sentence seeing granting Metaphrastes a good Author in other things he is erroneous in this particular Dr. Heylyn I had now ended with St. Peter but that I find him appear in a vision to King Edward the Confessor and telling him That he had preached the Gospell in Brittain occasioning thereby the foundation of the Abbey of St. Peter in Westminster To which our Author makes this answer To this vision pretended of Peter we oppose the certain words of St. Paul 1 Tim. 4.1 Neither give heed to fables What a pitty is it that this apparition was not made and the same tale told over again to Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith that so it might have found some credit with our Author though with no body else Fuller Nay rather what a pitty was it that this Apparition of St. Peter was not made unto his name-sake Peter here the Animadvertor and then all had been authentick indeed Dr. Heylyn For of this Thomas Fuller our Author telleth us and telleth it in confirmation of some Miracles done by King Henry the sixth after his decease that being a very honest man he hapned into the company of some who had stoln some Cattle for which he was condemned and executed and being on the top of the Ladder King Henry the sixth appeared unto him and so ordered the matter that he was not strangled with the Rope but preserved alive And finally that in gratitude of so great a benefit he repaired to that Kings Tomb in Chertsey Abbey and there presented his humble thanks for that great deliverance There being as good Authors for that Apparition of St. Peter as of this of St. Henry Vel neutrum flammis ure vel ure duos Either let both be believed for truths or for falshoods burn both Fuller Let the Eccho both in Latine and English answer for me Ure duos Burn both
under a Stall no Father being found or Mother to maintaine it A Presumption that this Letter of Elutherius is supposititious I confesse this pretended Letter of Lucius hath something in it which doth act and personate primitive simplicity as that passage of Regal power in Church-matters but more which doth practise the Monkish ignorance of later times There were lately false twenty Shilling pieces commonly called Morgans coyned by a cunning and cheating Chymist whose part without the Rind was good Gold and would endure the touch whilst that within was base as but double guilded Brasse Such this Letter of Lucius some part whereof will endure the Test the other not the Monk who made it pretending something of antiquity so to palliate the deceit but having more of the Novelty of the middle age He lived in some six hundred years since May the Reader be pleased to take notice that the Animadvertor hath silently passed by the strongest Argument to shatter the credit of this Letter alledged by me and taken from a phrase unknown in that Age yet used in the Letter even MANU TENERE to Maintain or defend This the Animadvertor slips over in silence and that I believe for nineteen reasons whereof this was one because He himselfe was unable to answer it and knew Criticks would laugh at him if affirming those words in that sense contemporary with Pope Eleutherius Herein He appears like a Dunkerker who delights to prey on poore Marchants Ships passing on in their Calling but meeting an English Man of War He can look Big and fairly give him the goe-By He finds it more facile to carpe an easie inoffensive passage then to confute what hath difficulty and strength of reason therein I resume what I said before and what the Animadvertor hath gain-said to no purpose viz. that this Story of K. Lucius is not to be Refused but Refined and the drosse is to be put from the good Metall or as my own words also are the good Corn therein sifted from the Chaffe and amongst the Chaffe I have cast away this Letter But if the Animadvertor loves to eat both Corn and Chaffe much good may his Diet do him and let Him and Horse feed on their Loafe together Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us fol. 9. that he had ventured on this story with much aversnesse and we dare believe him He had not else laboured to discredit it in so many particulars and wilfully that I say no worse suppressed c. Fuller Can he say worse than wilfully except it be Maliciously Seeing in my conscience I believe the Story of the conversion of K. Lucius though this Letter and some other circumstances seem to me improbable I enter'd on this story with this much aversenesse as finding much difficulty and fearing not to give satisfaction therein to my self and others I see not how it can be inferred from such my aversenesse that I therefore laboured to discredit the story in so many particulars If this be a good consequence I desire the Reader to remember what the Animadvertor hath written in the latter end of the introduction to his Animadversions on my Book viz. I must needs confesse withall that I did never enter more unwillingly upon any undertaking then I did on this May I not then by the same Logick conclude his endeavouring to disparage my Book because he entered thereon so unwillingly Dr. Heylyn The best part of the Evidence in the words of Beda who being no friend unto the Brittains hath notwithstanding done them right in this great businesse And from him take the story in these following words Anno ab Incarnatione Domini 156. c. In the 156. year after Christs Nativity Marcus Antonius Verus together with Aurelius Commodus his Brother did in the fourteenth place from Augustus Ceasar undertake the government of the Empire In whose times when as Eleutherius a godly man was Bishop of the Church of Rome Lucius King of the Brittains sent unto him Obsecrans uâ— per eius mandatum Christianus efficeretur intreating by his means to be made a Christian. Whose vertuous desire herein was granted and the faith of Christ being thus received by the Brittains was by them kept inviolate and undefiled untill the time of Diocleâ—ian This is the substance of the story as by him delivered true in the main though possibly there may be some mistake in his Chronology as in a matter not so canvassed as it hath been lately Fuller I entered a grand Jury of Authors which mentioned the Conversion of Lucius amongst whom Bede is one I expressed none of them as I had no cause in their words at length neither can I properly be said to suppress any of them solemnly giving in their names and their severall Dates which they assigne to that memorable action Dr. Heylyn Now to proceed unto our Author he tells us Fol. 10. out of Ieffery of Monmouth That at this time there were in England twenty eight Cities each of them having a Flamen or Pagan Priest and three of them namely London York and Caer-lion in Wales had Arch-flamens to which the Rest were subjected and Lucius placed Bishops in the Rome of the Flamens and Arch-bishops Metropolitans in the places of Arch-flamens concluding in the way of Scorne that his Flamines and Arch-flamines seem to be Flams and Arch-flams even notorious False-hoods Fuller I would not willingly sit in the seat of the Scorner and if the Animadvertor by his force will thrust me down into it I will God willing rise up againe and leave the place empty to himselfe to stand or sit therein Pro libero suo Arbitrio I say no more nor so much as that Worthy Knight Sr. Henry Spelman so great an Antiquary that it is Questionable whether his Industry Iudgment or Humility were the Greatest hath said on the same Subject Who having learnedly confuted this Report of Geffery of Monmouth concludeth with the cause of his Mistake relying on some supposititious Epistles Sr. H. Spelman de Concilijs Page 13. Gaufrido autem atque alijs qui Flaminum Archiflaminum et Protoflaminum Commento capiuntur imposuisse videtur Gratiani authoritas Epistolis munita S Lucij c. See! He calleth that Commentum which our Dictionaries English a Flat Lye which I have mitigated into a Flamme as importing in common Discourse a Falshood which hath more of vanity then Mischiefe therein Dr. Heylyn And it is well they do but seem so it being possible enough that they may seem Falshoods to our Author even notorious Falshoods though they seem true enough to others even apparent Truths Fuller They seem so also to learned Sr. Henry Spelman lately alledged and to the Reverend Arch-bishop of Armagh and many others Dr. Heylyn And first though Ieffery of Monmouth seem to deserve no credit in this particular where he speaks against our Author's sense yet in another place where he comes up to his Desires he is otherwise thought of and therefore made
Brimpton though not cleaving the pin touch the mark in this point Unde Anglis regnantibus laus CANTABRIGIENSIS PROVINCIAE splendide florebat Yet the dignity being but tempory and disposable at the Princes pleasure in reward of new Services the Kentish had it afterward bestowed on them and for a long time enjoyed it Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 141. It did not afterwards embolden him to the anticipation of the Crown attending till it descended upon him He speaks this of King Edward the Confessor who had he tarryed till the Crown had descended on him might possibly have found a place amongst the Confessors but not amongst the Kings of England For the truth is the right title to the Crown was at that time in Edward surnamed the Outlaw the eldest son of Edmund Ironside who flying into Hungary to avoid the fury of the Danes married the Kings sister of that Country and was by her the Father of Edgar Atheling and of Margaret wife to Malcolm Conmor King of the Scots But these being absent at that time Emma the Mother of Prince Edward and Widow to Canutus the Dane took the oportunity to set her son upon the Throne as being not onely half-brother to King Edmund Ironside but also half-brother and consequently nearest Kinsman to Canutus the second which if it were a good descent will plead almost as strongly for King Harald as it did for him Fuller My words are true and not subject to just exception which I confined onely to King Edward his relation to his own brethren The legend of his life reports him to be crowned when unborn in his Mothers Belly and having six elder Brethren by the same father King Ethelred 1. Ethelstan 2. Egbert 3. Edmond 4. Edred 5. Edwy 6. Edgar Some of which came to the Crown others died in their minority King Edward though thus pre-crowned did not endeavor to ante-date his possession of the Throne before his elder Brethren but waited till the title as it was derived unto him from his father descended on him Otherwise I advocate not for Him if He took it from any other who had more right to it than himself Dr. Heylin But by what means soever he got the Crown he deserved to weare it Fuller I cannot cordially close with the Animadvertors expression herein being sensible of no Desert which in this Case is not attended with a true Title For who shall judge of the desert of Competitors If the person himself then every usurper will cry up his own worthinesse If his party they will make him most meriting whom they favour most in their fancies This will unsettle all States cassat all Titles and cause much distraction But believing no Il at all intended in these his words let us proceed Dr. Heylin Our Author telleth us ibid. That whereas formerly there were manifold Laws in the Land made some by the Britains others by the Danes others by the English c. He caused some few of the best to be selected and the rest as captious and unnecessary to be rejected from whence they had the name of the Common Laws That the Common-Law was so call'd because compounded of the Saxon British and Danish Lawes which were before of force onely in such places where the Danes Britans and Saxons had the greatest sway though it be easie to be said will be hard to be proved The Britains at that time liv'd under their own Princes and were governed by their own Lawes and so they were for a long time after so that King Edward having no dominion over them could not impose a Law upon them Nor was it propable that he should borrow any of their Laws or impose them on his natural Subjects considering the antipathy and disaffection betwixt the Nations There were at that time indeed in England three kindes of Laws The first called Dane-lage or the Danish Laws prevailing for the most part in the Kingdome of the East-Angles and that of Northumberland Secondly Saxon-lage used generally in the Kingdoms of the West-Saxons East-Saxons South-Saxons and that of Kent And thirdly Mercen-lage extending over all the Provinces of the Kingdome of Mercia As for the Britans of Cornwall and Cumberland they had no distinct Law for themselves as had those of Wales but were governed by the Laws of that Nation unto which they were Subject By these three sorts of Laws were these Nations governed in their several and respective limits which being afterwards reduced into one body and made common equally to all the subjects did worthily deserve the name of the Common-Law But secondly I dare not give the honour of this Action to King Edward the Confessor The great Iustinian in this work was another Edward called for distinctions sake King Edward the elder who began his Reign Anno 900. almost 150 years before this Confessor to whom our Author hath ascribed it But the truth is that these Laws being suppressed by the Danish Kings who governed either in an arbitrary way or by Laws of their own Countrey they were revived and reinforced in the time of this Edward from whence they had the name of Edward the Confessors Laws and by that name were sued and fought for in the time succeeding of which more hereafter Now as this work may be ascribed to his love to Justice so from his piety his successors derive as great a benefit of curing the disease which from thence is called the Kings-Evill which some impute as our Author tells us to secret and hidden causes Fuller This long Note might well have been boiled down from a Gallon to a Gil to make it more cordial If the Reader can pick any information out of it much good may it doe him Let the honour of so good a Deed with all my heart be parted betwixt the two Edwards one the Beginner the other the finisher thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 145. Others ascribe it to the power of fancy and an exalted imagination Amongst which others I may reckon our Author for one He had not else so strongly pleaded in defence thereof But certainly what effect soever the strength of fancy and an exalted imagination as our Author calls it may produce in those of riper years it can contribute nothing to the cure of children And I have seen some children brought before the King by the hanging sleeves some hanging at their Mothers breasts and others in the arms of their Nurses all touch'd and cur'd without the help of any such fancies or imaginations as our Author speaks of Fuller If I be reckoned amongst them I am mis-reckoned for though I conceive fancy may much conduce in Adultis thereunto yet I believe it partly Miraculous as may appear by my last and largest insisting thereon I say partly because a compleat Miracle is done presently and perfectly whereas this cure is generally advanced by Degrees and some Dayes interposed Dr. Heylin Others lesse charitably condemn this cure as guilty of
9 fol. 109. being shrunk to eight and that eight thousand pound not given to one Daughter as is here affirmed but divided equally between two whereof the one was married to Sir Iames Harrington the other unto Dunch of Berkshire Secondly this could be no cause of the Queens displeasure and much lesse of the Countries envie that Bishop having sat in the See of Durham above seventeen years And certainly he must needs have been a very ill Husband if out of such a great Revenue he had not saved five hundred pounds per annum to prefer his Children the income being as great and the charges of Hospility lesse than they have been since Thirdly the Queen did not take away a thousand pound a year from that Bishoprick as is here affirmed The Lands were left to it as before but in regard the Garrison of Barwick preserved the Bishops Lands and Tenants from the spoil of the Scots the Queen thought fit that the Bishops should contribute towards their own defence imposing on them an annual pension of a thousand pound for the better maintaining of that Garrison Fourthly Bishop Pilkington was no Doctor but a Batchelor of Divinity onely and possibly had not been raised by our Author to an higher title and Degree than the University had given him but that he was a Conniver at Non-conformity as our Author telleth us Lib. 9. fol. 109. Lastly I shall here add that I conceived the Pension above mentioned not to have been laid upon that See after Pilkingtons death but on his first preferment to it the French having then newly landed some forces in Scotland which put the Queen upon a necessity of doubling her Guards and increasing her Garrisons But whatsoever was the cause of imposing this great yearly payment upon that Bishoprick certain I am that it continued and the money was duly paid into the Exchequer for many years after the true cause thereof was taken away the Queens displeasure against Pilkington ending either with his life or hers and all the Garrisons and forces upon the Borders being taken away in the beginning of the Reign of King Iames. So true is that old saying Quod Christus non capit fiscus rapit never more fully verified than in this particular Fuller I have given in a double account of Bishop Pilkingtons Issue and Estate 1. As same reported and as envioâ—s Courtiers represented it to Queen Elizabeth that he gave ten thousand with his onely Daughter Lib. 5. fol. 253. 2. As it was in truth giving but four thousand a piece with Two daughters lib. 8. fol. 109. The Animadvertor may allow me knowing in his family my wife being Grandchild to his Eldest Daughter married to Sir Henry Harrington Yet no relation to him or favour for him as a semi-non conformist but mere love to the Truth made me entitle him Doctor though I confesse Bishop Godwin maketh him but Batchelour in Divinity For Dr. Caius Master of Gonvil Hall whilest Pilkington was of St. Iohns in Cambridge giveth him the stile of Doctor who must be presumed most exact in the Titles of his own Contemporary The difference is not great betwixt taking away 1000 l. yearly from the Bishoprick and charging it with an annual Pension of 1000 l. to maintain the Garrison of Barwick However if the Reader can gain any information from what is additory in the Animadvertor I shall be light glad thereof THE SIXTH BOOK Containing the History of Abbeys Dr. Heylin THis Book containing the History of Abbeys seems but a Supplement to the former but being made a distinct book by our Author we must doe so likewise In which the first thing capable of an Animadversion is but meerly verbal viz. Fol. 266. Cistercians so called from one Robert living in Cistercium in Burgundy The place in Burgundy from whence these Monks took denomination though call'd Cirstercium by the Latins is better known to the French and English by the name Cisteaux the Monks thereof the Monks of Cisteaux by the English and Lesmoines de Cisteaux by the French and yet our Author hath hit it better in his Cistercians than Ralph Brook York Herald did in his Sister-senses for which sufficiently derided by Augustin Vincent as our Author being so well studied in Heraldry cannot chuse but know Fuller It was equally in my power and pleasure without the least prejudice to the Truth whether I would render the place in the French Cisteaux or retain the Latine name Cistercium I preferred the latter because our English word Cistercians hath most conformity therewith What is R. Brooke his Sister-senses Brother-senses or Non-senses to me This spends time in writing money in buying pains in reading makes some more angry none more knowing Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 268. But be he who he himself or any other pleaseth brother if they will to St. George on Horseback Our Author not satisfying himself in that Equitius who is supposed to be the first Founder of Monks in England makes him in scorn to be the Brother of St. George on Horse back that is to say a meer Chimera a Legendary Saint a thing of nothing The Knights of that most noble Order are beholding to him for putting their Patron in the same Rank with St. Equitius of whose existence on the Earth he can finde no Constat Fuller I honour the Knights of that noble Order as much as the Animadvertor himself Their Ribbands though now wearing out apace seem in my eyes as fair and fresh as when first put on I doe not deny but much doubt of St. George as he is presented with his improbable Atchievements Yet grant the whole History onely Emblematical and Allegorical of Christ rescuing his Church from the might and malice of Satan no Diminution of Honour at all is thereby to the Fellows of that noble Order Dr. Heylin But I would have him know how poorly soever he thinks of St. George on Horseback that there hath more been said of him his Noble birth Atchievements with his death and Martyrdome than all the Friends our Author hath will or can justly say in defence of our present History Fuller The Animadvertor might have done well to instanced in that Author which hath been the Champion for this Champion and hath so substantially asserted him If in this passage he reflecteth on his own Book on that Subject he hath lookt so long on St. George he hath forgot Solomon Let another praise thee and not thy own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips For my part I am yet to seek what service he hath done to the Church of God so busie to make DOWN SABBATH and UP St. GEORGE Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 270 So they deserve some commendation for their Orthodox Judgement in maintaining some Controversies in Divinity of importance against the Jesuites Our Author speaks this of the Dominicans or preaching Fryers who though they be the sole active managers of the Inquisition deserve notwithstanding
busie to throw dirt on others Any man may be witty in a biting way and those who have the dullest brains have commonly the sharpest teeth to that purpose But such caâ—nal mirth whilest it tickleth the flesh doth wound the soul. And which was the 〈◊〉 these baâ—â— Books would give a great advantage to the General foe and Papists would make too much uâ—e thereof against Protestant Religion especially seeing an Archangel thought himself too good to bring and Satan not bad enough to have railing speeches brought against him Reader what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal Libels Dr. Heylin For if our Authors rule be good fol. 193. That the fault is not in the Writer if he truly cite what is false on the credit of another they had no reason to examine punctually the truth of that which tended so apparently to the great advantage of their cause and party c. Fuller I say again the Writer is faultless who truly cites what is false on the CREDIT of another alwayes provided that the other who is quoted hath Credit and be not a lying Libeller like these Pasauls If this Rule be not true the Animadvertor will have an hard task of it to make good all in his Geography on his own knowledge who therein hath traded on trust as much as another Dr. Heylin But I am weary and ashamed of raking in so impure a kennel and for that cause also shall willingly pass over his apology for Hacket that blasphemous wretch and most execrable Miscreant justly condemned and executed for a double Treason against the King of Kings in Heaven and the Queen on earth Fuller I appeal to the Reader whether I have not in my Church History wrote most bitterly and deservedly against Him only I took occasion by Hackets badness to raise our thankfulness to God If my meat herein please not the Animadvertors pallat let him leave it in the Dish none shall eat thereof against their own stomacks for fear of a surfeit Dr. Heylin Of whom he would not have us think fol. 204. that he and his two Companions his two Prophets for so they called themselves were not worse by nature than all others of the English Nation the natural corruption in the hearts of others being not less headstrong but more bridled And finally that if Gods restraining grace be taken from us we shall all run unto the same excess of Riot Which Plea if it be good for Hacket will hold good for Iudas and pity it is that some of our fine wits did never study an apology for him c. Fuller Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 214. At Antwerp he was ordained Minister by the Presbytery there and not long after that he was put in Orders by the Presbytery of a forain Nation Here have we Ordination and putting into Orders ascribed to the Presbytery of Antwerp a Mongrel company consisting of two blew Aprons to each Cruel night cap and that too in such positive terms and without any the least qualification that no Presbyterian in the pack could have spoke more plainly c. Fuller It is better to weare a Cruel Night-cap than a cruel heart causelesly cavilling at every man Mr. Travers was ordained Minister or Priest by the Presbytery of Antwerp and never had other Ordination I only relate that it was so de facto and appeal to the Reader whether my words import the least countenance and approbation thereof though the sin had not been so hainous if I had so done Dr. Heylin Only I shall make bold to quit my Author with a merry tale though but one for an hundred and 't is a tale of an old jolly popish Priest who having no entertainment for a friend who came to him on a Fasting day but a piece of Pork and making conscience of observing the appointed Fast dipt it into a tub of water saying down Pork up Pike Satisfied with which device as being accustomed to transubstantiate he well might be he caused it to be put into the pot and made ready for dinner But as the Pork for all this suddain piece of wit was no other than Pork so these good fellowes of the Presbytery by laying hands upon one another act as little as he The parties so impos'd upon impos'd upon indeed in the proper notion are but as they were Lay-bretheren of the better stamp Ministers if you will but not Priests nor Deacons nor any wayes Canonically enabled for divine performances Fuller It is not a fortnight since I heard proclamation against the selling of Porke because about London fatted with the flesh of diseased horses I suspect some unwholsomness in the Animadvertors Pork-story especially as applyed and therefore will not meddle therewith Dr. Heylin But fearing to be chidden for his levity I knock off again following my Author as he leaâ—s me who being over shoes will be over boots also He is so lost to the High Royalist and covetous Conformist that he cannot be in a worse case with them than he is already Fuller If I be lost with the high Royalists and covetous Conformists I hope I shall be found by the low Royalists and liberal Conformists However may God be pleased to finde my soul and I pass not with whom I be lost There are a sort of men who with Dr. Manwaring maintain that Kings may impose without Parliaments what taxes they please and the Subjects bound to payment under pain of Damnation a principle introductory to tyranny and slavery These I term high Royalists and I protest my self as to dissent in judgement from them so not to be at all ambitious of their favour Dr. Heylin And therefore having declared himself for a Presbyterian in point of Government he will go thorough with his work c. Fuller Where have I declared my self for a Presbyterian in point of Government who never scattered sylable and if I did I would snatch it up again to countenance such presumption I confess I said That Mr. Travers was made Minister or Priest by the Presbytery at Antwerp that is made Minister so far forth as they could give and he receive the Ministerial Character who never had it otherwise impressed upon him Suppose a Knightâ— Might not a Historian say such a man was made a Knight by such a power of person not engaging himself to justifie his Authority that made him And by the same proportion I relating Mr. Travers made Minister at Antwerp am not concerned to justifie nor by my expression doe I any way approve their Minister-making if they have no Commission thereunto I cannot close with the Animadvertor in his uncharitable censure of the Ministery of forain Protestant Churches rendring them utterly invalid because ordained by no Bishops Cain as commonly believed is conceived to have killed a fourth part of mankinde by murthering Abel but the Animadvertors cruelty to Protestants hath exceeded this proportion in spiritually killing more than
Cloath using them without any quotation then indeed he adopts them his owne Secondly If he cite the words with Commendation or explicite approbation of them then also he asselfeth them undertakes for them and is bound to justifie them Thirdly But if he but barely cite the words without any Emphasis of praise or dispraise the case now in hand it amounts to no more then unto a valeat quantum valere potest or a Sit fides penes Authorem it being left to the Reader 's Liberty to believe more or lesse or nothing thereof as the Author he citeth seemeth to be more or lesse or not at all credible to his Discretion Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 216. As appears by his own Diary which if evidence against him for his faults may be used as a witness of his good works The Diary which our Author speaks of was the Arch-bishops practicall Commentary on those words of David viz. Teach me O Lord so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart unto wisdome Fuller I appeal to the Reader of my History whether I have not given his Diary the due commendation thus writing thereof Book 11. page 218. He was conscientious according to the Principles of his Devotion witness his care in keeping a constant Diary of the passages in his Life Now he can hardly be an ill Husband who summes up his receipts and expences every night and such a Soul is or woâ—ld be good which enters daily into a Scrutiny of his own Actions Now an exact Diary is a Window into his Heart who maketh it and therefore pitty it is that any should look therein but either the friends of the party or such Ingenuous foes as will not especially in things doubtfull make conjecturall Comments to his disgrace Dr. Heylyn No memorablâ— passage hapned in the whole course of his life till the end of May 1633. when his Papers were seis'â— on by Mr. Prin which he had not book'd in a Memoriall by the way of a Diary or Journall Out of which though Mr. Prin excerpted nothing but that which he conceiv'd might tend most visibly to his disgrace and disadvantage and publish'd it to that end in print yet when it came to the perusall of equall and indifferâ—nt men it was so far from serving as an evidence of his 〈◊〉 as our Author words it that it shew'd him to be a Man of Exemplary Piety in himselfe unmov'd fidelity to his friend of most perfect loyalty to his Master and honest affections to the Publick c. Fuller If I were delighted in carping at slips of Pen or Presse I here have advantage enough the Animadâ—ertor affirming that the Arch-bishop's papers were seized by Mr. Prin 1633. At which time Mr. Prin was in no capacity to make such a seizure being himselfe in trouble 〈◊〉 â—is Histriomastâ—â—â—â— and the dare though not confessed in tâ—â— Errata is no doubt mâ—â—-printed for 1643. Thus I behold him who carps at such rifles like oâ—â—â—â—ing his Nâ—ighbour for Pediâ—us ambulando when though the Iury must find for the Plaâ—niffe yet he is lookâ—d on but as a vexatious Person for his paines I could wish that all caviling at Prâ—lal mistakes might be forborn and that every one would read his Adversaries Book as in his Conscience he conceiveth it intended by the Writer that so waving all Typographicall escapes they may come the sooner to the Cause controverted betwixt them Dr. Heylyn He that shall look upon the list of the things projected to be done and in part done by him fol. 28 29. will find that both his heart was set on and his hand engag'd in many excellent pieces of work tending to the great honour and benefit both of Church and State not incident to a man of such narrow comprehensions aâ— some of his profest Enemies were pleas'd to make him Certain I am that as Mr. Prin lost his end so he could not get much thanks for that piece of service Fuller If Mr. Prin lost his end he shall have no direction from me for the finding thereof I never beheld the Arch-bishop as a man of narrow Comprehensions but as one who had in his Head and Heart Stowage enough for great undertakings Onely I could wish that his Apprehensions had been adequate to his Comprehensions I mean that he had lived to perfect what he projected and doe what he commendably designed for pious uses and the publick good Dr. Heylyn Our Author goes on Fol. 217. He is generally charged with Popish inclinations and the story is commonly told and believ'd of a Lady c. Here is a charge of the Archbishops inclination unto Popery and the proof nothing but a tale and the tale of a Lady Quid vento Mulier Quid Muliere Nihil The substance of the tale is this that a certain Lady if any Lady may be certain who turning Papist c. Fuller I will take the Boldnesse to English his Latine Verse that the weaker Sex may see the strength of his Charity unto them What 's more fickle than the Wind Ev'n a Woman in her Mind Fickler what 's than Woman Kind Nothing in the World we find Dr. Heylyn This Lady who turned Papist was askt by the Arch-bishop the cause of her changing to which she answered that it was because she alwayes hated to go in a croud And being askt the meaning of that expression she replyed again that she perceiv'd his Lordship and many others making haste to Rome and therefore to prevent going in a press she had gone before them Whether this tale be true or false though he doth not know yet he resolves to set it down and to set it down also with this Item that it was generally believ'd Be it so for once Fuller This Sarcasm was put upon him by a Lady now living in London and a Countess whose Husbands father the Arch-bishop married and thereby brought much trouble and molestation to himselfe No Oedipus needeth to unridle the Person easily spel't by putting the Premises together Dr. Heylyn For not being able to disprove it I shall quit our Author with one story and satisfie the equal Reader with another First for my Author I have heard a tale of a Lady too to whose Table one Mr. Fuller was a welcome though a frequent guest and being asked once by her Whether he would please to eat the wing of a Woodcock he would needs put her to the question how her Ladyship knew it was a Woodcock and not a Wood-hen And this he pressed with such a troublesome importunity that at last the Lady answered with some shew of displeasure that the Woodcock was Fuller headed Fuller breasted Fuller thighed and in a word every way Fuller Whether this tale be true or false I am not able to say but being generally believ'd I have set it down also Fuller His Tale doth not Quit mine which was True and New never printed before Whereas his is Old made it seemes on
Holy War b. 3. p. 42. ¶ 19. MIRACLES their Description b. 6. p. 329. ¶ 1. long since ceased p. 330. ¶ 2. and why ¶ 5. yet counterfeited by the Papists ¶ 7. c. The Lord MOHUN his memorable patent made therein by the Pope a Count Apostolical b. 3. p. 64. John MOLLE his birth and breeding b. 10. p. 48. ¶ 7. his sad dilemma ¶ 8. constancy and death in the Inquisition ¶ 9 10. MONKES their primitive piety and painfullness b. 6. p. 263. ¶ 1 2. c. afterwards voluntarie not for necessity but convenience p. 264. ¶ 1 2. MONUMENTS in Churches Q Elizab. proclamations each Copie signed with her own hand against the defacers of them b. 9. p. 65. ¶ 36. Sr. Thonas MOORE his praise and dispraise b. 5. p. 205. ¶ 16 17. c. Sr. Ed. MONTAGUE threatned by the Duke of Northumberland drawes up the Testament of King Edward the sixth to disinherit his Sisters b. 8. ¶ 2. his great sufferings for the same ibidem James MONTAGUE Bp. of Winchester his death b. 10. p. 86. ¶ 8. a memorable accident thereat ¶ 9. see Sidney Colledge Richard MONTAGUE his character b. 11. ¶ 7 8. rescued by the King from the house of commons ¶ 10. written against by severall Authours ¶ 14. left to defend himself ¶ 15. made Bishop of Chichester ¶ 67. his confirmation opposed ¶ 68 69. his death p 194. ¶ 22. MORRIS Bishop of Rochester a great persecutour b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 10. MORTMAIN statute b. 3. p. 77. ¶ 9. the cause thereof ¶ 10. not a new but renued Law ¶ 11. St. Hierom and Ambrose angry thereat ¶ 12. the form of the statute ¶ 13. John MORTON Bishop of Ely the Make-peace betwixt Lancaster and York b. 4. p. 198. ¶ 11. defended against Mr. Prin ¶ 12. made Archbishop of Canter p. 194. ¶ 17. his death p. 165. Thomas MORTON since Bp. of Durham Fellow of Chelsey Coll. b. 10. p. 52. erecteth a Tomb to Casaubon p. 70. ¶ 38. detecteth the Imposture of the Boy of Bilson p. 73. ¶ 55. MORTUARY when by whom and to whom to be paid b. 3. p. 83. ¶ 27. N. The NAGGS-head consecration of Matthew Parker largely confuted b. 9. p. 61. ¶ 27 c. The small reason of so great report p. 62. ¶ 30. Humphrey NECTON not absolutely the first Doctour who commenced in Cambridge but first Carmelite who commenced Dr. therein Hist. of Camb. p. 20. ¶ 5.6 c. Hugh NEVIL slew a Lion in the holy Land b. 3. p. 41. ¶ 10. Benefactour to Waltham Abbey ¶ 11. buried therein Hist. of Waltham Ralph NEVIL most triumphant in his issue of any English subject b. 6. p. 297. ¶ 3. made three of his daughters Nuns ibidem George NEVIL Arch-bishop of York b. 4. p. 191. ¶ 31. his prodigious Feast p. 193. ¶ 38. afterwards starved to death ¶ 39. Rich. NEVIL the make-King Earle of Warwick b. 4. p. 190. ¶ 6. on distaste given him ¶ 30. conquereth and imprisoneth King Edward the fourth by whom at last he is overcome and slain p. 191. ¶ 33. Charles NEVIL Earle of Westmerland routed in his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth b. 9. ¶ 15 16 c. Tho. NEVIL the most magnificent master and Benefactour of Trinity Colledge Hist. of Cambridge p. 122. ¶ 19. NICE some British Bishops present at the generall Councel kept therein C. 4. ¶ 20. Henry NICHOLAS the founder of the Familists b. 9. p. 112. ¶ 37. his Mock-Apostolick-stile ¶ 38. NON-CONFORMISTS their beginning in the Reign of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 402. ¶ 24. Mr. Hooper and Mr. Rogers their first Champions ibidem their arguments since not so much increased as more inforced p. 404. their practise fomented by the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 33. especially after the coming of Mr. Knox thither S. 3. ¶ 1. and Mr. Calvins letter ¶ 2. William Whittingham head of that party ¶ 7. which in discontent depart to Geneva ¶ 10. their Persons and opinions return into England b. 9. ¶ 3. divided into moderate and fierce Nonconformists ¶ 68. when their first Set was expired a worse succeeded p. 81. ¶ 9 c. The NORTHERN rebellion b. 6. p. 313. ¶ 1. the Northern Gentry routed therein ¶ 6. NORTHUMBERLAND a Saxon Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. afterward subdivided into two Kingdomes of Bernicia and Deira C. 7. ¶ 61. NORWICH described b. 7. p. 393. ¶ 4. yieldeth to the rebells p. 294. ¶ 6. seasonably relieved p. 396. ¶ 14. unjustly taxed with disloyalty ibid. Alex. NOWEL saved from Bonners cruelty by Mr. Francis Bowyer b. 8. p. 16. dedicat Epist. prolocutour in the convocation 1563. when the Articles were made b. 9. ¶ 51. consisting of Holy Riddles b. 9. ¶ 10. his death ibidem O. OATH taken by English fugitives when admitted in forrain Colledges b. 9. p. 92. of obedience imposed on all Papiâ—â—s b. 10. p. 42. another taken by the Divines at the Synod of Dort at their admission p. 78. ¶ 66. another made in the late Canons with an c. in the midst thereof b. 11. p. 169. ¶ 20. OATH ex officio arguments against and for it b. 9. p. 183 184 c. a fourfold behaviour of Nonconformists in refusing it p. 186. OBITS what they were and how performed six kept in Waltham Church this charge 2. shillings 6. pence a piece Hist. of Waltham p. 14. William OCCAM Luther his School man C. 17. p. 98. ¶ 21. OFFA King of Mercia maketh Lichfield the see of an Arch-bishop C. 8. ¶ 34. inshrineth the body of St. Alban ¶ 35. goeth to Rome and giveth Peter-Pence to the Pope C. 8. ¶ 36 37. buried at Bedford ¶ 38. Sr. John OLDCASTLE hâ—s opinions b 4. p. 167. his guiltiness examined p. 168. left doubtfull to Dâ—vine decision ibid. Barnabas OLY a worthy instrument in re-edifying Clare Hall ejected for refusing the Covenant Hist. of Camb. p. 38. ¶ 45. St. OMERS Coll. in Artois for English fugitives b. 9. p. 89. OBSERVANT Friers being Franciscans refined b. 6. p. 271. ¶ 17. the first order totally and â—inally suppressed by King Henry 8. p. 308. ¶ 1 2. set up for a short time by Q. Mary p. 357. ORDALL or the triall by fire of suspected persons the manner thereof C. 11. ¶ 14. ORIAL COLL. in Oxford b. 3. p. 103 104. Lambert OSBASTON his riddling letter to Bishop Williams b. 11. p. 165. ¶ 1. censured in the Star-Chamber p. 166. ¶ 9. restored by Parliament p. 172. ¶ 33. OSWALD the Christian King of Northumberland his miraculous Victory in Heafenfield C. 7. ¶ 63. sendeth for preachers out of Scotland ¶ 69. is interpreter to Bishop Aidan ¶ 73. slain in fight by Penda the Pagan ¶ 75. his hands said never to putrify ¶ 76. in what sense it is true ¶ 77. presently possessed of happinesse ¶ 78. yet his soul prayed for by the superstition of that Age ibidem OSWY the most
Christian King of Northumberland C. 7. ¶ 80. OTHO the Popes Legate lodgeth in Oxford b. 3. p. 61. ¶ 12. his brother killed ¶ 13 and 14. himself pursued by the Scholars p. 62. ¶ 15. whereupon he interdicteth the university ¶ 17. but at the Bishops intercession ¶ 19. and the Scholars solemn penâ—â—nce ¶ 20. he is reconciled ibidem John OVERALL carryeth the Kings Professours place from Mr. Wotton Hist. of Camb. p. 125. ¶ 20. Dean of St. Pauls b. 10. p. 7. gives King James an account of Lambeth Articles p. 13. his death p. 86. ¶ 10. OXFORD Vniversity if not founded restored by King Alfred C. 9. ¶ 30. the Armes of the Vniversity ¶ 40. the Scholars there of harshly used by King William the Conquerour b. 3. p. 6. ¶ 16. killed the brother of Otho the Popes Legate p. 61. ¶ 13. for which he interdicteth the Vniversity p. 62. ¶ 17. till the Scholars make their solemn submission ¶ 20. the great and suddain alterations therein in the Reign of Q. Mary b. 8. p. 7 8 9. a strange Mortality Anno 1577. at the Assizes b. 9. p. 109. ¶ 22. counted by aunders a great miracle ¶ 24. though a natural cause be assigned thereof ¶ 25. discontents therein about innovations b. 11. p. 141. ¶ 18 c. P. A PALL what it is with the mysteries thereof C. 7. ¶ 38. PANDULPHUS his proud carriage b. 3. p. 53. ¶ 22. Katharine PAR marryed to King Henry the eighth b. 3. p. 243. ¶ 48. her enemies conspiracie against her defeated by Gods providence ¶ 49 50. the form of publick prayer for her b. 7. p. 374. a letter of Edward the sixth while Prince unto her p. 423 424. PARISHES in England first divided by Pope Honorius c. 7. ¶ 68. Matthew PARKER almost looseth his own life to convert the Rebells b. 7. p. 394. ¶ 7. made Archb. of Cant. b. 9. p. 60. ¶ 23. most legally consecrated ¶ 25 c. in defiance of all Popish Calumnies ibidem his death p. 108. ¶ 17. and defence against Mr. Prin ¶ 18. see Bennet Coll. Margaret PARKER the Arch-bishop his exemplary Wife b. 9. p. 108. ¶ 19. St. PATERN a pattern for all Bishops C. 6. ¶ 10. St. PATRICK falsly reported living and dying at Glassenbury C. 5. ¶ 18 19 20. a distinct person from Sen Patrick ¶ 20. St. PAUL by a Poeticall Hyperbole onely made to preach in Britain C. 1. ¶ 8. PAULINUS his death C. 7. ¶ 79. The PAX what it was and the original thereof Hist. of Walt. p. 17. in the third Item PEADA first Christian Prince of Mercia C. 7. ¶ 83. PELAGIUS a Britan by birth C. 5. ¶ 1. his principal Errours ¶ 3. condemned by many Councels under the name of his Scholar Caelestius ibid. PEMBROOK HALL in Cambridge founded by Mary de St. Paul Hist. of Camb. p. 41. PEMBROOK Colledge in Oxford founded b. 11. ¶ 41 42. John PENRY with others executed for libelling against the Bishops b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 6. Rob. PERSONS Jesuit cometh over into England b. 9. p. 114. ¶ 41. his three strange escapes p. 118. ¶ 44 45. returns to Rome ¶ 46. Master of the English Colledge there p. 86. the Secular priests bitterly complain of him p. 233. ¶ 30. St. PETER he never preached in Britain notwithstanding Persons his arguments to the contrary C. 1. ¶ 7. PETER-Pence first granted to the Pope by King Ina C. 8. ¶ 13. amounting at least to seven thousand five hundred pounds per ann b. 5. p. 197. ¶ 46 47. PETER-HOUSE founded by Hugo Balsham Subprior of Ely Hist. of Camb. p. 12. ¶ 44. endowed many years after by the same Hugo when Bâ—shop of Ely p. 30 31 32 33. St. PETROCK captain of the Cornish Saints C. 6. ¶ 11. J. PHILPOT stoutly defendeth the truth in the convocation b. 8. ¶ 22. against railing Weston ¶ 23. sealeth it with his blood ¶ 24. John PIERCE Arch-bishop of York his death and commendation for exemplary temperance b. 9. p. 223. ¶ 9. Thomas PIERCY Earle of Northumberland his Rebellion against Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 83. ¶ 15. in maintenance of Popery ¶ 16. routed by the Queens forces ¶ 17. beheaded at York ¶ 19. James PILKINTON the false report of ten thousand pound given with his daughter b. 5. p. 253. ¶ 55. the truth thereof b. 9. p. 109. ¶ 21. his death ibidem Pope PIUS the fourth his letter and proposalls to Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 68. ¶ 40. Pope PIUS the fifth his sentence declaratory against Q. Elizabeth b. 9. p. 93. PLAYERS prohibited by proclamation of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 391. Thomas PLAYFER his ranting Epitaph Hist. of Camb. p. 158. ¶ 40. PLEGMUND of an eminent Eremite made Arch-bishop of Canterbury C. 9. ¶ 43. consecrateth seven Bishops in one day C. 10. ¶ 4. PLUNDER whence derived and when first used in England b. 11. p. 196. ¶ 33. Reg. POOLE Cardinall why so much favoured by Q. Mary b. 8. ¶ 39. Godfather to E. Tremelius ¶ 40. consecrated Archb. of Cant. ¶ 41. his dry Sermon of the Pall ibid. reconcileth England unto Rome ¶ 42. his death b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 49. well inclined to be a Protestant ¶ 50. leaveth all his estate to Italians 51. Chancellour both of Cambridge and Oxford Hist. of Camb. p. 135. ¶ 53. Sr. Tho. POPE vide Trinity Colledge Oxford The POPE in England in his Rising improveth his power on five sorts of Princes C. 10. ¶ 2. The POPE in England in his Reigning a conjectural estimate of his yearly revenues in England b. 5. p. 197. The POPE in England in his Ruine how his usurped power at the abolition thereof was restored to several persons to whom it did belong b. 5. ¶ 199. All PREACHERS for a time inhibited by a Proclamation of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 388 389. PREMUNIRE-statute why made b. 4. p. 145. the form thereof p. 146 c. why so named p. 148. ¶ 35. Thomas PRESTON Master of Trinity Hall Queen Elizabeth her Scholar History of Camb. p. 139. ¶ 2. John PRESTON his great favour at Court b. 11 ¶ 6. imployed in a double conference ¶ 35 36. temporizeth with the Duke of Buckingham ¶ 43 44. his death and buriall ¶ 66. William PRIN b. 11. p. 152. ¶ 56. accused for libelling against Bishops ¶ 57. his plea rejected p. 152. ¶ 62. and answer refused ¶ 63. his speech on the Pillory ¶ 73. and behaviour therein ¶ 74. good employment in his exile 75. brought back with triumph p. 172. ¶ 32. False PROPHECYES a great trade driven with them in Abbeys Hist. of Abb. p. 333. ¶ 11. PROPHECYINGS in England how ordered b. 9. p. 121. ¶ 2. their inconveniences p. 122. ¶ 3. Arch-bishop Grindal his large letter to Q. Elizab. in their defence p. 123 c. PROVISIONS of the Pope their nature b. 3. p. 8. and b. 4. p. 115. ¶ 25. redressed by a statute ¶ 26. yet complained of many
Colledge TRINITY COLL. in Cambridge founded by King Henry the eighth Hist. of Cambridge p. 121. ¶ 17. enriched by Queen Mary p. 122. ¶ 18. and enlarged by Dr. Nevile ¶ 19. the Masters Bâ—shops Benefactours c. thereof ibidem States-men Divines Criticks p. 123. ¶ 20. James TURBER VILL Bishop of Exeter no active persecutor b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 2. findeth fair usage after his deprivation b. 9. ¶ 19. TURNAMENTS their ill effects History of Camb. p. 11. ¶ 39. forbidden within five mile of Camb. ¶ 40 c. Wat TYLER his rebellion b. 4. p. 138. ¶ 18 c. parallelled with Judas of Galilee p. 140. ¶ 21. the Wicklivites defended from having any hand in causing his Rebellion p. 141. ¶ 23. see Jack Straw William TYNDAL his story at large b. 5. p. 224 225. TUYSC a Saxon Idol his shape and office b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 6. William TWISSE prolocutor in the Assembly b. 11. p. 199. ¶ 4. his death p. 213. ¶ 53. V. VALLADOLIT COLL. in Spain for English fugitives b. 9. p. 87. Richard VAUGHAN Bishop of London his death b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 11. Master UDAL King James his letter for him b. 9. p. 203. ¶ 30. arraigned and condemned p. 221. ¶ 1. Richard VINES his argument at Vxbridge treaty to prove the sufficiency of ordination by Presbyters b. 11. p. 215. ¶ 65. Polydore VIRGIL Collector of Peter-Pence in England b. 5. p. 198. ¶ 51. Benefactour to the Church of Wells malefactour to the Church of England ¶ 52 53. Eight forrain UNIVERSITIES conclude it unlawfull to marry a Brothers Wife b. 5. p 183. ¶ 19. UNIVERSITY COLL. in Oxon founded by King Alfred C. 9. ¶ 30. the maintenance paid out of the Kings Exchequer ¶ 38. exhibitions allowed to the Scholars thereof why detained by William the Conqueror b. 3. ¶ 16. re-founded and endowed p. UNIVERSITY Hall in Cambridge founded by Richard Badew Hist. of Cam. p. 37. ¶ 40. burnt down ibidem see Clare Hall Conradus VORSTIUS his dangerous opinions b. 10. p. 60. opposed by King James p. 61. in his letter to the States ¶ 3 c. K. VORTIGER his incestuous match condemned by Germanus C. 5. ¶ 13. calleth in the Saxons ¶ 16. burning in lust is burnt to Ashes ¶ 27. URSULA her fabulous Martyrdome at Colen with 11000. Virgins attending her confuted C. 5. ¶ 21. USURPERS how far they are to be obeyed in the case of King Stephen b. 3. p. 25 26 27. UXBRIDGE treaty the fruitlesse fruits thereof b. 11. p. 214. ¶ 61. Conference about Church-matters therein ¶ 63. c. W. WADHAM COLLEDGE in Oxford founded by Nicholas Wadham b. 10. p. 68. ¶ 29 30. Peter of WAKEFIELD prophesied against K. John b. 3. p. 50. ¶ 12. hanged p. 52. ¶ 16. whether justly or unjustly disputed ibidem WALTHAM ABBEY why so named Hist. of Walt. p. 5. ¶ 2. the scituation thereof ¶ 3. excused for its bad aire p. 6. ¶ 1. the Town first founded by one Tovy ¶ 2. but Abby by Earle Harold ¶ 4. refounded by King Henry the second p. 7. Nicholas abbot of WALTHAM most eminent Hist. of Wal. p. 20. toward the end John de WALTHAM keeper of the privy seale to K. Richard the second Hist. of Wal. p. 30. near the end Roger de WALTHAM a great Scholar Hist. of Wal. p. 20. at the bottome William WARHAM Arch-bishop of Canterbury his death and character b. 5. p. 184 ¶ 26. John WARNER Bishop of Rochester chosen to sollicite the Bps. cause when charged with a premunire b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 7. pleadeth stoutly for their votes in Parliament p. 194. ¶ 25. William WATSON a Secular Priest his notorious railing against the Jesuites b. 10. ¶ 5 6. his Treason against K. James ¶ 14. and silly plea at his Execution ¶ 17. WEASEL the English Exiles under Q. Mary why quickly removing thence b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 41. WELCH two grand mistakes therein b. 11. p. 170. ¶ 21. committed to Welch Bps. to amend it ibidem WESTMINSTER pretends to a Massacre of primitive Monks therein Cent. 4. ¶ 9. a Church therein built by Edward the Confessor said to be consecrated by St. Peter himself C. 11. ¶ 22. five alterations in St. Peters therein within 30. yeares b. 9. p. 70. ¶ 43. Herbert WESTPHALING Bishop of Hereford sâ—â—dome seen to laugh b. 10. ¶ 10. WEST-SAXONS their Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. William WHITACRE Master of St. Johns in Camb. kindly resents are proofe from one of the fellowes Hist of Camb. p. 97. ¶ 18. his sicknesse and death p. 151. ¶ 18. his sad solemn funerall ¶ 19. John WHITE swalloweth Simony to get the Bishoprick of Winchester b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 42. preacheth a satyricall yet flattering Sermon at the Funeralls of Q. Mary ¶ 52. stirred against Q. Eliz. b. 9. ¶ 17. Sr. THO. WHITE Lord Maior of London foundeth St. Ionns Colledge in Ox. b. 8. S. 3. ¶ 44. Iohn WHITGIFT Dr. of D. after much clashing with Mr. Cartwright Hist. of Camb. p. 140. expelleth hâ—m ibid. his Letters when Archb. of Cant. to the L. Burleigh and other Lords in defence of Conformity â— 9. p. 145. c. his death b. 10. p 25. ¶ 2. just defence against the exceptions of Mr Pâ—in ¶ 2 3 4 c. William WHITTINGHAM head of the English non-conformists at Frankford b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 7. with whom he departeth to Geneva ¶ 10. a fierce Non-conformist though Dean of Durham in the beginning of Q. Eliz. b. 9. ¶ 71. John WICKLIFF his parentage learning and opinions b. 4. p. 130. ¶ 3. c. marvelously spread and why p. 142. ¶ 25. his quiet death ¶ 26. Richard WIGHTWICK an eminem Benefactor to Pembrook Colledge in Oxford b. 11. ¶ 41. Edward WIGHTMAN burnt for a Heretick b. 10. p. 64. ¶ 13. WILFRIDE a Champion for the Romish Easter C. 7. ¶ 90. his prevailing argument ¶ 91. envyed by Theodorus Arch-bishop ¶ 97. converteth the South-Saxons ¶ 98 c. persecuted by King Alfride C. 8. ¶ 1. appealeth to Rome ¶ 2. dyeth ¶ 3. WILLIAM the first conquereth King Harold in sight C. 11. ¶ 40. rebateth his conquering sword with composition ¶ 41. calleth a Synod of his Bishops at Winchester b. 3. ¶ 4. is civill to the Pope ¶ 5. yet so as he is true to his own interest ¶ 6. refuseth to do fealty to Pope Gregory the seventh ¶ 7 8. suffers none of his Barons to be excommunicated without his consent ¶ 9. divides the jurisdiction of the Bishops from the Sheriffs ¶ 10 11. quits the Crown by Conquest but kept it by composition ¶ 13. his death and buriall ¶ 25. WILLIAM Rufus crowned b. 11. p. 10. ¶ 27. his covetuousness ¶ 28 29. contests with Anselme p. 11. ¶ 3. John WILLIAMS Bishop of Lincoln made Lord keeper b. 10. p. 89. ¶ 24 25 c. preacheth King James his funerall Sermon b. 11. ¶ 3. exceptions thereat ¶ 4. excluded attendance at the