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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

Honours to their Schools and Universities for a popular Applause or out of meer Bounty or for honour or for opinion of merit by which the Art of Clergy-men transported them heretofore But the very truth is that all wise Princes respect the welfare of their Estates and consider that Schools and Universities are as in the Body the noble and vital parts which being vigorous and sound send good Blood and active Spirits into the Veins and Arteries which cause health and strength Or if feeble or ill affected corrupt all the Vital Powers whereupon grow Diseases and in the end death it self What inconveniencies have grown in all Ages by the ill Government and Disorders of Schools your Books can inform you And to come home to your selves have not our late Parliaments complained Nay hath not the Land exclaimed that our great Schools of Virtue were become Schools of Vice This I mention unwillingly but withal do most willingly tell you to your eternal praise That fince it pleased his Majesty to take to heart a Reformation and by advice of your never too often named Chancellor sent you down some temporary Orders whereby to reduce you to some reasonable moderation thereupon by the Wisdom and Resolution of you the worthy Governours and by the inclinable conformity of all the Students in general it is now come to pass that Scholars are no more found in Taverns or Houses of Disorder nor seen loytering in the Streets or other places of Idleness or ill Example but all contain themselves within the Walls of their Colleges and in the Schools or publick Libraries Wherein I must confess you have at length gotten the start and by your Virtue and Merit have made this University which before had no Paragon in any forreign Country now to go beyond it self and give a glorious Example to others not to stay behind And if those temporary and unperfect Orders produced so good effect what may now be expected from this Body of Laws and Statutes so compleat and so digested that no former Age did ever enjoy the like Thus you have understood how the Goodness of our great King how the Care and respect of your Chancellor and how the worth and substance of the work it self may forcibly induce you to congratulate your own Happiness And therefore I might here forbear to trouble you any longer with a harsh interrupted Speech but that I cannot omit to put you in mind of one thing which I know you will hear with willingness and attention because it tendeth chiefly to the honour of our God and then by his power to the honour of our King and thence to the comfort of every true hearted Subject who will readily acknowledg with Reverence and thankfulness the great blessings we now enjoy above all other Nations I will tell you but what I know for I speak within my Element I have seen our neighbouring Countries in great Prosperity and Renown their Cities stately built and strongly fortified with Walls raised up to Heaven full of People full of Trade so full of peace and plenty that they surfeited in all excess but from hence they are since fallen partly by the boundless Ambition of great Princes partly by the Factions and Divisions in Religion and generally by their Disorders into such condition that men of great Honour sent in remote Employment found whole Provinces so sack'd and depopulated that in divers Journeys they incountred scarce a Man and of those they found dead some had Grass in their Mouths and Stomachs and some were torn in pieces by Beasts and ravenous Fowls and those that were alive had no other Care or Study than how to save themselves from Fire and Sword In general there is such Desolation that without a kind of Horror the Horror thereof cannot be express'd Now we by God's Blessing are in a better Case we sit here in God's House thankful in true Devotion for this wonderful Favour towards us We enjoy Peace and Plenty we are like to those who resting in a Calm Haven behold the Shipwrack of others wherein we have no part save only in compassion to help them with our Prayers which we all ought to do as interested in their sufferings lest the like may fall on us What then remaineth but seriously to consider how all these great Blessings are conferred upon us not for our Merits or for our more virtuous and Holy Lives but only by God's favour to his true Religion and under him by the happy Government of our Gracious King which should confirm us all to a Constancy in our Obedience and to a ready subjection to all those Rules and Orders which his Majesty shall prescribe for the Publick good Wherein this general Admonition may fruitfully be applied to the Business now in hand whereof I make no doubt So I crave your pardon and your good acceptance of that which I have rudely spoken but with a true affection to this whole Body whereof though I had my Education from another-Nurse yet I had the Honour to be an Adopted Son and as I suppose one of the ancientest that lives amongst you at this day It remaineth that Mr Vice-Chancellour perform his part and proceed to the Subscriptions and Depositions of you the Heads John Coke DIE Mercurii inter horas secundam tertiam post Meridem viz. vicessimo secundo die Junii Anno Dom. 1636. unà fuerunt in Hospitio venerabilis Viri Doctoris Pink S. Theologiae Professoris Vicecancellarii Vniversitatis Oxon. notoriè sito situato in Collegio Sanctae Mariae Winton in Oxon. vulgo voca't Collegio Novo Reverendus in Christo Pater Dominus Johannes Episcopus Oxon. honoratissimi dignissimi venerabiles Viri Dominus Johannes Cook Eques auratus Serenissimae Regis Majestati Secretarius Principalis Dominus Henricus Martyn Eques auratus Judex Admiralitatis Curiae Praerogativae Thomas Rives Legum Doctor Regis Advocatus Commissionarii Domini Regis specialiter missi ad exhibendum Librum Statutorum Vniversitatis eorum confirmationem sub magno Sigillo Angliae Coram quibus comparuerunt venerabilis Vir Christopherus Potter Collegiae Reginae Praepositus Mr. Loughe Mr. Stannix Socii Collegii praedicti qui ante Convocationem eodem die habendam pro Statutorum Confirmatione Protestationem suam in scriptis Communi Sigillo Collegii sui munitam exhibuerunt eamque in Personâ suâ legit Mr. Stannix coram Commissionariis praedictis Doctore Pink Vice-Cancellario tum praesente sub hâc verborum formulâ Protestatio Declaratio Praepositi Scholarium Collegii Reginae in Vniversitate Oxon. de Jure Titulo Interesse suis in Electione Nominatione Principalis Aulae Sancti Edmundi in Vniversitate Oxon. per quam palàm publicè in quocunque celebri dictae Vniversitatis Coetu vel alibi intimari notum fieri in perpetuam rei memoriam obnixe rogant se solos in solidum habuisse habere debere

to receive any Scholar into his House to drink and tipple there Secondly So soon as he had his full Proof that there were 300 he commanded the Constables of every Parish to bring in the Names of all such as sell Ale there This Note he communicated with the Proctors and turned out all such as in their several Night-Walks they had found to keep disorderly Houses Thirdly After this he sent the same Note to some of the most substantial and orderly Men in every Parish and by their Advice struck out all those which had any Trade or other means to live by that being a far fitter Course for them than Ale-House-keeping Fourthly To the end no cunning of the Town might be able to elude this he deliver'd to the Ale-Brewers the Names of all such as are now Licensed with a charge not to serve Ale to any other upon Penalty of paying the Mulct which both the Statutes of the Realm and of the University inflict upon Offenders in that particular And as for the Allegation which they made to my Lord the Earl of Berkshire in their excuse that proves utterly void For 1st The number of 300 at the least is fully proved 2dly Were it true that the most of these were Privileged Persons that would not help them neither For the greatest part even of the Privileged Men have been Licensed by themselves for their own Profit 3dly On the University part no Justice hath given allowance to any but the Vice-Chancellor only Neither can any License continue longer than for one Year 4thly The Vice-Chancellor that now is hath been in that Office a Year and an half and in all this time hath not Licensed any one till now that His Majesty's Letters came down to settle that Power in me and the University according to our antient Privileges in that behalf 'T is true that some produced antient Licenses subscribed by some of the Vice-Chancellor's Predecessors as namely by Dr. Pinck and Dr. Baylie in their several Years respectively But these as they were out of Date so were they very few not exceeding 20 in the whole number By all which it appears manifestly that almost all this Scandalous number of 300 were Licensed by the Mayor and the Town-Justices and not by the University as hath been suggested to my Lord their Steward The Vice-Chancellor took for his Assistant in this Business Dr. Pinck Warden of New-College who had been Vice-Chancellor and best understood the State of the Town tho' Dr. Fell had means to be best acquainted with the number of the Ale-Houses And for a beginning supprest 200 of the 300 and then found it impossible for the present to sink them lower there being so many poor and indigent People amongst them who have no other possible means of Subsistance Among these appear'd a lamentable Spectacle For the only Son of Mr. Braddell who had for many Years together in my Memory been Principal of St. Mary's Hall and lived well but in too free a fashion was now found to be one of this number yet for some reasons the Vice-Chancellor refused to License him among the rest unless the Principal of Brazen-Nose and the Provost of Oriel which were of his Father's antient Acquaintance and now pleaded for him would become his Sureties and so the Business stands at present December 7. 1639. W. Cant. ARticles of Agreement 'twixt the University and City being made by Justice Jones 't was on all hands thought fit that they should have a time of Probation before they were signed by Your Grace and their Steward In this interim we found a Composition made Eliz. 23. wherein it was accorded that the Amercements of our Leet which the Judge had awarded wholly to the Town should equally be divided 'twixt both Bodies This when the Judge saw he altered his Opinion in that particular and order'd that the Composition should still stand in force The Mayor Recorder and Town-Clerk there present assented but next day fell off upon pretence that the Commonalty would not yield And here we stick They press to have the Judge's first Order confirm'd which gives all the Amercements to them We plead an antient Composition seen since and allow'd by the same Judge which gives us half Their own Recorder is ashamed of them and hath sundry times complain'd to me of their peevishness and breach of Promise in this particular If they be now in earnest whereof I much doubt we will give them a Meeting when they please and once more try whether by a friendly Parly these Differences may be composed Oxford Decem. 9. 1639. A. Frewen THE Earl of Danby sent last Week Outlandish Workmen to enter upon the Physick-Garden They were directed to the Dean of Christ-Church Dr. Clayton and my self We have perused divers Models which they brought and amongst them pitch'd upon one which we think will be most proper for that place December 9. 1639. A. Frewen I Would have you at your next meeting acquaint the Heads that the Oxford Men who came to preach at St. Paul's do not so frequently use the Prayer which the Canon of the Church requires before their Sermons either in matter or form as the Cambridge Men do And there is more notice taken of it than I could wish there were Therefore the Heads shall do very well to warn their several Companies concerning it And I pray be you careful to see it observed there and that will teach them to do it abroad Lambeth Decemb. 13. 1639. W. Cant. THere came a Letter this Week from Cambridge to my Chaplain Dr. Bray in which I find that one Mr. Samuel Wilkinson a Master of Art sometimes of Magdalen-Hall and now Parson or Vicar of Chelsey came thither to be Doctor and would accumulate And this was certainly to elude our Statutes Dr. Sterne one of the Heads there called for his Certificate from you according to the Letters which you lately sent to that University by my Direction But he being able to shew none save only a Ticket from Mr. French the Register was refused I pray call French unto you and examine what Tickets he uses to send in this kind and by what Authority and I pray put him to it close For if he may do this we may have Proceeders slip away from us I know not how As now it might have been if Dr. Sterne had not been a very respectful Man to me December 20. 1639. W. Cant. UPON this the Vice-Chancellor called Mr. French to an account who confessed that Wilkinson writ to him the last Vacation to know what Year it was he proceeded Master and little suspecting what use would be made of it and the less because it was about the middle of the great Vacation he sent him a Note out of the Register which was it he presented at Cambridge but protests that since the Vice-Chancellor's coming in Office he never gave more than that one Ticket December 23.

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-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

me for Assistance according to the Proclamation and are now busie in calling their scatter'd Forces together again Oxford Wednesday the 15th of July 1640. A. Frewen At Whitehall the 22th of July 1640. PRESENT The KING's MAJESTY Lord Arch-Bishop of Cant. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Marquis Hamilton Lord Admiral Earl of Berks Earl of Holland Earl of Traquare Lord Goring Lord Cottington Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Windebanke Sir Tho. Rowe WHereas His Majesty being present at the Board did this day hear the Complaints of the Mayor Recorder and others of the City of Oxford expressed in two Letters the one of the 15th of June to the Board the other of the 4th of June to the Earl of Berks a Member of the Board concerning their Liberties in the Presence of the Vice-Chancellor and other Doctors of the University and Mr. Allibond one of the Proctors whom the said Complaint did concern After mature Debate it was ordered That the University of Oxford according to his Majesty's Gracious Letter shall have the sole Licensing of Victualling-Houses in that City and Suburbs in like manner as the University of Cambridge hath in the Town of Cambridge And for that purpose it is ordered by His Majesty with advice of the Board That the Commission for the Peace in Oxford shall be renewed and the Vice-Chancellor only made of the Quorum Secondly for the Complaint of the Building of Cottages it is ordered That the Vice-Chancellor and the Mayor shall make several Certificates of all the new Cottages built within Twenty Years and shall distinguish which of them have been built by Privileged Persons upon College Lands and which by Townsmen and which by Privileged Persons upon the Town Wast by their leave Upon return of which Cerficates their Lordships will give such farther Order therein as shall be fit Thirdly it was order'd That his Majesty's Attorney and Sollicitor-General shall examine how the Orders set down by Mr. Justice Jones for preventing of Disputes and Controversies between the University and City of Oxford have been observed and by whom there hath been any defailer therein admitted Upon Certificate whereof their Lordships will take such Order as shall be fit for the due Observance of the same Fourthly it was ordered That according to the Statute of Winchester those to whom it belongeth ought to set Watches at the Gates of the City according to the said Statute and that the said Watch continue there without walking of the Streets or moving from their Station except it be for the suppressing of any sudden Tumult or other Malefactors whereof there is not time to give notice to the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors of the said University Lastly it is ordered That the Constable committed to Prison shall be delivered but not without paying of Fees After my hearty Commendations DR Frewen hath now born the troublesom Office of the Vice-Chancellorship of that University for the space of two whole Years which is the time now usually given to execute that Office And is certainly weight enough for any Man to bear so long In the discharge of this Office he hath through the whole course of his time carried himself with great Care Moderation and Prudence and that as well in all Businesses which relate to the Town as in those which look more immediately upon the University And among other great Services perform'd by him I cannot forbear to single out one and here publickly to give him Thanks for it even above the rest And that is the great Pains he hath taken and the singular Dexterity which he hath used in bringing the Statutes concerning the Examinations into Use and Settlement Which Statute I dare be bold to say being continued and kept up in the same Vigour to which it is now raised by his Care and Providence will be of such singular use as that for my part I cannot easily tell whether it will be greater Honour or Benefit to that University but sure I am it will be the one by the other if it be kept up to the Life as I hope it shall be Dr. Frewen's time being thus happily spent both for his own Honour and the University's Good the Care now lies upon me to name another to take up that Burthen which he lays down and to go in those steps which he hath trod out before him And I thank God for it there is such Choice of able Men in that Place for this Service that I cannot be to seek whom to name unto it But I have for the present thought upon Dr. Potter Dean of Worcester and Provost of Queen's-College as a Man whom I know to be of great Integrity and Sufficiency for that Place and of whose Care and Industry therein I am very confident To him together with the Office I do more especially recommend the Care of the Examinations in point of Learning and a most strict Watchfulness and Observance against all haunting of Taverns or any other Meetings private or publick which may any way help to suppress the base Sin of Drunkenness the Mother or the Nurse of almost all other Distempers which may bring Obloquy upon that Place These are therefore to let you know that I do hereby nominate and chuse Dr. Potter to be my Vice-Chancellor for this Year ensuing And do hereby pray and require you to allow of this my Choice and to give him all due Respect and Assistance in all things necessary for that Government and more especially in the two Particulars above-named that so Sobriety and good Manners as well as Learning may flourish in that Place And thus not doubting of your readiness and willing Obedience herein I leave both him and you to the Grace of God and rest Lambeth July 24. 1640. Your Loving Friend and Chancellor W. Cant. AND for the future I pray let not the Town so much as begin to lay the Foundation of any Cottage or any other House whatsoever in any Place but send me word of it presently that I may acquaint the Lords with it and command a stay August 3. 1640. W. Cant. UPON a late Warrant from the Deputy-Lieutenants the Mayor hath freshly pressed and set out ten new Soldiers Coat and Conduct-Money for these in their several Parishes was taxed upon all Privileged Persons not only Stationers Apothecaries that trade and use Merchandize who are more liable but upon Doctors Clayton Sanders Bambridge and all Physicians upon Mr. Crosse our Beadle on our Butlers Manciples Cooks who are our immediate Servants and deal not with any Trade All profess themselves very willing to advance His Majesty's Service especially in these base and broken Times Yet they hope by your Grace's Favour to enjoy the benefit of that Privilege which being anciently granted to our University was of late confirmed by His Majesty's Charter and is enjoy'd by the other University At my intreaty all of them in a manner have paid but their