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
at this present Fuller It is a sad Truth which the Animadvertor sayeth And here I cannot but remember David his expression when flying from Absalom If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again But if he say I have no delight in thee behold here I am c. If it be coâ—sistent with the good will and pleasure of God in due time he will Boy up again the sunk credit of the Clergy if not all must submit to him whose wayes are often above reason never against right Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 156. Yea this very Statute which gave power to a Bishop in his Diocess to condemn an Heretick plainly proveth that the King by consent of Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in Cases of Heresie The Bishops and Clergy in their Convocations had anciently the power of declaring Heresie the Bishops singly in their Consistories to proceed against them by injoyning penance and recantation or otherwise to subject them to Excommunication The Statute which our Author speaks of being 2 H. 4. c. 15. proceedeth further and ordain'd in favour of the Church that the Ordinary might not onely convent but imprison the party suspected of Heresie and that the party so convented and convicted of Heresie and continuing obstinate in the same should upon a certificate thereof made and delivered to the Secular Judge be publickly burned before the People In order whereunto as in a matter which concern'd the life of a Subject the King with the advice of his Parliament might lay down some rules for the regulating the proceedings of the Bishops and other Ordinaries Fuller There be two distinct things which in this Point must be severally considered 1. To declare and define what shall be accounted Heresie 2. To condemne to Death a declared Heretick The Power of the former was in this Age fixed in the Bishops without any competition and is so clear none can question it Yea by the same Power they might proceed against a declared Heretick without any leave or liceence from King or Parliament so far as Church-Censures Suspensions Excommunications c. could extend But as for the latter to condemn them to Death herein the Common-Law began where the Cannon Law ended and regulated their proceedings accordingly Dr. Heylin But certainly it is a sorry piece of Logick to conclude from hence that generally in all cases of Heresie the King with advice of his Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Courts A piece of Logick shall I call it or a Fallacy rather a Fallacy à dâ—cto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter committed commonly when from a proposition which is true onely in some respect with reference to time place and other circumstances the Sophister inferreth something as if simply true though in it self it be most absolutely false As for example The Pope even in matters of spiritual cognisance for so it followeth in our Author had no power over the life 's of the English Subjects and therefore had then no power to proceed against them in point of Heresie Fuller I intended not nor have I abused the Reader with any fallacious argumentation It is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King and Parliament directed the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court in cases of Heresie I mean not to decide which were Heresies but to order the Power of the Bishop over declared Hereticks without the direction of the Statute not to proceed to Limb and Life And I believe my words will be found transcribed out of Sir Edward Coke his most elaborate Report of the Kings power in Ecclesiastical matters Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 161. Henry the seventh born in the Bowels of Wales at Pembroke c. some years after plucked down the Partition Wall betwixt them Neither so nor so For first Pembroke doth not stand in the Bowels of Wales but almost on the outside of it as being situate on one of the Creeks of Milford-Haven Fuller Pembroke though verging to the Sea may properly be called in the Bowels of Wales beholding the Marches next England as the outward Skin thereof Bowels are known to the Latines by the name of Penetralia à penetrando one must pierce and passe so farre from the outward skin before one can come at them So is Pembroke placed in the very Penetrals of Wales seeing the Travailer must goe six-score miles from England before he can come thither Dr. Heylin And secondly King Henry the seventh did not break down the Partition Wall between Wales and England That was a work reserved for King Harry the eighth in the 27. of whose Reign there past an Act of Parliament by which it was enacted That the Country of Wales should be stand and continue for ever from thenceforth incorporated united and annexed to and with this Realm of England And that all and singular person and persons born and to be born in the said Principality Country or Dominion of Wales shall have enjoy and inherit all and singular Freedoms Liberties Rights Priviledges and Laws within this Realm and other the Kings Dominions as other the Kings Subjects naturally born within the same have and injoy and inherit And thirdly between the time which our Author speaks of being the 14 year of King Henry the fourth and the making of this Act by King Henry the eighth there passed above an hundred and twenty years which intimates a longer time than some years after as our Author words it Fuller Far be it from me to set variance betwixt Father and Son and to make a Partition Wall betwixt them which of them first did break down the Partition Wall betwixt Wales and England The intentions of King Henry the seventh were executed by King Henry the eighth and all shall be reformed in my Book accordingly Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 168. I will not complain of the dearnesse of this Universitie where seventeen weeks cost me more than seventeen years in Cambridge even all that I had The ordinary and unwary Reader might collect from hence that Oxford is a chargeable place and that all commodities there are exceeding dear but that our Author lets him know that it was on some occasion of disturbance Fuller He must be a very Ordinary and unwary Reader indeed or an Extraordinary one if you please of no common weakness or willfulnesse so to understand my words which plainly expound themselves Dr. Heylin By which it seems our Author doth relate to the time of the War when men from all parts did repair to Oxford not as a University but a place of safety and the seat Royal of the King at which time notwithstanding all provisions were so plentifull and at such cheap rates as no man had reason to complain of the dearnesse of them No better argument of the fertility of the soil and richnesse of the Country in which Oxford standeth than that the Markets were not raised on
no more obnoxious to this Objection than other Authors who set for t New Editions Secondly I hope my Alterations shall not be so many or great as to disguise the second from the first Edition Lastly I will take order God willing for the Printing of a peice of Paper lesse then a Leaf in my second Impression being the Index of Alteration so that the Owners of the First may if so pleased in less then an Hour with their Pens conform their Books to the new Edition which though a little less Beautifull to the Eye will be no less Beneficial to the Users thereof Here let me humbly tender to the Readers Consideration that my HOLY WARRE though for some Design of the Stationer sticking still in the Title Page at the third Edition as some unmarried Maids will never be more then eighteen yet hath it oftner passed the Press as hath my HOLY STATE MEDITATIONS c. and yet never did I alter Line or Word in any new Impression I speak not this by way of Attribution to my Self as if my Books came for that first with more Perfection then other Mens but with Insinuation to the Reader that ti is but equall that I who have been no Common Begger in this Kind yea never before made use of a second Edition may now have the Benefit thereof allowed me especially in a Subject of such Length Latitude Difficulty Variety and Multiplicity of Matter CHAP. VIII The Fifth General Answer That it is no shame for any Man to confess when convinced thereof and amend an Error in his Iudgement THe Knowledge of our Saviour as God may be compared to the Sun all perfect and compleat at once without any accession or addition thereunto whilst his Knowledge as Man like the Waxing Moon was capable of Increase and was though not subject to the least Error receptive of clearer Information and Iesus increased in Wisdome yea it is expresly said yet learned he Obedience by the thing which he suffered Not such the Knowledge of the best and wisest Man which besides a Capability of more Instruction is always attended with an obnoxiousnesse to many mistakes seeing here wee know in part and easy it is for any Man to come on the Blinde Side of another as being better versed and skilled in such particular matters When therefore I find my self convinced in my Judgement of an Error in my Church-History by perusing the Notes of the Animadvertor I will fairly and freely confesse and amend it And I conceive it is no shame at all for a Childe to write a few Lines of Retractation after so good a Father hath set him so fair a Copy thereof In such a case let not the Animadvertor give me any Blowes where I conceive that my own Blush is a sufficient Penance for the same and let him not immoderately insult on such occasions seeing my Iudgement-Faults will be found neither in number nor Nature such as He hath suggested Covetous Euclio in the Comedy complained that his Servant Intromisit Sexentos Coquos had let in six hundred Cooks when they wanted five hundred ninety eight of that number being but two Anthrax and Congrio truely told and though the Animadvertor frequently complaineth that I run into many Errors run into many Errors yet on examination many of those Errors will prove Truths and such as remain Errors will not prove many Besides the Animadvertor is concerned to be civill to me in this Kind seeing in this particular Veniam petimus dabimusque vicissim A mutuall Bargain we may make Pardon to give and Pardon take If I were minded to retaliate and to show that Humanum est errare I could instance in many mistakes in the last Edition of his Geography Some of the best Birth and Brains in our Nation and Travalers in foreign parts as far as India it self proferred me on their accord to detect in several Countryes unexcusable Errors confuted by their ocular discovery I heartily thanked them for that which I refused to accept and did return First that the Book had atchieved a generall Repute and not undeservedly Secondly that it was very usefull and I my Self had reaped Benefit thereby Thirdly that it would seem in me like to Revenge in this Juncture of Time when the Doctor was disadvantaged by some Infirmity Lastly that others might be detremented thereby Yea if we but look into his SHORT VIEW of the Life and Reign of King CHARLES some Faults occur therein which God willing I will calmly discover in our Answer to these Animadversions not with intent to Cloud his Credit but Clear my own CHAP. IX The Sixth General Answer That Prelial Mistakes in Defiance of all Care will escape in the best Corrected Book THe most accurate Book that ever came forth into Light had some Mistakes of the Presse therein Indeed I have heard of Robert Stephen that he offered a great Summe of Money equivalent perchance to five Pounds of our English Coin to such who would discover any Erratum in his Folio Greek Testament dedicated to King Francis the first But sure I am that some of our English Bibles which may be presumed set forth with the best Care printed at London have their Errats and therefore Prelial Faults being a catching Disease no wonder if my Book as well or rather as ill as others be subject to the same Here it will be objected that there is a known and sure Receipt for the Cure of this Disease viz. the Listing of such Faults as have escaped either in the Beginning or End of the Book that so the Reader may if he please amend if otherwise avoid them Such an Index Erratorum or Catalogue of Mistakes is in some sort a STOOL OF REPENTANCE wherein Offenders find their lost Innocence and such faults thus confessed are never charged either on the Author's or Printer's Account It is answered that although such a List of Faults generally followeth as the Impedimentum or Baggage in the Rere of a Book yet seldome or never is it adequate to all the Errata's which are committed therein For first all committed are not discovered neither by the Corrector nor the Author himself who perusing his own Book in overlooking the faults therein Overlooks them indeed and following the conduct of his own fancy wherein He intended all to be right readeth the words in his Book rather as they should be than as they are printed Secondly all faults which are discovered are not confessed Such as the Printer esteemeth small He leaveth to be amended by the direction of the Sense and discretion of the Reader according to the common Speech that the Reader ought to be better than his Book In my Book the Index of Errata's amounts not to above forty a very small number in proportion of so voluminous a Work which with Credit might crave the allowance of twice as many more thereunto The Animadvertor in these his Notes maketh great advantage of some
it might be found with the Vulgar also who having continual intercourse with the Roman Souldiers and some recourse for Trade to the Roman Colonies could not but get a smattering of the Latine tongue Just so the Gentry and Nobility both in Wales and Ireland are trained up for the same reasons in the English tongue which notwithstanding could never get the mastery of the natural Languages or gain much ground on those of inferior quality Secondly had these National Languages proceeded from the depravation of the Latine tongue by the mixture of the barbarous Nations it must needs follow that the Italian had not now been the language of all people in Italy nor the French of all the Nations which inhabit France sic de caeteris My reason is because the Heruli being setled in those parts which we now call Piedmont the Longobards more towards the East the Goths about the middle parts the Saracens and Greeks in the Realm of Naples there must needs be as many distinct Languages in that one Continent as there were barbarous Nations planted in it or at the least such different Dialects as could be scarce intelligible unto one another Whereas it is certainly and most plainly known that there is onely one Language spoken in all that Countrey equally understood by all without so much as any sensible difference in pronunciation more than is usual in all places between the Countrey Villages and the neighbouring Citizens The like may be affirmed of the ancient Gallia planted on the East-side of the Loyre by the Burgundians on the West-side of that River and towards the Mediterranean the Pyrenies and the Aquitan Ocean by the Gothish Nations in most other parts of it by the Franks and yet all speaking with very little difference the same one Language which from the most predominant People we now call the French More to this purpose might be said were not this sufficient Fuller In this my Expression that the Italian Spanish and French are Generated from the Corruption of the Latin the Animadvertor layeth not so much weight on the term GENERATED as on the word CORRUPTION whereas indeed whatsoever is Generated must be by the Corruption in some kinde of that whereof it is begotten Corruption importeth as currant in common discourse the abasing of a thing from the purity thereof Now it is all one in Effect and equally doth my work to dignifie the British as an Original above those three Languages if they came from the imperfect Impression or Reception of the Latin which may be reduced to the Corruption thereof Thus the Siboleth of the Ephraimites may in proprieiy of phrase be said to have had its rise and being from the Corruption viz. natural mispronunciation of the Hebrew word Shiboleth As for the Animadvertors long discourse of the irruption of Barbarous I will return an answer when at better leisure beholding my self as utterly unconcerned therein Let me ad a passage from the mouth of a person present thereat Bishop Williams Lord Keeper could speak the Spanish very well but knowing how much it concerned a Minister of State to be perfect Master of his Tongue declined it in all Negotiations Now Gondomar in a State-passage desired Him to speak Spanish and on the Bishops refusal thereof My Lord said the Don doe but spoil your good turning it into scurvy Latin and it will make as good Spanish as any in the World It seems he was of my Mind in this present Controversie Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Ibid. The Hebrew the common Tongue of the whole world before it was inclos'd that is to say divided into several Languages An Opinion as common as the other and as weakly grounded such as I marvel at in our Author who having traveld over all the Holy-Land should have been better studied in the true nature and original of the Holy-Tongue Fuller It is strongly grounded on convincing arguments as God willing shall soon appear The Animadvertors marvelling why I am no better studied in the nature and original of the Hebrew Tongue who as he saith have travelled over the Holy-Land moveth me more to admire that he himself should be so utterly ignorant in the Brasilian Mexican Aethiopian Persian Indian and Tartarian Tongues but especially in the China language one letter whereof he did never understand although he hath written a general Geographie of the whole world Dr. Heylin Nor is it the opinion onely that this Tongue was spoken universally before the Flood and even in Paradise it self in the state of Innocency but that it shall be spoken in the Celestial Paradise the language of the Saints in glory Fuller I will not ingage my self in such a point of meer curiosity yet is it not improbable that it might be spoken in Paradise seeing the word Paradise and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek is borrowed as Criticks confesse from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew word Besides it is not probable that Adam lost his Language with his Innocence and that he spâ—ke Hebrew after his fall shall immediatly be proved Lesse will I trouble my self what Language the glorified Saints shall speak in Heaven though I am sure that Halaluijah praise ye the Lord is pure Hebrew When people report unto us improbable passages from forain far distant Countries we commonly return That it is better to beleeve them than to goe thither to confute them But if any have over confidently affirmed that the Saints in glorie shall speak Hebrew let us rather labour to goe thither to confute them than here to believe them Mean time let us here take heed of the malicious language of Detraction against our Brethren and of scurrilous and profane Language whereby Piety may be dishonoured Dr. Heylin Insomuch that some good women of my old acquaintance were once very eagerly bent to learn this Language for fear as I conceive they should not chat in handsomly when they came to heaven Fuller The Doctors Book bears the title of NECESSARY Animadversions But if this be one let it even serve the Reader for his NECESSARY use Indeed I have read of Cato who having heard some Philosophers maintain that the Heathen gods spake Greek in Heaven being past sixtie years old he began to learn the Greek that after death he might the better converse with them a project and practise proportionable enough to Pagan principles The analogy whereof is too applyable to some prophane mouthes of our age who by execrable oaths and Curses practise aforehand to blaspheme rendring themselves without their serious and seasonable repentance in a neerer capacity to discourse with the Devils and Damned in Hell But of chatting of Hebrew in Heaven this is the first and I hope it shall be the last time I shall meet with the expression Dr. Heylin Now for the ground thereof it is no other than an old Iewish Tradition importing that this being the common Language of all people before the Flood was afterwards appropriated
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