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A43553	A survey of the estate of France, and of some of the adjoyning ilands taken in the description of the principal cities, and chief provinces, with the temper, humor, and affections of the people generally, and an exact accompt of the publick government in reference to the court, the church, and the civill state / by Peter Heylyn ; pbulished according to the authors own copy, and with his content for preventing of all faith, imperfect, and surreptitious impressions of it.; Full relation of two journeys	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1737; ESTC R9978	307,689	474

of the Minister and with an invocation of the name of God which in judgment of the Discipline Chap. 12. 1. are undissoluble That they had intermedled with the administration of holy Baptisme a duty meerly spirituall That they had seised upon the treasures of the Church in some places and disposed of them at their pleasure That they had caused the Ministers to be imprisoned and there detained them for a long time to their great discomfort and the hazard of their flooks And lastly that they had deprived them of the liberty of Natives in denying them their suffrages for the election of the Curates Other grievances there were but these the principall True it is that upon due examination of particulars it did appear that the Magistrates had more reason in their actions then the Ministers in their complaints But not having been accustomed to the like usage they do esteem it a thraldome so incompetent and unsupportable that I perswade my self they sooner would resolve to yeeld to any course then have their doings croft by that tribunall Sure I am when they found so small redresse for these as they conceived great oppressions they made petition to his Lordship to bethink himself on some other way for their relief and laboured to procure me to be their Mediator to his Lordship in it These circumstances also happily concurring portend in my opinion as great an alteration in this state Ecclesiasticall as the conjunction of some powerfull Planets doth sometimes upon the temporall And if your Lordship should be wanting now unto present opportunity it may be such a confluence of preparatives and helps may hardly be met withall hereafter Presuming therefore that your Lordship will not neglect the advantage offered I should next proceed unto those means which might best be used in the effecting of this work but what were this but to read a lecture of the wars to Hannibal to play a part on the Stage in the sight of Roscius For whether your Lordship shall think most fit to treat first of it with my Lord the Governour that he may make plain the way before you and facilitate the businesse or whether it may be thought most proper that some negotiate with the people and the Jurates to commence a suit in this behalf unto the Councell or whether that the Ministers themselves in this conjuncture of time oppressed as they conceive it by the Civill Magistrates encroaching on them may not with great facility be perswaded to sollicite for a change who can so well determine as your Lordship whom long experience and naturall abilities have made perfect in these arts Only let me beseech your Lordships leave to enjoy mine own folly and for a while to act my part to read my lecture though Hannibal and Roscius be in presence At such time as by the Ministers his Lordship was petitioned to resolve upon some course for their relief they made request to me to sollicite for them their desires to be a remembrancer for them to his Lordship To which I answered that I could direct them in a way which should for ever free them from that yoak which so much they feared and if they would vouchsafe to see my Chamber I would there impart it A motion not made unto the wals or lost in the proposall for down unto my Lodging they descended and there we joyned our selves in Councell The Petitioners were five in number viz. De la March Millet Perchard Picote and De la Place my self alone and not provided save in Wine and Sider for their entertainment But as Lactantius in an equall case Necesse est ut me causae bonitas fac●at eloquentem presuming on the goodnesse of my cause but more upon their ignorance I was resolved to bid them battail Immediately upon the opening of the Counsell I was importuned my opinion whereto I freely made them answer the only course whereby they might subsist entire and free from bondage was to address themselves to his Majesty for the restitution of the Dean But this say they is Physick worse then the disease and thereupon the battails began to joyn with greater violence with violence it was and therefore as we are instructed in Philosophy of no long continuance for presently upon the first encounter their ranks were broken and their forces disunited Picote for his part protested that he had alwayes been an enemy to Lay Elders and that he could not see by what authority of Scripture they were permitted in the Churches Perchard was well enough content that the dispensing of the poor mans box might be committed unto others and that the Deacons as being a degree or step unto the Ministery might be employed about the treasures of salvation Millet stood silent all the while and as I think reserved himself to try the fortune of another day De la March and De la Place this De la Place is he who abandoned Jarsey upon his failing of the Deanship what they could not make good by reason supplied by obstinacy In my life I never knew men more willing to betray a cause or lesse able to maintain it My inference hereupon is this that if his Majesty should signifie unto them that it is his royall pleasure to admit a Dean among them or else repair unto the Court to give a reason of their refusall they sooner would forsake and quit their cause then either be resolved to agree about it or venture to defend it If I were sure to make no use of Logick till these men shal run the hazard of a disputation I would presently go and burn my Aristotle To draw unto an end for I have been too tedious to your Lordship Before I pluck off my disguise and leave the stage whereon I act I could me thinks add somewhat here about the choicing of a man most fit for this authority In which particular as I stand well affected to Perchard for a moderate and quiet man so hath he also a good repute in all the Island both for his vein of Preaching his liberall hospitality and plausible demeanor Or if your Lordship think a forainer more fit there being now the Parish of St. Saviours void and so full room for that induction I durst propose to you Olivier of Jarsey a man which I perswade my self I may say safely not inferiour unto any of both Islands in point of Scholarship and well affected to the English form of Government Add to this that already he is acquainted with the nature of the place as having executed the office of the Commissary or Subdean ever since the introduction of the charge and therefore not to seek in the managing and cariage of his jurisdiction But good God! what follies do we dayly run into when we conceive our selves to be disguised and that our actions are not noted It is therefore high time for me to unmaske my self and humbly crave your Lordships pardon that under any habit I should take upon me to

they handle but they also endevour to breed in them an obstinacy of mind and a sturdy eagernesse of spirit to make them thereby hot prosecutors of their own opinions and impatient of any contrary consideration This is it which maketh all those of their education to affect victory in all the controversies of wit or knowledge with such a violence that even in their very Grammaticall disputations you shall find little boyes maintaine arguments with such a fierie impatience that you would think it above the nature of their years And all this they performe freely and for nothing the poor Paisants son being by them equally instructed with that of the Noblest By this means they get unto their Society great honour and great strength honour in furnishing their Schooles with so many persons of excellent quality or Nobility of whom afterwards they make their best advantages for their strength also As for those of the poorer sort they have also their ends upon them for by this free and liberall education of their children the common people do infinitely affect them besides that out of that ranke of their Scholars they assume such into their fraternity whom they finde to be of a rare wit and excellent spirit or any other way fitted for their profession Thus do they make their own purposes out of all conditions and refuse no fish which either they can draw into their nets or which will offer it self unto them Si locuples quis est avarisunt si pauper ambitiosi quos non oriens non occidens satiaverit soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt Galgacus a British Captain spake it of the Souldiers of the Romans Empire we may as justly verifie it of these Souldiers of the Romish Church they being the men whom neither the West nor East-Indies can satisfie and who with a like fervencie desire the education of the needy and the wealthy Moreover by this method of teaching they do not only strengthen themselves in the affections of men a broad but also fortifie themselves within their own wals at home for by this means there is not one of their society who hath not only perfectly concocted in his head the whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of knowledge but hath gained unto himself the true art of speaking and a readinesse of expressing what he knoweth without the least demurre or haesitancie the greatest happinesse of a Scholar To conclude then and say no more of them and their rare abilities for virtus in hoste probatur it is thought by men of wisdome and judgement that the planting of a Colledge of Jesuites in any place is the onely sure way to reestablish that Religion which they professe and in time to eate out the contrary This notwithstanding they were at the first institution of them mightily opposed and no where more violently then in the University of Paris An University that standeth much upon its liberty and priviledges to which this order was imagined to be an hindrance it being lawfull for them to take any degree in their own houses without reference to any publick exercise or examination In the year 1554. at what time they first began to set foot in France the Colledge of the Sorbonists made a long decree against them in the end whereof are these words and they are worth the reading Uidetur haec societas in negotio fidei periculosa pacis Ecclesiae perturbativa monasticae religionis eversiva magis ad destructionem quam ad adificationem a censure too full of vineger and bitternesse Afterwards in the year 1564. they preferred a Petition to the University that the Colledge which the Bishop of Clermont had built for them might be incorporated into the University and enjoy the immunities of it Upon the Universities deniall of their desire there arose a suit between them and the University in the high Court of Parliament Peter Versoris pleading for the Jesuits and Stephen Pasquier for the other party In the end they were admitted though upon terms of wondrous strictnesse Anno 1594. John Castell a novice of this order having wounded King Henry IV. in the mouth occasioned the banishment of this Society out of all France into which they were not again received till the year 1604. and then also upon limitations more strict then ever Into Paris they were not readmitted untill anno 1606. neither had the liberty of reading Lectures and instructing the youth confirmed unto them till anno 1611. which also was compassed not without great trouble and vexation Per varios casus tot discrimina rerum As Aeneás and his companions came into Latium In this University they have at this instant three houses one of the Novices a second of Institutors which they call the Colledge and a third of professed Jesuites which they style their Monastery or the professed house of St. Lewis In their house of Novices they train up all those whom they have culled out of their Schooles to be of their order and therein initiate them in the arts of Jesuitism and their mysteries of iniquity They there teach them not Grammaticall constructions or composition but instruct them in the paths of virtue courage and obedience according to such examples as their Authors afford them This they say of themselves and their friends for them But he that made the funerall Oration for Henry IV. anno 1610. reporteth it otherwise Latini sermonis obtentu saith he impurissime Gallicae juventutis mores ingenuos foedant Bonarum litterarum praetextu pessimas edocent artes Dum ingenia excolunt animas perdunt c. In their Colledge they have the same method of teaching which the others of their company use in Orleans A Colledge first given unto them by Mr. William Pratt Bishop of Clermount whose house it was but much beautifyed by themselves after his decease For with the mony which he gave unto them by his will which amounted as it was thought to 60000 crowns they added to it the Court called De Langres in St. James street anno 1582. Their Monastery or house of profession is that unto which they retire themselves after they have discharged their duties in the Colledge by reading and studying publickly in their severall Classes When they are here their studies both for time and quality is ad placitum though generally their only studie in it is Policy and the advantage of their cause And indeed out of this Trojan horse it is that those firebrands and incendiaries are let out to disturb and set in combustion the affaires of Christendom out of this forge come all those stratagems and tricks of Machiavillianism which tend to the ruine of the Protestants and the desolation of their Countries I speak not this of their house of Profession here in Paris either only or principally wheresoever they settle they have a house of this nature out of which they issue to overthrow the Gospell Being sent once by their Superiors a necessity

needs must note that as the erecting of these fabricks in these Islands was founded on the ruine of the Deanries so had the birth of this device in England been death unto the Bishopricks No wonder then if those which principally manage the affairs of holy Church so busily bestir themselves in the destroying of this viper which by no other means can come into the world then by the death and ruine of his mother Yet so it is I know not whether by destiny or some other means I would not think but so it is that much of this new plat-form hath of late found favour with us and may in time make entrance to the rest Their Lecturers permitted in so many places what are they but the Doctors of Geneva save only that they are more factious and sustain a party And what the purpose and design of this but so by degrees to lessen the repute of such daies as are appointed holy by the Church and fasten all opinion to their daies of preaching By whose authority stand the Church-wardens at the Temple doors as I have seen it oft in London to collect the bounty of the hearers but only by some of their appointments who finde that duty or the like prescribed here unto the Deacons cap. 1. 2. I could say somewhat also of our ordinary Fasts how much they are neglected every where and no Fast now approved of but the solemn Nay we have suffered it of late to get that ground upon us in the practise at the least that now no common businesse must begin without it Too many such as these I fear I could point out unto your Lordship did I not think that these already noted were too many A matter certainly worthy of your Lordships care and of the care of those your Lordships partners in the Hierarchie that as you suffer not these new inventions to usurp upon our Churches by violence so that they neither grow upon us by cunning or connivence CHAP. VI. 1 King James how affected to this Platform 2 He confirmes the Discipline in both Islands 3 And for what reasons 4 Sir John Peyton sent Governour into Jarzey 5 His Articles against the Ministers there 6 And the proceedings thereupon 7 The distracted estate of the Church and Ministery in that Island 8 They referre themselves unto the King 9 The Inhabitants of Jarzey petition for the English Discipline 10 A reference of both parties to the Councell 11 The restitution of the Dean 12 The Interim of Germanie what it was 13 The Interim of Jarzey 14 The exceptions of the Ministery against the Book of Common-prayer 15 The establishment of the new Canons IN this state and under this Government continued those Islands till the happy entrance of King James upon the Monarchy of England A Prince of whom the brethren conceived no small hopes as one that had continually been brought up by and amongst those of that faction and had so oft confirmed their much desired Presbyteries But when once he had set foot in England where he was sure to meet with quiet men and more obedience he quickly made them see that of his favour to that party they had made themselves too large a promise For in the conference at Hampton Court he publickly professed that howsoever he lived among Puritans and was kept for the most part as a ward under them yet ever since he was of the age of ten years old he ever disliked their opinions and as the Saviour of the world had said though he lived among them he was not of them In this conference also that so memorized Apophthegm of his Majesty No Bishop no King and anon after My Lords the Bishops faith he I may thank ye that these men the Puritans plead thus for my Supremacy Add to this that his Majesty had alwaies fostred in himself a pious purpose not only of reducing all his Realms and Dominions into one uniform order and course of discipline which thing himself avoweth in his Letters Patents unto those of Jarzey but also to establish in all the reformed Churches if possibly it might be done together with unity of Religion and uniformity of devotion For which cause he had commanded the English Liturgie to be translated into the Latine and also into most of the national Languages round about us by that and other more private means to bring them into a love and good opinion of our Government which he oftentimes acknowledged to have been approved by manifold blessings from God himself A heroick purpose and worthy of the Prince from whom it came This notwithstanding that he was enclined the other way yet upon suit made by those of these Islands he confirmed unto them their present orders by a Letter under his private Seal dated the 8. of August in the first year of his reign in England which Letters were communicated in the Synod at St. Hilaries the 18. of September 1605. the Letter written in the French Tongue but the tenor of them was as followeth James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. unto all those whom these presents shall concern greeting Whereas we our selves and the Lords of our Councell have been given to understand that it pleased God to put it into the heart of the late Queen our most dear sister to permit and allow unto the Isles of Jarzey and Guernsey parcel of our Dutchy of Normandy the use of the Government of the reformed Churches in the said Dutchy whereof they have stood possessed until our coming to this Crown for this couse we desiring to follow the pious example of our said Sister in this behalf as well for the advancement of the glory of Almighty God as for the edification of his Church do will and ordain that cur said Isles shall quietly enjoy their said liberty in the use of the Ecclesiastical Discipline there now established forbidding any one to give them any trouble or impeachment as long as they contain themselves in our obedience and attempt not any thing against the pure and sacred Word of God Given at our Palace at Hampton Court the 8. day of August Anno Dom. 1603. and of our reign in England the first Signed above James R. The reasons which moved this Prince to assent unto a form of Government which he liked not was partly an ancient rule and precept of his own viz. That Princes at their first entrance to a Grown ought not to innovate the government presently established But the principal cause indeed was desire not to discourage the Scots in their beginnings or to lay open too much of his intents at once unto them For since the year 1595. his Majesty wearied with the confusions of the Discipline in that Church established had much busied himself in restoring their antient place and power unto the Bishops He had already brought that work so forwards that the Scottish Ministers had admitted of 13 Commissioners which was the antient

convenient time to the widow of the deceased to provide her of an house and shall dispose the residue unto the next Incumbent for which the Sequestrator shall be accomptant VI. 6. In the same case of vacancy if within six months the Governour do not present a Clerk unto the Reverend father in God the Bishop of Winton or if that See be void to the most Reverend father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury to be admitted and instituted to the said Benefice then shall the Dean give notice of the time of the vacancy unto the said Lords the Bishop and Archbishop whereby it is in the lapse that so it may be by them collated And then if any one be offered to them the Dean shall give a testimony of the Demeanure and sufficiency of the party to be approved by them before he put him into actuall possession of the said Benefice VII 7. The Dean shall have the Registring and Probate of Testaments which be approved by the seal of his office and afterwards enregistred He shall also have the registring of the Inventories of the moveable goods of Orphanes which he shall carefully record to give copies of them at all times and as often as he is required Also he shall give letters of administration of the goods of Intestates dying without heirs of their body to the next of kindred VIII 8. They which have the keeping of the Will whether he be Heir Executor or any other shall transcribe and bring it unto the Dean within one moneth in default whereof he shall be brought by processe into the Court and be constrained to pay double charges And the said Dean for the said Testaments Inventories and Letters of administration shall have such fees as are specified in a Table for this purpose IX 9. All legaoies moveable made unto the Church the Ministers Schools or to the poor shall be of the cognisance of the Dean but upon any opposition made concerning the validity of the Will the Civill Courts shall determine of it between parties X. 10. It shall appertain unto the Dean to take cognisance of all detention of tithes consecrated to the Church of what kinde so ever they be which have been payed unto the Ministers and which they have enjoyed or had in possession for the space of forty years and every person convicted of withholding or fraudulently detaining the said tithes shall be adjudged to make restitution and shall pay the cost and charges of the party And for the preservation of all rights tithes rents lands and possessions belonging to the Church there shall be a Terrice made by the Bailiffe and Justices assisted by the Dean and the Kings Atturney XI 11. The Dean shall have also power to make a Deputy or Commissary which shall supply the place and office of the Dean as far as his Commission shall extend whereof there shall be an authentick copy in the rails of the said Court CHAP. VIII Of the Overseers or Church wardens Article I. 1. THe next week after Easter the Minister and people of every parish shall make choice of two to be Church-wardens discreet men of good life and understanding able to read and write if such may be had But if the people cannot agree on such a choice then shall the Minister name one and the Parishioners another by the major part of their voices which two shall be after sworn in the next Court and there advertised of their duties II. 2. Their duty shall be to see that the Churches and Church-yards be not abused by any profane and unlawfull actions as also not to suffer any excommunicated person to come into the Church after the sentence hath been published in that Parish they shall also carefully present from time to time those which neglect the publick exercises of Divine service and the administration of the Sacraments and genenerally all crimes of Ecclesiasticall cognisance which said presentations they shall exhibite under their hands nor shall they be constrained to present above twice a year III. 3. They shall have care particularly that the Churches be well repaired and the Church-yard well fenced and shall see that all things appertaining to the Church the administration of the word and Sacraments from time to time may be provided As viz. a Bible of the best translation and the largest letter the book of Common-prayers both for the Minister as also for the Clerk or Sexton of the Parish one Parchment book to Register the Christnings Marriages and Burials a decent Communion table with a Carpet to cover it during Divine service the Fonts for Baptism cups and vessels dedicated to that use together with a fair linnen cloth and a coffer wherein to put the said utensils also a trunk or chest for the peoples alms a cloth and cushion for the pulpit They shall also provide bread and wine for the the Communion and shall see that the seats and benches be well fitted for the conveniency of the Minister and of the people with the advice and counsell of the Ministers and shall look to the ●ents and revenues of the Churches treasure IV. 4. The said Church-wardens shall be enjoyned to keep a good and true accompt both of their disbursments or receipts and of the employment which they have made of the money issuing out of the Church treasury which shall from time to time be published according to the custome and of that also which is remaining in the hands of them or of the Overseers of the poor They shall employ the said treasure in things necessary and fitting for the Church and the common good guiding themselves by the direction of their Minister and the principall of the parish in such extraordinary matters as concern the Parish In case of publick businesse the assembly of the Estates shall prescribe them what they think expedient for the common profit and before they quit their charge they shall give notice to the Parishioners in the Easter week to hear thier accounts which shall passe under the hands of the Minister and the chief of the Parish if any of the said Parishioners or others shall refuse to pay the moneys which they owe to the said treasury the said Church-wardens and Overseers or any of them shall prosecute the law against them In case of any controversie about the said accounts or abuse to be reformed the Dean and Minister of the Parish where the said controversie or abuse shall be together with the Bailiffe and Justices shall determine of it as is most convenient V. 5. The said Church-wardens on the Sunday during Divine service shall search in places suspected for games or riot and having the Constables for their assistants shall search also into Alehouses and houses of misdemeanor VI. 6. They shall be carefull that there be no detention or concealment of any thing appertaining to the Church and shall also seise into their hands all goods and legacies moveable given unto the Church or to the poor according