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A13028	An assertion for true and Christian church-policie VVherein certaine politike obiections made against the planting of pastours and elders in every congregation, are sufficientlie aunswered. And wherein also sundrie projectes are set downe, how the discipline by pastors & elders may be planted, without any derogation to the Kings royal prerogatiue, any indignitie to the three estates in Parleament, or any greater alteration of the laudable lawes, statutes, or customes of the realme, then may well be made without damage to the people.	Stoughton, William, fl. 1584.; Knollys, Francis, Sir, d. 1643.	1604 (1604)	STC 23318; ESTC S117843	177,506	448

nominate and elect their new Mayor Sherifes and Baylifes But that the Aldermen principall Townsmen Boroughmaisters and men having borne chief offices in those Cities Townes Boroughes haue easilie bene wrought by ambitious persons to giue their consents vnto vnworthie men though it haue pleased the Ll. Bb. with seene and allowed to haue spred and published this saying yet that the same saying is wholy vnworthie of anie credite to be giuen vnto it or to bee regarded of any wise and indifferent man let the sober peaceable elections made of the worthies of the lande hereafter mencioned be witnesses And to leaue to speake of the election of the Lord The officers in Cities Townes corporate chosen without contentiō ambitious working of vnworthy men Mayor of the Citie of London Sherifes Aldermen Wardens of companies Chāberlaynes Bridge-maisters and other annuall officers of honor and dignitie let vs consider whether the Citizens of London haue bene wrought by ambitious persons to choose Maister Wilbraham Maister Onslie Mr Bromly to bee their Recorders all three afterwarde the Queenes sollicitors and Maister Bromly Lord Chancelour of Englande and let vs consider whether the same Citizens as men of affection and want of ●ight iudgement did elect to be Recorders of the same Citie Mai. Serieant Fleetwood Maister Serieant Fleming Maister Serieant Drue and now Maister Crooke a mā wise learned and religious a Coūseler and Iusticer within the Principalitie of Wales The Recorder of the Towne of Bedford is the right honorable the lord St Iohns of Bletsoe The Recorder of Bristoll was a long time Maister Poppam now Lord chief Iustice of England The Recorder of Northampton before he came to be Iudge in the Kings bench was Maister Serieant Yelverton a favourer of the trueth an vpright Iusticer The Recorder of Warwicke was Maister Serieant Puckering afterward Lord Keeper of the great seale And of the same Towne the Recorder now is a worthie Knight descended from a noble house Sir Foulke Grevile The Recorder of Covētrie is Sir Iohn Harrington Knight a man zealous for the true feare of God The Recorder of Chichester was Mai. Serieant Lewkner now chief Iustice in the principalitie of Wales The Recorder of Norwich was Maister Cooke the Kings Atturney generall And who soeuer shall enquire after the names after the maner of election of all the Recorders in all other Cities Boroughes of the land I doubt not but he shall find them all to haue bene farre frō any least shew of ambitious working the Citiezens and Townsmen to nominate and elect thē Moreover as these Noble persons these sage graue learned and christian Gentlemen quietlie and in all peaceable manner with vpright and good affectiō and iudgement without ambitiō haue bene chosen by the Citizens Townsmen Borough-masters to the offices of Recordershippes So likewise manie sundrie honorable Coūselors Honorable Counselors chosen high stewardes without ambitious working haue bene and as occasion is ministred are daily elected by Citizens Townsmen to be their high Stewards Sir Frācis Knolles an honorable Counsailour one whose faith was famous among the churches as well abroad as at home by the electiō of the Citizens of Oxford remayned vntill he died high Stewarde of the Citie of Oxford The right honorable Sir Francis Walsingam by the cōmon Counsayle of Ipswich was made high Steward of the same Towne after whose decease the same cōmon coūsell by their electiō surrogated into the same place the right honorable the L. Hunsdon late L. Chamberlaine the right honorable Sir Christopher Hattō L. Chancelour of Englande by the Townsmen of Cābridg was chosen to be high steward for the town of Cābridge The right honorable the old Earle of Arundell after him the right honorable Earle of Lincolne and after his death the right honorable the Lord High Admirall of England now Earle of Notingham by the Borough-maisters of the Towne of Gildforde was elected to be high steward of the Towne of Gildeford Of all which honorable persons and of all other their Peeres chosen in other places of the Kingdome by the same meanes to the like offices there is great reason iust cause for the reverend Bb. to cary a more reverend estimation towards thē then to burthen them as ambitious persons to haue sought their places at the hands of men affected wanting right iudgment As for any other offices of credite dignitie charge and gouerment in the common weale now remayning in the choyse of the commons it may easilie be proved that the common people in sundrie places haue bent and opposed thē selues against ambitious persons who by sinister indirect meanes haue hunted for preferrement at their handes And what if it can not be gayne-said but that some publicke officers chosen by publicke applause of the people haue corruptly behaued themselues in their charges and haue not so equally and indifferently distributed iustice to all degrees as it became them yet this their misdemeanor can no more iustly be laid as a fault nor any more disgrace or discountenance the ancient and commendable forme and manner of election then the hipocrisie or counterfeyt zeale of an euill man ordeyned by the Bishop to be a Minister can be imputed vnto his letters of orders or manner of ordination Besides if none bee able to proue that the choyse of the Knights Knights of the Shires other officers chosen by the people without trouble to the state of our Shires Coroners of the Counties Verderers of the Kings forrests resting in the free voices and consents of the freeholders that the nomination of the high Constables being in the disposition of the Iustices of peace at their quarter sessions that the choyse of our peti-Conestables third Boroughes Tything men Church wardens Wardens for the high wayes overseers for the poore side men such like remayning altogether in the free election of the sutors to courts leets and law dayes and of the inhabitants Parishioners of every Village Hamlet or Tything haue bene troublesome to the Lievetenants of the Shires to the Stewards of our Courts to the Lords of our liberties nor to the Ordinaries of the Diocesses If I say there be not any one man able to bring foorth some few persons for many yeres passed by whom the Officers and Magistrates of the Queenes peace haue bene sued vnto and importuned for the pacification of any strife contention or debate of any busy head or ambitious person raysed among the people about the choise of any one of these Officers then I say it is meete and it importeth the Lords Bishops very deepely that for ever hereafter they bee silent and never any more vtter so vile a slander against so Noble a people as are the people of England viz. that vpon affection and want of right iudgment they will easily be led by ambitious persons to preferre vnworthy persons vnto all Offices of gayne or dignitie Or that

perinde vares pluralities non residencies wherin not the people to be taught but their owne backes and bellies to bee clothed and fedde is wholy respected Now thē that this manner of goverment wherin the afore specified and the like discōmodities daylie fall out vnder colour of not diminishing the Kings prerogatiue of not altering lawes setled of not attempting dangerous innovations of the preserving of the right of Patrones Bb. and Archd. should still be continued without any mention or remembrance to be once had of their discontinuance especiallie in the time of peace vnder a Christian Magistrate and in a state as he sayeth reformed wee humbly leaue to the wise and mature deliberation of our most Christian King and State in Parleament And we most humbly beseech the King State that indifferentlie freelie and largelie it may be argued Supplicatiō to the Kinge and State in Parleament heard and examined whether it be possible that the tenth parte of these or anie other the like disorders corruptions grievances can possibly fall out in the church by that platforme of Discipline which is required to be planted And to the end that the Kings Maiestie and the State might rightlie and perfectlie bee Petition ordinatiō c. of Ministers or Pastours howe the same may be made without Bb. or Archdeacōs not disagree able to divers lawes alreadie setled informed and resolved of those pointes whereof we now speake viz of the petition ordination election presentation and admittance of every Parochiall Pastour to any church with cure of soules how the same may stand and not be disagreeable to diuers lawes alreadie setled and in force it is requisite that the substance of these thinges in this place bee intreated of wherein against the base office meane person of the Archdeacon we oppose the Royall office most excellent person of the King against the immoderate office and stately person of one lordly Bishop we oppose the meeke and tēperate cariage of a Senat or Presbyterie of many wise learned and grave Ministers togither with a Reverend assemblie of the Ancientes and chiefe Fathers of every Church destitute of a Pastour As for the Patrones right wee are so far from diminishing any iotte of the true right which by laws setled he ought to haue as that he shall quietlie possesse his interest and that with lesse trouble and expence yea and with greater priviledge then he did before Thus therefore touching the office and person of the King the duetie of the Presbiterie people the right of the Patron and the person of the Minister to bee ordeyned thus and thus we saye and thus and thus as we think may our sayings well stand with lawes setled By an Act primo Eliz. c. 1. the King hath ful power and authoritie by letters patētes vnder the great seale of England when and as often as need shall require as he shall thinke meete and cōvenient and for such and so long time as shall please his H. to assigne name authorize such person or persons beeing naturall born subiectes as his Maiestie shal thinke meete to exercise vse occupie exequut vnder his H. all manner of iurisdictions privileges and preheminences in any wise touching or concerning any spirituall or ecclesiasticall iurisdiction within this Realme of Englande Agayne by the booke of ordeyning Bishoppes Priestes and Deacons it is prescribed that the Bishoppe with their The Bb. Priests must lay on their hands Priestes shall laye their handes severally vpon the heads of everie one that receaveth Orders that every one to be made a Minister must be of vertuous conversation and without crime sufficientlie instructed in the holy Scriptures a man meete to exercise his ministerie duelie that he must be called tried and examined that he must bee presented by the Archd. and be made openly in the face of the Church with prayer to God and exhortation to the people And in a statute made 21. of King H. 8 it is affirmed That a Bishoppe must haue sixe The Bishops must vse six Chapleines at giuing of orders Chapleines at giving of orders Besides by an ancient and lowable custome the Parishes and Parish Churches within every Archdeaconrie remayne vnto this daye distributed into certaine Deanries Every Archdeacon devided into Deanries amōg the Ministers of which Deanries the Parson or Vicar of the auncientest Church commonly called the Mother Church of the Deanrie vnles by consent some other be chosen by the Ministers them selues hath the first place and is the chief director and moderator of whatsoever things are propounded in their Synodall meeting which Minister also is called Archipresbiter or Decanus curalis according to the appellation of the chief Minister of the mother or chiefe church of that Diocesse who is called Archipresbiter or Decanus cathedarlis so that vnto this day these Ministers meeting at the Archdeacōs visitations once in a yeare at the least there remayneth in the Church of England a certaine image or shadowe of the true ancient Apostolicall conferences and meetings Wherefore from these lawes from this ancient maner of the meetinges of Ministers and of having one principal and chief moderator amongst them according to the Apostolicall practise and vsage of the primatiue church thus alreadie setled in the church of England wee humbly leave it to bee considered by the Kings Maiestie First whether it were not meete and convenient for his Highnes by his letters patentes vnder the great Seale of A Minister to be ordeined by the Bishops and a companie of Ministers at the Kings commandement England to assigne name authorize the Bishops six or moe Ministers within everie Deanerie continually resiant vpon their benefices and diligentlie teaching in their charge to vse and execute all maner of iurisdiction privilege and preheminence concerning any spirituall ordination election or institution of Ministers to bee placed in the Parochiall Churches or other places with cure of soules within Secondlie when any Parish Church or other place with cure of soules shal be voide whether it were not meete convenient that the auncientes and chiefe Fathers of that place within a time to be limited for that purpose should intimate the same vacancie vnto the office Vacancie of a benefice to be intimated to the kings office of the Kings civill Officer appointed for that Shire or Diocesse to the end the same Officer by authoritie frō the King might command in the Kings name the Bishop and other Ministers to elect and ordeine and the people of the same place to approve allow of some able and godlie person to succ●ede in the Church Thirdly the Patrone if the same be A lay patrone insteed of varying his Clerck may present two Clerkes at one time a common and laie person having now libertie to vary his Clerk if he be found vnable whether it were not meete and convenient to avoid all maner of varying that within

commaund a Minister to be presented ordeyned elected to be a Pastour in a parochiall Church as hee hath to cōmaund a Bishop to be elected confirmed and cōsecrated to an Episcopall sea And are we not then merveylouslie giddi-headded new-fangled and strange innovators Againe when wee desire that the King at the humble suite of the Ministers the Patron and the people would be pleased to confirme and admitt the Patrones Clerke in to the temporalities of a benefice what other thing is required but that the possession of no church should be delivered vnto any Minister without the Kings publike writt And would not this breed a perilous sturr garboyle discord and contention when the Archdeacons pretie signet as Dagon falling downe before the Arck should giue place bow down and do reverence vnto the Kings of England seale at armes Oh! but in this platforme there be other dangerous innovations and alterations not to be attēpted Yea And what then be they The Admonitor him self The Prophets ought to bee tried by the Prophetes in his admonition holdeth Yea Mai. Bilson and all other supporters of the Hyerarchie defended That the Cleargie ought to i●dge of the Clergie and that the Prophetes ought to be tried examined and ordeyned onely by the Prophetes and that the spirites of the Prophetes are subiect to the spirites of the Prophetes Wherein then consisteth the disagreement and variance betweene vs and them touching the ordination of a Prophet by Prophetes or of a Minister by Ministers Certes to mine vnderstanding there is none other matter of dissonancie in this case but even alonely this viz. That he by these wordes the spirites Corinth of the prophetes are subiect to the prophetes intendeth that the Spirits of many prophetes touchinge their triall examinatiō and ordination are subiect to the spirit of one prophet and that Whether the spirites of manie Prophets be subiect to one or of one to many therefore one prophete by his owne spirite may trie examine and ordeyne manie Prophetes Whereas on the other side we affirme that one prophet according to this rule of our holy faith is to speake and the other prophetes are to iudge and that no one prophete may trie examine or ordeyne many prophetes Because from this place wee gather that the spirites of many prophetes in the ordinarie course of the ministerie of the Worde were neuer subiected in this case to the spirite of one Prophete But in this platforme there is no mention made of the King if he bee patrone neither is there any institution spoken of and then howe can any action of quare impedit bee brought to try the right if two patrones pretend title to the Patronage besides the Patrone by this platforme must fetch his Clerckes only from the Vniversities Schooles of learning and Nurseries of the Ministerie whereas now he hath libertie to present any Clerke wheresoever or howsoever ordayned Againe strife and contention may arise in the presbytery betwene the Bishops and the Ministers them selues appointed to be examiners and ordeyners which of the two Clerkes nominated by the Patrone is most worthy to be preferred If both the Patrones Clerkes for non abilitie or criminousnes be refused who shall then nominate and to whom shall the election devolue And lastlie what if the Bishop and presbytery shall disalow one for vnabilitie which in deed is notwithstanding of abilitie to teach to all these difficulties thus wee aunswere If the Kinges Maiestie be Patrone to any benefice with cure of soules because Touching the Kinges patronage we iudge and confesse him to be a King endowed with a rare and singuler spirit of zeale for the glorie of our God with an excellent spirit of loue for the saluation of the soules of his subiects and to be the Nehemiah of our age sent vnto vs from aboue for the building of the walls and reedifying of the ports of the house of God which were brokē downe and devoured We for our partes doubt nothing at all nay rather we most certeynly perswade our selues his Highnes having once bene pleased to prescribe all wholesome commendable lawes vnto his people will also vouchsafe much more to prescribe lawes yea and to be a law vnto him selfe And that his Maiestie wil set this busines of the Lords house so neare vnto his Kingly Christian heart by the planting of able Ministers in all the Churches of his Highnes Patronage as that all other Patrons by his godly example wil be excited readily to walke in the Kings path to weare the Kinges coloures and to become the Kinges chiefe favourytes in this so holie a worke And therefore touching the Kings Patronages cum Maiestas imperatoria H. de ley fidei 3. l. ex imperfecto legibus esse soluta videatur wee commend them wholy to the Kinges most Christian care providence and fidelitie The Bishops institution and writt of quare impedit wee graunt must cease The Bishops institution may cease but in place of institution the election ordination by the Presbytery succeedeth and the Clerke nominated by the Patrone elected and ordayned by the Presbyterie shall haue idemius ad Ecclesiam in Ecclesia which in forme● times the Clercke presented by the Patrone and instituted by the Bishop was wont to haue If any suite in law happē for the right of Patronage betwene two or moe Patrōs If suite fall out betwene two patrons what then may bee done pretending title to the gift of one benefice It seemeth that this suit might haue far easier and more speedie way of triall by some other writt then by the writ of quare impedit for vpon this writ many times by negligence or vnskilfulnes of the Aturneyes it falleth out that one of the parties is driven some times to sitt downe by great losse and not to haue his title tried at all onely for want of some ceremoniall forme not observed in the pleadings of the cause And therefore both Patrones within the time to be limited by the Kings writ having nominated their Clerkes to the Presbytery as heretofore they presented to the Bishop we leaue it to be considered whether it were not meet and convenient that the Presbitery should wholy defer the election ordinatiō of eyther their Clerks vntill the right of patronage were finallie adiudged before the Kings Iustices at the common law vpō which iudgment passed they might then without scruple or impediment proceede to the full election ordination of that Patrones Clerke for whom the iudgment was given By which maner of triall if the action might bee brought in the nam● of Patrone against Patrone the Clerkes should not onely be freed from much obloqui wherevnto they are now subiect by prosecution of suites at law one Clercke against another but also they should bee exempted from all expence labour and turmoile with which heretofore they haue incumbered thē selues to the hinderance of their studies and decay of