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A30098	A relation of the troubles of the three forraign churches in Kent, caused by the injunctions of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, Anno Dom. 1634 &c. written by J.B., Minister of the word of God.	J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5452; ESTC R200067	48,685	60

prejudice to the Church-government of England that his intention was to governe the Church of England according to the Canons except the King would restraine him that he told the King that he would begin with his owne Diocesse that they vanted they did not feare him nor care for his injunctions but he hoped the King would maintaine him he could not abide to heare so much of Churches and said there was but one Church and many such like things these criminations and scoffes were not uttered with one breath but intermixed in his discourse The Deputies that came not there to dispute and answer every thing but to request and heare what my Lord would say did answere but now and then as they durst or might not going beyond their commission told him that they were not the cause of scisme and that there were many such scismaticks as he termed them but indeed godly reformed Protestants in those places where no strangers Churches were as in Devonshire Dorsetshire and other Counties that they never vanted in that manner did never exalt their owne discipline but contented with their owne medled not with theirs they hoped they should enjoy their priviledges as heretofore that they could shew certificates of their good behaviour civill and quiet carriage both of the Mayor Aldermen yea Bourmouth of Canterbury of the Deane and Chapter of Christs Church and of the Lords Knights and Gentry of the Country He told them he had heard good report of them and would not disgrace them so much as to aske for certificates and that he thought charitably of them that they were not the cause nor counsellours and maintainers of scismaticks but the permission of the forraigne Churches and discipline was the occasion of many factious persons in his Diocesse The Deputies told him that the execution of his injunctions would be the dissipation yea the destruction of their Churches that the ministry and poore could not be maintained he seemed not to beleeve it and said that they were not to regard two or three Ministers they replyed they did not speak for themselves but for their Churches many among them not understanding the english tongue he said that was but a designe and that from the beginning they should have sent their children to the parishes to learne the language and accustome them to it from their infancy and youth In fine his full resolution was to have his injunctions put in full execution on the day prefixed and that they should look to it to their perils and commanded Sir Nathaniel Brent his Vicar-generall to goe on with them the Deputies said they had the Kings royall promise who said he would shew unto the forraigne Churches the same savour which the King his Father had shewed unto them my Lord said that they might goe unto the King if they would as any Subject might doe and his hand should not be the heavier on them for it those that were English borne and the Kings Subjects should be subject to his jurisdiction and if they had any thing to say to him hereafter they might come to him againe and so dismissed the Deputies Now because mention is made of the certificate and good testimony of the Chapter of Canterbury it may be fitly inserted in this place We the Deane and chapter of the cathedrall and Metropoliticall church of Christ canterbury At the request of the Walloon congregation here being and residing do testifie and declare that the body of the same congregation for many yeeres past and still doe very religiously obediently orderly and civilly demeane and behave themselves towards God and all the Kings Majesties officers and others in these parts for any thing we have ever heard to the contrary and most painfully and industriously labour in their severall vocations so as none of them are chargeable or axy wayes burdensome to the English but rather very helpfull to the poorer sort by setting them to spinning and other workes whereby they are much relieved 〈◊〉 kept from idlenesse Neither have we knowne or heard of any just complaints made against the same Congregation for any hinderance or prejudice done by them to the English people 〈◊〉 these parts And we are verily perswaded that the example of their painfull industry and diligent labours doth move and stirre up the honest poore of our Nation to set themselves to worke In testimony whereof we have set our cemmon seale Dated 〈◊〉 our chapterhouse the 25. of March in the yeere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James by the grace of God King of England France and Ireland defender of the faith c. the one and twentieth and of Scotland the six and fiftieth Anno Dom. 1623. There was another certificate of the Knights and Gentlemen neere Canterbury couched in the same tenor and words and there was one of the Major Bourmouth of Canterbury in the same stile onely an exception by parenthesis except some few of them whom the body of the said Congregation did not nor doe approve of The Deputies related to the Coetus what had passed between my Lord Arch-bishop them who together found it fitting that they should stay till the fifth of February the day appointed for the assembly of the Synod of all the Deputies of all the stranger Churches in this Kingdome then and there to make a relation of all the passages which had happened unto that day The Deputies of the forraign Churches appeared at the appointed time shewed their letters of credence the persons chosen to be the moderator the Assistant and the Scribe of the Synod according to its custome we intend not to write downe the acts of that Synod in this short Epitome but onely what concernes this businesse the Deputies of Kent made a discourse to the Assembly of what they had done and were approved as having begun there where they should namely with my Lord of Canterbury who otherwise would have been very much offended if they had gone first to the King who would without doubt have sent them to his Arch-bishop but they seeing the Deputies could not by their petition to my Lord cause him to revoke his injunctions and that my Lord told them they might goe to the King if they would they holding their priviledges from the Kings Majesty immediatly and not from my Lord and that they had no other way then to goe directly to the King there being especially no Parliament assembled at that time the Synod found it fitting yea necessary to send joyntly together some Deputies to the King in the name of the whole Synod who represented the forraigne Churches of this Kingdome with a petition to his Majesty and a speech to be made unto him The Deputies were Master Marmet Master Primrose Master Gasparus Master Proast Master Beauuois and John Bulteel Ministers besides Master Lucie and Master du Mont Elders Sir William St. Ravi a French Gentleman was the man who at the request of the Deputies went to the King

to know his mind who told him he was content to receive a petition but would not heare any discourse so those that were deputed to that action on the 12 of February waited for the King at his comming forth out of his Chappell going to dinner and Master Marmet one of the Ministers of the French Church of London accompanied by the foresaid Deputies Ministers and Elders gave unto his Majesty the petition This was the Petition To the KINGS most excellent Majesty The humble Petition of the forraigne Churches in this Realme of ENGLAND Humbly sheweth to your sacred Majesty That the Petitioners and their predecessours by your Highnesse favour and your noble Progenitors have and doe 〈◊〉 enjoy severall priviledges concerning the state of government of their Churches But of late they have beene acquainted with an Injunction made by the right honourable the Lord of Canterbury his grace and directed to the forraigne Churches which are in his Diocesse By the execution whereof 〈◊〉 will ensue the dissipation not onely of the said Churches but also of all other forraigne Churches in this your Majesties Kingdome The Petitioners therefore humbly beseech that your sacred Majestie would extend your highnesse favour towards them still and be graciously pleased to heare the Petitioners deputies in your most honourable Privie Councell upon the most humble Remonstrances which the Petitioners will produce unto your Majestie and their Honours therein And as in duty bound the Petitioners will continue to pray to God for your Majesties long and prosperous reigne c. The King going to dinner gave the Petition to my Lord Chamberlin to give it to one of the Secretaries who told the King many considerable things in the behalfe of the forraigne Churches which he affected and favoured to whom the King said We must beleeve our Archbishop of Canterbury in the hearing of Master Gasparus one of the Deputies My Lord Chamberlin came and told the Deputies what he had told the King and what the King had charged him with and that he went to give the Petition to Sir John Cooke Secretary they thanked his Honour for his good will towards them and care of them glad that the Petition should fall into the hands of that religious Secretary 〈◊〉 that good Patriot and not in the hands of Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Popish Secretary and my Lord of Canterburies creature The said afternoone Sir William Saint 〈◊〉 waiting on the Kings Majesty in Saint James Parke give unto his Majesty the Speech in French which should have beene made unto him in the morning The Tenour whereof was this thus translated into English To the King Most gracious Soveraigne The forraigne Churches which under the favour maintenance and support of the Kings your Predecessours whose memory is blessed have been established and who doe as yet subsist in your Kingdome under the same favour of your Majesty Having 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prejudication or fore-judgement of their dissipation in an Injunction directed from my Lord Archbishop of canterbury to those churches that reside in his Diocesse are here in the persons of 〈◊〉 Deputies at your Majesties feet to intreat your Majesty most humbly that with the same affection and royall promise with the which it was pleased at its happy comming to the crowne to confirme unto them their priviledges granted unto them by your Majesties predecessours it will be also pleased now to prevent their 〈◊〉 just apprehensions and stop the blow of their ruine The said Injunction hath two branches the one whereof is directed unto 〈◊〉 that are borne in this land tending that they are to seperate themselves and to goe and remaine every 〈◊〉 in his owne Parish the other concernes the strangers that they are to leave and quit their ordinary Liturgy and to range and ranke themselves to that of England The first command Sir doth undermine at one blow and overthrow the fovndation of the subsistence of their churches For although the natives doe in some places make the greater and in some others the least part thereof yet neverthelesse they are every where the most important and considerable part because they onely possesse some meanes and by their extraordinary liberall reliefe the Ministrie is entertained and a great quantity of Poore maintained 〈◊〉 they are charged So that those withdrawing themselves the Pastors will remaine without entertainment 〈◊〉 churches without exercise the Poore without assistance and the rest being composed of no others then Artificers ignorant of the English tongue and whose abode being not stable for want of meanes is as uncertaine as indifferent shall be constrained to goe and seeke elsewhere the exercise 〈◊〉 their religion Thus all being dissipated by this first command the second will remaine very unprofitable The singular Pietie of your Majestie is well knowne of all and we have seen with our eyes notable effects of its good naturall and mercifull disposition towards those that professe with it the same purity of doctrine to make us ever to beleeve that it will suffer under its reigne or can see with his eyes so great adesolation That these poore flocks who hath escaped the fire the massacres and persecutions are come here and have been received and put under covert as in a place of refuge and sanctuary of a holy Temple shall be now dispersed and compelled to seek elswhere some certaine and sure seat and dwelling That these forraigne plants cast by divers stormes and violent tempests on the coasts of this Island so carefully gathered together by the good Edward the VI and welcomed by him so favourably maintained and entertained by that vertuous Princesse Queen Elizabeth attained to perfection under the reigne as happy as peaceable of that great and wise King James your Majesties Father and in this time flourishing as much as ever under your gracious dominion and government shall be now plucked up by the roots as it were to the blame check and contempt of the prudence and charity of all those who hitherto have beheld it with a good eye and favoured their growth That those lively Monuments erected to the everlasting memory of all those good Princes and that doe highly publish over all the world the fame and glory of their piety charity and hospitality towards the afflicted members of the Lord Jesus should be cast downe and reduced into dust That those 〈◊〉 and expressed testimonies of the union of this Kingdome with the reformed Churches of France and of Germany and of the united Provinces so religiously kept and upheld hitherto should now be broken and sent back as in signe and token of a sad and totall seperation they are things unto the which we hope your Majesty will never wholy condescend and resolve Especiall at this time wherein the Churches of Germany swimming in their owne blood those of France in their teares all in the midst of their ruine and apprehensions of a greater desolation they have no other then your Majesty on whom they can turne cast and settle both