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A30253	A case concerning the buying of bishops lands with, the lawfulness thereof and the difference between the contractors for sale of those lands, and the corporation of VVells, ordered, Anno. 1650, to be reported to the then Parliament / with the necessity thereof, since fallen upon Dr. Burges.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5670; ESTC R11486	85,757	85

A CASE Concerning The Buying of BISHOPS LANDS with the Lawfulness thereof AND The Difference between the Contractors for sale of those Lands and the Corporation of VVells Ordered Anno. 1650. to be Reported to the then PARLIAMENT With the Necessity thereof since fallen upon Dr. BURGES August ad fratres in Eremo Ser. 52. Duae sunt res Conscientia Fama Conscientia necessaria est tibi Fama proximo tuo Qui fidens Conscientiae suae negligit famam Crudelis est LONDON Printed in the year of our Lord 1659. To the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND THis Nation hath great cause to bless the God of our liues for ever who hath so gratiously kept off the horrid Distractions and Confusions feared by most upon the Death of the Late Lord Protector and for that he hath also put it into the heart of his Present Highness Gentis Anglicanae nunc deliciarum so seasonably to Call You together in the antient way as a free Parliament for setling this Church and Common Wealth in Truth Peace and Righteousness according to Law Your main Work is Settlement as Healers of the Breaches And our Wounds call for Lenitives not Corrosives Now is the time to shew the depth of Wisdome not height of Animosity to seek peace and pursue it not to be for warr and to let your moderation to be known to all men You cannot be ignorant that there ever have been and will be many Quack-Salving spirits who fancying to themselves new Models of Government for sinister ends think You to be very weak if You differ from them Such will never be for any settlement at all but run up and down both City and Country like so many Ignes fatui to inveagle well-meaning men ignorant of their devices to subscribe their Factious Petitions Wherein under pretence of the Publick they designe to make You first to hold the stirrup and then to be their footstool to get themselves into the saddle Little do those turbulent Polypragmatists know of what spirit they are much less do they consider that Ignatius Loyola ever lies at the bottome of all those Divisions which their seditious zeal would kindle among You. But I trust Your Wisdome will timely see through such self-ended Projects and resolutely reject such destructive Endevours to Divide You that they might reign If Your Counsels miscarry and in stead of quenching old fires new flames break out Woe woe to this Nation For that in all likelihood unless men will tempt God to work Miracles as the Devil did Christ to command Bread out of Stones this will devour Us. And then who shall save You I beseech You therefore to mark those that cause Divisions and offences and avoid them For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Pardon this boldness in him that hath by the space of 40 years been a diligent Observer of and a faithfull servant to Parliaments so farr as they seriously sought the Publick Good and so resolveth to be to You. Upon which account he humbly maketh this Address The occasion this Many and loud have been the Clamors against the late long Parliament for seising and selling the Lands of Bishops and other Cathedral men For this They their Agents and all purchasers are proclaimed guilty of that odious sin of Sacriledge and none more than this Your servant Hereupon he hath often been pressed to Vindicate the Parliament and thereby to right himself who hath long felt the scourge of tongues and been made to drink the gaul of Pens for purchasing some of those Lands and for his just endeavours to possess what he hath paid for by some most unjustly detained from him in the judgments of the honourable first the Committe of Parliament and after the Commissioners for Removing Obstructions in the sale of those Lands Which last being by special Act of Parliament impoured thereunto have Heard and Determined the same but to no purpose if Contempt may prevail Both these are here faithfully spread before You not by way of Complaint but of Account You being the most proper Patrons of the Vindication of a Parliament and best able to judge both of their frauds that have abused the State and of their Contumacy who being upon a full Hearing Ordered to Reconvey what they have fraudulently gotten into their Conveyance refuse to obey any Orders whatsoever And threaten to bring all before You not as hoping to get any Orders made against them reversed but as promising to themselves a lodging of the Cause once more in a Committee thereby to prevent all further proceedings against them elsewhere Now the Good Lord make You all men that have understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do And so temper Your spirits and govern Your Councels that You may be such a Blessing to this Nation as that the Children yet Unborn may call You Blessed This is and shall be the daily prayer of him that without art or private ends is Feb. 9. 1658 9. Your most humble and real servant Cornelius Burges THE FIRST PART Declaring The Occasion of Dr. Cornelius Burges his buying of Bishops Lands With The Lawfulness thereof THe barbarous Massacre of English Protestants in Ireland by the Bloody-Popish Rebels of that Nation in the yeer 1641. moved the Parliament then sitting here to pass an Act both for a Contribution for relief of the remaining persecuted Brethren there who forced to leave all they had in Ireland fled into England and Wales for shelter and for a Voluntary Loan for bringing their Persecutors to just punishment Upon this Dr. Burges after his duty performed in the former voluntarily lent 300 l. to that last Service which he accordingly paid in But that Loan not sufficing another Act passed the same yeer for Subscriptions of moneys to be adventured for the Lands of those Rebels upon certain Propositions for more speedy subduing of them To this Dr. Burges subscribed and accordingly paid in 700 l. more The next yeer after that Unhappy Difference between the late King and his Parliament brake out also And the Parliament Declaring that the King seduced by evil Counsel had deserted them raised an Army against them and erected his Standard of War at Nottingham whereby he had put both Parliament and Kingdom out of his Protection the said Parliament published the Necessity of an Advance of Money Horses and Plate by a voluntary Loan upon the Publike Faith for defence of the King and Parliament and for bringing to condign Punishment those evil Counsellours about the King which had engaged him in that destructive Design Dr. Burges taking notice of this Declaration out of the integrity of his heart to the King and Parliament lent several sums of Money for defence of both being resolved to have suffered any death rather than to have lent one peny or to have spoken one word in that Cause upon any other