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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61839	Episcopacy (as established by law in England) not prejudicial to regal power a treatise written in the time of the Long Parliament, by the special command of the late King / and now published by ... Robert Sanderson ...	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing S599; ESTC R1745	38,560	153

EPISCOPACY As established by Law in England NOT PREJUDICIAL TO REGAL POWER A Treatise written in the time of the Long Parliament By the special Command of the late KING And now published by the Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT SANDERSON Lord Bishop of Lincoln LONDON Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait in St. Pauls Church-yard 1661. TO THE Most High and Mighty King CHARLES the II d By the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Most Gracious and Dread Soveraign THat I take the boldness humbly to present this short discourse to your Majesties Sacred hand and piercing eye it is upon this one and onely account that how mean soever the performance be the undertaking was in obedience to the command of a most Gracious Master your Majesties Royal Father of Blessed Memory The Occasion this When the Army had gotten the King into their own custody out of the hands of those that had long holden him in durance at Holdenby to put a blind upon the world they made a shew of much good towards him which as soon after appeared they never meant him Amongst other the pompous civilities wherewith the better to cloak their hypocrisie they entertained him it was their pleasure to vouchsafe him the attendance of some of his own Chaplains which though it could merit little for such a kindness could not with justice have been denyed to a far meaner person was yet a boon his former Goalers thought too big for him In that Summer Progress such as it was four of us of his own naming with the Clerk of his Closet were suffered to wait upon him In which time of waiting which was in August MDCXLVII His Majesty being then at Hampton-Court one day called me to him and told me he had a little work for me to do Some about him it seems had been often discoursing with him about EPISCOPACY as it was claimed and exercised by the Bishops within this Realm Which whether out of their good-will to him or their no-good-will to the Church I am not able to say they had endeavoured to represent unto him as not a little derogatory to the REGAL AUTHORITY as well in the point of Supremacy as of Prerogative in the one by claiming the function as of Divine Right in the other by exercising the Jurisdiction in their own names His Majesty said farther that he did not believe the Church-Government by Bishops as it was by Law established in this Realm to be in either of the aforesaid respects or any other way prejudicial to his Crown and that he was in his own judgement fully satisfied concerning the same yet signified his pleasure withal that for the satisfaction of others I should take these two Objections into consideration and give him an Answer thereunto in writing In Obedience to which his Majesties Royal pleasure after my return home I forthwith according to my bounden duty addressed my self to the work and was drawing up an Answer to both the Objections as well as I was able with a purpose to present the same as soon as it should be finished to his Majesty in writing upon the first offered opportunity But behold before I could bring the business ad umbilicum and quite finish what was under my hand the Scene of affairs was strangely changed The King trepann'd into the Isle of Wight the mask of Hypocrisie by long wearing now grown so thin and useless that it was fit for nothing but to be thrown by no kind of impiety and villany but durst appear bare-faced and in the open Sun high insolencies to the contempt of Authority every where committed Majesty it self trampled upon by the vilest of the People and the hearts of all loyal honest men sadly oppressed with griefs and fears Yet had the men who steered the Publick as they listed that they might give themselves the more recreation amuse the world anew and grace the black Tragedy they were acting with the more variety a mind to play one game more the next year to wit the Treaty at the aforesaid Isle of Wight Where assoon as I understood that by his Majestie 's nomination I was to give my attendance I looked out the old Papers which I had laid aside a good while before made up what was then left unfinished and took the Copy with me to the Isle thinking that when the Treaty should be ended for whilest it lasted his Majesty was taken up with other thoughts and debates of higher concern I might possibly have the opportunity to give his Majesty an account thereof What became of that Treaty and what after ensued is so well known to the world that there is no need and withal so sad that it can be no pleasure to remember But thenceforward were those Papers laid aside once again and destined to perpetual silence had not a debate lately started concerning one of the principal points therein handled occasioned some persons of eminent place and esteem in the Church and one of them conscious to the aforesaid command laid upon me by the late King to desire a sight of those Papers Which being by their encouragement now made publick though having little other to commend them either to the world but Truth and Plainness or to your Majesty but that they had their first rise from his command whose Throne and Vertues you inherit I humbly beseech your Majesty graciously to accept together with the Prayers of Your Majesties most Loyal Subject and devoted Servant ROBERT LINCOLN LONDON August 10. MDCLXI By the KING A PROCLAMATION Declaring that the proceedings of his Majesties Ecclesiastical Courts and Ministers are according to the Lawes of the Realm WHereas in some of the Libellous books and Pamphlets lately published The most Reverend Fathers in God the Lords Arch-Bishops and Bishops of this Realm are said to have usurped upon his Majesties Prerogative Royal and to have proceeded in the high Commission and other Ecclesiastical Courts contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm It was ordered by his Majesties high Court of Star-Chamber the Twelfth day of June last that the opinion of the two Lords chief Iustices the Lord chief Baron and the rest of the Judges and Barons should be had and certified in those particulars viz. Whether Processes may not issue out of the Ecclesiastical Courts in the Name of the Bishops Whether a Patent under the great Seal be necessary for the keeping of the Ecclesiastical Courts and enabling Citations Suspensions Excommunications and other censures of the Church And whether Citations ought to be in the Kings name and under his Seal of Arms and the like for Institutions and Inductions to Benefices and Correction of Ecclesiastical offences Whether Bishops Arch-Deacons and other Ecclesiastical persons may or ought to keep any visitation at any time unless they have express Commission or Patent under the great Seal of England to do it and that as his Majesties Uisitors only and