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A52055	Smectymnuus redivivus Being an answer to a book, entituled, An humble remonstrance. In which, the original of liturgy episcopacy is discussed, and quæries propounded concerning both. The parity of bishops and presbyters in scripture demonstrated. The occasion of the imparity in antiquity discovered. The disparity of the ancient and our moderne bishops manifested. The antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated. The prelaticall church bounded.	Smectymnuus.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.; Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; Spurstowe, William, 1605?-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing M784; ESTC R223740	77,642	91

of God hath alwayes been as diligent to resist novelties of words as her adversaries are busie to invent them for which cause she will not have us communicate with them no● follow their fashions and phrase newl● invented though in the nature of the words ●ometimes there be no harm Le● us keep our forefathers words and we shall easily keep our old and true saith that we had of the first Christians let them say Amendment A●sti●ence the Lords Supper the Communion-Table Elders Ministers ●uper-inten●●nt Congregation So be it Praise ye the Lord Morning Prayer Evening Prayer and the rest as they will Let us avoid those novelties of words according to the Apostles prescript and keep the old terms ●enance ●ast Priests Church ●ishop Mas● Ma●●in ●ven-Song the B. Sacrament Altar Oblation Host Sacifice Hal●elujah Amen Lent Palm-●unday Christmass and the words will br●ng us to the faith of our first ●postles and condemn th●●● new Apostates new faith and phrase Whether having proved that God never set such a Government in hi● Church as our Episcopal Government is we may law●ul●● any l●●ger be subject unto it be present at their Courts obe● th●ir Inju●ctio●s and especia●ly be instruments in publishing and ex●c●ting their Excommunications and Abs●ustions ●nd ●hus we have given as we hope a sufficient answ●r an● brief as the matter world permit to t●e Remon●●rant With 〈◊〉 though we agree not in opinion touching Episcopacie and Liturgie yet we fully consent with him to pray unto Almighty God Who is great in power and infinite in wisdom to poure down upon the whole Honourable Assembly the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord That you may be able to discern betwixt things that differ seperate between the precious and the vile purely purge away our dross and take away all our tin root out every plant that is not of our heavenly Fathers planting That so you may raise up the foundations of many generations and be called the Repairers of breaches and Restorers of paths to dwell in Even so Amen A POSCRIPT THough we might have added much light and beauty to our Discourse by inserting variety of Histories upon several occasions given us in the Remonstrance the answer whereof we have undertaken especially where it speaks of the bounty and gracious Munificence of Religious Princes toward the Bishops yet unwilling to break the threed of our discourse and its connexion with the Remonstrance by so large a digression as the whole series of Historie producible to our purpose would extend unto We have chosen rather to subjoyn by way of Appendix an historical Narration of those bitter fruits Pride Rebellion Treason Unthankfulness c. which have issued from Episcopacy while it hath stood under the continued influences of Sovereigne goodness Which Narration would fill a Volume but we will bound our selves unto the Stories of this Kingdom and that revolution of time which hath passed over us since the erection of the See of Canterbury And because in most things the beginning is observed to be a presage of that which follows let their Founder Austin the Monk come first to be considered Whom we may justly account to have been such to the English as the Arrian Bishops were of old to the Goths and the Jesuits now among the Indians who of Pagans have made but Arrians and Papists His ignorance in the Gospel which he preached is seen in his idle Judaical consultations with the Pope about things clean and unclean his proud demeanour toward the British Clergy appears in his Council called about no solid point of faith but celebration of Easter where having troubled and threatened the Churches of Wales and afterwards of Scotland about Romish Ceremonies he is said in fine to have been the stirrer up of Ethelbers by means of the Northumbrian King to the slaughter of twelve hundred of those poor laborious Monks of Bangor His Successors busied in nothing but urging and instituting Ceremonies and maintaining Precedency we pass over Till Dunst●n the Sa●nted Prelate who of a frantick Necromaacer and suspected fornicatour was shorn a Monk and afterwards made a Bishop His worthy deeds are noted by Speed to have been the cheating King Eldred of the treasure committed to his keeping the prohibiting of marriage to the increasing of all filthiness in the Clergy o● those times as the long Oration of King Edgar in Stow well testifies In Edward the Confessors dayes Robert the Norman no sooner Archbishop of Canterbury but setting the King and Earl Godwine at variance for private revenge broach't a Civil War till the Archbishop was banisht Now William the Conquerour had set up Lankefrank Bishop of Canterbury who to requite him spent his faithful service to the Pope Gregory in perswading the King to subject himself and his State to the Papacy as himself writes to the Pope Suasi sed non persuasi The treason of Anselm to Rufus was notorious who not content to withstand the King obstinately in money-matters made suit to fetch his Pall or Investiture of Archiepiscopacy from Rome which the King denying as flat against his Regal Sovereignty he went without his leave and for his Romish good service received great honour from the Pope by being seated at his right foot in a Synod with these words Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanquam alterius orbis Papam Whence perhaps it is that the See of Canterbury hath affected a Patriarchy in our dayes This Anselm also condemned the married Clergy Henry the First reigning the same Anselm deprived those Prelates that had been Invested by the King and all the Kingdom is vext with one Prelate who the second time betakes himself to his old fortress at Rome till the King was fain to yield Which done and the Archbishop returned spends the rest of his dayes in a long contention and unchristian jangling with York about Primacie Which ended not so but grew hot between York and London as Dean to Canterbury striving for the upper seat at Dinner till the King seeing their odious pride put them both out of doors To speak of Ralph and Thurstan the next Archbishops pursuing the same quarrel were tedious as it was no small molestation to the King and Kingdom Thurstan refusing to stand to the Kings doom and wins the day or else the King must be accurs'd by the Pope which further animates him to try the mastery with William next Archbishop of Canterbury and no man can end it but their Father the Pope for which they travel to Rome In the mean vvhile marriage is sharply decreed against Speed 448. and the Legate Cremonensis the Declamour against Matrimony taken with a Strumpet the same night In King Stephens Reign the haughty Bishops of Canterbury and Winchester bandy about Precedency and to Rome to end the Duel Theobald goes to Rome against

Prelacie the unhappy instrument of pulling the young Duke of York out of Sanctuary into his cruel Uncles hands Things being setled in such a peace as after the bloody brawls was to the afflicted Realm howsoever acceptable though not such as might be wished Morton Bishop of Ely enticing the Duke of Buckingham to take the Crown which ruin'd him opened the veins of the poor subjects to bleed afresh The intolerable pride extortion bribery luxury of Wolsey Archbishop of York who can be ignorant of selling Dispensatitions by his power Legantine for all offences insulting over the Dukes and Peers of whom some he brought to destruction by bloody policie playing with State-affairs according to his humour or benefit causing Tournay got with the blood of many a good Souldier to be rendred at the French Kings secret request to him not without bribes with whom one while siding another while with the Emperour he sold the honour and peace of England at what rates he pleased and other crimes to be seen in the Articles against him Holinshed 912. and against all the Bishops in general 911 which when the Parliament sought to remedie being most exc●ssive extortion in the Ecclesiastical Courts the Bishops cry out Sacriledge the Church goes to ruine as it did in Bohemia with the Schisme of the Hussites Ibid. After this though the Bishops ceased to be Papists for they preached against the Popes Supremacie to please the King yet they ceased not to oppugne the Gospel causing Tindals Translation to be burnt yea they agreed to the suppressing of Monasteries leaving their revenues to the King to make vvay for the six bloudy Articles which proceedings with all cruelty of inquisition are set down Holinsh. pag. 946. till they were repealed the second of Edward the Sixth stopping in the mean while the cause of Reformation well begun by the Lord Cromwel And this mischief was wrought by Steven Gardiner Bishop of Winchester The six Articles are set down in Speed pag. 792. The Archbishop of Saint Andrews his hindring of England and Scotlands Union for fear of Reformation Speed 794. As for the dayes of King Edward the Sixth we cannot but acknowledge to the glory of the rich mercy of God that there was a great Reformation of Religion made even to admiration And yet notwithstanding we do much dislike the humour of those that cry up those dayes as a compleat pattern of Reformation and that endevour to reduce our Religion to the first times of King Edward which we conceive were comparatively very imperfect there being foure impediments which did much hinder that blessed work The three Rebellions One in Henry the Eighths time by the Priests of Lincoln and Yorkeshire for that Reformation which Cromwel had made The other two in King Edwards dayes One in Cornwal the other in York●shire The strife that arose suddenly amongst the Peers emulating one anothers honour Speed pag. 837. The violent opposition of the Popish Bishops which made Martin Bucer write to King Edward in his Book de Regno Christi lib. 2 cap. 1. and say Your Majesty doth see that this restoring again the Kingdom of Christ which we require yea which the salvation of us all requireth may in no wise be expected to come from the Bishops seeing there be so few among them which do understand the power and proper Offices of this Kingdom and very many of them by all means which possibly they can and dare either oppose themselves against it or defer and hinder The deficiency of zeal and courage even in those Bishops who afterwards proved Martyrs witness the sharp contention of Ridley against Hooper for the ceremonies And the importunate suit of Cranmer and Ridley for toleration of the Mass for the Kings sister which was rejected by the Kings not only reasons but tears whereby the young King shewed more zeal then his best Bishops 839. The inhumane butcheries blood-sheddings and cruelties of Gardiner Bonner and the rest of the Bishops in Queen Maries dayes are so fresh in every mans memory as that we conceive it a thing altogether unnecessary to make mention of them On●ly we fear lest the guilt of the blood then shed should yet remain to be required at the hands of this Nation because it hath not publickly endeavoured to appease the wrath of God by a general and solemn humiliation for it What the pract●ces of the Prelates have been ever since from the begininning of Queene Elizabeth to this present day would fill a volume like Ezekiels Roll with lamentation mourning and wo to record For it hath been their great designe to hinder all further Reformation to bring in doctrines of Popery Arminianisme and Libertinisme to maintain propagate and much encrease the burden of h●mane ceremonies to keep out and beat down the Preaching of the Word to silence the faithfull Preachers of it to oppose and persecute the most zealous professours and to turn all Relig●on into a pompous out-side and to tread down the power of godliness Insomuch as it is come to an ordinary Proverb tha● when any thing is spoiled we use to say The Bishop's foot hath been in it And in this and much more which might be said fulfilling Bishop 〈◊〉 Prophecie who when he saw that in King Edwards reformation there was a reservation of Ceremonies and Hierarchy is credibly reported to have used these words Since they have begun to taste of our Broath it will not be long ere they will eat of our Beef FINIS * Videbat enin● passim laborari mole copiâ variorum in hoc genere commen●●tiorum novis editionibus ancipitem reddi corum delectū sed meliores etiam id est veteres illos et probatos Authores è studiosorum manibus excuti c Praefat. Scriptorum Theolog. Henric Alting * Quaedam noxia victoria paenè mihi semper in disputationibus proveniebat cum Christianis imperitis August contra Manich. cap. 19. * Mr. Stephen Marshall Mr. Edm. Calamy Dr. Th. Young Mr. Matthew Newcomen Dr. William Spurstowe * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 4.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 23. Pag. ● Pag. 2. Pag. 3. Pag. 6. Pag. 2. Pag. 7. Untruths Remon pag. 8. Malmsbury lib. 4. Hist. Concil Trid. Pag. 9. Liturgie Pag. 10. a Ad hoc ma●orum devoluta est Ecclesia Dei sponsa Christi ut haereticorum exempla Sectentur ad celebranda Sacramenta coelestia disciplinam Lux mutuetur de tenebris id faciant christiani quod Antichristi faciunt Cypr. Ep. 74. Pag. 13. Just. Mar. Apost 2. Tert. Ap. ad Gen. c. 39. Just. Mar. Apost 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concil Laod. Can. 18. Conc. Carth. 3. Can. 23. Anno 397. Conc. Milev 2. Can. 12. An. 416. Pag. 10. Pag. 11. Pag. 18. Pag. 11. Euseb. de vit Con. li. 4. Cap. 18. Pag. 11. Pag. 12. Pag. 12. Pag. 13. D. Corbet M. Nevel Pag. 13. Pag. 13. Abbot against Church-forsakers Ob● Ans.

words of truth and confidence yet how little truth there is in his great confidence the ensuing discourse shall discover His very words are confident enough and yet as false as confident wherein he Impropriates all honesty unto these his Papers and brands all others with the name of Libellers and yet himselfe sinnes deeply against the rule of honesty and lies naked to the scourge of his own censure First in setting a brand upon all writings that have lately issued from the presse as if they had forgotten to speak any other language then Libellous it seems himselfe had forgotten that some things had issued by authority of the King and Parliament Secondly in taxing implicitely all such as wil not own this Remonstrance for theirs as none of the peaceable and wel-affected Sons of the Church of England Thirdly in censuring the way of petitioning your Honours the ancient and ordinary free way of seeking redresse of our evils for a Tumultuary under-hand way Fourthly in condemning all such as are not fautors of this Episcopal Cause as none of his Majesties good Subjects engrossing that praise onely to his own party saying The eyes of us the good Subjects of this whole Realme are fixed upon your Successe c. Fifthly in Impropriating to the same party the praise of Orthodox pag. 6. as if to speak a word or think a thought against Episcopacy were no lesse Heresie then it was in former time to speak against the Popes supremacy or the monkes fat belly whereas whether the Episcopall part be the Orthodox peaceable wel-affected part and his Majesties only good Subjects we leave to your Honours to Judge upon the numerous informations that flow in unto you from the several parts of this Kingdome Nor can they decline your Judgement seeing now you are through Gods blessing happily met in a much longed for Parliament but whither so much longed for by him and his accomplices as by those against whom he whets his Style the prayers that have obtained this happy meeting and the praises that doe attend it will decide in that great day The Helena whose Champion this Remonstrant chiefely is is that Government which he calls Sacred viz. that Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons c. which saith he through the sides of some misliked persons some have endeavoured to wound Misliked Persons and why not offending persons why not guilty persons when this Honourable house hath found just cause to charge some of them with crimes of the highest nature Our zeale for your Honours makes us feare lest your assembly should suffer in this word as if your proceedings against such persons should be grounded upon compliance with such as doe mislike them rather then upon their own demerits or the Justice of this Court But whatever those Persons be the Government it self is Sacred which by the joynt confession of all reformed Divines derives it self from the times of the blessed Apostles without any interruption without contradiction of any one congregation in the world unto this present age This is but an Episcopall Bravado therefore we let it passe till we come to close and contend with him in the point where we shall demonstrate that in the compasse of three lines he hath packt up as many untruths as could be smoothly couched in so few words as any man of common understanding that lookes upon the face of the Government of almost all reformed Churches in the Christian world may at first view discover But before we come to this there are yet two things in this Preface which we count not unworthy observation The First is the comparison which he makes between the two Governments the Civil which with us is Monarchy and the sacred which with him is Episcopaey Of the first he saith if Antiquity may be the Rule as he pleades it for Episcopacy or if Scripture as he interprets Scripture it is VARIABLE and ARBITRARY but the other DIVINE and VNALTERABLE so that had men petitioned for the altering of Monarchicall Government they had in his Judgement been lesse culpable both by Scripture and Antiquity then in petitioning the alteration of the Hierarchicall Had he found but any such passage in any of his Lewd Libellers as his modesty is alwayes pleased to terme them certainly if we may borrow his own phrase the eares of the three Interessed Kingdomes yea all the neigbbour Churches and if we may say the whole Christian world and no small part beyond it had run with the loud cryes of no lesse then Treason Treason Truth is in his Antiquity we finde that this his uninterrupted sacred Government hath so farre invaded the Civil and so yoked Monarchy even in this Kingdome as Malmesbury reports That William Rufus oppressed by Bishops perswaded the Jewes to confute them promising thereupon to turne England to their Religion that he might be free of Bishops And this is so natural an effect of unalterable Episcopacy that Pius the fourth to the Spanish Embassador importuning him to permit Bishops to be declared by the Councel of Trent to be Iure Divino gave this answer That his King knew not what he did desire for if Bishops should be so declared they would be all exempted from his Power and as independent as the Pope himself The second thing observable is the comparison he makes between the late Alterations attempted in our Neighbour Church by his Episcopal faction and that Alteration that is now justly desired by the humble Petitioners to this Honourable House The one being attempted by strangers endeavoring violently to obtrude Innovations upon a setled Church and State The other humbly petitioned to the Heads and Princes of our State by Multitudes therein almost ruined by an Innovating Faction yet doth not this Remonstrant blush to say if these be branded so he calls the just censures of this Honourable House for Incendiaries how shall these Boutefeux escape c. thus cunningly indeavouring either to justifie the former by the practise of the latter or to render the latter more odious then the former The attempts of these men whom he would thus render odious he craves leave to present to your Honours in two things which are the subjects of this quarrel The Liturgy and Episcopacy and we humbly crave your Honours leave in both to answer SECT II. FIrst the Liturgy of the Church of England saith he hath been hitherto esteemed sacred reverently used by holy Martyrs daily frequented by devout Protestants as that which more then once hath been confirmed by the Edicts of religious Princes and your own Parliamentary Acts c. And hath it so whence then proceed these many Additions and Alterations that have so changed the face and fabrick of the Liturgy that as Dr. Hall spake once of the pride of England if our fore-fathers should revive and see their daughters walking in Cheapside with their fannes and farthingales c. they would wonder what

and publique punishment they have deserved But what if pious Constantine in his tender care to prevent the Divisions that the emulation of the Bishops of that age enraged with a spirit of envie and faction were kindling in the Church le●t by that meanes the Christian Faith should be derided among the Heathens did suppresse their mutuall accusations many of whi●h might be but upon surmises and that ●ot in a Court of Iustice b●t in an Ecclesiasticall Synode shall this be urged before the highest Court of Iustice upon earth to the patronizing of N●toriou● scandall● and hatefull en●rmities that are already proved by evidence of cle●●e witnesse But ●o forbid it to tell it in Ga●h c. What the sin ●as that is done already Do we not know the drukennesse profanenesse superstition Popishnesse of the English Clergie rings at Rome already yes undoubtedly and there is no way to vindicate the Honour of our Nation Ministery Parliaments Sovereigne Religion God but by causing the punishment to ring as farre as the sin hath done that our adversaries that have triumphed in their sin may be confounded at their punishments Do not your Honours know that the plaistring or palliating of these rotten members will be a greater dishonour to the Nation and Church then their cutting off and that the personall acts of these sonnes of Belial being connived at become Nationall sins But for this one fact of Constantine we humbly crave your Honours leave to present to your wisdome three Texts of Scripture Ezek 44.12.13 Because they ministred unto them before their ●dol● and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity therefore have I lift up my hand unto them saith the Lord and they shall beare their iniquity And they shall not come neere unto me to do the Office of a Priest unto me nor to come neere unto any of mine holy things in the most holy place c. The second is Ier●m 48.10 Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord negligently and the third is Iudges 6.31 He that will plead for Baal let him be put to death while it is yet morning We have no more to say in this whether it be best to walk after the President of Man or the Prescript of God your Hunours can easily judge SECT XVII BUt stay saith this Remonstrant and indeed he might well have stayed and spared the labour of his ensuing discourse about the Church of England the Prelaticall and the Antiprelaticall Church but these Episcopall Men deale as the Papists that dazle the eyes and astonish the senses of poor people with the glorious name of the Church the Church The holy Mother the Church This is the Gorgons head as Doctor White saith that hath inchanted them held them in bondage to the●r Errors All their speech is of the Church the Church no mention of the Scriptures of God the Father but all of the Mother the Church Much like as they write of certain Aethiopians that by reason they use no marriage but promiscuously company together the children only follow the Mother the Father and his name is in no request but the mother hath all the reputation So is it with the Author of this Remonstrance he stiles himself a Dutifull son of the Church And it hath beene a Custome of late times to cry up the holy Mother the Church of England to call for absolute obedience to holy Church full conformity to the orders of holy Church Neglecting in the meane time God the Father and the holy Scripture But if we should now demand of them what they meane by the Church of England this Author seemes to be thunder-stricken at this Question and calls the very Question a new Divinity where he deales like such as holding great revenues by unjust Titles will not suffer their Titles to be called in Question For it is apparent Ac si solaribus radiis descriptum esset to use Tertullians phrase that the word Church is an Equivocall word and hath as many severall acceptions as letters and that Dolus latet in universalibus And that by the Church of England first by some of these men is meant onely the Bishops or rather the two Archbishops or more properly the Archbishop of Canterbury Just as the Iesuited Papists resolve the Church and all the glorious Titles of it into the Pope so do these into the Archbishop or at fullest they understand it of the Bishops and their party met in Convocation as the more ingenuous of the Papists make the Pope and his Cardinals to be their Church thus excluding all the Christian people and Presbyters of the Kingdome as not worthy to be reckoned in the number of the Church And which is more strange this Author in his Simplicity as he truly saith never heard nor thought of any more Churches of England then one and what then shall become of his Diocesan Churches and Diocesan Bishops And what shall we think of England when it was an Heptarchy had it not then seven Churches when seven Kings Or if the Bounds of a Kingdome must constitute the Limits and Bounds of a Church why are not ●ngland Scotland and Ireland all one Church when they are happily united under one gracious Monarch into one Kingdom We read in Scripture of the Churches of Iudea and the Churches of Galatia and why not the Churches of England not that we denie the Cons●ciati●n or Combination of Churches into a Provinciall or Nationall Synod for the right ordering of them But that there should be no Church in England but a Nationall Church this is that which th●s ●mb●r ●o his simplicity affirmes of which the very rehearsall is a 〈◊〉 SECT XVIII THere are yet two things with which this Remonstrance shuts up it self which must not be past without our Obelisks First he scoffs at the Antiprelatical Church and the Antiprelatical Divisions for our parts we acknowledge no Antiprelatical Church But there are a company of men in the Kingdom of no mean rank or quality for Piety Nobility Learning that stand up to bear witness against the Hierarchie as it now stands their usurpations over Gods Church and Ministers their cruel using of Gods people by their tyrannical government this we acknowledge and if he call these the Antiprelatical Church we doubt not but your Honours will consider that there are many thousands in this Kingdom and those pious and worthy persons that thus do and upon most just cause It was a speech of Erasmus of Luther Vt quisque vir est optimus it is illius Scriptis minimè offendi The better any man was the less offence he took at Luthers Writings but we may say the contrary of the Prelates Ut quisque vir est optimus it à illorum factis magis offendi The better any man is the more he is offended at their dealings And all that can be objected against this party will be like that in Tertullian Bonus vir Cajus Sejus

the Kings will interdicts the Realm and the King forc't to suffer it till refusing to Crown Eustace the Kings Son because the Pope had so commanded he flies again Becket's pride and out-ragious treasons are too manifest resigning the Kings gift of his Archbishoprick to receive it of the Pope requiring the Custody of Rochester-castle and the Tower of London as belonging to his Seignorie Protects murthering Priests from Temporal Sword standing stifly for the Liberties and Dignities of Clerks but little to chastise their vices vvhich besides other erying sins vvere above a hundred murthers since Henry the Seconds crowning till that time to maintain vvhich most of the Bishops conspire till the terrour of the King made them shrink but Becket obdures denies that the King of Englands Courts have authority to judge him And thus was this noble King disquieted by an insolent Traitour in habit of a Bishop a great part of his Reigne the Land in uproar many Excommunicate and accursed France and England set to War and the King himself curbed and controlled and lastly disciplin'd by the Bishops and Monks first vvith a bare-foot penance that drevv blood from his feet and lastly with fourscore lashes on his anointed body vvith Rods. In the same Kings time it vvas that the Archbishop of York striving to sit above Canterbury squats him down on his lap vvhence vvith many a cuff he vvas throvvn dovvn Next the pride of W. Longchamp Bishop of Elie was notorious vvho vvould ride vvith a thousand horse and of a Governour in the Kings absence became a Tyrant for vvhich flying in Womans apparel he vvas taken To this succeeds contention betvveen Canterbury and York about carriage of their Crosses and Rome appeal'd to the Bishop of Durham buyes an Earldom No sooner another King but Hubert another Archbishop to vex him and lest that were not enough made Chancellour of England And besides him Ieffery of York who refusing to pay a Subsidy within his Precincts and therefore all his temporalities seaz'd excommunicates the Sheriff beats the Kings Officers and interdicts his whole Province Hubert outbraves the King in Christmass hous-keeping hinders King Iohn by his Legantine power from recovering Normandy After him Stephen Langton set up by the Pope in spite of the King who opposing such an affront falls under an interdict with his whole Land and at the suit of his Archbishop to the Pope is depos'd by Papal Sentence his Kingdom given to Philip the French King Langtons friend and lastly resignes and enfeuds his Crown to the Pope After this tragical Stephen the fray which Boniface the next Archbishop but one had with the Canons of Saint Bartholmews is as pleasant the tearing of Hoods and Cowles the miring of Copes the flying about of Wax Candles and Censors in the scuffle cannot be imagined without mirth as his oathswere loud in this bickering so his curses were as vehement in the contention with the Bishop of Winchester for a slight occasion But now the Bishops had turned their contesting into base and servile flatteries to advance themselves on the ruine of the subjects For Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester persvvading the King to displace English Officers and substitute Poictivines and telling the Lords to their faces that there vvere no Peeres in England as in France but that the King might do what he would and by whom he would became a firebrand to the civill wars that followed In this time Peckam Archbishop of Can. in a Synod was tampering vvith the Kings liberties but being threatened desisted But his successor Winchelsey on occasion of Subsidies demanded of the Clergie made ansvver That having tvvo Lords one Spirituall the other Temporall he ought rather to obey the Spirituall governour the Pope but that he vvould send to the Pope to knovv his pleasure and so persisted even to beggerie The Bishop of Durham also cited by the King flies to Rome In the deposing of this King vvho more forvvard then the Bishop of Hereford vvitnesse his Sermon at Oxford My head my head aketh concluding that an aking and sick head of a King vvas to be taken off vvithout further Physick Iohn the Archbishop of Canterbury suspected to hinder the Kings glorious victories in Flanders and France by stopping the conveyance of monies committed to his charge conspiring therein vvith vvish ●he Pope But not long after vvas constituted that fatall praemunire vvhich vvas the first nipping of their courage to seek aide at Rome And next to that the wide wounds that Wickleffe made in their sides From which time they have been falling and thenceforth all the smoak that they could vomit was turned against the rising light of pure doctrine Yet could not their Pride misse occasion to set other mischief on foot For the Citizens of London rising to apprehend a riotous fervant of the Bishop of Salisbury then Lord Treasurer who with his fellowes stood on his guard in the Bishops house were by the Bishop who maintained the riot of his servant so complained of that the King therewith seized on their liberties and set a Governour over the Citie And who knowes not that Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury was a chief instrument and agent in deposing King Richard as his actions and Sermon well declares The like intended the Abbot of Westminster to Henry the fourth who for no other reason but because he suspected that the King did not favour the wealth of the Church drew into a most horrible conspiracie the Earles of Kent Rutland and Salisbury to kill the King in a turnament at Oxford who yet notwithstanding was a man that professed to leave the Church in better state then he found it For all this soone after is Richard Scroop Archbishop of York in the field against him the chiefe attractor of the rebellious party In these times Thomas Arundell a great persecutor of the Gospel preached by Wikclefs followers dies a fearfull death his tongue so swelling vvithin his mouth that he must of necessity starve His successor Chickeley nothing milder diverts the King that vvas looking too neerly into the superfluous revenues of the Church to a bloody warre All the famous conquests vvhich Henry the fifth had made in France vvere lost by a civil dissension in England vvhich sprung first from the haughty pride of Beaufort Bishop and Cardinall of Winchester and the Archbishop of York against the Protector Speed 674. In the civill warres the Archbishop sides with the Earle of Warwick and March in Kent Speed 682. Edward the Fourth Mountacute Archbishop of York one of the chiefe conspirators with Warwick against Edward the fourth and afterwards his Jaylor being by Warwicks treason committed to this Bishop In Edward the Fifths time the Archbishop of York was though perhaps unwittingly yet by a certain fate of