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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

and Cambridge Anno 1638. Tit. 7. Num. 12. If we will follow the course of the Ancient primitive Apostolicall Church we ought not to traduce or be offended at the name thing or use of Altar whereat A MANIFOLD SACRIFICE is offered to God What kind of Sacrifice this is Francis Sales thus declares in his Introduction to a Devout Life P. 191. 194. Vse then all diligence to be present often at this Heavenly Feast that with the Priest and other devout assistants thou maist joyntly offer up the fruit thereof Christ Jesus to God his Father for they selfe and all the necessities of holy Church The death and passion of our Redeemer which are actually and essentially represented in this holy Sacrifice with the Priest and the rest of the faithfull people thou shalt offer unto God the Father for his eternall honour and thine owne salvation Robert Shelford in his five Treatises seconds him in these termes Pag. 2. The Sacrament of the Altar in which the sacrifice of our Lord Christ is remembred and represented unto his Father P. g. 4. There the memory of the everlasting sacrifice is made and presented unto the holy Trinity Pag. 19. Here the great sacrifice of Christs death for our Salvation is in rememberance represented to God the Father c. Doctor Pocklington is very copious in this Theme in his Altare Christianum P. 130 Bishop Mountague saith thus I beleeve no such sacrifice of the Altar as the Church of Rome doth I fancie no such Altars as they imply though I professe a Sacrifice and an Altar And a little after speaking of his Adversaries hee saith thus I have so good opinion of your understanding though weake that you will confesse the blessed Sacrament of the Altar or Communion-table whether you please to be a Sacrifice c. Pag. 135. Abuses of Altars and sacrifices condemned not the things themselves Priests Sacrifices Oblations Altars The Sacrament of the Altar is not abolished P. 122. The Prophet Malachi saith Saint Justin Martyr did prophesie de Sacrificiis Gentium id est de paue Eucharistia poculo Eucharistiae It appeareth that St. Iustin that holy Martyr did call the Eucharist a sacrifice and hath the Prophet for his warrant Saint Ireneus also saith that when Christ tooke the Bread and the Wine Gratias eget he gave thanks and said the bread was his body and confessed the wine to be his bloud et novi Testamenti novam docuit oblationem and taught a new oblation of the New Testament which the Church receiving from the Apostles in universo mundo offert deo doth offer unto God in all the world This saith he is that pure sacrifice offered unto God in every place which the Prophet Malachi spake of before Pag. 124. Saint Chrysost How shall we receive this sacred host How shall we partake the Lords body with a defiled tongue For this sacrifice Domini sacrificium est This sacrifice the Priest standing at the Altar offereth to God for al the world for Bishops for the church c. according to our Collect on Good Friday Pag. 126. When the sacrifice of our Mediatour is offered it cannot be denied but the faithfull are hereby eased This oblation the same Father calls summum verissimum Sacrificium and saith that at the memories of Martyrs Deo offertur sacrificium Christianorum ipsum vero sacrificium corpus est Christi which is not offered to them for themselves are the body of Christ but unto God Pag. 127. It appeareth by that which hath beene said that there were Altars and oblations and sacrifices which the Fathers allowed To conclude this constant Doctrine of the holy Fathers concerning Altars Oblations and Sacrifices is confirmed by the Canons of sundry Councells Pag. 128. Altars Oblations and sacrifices were in Common use amongst the most holy Saints of God that ever lived Pag. 136. If there be no Christian Altar there is no Christian Sacrifice if no Christian Sacrifice there is no Christian Priest if there be no Christian Priest away with the Booke of Ordination of Priests and Deacons We shall close up this with Doctor Peter Heylins words in his Antidotum Lincolniense P. 6. 17. and 26. A Sacrifice it was in figure a sacrifice in fact and so by consequence a sacrifice in the Commemorations or upon the Post-fact A sacrifice there was among the Jewes shewing forth Christs death unto them before his comming in the flesh a sacrifice there must be amongst the Christians to shew forth the Lords Death till he come in Judgement and if a sacrifice must be there must be also Priests to doe and Altars whereupon to do it because without a Priest and Altar there can be no sacrifice yet so that the precedent sacrifice was of a different nature from the subsequent and so are also both the Priest and Altar from those before a bloudy sacrifice then an unbloody now a Priest derived from Aaron then from Melchisedech now an Altar for Mosaicall Sacrifices then for Evangelicall now for visible and externall sacrifices though none for bloudy and externall sacrifices Not an improper Altar and an improper sacrifice as you idlely dream of for sacrifices Priests and Altars being relatives as your selfe confesseth the sacrifice and the Altar being improper must needs inferre that even our Priesthood is improper also No Iesuit can or doth say more then this amounts to 6. That the body and blood of Christ are really and substantially present in the Eucharist and the Bread and Wine transubstantiated into them FRancis Sales in his Introduction to a devout life determines thus P. 194. 219. The death and passion of our Redeemer are actually and essentially represented in this holy sacrince Our blessed Saviour hath instituted the venerable Sacrament of the Eucharist which containeth really and verily his flesh and bloud Christs Epistle to a devout Soule thus seconds him Page 77. 78. Because thou maist be inflamed with a greater reverence love and desire towards this blessed Sacrament I assure thee that without all doubt my body is there Sacramentally delivered unto thee to be received under the forme of Bread Wherefore seeing it is the same body which I carry now glorified in Heaven seeing it is no other nor any like unto it but even the very same and seeing I carry not a body which is dead nor with out bloud it followeth of necessity that together in the same body there must be also conteined my soule my bloud my graces and my vertues To all which since the word is united it must also follow that the whole Trinity is present in this Sacrament as truly and as verily as they are in Heaven though in another kind id est under a Sacramentall forme The same opinion thou must in like sort have of the Chalice the new-testament in my bloud consider therefore that thou hast mee really and perfectly there Page 238. Make also every day to me in the honour of the holy Sacrament of my

make the Word of God quarrell with and thwart and crosse it selfe Example they would prove Rom. 3. 28. 4. 25. to be false by Iam. 2. 21. Now we know these expositions to be false because the establishing of the one place is the demolishing of the other Fol. 276. Thirdly the Papists have Rimes which must be said over three or four times every day certainly with a little pains a man might make a good Parret a good Papist for he might be taught to speak all this Fol. 476. Q. Wherein are the Papists to blame concerning the Augmentation of Faith Answ They are faulty in two things Negant fiduciam certitudinem fidet they grant faith but deny both confidence and certainty of faith c. fol. 52. Answ But the Monkish life is not persecution except thus because the Locusts which are no other but Monks and Fryars Revel 19. doe bite and sting like Serpents that is do secretly wound mens consciencex and four lines after Thirdly all go not to Christ that come into Monasteries but rather goe from him they living after another rule then Christs for Francis their great founder erected a new sect of Monkery and found out a new rule for them which he called regulam Evangelicam the rule of the Gospell as though Christs rule were not sufficient Many other passages of like nature over-numerous to recite were blotted out of this Author by the Licenser We shall conclude with such passages as Doctor Bray with the Arch-bishop's privity purged out of Doctor Featlyes Sermons wherein some Texts of Scripture were expunged to do Popish Priests seducers a favour p. 90. What are the great Foxes but the Priests and Jesuits what are the little Foxes but the Demipelagian cubs which will spoyle our fairest clusters the Colledges of both Universities if in time they be not looked unto as they have done already in our neighbour Vine in the Low-countryes c. page 472. If these cries of the soules under the Alter awake not the zealous Magistrates whom God hath made protectors of his Spouses to draw out the sword of wholsome Statutes out of the scabbard to wound the hairy scalpe of the Strumpet yet let them at least take compassion on the soules of the living even their sonnes and daughters who are dayly enticed by secular Priests and Jesuits and by their Agents conveyed over beyond the Seas to be sacrificed to the Molech at Rome What or how shall I speake unto you beloved brethren I need rather teares then words to bewaile the great losse our Church sustaineth of hundred nay thousand of soules that have been drawn out of the right way and are fallen into the snares of Satan and den of the Beast c. Here though I lose my voyce by it I cannot but cry aloud with zealous Bullenger What clemency call you this to suffer the Lords Vineyard to be spoyled and layd waste by ugly monsters what mercy to spare the Wolves which spare not Christs sheep redeemed with his procious blood Ubinune lex Iulia dormis To what purpose serves our wholsome Lawes and Statutes if they rust as the Orator speaketh like swords in the scabbards and are never drawne upon the sworne enemies of our Church and state c. page 485. That the severity of our Lawes and Canons should fall upon straying Doves silly seduced persons without any gall at all whilst the Black-birds of Antichrist are let alone if chaste Lydia be silenced for her undiscreet zeale let not Jezabel be suffered to teach and to deceive Gods servants c. page 495. I know to restraine such abuses is the peculiar duty of the Ecclesiasticall and civill Magistrates but to detect and discover them to authority and to refraine from society or Idolaters is the duty of us all and I beseech you for the love of him who hath espoused your soules to himselfe and decked them with the richest Jewels of his grace and made them a Joynture of his Kingdome beware of Jezabels Panders who goe about to entice you to spirituall fornication If they be your brethren the sonnes of your mother or your owne sonnes or daughters or the wife that lyeth in your bosome or your friends that are as your owne soules that solicite you in this kind ye are to renounce them and by the law of God to see justice executed upon them c. p. 796. Beware therefore deare brethren beware of the Panders of Antichrist who goe about to intice you not to corporall but which is farre worse to spitituall whoredome If they be your brethren the sonnes of your owne mother or your owne sonnes or daughters or your wives that lye in your bosome or your friends that are as your owne soule that intice you to goe to Masse and partake with the Romanists in their manifold idolatries you are bound by the Law of God to be so far from consenting to them or hearing them that you are to account of them as your capitall enemies and proceed against them as you would against those who have plotted your utter ruine and overthrow Good God! that such patheticall clauses as these against seducing popish Priests and Jesuits nay the very words of sacred Scripture it selfe should be thus obliterated in our Protestant Church by the Arch-bishop's owne direction who professeth himselfe such an enemy to Priests and Jesuits Doubtlesse his vapouring protestations against them were all meere delusory complements to beguile the over-credulous since all these purgations proclaime both him and his agents to be their most endeared friends as they openly vaunted them to be at Rome and to hold most strict intelligence with them From these purgations against Popery Popes Papists Priests Jesuits Monks and other Romish vermine in the generall we shall next proceed to sundry expunctions against doctrinall poynts of Popery in particular which we shall prosecute in an Alphabeticall manner the first whereof is this 4. That the Absolution of Priests is but declarative and that they cannot bind and loose men at their pleasures against Gods Word as the Papists hold their Priests can doe IN Doctor Clerkes Sermons Sermon 3. of the Nativity page 23. the Licenser hath expunged these words Nay nor bind nor loose sinne neither but declarativè the Priest does but pronounce the absolution c. So that in this purgation Christ is but the Physick the Priest is the Physitian or Apothecary at least but he wants Heleborus to purge his braine In Master Richard Ward his Comentary upon Matthew the Licenser hath quite obliterated this passage as erronious Matth. 18. 18. Whatsoever ye bind c. the Papists hold this grosse opinion that men are bound and loosed in Heaven according to the will and pleasure of every Priest exercising the Keyes upon earth and this Tenet they ground upon the generality of these words Whatsoever sinnes ye remit they are remitted and whatsoever you bind on earth should be bound

under his owne hand-writing that Doctor Abbot and the whole University in the yeer 1615. reputed and accounted him a Papist a Papist indeed at leastwise partly Romish and partly English or a mongrell and a compound of a Papist and Protestant one ready upon all occasions to step over to the Papists A Papist in the Doctrine of freewill justificaiian by works inherent righteousnesse concupiscence no sinne after Baptisme certainly of salvation and the Doctrine of the Sacrament and that the papists beyond the seas could say he was WHOLLY THEIRS and the Recusants at home make their brags of him This his temper was the cause of Doctor Hals Letter to W. L. William Laud as is generally conceived long since printed Anno 1608. in the third Decad of his Epistles Epist 5. page 55. for which his works were lately threatned to be called in or this Leter expunged out of them wherein he thus expostulates with him for his unsetlednesse and newtrality in Religion and inclining to the popish party I would I knew where to find you then I could tell how to take a direct ayme whereas now I must rove and conjecture to day YOU ARE IN THE TENTS OF THE ROMANISTS to morrow in ours the next day betweene both against both Our adversaries think you ours WEE THEIRS Your conscience finds you with both and neither I flatter you not this of yours is the worst of all tempers how long will you walk in this indifferency resolve one way and know at last what you doe hold that you should cast off either your wings or your teeth and loathing this Batlike nature be either a bird or a beast c. We shall conclude this part of our Evidence with the deposition of Francis Harris a converted Priest examined upon oath before the Lords who being in the Parliaments Army could not possibly be procured viva voce of which oath was made and thereupon his deposition was read as followeth The Examination of FRANCIS HARRIS of Christ-Church London taken Jan. 9. 1643. before the Lords Committee appointed to take the Examinations in the Cause of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury THis Deponent saith that he being at Paris in France about 24. yeers since meeting with one Ireland who had formerly bin one of the chief School-Masters of Westmin School and then a Priest and discoursing familiarly with this Deponent the said Ireland told him that the now Arch bishop of Canterbury and he were intimate friends and that he had discovered unto him when they were in the University together that the said Arch-bishops resolution was to leave the Kingdome and to reconcile himselfe to the Church of Rome and that he knew him to be a Papist in his heart and wondred why he staid so long behind saying that perchance honores mutant mores And this Deponent further saith That one Leander a Benedictine Fryar and Doctor of the Chaire at Doway by the common report of Papists and Priests both abroad and in England was very familiar with the said Arch-bishop and came over on purpose into England where this Deponent since saw him to negotiate with the said Arch-bishop about matters of Religion to make a reconciliation between the Church of Rome and England And this Deponent was bred up a Roman Catholike and a scholler and a secular Priest and upon better advice reconciling himselfe to the Church of England did often solicite and petition the said Archbi for some mean imployment in the Ministery as having done very good service in discovering Priests and Jesuits to the Messengers appointed to apprehend them but the Archbishop never gave hau any encouragement or countenance This Examination taken before Us Kent Lincolne Francis Harris That he hath been reputed a Papist in heart opinion and practise ever since he left the University is so notoriously knowne to all that we shall produce no witnesses many having been publikely censured and privately questioned by his power for calling and reporting him such a one and many publike papers being pasted up and scattered about the City and Court from time to time proclaiming him such a one of vvhich we have at least a dozen found among his owne and Secretary Windebankes writings and that our English popish priests and Roman Catholikes as well as Protestants beasted of him to be theirs vve have many instances vvhich vve could produce did vve need such evidence and the testimony of tvvo Priests to boot But vve shall rather informe and prove to your Lordships vvhat repute the papists had of him in foraigne parts yea even in Rome it selfe since himselfe hath chalked ●● out the vvay and furnished us vvith this kind of proofe by procuring Sir Henry Mildmay a Member of the House of Commons very unseasonably and unhappily to testifie for him in this kind vvhat a hard opinion they had of him and hovv much he vvas hated in Rome by the Jesuits and others more then any man breathing the manner of enforcing vvhose testimony is very remarkable The Arch-bishop some fevv dayes before his tryall petitioned the House of Commons that Sir Henry Mildmay of the Jewell House one of their Members might be examined in his behalfe as a speciall witnesse for him how much he was hated and spoken against above all men at Rome for opposing the Popes and Papists designes in England Which being granted the Arch-bishop moved tvvo or three times very unseasonably that Sir Henry might be called to give in his testimony in this kind vvho being then out of Tovvn and not appearing the Committee of Commons who managed the Evidence promised to send for and cause him to appeare the next day at the Lords Bar vvhich he did to wit on June 11. 1644. Whereupon the Archbishop desired him to acquaint the Lords Whether he had not been of late yeers at Rome and what opinion they held of himself there Whether Sir Henry upon his return from thence dining with him at Lambeth did not tell him of his own accord he was the most odiousman of any at Rome and therefore certainely the furthest of any from setting up popery and endeavouring to reconcile us to Rome Whereupon Sir Henry said My Lords it is true J was some few yeers since at Rome not upon any message or designe at all but being somewhat infirme in body J was advised by my physicians to travell for a time into forraign parts to recover my health Wherupon J first travailed into France from thence into Italy and being there to satisfie my owne curiosity and recover my health J travelled to Rome During my abode there J was very inquisitive to know what opinion they had of us in England and of the great men there especially of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and I observed there were some there that were against the Arch-bishop and spake ill of him others that spake very well of him and so much I informed him at Lambeth upon my returne from thence but I deny that ever I

expertnesse and diligence in discovering priests and assisting other Messengers to apprehend them for this hainous crime alone Windebanke complained of him to the Queen and for this very cause Thatcher is specially charged by the Arcishop himselfe not to keep company with him under paine of being turned out of his place and Goldsmith deposeth that the Archbishop himselfe gave a publick charge to all the Messengers of the High Commission not to keep company with Gray any more for if they did he would lay them by the heels pull their Coats off their backs and turne them out of their places Committed he was to the Fleet upon the Archbishops complaint only for using words implying his coldnesse in prosecuting priests hoping to see better times a very poor cause to imprison him so long His own hand as we proved is to the Warrant for his commitment He oft times petitioned for his enlargement by his wife but his petitions were still rejected with scorn He answers He will have nothing to doe with that Priest-catching knave proved by two Witiesses Elizabeth Gray and Goldsmith Vbi dolor ibi digitus here was the cause of all the malice against Gray this was his grand crime he was a priest-catcher and a knave for catching them strange language from an Archbishop But what followes his favourite Windebank must come in to act the second part and close up the Tragedy Gray must not be enlarged after many moneths imprisonment till he put in baile never to discover or prosecute Priests more and then they should all be quiet in short time with our prelats and popish Clergies concurrence quickly reduce us all to Rome This is the upshot of the Designe which this evidence concerning Gray most cleerly discovers and proves too Eightly for Egertons testimony concerning his restoring of popish Books it is more then a report it was from the mouth of Mottershead a sworne Officer to the Archbishop now dead who durst not report an untruth of this nature and the Archbishop himselfe confesseth the many Books forementioned were restored by order of the High Commission Court whereof himselfe was a chiefe member therefore by him a cleer confirmation of Mottersheau's words Egerton's testimony and Master Jones his papers Ninthly for the liberty of Priests Jesuits and their saying Masse in prisons it was his owne negligence and connivance the Keepers being under his command the High Commissioners who could look narrowly enough to Puritans and godly Ministers and indeed their commitment thither to secure them from our common Goales and all legall prosecutions was but a meer fallacy to delude the people and advance the Catholick cause with greater facility and lesse suspition Tenthly Mayoes testimony and Thatchers are so farre from extenuating that they aggravate his offence their Warrants and imployments being meer dissimulations and shadowes to gull the people for naught was done upon the intelligence of the one to whom he refused to grant a Warrant because he was too hot against Priests and no Priests apprehended by the other who had his Warrant upon this condition Not to imploy or keep company with Gray the onely man that could discover Priests and Jesuits to him and help him in their apprehending Finally his owne objected confession in his Epistle to the King God forbid I should ever offer to perswide a persecution in any kind or practice it in the least c. against Priests and Jesuits coupled with the premises when as he was so terrible so bloody a persecutor of Orthodox godly Ministers and zealous Protestants unanswerably proues his connivance at his protection of and confederacy with them to re-enthrall us in their Romish bondage So that this whole charge however he conceives he hath shaken it quite off and laid it in the dust recoiles upon him with greater vigor and rests heavier on his back then ever The last charge of this nature against me is that I complyed with Papists Priests and Jesuits in concealing their very Treasonable plots and conspiracies both against our State Church and Religion to reduce us unto Rome for which they produce two instances my threatning and committing Mistris Hussey for discovering a dangerous plot of the Queen Mother and others to cut the Protestants throats and my concealing of Habernfields plot discoverd to me not prosecuting or revealing it to the Parliament or Lords to fift it to the bottome To this I answer that I did not conceale nor discourage the discoverers of either of these two plots For the first of them I conceived it very improbable and I thought Anne Hussey to be crazy when she revealed it and so much I told her For her commitment to the Sheriffes it was at her owne desire for her greater safety and there was as strict an examination as possible of this conspiracy but no cleer evidence For the latter plot as soon as I received intelligence of it I presently revealed it to the King as appeares by my Letter and the Kings Answer to it in the margin under his owne hand which Master Prynne hath printed and the subsequent Letters prove that I did all I could therein but could make nothing of it This I beleeve a noble Lord here present well remembers to whom I disclosed it to wit the Earle of Northumberland who presently replyed he did remember no such thing However it is one of the greatest evidences that can be of my steadfastnesse in the protestant Religion and opposition against popery if the plot were reall and if but counterfeit then no crime to conceale it To which was replyed First that all the premises abundantly prove that he was privy and assistant to many Jesuiticall plots and devices to usher in popery and reduce us to Rome therefore it is no wonder that he opposed not nor prosecuted but smothered them all he could Secondly that the first of the plots which he then conceived improbable hath since experimentally proved reall both in England and Ireland yea his b Owne with Straffords dangerous advice to the King To bring in an Army of Irish Papists at that time to subdue the Scots because they durst not trust the English was cozen Germane to this plot which she discovered and probably a branch thereof For his deeming and calling her Mad-woman when she spake both punctually and rationally with his reviling terrifying words to her his laying an imputation on the whole City of London that she was hired by them to make this discovery with his menaces to have her punished c. were unsufferable abuses in such a case as this to smother a most execrable Treason and such a terrifying of a Witnesse as we shall not read the like especially when all the other Lords encouraged and gave her good words As for the further examination of the businesse afterwards and commitment of the Priest it proceeded only from the other Lords not him who did all he could to dant the Witnesses and conceal the