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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75633	The articles and charge proved in Parliament against Doctor Walton, minister of St. Martins Orgars in Cannon street. VVherein his subtile tricks, and Popish innovations are discovered; as also the consultations, and assistance he hath had therein by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, Mr. Brough, and Mr. Baker to effect the same. As also his impudence in defaming the honourable members of the House of Commons, by scandalous aspersions and abusive language.		1641 (1641)	Wing A3809; Thomason E173_11; ESTC R14741	5,045	16

the Churchwardens for the reimbursing the parishioners their charges expended about the recovery of the said Lands and the rest to be employed by the Parson and Churchwardens for the performance of the charitable uses aforesaid appointed by the Will of the said Cromer Thus it stands decreed And the said Doctour though this Decree is made by his own consent and is so expressed in the very Decree finds this way to elude it He makes his addresse by Petition to the Lord Archbishops grace of Canterbury and prayes that hee might retaine in his hands forty markes per annum without accompt and that twenty pounds per annum onely might bee allowed towards the repaire of the said Church and for Ornaments and other uses Vpon this petition an Act is made by Sir Iohn Lambe directed by his Grace and entred into a Registry whereby Mr. Doctor Waltons desire is accomplished and the Parish deprived of so much and the Decree in Chancery made frustrate And by this contrivance and device against Law against the Will of the Donor and against the Decree in Chancery the said Parson hath wrought and procured for himselfe and his Successours the Tenements aforesaid which out of Lease are worth above two hundred pounds per annum whereby your Petitioners are defeated of their charges and the Church of its right and in such a way as is without president or example all which the Petitioners can make plainly appeare by the Decree in Chancery and the Petition of the said Doctor and order of the said Archbishop of Canterbury and by his unjust accompts made in the Ecclesiasticall Courts wherein all his demands are allowed ready to be produced to this honourable Assembly And that posterity may bee the more deceived he hath taken the boldnesse as if it were a thing of undeniable truth to assume to himselfe the title of recovering the possessions of the Church and hath caused this untrue Inscription to be set up in the East window over the Altar viz. Sir William Cromer Knight Anno 1431. gave to the Parson of this Church and his Successors for ever all his lands and tenements in the parishes of St. Swithin and St. Olaves Hart-street London towards the daily Celebration of divine Service and reparation of this Church and Chancell and the Ornaments thereof which lands being taken away the first of E. 6. were in part recovered to the said Church for the said uses by the said Brian Walton now Incumbent and with the profits thereof this Church and Chancell were repaired Anno Dom. 1637. and over that Inscription the said Brian Walton hath set his owne Armes and the said Cromers and gives the charge thereof in accompt in the spirituall Court to be allowed out of the rents of the said Church lands 4. The said Doctor not content with the usuall Tythes of the Parish which have been paid according to the Statute to gaine an Augmentation of 2s. 9d. in the pound according to the very valew of mens houses he hath preferred severall Petitions to the King and to the Lord Major of London and commenced severall suites in the Ecclesiasticall Courts and very lately viz. upon the sixteenth of November 1640. preferred his bils in Chancery against one of the Parishioners for the said 2. shillings 9. pence in the pound and formerly preferred a bill there and never proceeded therein meerely to vex and weary out the Petitioners making them to forsake their dwellings Hee exacteth with threatnings tythes of many poore people and of such as receive the almes of the Parish and yet hath another Benefice of 200. pounds per annum or thereabout in Essex 5. Hee turmoileth the Petitioners with Informations and Excommunications prosecuting them in the high Commission upon that extorted and selfe-accusing oath Ex officio framing divers Articles against them containing divers charges of severall natures making your Petitioners a prey to Officers and though wronged yet left at last without reliefe for although some of your Petitioners after sentence of Excommunication against them with much difficulty have obtained their absolution and delivered the same to the Curate or Clerke yet the said Doctor getting knowledge thereof hath not forborne to publish the Excommunication and forbidden the Curate to declare the Absolution and such is his power and countenance in the high Commission and other Ecclesiasticall Courts that he daily gets heart and incouragement to vex your Petitioners in these Courts glorying and rejoycing in his vexation of his Parishioners who are committed to him for better purposes 6. The said Doctor appropriateth to himselfe divers Pews in the Chancell and hath caused divers of the most ancient Pewes to be cut up to make way and open passage to the said Altar and although the Petitioners to prevent the said disturbance procured the Chancellours command for stay of his intended worke yet presuming upon his favour in those Ecelesiasticall courts with a high hand he proceeded and did finish his worke he appropriateth to himselfe the upper part of the North and South Iles of the Church for buriall digging Vaults and taking great summes of money of some more of some lesse and of whom he pleaseth for their buriall there making promises and warrantees to defend them against the parish or whomsoever should gainsay he hath cut and caused to be cut and defaced the Table of Rates for Burials and Weddings and other Parish duties usually hanging in the Vestry since the defacing thereof he exacteth extraordinary sums of money for burial both of strangers and parishioners and hath caused their Vestry booke to be carried into the high Commission Court where it hath remained three or foure yeares which booke he hath both enterlined at his pleasure and crossed out his own name subscribed to certaine Orders and hath gotten into his possession and wrongfully detaines from the Parish their evidences and writings which belong not to him to the great detriment of the parishioners and disorderly carriage of the Parish affaires and he forbiddeth and putteth downe their Vestry-meetings 7. The turbulency and malignity of this mans spirit appeareth also in this that he disgracefully contemptuously asperseth those persons of qualitie and worth which at this time serve the Common-wealth in the Honourable house of Parliament as men chosen for the Knights and Burgesses of this City affirming that the City had chosen Soame because he would not pay Ship-money Vassall because he would not pay the King his customes Penington because he entertaines silenc'd Ministers and Cradocke to send them over into New England Now forasmuch as the rehearsed innovations usurpations vexations and wrongs tend to the high dishonour of God blemish and scandall to the Religion established and the peaceable government of the Church as also to the great distraction and disturbance of the Petitioners in the service of God causing great disorder trouble and charge to the Petitioners and the griefe of their hearts in that they cannot injoy the Ordinances of God in their purity without the interposing and mingling of such Ceremonies introduced by the said Doctor The Petitioners humbly beseech this Honourable Assembly to examine their abuses and to take some course for their Reformation that your Petitioners may as their Predecessors and Ancestours have done serve God in quiet and enjoy themselves and their owne peace being set free from the oppressions and troubles wherewith the said Doctor hath made them too well acquainted And that the Lands and rents may be injoyed and imployed to the good and religious uses intended by the first Donor and since confirmed by the Decree of the Honourable Court of Chancerie And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall continue their prayers for the happy successe of your great designes FINIS