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A57609	Rome for Canterbury, or, A true relation of the birth and life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury together with the whole manner of his proceeding, both in the star-chamber, high-commission court, in his owne house, and some observations of him in the tower : with his carriage at the fight of the deputyes going to the place of execution, &c. : dedicated to all the Arminian tribe or Canterburian faction, in the yeare of grace, 1641 : whereunto is added all the articles by which he stands charged of high treason, &c.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1895; ESTC R17938	6,955	8

meaning the Church in remembrance that he had béene there a prisoner It is also reported that a gentleman of quality comming to the Tower to give him a visite and asking his grace how it fared with him at that present he made him answer I thanke God I am well for it hath pleased his Sacred Maiesty my Soveraigne to provide for me an honourable and convenient lodging where I have good and wholsome fare and where not withstanding all my troubles and tribulations I never yet broke an houre of my usuall and contented sléep And the morning when the late Earle of Strafford past by his lodging as he was led to the place of execution and mooved his ha● unto him then standing and looking out of his windowe he held up his hands and eyes towards heaven without speaking any thing audible to the observers as if he prayed earnestly and inwardly for the salvation of his soule c. He was observed also sometimes to speake those words of the Psalmist Psal. 82. v. 6 7. I have said ye are gods and children of the most high but ye shall dye as men and yee Princes shall fall like others c. Now follow the Articles exhibited c. The true copy of the Articles whereby William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury stands charged with high Treason FIrst That the said William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury hath traiterously laboured to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of the Kingdome by giving his Majesty advise privately and in other places said that hee would have them gouern'd by Civill Lawes and further said hee would make the proudest Subject in the Kingdome give way to him and being told it was against Law he replied he would make it Law and that the King might at his owne pleasure take away without Law and make it warrantable by Gods Law Secondly His countenancing of Bookes and their Authors for the maintenance of his unlimited and absolute power wherein the power of the Parliament is denied and the Bishops power of Prela●y set up Thirdly That he traitorously went about to interrupt the Iudges by his threatnings and other meanes to constraine them to give false Iudgment in the case of Ship-mony as will appeare both by writings and his hand by testimony of divers persons of good worth and quality Fourthly That he hath taken bribes and sold justice in the High Commission Court as he was Arch-bishop and hath not only corrupted the Iudges there but hath also sold judicial places to be corrupted Fiftly That he hath endeavoured the incroachment of jurisdiction and institution of Canons which are not onely unlawfull but prejudiciall to the Subject and that hee hath exercised his authority very cruelly both as a Chancellour Commissioner and Iudge Sixtly That He hath traiterously assumed a capitall power over his Majesties subjects denying his power of Prelacy as from the King Seaventhly That by false erronious Doctrines and other sinister wayes and meanes He went about to subvert the Religion establish●d in this Kingdom and to set up Papistry and superstition in the Church Eightly That by undue meanes and practice he hath gotten into his hand the power of nominating of Ministers to Spirituall promotions and hath preferred none but scandalous Ministers thereunto and that he preferred corrupt Chaplains to his Majesty Ninthly That his owne Ministers as Heywood Laifield and others are notoriously disaff●cted to Religion Tenthly That hee hath Traiterously endea●oured to reconcile us to the Church of Rome and to that end hath imployed a Iesuite and a Papist-priest and hath wrought with the Popes Agents in severall p●i●ts Eleventh That to suppresse prea●hing Hee hath suspended divers good men and u●ed u●lawfull meanes by Letters and otherwise to severall Bishops to suppresse th●m Twelth That he hath Traiterously endeavoured to suppresse the French Religion here amongst us which is the same wee are of and also the Dutch Church and to set divisio● betweene them and u● Thirteenth That he hath Traiterously ende●vored to set Division between the King and his Subjects and hath gone about to bring in Innovatio●s into our Church And hath induced the King to Warre with the Scots and many upon their death beds to give towards the maintenance of the Warre And hath caused the Clergy to give fr●●ly towards the same and hath broug●t in many Superstitions and Innov●tions into the Church of Scotland And that hee procured the King to breake the pacification thereby to cause a bloody War betwee● the Kingdomes Fourteenth That to preserve himselfe from being questioned for these and other his Traiterous designes from the first yeare of his Majesties Raigne untill now hee hath laboured to subvert the Rites of Parliam●ntary proceedings and to incense h●s Majesty against Parliaments By all which Words Councels and Actions hee hath Trait●rously laboured to ali●nate the h●arts of the Kings leige people from his Majesty ●o set a Division betweene them and to ruine and destroy his Majesties Kingdomes For which they impeach him of high Tre●son agai●st our Soveraigne Lord the King his Crown● and Dignity And the said Commons by protestation saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Accusation or Impeachment against the said William La●d Arch-bishop of Canterbury And also of replying to the Answers that he● the said Arch-bishop shall make unto the said Articles or any of them And of offering proofe also of the Premisses or a●y of them or any other Impeachment or Accusation that shall be exhibited by them ●● the course of Parliaments require Doe pray that he the said William La●d Arch-bishop of Cant●rbury may be put spe●dily to answere for all and eve●y the premisses that such Proceedings Examin●tions Trials and Iudgments may be upon every one of them had and used as is agre●able to Law and Iustice FINIS

Rome for Canterbury Or a true Relation of the Birth and Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury Together with the whole manner of his proceeding both in the Star-Chamber High-commission Court in his owne House and some observations of him in the Tower With his carriage at the sight of the Deputyes going to the place of Execution c. Dedicated to all the Arminian Tribe or Canterburian Faction in the yeare of grace 1641. Whereunto is added all the Articles by which he stands charged of High Treason c. Printed also in the same 1641. Roome for Canterbury or the Relation of the Birth Life and Proceedings of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan of all ENGLAND GReatnesse● and Goodnesse are two severall blessed attributes co●ferred upon man but seldome méete in one pe●son Greatnesse ma● bee stiled a gift in●erd by fort●ne but Goodnesse a grace i●fused by God The fir●● labo●rs in mistrust and is borne the bonds●ave of Chance seldome attended without ●●vy and though to many pers●ns it appeare excéeding pleasant yet the higher wee are seated although by vertue the greater is our fal● if corrupted by vice By Honour and Office men ●●come great yet is it not the place ●hat maketh the pers●n but the pe●son that maketh the place honourable and that preferment and power which is both well acquir'd and worthily con●er'd Non est invitamen um ad tempus sed perpetuae virtutis praemium is no tempo●arie invitation but a perpetuall inheritance Goodnesse is of a co●tra●y condition men are not t● be accounted good either for their authority or age but for their sincerity and actions Hée th●t is good is better than the good he doth and he that is evill is wo●se ●●an the bad déed done by him All great men are not consideratel● goo●● but all good men are consequently great Greatnesse and goodnesse with grace add●d ●o ciment them together make unques●i●nably a perf●ct ●nd compleate man Here was grace which had it ●●ene ●●l●s●i●lly inspi●e● as it was but temporally disposed might t● that grea●nesse ●ave so combined goodnesse as from thence could have growne no such tribula●ion Hows●●v●r let no man grieve at his present afflictions for they are the rods by which God ●hallis●th his children I here is nothing that the wo●ld can ●ake awa●●●om us● bec●u●e it can give nothing unto us fame fadeth pote●cy perisheth weal●h wasse●● True riches consist in our constancy in casualty and though perturbation and punishment be the prison of the body yet courage and comfort are the libe●ty of the soule to which I onely adde Patience which is so allyed to Fortitude that shée séemeth to be either her sister or her daughter things that compulsively come upon us should be borne with patience and co●●rage of which we have had late president and more generous it 〈◊〉 for a man to offer himselfe to death in triumph than to be drawne unto it with terrour Gaudet patientia duris I come now to the person He was borne at Reading of honest parents his father was a Clothier in that Towne of a competent estate and carefull to sée his children to be well educated and instructed This his sonne William being of an excellent wit and pregnant capacity was sent from the Grammar schoole to Oxford where he was admitted into St. Johns Colledge where shortly hee prov'd an ingenious disputant and ere hee tooke his first degree of Batchelour was well verst in Logick philosophy and the Liberall Arts after he devoted himselfe to the study of Theologie in which he procéeded Doctor with no common applause attaining to these dignities belonging to so famous an Academy and being of an active spirit was called from thence to the Court where he grew so gracious that after some private preferments he was first made Bishop of St. Davis and thence removed to London and after the decease of the right reverend George Abbot Arch●Bishop of Canterbury was inaugurated into that prime See and was Metropolitane of all England steps that his predecessor who was a Clothiers sonne in Guilford had trod before him whom lesse than two yeares was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield London and Canterbury What this Prelates deportment now in agitation in so high a dignity was is sufficiently noys'd amongst all made apparent by his Dia●conicall Censures in the Star-Chamber the High Commission Court c. And it was a great aspersion iustly cast upon such high authority that hee so much affected summum jus iustice without mercy as sparing neither person nor profession and to leave all others witnesse how he did persecute the good Bishop of Lincoln D. Williams being of his owne degrée and function his more than severity in his rigorous censure and sentence upon Master Burton the Divine Master Prin the Lawyer and Doctor Bastwick the Physiciqn and even that poore fellow Thomas Bensted whom he caused to be hang'd drawne quartered he could make that a matter of Treason though he was but a subiect His threatning of the honest Iudges his 〈◊〉 other Officers and Ministers of tge Kings his sternnes and 〈◊〉 a●●wers even to Gentlemen of worth and now Parliament men who have but pleaded for poore men in iust causes it was a good wish that either he might have more grace or no grace at all which is now come to passe It is observed by some that in all the time of his Pontificall Prelacy he never promoted any to Church preferment that favoured not of the Arminian ●●et and still when Benefices fell that were either in his gift or where his power was to have them bestowed hee hath caused such men to be instituted and inducted as either were dunces in learning or debaucht in their lives such men being most apt for their tempo●ising or ignorance to imbrace any Innovation that should bée brought into the Church nay when places have not béene voyd but supplyed by pious Pastors and devout Ministers that were constant professors of the Protestant faith yet by spies and intelligencers such Cavills have béene made at their Doctrines and Disciplines that notwith●tanding their charge of wife and children and that their utter undoings impended upon the taking away of their meanes yet they have béene supplanted that the other might subsist in their places the first turn'd out the latter took in but that which farre transcends the former that he hath laboured to suppresse the French and Dutch Protestant Churches here in London who for their Conscience and Religions sake have abandoned their Countries to aveyd persecution and have made this famous Citie their Asilum and Sanctuary for themselves and families It hath béene observed also that he never gave censure upon a Iesuite or Seminarie or any Popish Priest though brought before him by his owne warrant and the Pursuivant imployed by himselfe For though apprehended yet they were never punished but if to ni●ht imprisoned to morrow infranchized and set at libertie or else he so cautelously