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A35353	Cathedrall newes from Canterbury shewing, the Canterburian Cathedrall to bee in an abbey-like, corrupt, and rotten condition, which cals for a speedy reformation, or dissolution : vvhich dissolution is already foreshowne, and begun there, by many remarkeable passages upon that place, and the prelats there : amongst which passages of wonder is, the Archbishop of Canterburies passing-bell, rung miraculously in that cathedrall / recorded and published by Richard Culmer ...	Culmer, Richard, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7478; ESTC R209928	28,341	30

of Justice where hee yet remaines This Prelate before that time Preach't there a whole Cathedrall Sermon for absolute and blind Obedience which Sermon began with Odi profanum Vulgus that is I hate the prophane common People He then published that if the King command it wee must put to Sea in a Tempest in a rotten Ship without Masts Sailes or Anchors this was Preacht at the Arch-bishops of Canterburies first Metropoliticall Visitation If that and all other Prelaticall and Cathedrall Sermons were extant all England would see though now 〈◊〉 enough how little our Laws and Liberties are beholding to Tyrannous Prelacy and Cathedralls which may be seene also in a Printed Prelaticall Sermons Preacht by a Grandee of that Cathedrall at Westminster not long before the long sad Eclipse of Parliaments Laws and Liberties in England On Ascension Thursday as they call it 1642. Another Cathedrall Doctor Preacht there that it was a duty of the Text that all that have Knees should bow them at the Name of Jesus This Prelate that pleaded so for bowing hearing that some of the Parishioners of Andrews in Canterbury did not kneele at the Communion came and administred it there himselfe and was so punctuall for their Kneeling that hee lookt very low to see if the Females kneeled That Learned Religious Good Society as they stile their Cathedrall in their Prelaticall Prayer had a Sermon Preached on Trinity Sunday as they call it 1642. The Text was and the Seraphinis cryed one to another Holy c. Upon which the Grandee or Prior of that Cathedrall Covent Preached saying hence is justified our Cathedrall singing of Psalmes from one side of the Quire to the other And then hee proceeded upon that occasion to a large Discourse in the behalfe of Church Musicke and Organs I never heard more pleading for Cathedrall Piping he was so vehement in his Discourse for Organes that he was almost out of breath It seemes he feared the fall of Cathedrall Quire-Service and Organs he was so earnest to uphold them but in vaine as the event proves And this puts me in minde of a very little witty Girle in that Cathedrall who being with her mother lately where a sicke man lay groaning very loud Mother said she why groanes this man so It was answered It is because he hath a paine in his belly This Girle being a little after with her mother at their Cathedrall-Quire-Service and hearing the Deane roaring out the Base in the Quire-Consort Mother said shee Hath Mr. Deane a paine in his belly he roares so It was a few moneths since preached in that Cathedrall That all were revolted from the King and must come as Benhadads servants did with ropes about their neckes A volume would not containe the Malignant passages preached in that Cathedrall since the Parliament began These following passages have beene vented there after last Michael-tide 1643. O Lord give the King more hands to fight for him Uriah was a generous Cavalier Another preached there since Men will excuse their sinnes so pride is called handsomnesse so an impious and rash vow is called a holy Covenant dethroning of Majesty is called setting up Christ in his Throne Fomenting of an unnaturall civill Warre is called advancing of the true Religion Another since that Bad zeale is a worke of the flesh such zeale have they who would pull downe Bishops Because like the Hereticke of old they cannot attaine to that place themselves Like that of the Anabaptisticall Reformers in Germany who under pretence of Reformation robbed and plundered This said he is but a Jesuiticall tricke of those who pretend to be most contrary to Jesuites Another since that preached there saying Priests are lights If the Candle burne dimme men use to snuffe it not to put it out those that are intoxicated use to put out the Candle while they go about to snuffe it and the snuffs were consecrated too And since that a Cathedrall Doctor preached there of counterfeiting the Kings Great Seale when the New great Seale legally came forth by authority of the Parliament for the good of the Kingdome And when some notorious Malignants and Incendiaries both Priests and others were secured in Canterbury the same Cathedrall Prelate preached at that time of some that were great Professors of Religion yet were most forward to persecute their Brethren and hale them to prison And since that when the Images in that Cathedrall began to be demolished the same Cathedralist preached the next Sabbath of Rifling and Pillaging Churches telling the people that such were worse then Jewes and Turkes or Infidels which as is conceived was a cause of the mutiny in Canterbury the next day This man preached to his Parishioners after the Communion saying Those that came up to the Railes should meet Christ in the Clouds but those that came not up Christ would say to them Depart from me ye cursed c. And another passage of a Cathedrall Sermon there was this There is a people come on shore which thinke their owne fancies to be the holy Spirit and doubtlesse they will plead at the last day We have defaced Churches and Chappels O God in thy name we have robbed and plundered in thy name we have kept Conventicles in thy name wee have undervalued Superiorities and dignities in thy name The last vapour vented in that Cathedrall was that it is Intemperate zeale and fiery fury to reforme before the enemy be subdued The Prayer was that God would make us sober Protestants It seemes the view of the Reformed Idolatrous Windowes of the Sermon-house did offend or strange-cooling came in by the breaches in them But it 's hoped the burning of that rich Altar-Glory will produce a result that will begin the reparations there to keepe out such chilling vapours To which may be added the now discovered rich silver Basin and Ewer and other sumptuous common Plate of that Cathedrall Corporation used at Cathedrall Feasts and the Altar-Basin and Candlesticks if they be not conveyed to Oxford will helpe that worke And as the Cathedrall Sermons were none of the best so those Cathedrall Prelates kept godly Preachers farre from them by combined caution The famous Rogers of Essex was wont to say You talke of miracles Is it not a miracle that Master Thomas Wilson of Canterbury should continue preaching so neere the Throne of the Beast there but all know they persecuted him and railed on him and accused him but God found great meanes for his support in the Lions denne But this is no Cathedrall newes and if they be such now being under a cloud what were they in their High Cathedrall splendor when they swayed all by their PRELATIC ALL WILL And if they be so malignant in publique against the King and Parliament and Kingdom joyning with Papists bloody Irish Rebels Damnee Ruffians and plundering Cavaliers and other common enemies of our Religion Laws and Liberties what have beene the private Counsels

in the two chiefe Churches of that City there were decent and ancient Seats for the Maior and Aldermen of late those seates have been pulled downe to make Roome for the Altars on the East of those Churches to the great hinderance of the Assemblies and all this was done at the command of Doctor c. Parson of Hithe Parson of Ickham Parson of W●ll Parson of Saltwood Prebend of Canterbury Arch-Deacon c. 6. In that Cathedrall there hath been lately erected a Superstitious Font with three Ascents to it paled about with high guilded and painted iron bars having under the Cover of it a carved Image of the Holy Ghost in the forme of a Dove and round about it are placed carved Images of the twelve Apostles and foure Evangelists and of Angels and over it a Carved Image of Christ so that none can looke up in prayer there but hee shall behold those tempting Images in the place of Divine Worship against the Law of God and the Doctrine of the Church of England And all this is done at the costs of Doctor c. late Prebend there now Parson of Back-Church in London Parson of Barham in East-Kent neere Dover Parson of Bishops Bourn Lord Bishop of Rochester c. And that Font was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Oxford as it testified by a Proctor of the Arch-Bishops Ecclesiastical Court in Canterbury in a Booke lately Printed and dedicated to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and adorned with the Pictures of his Miter and Coat-Armes and of many Altars and idolatrous Monuments and of that New Cathedrall Font 7. From the over-awing greatnesse of those Cathedrall Prelates and of the Arch-Bishops Ecclesiasticall Courts there Preaching and Lectures are much decayed in that City so that two Publique Lectures are put downe and divers able though conformable Ministers have beene hindred from Preaching there And many scandalous and unable Priests have been and now are beneficed and upheld there by the Arch-Bishop and Cathedrall Prelates and lewd persons admitted to the Lords Table to the great dishonour of God and Offence of the Godly Besides many other heavy grievances in matters of Religion common to the whole Kingdome The most humble and hearty Petition of the said Inhabitants is that the premised soule-pressing grievances may bee taken into the comideration of this Honourable Assembly And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. This Petition confirmeth this Character or description of a Cathedrall Corporation A Cathedrall is a nest of Non-Residents an Epicurean Colledge of ryot and voluptuausnesse A Schoole for Complement in Religion but a scourge upon the life and practice thereof A refuge for superstition but the bane of true peity The shame of the Clergy and the scorne of the Laity But this Petition and Character is no Cathedrall newes to those that live neere the Canterburian Cathedrall the vast revenues whereof which might advance Religion Learning and an able Ministry have been so long time abused to the maintenance of Ignorance Superstition Pride Luxurie c. Cathedrall carding dicing dancing swearing drunkennesse and drabbing too are no newes No wonder to see the Sacke-bottles keepe ranke and file in their Studies besides Taverne tospotting and smoaking It is no newes to tell you that Prince Ruperts health was drunke lately in that Cathedrall It is attested to the Honourable Committee concerning plundred Ministers that Mr. c. upon the Fast day in the afternoone at the Taverne with other Gentlemen drunke about ten healths and continued there untill night where he was left with the Deane of Canterbury A Tavern-haunting Cathedrall Doctor is no wonder reeling after a Malignant meeting and being beholding to a supporter How did the Cathedrall Prelates bestirre themselves for their brave female Cathedralist who was lately delivered of a childe alone secretly in a vault in that Cathedrall calling no help a few daies after she being discovered to have had a Child after search the childe was found dead in the Vault there wanted Pope Gregories Fish-pond Shee was arraigned at the Sessions for the murder but Malignant and Prelaticall Justices left the Cathedrall should suffer with her at the gallowes so bestirred themselves that shee was acquitted though the Learned and well-affected Judge said in open Sessions that nothing but the Kings pardon could save her And another Noble and valiant Patriot then sitting on the Bench openly protested against that verdict at her Tryall How flaunting is the garbe of those Cathedrall Prelates and Prelatesses all Lady-like at least in all accoutrements of House habits c. So that I have heard it often averred upon experience that the Cathedrall pride and bravery hath infected Citie and Countrey by marriages and otherwise A most proud Cathedrall Dame there being to goe to a great meeting her Maid could not please her in Starching her Ruffe though she did it often in one day The Maid brought it to her againe at night but she in a rage threw it downe and stampt it under her feet and beate her Maid charging her to sit up and starch it but it being late and the Maid out of hope to please her went to bed leaving the Ruffe flapt together as her Mistris had stampt it The next morning the Ruffe was found starch't none knew how shee then brought it to her Mistresse who said I marry could you not have done it so before This matter was most strictly examined and it could not bee found that any knew of the starching of it though her husband bestir'd himself much to find out the truth whereupon in conclusion he threw the Ruffe into the Fire out of which itleap'd untill hee held it in the Fire with the Tonges and so consumed it in the flame so that it is famous in City and Country that the Devil was the Cathedrall Landresse On All-Saints day 1639. a Cathedral Prelate being at a Feast there was asked if hee would eate of such a dish Tush said he doe you think I le eate any Butchers meat on All-Saintsday How often have Ministers left whole Parishes unprovided on Sabbath dayes and Fast dayes to preach in that Cathedrall for Lazy Prelates who were sleepy Auditors when they should have been the Preachers themselves The Sabbath injoyed but one Sermon in that Cathedrall amongst all those Cathedrall preachers An able Orthodox Divine could not have a Living in those parts untill every Cathedrall Canon or Prebend had two or three and every Petti-Cannon one though a meer-Reading-Service-Booke-Priest This is one fruit of the Prelates Tyrannous Patronage of Livings wherby they so much advanced Popery and Prelacy and their Kingdom of darknes There are but seven Parishes in the fruitful pleasant Isle of Thanet in Kent and three of these seven the now Arch-Bishop bestowed upon His Graces young Chaplaine beside a Prebendship of Canterbury And all this no question for his professed forwardnesse in the Arch-Bishops pious designes