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A95750	A nevv discovery of old pontificall practises for the maintenance of the prelates authority and hierarchy. Evinced by their tyranicall persecution of that reverend, learned, pious, and worthy minister in Jesus Christ, Mr. John Udall, in the raigne of Queene Elizabeth. To give satisfaction to all those that blindely endeavour to uphold episcopall government, that their lordly rule in the purest times of the said queene, is the very same with that they have exercised ever since, even to these times. Together with the prelates devises to make him submit, and to subscribe to submissions of their own contriving and invention. And also King James his letter out of Scotland to the queene, in the behalfe of Mr. Vdall and all other persecuted ministers in her realme.	Udall, John, 1560?-1592.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1643 (1643)	Wing U14; Thomason E87_6; ESTC R212794	52,416	53

procurement he framed a pardon upon the same and sent it to the Privy Councell who r●ferred him to the Arch-Bishop but his anger was still immortall neither would he relent or condiscend to his freedom notwithstanding all his Petitions nor all the entreaties of Honourable persons and others of good quality that mediated for him At last the Turky Marchants sued to the Arch-Bishop that hee might goe into Guinea to teach their Traffiquers in that place who assented thereunto upon condition that they would be bound he should goe as soone as he had his liberty but when 2 of the ancients of that Company desired to have the Arch-Bishops hand thereunto he refused to subscribe unlesse they would be bound not only for his present departure but that he should remaine there untill he had the Queenes Licence to returne againe into England c. These premises being duly perpended let any indifferent man give a solid reason why such Episcopall Government should be restored for how they deported themselves in those pure times of Queene Elizabeth as it is now termed by this Relation is made apparent and in the time of King James there was no alteration for it is well knowne that they persecuted Mr. Dighton and other good men for meere Ceremonies and silenced also many worthy Ministers in his Raigne yet it is observable that they seduced that Learned King after he once came amongst them and that is evident by the difference betweene his Letter in this Relation and his conclusive sentence to maintaine the Prelates Authority at the Conference at Hampton Court in the first yeare of his Raigne Likewise in this King Charles his time they have stopped the mouths of sedulous and faithfull Preachers they have abolished Lectures mutilated stigmatized whipped and tortured sundry of the Clergy and Laity as Mr. Burton Dr. Bastwicke Mr. Prynne Dr. Leighton and others for disclosing their Tyranny and abuses and yet some sillie men are so farre enamoured of them that they had rather a destructive Episcopacy should roughly sway in this Kingdome then that a preservative Parliament should free both Clergy and Laity from such Scorpions stings And since experience in all ages evinceth that wheresoever Episcopacy is there will be Tyranny therefore all the truely Reformed Churches in Europe have abolished the cause that thereby the effect might also be utterly extinguished To conclude this pious and worthy person Mr Iohn Vdall as this ensuing Relation testifieth stood firme and constant for the Reforma●ion even to death and would not be deterred from it though strictly imprisoned fettered condemned and bereft of all worldly comforts which should prove a Mirrour to all of that Tribe but especially to his own Posterity to instruct them not to deflect from so singular a patterne and deviate into oblique and erroneous courses lest those objurgations of the Prophet be justly applied to them as namely Hosea 7. 11. Ephraim is also like a Dove deceived without heart they call to Egypt they goe to Ashur c. The same is reiterated Hosea 12. 1. Ephraim is fed with the winde and followeth after the East winde he increaseth daily lies and destruction and they do make a Covenant with Ashur and oyle is carried into Egypt And these places of Scripture may one day heavily reflect upon Mr. Ephraim Vdall his Sonne unworthy of such a Father who hath forgotten to follow his Fathers steps but runeth a retrograde course from them in erecting a new Raile at his own charge about the Communion Table in his Church since the former was removed by the Order of Parliament and delivering the Elements to none but those that come up to his Rayle and denied to subscribe for moneys for the defence of the King and Parliament refusing to read the Orders that come from the Parliament or Lord Major of London but none was so forward as lie in permiting the Booke of sports on the Lords day and the Prayer against the Scots to be read in his Church and as it seemeth he loveth the Parliament so litle that hee never prayeth for good successe to their Army but on the contrary he prayeth That the hand of vengeance may strike such as take up Armes against the King And no one can judge but that the intent of such expressions are onely the calling for vengeance on the heads of those who endeavor to defend Religion Laws and Liberties against those Trayterous and wicked Counsellours which have too much entercourse with his Majesty And by report his House is a receptacle for disaffected Ministers that frequently resort thither and as it may be conjectured by the persons little good is hatched amongst them and he is growne into such estimation with Birds of that feather that Doctors Proctors and such Malecontents against the Parliament are his constant Auditors The Apostles Councell is good and salubrious Study to be quiet and do your own businesse 1 Thess 4. 11. which if all perverse Spirits would have practised these miserable distracters would never have ingulphed us in this unnaturall War Farewell The Particular EXAMINATIONS Arraignement and Condemnation of IOHN VDALL Minister of the word of GOD together with such things as passed betweene him and others by occasion thereof SEeing you desire to understand the particular things that have passed betwixt mee and them in authority that have from time to time molested mee I am willing to satisfie you at this time in that which concerneth this my last and greatest trouble that ever befell me for that it brought me to Prison referring you to get the former of c. by such meanes as you may and to learne the particulars of my Arraignement of those that heard it seeing it was at the publike Assises in the presence of many hundreds divers whereof I thinke were both able and willing to t●ke note thereof After that I was silenced at Kingston in manner as appeareth in the papers that contain a particular remembrance of the same I rested about hal a yeer preparing my selfe to a private life for that I saw so little hope of returne into my ministery or any rest in it to the good of the Church But God would not have it so For meanes were made by some that feared God in Newcastle upon Tyne to the Earle of Huntington to send me thither who did so and I was received thither in such sort as contented mee and joyned in the ministery of the word there with two godly men Mr. Houldesworth the Pastor and Mr. Bamford a teacher through whose joynt l●bours God vouchsafed so to draw the people to the love of the word no●withstanding that the Plague was grievous in the Towne all the while I was there and consumed above 2000 of the Inhabitan●s as we had hope in time to see much fruit and receive great comfort of our labours But the enemy so envyed the same that after a Yeares abode there I was fetched thence by letters from the Lord Hunsdon Lord

A NEW DISCOVERY OF Old Pontificall Practises For the maintenance of the PRELATES Authority and HIERARCHY EVINCED By their Tyrannicall persecution of that Reverend Learned Pious and worthy Minister of JESUS CHRIST Mr. JOHN UDALL in the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth To give satisfaction to all those that blindely endeavour to uphold Episcopall Government that their Lordly Rule in the purest times of the said Queene is the very same with that they have exercised ever since even to these times Together with the Prelates devises to make him submit and to subscribe to submissions of their own contriving and invention And also King JAMES his Letter out of Scotland to the Queene in the behalfe of Mr. Vdall and other persesecuted Ministers in her Realme My Sonne feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24. 21. London Printed for Stephen Bowtell and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head-Alley 1643. AN INTRODUCTION By way of ADVERTISEMENT To the READER IN these prejudicate opinionated times it is difficult to give satisfaction that the Bishops illegall and unconscionable courses have alwaies without any variation bin one and the same but if the impartiall Reader will deigne to peruse this ensuing Relation of Mr. Vdalls harsh usuage by them he shall finde no mutation neither in their Councells nor Actions They were persecuters from all Antiquity of such as disclosed the dissonancy betweene their Authority and the true rule of the word of God as all Ancient and Neoterick Histories record both Domestick and Exoticke And in this Kingdome they have not onely vented their fury against good men in the times of Popery as in the Raignes of King Edward the third Richard the second and Henry the fourth against Iohn Wicklisse and such as they termed Lollards even untill the Raignes of King Edward the fixt and Queene Elizabeth but also in her time when Popery was relegated and the Protestant Religion began to dispell the misty fog of errour and Ignorance yet the reliques of Darknesse could not endure the true light of perfect Reformation which this worthy Person Mr. Vdall striving to introduce was by the instigation of the Prelates hurried from his Ministery at Newcastle in the depth of Winter and in the bitterest weather that could be brought to be Examined by the Lords of the Queenes Councell and because contrary to the Laws of the Land he would not betray himselfe he was by them committed to the Gate-house and there to be kept close Prisoner and not to be suffered to have pen inke or paper or any body to speake with him his wife being also debarred his company and his Chamber-fellowes being professed Papists Seminary Priests and Traytors from thence he was conveyed to the White Lyon in Southwarke and at the Assises holden in Croydon 24 ●uly 1590. was brought to the Bar with Fetters on his Leggs and there Indited for malitiously publishing a scandalous and infamous Libell against the Queene and no testimonies viv ● voce produced to attest the same but only depositions of men taken in the High Commission Court which by the Laws of the Land was no Court of Record and Reports upon heare-say urged against him his witnesses not being permitted to testifie in his behalfe because it was against the Queene which notwithstanding the Laws allow both in Felony and in Treason and the words of the Stature 23 Eliz. cap. 2. wrested by the Judges viz. Baron Clarke and Serjeant Puckering that because the Booke of Demonstration of Discipline whereof he was supposed the Author and for which he was then Indited was against the Bishops that exercised the Government appointed them by the Queene therefore by consequent it was against her Royall Person and because that he strove against the Prelates who were put in Authority by the Queene therefore he did strive against her which was contrary to the Maxime of Law That no penall or criminall Statute which concerneth a mans life ought to ●e extended beyond the power of naturall words of the same such an awing power have the Bishops alwaies carried over the Laws Judges and Lawyers as to over-rule them all and to make them sing ●lacebo and then the said Judges directed the Jury to finde him the Author of that Booke without legall proofe and to leave the Felony to them which they said was resolved by all the Judges of the Land and the Jury for feare complying with them found him guilty of Felony being drawn thereunto by a promise that it should be no further danger unto him but tend to his good for which afterwards they were exceedingly grieved and troubled Then they kept him in durance for halfe a yeare uncondemned and at the Assises in February after holden in Southwarke used all the meanes and perswasions they could exc●gitate to make him submit and relinquish his Tenets against the Bishops which he refusing to yeeld unto had the sentence of death pronounced against him by Puckering but they not daring to execute him because his Adertions were the constant Doctrine of all the Reformed Churches in Christendom he was Reprived by the Queenes speciall Command then the Court Chaplaines repaired unto him and tendered ready written submissions unto him which he rejected and being perswaded by a friend of his to solicite Sir Walter ●awleigh to obtaine his pardon and freedom he wrote unto him and sent him also a Confession of the severall points which he maintained in the interim came unto him Dr. Nowe●● Deane of Pauls a man in those daies famous for his Learning and pretended piety who brought another submission unto him whereunto he at the first refused to subscribe but after some advice and consideration he assented and attested it but afterwards perceiving that this was a trick of Legerdemaine used by the Deane who had ingaged the word and faith of a Christian to obtaine his Remission and Liberty which would be a meanes to hasten his end he wrote to the Deane modestly reprehending him for that prestigious device desi●ing him to leave no stone unturned that might further his Liberty or at least to cleare his own conscience from being any way Accessary to his death While these affaires were in agitation JAMES King of Scotland wrote a Letter to the Queene wherein he requested that Mr. Vdall Mr. Car●wright and other Ministers of the Gospell in her Realme for their dissent from the Bishops and others of her Clergy touching matters of Conscience might not be hardly dealt with but that at his intercession they might be released from their Restraints and not further prosecuted for their professions of the Gospell and their Consciences c. Hereupon Mr. Vdall who was conveyed to the Assises at Kingston and as was supposed should have bin executed there was immediately returned from thence by the Judges unto the White Lyon in the Evening before the first day thereof And afterwards geting a Copy of his Inditement by the Lord Treasurers