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religion_n	king_n	law_n	subject_n	4,732	5	6.6515	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31457	The nature and kinds of simony discussed wherein it is argued whether letting and ecclesiastical jurisdiction to a lay-surrogate , under a yearly pension reserved out of the profits, be reducible to that head : and a sentence in a cause depending about it near six years in the court of arches, is examined / by J. Cawley ...	Cawley, J. (John), 1632?-1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C1650; ESTC R16298	29,189	42

directly or indirectly put in ure or execute any thing for the Extolling Advancing setting forth maintenance or defence of any such pretended or usurped Jurisdiction Power Pre●eminence or Authority or any part thereof The Second Offence is Preminure by the Statute of that Queen Now there cannot be an higher Offence against both the Statutes cited in the Margen than introducing Foreign Canons and judging the Causes of the King's Subjects by them utterly refusing to proceed by Canons made and used within the Realm as hath been done in this Cause Mr. Bagshaw in his Speech concerning the Premunire saith a Premunire was against Cardinal Wolsey and he was attainted in it though he had the King's Commission for what he did Quia ipse intendebat antiquissimas Angliae leges subvertere enervare universumque regnum Angliae legibus civilibus earundem legum Canonibus in perpetuum subjugare And for this he forfeited all his Goods and Chattels to the King White-Hall Hampton-Court Christ Church c. If it were not for these Statutes of Premunire there would be no quiet to the King's Subjects as Chancellor Audely told Gardner Bishop of Winton Those Laws of the Pope we have no more to do with than his Religion which yet by a Corrupt Interest have been partly maintained by those perhaps who hope his Power may sometime return where his Canons so much prevail It is indeed an unaccountable Boldness for any Judge to give sentence in a Cause upon Popish Canons never used or put in practise in England as hath been done in this Case but it must be remembred it was done when Popery began to rule us and he was most countenanced who could most cunningly introduce it one and that a very subtle Method being to bring in force again all the Pontificial Canons which the Reformation had Abdicated For this reason all the Popish Judges and those that were eminently Popishly affected would never consent to a Prohibition upon this suggestion though it was thrice attempted That it was no Simony by any Law or Canon that ever was used or in force in England though the suggestion be most certainly true and relevant That it is true I affirm because there never was any such Cause before heard in England nor any Sentence in it no nor is there any decision of this Cause to be found in any of the numerous Rotaes of all Christendom There is no instance before neither in England nor in the whole World of any hearing wherein it hath been judicially pronounced Simony Therefore the suggestion must be relevant as may be seen by the Statutes before cited for those Canons on which the Sentence is grounded are no Laws in England Suppose a Man was Libelled in the Court Christian for Heresy they will proceed because it is an Ecclesiastical Crime and give sentence It is true that by the 1 Eliz. if it be not such as hath been declared Heresy by the Four First General Councels they ought not but the Court will not hear it Whether must the Client go but to the Temporal Judges who are to explain and vindicate that Statute and enquire whether it be Heresy within that Statute or no and whether the Canons about Heresy by which the Court proceeds do not abate by virtue of that Statute In this Case the Reverend Judges may and let me speak with humble submission ought to enquire whether the Court do not intrench upon the 25 H. 8. 21 c. That Enacts no Canons shall be used but what have been received and if the Court Christian put in ure such Canons they are to be restrain'd else these several Temporal Laws were made in vain that have abolished such Foreign Canons It seems to me the strongest plea in the World to alledge That this Cause is pronounced to be Simony by Canons that were never in force in England or if they were they are abrogate and obsolete and of this I am sure none but the Temporal Courts are the proper Judges For if the Court Christian be allowed to make use of what Pontificial Laws they please there is no Bishop or Clergyman whom they cannot deprive for this very Crime in Instances never yet heard of by Englishmen Godolphin takes notice how much Simony in England differs from that of Rome and saith The Canon Law in this point of Simony is of far wider extent then the practice with us He enumerates Nine Cases and concludes thus with divers other Questions in the Canon Law relating to this subject the solutions whereof are not of any moment to us who are out of the Pope's Diocess I shall add some other Cases out of the Body of the Canon Law and Gloss or approved Authors few whereof are Simony in England though they are so at Rome or Bononia Viz. Buying Reliques Holy Roods Agnus Dei's Holy Bread or Water Chrism Consecrated Beads and Candles all Garments of the Mass-Priests Corporals and other Vests of the Altar Consecrated Clouts Bells Chalices or Crucifixes if you give more than the matter is worth To become a Monk with hopes to be Abbot To hope for a Bishoprick or Benefice or to promote any Affairs of the Patron in expectation of the next Advowson or to get a promise of it To observe Canonical Hours to get the Canonical Portion To agree what Salary you shall have for serving a Cure was Anciently Simony if not still To ask a Benefice with Cure of Souls for an unworthy Person or for your self though never so fit To confer a Benefice upon condition the Clerk do you no mischief A Bishop so much as ask for a Bishoprick For a Divinity Reader or Catechist to take any thing of their Auditors if the Lectures are endowed To teach School for reward if the Master has a Prebend or Salary from the Church as they have or ought in all Cities by the Canon Law. To take Money for Preaching Lectures or Sermons for a Neighbour Minister or to preach to gain Applause To give Money to another to pray for you For Favour or Affection to reconcile a Penitent or conceal his Crimes or for hatred to repel him To present to a Benefice as a recompence to a Clerks Merits in many cases is Simony To present Kindred or Familiars with any Respect thereto or to gain Honor or Repute To purchase the next Advowson or the Perpetuity if you give more then the Mannor is worth without it To found a Prebend on condition that you may retain it for your Life To buy a Burial Place To take Money for Burials Christnings Marriages or any of the Popish Sacraments that confer Grace To agree to Celebrate for you to morrow if you will for me to day To say Mass hear Confessions give the Sacraments with intention to get by it A Bishop or Prebend to pay any thing for Installation or Bishops to do Homage to the King for their Bishopricks To give Money to the Bishop or