but on this condition to have all the Land he sued for with the full profits thereof to a minute past and his own costs and charges to a farthing Such and no other agreement will the court of Rome condescend unto Dr. Heylyn But as our Author sayeth that many of the Arch-bishops Equals adjudged that designe of his to be impossible so I may say without making any such odious Comparisons that many of our Author's betters have thought otherwise of it Fuller Amongst which many of his Betters the Animadvertor undoubtedly is one of the Principal Be it so I will endeavour to be as good as I can and will not envy but honour my Betters whose number God increase Sure I am amongst these many of my Betters the difference betwixt us and the Papists is made never a whit the better there remaining still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though many may manifest much good wil to advance nothing hath taken Effect to compleate such a composition Dr. Heylyn It was the Petulancy of the Puritans on the one side and the pragmaticalness of 〈◊〉 Jesuits on the other side which made the breach wider than it was at 〈◊〉 first and had these hot Spirits on both sides been charmed a while moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equal tearms as vvould have laid a sure foundation for the peace of Christendome Fuller Let us behold the Originall breach betvvixt the Church of Rome and Us. I name the Church of Rome first because confident they caused it so that vve may say unto them Pharez The breach be upon them This breach vvas made before either Puritans or Iesuits ever appeared in England As the Animadvertor skill'd in their dates knovveth full vvell It is therefore suspitious that the Wound vvhich vvas made before these parties vvere in being vvill continue if both of them vvere extinct I behold the Colledge of Sorbonists in Paris as far from Jesuitical pragmaticalness and Dr. I. Cosens as one free from puritanical petulancy Yet though the said Doctor hath complyed vvith them so far as he could doe vvith Christian prudence salâ—â conscientiâ And though the Sorbonists are beheld as the most learned and moderate Papists yet I cannot hear of any Accommodation betvvixt them but rather the contrary even in the point of the Apocrypha a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor they being as unvvilling to allovv so few as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical And here let me be the Animadvertor's Remembrancer of vvhat perchance he vvould vvillingly forget hovv it vvas not long since he tvvitted me for saying that the difference about the posture of the Communion Table might be accommodated vvith mutual moderation and novv he holdeth By the same means an expedient betvvixt us and the Papists may be advanced Dr. Heylyn Moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equall termes as would have laid a sure foundation for the Peace of Christendome Fuller My name is Thomas It maketh me the more distrust thereof because I see at this day most cruel Wars betwixt the Crowns of Spain and France both which agree to the heighth in the same Romish Religion I am sorry their differences are paralleled with a sadder instance of the deadly Wars betwixt the Swede and Dane both Lutherans alike And our Sea Wars betwixt us and the Hollander both wel paied for are not yet forgotten All I collect is this that if the agreement betwixt us and Papists were expedited to morrow yet so long as there be severall Greatnesses in Christendome there will be â—â—stlings betwixt them And although they are pleased to score their differences for the greater credit on the account of Conscience and Religion yet what saith St. Iames From whence comes Warres and fightings amongst you Come they not hence even of your Lusts that war in your members And it is a sad truth Such the corruption of the humane Nature that Mens Lives and Lusts will last and end together Dr. Heylyn Now that all these in the Church of Rome are not so stiffely wedded to their own Opinions as our Author makes them appears first by the Testimony of the Archbishop of Spaâ—ato declaring in the high Commission a little before his going hence that He acknowledged the Articles of the Church of England to be true or profitable at the least and none of them Heretical Fuller The Animadvertor hath instanced in an ill Person and in an ill time of the same Person It was just when he was a taking his return to his vomit and to leave the Land When knowing himselfe obnoxious and justly under the lash for his covetous compliance with forreign Invitations of King Iames to get leave to be gone he would say any thing here and unsay it againe elsewhere As little heed is to be given to such a Proteus as hold is to be taken of Him Dr. Heylyn It appears secondly by a Tractate of Franciscus de Sancta Clara as he calleth himself in which he putteth such a Glosse upon the nine and thirty Articles of the Church of England as rendreth them not inconsistent with the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Fuller By that Parenthesis as he calleth himselfe it is left suspitious that his true Name was otherwise And he who would not use his own but a false Name might for ought I know put a false Glosse upon our Articles and though he PUTTETH such a sense upon them it is questionable whether our Articles will accept thereof To PUT something upon sometimes answers to the Latin Word IMPONERE which is to deceive and delude and sometimes is Equivalent to our English Word IMPOSE which soundeth the forceable or fraudulent Obtruding of a thing against the Will and Mind of Him or That whereon it is imposed Lastly the Animadvertor cannot warrant us that the rest of the Church of Rome will consent to the Iudgement of Franciscus de Sancta Clara and if not then is the breach betwixt us left as wide as it was before Dr. Heylyn And if without Prejudice to the Truth the Controversies might have been composed it is most probable that other Protestant Churches would have sued by their Agents to be included in the Peace Fuller The Animadvertor's Prudent and Politick Probability that other Protestant Churches would by their Agents sollicite an Inclusion into such a peace mindeth me of the Distich wrot on the sumptuous Cradle gorgiously trimmed for the Child of Queen Mary by Philip King of Spain Quam Mariae Sobolem Deus Optime Summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege O may the Child to Mary God hath given For ENGLANDS good be guarded safe by Heaven Whereas indeed this Child pretended at White-hall may be said born at Nonsuch proving nothing but a Mock-mother-Tympany I cannot but commend the kindnesse and care of the Animadvertor for keeping this Babe when born I mean the agreement betwixt Us and the Papists But let us behold it born see
they had deserved the first thing which was done by the House of Commons after the King by their means had been brought to the fatall Block being to turn them out of povver to dissolve their House and annul their priviledges reducing them to the same condition vvith the rest of the Subjects Fuller I behold all this Paragraph as a Letter sent to me vvhich requires no Answer onely I bear the Animadvertor witnesse that it is delivered seeing I was none of the Lords on either Side But I am not altogether satisfied in the Adequation of the Animadvertor's Dichotomy to all the English Nobility That all not subscribing the Catalogue at Oxford must instantly be concluded on the opsite Party believing that upon serious search some Lords would be found in their Minority and not necessarily reducible to either of these heads Dr. Heylyn Footsteps of his moderation content with the enjoying without the enjoyning their private practices and opinions on others This comes in as an inference onely on a former passage in which it is said of Bishop Andrews that in what place soever he came he never pressed any other Ceremonies upon them than such as he found to be used there before his comming Though othervvise condemned by some for many superstitious Ceremonies and superfluous Ornaments used in his private Chappell How true this is I am not able to affirm Fuller The Animadvertor if so disposed might soon have satisfied himself in this point being Beneficed in Hampshire the last Diocesse of Bishop Andrews And though his institution into his Living was since the death of that worthy Prelate yet his information in this particular had been easie from the aged Clergy of his Vicinage Sure I am he ever was inquisitive enough in matters vvhiâ—h might make for his advantage so that his not denying tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter in question Dr. Heylyn I am less able if it should be true to commend it in him It is not certainly the office of a carefull Bishop onely to leave things as he found them but to reduce them if amiss to those Rules and Canons from which by the forwardness of some to innovate and the connivance of others at the innovations they had been suffered to decline Fuller I comply cordially with the Animadvertor in all this last Sentence Only I add That it is also the office of a good Bishop not to endeavour the Alteration of things well setled before This was the constant practice of Doctor Andrews successively Bishop of Chichester Ely and Winchester who never urged any other Ceremonies that what which he found there Now whereas the Animadvertor saith that iâ— this should be true he is not able to commend it in him the matter is not much seeing the actions of Bishop Andrewes are able to commend themselves Dr. Heylyn And for the Inference it selfe it is intended chiefly for the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury against whom he had a fling before in the fourth Book of this History not noted there because reserved to another place of vvhich more hereafter Condemmed here for his want of moderation in enjoyning his private practices and opinions on other men But first our Author had done well to have spared the man vvho hath already reckoned for all his errours both vvith God and the vvorld Fuller He hath so and I hope what he could not satisfie in himself was done by his Savâ—our But first the Animadvertor had done wel to have spared his censure on my intentions except he had better assurance of them Here I must Reader appeal to an higher than thy self Him vvho can read the secrets of my heart before whom I protest That in this passage I did not reflect in any degree on the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury To make this the more probable knovv the Articles of his Visitation vvere observed to be as moderate as any Bishops in England Here let me enter this Memorable and let the Animadvertor confute it if he can There was a designe of the thirty six Dissenters of whom hereafter in the Convocaâ—ion to obtain that these Articles of his Visitation might be precedenâ—tall to all the Bishops in England as being in themselves in offensive and containing no Innovations This was by some communicated to Arch-Bishop Laud who at first seemed to approve thereof and how it came afterwards to miscarry I am not bound to discover I confess this my expression did eye another person related to Bishop Andrewes whom I forbear to name except by the Animadvertor's reply unto me I be forced thereunto Dr. Heylyn And secondly it had been better if he had told us what those private practises and opinions were which the Arch-Bishop with such want of moderation did enjoyâ— on others Fuller They are reckoned up in my Church-History Book 11. pag. 174. parag 47 48. This is direction enough and there one may find more then a good many of such opinions and practises On the self-same token that it was discreetly done of the Animadvertor to pass them over in silence without a word in their defence or excuse I will not again here repeat them partly because I will not revive what in some sort is dead and buried and partly because I charitably believe that some engaged therein and still alive are since sorry for their over-activity therein Dr. Heylyn For it is possible enough that the opinions which he speaks of might be the publick Doctrines of the Church of England maintained by him in opposition to those private opinions which the Calvinian party had intended to obtrude upon her A thing complained oâ— by Spalato who well observed that many of the opinions both of Luther and Calvin were received amongst us as part of the Doctrine and Confession of the Church of England which otherwise he acknowledged to be capable of an Orthodox sense Praeter Anglicanam Confessionem quam mi â— ut moâ—estam praedicalant multa video Lutheri Calvini dogmata obtinuisse as he there objects Fuller I am not bound to stand to the judgment of Spalato who would not stand to his own judgment but first in â—earâ— then in body went back into Aegypt Lay not such unsavoury salt in my dish but cast it to the Dunghill Dr. Heylyn He that reads the Gag and the Appello Caesarem of Bishop Monâ—â—gue cannot but see that those opinions which our Author condemned for private were the true Doctrine of this Church professed and held forth in the Book of Articles the Homilies and the Common-Prayer-Book Fuller He that reads the Answers returned by severall Divines to the Books of Bishop Montague cannot but see that they were rather private opinions than the true and professed Doctrine of the Church of England Here Reader I cannot but remember a passage betwixt two Messengers sent to carry Defiances from severall Armies who meeting in the mid-way though naked and without Swords yet to manifest their zeal to their Cause fought it out with their Trumpets
in truth must be confessed viz. That some of the ejected Clergy were guilty of foul offences to whom and whom alone the name of Baal and unsavory Salt did relate Nor was it a wonder if amongst Ten Thousand and more some were guilty of Scandalous enormities This being laid down and yeilded to the violence of the times I wrought my selfe by degrees as much as I durst to insert what followeth in vindication of many others rigorously cast out for following in their affections their preceding Iudgements and Consciences and no scandall could justly be charged upon them pleading for them as ensueth Church-History Book 11. pag. 207. 1. The witnesses against them were seldome deposed on Oath but their bare complaints believed 2. Many of the Complainers were factious People those most accusing their Sermons who least heard them and who since have deserted the Church as hating the profession of the Ministry 3. Many were charged with delivering false Doctrines whose Posiâ—ioâ—s were found at the least disputable Such those accused for Preaching that Baptism washeth away Originall Sin which the most learned and honest in the Assembly in some sense will not deny namely that in the Children of God it cleanseth the condemning and finall peaceable commanding power of Originall Sin though the stain and blemish thereof doth still remain 4. Some were meerly outed for their affections to the King's Cause and what was Malignity at London was Loyalty at Oxford 5. Yea many Moderate men of the opposite party much be moaned such severity that some Clergy men blamelesse for life and Orthodox for Doctrine were ejected onely on the account of their faithfullnesse to the King's cause And as much corruption was let out by this Ejection maâ—y scandalous Ministers deservedly punished so at the same time the Veins of the English Church were emptied of Much good blood some inoffensive Pastors which hath made her Body Hydropicall ever since ill humours succeeding in the room by reason of too large and suddain evacuation This being written by me some ten in the Paroxâ—sm of the Business and printed some four years since was as much as then I durst say for my Brethren without running my selfe into apparent danger If the Papists take advantage at what I have written I can wash my Hands I have given them no just occasion and I hope this my hust defence will prove satisfactory to the ingenuous That I did not designedly â—etract â—â—om any 〈◊〉 Brethren But if this my Plea finds no acceptance and if I must groan under so unjust an accusation I will endeavour to follow the Counsell of the Prophet I will beare the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him until He plead my Cause and execute Iudgment for me He will bring me forth to the Light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Dr. Heylyn But to say truth It is no wonder if he concurre with others in the Condemnation of particular persons since he concurrs with others in the condemnation of the Church it selfe For speaking of the separation made by Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye c. fol. 209. he professeth that he rather doth believe that the sinfull corruptions of the worship and Government of this Church taking hold on their Consciences and their inability to comport any longer therewith was rather the true cause of their deserting of their Country then that it was for Debt or Danger as Mr. Edwards in his Book had suggested of them What grounds Mr. Edwards had for his suggestion I enquire not now though coming from the Pen of one who was no friend unto the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England it might have met with greater credit in our Author For if these men be not allowed for witnesses against one another the Church would be in worse condition then the antient Borderers Amongst whom though the testimony of an English Man against a Scoâ— or of a Scoâ— against the English in matters of spoil and depredation could not find admittance yet a Scot's evidence against a Scâ—t was beyond exception Lege inter Limitaneos cautum ut nullus nisi Anglus in Anglum nullus nisi Scotus in Scoâ—um testis admitâ—atur as we read in Camden We see by this as by other passages which way our Author's Bowl is biassed how constantly he declares himselfe in favour of those who have either separated from the Church or appear'd against it Rather then such good people shall be thought to forsake the Land for Debt or Danger the Church shall be accus'd for laying the heavy burthen of Conformity upon their Consciences which neither they nor their fore-fathers the old English Puritans were resolved to bear For what else were those sinfull Corruptions of this Church in Goâ—erâ—ment and Worship which laid hold of their Consciences as our Author words it but the Government of the Church by Bishops the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church here by law establisht which yet must be allowed of by our Author as the more true and reall cause of their Separation then that which we find in Mr. Edwards Fuller I knew Mr. Edwards very well my contemporary in Queens Colledge who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagernesse of his spirit and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him especially being informed and assured the contrary from credible persons As for the five dissenting Members Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sympson Mr. Bridge Mr. Burroughs to whom Mr. Archer may be reduced they owed not eighteen pence a piece to any in England and carried over with them no contemptible summs in their purses As for Lay-Gentlemen and Merchants that went over with them such as peruse their names will be satisfied in their responsible yea plentifull Estates Sr. MATTHEW BOINTON Sr. WILLIAM CONSTABLE Sr. RICHARD SALTINGSTON Mr. LAWRENCE since Lord President of the Councill Mr. ANDREWES since Lord Major of London Mr. BOWRCHER Mr. ASK since a Judge Mr. JAMES Mr. WHITE And although the last of these failed beyond the Seas a cacching Casually with great undertakings yet was he known to have a very great Estate at his going over Yea I am most credibly inform'd by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein that Mr. Herbert Palmer an Anti-Independent to the heighth being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some false-hoods in one sheet of his Gangrena proffered to have that sheet re-printed at his own cost but some intervening accident obstructed it Dr. Heylyn Nor can our Author save himselfe by his parenthesis in which he tells us that he uses their language onely For using it without check or censure he makes it his own as well as theirs and justifies them in the action which he should have condemn'd Fuller This is an Hypercriticism which I never heard of before and now do not believe In opposition whereunto I return that if a Writer doth slily weave another Author's words into his owne
dissensionem consensum in vera Religione firmandum that is to say to take away diversitie of Opinions and to establish an agreement in the true Religion Which end could never be effected if men were left unto the liberty of dissenting or might have leave to put their own sense upon the Articles But whereas our instances in the Article of Christs descent into Hell telling us that Christs preaching unto the Spirits there on which the Article seemed to be grounded in King Edwards Book was left out in this and thereupon inferreth that men are left unto a latitude concerning the cause time manner of his discent I must needs say that he is very much mistaken For first the Church of England hath alwaies constantly maintained a local Descent though many which would be thought her Children the better to comply with Calvin and some other Divines of forain Nations have deviated in this point from the sense of the Church And secondly the reason why this Convocation left out that passage of Christ preaching to the spirits in hell was not that men might be left unto a latitude concerning the cause time and manner of his Descent as our Author dreams but because that passaage of St. Peter being capable of some other interpretations was not conceived to be a clear and sufficient evidence to prove the Article For which see Bishop Bilsons Survey p. 388.389 Fuller I cannot fully concur with the Animadvertor That the Church of England hath constantly maintained a LOCAL DESCENT though no man hath an higher esteem for those worthy Writers who are of that perswasion I will confess this hitherto hath staggered me viz. St. Peter his application of Davids words to Christ thou shalt not leave my soul in hel I appeal whether these words import not a favour to all unprejudiced hearers which God did to his Son bearing this natural and unviolated sense That had God left Christs soul in hell his soul had been in a bad condition as being there in a suffering capacity but Gods Paternal affection to his dear Son would not leave his soul in hell but did rescue it thence Now all our Protestant and especially English Writers who maintain a LOCAL DESCENT doe very worthily in opposition to the Romish Error defend that Christ was then in a good estate yea in a triumphing condition Now then it had been no favour not to leave his soul in Hell but a less love unto him to contract his happiness in his triumph I protest that in this or any other point I am not possest with a spirit of opposition and when I am herein satisfied in any good degree I shall become the Animadvertors thankful Convert in this particular Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 74. In a word concerning this clause whether the Bishops were faulty in their addition or their opposites in their substraction I leave to more cunning Arithmeticians to decide The Clause here spoken of by our Author is the first Sentence in the twentieth Article entituled De Ecclesiae Authoritate where it is said that the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of the Faith c. Fuller To this and to what ensueth in two leaves following I return no answer not because I am pinched therein with any matter of moment but for these reasons following First I understand That the Animadvertors Stationer taketh exception that I have printed all his book which may tend to his detriment Now I protest when I â—irst took up this resolution to present the Animadvertors whole Cloth List Fagg and all I aimed not at his damage but my own defence noâ— can I see how I could doe otherwise seeing the plaister must be as broad as the sore the tent as deep as the wound yea I have been inâ—ormed by prime Stationers the like hath formerly been done without exception taken on either side in the Replies and Rejoynders betwixt Dr. Whitgift and Mr. Cartwright and many others However being willing to avoid all appearance of injury I have left out some observations which I conceived might well be spared as containing no pungent matter against me Secondly I am confident That there needs no other answer to these notes then the distinct and serious perusal of my Church History with the due alteration of favour indulged to all writings Lâ—stly What of moment in these notes is omitted by me relateth to those two Church Questions in Law which I have formerly desired may fairly be ventilated betwixt the Animadvertor and me and if he be sensible That any thing herein tendeth to his advantage he may and no doubt will re-assume and enforce the same Dr. Heylin From the Articles our Author proceeds unto the Homilies approved in those Articles and of them he tels us Fol. 75. That if they did little good they did little harm With scorn and insolence enough Those Homilies were so composed as to instruct the people in all positive Doctrines necessary for Christian men to know with reference both to Faith and Manners and being penned in a plain style as our Author hath it were fitter for the edification of the common people than either the strong lines of some or the flashes of vain wit in others in these latter times c. Fuller With scorn and insolence I defie the words The Animadvertor might have added my words immediately following viz. They preached not strange Doctrines to People as too many vent DARKNESSES now a dayes intituled New Ligâ—ts And well had it been for the peace and happiness of the Church if the Animadvertor and all of his Party had had as high an esteem as the Author hath for the Homilies If none of them had called them HOMELY HOMILIES as one did And if they had conformed their practise to the second Homilie in the second Book and not appeared so forward in countenancing Images of God and his Saints in Churches Dr. Heylin The Author proceeds Fol. 76. The English Bishops conceiving themselves impowred by their Canons began to shew their authority in urging the Clergy of their Diocess to subscribe to the Liturgy Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church and such as refused the same were branded with the odious name of Puritans Our Author having given the Parliament a power of confirming no Canons as before was shewed he brings the Bishops acting by as weak Authority in the years 1563. 1564. there being at that time no Canons for them to proceed upon for requiring their Clergy to subscribe to the Liturgies Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church And therefore if they did any such thing it was not as they were impowred by their Canons but as they were inabled by that Authority which was inherent naturally in their Episcopal Office Fuller I profess my self not to understand the sense of the Animadvertor and what he driveth at herein And as soon as I shall understand him I will either fully concur with him or fairly
Ibid. Much he expended on the Repair of Westminster Abbey-Church c. The Library at Westminster was the effect of his bounty This though it be true in part yet we cannot say of it that it is either the whole truth or nothing but the truth For the plain truth is that neither the charge of repairing that Church nor furnishing that Library came out of his own private Coffers but the Churches rents For at such time as he was made Lord Keeper of the great Seal he caused it to be signified unto the Prebendaries of that Church how inconvenient it would be both to him and them to keep up the Commons of the Colledge and gaind so farre upon them that they pass'd over to him all the rents of that Church upon condition that he should pay the annual pensions of the Prebendaries School-Masters Quire-men and inferiour Officers and maintain the Commons of the Scholars The rest amounting to a great yearly value was left wholly to him upon his honourable word and promise to expend the â—ame for the good and honour of that Church The surplusage of which expenses receiv'd by him for four years and upwards amounted unto more than had been laid out by him on the Church and Library as was offered to be proved before the Lords Commissioners at the visitation Anno. 1635. And as for the Library at St. Iohns it might possibly cost him more wit than money many books being daily sent in to him upon the intimation of his purpose of founding the two Libraries by such as had either suits in Court or businesse in Chancery or any wayes depended on him or expected any favours from him either as Bishop of Lincoln or Dean of Westminster Fuller As the worme on a sudden smot the gourd of Ionah and it withered so it is possible that the most verdâ—nt and flourishing Charity may be fretted and blasted by ill reports There is a Chapiter-Act subscribed with the hands of the Prebendaries of Westminster the Date whereof I do not at present remember and the Copy of it is in the hands of my Worthy friend wherein they thankfully acknowledge the great bounty of this Bishop in expending so much on the repaire of their Church If the Library of St. Iohns cost him more Wit then Money as the Animadvertor phraseth it sure I am that in the same sense The founding of Fellowships and Scholler-ships in that Colledge cost him more Money then Wit Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He hated Popery with a perfect hatred But Wilson in his History of great Brittain sings another song whether in Tune or out of Tune they can best tell who liv'd most neere those times and had opportunities to observe him Fuller I wonder That the Animadvertor who in the Preface to this his Book had branded Wilsons History with the name of a most Infamous Pasquill maketh mention of any passage therein to a Bishop's disgrace Dr. Heylyn There is a muttering of some strange offer which he made to King Iames at such time as the Prince was in Spain and the Court seemed in common apprehension to warp towards Popery vvhich declared no such perfect hatred as our Author speaks of unto that Religion Fuller The Prophet telleth us of Tongues which have MUTTERED perversnesse and such to me seem they that are Authors of this report Dr. Heylyn Not was he coy of telling such whom he admitted unto privacies vvith him that in the time of his greatnesse at Court he vvas accounted for the Head of the Catholick Party not sparing to declare what free and frequent accesses he gave the principall Sticklers in that cause both Priests and Iesuites and the speciall services vvhich he did them And it must be somewhat more than strange if all this be true that he should hate Popery vvith a perfect hatred yet not more strange then that he should so stickle in the preferment of Dr. Theodore Price to the Arch-Bishoprick of Armagh in Ireland who died a profest Catholick reconciled to the Church of Rome as our Author hath it Fol. 226. But if there be no more truth in the Bishop of Lincolns hating Popery then in Dr. 〈◊〉 dying a professed Papist there is no credit to be given at all to that part of the Character Dr. Price though once a great Favourite of this Bishop and by him continued Sub-Dean of Westminster many years together vvas at the last suppos'd to be better affected to Bishop Laud than to Bishop Williams Bishop Laud having lately appeared a Suiâ—or for him for the Bishoprick of St. Asaph And therefore that two Birds might be kild with the same bolâ— no sooner vvas Dr. Price deceased but the Bishop of Lincoln being then at Westminster calls the Prebends together tells them that he had been with Mr. Sub-Deane before his death that he left him in very doubtfull tearmes about Religion and consequently could not tell in what form to bury him that if the Dr. had died a profest Papist he would have buried him himselfe but being as it was he could not see how any of the Prebendaries could either with safety or with credit performe that office But the Artifice and design being soon discovered took so little effect that Dr. Newel one of the Senior Prebendaries performed the Obsequies the rest of the whole Chapiter attending the body to the grave with all due solemnity Fuller I deny not but as a States-man he might do some civill offices to the Romish party in that Juncture of time in compliance to King Iames his commands But this amounteth not to prove him a Lover of Popery As for Dr. Price I will not rake into his ashes If he dyed a protestant 't was the better for him but the contrary is generally reported printed believed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 228. He was so great an honourer of the English Liturgy that of his owne cost he caused the same to be translated into Spanish and fairly printed to confute their false conceipt of our Church c. If this be true it makes not onely to his honour but also to the honour of the English Liturgy translated into more Languages then any Liturgy in the world whatsoever it be translated into Latine by Alexander Alesius a learned Scot in King Edwards time as afterward by Dr. Walter Haddon in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and his translation mended by Dr. Mocket in the time of King Iames translated into French by the command of that King for the Isles of Guernsey and Iersey into Spanish at the charge of this Bishop as our Author telleth us and finally into Greek by one Mr. Petly by whom it was dedicated and presented to the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the greatest Patron and Advancer of the English Liturgy But secondly I have some reason to doubt that the Liturgy was not translated at the charges of Bishop Williams That it was done by his pocurement I shall easily grant but whosoever made the
Holy War b. 3. p. 42. ¶ 19. MIRACLES their Description b. 6. p. 329. ¶ 1. long since ceased p. 330. ¶ 2. and why ¶ 5. yet counterfeited by the Papists ¶ 7. c. The Lord MOHUN his memorable patent made therein by the Pope a Count Apostolical b. 3. p. 64. John MOLLE his birth and breeding b. 10. p. 48. ¶ 7. his sad dilemma ¶ 8. constancy and death in the Inquisition ¶ 9 10. MONKES their primitive piety and painfullness b. 6. p. 263. ¶ 1 2. c. afterwards voluntarie not for necessity but convenience p. 264. ¶ 1 2. MONUMENTS in Churches Q Elizab. proclamations each Copie signed with her own hand against the defacers of them b. 9. p. 65. ¶ 36. Sr. Thonas MOORE his praise and dispraise b. 5. p. 205. ¶ 16 17. c. Sr. Ed. MONTAGUE threatned by the Duke of Northumberland drawes up the Testament of King Edward the sixth to disinherit his Sisters b. 8. ¶ 2. his great sufferings for the same ibidem James MONTAGUE Bp. of Winchester his death b. 10. p. 86. ¶ 8. a memorable accident thereat ¶ 9. see Sidney Colledge Richard MONTAGUE his character b. 11. ¶ 7 8. rescued by the King from the house of commons ¶ 10. written against by severall Authours ¶ 14. left to defend himself ¶ 15. made Bishop of Chichester ¶ 67. his confirmation opposed ¶ 68 69. his death p 194. ¶ 22. MORRIS Bishop of Rochester a great persecutour b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 10. MORTMAIN statute b. 3. p. 77. ¶ 9. the cause thereof ¶ 10. not a new but renued Law ¶ 11. St. Hierom and Ambrose angry thereat ¶ 12. the form of the statute ¶ 13. John MORTON Bishop of Ely the Make-peace betwixt Lancaster and York b. 4. p. 198. ¶ 11. defended against Mr. Prin ¶ 12. made Archbishop of Canter p. 194. ¶ 17. his death p. 165. Thomas MORTON since Bp. of Durham Fellow of Chelsey Coll. b. 10. p. 52. erecteth a Tomb to Casaubon p. 70. ¶ 38. detecteth the Imposture of the Boy of Bilson p. 73. ¶ 55. MORTUARY when by whom and to whom to be paid b. 3. p. 83. ¶ 27. N. The NAGGS-head consecration of Matthew Parker largely confuted b. 9. p. 61. ¶ 27 c. The small reason of so great report p. 62. ¶ 30. Humphrey NECTON not absolutely the first Doctour who commenced in Cambridge but first Carmelite who commenced Dr. therein Hist. of Camb. p. 20. ¶ 5.6 c. Hugh NEVIL slew a Lion in the holy Land b. 3. p. 41. ¶ 10. Benefactour to Waltham Abbey ¶ 11. buried therein Hist. of Waltham Ralph NEVIL most triumphant in his issue of any English subject b. 6. p. 297. ¶ 3. made three of his daughters Nuns ibidem George NEVIL Arch-bishop of York b. 4. p. 191. ¶ 31. his prodigious Feast p. 193. ¶ 38. afterwards starved to death ¶ 39. Rich. NEVIL the make-King Earle of Warwick b. 4. p. 190. ¶ 6. on distaste given him ¶ 30. conquereth and imprisoneth King Edward the fourth by whom at last he is overcome and slain p. 191. ¶ 33. Charles NEVIL Earle of Westmerland routed in his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth b. 9. ¶ 15 16 c. Tho. NEVIL the most magnificent master and Benefactour of Trinity Colledge Hist. of Cambridge p. 122. ¶ 19. NICE some British Bishops present at the generall Councel kept therein C. 4. ¶ 20. Henry NICHOLAS the founder of the Familists b. 9. p. 112. ¶ 37. his Mock-Apostolick-stile ¶ 38. NON-CONFORMISTS their beginning in the Reign of King Edward the sixth b. 7. p. 402. ¶ 24. Mr. Hooper and Mr. Rogers their first Champions ibidem their arguments since not so much increased as more inforced p. 404. their practise fomented by the English Exiles at Frankford b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 33. especially after the coming of Mr. Knox thither S. 3. ¶ 1. and Mr. Calvins letter ¶ 2. William Whittingham head of that party ¶ 7. which in discontent depart to Geneva ¶ 10. their Persons and opinions return into England b. 9. ¶ 3. divided into moderate and fierce Nonconformists ¶ 68. when their first Set was expired a worse succeeded p. 81. ¶ 9 c. The NORTHERN rebellion b. 6. p. 313. ¶ 1. the Northern Gentry routed therein ¶ 6. NORTHUMBERLAND a Saxon Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. afterward subdivided into two Kingdomes of Bernicia and Deira C. 7. ¶ 61. NORWICH described b. 7. p. 393. ¶ 4. yieldeth to the rebells p. 294. ¶ 6. seasonably relieved p. 396. ¶ 14. unjustly taxed with disloyalty ibid. Alex. NOWEL saved from Bonners cruelty by Mr. Francis Bowyer b. 8. p. 16. dedicat Epist. prolocutour in the convocation 1563. when the Articles were made b. 9. ¶ 51. consisting of Holy Riddles b. 9. ¶ 10. his death ibidem O. OATH taken by English fugitives when admitted in forrain Colledges b. 9. p. 92. of obedience imposed on all Papiâ—â—s b. 10. p. 42. another taken by the Divines at the Synod of Dort at their admission p. 78. ¶ 66. another made in the late Canons with an c. in the midst thereof b. 11. p. 169. ¶ 20. OATH ex officio arguments against and for it b. 9. p. 183 184 c. a fourfold behaviour of Nonconformists in refusing it p. 186. OBITS what they were and how performed six kept in Waltham Church this charge 2. shillings 6. pence a piece Hist. of Waltham p. 14. William OCCAM Luther his School man C. 17. p. 98. ¶ 21. OFFA King of Mercia maketh Lichfield the see of an Arch-bishop C. 8. ¶ 34. inshrineth the body of St. Alban ¶ 35. goeth to Rome and giveth Peter-Pence to the Pope C. 8. ¶ 36 37. buried at Bedford ¶ 38. Sr. John OLDCASTLE hâ—s opinions b 4. p. 167. his guiltiness examined p. 168. left doubtfull to Dâ—vine decision ibid. Barnabas OLY a worthy instrument in re-edifying Clare Hall ejected for refusing the Covenant Hist. of Camb. p. 38. ¶ 45. St. OMERS Coll. in Artois for English fugitives b. 9. p. 89. OBSERVANT Friers being Franciscans refined b. 6. p. 271. ¶ 17. the first order totally and â—inally suppressed by King Henry 8. p. 308. ¶ 1 2. set up for a short time by Q. Mary p. 357. ORDALL or the triall by fire of suspected persons the manner thereof C. 11. ¶ 14. ORIAL COLL. in Oxford b. 3. p. 103 104. Lambert OSBASTON his riddling letter to Bishop Williams b. 11. p. 165. ¶ 1. censured in the Star-Chamber p. 166. ¶ 9. restored by Parliament p. 172. ¶ 33. OSWALD the Christian King of Northumberland his miraculous Victory in Heafenfield C. 7. ¶ 63. sendeth for preachers out of Scotland ¶ 69. is interpreter to Bishop Aidan ¶ 73. slain in fight by Penda the Pagan ¶ 75. his hands said never to putrify ¶ 76. in what sense it is true ¶ 77. presently possessed of happinesse ¶ 78. yet his soul prayed for by the superstition of that Age ibidem OSWY the most