AN

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

Chiefly of England,

FROM THE FIRST PLANTING OF CHRISTIANITY, TO THE END OF

THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND;

WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE

AFF

AFFAIRS OF RELIGION IN IRELAND.

COLLECTED FROM THE BEST ANCIENT HISTORIANS, COUNCILS, AND RECORDS,

BY

JEREMY COLLIER, M.A.

NEW EDITION,

WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, EMBRACING A VIEW OF HIS OPINIONS, AND THOSE
OF THE NONJURORS AS A BODY,

BY THOMAS LATHBURY, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF THE NONJURORS;"

THE CONTROVERSIAL TRACTS CONNECTED WITH THE HISTORY, AND A NEW AND
MUCH ENLARGED INDEX.

CONTENTS

OF

THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

PART II.-BOOK IX.

THE queen arrives at Dover, and is conveyed by the king to London, 1.—A mistake in

Fuller rectified, 2.-The parliament meets at Westminster, 2.-Mountague summoned

to appear before the commons, 2.-Three bishops write in his behalf to the duke of

Buckingham, 3.-The parliament dissolved, 5.—The broad seal taken from the lord-

keeper Williams, 5.-The king's coronation, 6.—An alteration in some of the prayers,

6.—The coronation oath, 7.—The oath not altered by bishop Laud or the king, 8.—

Laud performs the dean of Westminster's part at the coronation, 9.-A committee of

religion first appointed by the commons, 9.-Articles exhibited against Mountague, 10.

-Exceptions taken at the bishop of Gloucester's sermon before the king, 14.-Moun-

tague's business not moved in convocation, and why, 14.-Two conferences upon the

five points, 15.-The king's proclamation against the disputing the controversy, 15.—

The pope's consolatory letter to the English Roman Catholics, 16.—The death of

bishop Andrews, 18.-Sibthorp preaches up the prerogative too high, 20.—Archbishop

Abbot suspended, 21.-Remarks upon the sequestering the archbishop's jurisdiction,

23.-The French part of the queen's family sent home, 25.-Cozens' Devotions pub-

lished, and exceptions against it, 25.-The parliament meets, 27.-Dr. Manwaring's

extravagant assertions, 28.-He is prosecuted by the commons, and censured by the

lords, 28.-Sir Benjamin Rudyer's speech for the augmentation of small livings, 28.-

Dr. Manwaring's submission at the bar of the house of commons, 31.-The com-

mons' remonstrance with reference to religion, 32.-The king's answer, 33.-

Bishop Laud translated to London, 35.-Exceptions against Mountague in his

confirmation, 36.-The king's declaration prefixed to the Nine-and-thirty Articles,

36.—The Calvinists complain of the declaration, and prepare an address against

it, 38.-Manwaring's sermons suppressed by proclamation, and Mountague's

Appello Cæsarem" called in, 38.-They are both preferred, 39.-Proclamation

against Smith, bishop of Chalcedon, &c., 40.-The commons' declaration upon

the Nine-and-thirty Articles, 40.-They complain of innovations in religion, 41.—

The parliament dissolved, 42.-Leighton's scandalous pamphlet, 42.-The king's

instructions to the archbishop of Canterbury, &c., 42.-The king's letter to the

lords-justices of Ireland, in behalf of the clergy, 44.-The condition of some part of

Ireland, with respect to religion, 46.-Bishop Davenant preaches upon the Quin-

quarticular controversy at court, and gives offence, 47.-His defence at the council-

board, 47.-This controversy revived at Oxford, and in Ireland, 48.-The repair of

St. Paul's, 49.-The petition of the English ministers in the Low Countries, 50.—

Bishop Laud's suggestions to the privy-council for securing conformity to the Church

amongst the English beyond sea, 54.-His scheme for regulating the Dutch and

French Churches in England, 56.-Queen Elizabeth's letter for regulating foreign

Churches in England, 58.-Feoffees constituted by the Puritans for buying in impro-

priations, 58.-Remarks upon this settlement, 59.-Some means taken in the late

reign for settling the liturgy in Scotland, 60.-This design revived, 61.-The Kirk

party appoint private fasts, 61.-A commendable custom touching the nomination of

bishops changed in this reign, 62.-The new bishops manage to disadvantage, and

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why, 62.-Several acts relating to the Church passed in the parliament at Edin-

burgh, 63.-Some of the nobility disgusted at the commission of surrenders, &c., 65.

-Edinburgh made a bishop's see, 66.-The king returns to London, 66.-The death

and character of archbishop Abbot, 66.—Laud succeeds him in the see of Canterbury,

67. The king's letter to the bishops touching ordinations, 68.-The judges at the

assizes at Exeter and in Somersetshire suppress wakes, &c., 69.-The Sabbatarian

controversy revived, 71.-The king's declaration concerning sports, 71.-Dr. Bram-

hall's letter to Laud concerning the condition of the Church in Ireland, 72.—The

archbishop endeavours to reform some negligences in Churches, 75.-The king's

instructions for officiating in the English liturgy at the chapel in Holyrood-house, 76.

-A contest between some of the parishioners of St. Gregory and the dean and chap-

ter of St. Paul's about placing the communion-table, 77.-The king's letter to the

Turkey merchants, for promoting oriental learning, 78.-The death of Godwin,

bishop of Hereford, 79.-Pryu prosecuted and censured in the Star-chamber, 80.—

Archbishop Laud's annual account of his province to the king, 81.-The Irish convo-

cation's address to the king, 84.-They receive the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church

of England, 85.-Their acknowledgment to the king, 86.—Irish acts relating to the

Church, 87.-The London clergy's petition for the due payment of their tithes, 87.—

The matter is referred to the privy-council, and sinks there, 88.-Contests about placing

the communion-table, 89.-The factories, &c., conform to the English liturgy, 89.—

Archbishop Laud's letter to the factory at Delph, 89.-The Nonconformists in New

England erect a Calvinistic Church, 90.-Ancient usages retrieved in the cathedral

churches, and elsewhere, 92.—Different regulations in the cathedrals of old and new

foundations, 92.-A new body of statutes provided for the Church at Canterbury, 93.

-The bishops Davenant and Morton of the archbishop's opinion in two instances, 93.

-A book of canons for the Scotch Church published, 95.-The Scotch ministers'

exceptions against the matter, 96.-The manner of imposing these canons, 99.-

Archbishop Laud promotes a collection for the palatine ministers, 100.-He excepts

against two clauses in the letters-patent, and why, 100.-Penalties of act against

swearing given to the poor, 101.-Juxon, bishop of London, made lord-treasurer, 102.

-The archbishop's annual account of his province, 102.-The archbishop claims a

right to visit both universities, jure metropolitico, 103.-Judgment given for him by

the king and council, 104.-Statutes of the university of Oxon reformed and confirmed

under the broad seal, 106.-The bishops' defence for enjoining the king's declaration

for sports, 106.-The Scotch liturgy drawn up in Scotland, 107.-Reviewed by the

archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of Norwich, 108.-How far it is different

from the English Common Prayer, 108.-The king's proclamation for authorizing

the book, 112.—It is generally clamoured against by the Scots, 113.-The reasons of

this dislike, 114.-The manner of bringing in the Scotch Common Prayer unac-

ceptable, 114.-Archbishop Laud's defence of some passages in the Scotch liturgy,

115.-Bastwick, Burton, and Pryn, write libels against the hierarchy, 116.-Arch-

bishop Laud's annual account of his province, 118.-Adam's sermon at Cambridge

touching confession, 120.—An information against Bastwick, Burton, and Pryn, in

the Star-chamber, 123.-Their sentence, 124.-Somewhat further of Bastwick and

Burton's character, 125.-The archbishop's vindication of himself and the bishops

against the charge of innovation, 126.—A vindication of the bishops' exercising juris-

diction in their own names, 130.—A resolution of all the judges touching this matter

entered upon record, 131.-Bishop Williams prosecuted in the Star-chamber for

subornation, and fined, &c., 132.—Bishop Williams complains of illegal prosecution,

133. He falls under a second censure in the Star-chamber, 133.-The Scotch Com-

mon Prayer read at Edinburgh, and insulted, 135.-Some reasons of the miscarriage

of this affair, 136.-The earl of Traquair represents the Scottish bishops to disad-

vantage, 136.-Panzani and Con, agents for the pope in England, 142.—The arch-

bishop remonstrates at the council-table against the liberties taken by the Roman

Catholics, 143.-Part of the archbishop's annual account, 144.-The translation of

Sale's "Introduction," &c., called in, 145.-Deering's commendation of Laud, 145.

-A decree of the Star-chamber for regulating the press, 145.-Lectures retrenched

and brought under due regulation, 146.-Some Nonconformist ministers and families

transport themselves into Holland, 146.-The bishops complain against the Cove-

nanters, 147.-The marquis of Hamilton sent down high-commissioner for Scotland,

148.-Bold motions of the Covenanters, 148.-The king's resentment of the Cove-

nant, 149.—The commissioners' proposals to the faction, 149.—The king's concessions

to the faction, 151.-The Tables' instructions for managing the elections, 152.-A

scandalous summons issued by the presbytery of Edinburgh, 153.—A general assem-

bly at Glasgow, 153.—The bishops' protestation against it, 153.-The commissioner

dissolves the assembly; which sits notwithstanding, 157.-The business done by this

pretended assembly, 157.-The Covenanters keep an agent at London: this agent

was Eleazar Borthwick, a minister, 157.-The Covenanters' disloyal tenets, 158.—

Some scandalous passages in the Covenanters' sermons, 159.-The king's declaration,

and his expedition against the Scots, 160.-The king marches against the Scots, 161.

-He makes an unserviceable pacification at Berwick, 162.-The Scots make a public

declaration of their adherence to their late assembly and covenant, 163.-They misre-

present the treaty in print, 163.—The general assembly at Edinburgh confirms the

proceedings at Glasgow, 164.-The motives to disaffection in the Scottish bishops,

164. For this there are several precedents, 165.—The parliament confirms the acts of

the Edinburgh assembly, 166.-Bishop Hall's first draught of his book entitled "The

Divine Right of Episcopacy," 166.-The archbishop's animadversions upon this tract,

168.-Hall alters his book upon the archbishop's corrections, 171.-The archbishop's

account of his province, 172.-The parliament meets at Westminster, and, not giving

satisfaction, is quickly dissolved, 174.-A convocation at St. Paul's, 175.-They

receive a commission under the broad seal for altering the canons, or making new

ones, 175.-Some new ones made, 175.-The lord-keeper, several of the judges, &c.,

declare the convocation may lawfully sit after the dissolution of the parliament, 177.—

The oath so much excepted against, 178.-The canons approved by the privy-council

and judges, 179.-Exceptions against them answered, 180.-Irish acts in favour of

the Church, 182.-The Scots invade England, 183.-The treaty at Ripon, 183.—

Habernsfield's supposed plot, 183.-The long parliament meets, 184.-Some of the

members declaim against the hierarchy, 184.-Bagshaw's speech examined, 185.—

Lord Digby's speech, 186.-The convocation sits, but does nothing, 187.-Bishop

Williams enlarged, 188.—The service disturbed at St. Margaret's, 188.-The earl of

Strafford impeached, 188.-The resolves of the commons against the canons, 189.—

The archbishop of Canterbury and the earl of Strafford impeached, 190.-Anabap-

tistical heterodoxies, 190.-The king's speech in defence of the bishops, 190.-The

commons' remonstrance, 191.-The king's answer, 192.-Articles granted to the

Scots, 193.-Polkington and Bray censured by the house of lords, 193.-Smart's

complaint against Dr. Cosins, 194.-A vindication of Cosins from Fuller's misrepre-

sentation, 195.-A bill passed in the house of commons for taking away the bishops'

votes in parliament, &c., 197.-A committee for religion, 197.—The earl of Strafford's

trial, 199.-The entireness of the bishops' peerage, 199.-The earl makes a significant

defence, 200.-He is proceeded against by a bill of attainder, 202.-The bishops move

to be excused voting at his trial, 202.-The parliament and court insulted by the

rabble, 202.—The king, not satisfied with the bill, puts the case to the bishops, 203.-

The earl of Strafford's letter to the king, 204.-His execution, and character, 205, 206.

-Dr. Hacket's speech before the house of commons in behalf of deans and chapters,

207.-Burges speaks on the other side, 209.—The protestation explained, 210.—The

viscount Newark's speech in defence of the bishops and clergy, 211.-The courts of

the High Commission and Star-chamber put down, 214.-Archbishop Williams' bill

for a further regulation of the bishops' jurisdiction, &c., 214.—The commons' vote

touching Church government, 216.-Wren, bishop of Ely, impeached by the com-

mons, 216.-An impeachment of thirteen bishops of the late convocation, 216.—The

prosecution of them dropped, 218.-The king goes to Scotland, and proves unfortunate

in his conduct, 218.—An order of the lords against innovating in religion, 219.—The

commons' declaration concerning innovations in the ceremonies, 220.-The bishops'

extraction misreported by the lord Brook, 222.-Pym's speech against the bishops,