buntur: nimirum, ut is qui huiusmodi facultate fruiturus est, sit ad minimum artium magister et publicus ac idoneus verbi divini concionator; ita tamen ut idonea etiam cautione obstrictus teneatur, de personali sua residentia in singulis beneficiis per bonam anni cuiusque partem facienda, et quod eiusmodi beneficia triginta milliarium spatio ad summum non distent abinvicem. Denique quod idoneum curatum habeat, qui plebem eius parochiae, in qua non residebit, instituat ac informet, modo facultates eiusdem beneficii talem commode sustinere posse archiepiscopo vel eius dioeceseos episcopo videbuntur...

23. Doctrines of the Independents.

(1)... Amongst whom there were very forward to the like presumption Henry Barrow, gentleman, and John Greenwood, clerk, who were convented before the High Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical in November, 1587 [1586], for their schismatical and seditious opinions, namely, that our Church is no Church, or at the least no true Church; yielding these reasons therefore, That the worship of the English Church is flat idolatry that we admit into our Church persons unsanctified: that our preachers have no lawful calling: that our government is ungodly: that no bishop or preacher preacheth Christ sincerely and truly that the people of every parish ought to choose their bishop, and that every elder, though he be no doctor nor pastor, is a bishop: that all the precise which refuse the ceremonies of the Church and yet preach in the same Church, strain a gnat and swallow a camel and are close hypocrites and walk in a left-handed policy, as Master Cartwright: ... that set prayer is blasphemous.

:

Paule's Life of Whitgift, 1612, p. 43. (2) Q. Whether he thinketh that any Liturgies... may be imposed upon the Church ...? A. I find in the word of God no such authority given to any man, neither such liturgies prescribed or used in the primitive Churches; and therefore hold it high presumption to impose any one devised Apocrypha prayer upon the Church I think the Queen's Majesty supreme governor of the whole land, and over the Church also, bodies and goods; but I think that no prince . . .

neither the Church itself, may make any laws for the Church other than Christ hath already left in his word. ... The holy government of Christ belongeth not to the profane or unbelieving... but over every particular congregation of Christ there ought to be an eldership, and every such congregation ought to their uttermost power to endeavour thereunto.

Barrowe's Examination: Harl. Misc. ed. 1745, 1V. p. 332. (3) They [the magistrates] may do nothing concerning the Church, but only civilly and as civil magistrates: that is, they have not that authority over the Church as to be prophets or priests or spiritual kings, as they are magistrates over the same, but only to rule the commonwealth in all outward justice, to maintain the right welfare and honour thereof with outward power, bodily punishment and civil forcing of men. And therefore also, because the Church is in a commonwealth, it is of their charge: that is, concerning the outward provision and outward justice, they are to look to it; but to compel religion, to plant churches by power, and to force a submission to ecclesiastical government by laws and penalties belongeth not to them. . . .

The Church planted or gathered is a company or number of Christians or believers, which, by a willing covenant made with their God, are under the government of God and Christ and keep his laws in one holy communion; because Christ hath redeemed them unto holiness and happiness for ever, from which they were fallen by the sin of Adam.

Works of Robert Browne (quoted by Dexter, Congregationalism, pp. 101, 105).

24. Martin Marprelate libels, 1588.

Ut externo bello, ita etiam interno schismate hoc tempore laboravit Anglia: schismatica enim pravitas semper bello ardente maxime luxuriat. Nec certe contumax in ecclesiasticos magistratus impudentia et contumeliosa improbitas insolentius alias se exercuit. Etenim cum Regina, quae semper eadem, novatores in religione audire noluerit, quos ecclesiasticae administrationis et regiae praerogativae nervos succisuros existimavit, nonnulli ex iis qui Genevensis Ecclesiae

disciplinam unice admirabantur non aliam rationem constituendi eandem in Anglia excogitari posse putarunt, quam Anglicam hierarchiam insectando et praesulibus invidiam apud populum confiando. Hi itaque et in hierarchiam et in praesules probrosis editis libellis, quibus tituli erant Martinus Praesulibus exitiosus vel Praesulo-Mastix, Mineralia, Diotrephes, Demonstratio Disciplinae, &c., calumniis et convitiis virulentissimis adeo scurriliter debacchati sunt, ut authores non pietatis cultores sed e popina ganeones viderentur. Authores tamen erant Penrius et Udallus verbi ministri et Jobus Throcmortonus vir doctus et facete dicax ...

Camden, Annales, I. p. 497; s. a. 1588.

25. Attacks on the High Commission, 1591.

Nec hi soli sed etiam alii qui receptam in Ecclesia Anglicana disciplinam episcoporum vocationem damnando et praesules contumeliose calumniando hactenus frustra impugnarunt, nunc, pertractis in eorum partes nonnullis iuris Anglici peritis, in eorum iurisdictionem et delegatam a Regina in ecclesiasticis causis authoritatem ut prorsus iniustam et linguas et calamos strinxerunt, declamando ubique etiam libris publicatis homines contra regni leges in foris ecclesiasticis indigne opprimi; Reginam eiusmodi authoritatem ex iure non posse delegare nec alios exercere delegatam; fora illa non posse a reo iusiurandum ex officio exigere, cum nemo seipsum accusare teneatur; iusiurandum illud homines ad sui condemnationem cum ignominiosa confusione, vel in spontaneum periurium cum animarum exitio praecipitare; praeterea de aliis quam matrimonialibus et testamentariis causis non debere cognoscere. . . .

Contra iuris ecclesiastici professores regiam in ecclesiasticis authoritatem propugnarunt, utique parlamentaria authoritate in Regina investitam. Hanc oppugnare nihil aliud esse quam in maiestatem irruere et sacrosanctae praerogativae violato obsequii iuramento insultare; fora ecclesiastica de aliis quam matrimonialibus et testamentariis posse cognoscere, ex statuto Circumspecte agatis et Articulis Cleri sub Edwardo Primo docuerunt. . . . Regina, haud ignara suam authoritatem per episcoporum latera in hoc negotio peti, adversantium impetus

tacite infregit, et ecclesiasticam iurisdictionem illaesam conservavit. Camden, Annales, II. p. 38, s. a. 1591.

26. The Lambeth Articles, 1595.

Articuli approbati a Reverendissimis Dominis D. D. Joanne Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi et Richardo Episcopo Londinensi et aliis theologis, Lambethae, Novembris 20, anno 1595.

I. Deus ab aeterno praedestinavit quosdam ad vitam et quosdam ad mortem reprobavit.

II. Causa movens aut efficiens praedestinationis ad vitam non est provisio fidei aut perseverantiae aut bonorum operum aut ullius rei quae insit in personis praedestinatis, sed sola voluntas beneplaciti Dei.

III. Praedestinatorum praefinitus et certus numerus est, qui nec augeri nec minui potest.

IV. Qui non sunt praedestinati ad salutem necessario propter peccata sua damnabuntur.

IX. Non est positum in arbitrio aut potestate uniuscuiusque hominis servari. Strype, Whitgift, II. p. 280.

27. Canons of 1597.

III. Ut beneficiati in suis beneficiis curatis hospitalitatem

exerceant.

Quoniam ecclesiarum cathedralium canonici sive praebendarii ecclesiastica beneficia curata alibi saepius possident et tamen ... ad cathedrales convolant ibique moram faciunt longiorem, unde nec curae parochianorum illis commissae satis prospicitur, nec pauperes domi suae, sicut difficultas huius temporis exigit, aluntur atque sustentantur; idcirco nos ... decernendum censemus ut omnes canonici sive praebendarii, qui beneficia curata unum sive duo obtinent nec residentiarii necessarii in suis ecclesiis cathedralibus existunt, ultra tempus quo in cathedralibus residere tenentur, a beneficiis suis curatis praetextu praebendarum se non absentent. . . . Quod autem ad eos attinet qui ad residentiam . . . obligantur... eos ita inter se anni tempora partiri volumus, quoad residentiam in cathedralibus habendam, ut eorum aliqui in ecclesiis illis semper adsint et personaliter resideant . . .

...

XI. De excessibus apparitorum reformandis.

Praeterea quoniam excessibus et gravaminibus quae per apparitores inferri dicuntur remedium cupimus adhibere opportunum, videtur ut apparitorum multitudo, quantum fieri poterit, restringatur ...

Praeterea in causis officii et correctionis ne quae fiant citationes generales, quae vulgo 'Quorum nomina' dicuntur, nisi partes citandae veris nominibus expressis . . . scribantur. . . . Cardwell, Synodalia, I. p. 147.

28. Court of High Commission.

(a) First Commission, 1559.

[I.] Elizabeth by the grace of God [&c.]. To the reverend father in God Mathew Parker, nominated bishop of Canterbury, and Edmond Grindall, nominated bishop of London, and to our right trusted and right well-beloved councillors Francis Knowles our vice-chamberlain, and Ambrose Cave, knights, and to our trusty and well-beloved Anthony Cooke and Thomas Smyth, knights, William Bill our almoner, Walter Haddon and Thomas Sackford, masters of our requests, Rowland Hill and William Chester, knights, Randoll Cholmely and John Southcote, serjeants at the law, William May, doctor of law, Francis Cave, Richard Gooderick and Gilbert Gerrard, esquires, Robert Weston and Thomas Huick, doctors of law, greeting.

[II] Where at our Parliament holden at Westminster the 25th day of January and there continued and kept until the eighth of May then next following, amongst other things, there was two Acts and Statutes made and established, the one entitled An Act for the uniformity of Common Prayer [&c.],' and the other entitled 'An Act restoring to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction [&c.],' as by the same several Acts more at large doth appear: and where divers seditious and slanderous persons do not cease daily to invent and set forth false rumours, tales, and seditious slanders, not only against us and the said good laws and statutes, but also have set forth divers seditious books within this our realm of England, meaning thereby to move and procure strife, division and dissension amongst our loving and obedient subjects, much to the disquieting of us and our people: