ledges. I could put cases wherein every of these may be seen severed from the other; but I should then wander from my matter. Only, I present them thus anatomized, that it may appear what portion the church had in them, what the common-wealth, and what the king; that so it may also the better appear how the laws both of the church and kingdom are to be applyed unto them respectively. constitutions of the church of England; but Athon only upon those of Otho and Othobon; and Linwood, beginning where Athon left, upon those of Stephen arch-bishop of Canterbury and his successors. There are therefore a great number of canons and constitutions of the church of England, which neither of these canooists have either meddled with or so much as touched: as also there be many statutes in force, which are no where mentioned in any of the abridgements. But Jo. de Burgo (another English canonist and chancellor of Cambridge, who wrote in Richard 2d's time) taketh notice of this canon, and that hunting was thereby forbidden to our clergy-men, as appeareth in his Pupilla Oculi, part. 7. ca. 10, m. To go on. The Apology saith, That the When therefore the king granted temporal lands unto them; though they took then as lay-barons, and in their temporal capacity, yet might they not otherwise use them than might stand with their spiritual function: no more than when he granted ecclesiastical possessions to a lay-man, the grantee might otherwise use them than as a lay-man. For example; it was a common thing in old time, that the king grant-arch-bishop of Canterbury had formerly more ed churches to lay-men, by the name of Ecclesiam de Dale and Ecclesiam de Sale; yet it was never intended that the grantee, though he had the churches to order and dispose, should (contrary to his vocation) meddle with the divine service, but present his clerk only. So in like manner, when the king granted to clergymen, chaces, parks, and warrens; it was not intended that, contrary to the rules of their profession and laws of the church, they should or might become hunters and foresters. My long stay upon this point, is a preparative to an answer to the next, which is the statute of Ric. 2, being in the negative, That no priest nor other clerk, not advanced to 10l. a year, shall have or keep any greyhound, nor other dog to hunt; nor they shall not use ⚫ ferrets, haves, nets, bare-pipes, nor cords, nor ' other engines, for to take and destroy deer, hares, nor conies, &c. upon pain of one year's ' imprisonment.' The statute, I say, is in the negative, and saith that none under 10l. a year shall keep; but saith not in the afirmative, that it shall be lawful for them that have 101. a year to keep, &c. I should therefore think, that this statute doth not discharge a priest, having 10. a year using hunting, against the canon-law: no more than the statute of Usury, forbidding a man to take above 101. loan for an 100%., giveth him liberty to take that 10. or doth discharge him against the canons of Usury. than twenty parks and chases, to usc at his pleasure, and by charter hath free-warren in 'all his lands.' Habuisse, lugubre: it seemeth the wisdom of the latter times, the more pity, dissented from the former; yet did not the former approve that bishops should use them at their pleasure, but as the laws and canons of the church permitted. For as they had many parks and warrens; so had they many castles and fortresses, and might for their safety dwell in them: but as they might not be soldiers in the one, so might they not be huntsmen in the other. In like sort, the abbot and monks of St. Alban's (as Mat. Paris reporteth the case, in an. 1240, pa. 205.) had free-warren at St. Alban's, &c. by grant of the kings, and recovered damages against many that entered into the same and hunted; for the having of it was lawful, as appeareth in the Clementines Tit. de Statu Monast. § Porro à Venatoribus. But it is there expressly forbidden, that either they should hunt in it themselves, or be present when others do 'hunt, or that they should keep, 'Canes venaticos aut infra monasteria seu domus quas inhabitant, aut eoruin clausuras, pa. 207. Radulphus de Diceto in an. 1189, saith, that the bishops of that time affected to get into their hands Comitatus, vice-comitatus, vel castellarias;' Counties, sheriffwicks, and constable-ships of castles; but shall we think they either did or might use them in their own Touching his inference, that Linwood speak-persons, as with banners displayed to lead forth eth not one word against hunting simply the soldiers of their county, or with sword and by clergy-men, but against their using it in target to defend the walls of their castles, or places restrained; it is true, for the text of the with a white wand to collect the king's reve canon led him no further; being only De Cle- nues, &c. It is true, that Walter bishop of rico, de transgressione Forestæ aut parci ali- Durham, having bought the county of Northum'cujus diffamato,' and made to no other intent berland of William the conqueror, would needs than to aggravate the censure of the ecclesias-sit himself in the county-court; but he paid tical law, which before was not sharp enough against offenders in that kind. But Johannes de Athon, as great a canonist and somewhat elder, whom Linwood often citeth and relieth upon as one well understanding the eclesiastical constitutions and the laws of England, hath apparently condemned it in the place by me recited. Yet is it to be noted, that neither Athon nor Linwood intended to gloss upon all the dearly for it; for his country-men furiously slew him, even sitting there. Matt. Paris in an. 1075. So Hugh bishop of Coventry exercised the sheriff's place, but was excommunicate for it, as contra dignitatem episc.' and so acknowledged his error. Dicet. in an. 1190. But every one will say, it was a common thing in old time for bishops to be judges in secular courts. I confess it; and think it godly and lawful as it was used at the first. For the bishop and the earl sat together in the county court: the bishop as chancellor, to deliver Dei rectum and populum docere; the earl as secular judge, to deliver rectum seculi and populum coercere; as is manifest by the laws of king Edgar and others. But when the bishops began to supply both places, and to be meer judges of secular courts, then were they prohibited by many canons. And therefore Roger bishop of Salisbury being importuned by the king to be his justice; would by no means accept it, till he had obtained dispensation, not only from his metropolitan the archbishop of Canterbury, but from the pope himself, as Dicetus affirmeth in an. 1190, and no doubt but others of wisdom did the like. In those things therefore that bishops did against canons, we must take no example to follow them: for though their public actions be manifest, yet their dispensations and matter of excuse is for the most part secret. Neither doth every thing done against a canon produce irregularity, if some criminous mischance follow not thereon. For the record that relateth that the bishop of Rochester was at his death to render to the archbishop of Canterbury his kennel of hounds as a mortuary, and that the law takes notice of it for the king sede vacante, under the name of muta canum and mulcture: 1 must (as they say in the law) demand Oyer of the record; we shall otherwise spend many words in vain. But that dogs should be given for a mortuary is against all likelihood. For a mortuary, is as an offering given (by him that dieth) unto the charch, in recompence of his tithes forgotten; and it is a plain text, Deuter. xxviii. 18. Non ' offeres inercedem prostibuli, nec pretium canis in domo Domini.' But if there be no other word to signify a kennel of hounds, than muta canum and mulctura, the exposition may be doubtful, though it come somewhat near it. Freder. 2. emp. in the prologue to his second book de Venatione, speaking of an hawks-mue, saith, Domicula quæ dicitur muta; following the Italian vulgar, which cometh a' mutando, because the hawk doth there change her coat. And for the affinity between dogs and hawks, it may be xaraxensixas transferred to a dog-kennel; and whether to the hounds themselves or no, it is not much material. For, no doubt, they that may have parks and warrens, may have dogs and hounds for hunting: but every body that may have hounds may not use them themselves, as appeareth by that which I said before out of the Clementines, and by the opinion of justice Brudnel, with the rest of the judges, 12 Hen. 8, fol. 5. where it is said, a man may keep hounds notwithstanding the statute of 13 R. 2, but he must not hunt; as he may keep apparel of cloth of gold, notwithstanding the statute of apparel, but he must not wear it. Besides, religious persons in ancient times were driven to have dog-kennels for the king's hounds: for Rad. Niger in an....... saith, that king Henry 2, Abbates, hypodromos et canum custodes fecit.' After all this, his lordship is defended with the perpetual use of hunting by bishops in their parks; and by the particular examples of some eminent men his predecessors, and others. This point of use and example I have in a manner answered before; speaking, as it fell in my way, of bishops being secular judges. One line serveth to level at them both: yet for further and more perspicuous resolution of the matter, see both the example and the use censured in the decret. 34. distinct. ca. 1. by pope Nicholas, ad Albinum archiepisc. alias Aluinum. 'Quemadmodum relatione fidelium nostris au"ribus intimatum est, quod Lanfredus episcopus, qui et juvenis esse dicitur, venationi sit deditus; quod vitium plurimos etiam de clericali 'catalogo, genere duntaxat Germanos et Gal'los irreverenter implicat, verum iste (si ita est ut audivimus) merito juvenis dicitur, qui juvenilibus desideriis occupatus, nulla gravitate 'constringitur.' Et infra: Nam (ut Beatus dicit Hieronymus) Venatorem nunquam legimus sanctum.' Then blaming him also for being too familiar with his daughter, he saith, Opor'tet ergo fraternitatem tuam synodale cum episcopis et suffraganeis tuis convocare concilium, 'et hunc salutaribus colloquiis episcopum con' venire, atque illi pastorali authoritate præci pere quatenus ab omnium bestiarum vel vo-' lucrum venatione penites alienus existat :' or (in short) to excommunicate him. Here he sheweth hunting to be used both by a bishop and by a multitude of clerks, (plurimos.) But neither the person and dignity of the one, nor the multitude nor frequent use in the other, maketh the pope to abstain from condemning it. Howbeit, they whose example the Apologist alledgeth, little respected (as I think) the whole volume of canons. Touching the record of the earl of Arundel's excommunication for taking up the archbisirop of Canterbury's hounds coming into the earl's grounds to hunt; and the archbishop's pleading That it was lawful for him to hunt in any forest of England whensoever he would, we must (as we before said) pray Oyer of the record; for parols font plea, and their certainty appears not here, nor what became of the issue: which, though it fell out to be found for the archbishop, yet perhaps it discharged him not against the canon. And well might he be as bold with the canon, as he was with the law. For it is directly against the law both of England and France, to excommunicate a peer of the realm without the king's assent: and therefore Henry 3 was sore offended with the archbishop for this excommunication: (and the bishops of Loudon and Norwich were called in question for the like in Henry the second's time; as Matthew Paris reporteth, p. 99.) But because his case sways the cause to the ground; I must dwell little the longer upon it, to shew what became of it. The truth is, it was ended by comprise in the chapel at Slyndon upon Friday after the circumcision of our Lord, 1258, that is, 43 Hen. 3, in this manner: quod idem archiepiscopus' et successores sui semel in quolibet anno et non plus, cuin transierint per dictam forestam a (i. e. de Arundel) cum una lesia de sex lepo- | arch-bishop, and in the words recited by the rariis sine aliis canibus et sine arcu habeant apologist. But these be exercises of war, not ⚫ unum cursum in eundo et alium in redeundo; of religion; fit for barons not for bishops; who ita quod si capiant unam feram, illam habe- in ancient time, following the example of our bunt; si nihil capiant in illo cursu, nihil habe- Saviour and his apostles, walked on foot, as apbunt. Si vero capiant plus quam unam feram, peareth by Bede, Eccl. Hist. I. 3. ca. 14. and archiepiscopi qui pro tempore fuerint, habeant lib. 4. ca. 3. and beginning to ride, used here in quam elegerint, et residuum habeant dictus England mares, as Bede also witnesseth, lib. 2. 'Dominus Johannes et hæredes ejus,' &c. Then ca. 13. in other places mules, not borses; for is it further awarded, that the said earl, his Bellum hæc armenta minantur,' as not only heirs, and assigns, shall yearly for ever pay unto the poet saith, but as the scripture also, Prov. the said archbishop and his successors, 13 bucks 21. ult. Equus paratur ad diem belli.' And and 13 does, (captas de fermysun as the record such belike, did this arch-bishop Cranmer saith) at times there appointed. And then fol-mount upon and manage, as the word simply, loweth this close, which maketh all plain; Et ut in famulatu suo non fuerit quisquam qui in actum est expresse inter partes de præcepto generosum equum salire, ac tractare elegantius et ordinatione dictorum arbitratorum, quod-potuisset.' Besides the shooting here men'dictæ partes procurabunt confirmationem do- tioned seemeth not to be the long-bowe, which 'mini papæ et domini regis super præsenti con- stirreth the body and is profitable to health, 'firmatione.' but that deadly engine (which imagineth mischief as a law) the cross-bowe, whose force a man cannot mitigate as in other weapons, and is properly numbered amongst the instruments of war; and therefore by a multitude of canons prohibited to clergy-men, so that they may not use them pro justitia exercenda' (as appeareth by the constit. of Othob. Tit.) de Clericis arma portan.' nor equitantes per loca peri By this record it appeareth, that neither the earl could make this grant without licence from the king, (for that all forests are the king's, and no subject can have them otherwise than in custory) nor the archbishop could safely use the privilege of hunting without dispensation from the pope and though I yet find not where the one was obtained from the pope, yet I find where the other was granted from the king;culosa,' as it is in the gloss upon the decret. and namely from Edward the first in the 2nd year of his reign; where all the award and composition beforesaid, is (by way of inspeximus) recited and confirmed. But the composition for the bucks and does, was after in Edward the third's time released by the archbishop Sinon Islip, having taken for the same 240 marks; as witness Antiqq. Britann. ca. 55. of Gratian p. 992. where the text is, 'Clerici arma portantes et usurarii excommunicentur.' But I have gone the length of my tedder, I mean as far as the Apology leadeth me; and therefore now mamum de tabula. The case of this reverend and most worthy person deserveth great commiseration and tender handling: tor who can prevent such unexAnd it seemeth further by this record, that pected casualties? Yet may the consequence the archbishops of Canterbury had not at that prove so mischievous both to himself and those time dispensation from the pope, to hunt where that are to receive their consecration from him, they listed in any forest of England; for then as of necessity it must be carefully looked into should he not have needed special dispensation and provided for. Let me remember an ancient in this case. But howsoever the dispensation precedent, even in one of his own predecessors, or confirmation was hereupon obtained; it is Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury in the time apparent that it stretched no further than to of the conquest, who, because he had not cahunt with grey-hounds; for the bow is ex-nonically received his consecration, but from pressly forbidden and excepted. the hands of pope Benedict (who stood excommunicate and sacris interdictus) was not only deprived himself by authority of a council, but also the bishops and abbots which had taken their consecration from him. Therefore the bishops of Wells and Hereford fore-seeing that evil; to make all clear, fetch their consecration at Rome from pope Nicholas: Vitabant enim (saith Flor. Wigorn. in an. 1070.) à Stigand qui tunc Archiepiscopatui Doroberniæ præsi debat, ordinari: quia noverant illum non Ca It may be, some will extend the word confirmation, to be meant of some right of hunting, which the arch-bishop (upon this arbitrement) was to disinherit his church of: which I leave to the judgment of lawyers. For it may contain both; though I never saw any precedent of the popes in that kind for so small a matter: but of the other kind, we have before made mention of one to Roger bishop of Salisbury, and a multitude of others are to be produced. Again, if they have a dispensation for hunt-nonice Pallium suscepisse.' It is good to follow ing, yet it hath some limitation either for the place or the manner; which his lordship (if he justify under that) must shew particularly. To come now at last to the last point of the Apology, drawn from the particular example of arch-bishop Cranmer; who, in the description of his life (Britannicarum Antiqq. ca. 68.) is set forth to hunt, shoot, and ride a great or stirring horse with notable activity, even when he was the counsel of Gratian in the like matter: Consultius est in hujusmodi dubio abstinere quam celebrare,' ca. 24. 1716. But because we are fallen into a case, where in perhaps some extraordinary consecration may be required; let me also relate a strange consecration used in the entrance of the reign of Henry 1, an. 1100. where Eadmere a monk of Canterbury being elected by the clergy and And thus, in this matter of shooting, If I have done as the proverb saith, shot like a gentleman, that is fair, though far off, it sufficeth. I humbly crave pardon. DISPENSATIO cum Georgio Archiepiscopo rogatus et invitatus damam sagitta figere destinaret, debita adhibita diligentia ne quid 'accidit ut sagitta ab eo amissa et in feram directa, in quendam Petrum Hawkins adhunc parci prædicti custodem, improvide et temere se periculo ictus sagittæ exponentem, et per locum ubi à præfato archiepiscopo conspici non potuit cum impetu transcurrentem incideret, eique brachiam sanciaret; ex quo quidem vulnere infra unius horæ spacium ex 6 people of Scotland to be bishop of St. Andrews, with the great good liking of king Alexander and the nobility. Yet by reason of some dis-inde periculi cuiquam eveniret; forte tamen contentments the same king had conceived against the arch-bishop of York, within whose province Scotland then was, he would by no means agree that Eadmere should take his consecration from that arch-bishop; and after much consultation how then it might otherwise be performed, it was at last agreed, that the staff of the bishoprick should be solemnly laid upon the altar, and that Eadmere taking it frompirabat: et quamvis propter hujusmodi homithence, should receive it as delivered him from cidium casuale, nulla præfati archiepiscopi God himself: which accordingly was done. culpa sed ipsius occisi temeritate contigens, This calleth to my mind another of like nature, 'idem reverendissimus pater bona fretus consomewhat more ancient: where Wulstan, the scientia, se nullam omnino irregularitatem ingood bishop of Worcester, both resigned his currisse, persuasissimum habeat; provida tabishoprick by laying the staff thereof upon themen animi circumspectione, et ut omnis inshrine of St. Edward the confessor (by the 'firmorum mentibus scrupulus eximatur, secum agreement of a council holden under Lanfranc)à nobis super omni et omnimoda irregularitate and in like manner received the same again 'et irregularitatis nota aut suspicione, si quam from thence, in the presence of king William, 'præmissorum ratione contraxisse forsitan alithe arch-bishop Lanfranc, and many others; quibus videri possit, ad cautelam et ex supernot without some miracle, as Matthew Paris abundanti dispensari humiliter supplicavit : writeth it in an. 1095. These as mángya. Sciatis igitur quod nos petitionis hujusmodi vim 'et efficaciam regio animo et pio affectu ponderantes, et de veritate præmissorum solicita 'indagatione certiores facti, et ut piam reve' rendissimi patris intentionem hac in re sequa 'mur, et ad abundatiorem cautelam, perfidelis consilitarii nostri optimeque de ecclesia et republica meriti præsulis statum, famam, et dignitatem, nostri etiam patrocinii minime 'teneri et firmare dignoscamur, ad præsentem venimus dispositionem: Vobisque vel aliqui'bus sex vestrum, quorum vos præfat. Johannem Lincoln. Georgium London. Lancelotum Winton. et 'Samuelum Norwicen. respective episcopos, quatuor esse volumus, de quorum 'etiam fide, judicio, et industria plurimum confidimus, mandamus et de gratia nostra spe⚫ciali et ex auctoritate nostra regia suprema, et ecclesiastica qua fungimur, pro nobis 'hæredibus, et successoribus nostris damus et plenam concedimus facultatem et potestatem per præsentes, quatenus vos vel aliqui sex vestrum; quorum vos præfatos, Johannem Lincoln. Georgium London. Lancelotum Winton, et Samuelem Norwicen. respective episcopos, quatuor esse volumus, cum præfato reverendissimo patre super omni et omnimod. juris vel facti defectu, censuro, sive pæna aliqua canonica et ecclesiastica, præsertim vero irregularitate omni seu irregularitatis nota, si forsitan ratione præmissorum contracta fuit, vel quibusdam contracta esse videantur, utque in susceptis ordinibus et jurisdictionibus 'secundum concreditam sibi ratione ordinis 'et archiepiscopatus sui potestatem libere ministrare, frui, exercere, et gaudere valeat, ad 'majorem cautelam di-penestis, ac cætera ' omnia et singula quæ ad statum, commodum, 'et honorem præfati reverendissimi patris con'servandum et corroborandum in hoc parte necessaria fuerint seu quomodolibet opportuna 'faciatis, et dispensationem hujusmodi, cæteraque sic ut præfertur per vos aut aliquos sex "REVERENDISSIMO in Christo Patri Georgio providentia divina Cantuariensi archiepiscopo, totius Angliæ primati, et metropolitano, Johannes Lincoln. Georgius London. Lancelotus Winton. Samuel Norwicens. Thomas Coven. et Lich. Arthurus Bathon, et Wellen. Nicolaus Eliensis et Georgius Cicestrensis permissione divina respective episcopi de provincia Cantuar. Salutem et gratiam in Domino sempiternam. Recipimus literas commissionales à serenissimo in Christo principe ac domino nostro domino Jacobo Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ rege, fidei defensore, &c. sub magno sigillo Angliæ confectas et nobis directas; quarum tenor sequitur in hæc verba: Jacobus Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotia, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ rex, fidei defensor, &c. Reverendo in Christo Patri et perdilecto et perquam fideli consiliario nostro Johanni episcopi Lincolu. custodi magni sigilli nostri Angliæ, ac reverendo in Christo Patri Georgio episcopo • London, ac reverendo in Christo Patri ac perdilecto et perquam fideli consiliario nostro < Lanceloto episcopo Winton. necnon reverendis in Christo patribus Samueli Norwicen. Thomæ Coven. et Lichen. Nicholaó Elien. Arthuro Bathon, et Wellen. et Georgio Cices'tren. respective episcopis, salutem et gratiam. in Humili nobis supplicatione exposuit reve⚫rendissimus in Christo Pater, perdilectus et 'per fidelis consiliarius noster Georgius Cantuar. archiepiscopus, quod cum nuper parco quodam vocato Bramzil-park apud Bramzil in comitatu nostro Southamton. per ⚫ honorandum virum ejusdem parci dominum ་ vestrum, quorum vos præfatas, Johannem Lincoln. Georgium 1 ondon. Lancelotum Winton. et Samuelem Norwicen. respective episcopos, quatuor esse volumus, facienda in debita juris forma concepta, et inscripta, reducta, sigillisque vestris seu sigillo aliquo authentico munita, præfato archiepiscopo tradere | non differatis. Quam quidem dispensationem, cæteraque sic ut præfertur per vos aut aliquos 'sex vestrum, quorum vos præfatos, Johannem Lincoln. Georgium London. Lancelotum Winton. et Samuelem Norwicen. respective episcopos, quatuor esse volumus, pagenda sub magno insuper sigillo nostro Angliæ confirmari volumus, et super hiis præfati magni sigilli nostri custodi aliisque cancellariæ nostræ ministris 'quibuscunque expresse mandamus, et plenam tenore præsentium concedimus potestatem. Teste meipso apud Westmon. vicesimo se'cundo die Novembris, anno regni nostri An'gliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, decimo nono et Scotia lv. Secundum tenorem et exigentiam literarum commissionalium prærecitatarum, et ad eximendum omnem scrupulum ab infirmorum mentibus, si quis forsitan sit aut fuerit in ea parte conceptus. Nos prædicti, Johannes Lincoln. Georgius London, Laucelotus Winton. Samuel Norwicen. Thomas Cover. et Lichfeld. Arthurus Bathon. et Wellen. Richardus Elien. et Georgius Cicestrens. respective episcopi, nomine primitus invocato ac Deum patrem oculis solum habentes, et considerantes atque pro certo habentes quod dicta venatio cui per te data erat opero, quando dictum casuale homicidium, te nihil tale suspicante, accidebat, | erat modesta, decens, et quieta, et quod debita per se adhibita erat diligentia in dicta venatione ad præcavendum ne quid periculi alicui inde eveniret, Tecum præfato Georgio archiepiscopo Cantuariensi super omni irregularitate et irregularitatis nota, si quain forsitan ratione casualis homicidi sive mortis præfati Petri Hawkins incurristi vel aliquibus incurrisse videaris ad omnem et qualemcunque juris effectum dispensamus; teque præfatum Georgium archic piscopum Cantuariensem ac personam tuam ab omnibus et singulis inhabilitatibus, suspensionibus, irregularitatibus, aliisque prenis, impedimentis, censuris, et coercionibus quibuscunque ecclesiasticis sive canonicis, si quam forsitan ratione præmissorum aut eorum alicujos incurristi aut aliquibus incurrisse videaris, ad omnem et qualemcunque juris effectum liberamus ac tenore præsentium pro liberato haberi decernimus et pronunciamus: quemque defectum, labem, notam, sive maculam, (si quam forsitan ratione præmissorum aut eorum alicujus contraxisti aut aliquibus contraxisse videaris, penitus abolemus ac pro abolitis haberi decernimus et pronunciamus: Teque etiam præfatum Georgium archiepiscopum Cantuariensem ex superabundanti et ad majorem cautelam, rehabilitamus et restituimus ad omnem et qualemcunque juris effectum: Et ut in susceptis ordinibus et archiepiscopatu prædicto, ac in omnibus et singulis jurisdictionibus, privilegiis, præeminentiis, prærogativis, dignitatibus, atque aliis rebus quibuscunque, aliquo modo ad dictum archiepiscopatum spectantibus et pertinentibus libere ministrare valeas, conced.mus et indulgemus, perinde ac si prædictum casuale homicidium commissum non fuisset; canonibus, legibus, decretis, ordinationibus, et constitutionibus ecclesiasticis quibuscunque contrariis (si qua sint in ea parta contraria) in aliquo non obstantibus. In cujus rei testimonium, sigilla nostra episcopalia hisce præsentibus apponi fecimus. Dat. duodecimo die Decembris, anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo vicesimo primo.-Teste rege apud Westinon. 24. die Decembris anno regni regis Jacobi, &c. xix. Cl Scotia quinquagesimo quinto." The subsequent rustication of the Archbishop to his house at Foord was altogether unconnected with the unfortunate event which gave rise to the proceedings related above, and resulted, according to bishop Hacket, merely from his refusal to license Dr. Sibthorpe's Sermon. 122. Proceedings on the Impeachment of the Lord Treasurer MIDDLESEX, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors: 22 JAMES I. A. D. 1624. [Journal of both Houses of Parliament. 1 Cobb. Parl. Hist. 1406.] April 2, 1624. cers of the crown should be sent for, to be examined on oath, relating to this affair, viz. sir Edw. Wardour, clerk of the pells, sir Rob. Pye, sir Thomas Mounson, sir Thomas Dallison, sır Rd. Morrison, sir John Keyes, sir A. Ingram, sir Thomas Cook, sir Thomas Morris, clerk of the ordnance, and sir John Male. THE Archbishop of Canterbury, (George Abbot) reported, That, in a Committee appointed to examine the Stores and Ammunitions of War, some speeches had past, the day before, which concerned the honour of a Lord of that House; and that the said lord desired Examinations April 3. It appeared who the noble lord was might be taken, upon oath, for the clearing there-whose conduct had been objected to; for, some of. Whereupon the house ordered, That a sub-committee should be constituted to take such Examinations, and the witnesses to be sworn in court. Also, That the following offi orders being made this day, relating to the sittings of the Committee on Munitions, Stores, &c. we are told, by the Journal, that the Lord Treasurer (Middlesex) stood up and said, |