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HIs third Ponderation is the same with the first; Euerie thing eekes. His Saint Dun∣stan and Anselme, Gregorie and Bede are againe layd in our dish; wee cannot feed on these ouer-oft-sod Coleworts. I am challenged here, to produce any Priest or Deacon that liued in Wedlocke before the times of Dunstan; The man pre∣sumes
vpon the suppression of Re∣cords. For one, I name him hun∣dreds. Who were they that Dun∣stan and his fellow-Saints found sea∣ted in the Cathedrall Churches of this Land? whome did they eiect? Were they not marryed Priests? What did the eiected Clergie plead but ancient possession? After that; in the Synode which Archbishop a Lanfranck held at Winchester (which I wonder my Detectour would ouer-see: This neglect is not for nothing;) was it not decreed, that the Canons should not haue Wiues, but that the Priests which dwelt in Townes and Villages, should not bee compelled to put a∣way their Wiues; though caution is put in for the future?
What doth this imply, but that in those ancient Times the English Clergie were inoffensiuely married? To which adde that olde Record from an ancient Martyrologe of the Church of Canterbury: LANFRAN∣CVS Archiepiscopus reddidit Eccle∣siae
Sancti ANDREae, &c. LAN∣FRANCK Archbishop hath restord to Saint ANDREWES Church; the Mo∣nasterie of Saint MARIE with the Lands and Houses which LIVINGVS Priest, and his Wife had in London, &c. And before him, or Dustan ei∣ther, in King Edmunds time, b Bishop Osulphus with Athelme and Vlrick, Laicks, thrust out of the Monkes of Euesham, and placed Canons (mar∣ried Priests) in their roome.
Lastly, Iornalensis records it as King Ina's Law, long before these times; Si Episcopi filiolus sit, sitdimi∣dium hoc, &c. as supposing this no other then ordinarie in those times.
Now let my Refuter comfort himselfe and his Catholikes, with the weake defence of Heresie, and the strong Bulwarkes of Romane Truth; who in the meane time must be put in minde, that he puts on me the burden which should lye vpon his own shoulders; I haue produced Histories which affirme perempto∣rily, that the English Clergie were
neuer forbidden to marrie vntil An∣selmes time; it is now his taske to disprooue this assertion of theirs by equall authoritie to the contrarie, which till hee haue done, the day is ours.
Ex Act. Con∣cil. Wint. sub. Lanfr.
Martyrol. Cant.
Fox. Act. & Mon.
If he be the Sonne of a Bishop, &c.