An ansvver to the articles preferd against Edvvard Finch, vicar of Christ church by some of the parishioners of the same whereunto is added a just and modest reply to a most scurrilous, scandalous and malicious pamphlet, as by the title may appeare, of an uncertaine author / by Edvvard Finch...

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An ansvver to the articles preferd against Edvvard Finch, vicar of Christ church by some of the parishioners of the same whereunto is added a just and modest reply to a most scurrilous, scandalous and malicious pamphlet, as by the title may appeare, of an uncertaine author / by Edvvard Finch...
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Finch, Edward, d. 1642?
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[London :: s.n.],
1641.
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Christ Church (Newgate, London, England). -- Petition and articles or severall charges exhibited in Parliament against Edward Finch, vicar at Christs Church in London.
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"An ansvver to the articles preferd against Edvvard Finch, vicar of Christ church by some of the parishioners of the same whereunto is added a just and modest reply to a most scurrilous, scandalous and malicious pamphlet, as by the title may appeare, of an uncertaine author / by Edvvard Finch..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41314.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 31, 2025.

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Artic. 2.

That he exacteth sometimes twenty shillings a piece, and many times more, for funerall Sermons, himselfe seldome preaching any of them, and affirmeth his Pulpit to bee his Shop, and therefore must improve it to the utmost.

To the second I confest, that I demanded for the most part of the most able sort, twenty shillings for a Funerall Sermon; to those of an inferiour rancke, I either tooke ten shillings, or upon notice of their ina∣bilitie, (though they were desirous to bury their friend in a fashionable way, being the last duty, or of∣fice of love they could performe for them) I gave it them freely, and not onely forgave them my owne duties, but perswaded the rest of the Officers of the Church to doe the like.

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