The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne.

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The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne.

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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

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London :: printed by authority for Michael Sparke senior,

an. 1641.

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Bishops -- England -- Early works to 1800.

Church and state -- England -- Early works to 1800.

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"The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56127.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HONO∣RABLE THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT, NOW (Through Gods sweete Providence) MOST HAPPILY ASSEMBLED.
• TO THE READER.
• table of contents
• ERRATA.
• THE PROLOGVE.
• THE ANTIPATHIE OF THE ENGLISH LORDLY PRELACIE, BOTH TO REGALL MONAR∣CHY, AND CIVILL UNITY.
  • CHAP. I. Containing the severall Treasons, Conspiracies, Rebellions, Sedi∣tions, Contumacies, Disloyalties of the Arch-bishops of Canter∣ury against their Soveraignes, Kings of England; the severall Warres, Tumults, Dissentions occasioned and raysed by them in, or against our Realme, with their manifold practises and attempts to undermine our Lawes.
  • CHAP. II. OF THE SEVERALL Treasons, Conspiracies, Rebel∣lions, Seditions, State-schismes, Contempts, and Disloyalties of the Arch-Bishops of YORKE, against their Soveraignes, and of the Warres, Tumults, and Civill Dissentions caused by them
  • CHAP. III. Comprising the severall Trea∣sons, Conspiracies, Rebellions, Contu∣macies, Disloyalties, Warres, Dissentions, and State-Schismes of the Bishops of London, Winchester, Durham, Salisbury, and Lincolne.
    • Bishops of London.
    • Winchester.
    • Durham.
    • Salisbury.
    • Lincolne.
• title page
• TO THE HIGH AND HONORABLE COVRT OF PARLIAMENT NOW ASSEMBLED.
• TO THE COVRTEOVS READER.
• A COMPLEATE TABLE OF THE SEVERALL CHAPTERS of this Second Part of the Antipathy, which may serve in steede of an Index.
• Kind Reader I pray correct these subsequent Errors which have escaped the Presse in some Coppies, in my absence.
• THE SECOND PART OF THE Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy, both to Regall Monar∣chy and civill Vnitie.
  • CHAP. IV. Conteining the Treasons, Conspiracies, Seditions, Contumacies, and disloyalties of the Bishops of Ely, Exeter, Worcester, and Hereford.
    • Exeter.
    • The Bishops of Worceter.
    • The Bishops of Hereford.
  • CHAP. V. Containing the Treasons, Conspiracies, Contu∣macies and disloyalties of the Bishops of Chi∣chester, Carlile, Norwich, Chester, Coventry, and Litchfield.
    • The Bishops of Carlile.
    • The Bishops of Norwich.
    • The Bishops of Chester.
    • The Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield.
  • CHAP. VI. Comprising the Treasons, Conspiracies, Se∣ditions, Contumacies, and Disloyalties, of the Bishops of Rochester, St. Da∣vids, Landaffe, Bangor, Asaph, Bath and Wells: With a short touch of the Bishops of Oxford, Bristol, Peter∣burgh, and Glocester.
    • Rochester.
    • Saint Davids.
    • Landaffe.
    • Bishops of Bangor.
    • Saint Assaph.
    • The Bishops of Bath and Wels.
    • Oxford.
    • Bristoll.
    • Peterborough.
    • Glocester.
  • CHAP. VII. Containing the severall Treasons, Rebellions, Seditions, Schismes, Contumacies, Warres, and disloyalties of the Bishops of France, Normandy, Scotland, and Ireland, with reference unto the Kings of England.
    • French and Norman Bishops Acts of this kind.
    • The Bishops of Scotlands acts in this kinde.
    • The Charge of the Scottish Commissioners against the Prelate of Canterbury.
    • The Generall Act for abolishing of Episcopacy, and all Innovation lately intended in the Church of Scotland.
    • The Bishop of Dunkell his Recantation.
    • The Bishop of Orkneyes Recantation.
    • The Irish Bishops.
    • Articles of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses in the Parliament Assembled, against Sir Richard Bolton Knight, Lord Chan∣cellour of Ireland, Iohn Lord Bishop of Derry, and Sir Gerard Lowther Knight, Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas, and Sir George Ratcliffe Knight in maintenance of the accusation, whereby they and every of them stand charged with High Trea∣son.
    • To the Honourable Assembly of Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in this present Parliament.
    • A Particular of manifold evills and heavie pressures, caused and occasioned by the Prelacy, and their depen∣dants.
  • CHAP. VIII. Containing certaine Conclusions deduced from the Premises; with the judgements and resolutions of divers of our ancient Writers and Martyrs, and some of our learnedst Bishops and Authors in Queen Elizabeths raigne, touching the pretended divine Iurisdiction of Bishops, their Treasons, Rebellions, Temporalities, large possessions; and the uselesnesse, unprofitablenesse, and mischeivousnesse of Lorldy Bishops, and their government in our Church.
    • The sixth Article.
    • Borthwicke.
    • The seventh Article.
    • The ninth Article.
  • CHAP. IX. Comprising an Answer to the Principall Objections al∣leadged by the Prelates in defence of the Divine pre∣tended Institution, and for the continuance of their Episcopacy in our Church.
• Kind Reader, I shall desire thee to rectiie these Presse-Errours, which in my absence in the Country hapned in many Copies in some Pages of the first and Second Part, besides those forementioned, after the Table of Chap∣ters.
  • In the first Part.
  • In the second Part.
  • Omissions.
• Directions for the Booke-Binder.