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.

Bishops of Bangor.

1 1.1 * 1.2 MAuritius the third Bishop of Bangor most undutifully refused a long time to doe homage to the King of England for his Bishopricke held of him, but at last was perswa∣ded to doe it.

2 1.3Robert of Shrewsbury joyning with Leolin Prince of Wales, a∣gainst King Iohn his Soveraigne, was taken prisoner by the King in his owne Cathedrall Church,* 1.4 and ransomed for 200. hawkes; after this dying, he was buried, not in the Church-yard, but in the market place of Shrewsbury, by his owne appointment.

Richard3 1.5 the 10. Bishop of Bangor excommunicated David ap Lhewelin,* 1.6 Prince of Wales, for that contrary to his O••th he took his Brother Gryffith prisoner, who was content upon the Bi∣shops word to goe to his Brother: and when he saw that course would not reforme him, he never lin complaining, first to the King of England, then to the Pope, that he so incensed them, as the one excommunicated him, the other made warre upon him untill he delivered his said Brother into the Kings hands, who caused him to be kept in the Tower of London, till he endeavo∣ring there to escape, by misfortune brake his necke. The Prince hereupon so wasted the Bishopricke, that in the yeare 1248. this Bishop and the Bishop of Saint Asaph were forced to beg their bread. Whereupon this Bishop came to the Abbot of Saint Albanes, desiring that the Bosome of Mercy might be opened unto his poverty, and he abiding there untill his Bishopricke wasted and spoiled with continuall warre, should recover some better estate, might together with his Chaplaine there breath and rest themselves from those calamities wherewith they had beene long afflicted, in like sort as heretofore the Bishop of Hereford had done, who was honorably entertained there almost the space of twenty yeares.

* 1.7 Richard Young the 22. Bishop of Bangor,4 1.8 for some contempt and disobedience against the King, and confederating (as is likely) with that Rebell Owen Glendor, was imprisoned two or three yeares, till the Pope, Anno 1404. translated him to Ro∣chester by his Bull.

Lewis5 1.9 the 23. Bishop of Bangor Anno. 1408. joyned with the Earle of Northumberland,* 1.10 the Lord Bardolfe and others, in open Rebellion against King Henry the fourth. The Earle was slaine in battell in the field, the Lord Bardolfe mortally wounded, and their heads set upon London Bridge. The Bishop was likewise taken prisoner in the battell, but obtained pardon from the King, because he had no Armes upon him when he was taken, though the incendiary of the other two, and as great a Traytor as they; but the Abbot of Hayles was hanged, because hee had borne Armes in that Rebellion. So happy are Traytorly and Rebellious Bishops, as to scape scot free in their Treasons and Rebellions, when all other sorts of men have execution done upon them.

Arthur Bulkly Bishop of Bangor,6 1.11 and Iohn Lewis Vicar of

Llain-geynwina,* 1.12 were attainted in a Praemunire at the prosecution of William Whorewood the Kings Attorney, for suing for the right of Patronage and Tithes of the said Church, and for se∣verall summes of money due on bond for Tithes, in this Bi∣shops Ecclesiasticall Court, which had no cognisance of them being temporall, and belonging only to the Kings Civill Courts, to the derogation of the imperiall Jurisdiction of the King and his Crowne, and subversion of the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme. And hereupon judgement was given against them according to the Statute. This Bishop sold away five faire Bells out of the Steeple of his Cathedrall Church, which ma••d the Musicke there.

Should I rip up the scandalous lives and Actions of some of the late Pilates of this See, one of whom published The Practise of Piety, (which some say he never writ) though neither he nor any of his successors, did ever much practice it in their lives, or should I recite the vile complaints of late against one of them in 2 or 3 late Parliaments, I should be over tedious, and pollute my paper with such beastly actions, as would cause chast eyes to blush, and turne their aspect from them: Wherefore I shall passe them over in silence, (he being gone to answer them before the supreame tribunall) informing you only, that he imposed Ar∣mies upon his Clergy, and provided an Armory for them to be kept in within his Cathedrall at Bango••: And so I post on to Assaph Diocesse.

Notes

• 1 1.1

  Mauritius.
• * 1.2

  Godwin. Edit. 2. p. 536.
• 2 1.3

  Robert Shrewsbury.
• * 1.4

  Godw. Edit. 2. pag. 536.
• 3 1.5

  Richard.
• * 1.6

  Matth. Paris. p. 551.715. Godwin. Edit. 2. p. 537.547.
• * 1.7

  Godwin. Edit. 2. pag. 538.539.
• 4 1.8

  Richard Young.
• 5 1.9

  Lewis.
• * 1.10

  Walsingham. Hist. Angl. Ann. 1408. pag. 419. Ypodigma Neust. Anno 1408. p. 172. Godw. Edit. 2. p. 539. Holinsh. pag. 1408.
• 6 1.11

  Arthur Bulkly.
• * 1.12

  Trinity. 36. H. 8. R••t. 9. Godwin. Edit. 2. p. 540.