The first-[third] tome of an exact chronological vindication and historical demonstration of our British, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, English kings supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction from the original planting, embracing of Christian religion therein, and reign of Lucius, our first Christian king, till the death of King Richard the First, Anno Domini 1199 ... / by William Prynne, Esq.

ET ceste chose fait feust commande as Grantz & Communes q'ils se depertisont &* 1.1 q'ils y feussent lendemain, cest assavoir, les Prelatz & Grantz en la Chambre Blanche, & les Communes en la Chambre de peintz, an quele lendemain nostre Seig∣neur le Roy, les Prelatz, Ducs, Counts, Barons en mesme le Chambre blanche, les Chivalers des Countees, Citiens, Burgeis demurrantz en la Chambre de peintz, feust monstre a eux per le Chanceller, Comment ils avoient entendug les cau∣ses du summons du Parlement en general, mes la volunte le Roy fust, que les causes feussent monstres a eux en especiall. Loux disoit, coment le Roy avoit entendu, que le Pape per forcedun fait quel il dit, que le Roy Johan fesoit au Pape, de lui faire homage pur le Roy∣alme Dengleterre, et la terre Dirlande. Et que per cause du dit homage qil lui deveroit paier chescun an perpetuelment mill Marcs, est en volunte de faire process devers le Roy, et son Roialme pur le dit service, et ceus recoverir, de qel le Roy pria as ditg Prelats, Ducs, Countees et Barons, lour avys et bon conseil, et ce qil effer∣roit en cas que le Pape vorroit proceder devers lui ou son dit Roialm pur celle cause. Et les Prelats requeroient au Roy qils se purroi∣ent sur ce per eux sont aviser, et respondre lendemain, queux Prelatz le de lendemain, a de priems pur eux mesmes, & puis les auters Ducs, Countz,

Barons & grantz responderent, & disoient, que le dit Roy Johan ne nul au∣tre purra mettre lui, ne son Roialme, ne son people en tiele subjec∣tion saunz assent et accorde de eur. Et les Communes sur ce de∣maundez et Avisez, respondirent en mesme le manere: Par quoi feust ordein et assentu per Commune assent, en manere qeusuyt: En ce present Parlement tenuz a Westm: lundy prosche in apres la* 1.2 invention de la Seint Croice, la•• du Regne le Roy Edward qua∣drantessime, tant sur lestat de Seint Eglise come des droitz de son Royalme, et de sa Corone meinteinur, entre auters choses estoient monstres, Coment ad estee parlee et dit, que le Pape per force dune fait qiele il dit que le Roy John iadys Roy de Engleterre fesoit au Pape, au perpetuite de luy faire Homage, pur le Royalme Dengle∣terre, et laterre de I••eland, et pur cause du dit homage de lui ren∣dre un annuel cens, ad este en volunte de fair process devers le Roy pur les ditz services, et ceus recoverer, la quele chose monstre as Prelatz, Ducs, Countz, Barons, et la Commune, pur ent avoir lour avys et bon Conceil, et demand de eux, ce qe le Roy enferra en cas que le Pape vorroit proceder, ou rien attempter devers lui, ou son Roialme pur celle cause; queux Prelatz, Ducs, Countz, Ba∣rons et Communes eu surce plein deliberacion, responderent et disoient dune accord, que le dit Roy Johanne, ne nul autre, purra met∣tre lui ne son Roialme, ne son people en tiele subjection, sanz assent de eux, et com piert per pluseurs evidences, que si ce feust fair, ce feust fait sanz lour assent, Et encountre son serement en sa Coro∣nation. Et outre ce les Ducs, Countz, Barons, Grants et Com∣munes accorderent et granterent, que en cas que le Pape se Affor∣ceroit ou rien attempteroit per process, ou en autre manere, de fait de Constreindre le Roy ou ses Subjects de perfaire ce qest dit, qil voet clamer cella partie, qils resistont et contre esteront oue tout leur puissance.

Since this unanimous gallant peremptory resolution of K. Edward the 3d. and all his Bishops, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Commons assembled in this Parliament, against this Charter, thus resolved to be null and voyd, and to resist the Pope with all their power in case he should demand or issue any processe against the King or his king∣dom to recover it, (being 297. years past) No Pope ever presumed (for ought I can find) to demand this Homage or Rent of any of our Kings, or to send out Pro∣cesse to endeavour its recovery; And a discontinuance, non-claim of this Char∣ter, Homage, Rent for so long a space, upon such a solemn deliberate Parliamen∣tary resolution, entred with special care in the Parliament Rolls, must needs be a perpetual barre in point of Law and Justice, against such a voyd, injurious Char∣ter, procured with so much perjury, treachery, impiety, fraud, force, circumven∣tion, as you have already heard.

16ly. All our Histories, Chronicles, generally Old and New, declaim a∣gainst this Charter as most detestable, infamous, illegal, null in Law, and no wayes ob∣ligatory to our kings or kingdoms in the least degree; yea the Author of the Answer to Bellarmines Apologia, cap. 3. and learned Dr. Richard Crakenthorp in his Treatise of the Popes Temporal Monarchy, cap. 12. p. 245. to 262. proves the Nullity of it by 4. strong Arguments, and Mr. John Speed in his History of Great Britain, London 1623. p. 577, 580, 581. proves both Charters voyd by many more Reasons; the summe of them is, That this was an act in King John I. Of manifest perjury against his Coronation Oath. 2ly. Of Constraint. 3ly. Of Combination. 4ly. Of fear, he being drawn thereto by the Pope himself, who had set up both the French power, and his own Barons and Prelates against him. 5ly. An act of a person actually interdicted, excommunicated by the Pope himself; and so unable to avouch or grant any thing to the Church or Pope. 6ly. The witnesses, if any were, stood excommuni∣cated

for conversing with him. 7ly. Neither the Barons. 8ly. Nor the Clergy. 9ly. Nor the body of the Kingdom, people. 10ly. Nor his next heir and successor to the Crown ever consented thereto. 11ly. Fraught with many false untruths; as done freely and voluntarily, without fear or force, in a general assembly of the Ba∣rons by their advice and consent, by the inspiration of the holy Ghost; because the King had nothing fit to give away to God or the Pope for the satisfaction of his sins, but his crown and kingdomes. 12ly. From the proviso of exception in the Grant, Salvis nobis & haeredibus nostris, Justitiis, Libertatibus, & Regalibus nostris, extant in both charters (if there were two) which saves the right of Soveraignty, Kingship, and Soveraign Dominion in and over the Kingdoms of England and Ireland intirely to the King; which he never transferred to the Pope. The Liberty of a King is free∣ly and absolutely to rule his Subjects according to Law, without being subject or servant to any Superiour, and the very essence of Regality, Independency of Autho∣rity, on any but God alone. Now these being expresly reserved, excepted▪ utterly made void whatsoever was before mentioned, either as granting Soveraign∣ty, and doing homage and fealty by his Successors for the Kingdoms to the Pope, as his Subjects; and the subsequent clause of losing the right and inheritance of the crown, in case of contradicting ought therein mentioned▪ after due admoni∣tion, a meer Nullity, inconsistent with Monarchy, or the Kings or kingdoms Rights.

To which reasons I shall subjoyn, I. That this Charter was procured by the Popes own wrongs and Duresse against King Iohn; I. By interdicting his whole kingdom; 2ly. Excommunicating him by name; 3ly. Absolving all his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and Fealty; 4ly. By depriving both him and his heirs of their kingdoms, and giving them to the French King and his heirs. 5ly. By publishing a general Crossado for all Christian Barons, Knights, to assist the French King to deprive him of his kingdoms by force of arms. In all which Antichristian proceedings the Pope being both Judge and Party, & K. John the only person injured; these his own wrongs, frauds, force, can give him no just Title by any Laws; Frauds and circumventions being expresly (a) prohibited Christians in the Gospel, especially to∣wards* 1.3 one another. It is an old teceived Maxim in all Laws, (b) Fraus & Dolus ne∣mini patrocinantur; whence Charters, Dowers, Remitters gained by fraud, collu∣sion, circumvention, force, are meer Nullities. That (c) Nemo in propria causa po∣test esse Judex (especially if Judex & Testis too.) Yea Pope Gregory the I. and a whole Council denouuced an Anathema against the Pope himself, or any other that should pre∣sume to be a Judge in his own cause, sive in rusticano, sive in urbano praedio; (much more then in case of two kingdoms;) whence Bartholomeus Buxiensis, Dr. John Thierry and other Canonists in their Glosses on Gratian, caus: 16. qu. 6. resolve downright Papa in sua causa Judex esse non debet; yet Alvarus Pelagius De Planctu Eccles: l. I. Artic: 34, 35. affirms the contrary upon this strong presumption and supposition: Quod non debet aliquam causam a se remittere, immo non potest (licet suspectus) quamdiu est Papa, Papa enim aut sanctus est aut sanctus praesumitur; non enim praesumendum est quod alias faciat Papa quam Christus vel Petrus cujus est Vicarius & Successor; Which presumption ceased in King Johns case, neither of them being ever Judges in their own case, but submitting to the Judgement and execution of the Civil Ma∣gistrate; and never denouncing such Interdicts, curses against any, nor procuring such a surrender, charter of temporal kingdoms to themselves as the Pope did here; much lesse by such unchristian practises. To which I shall adde, that this is a Maxim frequently resolved in Law-books by all the Judges of the Realm, That none can be judge in his own case, who have further adjudged, that d if an Act of Parl: make any person Judge in his own case, the very Act it self is voyd in Law, being against the Law of Nature, which ought not to be violated, and all Judgements given thereon are voyd. Since there∣fore all these Judgements of Interdict, Excommunication, Deposition, transfer∣ring his Crown to the French, this Agreement from Rome, and oath to perform it, were all made by the Pope himself, both Judge, Party, chief Witnesse, and his profes∣sed Enemy too, and that upon his Legates and Bishops bare Informations and false Suggestions; in Kings Iohns absence, without Oath, Summons, or Liberry to purge himself before any Lawfull, indifferent Judge, Arbitrator, or Tribunal; thereupon the Charters on this Account are meer Nullities in Law to all intents and purposes.

2ly. If Pope Innocents deprivation of King John and his heirs, and giving away

his Crown to the King of France and his heirs were good in Law, (as he reputed them) then King John after this Sentence and grant to the French King had no pow∣er to resign to, or resume his Crown and Kingdoms from this Pope; nor he to appro∣ate them to himself as St. Peters Patrimony, against his grant to the King of France, who by his own command was at so prodigal expence in raising an Army to take possession thereof. And so this Resignation, Charter voyd by his own Act.

3ly. It is a received Maxime in the Lawes of [a] England, (seconded by sundry* 1.4 Statutes, hundreds of Resolutions by all the learned Judges of the Realm from age to age) That if the King be misinformed, circumvented▪ or mistaken in the considerations, grounds, motives of his Grants, especially by the circumvention of those to whom they are made; the Charters of grant in such cases are meerly voyd to all intents. Therefore this Char∣ter must be so above any I ever yet read. For 1. it recites, That King Iohn pub∣likely acknowledged, he had offended God, and his holy mother the Church (meaning the Pope and his Traiterous exiled Bishops) in many things, for which he much need∣ed Gods mercy; to wit, in not admitting Stephen Langton, unduly elected, to be Arch∣bishop by this Popes own practises, force, fraud, against the just rights of his Crown and Liberties of the Church of England; in not submitting to his impious Interdict, but commanding all Bishops, Priests, to celebrate divine Service, Sacraments not∣withstanding it, and punishing those who disobeyed; in not subjecting himself to his Excommunications, unreasonable demands, seising the Temporalties, goods of his Treacherous Bishops, and refusing to restore them, for interdicting his Realm, and depriving him of his Crown, &c. When as this Pope and they on the contrary by these impious proceedings, had more highly offended God, his Church, & the King, for which they more needed mercie, and to make publike acknowledgement and satis∣faction thereof to the King by some humble Addresse; rather then to extort this Charter from him upon such a false surmise. 2ly. That he needed to humble himself and both his kingdoms, for these his pretended personal sinnes, whereof his kingdoms (es∣pecially Ireland) were not guilty, and so needed not to be humbled for them. 3ly. That he had nothing fit or worthy to make satisfaction to God or his Church for these his surmi∣sed sins, but the humbling of himself and his Kingdom so farr as this (against all rules of Law, Justice, and without president in any precedent age whatsoever in sacred or prophane storie) to resign both his Crown, kingdoms to this Pope and his Suc∣cessors, resume them from his Legat as his Tributary▪ under an annual rent; and to swear homage and fealty to him and them; when as God himself (the King of Kings) never required any such satisfaction from the worst of the Kings of Israel and Iudah; and this satisfaction was neither actually made to God, nor yet to his Church, but meerly to Pope Innocent himself and his Successors, who was then neither God, nor his Church, but a professed Enemy to both; as his above six years continued Inter∣dict and proceedings demonstrate. Besides, the Church offended by his proceedings, if any, was the Church only of England, by the Archbishops, Bishops, and Monks of Canterburies, confiscations and exile; not the Church or Pope of Rome, who had no Right to dispose of the See of Canterbury, or any of the Bishops and Monks sei∣sed Temporalties: Therfore the satisfaction and Charter should have been only made to the Church of England, and those Bishops, Monks, not to this Pope Nocent, and his Successors. 4ly. The satisfaction that was made▪ by the King to the Archbi∣shop, Bishops and Monks, in admitting, restoring them to their Temporalties, goods confiscated, and what ever unreasonable dammage they could pretend to, (though Arch Traitors, Rebels, Enemies to him, deserving rather a Gibbet, after so many succes∣sive Treasons and Practises against him;) was more then sufficient, (being then made and secured to the Church he had offended) without this resignation, or ob∣lation of his kingdoms to this Pope, by this charter, and swearing homage to him. And so the charter void upon this account. 5ly. That this Charter was made by the inspiration of the holy Ghost, is as direct a lye and blasphemy against the holy Ghost, as that of Ananias to St. Peter; who lyed not only to men, but to * 1.5 God. For, 1. The holy Ghost never instructed any King to resign up his Kingdoms, without his Subjects consents, to any who had not the least right or pretence thereto. 2ly. He never taught any Pope, Prelate, Apostle, or Clergy-man, to receive Crowns, Scepters, kingdoms, or Oaths of Fealty, Homage, and subjection from Kings to them, as their Vassals, but expresly prohibits them to do it; commanding them to live in subjection to them, and not intangle themselves in tho affairs of this world; as I have largely

demonstrated. 3ly. The * 1.6 premised, passages of Mat: Paris, Mat. Westminster, and o∣thers assures us, That Pope Innocent, and his Legate Pandulphus inspired those mo∣tions into King John, which induced him to make this Charter; which were full of Antichristian menaces, and untruths, (As that near all the Barons and Commons of England, had by their * 1.7 Charters promised homage and fealty to the King of France, and to assist him to seise his Crown and kingdoms by force of arms, &c.) Now whether such an insolent Impostor as Pandulphus, such an Antichristian Pope as this Innocent, were in truth the holy Ghost, or their false fraudulent menaces, surmises, infused into this King, by the inspirations of the holy Ghost, or can be so reputed without blasphemy, let all sober Christians judge; they really proceeding from the very father of Lyes, the * 1.8 Devil. 6ly. This pretended holy Ghost inspired him, to insert these 8. notorious Lyes, and false Suggestions together into the very next words of the Charter: 1. That he did it, non vi inducti; so the later Charter, but the first, non vi interdicti; 2. Nec timore coacti; 3. Sed nostra bona spontaneaque voluntate; (which 3. * 1.9 all the premised passages disprove.) 4. Ac Communi consilio Baronum nostrorum offerimus, as the last; or conferimus, as the first Charter. (Contradicted by the * 1.10 Barons themselves, King Henry the 3d. the whole Kingdom, and their Proctors to the Popes face in the Council of Lyons, King Edward the 3d. and his whole Parliament, by our Historian, yea the French King and all his Nobles, as you have heard.) 5. Libere concedimus, &c. 6ly. Deo, & Sanctis Apostolis Petro & Paulo, (who neither required, ap∣proved, nor accepted this satisfaction, nor to whom King John ever intended it.) 7ly. Et Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae matri nostrae, (she being then his and our Churches stepmo∣ther, enemy, not mother) all made stales to usher in this clause; which hath the sole colour of truth: Ac Domino (nostro is added in the last, not in the first charter) Papae In∣nocentio, ejusque Catholicis successoribus, totum Regnum Angliae, & totum Regnum Hyber∣niae (the word nostrum is omitted in both Charters, and annexed to neither; there∣fore void in Law) cum omni jure, & pertinentiis suis: 8ly. For this pretended end; Pro remissione omnium peccatorum meorum (the only supposed delinquent) & totius ge∣neris nostri, tam pro vivis, quam pro defunctis; the later whereof were no wayes privie to, not guilty of his surmised offences against the Pope and Church. Which Charter being against his Oath, trust, office, duty, and the Laws, increased his Sins, but could no wayes tend towards the remission of them, as this Pope and Pandulphus untruly suggested. 7ly. Its Nullity in Law is most apparent, from these 3. grand defects: 1. King Johns surrender of his Crowns, kingdoms to Pandulphus at least 5. dayes before, was only by word of mouth, not Patent, or Charter, and so voyd in Law. 2ly. Pandulphus had no special Letter of Attorny from the Pope, either to receive this charter or surrender to the Popes use, or regrant his kingdoms to King John under this special annual rent, homage, and other conditions. 3ly. Here is no reconveyance of them from the Pope or his Legat to King Iohn by any special Bull, but only King Johns bare charter to the Pope. Therefore all a meer void Pageantry, passing just nothing. 8ly. The Tenure of King John in the last Charter quite subverts the Popes Title: For whereas the first runs; Et amodo illa ab eo, (to wit, Pope Innocent) the later is, amodo illa A Deo, & Ecclesia Romana tanquam feodum (the first is secun∣darius) recipientes & tenentes. That the Kings of * 1.11 England hold their Crowns, King∣doms, immediatly and only from God (and King Iohn as well as his Predecessors, not from the Pope or Church of Rome) I have formerly evidenced: Therfore he by this Charter holding and receiving it only from God (not the Pope) to whom he here granted it, (as concedimus Deo evidenceth) * 1.12 by whom alone Kings reign, & receive their kingdoms, the Pope being not mentioned in this clause, and the Church of Rome no party to this Charter, nor Proprietarie of our Realms, nor exalted so as to out God himself of the Kings immediate Tenure of his Crown from him alone, as his Soveraign Lord, the Charter must needs be void; 9ly. Upon this account, the Oath of Homage made and sworn by the King to Pope Innocent in the presence of his Legat Pandulphus, see∣ing all the branches thereof relate only to him and his Successors, not to God, St. Peter, St. Paul, or the Church of Rome (only inserted for a blind, in the prologue, not in any branches of the Oath) must necessarily be void in Law and conscience; else God the Supream Landlord, and his Church alone commanding one thing, and the Pope another contrary thereunto, (as oft he doth) the King and his Successors by his Oath and Homage should be bound to obey the Pope, before God or the* 1.13 Church, under pain of forfeiting their right in the two kingdoms, which were both ir∣religious and absurd. 10ly. The Clause whereby the King obligeth his heirs and

successors to do homage to the Pope and his Successors, and not to contradict any thing in this charter under pain of forfeiting his Right to these kingdoms, is con∣trary to the Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown, specially excepted out of this grant, yea contrary to the coronation Oath, and Laws of the Realm: Therefore it makes the Charter Null to all intents, of which anon more largely. 11ly. It is ob∣servable, 1. That the thousand marks yearly pension for England and Ireland at two several feasts, Michaelmas and Easter, is no reservation made by the Pope, (and so no rent-service at all) but a special grant of the King himself. 2ly. That he granted it only as an indicium, or token of this his perpetuae oblationis, (so the last Charter, not ob∣ligationis as the first) & concessionis thrice stiles it: Therefore being only an Oblation (not * 1.14 obligation) made by him unto God to expiate his sins; it could not be a Tribute, rent-service or rent-charge, but a meer voluntary pension. 3ly. That he granted it only de propriis & specialibus redditibus nostris (not haeredum nostrorum, a great flaw) praedictorum regnorum (without the word nostrorum in the first, inserted into the last) and so out of his Exchequer only, not his Demesnes. 4ly. That it was in lieu of all other services; pro omni servitio & consuetudine (quae in the first, but quod in the later charter) pro ipsis facere debemus; except only Peter-pence: Therefore no Tribute, but a pension, to exempt him from all other duties formerly exacted out of either kingdom, not a rent, or service now due by his resignation & resumption of his Crown and kingdom from the Pope. 5ly. That this Annual oblation is not gran∣ted by the King to God, or to St. Peter, and St. Paul, (the chief pretended Landlords) and which is more considerable, not to Pope Innocent himself and his canonical Suc∣cessors, but only Ecclesiae Romanae; Now although * 1.15 Alvarus Pelagius informs us, Ʋbicunque est Papa, ibi est Ecclesia Catholica; Yet whether the Pope alone, or the Pope with his Cardinals, or the Pope with his Cardinals and Diocesan Bishops, or the Pope and a General Council joyntly; or a General Council alone, or the Cardinals, and Clergy of Rome, without the Pope, be the Church of Rome, is yet * 1.16 unconcluded, undecided by their great Doctors; and so the grant void for uncertainty. 6ly. There is no grant or clause of Distress, Interdict, Excommunication, Sequestration, Entry into the demesne of these Realms, or any other coercive means to recover this Rent in Law or Equi∣ty, if in arrear and unpaid at the terms in this Charter mentioned, (a very great over∣sight) and so a meer voluntary pension, oblation to be paid at will, but no Tribute or real rent, as hath been generally mistaken.

Now because I found no mention in our Histories of any payment of this Annuity or oblation to this Pope or his Successors, by King John himself, or any of his Suc∣cessors, but only an intimation by King Henry the 3d. and kingdom (complaining against it in the Council of Lyons, and endeavouring an exemption from it) that it was demanded, and paid too as a kind of Tribute and publike Grievance; I did for my own satisfaction make diligent search in the Liberate, Clause and Patent Rolls, to disco∣ver what demands and payments were heretofore made thereof by any king; which I shall here ptesent you with as a rarity not formerly observed by any.

Upon my strictest search, I can find no payment thereof to Pope Innocent by King* 1.17 John himself which granted it, but only † for one year before-hand when he sealed his Charter; who dying about 3. years after, during which his kingdom was infested with civil Wars between him and his Barons, invaded by Lewes of France made King by the Barons in his stead, his Lands, Rents seised, his treasure exhausted, and the people eve∣ry where miserably plundered, it is probable there neither was nor could be expected any other punctual payment of it. His Son and Successor H. the 3d. being an Infant, crowned at Glocester by Walo the Popes Legat, (who was very instrumental to restore him to his Crown, and expell Lewes, only to preserve the Popes interest rather then the Kings) after his Coronation Oath, by this Legats means, fecit homagium Stae Romanae Ecclesiae et Dom: Innocentio Papae de regno Angliae et Hi∣berniae; et juravit, quod mille marcas quas Pater ejus tulerat Ro∣manae Ecclesiae (therefore his Fathers meer grant, not Popes reservation) fide∣liter persolveret quamdiu praedicta regna teneret; as * 1.18 Matthew Paris records; yet notwithstanding this Oath (made by an Infant King not ten years old, and so void in Law) I cannot find in the Liberate Rolls (where all warrants for payments of all Pensions granted by the King, or sums of money issued out of his Exchequer to any persons are carefully entred) any warrant to pay this oblation, till the 12th. year of King Henry the 3d. (full 15 years after its first grant by King John) when

the King upon an extraordinary occasion to work his ends with the Pope and Cardi∣nals, and to advance, gratifie his Chancellor, issued this ensuing Warrant.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rot. Parl An. 40 E. 3. n. 7, 8.
• * 1.2

  Num. 8.
• * 1.3

  a I Cor. 6. 8. I Thes. 4 6. b Summa An∣gelica & Rosel∣la, tit. Dolus & Fraus, Gratian caus. 16. qu. 6. & 26. qu. 3. 20. qu. 4. Lit∣tleton, sect. 676 &c. Cookes I Instit. f. 317. 209. b Brook & Fitz∣herbert Abridg∣ment, tit. Co∣vin, Collusion, Duresse c Summa An∣gelica & Rosel∣la tit. Judex. Littleton, sect. 212, 2 R. 2. c. 2. 33. I H. 6. c. 4. 20 E 23. Cooks I Instit: f. 141, 234. & 8 Report f. 118. 3 Instit. f. 32, 33. Alensis, Sum. Theolog. pars 3. qu. 40. sect. I. qu. 4. Artic. 15. d Hobards Reports. f. 85, 86.
• * 1.4

  * 1 H. 4. c. 6. 2 H. 4. c. 2. 6 H. 4. c. 2. 6 H 8. c. 15. 31 H 8. c. 13. 1 Edw. 6. c. 8. 18 Eliz c. 2. 43 Eliz. c. 2. Brook Pa∣tents 1, 2, 54, 93. 97. 102. 48. Fitzherb. Grant 29, 30, 35, 36, 58, 110 Cook 2 Rep. f. 50. to 54. 3 Rep. f. 31. 75 76. 5 Rep. f. 93. 94. 6 Rep. f. 55. 56. 8 Rep. f. 28. 58. 167.
• * 1.5

  Acts 5. 1. 2, 3.
• * 1.6

  Here, p. 271, 272.
• * 1.7

  Here, p. 271▪ &c.
• * 1.8

  John 8. 44.
• * 1.9

  Here, p. 294, to 302.
• * 1.10

  Here p. 296, to 300.
• * 1.11

  Here, p. See 16 R. 2. c. 5. 37 H 8. c. 17 1 Eliz: c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 1.
• * 1.12

  Prov. 8. 15, Dan. 4. 25.
• * 1.13

  * Acts 4. 19, 20▪ c. 5. 29.
• * 1.14

  Most of our Historians ig∣norantly stile it, an Obligati∣on, from Matth: Paris his mi∣stake.
• * 1.15

  De Planctu Eccles. l. 1. Art. 31.
• * 1.16

  See Sir Hum∣fry Lyndes Via Devia, Bishop Morton of the Church, Bellarmin. de Ecclesia; Dr. John Whites Way to the true Church, & Defence thereof
• * 1.17

  * See here, p. 290.
• * 1.18

  Hist. Angliae p. 278.