and Answers were both sent up to Lambeth to his Grace-ship; and enforcing to quit that place, with the Kingdome too, to avoyd his fury: His prosecution of Mr Iohn Iemmet Lecturer at Barwicke, in causing the Bishop of Durham in December 1639. to send for him by a Pursevant, silence him from preaching in Barwick, and ba∣nish him the Town, without any Articles or Witnesses examined against him: with other instances of this nature; but for brevity sake we shall omit these, and proceed to his next stratagem to suppresse preaching, which was:His publishing of a Declaration for Sports in his Majesties name, and silencing, sus∣pending, 2. excommunicating, questioning, censuring in the High Commission and elsewhere, many hundreds of godly conscientious Preaching Ministers (whom the Instructions for Lecturers could not reach so farr as to silence, being Incumbents and not meer Lecturers) for refusing personally to publish it in their Churches, to animate their people to profane the Lords day, with unhallowed Pastimes: which because we have Page 128. to 154.formerly insisted on, and proved to be his designe; we shall here but men∣tion, and passe by, only with this one Addition; that Mr Thomas Valentine, Minister of Chalford Saint Giles in the County of Buckingham, being suspended by Sir Iohn Lambe, Deane of the Arches, for not reading the Book of Sports, from which suspen∣tion he appealed and procured time to consider, whether he would read it or not; Mr Valentine not long after to obtain further time and favour writ a Letter to Sir Iohn Lambe dated April 28. 1636. with 5 l. inclosed, and a Petition to the Archbishop, on which Letter Sir Iohn makes this endorsment with his own hand, Master Va∣lentine 28. April 1636. with 5 l. PEECES inclosed: which Petition Sir Iohn recom∣mending to Mr Dell, procured him a gratious answer and some longer respite for the present; but in December and Ianuary following he was again molested and suspen∣ded for not publishing this Declaration in proper person, though his Curate had for∣merly read it in the Church, as appears by two Petitions to the Archbishop for his ab∣solution.His third design to suppresse preaching was, by discouraging conscientious young Schollers and Divines from entering into the Ministry by putting divers clogs & diffi∣culties 3. upon them, under a most specious pretext; which was thus effected: No sooner was this Prelate setled in his Archbishoprick, but he contrived a Letter, drawn by Mr Dell his Secretary, but interlined, corrected with his own hand, (as appears by the O∣riginall draught found in his study) directed as from his Majestie to himself; which he afterwards presented to the King, who directed and sent it to him under his Pri∣vy Signet to be put in Execution, in manner following, as the very Letter it selfe un∣der the Kings Signet declares; thus endorsed with the Archbishops own hand; Rec. Sept. 19. 1633. From his Majesty, that no Ministers be made sine Titulo.To the most Reverend Father in God our Right trusty and Right entirely beloved Councellor, William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropo∣litane of all England.CHARLES R.MOst Reverend Father in God, Right trusty and right entirely beloved Councel∣lour, we greet you well. There is nothing more deer to US then the preservati∣on of true Religion, as it is now settled and established in this our Kingdome, to the honour of God and the great comfort of our selfe, and our Loyall people; and there can nothing more conduce to the advancement thereof then the strict observation of such Canons of the Church as concern those that are to take orders in their severall times. More especially of keeping that particular Canon which injoyns, That no man be made a Priest or a Minister without a Title: For we finde that many not so qualified, do by favour or other means procure themselves to be ordeined, and after∣wards for want of means, wander up and downe to the scandall of their calling, or to get maintenance fall upon such courses as are most unfit for them, both by hu∣mouring their Auditours and other wayes altogether unsufferable. Wee have therefore thought fit and Wee doe hereby streightly require and charge 0