Canterburys Doom, Branch 1 · Evidence 1 (1 of 2)
The evidence to prove the firſt generall branch of his Charge, concerning the alteration, ub verſion of Religion.
THe Archbiſhop in his Speech in Juſtification of his Innocency and ſincerity in matters of Religion, made at the Lords Barre at the entrance of his Tryall, moſt peremptorily, challenged all that was betweene Heaven and Hell juſtly to tax him in any one particular, ſavoring either of Popiſh ſuperſtition or Idolatry; But on the contrary, the Committee of the Houſe of Commons might more juſtly have challenged him in their entring upon his Charge, to nominate any perſon, whether Prelate, Miniſter, or Laick in any age, profeſſing himſelfe a Proteſtant, who during his aboad on earth twixt Heaven and Hell, was ſo guilty, ſo peccant in this nature as they ſhold undeniably manifeſt him to be: wherefore if they allotted him any place at or after his death, but Hell it ſelfe, it muſt be either a Popiſh Purgatory, or ſuch a middle place as ſome Papiſts aſſigne to that Newter Eraſmus, betwixt Heaven and Hell, perchance ſome loſty Gibbet or Pinacle in the Ayre, whereon his Head and Quarters might be hanged up for a laſting Monument of his Treaſon in this kind: which they manifeſted him to be guilty of by theſe enſuing particular evidences.
Firſt, by his endeavours to ſet up and introduce all kind of Popiſh ſuperſtitious Idolatrous ornaments, furniture, ceremonies in our church formerly caſt out of it upon the reformation: 1.In purſuit whereof, they firſt trailed this Romiſh Fox to his own Kennel at Lambeth, where having unkenneled, they chaſed him from thence by his hot Popiſh ſent, to the Kings own royall Chapel at Whitehal & Weſtminſter Abby, from thence to the Vniverſities of Oxford and Cambridge; from thence to Canterbury, Wincheſter, and moſt other Cathedralls in England; and from them to our Pariſh Churches and Chapels, all which he miſerably defiled, corrupted with Popiſh ſuperſtitious Crucifixes, Altars, Bowings, Ceremonies, Tapers, Copes, and other Innovations.
To begin with his owne Kennel at Lambeth: We ſhall firſt lead you by the hand His Popiſh & ſuperſtitious Innovations in Lambheth Chappell.into his publike Chapell there, a place devoted to Gods worſhip, and evidence what Popiſh Superſtitious, Pictures, Vtenſils, Veſtments, Ceremonies, Innovations he there introduced, and conſtantly practiſed ſince his inſtalment in the Archbiſhopricke of Canterburie, never heard off in any his Predeceſſors dayes ſince the beginning of reformation in King Edward the 6th. and Queene Elizabeths reignes.
Firſt, we ſhall manifeſt what Idolatrous, ſuperſtitious Popiſh Pictures were there newly repaired, furbiſhed, erected by him in this Chappell, to the great ſcandall of our Religion, and encouragement of Papiſts in their Idolatry, contrary to our Statutes, Articles of Religion, Homilies, Jnjunctions, *Biſhop Iewels his defence of the Apology of the Church of England. 5. Part c. 5. Diuiſ. 1. to 3 p. 551. &c. Reply to Harding Artit. 14. p. 496. to 518. Thomas Becons Reliques of Rome & Catechiſme on the ſecond commandement. Mr. Fox Acts & Monuments vol. 1. p. 167. 168. 255. vol 2. p. 388. 389. 394. 658. 669. 409. 410. vol 3. p. 992. to 993. with infinit others.Writer…, & the eſtabliſhed Doctrine of our Church, wherein the matter of fact ſtands thus: In the beginning of Reformation by vertue of the Statute of 3. and 4. Ed. 6. c. 10. for the aboliſhing, defacing, and putting away of divers Bookes and Jmages then ſtanding in any Church or Chapell; of the ſeverall Homilies againſt the Perill of Jdolatry, then publiſhed by Authority, & of Queen Elizabeths ſubſequent Jnjunctions (given by her as well to the Clergy as Laity of this Realme, by the adviſe of her moſt honourable Councell in the firſt yeare of her Raigne, for the advancement of the honour of Almighty God, and ſuppreſſion of ſuperſtition throughout her Realmes, Injunction, 2. 3. 23. 25. and Articles of inquiry thereon: Artic. 2. 45. which enjoyned, All Pictures, Paintings, Images, and other monuments of Idolatry, and ſuperſtition to be utterly extinct, removed, aboliſhed and diſtroyed, ſo that there remaine no memory of the ſame in Walls, Glaſſewindows, or elſe where within any Churches or Houſes: the Idolatrous ſuperſtitious Pictures ſet up in times of Popery in the Glaſſewindowes of the Chapell at Lambeth houſe, were among others defaced, demoliſhed in ſuch ſort, that nought but a few broken imperfect fragments of them remained, peeced up with white incoherent Glaſſe, and ſo continued altogether unrepaired, unfurbiſhed, and utterly neglected, till this ſuperſtitious Arch Prelate was tranſlated to the See of Canterbury after the death of Dr. Georg Abbot, as was atteſted by Sir Nathaniel Brent, Vicar Generall, Dr. Daniel Featly houſehold Chaplin to Archbiſhop Abbot, and Mr. Pryn, who had beene out in that Chappel, & exactly viewed it in Abbots dayes and ſince: But no ſooner was the Priſouer at the Bar, W. Laud tranſlated from London to Lambeth, but with all expedition & care, to his great coſt [as appeares by the Glaſiers Bills] he cauſed theſe demoliſhed ſuperſtitious Pictures in the Glaſſewindowes to be repaired, furbiſhed, beautified, and made more compleat and accurate with new painted Glaſſe, then ever before, ſetting them up againe in freſh lively colours, according to the very Patterne in the great Roman Miſſall, or Maſſe Book (which he had diligently noted with his own hand almoſt in every Page) ſo as no Chappel in Rome could be more Idolatrous, Popiſh, ſuperſtitious in regard of ſuch offenſive Pictures, then his at Lambeth, the particulars whereof, after (a late double ſerious view) were thus atteſted before the Lords upon Oath, by Mr. William Pryn, Mr. Pember (the Glaſier who helped to repaire and ſet them up) Mr. Dell the Archbiſhops owne ſecretary: Mr. Browne (his Ioyner) Sir Nathaniel Brent, and Dr. Featley.
That in the Eaſt Window of the Archbiſhops Chappel at Lambheth juſt over the high Altar (there newly erected) conſiſting of five ſeverall Panes, there was in the middle pane in painted Glaſſe, a large Crucifix, or Picture of our Saviour Chriſt hanging on the Croſſe, under which were the Picturs of a Scul, & of dead mens bones, with a Baskit full of Tooles, Nailes, and Round about the Crucifix were the High Prieſts with their Officers an horſebacke, and ſome Souldiers with others who crucified Chriſt, & the 2. theeves ſtanding on foot; which portrature was taken out of the very expreſſe patterne thereof in the Archbiſhops owne Roman Miſſall printed Salamanticae 1589. p. 304. VnderUnder this Pane there were theſe latin verſes in the Glaſſe.
Ecce Pater Myſtes, ubi Natus victimatriſtis,
Certaque mer…orum Serpens Medicina Delorum,
Defignant Ieſum mundi pro crimine caſum.
In the two next panes, were the two Theeves hanging on two Croſſes on either ſide of the Crucifix, ſtanding in the midſt: VnderUnder one was written in the Glaſſe, Domine memento mei, 1634. VnderUnder the other: Deſcendat de Cruce, 1634. ſignifying the yeare when the Window was repaired; to wit, the very firſt yeare after his tranſlation from London to Canterbury: In the two outtermoſt panes of this Window, there were the pictures of Abraham offering up his Sonne Iſaac, and of the Brazen Serpent elevated on a Pole in the Wilderneſſe.
In the uppermoſt Window on the South-ſide of the Chappell, conſiſting of three panes of painted Glaſſe newly repaired, there was the picture of Chriſt riſing out of his grave, in the middle Pane, directly taken out of the portraiture of it in his forementioned Roman Miſſall, p. 326. with the Picture of Ionah, comming forth of the Whales belly, and of Sampſon carrying away the Gates of Gaza, in the other Panes.
In the ſecond Window on the South ſide having three panes, there was in the middlemoſt of them, the Picture of Christ, in freſh glorious Colours, aſcending up into Heaven, with his Diſciples and others kneeling downe on their knees and praying to him: the patterne whereof was borrowed from this Miſſale Romanum, pag. 352. where you may view it to the life. In the two other panes was the picture of Enoch tranſlated, and of Elias aſcending up into Heaven in a fiery Chariot.
In the third Window on the South ſide, conſiſting of three panes, in the midlemoſt was a glorious radiant Picture of the Holy Ghoſt in forme of a Dove, deſcending on the Apoſtles in cloven tongues; the exact Idaea whereof you may view at your leiſure in his foreſaid Roman Miſſall, pag. 360. whence he tooke this patterne. In the other two adjoyning Panes were the Pictures of Gods giving the Law to Moſes in Mount Sinai; and of fire deſcending from Heaven, at the prayer of Eliſha.
In the fourth Southerne Window of three Panes, ſtanding without the Skreene of the Chappell (for no ſeates of Civill Iudicature, and ſo not Chriſts tribunall, but only Eccleſiaſticall baudy Courts by this Arch-Prelates Canons muſt bee kept within the body of any Church, under paine of an High-Commiſſion Cenſure) was the Picture of Chriſt, with his twelve Apoſtles, ſitting on his judgment ſeate, and judging the world, with ſundry perſons kneeling and adoring before him, at the Papists uſe to paint the ſame; under which there were theſe latine verſes written.
Munde miſer, plora, Iudex est Chriſtus, odora,
Serve Dei gaude, Chriſto ſub Iudice plaude.
In the two outward panes were the Picture of King Salomon in his throne, diſciding the controverſie betweene the two Harlots, who was the true Mother of the living Child; and of David paſſing ſentence against the Amalekite, who brought him tydings that he had ſlaine King Saul.
In the uppermoſt window on the North ſide of the Chappell, having three Panes, there was the Picture of Chriſt raiſing up Lazarus out of his Grave, and of God Himſelfe raining downe Manna from Heaven: Extracted out of the Popiſh Booke of Pictures found in the Arch-Biſhops private ſtudy, intituled, Imagines Vitae, Paſſionis & Mortis, D. N. Ieſu Christi, Printed by Boetius a Bolſwert: Anno 1623. With the Picture and ſtory of Elias raiſing the Widdowes, and Eliſha the Shunamites Son.
In the ſecond North Window, was the Picture of the Virgin Mary, with Chriſt a ſucking Babe in her Armes, and the Wiſe-men comming to and adoring Chriſt; borrowed from the Roman Miſſall, pag. 39. under which was this Inſcription in the Glaſſe, Omnes genetes quaſcunque fecisti venicut & adorabunt: In the outward panes were the Portraictures of the Queene of Sheba comming to viſit Solomon, and of the Tribes of Iſraell comming up to Hebron to Crowne David King with the Picture of Chriſt adminiſtring his laſt Supper to his Diſciples, (which portraiture was derived from the Roman Miſſall, p. 181.) And the picture of an old man, with a glory round about his head, repreſenting God the Father, ſtriking Miriam with Leproſie.
In the third North window, there was the Hiſtory of the Annuntiation, gloriouſly painted, the Picture of the Virgin Mary, and of the Holy Ghost, overſhadowing her, and the Angell ſaluting her, together with the Hiſtory and Picture of the birth of Chriſt, both taken out of the Roman Miſſall; pag. 16. 36, 39. Wherein were likewiſe the Pictures of the burning-buſh, and of Gedeons Fleece. All theſe Idolatrous ſuperſtitious Popiſh Pictures, (lately broken and defaced by the Souldiers placed in Gariſon in Lambeth Houſe by reaſon of the great ſcandall they gave unto them,) were thus repaired and ſet up as new by the Arch-Biſhops owne ſpeciall direction, at his proper charges, in his Chappell at Lambeth in the Yeare 1634. as appeares by the Glaſiers Bills found in his owne Study at Lambeth, indorſed with the word, Payd. Maſter Pember the Glaſier depoſed, that the Archbiſhop cauſed his Maſter to repaire the ſaid Chappell Windowes, and ſet up all thoſe Pictures, paying him for that worke: Mr. Dell the Archbiſhops Secretary at teſted, that the Archbiſhop thought fit to repaire them, they being formerly defaced, and thereupon gave order for their reparation; And the Archbiſh. himſelfe in anſwering this charge, confeſſed & juſtified the fact; alleaging, that the Chappell at his comming to Lambeth lay ſo naſtily, and the Windowes were ſo peeced, and quite out of Order and reparation, that it grieved his very heart to ſee it in ſuch a condition, ſo as he could not reſort unto it to worſhip God with any comfort; whereupon hee gave Order for repairing, renewing theſe Glaſſewindowes, and out of his fragments of the old painted Glaſſe remaining in them, (not by the help of the Pictures in his printed Maſſe-Booke) he made a ſhift as well as he could, to make up the ſtories and repreſentations formerly defaced, without any addition, but only of New-Glaſſe in leiu of the old that was demoliſhed.
Beſides, Browne his Joyner being examined at the Lords Barre againſt his will, confeſſed upon his Oath, that in the Chappell at Croyden, there was an old broken Crucifix in the Window, which he by the Archbiſhops direction cauſed to bee repaired, and made compleate; which Picture was there remaining very lately; for which worke Maſter Pryn found the Glafiers Bill diſcharged by the Archbiſhop himſelfe among other of his Papers.
Now that this Archbiſhop being by his place Primate and Metropolitan of all Engl. principally intruſted with the care of Religion, who ſhould of all other men be moſt vigilant againſt all Popiſh Idolatrous Innovations, even in his owne principall Chappell at Lambeth, (whether many of the Nobility, Judges, Clergy, and perſons of all ſorts, as well ſtrangers as Natives, uſually reſorted, and where moſt of our New Biſhop… were commonly Conſecrated,) ſhould thus ſtuduouſly and profeſſedly repaire, adore, and ſet up a freſh thoſe Idolatrous, Superſtitious, Blaſphemous Romiſh Pictures, which were by vertue of our Statutes, Homilies, Injunctions purpoſly defaced and broken down, as Monuments of Popiſh Superſtition & Idolatry, contrary to the Word of God, and the eſtabliſhed Doctrine of our Church in the very beginning of Reformation, which had thus continued defaced during all his Proteſtant Predeceſſors times without the leaſt renovation, reſtauration, and that by the helpe and preſident of the very Maſſe-Booke, making the Pictures in it the very Patterne to ſhape his Chappell windowes by, (even after ſundry complaints againſt ſuch practiſes in and by ſundry late Parliaments, and one Remonſtrance in Parliament of this kinde againſt himſelfe, Anno 1628.) in open affront of our Lawes, Homilies, Articles, Injunctions, Parliaments, Writers, to the great incouragement of Papiſts, the infinite ſcandall of all ſincere Proteſtants, and ill example of diverſe others, both Clergy and Laity, (who generally imitated his example in repairing or new erecting in their Churches, Chappells, Colledges, Houſes, the like unlawfull Popiſh Idolatrous Images,) it can doubtleſſe proceed from no other roote, but a rotten Idolatrous Romiſh heart, and Traiterous endeavour to alter or ſubvert oun eſtabliſhd Proteſtant Religion in a more audacious open way, then ever any Proteſtant Prelate before him durſt attempt.
But was this all the Popiſh ſuperſtition and furniture in this Archbiſhops Chappell? Truly no, all other parts of it muſt bee ſutable to the windowes, elſe there would neither be uniformity nor decency in it, according to his corrupt opinion; Wherefore,
2ly. As he new moulded his Chappell Windowes; ſo he likewiſe altered the ancient Communion Table; ſtanding with the ends Eaſt and Weſt, ſome diſtance from the Wall Table-wiſe, even from the beginning of Reformation till his comming to the Arch-Biſhopricke without any Rayle about it, into a New Altar placed Altarwiſe againſt the Wall, with the ends North and South, hedged in with a new coſtly Raile. Atteſted by Doctor Featly, Sir Nathaniell Brent, and Maſter Pryn.
3ly. VponUpon this new Altar he had much ſuperſtitious Romiſh furniture never uſed in his Predeceſſors dayes, as namely, two great Silver Candleſtickes, with Tapers in them, beſides Baſons and other Silver Veſſels (with a coſtly Common Prayer-Bocke, ſtanding on the Altar, which as ſome ſay had a Crucifixe on the boſſes) with the Picture of Chriſt receiving his laſt Supper with his Diſciples in a peece of Arras, hanging juſt behind the midſt of the Altar, and a Crucifix in the Window directly over it; expreſly taken out of the very Caremoniale Romanum (found in the Archbiſhops ſtudy, who was very well verſed in it,) reformed by Pope Clement the 8. Pariſijs 1633. l. 1. c. 12. p. 69. 60. which preſcribes thus; Supra vero in planitie Altaris adſunt Candelabra argentea, ſi haberi poſſunt, ſin minus ex Aurichalco, aut Cupro aurato pulchre fabricata, &c. Et ſuper illis Cerei albi, in quorum medio locabitur Crux ex eodem Metallo, & opere praealta, ita ut pes Crucis aequet altitudinem vicinorum candelabrarum, & Crux ipſa tota Candelabris ſuperemineat cum imagine ſanctiſſimi Crucifixi, verſa ad anteriorem Altaris faciem. Quod ſi Altare parieti adhareat, applicari poterit ipſi Parieti ſupra Altare pannus aliquis caeteris nobilior & ſpecioſior, ubi intextae ſint DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI, aut glorioſae Virginis, vel Sanctorum IMAGINES, niſi jam in ipſo pariete eſſent depictae, & decenter ornatae, Pag. 71. Habeant quaelibet Altaria DUO CANDELABRA CUM CEREIS, & in medio, CRUCEM, CUM IMAGINE CRUCIFIXI, &c. Out of Pontificale Romanum: ſet forth by Pope Clement the 8. Antuerpiae, 1626. pag. 57. In the Rubricke, De Conſecratione Electi in Epiſcopum. Paratur Altare cum Cruce, & duobus Candelabris, & ſuper illud Miſſale, & Pontificale, & pluviale album, &c. Page 280. 281. Vestiunt Altare tobaleis, & ornamentis benedictis, ponentes deſuper Crucem & alia Ornamenta. And out of the Canons of the Popiſh Councell of Aix, An 1583. (The only Canon I have met with for railing in Altars, from which the Archbiſhop borrowed both the Railes and furniturne of his Newerected Altar) which preſcribes thus, (*Bochellus Decreta Eccleſiae Gallicanae, lib. 4. Tit. 1. c. 80. p. 556. 557) Unumquoa que Altare, ubi Commode Epiſcopus fieri poſſe judicarit, SEPI ATUR OMNINO ſepto ferreo, vel lapideo, vel ſaltem LIGNEO, Quod ſeptum ab Altari diſtet ſaltem polices ſeptem. Nec vero ſeptum illud Laicus ingrediatur, dum Miſſae ſacrificium fit. Habeat unumquodque Altare propriam ſuperlectilem, & ornamenta decentia, tum ad ejus cultum & uſum, tum ad Miſſae ſacrificium in eo Religioſe decenterque peragendum: Altaria ſingula ornata ſint Cruce in medio collocata, niſi aliquae ſit Imago, & CANDELABRIS DUOBUS AD MINUS, uno a dextra, Altero a ſiniſtra parte poſito. Hee who would thus regulate and adorne his Altar, Chappell by the very Roman Ceremoniall. Pontificall, and this Popiſh Councell, contrary to our Statutes, Homilies, Injunctions, Canons, Writers, condemning Altars, Tapers Crucifixes, muſt certainly be a Papiſt, both in judgment, and practiſe, yea, a profeſſed introducer of Popiſh ſuperſtition and Idolatry. This new Altar furniture of his, was proved and atteſted upon Oath by Sir Nathaniell Brent, Doctor Featly, Doctor Haywood (his owne Popiſh Chaplaine) who juſtified his Lord, that he did it in imitation of the Kings Chappell at White-Hall, where hee had ſeene not onelyonly Tapers and Candleſtickes ſtandding, but likewiſe burnnig (in the day time) on the Altar.
Fourthly, As this Archbiſhop introduced an Altar, ſo likewiſe, a Credentia, or ſide-Table into his Chappell, covered with a large Towel or Linnin Cloth, never ſeene, nor heard of there before his time, whereon the bread & wine intended to be conſecrated at the Sacrament were firſt placed with a great deal of ſolemnity, before they were brought up to the Altar: After which the Archbiſhops Chaplaines being about to Conſecrate the Elements uſually repaired to this Credentia, and taking them from thence into their hands, made three low bowings or Genuflections to the Altar, and comming up unto it, offered up the Bread and Wine thereat upon their knees, & then layd them on the Altar; which Ceremonies were there uſed in the Archbiſhops preſence ſundry times when the Sacrament was adminiſtred if not by his ſpeciall Direction, yet certainly with his approbation, and without the leaſt reprehenſion, as was proved by the ſeverall Oathes of Sir Nathaniell Brent, Dr. Featley, Mr. Cordwell (once ſervant to the Archbiſhop) Dr. Haywood alſo confeſſing he uſed this forme of celebrating the Communion, and Conſecrating the Elements in the Archbiſhops preſence. Now this Credentia (the very Name his owne Chaplaines gave it) or diminutive preparatory Altar, whereon the Bread, wine, Paten & Chalice muſt firſt be ſolemnly placed, & from thence removed advanced to & offerred up at the high Altar, is a meere Popiſh Vtenſill, never heard of in any Proteſtant Church, nor in the Church of England ſince reformation; the very Name and Thing being preſcribed and frequently mentioned in the Roman Caeremoniall, Pontificall, and Miſſall, but ſeldom or never in any other Authors; Witnes this diſcription of it. Caeremoniale Epiſcoporum l. 1. c. 12. p. 72. 73. 74. Restat ut de Menſa, ſeu Abaco, quam CREDENTIAM vocant pauca ſubijciamus. Ea vero IN MISSIS NOTETANIVM SOLENNIBVS PREPARARI SOLET, a larere Epiſtolae in plano Presbiterij, atque a periete parumper diſjuncta, &c. Eius menſura regulariter erit palmarum octo in longitudine, in latitudine, quatuor vel circa, in altitudine quinque, vel modicum ultra, lineogue mantuli mundo ſuperſtrato uſque ad terram circumcirca pendenti, contegetur. Super ea ponentur duo Candelabra cum cereis albis, & in ipſius medio Calix, cum Patena, Palla, purificatorio, & burſa corporalia continens, at que ibi proxince Hoſtiaria cum hoſtijs, & pelvicula cum ampullis vini & aquae. Pontiſtcale Romanum p. 75. Et propè Altare CREDENTIA p. 566. Parabitur Eccleſia, & Capellae, CREDENTIA, &c, and Miſſale Romanum, Ritus Celebrandi Miſſam, p. 15. Diaconus amouet Calicem, ſi eſt in Altari, vel ſi eſt in CREDENTIA, ut magis decet, &c. Now who but a profeſſed Papiſt in heart and affection durſt ever introduce ſuch a groſſe Popiſh innovation into his owne Chapell, not uſed in any other place but it, except in Popiſh Churches in forraigne parts, ot the Queenes *See Ribadeniera Flevers des vies des Sainctes pars, …ap. 104. Apres Compline et Matines, il viſi oit, tous les Rutols de … Eglile, faiſant a chacun vne Proſtration et reverence.own Chapel here, & that by direction of the Roman Ceremoniall, Pontificall, Miſſall?
5ly. This Archbiſhop not content to introduce theſe former innovations, himſelfe & his Chaplains in their ingreſſe and egres uſed very low incurvations to the Altar, and at their approaches to it to Celebrate the holy Sacrament, or Conſecrate Biſhops, & in their returnes down from it, they uſed three very low bowings or duckings of their heads and bodyes to the Altar, never uſed in his Predeceſſors dayes, as was proved by the Oathes of Sir Nathaniell Brent, Dr. Peatl…y, Mr. Cordwell, and acknowledged by D. Haywood, the Archbiſhops Popiſh Houſehold Chapline, a conſtant practiſſer of theſe Ceremonious incurvations; directly derived from Popiſh Biſhops, Prieſts Munks, Miſſalls Ceremonials. Pontificalls as is moſt apparent.
Firſt, by Fryet Raymond of Rochfort, (one of the firſt inventers and practitioners of theſe (*Apud Bochellum Decreta Eccleſ, Gal. l. 4, Tit. 1. c. 81. p. 558.) Altar-Adorations that I have read off,) who in his Summula f. 142. writing of the forme of the Prieſts celebrating the Maſſe at the Altar preſcribes thus.
—Caliciquoque Vinnm
Infundas, & aquam; tunc te CVRVABIS AD ARAM.
id eſt, inclinabis Altari; writes the interliniarie Gloſſe thereon.
2ly. By Odo Pariſienſis in a Popiſh Synod, (the only Councell I have, met with preſcribing this Ceremony. * Summareverentia & honor inaximus ſacris Altaribus exhibiatur, & maxime vbi ſacroſanctum Corpus Domini reſervatur, & Miſſa celebratur.
3ly. By Miſſale Romanum, Ritus celebrandi Miſſam; where I finde theſe clauſes, De ingreſſu Sacerdotis ad Altare: Sacerdos ſi contigorit eum tranſire ante Altare majus, Salamantinae 1588. 8. 9. 21.capite cooperto faciat ad illud reverentiam; ſi ante locum ſacramenti, genuflectat; cum pervenerit ad Altare, ſtans ante illud in infimo gradis, Altari, ſeu Imagini Crucifixi deſuper poſito PROFVNDE INCLIN AT. Si autem in eo ſit Tabernaculum ſanctiſſimi ſacramenti, genuflectens debitam facit reverentiam. De principio Miſſae, We have this further Directory, Sacerdos quam primum deſcenderit ad infimum gradum Altaris, convertit ſe ad ipſum Altare, ubi ſtans ante illud junctis manibus ante pectus, detecto capite, facta prius CRVCIVEL ALTARI REVERENTIA, erectus incipit Miſſam: Deinde caput ſeque profunde ALTARI INCLINANS, dicit, confiteor Deo, &c. Subdiaconus retro post celebrantem facta ALTARI GENV…LECTIONE, &c. And Ordinarium Miſſa, p. 256. Sacerdos cum ingreditur INCLINAT CAPVT AD ALTARE.
4ly. By Caeremoniale Romanum, p. 203. Facta prius Altari reverentia, l. 2. c. 17. p. 257. Diaconus celebraturns cum Miniſtris, & facta reverentia Altari cum genuflexione, ſi ibi aderit ſanctiſſimum ſacramentum, ſin minus, cum profunda capitis inclinatione &c. aſcendet ad Altare. And p. 67. ante altare majus Caput Cruci profunde inclibit. &c.
5ly, By Miſſale paruum pro Sacerdotibus in Anglia itinerantibus, Printed Anno. 1623. Ordo Miſſae, p. 19. Sacerdos paratus cum ingreditur ad Altare, facta illi debita Reverentia, p. 29. Profunde inclinatus ante Altare, &c.
6ly. By the ancient Roman Order, publiſhed by George Caſſander in his Workes, p. 118. to 130. where I finde theſe frequent expreſſions, Pontifex inclinans ſe paululum AD ALTARE: Altari inclinans: Adorato Altare: pertranſit Pontifex in caput Schole, & in gradu ſuperiore inclinato capite ad Altare: & ſalutat Altare. Sacerdos quando dicit, ſupplices te rogamus; humiliato capite inclinat ſe ante Altare. Subdiaconi ad Altare progredientes ſimul ſe inclinant coram eo, &c.
Theſe, with the *See the Archbiſhops ſpeech in Star chamber. p. 47. 48, 49.Black Booke of Windfor, made in the darkeſt time of Popiſh ſuperſtition and Idolatry, were the ſeverall preſidents and Authorities whence this Arch-Prelate borrowed this Idolatrous Ceremony of bowing to his New erected Altar, and the Crucifix on, or over it in the Glaſſe windowe, never uſed nor enjoyned before his time in any Proteſtant Church, nor approved by any ancient Proteſtant Author that can be produced, (*De Hey Iyns Cole from the Altar and Antidonum Lincolnienſe. Dr. Pocklington, Reeue, Shelford and others.) but ſome late Creatures of his owne, whom he ſet on worke to juſtifie it in Print, though condemned by many as Popiſh and Idolatrous.
7ly. He likewiſe introduced Gaudy Romiſh Copes into his Chappell (never uſed in any his Proteſtant Prodeceſſors times,) wherein his Chaplins uſuall Conſecrated and Celebrated the Sacrament there, wearing them likewiſe at the ſolemne conſecration of Biſhops, as was witneſſed upon Oath, by Sir Nathaniell Brent, Dr. Featley, and Maſter Cordwell; Dr. Haywood the Archbiſhops Chaplin confeſsing at the Lords Barre, that himſelfe did uſually celebrate the Sacrament in Lambheth Chappell in a Cope; Now theſe Gaudy Copes were directly derived from the Papiſts Wardrobes as well as his other Chapell furniture, witneſſe Caeremoniale Romanum, l. 1. c. 16. p. 85. 87. Pontificale Romanum, p. 357. 358. De Benedictione ſacerdotalium Iudumentorum and Thomas Beacons Reliques of Rome.
8ly. This Archbiſhop brought in Standing up, at every recitall of, Glory be to the Father, &c. after every Pſalme and repetition of it, together with, Very lowly bowing of the head and knee at every recitall of the name of Ieſus, never there practiſed in his Predeceſſors dayes, as Dr Featley, and Sir Nathaniel Brent depoſed. The firſt of theſe was derived from Ordo Romanus, de Officio Miſſae: apud Georgij Caſſandri Opera Pariſijs 1616. p. 98. The latter (*See Lame. Giles his Haultings: Anti-Armianiſme p. 191, Appendix, and Queeres concerning Bowing at the name of Ieſus.) of bowing at the name of Ieſus from, Pope Gregory the tenth. who firſt introduced and preſcribed it, Sexti Decretalia lib. 2. Tit. 3. c. 2. from the Popiſh *Laurentius Surius concil Tom. 3 p. 6. 741. 810.Councils of Baſil, Sennes, Auguſta, with others, which enjoyne the uſe of it, and from Caeremoniale Romanum, l. 2. c. 8. p. 206. which directs and preſcribes thus, Diaconus proſequitur Evangelim, & cum profert Nomen Ieſu, vel Mariae INCLINAT SE, ſed profundius cum dicit, Ieſus; quod ET OMNES FACIVNT.
8ly. He erected a new beautifull paire of Organs in this Chappell, which had none before: atteſted by Dr. Featley, and Mr. Pryune, (now Organs were firſt brought into Churches by (*Platina in vita ejus, Volateran Thomas Beacons Reliques of Rome, ch. Of the Ornaments of the Church: Of plain-ſong, Prick-ſong, Organs, and ſinging in Churches. Hiſtriomaſtix p. 283. to 287.) Pope Vitalian, and promoted by other Popiſh Prelates;) and withall he brought in ſuch chaunting to them as is expreſly preſcribed is Caeremoniale Epiſcoporum, ſet forth by Pope Clement the 8. lib. 1. c 28. De Organo, Organiſtis, & Muſicis ſeu Cantoribus, & omnia per eos ſervandain divinis; the only Directory by which his Chappell with all our Cathedrall Organ-playing and Chaunting were regulated; as thoſe who will peruſe that Chapter, and compare it, with our late Cathedrall Muſike, will at firſt acknowledge.
Finally this Arch Prelate brought in all manner of Popiſh Conſecrations into his Chappell, never heard off, nor uſed in his Predeceſſors dayes; as Conſecrations of all ſorts of Altar-furniture, Veſtments, Flagons, Chalices, which himſelfe (arayed in a Gaudy Cope) there ſolemnly Conſecrated; atteſted upon Oath by Mr. Samuel Bordman a reverend Miniſter; who depoſed at the Bar to this effect. That he having privat intelligence of an extraordinary ſolemne Conſecration of ſome Flagons and Chalices brought from other Churches, intended to be Conſecrated by the Archbiſhop at Lambheth Chappell, repaired thither to ſee the manner of it, being new and ſtrange to him, which was performed in this manner. Jn the midest of divine ſervice the Archbiſhop and his two Chaplines in their Surplices, coming out of their ſeates, and bowing very low, ſeverall times one after another to the Altar, went up unto it; where the Archbiſhop putting on a very gorgeous rich Cope, and bowing ſeverall times with his Chaplaines to the Altar, read thereat a parcel of ſcripture, uſed at the Conſecration of the Temple; which done, there were divers Flagons and Cups delivered to the Archbiſhop; who ſetting them downe upon the Altar, uſed a forme of prayer, wherein he deſired God to bleſſe and accept of theſe Veſſells; which he ſeverally touched, and elevated, offering them up to God. Now this forme of Conſecrating Chalices, Flagons, Altar-clothes, and other furniture of the Altar, is expreſly preſcribed, in and taken out of the Miſſale Paruum pro Sacerdotibus in Anglia Jtinerantibus, p. 145. to 152. & Pontificale Romanum p. 355. to 376. in both which there are particular Chapters and ſetformes, De Benedictione ſacrorum vaſorum, & aliorum Ornamentorum in genere; De Patenae & Calicis Conſecratione: with ſundry ſolemne conſecration prayers, and theſe two ſpeciall Collects among others for that purpoſe, which it is likely the Archbiſhop then uſed at this conſecration.
Exaude, Domine Pater clementiſſime, precos noſtras, & haec purificanda vaſa & Ornamenta ſacri Altaris, atque Eccleſiae tuae ſacri miniſterij uſui praeparata, benedicere & ſanctificare digneris; Per Chriſtum Dominum nostrum, Amen.
Omnipotens ſempiterne Deus, I quo omnia immunda purgantur, & in quo omnia purgata clare ſcunt, ſupplices Omnipotentiam tuam invocamus, ut ab his vaſis & ornamentis quae tibi offerunt famuli tui, omnis ſpiritus immundus confuſus longè diſcedat, & per tuam benedictionem ad uſum & miniſterium ſancti Altaris, & Eccleſiae tua, ſanctificata permaneant, per Chriſtum Dominum noſtrum, Amen.
All theſe moſt palpable Idolatrous, Romiſh ſuperſtitions, Innovations, did this Archbiſhop publikely introduce and practiſe in his owne Chappell at Lambheth, to the great triumphing of the Popiſh, the vexation, ſcandall of the Proteſtant party, though all directly taken out of the Roman Miſſall, Caremoniall, Pontificall, the Decrees of Popes, of Popiſh Councells; and how ſoon he would have there introduced the very Maſſe it ſelfe, had not the Scotiſh troubles interrupted his deſignes, his owne Notes of approbation written in the Maſſe booke, his framing the Scottiſh *See A Neceſſary Introduction to his Tryall. p. 15…. to 164.new Liturgy by it, with the enſuing particulars, will abundantly evidence un to all the world, to his moſt juſt condemnation and eternall infamy.
At how great coſt he was to make theſe Innovations & Alterations in his Chappell, will be moſt clearely evident by the Glaſiers, Ioyners, Painters, ſeverall Bills, ſeiſed, in his Study al Lambeth; It appearing by Mr. Butler, the Glaſiers Bil that the mending and new painted Glatte of the Eaſt window wherein the Crucifix was, amounted to 40. l. 8. s. 6. d. the mending and repairing of two other Windowes in the North and South ſide of the Chappel, to 72. l. 7. s. 6. d. & of two other Windowes 35. l. 11. …. By Mr. Brownes the Ioyners Bill, that the Altar Table in the Chappell coſt him 1. l. and the Raile about it, 15. l. By Mr. Bab the Painters Bill, that the Guilding and Painting of his new Organs there, & of the ledg over the Altar, coſt him no leſſe then 17. l. 15. s. beſides all the reſt of his Altar Furniture, Copes, Hangings, Organ-pipes; ſo devoted was he to his ſuperſtitions, that he would ſpare no Coſts to promote them.
2ly. We ſhall purſue and trace this Romiſh Fox from his Chappell and publicke, to his Study and private devotions: Mr. William Pryn, and Mr. William Bendy of Lincolneſ-Inne depoſed, that they being imployed to ſearch the Archbiſhops ſtudy, and private Cloſet at Lambeth; found theſe obſervable particulars therein.
Firſt, An Engliſh Bible of the laſt tranſlation in Quarto, with a rich embroydered Coverlying on his Study Table; having a goodly embroydered Crucifixe on the Cover thereof; a fit object for his ſuperſtitious eyes, but very incongruouſly fixed on this ſacred Booke, which ſo frequently in the * Old and New-Teſtament condemnes all *Exod. 20, 4, 5 Lev. 26. 1. Deut 4. 14. to 25. 1. 5. 8, 9. Iſay 2. 20, &c. 30. 27. c. 31. 7. c. 44. 9. &c. Hoſes 14. 8. Rom. 1. 23. 24, 25. 1 Iohn 5. 21.Images and Crutifixes.
Secondly, A Popiſh Book neatly bound up in Turky Leather with guilt leaves, intituled, Imagines Vitae, Paſſionis & Mortis, D. N. Jeſu Chriſti, printed by Boetius a Bolſwert, 1623. Cum gratia & Privilegio: beginning with the Picture of the Annuntiation, and concluding with the Aſſumption of the bleſſed Virgin containing in all 74. Idolatrous ſuperſtitious Pictures of Chriſt, and the Virgin Mary (all which were licenſed by the Archbiſhops Chaplaine, yea bound up in our Engliſh Bible, and New Teſtaments by this Archbiſhops privity and conſent, as ſhall be hereafter atteſted in its place:) Betweene the leaves of this Booke, there were 12. ſeverall looſe Pictures in fine Vellom, about the bigneſſe of playing Cards of the largeſt ſize, gloriouſly and curiouſly guilded, and ſet forth with moſt exquiſite colours, ſome having one, others, two or three Pictures a peece in them of Chriſt and the Virgin Mary in ſeverall ſhapes and formes, with glories about their heads, and ſometimes Croſſes on their backs, and the Holy Ghost in form of a Dove; prettie Babies for young children to play with, but moſt inſufferable Puppets, for an Old childiſh ſuperſtitious Archbiſhop ſeriouſly to dote on, if not to reverence, adore, and kindle his private devotions by.
Thirdly, two great Folio Roman Miſſalls, or Maſſe-Bookes of the largeſt ſize neatly guilt and bound up: the one of them printed Antuerpiae 1630. having two guilded Crucifixes on the outſide of the Cover, with many Idolatrous Pictures of Chriſt, Crucifixes, &c. printed within it accurately cut, in Copper peeces; The other printed Salamanticae: 1589. with a Gregorian Kalender. Which Kalender of this Roman Miſſall, the Archbiſhop had much noted with his own hand, adding diverſe new Saints-days unto each month out of Caluifius his Chronicle; to which he likewiſe referred the times of his own advancement, of King Charles his voyage into Spaine, and his return from thence: Noting almoſt every page of his Roman Miſſall with his owne hand, and quoting Micrologus to it by way of approbation, obſerving wherein they accorded or varied; no Booke in his Study, being ſo diligently noted with his own hand as it; A ſufficient manifeſtation of his good affection to and approbation of it. A grand Encomium for a Proteſtant Archbiſhop.
Fourthly, A Pontificale Romanum, in a large Folio Volume, Clementis 8. Pontificis Maxims juſſu reſtitutum at que editam, Antuerpiae 1627. curiouſly guilt and bound up in Turky Leather: and a Caremoniale Epiſcoporum, Juſſu Clementis 8. Pontificis Maximi reformatum, in a large Folio, neatly bound, printed Pariſijs 1633. out of which two Bookes and Miſſalls the Archbiſhop borrowed all his late Popiſh ſuperſtitious Pictures, Ceremonies, Innovations, imitating their directions to an haires breadth, as his principall Canons and directories.
Fifthly, twentie two ſmall Popiſh Houres of our Lady, Breviaries, Manualls, and Prayer Bookes, ſtanding all together in a blinde corner of his ſtudy, many of them curiouſly bo…d and guilt with Crucifixes on their Covers: anſwering the exact number of h… 22. pretended Converts to our Religion, who for their owne private advantage could eaſily cloſe with ſuch a Romiſh Prelate; who came ſo neare unto them …n all the forementioned and ſubſequent particulars.
Sixthly, A B… of his owne private prayers and devotions, all writ with his owne hand, many of them extracted out of the Roman Miſſall; Breviary and Howers of our Lady, all of …em reduced under Canonicall Howers of Prayer, after the Romiſh Garbe, witneſſe …ge 1. to 8. thus intituled over head: Officium quotidianum; and Hora prima; …ra tertia, Hora ſexta, Horanona, Veſpers, Completorium, Bed-time, & Nocte ſi Vig…s, pag. 8. to 104. (ſeaven times over a peece, for every day of the weeke:) his p…yer for the ſicke, p. 210. 114. Noted by him to be In miſſa pro infirmis, page 88. His prayer at the laying of the firſt ſtone in a Chappell, pag. 220. His prayer at the Altar when he Conſecrated Prieſts, page 155. Another prayer, Dum Altari adſto, a… the Sacrament; and whiles hee fell downe and lay proſtrate before it, with others o… this nature.