Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3, Volume 2 · Book · Chapter 2 · Document 151 – Document 161

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · Volume 2 · Book · Chapter 2 · Document 151 – Document 161

p. 633REX Univerſis Capitulis Eccleſiarum Cathedralium & ordinis fratrum MinorumPat. 28 Hen. 3. m. 2. dorſo. in Hybernia, ſalutem. Cum nonnulli boni viri de ordine fratrum Minorum nobis ſupplicarunt, quod concederemus eiſdem, quod nullus frater ordinis ſui ad aliquam dignitatem Archiepiſcopatus ſive Epiſcopatus in Hybernia eligatur de caetero, nec ſi aliquis eorundem fratrum forte ſic eligatur, idem electus aſſenſum praebere poſſit hujuſmodi electioni ſine conſenſu & teſtimonio miniſtri ſui Provincialis & fratrum ejuſdem ordinis diſcretorum; Huic petitioni ſuae honeſtae duximus annuendum. Vobis mandantes, et etiam firmiter inhibentes, ne fratrem aliquem ejuſdem ordinis ſic eligatis vel eligi permittatis, niſi in forma praedicta, pro certo ſcituri, quod electioni factae de aliquo hujuſmodi fratre in Archiepiſcopum vel Epiſcopum nullo modo aſſenſum Regium adhibebimus, niſi ſub forma praedicta. Teſte, &c.

Et mandatum eſt M. filio Geroldi Juſticiario Hiberniae, quod hujuſmodi electiones de fratribus ordinis praedicti fieri prohibeat.

About this time there happened a great controverſie between the Freers Predicants and Minorites, wherein their pride, avarice, ambition, extortions as the Popes inſtruments, and other vices are thus ſet out by each other, in their proper colours.

Et ne mundus turbinibus undique multiplicatis vacare videretur, inter fratres Minores Mat. Paris Hiſt. Angl. p. 592. Controverſia inter …iatres Praedicatores &. Minores.& Praedicatores controverſia eiſdem temporibus ventilata, multos, eo quod viam perfectionis, videlicet paupertatis & patientiae, videbantur elegiſſe, movit in admirationem. Aſſerentibus enim Praedicatoribus ſe fuiſſe Priores, & in hoc ipſo digniores, habitu quoque honeſtiores, a praedicatione merito nomen & officium ſe ſortiri, & Apoſtolica dignitate verius inſigniri: reſpondent Minores, Se arctiorem vitam & humiliorem pro Deo elegiſſe, & idcirco digniorem, quia ſanctiorem, & ab ordine Praedicatorum ad ordinem eorum fratres poſſe, & licenter debere, quaſi ab inferiori ad ordinem arctiorem & ſuperiorem tranſmigrare. Contradicunt eis in faciem Praedicatores, aſſerentes, quod licet ipſi Minores, nudi pede, & viriliter tunicati, cinctique funiculis incedant, non tamen eis eſus carnium, etiam in publico, vel dieta propenſior denegatur, quod fratribus eſt Praedicatoribus interdictum: quapropter non licet ipſis Praedicatoribus ad Minorum ordinem, quaſi arctiorem & digniorem, avolare, ſed potius e converſo. Sic igitur, ſicut inter Templarios & Hospitalarios in Terra Sancta, ſic & inter illos humani generis inimico zizania ſeminante, ortum eſt diſcordiae enorme ſcandalum, & quia viri literati ſunt & ſcholares, univerſali Eccleſiae nimis periculoſum, in indicium magni judicii prae foribus imminentis. Et quod terribile eſt, & in triſte praeſagium, per trecentos annos, vel quadringentos, vel amplius, ordo Monaſticus tam feſtinanter non coepit praecipitium, ſicut eorum ordo, quorum fratres jam vix tranſactis viginti quatuor annis, primas in An…lia conſtruxere manſiones, quarum aedificia jam in Regales conſurgunt altitudines. Hi jam ſunt, qui in ſumptuoſis & diatim ampliatis aedificus, & celſis muralibus, theſauros exponunt impreciabiles, paupertatis limites, & baſim ſuae profeſſionis, juxta Prophetiam Hyldegardis Alemanniae, impudenter tranſgredientes. Morituris Magnatibus, & divitibus, quos norunt pecuniis abundare, diligenter inſiſtunt, non ſine ordinariorum injuriis & jacturis, ut emolumentis inhient, confeſſiones extorquent, & occulta teſtamenta, ſe ſuumque ordinem ſolum commendantes, & omnibus aliis praeponentes. Unde nullus ſidelis, niſi Praedicatorum & Minorum regatur conſiliis, jam credit ſalvari. In acquirendis privilegiis ſolliciti in Curiis Regum & potentum conſiliarii, & cubicularii & theſaurarii, paranymphi, & nuptiarum praeloquutores, Papalium extorſionum executores, in praedicationibus ſuis, vel adulatores, vel mordaciſſimi reprehenſores, vel confeſſionum detectores, vel incauti redargutores. Ordines quoque auctenticos, & a ſanctis patribus conſtitutos, videlicet a ſanctis Benedicto & Auguſtino, & eorum profeſſores contemnentes (prout in cauſa Eccleſiae de Scard…burc, in qua Minores turpiter ceciderunt, patuit) ſuum ordinem aliis praeponunt. Rudes reputant ſimplices, & ſemilaicos vel potius ruſticos, Ciſtercienſes Monachos: Nigros vero, ſuperbos, & Epicuros.

Soon After, **Mat. Par. Hiſt. Angl. p. 596. Correctio Ordinum Praedicatorum & Minotum, exemplo S. Benedicti.Fratres, praecipue Praedicatores, ordinis ignaros, a tramite diſciplinae Sancti Benedicti, nimis impudenter exorbitaſſe deprehendebantur: Whereupon, p. 634Papalis ſeveritatis moderamine corriguntur, & auctoritate Literarum talium in viam meliorem diriguntur. Pope Innocents Bull for their reformation you may read in Matthew Paris.

The Abbots, Priors; and other Eccleſiaſtical perſons of the Dioceſſe and Province of Canterbury, being ſummoned to a Convention at Maydeneſton in Kent, to contribute an Ayde to the Pope or Archbiſhop, when as they had not yet given any ſatiſfaction to the King, as to the Ayde the Pope had by his Letters granted him, from the univerſality of the Clergy of England; the King thereupon iſſued this memorable Prohibition to them, not to grant any Ayde at all to the Pope, Archbiſhop, or any other, without his Royal aſſent thereto.

REX Abbatibus, Prioribus, & omnibus aliis perſonis Eccleſiaſticis vocatis hacPat. 29 Hen. 3. m. 8. do…ſo. die Veneris in Septimana Paſchae uſque Maydenestan, ſalutem. Cum Dominus Papa per Literas ſuas nuper nobis conceſſerit, quod univerſitas totius Cleri Angliae, ſubſidium nobis conferat, in quo nondum nobis eſt ſatisfactum: Et vos, ſicut audivimus, authoritate Domini Cantuarienſis Archiepiſcopi convenire debeatis ſuper aurilio eidem Archiepiſcopo, ſive Domino Papae praeſtando: Vobis mandamus firmiter inhibentes, ne dicto Archiepiſcopo, ſeu Domino Papae, ſeu alii ſubſidium aliquod praeter aſſenſum noſtrum concedatis. Teſte Rege apud Windeſ. xix. die Aprilis.

There being an Inquiſition pending between the King, by Papal Authority, and the Biſhop of Bath, the King by this Patent conſtituted a ſpecial Proctor therein, the buſineſſe depending before two Abbots, to whom it was referred.

REX conſtituit Magiſtrum R. de Cantilupo, procuratorem Regis in negotio Inquiſitionis,Pat. 29 Hen. 3. m. 3. intus. quod vertitur inter Regem ex una parte, Authoritate Apoſtolica, & Ba…hon. Epiſcopum ex altera, ratum, &c. quicquid idem Magiſter in dicto negotio Inquiſitionis mediante juſtitia duxerit faciendum. Et diriguntur Literae Sancti Edmundi, & de Perſor. Abbatibus. Teſte Rege apud Wigorn. primo die Auguſti.

A baptized Jew turning an Apoſtate, the King upon information thereof ſent this ſpecial Mandate to the Sheriff of Oxford, to apprehend and impriſon him when he ſhould be named to him, till the Ordinary of the place ſhould order what belonged to him.

MAndatum eſt Vicecomiti Oxon. quod quendam Apoſtatum qui vitam JudaeorumClauſ. 29 H. 3. m. 12. intus. deſeruit, & baptizatus fuit, & Acolitus poſtmodum factus, & poſtea Apoſtatavit, cujus nomen ei ſcire faciet frater Robertus Bacun, capi & in priſona Oxon. detineri faciat, donec loci Diocaeſanus inde fecerit, quod ad ſe viderit pertinere.

Teſte meipſo apud Waledon. Quinto die Aprilis, Anno Regni noſtri xxix. Per Paulinum Peyur.

The Pope ſending a Legate into Ireland upon a particular occaſion, the King thereupon granted a ſpecial Writ to his Chief Juſtice, to admit him into Ireland for that purpoſe, but not to execute any other Authority there whatſoever, without his ſpecial licenſe, without which he could not ſo much as enter into Ireland.

REX Juſticiario Hyberniae, ſalutem. Ad duo Authoritate Apoſtolica exercenda,Clauſ. 29 H. 3. m. 7. dorſo. Magiſtro J. de Fruſſyn, Clerico & Nuncio Domini Papae, conceſſimus licentiam in Hyberniam transfretandi, viz. ad abſolutionem impendendam hiis qui manus violentas in Clericos injecerunt, & ad pecuniam colligendam in ſubſidium Terrae Sanctae. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod ipſum ad exercenda praemiſſa benigne admittentes▪ a Praelatis & aliis ad eadem permittatis admitti. Non ſuſtinentes, quamvis Praelati ſuſtinere vellent, quod aliam Iuriſdictionem exerceat, donec aliud a Rege habuerit mandatum. Teſte, &c.

p. 635The Pope preſuming by his uſurped authority to ordain a Biſhop of Elfin in Ireland without the Kings Royal aſſent, the King, although it tended to the derogation of his Royal Prerogative, upon which account the Archbiſhop of Tuam refuſed to conſecrate him; yet notwithſtanding becauſe he had received a laudable teſtimony from the Pope and others touching the perſon, out of his meer ſpecial grace was content to give his Royal aſſent to his ordination and conſecration; and thereupon to reſtore the Temporalties to him by this ſpecial Patent, without which the Popes Proviſion had been ineffectual to him.

REX M. filio Geroldi Juſticiario Hiberniae, ſalutem. Sciatis, Quod etſi per Pat. 29 Hen. 3. m. 2. intus.ordinationem factam a Summo Pontifice de J. quondam Archid. Elfin. in Epiſcopum Elfin. libertati Regiae fuerit derogatum, eo quod praeter aſſenſum noſtrum conſtat eſſe factam: Quia tamen de perſona ejuſdem J. teſtimonium laudabile perhibetur, ſicut ex Literis Domini Papae plenius audivimus, et M. Tuamenſis Archiepiſcopus munus conſecrationis, ſine aſſenſu noſtro ei noluerit impendere, ordinationi praedictae de gratia noſtra Regium aſſenſum adhibuimus et favorem. Et ideo vobis mandamus, quod de omnibus terris & tenementis, & Regiis aliis ad praedictum Epiſcopatum pertinentibus, & in manu noſtra exiſtentibus, eidem J. plenam ſeiſinam habere faciatis. Teſte Rege apud Gannak in Caſtris, Quarto die Septembris.

The Chief Juſtice in Ireland in a caſe of Aſſiſe of Novel Diſſeiſin between two Iriſh Biſhops, refuſing to give Judgement againſt the Defendant, till he received the Kings direction therein, for fear of being excommunicated by the Defendant Biſhop▪ who threatned to excommunicate him; the King thereupon checking him for his cowardice, commanded him to proceed to give Judgement and Damages in the cauſe, notwithſtanding the threatned excommunication, and to Attach and impriſon thoſe Judges and others, who preſumed againſt his expreſſe Prohibition to hold Plea of theſe Lands in the Biſhops Court, to the contempt, prejudice, and diſinheriſon of his Crown and Dignity, and not to ſuffer from thenceforth any ſuits of this nature to be held in any Eccleſiaſtical Court, or to ſuffer any of his Rights to be loſt.

REX Juſticiario Hiberniae, ſalutem. Auditis & plenius intellectis Literis veſtrisClauſ. 29 H. 3. m. 10. dorſo. quas ſuper proceſſu Aſſiſae novae diſſeiſinae quam venerabilis Pater Criſtinus Imlicenſis Epiſcopus arramiavit verſus Alanum Epiſcopum Clon. de tenemento ſuo in K…lcomyr, nobis tranſmiſiſtis▪ ut inde voluntatem noſtram vobis reſponderemus, non potuimus non mirari quod metu alicujus excommunicationis, vel al…a ratione ſuper tam manifeſta diſſeiſina quam dictum Clon. Epiſcopum, feciſſe ex confeſſionē ſua liquet aperte, judicium proferre diſtuliſtis, & dicto Clon. Epiſcopo amerciato, & ad damna dicto Imlicen. illata reſtituenda, condemnato ſecundum legem & conſuetudinem terrae noſtrae Hiberniae, ſeiſinam eidem Imlicen. Epiſcopo, de dicto tenemento rehabere non feciſtis; volentes igitur quod ſuper diſſeiſina praedicta ſuppleatur, quod minus actum eſt hucuſque: Vobis mandamus, quod non obſtantibus minis dicti Clon. vel cujuſquam alterius de ſententia excommunicationis in vos, vel in dictum Imlicenſem Epiſcopum lata, vel in alium de Ballivis noſtris ferenda, ad judicium inde proferendum ſine dilatione procedatis, diſſeſitorem praedictum amercientes ſecundum modum et qualitatem tranſgreſſionis; diſſeiſito ſeiſinam reſtitui faciatis cum damnis ſuis ei inde adjudicatis. Iudices vero qui ſpreta Prohibitione noſtra in foro Eccleſiaſtico ſuper dicto tenemento proceſſerunt, et hoc in Curia noſtra recognoverunt, et dictum Epiſcopum Clon. contra Coronam noſtram, placitum illud et dignitatem noſtram proſequendo, capi, et in priſona noſtra ſalvo cuſtodiri faciatis, donec ſuper tanto contemptu et tam enormi tranſgreſſione plenam et condignam nobis fecerint emendam. In caſibus conſimilibus cum evenerint, in fide qua nobis tenemini, eodem modo vos habentes, et proceſſum obſervantes, ita quod de jure noſtro nihil per defectum veſtrum nobis depereat. Teſte meipſo apud Windeſ. Anno Regni noſtri xxix.

p. 636King Henry having the Patronage of the Priory of Lewes by reaſon of a Wardſhip, iſſued this memorable Inhibition to the ſubprior and Covent, not to permit any perſon whatſoever to preſent to any Church belongining to the Priory which was or ſhould be voyd, during the vacancy of the Priory, upon pain to forfeit all they had▪

REX Subpriori & Conventui de Lewes, ſalutem. Quia ex certa Relatione fideClauſ 29. 3. … 35. intus. dignorum intellexerimus, quod exiſtente domo veſtra ſine Priore ſicut nunc eſt W. quondam Com. Warren. fuit in poſſeſſione praeſentandi ad Eccleſias, de patronatu veſtro, quas in hujuſmodi vacationibus vacare contingebat, & Idem jus modo reſidet penes nos ratione Cuſtodiae Haeredis praefati Com. in manu noſtra, exiſtenti. Vobis firmiter inhibemus, quod ſicut omnia bona ve…a quae in veſtra tenetis poteſtate diligitis, ad Eccleſias, qu… vacaverint poſtquam fuiſtis Acephali, vel quas vacare continget, ad inſtantiam cujuſcunque nullatenus praeſentare praeſumatis. Teſte Rege apud Gudeford 27▪ die Januarii.

The Archbiſhops and Biſhops of the Realm in this age, could not make their laſt Wills and Teſtaments, nor deviſe any of the Corne ſowen, or ſtocke or goods on their Biſhoprickes, nor their moveable or immoveable goods, without the Kings ſpecial Patent, grant and licenſe, authorizing them to do it, and ratifying their wills, againſt himſelf, his heirs and ſucceſſors, as theſe two memorable Patents intimate. The firſt of them to the Archbiſhop of York.

REX omnibus, &c. ſalutem. Sciatis quod conceſſimus. W. Eborum Archiepiſcopo,Pat. 29 Hen. 3. m. 5. intus. Pro Domino, Eborum Archiepiſcopo. quod quandocunque voluerit, libere & licenter condere poſſit testamentum ſuum, & pro voluntate ſua ordinare, tam de bladis ſeminatis in terris Epiſcopatus ſui & Eccleſiae ſuae, quam de omnibus aliis mobilibus ſuis; & ſimiliter immobilibus perſonam ſuam ratione Eccleſiae ſuae, ſeu ratione ſui ipſius contingentibus. Ita quod ſi de eo humanitus contingat, quod nollemus, executores Teſtamenti ſui liberam habeant adminiſtrationem omnium praedictorum ad executionem Teſtamenti ſui faciendam prout inde ordinaverit, ſine impedimento noſtri & Haeredum noſtrorum & Ballivorum noſtrorum. In cujus, &c. Teſte Rege apud Woodſtock▪ 22 die Maii.

The ſecond is to the Biſhop of Karliſle.

REX omnibus, &c. ſalutem. Sciatis quod Teſtamentum quod W. Karl. EpiſcopusPat. 29 H. 3. m. 4. intus. Pro Domino Karl. Epiſcopo. condidit, vel conditurus eſt quocunque tempore, & quacunque hora tam de bladis in terra, quam de Wardis & firmis, & omnibus ſuis mobilibus, pro nobis & haeredibus noſtris gratum habemus & acceptum, & illud concedimus & confirmamus: prohibentes ne aliquis Ballivus, noſter vel Haeredum noſtrorum, quae idem Epiſcopus reliquerit ad executionem Teſtamenti ſui faciendam, manum mittat, vel in aliquo ſe inde intromittat, vel aliquo modo Teſtamentum illud impediat, quia tam Teſtamentum ſuum, quam executores Teſtamenti ſui cepimus in protectionem & defenſionem noſtram, & haeredum noſtrorum. In cujus, &c. Teſte Rege apud Windeſ. 5. die Julii.

Pope Innocent the 4. was one of the firſt Popes who preſumed to ſummon a General Council by his own Papal Authority, without and againſt the Emperor, and that purpoſely out of malice to excommunicate and depoſe him, againſt all Laws of God and man, for which end he ſent abrode his Nuncio's and Letters as to other Kings and Prelates, ſo particularly to the King of England, and all Archbiſhops Biſhops and other Prelates, to ſummon them to a General Councel to be held by him at Lyons in France.

Anno eodem circa medium Quadrageſimae, venerunt Nuntij Domini Papae in Angliam de convocando Concilio generali, tale mandatum Papale bajulantes: