Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3, Table of contents
The GENERAL CONTENTS of the BOOKS and CHAPTERS conteined in this Second Tome; All the particulars whereof, being many and various, are compriſed in the TABLE.
BOOK 3. CHAP. 1. page 227.
COntaining Evidences of King John's Supream Eccleſiastical Juriſdiction over all Biſhops, Religious and Eccleſiaſtical perſons, Cauſes, Biſhopricks, Monaſteries, Tithes, Advowſons, in granting Licenſes to elect, and to approve or reject Biſhops, Abbots, when elected; Examining the Juriſdictions of all Eccleſiaſtical Courts, Impriſoning, baniſhing Biſhops, Clergy-men, ſeizing their Biſhopricks, Spiritualties; Confiſcating their Goods, Benefices, for their Contempts, Rebellions, Treaſons against him, and obedience to the Popes Interdicts, and other unjuſt Commands: with other particulars; and his ſtrenuous, vigilant defence of the Rights of his Crown, against Proviſions, and other Papal and Prelatical Uſurpations in England and Ireland, till the 15. year of his Reign.
CHAP. 2. page 270.
Of King John's moſt unworthy proſtitution, not only of the undoubted Rights and priviledges of his Crown, but of Himſelf, his Diadem, Kingdomes of England and Ireland, after ſo many years Glorious Conteſts, to the Tyrannical Uſurpations of Pope Innocent, and his own Trayterous Biſhops and Clergy; Of his reſignation of his Crown and Kingdomes by Two ſuppoſed. Charters, (but in truth only by one) to the Pope and his Succeſsors, and reſuming them as their Feudatory, under an Annual Rent. His Oath of Homage and Fealty to the Pope, The Validity of this Charter, theſe Rents, and their payment debated; the preſent and ſubſequent Oppoſitions againſt them: This Kings Oppoſition againſt the Encroachments of his Treacherous, Rebellious Biſhops and Clergy, who dealt moſt perfidiouſly with, and ſtirred up the Barons warrs, Rebellions against him, after they had forced him to reſign his Crown, and proteſted againſt his unkingly actions, when accompliſhed by their own procurement and deſignes; With other memorable particulars and Records, relating to theſe tranſactions; and this Kings Charters, proceedings in Eccleſiaſtical Elections, Affairs, as Supream Patron within his own Dominions.
BOOK 4. CHAP. 1.
King Henry the 3. his ſucceſſion to King John; his Coronation, neceſſitated Oath, Homage, Subjection to, Tranſactions, complyance with the Pope and See of Rome, againſt his own and the Nobles wills; his and their Complaints, Oppoſitions, Prohibitions againſt the Popes, Biſhops, Clergies Incroachments, Exactions both in England and Ireland; With the chief paſſages concerning Eccleſiaſtical affairs in them during the firſt 20 years of his young and troubleſome reign.
CHAP. 4. pag. 447.
Containing ſundry Records, Patents and Hiſtorical paſſages, evidencing this Kings Supream Juriſdiction in and over Eccleſiaſtical perſons, Courts, Affairs, in England and Ireland: The intollerable Ʋſurpations, Extortions, Oppreſsions, Innovations, Proceedings of Popes, their Legates, Agents, Instruments, to the prejudice of the Rights, Priviledges, of the King, Church, Kingdom, Subjects in both theſe Realms, with the ſeveral Complaints and Oppoſitions againſt them: The Engliſh and Iriſh Biſhops, Covents, Courts Chriſtians Encroachments upon the Kings Temporal Courts, Rights, Royal Dignity, and Subjects Liberties; The Prohibitions, Writs, Oppoſitions againſt them; With the principal Eccleſiaſtical Affairs and tranſactions in relation to England and Ireland; from the beginning of the 21. to the end of the 40th, year of King Henry the 3d. his reign.
CHAP. 3. p. 872.
Comprizing ſundry evidences out of Law-books, Hiſtories, and Records, manifeſting this Kings Soveraign Eccleſiaſtical, as well as Temporal Authority, over all Eccleſiaſtical perſons, Courts, Cauſes in England and Ireland. The Popes and his Inſtruments intollerable Extortions, Oppreſſions, Innovations, Encroachments both upon the Kings Prerogative, and Subjects Liberties, Properties, and their reſpective Oppoſitions, Complaints againſt them. Together with our Popiſh Prelates, and Eccleſiaſtical Synods, Courts illegal Uſurpations upon the Kings Temporal Rights, Courts, Crown, Dignity, and Peoples Priviledges; With the ſeveral Prohibitions, Writs, Mandates iſſued to reſtrain them: And ſome other Eccleſiaſtical Affairs, tranſactions between the King, Pope, and Court of Rome, from the end of the 40th. Year of King Henry the 3d. till the expiration of his Reign, Anno Domini 1272.