III. BOOK pore fuerit, ut Suffraganeus ejus ad idem hospitale promoveatur, quod tunc in eo casu ipse Suffraganeus præferatur omnibus aliis ad ejusdem hospitalis præfecturam cum conditionibus supradictis, etiamsi Commissarius ejus, qui pro tempore fuerit, habeat firmam manerii de Blene et Hothecourt ad commodum et usum suum. Commissionem autem hospitalis prædict. si facta fuerit alteri quam Suffraganeo, vel Commissario, qui pro tempore fuerit, vel prædicto non exacto seu præstito juramento, fore Volumus ipso jure irritam et inanem. Reservata nobis et successoribus nostris Archiepiscopis Cantuar. hujusmodi ordinationis nostræ addendi, detrahendi, eamque mutandi et corrigendi, prout expedire videbitur, plenaria potestate. Actum et datum 97 in manerio nostro de Lambith vicesimo mensis Maii, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo nono, et nostræ consecrationis anno decimo. Excerpt. ex original. Nic. Battely. Matthæus Cantuar. His seal is annexed. BOOK IV. Cecilian Number LIX. Dr. Bomelius to the Archbishop; portending some great Reverendiss. Antistiti Matthæo Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo, REVERENDISSIME Antistes; cum boni clientis officium sit præmonere patronum de impendentibus malis, quo assidua Dei invocatione, diligenti præparatione, moderatisque consiliis, imminentia pericula vel effugiat, aut certe mitiget, mei quoque muneris esse duxi hoc turbulento tempore intrepidè ea aperire, quæ longa observatione et quotidiana experientia hactenus verissima comprobata IV. sunt. Quæ si post præmonitionem meam Anglicæ reipub. BOOK moderatores prudenter considerabunt, multorum malorum causas et occasiones jam impendentes declinabunt, patriæque suæ optimè consulant. Ea ut tuæ paternitati (cujus singularem prudentiam, circumspectam modestiam, et sinceram in patriam σropy, non Angli solum, sed et exteri omnes admirantur et suspiciunt) coram ostendere, atque in sinum tuum liberè effundere, non sine magno totius Britanniæ emolumento, multorumque saluti, possim, obnixè oro, ut liceat mihi à prandio, si seria tua negotia id patiantur, tuam paternitatem convenire, quo sine mora regia Majestas per te mentem meam intelligat: hoc ut facias, patria tua, Reginæ tam nobilis et piæ salus, officium quod illi debes, et providentia illa, quæ in te tantopere elucet, quodam jure exigunt et suadent. Valeat tua paternitas. Ex regio carcere, à musis alieno. 3 nonas Aprilis, anno 1570. Tuæ paternitati ad nutum paratus, Eliseus Bomelius, Medicus Physicus. Number LX. Dr. Yale's Collections out of the Registers of the Archbishops of Canterbury: concerning their ancient customs and privileges. The power and privileges of the Archbishops of Canterbury in former times. F. 1. ROGER, Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, being old, Cleopatra John Peckham, Archbp. of Canterbury, deputed a coadjutor to him. Deputavit coadjutorem Rogero Covent. et Litch. tunc Episcopo, officium suum propter debilitatem sui corporis adimplere non valenti, sicut in visitatione dicti Archiep. metropolitica ibm. facta extitit tum compertum. Et commisit coadjutori suo omnem potestatem episcopalem in dict. dioc. exercendam. Ex Registro Dom. Joan. de Peckham. ́ VOL. IIJ. IV. BOOK The same Archbishop Peckham, in the first year of his consecration, which was anno 1279, committed to the Dean 98 of Pauls, and the Treasurer of the said church, the power of conferring prebends, and other ecclesiastical benefices with or without cure of souls, belonging to the collation or presentation of the Bishop of London. Qui nequibat propter debilitatem sui corporis ea quæ incumbebant pastorali officio adimplere. He committed to them also to institute such as were presented; and to grant commendams and other things which belonged to the pastoral office to perform. Ex Reg. Peckham. When any Bishops in their province grew aged, that they could not manage their dioces, the Archbishop did constitute whom he pleased to perform the offices of the bishopric. He presented to such benefices as were in the right of such monasteries to present, as were in him to present, if they fel while the said monastery was vacant of a superior. Thus Peckham, 1286, the 3d of the ides of December, collated the vicarage of Colreede in the dioces of Canterbury, to Stephen de Wycomb, Priest, by reason of the vacation of the priory of Dover, of his patronage, then vacant, and remaining in his hand. Ex Reg. Peckham. He admitted and instituted such as were presented to livings in those diocesses that were vacant of Bishops. In 1286. he instituted many in the dioces of Landaff and Norwich vacant. Upon any Bishops absence from their dioces, he might depute Vicars General to take care of the affairs of the dioces. Absente Episcopo Asaphensi à dioc. propter Walenses, in ejus locum deputavit Episcopum Bathens. et Wellens. Vicarium Generalem. Metropolitical Visitations. In their metropolitical visitations they could cite distinctly any of their province before them, wheresoever they were in the city, dioces, or province of Canterbury, not only by way of appele, or complaint, but also ex officio. IV. They could, in their metropolitical visitations, turn out BOOK the heads of religious houses out of their priories, abbies, and monasteries, and put others in their rooms. And dignitaries and officers of churches he removed, and put others in their places, when he saw cause for it. Archbishop Robert Winchelsey, in his metropolitical visitation made in the dioces of Norwich, Priorem amovit de Heveringlond, super diversis criminibus ad amotionem suam tendentibus convictum; et præfecit alium jure suo. Et eodem modo in dioces. Wigorn. In his metropolitical visitation he removed Friar Nicholum de Norton, super dilapidationem bonorum sacristariæ ecclesiæ Wigorn. convictum. Et ob negligentiam Prioris et Capituli Wigorn. præfecit G. de Maddesly sacristam, jure suo. In these visitations the Archbishops power was so great, and the Bishops were so suspended al jurisdiction during these visitations, that in Peckhams time, al the suffragan Bishops of the province of Canterbury drew up one and twenty articles of complaint to the Archbishop to be redrest. To which the Archbishop gave his distinct answers. begin p. 289. intitled, Articuli propositi coram Johannem Archiep. Cant. per Episcopos Suffraganeos suæ Cant. provinciæ; et responsiones et declarationes dictorum articulorum. They The first is, That when he visits any dioces of any of his suffragan Bishops, he himself institutes and hears al the causes of the dioces; and actually correctiones facit. Secondly, That he draws to himself whersoever he be, causes de facto, begun in the visitations, and corrected and compleated. Wherby the subjects of the Suffragans are grieved, and their jurisdiction weakned. Thirdly, In the diocesses visited, after he is gon out of the bounds of the dioces, he sendeth some Clerks de latere suo, to exercise those things that by right belong to the Suffragan of that place. Fourthly, In some diocesses not visited by him, some cary themselves for the Officials of the Archbishop, or his Commissaries General, which may be called Officiales fo BOOK ranei, contrary to the form and prohibitions of the Council IV. of Lyons. 99 Fiftly, They pray that no subject of the Suffragans be commanded to be cited by the court of Cant. unles in the warrant citatorio a lawful cause may be inserted: and so on in divers other articles. The answers of the Archbishop were as followeth. To the first article of the Bishops, the Archbishop answereth and declareth, That he may do this justly: Duplici aucthoritate connexa munitur, et roboratur consuetudine diutius observata. To the second article he answereth, That since he is not only Metropolitan in the dioces visited, but also in other diocesses of his province, he may by his authority determine causes, begun in one dioces, in another. And this he hath by custome long observed. To the third, It is not believed that he doth such things, unles as far as right and custome alloweth him, and the custome of the court of Cant. suffragatur. To the fourth article he answereth, That he made no Officiales foraneos, nor ever doth such things, unles it be granted him de juris consuetudine. To the fift he answereth, That it is not of the necessity of law, quod libellus ponatur in citatorio, aut causa agendi, sed est cautela juris pro actore, ut reo deliberato, et ulterior deliberatio denegetur. And so he went on bearing himself out by right and custom, and giving short answers, but little complying with the Bishops complaints. More Collections. The Archbishop of Canterbury in the dioces of S. Asaph, vacant, hath by privilege the collation of the benefices there. Ex Reg. Walt. Reynolds. And more plainly out of the register of Islip in the eight years of his bishopric. And so always observed, until the 32 year of Henry VIII. The Suffragans of the province of Cant. Non possum præscribere contra Archiepis. Cant. The Archbishop may end causes begun in the time of |