BOOK came to their bishoprics, when afterwards they confirmed I. them by their instruments and letters of concession; adding also the confirmation of the Chapter. Yet to cover over their doings, they pretended in the said instruments, that it was done sponte et maximis de causis; that is, "voluntarily, "and for very great causes." Which let them see how they can answer to their own consciences, who will not transmit to posterity the matter in that order in which it was indeed done at the beginning, but feign other causes of their deeds, and reasons that are not true.

And as to this pretext, that the King hath them to enable him to bear the burden of the commonwealth, (when nevertheless he ought rather to give to the Church than to take away,) the event afterwards shews, that it is not so, 12 since little or nothing of the emolument came to the King. Whereupon it is the more to be wondered at, that prudent and exercised men in the commonwealth should not see how this lay exposed to the eyes of all.

Lastly, by what colour shall we justify this, that when in a well constituted commonwealth all citizens at least ought to live and enjoy equal right, and that their immoveable goods and revenues should not be taken away from them; whether they be lawyers, merchants, noblemen, nay, the most wicked and impure whatsoever; that the Ministers of religion only should not be allowed this right equal to all others, who hitherto in all Christian commonwealths, nay heathen too, have been in a better, rather than in a worse, condition ?

MSS. C. C. C. C. Miscellan. D.

Number VIII.

Rules for the order and government (as it seems) of the Ministers of the Foreigners' Churches planted in England.

In Ecclesia

Puritas doctrinæ, Servanda est à
Disciplina
Ministris.

Disciplina regula est, ubi instituendi sunt pueri, adolescen- BOOK tes, aliique rudes: alii in officio continendi ac monendi, alii cor- I. rigendi, alii consolandi. In his consistit politia ecclesiastica.

-Pastorum, et Ministrorum, et Episcopo

Prætereà,

Electus proponatur populo examinandus.

Episcopi ratificatio requirenda.

Examinatus testetur fidem suam coram Ministris, senioribus, et Doctoribus utriusque Ecclesiæ. Postea, specimen edat publicè de eruditione die aliquo dominico coram plebe. Vitæ testimonium habeat, non solum à domesticis, sed ab exteris.

Post concionem admoneatur populus ad preces et jejunium: et proclamatio fiat de exceptione contra admittendum infra octo dies, siquis quid habeat objiciendum. Si nihil objiciatur, tunc die octavo fiat actio ab altero ministro, et ibi habitis precibus ab Episcopo confirmetur, prius ex scripto recitata permissione: cui assentiat vel manu vel verbo vel vultu.

Siquid objiciatur, examinetur per Ministros et præsidentes; et præterea, ad Episcopum deferatur. Et quod hic in

BOOK ventum fuerit, ratum sit et firmum. Si is indignus judicabitur, alius eligatur, ut suprà.

I.

13

Quomodo in officio contineri possit.

Conveniant singuli Ministri et seniores utriusque Ecclesiæ singulis mensibus primis diebus lunæ : atque illic tractent de statu Ecclesiarum suarum. Ibi si fuerit orta dissensio in doctrina vel disciplina, quæ ab altera Ecclesia dirimi non potest, conjunctis sententiis utriusque Ecclesiæ definiatur.

In tertio quoque mense censuræ debent fieri inter Ministros et seniores, h. e. fraternæ admonitiones, tum quoad vitam et mores, tum quoad doctrinam. Ut omnia scandala amoveantur, et ut omnia sint corrigenda, sic ut calumniæ et distractiones compescendæ sint.

Crimina in Ministerio nullo modo toleranda.

Hæresis; schisma; rebellio adversus ordinem ecclesiasticum; blasphemia aperta et legibus punienda; simonia et donorum corruptela; ambitus ad nova munia obeunda, aut occupandum alterius locum; crimen falsi; perjurium; adulterium vel scortatio, aut solicitatio aliarum nuptiarum vel puellarum; furtum; ebrietas; pugna aut digladiatio, quæ legibus punitur; usura; ludi legibus prohibiti, ex quibus scandala oriuntur; saltationes et lasciviæ; crimen quod notatur infamiâ; denique omnia crimina, ob quæ alius quispiam ab Ecclesia separandus esset.

Vitia qua tolerari possunt, modò fraterna correptio fiat.

Nova quædam et inusitata ratio tractandæ Scripturæ; curiosa inanium quæstionum indagatio; doctrinam non receptam in Ecclesia, aut novum quoddam genus disciplinæ inducere; negligentia in studiis, præsertim in sacris Scripturis ; scurrilitas, mendacium, maledicentia et detractio; spurcus sermo; convitia et injuriæ; temeritas; vafrities, et [in honesta] astutia; avaritia et tenacitas; ira et excandescentia; lites et jurgia; habitus, vestitus, gestus dissolutus, aut parùm de

cens.

I.

Si Minister in priora inciderit, illum Ministri et Ecclesiæ BOOK seniores indignum ministerio judicent; et causa ad Episcopum relata, ipsum destituat. Si vero in suspicionem inciderit eorum, inquiratur in consistorio ecclesiastico; et si reus fuerit Minister, ad Episcopum cum elogio mittatur.

In minoribus delictis notetur, admoneatur, juxta illud Matthæi cap. xviii. Si audit, &c.

De numero et tempore concionum, &c.

Hora nona ante meridiem, una; et tertia post meridiem altera concio habeatur. Prima hora aut secunda catechismus habeatur.

Die Martis erit explicatio Scripturæ prophetica, hora septima. Ubi Ministri et seniores, quisque in ordine suo certum aliquem locum sumat tractandum. Nec ad hanc provinciam admittantur, nisi quem Ministri et seniores judicaverint admittendum. Tamen aliis liberum erit addere et proponere quæstionem, modo ne nimium evagetur. Ubi conclusum et definitum fuerit, nemo quicquam inquirat, ne disputationis [causa] oriatur. At peractâ, et populo dimisso, admoneatur prophetans, siquid erraverit, et lapsus

est.

Number IX.

The Archbishop's parchment roll; containing his journal of memorable things happening to him, from the year of his birth, to the year wherein he was made Archbishop.

ANNO Domini, 1504. 6. Augusti Ira. G. et F. Bibliothec. privat. C. Matthæus Parker natus Norvici in parochia Sti Salvato-C. C. C. ris: et in parochia Omnium Sanctorum prope Fibrig Gates enutritus, et educatus in parochiâ Sti Clementis juxta Fibrig.

Gulielmo patre, qui vixit ad annum Dni. 1516. et ad an- 14

num ætat. 48.

Aloysia matre, quæ vixit ad annum Dni. 1553. ætat. 83.

Anno

BOOK 1522. Sept. 8. Circa ann. ætat. meæ 17. missus Cantabrigiam (opera Magistri Bung, paroch. Sti. Georgii, sed sumptib. matris) in coll. Corp. Christi, sub tutore Rob. Cowper, A. M. sed parùm docto, edoctus in dialecticâ et philosophiâ, partim in hospitio Divæ Mariæ, partim in coll. [Corpor.] Chr.

* Loca scil.

ubi primas conciones

habuit.

1522. Mense Martis electus Bibliotista colleg. Corp. Christi.

1525. Admissus Baccalaureus in Artib.

1526. 22. Decembr. Factus Subdiaco-
nus sub titulis

1527. 20. April. Factus Diaconus.

1527. 15. Junii. Factus Presbyter.

Barnwelli, et Sa

celli in campis

Norvici.

1527. 6. Septembr. Electus in socium coll. Corporis Christi. 1527. 3. Creatus Magister in Artibus.

1533.

Dnica. prima Adventûs incepi officium prædicandi. *Granchester - 1. Madingly - 4.

1535. 30. Mar. Vocatus in aulam Annæ Reginæ.
1535. 14. Julii. Factus Baccalaur. Theologiæ.

1535. 4. Novemb. Promotus ad decanat. de Stoke Clare,
per Annam Reginam. Anno Henrici 8vi. 27.

1537.

1o. Martii. Vocatus ad aulam Regis, et factus Capellanus Henrici VIII.

1538. 1°. Julii. Creatus Professor Theologiæ.

1541. 28. Octobr. Installatus in 2. præbendam Eccl. Elien. per collation. Hen. 8vi.

1542. 27. Maii. Præsentatus ad rectoriam de Ashen in

1544.

Essex.

4. Decembr. Electus in Magistrum coll. Corporis Christi; per literas commendatitias Hen. 8vi.

1544. 30. April. Resignavi rectoriam de Ashen.

1544.

1o. Maii. Præsentatus ad rectoriam de Birlingham Norf.

1544. 25. Januar. Primò electus ad officium Vice-Cancell.

Cantabrig.

1545. 22. Septemb. Præsentatus ad rectoriam de Land

beche.