Chap. V. T!Je HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. r3r The managers went on, and charged the archbifhop, "with endeavour- K. Charles I. " ing to fet up an independent power in the church, by attempting to ex164~ " empt theclergy from the jurijdiflion if the civilmagiftrate; of which AY:;;;;;tto Jet " they produced feveral examples; one was, the archbia1op's forbidding ~p 0 " " the lord ma}'Or of the city of L ondon to carry the fword upright in the mdepmden; ' . 1 f {i b . . . . . powerzn toe "church, and then obtaining an order of counc1 or u mtttlllg 1t 111 time clergy. " and place of divine fervice. Another was taken out of the archbiibop's M. Chm·gt. " diary; upon making the biihop of London, lord treajitrer, he fays, no " churchman had it jince Henry V11. and now if the church will not hold " up thm:felves, under God, I can do 110 more. A third wa,, his faying in " the high commiilion, that 110 corjlable jhou/d meddle qvith men in ho£v or- Laud's hill:. " ders. A fourth was, his calling fame jufl:ices of peace into the high p. 293. "commiilion, for holding the feffions at 'Tewksbury in the church -yard, " being cenfecratedground, though they had licence from the bi£hop, and u though the eighty-eighth canon of the church of England gives leave, " that temporal courts or leets may be kept in the church or church-yard. " And a fifth was, that he had caufed certain church-wardens to be pro- " fecuted, for executing the warrant of a jufl:ice of peace upon an a'ie- ·' houfe-keeper." The archbi£hop replied in general, that he never auempted to bring Abp's reply. the temporal power under the clergy, nor to free the clergy from being Laud's hill:. under it; but this he confeffed, that he had laboured to preierve the cler - P· 287, 292 gy from fame lay-men's oppreilions, for vis laicahas been an old, and a jufl: Qomplaint; and this I took to be my duty (fays he,) alluring myfelf that God did not raife me to that place of eminence to fit fl:ill, and fee his minillers difcountenanced and trampled upon. To the firfl: particular he replied, that it was an order of council, arid therefore not his; but it was a reafonable one, for the f word was not fubmitted to any foreign or home power, but to God 01~ly, and that in the place and at the performance of his holy wor£hip, at which time and place kings fubmit themfelves, and therefore can't in £ill upon the emblems of their power. To the fecond and third examples he repl ied, that he faw no treafon or crime in them. To the fourth he replied, that no temporal courts ought to be kept upon conjecrated ground; and that though fome fuch might upon urgent occ,1£ions be kept in the church with leave, yet that is no warrant for a feilions, where there might be a trial for blood; and certainly it can be no crime to keep off profanation from churches ; but be it never fo criminal it was the act of the high commiflion, and not his ; nor is there any thing in it that looks towards treqjon. To the profecuting the church wardens he anfwered, that thofe fiatutes concerned ale houfekeepers only, and the reafon why they were profecuted was, becaufe beiJlg church-officers they did not complain of it to the chancellor of the S 2 diocefe,
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