The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. VoL. II. K. Charfes I. commi!Tary, who was the perfon that excommunicated them; but it was ~.J then refolved in parliament, that the commi!Tary's atl: was his own, and he was fined four thoufand marks to the king. Now the commijjary was an officer efl:ablilhcd by law; but the archbilhop's chaplains are not of– officers by law, and therefore dare not licence any thing without his privity and command. Projltttting puritans. M. charge. ·prynne, p. 361, 362, &c. BeGdes 'tis apparent, thefe books were caftrated by the archbilhop's approbation, for otherwife he would have puniihed the licencers prin– ters and publilhers, as he always did when information was given of any new books publiihed againfl: the late innovations. His grace has forgot his refuGng to licence the Palatine Conpjjion qf Faith, which is his pe– culiar happinefs when he can make no anfwer; and it looks a little un– dutiful in him !to caft the alteration of the prctyers for Nov. 5· on the king, when every body knows by whom the king's confcience was di– retl:ed. And whereas the archbilhop denies his conniving at ;the importation of popi!h books, he does not fo much as allege that he ordered fuch books to be feized as he ought to have done; he confe!Tes that fuch books as were feized, had been refl:ored by order of the high commifiion, whereas it had been lworn to be done by his own order; but if it had not, yet .he being preGdent of that court ought to have croJied thofe orders, that court not daring to have made any fuch reflitutions without his confent; Jo that we cannot but be of opinion that the whole of this charge, which ihows a manifeft partiality on the fide of arminianifm and popery, and the firongefl: and mofl: artificial attempts to propagate thefe errors in the nation, ftill remains in its full fhength. The managers went on to charge the archbiihop with his " fevere pro– ·" fecntion of tbofe clergymen, who had dared to preach againfl: the dan– " gerous increafe ofarminianifin and popery, or the late innovations; they " infl:anced in Mr. Chauncy, Mr. lVorkman, Mr. Davenport and others; " fome of whom were punilhed in the high commiffion for not ·railing " in the communion· table, and for preaching againfl: images; and when " Mr. Davenport fled to New·England to avoid the fl:orm, the archbi– " lhop [aid, his arm fhou/d reach him there. They objetl:ed further, " his jitppre!Jing afternoon .fermom on the Lord's day, and the laudable " delign of buying in impropriations, which was defigned for the en- .Ahp'! an- ·" comaging fuch letl:urers." F<»er., . The archbiihop anfwered, that the cenfures pafl: on the minifters above 4 ~1ud ~' H~~: mentione~, was the atl: of the h!gh commiffion and ~ot his ; and be con– .P 33 3 Jeffes thetr fentences appeared JUft and reafonable, m as much as the paf 4 fages that occafioned them, were againfl: the laudable ceremonies of the ,church, againfl: the king's declaration, tending to infufe into the minds of peo-
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