154 The HI ST 0 R Y of the Pu RlT ANS~ VoL. II. K. Charles I. gent foever in their callings, and pious in their lives, being reputed fac-. ~ tious, fchifmatical, and unworthy· of the leafi employment in the church. Prynne, P• 537· As to the impropriations, there was no defign in the feoffees to render the clergy independent on the bifhops, for none were prefented bnt con. formable men, nor .did any preach but fuch as were 'licen(ed by the bi– fhop; inde~d the defign being to encourage the preaching of the word of God, the feqffees were careful to employ fuch perfons as would nol: be idle; and when they perceived the archbifhop was bent on their ruin, Mr. White went to his grace, and promifed to reCtify any thing that was amifs, if the thing it felf might fiand . But he was -deterQ:lined to defl:roy it, and by his mighty influence obtained a decree, . that the money thouId be pJid into the king's exchequer, by which an end was put to one of the mofi charitable defigns for the good of the church, that has been formed . thefe many years. Reconciling The !aft charge of the managers, was "his grace's open attempts to recon– the church of" cile the church of England with the church of Ro»ze, as appears, ji;jl, E~gland « by the papal titles he [uttered t'he univerlities to give him in their letters, ::~haffu:~g" as[a_nftitas vdfra, y?ur holinefs; faneliflime pater, moll ho\y fa1her; papa/titles, "JPmtus Janelt ljfufi!Jzme plenus, full of the holy ghoft; jumm!IS pontifex, and difco~ra-" optimus maximufque in terris, &c. agreeably to this he affumed to him– ~~fta:~fs~ "felflhe tide of PATR'IARCH,, or pope of G_r~at Bri~ain, alterius otbis M. Charge. "papa; which gave the Romamfls fuch an opm10h of htm, that they of. lb. p. 441. " -fered him twice a cardinal's hat ; though as things then !l:ood, he did Prynne, p. 539· '' not think it prudent to receive it. But Sir H. Mildmay, and Sir N. . " Brmt [wore, that both at Rome and elfewhere, he was reputed a pa– ce pift in his heart ; which opinion wa·s not a little cenfirmed, (I.) By his " forbidding the clergy to pray for the cohverfion of the queen to the " protefiant faith. {2.) By hi·s owning the church of Rome to be a true " church; by denying the pope to be antichrift, and wilhing a reconci– " liation with her ; and affirming that fhe never erred in fundamentals, " no, not in the wor!l: of times. ( J·) By his [owing difcord ·between the " church·of England and foreign prote!l:ants, not only by taking away the '' privileges and immuniries of the french and dut-ch !ehurches in tbefe king– " dams, but by denying their mini!l:ers to be t-rtJe ·minifters, 'and their "churches true churches. (4.) By maintilining an intimate correfpon- ,, dence with the pope's nuncio and with divers j)riefts and jefuits, conni– " ving at the liberiies they took in the clink, and elfewhere, and threat– '' ning thofe .rurfu ivants who where diligent in apprehending them; to " all which they il.dded, the influence the al'chbifhop had in marrying the 2 " king
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