By the King. a Proclamation against the opression of the clergy by the intrusion of factious and schismaticall persons into their cures and inverting and detaining their tithes, and possessions by orders of one or both Houses of Parliament, contrary to all law and justice.
         England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
      
       
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             By the King. a Proclamation against the opression of the clergy by the intrusion of factious and schismaticall persons into their cures and inverting and detaining their tithes, and possessions by orders of one or both Houses of Parliament, contrary to all law and justice.
             England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
             Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
          
           1 sheet ([1] p.)
           
             Prinred [sic] by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity,
             Oxford [i.e., London] :
             1643.
          
           
             Dated at end: Given at Our Court at Oxford, the fifteenth day of May, in the ninteenth yeare of Our Reigne.
             Another edition of this Proclamation with "oppression" in the title.
             Actual place of publication from Wing.
             Annotation on Thomason copy: "may. 27. 1643".
             Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
          
        
      
    
     
       
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           BY
           THE
           KING
        
         
           A
           Proclamation
           against
           the
           Opression
           of
           the
           Clergy
           by
           the
           Intrusion
           of
           Factious
           and
           Schismaticall
           Persons
           into
           their
           Cures
           ,
           and
           inverting
           and
           detaining
           their
           Tithes
           ,
           and
           possessions
           by
           Orders
           of
           one
           or
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           contrary
           to
           all
           Law
           and
           Justice
           .
        
         
           WHEREAS
           by
           the
           Great
           Charter
           of
           the
           Liberties
           of
           
             England
          
           it
           is
           provided
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           should
           have
           all
           its
           Rights
           whole
           ,
           and
           the
           Liberties
           inviolable
           and
           amongst
           others
           the
           Church
           hath
           these
           Priviledges
           ,
           That
           regularly
           no
           Ecclesiasticall
           Possessions
           may
           be
           extended
           ,
           seized
           or
           sequestred
           but
           by
           the
           Ordinary
           ,
           And
           that
           Distresses
           may
           not
           be
           taken
           of
           Lands
           wherewith
           Churches
           have
           been
           anciently
           envowed
           ;
           And
           that
           Churches
           presentative
           cannot
           be
           filled
           ,
           and
           the
           Lawful
           Incumbents
           ;
           hereof
           removed
           but
           by
           the
           Ordinary
           ,
           nor
           the
           Cure
           of
           the
           Incumbents
           served
           by
           Curates
           ,
           Lecturers
           or
           others
           ,
           but
           by
           their
           own
           appointment
           ,
           or
           in
           their
           default
           by
           the
           appointment
           of
           the
           Ordinary
           ;
           neither
           are
           any
           of
           Our
           Subjects
           of
           the
           Laity
           by
           the
           Common-Lawes
           of
           Our
           Realme
           capable
           to
           take
           or
           receive
           Tithes
           (
           which
           are
           the
           portion
           of
           the
           Clergy
           )
           unlesse
           by
           demisse
           from
           them
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           are
           appropriate
           and
           made
           Lay-Fee
           :
           Neverthelesse
           by
           colour
           of
           Orders
           or
           pretended
           Ordinances
           of
           one
           or
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           the
           Estates
           Reall
           and
           Personall
           as
           well
           of
           Our
           Clergy
           as
           La●ty
           have
           been
           and
           are
           daily
           seized
           ,
           sequestred
           and
           taken
           from
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           Possessions
           d●strayned
           for
           illegall
           Taxes
           and
           Contributions
           for
           supporting
           the
           Rebellion
           against
           Vs
           ;
           Which
           being
           clearly
           against
           Law
           and
           vnwarrantable
           ,
           We
           did
           forbid
           by
           Our
           Proclamation
           of
           the
           seventh
           of
           
             Aprill
          
           last
           ,
           and
           do
           hereby
           forbid
           the
           same
           ,
           under
           the
           penalties
           in
           that
           Our
           Proclamation
           contained
           .
           And
           whereas
           divers
           of
           Our
           Clergy
           Eminent
           for
           their
           Piety
           and
           Learning
           ,
           because
           they
           publish
           Our
           Lawfull
           and
           Iust
           Commands
           and
           Declarations
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           ,
           against
           the
           known
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           and
           their
           own
           Consciences
           ,
           submit
           to
           Contributions
           ,
           nor
           publiquely
           pray
           against
           Vs
           and
           Our
           Assistants
           ,
           but
           conforme
           themselves
           to
           the
           Book
           of
           Common-Prayer
           established
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           Preach
           Gods
           Word
           according
           to
           the
           Purity
           thereof
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           Sermons
           will
           not
           teach
           Sedition
           ,
           nor
           will
           publish
           illegall
           Commands
           and
           Orders
           for
           fomenting
           the
           unnaturall
           Warre
           Levied
           against
           Vs
           ,
           are
           some
           of
           them
           driven
           and
           forced
           from
           their
           Cures
           and
           Habitations
           ,
           some
           others
           Silenced
           and
           discharged
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           their
           Cures
           ,
           and
           Persecuted
           and
           their
           Curates
           ,
           if
           Orthodox
           ,
           displaced
           ,
           and
           others
           who
           are
           Factious
           and
           Schismaticall
           intruded
           and
           put
           in
           ,
           to
           sow
           Sedition
           and
           seduce
           Our
           good
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Obedience
           ,
           expresly
           contrary
           to
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           the
           Giebs
           ,
           Tithes
           ,
           and
           other
           Emoluments
           of
           Right
           belonging
           to
           such
           Incumbents
           as
           will
           not
           conforme
           to
           that
           Faction
           ,
           are
           diverted
           in
           all
           Parishes
           where
           such
           Arbitrary
           power
           prevailes
           ,
           and
           distributed
           ,
           part
           to
           such
           Factious
           Curates
           ,
           and
           the
           test
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           this
           Warre
           ,
           against
           Law
           and
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           Our
           Will
           and
           Pleasure
           therefore
           is
           ,
           and
           We
           do
           hereby
           straitly
           charge
           and
           command
           all
           Our
           Subjects
           as
           well
           Ecclesiasticall
           as
           Temporall
           ,
           not
           to
           presume
           to
           intermeddle
           in
           discharging
           or
           hindering
           any
           of
           Our
           said
           Clergy
           for
           the
           cause
           aforesaid
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           the
           like
           pretences
           ,
           or
           any
           of
           them
           from
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Cures
           and
           Functions
           ,
           or
           in
           displaceing
           the
           said
           Curates
           substituted
           by
           them
           ,
           nor
           doe
           presume
           to
           intrude
           or
           cause
           any
           Curates
           ,
           Lecturers
           or
           others
           ,
           to
           be
           intruded
           or
           put
           into
           fuch
           Curates
           substituted
           by
           them
           ,
           delete
           the
           records
           or
           to
           take
           or
           dispose
           the
           Globe
           ;
           Tithes
           ,
           Fruits
           ,
           or
           Emoluments
           belonging
           to
           any
           of
           our
           said
           Clergy
           ,
           Who
           are
           so
           silenced
           ,
           forced
           from
           their
           Cures
           ,
           and
           persecuted
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           And
           we
           doe
           hereby
           require
           and
           command
           all
           Our
           Subjects
           duly
           to
           set
           forth
           and
           pay
           their
           Tithes
           to
           their
           severall
           and
           respective
           lawfull
           Incumbents
           of
           their
           Parishes
           or
           to
           their
           Farmors
           Assignes
           ,
           or
           Deputies
           ,
           without
           any
           guile
           or
           fraud
           ;
           and
           so
           as
           the
           same
           may
           be
           received
           and
           enjoyed
           by
           the
           same
           Incumbents
           ,
           without
           any
           diminution
           ,
           substraction
           or
           diversion
           ,
           notwithstanding
           any
           sequestration
           or
           pretende
           Orders
           or
           Ordinaces
           ,
           or
           other
           command
           whatsoever
           of
           one
           or
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           .
           And
           if
           any
           Person
           or
           Persons
           whatsoever
           shall
           presume
           to
           transgresse
           this
           Our
           Command
           ,
           We
           do
           hereby
           Declare
           and
           Signify
           ,
           That
           they
           do
           not
           only
           oppugue
           and
           infring
           the
           good
           old
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           and
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Church
           (
           which
           all
           Our
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Our Selfe
           ,
           are
           bound
           to
           mantaine
           and
           observe
           )
           but
           do
           also
           assist
           a
           Rebellion
           against
           Vs
           ,
           for
           which
           We
           shall
           proceed
           against
           them
           according
           Law
           ,
           as
           they
           shallbe
           apprehended
           and
           brought
           to
           the
           Hands
           of
           Iustice
           and
           will
           give
           direction
           for
           taking
           their
           Lands
           and
           Goods
           into
           safe
           Custody
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           .
        
         
           And
           We
           doe
           hereby
           farther
           straitly
           commmand
           and
           require
           all
           Church-Wardens
           ,
           Sides-men
           and
           Patishiones
           whatsoever
           ,
           to
           resist
           all
           such
           Persons
           as
           shall
           be
           so
           intruded
           or
           put
           into
           any
           of
           the
           Cures
           aforesaid
           by
           ,
           or
           upon
           pretence
           of
           any
           such
           pretence
           of
           any
           such
           pretended
           Orders
           or
           Ordinances
           or
           commands
           as
           aforesaid
           ,
           and
           to
           assist
           (
           as
           much
           as
           in
           them
           lyeth
           )
           the
           Lawfull
           Ancumbents
           ,
           their
           Curates
           ,
           Farmors
           ,
           Assignes
           or
           Deputies
           ,
           in
           the
           receaving
           taking
           and
           enjoying
           the
           Glebe
           ,
           Tithes
           ,
           Fruites
           Emoluments
           to
           them
           of
           right
           belonging
           ,
           Willing
           &
           commanding
           all
           Sheriffes
           ,
           Majors
           ,
           Bayliffes
           ,
           Iustices
           &
           Peace
           ,
           Constables
           ,
           Head-boroughs
           &
           other
           Our
           Officers
           &
           loving
           Subjects
           what
           's
           ;
           oever
           ,
           upon
           their
           Allegianc
           ,
           &
           the
           severest
           punishment
           that
           by
           the
           Law
           may
           be
           unflicted
           upon
           them
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           obey
           &
           observ
           carfuly
           these
           Our
           cōmāds
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           aiding
           and
           assisting
           to
           the
           utmost
           of
           their
           power
           to
           all
           such
           Persons
           as
           shall
           requirs
           their
           assistance
           and
           Protetection
           in
           this
           behalfe
           ,
           and
           to
           resist
           and
           repell
           ,
           by
           force
           of
           Armes
           ,
           all
           such
           as
           shall
           oppose
           this
           Our
           Legall
           command
           .
           And
           Our
           Will
           and
           pleasure
           is
           ,
           That
           this
           Our
           Proclamation
           be
           read
           in
           all
           Churches
           and
           Chappells
           in
           this
           Our
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           
             Given
             at
             Our
             Court
             at
             
               Oxford
               ,
            
             
               the
               Fifteenth
               day
               of
               
                 May
                 ,
              
               in
               the
               Ninteenth
               yeare
               of
               Our
               Reigne
               .
               
                 May
                 .
                 27.
                 1643
              
            
          
           
           GOD
           Save
           the
           KING
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
           Printed
           at
           Oxford
           by
           LEONARD
           LICHFIELD
           Printed
           to
           the
           Vniversity
           .
           1643.