brief account of the Pope's pretences of a Civil Right to the Crown of England, and the Answer thereunto. coats of arms 1 JOHANNES COMES WARENN 2 THOMAS COMES LANCASTR●● 3 RAD̄● DE MONTE COMES G●LOC 4 HUMFRIDUS DE ●OHVN COMES H●REF 5 ROGERUS BIGOT COMES NORFOLK 6 GVIDO COMES WARUVICI 7 RICARDUS COMES 〈◊〉 8 ADOMA●VS DE VALENCIA 9 HENRICUS DE LANCAST●IA 10 JOHANNES DE HASTING 11 HENRICUS DE PERCY 12 EDMUNDUS MORT●OMARI 13 ROBERTUS 〈◊〉 WALT●●● 14 WILLMS DNS DE MOL●NS 15 JOHANNES DNS DE HANACRE 16 HUGO DE VER 17 WILLMS DE ●REWOSE 18 ROBERTUS DE MONTEALT● 19 ROBERTUS DE TATESHALE 20 REGINALDUS 〈◊〉 DE 〈…〉 N 21 HENRICUS 〈◊〉 DE CO●HN●R 22 HUGO BARDOLE 23 ROBERTUS DE TONEY 24 WILLMS DE ROOS 25 ROBERTUS DE CLIFFORD 26 PETRUS DE MALOL●C● 27 PHILIPPUS DNS DE 〈◊〉 28 ROBERTUS ●●●●IVS ROGE●● 29 JOHANNES DE MOHUN 30 ALMARICUS DE SCO AMANDO 31 WILLMS DE FERRAR●IA 32 ALANUS ●A ZUCHE 33 THEOBALDUS DE VERDOUN 34 THOMAS DE ●URNYVA● 35 THOMAS DE MULTONN 36 WILLMS LE LATIMER 37 THOMAS DNS DE BERK●●E 38 ●●●●O 〈◊〉 WARINI 39 JOHANNES DNS DE 〈◊〉 40 EDMUN DNS DE EYNCOURT 41 PETRUS COBBE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 42 WILLMS DE CANTE ●●PO 43 JOHANNES DE BELLOCAMPO 44 ROGERUS DE MORTUOMA●●● 45 JOHANNES F●●●VS REGINALD 46 RANULPHUS DE NEVLL● 47 ●●IANVS ●●●VS ALANI 48 WILLMS MARESCALLUS 49 WALTERUS DNS DE HUNTERCOMBE 50 WILLMS MARTIN 51 HENRICUS LE TYEIS 52 ROGERUS L● WAR 53 JOHANNES DE ●●PA●●● 54 JOHANNES DE LANCASTRE 55 ROBERTUS E●●VS PAGANI 56 HENRICUS TREGOT● 57 RADUS PYPARD 58 WALTERUS DOMINUS DE EA●●●IM●●● 59 ROGERUS LE ESTRANGE 60 JOHANNES LE ESTRANGE 61 THOMAS DE CHAURTE 62 WALTERUS DE ●●LLO CAMPO 63 RICUS TALE●OT 64 JOHANNES BUTTECOURT 65 JOHANNES ENGAYN 66 HUGO POYN● 67 ADAM DNS DE WELL 68 SIMON DNS DE MONTE AC●TO 69 JOHANNES DNS DE SULLEE 70 JOHANNES DE MOELES 71 EDMUNDUS BARO STAFFORD 72 JOHANNES LOVEL 73 EDMUNDUS DE HASTING 74 RADUNS ●●●IVS WILLM 75 ROBERTUS DE CALANIS 76 WILLMS TOUCHBT 77 JOHANNES ABA●AM 78 JOHANNES DE HAUERING●● 79 ROBERTUS LA WARDE 80 NICHOLAUS DE SEGRAVE 81 WALTERUS DE TEYE 82 JOHANNES DE INSULA 83 EUSTACHIUS DNS DE ●ACCHE 84 GILBERTUS PECCHE 85 WILLMS PAYNELL 86 BOGO DE KNOVILL 87 FULCO LE ESTRANGE 88 ●●●●ICVS DE PINKENEY 89 JOHANNES DE HUDLESTON 90 ROGERUS DE HUNTINGF●ELD 91 HUGO FILIUS HENRICI 92 JOHANNES LE BRETON 95 THOMAS DNS DE LA ROCHE 93 NICHUS DE CARRAV 95 WALTERUS DE MUNCY 96 JOHANNES E●LIVS MARMAD●●CI 97 JOHANNES DNS DE KYNGESTON 98 ROBERTUS HASTANG 99 RADUNS DNS DE GRANDON 100 WILLMS DNS DE LEYBORN 101 JOHANNES DE GRASTOCK 102 MATHEUS ●ILIVS 103 NICHUS DE M●YNILL 104 JOHANNES PAYNEL Argent. Sable Gules. Vert. Azure. Or. Purpure. Ten Sanguine. Mich. Burgh. sculp. THat the Pope of Rome hath for some Ages last past pretended ●a Sovereign Right over Christian Kings and Princes, cannot be unknown to any, who are acquainted with the writings of their most approved Authors, the Decrees of their councils, or the Instances of such u●ped authority recorded in Histo● for these Five Hundred years. The judgement of their Licenced Au●ors, their Councils, and their Laws 〈◊〉 this Case, is excellently published by the Learned Pen of the Right Re●rend Bishop of Lincoln; and that the 〈◊〉 me Doctrine hath been by them generally received, I can bring no greater proofs, than their common practice recorded in History. How many Em●rours, Kings, and Sovereign Prin● have been de Facto deposed by them, ●w many great Maslacres and private Murders have been Encouraged and Defended, how many Tortures, and unheard of Cruelties, how ●ny Treasons, and Damnable Con●acies to the subversion of whole kingdoms, have been contrived, and ●me executed by Jesuits, and other ●issaries of Rome, would require a large Volumn to relate; I shall refer the Reader to a few Authors, for his abundant satisfaction herein. Thuanus, a 〈…〉 Bodinus, and the Exact Collections of b 〈…〉 Mr. Fowlis. Nor was there any place felt the weight of 〈◊〉 Pope's Iron Rod more grievous ●n the Kingdom of England; hence 〈◊〉 he want to exact vast sums of ●ney, which were as readily paid: 〈◊〉 of what esteem it was with him, 〈◊〉 may gather from the Character he gives, when he calls it * 〈◊〉 Inno● Anne Puteus inexhaustus. And from the time it hath pleased God to set us at liberty from their yoke and burden which neither we nor our Fathers were able to bear, what Damning Censures and Violent Excommunications have been sent out against us, what Secret and Horrible Plots have been contrived to destroy our Kings and Kingdoms, I hope will never be forgot: and all this not so much to re-establish here the Religion, as the Authority which the Pope hath lost: and the right of that Title which he claims to this Kingdom, he thinks equal to that pretended from Constantin's Donation. And to this purpose his Sub-Collector c 〈…〉 Polidore Virgil tells us, that Ina was the first King who made this Kingdom of England Tributary to the Pope: But he forgets himself pag. 740. where he saith Peter. pence was given Pietatis & Religionis Causa, for God's sake, and therefore not by way of Homage and Subjection. This Gift was continued by Offa, Atulphus, Canutus, and Edward the Confessor, who calls it the * 〈…〉 King's Alms. William the Conqueror alloweth this gift, but renounceth all Obedience to the Pope, as appears by Lanfranks Epist. d 〈…〉 Pope Pascal 2. in a Letter to Hen. 1. calls this Donation Beati Petri Eleemosyna, and c 〈…〉 Bishop Andrews tells us, that it was an Alms given to a Hospital at Rome, where they used to entertain Pilgrims out of England. The Second pretended Title is from King John's Resignation of the Crown to Pandulphus the Popes Legate, and receiving it again under Fealty, and Homage, and at the yearly Tribute of a Thousand Marks. Which Title upon several accounts will appear invalid. First as to matter of Fact; Sir Thomas Moor, who could not want all advantages of informing himself in affairs of this nature, denies it, his words are these; Some Writers say, that King John made England and Ireland Tributary to the Pope, by the grant of a thousand Marks; we dare surely say again, that this is untrue, and that all Rome neither can show such a grant, nor ever could, and if they could, it were right nought worth: For never could any King of England give away the Realm to the Pope, or make the Land Tributary if he would, nor no such money is there paid, nor never was. These are the words of that great Statesman, who was no enemy to the Pope's Authority. But granting there was something done to this purpose, in the presence of a few Peers, and without the Consent of Any, as Mat. Paris a Monk of Saint Alban, who lived at that time, acquaints us; I shall take my Second Argument to invallidate this Title, from the words of Sir Thomas Moor before cited: for if they could at Rome show any such grant, yet it were right nought worth: for never any King of England could give away the Realm to the Pope, nor make the Land Tributary if he would. And herein agree the Learned Grotius, Bodinus, and other Lawyers: and the Barons of this Realm were obliged by their Oaths, (g) Lambers Apx. p. 170. lib. 50: de obsequis 〈◊〉 Regem lege 59 p. 171. Terras & honores Regis omni fidelitate ubique servare cum eo, & contra inimicos & alienigenas defendere, To preserve together with the King the Territories and Honour of the King, and to defend them against their Enemies and Foreigners. And here with agrees the Command which the Conqueror laid upon all the Commons; Firmiter pracipimus ut omnes liberi homines totius Regni praedicti sint fratres jurati ad Monarchiam nostram pro viribus suis & facultatibus, contra inimicos pro posse sue defendendum, & viriliter servandum. i e. We strictly Charge and Command, that all Freeholders' in all parts of our Kingdom shall be sworn Brethren, Sworn to defend our Monarchy with their Persons and Estates, to the utmost of their ability, and manfully to preserve it: by which it appears that the Commons were as well as the Lords bound to defend their Country against Usurpations and Invasions; and we doubt not but the same English courage is to be found amongst their posterity, which we find (h) Co●. Postbum. pag. 348. which 〈◊〉 quoteth è lib. Sancti Albani fol. 207. Recorded about the 44. year of Henry the third. For when Pope Alexander the Fourth demanded a revocation of Adomar Bishop of Winchester, because he was a Churchman, as was urged, and not subject to lay Censures, who had been Banished by the joint consent of the King, Lords, and Commons, for his intolerable Insolence, the Commons gave this resolute answer to the Pope's demand, Peter de Monford being Prolocutor; Si Dominus Rex & Regni Majores hoc vellent, (meaning Adomar's revocation from Banishment,) COMMUNITAS tamen ipstus ingressum in Angliam jam nullatenus sustineret. Though the King, and Peers of the Realm should declare for his return, yet the Commons would by no means endure it. Lastly no man can confer a greater Right upon another, than what is in himself; and that King John was an Usurper, is evident from all Histories of that Age; for Arthur of Britain, his Elder Brother's Son, was Thirteen years of Age, when John invaded the Throne, but fearing that he might not be long quiet in his Possession, whilst the Right Heir was alive, he Murdered his Nephew, and imprisoned his Niece Elinor, who survived him; and this doth utterly make void his Right to dispose of what he had not right to keep. And of what small account was this pretended Title, not only the Resolution; of the Commons afore mentioned, but also this Letter Subscribed by all the Peers of England will abundantly manifest. THe Reader may please to take notice, that the Exemplar whence this was taken is in Corpus Christi College Library in Oxon, and Recorded by Mat. Westminster, and Walsingham, and mentioned by Parsons in his answer to the Lord Chief Justice Coks Reports, but without any Reply, pag. 266. cap. 11. and whereas in that the Names round the Arms are in an ancient English letter, the Graver being unacquainted with the Character, for his own ease, and more convenient Reading, hath put them in the Modern. Febr. 8. 1678. Imprimatur, JOHN NICHOLAS Vicecan. OXON. OXFORD. Printed by LEON. LICHFIELD for RICHARD DAVIS, 1619, And are to be Sold by MOSES PITT, at the Angel; HENRY MORTLOCK, at the Phoenix, in St. Paul's Church Yard: and at the White Hart in Wesiminstes' Hall