664. Streneshalchana Synodus: cui interfuerunt Colmanus et Wilfridus

680. Theodorus Campidonensis, vel quicunque author fuit vitæ Magni

1347. Pembrigius, author prioris partis annalium Hiberniæ a D. Cam

deno editorum

1357. Richardus Armachanus

1366. Johannes de Tinmouth, Anglicus vulgo dictus

1384. Guilielmus Andreæ, Midensis episcopus

1392. Concilium Stanfordiæ sub Guilielmo Cantuariensi

1417. Oratores Angli in Constantiensi Concilio

1427. Thomas Casaus

1438. Marcus Ephesius 1460. Johannes Capgravius

1461. Johannes Hardingus

1480. Johannes Rossus

1490. Pomponius Lætus

1494. Baptista Mantuanus

1500. Jo. Cuspinianus

1533. Polydorus Virgilius

THAT which concerneth the pope's supremacy and the union of other Churches with the Church of Rome, I have here handled at large: because upon that point the Romanists do hazard their whole cause, acknowledging the standing or falling of their Church absolutely to depend thereupon. I have somewhat also insisted upon the supreme power which the kings of England have in the temporal state of this realm, and discovered the vanity of the pope's claim unto it: the exercise of the prince's power in causes ecclesiastical, I have touched but incidently; that being a question which requireth explication rather than demonstration. Wherein having been called by authority (the very same time wherein I was making up this treatise) to give satisfaction in a public place of justice unto such as pretended some scruple of conscience that way, I thought good to annex that declaration' as a kind of a supplement to this present discourse, together with his Majesty's royal approbation of it; which I have done, not for any vain ostentation (although I have good cause to rejoice in the testimony and perpetual memory of my dear master) but to stop the mouth of cavillers, who may perhaps object that the king challengeth another manner of authority than that which I ascribe unto him which no man will say, who knew king James to have been, as the most learned and judicious prince that ever sat upon this throne, so the most jealous of his prerogative royal, and the most impatient of the least diminution of the rights and preeminences united unto his imperial crown: whereby you may easily discern, that such as charge the taking that part of the oath of supre

a Etenim de qua re agitur, cum de primatu pontificis agitur? brevissime dicam, de summa rei Christianæ. Id enim quæritur, debeatne Ecclesia diutius consistere, an vero dissolvi, et concidere. Bellarm. Præfat. in libros de Rom. Pontif.

b See vol. 2. pag.

See life, ann. 1622.

macy, which concerneth the king's authority in causes ecclesiastical, with "loathsome and base flattery, abominable and blasphemous adulation, shameful heresy and untruth against nature" (these be the powers of cardinal Allen's rhetoric) bewray themselves to be somewhat near of kin unto those false teachers, that speak great swelling words of vanity: whose characters St. Peterd and St. Judee have long since deciphered; that not only, out of their presumption and self conceitedness, "they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities," but also after a brutish manner take the boldness to "speak evil of those things which they understand not," from whose seductions I beseech God to deliver all his Majesty's true hearted subjects.

42 Peter chap. 2. ver. 10, 12, 18.

e Jude, ver. 8, 10.

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