APPENDIX

IS the Defign of this Appendix to to remark fome of thofe Mistakes and falfe Quotations to be found in the History of the Puritans, which could not, without too much Interruption, be mentioned in the former Part of this Work. The Number might have been confiderably encreased; but what is here collected, together with the Mistakes taken Notice of before, will be fufficient to convince the Reader, that if Mr. N. intended an accurate or impartial Hiftory, he has greatly fail'd in the Execution of his Defign. Were thefe Errors lefs frequent or lefs obvious; did they favour one Side as well as the other, he would have a better Title to plead Inadvertency. But when his Readers observe, that his chief Mistakes are in one Strain, viz. to blacken the Establishment, and to heighten the Character of thofe that oppofed it, Mr. N. muft fubmit to their Judgment, whether fuch Mistakes could be involuntary and undefigned.

N's Hift. p. 2. 'The Legislature, in the 25th Year ' of Edward III. paffed an Act, called, a Statute of Provifors, whereby it is enacted, That the King and 'other Lords fhall prefent unto Benefices of their own or their Ancestors Foundation, and not the • Bishop of Rome.

This Mr. N. quotes and marks as a Clause in the Act of Parliament, whereas it is only the Title of the Act, and no Claufe in the A&t itfelf. This Gentleman is extreamly carelefs in quoting Acts

of

Church Hift. lib.4. p. 130.

of Parliament. Thus, pag. 3. the Statute called, Præmunire Enacts, That if any (in general, Clergy or Laity) purchase Bulls, &c. from Rome. Whereas Mr. N. fays, if any of the Clergy did purchafe, &c. which he marks as the very Words of the A&; and fo he does the Penalty-Their Perfons to be imprisoned; but the Act fays, That they be at'tached by their Bodies, if they may be found, and 'brought before the King and Council, there to anfwer to the Cafes aforefaid; or that Procefs be made against them, &c." In the fame Page, fays Mr. N. The Canons of the Convocation were binding, tho' confirmed by no Authority but their own, 'till the Act of Supremacy took Place." 'Twas not the Act of Supremacy, but another Law, called, the Submiffion of the Clergy, and Restraint of Appeals, that related to the making of Canons.

N's Hift. p. 3.. 'John Wickliffe was born at Wickliffe in Yorkshire, about the Year 1324, and was educated in Queen's College, Oxford, where he was "Divinity Profeffor."

Mr. Fuller fays, We can give no Account of Wickliffe's Birth, Parentage only we find an antient Family of Wickliffs in the Bishoprick of Durham. As for this our Wickliffe, Hiftory, at the very first, meets with him a Man and full grown, yea, Graduate of Merton College in Oxford.

The Profefforfhip of Divinity was founded many Years after, by Henry VIII.

As to Wickliffe's Opinions, Mr. Fuller fays, they were like the Stones on Salisbury Plain, falfely reported; no two can count them alike. Thofe he has quoted are taken from his greatest Adversary; and he complains what Pity it is we want Wickliffe's Works, to hear him fpeak in his own Behalf. Mr. N. has even gone beyond the Catalogue in Fuller, tho' that was compos'd by his greatest Adverfary, and imputed Opinions to him, not to be found there; in particular, that fignificant Ceremonies in religious Worship are unlawful; and he has omitted feveral which are directly against the Notions of the Puritans. For Inftance, that Deacons may preach. Art. 13. And that it is lawful, in Caufes Ecclefiaftical, and Matters of

Faith,

Faith, after the Bishop's Sentence, to appeal to the fecular Prince. Vid. N.146. & alib. To add Credit to the Puritan Side, Mr. N. mentions Wickliffe as maintaining the fame Opinions as they did; but takes no Notice how he differed from them.

N's Hift. p. 5. After fome Time, a Controverfy arose between the Houses of York and Lancaster, about the Right of Succeffion to the Crown, which " was favourable to Wickliffe.

A little after Mr. N. fays, Wickliffe died in the Year 1384. The Difputes between the Houses of York and Lancaster began in the Year 1399, when Richard II. was depofed, fifteen Years after Wickliffe's Death.

N's Hift. p. 26. Art. 5. The Clergy were to ex'hort their Parishioners to teach their Children the 'Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments, • in English.

And every Incumbent was to explain thefe, one Article a Day, 'till the People were inftructed in them. Of this useful Injunction Mr. N. takes no Notice.

N's Hift. p. 32. The true Caufe of Cromwell's Fall was, the Share he had in the King's Marriage with the Lady Anne of Cleves, whom his Majefty 'took an Averfion to as soon as he saw her.

Bishop Burnet exprefly contradicts this. His Remark upon the King's creating him Earl of Effex, after his Marriage with Anne of Cleves, is in these Words: This fhews, that the true Caufes of Crom'well's Fall must be founded in fome other thing than his making up the King's Marriage, who had never thus raised his Title, if he had intended fo foon to pull him down." Hift. Reform. Vol. I. Pag. 275.

N's Hift. p. 38, 39. A Form of Proceffion was • published in English, entituled, An Exhortation to Prayer Alfo a Litany-Collects were placed at the End, with fome Pfalms, and a Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer.

No

No Pfalms, or Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer, at the End of the Litany. There are two Editions of this Exhortation, &. in St. John's Library, Cambridge; one printed in 1544, the other in 1546; in neither of thefe are any Pfalms, or Paraphrafe on the Lord's Prayer.

N's Hift. p. 47.

'The Book of Homilies con

fifted of Twelve Difcourfes on the following Arguments.

1. Concerning the Use it. A Fruitful Exhortation

of the Scriptures.

2. Of the Mifery of
Mankind, by Sin.
3. Of their Salvation by
Chrift.

to the Reading of Holy Scripture.

2. Of the Mifery of Mankind, by Sin.

3. Of the Salvation of all Mankynde.

There are some other Variations in other Articles; but this is particularly taken Notice of, to fhew the Sentiments of the first Reformers upon univerfal Redemption. One of the Injunctions that follow confirms this, where it is directed, that Erasmus's Paraphrafe should be fet up in every Church.

N's Hift. p. 49. How fadly this Bidding of Prayer has been abused of late by fome Divines, to the ENTIRE Omiffion of the Duty it felf, is too well known to need a Remark.

Are there no Frayers then in the Church of England, unless they are offered by the Minister in the Pulpit? The most that can be inferred is, that the Clergyman who preaches does not ufe any Prayer in the Pulpit, except the Lord's Prayer. But fure the Duty of Prayer is not entirely omitted, when almost an Hour has been before employed in that very Duty.

N's Hift. p. so. The Parliament that met, November 9. (the Statute-Book fays November 4.) ⚫ made an A&t concerning the Admiffion of Bishops ' into their Sees, which fets forth, that the Manner

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⚫ of chufing Bishops by a Conge d'Elire, being but the Shadow of an Election, all Bifhops hereafter 'fhall be appointed by the King's Letters Patents only, and ball continue the Exercise of their Jurifdiction DURANTE BENEPLACITO, or durante vita naturali, fi tamdiu fe bene gefferint.

'Tis a ftrange Liberty this Gentleman takes with the Laws of his Country. Is there a fingle Word like this in the Statute it felf, or.in B. Burnet's Abridgment of it? The Words of this Statute, 1 Edw. 6. c. 2. are these. Be it Enacted That from henceforth no Conge d'Elire be granted, nor Election of any Archbishop, or Bishop, by the Dean and Chapter made, but that the King may, by his Let'ters Patents, at all Times, when any Archbishop

rick or Bishoprick is void, confer the fame to any • Perfon whom the King fhall think meet; the which • Collation fo by the King's Letters Patents made. and delivered to the Perfon to whom the King 'fhall confer the fame, Archbishoprick or Bifhoprick, or to the fufficient Proctor and Attorney, fball ftand to ALL Intents, Conftructions and Purpofes, to as much and the fame Effect, as tho' Conge d'Elire had been given, the Election duly made, and the fame confirmed, and thereupon the faid Perfon to whom the faid Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, or Suffraganthip, is fo conferred, collated, or given, may be confecrated, and sue his Livery, or Oufter le main, and do other things, as well as if the faid Ceremonies and Elections had been done and made." Mr. N. adds in the fame Page, One of the first Patents with this Claufe is that of Dr. Barlow in the Second Year of the King's Reign; but all the rest of the Bishops afterwards took out Letters Patents for their Bi

'fhopricks with the fame Claufe." Bishop Barnet, Vol. II. p. 150. in the Seventh Year of the King's Reign, fays, Ridley and Thirlbey were made Bishops of London and Norwich. Both were, according to the com'mon Form, to be Bishops durante vita naturali, during Life." Mr. N. goes on: In this the • Archbishop had a principal Hand; for it was his Judgment, that the Exercife of all Epifcopal Jurifdiction depended upon the Prince; and that as

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