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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<FIGDESC>royal blazon or coat of arms</FIGDESC>
<Q>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</Q>
<Q>DIEV ET MON DROIT</Q>
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<HEAD>&para; By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD>&leaf; A Proclamation declaring that the proceedings of His Maie&s;ties Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts and Mini&s;ters, are according to the Lawes of the Realme.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHereas in &s;ome of the libellous Bookes and Pamphlets lately pub|li&s;hed,</HI> the mo&s;t Reuerend Fathers in God, the Lords Archbi&s;hops, and Bi&s;hops of the Realme, are &s;aid to haue v&s;urped vpon His Ma|ie&s;ties Prerogatiue Royall, and to haue proceeded in the High Com|mi&s;&s;ion, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts, contrary to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme, It was ordered by His Maie&s;ties high Court of Starre-Chamber the twelfth day of Iune la&s;t, that the opinion of the two Lords, chiefe Iu&s;tices, the Lord chiefe Baron, and the re&s;t of the Iudges and Barons, &s;hould be had and certified in the&s;e particulars, <HI>viz.</HI> Whether Proce&s;&s;es may not i&s;&s;ue out of the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts in the names of the Bi&s;hops: Whe|ther a Patent vnder the great Seale be nece&s;&s;ary for the keeping the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts, and enabling Citations, Su&s;pen&s;ions, Excommunications, and other Cen&s;ures of the Church: And whether the Citations ought to be in the Kings name, and vnder his Seale of Armes, and the like for In&s;titutions and Inductions to Benefices, and correction of Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Offences; Whether Bi&s;hops, Archdeacons, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons may or ought to keepe any Vi&s;itation at any time, vnle&s;&s;e they haue expre&s;&s;e Commi&s;&s;ion or Patent vnder the great Seale of <HI>England</HI> to doe it, and that as His Maie&s;ties Vi&s;itors onely, and in His Name and Right alone.</P>
<P>Whereupon, His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Iudges hauing taken the &s;ame into their &s;erious con&s;ide|ration, did vnanimou&s;ly concurre and agree in opinion, and the fir&s;t day of Iuly la&s;t certified vnder their hands as followeth, That Proce&s;&s;es may i&s;&s;ue out of the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts in the name of the Bi&s;hops; And that a Patent vnder the great Seale is not nece&s;&s;ary for the keeping of the &s;aid Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts, or for the enabling of Citations, Su&s;pen&s;ions, Ex|communications, and other cen&s;ures of the Church; And that it is not nece&s;&s;ary that Sum|mons, Citations, or other Proce&s;&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall in the &s;aid Courts, or In&s;titutions, or In|ductions to Benefices, or correction of Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Offences by cen&s;ure in tho&s;e Courts, be in the Kings name, or with the &s;tile of the King, or vnder the Kings Seale, or that their Seales of Office haue in them the Kings Armes; And that the Statute of <HI>primo Edwardi &s;exti, cap. &s;ecundo,</HI> which enacted the contrary, is not now in force: And that the Bi&s;hops, Archdeacons, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall per&s;ons, may keepe their Vi&s;itations as v&s;ually they haue done, without Commi&s;&s;ion vnder the great Seale of <HI>England</HI> &s;o to doe: Which opinions and re&s;olutions being declared vnder the hands of all His Maie&s;ties &s;aid Iudges, and &s;o certified into His Court of Star-Chamber, were there recorded: And it was by that Court further ordered the fourth day of the &s;aid moneth of Iuly, that the &s;aid Certificate &s;hould be enrolled in all other His Maie|&s;ties Courts at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and in the High Commi&s;&s;ion, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts, for the &s;ati&s;faction of all men, that the proceedings in the High Commi&s;&s;ion, and other Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|call Courts, are agreeable to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme.</P>
<P>And His Royall Maie&s;tie hath thought fit, with aduice of His Councell, that a publike de|claration of the&s;e the opinions and re&s;olutions of His Reuerend and learned Iudges, being agreeable to the Iudgements and Re&s;olutions of former times, &s;hould be made knowne to all His Subiects, as well to vindicate the legall proceedings of His Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts and Mini&s;ters, from the vniu&s;t and &s;candalous imputation of Inuading or Intrenching on His Royall Prerogatiue, as to &s;ettle the mindes, and &s;top the mouthes of all vnquiet &s;pirits, that for the future they pre&s;ume not to cen&s;ure His Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Courts or Mini&s;ters in the&s;e their iu&s;t and warranted proceedings: And hereof His Maie&s;tie admoni&s;heth all His Subiects to take warning, as they will an&s;wer the contrary at their perils.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Giuen at the Court at Lyndhur&s;t, </HI> <DATE><HI>the eighteenth day of Augu&s;t, in the thirteenth yeare of His Maie&s;ties Reigne.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>&leaf; <HI>God &s;aue the King.</HI></TRAILER>
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<P>&para; Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maie&s;tie: And by the A&s;signes of Iohn Bill. 1637.</P>
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