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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE EXAMINATIONS OF Faithful Commin DOMINICAN FRYAR, AS Sir <HI>James Ware</HI> had them from the late Lord PRIMATE <HI>&V;SHER,</HI> Being One of the MEMORIALS of the LORD <HI>CECIL.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by <HI>ROB. WARE,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR></P>
<P>Printed in the Year, M.DC.LXXIX.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>THe Impo&s;tors that dayly appear in the Mode of preci&s;e or Nonconformi&s;t Preachers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Demon|&s;trance of a Nonconfor|mi&s;t.</NOTE> will not &s;eem &s;trange to tho&s;e that &s;hall con&s;ider the Story here pre&s;ented, (collected by my Dear Father out of Primate <HI>U&s;hers</HI> Manu&s;cripts;) and how the grand Enemies of the Reformed Religion (compri&s;ed under the Name of Prote&s;tancy) do not care in what way they attack it, &s;o that they can but de&s;troy or di&s;grace it.</P>
<P>Therefore all good Prote&s;tants have need to take warning, that they admit of no Novel Teachers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Caution to the Church of <HI>England.</HI> The Advan|tages that <HI>Rome</HI> gets by Prote|&s;tants not being united and confor|mable.</NOTE> or &s;uch as pretend to New Lights among&s;t them.</P>
<P>It is a double Advantage that the Pope and the Devil gets by &s;uch In&s;truments, that under the Name of any Sect of Religion, that are contrary to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> can not only debauch the People they communicate with, into the mo&s;t horrid acts of Im|piety, but cover their own Guilt, and ca&s;t the &s;hame of them upon others, as was too palpable in that unparallelled Villany in De|&s;troying His late Maje&s;ty by Popi&s;h Emi&s;saries, in Presbyterian and Independent Gui&s;es, and then leaving the Obloquy upon both.</P>
<P>The Antiquity of this Example,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Romes</HI> Ma|lice to the Church of <HI>England</HI> e|ven from its fir&s;t Ri&s;e&mdash;</NOTE> &s;et forth in this <HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> may inform all good people, that the Malice and De|&s;igns of <HI>Rome</HI> again&s;t Truth, that began to &s;hine in the days of that Defender of the Faith, Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> are near as old as the Reformation it &s;elf. And yet the Growth and Progre&s;s it hath made &s;ince, &s;hews it will never dye, whil&s;t that Apo&s;tate Church hath Wealth or Power to &s;upport it. Which God of his mercy put a &s;peedy end to, that we may once again enjoy our Li|berties, without fear, to the Rejoycing of all well meaning people.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Humble Servant R. WARE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>The</HI> EXAMINATION OF <HI>FAITHF&V;LL COMMIN</HI> the Dominican <HI>Fryer,</HI> who pretended to be a Godly Preacher <HI>Anno.</HI> 1567.</HEAD>
<P><HI>FAithfull Commin,</HI> of the Order of Saint <HI>Dominick</HI> Anno, 1567. to all Peo|ples Imaginations &s;uppo&s;ed to be a Strict <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> again&s;t the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> was brought before Her GRACE our Dread Sovereign Queen <HI>Eli|zabeth,</HI> of <HI>England France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> Queen, and Her Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Ho|nourable Council on Munday the fifth of <HI>April,</HI> being accu&s;ed for &s;owing of Sedition among&s;t Her Maje&s;ties Faithful Subjects, by the Te&s;timony of <HI>John Clerk&s;on</HI> Chap|line to his Grace <HI>Mathew Parker</HI> Arch-bi&s;hop of <HI>Ganterbury;</HI> as al&s;o by the Te|&s;timonies of <HI>Nicholas Draper</HI> and <HI>Mary Dean,</HI> all being Sworn upon the Holy <HI>Evan|geli&s;ts,</HI> That the &s;aid <HI>Faithfull</HI> was an Impo&s;tor, Notwith&s;tanding he Preached a|gain&s;t <HI>Pope Pius Quintus,</HI> the <HI>Pope</HI> of <HI>Rome.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Arch-bi&s;hops Que&s;tions.</HEAD>
<SP>
<P><HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> what Profe&s;&s;ion art thou off?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;wer.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of Chri&s;ts Order.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What Order is that?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>A Preacher of the Holy Go&s;pel.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What Go&s;pel is that you call the Holy Go&s;pel?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Go&s;pel of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Under who&s;e power do you Own to hold that Holy Go&s;pel?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Under Chri&s;t and his Saints.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Do you acknowledg any other power &s;ave Chri&s;t, to be on Earth?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes I do.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q</SPEAKER>
<P>What power is that?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Holy Catholique Church.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Do you not acknowledg a <HI>Defender</HI> of the Holy Catholique Faith?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>God is the only <HI>Defender</HI> thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The A<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ch-bi&s;hop to Her Maje&s;tie.</SPEAKER>
<P>Your Gracious Maje&s;tie may perceive, that this Man either hath been In&s;tructed what to &s;ay, or otherwi&s;e he mu&s;t be by his an|&s;wers a man of Craft.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e &s;o my Lord.</P>
</SP>
<P>Then <HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> being commanded to withdraw, Her <HI>Grace</HI> and the whole Councell Con&s;ulted what to do, and how to proceed further in this matter, cau|&s;ed the &s;aid <HI>John Clerk&s;on</HI> to come in before the Board.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is your name.?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jo. Clerk&s;on</SPEAKER>
<P>May it plea&s;e Your <HI>Grace,</HI> my name is <HI>John Clerk&s;on.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>Were you acquainted with <HI>Faithfull Commin?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jo. Clerk&s;on.</SPEAKER>
<P>I was.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="4" REF="3">
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>How long?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jo. Clerk&s;on.</SPEAKER>
<P>Within this year and more.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>What have you &s;ay again&s;t <HI>Faithful</HI> Commin, that he is &s;u&s;pected to be an Impo&s;tor.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jo. Clerk&s;on.</SPEAKER>
<P>Three things.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>What be they?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jo, Clerk.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> things, Fir&s;t let him prove his Ordination &s;ince he fell from the <HI>Dominican</HI> Order.</P>
<P>Secondly, why he never cometh to the Prayers of the now E&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">bli&s;hed Church of <HI>England;</HI> but <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">arteth up and Preacheth to the people not coming into the Church, till the Prayers be fini&s;hed. Thirdly, let him prove that he ever Re|ceived the Sacrament, according to the Church of <HI>England,</HI> from any of our Or|thodox <HI>Clergy-men.</HI></P>
</SP>
<P>Her <HI>Grace</HI> and the Councell con&s;idering of the&s;e three things, &s;ent out for the &s;aid <HI>Faithful</HI> Commin to come in.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Arch-Bi&s;hop.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;t</SPEAKER>
<P>Were you ever Ordained?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes I was Ordained.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>By whom?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>By the Cardinal (meaning <HI>Poole.</HI>)</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Qu.</SPEAKER>
<P>Had you not other Certificate &s;ince under any of the Bi&s;hops hands, &s;ince the Reformation?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>Not any.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Qu.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherefore would you dare to Preach, having not got a Licence or Per|mi&s;&s;ion under &s;ome of Our Bi&s;hops hands; How &s;hall We be Certified that you are not of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Church?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>There are &s;everal have heard my Prayers, and my Sermons, and can te&s;|tifie that I have &s;poken again&s;t <HI>Rome</HI> and her <HI>Pope,</HI> as much as any of the <HI>Clergy</HI> have done &s;ince they have fallen from her; I wonder therefore why I &s;hould be &s;u&s;pected.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>B. By your an&s;wer I perceive Mr. <HI>Commin,</HI> you would have any one Preach, &s;o that he &s;prake but again&s;t the <HI>Pope</HI> in his Sermons.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>Not every one, &s;ave he who&s;e Function it is, and he who hath the &s;pirit.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;pirit is this you mean?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An.</SPEAKER>
<P>The &s;pirit of Grace and Truth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>But is this &s;pirit that is in you, either the &s;pirit of Grace or Truth, that doth not comply with the Orders of the Church, lately purged and Clean&s;ed from S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;m and Idolatry?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Therefore I en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eavour to make it purer, as far as God permits me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Que&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>How do you endeavour to make the Church purer, when you neither Commune with Her Sacrament, or in Prayer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes I endeavour it when I pray to God, That He would open the Eyes of Men to &s;ee their Errors &amp; feveral have joyned with me when I have prayed among&s;t them, and <HI>I</HI> have both given, and taken the Body of Chri&s;t to tho&s;e of tender con|&s;ciences, who have a&s;&s;emblae with me together in the fear of the Lord.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>By your words, you have then a Congregation that follows you? </P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of what Pari&s;h, and in what Dio&s;ce&s;s?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neither of any certain Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;h, or in any certain Dio&s;ce&s;s.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Where then, I pray?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Even in the wide World among&s;t the Flock of Chri&s;t, &s;catter'd over the whole Earth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Your Dio&s;ce&s;s is very large, Mr. <HI>Commin.</HI></P>
</SP>
<P><HI>Faithfull Commin</HI> being commanded to withdraw, the other two Witne&s;&s;es were called into the Council-Chamber.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Draper,</HI> what have you to &s;ay to this <HI>Faithfull Commin?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>T. Draper,</SPEAKER>
<P>He came to my hou&s;e at the <HI>Maidenhead</HI> in <HI>Maid&s;town,</HI> with &s;everal of his Followers, where they be&s;poke a Joint of Mutton, and two Hens for a Dinner, hearing that my Profe&s;&s;ion was a Cook. I &s;hewing him a Room, for him and the Company that came with him, perceived &s;everal to come and enquire for this Mr. <HI>Commin;</HI> but by chance going up the &s;tairs, I heard one groan and weep, which cau&s;ed me to lift up the Latch, at the fir&s;t I was &s;tartled, and &s;tood in a maze; but enquiring of one of his Followers what ayled the Man, he replied, Do you not &s;ee that wee be all at Prayers? The Maid wondering where I was, came to &s;eek me, and found me among&s;t them, and can te&s;tifie the very &s;ame.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen,</SPEAKER>
<P>Are you Mr. <HI>Drapers</HI> Maid?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes, may it plea&s;e your Grace.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is your Name?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Name is <HI>Mary Deane.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>Did you &s;ee this <HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> that was here before Us now, praying to the people.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;aw him, and I thought he was di&s;tracted, when I heard him pray; but the people &s;aid he was a heavenly man, and that it was Gods Spirit made him weep for the Sins of the World.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>How long continued they at Prayers, do you know Mr. <HI>Draper?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>May it plea&s;e your Grace about two hours, or near that time.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q.</SPEAKER>
<P>What did they after that they had prayed?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Some went from the Hou&s;e, and about ten, or thereabouts, &s;tayed to eat what they had be&s;poken, and paid me to the utmo&s;t penny.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Queen,</SPEAKER>
<P>Call in this <HI>Faithfull Commin.</HI></P>
<P>Mr <HI>Commin,</HI> if you will receive Orders, and become of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> you may; otherwi&s;e you mu&s;t not be permitted to pray or preach among&s;t my Sub|jects, and though you have, as appears by &s;everal other Witne&s;&s;es, preached again&s;t the Pope; yet have you u&s;urped over the Power both of State and Church, in doing contrary to the Orders that We, Our Council and Parliament have unanimou&s;ly a|greed on by and with the whole Con&s;ent of the Clergy of my Realm.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F. C. A.</SPEAKER>
<P>Give me time to con&s;ider, and to prepare my &s;elf, and I &s;hall give your Grace a further An&s;wer in a &s;hort &s;pace.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Q</SPEAKER>
<P>I there any will be bound for your Appearance, otherwi&s;e you mu&s;t be kept clo&s;e pri&s;oner; for we have other Examinations to take, and que&s;tions to demand.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F. C.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have three who will an&s;wer for my Appearance.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<P> Then came <HI>Richard Bland</HI> Brother to the &s;aid <HI>Faithfull</HI> by the Mothers &s;ide, and two others, which gave Bond for his Appearance.</P>
<P><LABEL>April 12.</LABEL> Mr. <HI>Commin</HI> appearing before Her Maje&s;ty and the Council, it was put off till the next day, by rea&s;on of the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Emba&s;&s;adors Appearance before Her Grace, who had that day Audience. But it &s;ell out, that the &s;aid <HI>Faithfull</HI> having appeared, according to the Bonds of tho&s;e who were bound for the &s;aid <HI>Faithfulls</HI> Appearance, that this &s;aid <HI>Faithfull</HI> gave them all the &s;lip, and never appeared afterwards; &s;o that the Farties being &s;ummoned to appear, for to an&s;wer the Penalties of the Bond, made this An&s;wer to the whole Council, that the &s;aid <HI>Faithfull</HI> appeared, but they were not bound for his &s;econd Appearance, by rea&s;on they never demanded them to be bound, or gave them any further Charge of him; &s;o the&s;e Bonds-men came off and paid nothing.</P>
<P>This <HI>Faithfull Commin</HI> coming before his Followers the &s;ame day, told them, that Her Maje&s;ty and the Council had quitted him, And that he was warned by God to go beyond Seas, there to in&s;truct the Prote&s;tants, and that he would return to his Flock e're long with better &s;ucce&s;s. Saying to the people, that Spiritual Prayers was the chief Te&s;timony of a true Prote&s;tant, and that the &s;et Form of Prayer in <HI>England</HI> was but Ma&s;s tran&s;lated. So after he had prayed an extemporary prayer, he feigned a Crocadile-like weeping before all of his Flock, and took leave of them; &s;aying, that he had not a farthing to &s;upport him in his Journey; yet, it being Gods Cau&s;e, he intended to undertake it out of Charity; he was certain that the Almighty would rai&s;e him up Friends where ever he travelled. Upon this Speech of his, the poor &s;imple people fell mo&s;t of them a weeping, e&s;pecially the Women, who mov|ing their Husbands to contribute to this Impo&s;tor, who was among&s;t them e&s;teemed as a Demy God: &s;o that it appeared upon further enquiry, after he had e&s;caped out of <HI>England,</HI> that at that pre&s;ent the poor people collected for him, 130 <HI>l.</HI> over and above what the &s;illy women gave him unknown to their Husbands.</P>
<P><LABEL>April 13.</LABEL> The next day the Council waiting on Her Grace at the Board, and &s;eve|ral numbers attending to hear this Impo&s;tor examined, &s;taid a long time; Her Grace and the Council wondering at this delay, &s;ent unto his Brother <HI>Richard Bland,</HI> and the other two, who were Bail for this Impo&s;tors Appearance. They coming before Her Grace and the re&s;t of the Council, made this An&s;wer, We have performed as much as we undertook to perform; but had we received any further Directions from Your Grace, and this Honourable Board, for to have brought him this day, we &s;hould have obeyed Your Commands; but You &s;poke unto the party accu&s;ed to come this day, and not to us; &s;o that we &s;uppo&s;e our &s;elves to be relea&s;ed of what we had undertaken, having pre&s;ented him before your Grace and this Honourable Board.</P>
<P>It being a publick Hearing, and the Auditors that were pre&s;ent, in expectation to have heard <HI>Commin</HI> &s;peak, and not tho&s;e who were bound for him, cau&s;ed the Coun|cils he to rage more than ordinary; hereupon the Council cau&s;ed &s;earches immedi|ately to be made over all <HI>London</HI> and <HI>Kent,</HI> e&s;pecially where ever they &s;u&s;pected him to be, but could not find him; for he was fled that very evening: yet by this Inquiry, they found out &s;everal of Creatures whom he had deluded, and the true Relation of what Sums of Money, the poor people had gathered, and be&s;towed on him. Mo&s;t of the&s;t who were &s;uppo&s;ed to be of this Impo&s;tors Freek, were examined before Her
<PB N="7" REF="4">Graces Privy Council, who &s;aid, that to their opinions and thoughts they had ne|ver beheld &s;o Zealous and &s;o Heavenly a man as he &s;eemed to be.</P>
<P><LABEL>Septem. 14th.</LABEL> <HI>By</HI> a Ve&s;&s;el arriving at <HI>Portsmouth,</HI> called the <HI>Swan</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> John <HI>Baker,</HI> being the Ma&s;ter of the &s;ame, among other Di&s;cour&s;es declared how he had &s;een <HI>Faithfull Commin</HI> in the <HI>Low Countries,</HI> and &s;ome of the Council hear|ing of this Mans arrivall, acquainted the <HI>Queen</HI> with what they had heard, concer|ning this Villain: Upon which information Her Maje&s;tie, and the Re&s;t of the Privie Council &s;ent a Pur&s;evant for the &s;aid <HI>John Baker,</HI> who comeing to the man on the <HI>20th</HI> of this &s;aid in&s;tant, and found him abed, the man was &s;tartled, and demanded of the Pur&s;evant what was his Crime, the Pur&s;evant made an&s;wer, he knew not what it was he was &s;ent for, only it was Her <HI>Graces</HI> Will and the Councils to &s;peak with him: Yet the poor man, whether through &s;ear, or to Comage his &s;pirits, call'd for a Cup of <HI>Sack,</HI> and Drank Her <HI>Graces</HI> Health to the Pur&s;evant, &s;aying (her's a health to my Royall <HI>Queen;</HI>) if She intends to Try my Fidelity, and Employ me in her <HI>Navy,</HI> I will venture all the Blood in my Body to Defend Her <HI>Graces</HI> Right. But when he appeared before the Board, they Demanded of him, if he had &s;een <HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> he made an&s;wer, he had &s;een him in the <HI>Low Countries,</HI> and enquiring further he related this Relation as followes.</P>
<P>Coming with other Ve&s;&s;els to Land &s;ome Goods at <HI>Am&s;terdam, Martin Van Davall</HI> a Merchant of that <HI>City</HI> hearing me Talk of this man, told me, that this <HI>Commin,</HI> had been lately at <HI>Rome,</HI> and that <HI>Pope Pius</HI> the <HI>5th.</HI> cau&s;ed him to be Clapt up in Pri&s;on, and that <HI>Commin</HI> had wrote to his Holine&s;s the next day, &s;ay|ing, that he had &s;omething to &s;ay unto his Holine&s;s, upon which the <HI>Pope</HI> &s;ent for him, and as &s;oon as he had &s;een Mr. <HI>Commin,</HI> he &s;poke to him, &s;aying, Sir I have heard how you have &s;et me, and my Predece&s;&s;ors forth among&s;t your Hereticks of <HI>England,</HI> by Railing again&s;t my Per&s;on and my Church. And that <HI>Commin</HI> made an&s;wer, I confe&s;s my Lips have open'd that which my Heart thought otherwaies. But your Holine&s;s little thinks that I have done you a kindne&s;s, not|with&s;tanding I have &s;poken &s;o much again&s;t your Holine&s;s. And that the <HI>Pope</HI> &s;hould Returne <HI>Commin</HI> this an&s;wer (How in the Name of <HI>Je&s;us Mary,</HI> &amp; of all His Saints ha&s;t thou done &s;o?) and that <HI>Commin</HI> &s;hould make this an&s;wer &s;aying, I Preached again&s;t &s;et Forms of Prayer, and <HI>I</HI> called the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prayers (<HI>Engli&s;h Ma&s;s,</HI>) and have per&s;waded &s;everall to pray Spritually and <HI>Extempore,</HI> which hath taken &s;o much with the People that the Church of <HI>England</HI> is become as Odious to that Sort whom I in&s;tructed, as <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> is to them, which will never be but a Stumbling Block to that <HI>Church,</HI> while it is a <HI>Church,</HI> and that upon this Relation the <HI>Pope</HI> Che|ri&s;hed him, and gave him 2000 Duckets for his Labour.</P>
<P>Her <HI>Grace,</HI> and the Whole Council, thanking Mr. <HI>John Baker</HI> for his Relation, bad him withdraw, and upon this Information wrote over to Her Corre&s;pondents be|yond Seas, if po&s;&s;ible he might be &s;ent ever hither in to <HI>England,</HI> but it being talk|ed all over <HI>England,</HI> how that the <HI>Pope</HI> had Rewarded this Impo&s;tor, &s;ome know|ing where he was, gave him notice, and thereby he E&s;caped out of tho&s;e Territories and fled into the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> holdings.</P>
<P>The Council Con&s;ulting with Her <HI>Grace,</HI> to prevent not only <HI>Popery,</HI> but all other Sectaries, cau&s;ed an Act to be Framed and to be Enacted, that the &s;eve|rall Mini&s;ters of &s;everall <HI>Pari&s;hes,</HI> &s;hould take the Names of all the Families li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">|ing
<PB N="8" REF="5">within the &s;everal Pari&s;hes, both Male <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Female from Ten years of Age, and that every <HI>Pari&s;h</HI> &s;hould have a certaine Clerk for that purpo&s;e, and that every hou&s;e within the &s;aid <HI>Pari&s;h</HI> &s;hould have a particular &s;eat for them and their Families; Each Man or Woman mi&s;&s;ing prayers every <HI>Sunday,</HI> to forfeit a &s;hilling, Excepting tho&s;e who had Certificates under a Prote&s;tant <HI>Phy&s;itians</HI> hand to be &s;ick, The Clerk to have one third part, the poor the &s;econd third part, and the third towards the Church for Broomes, Sweet &s;trowing <HI>Herbs, Flowers,</HI> and <HI>Bu&s;hes,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>This Act</HI> at Fir&s;t, was <HI>Irk&s;om</HI> to many; but at long running, rather then a Ma&s;ter would pay for his Family, or for his Servants they began to come to Pray|ers and Sermons. Then the Clerks &s;pying but little to be got, when the People began to come to Church, neglected their Office, and &s;everall agreeing with the Mini&s;ters of Each Pari&s;h, to give them a yearly Stipend, the <HI>Act</HI> cea&s;ed, and <HI>Popery</HI> and <HI>Sectaries</HI> increa&s;ed</P>
<P>This being a Copy of the <HI>Lord Cecills</HI> Memorandums of <HI>Faithfull Commin,</HI> with many other Memorandums in the &s;ame Book worth the Printing; which Book was among&s;t Arch-Bi&s;hop <HI>&V;&s;hers</HI> Manu&s;cripts before his Death.</P>
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