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Treatise Touching the Pretended Divorce of Henry the Eighth

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As nature has given you a right to the inheritance of my estate, a competency sufficient to support the quality of a gentleman, so I design, as a mark of true paternal affection, to add to it my small collection of books; that, by adorning your mind with useful study, you may deserve that character more from yourself than ancestors. Amongst the rest I leave you this Manuscript. A particular good fortune threw it into my hands, which, had it nothing but the subject to recommend it, would be no inconsiderable value to a Catholic, because it lets him see 'twas Interest and not Religion began the schism, and that 'tis truly Conscience and not Obstinacy makes him, by still adhering to the ancient Church, stand obnoxious to so many laws. But, that your esteem may equal its value, I have thought proper to acquaint you first what I have found concerning the Author, next what reason there is to believe this Copy authentick, and lastly to whose kindness I am obliged for it, and upon what conditions I had leave to transcribe it.

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Pretended Divorce of Henry the Eighth
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page 5 note a Bridgewater's Concertatio Ecclesise Catholicse in vitâ Cartari.

page 6 note a Life of Mr. Edmund Ginninges, page 66, Concertatio, ut svpra, pages 128, 131.

page 7 note a Wood's Athense Oxonienses, 171.

page 7 note b Idem, 151.

page 7 note c Idem, ibidem.

page 7 note d Idem, 173.

page 7 note e Idem, ibidem.

page 7 note f Idem, ibidem.

page 7 note g Sanders de Schismate, lib. 2do.; Pits, de Illustribus Angliue Scriptoribus; and Fuller's Church History, book ix. p. 143.

page 8 note a Wood, ut supra, 172.

page 8 note b Idem, ibidem, et Somner, Antiquities of Canterbury, p. 322.

page 8 note c Fuller's Church History, ut supra, book the ixth, page 54, et Ifeylyn's Reformation, page 285.

page 8 note d Omnos, ut supra.

page 8 note e Cambden's Elizabeth, Anno 1559.

page 8 note f Idem, ibidem.

page 9 note a Idem, ibidem, et Baker's Chronicle.

page 9 note b There were six others thus bound over, whereof three were bishops, viz. Dr. Bayne, bishop of Lytchfield; Dr. Scot, bishop of Chester; and Dr. Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlile. The other three were Dr. Cole, dean of St. Pauls; Dr. Chadsey, archdeacon of Middlesex; and Dr. Langdale, archdeacon of Lewes. See Fox's 3rd volume of his Acts and Monuments, page 980, London edition, 1641, and Stow's Chronicle, page 638.

page 9 note c Fuller, ut supra, page 143, et Wood, ut supra, 171.

page 9 note d Wood's Athena, 157.

page 10 note a Pits, ut supra, et Fuller's Church History, book 9th, page 143.

page 10 note b Fuller, ut supra, et Wood's Athense, page 171.

page 10 note c Pits, ut supra, et Fuller, ut supra, page 143.

page 10 note d Pits, de Illustribus Angliæ Scriptoribus, Ætate 16, numero 1030.

page 17 note a Vide hanc historiam in Chronico Keginonis, [sub an. 864].

page 19 note b Paulus Æmilius, Historia Francije, lib. 3 et 6 [fol. 119, ed. Par. 1348].

page 27 note a Printed at London 1530, in quarto, and translated into English and printed in octavo. Entitled in Latin Gravissima; et exactissimse illustrissunaruin totins Italia; et Gallic Academiarum Censurse, etc.

page 29 note a Mathewe 19, Marke 10.

page 31 note a Justiuus, lib. primo.

page 31 note b Diod. Siculus, lib. decimo sexto [cap. 15].

page 32 note a a Herodotus, lib. 5° [39].

page 32 note b Homer, lib. 7° Odis. [66].

page 32 note c Plutar. in problem. Rom.

page 32 note d Dionioius, Liyius, lib. 4° Deca 1°, non mnlto post principium.

page 32 note e Virg. Æn. lib. 3. [329]

page 32 note f Pausaii. lib. 1° [cap. 8], Livins [lib. 42, cap. Hi].

page 32 note g Plutar. in apophth. Eumenis, Justinus, lib. 36 [cap. 1], Plutarch, in vita Crassi.

page 36 note a August. 61a quæst. in Levitticum.

page 39 note a Levit. cap. 3, 4, 8, 9.

page 39 note b P° Corin. capite quinto et sexto.

page 41 note a Dent. cap. 17.

page 46 note a Johannes Lupus de matrimo., et legit.

page 49 note a Levit. cap. 19, p°. Corinth, cap. 11.

page 49 note b Aug. q. 61, in Lcvitieum.

page 49 note c Alphon. Abulcn, cap. 38, gent. lib. ibidem, Hugo Card, ibidem, Chrisost. ibidem.

page 53 note a Joseph, de Antiq. lib. 15°, cap. 14°.

page 53 note a Enseb. lib. primo, cap. 7°.

page 54 note a In his book De Monogainia [cap. 7].

page 54 note b Adversus Marcionem, libro 4° [cap. 34].

page 54 note c Dicto, lib. 4°. In li. lati. [Signat. B. 2] col. 2, Anglice pa. 27.

page 55 note a Videl. lib. 4°. [cap. 34]. Alioquin hoc permittente, immo prsecipiente lege, quia si frater illiberis ilecesserit ut a fratre ipsius et ex costa ipsius supputaretur illi semen.

page 57 note a Nontamen pro hac re sacri corporis ac sanguinis Domini communione privandi suut, ne in illis ilia ulcisci videantur in quibus rebus se per ignorantiam ante lavacrum baptismatis astrinxerunt.

page 57 note b Greg. torn. 2°, pag. 253.

page 57 note c Septima interrogatio Aug. Declarari posco an sic turpiter conjunctis sit indicenda scparatio et sacrx communionis deneganda oblatio. Turn sequitur summa, cap. 7° quod neophiti in gradu prohibito adjuncti nee separandi sunt nee sacra communione privandi; deinde sequitur cap. 7° responsnm Gregor., Quia vero, &c.

page 58 note a Calixtus ad episcopos Galliæ. [Cone. torn. i. p. 014.]

page 58 note b Causa 30a, q. tertia, Cap. Pitacitun.

page 59 note a Cap. Litterus, De restitutione spoliatorum. De consanguinitate, Cap. De infiilelibus. Cap. linal. De divortiis.

page 59 note b Can. 5to. [iv. 1734.]

page 60 note a Cap. 61° [iv. 1393.]

page 61 note a Cap. 2°. 21a q. 3a Cap. Nemo.

page 62 note a Cap. 3° Anglice pag. 40, Latine [Signat. C. 4], Origencs sive Cyrillus, super 20 caput Levitt.

page 63 note a Homil. 71 super 22 Mathæi.

page 64 note a Isichius, in cap. 18 et 20, Leyit. [Bibl. Tatr. Max. to. xii. 127, 141.]

page 65 note a Lib. 8 cpist. 66 Anglice, png. 51 Latine, [Signal;. E, 1:] col. prima.

page 67 note a Hieronymus contra Helvidium [§ 15].

page 67 note b Quomodo iuquit et Abraham sororem suamhabuit uxorem; etenim ait vere soror mea est de patre, non do matre, scilicet fratris filia alioqui quale est ut Abraham, &c, ut in latino lib. Adversar. [Signat. E 2.]

page 67 note c Aug. cont. Faustum, lib. 32°, cap. 8, 9, et 10.

page 68 note a Quæs. 64 super Levit. et in Speculo.

page 68 note b Quæs. 61 in Levit.

page 69 note a Latin [Signat. E 3.], Ang. pag. 56, columna prima. Augustin. contra duas Epistoias Pelagii, lib. 3°, cap. 4.

page 69 note b Do civitate Dei, lib. 15, cap. 16.

page 70 note a In epist. ad quendam pinm fratrem.

page 70 note b Six leaves English in octavo, two leaves and a side Latine in quarto.

page 70 note c Rogas enim me, prohibitio conj ugiorum in consanguinitate qua ratione in ecelesia

page 71 note a Hugo iii 18 Levit.

page 71 note b Cap. 2 Levit. et super Mathæum.

page 71 note c Rod. in Mathæum.

page 71 note d Super 18 cap. Levit.

page 71 note e Tales nuptias lex prohibuit, non quod priEcedens earum iniquitas appareret, sed quia earum abstinentia, etc.

page 72 note a Rupertus in 18 cap. Levit.

page 72 note b Lib. 2° de sacramentis, parte 11, cap. 4 et 11.

page 72 note c In ceteris omnibus nullam ulli ad sacramentum conjugii fœderandam prohibnit.

page 72 note d Et tune cœpit esse ex prohibitione illicitum quod fuerat ex natura conccssnm.

page 72 note e Ilildebert. Cenoma. ad Archiepiscopum Rotomagensem.

page 73 note a Ad cpiscopntn Sagiensem et Honr. Archid. [Lib. ii. 14, et 2.]

page 73 note b See their Censures prefixed before the Latin and English book.

page 73 note c Ail Lesiardum episcopum epistola 240.

page 74 note a Anglice, p. 75, with the 5 leaves following. Latine [Signat. G. 4], being about 3 leaves in 4to.

page 74 note b Thomas, secunda secuncUe, quast. 154, art. 9.

page 74 note c In commixtione personarum conjunctarum aliqnid est quod est per se indecens et repngnans rationi naturali, ut quod conjunctio fiat inter parentcs et filios quorum est per se ot immediate cognatio. Aliæ vero personæ, &c. 4. sententia Dist. 40, quæst. 3 et in tertia parte summæ:, q. 54, artic. 3°.

page 75 note a In quæst. de affinitate et consanguinitate.

page 76 note a [Comment, sup. Grutiani Dccreto, pur 2.] Capitc Conjunctions [cans.] 35, q. 2 et 3.

page 77 note a Terlia partc summit, Titu. de cognat. paragr. 2.

page 77 note b In summa sua.

page 78 note a In summa sua.

page 78 note b 1, 4 Scntcn. distinct. 38.

page 80 note a Cap. litteras, De restitnt. spol.

page 80 note b Cap. final, dc divor.

page 80 note c Jo. Andr. cap. Per venerabilem, Qui filii sunt legit.

page 80 note d Dicto, cap. Litter, et cap. final.

page 80 note e Ab. de concess. prebenclie, cap. Proposuit.

page 81 note a Anglice, pag. 94 ; Lat. [Signat. I. 4].

page 83 note a Definitio legis naturæ quam S. Tho. probat in 4° senten. dist. 37, q. 3, et in principio opusculi do decem præceptis.

page 83 note b In Levitticum.

page 84 note a Lib. i, senten. Distin. 41, q. de affinitate.

page 84 note b In snmma Theol. quæst. 169.

page 84 note c In Mathæum.

page 84 note d In Mathæum.

page 84 note e De gradibns affinitatis.

page 84 note f In Levitticum.

page 84 note g In Mathænm.

page 84 note h Super Marcum.

page 84 note i In Mathæum et Lucam.

page 85 note a 39 dist. arti. 2do, quæst. 4ta; 4ta sententia dist. 41, quæst. do afflnitate.

page 89 note a Latin [Signat. L. 1] Angli. pag. 106.

page 90 note a Latine [Signat. L. 2] Angl. pag. 108.

page 92 note a Isichius et Rab. super 18 et 20 cap. Levitt.

page 93 note a Cod. dc incest. nuptiis, Lat. [Signat. M. 1] Angl. page 113. Chrisost. in cap. 1° Math, homilia prima. Ilioron. contra Helvidium. Ang. lib. 15 [de eivitate Dei], cap. 16. Idem contra Faustnm, lib. 22, cap. 35. Methodius Episcopus de causis diluvii.

page 93 note b Berosus, lib. 1° de antiquitate.

page 94 note a Quod profecto quanto cst antiquius compcllente necessitate, tanto factum est damnabilius Religione prohibente.

page 95 note a Angl. pag. 110. Latine [Signat, M. 2].

page 96 note a Lcvit. cap. 18 et 20. Causa 35, Quæstio 2. cap. Nulli, et cap. Quædam lex, et cap. Si vir, et cap. Sane, et Causa 35, Quæstio 5, cap. 3 Porro, et Causa 35, Quæstio 8, cap. 2, Ilæc salubriter.

page 98 note a Latine, pag. 63. Angl. [Signat. M. 3.]

page 99 note a Prima Corin. cap. 7° Prima Thesal. 4.

page 100 note a Ilcnricus lie Band. 3 q. 2.7. Them, in cap. 9 ad Romauos. Cup. 7 ad Romanos.

page 103 note a Irenæus, lib. 4. cap. 27.

page 103 note b August, contra tertiam epia. Pelag. lib. 3. cap. 4. supra cap. 4.

page 103 note c 1. 2. q. 104. articulo. 3°. Mathæ. 19. Mar. 12. Luc. 16. 1 Corin. 6, et Ephes. 5.

page 107 note a Cap. final, de feriis et ibi Abb.

page 107 note b Lib. 1° epist. 4a.

page 107 note c De regul. cap. 13, 15 et 20.

page 107 note d De Paradi. cap. 12.

page 107 note e Lib. de [præcepto et] dispensatione [cap. 3].

page 107 note f 11 q. 3, cap. Is qui.

page 107 note g Causa 11, quæstio 3, cap. 95, Qui omnipotentem.

page 107 note h Causa 25, quæst. 1, cap. 6. Sunt qnidam.

page 107 note i Causa 25, quæst. 1. cap. 12, Omnia.

page 108 note a Cap. Litteras de restitntione spoliatorum, Cap. final, de divor.

page 108 note b 1, 2, q. 105 [art. 4.]

page 109 note a Vitle Jo. de Turre Cremat. in summa lib. 2c cap. 107, quem cum cæteris author allegat.

page 110 note a Leo ad Anatholium.

page 110 note b Damasus ad Aurelium Archiepiscopum.

page 110 note c Ambr. epistola 79, lib. decimo.

page 110 note d 1 q. 7, cap. Necesse.

page 110 note e Cap. Libuit, Dc feriis.

page 111 note a Ad Galat. cap. 4a et 5a.

page 111 note b Thomas, Quod. 4, artic. 13°. Johannes, cap. Lector, distinct. 33.

page 113 note a [Causa] 17, quæst. 4, cap. [29], Siquis, et [cap. 30,] Nemini.

page 113 note b Gul. Malm. De Gest. Reg. Angliæ.

page 113 note c Antonin. Ifloren. 2° volumine histor. Titulo 19, et Jo. Whetamsted in prima parte granarii sui. Equidem cum ilium de quo agitur pœnitentem videro delicti, præeptis domini Papæ libens parebo sed ut ipse in peccatis suis taceat et immunis ab ecclesiastica disciplina nobis insultet nolit Dens; et mox, Arertat antem deus a me ut ego timore alicujus mortalis hominis vel pro redemptione capitis mei postponam legem quam servandam statuit in Ecclesia sna Idem Dominus mens Christus Filins Dei Eduerus in vita Dunstani.

page 115 note a Alii appellant Grosthead.

page 115 note b [Causa] 19, q. 2, cap. [2] Duæ sunt

page 116 note a Gerson in libollo do probationo Spirit.

page 121 note a Egidins, Consilio 1—8.

page 153 note a Cnm essct casta in meretricem se immutavit. Homilia prima in Matthæum incerto authore.

page 154 note a In prologo dictarum homiliarum incerto anthore.

page 155 note b In cpistola ad Vitalem, Op. 132. And chroniclers report that there was a woman in France, about the year of our Lord 1341, that was delivered of a child, being but nine years of age. Mater histriar.

page 162 note a Sororem uxoris tuæ in pellicatum non accipies nee revelabis turpitudinein ejus, ilia adhuc vivente.

page 164 note a In Leviticis Quæstionibus, Tale revera conjugium, quicquid dicat Angustinus, omnino illicitnm est.

page 175 note a De fide, lib. 3, cap. 5°.

page 217 note a Drogen. Laer. lib. iv°. do vit. philos. in vita Xenocratis.

page 217 note b Socrat. li. 4°, ccclesiast. hist. cap. p. 18 [al. 23].

page 224 note a Episcopi in magnst syhodi Nicænâ congregati non sine Dei consilio permiserunt prioris synodi acta in alia synodo examinare. Athan. Apo]. 2°.

page 225 note a Quod antem post appellationem interpositam hoc necessario postuletur Canonum Niceæ habitorum decreta testantur, &c. Leo Epistola 25, ad Theod. August.

page 226 note a Ad omnia nobis ille rescripsit eodem modo quo fas erat atqne oportebat, Apossedis tolicæ sedis Antistitem. Epistola 106.

page 227 note a In præfatione conciliorum.

page 228 note a Nam de Constantinopolitana ecclesia quis dubitat earn sedi Apostolicæ esse subjectam. Grego. li. 7, Epistola 36.

page 228 note b Non vocati autem cpiscopi ultra suam diocesim non accedant propter ordiiiationes faciendas vel propter alias dispensationes ecclesiasticas. Tom. 1°, Conciliorum.

page 229 note a Athanas. Apol. 2, contra Arian.

page 230 note a Celestini ad Episcopos Gallife, Epistola 3 ; vide Aust. Epistola, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96.

page 230 note b Athanas. Apol. 2.

page 234 note a This and the few following marginal references were made by the transcriber of the manuscript.

page 241 note a Matrimonium est viri mulierisque conjunctio individuæ vitæ consuctudinem rctincus. Ca. Illutl, De præsumps. Magister senten. et alii, Distinct. 27.

page 251 note a Nicepho. Ecclesiast. bisto. li. i, cap. 20.

page 254 note a By the which parliament it was made high treason to defend the said marriage with the Lady Anno to be good and lawful. [This note, which seems like a continuation of the previous marginal references made by the transcriber of the Eyston Manuscript, appears in the other copies of the manuscript and is therefore probably to be ascribed to the author. N. P.]

page 258 note a [Homo, homo de domo Israel qui posuerit immunditias suas in corde suo, et scandalum iniquitatis sua; statuerit contra faciem suam, et venerit ad prophetam ut interroget per eum me, Ego Dominus respondebo ei in multitudine immunditiarum suarum. Ezech. cap. 14°.]

page 261 note a [This word is distinctly written eath in the Eyston MS. and in N1 which generally agrees with it. The whole line between temporal and ready has been omitted by an oversight in copying in N2, which was therefore not available for correcting it. But there can bo little doubt of the reading.]

page 264 note a Quod fiebat cum consobrinâ pæne cum sorore fieri videbatur. Aug. de civitate Dei, li. 16, cap. 15.

page 264 note b Luthcrus in sermone do matrimonio.

page 267 note a Incepit regnare anno 527 vel ut qiridam 528.

page 267 note b Cod. de Nuptiis, Leg. Siquis.

page 272 note a Valer. Max. lib. 5°

page 272 note b Sueton. li. 1° cap. 24.

page 279 note a Zonaras in annalibus, tom 2°.

page 282 note a This detestable and heinous impiety was committed at St. Mary Magdalen's College in Oxford, upon Whitson eve, in the year 1547, by one Thomas Bickley, then a junior fellow of that house, but shortly after preferred to be chaplain or preacher to King Edward the Sixth, and in the year 1585 promoted to the bishopric of Chi. chester by Queen Elizabeth. See more of this man, and the disorders committed at Oxford, in Wood's Historia et Antiquitates Uniyersitatis Oxoniensis, lib. 1mo p. 271, and his Athenæ Oxonienses, volume the first, p. 613.—Charles Eyston.

page 286 note a The words of the original charter of King Ethelbert, given to the monastery of St. Augustine, are these : In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi notum sit omnibus tarn præsentibus quam futuris Quod Ego Ethelbertus Dei Gratia Rex Anglorum per evangelicum genitorem meum Augustinum de Idolatra factus Christicola tradidi Deo per ipsum antistitem aliquam partem terræ Juris mei sub oriental! muro civitatis Doroberniæ, ubi scilicetper eundem in Christo institutorem Monasterium in honore principum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli condidi et cum ipsa terra et cum omnibus quæ ad ipsum monasterium pertinent perpetua libertate donavi, adeo ut nee mihi nee alicui successorum meorum regum nee ulli unquam potestati sive ecclesiasticæ sive seculari quicquam inde liceat usurpare sed in ipsius Abbatis sint omnia libera ditione. Si quis vero de hacdonatione nostra aliquid minuerit aut irritumfacere temptaverit, auctoritate beati Episcopi Gregorii nostrique Apostoli Augustini simul et nostra imprecatione sit hie segregatus ab omni sanctse ecclesiæ communione et in die judicii ab omni electorum societate, etc. Actum est hoc in civitate Doroberniæ Anno ab Incarnatione Christi 605. Vide etiam Monasticon Anglicanum, tom. 1, p. 24.

page 287 note a Proverb. 11° Alii dividunt propria et ditiorcs fiunt, alii rapiunt alicna et semper sunt in egestate.

page 297 note a Lament. Jeremiæ, cap. 4°.