A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…

7 Concerning the Praemunire answer is given, that •f the Prelates be subject unto it, that is more than the Rej: •noweth; that they might incur that peril upon ignorance; and that by Statute Law the Ceremonies are •stablished, with •he penalty of refusing them, as all men know, and some have •elt at Assizes, and Westminster Hall. But for the first of these shifts, D: B: knows full well (whatsoever the Rej: will know) that Prelates cannot take from any English man his freehold, with out Parliament Authority, and yet be free from the Statute of Praemunire: Now that they do so, the Rej: himself even now confessed. Moreover; who knoweth not that the Prelates do keep their Cour•s, silence, deprive &c, in their own names? which doeth evidently intrench upon the Prerogative Royal of the Crown, and so fall into the penalty of Praemunire by the Statute of Henr. 8.25. except they can show some special warrant by Statute for so doing; which that they cannot do is evident; because in King Edwards days they were enjoined to keep their Courts in the Kings name; and since that time, have no special warrant, by any Statute, for any such Courts in one or others name. Ignorance is here again vainly pretended, as before was declared. Are the Prelates only ignorant of that which they have so often been warned, and convinced of in many Parliaments? Now for the establishing of these Ceremonies, with the penalty of refusing them by Statute, the Rej: should have done well, if he had named that, or those Statutes where we may find this done. As for the ⟨p. 112⟩penalty of deprivation for refusing these Ceremonies, the Rej: confessed before, that the Parliament Anno 1610. pronounced against it, as contrary to Law. If the Ceremonies themselves stand established by any Statute, it must be that of Eliz: 1. But that concerneth the book of king Edward in which this Rej: pag. 54.55. confesseth some vain Ceremonies, now removed, to have been prescribed.¹ Now either those tolerable fooleries were established by Statute of Eliz: 1. or not these; For no difference is found in the Statute; If those, why do our Opposites refuse them, and yet urge these upon that Law which no more established these than them?