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A REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHARGE AGAINST MATHEW WREN , Bishop of Ely , to the House of COMMONS , July 5th . 1641. With the Vote of the House hereupon .

Printed in the yeare 1641.

A Report of the Committee of the Charge against Mathew Wren , Bishop of Ely to the House of COMMONS , Iuly 5th . 1641. 1. THAT the sayd Mathew Wren , Bishop of Ely , hath Excommunicated , Deprived , or Banished , within the space of two yeares , fifty Godly , Learned , and painefull Ministers . 2. His Practising Superstition in his owne person . 3. His causing the Communion Table to be placed Altar-wise , and to be Railed in , and Kneeling , and Consecrating the Bread and Wine , at the West side of the Communion Table , with his back towards the People , and bowing to , or before the same . 4. Elevating the Bread , and Wine , high over his head , that the People might see it . 5. Causing all the Pewes , or Seates , to be so contrived , as that the People must of necessity kneele with their faces towards the East . 6. Imployed his power to restraine powerfull Preaching , forbidding all Sermons on Sundayes after-noone , or in the weeke dayes , without his Lycence , and least expounding the Catechisme , and Common Prayer Booke , should be as bad a Preaching , as he and some of his Officers sayd ; therefore he inhibits any manner of exposition , and inioynes onely the bare question and answere in the Common Prayer Booke . 7. And to the end the People shall not know where there is any Sermons , Commands all Ringing of Bells to be alike , that so the People may not ●●●guish where there is a Sermon , or where there is but Prayers . 8. He permitted no Prayer to be sayd before Sermon , but that which is directed in the 39 Cannon , which hath no warrant of Law ; and after Sermon suffers no Prayer at all , but onely Gloria Patri , &c. 9. He did publish a Booke of Articles , to which the Church Wardens were to be sworne ; and these thirty nine Articles containe at least 897 Questions : One whereof was this . Doth any man discourse prophanely at meale time , touching Religion or the holy Scripture ?

Another , Doth the Minister Expound the holy Scripture according to the sense of the Ancient Fathers ? Which Questions it is believed , would puzzle the deepest learned Church-Warden in England , to answere .

And after some time spent in the debate of the sayd Articles , it was resolved upon the question , and Voted , that it is the opinion of this House , that Mathew Wren Bishop of Ely , is unworthy , and unfit , to hold or exercise any Office or Dignity , in the Church or Common-wealth . And further Voted , that there be a Message sent to the Lords , to desire them to joyne with the Commons , in Petitioning his Majesty , to remove Bishop Wren , both from his person , and Service .

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