A
MANIFEST
Publisht
to
their
BRETHREN
BY
The
General
Chapter
of
the
Catholick
English
Clergy
.
IN
Vindication
of
their
Innocency
from
the
false
Calumnies
laid
upon
them
in
a
seditious
Libel
lately
publisht
by
Dr.
LEYBURN
.
We
decree
that
those
who
shall
be
convicted
to
have
charg'd
their
Brethren
with
false
articles
shall
not
communicate
till
their
death
,
(
as
the
great
Synod
formerly
ordained
)
unless
they
repent
with
due
satisfaction
.
Conc
.
Arelat
.
2.
Can
.
24.
ALthough
Christian
Piety
may
induce
a
private
man
to
suffer
,
without
endeavouring
to
justify
his
innocency
,
such
scandalous
reports
and
false
calumnies
as
unhappy
tongues
may
throw
upon
him
;
yet
a
Body
of
men
whose
profession
it
is
to
teach
the
Divine
truths
of
our
Catholick
Religion
both
in
belief
and
manners
,
and
thereby
to
perswade
and
carry
their
Disciples
to
the
blessed
state
of
eternal
felicity
,
ought
not
permit
themselves
to
ly
covered
under
the
dark
cloud
of
injurious
slanders
,
which
by
blasting
their
name
and
reputation
might
obstruct
the
desired
effects
of
their
sacred
functions
.
We
therefore
considering
that
divers
infamous
aspersions
and
foul
Calumnies
have
been
of
late
cast
upon
us
and
our
whole
Body
in
a
seditious
Pamphlet
written
and
publisht
by
Doctor
Leyburn
,
to
the
great
scandal
of
Religion
and
to
our
no
less
grief
then
prejudice
both
at
home
and
abroad
;
which
,
as
it
is
unworthy
of
,
so
are
we
unwilling
to
give
it
an
Answer
,
least
the
evidence
of
truth
(
consisting
chiefly
in
matters
of
fact
)
should
too
too
much
exasperate
the
weak
and
passionate
disposition
of
one
singular
man
standing
in
opposition
against
all
his
brethren
;
yet
,
being
he
has
peremptorily
refus'd
to
give
any
satisfaction
to
those
whom
he
has
so
highly
wrong'd
,
that
we
might
not
seem
wholy
to
neglect
that
duty
and
justice
which
we
owe
to
our selves
,
but
principally
to
the
publick
good
,
we
finde
our selves
oblig'd
to
give
this
true
and
sincere
Declaration
of
our
innocency
to
all
our
Brethren
throughout
the
kingdome
;
aswel
for
the
better
establishment
of
a
perfect
peace
and
union
among
us
,
as
also
to
wipe
away
all
mistakes
,
false
conceits
,
and
prejudicate
opinions
,
wherewith
the
weaker
sort
of
spirits
may
be
imbu'd
and
poisoned
by
the
too
too
boldly
asserted
untruths
and
maliciously
forg'd
relations
frequently
inserted
into
every
leaf
of
his
paper
.
First
then
,
because
he
does
seem
chiefly
to
insist
on
and
reproach
some
few
wanton
Clergy
men
(
such
is
his
ordinary
language
)
with
we
know
not
what
novelties
and
new
notions
in
doctrin
,
especicially
relating
to
Mr.
Thomas
White
alias
Blacklow
,
calling
them
Blackloists
,
we
do
here
all
of
us
to
a
man
profess
and
declare
before
God
and
the
world
,
as
we
have
done
several
times
heretofore
by
our
General
and
Capitular
Acts
in
the
year
1653
and
1657
,
which
are
on
record
in
our
Registers
,
that
we
dislike
disapprove
and
renounce
all
novelties
belonging
either
to
Religion
or
Government
.
And
particularly
,
whereas
some
books
written
by
Mr.
Thomas
White
of
Essex
are
already
prohibited
and
condemned
by
the
Pope
,
We
,
out
of
our
duty
and
obedience
to
his
Holinesse
,
do
likewise
hold
them
for
prohibited
and
condemned
,
and
do
disclaim
and
disapprove
them
as
such
;
and
therefore
,
according
to
our
charge
and
office
,
we
declare
to
all
our
Brethren
and
lay
Catholicks
of
the
Kingdome
,
that
none
shall
or
ought
read
them
but
those
that
have
leave
to
read
forbidden
books
.
And
further
,
we
do
from
our
hearts
disclaim
,
disown
,
and
utterly
renounce
what
ever
is
contained
in
the
said
Mr.
Whites
book
entituled
The
Grounds
of
Obedience
and
Government
,
which
is
any
way
offensive
in
the
least
to
his
Sacred
Majesty
,
our
Soveraign
Lord
;
or
ill
principl'd
in
order
to
his
State
and
Government
.
Secondly
,
whereas
Dr.
Leyburn
does
calumniate
us
as
being
Enemies
to
our
Mother-house
the
Colledge
of
Doway
;
We
do
here
all
of
us
religiously
profess
that
we
never
had
the
least
thought
or
intention
of
any
such
aversion
.
We
have
ever
lookt
upon
it
as
the
first
and
cheif
Nurse
of
such
pious
Missionaries
as
must
be
sent
to
help
and
succeed
us
.
Many
of
us
have
had
our
education
there
,
and
therefore
it
were
an
impossible
ingratitude
in
us
not
to
reverence
such
a
Mother
of
Martyrs
.
Hence
it
was
we
made
a
Capitular
Act
in
the
year
1657
,
whereby
we
engaged
our selves
and
all
our
Brethren
to
be
diligent
sollicitors
for
the
recovery
of
all
pensions
,
debts
or
other
monyes
due
unto
that
house
,
nor
have
we
ever
transfer'd
or
employ'd
to
any
other
end
the
least
gift
or
benevolence
bestowed
upon
it
.
T
is
true
,
we
have
thought
fit
to
reserve
within
the
Kingdome
such
donations
as
might
be
given
to
be
setled
in
rents
for
the
use
of
that
Colledge
,
rather
then
let
the
principal
be
transported
into
a
strange
Country
;
which
both
grave
persons
of
Doway
Colledge
it self
have
earnestly
recommended
to
us
,
&
we
conceive
no
wise
man
can
disapprove
;
being
that
if
it
should
please
Gods
providence
to
suffer
us
to
be
brought
up
in
our
own
Nation
,
what
ever
monyes
were
so
transmitted
and
setled
under
a
foraign
Prince
,
would
be
most
certainly
lost
and
confiscate
.
Besides
that
Colledge
may
fall
into
the
hands
of
others
,
even
Aliens
,
with
whom
we
should
have
no
power
nor
commerce
.
Thirdly
,
the
Doctor
slanders
divers
of
us
with
disobedience
and
endeavouring
to
out
our
last
and
worthy
Bishop
of
Chalcedon
,
and
to
deprive
him
of
his
Authority
;
wherein
we
need
no
other
justification
then
to
reflect
how
ridiculous
it
is
to
say
or
imagin
it
.
First
,
we
neither
had
nor
could
have
any
Authority
during
his
life
but
by
him
and
from
him
.
Secondly
,
we
have
laboured
by
all
means
possible
,
both
privately
and
publickly
,
both
by
writing
and
acting
,
to
uphold
and
maintain
his
Lordships
power
and
jurisdiction
against
too
too
many
adversaries
who
did
oppose
it
;
clearly
seeing
,
that
,
unless
his
Lordships
Authority
did
stand
and
subsist
,
we
must
needs
fall
to
the
ground
,
as
being
but
a
Body
of
his
creation
.
Thirdly
,
suppose
we
had
been
so
unworthy
and
impertinent
as
to
desire
it
,
who
does
not
know
it
was
not
in
our
power
,
nor
in
the
power
of
any
Chapter
whatsoever
to
exauthorize
their
Bishop
.
So
farr
have
wee
been
from
any
such
intention
,
as
that
nothing
has
been
enacted
and
ordered
by
us
during
his
Lps
life
,
which
we
have
not
sent
to
his
Lp
to
be
approved
and
confirmed
;
nor
did
we
or
could
we
esteem
it
valid
,
till
we
had
his
Lps
hand
and
Seal
thereto
.
It
is
true
we
have
sued
with
his
express
leave
and
order
to
get
our
Chapter
confirmed
by
the
Pope
;
as
also
we
have
been
very
wary
to
stand
up
for
his
Lordships
return
into
England
,
understanding
that
our
adversaries
had
made
it
highly
displeasing
to
his
then
Majesty
and
the
Court
here
.
With
which
his
Lordship
was
also
well
satisfied
when
he
knew
the
occasion
;
his
own
safety
being
our
main
motive
to
do
so
;
but
we
could
never
have
the
least
thought
of
depriving
his
Lp
of
his
Authority
,
without
seeking
our
own
destruction
.
We
know
and
have
too
many
evident
proofs
of
it
under
the
Doctor's
own
hand
,
that
,
not
finding
how
to
satisfy
his
own
ambition
,
and
to
rule
over
us
at
his
will
and
pleasure
,
he
had
endeavoured
from
time
to
time
to
beget
a
misintelligence
betwixt
our
Bishop
and
us
;
wherein
he
sometimes
prevailed
for
a
while
by
false
informations
;
but
,
so
soon
as
his
Lordship
came
to
know
the
truth
,
he
was
alwaies
satisfied
to
the
full
,
as
several
letters
under
his
own
hand
yet
to
be
seen
do
clearly
testifie
.
Lastly
,
as
to
the
Doctors
scornful
and
reviling
language
,
his
false
reproaches
,
his
scandalous
calumnies
,
and
his
injurious
untruths
,
wherewith
he
labours
to
brand
our
Brethren
acting
here
in
London
by
order
from
us
;
and
these
,
both
in
general
and
particular
;
we
have
taken
the
pains
to
examin
them
all
in
order
as
they
ly
in
his
pamphlet
.
And
first
,
we
must
needs
acknowledge
that
what
our
Dean
,
Secretary
,
and
the
rest
of
our
Brethren
here
have
acted
and
ordered
in
our
absence
has
not
only
been
as
impowred
and
authorized
by
us
with
our
consent
and
approbation
,
but
we
likewise
give
them
many
thanks
for
the
singular
care
and
pains
they
have
taken
therein
;
and
therefore
we
look
on
his
ordinary
and
seditions
phrase
of
a
pack
of
Blacklowists
,
as
an
aspersion
thrown
upon
us
all
.
The
rest
of
his
untruths
and
calumnies
which
are
too
many
to
relate
,
whereof
he
brings
no
other
proof
for
the
most
part
,
but
some
devout
aspiration
,
or
as
't
is
signified
to
me
,
have
been
canonically
and
clearly
prov'd
to
be
false
before
us
all
;
partly
by
letters
under
his
own
hand
,
and
partly
by
juridical
Oathes
and
testimonies
of
several
vertuous
Priests
,
somtimes
two
,
somtimes
three
,
sometimes
twenty
or
more
,
as
appeares
on
record
in
the
examination
of
and
Answer
to
all
the
particulars
of
his
book
,
inserted
together
with
a
Copy
of
these
presents
into
the
Acts
and
Registers
of
our
Chapter
.
One
slander
in
particular
we
cannot
omit
,
which
is
that
he
saith
some
of
us
have
call'd
the
virtuous
and
learned
Father
Angelo
Provincial
of
the
Franciscans
in
England
,
Madman
;
which
how
false
it
is
,
we
are
confident
the
Gentleman
himself
does
not
doubt
;
being
all
of
us
ready
to
assure
him
of
it
,
and
of
our
respect
on
all
occasions
to
his
person
and
merit
.
Besides
we
our selves
incurr
the
same
reproach
(
if
due
for
the
reason
the
Dr.
alledges
,
to
wit
,
the
disclaiming
Mr.
Blacklow's
doctrin
,
)
by
this
our
Declaration
.
If
the
printing
and
publishing
our
Encyclical
Epistle
have
perhaps
any
way
been
the
occasion
or
cause
of
the
Doctour
his
scandalous
answer
(
for
also
heretofore
unprovoked
by
us
in
the
least
,
he
injured
our
credits
in
a
printed
Pamphlet
)
we
are
heartily
sory
for
it
,
being
a
thing
we
never
intended
;
nay
it
was
expresly
ordered
by
us
it
should
not
be
publisht
.
Our
only
aime
was
to
prevent
,
by
sending
some
private
copies
of
it
to
our
Officers
,
the
dangerous
dissensions
which
the
Doctour
his
factious
gathering
of
hands
and
other
sinister
proceedings
might
possibly
produce
amongst
our
Brethren
.
Thus
much
,
dear
Brethren
,
we
have
thought
fit
,
nay
we
have
conceived
our selves
oblig'd
to
signifie
to
you
;
that
,
being
advertised
,
you
may
be
the
more
cautious
lest
such
insolent
and
turbulent
spirits
should
beget
divisions
amongst
us
.
You
know
Omne
regnum
in
se
divisum
desolabitur
;
that
all
Schism
is
destructive
of
Charity
,
especially
amongst
Apostolical
Missionaries
.
And
therefore
the
Apostle
admonishes
us
,
Etsi
tradidero
Corpus
meam
ita
ut
ardeam
,
charitatem
autem
non
habuero
,
nihil
mihi
prodest
.
You
know
how
scandalous
all
dissensions
must
needs
appear
amongst
such
as
ought
to
govern
and
guide
their
flocks
in
the
path
of
eternal
salvation
,
and
that
again
in
the
midst
of
a
Nation
overflowed
with
divers
Heterodox
opinions
.
Of
which
scandal
as
we
have
been
far
from
giving
the
least
occasion
,
so
(
God
be
blest
)
we
can
with
truth
pretend
to
as
great
an
union
(
excepting
the
turbulent
endeavours
of
this
one
single
person
)
as
possibly
any
so
great
a
community
in
the
Christian
world
.
Of
which
this
General
Assembly
affords
a
most
remarkable
instance
;
wherein
,
though
near
thirty
of
our
eminenrest
Brethren
voted
and
subscribed
,
gathered
from
several
Districts
in
England
and
Wales
,
(
and
so
representing
the
whole
body
of
the
Clergy
)
and
the
matters
debated
there
were
of
several
natures
,
some
of
them
relating
to
divers
more
particular
interests
under
the
common
,
many
of
them
also
being
subject
to
and
so
generally
apt
to
beget
(
and
possibly
end
)
in
dispute
and
controversie
,
yet
no
one
point
was
either
left
undetermined
,
or
determined
with
different
votes
;
but
all
the
Chapter
men
and
Officers
to
a
man
were
universally
and
unanimously
either
affirmative
or
negative
;
so
unparalleld
an
harmony
of
mindes
&
hearts
is
there
in
the
Catholick
English
Chapter
and
Clergy
.
And
what
more
becoming
a
Church
,
since
we
are
not
only
Christs
seamless
garment
,
but
even
the
sacred
limbs
and
members
of
Christ
himself
;
his
mystical
Body
,
whose
inviolable
union
the
Scriptures
and
Fathers
particularly
St.
Paul
and
St.
Austin
,
do
so
dearly
recommend
to
us
.
We
are
all
children
of
the
same
Parents
,
begotten
by
the
same
Father
Jesus
Christ
,
and
brought
forth
by
the
same
Mother
,
his
dear
Spouse
,
the
Catholick
Church
;
so
therefore
Christ
be
preacht
and
Soules
be
gain'd
,
let
it
be
all
one
to
us
,
by
whomsoever
it
is
done
.
Let
us
still
continue
linkt
unanimously
in
the
sacred
bonds
of
Christian
Charity
,
Cor
unum
&
anima
una
,
id
ipsum
sentientes
.
For
which
we
beg
you
will
joyn
in
your
prayers
and
sacrifices
with
us
,
who
are
Your
affectionate
Brethren
and
Servants
in
Christ
.
We
under
written
Apostolical
Notaries
attest
that
we
saw
the
above
written
Copy
sign'd
in
the
Original
by
twenty
five
Officers
and
Canons
of
the
English
Chapter
.
In
testimony
whereof
we
have
subscribed
and
set
to
our
seals
the
17.
of
Sept.
1661.
-
Robert
Chernock
Apostolical
Notary
.
-
Thomas
Masey
,
Apost
.
Notary
.
Concordat
cum
originali
.
Ita
Testor
Gulielmus
Byflete
Protonot
.
Apost
.