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36.7
Edward Stillingfeet, Dean of St Paul's, London.
Origines Britannicae or The Antiquities of the
British Churches.
1685.
37.
Literature illustrative of Dr Plume’s veneration for Charles 1 (but note here [37.7] and [3.3(b)]
above):
37.1
Maximilian Buck, Vicar of Seale, Kent.
An Anniversary Sermon on the Martyrdom of K.
Charles the First of Blessed Memory.
1702, (
Preached 30 January 1702). Printed dedication to
Dr Plume: “Viro morum probitate, vitae pietate, Erga egenos charitate, insigni, hoc quale
qualeeunque opusculum gratitudinis ergo quam humilime D. D. D. Q.”
37.2
The Pious Politician or Remains of the Royal Martyr.
1684. (
Collected writings of King Charles
1).
37.3
Basilika. The Workes of King Charles the Martyr.
1662.
37.4
Christus Dei. the Lords Annoynted . . . wherein is proved, that the regall monarchicall power of
our Sovereiǵne Lord King Charles is not of humane but of divine rig ht . . .
1643.
Oxford.
37.5
Stratoste Lileutikon. A Just Invective Against Those of the Army . . . Who Murthered King
Charles I.
1662.
By Dr John Gauden, who claimed to be the author of
Eikon Basiiike: the
Portrait of His Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings.
37.6
Sir Roger L’Esirange.
A Memento Directed To All Those That Truly Reverence the Memory of
King Charles the Martyr.
1662.
37.7
John Milton,
Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio.
1651. (
A note in Plume MS 30: “Dr Robert
Creighton told me he thought it brake Salmasius’ heart that he could not answer Milton's book in
such Latin as he wrote”).
37.8
Claude de Saumaise
(
Saimatius). Ad Johannem Miltonum Responsio.
1660.
37.9
Claude do Saumaise.
Defensio Regia Pro Carolo I.
1649.
38.
Peter Heylyn, D.D., Prebendary of Westminster Abbey.
Cyprianus Anglicus: or the History
of. . . William
[
Laud] . .
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
1668.
39.1
Plume’s Will states: “The Farm of Iltney in Munden, having been (as I have Credibly heard) a
Chantry land given to Maldon but alienated by King Henry the Eighth, I now restore and give
for ever to the town of Maldon for the uses following ... ", which were: maintenance of the
Library and School Room, a weekly lecture (Lady Day to Michaelmas), payment to "the most
Godly indigent poor” attending the lectures, the maintenance at school of 6 to 10 poor boys (fees
and clothing expenses). Plume knew that a chantry had been an endowment to religious uses and
he was putting land which had been part of that endowment back into the most suitably religious
usage possible in a Protestant nation.
39.2
Plume’s action reflects the teaching of Sir Henry Spelman [47.1, 47.3} who asserted “a due
Veneration to Persons, Places and Things consecrated to the service of God” [47.4(a)]. Spelman
claimed that disaster fell providentially upon those who even unknowingly committed sacrilege,
as for example in the area he first investigated, within 12 miles radius of Rougham, Norfolk,
where 24 manor houses had been continuously occupied since 1536 without change of family,
whilst 22 other properties which had been monastic estates to 1536/40 had “flung out their
owners with their names and families.. .thrice at least and some of them four or five times ... by
fail of issue or ordinary sale but very often by grievous accidents and misfortunes”. See also
[61.1(
a)] below.
39.3
Queen Anne’s Bounty.
Statutes of the Realm
2-3
Anne, c. 20, November 1704, The preamble of
the Act recites the undesirable results of clergy being dependent “for their necessary
maintenance upon the good will and liking of their hearers . . . under temptation of too much
complying and suiting their doctrines and teaching to the humours rather than the good of their
hearers...” and the Act setup a fund from which clerical stipends could be augmented by
applying to it the Crown revenues called First Fruits and Tenths which had once been customary
payments