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Richard Cosin

Placeholder cover for An Apologie For Svndrie Proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, of late times by some chalenged, and al- so diuersly by them impugned. By which Apologie all the Reasons and Allegations set downe as well in a Treatise, as in certaine Notes both against proceeding ex Officio, and against Oaths ministred to parties in causes criminall; are also examined and answered : Vpon that occasion lately reuiewed, and much enlarged aboue the first priuate proiect, and now published, being diuided into three partes : the first part whereof chief- lie sheweth what matters be incident to Ecclesiasticall conisance; and so allowed by Statutes and Common law : the second treateth of the two wayes of proceeeding in causes Cri- minal, viz. by way of Accusation, & ex officio Iudicis : the third concerneth Oaths in generall, but more specially the lawfulnesse of such as be ministred touching supposed of- fenses, either of themselues that sweare, or of their brethren : Respectiuelie submitted to the graue iudgements of the reuerend Iudges and other Sages of the Common lawe of Iudicious Professors of the Ciuill lawe