forsake it Mary le Bow Mr. Leech sequestered and dead with grief Mary Bothaw Mr. Proctour forced to fly and sequestered Mary Cole-church Mary-Hill 1. Dr. Baker sequestred pursuivanted and imprisoned 2. Mr. Woodcock turned out and forced to fly Mary Mounthaw Mr. Thrall sequestered and shamefully abused Mary Somerset Mr. Cooke sequestered Mary Stainings Mary Woolchurch Mr. Tireman forct to forsake it Mary Woolnoth Mr. Shute molested and vext to death and denied a Funeral-sermon to be preached by Dr. Holdsworth as he desired Martins Ironmonger-lane Mr. Sparke sequestered and plundered Martins Ludgate Dr. Jermin sequestered Martins Orgars Dr. Walton assaulted sequestered plundered forced to fly Mr. Mosse his Curate turned out Martins Outwitch Dr. Pierce sequestered and dead Martins Vintry Dr. Rives sequestered plundered and forced to fly Matthew Friday-street Mr. Chestlin violently assaulted in his house imprisoned in the Compter thence sent to Col chester Goale in Essex sequestered and plundered Maudlins Milkstreet Mr. Jones sequestered Maudlins Old-fishstreet Dr. Griffith sequestered plundered imprisoned in Newgate when being let out he was forced to fly and since imprisoned again in Peter-house Michael Bassishaw Dr. Gifford sequestered Michael Cornhil 1. Dr. Brough sequestered plundered Wife and Children turned out of doors his Wife dead with grief 2. Mr. Weld his Curate assaulted beaten in the Church and turned out Michael Crooked-lane Michael Queenhithe Mr. Hill sequestered Michael Querne Mr. Launce sequestered Michael Royal Mr. Proctour sequestered and forced to fly Michael Woodstreet Mildred Breadstreet Mr. Bradshaw sequestered Mildred Poultry Mr. Maden sequestered and gone beyond-sea Nicholas Acons Mr. Bennet sequestered Nicholas Cole-abby Mr. Chibbald sequestered Nicholas Olaves Dr. Cheshire molested and forced to resigne Olaves Hart-street Mr. Haines sequestered Olaves Jewry Mr. Tuke sequestered plundered and imprisoned Olaves Silverstreet Dr. Boosie abused and dead with grief Pancras Soper-lane Mr. Eccop sequestered plundered forced to fly Wife and Children turned out of doors Peters Cheap Mr. Vochier sequestered and dead with grief Peters Cornhil Dr. Fairfax sequestered plundered imprisoned in Ely-House and the Ships his Wife and Children turned out of doors Peters Pauls-wharf Mr. Marbury sequestered Peters Poor Dr. Holdsworth sequestered plundered imprisoned in Ely-House then in the Tower Stephens Colemanstreet Stephens Walbrook Dr. Howel through vexation forced to forsake it sequestered of all and fled Divers since turned out Swithings Mr. Owen sequestered Thomas Apostle Mr. Cooper sequestered plundered sent prisoner to Leeds Castle in Kent dead with grief Trinity Parish Mr. Harrison In the 97 Parishes within the Walls besides St. Pauls Outed 85. Dead 16. Parishes without the Walls ANdrew Holborn Dr. Hacket sequestred Bartholmews Great Dr. Westfield abused in the Streets sequestred forced to fly and dead Bartholomew Less Brides Parish Mr. Palmer sequestred Bridwel Precinct Mr. Brown turned out Botolph Aldersgate Mr. Booth sequestred and plundred Botolph Algate Dr. Swadlin sequestred plundred imprisoned at Gresham-Colledge and Newgate his Wife and Children turned out of doors Botolph Bishops-gate Mr. Rogers sequestred Dunstans West Dr. Marsh sequestred and dead in remote parts George Southwark Mr. Rogers sequestred Giles Cripplegate 1. Dr. Fuller sequestred plundred imprisoned at Ely-house 2. Mr. Hutton his Curate assaulted in the Church and imprisoned Olaves Southwark Dr. Turner sequestred plundred fetcht up Prisoner with a Troop of Souldiers and after forced to fly Saviours Southwark Sepulchres Parish Mr. Pigot the Lecturer turned out Thomas Southwark Mr. Spencer sequestred and imprisoned Trinity Minories In the 16 Parishes without the Walls Outed 14. Dead 1. In the 10 Out-Parishes CLement Danes Dr. Dukeson sequestred plundred and forced to fly Covent Garden Mr. Hall sequestred and forced to fly Giles in the Fields Dr. Heywood sequestred imprisoned in the Compter Ely-house and the Ships forced to fly his Wife and Children turned out of doors James Clarkenwel Katherine Tower Leonard Shoreditch Mr. Squire sequestred imprisoned in Gresham-Colledge Newgate and the King-bench his Wife and Children plundred and turned out of doors Martins in the Fields Dr. Bray sequestred imprisoned plundred forced to fly and dead in remote parts Mary Whitechappel Dr. Johnson sequestred Magdalen Bermondsey D. Paske sequestred Savoy 1. Dr. Balcanquel sequestred plundred forced to fly and dead in remote parts 2. Mr. Fuller forced to fly In the 10 Out-parishes Outed 9. Dead 2. In the Adjacent Towns THe Dean and all the Prebends of the Abbey-church Westminster but only Mr. Lambert Osbaston sequestered Margarets Westminster Dr. Wimberly sequestred Lambeth Dr. Featly sequestred plundred imprisoned and dead a Prisoner Newington Mr. Heath sequestred Hackney Mr. Moore sequestred Reddriffe Islington divers Ministers turned out Stepney Dr. Stampe sequestred plundred and forced to fly In the adjacent Towns besides those of the Abbey-Church and Islington Outed 7. dead 1. The Total of the Ministers of London within the Bills of Mortality besides Pauls and Westminster turned out of their Livings by Sequestration and otherwise 115. Whereof Doctors in Divinity above 40. And the most of them plundered of their Goods and their Wives and Children turned out of doors Imprisoned in London and in the Sips and in the several Goals and Castles in the Countrey 20. Fled to prevent Imprisonment 25. Dead in remote parts and in Prisons and with grief 22. About 40 Churches vold having no constant Minister in them Vsque quo Domine Rev. 6. 10. CHAP. VII Of Parliamentary changes in Religion Of the Policy and ways for the destruction of Religion by this Parliament wrought by the long conspiracy and combination of the Puritans of England here laid open BUt what safety can be to England when Lay-Parliaments shall presume to meddle in Religion hanging Reformation of Religion as a Curtain to the Parliament-windows making it the Stalking-horse to their temporal ends and by respects the ruines of Three Kingdoms in our days can sufficiently witness changes of Religion being ever the Laities punishment as well as the Clergies affliction as might be proved by the English story ever since Parliaments have been but instrumental or active thereunto Henry the 8th begat the policy to whose Lust and Tyranny how soon did the Parliament turn Pander covering many a foul fact under the fair face of Reformation burning Papist and Protestant both at one Stake by Bill in Parliament without any Tryal Edward the 6th of Nine years old his Parliaments twice altered Religion according to the two Grandees Sommerset and Dudley In the first of Queen Mary the Parliament punished the same Religion by Fire which themselves had so lately established Upon coming in of Queen Elizabeth the Parliament changed Religion again and within few years made it death for a Priest to reconcile any man to that Religion which Parliaments had so zealously restored that in the space of twelve years four changes of Religion were made by Parliaments in Englond more than ever were made by any Christians throughout the world in 1500 years before But what policy in the Laity drew on those contrary changes
suffered to be Christian have so much Faith as to believe that in the face of a Christian Nation nay nay a pure Reforming Religious Christian Parliament the Ministers of Jesus Christ should be doomed to ruine for saying in effect Christianus suum See here a Catalogue of Crimes charged upon the Clergy collected out of the first Century authorized to be Published in Print by the Parliament Bowing at the name of Jesus Examples 33. 43. Setting up the name Jesus in the Church Ex. 72. 83. Preaching against Sacriledge Ex. 22. Bowing the Body in Gods House Ex. 7. Assisting the King and exhorting Subjects so to do Ex. 33. 43. Reading the Kings Proclamation in Churches according to the Kings Command Ex. 28. 34. 52. Appointing the 43. Psalm to be sung Ex. 29. Preaching against not coming to their own Parish Church Ex. 21. 35. 38. Reading and having Popish Books Ex. 88. 55. Seen in Company with Papists Ex. 88. It were endless to reckon particulars in this kind of Accusations as wearing the Surplice using Ceremonies praying for Bishops all now cryed down for Superstition and Popery But in every Petiton Malignancy against the Parliament was the Burden of the Song this indeed made any Doctrines to be censured Superstition and Popery a Crime would puzzle all the Divines and Lawyers in Christendom to expound were they Strangers to the Proceedings of this Faction this Malignancy being nothing else but for Subjects to be suspected of being constant in Religion towards God and Loyalty towards their King this is the unquestionable definition of Malignancy against the Parliament and what Christian much more a Clergy-man would plead not guilty to these objected Crimes or be ashamed of these condemned Popish Doctrines And when by these tricks they had cruelly committed many of the Clergy into noysome Prisons forcing others to fly the like cruelty by forsaking their Habitations and Estates their Wives and Children they sequestred them for non Residence first force them to fly and then to punish them for flying It 's pity to omit their pretty fashion of sequesting Mr. Freeman of London It is this day ordered by the Committee for plundered Ministers that all the Profit of James Garlick-hithe be sequstred into the Hands of c. from Mr. Freeman the present Incumbent till cause be shewn to the contrary O the excellent Justiceof the new Saints of the Reforming People of God! executed by Club-law and by the Sword of War which these weak Christians by the help of a mis-guided Commonwealth-Party have raised to empower themselves to force the Consciences of all men now themselves are grown so strong to a new Covenant the Fanaticks last Engine to ruine the Church and to destroy the Clergy Root and Branch A Solemn League and Covenant the Fanatick Antichristian Idol set up in the Temple of God hung up in all the Churches of London a Covenant like that in Isaiah with Death and an Agreement with Hell A Covenant made by the Fanaticks of two Nations in defiance to God and the King to the Destruction of the Religion of their own Mother Church and of all Loyalty to their King the Father of their Country A scandalous Covenant maliciously studied and laid for a meer Snare and Rock of Offence to the Estates and Consciences of the Clergy and People of God that Scandal in the Abstract Scandalum datum praebens proximo occasionem ruinae the proper work of the Devil insomuch that at a general Summons of the Gentry and remnant of the Clergy of the County of Surrey for the taking this Covenant some chief Actors of the Faction when they saw that with several Salvo's and Liberty to take it in any sence with mental Reservations and considerations that it was but a forced Oath and such like mincings many men and some of the Clergy loving this present World took the same said they were sorry to see some take it whose Estates they hoped to have caught by this Hook And although the Authors of the Covenant knew the Clergies greater Obligations than other men by Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the King and by Oaths of Canonical Obedience and by several Subscriptions upon Record to the present Church and by their stricter Tie of Conscience and greater knowledge of the Function of Episcopacy from whence themselves received their own Holy Order which from our Saviours and the Apostles days was without Interruption for 1500 years and still is continued in all Christian Churches where Rebellion started not the Scruple and the Sword ever since maintains the Heresie yet none were so much pressed and urged to take this Covenant in Terminis to destroy Bishops as were the Clergy and the refusal thereof was ipso facto loss of any Clergy-man's Livings and Livelyhood nay so barbarous were this Faction that their Committee for Composition at Goldsmiths Hall would not admit the Lord Bishop of Winchester lately deceased to compound for his sequestred Temporal Estate for no compounding for Spirituals is allowed but Sequestration is indeed Deprivation with these men unless he would take the Covenant and swear to destroy himself and his own sacred Function yet these were the men who have so cried out against Oaths ex officio and against forcing the Consciences of men and give this reason why the Liturgy must be taken away because it gave Offence to some mens Consciences and these are the men who cried down the Clergy for Innovations and now punish them because they will not move but as these Fanaticks have rigidly practised all those things which themselves so much abhorred teaching the World a new Art how to commit any villany securely by first railing against that Sin which they intend to commit so may they be a warning to all Christian Princes how they suffer the Church or State-Goverment to be spoken against be the pretence never so pious or seemingly Religious CHAP. V. A view of the New Judges of the thus accused Clergy their condition and their judging of Doctrines in their Committees for Religion de facto de jure HAving given the world a short view by which the rest may be guessed of the Fanaticks arts and tricks of making the Clergy their adversaries and inventing accusations against them whom as hainous Malefactors they have taken upon them to judge as they pretend by Law and by the Justice and Wisdom of the High Court of Parliament for Reformation of Religion it 's not unseasonable to shew the world a true Character of these great Judges in their personal Relations as well as their political capacity of judging de facto de jure And surely men who were strangers to the designs of this Faction would think by the high strains of publick Acts pretending Reformation of Religion there were some Oecumenical Counsel now sitting or at least some great Convocation of Grave and Learned Bishops and Clergy of England who were wont to have the judiciary power in Church-matters long before
many thousands of them can witness the sad conclusion of the woful premises of this Book yet this Tyranny and persecution of the Clergy is stiled the justice of Parliament and the power of Reformation of Religion whereof the Reader may here see a pattern in the cruel sufferings of the Clergy of London presented in a general Bill of Mortality to which these papers may serve for a short Commentary till God send better days of enlarging the story by a more full Collection the very naming of the persons in that Bill being generally men of known honest Lives and constant painful preaching that the Earl of Northumberland discoursing with Mr. Calamy for so have the engaged Nobility prostituted their honour to the Courting of each Fanatical Lecturer and Pedant of whom indeed they stand in awe about the supplying of above fifty Churches in London void of Ministers told Mr. Calamy that they must restore some of the Sequestred Clergy of London to which Mr. Calamy replying God forbid the Earl said unless they did so the Parliament could not find men of abilities to preach in London The naming I say of those men were enough to shame the Father of Lyes and his Fanatical Sons were not both past shame and to vindicate the rest of the abused Clergy of England as well sure as the Personal faults of some few and those very few be made the scandal of the whole Function and yet who so cruelly persecuted as these London-Divines will ye know the reason thereof The Fanatical design growing high pitched upon three main engines to compleat their work vid. the setting up the Militia the seising of the Navy and the planting in of Lecturers and it 's hard to say which of these three have done their new Masters best service this last being the ready way to obtain the two former whereunto much conduced the feigned fears and jealousies raised by the Faction in the City as also by several Votes and Declarations of Parliament of Forreign invasions from abroad and secret dangers at home no sooner bruited abroad than believed by a people deceiving and willing to be deceived whereby the Faction in Parliament desiring a Guard refused the Trained Bands of Middlesex profer'd by the King to satisfie their fears confiding rather in the Citizens of London purposely to engage that City to maintain them in whatsoever wickedness they should act their chiefest care being to make sure of London the head and fountain of this proud and cruel blood-thirsty Faction therefore to keep and encrease this power in the City they knew Jeroboams Calf-policy in altering Religion and the Priesthood would be necessary for their plot of a new Government to which purpose they at first invented these tricks and formalities of Justice against the Clergy till having got the power their Sword should make good the Sequestring and Removal of those especially in London who were not like to Apostatize from Religion and Loyalty in ceasing to preach to the people to fear God and the King according to the Scriptures hereby making way to plant in their own Creatures and Ministers to deifie the Calves of their own setting up this made the Faction in the House of Commons never to transmit any Bills against any particular accused Clergy-man to the House of Peers where indeed lay judiciary power to a Legal hearing but knowing well such foggy charges would soon vanish at the face of Justice these evil spirits kept on their course of casting mists before the peoples eyes to make them think that the lights of the Church burned so dimme that it was necessary to snuff them or quite put them out This is the true reason of their cruelty towards the London-Clergy and indeed to the whole Clergy of England and this wicked policy drew on this sad story following A General Bill of the Mortality of the Clergy of London or a Brief Martyrology and Catalogue of the Learned Grave Religious and Painful Ministers of the City of London who have been Imprisoned Plundered barbarously used and deprived of all Livelihood for themselves and their Families in these last years for their constancy in the Protestant Religion establisht in this Kingdom and their Loyalty to their Soveraign THe Cathedral Church of Saint Pauls the Dean Residentiaries and other Members of that Church sequestered plundered and turned out Alhallows Woodstreet Dr. Wats sequestred plundred his Wife and Children turned out of doors himself forced to fly Alhallows Barkin Dr. Lafield pursuivanted imprisoned in Ely-house and the ships sequestred and plundred afterwards forced to fly Alhallows Breadstreet Alhallows Great Alhallows Hony-lane Alhallows Less Alhallows Lumbardstreet Mr. Weston sequestered Alhallows Staining Alhallows the Wall Alphage Dr. Halsie shamefully abused his Cap pulled off to see if he were not a shaven Priest voted out and dead with grief Andrew Hubbard Dr. Chambers sequestered Andrew Undershaft 1. Mr. Mason through vexation forced to resigne 2. Mr. Prichard after that sequestered Andrew Wardrobe Dr. Isaacson sequestered Anne Aldersgate Dr. Clewet sequestered Anne Black-friars Antholins Parish Austins Parish Mr. Udal sequestred his Bed-rid Wife turned out of doors and left in the streets Bartholmew Exchange Dr. Grant sequestered Bennet Fynck Mr. Warfield sequestered Bennet Grace-Church Mr. Quelch sequestered Bennet Pauls-wharfe Mr. Adams sequestered Bennet Sheerhog Mr. Morgan dead with grief Botolph Billingsgate Mr. King sequestered and forced to fly Christ-Church Mr. 〈◊〉 turned out and dead Christophers Mr. Hanslowe forced to resigne Clement East-cheap Mr. Stone shamefully abused sequestred sent Prisoner to Plymouth and plundered Dionys Back-Church Mr. Humes sequestered and abused Dunstans East Dr. Childerley reviled abused and dead Edmonds Lumberstreet Mr. Paget molested silenced and dead Ethelborough Mr. Clark sequestered imprisoned Faiths Dr. Browne sequestered and dead Fosters Mr. Batty sequestered plundered forced to fly and dead Gabriel Fench-Church Mr. Cooke sequestered Geo. Botolf-l Dr. Stiles forct to resign Greg. by St. P. Dr. Stiles forct to resign Hellens Mr. Miller turned out and dead James Dukes place Mr. 〈◊〉 sequestered James Garlick-hythe 1. Mr. Freeman plundered and sequestered 2. Mr. Anthony his Curate turned out John Baptist Mr. Weemsly sequestered John Evangelist John Zachary Mr. Edlyn sequestered forced to fly and plundered Katherine Coleman 1. Dr. Hill forced to resigne 2. Mr. Kibbuts sequestered Katherine Cree-church Mr. Rush turned out Laurence Jury Mr. Crane sequestered Laurence Pountney Leonard Eastcheap Mr. Calfe forced to give up to Mr. Roborow Scribe to the Assembly Leonard Foster-lane Mr. Ward forced to fly plundered sequestered and dead for want of necessaries Margaret Lothbury Mr. Tabor plundered imprisoned in the Kings-Bench his Wife and Children turned out of doors at midnight and he sequestered Margaret Moses Margaret New Fishstreet Mr. Pory forced to fly plundered and sequestered Margaret Pattons Mr. Meggs plundered imprisoned in Ely-house and sequestered Mary Abchurch Mr. Stone plundered sent Prisoner by sea to Plymouth and sequestered Mary Aldermanbury Mary Aldermary Mr. Browne forced to