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A92155	Angliæ ruina: or, Englands ruine represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same. Containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected, plundered, imprisoned, or banished, for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne. Whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament; with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.; Mercurius rusticus	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Griffin, Matthew, 1599?-1665. London. A generall bill of mortality, of the clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2447; ESTC R204638	175,259	292

Proclaimed that thence he might take occasion to blaspheme His Soveraigne for being Proclaimed on Friday the third of March the next day Saturday being the chiefe Market day when the Market was fullest that the newes might be carryed into all parts of the Country and every one learne from so desperate an example to contemne their Soveraignes Commands Fines comes in his Coach to the high Crosse attended by a Troope of Horse and after a Declaration read That the Proclamation published the day before was a Scandalous and Libellous Paper and such as deserved to be burnt by the hand of a publique Hangman he caused the Serjeant that Ploclaimed it to burne it holding Pistolls to his brest and threatning to shoot him if he did not hold them high enough fearing it seemes that so damnable so unpardonable a Treason should want witnesses Lastly As the direct end of their desire to deliver up the Citie to the Kings protection was conscience of dutie to God and their Soveraigne so the reflected end was their owne securitie and quitting themselves of those Oppressions and Grievances under which they suffered And these were many First The often repeated Taxations and Loanes of Money unto the King and Parliament as they were pleased to joyne them upon the thred-bare securitie of the Puplique Faith and if any man refused to lend on that credit which they had banckrupted long before he was threatned with Imprisonment Plundring or which was worse then both sending up to the Parliament And to these may be added the dayly drayning their purses by illegall exactions imployed for repayring the Castle building of Forts and maintaining a Garrison against the King Secondly By urging upon them new and Treasonable Votes and Protestations If not fully in words yet in the the use and interpretation of them directly opposite to the Oath of Allegiance the Oath of the Citie taken by every Citizen when he is elected into the place of a Burgesse in which they sweare in the sixth Article of that Oath not to enter into any Oath or Confederacy against the king contrary to the Lawes of the Land and likewise contrary to the Protestation recommended from the Parliament to the Subjects of this Kingdome The Oath for the tenor of words was this following IA. B. doe protest and vow in the presence of Almightie God that I will to the utmest of my power and to the hazard my t se and fortunes oppose all such Forces as shall attempt any thing against the Citie of Bristol Without the consent of the King and Parliament so to doe In which Protestation they tooke the name of the King in vaine for when they say King and Parliament they meant the two Houses without the King for if actions bee the best interpreters of the Agents words it is more then manifest that by the Protestation they intended to ingage that Citie in Rebellion against the King and that under the tye of Religion And for proofe I offer first their seconding this Protestation with another which spake more plainly wherein they were to protest with their lives and fortunes to resist Prince Rupert the Lord Generall the Earle of Forth the Lord Marquesse Hertford the Earle of Newcastle Sir Ralph Hopton and their Forces and secondly because as before the tendring of this Protestation they had received Colonel Essex to Command there for the Parliament so within 2 few dayes after the first Protestation was tendered they admitted Colonel Popham and Sir Edward Hungerford with their Regiments and afterward Colonel Fines without any oppositiog that so now being backed with so strong a power they might make the latter Protestation the interpreter of the former Upon the Petition of Mistresse Majoresse the Lady Rogers Mistresse Holsworth Miresse Vicaris with other Zealous Sisters to the number of a hundred Thirdly By difarming all such as were any wayes suspected to beare a good and loyall affection to His Majestic unlesse they would take such Protestations as should be tendered to them and having taken away such Armes as they found not satisfied with this they urge on them another Protestation protesting in the sight of God and calling him to witnesse that they had no other Armes concealed in their houses either their owne or ohers and if any man refused to take this Protestation he was instantly imprisomed as an enemy to the State and a man not to be confided in Fourthly The perpetuall scorn and obloquy to which they were exposed reproached every day as they passed the streets with names of Malignants and Papists nay as if they had beene worse then Jewes they spit at them and threaten to take a speedy course with them Fifthly The generall contempt and prophanation of Gods holy Worship and Service rending of Surplices tearing the Booke of Common Prayer breaking downe Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of their Congregations and all these Out-rages not only winked at but countenanced and incouraged by Fixes and his fellow Rebells and that they might have Like People Like Priest They discountenance or drive away the Orthodox Ministers and substitute in their places the most infamous notorious Schismaticks that they can pick out of severall Counties as Tumb's of Limster in All-Saints in Master Williamssons Cure an Orthodox and godly man Craddocke Bacon Walter Simonds and one Matthew Hazard whom though f name last yet deserves to have the precedency of all the rest as being a maine Incendia●y in this Rebellion violently egged on by his Wise whose disciple the silly man is this gave occasion of scandall to all pious godly men which honoured the Protestant Religion as it is established and made them even to abhorre the service of the Lord. Lastly because upon the poynt they were confined to Bristol not daring to goe out of the Citie for in all places where the Commands and Ordinances of the two Houses prevailed they had given a List of the names of the Malignants that durst appeare for the King to the end that if any of them came thither they might be apprehended and sent Prisoners to Taunton Barkley Castle or some other Prisons or as Delinquents sent to the Parliament It was no wonder therefore that a Citie thus robb'd of its wealth and libertie groaning under an unsupportable yoke of bondage and ●yranny should endeavour by restoring the King to His Rights to restore themselves to their former freedome which could not be done but by breaking these bonds and easting these cords from them On these weightic motives therefore they enter into a loyall consederacy to deliver up the Citie from its captivity under the Rebels into His Majesties protection and that without shedding of one drop of blood if it were possible but most certaine without any resolution to Massacre the Citizens as hath beene most falsely both Preached and Printed for Master Yeomans and Bowcher both on their Examinations and after their Condemnation both affirmed that their was not any intention of blood-shed and in

houses amongst which two were most famous far exceeding all the rest viz. Christ-Church Et hujus pertinacissimus amulus as Learned cambden speakes the eager rivall of Christ-Church Saint Augustines This Church by the injury of Sacrilege and time two greedy devourers lyes almost buried in its own Ruines presenting nothing else to the eye of the beholders but a sad spectacle how spacious ample a structure it once was when now a piece of it hath the honour to be stiled though seldome imploy'd as the Kings House But Christ-Church placed as it were in the Navel of the City rayseth it self to so great a Majestie and Statelinesse that Krasmus a man not too much taken with magnificence in this kind I am sure not doting on it sayes that this doth present it self with so Majestick State VI procul etians intuentibus religionem incutiat that it occasions that devotion which should be used there and strikes a sensible impression of Religion in their hearts that behold it though a far off and at a distance This Church built in old time as Beda sayes by the faithfull and beleeving Romans and by King Ethelbert given to Augustine in processe of time needed the like pietie to susport it as at first built it works of that nature in those dayes did not long lye neglected for want of Benefactors Lanfranke therefore the thirtie third Arch-Bishop of this Sea whether more famous for repairing of decayed Churches as this of Canterbury Rochester and S. Albans or his indefatigable pains in correcting the corrupt translations of the Holy Bible scattered every where through the Kingdom in his dayes is uncertain William Corbet or as others will have it Gorbois the thirtie sixth Arch-Bishop of the same Sea reedified the Quire and the upper part of this Church and the pietie of succeeding Bishops built joyned the Nave or body to the Quire and brought it to this magnificence and splendor in which wee now see it But what out forefathers thought Religion to build up we their degenerous posterity think Pietie to pull downe so that while some leading Atheists enemies to God and his Religion and reprobate to every good work are busie to Vote cry down Episcopacy with the Sacred Hierarchy Root Branch their Emissaries incouraged and set on by them first deface these Churches and in the next place will utterly ruine them ' that so the places where God is worshipped being demolished the revenue that maintaines the worship may become a prey to these Sacrilegious Cormorants But my God shall make them like a wheele Now how the Rebells behaved themselves in their first attempt in this kind on the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury under the conduct of Colonel Sandys I cannot better expresse then in the passionate elegancy of Reverend Doctor Pas●e one of the Prebends and at the time Sub-deane of that Church to the Earle of Holland the most ingratefull and most unthankfull of men My ever honoured Lord Did it not conduce unto the Publique I should not preume to interrupt your Lordships weightie affaires but the long experience of your Lordships 〈◊〉 for Religion and vigilancy for your universitie of Cambridge hath assured me of your Lordships Patronage of our whole Church in generall and as the case new stands of this Mother Church in particular 〈◊〉 spected P●… but have found much trouble from the Troopers sent among 〈◊〉 with what barbarousnesse they have 〈◊〉 themselves at Rochester and in other parts of this Countie I leave to the Relation of others and beg your Lordships patience onely to be informed what hath happened here with us and wherein I am more neerly concerned by mine Office in the absence of the Deane Colonel Sandys arriving here with his Troopers on Friday night presently casued a 〈◊〉 Watch and Sentinells to be set both upon the Church and upon our severall honses to the great affright of all the Inhabitants 〈◊〉 this done Serjeant Major Cockaine came to me and in the name of the Parliament demanded to see the Armes of the Church and the store Powder of the countie which I presently shewed him when her possessed himselfe of the Keyes and kept them in his owne custody the next morning wee were excluded the Church might not be permitted to enter for the performance of our Divine Exercises but about eight of the clock Sir Michael Livesey attended with many Souldiers came unto our Officers and commanded them to deliver up t●e keyes of the Church to one of their Company which they did and thereupon bee departed when the Souldiers entring the Church and Quire Giant-like began a fight with God himselfe overthrew the Communion-Table toare the Velvet-Cloth from before it defaced the goodly Screene or Tabernack-worke violated the Monuments of the dead spoyled the Organs brake downe the ancient Rayles and Seats with the brazen Eagle which did support the Bible forced open the Cupboards of the Singing-men rent some of their Surplices Gommes and Bibles and carryed away others mangled all our Service-Books and Books of Common-Prayer bestrowing tbe whole Pavement with the leaves thereof a misereble spectacle to all good eyes but as if all this had b●ene too little to satisfie the sury of some indiscreet Zealots among them for many did abhorre what was done already they further exercised their malice upon the Arras hanging in the Quire representing the whole Story of our Saviour wherein observing divers figures of Cbrist I tremble to expresse their blasphemies One said That here is Christ and swore that he would stab him Another said here is Christ and swore that he would rip up his bowells which they did accordingly so farre as the figures were capable thereof besides many other villanies And not content therewith finding another statue of christ in the Frontis●iece of the South-Gate they discharged against it fortie shot at the least trium●hing much when they did hit it in the head or face as if they were resolved to crucisie him againe in his Figure whom they could not hurt in truth nor had their fury beeme thus stopped threatning the ruins of the whole Fabrick had not the Colonel with some others come to the reliese and rescue the Tumults appeased they presently d●parted for Dover from whence we expect them this day and are much afraid that as they have already vilisied our persons and offered extreame indignitie to one of our Brethren so they will Plunder our houses at their returne unlesse the care of the Major the Colonel and some Members of the House of Commons Sir Edward Masters and captaine Nut now with us who have promised to present their knowledge to that Honourable House doe prevent the same Your Lordship will be pleased to pardon my hastie expressions which proceed from a grieved heart and I am confident the honourable Houses of Parliament being rightly informed herein will proceed against the like abuses and impieties in other places in the meane time we submit with patience

by as spectators and approvers of these Barbarous Impieties yet for feare left in this Schismaticall frenzy the sword in mad mens hands might mistake Sir William Waller a wary man as he is and well knowne not to be too apt to expose himselfe to danger stood all the while with his sword drawn and being asked by one of his Troopers what he meant to stand in that Posture He answered That it was to secure himselfe you know 't is written The wicked are afraid where no fear is for though the People made him an Idoll in London yet being no Popish but a Puritanicall Idoll for they have their Idolls and their Idolatry as much as the Church of Rome there was no danger to his person to be mistaken for an object of their Reformation at Chichester The same Trooper added also That if his Colonel in the Low-Countries were there and commanded in thiese he would hang up halfe a dozen of the souldiers for examples sake it no being the custome of the Low-Countries though long time hath made their enmitie inveterate and added much to the animositie of the parties to Plunder Churches it being amutuall stipulation between the Spaniard and the Hollander that what Town soever should by conguest passe from the possession of one Nation to the other though the Conquerour hid the free Plunder of the Towne yet churches with their Ornaments and whatever was conveyed into them should be invialable the church being sanctuary to what sover was under ●is Roo se and if they would have any thing thence it was to be purchased at a valuable price These good intimations of moderations from a man of lesse command but more Religion then Sir William prevailed nothing with him to restrain the outraigous madnesse of his fellow Rebells Having therefore made what spoyle they could in the Cathedrall they rush out thence and breake open a Parish Church standing on the North side of the Cathedrall called the Subdeanery there they teare the Common Prayer Bookes both those belonging to the Church and likewise those which were left there by devote persons which did usually frequent Divine Service and because many things in the Holy Bible make strongly against them one did contradict and condemne their impious practices they marked it in divers places with a black coale 't is more then probable that the 13 Chapter to the Romans did not escape their Index Expurgatorius for certainly if that be the word of God as undoubtedly it is they cannot so farre with-hold the truth in unrightenusnesse as not to read their doome in that word they shall judge them at the last day here they stole the Ministers Surplice and Hood and all the Linnen serving for the Communion and finding no more Plate but the chalice they steale that too which they brake in pieces to make a just and equall divident amongst themselves for an Engeneer of theirs Robert Prince a French-man with a wooden leg afterwards shewed the foot thereof broken off and when complaint was made of these barbarous out-rages Captain Keely replyed That he Know not whether all this were not done by Order or no. About five or six days after Sir Arther Haslerig demanded the Keyes of the chapter-house being entred the place and having intelligence by a treacherous Officer of the Church where the remainder of the Church Plate was he commanded his servants to breake downe the Wainscot round about the roome which was quickly done they having brought Crowes of Iron for that purpose along with them while they were knocking downe the Wainscot Sir Arthurs tongue was not enough to expresse his joy it was operative at his very heeles for dancing and skipping pray marke what Musick that is to which it is lawfull for a Puritan to dance he cryed out There Boyes there Boyes Hearke Hearke it Rattles it Rattles and being much importuned by some members of that Church to leave the Church but a Cup for administration of the Blessed Sacrament answer was returned by a Scotch-man standing by That they should take a wooden dish and now tell me which was farthest from a Christian either this impure Scot or that blasphemous Atheist who seeing the masty Plate and rich Ornaments wherewith the Christian Altars were adorned in the Primitive Church in indignation scorn of Christ beltched out Enquà preciosis vasis filim Maria ministratur Behold with what costly vessells the Son of Mary is served what further spoyle and indignitic they have since done to that house of God And the habitation where his honour dwelt is yet uncertaine Mercurius Rustius c. III. The Rebells defying God in his owne house their Sacrilege in stealing Church Plate and goods their irreverence towards the King by abusing his Statue their heathenish barbaritie in violating the bones and ashes of dead Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors in the Cathedral Church of Winchester c. THe next instance which I shall give of the Rebells Sacrilege and Prophanenesse is in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester which Citie as it was the Royall Seat of the Kings of the West Saxons in the time of the Heptarchy so was it the Seat of the Bishops of that people after Kenwalshus King of the West Saxons not brooking the Barbarous broken expressions of Agilbertus his Bishop divided this large Diocesse betweene Agilbertus and Wina and leaving Agilbertus to reside at Dorchester caused Wina to be Consecrated Bishop of Winchester Before we tell you by whom and in what manner this Church was robbed and spoyled of its Ornaments and beautie it will not be impertinent while it may serve as an aggravation of their impietie briefly to set downe by whom this Church was built and so richly adorned as lately we saw it This magnificent Structure which now stands was begun by Walkelinus the thirtie fifth Bishop of this See which worke left imperfect and but begun by him was but coldly prosecuted by the succeeding Bishops untill William of Wickham the magnificent Sole founder of two Saint Mary Colledges the one in Oxford commonly called New Colledge the other a Nurcery to this neare Winchester came to possesse this See He amonst many other works of Pletie built the whole Nave or body of this Church from the Quire to the West end the Chappels on the East end beyond the Quire had their severall Founders The hallowed Ornaments and Utencills of this Church being many rich and costly were the gifts of severall Benefactors who though their names perhaps are not recorded in earth have found their reward in Heaven This Church was first differenced by the name of Saint Amphibalus who received a Crowne of Martyrdome under the persecution of Dioclesian Next it exchanged this name for that of S. Peter and againe this for that of Saint Swithine the eighteenth Bishop of this See last of all it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity whose blessed name is now called upon it which Holy name though it could not but put the

are knowne most to imitate Exod. 21. To steale a Man was death by the Law of Moses nay the Romans that saw by no other Light but that dimme Sparke of Nature discerned the equitie of this Law as is apparent in their Lex Fabia de Plagiarii● and though these men blanch the Inhumanitie pretending that they rob the Mother to inrich the Church to bring them up in the true Religion it were worth the while to aske if they would vouchsafe an answer what they mean by the true Religion if they mean the Protestant or to speake more properly the Religion of the Church of England 't is apparent they persecute that but suppose which wee doe not grant that they did bereave Parents of their Children to that purpose to bring them up in the true Religion yet cannot a good Intention warrant an unlawfull act not ought they to doe evill that good may come of it nor doe wee find either that the Church was ever pleased with such accessions or that God did give a blessing to such unwarrantable zeal When Sesibutus King of Aragon in the yeare 600 prevailed against the Sarazins and in a better zeal then this but not according to knowledge compelled his Captives to be baptized he quickly found his errour by the want of Gods blessing upon his indeavours nay Gods dislike was so visible in the successe that the Church of God observing it determined That the children of Infidells not having the use and exercise of right Reason should not be baptized Invitis Parentibus contrary to the consent of the Parents And the fourth Councell of T●ledo Cap. 56 dis-allowing the inconsiderate zeale of Sesibutus forbad to compell any man to the faith under the sensure of Anathema determined withal that to baptize children without the consent of the parents is all one as to compel men of full age to be baptized The same determination is cited and approved by the Canonist Dist 45. Cap. De Judaeis and were it but consistent with the nature of this worke it were easy to decry this Jesuiticall Turkish practice by most impregnable arguments both in the Schoolemen and Casuists but I must leave this to men of the sacred Function and onely beg leave to inferre that if it be not lawfull to baptize the Children of Jewes Infidels or Hereticks without consent of their Parents though without Baptisine when it may be had there is no entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven certainly it must be farre more unlawfull being baptized to take them from their parents to season their tender yeares with dangerous principles leading to Profanesse Brownisme Anabaptisme and Rebellion A just indignation against so barbarous practice hath transported me in this argument farther then I intended though not so farre as the haynousnesse of the Fact deserves therefore if any man desires to be more fully satisfyed of the power and interest which Parents have over and in their Children being an Inheritance given them of the Lord as the Prophet David and the possession of their Parents as Aristotle in his Politicks and the great violation of Justice in relation of the Lawes of God nature and men in dispoyling their Parents of them let him have recourse to that learned and Elegant discourse of Petrus AErod●us Chiefe Justice or President of Aniou in his Booke de Patris Potestate who being robbed of his Sonne stolne from him by the Jesuits to plant him as a hopefull Impe in their Societie and not able to rescue him out their power though he implored and had the King of Spain's assistance for thither he was carried pursues his Sonne with Arguments and Labours to recall him to his Obedience by laying before him his dutie Artificially Collected and strongly applyed from the Lawes Divine Naturall and Morall and therefore to him I remit him and turne my discourse into its proper chanell On Friday the 12 of May 1643. M. John Bykar sonne to the Vicar of Dun-Church was with his Father in Law one of the High Constables of Warwick shire at the market at Coventry Being in a house in the City he rece●ved some rude affronts from a Souldier of th●t Garri●o● He being a very civill man of good moder●tion and it seems well instructed not to answer a fool●●n his ●olly or being reviled to answer againe withdrew himselfe from the place to decline the insolent madnesse of the Souldiers and free himself from his provocations being come into the streets secure as he thought from all violence he was suddenly run through the body and falling downe dyed instantly His offence was for as yet wee can heare of no others that he was a Parsons sonne so inveterate malice to that function and all depending on it doe these Rebels beare And therefore if in this Relation you meet with frequent mention of Affronts Oppressions Plundering and ●urthers of the Ministers of the Gospel doe not attribute it to any partiality as if the Relator were more querulous for them then others but to a serious desire to proportion his labors in a just measure to the merit of each mans case Master Abraham Haynes of London in September last travelling into Shrop-shire to visit his daughter and some other friends being benighted was forced to take up his lodging in a little Village some eight miles short of his daughters house After supper his Host in a seeming way of curtesie comes to visit his guest and brings with him two or three of his Neighbours whereof the Constable was one to beare him company After a little discourse they will needs perswade him that he is a Malignant a hard word in those parts before this Parliament began but however it served the Constables turne well enough to lay hold on him having seized on him they search him under pretence that he carryed Letters of dangerous consequence but searching they find what they sought for his Mony 14 l. he had about him this as good b●otie they take from him and for ●eare he should run away from his Mony that night they set a strong watch upon him Next morning very early they carry him before a Parliament man residing about two miles distant from that place who most Committee-man like out of the abundance of his Justice though no crime were objected nor any thing found about him to render him lyable to restraint but only the sin of ●aving 14 l. or because he was guilty of the Constables affirming him to be a Malignant he commits him to his former guardians by them to be conveyed to London M. Haynes unwilling to come so near his journeys end yet not arrive there tenders bayle Gentlemen of the best rank and quality in the Country but it will not be accepted he desires to have leave but to send a Messenger to his daughter where he was that day expected but it will not be granted Away they carry him they mount him and his man upon two poor Jades while my Host and M.

favour of a running knot quickly to obstruct the Throat and totally deprive him of breath but the halter is tyed so fast that he hanged gasping for breath not drawing so much as to maintaine life nor so little as suddenly to lose it having in this Torment hanged a while a barbarous Inhuman Vi●laine stept to him fearing he should give up his vexed Gh●st too soone he puts his hands under his feet and listed him up to give him some scope of Respiration but even in this unchristian usage of a poore wretch he did not forget to blaspheme his Lord and King for having lifted him up he turned the dying mans face towards the sign it selfe of the Kings head and jeering said Nay Sir you must speake one word with the King before you goe you are blind-fold and be cannot see and by and by you shall both come downe together Let the world if it can now give us a parrallel of so undutifull so high a có●empt of regal authority or tell us whether any of the severall Spawns of Hell but only an Atheisticall Puritan could possibly commit such devilish Cruelties against his fellow Subject or belch out such venome against his Soveraigne● Amongst those many Sins which call for our publique Humiliation and our earnest zeal to purge the Land from the guilt which hath polluted it certainly Contempt and Scorne of so good so gracious a King is none of the least On Monday the 29 of May 1643 a boy of five or six years of age attended by a youth was comming to Oxford to his father an officer in the Kings Army passing through Buckinghamshire he fell into the hands of some Troopers of Colonel Goodwins Regiment who not onely Pillaged him of the cloathes which he brought with him but tooke his doublet off his back and would have taken away his hat and boots if the youth that attended on him had not very earnestly interceded for them to save them For one of the company more tender hearted then the rest moved with the childs cryes affrightment and with the youths earnest intreatie prevailed with the rest not to rob the child of these necessary fences from the injury of wind and weather Yet though they spare him these things they rob him of his horse and leave the poore child to a tedious long journey on foot This barbarisme to a poore child farre from his friends almost distracted with feare so prevailed with some that they made Colonel Goodwin and Sir Robert Pye acquainted with it hoping to find them sensible of so cruell practices on a poore child but these great Professors and Champions of Religion onely laughed at the Relation without giving any redress● to the childs injuries This want of Justice in the Commanders animated the Souldiers to prosecute their villanies to a greater height for that night they came to the place where the child lay and the poore Soule being in bed fast a sleepe his Innocent rest not disturbed with the injuries of the day they dived into his and his attendants 〈◊〉 rob'd them of all their monyes and lest them ●ither to borrow more or beg for sustenance in their journey to Oxford Captaine Duck●●peld a Commander of the Rebels in Che●●●re came to M. Wrights house Parson of Wemslow in that County a man of fourescore yeares of age of a very honest li●e and conversation and eminent for his hospitali●y amongst his neighbours The Captain and his follower enter the house by violence killed two of his maidserva●●ts wounded others and in all probability had murthered M. W●●gh himselfe had not his neighbours that loved him well rescued him out of their hands The crime objected against him was Loyalty and that amongst Rebels is crime enough for this he is forced to live an exile from his owne habitation and hath absented himself from his house now twelve months The same Rebels came to one Master John Leeth his house in the same County as I take it they enter his house by violence they kill one of his maid-servants for endeavouring to keep the doore shut against them and tooke away Master Leech prisoner There was a gentlewoman in the house come thither but two dayes before who seeing so barbarous cruelty practised upon Innocents for no other fault but living in peace and obedience was so affrighted that for some time she remained almost distracted When the rebellious city of London first delivered up it s elfe the servile instrument to execute the illegall Commands of the heads of the faction in Parliament a Troop of factious Citisens under the command of Colonel Cr●m●e● came to the University of Cambridge and there seized on the persons of Doctor Beale Doctor Martin and Doctor St●rne men of known Integrity Exemplary lives profound learning and heads of several Colledges in that famous University having them in their custody they use them with all possible scorn contempt especially Cromwell behaving himselfe 〈…〉 when one of the Doctors made it a request to Cromwell that he might stay a little to put up s●me linnen Cromwell denyed him the favour and whether in a jeere or simple malice told him that it was not in his Commission having now prepared a shew to entertain the people in triumph they lead the captives towards London where the people were beforehand informed what captives Colonell Cromwell was bringing In the Villages as they passed from Cambridge to London the People were called by some of their Agents to come and abuse and revise them When they came to London being to bring their prisoners to the Tower no other way would serve th ir turne but from Shore-ditch through Bartholomew-Faire when the Concourse was as thick as the negotiation of buyers sellers and the warning of the Beadles of the Faction that use to give notice to their party could make it they lead these captives leisurely through the midst of the Faire as they passe along they are entertained with exclamations reproaches scornes curses and considering the prejudice raised in the City of them it was Gods great mercy that they found no worse usage from them having brought t●● to the Tower the people there use them with no lesse incivility within the wals then the people did without calling them Papists Arminians and I know not what After some time imprisonment there they were removed to the Lord ●ete●s house in Aldersgate-street and though they often petitioned to be heard and brought to Judgement yet they could obtaine neither a Tryall nor enlargement unlesse to free their bodies they should ensnare their souls by loanes of money to be imployed against the King or taking impious Oathes or Covenant●●●t last after almost a yeares imprisonment on Friday the 11 of August 1643. by order from the Faction that call themselves a Parliament they were removed from thence and all put on Ship board in a Ship called The prosper●●● S●●le or the Prospero●s Sayler lying before Wapping They ●ent by Coach

times hoping to intangle him in his words and examined his conversation in the very places where he lived even from his Childhood to that time hoping to find something whence to frame an Accusation against him When all these malicious courses would not effect the thing they aimed at they goe from house to house for hands to a Petition against him to the House of Commons pretending that he had preached false doctrine and made it the subject matter of their Petition if any man refused to subscribe as many did because they could not testifie the truth of the Petition in their spirit of meeknesse they called them Malignants Papists and Enemies to Religion however it is too well knowne that two or three men though the very dregs of the people petitioning against Orthodox Ministers have in the judgement acceptance of the Faction of the House of Commons out-poized the rest of the Parish though infinitely beyond them as in number so in quality their testimony being rejected with much acrimony and sharpnesse when the others Libels have gained credit and reputation with them Therefore about March 1641. the Schismatiques of Master Chestlens Parish presented a Petition against him to the House of Commons in the name of the whole Parish though three parts of soure protested against it under their owne hands When it was presented Pennington and Venne car●cstly urged that it might be read pleading in their drivelling railing Oratory that he was a very dangerous man fit to be looked after To satisfie their Importunitie the Witnesses who as their manner is were never sworne and yet were both Witnesses and Accusers were produced and examined at the Barre and upon examination the Petition was throwne out as frivilous but like eager blood-hounds not giving off the pursuit for being at one losse upon Easter Eve to shew the world that malice is part of a Puritans preparation to the Sacrament when the House was very thin the Protestants of the House being in their Closets close at their devotions to prepare themselves for the great Feast at hand and when private businesses by Order of both Houses were layd aside for as yet all opinion of the Sanctitie of the ancient Festivalls of the Primitive Church was not lost amongst them Pennington and Ven prevailed to have this soyled ejected Petition to be revived and read again in the House and the Patrons of Justice and integrity being then absent the Petition was referr'd to the Committee for Scandalous Ministers so they are pleased to call all Orthodox consclentious Ministers who abhorre their Rebellion and refuse to comply with them in their seditious practises and that no time might be lost in Easter week the Committee sate purposely for this businesse to which there was a full confluence of Seditious Schismaticall people from all Quarters of the Citie that so nothing might be wanting to this Triumph while Master Chestlen was thus tyed to a tedious chargeable attendance God to whom appertain the Issues of death ●mote Tillat the maine promoter of Master Chestlens troubles with the Plague of which he dyed with whom also for the present dyed Master Chestlens trouble and vexation and though some that thinke that all acts of providence are aimed point-blanke at them having such an opportunitie as this would interpret this to their owne Interest as a signe of personall favour to them yet not daring to presse into the hidden will of God nor making our selves of familiar acquaintance with his Counsells I shall not make any inference from hence but leave every man to abound in his owne sence onely thus much we say Tillat being dead the hot prosecution of Master Chestlen for a while lay dead too when all these endeavours could not re-estate Burton in the Parsonage some of the Factious of the Parish combine to make him their Lecturer and perhaps better approved of him as their Lecturer then their Parson to this purpose cunningly on feigned pretences they get some subscriptions of the Parishioners and annexing them to a Petition for which they were never intended preferred it in their own names and the names of the rest to the House of Commons that Burton might be their Lecturer which was no sooner proposed then granted and an order presently drawn up to give Burton power to preach in M. Chestlens Pulpit which M. Chestlen resolutely opposing kindled such Coales against him as afterwards fired him out of the Citie for since Master Chestlen will not give way to Burton to be partner with him in his Pulpit they resolve to give him possession of the whole by removing Master Chestlen totally from his Cure To this purpose Master Case sends to the Faction in Master Chestlens Parish to frame some accusation against him in obedience to so ghostly Councell Master Chestlen is presently accused to the House of Commons for Preaching a Seditious Sermon on Sunday the 23 of October that very day whereon the Battell was fought at Edge-Hill The subject of the Sermon in truth being nothing else but an earnest exhortation to his Parishioners to perswade them to constancy in the Protestant Religion perseverancc in the feare of God and the King presently a Warrant is granted for the apprehension of Master Chestlen on the Thursday following they riotously assault him in his house with great Tumults armed with drawn Swords and Pistols and seizing on him in great triumph they carry him to the Court of Aldermen who now it seems are succeeded in the place of the High Commission and are to be Judges of true or false doctrine being brought before this Lay Sanedrim whereof Pennington the pretended Lord Maior was President and a rabble of Schismaticks crowding in to give countenance to the businesse Captaine Ven their Leader stands forth and accuseth Master Chestlen for a most dangerous seditious Preacher though he confessed that he never heard him and that he stood a delinquent in Parliament others objected against him that he discouraged the Citizens from going to Windsor though this Sermon were preached before that treasonable designe was knowne that the Kings Royall Castle should become Captaine Vens Royall Castle or his Countrey-house for the recreation of his Mopsa and that the people might have full content M. Chesblen was there baited on every hand every Alderman had his fling at him at last having made him a publique scorne of the multitude Pennington commits him into the hands of his accusers to expose him to more abuse and to commit him to the Compter the Rabble being now made Serjeants they threaten to carry him in a Cart through the open streets to the Prison to deliver him from the fury and rage of the people his Father a knowne able Citizen tendered Baile of ten thousand Pounds but it was not accepted away they carry him to the Compter and the next day being Friday he is brought to the B. ●●e at the House of Commons where the Speaker who had bin happy in the

and Peace setled in the Body of the Kingdome doe they think the wisedome of the State will ever change our holy Churches into their prophane Barnes and Stables our Pulpits into Tubs our Linnen Ephods into their Aprons our Lyturgy into their extemporary Enthusiasmes our Learned Pastors into their ignorant Hirelings and our Apostolicall Hierarchy into their Apostaticall Anarchie But I will restraine my selfe and confine my discourse Soone after this Sermon seven Articles were preferred against the Doctor to the Committee for Plundered Ministers by three Mechanicks who had formerly been indicted for Brownists at the Sessions for the Countie of Surr●y but after long attendance the Doct. was acquirred of the●● yet at length these Sectaries wrought so powerfully that the Doctor must be committed to Prison how unjustly soever 't was enough that he was a Doctor and maintained the Religion established in the Church of England And accordingly on the 30 of Septemb. 1643. he is committed to Peter-house his own house Library and goods being frist seized on and his estate Sequestred The Sunday after his commitment and for divers other Lords days he preach●● to his fellow-prisoners but after a while he was prohibited by Isaac Pennington the pretended Major of London And though Sir George Sands Sir John Butter Master Nevile and other Prisoners of qualitie Petitioned that he might continue his so doing yet it would not be granted See how this unjust imprisonment is relished by a Forraine Divine in these words I Am sorry to hear of the close Imprisonment of that worthy Doctor Featley What He who is and ever hath bin so stout a Champion for Religion to be soused by the Reformers thereof But let not the Disciple thinke it strange when his Master suffered so much crueltie from the great Rabbins of Israel Yours from my heart J.S. After the Doctor had beene many moneths stifled up in Prison and having a Certificate from his Physitian that he could not live long if he had not some fresh aire he Petitioned these soule-enthralling tyrants and at last obtained leave to go to Chelsey Colledge for six weeks upon good bayle to recover his health but it pleased God to take him out of this world upon the 17 day or April 1645. being the very last day of the six weekes limited for his returne During his sicknesse he gave himselfe wholly to Divine Meditations often bewayling with teares the present state of the Church of England he made a Confession of his Faith to Doctor Leo and the Dutch Ambassadours Chap-laines saying That the doctrine which he had alwayes Preached and the Bookes which he had ●riated against Anabaptists and other Sectaris were agreeable to Gods Word And that he would scale the Protestant Religion as it was established and confirmed by the Acts of three Pious Princes with his blood And being asked by some that came to visit him what he thought of the Covenant he said it was a damnable and execrable Oath made purposely to insnare poore soules and full of malice and Treason against our gracious Soveraigne And said he For church-Government a thing now much controverted I dare boldly affirme that the Hierarchie of Bishops is most agreeable to the World of God as being of Apostolicall institution the taking away where of is damnable and that by consequence both the presbyterian independent Governments are absurd and erroneous neither of them being ever heard of in the church of God till of late at Geneva ● nor is there so much as any colour for them in holy writ It is evident said he that as the ● riects in the Old Testament were above the Levites so in the Now the Apostles were above the Disciples and that the seven Angels of the seven Churches in the Apocalypse were seven Bishops and that Polycarpus was Bishop of Smyrna and Timotheus of Ephesus And for the Laitie no pregnant proofe can be produced that they ever medled with the Priests Function or had any power to or daine Ministers And these things said he I intended to have published to the world if God had spared me longer life which I might through his goodnesse have enjoyed had I not been unjustly imprisoned which he severall times reiterated to his friends Anon after he prayed thus Lord strike throuth the reynes of them that rise against the church and king and let them be as chasse before the wind and as stubble before the fire let them be scattered at Partridges upon the mountaines and let the breath of the Lord consume them but upon our gracious Soveraigne and his posterit●e let the Crowne flourish This said he is the heartie and earnest Prayer of a poore sick creature With which and other such spirituall ejaculations he expired Mercurius Rusticus c. XIX The Murther of Master Robert Yeomans and M. George Bowcher Citizens of Bristol by Nathaniel Fiennes second s●nne to the Lord Say and the rest of his Accomplices c. THe care that God tooke to preserve the Land of his people undefiled by Innocent blood was very great and therefore did provide not onely when the Murtherer was knowne that he that thed mans blood by man his blood should be shed againe according to that command Te shall not pollute the Land where yeare for blood it desileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed the ein but by the blood of him that shed it Namb. 35.33 But likewise where the Murtherer was not knowne that the Innocent blood shed in the Land might not be charged upon them and therefore in the 21 of Deut. God prescribes an Expiation for Murther when the Murtherer was not knowne for if a man were found slaine in the field The Elders of the Citie next to the slaine man were to take an Heiser and strike off his ●ec ke in a rough valley and shall wash their hands over the Heiser and say Our hands have not shed this blood Neither have our eyes seene t Be mercifull O Lord unto thy people Israel whom thou bast redeemed and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israels charge and the blood shall be forgiven them so shall thou put away the guilt of Innocent blood from among you vers 6 7 8 c In which law it is plaine that the guilt of Innocent blood may cleave to our hands though our hands have not shed it and the way to wash our hands cleane from that guilt is to protest against the shedding it to deny our consent to it being done and as much as in us lyes to bring the punishment of Innocent blood upon the heads of those that shed it without this we contract anothers guilt and communicate in his sinnes The Innocent blood shall not be forgiven us When therefore God to whom appertaine the issues of Life shall come and make Inquisition for blood and the murthered shall cry out with Job O earth cover not thou my blood Job 16-18 That then we

those Popish Malignants that were about him To which old thred-bare pretences invented to palliate Treason and blanch their most grosse Rebellion when Master Cotterell opposed the Lawes of God the Lawes of the Kingdome and seconded both by the Kings most cleare and satisfactory Declaration able to undeceive the abused world and dispell that mist of errour and prejudice which the heads of this Rebellion had cast before the eyes of the people of this deluded Nation the Colonel not able to return any reasonable answer or pre-instructed by edgwick who foresaw what encounter he was like to meet withall suddenly called aloud to his servants to come in whose presence set an end to the Conference after this ● after Cotterell some say by Doctor Bruc● his Phisitians advice though I doe not absolutely affirm it was wholly neglected Master Halsetor was sent for Parson indeed of Saint Nicholas in Worcester but more acceptable to those that gave this counsell under another capacitie as hee was the City Lecturer But before we acquaint you with what success Halsetor undertooke and discharged this imployment it will not be amisse to let the world know what reward this dying Colonel intended to bestow on Master Cotterell for all his paines taken with him when the Colonels Wife came to Worcester to visite her husband and being informed by her servants how frequently Master Cotterell had visited her husband what paines he had taken in administring the Sacrament and his great care in praying and conserring with him the very nobly pressed her husband to gratifie Master Cotterell by some honorary gift as an acknowledgment of his thankfulnesse that he might reape some of his Temporalls to whom he had so plentifully sowed spirituall things to so reasonable a motion made by the wife of his bosome the Colonel most unworthily and most uncharitably replyed Sweet-heart be content we shall find him a Delinquent but he that shall reward a cup of cold water shall not forget so great a work of Charitieche that endeavours to turne a sinner to righteonsnesse though the successe answer neither his labour not expectation yet he shall shine at the Stars for ever and ever nor shall his worke be in vaine in the Lord. Master Coterell being thus most unthankfully rejected the Colonel is now committed wholly to the care of his new ghostly Father Master Halsetor a man of a Schismaticall Turbulent spirit fitter to make a Rebell then reclame a relapsed Traytor and since hath followed that counsel which he gave by deserting his Cure and joyning himself to the Rebel● the men of this Faction have an Art to torment perplext consciences instead of cosorting them dispensing not so much the pro●is●s of the G●spel as the terrors of the Law as if the way to spirituall Consolation were through despaire and no way led to Heaven so sure as what coated by the confines of Hell whether Master Helsetor dealt thus with the Colonel I cannot say perhaps he might go about as some others of his Faction have done to sow pillows under their seduced champions arme-holes and to justifie the sinner in the sinne comparing circumstances questionlesse this was his way but the lad effects of his Rebellion which the Colonel felt in his body and those flashes of horror affrighting his guiltie soule would not permit this dying man to be lulled asleepe in so vaine presumption though at first therefore when Master Cotterell was with him to assist him in that great work to prepare him to stand before the judgement Seat of Christ and the preparitories were Consessions and Sorrow for sinnes though but in the generall deprecations of judgement and the wrath of God and the like some spirituall comfort began to dawne in his be-nighted soule and that he might seale that obscure glimmering of hope opened unto him in this valley of Achor and obtaine more he desired to Communicate in the body and blood of Christ yet after Master Halsetor came unto him Woe woe to evill Counsell to use his owne exclamation it was observed that the Colonel tell into strong distempers or mind which suddenly grew to so great a height that he was utterly distracted even to raving and madnesse which amongst them that thinke the Gospel ineffectuall unlesse the spirituall man be mad is taken for the undoubted evidence of a Powerfull Ministery certainly it was a sad spectacle to see him lye in this condition and a horrid thing to heare that his last breath which should have beene breathed out in prayers and deprecations and humble Confessions of sin should be spent in venting the wild fancies of his distracted brain sometimes crying out that his Chirurgion and servants had broken up his Trunks and rob'd him of his gold and by and by starting up and crying out that the Enemy was at the wall 's of the Citie and calling for the keys to lock up the gates Thus he lay diverse weekes and in these distractions dyed dreadfull things are these but 't is written The Lord shall smite thee with madnesse and blindnesse and astonishment of heart His Wife and Sonne comming to visit him in this wretched condition poysoned with the stench of his body both fell sick of the small Pox of which she dyed and both of them lye buried in the South I le of the body of the Cathedrall in that Cathedrall of worcester where his Grandfather Doctor Edwyne Sandys afterwards Arch-bishop of York made his first step to the Archi-Episcopall honour being first Consecrated Bishop of that D●●cesse therelayd the foundation of those fortunes which descending to this man made him forget his own extraction certainly it was no final aggravation of his sin that being descended from an Arch-bishop and that estate which made him considerable in the world being raysed out of the Revenues of the Church and a Cathedrall Church a blessing which but few Church-men have attained unto though advanced to the same or the like dignity to rayse a family he should yet so far degenerate so far forget himselfe the Rock from whence he was hewen to be a Ring-leader to so Barbarous a Rout which beginning at Canterbury went on to ruine and deface all Cathedrall Churches where they came ending with that of worecester where he had the undeserved Priviledge to be interr'd Thus as briefly as I could I have given an account of the unhappy end of this miserable Gentleman In which I call God to witnesse there is nothing sained nothing suborned there being no hing here recorded but what is attested by men beyond all exception And I must appleale againe to the same God that this accont is not given to that end to make his name or memory odious either with the men of this present age or with posteritie I must confesse I would disgrace the sin but my intent is by this example to teach those that are seduced as this man was to know and foresee in him what end attends those who forgetting all

Rebells in mind whose possession and house it was did not at all afford it patronage and protection from their accursed rage and madnesse The Rebells under the Conduct of Sir William Waller fate downe before the Citie of Winchester on Tuesday the 12 of December 1642. about twelve of the clock and entred the City that afternoon between two and three being Masters of the City they instantly fall upon the Close under a pretence to learch for Cavaliers They seize upon the Prebends Horses and demand their persons with many threatning words That night they brake into some of the Prebends Houses such houses as they were directed unto by their Brethren the Seditious Schismaticks of the City and Plundered their goods But the Castle not yet surrendred into the Rebels hands something awed their insolency which being the next day delivered up to their power did not only take away the restraint which was upon them but incouraged them without check or controule to rob and defie both God and all good men Wednesday therefore and Wednesday night being spent in Plundring the Citie and Close on Thursday morning between nine and ten of the clock houres set apart for better imployments and therefore purposely in probabilitie chosen by them being resolved to prophane every thing that was C●nonicall violently break open the Cathedrall Church and being c●rred to let in the Tyde they presently open the great West doores where the Barbarous Souldiers stood ready nay greedy to rob God and pollute his Temple The doores being open as if they meant to invade God himselfe as well as his prossession they enter the Church with Colours flying their Drums beating their Matches fired and that all might have their part in so horrid an attempt some of their Troops of Horse also accompanied them in their march and rode up through the body of the Church and Quire untill they came to the Altar there they begin their work they rudely pluck done the Table and break the Rayle And afterwards carrying it to an Ale-house they set it on fire and in that fire burnt the Books of Common Prayer and all the Singing books belonging to the Quire they throw down the Organs and breake the Stories of the Old and New Testament curiously cut out in carved work beautified with Colours and set round about the top of the Stalls of the Quire from hence they turne to the Monuments of the dead some they utterly demolish others they deface They begin with Bishop Fox his Chappell which they utterly deface they break all the glasse Windows of this Chappel not because they had any Pictures in them either of Patriarch Prophet Apo●●le or Saint but because they were of painted coloured-glasse They demolish and over-turne the Monuments of Cardinall Beaufort sonne to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Katberine Swinsort Founder of the Hospitall of Saint Crosse neare Winchester who fate Bishop of this see fortie three years They deface the Monument of William of Wainslet Bishop likewise of Winchester Lord Chancellour of England and the Magnificent Founder of Magdalen College in Oxford which Monument in a gratefull pietie being lately beautified by some that have or lately had relation to that foundation made these Rebels more eager upon it to deface it but while that College the unparalleld example of his bountie stands in despight of the malice of these inhumane Rebels William of W●inslet cannot want a more lasting Monument to transmit his memory to posterity from hence they goeito Queen Maries Chappel so called because in it she was married to King Philip of Spaine here they brake the Communion Table in pieces the Velvet Chaire Whereon she fate when she was married They attempted to deface the Monument of the late Lord ●reasurer the Earle of Portland but being in Brasse their violence made finall impression on it therefore they leave that and turne to his Fathers Monument which being of Stone was more obnoxious to their fury here mistaking a Judge for a Bishop led into the error by the resemblance or counterfeit of a square Cap on the head of the Statua they strike off not onely the Cap but the head too of the Statua and so leave it Amongst other Acts of Bountie and Pietie done by Richard Fox the fiftie seventh Bishop of this Sc● he covered the Quire the Presbytery and the ●sles adjoyning with a goodly Vault and new glazed all the windowes of that part of the Church and caused the bones of such Kings Princes and Prelases as had beene buried in this Church and lay dispersed and sca●tered in severall parts of the Cathedrall to be collected and put into severall Chests of Lead with inscriptions on each Chest whose bones lodged in them These Chests to preserve them from rude and prophane hands he caused to be placed on the top of a wall of exquisite workmanship built by him to inclose the Presbytery there never to be removed as a man might thinke but by the last Tr●●pe did rest the bones of many Kings Queens as of Alfredus Edwardus Seni●n ●adredus the brother of Athelstane Edw●●us C●●●tus tus Hardicanutus Emma the Mother and Edward the Confessor her Sonne kinigliss●s the first founder of the Cathedrall of Winchester Egbert who abolishing the Heptarchy of the Saxons was the first English Monarch william Ruf●s and diverse others with these in the Chests were deposited the bones of many G●dly Bishops and Confessors as of Birinus Hedda Swithinus Frithestanus Saint Elphegus the Confessor Stigandus wina and others Had not the barbarous inhumane impietie of these Schismaticks and Rebells ●hewed the contrary we could not have imagined that any thing but the like Pietie that here inshrined them or a Resurrection should ever have disturbed the repose of these venerable yet not Popish Reliques But these Monsters of men to whom nothing is holy nothing is Sacred did not stick to prophane and violate these Cabinets of the dead and to scatter their bones all over the pavement of the Church for on the North side of the Quire they threw down the Chests wherein were deposited the bones of the Bishops the like they did to the bones of William Rufus of Queene Emma of Hardicanutus and Edward the Confessor and were going on to practise the like impietie or the bones of all the rest of the west Saxon Kings But the Out-cry of the people deresting so great inhumanitie caused some of their Commanders more compassionate to these ancient Monuments of the dead then the rest to come in amongst them and to restraine their madnes But that dive●●sh malice which was not permitted to rage and over flow to the spurning trampling on the bones of all did ●atiate itselfe even to a prodigious kind of wantonne●le on those which were already in their power And therefore as it they meant if it had been possible to make these bones contract a Pesthume guile by being now made passive Instruments of more then heathenith