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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

Bristol diverse of Our good Subjects as namely Robert Yeomans George Bowcher William Yeomans Edward Dacres and others of that Our Citte are imprisoned for preserving their Dutie and Loyaltie to us and for refusing to joyne in or assist this horrid and odious Rebellion against us and that the said wicked and trayterous Persons have presumed to condemne the said innocent men to dye and upon such their sentence notoriously against the Lawes of God and Man they intend to execute and murther Our said Subjects We have thought fit to signifie to you the Major Aldermen Sheriffs and the rest of the body of the Common Councell of that Our Citie That if you suffer this borrid and execrable murther to be committed upon the persons aforesaid and thereby call the Judgement of God and bring perpetuall infamy upon that Our Citie We shall looke upon it as the most barbarous and inhumane Act that hath beene yet commited against us and upon you as the most desperate betrayers of us and of the lives and liberties of your fellow Subjects And We doe therefore will and command you not to suffer any violence to be done upon the persons aforesaid but that if any such be attempted against them that you raise all the power and strength of that Our Citie for their rescue And to that purpose We command all Our good Subjects of that Our Citie to ayde and assist you upon their Allegiance and as they hope for any Grace and favour at Our hands And that you and they Kill and Stay all such who shall attempt or endeavour to take away the lives of Our said Subjects And for so doing this shall be your Warranty And hereof you may not faile at your almost Perill Given at Our Court at Oxford the 29 of May 1643 To Our Trustie and Welbeloved the Major Aldermen Sheriffs and the rest of the common Councell of Our Citie of BRISTOL This Letter arrived at Bristol that very day that these Gentlemen by laying downe their lives did beare a good testimony to the truth but came too late yet had it come sooner Fines having intelligence that a Letter was comming from the King kept the Gates shut to keepe out the Messenger untill their intended Murthers were fully finished But at last when he had admittance contrary to the Law of Arms and Nations Fines committed him to prison where he remained long All these indeavours of a pious Prince to rescue His faithfull Subjects being frustrated by the obstinate malice of these bloody Rebells and having no force to compell what he could not perswade they goe on to act their cruell intentions After Sentence of death passed on them they pursue them with threats and use no language to them but death and hanging often menacing what they could but once inflict So that each night they thought to dye next morning Having some dayes languished under the insulting Crueltie of these bloody Butchers and being frequently robbed of their necessary food by the Centinells that stood at their Prisons not so much that they might not withdraw themselves from the intended death as to intercept all comforts that were brought unto them had they not hastned the execution famine would have saved them that labour for Master Yeomans whom of the two they most hated laden with chaines stifled with the nastinesse of a Dungeon macerated with want of food but filled with the scornfull reproofe of the proud reproached every day with the name of bloody villaine and the like was like to have prevented their malice by dying that morning that he dyed he was a man of a magnanimous spirit a large Soule fit for great imployments and therefore more sensible of indignities for great spirits or pressed like Tapers held downeward are extinguished by the same matter which gives them life so that sitting by his deare Wife that morning that he dyed and leaning on her brest he fell into a sound and in probabilitie had then departed had not the shrickes and out-eryes of his Wife recalled him to a more glorious death that so posteritie might read his ●name● together with Master Bowchers not in the Catalog ●e● of Confessours but inrolled in the Noble Army of Mayers When the time of their Martyrdome drew neare Colonel Fines for feare the Citie should oppose his bloody intentions concealed the time resolved on to put them in execution But when the fatall day was come Fiennes drew his Force into the Marsh the common place where they made their Masters he caused the Gates suddenly to be shut the Citie not knowing his intention and presently drew Partees of Horse and ●oot into every street to awe the Citizens and to suppresse insurrections if haply they should recover so much of the ancient courage of true Englishmen not to suffer so great a breach to be made on their lives and liberties as to see their fellow Citizens led to the slaughter and they in the mean time stand dumb like sheep and not oppose it nor was it without good raeson that Fiennes should suspect some opposition from the Citie for besides that they now saw the basest of the Citie made of the Councell of Warre and the power of life and death over the Magistrates delivered in their hands that before this Rebellion were never thought fit to beare the office of a Scavenger Master Temans and Master Bowcher were men of Emi●ency in the Citie generally beloved and then Crime knowne to be nothing but Loyaltie That they could not likewise but consider that an isisue of blood was that day opened that might in time prove satall to them involve them in the same condition for it Fiennes and his blood-hounds shall for any other virtue passe the like Sentence on any of them as they did on these for their Loyaltie not conspiring with them to murther their Soveraigne what power shall protect them from such oppression who having to their owne ruine refused the Kings protection are grown so tame as not with the hazard of their lives to protect themselves Having thus made all secure they bring the Prisoners from the Castle to the maine Court of Guard in the way as they went the people greedy to see and salute these unhappy assertors of their libertie presse to the hazard of many blowes to take their farewell of them they in a curteous deportment returning heartic thankes for those dangerous expressions of their affections for it was reason enough to be committed as a Malignant to own them or so much as to pay for them To prepare themselves for their death they made it an humble request that they might have the assistance of Master Twog●od and Master Standsast two Orthodox and Learned and Pious Ministers of the Citie to help to sweeten that bitter Cup of which they were to drinke and by spirituall comfort to take off from the sharpnesse of those dregs which they were to suck up but as if they meant to murther their Soules as well as

to safe custody in the Lord Peters his house before mentioned in Alders-gate-street where they remained Prisoners for a long time Colonel Sandyes in his perambulation of Kent bestowed a visit upon Doctor Bargraves house then Deane of Canterbury the Deane himself then being from home Sandyes came late in the night and the whole family were in bed they soone rayse the house and where they did not find they make an entrance forcing Mistresse Bargrave a vertuous good Gentlewoman whom their hasty summons had permitted to cast onely her Night gowue about her to wait upon them from roome to roome not suffering her to turne aside though she for modesty sake requested that favour at their hands to draw on her Stockings unlesse they might stand by and see it done They rudely rush into Mistresse Boys her Chamber the Widow of Doctor Boys Deane of Canterbury a Gentlewoman about foure score yeares old there they seize upon a Cabinet of hers and breake it open though the good old woman would very saine have had it spared and offered them the key to open it they find in it fortie five pounds in old Gold which she had layd by to bestow as Legacies upon her friends this they hug and call their owne She intreats them to forbeare it and directs them to her Will which was laid up with the Gold and in that they might see how she had bequeathed it Upon perusall of the Will they find that she had made Deane Bargrave her owne Brother her Executor this they pronounce a Crime of so high a nature that nothing could expiate the guilt but the forfeiture of the Gold and the Cancelling of the Will but by the earnest mediation of Master King one of their company at length they are perswaded to restore the Gold and spare the Will From hence they goe to the Chamber where young Master Bargrave the Deanes Son did lodge Sandyes valiantly breakes his Sword which hung at his beds head before his face and calling him out of his bed sends him Prisoner to Dover Castle Soone after the Deane hastning home to comfort his distressed Family Sandyes heares where he was lodged at an Inne at G●avis-end and as he was undressed and ready to go into bed Sandyes and 13 of his Souldiers presse into his Chamber with their Swords drawn and command him to yeeld himself a Prisoner which the Deane having neither power nor will to resist did accordingly having with out any reason given brought him a Captive to London they commit him Prisoner to the Fleet where after he had laine three weekes he was at last released without ever being examined or so much as called to the House After this Sandyes writes I blush to mention so degenerous a Pamphlet a book and was not ashamed to call it His Travailes into Kent unworthy his Predecessors to staine the Name of Sandyes with such Travailes In this worthlesse commentary the Register of his perpetuall Infamy amongst Others things he fastens the Note of a debauched drunken young fellow upon young M. Bargrave a Gentleman of so ingenuous a Countenance so modest and sweet a Temper that he deserves a farre better Character The old Deane a grave and Learned Gentleman heart-broken with these Injuries soone after dyes the World in the mean time Condemning Sandyes not so much for his Barbaritie as ingratitude in dealing thus with him who had not many yeares before beene a speciall meanes to save him from the Gallowes when he was indicted for a Rape at the generall Assizes at Maidstone But you know the old Proverbe Save a The●fe from the Gallowes and he will cut your Throat Mercurius Rusticus c. VIII Master Swift Parson of Goodwich in Hereford-shire his wife and ten children most inhumanely dealt with by Captaine Kirle a stony hear●ed Rebell The Duke of Vendosme Plundered at Uxbridge with other frauds and abuses committed by the Rebells c. WHen the Earle of Stamford was in Herefordshire in October 1642. and Pillaged all that kept faith and Allegeance to the King information was given to Mistresse Swift wife of Master Thomas Swift Parson of Goodwich that her house was designed to be Plundred To prevent so great a danger she instantly repaired to Hereford where the Earle then was some ten miles from her owne home to Petition him that no violence might be offered by his Souldiers to her house or goods He most nobly according to the goodnesse of his disposition ●threw the Petition away and swore no small Oathes that she should be Plundered to morrow The good Gentlwoman being out of hope to prevaile and seeing there was no good to be done by Petitioning him speeds home as fast as she could and that night removed as much of her goods as the shortnesse of the time would permit next morning to made good the Earle of Stanfords word Captaine Kirle his Troope consisting of 70 Horse and 30 Foot which were hangers on birds of prey came to Master Swifts house there they tooke away all his provision of Victualls Corne Houshold-stuffe which was not conveyed away they emptie his Beds and fill the Ticks with Malt they rob him of his Cart and six Horses and make this part of their theft the meanes to convey away the rest Mistresse Swift much affrighted to see such a sight as this thought it best to save her selfe though she lost her goods therefore taking up a young Child in her armes began to secure her selfe by flight which one of the Troopers perceiving he commanded her to stay or holding his Pistoll at her breast threatned to shoot her dead the good Woman fearing death w●ether she went on or returned at last shunning that death which was next unto her she retires back to her house where she saw her selfe undone and yet du●st not oppose or aske why they did so ● Having thus rifled the house and gone next morning earely she goes againe to Hereford and there againe Petitions the Earle to shew some compassion on her and her tenne Children and that he would be pleased to cause her Horses and some part of her goods to be restored unto her the good Parle was so farre from granting her Petition that he would not vouchsafe so much as to read it when she could not prevaile her selfe she makes use of the mediation of friends these have the repluse too his Lordship remaining inexorable without any inclination t● mercy at last hoping that all mens hearts were not Adamant relentlesse she leaves the Earle and makes her addresse to ●apraine Kirle who upon her earnest intreatie grants her a Protection for what was left but for restitution there was no hope of that this Protection cost her no lesse then 30s It seems Paper and Inke are deare in those parts And now thinking her selfe secured by this Protection she returns home in hope that what was left she might injoy in peace and quietnesse She had not beene long time at home but Captaine Kirle

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.

may lift up pure hands undefiled with our neighbours blood though but with consent and approbation Nay that we may free our selves from the blood of all men by earnest prayer to God not to lay Innocent blood though shed by others to our charge to inflame your devotion I have as it were brought forth the bodies of these two State-Martyrs Master Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowther Citizens of Bristol and exposed them to the view of the world that so shedding some teares over their graves they may remaine an Everlasting Monument of our Innocency in the sight of God of our Just indignation against such crueltie in the fight of men and a sweet oyntment to imbalme these men to their funeralls That though with their Saviour the ignominy of whose Crosse fanctisiyd the death even of that accursed tree in their death they were numbred amongst the transgr●ssors yet Loyaltie being their Epitaph they may make their graves amongst the Honourable But because to blind the eyes of the world not to see the cruell Injustice practised on these worthy Citizens to amaze the minds of the people and to take off from the odiousenesse of so soule a Murther they did not onely in their lying Pamphlets proclame it unto the world that Master Ycomans Master Bowether and some other weiassected Members of that Citie had contrived a horrid Treason that in the barbarousnesse of it did out-doe the Powder Treason having conspired at once to ruine the Protestant Religion and to murther all those of that Citie which did adhere to the Parliament but also to mock God to that height of impietie they were growne Solemne thankes were Ordained to be given for deliverance from so dangerous a conspiracy It will not be amisse to derive this ●ragedy by way of Historicall Narration from the first to the last Scene that so the abused world may see what arts are used on that side to possesse themselves of the good opinion of men that in the mean time they may practise cruelties unheard of untill the bloody Anabaptists sprung up the most pernicious weeds that ever intested the Church or Christ When this Parliament first fate these two Gentlemen with the rest of the Kingdome rejoyced to see that day and stood at gaze as greedily as any expecting what acts of bountie what reliefe from grievances our Gracious Soveraigne through their hands would convey unto his Subjects While their endeavours were Loyall though roughly carryed while bounded within the dutie of Subjects though onely not exceeding it they were as forward to applaud them as any but after the publication of the Remonstrance by the House of Commons that appeale to the people and indeed the ground-worke of this present Rebellion by slandering the Kings Government they that went one mile with them would not be compel'd to goe two especially after the way appeared dangerous and apparently leading to open Rebellion Nullam esse Civitatem qua non improbes ●ives aliquando Imperitam Mult●●udinem semp●r babeat was the saying of the Rhodii in the Reman Senate recorded by Livy lib. 45. There is no Citie but hath sometimes some ill-affected Citizens but alwayes an Ignorant multitude perhaps this in part might be the temper of Bristol at this time but the Criticall time was now come in which men must declare themselves either for the King or against him and though many men in that Citie then were deeply Leavened with disloyall principles yet the major part of the Citie were the Kings faithfull Subjects of this partie the most eminent men were Master Ro●ers Yeomans Sheriffe of Bristol for the ye●re 1642. Master George Ba●●ber with divers others men of good esteem plentifull estates knowne integ●itie and true Children of the Church of England These men seeing the miserable Condition of those places where the Rebells bare sway and beginning to be sensible of the same bondage under Colonel Essex enter into a Consultation how to put the Citie of Bristol into the Kings possession and protection To this purpose they dispatch an Agent to the Court to informe the King that he had many good Subjects in Bristol and withall to signifie their desire to deliver up his owne Citieto himselfe if he would be pleased to send some of his Forces thither to take it The Reasons which prevailed with them to make this tender unto His Majestie were many we may reduce them to three heads First Confedence to God not to resist the King Knowing that they that doe resist shall receive unto themselves damnation and therefore resolved never to joyne themselves to the damnable Sect of the Hotbamites those State-Heretickes who accounted it their dutie to keepe the Kings Townes for the Kings use by shutting the Gates against the Kings Person The second Inducement was the frequent affronts given to His Majestie by the Rebells to the great regret of every good Subject and of these they give many Instances First Scandalous and disloyall Speeches on all occasions belched out against His Majesties Person His Protestations Declarations Proclamations indeed all his Actions Secondly Contempt of His Majesties gracious offers even to the very face of His Messenger for when in February 1642 the King sent His gracious Letters to the Citie of Bristol requiring them not to give admittance to any of the Parliament Forces promising that Hee Himselfe would not impose any on them but what they themselves should desire together with the tender of many promises of his favour given in charge to Sir Baynham Throkmo ton whom he sent unto them for that purpose vet notwithstanding at that very instant in contempt 〈◊〉 say of this great vouchsafement The Major Richard Aldworth with Browne the Sheriffe two Boute-fues in perverting that Citie with some other their Associates did send foure peeces of Ordnance to Marlberough there to be imployed against the King And though Sir Ba●nham upon information given unto him did expostulate the affront with the Major and in the Kings name commanded the stay of them and though some of the wel affected Citizens having notice of it came and threw them off their Carriages because they knew that the intention was to imploy them against the King yetover-borne by a greater number who produced the Major and Sheriffs Warrant for their conveyance without let or interruption they were inforced to give way and thither they were sent Thirdly When in the beginning of March 1642. amongst other Proclamations sent to Bristol one was concerning the Kings Royall Navic invaded and possessed by the Earle of Wa● wicks and imployed against His Majestie and His Loyall Subjefts The King by that Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Mariners and all Officers of His Navie to take imployment under the Earle or to obey His Commands though Colonel Fines then Governour of Bristol could have caused that Proclamation to be suppressed and not published yet as much as he could to dishonour the King in the eyes of His Subjects He permits it to be

His Crowne and Dignitie against c. The Pro●… which you heard before 2. Secondly That he had raysed Men and provided Armes and Ammunition of all forts Crowe● of 〈◊〉 Pickaxes Axes and ●●on wedges with Torches and Linkes to further the Designe of suppressing the court of Guard at Froome-gate 3. Thirdly That he conspired with others to let in Prince Ruperr a forraigne Prince as they stiled him who being entred the Citie should put to death and plunder all the Inhabitants of that Citie that came not out to assist and joyne with them 4. Fourthly That be did undertake to give Prince Rupert a signall when he should make his approaches to the Citie by Ringing Saint Johns and Saint Michaels Bells 5. Fifthly That he certified Prince Rupe●t that the Designe of giving him entrance into the Towne was discovered and advised him to retreat 6. Sixtly That he forced a open the croud doore being a buriall place under the Quire under Saint John Baptist Church with an intention to use it for a Prison to secure such as sould make resistance whether they were of the Guard or others while they were in pursuance of their Designe Lastly That he had Looks and other Provisions to cleanup the passages at Saint Johns-gate in case any of the Parliament Horse should rush in upon them while the worke was in doing These Articles though maliciously expressed and a● gravated yet for the matter of them were drawne either from his owne Confessions or Depositions of others and upon these at the Lady Rogers her house he received the like Sentence of death as Master Yeomans had done before When the report of so illegall proceedings arrived 〈◊〉 Court though at first few men did thinke that their bold insoleney would goe on to put the Sentence in execution yet at last considering that they were in the hands not of honourable enemies but of Rebells and of Rebells that were Sectaries and which was more then both Rebellious Sectaries at the devotion of Master Fints who did command in chiefe and had strong influence on the rest The Earle of Forth Lord Lieutenant of all His Majesties Forces resolved to write unto Fines and that by way of Threat Pari p●ná exactá at hostes à superb● insolenti supplicio temperarent as Diodorus Siculus reports of Phi●ometus in the like case that by the menace of the like punishment on the Prisoners here he might stave them off from their intended crueltie on the Kings good Subjects there for thus he writes Patrick Earl of Forth Lord Etterick and Lord Lieutenant of all His Majesties Forces I Having beene informed that lately at a court of warre you have condemned to death Robert Yeomans late Sheriffs of the Citie of Bristol who hath His Majesties Commission for raysing a Regiment for his service William Yeomans his Brother George Bowcher and Edward Dacres all for expressing their Loyaltie to His Majestie and endeavouring his service according to their Allegiance and that you intend to proceed speedily against divers others in the like manner Doe thereso e signifie unto you That I intend speedily to put Master George Master Stevens Captaine Huntly and others taken in Rebellion against His Majestie at Cyrencester into the somecondition Do further advertise you That if you offer by that unjust judgement to Execute any of them you have so condemned that those now in custody here especially Master George Master Stevens and Captaine Huntly must expect no favour or mercy Given under my hand at Oxford this 16 of May 1643 To the Commander in Chiefe and the Councell of Warre in the Citie of Bristol FORTH Having received this Letter by a Drum and knowing the the great advantage they had by the meannesse and basenesse of the Prisoners in the Kings hands put in the ballance with those of the Kings in their hands while Earles Barons and the flower of the Nobilitie and Gentry were exposed to blew Aprons and Broome-men Fines knowing this advantage returnes this insolent Answer Nathaniel Fiennes Governour and the Councell of Warre in the City of Bristol HAving received a writing from your Lordship wherein it is declared That upon information of our late proceedings against Robert Yeomans William Yeomans others you intend speed'y to put Master George Master Stevens Captaine Huntly and others into the same condition We are well assured That neither your Lordship nor any mortall man can put them into the same condition for whether they live or dye they will alwayes be accounted true and honest men faithfull to their King and Country and as in a faire and open way have alwayes prosecuted that Cause which in their judgement guided by the judgement of the Highest Court they held the Justest Whereas the Conspirators of this Citie must both in life and death carry perpetually with them the brand of Treachery and Conspiracy And if Robert Yeomans had made use of his Commission in an open way be should be put into no worse condition then others in the like kind bad beene But the Law of Nature amongst all men and the Law of Armes amongst all Souldiers maketh a difference betweene open Enemies and secrei Spyes and Conspirators And if you shall not make the like distinction we doe sgnifie unto you That we shall not onely proceed to the execution of the persons already condemned but also of divers others of the Conspirators unto whom we had some thoughts of extending mercy And doe advertise you That if by any inhumane and unsouldier-like sentence you shall proceed to the execution of the persons by you named or any other of our friends in your custody that have beene taken in faire and open way of warre then Sir Walter Pye Sir William Crofts colonel Connesby and divers others taken in open Rebellion and actuall Warre against the king and kingdome whom we have here in custody must expect no favour or mercy And by Gods blessing upon our just Cause we have pawnes enough for our friends securitie without taking in any that have gotten out of our reach and power although divers of yours of no mean qualitie and condition have beene freely released by us Given under our hands this 18 day of May 1643 Nath. Fiennes President Clement Walker c. To Patrick Earl of Forth Lord Lieut. General When this tooke no effect the King gracious as he is and full of goodnesse His bowels yearning over the destruction of His worst Subjects takes the condition of these that suffer for him into his pious consideration and since Fines swaying the rest remained obstinare the King by a Trumpeter sends His Letter to the Major Aldermen and Sheriffs of Bristol commanding them to rayse the power of the Citie and imploy it to the resecue of these men designed for slaughter Thus He writes CHARLES R. TRustie and Welbeloved We greet you well Whereas We are informed That by the power and Authority of certain Factions and Rebellious Persons in that Our Citie of

for his extraction and qualitie and likewise for his Estate to say nothing of his valour and resolution had they been Loyally imployed so it was among their chiefest cares to recover him of tho●e wounds which he received in their unchristian quarreil while therefore the Rebells army lay in Worcester which was about three weeks though then upon more strict searching his wounds in the opinion of the best Chirurgions they were not mortall yet whatsoever the Art invention either of the Physitian or Chirurgion could contribute to his recovery was not omitted when the Rebels army drew out to meet the King in their march from Shrewsbury which they did to their cost at Edge-hill the Colonel was committed to the care of his own Chirurgion then in pay under him John Anthony of London to whom as a witnesse and an assistant in the cure was joyned a Chirurgion of the Citie of Worcester Edward Marshall who though they both used all the art industry that possibly they could to effect the cure yet the difficulties every day multiplied against the means and in de●pight of their Balsomes his wounds did putrisie the flesh rot to the wonder of the Artists and the Scorne of their Art In so much that the Chirurgions after much varietie of means used much strugling with these growing-evils the cure still going backward as if their skil had bin imployed to widen those wounds which they pretended to close up were heard by many of the Citie of Worcester to confesse what Hippocrates syes every Physitian should first look after in every cure that there was S●… ri the hand of God in it that it was a peculiar judgment upon him that the cause of this putrefaction was more then natural nor were they without good grounds for this conjecture for besides the conclusions of their own Art directly thwarted experience on the severall parts of the body of their patient was a clear demonstiation those wounds in the upper parts of his body neare the vitalls and therefore more dangerous were cured long before his death but those in his thigh which were flesh-wounds asthey call them These were the Opprobria Chirargorum here the flesh did dayly rot and putrise and was cut away by degrees even to the leaving of the bones naked and stunk in so to loathsome a manner that as he was a burthen to himselfe so to his friends too and those that were about him being hardly able for the noysomenesse of the smell either to come neare him to doe the officers of necessary attendance or so much as to endure the roome where he lay so intolerable was the stench and so offensive Nor were the wounds of his body more insufferable to his friends then the wounds of his conscience to himself the gu lt of Rebellion wrought in him strong convulsions of Soule high distempers of mind yet that he might not sinke under the burthen of his wounded spirit a weight that requires more then man to support it he sent for Master Cotterell an Orthodox godly Minister and Parson of Saint Andrews in Worcester to Administer a word of comfort unto him in this his afflicted condition When Master Cotterell came unto him he found Obadiah Sedgwick that scandalous seditious Minister of Effex in private conference with the Colonel and Bread and Wine ready prepared for the Lords Supper Sedgwick having ended his discourse went to Prayers whereup in Master Cotterell offering to withdraw he was intreated by one of the Colonels servants to stay which accordingly he did Sedgwick having concluded his extemporary prayer took his leave and departed refusing to stay either to administer the Sacrament to the Colonel or to communicate with him of which refusall when Master Cotterell afterward desire to know the reason all satisfaction that was given him was That Sedgwick was not fully assured of the fitnesse due preparation of those that were to receive the Sacrament with him Desperate Hypocrisielwhatsoever he was perswaded of the preparation of the other Communicants 't is most certaine he could not be ignorant of the unfitnesse of the Colonel himselfe whom he himselfe in all probabilitie perswaded to returne with the dogge to his vomit and to justifie himselfe in that sinne of which but very lately he seemed to repent 't is more probable that that poore remainder of Conscience in Sedgwick not quite yet put away though it suffered him to betray in private a dying man to impenitency under falned pretences of what he in his own soule must need confesse to be a crying sin and inrowled by Saint Paul himself amongst those workes of the flesh which doe exclude from the kingdome of Heaven yet his heart might smite him and his conscience withstand him as it were to the face that he durst not seal that destructive counsell by delivery of the Sacrament Sedgwick being gone the Colonel willingly entertained conference with Master Cotterell to whom he made a generall confession of his sins and the grievousnesse of them professing his heartie repentance and sorrow for them But as the two pretended Houses of Parliament in their Catalogue of sinnes reckoned up in their Homily if without offence I may so call it and offered to this Nation as the subject matter of their solemre humiliation quite forgot Lying and Rebellion for some reasons best knowne to themselves so this Champion of theirs in his generall Confession made no mention of the sin of Rebellion which most nearly concern'd him and for which in all probabilitie he was verysuddenly to render an account to God a Confession most necessary both for him to make and the Minister to require before he could be thought a fit receiver of those dreadfull mysteries but after this generall Confession having received the Sacrament Master Cotterell commended him to the grace of God for that time left him and having by one or two visits after that as he thought gained some interest in the Colonel comming againe to him and finding him in a calme temper and judging it a fit opportunitie to inquire into his Conscience and found him what perswasion he now had of his taking up Armes against his Soveraigne he desired the Colonel to command his servants out of the roome that he might speake with him in private which being done and all witnesses removed but God and their own Consciences Master Cotterell prefacing his discourse with a solemne Protestation that in what he did he proposed no other end but the salvation of his soule demanded of him whether he were not sorry for drawing his sword against the King And whether he were not perswaded in his Conscience of the unlawfulnesse of it To which the Colonel replyed That he was persoeaded that it was lawfull having taken up Armes not against the King but for the King for his good to being him back to his Parliament to make him more glorious then any of his Predecessors and to redeem him from his evill Counsell rs and

and where their bodies rest in honourable Sepulture when they have exchanged their Temporall for Eternall Crownes This church under the eye and immediat protection of the pretended Houses of Parliament had it's share in spoyle and prophanation as much as those Cathedralls which were more remote from them for in July last 1643 some Souldiers of weshborne and cacwoods Companies perhaps because there were no houses in westminster were quartered in the Abby church where as the rest of our Moderne Reformers they brake down the Rayl about the Altar burnt it in the place where it stood They brake downe the Organs and pawned the Pipes at severall Ale-houses for pots of Ale They put on some of the Singing-mens Surplices in contempt of that Canonicall Habite ran up and down the Church he that wore the Surplice was the Hare the rest were the Hounds To shew their Christian libertie in the use of things and that all consecration or Hallowing of things under the Gospel is but a Jewish or popish Superstition and that they are no longer to be accounted holy then that holy use to which they serve shall by the actuall use onely impart a transient holinesse to them they set Formes about the Communion Table there they eat there they drink Ale and Tobacco some of their owne Levites if my Intelligence deceive me not bearing them company and countenancing so beastly Prophanation Nor was this done once to vindicate their christian Libertie as they call Prophanation it selfe but the whole time of their abode there they made it their common table on which they usually dined and supp'd though Saint Paul calls it despising the Church of Christ and askes his Corinth●ans if they had not houses to eate and to drink in 1 Cor. 11 They did the ●fenients of nature and layd their excrements about the Altar and in most places of the Church An abomination which God did provide against bya peculiar prohibition in the Law of Moses and that in places not rendred so dreadfull by so peculiar a manner of the presence of God as in the hallowed Temples of his publique worship God would not permit the Jewes to do these offices of nature in the Camp they must have a place without the Camp and a Paddle to dig and cover it you have the Law and the reason of the Law both together they must not doe so For the Lord thy God walketh in the middest of the Campe therefore shall thy Campe be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee Deut 23.12 If God for these reasons would not endure it in the Camp how much more doth his soule abhorre such beastly uncleannesse in his House and holy Temple Nay which is the height of all Impiety they familarly kept their whores in the Church and which I tremble to write Prodigious Monsters as they are lay with them on the very Altar it selfe and did in that place commit such things as are un●●t to be done by christians There remain yet two Prosanations more of this Church not to be passed over in silence The hrst was committed by Sir Robert Harlow who breaking into Henry the seventh's Chappell brake down the Altar-stone which stood before that goodly Monument of Henry the seventh the stone was Touch-stone all of one piece ● Raritie not to be matched that we know of in any part of the world there it stood for many years not for use but only for Ornament yet it did not escape the freazy of this mans ignorant zeal for he brake it into shivers The second was committed on the 13 of December 1643. When the Careasle of John Pym as much as the Lice left of it was brought into this Church and after a Scimon preached by Stephen Marshall Arch-Flamine ot the Rebells and the Church Service Officiated by Lambart Orbaston one of the Prebends of that Church it was interi'd under the Monumentall stone of one windsor buried about 200 yeares fince in the voyd space or passage as you goe to Henry the seventh's Chappell betweene the Earle of Dovers place of buriall and the Monument of Henry the Third Founder of that Church usurp'd Ensignes of honour displayed over him T was pittic that he that in his life had bin the Author of so much bloudsned and those many calamities under which this Kingdome yet groanes and therefore deserved not onely to have his death with the transgreslours and wicked but afterward to be buried with the buriall of an Asse drawn and cast forth beyond the G●tes of the city Jer 22. 19. should after his death make hit Sepulchre amongst the Honourable and mingle his Vulgar Low● ashes with those of Kings Princes and Nobles The sixt lnstance of the Rcbells Sacrilege and Preph●●e●esse which I shall present unto the world is in the Ca●d●all Church of Exeter which was once a Monastery Founded by Athelstane the eighth King of England of the Soxon race by him conscerated to Saint Peter Edward the Confessor removing all the Monks from hence and planting them at Westminster which he had newly founded and endowed made it the Bishops See for Devon and Cornewall That Pile which we now see owes it's being to many Founders william Warlwast the third Bishop of this See aftcr it was translated from cridington or as it is now usally called Kirlon to Exeter built the Quire which now is but was intended by the Founder for the Nave or body of the Church but Peter Quivill the 13th Bishop of this See layd the foundation of that which is now the body of the Church but he prevented by death left the worke impersect John Grandesson therefore the seventeenth Bishop of this See thinking the foundation layd by his Predecessor Quivill to be faultic in Geometricall proportions the length not being answerable to the height added two Pillars more to the length of the Nave of the Church of a distance proportionable tothose layd before he closed up the end with a wall of most exquisite worke in which he built a Little Chappell and in that Chappell a Monument wherein himselfe was intombed He built likewife the two side Iles and covered the whole Fabrick with an Arch of exquisite worke and brought it to such perfection that in splendor and magnisicence it gives precedency to few Cathedrals of the kingdom and which is very remarkable though this Church was first began by King Athelstane and made many steps before it came to arrive at its perfection so that there arc numbred almost five handred yeares from the laying the first stone to the covering of the Roofe yet the wisedome and care of the severall Benefactors was so great that the most curious Surveyor must confesse that the Symmetry of the parts and the proportions of the whole are so exact as from the Foundation to the Koose had been the work not of one age onely but of one and the same hand and that the Ornaments of the Church might