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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

such as wee could not reason together and therefore he did report to the Archbishop that after the Terme he would doe his best endeavour to give us satisfaction which gave me good content for by this means I was preserved out of prison To the Right Honourable and most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and METROPOLITANE MAY it please your Grace I understand by my servants that Master Roger Quatermayne and Io Garbraim and divers others were at my house since the beginning of the Terme appointed as they affirmed by order of this Honourable Court to conferre with me but being this Terme to provide for a tryall at the Exchequer Barre and being Sued both in Chancery concerning a Lease pretended to be made by the Provost and Fellowes of Chelsey Colledge and in the Kings Bench for the House wherein I dwell and by occasion of these Suits inforced to attend in divers Courts I could not appoint them any time or place where they should certainly meet me But as soone as the end of the Terme shall give me some respit from these vexatious Suits I will doe my best to give them satisfaction the rather be●…ause I finde them all willing to be informed as they professe to me and some of them conformable in all things to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England save onely they make scruple of the Oath Ex Officio Your Graces humbly devoted DANIEL FEATLY WHen I came and appeared in the Court I being called the Report was read and the Archbishop was so impatient that he would not indure to heare it read thorow but said Archb. That Mr Quatermayne was the Ring-leader of all the Separatists Quater Notwithstanding I was one of their greatest opposits in regard of some particulars then said Archb. The Archbishop Mr Quatermayne I perceive that Doctor Featly hath no time to reason with you by which you have a long time to consider and so have we also I pray doe you resolve your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme for wee will demur no longer you stand very much upon Scripture and Law Bish. Wrenne I said Bishop Wrenne he is a great Scriptureman I warrant you my Lord Quater My Lord if you please to make proofe of mee I shall be able to answer you if you please or any other to convince me by Scriptures as I said before I shall be willing to submit or suffer Archb. Well Mr Quatermayne I pray satisfie your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme and I pray let us request one thing at your hands when you are gone that you doe not report that wee are cruell and mercilesse and oppressors of mens consciences you have found no hard measure at our hands wee have not dealt unkindly with you but it is the course of you all to raise evill reports of us though wee in obedience to his Majesties command sit to doe justice Farewell Mr Quatermayne and God speed you and informe you against the next Terme Officers Then said the Officers wee are glad we shall be rid of the Puritans I pray take th●…m along with you Master Quatermayne Quater I answered where one will goe with thee ten will follow mee this is the summe and substance of my fourth appearance at Lambeth House Quater And home I went accompanyed with the Saints of God 〈◊〉 my house and Mayle the Pursevant like the Devill in the first of Job went with us My fift appearance at Lambeth-House was the fifteenth day of October 1640. When I came thither the Court was Adjourned to Pauls and I asked of Medall one of the Notaries where the Court was kept and he told me it was appointed to be kept in the Convocation-House all this Terme But said he let it be kept where it will there is nothing for you to doe for you are not in the Bill this weeke nor will you be called upon this weeke Quater I answered are you certaine of it Notary And he said yes Quater So I returned home accordingly and so much for that time yet neverthelesse there was a hubbub at the Convocation-House that day although I was not there and therefore I was not the cause of the tumult Quater My sixt appearance was at the Convocation House in Pauls the 22 day of October 1640. At which time the High Commission Court was pulled downe but for as much as the whole businesse was opened before the Lords of the Counsell and answered before the Justice of Oyer and Terminer by vertue of a Commission under the great Seale of England for the Prelates use when the King went into the North I was caused to answer three severall Sessions holden in the Guild-Hall for the Citie of London all which I shall hereafter lay downe therefore I refer all till its proper time and place Quater In the next place followeth my whole businesse before the Lords of his Majesties Privie Councell First my apprehension and secondly all our proceedings Quater On Satterday which was the 24th day of October 1640. about eight of the Clock at night as I was going to my House a Messenger from the Privie Councell came unto mee with a Warrant and ten Privie Councellors hands to it and carried me away prisoner to the Catterne wheele in Southworke for his Warrant was so strict that no Bayle would be admitted of for I had neighbours that offered body for body but the Messenger durst not accept of them Truly the Messenger was in such a condition that he trembled as if he would have sunke But I blesse the Lord I was never more chearefull in all my life but there was such vild aspersions cast upon me and such false informations given to the Lords against mee and the Messengers charge so strict that he wondred to see mee so chearefull and well contented and I told him there were three things that made a man chearefull a good God a good Cause and a good Conscience and I praise God in this thing all these I have Afterwards I understood that the Lords had given him order that I should not be carried to prison for the prison would be pulled downe and I rescued from him neither that he should carry me with any tumult for feare of the like danger that might insue so upon the Lords day following as aforesaid in the afternoone I was brought to White-Hall before the Lords of the Councell and when I came thither Sir Dudly Gaveston his Clerke began to examine the Messenger whether he had found me or no Pursevant To whom he answered yes what Quatermayne yes Quatermayne said the Messenger Where is he said the Clerke Here is he said the Messenger Quater Then the Clerke looking upon me supposing I had not heard them said he is a proper tall man but before God he will be hanged all the world cannot save him I nnderhearing of him thought though all the world cannot save mee yet God can