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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

mercifull This wee have seene now in part fullfilled in England wee see how often we have been upon Pacifications with the King and none will hold Christ has some designe in this worke that every one sees not it would seeme to mee that it must not end in these three Kingdomes if we would never so saine make a peace for our selves no art of man can sement it if God lay no peace for England till the power of Rome bee abolished Nay untill his designe be accomplished and Christs Kingdome advanced that is the great designe he is about till that bee in some measure accomplished our troubles will not be ended and then he will require our help to deliver his forraigne churches and helpe to spread his Kingdome and Dominion to the ends of the earth Now having related some passages along to the Pacification Scotland being seemingly secured a Parliament and a Nationall Assembly granted to settle and confirm all both in Religion and Liberties I have yet somewhat to impart both of my further troubles and of Gods mercies for in their peace my troubles broke out into a new flame and fire First I was excluded out of that pacification when never a man in England or Scotland but my selfe was exempted and here by the way I cannot without ingratitude which my very nature abhorres but give no●ice to the world of the noble favours I received of the Scottish Lords still engraven in a thankefull mind to be recorded to posterity And in the first place falls in the memory of my honourable faithfull but ah now deceased Friend and Noble Earle of Rothes who upon all occasions shewed a tender affection towards me in all my troubles and to whose memory and posterity I shall whlles I five owe the poore abilities in me in thankfullnesse of mind and duty When the peace neare Barwicke was towards a conclusion being at dinner with this noble Lord the Earle of Rothes among divers Lords and commanders in his Tent a Dunse law he was pleased after much other discourse about the conclusion of the Treaty to speake after his wonted familiar manner come Iohn what wouldst thou have done for thee speake and it shall be done I return'd his Lordship thankes for all his Noble courtesies and this as the greatest Saying my Lord my onely desire is that I may be included in your peace and be free'd from all molestations about your cause that I may goe home in peace as you doe My Lord answered it shall bee done Iohn making no doubt of it but to bee short when the Treaty was ended this Noble Lord told me he was sorry for mee hee could not procure my liberty for that the Earl of drundale who treated with them on the Kings part had excepted me out of that peace and that not only by my name but to make sure worke because my eldest brother was then in Scotland also by this designation of that Fenwicke whose wife was with him in Scotland and for my brother and some other English men that were there they might returne for England bringing but a Certificate under my Lord Rothes hand that they had not sworne and subscribed the Scottish Covenant So as I was glad to be content to wait for clearer weather for my returne Both the Armies being now drawne out of the field all the expectations of a firme peace were suddenly blowne away in the Kings refusall to come into Scotland to his Parliament as in the Treaty it was expected if not promised and sending the Earl of Traquire as his Commssioner to sit both in the Church Assembly and in the Parliament Well all the time of the Assembly which about a month and more I went almost daily to the Assembly with divers Gentlemen of our Nation that came into Scotland to see the Assembly and Parliament and I sate in the Assembly by the favour I had very neere the said Lord Traquire who often gave mee great lookes but never a word he knew me well by face for I had not long before my trouble rid post in his company to London as I remember two severall times But the Assembly being ended where he sate onely as a Church-man it seemes and the Parliament begun upon the second or third day of the Parliament he sent for me in the Kings name by a Messenger of the Privie Counsell in the open market place which messenger carryed me to the Kings House called Holy Rose House accompanied with Mr. Robert Hamilton and Mr. Forthwicke sent by noble friends from the Parliament House to see what should become of mee where I was welcome and well-baited by Traquire and his Associates divers Scottish Earles and Lords belonging to the Court with all revilings and reproaches of Treason and treachery the then Court language Nay said Traquire thy Life cannot satisfie the wrongs thou hast done his Majestie by possessing his Subjects of Scotland with an ill opinion of his Government and fomenting the late divisions and doing many ill Offices yea that sufficed not but he further charged me that I had got many of his Majesties honest Subjects moneyes into my hands and had bought Land in Scotland purposing to dwell there but swore that Scotland should not shelter me To which I replyed his Lordship was mis-informed the contrary was well knowne to divers of the best quality in Scotland and so Traquire fell into discourse with the Lord Roxborow and the Lord Dalyell and th' other Lords then one of the Gentlemen sent from the Parliament along with mee tells mee in the eare that hee thought I would be sent to prison which I thanke God did not daunt mee then begun Traquire againe to aske me what made me leave my countrey he was sure I might enjoy my Religion in England with as much libertie as in Scotland To which I boldly answred expecting nothing but extremitie I resolved not to goe to prison for nothing that if I should lose my life for it I must affirme that I could never enjoy my Religion with peace under King Charles his government When thus the Earle of Traquire saw my resolution and considered how the Parliament tooke notice of me by sending two Gentlemen along with me and the people of Edenborough readie to rise to riscue me he called one of the Gentlemen Master Borthwick aside and talked with him a prettie space after which Master Borthwick returned to mee saying I have brought your release for this time but my Lord Traquire sweares he will have about with you ere two dayes be ended and that he would send post to Newcastle to get more matter against me Now I found out the drift of this his sending for mee by a messenger of the counsell to get me out of Edenborough downe to the Kings house without the liberties of the Citie was to horse mee away to Barwicke where there were more men attending to receive me and carry me to the King for within three or foure daies these

Alvey too would have given his Vicaridge for a horse when he for haste leapt on horseback behinde a countrie-man without a cushion his faith and qualifications failing him he might well feare to fall from grace by the Scots comming we leave him in his flight to the grace of Conterbury and the new dubd knights and others to the Courts grace for full twelvemoneths untill the cots were gone home againe They no sooner returned to Newcastle but the first Sabbath Day after the Scots were gone Vicar Alvey appeares in publike againe new drest up in his pontificalitie with Surplice and Service-booke whereof the Churches had been purged by the Scots lads and therefore now become innovations and very offensive to many who could digest such things before but my wife being lesse used to have her food so drest growing stomack-sicke set some other weak stomacks on working who fell upon the Vicars new dressing the Surplice and Service-booke which set the malignant superstitious people in such a fire as men and women fell upon my wife like wilde beasts tore her cloaths and gave her at least an hundred blowes and had flaine her if the Maior had not stept out of his pue to rescue her he and his officers both well beaten for their paines such was the peoples madnesse after their Idols as God wonderfully preserved her life and brought her to me to London I returne now to some remarkable passages of divine providence towards me in Scotland in Edenburgh and in my travell in the countrey from place to place to avoid the Lord Traquires prosecution God being never wanting to fill up the emptie soules of his servants in their bitter suffrings did often fulfill that promise of the hundred fold to such as forsake father and mother house and lands for his names sake which promise I sued out at my first escape out of Newcastle and had it faithfully re●●●●tly performed and therfore when I speak of the fulfilling of a promise let none carp or catch or tax the to countenance fantasies and revelations yet doe I not deny but will with all humilitie and modestie maintain divine raptures in divers cases especially in the Saints bitter exile and sufferings and when God comes neerer to his Saints then is ordinarie thinke it not a vaine thing or a fantasie as some too wise men doe but rouze up our selves and looke about us for somewhat more then ordinarie yea sometimes some great things are neer but will stay no longer in the Apologue for any thing shall follow which I hope shall be expressed with that reverence and feare of God and modestie towards men as no man not malicious shall have cause of offence One day as I was riding over a solitarie heath in Tividale my mind much exercised with musings and meditations on the word and works of God to see two neighbour nations so neere conjoyned in many bonds both divine and humane readie to clash together so neere imbruing their hands in each others blood about so poore a quarrell as for Bishops and Service-book as was at first pretended yet a deeper designe of Rome and all her consederates was in it these things strongly possessing my troubled spirit occasioned some ejaculations as I fate on horsebacke and not with drie eyes thinking on these unnaturall ware between my countrie-men and the Scottish nation I often prayed Oh that we might joyne in one against our common enemies Oh that we were one I had answer and assurance from God that we should be one yee shall be one yee shall be one was as strongly inculcated vpon my spirit as if it had beene spoken from heaven Another time when I was travelling from the pursuite of the Lord Traquire towards the evening there fell a showre of small rame and after the raine broke out a Rainbow cleare and bright before me as I rode and at last so low upon the ground about me that I rode in the cirle of it a prettie space which occasioned some thoughts within me of this as a signe of Gods covenant of peace and mercie towards me now in midst of mine enemies plots and malice And often in the company of men of severall rancks and qualities I conversed with upon severall occasions my spirit being exalted above all the troubles of the world in many high thoughts of the workes of Christ he is about to doe in the world in there later dayes from those small beginnings in Scotland I spoke often to their encouragement that it was the morning of the day of Christs power Psal. 110 though darke and cloudie and full of troubles wherein he would doe great things for his distressed Churches and when some more readie to appropriate that worke of Christ to Scotland upon severall occasions I used as frequently to interpose these answers that Christ the bright morning Star is not risen for Scotland's cause alone but for his Churches full deliverance one after another adding withall Christ is first come to visit you in Scotland first to deliver you of all his Churches in the world O strive to give him kinde entertainment this was my humble request often to them to welcome Christ with a full reformation that he might delight to dwell amongst them And at some other times when their spirits were oppressed with difficulties at home and the great forces and preparations from the King and menacings from abroad I used these incouragements I had received from God that this is the beginning of that earth-quake wherin the tenth part of the great Citie that is England Scotland and Ireland Rome shall fall though she call up her Astrologers and Wise men to take craftie counsell as Herod did against the Lord Jesus and his workings and to trouble him in this his comming to deliver his Churches it should not be able to hinder his worke who is wonderfull in counsell and excellent in working And at some other times I said This worke in Scotland makes Rome to shake in Aguish fits fearing great alterations from Christs working here And when the pacification was concluded at Tweed neere Barwicke I being then at Dunse Law in the Scottish army a godly Minister with whom I was familiar having often heard me speake confidently of the large extent of that worke begun in Scotland asked me in this manner what thinke you now of this worke I can see no further into it it would seeme to terminate here meaning in that pacification to which I speedly answered no Sir it will not end thus God will bring it about some way or other it must go over your borders Christ has a great people in England and other parts of the world hee has a tender respect to and he will not arise and sit downe againe untill hee have delivered them as hee did his people in Egypt their cry has helped to bring him downe from the habitation of his holinesse and he will hear their cry and help them for he is

men came from Barwicke to Edenborough and to my chamber three or foure times to looke for me and spoke with my wife who perceived by their wyles and discourse what they were and knew one of them to have been a servant to Sir Iohn Marley my chiefe adversarie which men were observed to lurke in Edenborough about the Castle then surrendered to the King and Generall Ruthven and his men possessing it but missing of me being advised to absent my selfe out of Edenborugh from under Traquires power they grew weary of attending and returned for England After a few dayes I returned to Edenburgh privately where my wife told me how I was watched for and the men then still in towne I was glad to keepe close When thus they found their wyles would not worke their ends the Lord Traquire made a publike Declaration in Parliament against me declaring that he had a designe upon me by Commission from his Majestie expecting it seemes the Parliament should deliver mee up into his hands but that failed him too for a noble Lord sent me presently notice of it and wished me to keepe out of his way so I was glad to keepe more close then before yet after supper being then darke I went out to my noble friend the Earle of Rothes who told mee what had passed from Traquire that day and that my noble friends the Lords in Parliament were resolved to protect me if I should be in danger yet rather advised mee to keepe me out of Traquires way and to absent my selfe out of Edenburgh inviting mee most courteously to his house in Fife for my shelter and withall if any danger should befall me before I could remove out of Edenburgh my wife being there and about to returne for England by Vertue of the late peace and being also great with childe was in a sort necessitated to undergoe some hazard to preserve the priviledges that one forraigne born cannot enjoy by our laws My noble Lord Rothes bid me cry out in his name for helpe and he would warrant me enough to rescue me which was a noble courtesie in my extremitie deserves of mee and mine never to beforgotten Whereupon I dispatched my wife and eldest sonne away for England accompanying them a part of the way into Tividale where I heard there was no safetie for me from Traquires sconts so I betooke mee over the cold snowie mountaines towards the Irish sea and comming to Lanerick a dayes journey on the west of Edenburgh a Gentleman of my acquaintance before in the armie came to visit me assuring mee that place was scarce safe for me to lodge in because of a neer dwelling enemie Sir Iohn Deyell who being lately come from Edenburgh from Traquire the Kings Commissioner had threatened to watch those parts for me and that hee would be glad to drive a cart to teare me in pieces and also had in his hearing declared that the Lord Traquire thinking that hee had frighted mee out of Scotland did sweare that no countrey should hold me long and that there were watches for mee both in France and Holland These were that Gentlemans owne words whose advice I followed and removed thence the next morning himselfe accompanying me that dayes journey and so I rode to Dwyne and Ayre upon the west sea in which parts I spent that Winter untill the Lord Traquire was gone to Court after which I saw him no more for then the ill bottomed peace quickly fell to pieces and new preparations on the Kings part and on the Scottish both appeared and then againe I appeared in Edenburgh where I found the Citie in great feares of being fired from the Castle and many other distractions Thus I continued in Edenburgh most part untill the time of the Scots armie comming into England under whose wings and conduct I returned to my countrey and to Newcastle where wee entred upon the Sabbath day after God had scattered our enemies in the skirmish at Newburne whereof I have by me a briefe relation I keepe amongst other monuments of Christs victories and may have a time if God continue life to record them to posteritie Here by the way I must not omit to tell you how some of my adversaries in Newcastle Sir Iohn Marloe and others that had profered large summes of money for men to come into Scotland to apprehend me and others who that morning before the skirmish made me their melodie in their cups and pots and drunke my confusion and vowed my death as I was credibly enformed were some layd low in the dust and the rest some glad to give two or three peeces for a paire of Oares to fly some by water and some by land whiles the Souldiers returned to Newcastle with bloody heads and some without hands crying to the People of Newcastle flie for your lives naked Divels have destroyed us fie fie for a guide to Dur●am cry others that were strangers all the Priests and Blacke-coats fled as fast as they could but meanely mounted when Vicar Alvey himselfe in great hast got on horse backe behind a Country man as before the next bout if the Scots come againe he may perhaps learne to foot it after my friend Windebancke into France and learne to dance and sing Alas poore Vicar whither wilt thou goe The Army comming after forenoone Sermon on the Sabath day towards Newcastle being in great want of Victuals pitched on the South side of the Towne his Excellency Generall Lesley accompanied with the Lords and divers Gentlemen rode into Newcastle about noon where they were met upon the bridge by the Major and some few Aldermen who were not so nimble at flight as Sir Marloe Sir Daveson and Sir Ridles and others that were conscious of their guilt of their good service against the Scots for which they got the honour of Knighthood at Newcastle and Barwicke though Sir Marloe some say came hardly by his and had well nigh missed if some others merits had not surmounted his the Boyes say that Cuckold luck has raised his fortunes from a Tap-house and et cetera to a Carpet Knight O tempora O mores VVell we being entred Newcastle after dinner I had the honour to Usher his Excellence and the Lords to the great Church where Mr. Alexander Henderson preached and Mr. Andrew Cant at Alihollowes where the Organs and Sackbuts and Cornets were strucke breathlesse with the fright of their Vicals and other of their best friends flight on Friday at night before after Newburne fight in token of mourning that they should neuer meet againe for not long after the breach of the Scots Covenant in the Scottish Souldiers did blow them down both root and branch with their Altar and Raylings Service-book and Fonts and all such fopperies as the honest Scots Lads found without a Warrant or Salvo-guard from their King Jesus who sent them out The Army being in great straits for Victualls I studied how to gratifie the honest Souldiers who had conducted