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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

fat and 〈◊〉 promises of the Gos●…ell and yet remaine a starveling to thy great dishonour and the reproach of Religion But grant 〈◊〉 beseech thee that in the use of all holy meanes I doe so plentifully injoy I may grow up to that age stature fulnesse and 〈◊〉 of thy saints in Jesus Christ that so as thy band hath and still is upon mee for good so my heart may alwayes meditate on thy Statutes and my tongue may speake of all thy wondrous workes Blessed Father I be seech thee to anatomize my heart and spiritualize my soule and see if there be any wickednesse in mee and by thy Word and 〈◊〉 it divide between the Soule and Spirit and joynts and marrow of my corruption and so separate betweene the precious and the vile that all iniquitie may be removed farre away from my person and from my Tabernacle that so O Lord for the time that is to come I may walle evenly with thee in the path that is called holy that so I may have my fruit in holinesse and at the end eternall life that being guided by thy counsell here I may at last be brought to glory Good Lord grant that I may never be of that number that doth so we to the 〈◊〉 to reap●… corruption but of those that doth so we to the Spirit and reape life everlasting that I may never as formerly dig broken 〈◊〉 that will hold no water but that I may drinke deeply of that fountaine of the water of life my fresh springs being found in thee that so 〈◊〉 soule may be filled with the fruits of rightcousnesse which is to the prayse of thy rich grace by faith in Christ ●…esus Deare Father I have three grand enemies to grapple with the world th●…●…lesh and the Devill the least of which is too great for me to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if my weaknesse be not supported and my wants supplyed But yet I know that thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth mee I may by faith make the Devill flye overcome the world and get my owne heart purified 〈◊〉 although holy Father of my selfe being poore weake and contemptible I can doe nothing yet thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth me I can doe all things for he is the right hand of thy power and strong arme of thy salvation in and from whom thou hast received full compensation to divir●… just●…ce for the sinnes of all the Elect and in particular for mee thy unworthy servant I beseech thee 〈◊〉 Lord so long as thou hast any imployment for thy unworthy servant in this 〈◊〉 and transito●…y life so long as these few broken ends of mortalitie doth remaine be thou pleased who doth all things according to the counsell of thine owne will so to uphold mee in the way of holinesse that in all th●… actions of my generall and speciall calling I may glorifie thy great Name 〈◊〉 my Brethren propagate the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ stop the mouths and put to silence the tongues of wicked and ungodly men for this is the will of thee my God as touching thy servant I beseech thee O Lord be not angry with poore sinfull dust and ashes and I will speake but this one time and it is in the behalfe of the generation of thy first borne whom thou from eternitie hast set thy love upon and still 〈◊〉 delight in to extend mercy to It is the Vine which thine owne hand hath planted holy holy Lord looke downe from Heavn behold and visit this Vine The straits of thy people are great but deliverance is in thine owne hands thy mercyes are thine owne I beseech thee therefore O Lord consider how deeply thine owne glory is involved in the great cause of thy Church Behold the insolency pride and subtilti●… of thine enemies and looke upon the imbecilitie and weaknesse of thy people and let that auntient motive which from the beginning and 〈◊〉 ages did stirre thee up to doe good to thy people provoke thee at this time to be mercifull to thy Church because mercy 〈◊〉 thee O Lord thou h●…st in thy Word spoken great things of thy Servants concerning their deliverance and also gathering thy Churches from the foure Corners of the World and that thou wilt rayse up thy Jerusalem and make it the prayse of the whole Earth and is not now the time come wherein thou wil●… extend thy mercy to Sion O Lord is not yet the time fully come Hath shee not lyne long enough in the dust Hath not the Plowers plowed long furrowes on her bucke for a long s●…ason Hath not O Lord the Fox●… the subtill Foxes broke off her fruitfull bowes spoyled her grapes and would not let them cluster Good Lord hath not thine enemies mingled our Wine with water our silver with drosse and thy pure worship with superstitious vanities And shall they O Lord prosper that thus runne along in their wickednesse eating up thy pe●…ple even as bread ●…vouring thy precious Saints and sacred truthes as much as in them lyeth And will not our God returne and cause the light of his countenance to sh●…ne upon his Sanctuary Thou hast said O Lord that thou never biddest the sonnes of Iacob seeke thy face in vaine is not the time yet come that the Stone cut out of the mountaine without hands shall grow to be a Mountaine and fill the whole earth When O Lord wilt thou give the Kingdoms of the earth to the Saints of the most High When shall our Sister that hath no breast desire the sincere milke of the Gospell When Lord shall those dry bones live When deare Father shall the great River Euphrates be dryed up that thy redeemed may passe over When shall that Monarch of Rome and Hiera●…chy of England which makes the reall Antichrist not onely be discovered but rooted out and consumed that thy Saints may rejoyce their hearts and warme their hands at that great bonefire so long desired that the Lord Iesus Christ may raigne in his Church Deare Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Gird thy Sword upon thy thigh O thou most mightie strike thorow the loynes of thine and thy Churches enemies Root out all them that delight in superstitious vanities avenge the quarrell of thy Covenant and maintaine thine owne glory Blesse thine owne worke O Lord the great Reformation already begunne in this Kingdome yea blesse O Lord the Parliament that strong arme of flesh which thou hast sanctified and preserved to doe great things by let not our hopes be made frustrate let not the malicious purposes of thine enemies come to passe least they grow too proud O Lord Blesse the Kings Majestie with spirituall corporall and eternall Blessings that he may so comply with his Parliament that all differences may quietly be composed Religion may flourish scandalous dumb dogs removed and faithfull Pastors and Teachers planted in their roomes with those sacred Governours and government which Christ hath instituted in his Church Blesse the Queene the Prince and the rest of that royall Race Lord let thy blessing be upon all states and degrees of people as if their names were particularized before thee Good Lord cause Warres to cease in Ireland let justice and mercy meet together in that Kingdome that thy enemies may justly be punished and thy people mercifully delivered Blesse those Forces that are imployed for that service send more and prosper them also that the great good worke hoped for may be most blessedly accomplished Good Lord blesse thy blessed people of the Scots Nation by whom thou hast done so much good to this Kingdome and all others that thy poore servant is bound to pray for by dutie Religion or any band or tye of nature or grace even for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake In whom and for whom thou receivest poore sinners to mercy To whom with t●…ine own Majesty and God the holy Spirit three persons one onely holy wise God be rendred as is most due all honour prayse glory and thankes now hence forth and for ever AMEN FINIS Jo. Lincol now York My first Apprehension My Appearance The Conference Doctor Featly Dr Feally his report Bishop of Bathe Wells Pursevant Thomas Squire Diver●… spake A Doct●… Purs●…vant Officers Notary Clerke of the Co●…cell Privie Seale Lord privy Seale Lord of Dorset 〈◊〉 Francis Windebanke Secretary of State Friend Sir Nathaniel Brent Register Lord Newborg A Lord Sir Edward Littleton Lord Cottington Lord Privie Seale 〈◊〉 Tho. Row Sir Tho. Row and Lord Goring 〈◊〉 Generall Of Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper Said the Jury The Archbishop

the sincere Professors of it calling them factious seditious Cum id genus monstris their foule-mouth'd Chaplaines and their gracelesse Curates in every Sermon almost have not ceased in their Turkish Dialect to powre out their venome on the most judicious and holy Christians Neither was this their malice onely against some malignant Spirits as they cald them but even against the very power of godlinesse in any poore soule that profest it As one of their reverend Champions most wickedly said That if he had had the power that Canterbury had he would not have left one Puritan in England this day Manifold and apparent discoveries wee have had of their cruell tyranny and their Arch-pittie both on the bodies estates and precious Consriences of the deare Saints of God they have not onely undone many families in the Kingdome but have the guilt of the bloud of thousands of soules upon them which are this day in hell for want of the precious meanes of grace which should have fed their soules to life eternall I need not acquaint thee with their cruell tyranny in the persecuting of th●…se Worthyes of God in their High Commission Court that Hellish Inquisition of our Land thou hast here a sufficient light to see their grace in their dealings with this Worthy of God of whom I may say in another cause as the Apostle sayth of himselfe 2 Corinth 11. 5 He is not a whit behind the chiefest of these Worthyes that have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Christ Concerning the Discourse I shall say no more but onely this Reade it and if thou finde any good by it give God the glory and the Authour thankes I know Christian Reader that manifold are the temptations which thou meetest with daily in the flesh And indeed Christ tells before hand what his service will cost If any will live godly in Christ he must suffer persecution But yet be not discouraged though wee sow in teares wee shall reape in joy though wee have a nipping Autumne wee shall have a Ioyfull Spring goe on thou blessed Christian and the Lord goe with thee fight the battailes of the Lord Jesus quit thy selfe like a man be couragious for God and his Cause start not aside for all the malice of the enemies God hath whet his Sword against them and thou shalt ere long see them all dead on the shore before thee Our Fathers beleeved in him and they were delivered David and Ieremiah and Daniel and Paul and all the excellent ones of the Earth have gone this way and are now in Heaven singing Hallelujahs to all eternitie And these were for Examples to us sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 6. God never set any upon high imployment but he gives him proportionable strength He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will give an issue with the temptation that you may be able to beare The duggs and breasts of the Scripture are even bursting with promises of this kinde Open your mouth wide and he will fill it There are a kinde of people in the world who goe for professours and would thinke it a great matter to deny them the name of Christians who will be content to follow Christ while Christ is advanced in the world and seemes to be a good neighbour but when he comes to be thrust out of the Court and out of the Councell and out of esteeme with the men of the world they are afraid to follow him too close at the heeles least he should dash out their braines they will be religious and wise they must not thrust themselves into danger they say it is good sleeping in a whole skin and indeed it is no marvell to see men fall away as leaves in Autumne and perish everlastingly for they never took Christ upon his owne Conditions they never were really ingraffed into him they hung as the Ivie to the ●…ake they had a kinde of externall being in Christ but they never drew the sap and luice of spirituall life from him In a word they never had the true and genuin bloud of Christ running in their veines Yet Christian Reader let not thy heart faile neither be discouraged at this Be faithfull to the death and thou shalt have the crowne of life I will not Apologise any farther for the Authour or the Worke they both deserve thy Christian acceptation onely my prayer to the throne of grace for thee shall be That a double portion of the Authours Spirit may be powred on thee in the reading of it that thou maist be able more valiantly to stand in the Cause of Christ and fight his battailes against Gog and Magog and all the cursed enemies of Gods Church that so having fought a good fight of faith thou maist in the end receive the end of thy faith the salvation of thy soule so prayeth thine and the Authours friend CUT SIDENHAM ERRATA PAge 2. line 13. for first of Numbers read fift of Numbers page 21. line 33. for Gavaston read Carlton QVATER MAYNES CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT MY first Apprehension was on Ashwednesday in Hillary Terme the 12th day of February 1639. At which time came two Pursevants unto mee with an Attachment from the High Commission-Court under the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Nathaniel Brent and Sir John Lambe at which time I unwisely entered into Band of one hundred pounds to appeare in their Court and my first appearance was in Easter Terme the second day of the Terme being Thursday the 23th of Aprill 1640. My appearance being made I was called and presently they called for a Booke which being tendered unto mee I asked what I should doe with it they told me I must take my Oath I answered I would not take any Oath I knew no cause why I should the Officer that attended the Court opened the Booke and I said I could open it my selfe if I would reade in it Then Doctor Reeve said I must take my Oath to answer to such Articles as were in Court against mee I told him I knew of no Articles neither doe I know wherein I have offended The Doctor told me if I would take my Oath I should know I answered I would take no Oath I did not hold it lawfull Thus much betweene the Doctor and my selfe Archbishop Then said the Archbishop Master Quatermayne Master Quatermayne I heare you though you speake but softly you seeme to scruple at the Oath taking you neede not to doe it you thinke it to be an accusing Oath but it is not so it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I thinke it to bee an accusing Oath indeed Archbishop It is not so but it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I need no purging for I have not offended yet neverthelesse if you will so administer it I will take it because I find in the first of Numbers an Oath of Purgation so that it agree with other Scriptures that

man in the Convocation House-dore and I asked him if the High Commission Court would be kept there that day or no and he answered me yes then said I what is the reason the dore is not yet opened then said he because the Court is not yet come and when they are come there will not be roome enough for them then said I remove the Court where roome is and I walked downe into the body of the Church and one came unto mee saying these words Master Quatermayne what doe you here To whom I answered I was bound in a band of one hundred pounds there to be Friend Why said he Is your businesse not yet ended Quater I answered no neither doe I know when it will Friend Then he asked me what they did intend to doe with me Quater I answered I could not tell Friend Then said he will you take the Oath Ex Officio Quater I answered no I will never take it Friend Then said he what will they doe Quater I answered I know not it may be they will imprison mee the Archbishop did threaten mee that he would the last Tearme Friend No said he I thinke they will not be so forward they have other businesse to doe Quater Then I left him and I walked quite thorow Pauls all alone no body with mee and went into the Book-sellers Church-yard and there made water against the payles and returned againe thorow Pauls to the High Commission Court and the Court was set and I went up into the Court and did diligently hearken when my name should be called and after a while people comming in they made a hemming hooting and shouting and thronging into the Court and upon my selfe so that I was forced and constrained to put on my hatt to save my belly and cryed out unto them take heed of my belly you hurt me with your thronging upon me and presently as the people shouted the Court began to rise and Sir Nathaniel Brent being one of the first that came downe I went downe together with him and he turning backe unto me said Sir Nathaniel Brent What a tumult is here Mr Quatermayn this is not long of you I hope Quater It is in no wise but Sir I am bound in a band of one hundred pounds here to appeare and if you have nothing in Court against mee why should honest men be troubled The Knight replyed thus Sir Nathaniel Brent Pray Mr Quatermayne come to my house to morrow or next day Quater To whom I replyed I would with Gods helpe and while we were thus talking came the Register and said Register This is long of you Master Quatermayne all this tumult Quater To whom I answered you speake falsly are you the Register of the Court and doe you lye you doe speake falsly you have my band of one hundred pounds give me my band and I will neither trouble you nor your Court Then I parted from the Knight and I came to the South dore of Pauls and the Court was shut up and all the people were gone and then I went into Pauls-Church-yard to looke for my wife and leaning my backe against a Drapers stall I saw the Cushions fly over mens heads and into the dirt and men kicked them but who they were I know not but my Lords under your Lordships favour I doe conceive that the Commissioners themselves were onely in the fault for if they had done as in other Courts of Justice that is in this manner Be uncovered in the face of the Court Gentlemen keepe silence Give audience to the Court or my Lords in the third place if they had made Proclamation and deferred the Court untill some other time there would have been no tumult at all but they brake away from the Court and the people followed hooting as Birds at an Owle After all this my Lords I with my wife and her sister and two or three more went into the uppermost house in Carter-Lane and there we dranke a cup of Beere together and then parted some of the company my selfe my wife and one other went to Master Seamans his Lecture in Bred-street and there heard both Service and Sermon And thus have I given your Lordships an account how I spent the whole day on Thursday last Archbish. Then said the Archbishop but you were in the Countrey and there you made Conventicles and preached Quater My Lord I was in the Countrey but made no Conventicles nor yet did preach Quater My Lord I never made any Conventicle since I knew any thing that was good But I was close by where a fearfull Conventicle was and that upon the Sunday or Lords day where were at the least two thousand met together to blaspheme God and to prophane his holy Sabbath abuse his creatures and to misspend their precious time to the great dishonour of God and the provocation of the eyes of his glory And my Lords except your Lordships speedily looke to it for a Reformation the judgements of God will fall upon this Kingdome But my Lords if this be a Conventicle when the judgements of God be upon the Land for a people to meet together and humble themselves and pray before the Lord we are farre off from Salomons judgement for he saith If the Lord send a judgement among the people if the people that are called by his Name shall humble themselves and pray and seeke his face and depart from their wicked wayes God will heare from heaven forgive their sinnes and heale the Land And my Lords are not the judgements of God upon us is here not the plague of pestilence and a threatned famine and the sword of warre hanging over our heads and shall not wee my Lords humble our selves in the sence of Gods displeasure It is an argument my Lords that there is no Religion among us Lord Newborg Then said the Lord Newborg at such meetings as these are Master Quatermayne in what manner doe you performe your d●…ties Quater My Lord thus Wee pray and we reade the Scriptures and as well as wee are able finde out the meaning of the Holy Ghost therein and what we understand from the Word we impart to our company A Lord So said one of the Lords and is not this Preaching Quater No my Lord I doe not understand it so it is nothing but godly Conference which every Christian man is bound to doe and performe for it is our dutie to edifie and build up one another in our most holy faith which wee cannot doe except it be opened unto us Archb. Then said the Archbishop this is his constant practice in Citie and Countrey to draw people togeth●…r and to make 〈◊〉 Quater My Lord I want information in my judgement I understand n●…t wh●…t you meane by Conventicle I did alw●…yes thinke that publike duties did not make voyd private but that both might stand with a Christian Archb. No more it doth not said the Archbishop but your Conventicles are not

private Quater My Lord I am sure they are not publike I pray my Lord informe my judgement what a Conventicle is A●…chb Why this is a Conventicle said the Archbishop when t●…n or twelve or more or lesse meet together to pray reade preach expound this is a Conventicle Quater My Lord I doe not so understand it Archb. No saith he my Lord Chiefe Justice I appeale to you whether this be a Conventicle or no Sir Edward Littleton But my Lord Chiefe Justice answered nothing Quater My Lord under your Lordships favour I know it is no Conventicle neither by any Statute nor Cannon Law of this Kingdome if this be a Conventicle then I will be a Conventicler while I live with Gods helpe I kept a Conventicle in my house the last Wednesday if this be a Conventicle My Lord I did never come to your Court but I set apart the day before to 〈◊〉 to God for a blessing to direct me how to carry my selfe before you Archb. I so you may in private so it be onely with your owne family Quater And no body else my Lord truly my whole family consists wholy in my wife and my selfe and therefore I must call in my neighbours to helpe me for this dutie if it be kept as it ought will require more than a man and his wife to keepe it Archb. You were at Watlington and there be many of the Scottish faction there Quater At Watlington my Lord I was borne there will you not give me leave to goe into the Countrey to visit my friends Archb. Yes but not to make Conventicles and Preach Quater My Lord you said I m●…ght in private and when I am there I am as at home and my Lord we alwayes did it in private and not in the publike Congregation Lord N●…wborg Then said the Lord Newborg how doe you pray M●… Quatermayne at such meetings Quater My Lord I will tell you how wee pray wee pray thus that the Lord will be graciously pl●…ased out of all these combustions and confusions to bring forth a sacred Order for the establishment of the Gospell the rooting out of Popery superstition and Idolatry For the uniting of the two Kingdomes together England and Scotland in peace and setling his Majestie and his posteritie Royall in peace that so we may live under our owne Vines and Fig-trees to serve our God and to be loyall and obedient to our King and Soveraigne and loving and charitable one to another Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington the Lord the Lord and why not our Lord or Jesus Christ or God Almightie Quater My Lord I am not willing to mis-phrase the Scriptures neither am I willing to displease your Lordships therefore whether I say our Lord or God or Christ or God Almightie the Scripture will beare me out in what I say Lord Cottington The Lord the Lord what Lord doe you meane doe you meane the Lord Wentworth Quater No my Lord I doe not meane the Lord Wentworth I know him not nor am I acquainted with him but that Lord that I meane is the Lord of Heaven and Earth Lord Privie Seale The Lord said the Lord Privie Seale Doe you finde fault with the man for saying the Lord he speak●…th to the purpose why is not the Lord in Scriptures as well to be spoken as our Lord or Christ or God All-mightie Lord of Dorset My Lord said the Lord of Dorset you loose time the man speaketh punctually to the purpose the Lord it is the principall title that God is denominated in the Scriptures by Archb. You were at Watlington and there be of the Scotish faction Quater My Lord I know not what you meane by the Scotish faction Lord Cottington Yes said the Lord Cottington I thinke you doe and I beleeve if you were well examined you would be found one of the principall Then many of the Lords cryed out of the Scots and called them Rebells and Traytors Archb. I said Canterbury wee have proved them Traytors and Rebels Lord Cottington They must needs be Traytors and Rebells when they shall come in such hostile manner to invade his Majesties Realme and rob and spoyle his Subjects Archb. I said Canterbury and under pretence of Religion to invade the Land Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington what doe you thinke of the Scots Mr Quatermayne Quater My Lord if you examine my conscience I pray doe it by Scriptures Archb. You say right said Canterbury I never did otherwise nor will doe Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington againe Master Quatermayne what doe you thinke of the Scots Quater My Lord I thinke more than I will speake Then said another Lord you heare that they be proved traytors what doe you thinke of them now Quater My Lord I have thought formerly that those things that your Lordship now sayes were not true I know not now what cause I may have to al●…er my thoughts Another Lord But what doe you now thinke of them Master Quatermayne Quater Then said I my Lord if they be Traytors let them suffer as Traytors Lord Master Quatermayne what doe you thinke of them Quater My Lord whatsoever I thinke I will say nothing Lord Goring Then said the Lord Goring Master Quatermayn how doe you judge of the Scots speake your mind freely you need not be so shy here is none that will wrong you Quater My Lord I cannot judge at uncertainty I heare one thing now and another ●…hing anon I hardly heare one thing twice together and therefore I will suspend my judgement Then said two or three Lords together what doe you say of the Scots speake your mind freely you heare they are proved traytors Quater My Lord you say you have already proved the Scots Traytors and I have said if they be Traytors let them suffer as Traytors and my Lord if you have proved them Traytors you doe not want my approbation for if I say they are Traytors or if I say they are not it proves them neither to be nor not to be Traytors and therefore I will say nothing Sir ●…homas Row Then said Sir Thomas Row and the Lord Goring What doe you beleeve concerning the ●…cots i Master Quatermayne Quater To whom I answered my Lord I doe beleeve all the Articles of my Creed Sir Thomas Row and Lord Goring Then said both those I thinke you doe for you seeme to be a man of judgement but doe you beleeve the Scots are Traytors Quater My Lord it was never no Article of my faith for I never found it in my Creed with that they all smiled P. S. and Arch. Then s●…y the Lord privie Seale and the Archbishop Well for all this wee shall prove that you were the chiefe cause of the ryot at Pauls on Thursday last and therefore Sir John Bankes I pray receive information from Master Lathom and Master Lathom goe you to Master Atturney Generall and give him instruction how he shall draw