many thousands of them can witness the sad conclusion of the woful premises of this Book yet this Tyranny and persecution of the Clergy is stiled the justice of Parliament and the power of Reformation of Religion whereof the Reader may here see a pattern in the cruel sufferings of the Clergy of London presented in a general Bill of Mortality to which these papers may serve for a short Commentary till God send better days of enlarging the story by a more full Collection the very naming of the persons in that Bill being generally men of known honest Lives and constant painful preaching that the Earl of Northumberland discoursing with Mr. Calamy for so have the engaged Nobility prostituted their honour to the Courting of each Fanatical Lecturer and Pedant of whom indeed they stand in awe about the supplying of above fifty Churches in London void of Ministers told Mr. Calamy that they must restore some of the Sequestred Clergy of London to which Mr. Calamy replying God forbid the Earl said unless they did so the Parliament could not find men of abilities to preach in London The naming I say of those men were enough to shame the Father of Lyes and his Fanatical Sons were not both past shame and to vindicate the rest of the abused Clergy of England as well sure as the Personal faults of some few and those very few be made the scandal of the whole Function and yet who so cruelly persecuted as these London-Divines will ye know the reason thereof The Fanatical design growing high pitched upon three main engines to compleat their work vid. the setting up the Militia the seising of the Navy and the planting in of Lecturers and it 's hard to say which of these three have done their new Masters best service this last being the ready way to obtain the two former whereunto much conduced the feigned fears and jealousies raised by the Faction in the City as also by several Votes and Declarations of Parliament of Forreign invasions from abroad and secret dangers at home no sooner bruited abroad than believed by a people deceiving and willing to be deceived whereby the Faction in Parliament desiring a Guard refused the Trained Bands of Middlesex profer'd by the King to satisfie their fears confiding rather in the Citizens of London purposely to engage that City to maintain them in whatsoever wickedness they should act their chiefest care being to make sure of London the head and fountain of this proud and cruel blood-thirsty Faction therefore to keep and encrease this power in the City they knew Jeroboams Calf-policy in altering Religion and the Priesthood would be necessary for their plot of a new Government to which purpose they at first invented these tricks and formalities of Justice against the Clergy till having got the power their Sword should make good the Sequestring and Removal of those especially in London who were not like to Apostatize from Religion and Loyalty in ceasing to preach to the people to fear God and the King according to the Scriptures hereby making way to plant in their own Creatures and Ministers to deifie the Calves of their own setting up this made the Faction in the House of Commons never to transmit any Bills against any particular accused Clergy-man to the House of Peers where indeed lay judiciary power to a Legal hearing but knowing well such foggy charges would soon vanish at the face of Justice these evil spirits kept on their course of casting mists before the peoples eyes to make them think that the lights of the Church burned so dimme that it was necessary to snuff them or quite put them out This is the true reason of their cruelty towards the London-Clergy and indeed to the whole Clergy of England and this wicked policy drew on this sad story following A General Bill of the Mortality of the Clergy of London or a Brief Martyrology and Catalogue of the Learned Grave Religious and Painful Ministers of the City of London who have been Imprisoned Plundered barbarously used and deprived of all Livelihood for themselves and their Families in these last years for their constancy in the Protestant Religion establisht in this Kingdom and their Loyalty to their Soveraign THe Cathedral Church of Saint Pauls the Dean Residentiaries and other Members of that Church sequestered plundered and turned out Alhallows Woodstreet Dr. Wats sequestred plundred his Wife and Children turned out of doors himself forced to fly Alhallows Barkin Dr. Lafield pursuivanted imprisoned in Ely-house and the ships sequestred and plundred afterwards forced to fly Alhallows Breadstreet Alhallows Great Alhallows Hony-lane Alhallows Less Alhallows Lumbardstreet Mr. Weston sequestered Alhallows Staining Alhallows the Wall Alphage Dr. Halsie shamefully abused his Cap pulled off to see if he were not a shaven Priest voted out and dead with grief Andrew Hubbard Dr. Chambers sequestered Andrew Undershaft 1. Mr. Mason through vexation forced to resigne 2. Mr. Prichard after that sequestered Andrew Wardrobe Dr. Isaacson sequestered Anne Aldersgate Dr. Clewet sequestered Anne Black-friars Antholins Parish Austins Parish Mr. Udal sequestred his Bed-rid Wife turned out of doors and left in the streets Bartholmew Exchange Dr. Grant sequestered Bennet Fynck Mr. Warfield sequestered Bennet Grace-Church Mr. Quelch sequestered Bennet Pauls-wharfe Mr. Adams sequestered Bennet Sheerhog Mr. Morgan dead with grief Botolph Billingsgate Mr. King sequestered and forced to fly Christ-Church Mr. 〈◊〉 turned out and dead Christophers Mr. Hanslowe forced to resigne Clement East-cheap Mr. Stone shamefully abused sequestred sent Prisoner to Plymouth and plundered Dionys Back-Church Mr. Humes sequestered and abused Dunstans East Dr. Childerley reviled abused and dead Edmonds Lumberstreet Mr. Paget molested silenced and dead Ethelborough Mr. Clark sequestered imprisoned Faiths Dr. Browne sequestered and dead Fosters Mr. Batty sequestered plundered forced to fly and dead Gabriel Fench-Church Mr. Cooke sequestered Geo. Botolf-l Dr. Stiles forct to resign Greg. by St. P. Dr. Stiles forct to resign Hellens Mr. Miller turned out and dead James Dukes place Mr. 〈◊〉 sequestered James Garlick-hythe 1. Mr. Freeman plundered and sequestered 2. Mr. Anthony his Curate turned out John Baptist Mr. Weemsly sequestered John Evangelist John Zachary Mr. Edlyn sequestered forced to fly and plundered Katherine Coleman 1. Dr. Hill forced to resigne 2. Mr. Kibbuts sequestered Katherine Cree-church Mr. Rush turned out Laurence Jury Mr. Crane sequestered Laurence Pountney Leonard Eastcheap Mr. Calfe forced to give up to Mr. Roborow Scribe to the Assembly Leonard Foster-lane Mr. Ward forced to fly plundered sequestered and dead for want of necessaries Margaret Lothbury Mr. Tabor plundered imprisoned in the Kings-Bench his Wife and Children turned out of doors at midnight and he sequestered Margaret Moses Margaret New Fishstreet Mr. Pory forced to fly plundered and sequestered Margaret Pattons Mr. Meggs plundered imprisoned in Ely-house and sequestered Mary Abchurch Mr. Stone plundered sent Prisoner by sea to Plymouth and sequestered Mary Aldermanbury Mary Aldermary Mr. Browne forced to
THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. A View of the Fanatick Faction of England As also the Ends and Reasons of publishing these Papers in these Times Pag. 1. CHAP. II. A Brief of the divers Ends in desiring to have this Parliament called Of the true Cause of the Contempt and Hatred of the Clergy among the People and what makes the Churches differences irreconcileable p. 3. CHAP. III. What use the Fanaticks have made of Parliaments and the ways whereby that Faction in this Parliament and Kingdom have endeavoured to make the Clergy contemptible and odious to the people p. 8. CHAP. IV. The Fanaticks Arts of framing Accusations to the Parliament against the Clergy and their manner of proving their Charges p. 12. CHAP. V. A View of the New Judges of the thus accused Clergy Their condition and their judging of Doctrines in their Committees for Religion De facto de jure p. 17. CHAP. VI. The Censures of these Judges against the Clergy and the true Reason thereof p. 21. CHAP. VII Of Parliamentary changes in Religion Of the Policy and ways for the destruction of Religion by this Parliament wrought by the long conspiracy and combination of the Fanaticks of England here laid open p. 26. CHAP. VIII A concluding Parallel between the Popish Persecution in Q. Mary's time and this Fanatical Persecution p. 35. PERSECVTIO VNDECIMA Or The CHURCHES Eleventh Persecution Being a Brief of the Fanatick Persecution OF THE PROTESTANT CLERGY OF THE Church of England More particularly within the City of LONDON Begun in Parliament Anno Dom. 1641. And Printed in the Year 1648. But they mocked the messengers of God and misused his Prophets till the wrath of God arose against his people and there was no remedy II. Chron. chap. 36. vers 16. Re-Printed in the Year 1681. And are to be sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner near Pater-Noster-Row CHAP. I. A View of the Fanatick Faction of England As also the End and Reasons of publishing these Papers in these Times WHat miseries the Fanatick Faction so long lying like the Canaanites as Thorns in the sides of our Israel would bring upon this Nation England wanted not Ezechiels Watchmen to foretel and the Story of these Times hath proved their Prophesies wanted no Truth but Quos perdere vult Jupiter eos dementat prius Otherwise it were strange to think that of two Factions viz. Papists and Fanaticks mortally hating each other distinctly incorporated from the Church of England and both of them destructive to it the one like cunning Pick-pockets should set the Eyes of the people so busily to look after the Religion of the other and in the mean time rob them of their own and by the same Principles like Firebrands in the Tails of Sampsons Foxes looking divers ways alike endanger the Established Religion The one Faction was made most odious to the people the other seemed most Religious and the due execution of Penal Laws against Popish Recusants hath been accounted Zeal and Justice but any legal Penalties inflicted on Fanatick Recusants was cryed down for Cruelty and Tyranny and made the Judges reproach nor would the people endure to hear the name of Fanatick Dissenters mentioned in a Pulpit which now to drown together with their own folly in countenancing or non-conceiving the Fanaticks designs the more Loyal Party have invented the new name of Round-head the Nobility Gentry and generally all sorts of people accounting the Fanatick Faction a simple inconsiderate Party well meaning People tender Conscienced Christians such as deserved pity rather than punishment little remembring our Saviours Caveat against Wolves in Sheeps clothing which in Demosthenes Fable laying all the breach of publick Peace between them and the Sheep upon the Dogs which were set to watch the Sheep-folds till the seduced Sheep for quietness sake delivering up their Keepers for a Sacrifice to the Wolves too late found their own Folds exposed to such danger as Wisdom might have easilier prevented than it could afterward remedy What else have the causeless clamours of the Fanaticks meant for this many years against the Bishops and the Clergy of England who in our Saviours phrase of Pasce oves watched over the Flock of Christ but to smite the Shepherd that so the Sheep might be scattered Like that of Tully Civium perditorum scelere pulsus à Delubris is qui illa servarat Religionum Jura polluta in Larium sedibus edificatum est Templum licentiae And what havock hath been made among the Sheep since the City-Fanatick-Tumults cryed out No Bishops and armed Fury hath forced thousands of the Clergy from their Flocks the almost Ruines of the Church and of three Kingdoms sufficiently witnesses a just Judgement of God upon a People long contending with their Priests and mocking and mis-using the Prophets and Messengers of God till like the Jews the wrath of God fell upon them and there was no remedy and all this vengeance executed by a generation of Vipers eating out the Bowels of their Mother Church and Country wherein they have long lurked stiling themselves for above twenty years last past I can witness the only people of God the Meek of the Earth Christs little Flock Weak Brethren crying out against Bloud-thirsty Papists for taking up Arms against Kings and Princes and who but those Fanaticks the devout observers of the Fifth of November their only Holy-day in hatred of the Gunpowder Treason though that Gunpowder was never carried in Bandaliers and fired in the Face of the King for the safety of his Person and their daily Sermons were against Persecution yet now themselves weak Christians till so well Arm'd are become the only and most bloody Persecutors having slain more thousands of Protestants in England under colour for fighting for the Protestant Religion than Queen Mary condemned Scores within the like compass of years The truth is the Fanaticks of England have long conceited themselves to be the only people of God like the Jews and a man might swear by their Actions they are Jews indeed and not Christians and all other men not of their Tribe to be the wicked of the World and Gods Enemies Egyptians and Amalekites That so whatever favour was done to any of their Faction they thought themselves nothing beholden to any man for it but they would say God Decreed them to do it so that they could do no otherwise and what ever Justice was done to any of their Tribe was accounted cruelty and persecution of Gods people But whatever Injustice or Cruelty they acted upon their Neighbours better Christians in good sooth than themselves they called it Justice and Zeal for Gods Glory fulfilling Gods Decree and can in their Canting Language the Language of Canaan as they stiled their abusing of Scripture phrase flatter themselves that they must wash their Feet in the Blood of the ungodly and binding Kings in Chains and their Nobles with Links of Iron sit smiting their fellow Servants and fellow Subjects against
grant Order after Order yet all is to no purpose for say the Committee we must not displease our Friends they mean their Masters who under pretence of long prayers can devour whole houses and starve other mens Wives and Children by invading their possessions kept from the right Owners by Club-law And truely their Ordinance for the fifth part doth generally prove but a meer mockery to the Wives and Children of the Clergy in the midst of their heavy Persecution and a Snare to draw them into expence of their last groat in hopes to get their so-fairly-promised morsel that as I have known very few obtain it effectually so have many of them after some years of chargeable and vexatious attendance been wearied out buying at too dear a rate their Repentance of believing of hoping for any Justice or mercy from the Fanatical Faction From whom may all Gods people pray Good Lord deliver us FINIS De Legib. lib. 2 Hosea 4. 4. 2 Chron. 36. 16. * Mr. Stone of Saint Clements Eastcheap sent Prisoner to Plymouth by Shipping Mr. Chislen of St. Mathews Friday-street sent Prisoner to Colchester Castle Doctor Griffith committed to Newgate and divers others * Dr. Martin and Dr. Stern Masters of Colledges in Cambridge Doctor Fairfax of St. Peters Cornhil ‖ Divers starved to Death in Winchester-House †Dr. Raughleigh Dean of Wells murdered by his Jaylor Dr. Antil wounded and died of his wounds in Taunton Castle The sury of these Times have forced the concealing of some Persons and Circumstances for theirs and the Authors security Strada de Bello Belg. Hist of the Council of Trent Survey ch 20. Arch-bishop Laud's Speech In the Star Chamber Bishop Ross's Scottish Declaration 1648. Unparallel'd Reasons by Nat. Fiens Lord Say's second Speech Survey of Discipline cap. 11. * Bishop Jewel in his Sermon to the Queen †Bancrofts Survey of Discipline Socr. schol lib. 2. Euseb lib. 5. cap. 21. Mr. Calamy Dr. Temple ◠Tim 4. 3. In Lyme-street in London Sir H. S. St. Michael Cornhil St. Giles Cripplegate Vide vitam Jacobi Andre◠Dr. Halsy Dr. Fell. Miles Corbet Chairman against Mr. Brooks Sir Henry Mildway and Mr. Ash against Dr. Walton Dr. John Cousins †Mr. Nicols Mr. Edwards against Dr. W. before the Fanaticks had driven out the more moderate Party from the House of Commons Dr. D. In the Margin of that Epistle Quorum esse videre est esse bibere Jer. 5. Rom. 26. Isaiah 28. 7. Daniel 6. 5. Preface to the Directory * Mr. Brookes of Yarmouth Dr. Sterne * Mr. Rous. * Mr. Cheslen of St. Matthew Friday-street Cicero delegibus lib. 1. * Mr. Vaughan Dr. Cosin * Mr. Adams In Durham The Observator Seneca de vitâ beat 2. Malachi 7. Deut. 17. 8. 1 Cor. 11. Acts 15. Fox 3. pag. 127. old Edition Lord Sayes Laws Judges 9. R. Barns T. Gerrard S. Jeronimus Martin Mar-prelate †Admonition to Parliament answered by Dr. Whitgift Vorax written by Stub a Lawyer Brother-in-law to T. Cartwright * Dr. Chap. to Field 1587. Everights horse whom they had borrowed for Faux er tull adversus Marcion lib. 4. History of the Counsel of Trent * Old Jury Kings Declaration 12 Aug. Oxford Mungrel-Parliament Jan. 1641. Sir Rich. Gurny The policy in abolishing Liturgy Survey of Discipl cap. 21. N. D. or 3 conversions of England 3 part pag. 149. Fox Acts and Non. To Dr. Martin they sent a Ticket in Prison at Ely-house who desired them to take the twentieth part so that they would promise to send him the remaining nineteen parts of that Estate which they supposed him to have The Wife of Dr. P. hath been 3 years to the expence of almost 100 l. to obtain her fifth part but could not prevail