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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

hands I gave you notice of it by a line or two The Lords of the Committee have beene made acquainted with them both and you are to receive herewith severall answers from their Lordships to all that you have desired to be instructed in The enclosed is from Mr. Controller who remembers his true love to you to which you may doe me the favour to adde mine with many thanks for your friendly expressions to mee In some acknowledgement whereof I shall be your true Servant in any thing wherein I may contribute to your Service there or to you owne particular with the assurance whereof to you I rest SIR Your most Affectionate and true Servant FRANC WINDEBANCKE At the Court at Whuhall 19. Ian. 1638. POSTSCRIPT THe greatest danger we conceive of those Northerne parts is Newcastle and therefore it is expected that you endaevour by all meanes possible according to the powers and instructions which you have to strengthen that place and to secure it from surprise seeing likewise upon the safety of that depends much the security of those parts which are furnished with Fewell from thence 〈…〉 will give me accompt of this businesse of Fenwicke and Bitlestone as 〈◊〉 as you may for so his Majestie expects and to that purpose you may keepe this Messenger with you untill the Examinations shall be taken and then send them expresly by him There goeth herewith a Letter from the Lord Marquesse Hamilton to Mr. Marlay of Newcastle And likewise a Warrant under his Majesties hand to your selfe the Major and Store-keeper for the issuing out of Arms to some of the Scotch Nobility as you will perceive Secreta●rie Windebanckes Letter to Sir Alexander Davison aliis presented at the same time with the former and by the same Persons AFter my heartie commendations I have received your Letters of the 24. of Jannarie subscribed by yourselfe Sir William Bellasis and Master Iohn Marlay together with the examinations that came with them and have acquainted his Majestie with them who takes very well your care in that service and hath commanded me to give you thanks for it His Majestie perceives the confederacie in that towne with the ill affected party in Scotland may grow dangerous if it be not speedily prevented and therefore doubts not of the continuance of your diligence in the discovery of the whole combination and strict and severe proceeding against such as you shall find inclining to it Concerning Iohn Fenwicke it is to be doubted be is in Scotland and therefore you must carry a watchfull eye upon his returne and if you can apprehend him commit him immediately to some prison out of the towne where his confederates may have no meanes of resort to him for Thomas Betelston you have done well to commit him but you must likewise send him out of the towne to some safe prison where he may remaine close and out of the danger of the conversing with any of his confederates and the like course you are to hold with all others whom upon examination you shall finde of this faction You are likewise to take some speedie course for the preventing of these clandestine meetings at undue houres at Henrie Dawsons house under pretext of 〈◊〉 and if Master Mourton the Preacher there be ill affected to the Church government you must make diligent inquiry from whence he hath his maintenance and if you finde hee lives by contribution of refractorie persons you must either prevent his preaching in private and those supplies which hee receives from them or else not suffer him to remaine in your towne His Maiestie will expect from you an account from time to time of your proceedings herein according to the importance of this service wherein hee doubts not of your care and so with rememberance of my love unto you I rest Your affectionate friend Fr. Windebancke From the Court at White-Hall 2. of Febr. 1638. CHRIST Ruling in the midst of his ENEMIES I will not now trouble the Reader with a large Relation of the troubles of my Life or what I have suffred under an unlimited power of Prelacy reaching me into Germany above twenty yeeres agoe when I had spent some seven yeeres in that then flourishing Country and how the practises of Dr. William Loe and his accomplices by Letters from King Iames and Arch-bishop Abbot I was driven from my employments and meanes of preferments there Or what I have suffered since in my Native Country both in matters of the Church and Common-weale by molestations of the Prelates there Excommunications sometimes in foure severall places upon one day and many other molestations of Dr. Iackson and Mr. Alvey his Successor in the Vicaridge of Newcastle and what other vexations in the Common-weale I have waded through with much cost and trouble In opposition of illegall taxes and oppressions under an Arbitrary Government about Knighting Ship money projects and other oppressions in the Government of Newcastle the Court Records of Durham Yorke Westminster and also of the Counsell board can testifie My aime at this time is only to let forth my late and bitter sufferings about the Scottish businesse now allmost full five yeeres In relating the passages of my troubles about the Scots I shall overpasse many things will necessarily fall out to bee read in the Letters of my adversaries and in my petition to the Parliament and will only here observe some other remarkable passages of Gods providence in the publike as well as in my particular When the first troubles began in Scotland about the new Service Booke imposed the world knowes what alterations and changes followed As mainly the renewing of their old Covenant which had lyen by forgotten many yeeres during the reigne and rage of the Prelates A Copy of which Covenant a worthy Minister of almost 20. yeeres acquaintance in Scotland sent me with a relation of the solemne taking of it in that Kingdom which when I read and seriously weighed the Covenant it selfe and passages about it I writ under it Inde Triumphabit Chr●●●us post praelia ●i●●or That is in English From thence after bloody battailes Christ shall triumph and begin his conquests throughout the World And so sent it to my Friends in New-England who where no lesse affected with it then I and earnestly solicited my constant in elligence about that busines of Scotland which I also as willingly performed untill I was driven out of England And indeed to speake plaine out I had some assurance from Heaven that now was the dawning of the Churches deliverance neare and that from those weake beginnings Christ would a rise to doe great things in the world and make way to his Kingdome About 6 May 1628. I had occasion to ride into Scotland and bought of the Earle of Winton a Papist a Barks lading of Wheate and being at Edenburgh on the Sabath day it fell out that the Covenant was that day solemnly taken in as reverent a manner and with as much

me home to my owne Country On the M●nday morning I found out one of the Kings store-houses and therein about threescore thousand pound of Cheese and about two tunne of Bisket which served the whole Army untill Corne was grinded and other provisions made But here was not an end of my troubles for the time I stayed in Newcastle which was about three moneths and more though under the shelter of the Scots Army my wife and selfe continually reviled and abused by the malignant people of the Town of whom I could not get provisions and necessaries for my family for my money without the Authority and command of the Scots or seldome goe abroad without the company of some of the Scots Gentlemen divers of whom gave me notice that they over-heard divers Malignant people of the Towne threaten to wash their hands in my heart blood and others saying whether peace or warre I should be sure to be knockt on the head such was the madnesse of the Malignants against me in that place neither would any there or in the Country pay me any thing they were owing me So about beginning of December when I could be no longer usefull to the publike good or yet to my selfe in my owne affaires I declared to his Excellence Generall Lesley and such of the Lords as were then in Newcastle my urgent necessity to repaire to London to the Parliament for remedy of my many grievances and there being no passage by land for me but through the Kings souldiers I came to London by Sea about the latter end of December and repaired to Westminster where I had walked but a little in the Hall untill I was carried away by some friends assuring me that there was no safety for mee to appeare so publike as yet and that my adversaries who walked in Westminster Hall as Sir Iohn Marloe and others of Newcastle fugitives from the Scots would be sure to lay hold of me and that as yet I was not cleere of the Scots businesse for all the treaty then in agitation some of my friends advising me to remove into Holland untill the Scots Treaty were fully finished and an act of oblivion passed till when I could not be secure from the danger of our Lawes so that I continued privately in London about eight moneths in some hazard before the act of oblivion was passed being resolved not to goe out of the Kingdome untill I had remedy of my heavy losses and grievances which as yet I have found no time for though I have sought to purchase it with my blood in the service of the state and still am ready to wade through difficulties and hazards to procure peace and truth Judgement and Justice to my native Country Divers other passages in my troubles I doe willingly reserve to a calmer Season because as yet the times will not beare them By these already mentioned it may appeare that I have suffred somthing for God and my Country and have borne a large share in the heat of the day even to many extremities to my selfe and family without any publike support in a sincking condition to the hazard of life losse of my estate of which I have not had the benefit of one hundred pound these five yeeres compleat in December next friends in this cause all forsaking me my name and credit racked with reproaches whereof my God whom I serve and suffer for I am confident will in his good itme cleare me and make mine innocency breake out as the light and my Judgement as the noone day I appeale to this ungratefull and appostate age whether it be reason that one who has borne the heate of the day for the common good of both Kingdomes should be left to sincke under the burthens of their good it being not for the honour of my Countrey to leave mee and mine under insupportable burthens of worldy necessities and distresses wherein I have spent my selfe and without timely assistance I and mine must necessarily perish Divers other passages have slipped my memory about the rage and madnesse of mine enemies extending from the countrey to Court distaste of me and the Kings notice and rebukes of friends about me so ●s none of them durst owne me or afford me common courtesie or 〈…〉 me but in the language of mine adversaries also the first messenger the Scots Lords sent to the King at Yorke after Newburne fight at his returne told me there was great enquirie at Court after me and further in midst of all my greatest troubles and pursuite of the Lord Traquire as I should be willing to forget the unkinde and unchristian dealings of my friends in spreading the reproaches of my adversaries striking at my very life deepewounds from friends so may I not here forget to record the Noble respects of the Scottish Lords in their ample testimonie of my fidelitie to my countrey and carriage amongst them which I sent into England for the satisfaction of my friends mis-informed a Copie whereof attested under the hands of divers Gentlemen and Merchants in Edenborough I have annexed for conclusion VVEe undersubscribers understanding that John Fenwick of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Kingdome of England Merchant since his comming into this Kingdome of Scotland hath undergone many vise and slander us calumnies and reproaches as that hee hath beene a chiefe Incendiarte in these late broyles inci●ing the Nobilitie of this Kingdome to invade England and to use all as enemies that were not of our minde in Religion and that hee sought a Captaines place and did beare armes against the King at Dunse and servea in a troope of Horse when hee could not get à Captaines place and doing many ill offices against his Countrey According to our Christian dutie have beene moved to testifie to all whom it may concerne that the said John Fenwicke during his abide in this Kingdome of Scotland now about eight moneths bath behaved himselfe as becomes a good Christian a loyall Subject to his Soveraigne and a loving Countreyman of his native Nation for ought that ever wee have heard from him seene or observed in him in all his carriage amongst us And wee doe verily believe all the foresaid calumnies to be very false malicious and scandalous and injuriously insinuated against him by ill affected persons and doe conceive of him as one that hath deserved better of his Countrey-men In witnesse whereof wee have subscribed these presents with our Hands At EDENB. the 30. Octob. 1639. Subscribed by Earles Argyle Rothes Lothian Lyndsey And The Lord Balmirinoe Witnesses that this is a true Copie John Meyne Robert Keith Thomas Levingston Alexand. Dickson John Lowrie The Originall of this Copy I sent into England for satisfaction of friends mis-informed Novemb. 1639. FINIS Nota This fire brake out in the evening of that day after their consultations were ended wherin many antient Records were burnt up and consumed Nota Herein I have been many yeers the Subject of the admiration of friends and the object of the enemie● madnes and rage in that they could never make mee stoope Note I had to doe with others aswell as Covenanters * Note They were not Knighted till afterward for their good service against the Scots Nota My returne was about the 8. of Ianuary by comparing the Date of Secretary Windebancks letters you may see how ripe the plot was for execution Note Here that Newcastle was begun to be fortified for the King against the Scots Nota Some men carried away pieces of her cloaths and made as much of them as if they were holy reliques This was a bold affront the Parliament then ●itting Nota. This hundred-fold is not meant of temporall things as many understand it but is meant of a hundredfold more of Gods presence and communication of his fulnesse even in this life and in time of our sufferings especially yea as much as our leaking vessels can hold untill wee come to eternity when our cup shall overflow continually Note At this time of the restraint of libertie I composed these meditations Psal. 102. which I published lately under this Title of Zions Ioy in her King comming in his Glorye

Majestie and signes of Gods presence as ever I saw in any publique Assembly where Job served some ancient and white haired men to water their cheeks and wipe off the teares with one hand while they held up the other hand in token of assent to the Covenant as their custome was Now all this yeere in England mens cares and mouthes were exceedingly taken up in listning after and speaking of newes and discourses of the Scots affaires And my correspondence with the Scots as a Merchan● for at least 15 or 16. yeeres before being generally knowne in Newcastle my adversaries begun to set watches for to trap mee about the Scots and my Friends began to forwarne mee of it at last about the 15. of Decemb. 1638. Mr. Robert Anderson an Alderman of the town and my good Friend came to me privately and told mee Now your Enemies have got their desire they have long looked for they have got Witnesses sworne against you of such things about the Scots as will undo you and so wished me to look to my selfe I thanked him for his love but I regarded not much their malice being so well accustomed to it nor did I so much as speake of it to any not to my wife till after the plot broke out The same day another Gentleman of good quality gave mee the the like warning but I will spare his Name because hee is yet living and now a sufferer under the Marquesse of Newcastle And upon 25. December after being a time of much profanenes and excesse in Newcastle I tooke that time to ride into Northumberland and Barwick where I had moneyes owing me and so into Scotland there being no restraint of commerce with the Scots and bargained with the aforesaid Earle of Winton for another Barkes lading of wheate but before I got home to Newcastle a Warrant was sent out to apprehend me by Mr. Alexander Daveson and Mr. Iohn Marloe * and the Constastable watched my house three daies before I came but comming home late about ten of the clocke at night they missed of their purpose Observe here Gods providence over mee for I knew nothing of this dangerous plot to apprehend me but was stayed by the way about businesse and relying on the Moones light stayed by the way somewhat the longer But being come home late I found my wife in a very sad posture and was not sit downe untill some friends came in and gave me notice of the danger assuring me that the plot was of such extent as my life was strucke at and that there was no abiding in the Kingdom for me some advising me to goe for France some for Holland and some for Scotland none of my friends daring to be seene in it or interpose their interest to stop their violence no not so much as for two dayes safely in my house to order and settle my affaires both at home and abroad all struck dead in one instant Well I saw there was now no dallying provided for my escape in the morning early where I passed the Guard and the Gate with some difficultie and passing along in sight of the Towne of Newcastle God made me weepe over it the second time as is expressed in the Epistle Dedicatory with many sad thoughts of the place and of my Wife and Children I had left in a disconsolate condition amongst my enemies So rode into the Country where I stayed among Friends some 8 dayes using meanes to see if the businesse could be accommodated but all meanes failing and the businesse carryed so high as none of my friends durst meddle in it I took my leave of them in a sad condition and took my way for Scotland I had not been above eight dayes in Edenborough untill I was watched by the Lord Traquire then Lord Treasurer of Scotland and had the whole power there for the King giving out threats against mee in severall places that the Kings Dominions should not hold me long so as I was forced to lurck very privately that winter in Edenborough and the Country in a disguised manner and so wee returne to what they were doing in Newcastle My Adversaries having missed of their purpose of mee fell withall violence upon my wife and friends with much inhumane usuage of one of her Sex as is set forth in my Petition to the Parliament hereunto annexed wherein Mr. Alexander Daveson Major Mr. Iohn Marley Mr Thomas Rydle Town Clerke Mr. Ralph Ceck Alderman and Ralph ●●ows the Clerke of their Commission from the King for that businesse were the chiefe actors It would be too tedious to relate the molestations of my poore wife and friends and examinations about me and of the imprisonment of others meerely for my cause but my wife especially for correspondence with me till at last they were plotting her life too for that very thing and so hunted her as she durst not come in her owne house for a week together or see her children but through a glasse window that they might not see her and so at last forced her to escape into the country where none of my friends durst keepe her two nights together but conveyed her into Scotland to me where she abode untill after the pacification at Barwick and then about the end of October 1639. she returned to Newcastle great with child but I being excepted out of the pacification by the Earle of Arundale who treated on the Kings part I was forced to abide in Scotland to expect a calmer season but how calme it proved I shall tell you presently after I have told you a little more of my wifes troubles The unfound peace with Scotland being broken quickly the next Summer produced new preparation to warre on both sides and upon the newes of the Scots armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick the Maior sent his officer into the countrey out of his jurisdiction and brought in my wife where she was searched examined and divers papers taken away and a guard of about a doozen Musquetiers set upon her well the Scots approach with their armie and her aboad in Newcastle was so troublesome on both sides to her and our adversaries as 't is hard to say whethe rs feares were greatest her sex may excuse her flight with her children unfit to be left amongst such monsters of men and women as Newcastle now was full of all sorts from all quarters to fight with the Scots Reade more of this in a little Tract I published two yeeres agoe entituled The Downfall of the Hierarchy Well being got away by water into the countrey she found cold entertainment all being afraid of trouble by her untill the Scots armie came neer to Newburn and then there was flying indeed to purpose the swiftest flight was the greatest honour to the Newcastilian new dubd knights a good Boat a paire of Oares a good Horse especially that would carrie two men was more worth then the valour or honour of new knighthood Surely Vicar