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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

four Troopers of the Rebels Horse came to his house searched it very narrowly for him insomuch that he heard them swear how cruelly they would use that Cavaliering Priest if they could meet with him when they were nearer him than they were aware of had they known it there being but an Inch board between him and them at which time missing of the intended Prey they wreck their malice on his houshold-stuff what they could not carry away they spoil Beds Bed-steads Hangings all are torn and spoiled They plunder the Maid-servants and that of their Smocks and exchange in their very presence their lousie Shirts for their clean Linnen Hereupon Mr. Jones finding by experience that there was no safety out of one of the Kings Armies the only Protection which the King is able for the present to afford his good Subjects he put himself under the Protection of Sir Ralph Hoptons Army where he now remains While the Rebels Army lay at Tame sending out parties by chance they lighted on some of the Kings Souldiers and amongst them there was one who touched in Conscience for so grievous a Sin as lifting up his hand against his lawful Sovereign the Lords anointed forsook the Rebels Army and was entertained in his Majesties pay and being in their power they resolve instantly to hang him but with such Circumstances as in the murther of the Subject they evidently manifest their malitious rebellious hearts towards their Sovereign Nothing will serve to hang him on but the sign-post of the Kings Head in Tame the ppor man being ready to be thrown from the Ladder prayed very fervently and cried out Lord Jesus receive my Soul The Rebels standing about him instead of joyning with him in his Devotions made a confused noise and laughed at him They that had so little mercy for his Soul were not likely to draw out any bowels of Compassion towards his body No they will not only murther him but murther him by a lingring Torment they will not afford him the favour of a running knot quickly to obstruct the Throat and totally deprive him of breath but the halter is tyed so fast that he hanged gasping for breath not drawing so much as to maintain life nor so little as suddenly to lose it having in this torment hanged a while a barbarous inhuman Villain stept to him and fearing he should give up his vexed Ghost too soon he puts his hands under his feet and lifted him up to give him some scope of Respiration but even in this unchristian usage of a poor wretch he did not forget to Blaspheme his Lord and King for having lifted him up he turned the dying mans face towards the sign it self of the Kings Head and jeeringly said Nay Sir you must speak one word with the King before you go you are blindfold and he cannot see and by and by you shall both come down together Let the World if it can now give us a parallel of so undutiful so high a contempt of Regal Authority or tell us whether any of the several Spawns of Hell but only an Atheistical Puritan could possibly commit such devilish Cruelties against his fellow Subject or belch out such venome against his Sovereign Amongst those many Sins which call for our publick humiliation and our earnest zeal to purge the land from the guilt which hath polluted it certainly Contempt and Scorn of so good so gracious a King is none of the least On Monday the 29. of May 1643. a Boy of five or six years of age attended by a youth was comming to Oxford to his Father an Officer in the Kings Army passing through Buckinghamshire he fell into the hands of some Troopers of Colonel Goodwins Regiment who not only pillaged him of the Cloaths which he brought with him but took his doublet off his back and would have taken away his hat and boots if the Youth that attended on him had not very earnestly intercede for them to save them For one of the Company more tender-hearted than the rest moved with the Childs cries and affrightment and with the Youths earnest entreaty prevailed with the rest not to rob the Child of these necessary fences from the injury of wind and weather Yet tho they spare him these things they rob him of his Horse and leave the poor Child to a tedious long Journey on foot This barbarism to a poor Child far from his friends almost distracted with fear so prevailed with some that they made Colonel Goodwin and Sir Robert Pye acquainted with it hoping to find them sensible of so cruel practices on a poor Child but these great Professors and Champions of Religion only laughed at the relation without giving any redress to the Childs injuries This want of Justice in the Commanders animated the Soldiers to prosecute their Villanies to a greater height for that night they came to the place where the Child lay and the poor Soul being in bed fast asleep his innocent rest not disturbed with the injuries of the day they dived into his and his attendants pockets robbed them of all their monies and left them either to borrow more or beg for sustenance in their Journey to Oxford Captain Duckenfield a Commander of the Rebels in Cheshire came to Mr. Wright's House Parson of Wemslow in that County a man of four score years of age of a very honest Life and Conversation and eminent for his Hospitality amongst his Neighbors The Captain and his followers enter the House by violence killed two of his Maid-Servants wounded others and in all probability had murthered Mr. Wright himself had not his Neighbors that loved him well rescued him out of their hands The Crime objected against him was Loyalty and that amongst Rebels is Crime enough for this he is forced to live an exile from his own habitation and hath absented himself from his house now twelve months The same Rebels came to one Mr. John Leech his house in the same County as I take it they enter his house by violence they kill one of his Maid-Servants for endeavouring to keep the door shut against them and took away Mr. Leech Prisoner There was a Gentlewoman in the house come thither but two days before who seeing so barbarous Cruelty practised upon Innocents for no other fault but living in Peace and Obedience was so affrighted that for some time she remained almost distracted When the rebellious City of London first delivered up it self the servile instrument to execute the illegal Commands of the heads of the Faction in Parliament a Troop of factious Citizens under the command of Colonel Cromwell came to the University of Cambridge and there seized on the Persons of Doctor Beal Doctor Martin and Doctor Sterne men of known Integrity Exemplary lives profound learning and heads of several Colledges in that famous University having them in their Custody they use them with all possible scorn and contempt especially Cromwell behaving himself most insolently towards them and when

now made passive Instruments of more than heathenish Sacrilege and prophaneness those Windows which they could not reach with their Swords Muskets or Rests they brake to pieces by throwing at them the bones of Kings Queens Bishops Confessors and Saints So that the spoil done on the Windows will not be repaired for a Thousand Pounds nor did the Living find better measure from them than the dead for whereas our Dread Sovereign that now is the best of King was gratiously pleased as a pledg of his princely favour to this Church to honour it with the gift of his own Statue together with the Statue of his dear Father King James of ever blessed memory both of massy brass both which Statues were erected at the front of the entrance into the Quire These Atheistical Rebels as if they would not have so much of the Militia to remain with the King as the bare Image and representation of of a Sword by his side They break off the Swords from the sides of both the Statues they break the Cross from off the Globe in the hand of the Statue of our gratious Sovereign now living and with their Swords hacked and hewed the Crown on the headof it swearing they would bring him back to his Parliament A most flagitious crime and such as that for the like S. Chrysostome Hom 2. ad populum Antioch With many tears complains he much feared the City of Antioch the Metropolis and head as he calls it of the East would have been destroyed from the face of the earth for when in a Tumult the seditious Citizens of Antioch had done the like affront to Theodosius the Emperour in overturning his Statutes How doth that holy Bishop bemoan how doth he bewail that City which fearing the severe effects of the abused Emperours just Indignation of a Populous City a Mother boasting of a Numerous Issue was on the sudden become a Widow left desolate and forsaken of her Inhabitants some out of the sense and horror of the guilt abandoning the City and flying into the desolate Wilderness others lurking in holes and confining themselves to the dark corners of their own houses thereby hoping to escape the vengeance due to so disloyal so Traiterous a fact because of this foul injury offered the Emperours Statue He as that Father speaks was wronged that was the sepreme head of all men and had no equal on Earth But what wonder is it that these miscreants should offer such scornful indignities to the Representation of his Royal Person and the Emblems of his Sacred power when the heads of this damnable Rebellion who set these their Agents on work offer worse affronts to his Sacred person himself and by their Rebellions Votes and Illegal Ordinances daily strike at the Substance of that power of which the Crown the Sword and Scepter are but Emblems and shadows which yet notwithstanding ought to have been venerable and aweful to these men in respect of their Relation After all this as if what they had already done were all too little they goonin their horrible wickedness they seize upon all the Communion Plate the Bibles and Service-books rich Hangings large Cushions of velvet all the Pulpit-Clothes some whereof were of Cloth of Silver some of Cloth of Gold They break up the Muniment House and take away the common Seal of the Church supposing it to be Silver and a fair piece of gilt Plate given by Bishop Cotton they tear the Evidences of their Lands and cancel their Charter in a word what ever they found in the Church of any value and portable they take it with them what was neither they either deface or destroy it And now having Ransacked the Church having defied God in his own house and the King in his own Statue having violated the Urns of the dead having abused the bones and scattered the Ashes of deceased Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors they return in Triumph bearing their spoils with them The Troopers because they were most conspicuous ride through the streets in Surplesses with such Hoods and Tippets as they found and that they might boast to the World how glorious a victory they had atchieved they hold out their Trophies to all spectators for the Troopers thus clad in the Priests Vestments rode carrying Common Prayer-Books in one hand and some broken Organ pipes together with the mangled pieces of Carved work but now mentioned containing some Histories of both Testaments in the other In all this giving too just occasion to all good Christians to complain with the Psalmist O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance Thy holy Temples have they defiled The dead Bodies of thy Servants have they abused and scattered their bones as one heweth wood upon the Earth Help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy Name Psal. 79. Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. The Rebels prophanation and horrible abuse of the Abby Church of Westminster Together with their several outrages and abominations committed on the Cathedral Church of Exeter c. IF in the Catalogue of Plundered Cathedrals we inroul the now Collegiat Church of Westminster I hope I shall not be thought to make my discourse no more of kin to my Title than Mountain doth some of his Essaies for if we look back on the various condition of this Church no place set apart for Religious Persons having so often shifted its owners we shall find that amongst many changes it had the honour of a Bishops Sec. On the dissolution of the Abbies amongst the rest Henry the Eighth suppressed this Monastery and in the place thereof founded a Deanery Anno 1536. And two years after added a Bishoprick to the Deanery The Bishop sate here but nine Years and again resigned his dilapidated Revenue into the hands of a Dean Middlesex which was the Diocess of the Bishoprick being devolved to London yet though this Bishoprick of Westminster as it relates to the Saxons was but of modern Erection yet in the time of the Ancient Britains it was no less than the See of the Arch-Bishop of London and therefore it is more than probable that that record which tells us that the Arch-Bishop of Londons See was planted in S. Peters in Cornhil was either corrupted or mistaken for S Peters in Thorney for Sic olim à spinis as learned Cambden and other Antiquaries affirm from the great crop of thorns which heretofore grew there that which we now call Westminster was then called Thorney This Church so famous for its Antiquity so admired for its Elegancy of Structure especially by the addition of Henry the Seventh's Chappel a Pile of that polished magnificence ut omnem Elegantiam in illo acervatam dicas as if art and bounty had conspired to raise it to a wonder of the World Lastly a Church so venerable as being once the seat of an Arch-Bishop and a Bishop and now a long time the place where the Kings of England receive their sacred Unction and Crowns