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A92155	Angliæ ruina: or, Englands ruine represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same. Containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected, plundered, imprisoned, or banished, for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne. Whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament; with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.; Mercurius rusticus	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Griffin, Matthew, 1599?-1665. London. A generall bill of mortality, of the clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2447; ESTC R204638	175,259	292

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 maintaine life nor so little as suddenly to lose it having in this Torment hanged a while a barbarous Inhuman Vi●laine stept to him fearing he should give up his vexed Gh●st too soone he puts his hands under his feet and listed him up to give him some scope of Respiration but even in this unchristian usage of a poore 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 selfe of the Kings head and jeering said Nay Sir you must speake one word with the King before you goe you are blind-fold and be cannot see and by and by you shall both come downe together Let the world if it can now give us a parrallel of so undutifull so high a có●empt of regal authority or tell us whether any of the severall Spawns of Hell but only an Atheisticall Puritan could possibly commit such devilish Cruelties against his fellow Subject or belch out such venome against his Soveraigne● Amongst those many Sins which call for our publique Humiliation and our earnest zeal to purge the Land from the guilt which hath polluted it certainly Contempt and Scorne 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 onely Pillaged him of the cloathes which he brought with him but tooke 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 interceded for them to save them For one of the company more tender hearted then the rest moved with the childs cryes affrightment and with the youths earnest intreatie prevailed with the rest not to rob the child of these necessary fences from the injury of wind and weather Yet though they spare him these things they rob him of his horse and leave the poore child to a tedious long journey on foot This barbarisme to a poore child farre from his friends almost distracted with feare so prevailed with some that they made Colonel Goodwin and Sir Robert Pye acquainted with it hoping to find them sensible of so cruell practices on a poore child but these great Professors and Champions of Religion onely laughed at the Relation without giving any redress● to the childs injuries This want of Justice in the Commanders animated the Souldiers to prosecute their villanies to a greater height for that night they came to the place where the child lay and the poore Soule being in bed fast a sleepe his Innocent rest not disturbed with the injuries of the day they dived into his and his attendants 〈◊〉 rob'd them of all their monyes and lest them ●ither to borrow more or beg for sustenance in their journey to Oxford Captaine Duck●●peld a Commander of the Rebels in Che●●●re came to M. Wrights house Parson of Wemslow in that County a man of fourescore yeares of age of a very honest li●e and conversation and eminent for his hospitali●y amongst his neighbours The Captain and his follower enter the house by violence killed two of his maidserva●●ts wounded others and in all probability had murthered M. W●●gh himselfe had not his neighbours 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 owne habitation and hath absented himself from his house now twelve months The same Rebels came to one Master John Leeth 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 doore shut against them and tooke away Master Leech prisoner There was a gentlewoman in the house come thither but two dayes 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 s elfe the servile instrument to execute the illegall Commands of the heads of the faction in Parliament a Troop of factious Citisens under the command of Colonel Cr●m●e● came to the University of Cambridge and there seized on the persons of Doctor Beale Doctor Martin and Doctor St●rne 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 contempt especially Cromwell behaving himselfe 〈…〉 when one of the Doctors made it a request to Cromwell that he might stay a little to put up s●me linnen Cromwell denyed him the favour and whether in a jeere or simple malice told him that it was not in his Commission having now prepared a shew to entertain the people in triumph they lead the captives towards London where the people were beforehand informed what captives Colonell Cromwell was bringing In the Villages as they passed from Cambridge to London the People were called by some of their Agents to come and abuse and revise them When they came to London being to bring their prisoners to the Tower no other way would serve th ir turne but from Shore-ditch through Bartholomew-Faire when the Concourse was as thick as the negotiation of buyers sellers and the warning of the Beadles of the Faction that use to give notice to their party could make it they lead these captives leisurely through the midst of the Faire as they passe along they are entertained with exclamations reproaches scornes curses and considering the prejudice raised in the City of them it was Gods great mercy that they found no worse usage from them having brought t●● to the Tower the people there use them with no lesse incivility within the wals then the people did without calling them Papists Arminians and I know not what After some time imprisonment there they were removed to the Lord ●ete●s house in Aldersgate-street and though they often petitioned to be heard and brought to Judgement yet they could obtaine neither a Tryall nor enlargement unlesse to free their bodies they should ensnare their souls by loanes of money to be imployed against the King or taking impious Oathes or Covenant●●●t last after almost a yeares imprisonment on Friday the 11 of August 1643. by order from the Faction that call themselves a Parliament they were removed from thence and all put on Ship board in a Ship called The prosper●●● S●●le or the Prospero●s Sayler lying before Wapping They ●ent by Coach

Sacrilege and prophanenefse those Windowes 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 spoyle done on the Windowes will not be repaired for a thousand pounds nor did the Living find better measure from them then the dead for whereas our Dread Severaigne that now is the best of Kings was graciously pleased as a pledge of his Princely favour to this Church to honour it with the gift of his owne Statua together with the Statua of his deare Father King James of ever blessed memory both of massy Brasse both which statua's were erected at the front of the entrance into the Quire These Atheisticall Rebells as if they would not have so much of the Militia to remaine with the King as the bare Image and representation of a Sword by his side They break off the Swords from the sides of both the statua's they breake the Crosse from off the Globe in the hand of the Statua of our gracious Soveraign now living and with their Swords hacked and hewed the Crown on the head of it Swearing They would bring Him back to His Parliement A most flagitious crime and such as that for the like S. Cbrysustome Hom● Adpopulum Antioch with many teares complaines he much feared the Citie 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 Theodetius the Empetour in overturning his Statua's how doth that holy Bishop bemoane 〈◊〉 how doth he bewaile that Citie 〈◊〉 which fearing the severe effects of the abused Emperours just indignation of a Populous Citie a Mother boasting of a Numerous Iss●e was on the sudden become a widdow left desolate and for saken of her Inhabitants some out of the sense and horror of the guilt abandoning the Citie and flying into the deslote Wildernesse others lurking in holes and confining themselves to the darke corners of their own houses thereby hoping to escape the vengeance due to so Disloyall so Trayterous a Fact because of this foul injury offered the EmpeTours Statua He as that Father speakes was wronged that was the Supreme head of all men and had no equall on Earth But what wonder is it that these miscreants should offer such scornfull indignities to the Representation of his Reyall 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 Rebellious Votes and illegall Ordinances daily strike at Substones of that power of which the Crowne the Sword and Scepter are but Emblemes and shadowes which yet not withstanding ought to have been venerable and awefull to these men in respect of their Relation After all this as it what they had already done were all too little they go on in their horrible wickednesle they seize upon all the Communion Plate the Bibles and Service-Books Rich hangings large Cushions of Velvet all the Pulpit-Clothes some where of were of Cloth of Silver some of Cloth of Gold They brake up the Muniment house and take away the Common Seale of the Church supposing it to be Silver and a faire piece of guilt Plate given by Bishop Cotton They teare the Evidences of their Lands and cancell their Charter in ● 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 desied God in his own house and the King in his own Statua having violated the Urns of the dead having abused the bones scattered the ashes of deseased Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors they returne in Triumph bearing their spoyles with them The Troopers because they were most conspicuous ride through the streets in surplices With such Hoods and Tippers as they found and that they might boast to the world how glorious a Victory they had archieved they hold out their Trepbies 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 worke but now mentioned containing some Histories of both Testaments in the other In all this giving too just occasion to all good Christians to complaine with the Psalmist O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance ● by holy Temples have they defiled The dead bodies of thy Servants have they abused and scattered their bones as one beweth wood upon the earth● Help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy Name Psal 79. Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. The Rebells Prophanation and horrible abuse of the Abby Church of Westminster Together with their severall Out rages and Abominations committed on the Cathedrall church of Exeter c. IF in the Catalogue of Plundered Cathedralls we in●owle the now Collegiat Church of Westminster I hope I shall not be thought to make my discou●se no more of kin to my Title then Mountaine doth some of his ●ssayes For if we looke backe on the various condition of this Church no place set apart for Religions Persons having so often shifted its owners we shall find that among it many changes it had the honour of a Bishops See On the dissolution of the Abbies amongst the rest Henry the Eighth suppressed this Monastery and in the place thereof founded a Deancry An●●,1536 And two yeares after added a Bishoprick to the De●ne●y The Bishop sate here but nine yeares and againe resigned his dilapidated Revenue into the hands of a Deanes Middlesex which was the Diocesse of the Bishoprick being devolved to London yet though this Bishoprick of westminster as it relates to the Saxons was but of moderne Erection yet in the time of the Ancient B●itons it was no lesse then the See of the Arch-Bishop of London and therefore it is more then probable that that record which tells us that the Arch-bishop of London See was planted in Saint Peters in cornhill was either corrupted or mistaken for S. Peters in ●horney for Sic olim●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 it's Antiquitie so admired for it's Elegancy of Structure especially by the addition of Henry the seventh's Chappel a Pile of that polished magnificence Vt omn●m Elegantiam in illo acerva●am dicas as if Art and Bountie had conspired to rayse 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 Vnction and Crowns at their C ronation