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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

Treason and steales the Kings Horses or doth any thing Plunders the Countesse of her Coach horses notwithstanding a Warrant from the Lords House to secure them And when this Warrant was produced to stave off this Parliament Horse-taker he replyed That if the Warrant had been from both Houses he would obey it as comming from the highest Authority in England sure this man was borne with Treason in his month but since it came But from the Lords he did not value it When this Warrant could not prevaile the Countesse obtaines a Warrant from the Earl of Essex to have the Horses restored unto her againe but Master Martin to over-bear all procures an Order from the House of Commons to keepe them This honourable Ladies goods were seized on though licensed to passe by the Lords and searched and allowed by the Custome-house At Pebmarsh in the same County of Essex on the Lords day divers of the Parliament Voluntiers came into the Church while the Parson Master Wiborow was in his prayer before Sermon and placed themselves neere the Pulput and when he was in his Prayer one of them struck divers times with his staffe against the Pulpit to interrupt him and while he was in his Sermon in contempt of the place where they were and the sacred action in doing they were almost as loud as the Preacher to the great disturbance of the Congregation No sooner was the Sermon ended and the Parson come out of the Pulpit as far as the Reading desk but they lay violent hands upon him rent his clothes and threaten to pull him in pieces in the Church With much intreatie they spare him there and permit him to goe into the Church-yard he is no sooner come thither but they assault him more violently then before Master Wiborow seeing the Constable who all this while stood a spectator of his hard usage calls unto him and charges him in the Kings name to keepe the Kings Peace at his request they did a little forbeare him but before he could get halfe wayes home they assault him againe and demand his Booke of Common Prayer which he used in the Church That which was found by the Parish being torne in pieces before which he refusing to deliver up unto them they wreck their fury on him They tugge and ●ale him and vow to kill him unlesse he deliver up the Booke of Common Prayer to their pleasure he stoutly refuseth Hereupon they fall upon him strike up his heeles and take it from him by force and so carry it away in triumph M. Blaker by a silenced Minister heretofore preaching at Halstead in the same County told them that to bow at the Name of Jesus was to thrust a spear into Christs side and such Ministers as signed children with the signe of the Crosse did as much as in them lay to send such children unto the Devill When the Earl of Essex and the rest went from Reading to London after the unhappy to say no more surrender to that Towne they left there a Committee consisting of none but City Captains Tradesmen these according to the authority comitted unto them summon al the able men of the Parishes thereabout to appear before them at Reading and assessed them at their pleasure In Marlow they assessed one Master Drue at 1000 l. they fell to 500 l. he refusing to pay was imprisoned but the Prison being most nastic and loathsome denyed the Accommodation of Bedding was forced to pay 300 l. Master Hor●epoole they feased at 200 l. Master Chase a man Plundered before at 40 l. twentie pound was offered but nothing will be abated of thirtie Eliot a Butcher at an hundred pound and imprisoned Cocke a Baker at 20 l. Master Furnace the Vicar not suffered to speak for himselfe because a Malignant at 10 l. and paid seven John Langley 10 l. Thomas Langley 20 l. William Langley 5 l. and Wilmot his servant 5.l John More 80 l. Haskins a Shoomaker 5 l. Cane an Inne-keeper 7 l. Rates so illegall or had they bin legall so unequally proportioned to these mens Estates that had Ship-money been still on foot it would not have drawne so much money out of their purses in fortie or fiftie years as this blew Apron Committee at Reading removed some seven or eight degrees from the Close Committee at Westminster extorted from them at one clap O that wee were but so wise as to compare our Conditions certainly then we could not but acknowledge the just wrath of God upon us for our ingratitude murmuring so much when wee had so little cause and blesse God for the returne of our former Peace though with all its grievances and those maliciously aggravated Master Gues Thorne Bachelor in Divinitie and Parson of S. C●berts in Bedford was upon Sunday in the begi●ning of August last 1642. apprehended in his Parish Church immediately after he came out of the Pulpit ha●ing preached three Sermons in the Towne that day by the Lord Saint-Johns Troopes who lay then in Bedford and in a very boysterous manner carryed away to an Inne in the Towne not permitted to go home to his house to visite his family nor any of his friends suffered to come to him the next day he was carryed away to London where when he had ly●n more then three weekes under the Messengers hands he was brought to his I ryall at the Barre in the Lords House Accusations are framed against him out of Sermons preached nine years before Witnesses are produced to prove the Articles who so well remembred what they were to say that they were faine to read their depositions out of Papers which they brought in their hands Master Thorne gives so full an answer to all the objections that the Lords pronounce themselves satisfied and him innocent onely the Lord Say disputes with him and the Earl of Bullingbrooke grumbles at him At length it is pretended that there is another witnesse in the Country that can say somewhat especially if it be written down in a Paper as it was to his fellow deponents hereupon he is committed to the Fleet there to remaine till that Witnesse can be prevailed with to find leisure to come up About three weekes after the Witnesse appeares and is sworne and contrary to the Rules of that Court is sent to be examined by a Clerke Master Thorne with much adoe obtaines a Copy of his depositions which upon a view containe no new matter but what he had before answered unto cleared hereupon he Petitions again for a sentence he is ordered to attend the House after a chargeable attendance of many dayes with his Keeper he is called the cause reviewed upon the review the Earles of Pembroke Holland Clare and divers others affirme that in their consciences they had acquitted him at the first hearing and now upon the review found nothing to alter their opinion and therefore thought it fit he should be discharged But well f●re a good neighbour at a dead list the Earl

deceived worlds opinion both of his wisedome and honestie had he never known other Barre but that of the Exchequer interrogated him touching his Preaching against Brownists and Anabaptists and presently though no witnesse appeared though no crime were objected though no accuser appeared against him he was Voted by the House of Commons to be sent Prisoner to Colchester Gaole in Essex there to remaine during the pleasure of the House and to pay the Charges of his conveyance thither And that Posteritie may read and reading stand amazed to see how Tyrannical how unlimited an Empire these Subjects have exercised upon their fellow Subjects without any legall Processe or any cause shewne to doome them to Banishment and Captivitie during their high and mightie pleasure we have here inserted a true and perfect Copy of the Warrant and Sub-warrant by which Master Chestlen was sent from hand to hand till he came to his Gaole at Colchester By vertue of an Order this day made by the Commons House of Parliament These are to will and require you to take into your custody the body of Master Robert Chestlen Clerke and him by your selfe your deputie or deputies according to the said Order to carry in safe custody to the Prison of Colchester Castle in Essex there to be delivered to the Gaoler or Keeper of the said Prison to be kept in safe custody as his Prisoner untill the pleasure of the House be made knowne to him to the contrary It is also Ordered That the said Master Chestlen shall desray the charges of his carriage to Colchester Castle aforesaid And for so doing this shall be a sufficient Warrant Dated this 26. of Octob. 1642 Henry Elsynge cler Parl D ● To John Hunt the Serjeant at Arms attending on the House of Commons his deputie or deputies I doe appoint the Partie or Parties whose name or na●●● are subscribed to be my lawfull deputie or deputies for the execution of this warrant witnesse my hand this 28. day of Octob. 1642. John Hunt Serjeant at Armes M. Dodson Gentlemen Walter Story Gentlemen John Hind Gentlemen Next morning being Saturday was this righteous sentence put in execution Thus to make way to reduce Burton a Stigmatized infamous Schismatique to his former place was Master Chestlen doomed to banishment and captivitie in a remote place from his Father his Wife and Family into a noysome Gaole where he was made a companion to Theeves and Felons in a Towne where 't was little lesse then death to be Loyal or as themselves phrase it to be Casars friend A Towne in which they that sent him thither could not but know that they exposed his life 〈◊〉 the fury of an inraged fanatick people and not long before had almost murthered Sir John Lucas his Mother and Sister together with Master Newcomin one of their Owne Ministers and for this had received publique thanks from the House of Commons for their forwardnesse and zeale to the service of the Parliament Lastly in a Town arrived at that high degree of madnesse that the Independent Church is openly practiced in it and the Major banished one of the Towne for a Malignant and a Cavalier whose name was Parsons and gave this learned reason for this exemplary piece of Justice Because it was an Ominous same While Master Chestlen remained in this durance if any man durst visit him it was at his perill he was in danger to be Plundered and branded with the dangerous name of a Malignant They raysed reports of great resort of Cavaliers to him and of Armes brought unto him insomuch that Alderman Barrington told the Committee that their Town was not in safetie because of M Chestlen who ●oore man had no other indeavour then how to free himselfe from the loath some nastinesle of his Prison To this end many Petitions were delivered to the House of Commons that he might be delivered from the Gaole to some private house which boon after much and earnest prosecution by Mistresse Chestlen and his friends was obtained 〈◊〉 an Order to exchange his Gaole for a private 〈◊〉 Master Hammon an honest Gentleman dwelling in the Towne entertained Master Chestlen but for his charitie incurred the hatred of the common people for whereas before he lived beloved in good estimation amongst his neighbours now for harbouring Master chestlen and for this and other actions being under the jealousie of the crime of Loyaltie they call him Cavalier they threaten to call him up to the Parliament and at last were as good as their word for upon their Complaint he was sent for up to the Parliament and committed for receiving Master Chestlen into his house though in reason he might safely conclude that that Order of the House which gave Master Chestlen libertie to remove to another house did withall give that house libertie to entertaine him Thus continued Master chestlen in this exile and Imprisonment from October 1642. untill the February following when the Kings expresse Warrant being sent for his release having the opportunitie now and then to goe abroad and take the aire he left the Warrant for the Jaylor to make use of for his best advantage while he came away to Oxford and put himselfe under the Kings Protection since that in London they have broken up his house and Plundered his goods a common evill incident to all the Kings faithfull Subjects which are within the Verge of the Rebels usurped power Mercurius Rusticus c. XVII Master Fowler Parson of Minchin-Hampton in Gloucester-shire his wife and children barbarously used his house Plundered by the Rebels Master Bartlets house at Castle-morton in Worcester-shire five times Plunderd but especially by Captaine Seriven an Impudent Rebell c. ON Newyears day 1643. seventeene Souldiers sent by Captaine jeremy Buck came to Master Henry Fowlers house Parson of Minshin-Hampton in the Countie of Gloucester being entred the house they find Master Fowler fitting as the season of the yeare required by the fire side presently they seize on him and tell him that he is their Prisoner and though he instantly submitted unto them without any the least resistance yet to wreck their owne malice and the malice of him that sent them upon him one of the Rebells takes him by the throat and holds the point of his Sword at his breast two more on each side one present their Pistols at him another shakes his Pole-axe over his head others strike him with their Pole-axes threatned he is on every side with varieties of death All Smile him with the tongue they ravle at him objecting against him as heinous crimes First that he read the Common-Prayers at length and that he had published the Kings Proclamations with a loud voice and then with renewed sury they assault him againe they beat him with their Pole-axes and call him Ma●●e-Priest Rogue Rascall and tell him Sirrah you can 〈◊〉 the King 〈◊〉 Musquer a Carstel and a Light-Horse Horse but thou old knave thou canst not find any

to answer what he thought would give content Out of his Examination the Major frams an Information against Sir John M Newcomin not forgetting to relate the good service he had done the Horse and Armes he had taken but withall implying how miserably the house was plundered by the zealous people adding in his Letters that very truely That he could doe no more then a child among them with these Letters he presently dispatcheth a Post to the House of Commons About one a clocke a new Alarm is raised that 200 armed Horsemen are discovered in a vault at Sir J. Lucas's That they had killed nine men already and were issuing forth to destroy the Towne The shops are shut up in an instant and the multitude throng downe thither to take or kill these Cavaliers And because they find none there they now spend their rage upon the house they batter down the doores wals beat down the windows teare his Evidences deface his Walks and Gardens doe any thing that may doe mischiefe From thence they go to his Park pull down his Pales kill his Deere drive away his Cattell And to shew that their rage will know no bounds that nothing is so sacred or venerable which they dare not to violate they breake into Saint Giles his Church open the Vault where his Ancestours were buried and with Pistols Swords and Halberts transfixe the Coffins of the dead And now the Majors care begins to shew it selfe he sets a Guard upon the house that no hurt should be done unto it yet that Guard suffered 100 l. worth of corn which at first was neglected as contemptible luggage to be carried out and the most of it to their owne houses Another guard he sets upon the Prison left the Prisoners should be assaulted by the people who were so much incensed against them though it had bin sit to set some honest men to guard them from those guardians who were as forward as the people to drinke their blood On Thursday comes down Sir Thomas Barrington and M. Grimston as a Committee from the House who comming into the market place before the Prison-doore the Town-Hall not able to receive the least part of the multitude there published two Orders from the House one wherein Sir John Lucas and his adherents were proclaimed guilty of high Treason for intending to assist the King Another wherein thankes were given the people for the good service they had done yet they were told withall that their act of Plundering was against the sense of the House Some of the agents in that work produced a Printed Order of Parliament not heard of before among honest men by which they justified what they had done Sir Thomas Barrington replyed that it was a false and faigned Order contrived by the malignant party to render the House odious and very lovingly besought the people to do so no more And indeed the next weeks Diurnall tels us that upon occasion of the outragious plundering in Essex It was Ordered that thence forward none should Plunder but those that were authorized by the House to doe it Friday was designed for the carrying up of the Traytors Sir Iohn Lucas and Newcomin for whom there was one Messenger come from the Black-Rodde and another from the Serjeant at Armes for the Ladies were declared no prisoners after they had lyen in the common Gaole foure dayes When the time of their departure was come many thousands of people were gathered together both of Towne and Countrey a Drumme being struck up to give them warning The Coaches are come and the Prisoners called forth onely M. Newcomin they dared not carry forth as yet because the people threatened to teare him in pieces as assuredly they had done had not M. Grimston's care beene very great who placing a Court of Guard on each side of Sir Thomas Barringtons Coach from the prison doore brought him forth unexpectedly and put him into the Coach the people then not daring to strike or stone him least mischiefe intended him should light on Sir Thomas Barrington The Coach being guarded thus a mile out of Towne they passed on suffering no other strokes but those of the tongue bitter Curses and revilings and those they met withall abundantly at Chelmesford Ronford and in all the Townes whither the newes of their Treason had gone before them Sir Iohn Lucas's captive Horses being carryed in triumph with the Coach all the way at London Sir Thomas Barrington sent the Horses to the Red Lyon the Prisoners to the Serjeant at Armes where they remained all Sunday not permitted to goe to Church with their Keeper on Monday they were sent for to the House and committed Sir Iohn Lucas to the Gate-house M. Newcomin to the Fleet. Immediately issued out a Declaration of both Houses to the whole Kingdome but especially to the Countie of Essex ordered to be read in all Churches and Chappels wherein for the better encouragement of good people so runne the words it is told them that Sir Iohn Lucas's Horse and Armes are imployed for the service of His Excellency that Sir Iohn and M. Newcomin are committed to severall Prisons and shall speedily be brought to their tryall to receive condigne punishment according to their demerits Sir Iohn Lucas was afterward enlarged giving 40000 l. bayle to appear upon summons and not to depart London and the Suburbs without leave M Newcomin remained in the Fleet from Aug. 29. to Sept. 24. being never called for and at length discharged Sir William Boteler of Kent returning about the beginning of April 16●2 from his attendance being then Gon Genleman Pentioner on the King at York then celebrating Saint Georges feast was by the earnest solicitation of the Gentry of Kent ingaged to joyne with them in presenting the most honest and famous Petition of theirs to the House of Commons delivered by Captaine Richard Lovelace for which service the Captaine was committed Prisoner to the Gate-house and Sir William Boteler to the Fleet from whence after seven weeks close imprisonment no Impeachment in all that time brought in against him many Petitions being delivered and read in the House for his inlargement he was at last upon bayle of 20000 l. remitted to his House in London to attend de die in diem the pleasure of the House And having thus danced attendance six weekes more at last he obtained leave for his healths sake to go to his own house in Kent called Barrhams Place in Teston and from thence for recovery of his health much impaired by long Imprisonment he visited the Wells neare Tunbridge leaving with his servants both in London in the Country a strict charge as of his house so to give him speedy information if Serjeant Hunt should summon him to make his appearance while Sir William Boteler remained thus a Prisoner to the House resolving to yeeld obedience according to the condition of his bond 500 Horse Dragoones under the command of Colonel Edwine Sandes

sends her word that if it pleased her she might buy foure of her owne six horses againe assuring her by his Fathers Servant and Tenant that she should not fear being Plundred of them any more by the Earle of Stamfords forces while they were in those parts Encouraged by these promises she was content to buy her own and deposited eight pound ten shill for foure of her horses and now conceiving the storme to be blown over and all danger past and placing much confidence in her purchas'd Protection she cauleth all her goods secured in her neighbours houses to be brought home and since it could not be better rejoyced that she had not lost all She had not enjoyed these thoughts long but Captaine Kirle sent unto her for some vessels of Cyder whereof having tasted but not liking it since he could not have drinke for himselfe he would have Provender for his Horse and therefore instead of Cyder he demands ten busnels of Oates Mistresse Swift fearing that the denyall might give some ground of a Quarrell sent him word that her Husband had not two bushels of Oates in a yeare for ●ythe nor did they s●w any on their Gleabe both which were most true yet to show how willing she was to her p●wer to comply with him that the Messenger might not returne emptie she sent him sortie shillings to buy Oates Suddenly after the Captaine of Goo●r●ge-Castle sends to Master Swifts house for Victuall and Corne Mistresse Swift instantly repaires to him and shewes him her Protection He to answer shew with shew shewes her his Warrant and so without any regard to her Protection seizeth upon that provision which was in the house together with the Cyder which Captaine Kirle refused Hereupon Mistresse Swift writes to Captaine Kirle complaining of this injury and the affront done to him in sleighting his Protection But before the Messenger could return with an Answer to her Letter some from the Castle come a second time to Plunder the house and they did what they came for Presently after comes a Letter from Captaine Kirle in Answer to Mistresse Swifts telling her that the Earl of Stamford did by no means approve of the injuries done unto her and withall by word of mouth sends to her for more Oates She perceiving that as long as she gave they would never leave asking resolved to be drill'd no more the returne not answering expectation on the third of December two houres before day Captaine kir●es Lieutenant attended by a considerable number of Horse and Dragoones comes to M. Swifts house and demands entrance but the doores being kept shut against them and not able to force them they broke down two Iron Barres in a Stone window and so with Swords drawne and Pistols cocked they enter the house Being entred they take all Master Swift and his wives apparell his Bookes and his Childrens clothes they being in bed and those poore children that hung by their clothes unwilling to part with them they swung them about untill their hold-●ast failing they dashed them against the wals They took away all his Servants clothes and made so cleane work with one that they left him not a Shirt to cover his nakednesse There was one of the Children an Infant lying in the Cradle they rob'd that and left not the little poore soule a rag to defend it from the cold They took away all the Iron Pewter and Brasse and a very fair Cupboard of Glasses which they could not carry away they broke to pieces and the foure Horses lately redeemed are with them lawfull prize againe and left nothing of all the goods but a few stooles for his wife children and servants to sit downe and bemoane their distressed condition Having taken away all and being gone Mistresse Swift in compassion to her poore Infant in the Cradle took it up almost starved with cold and wrapped it in a Petti-coat which she tooke off from her selfe and now hoped that having nothing to lose would be a better protection for their persons then that which she purchased of Captaine kirle for 30 shill But as if Jobs Messengers would never make an end her three Maid-servants whom they of the Castle had compelled to carry the Poultry to the Castle return and tell their Mistresse that they in the Castle said that they had a Warrant to seize upon Mistresse Swift and bring her into the Castle and that they would make her three ●aid-servants wait on her there threatning to Plunder all under the petti-coat and other uncivill immodest words not fit for them to speak or me to write Hereupon Mistresse Swift fled to the place where her Husband for ●eare of the Rebells had withdrawn himselfe she had not beene gone two houres but they come from the Castle and bring with him three Teemes to carry away what was before designed for Plunder but wanted meanes of conveyance When they came amongst other things there was a batch of bread hot in the Oven this they seize on ten Children on their knees intreat but for one loafe and at last with much importunitie obtained it but before the Children had eaten it they took even that one loafe away and left them destitute of a morsell of bread amongst ten Children Ransacking every corner of the house that nothing might be left behind they find a small Pewter dish in which the dry Nurse had put Pap to feed the poore Infant the mother which gave it suck being fled to save her life this they seize on too The Nurse intreats for Gods sake that they would spare that pleading that in the Mothers absence it was all the sustenance which was or could be provided to sustaine the life of the Child on her knees intreated to shew mercy unto the Child that knew not the right hand from the left a motive which prevailed with God himselfe though justly incensed against Nineveh But to shew what bowels of compassion and mercy are to be expected in Sectaries and how far they are from being Disciples to him who sayes Be ye mercifull as your Father which is in heaven is mercifull They transgresse that precept of our Saviour in the Letter and take away the Childrens meat and give it unto dogs for throwing the Pap to the dogs they put up the dish as lawfull prize Master Swifts eldest sonne a youth seeing this barbarous crueltie demanded of them a reason of this so hard usage They replyed that his Father was a Traytour to the King and Parliament and added that they would keepe them so short that they should eate the very fle●h from their armes and to make good their word they threaten the ●iller that if he ground any Corne for these Children they would grind him in his ●wne Mill and not contented with this they goe to Master Swifts next neighbour whose daughter was his Servant and take him Prisoner they examine him upon oath what goods of M. Swifts he had in his custody he professing that he

Reverence Decency and Devotion as if there had been no Puritans in Wellingborow Nor doth the undaunted old man remit any thing enjoyned by Canon or Rubrick This constancy of his so incen●ed the Schismaticall Puritanicall partie of the Towne that complaint is made at Northampton that M. Jones is the same man he was as much a true Son and Minister of the Church of England as ever Upon this information he is apprehended in Easter week and carryed Prisoner to Northampton a second time where they use him with more inhumanity if it be possible then before they will not permit his wife to visit him and kept him so short in h●s dyet not suffering his wife or friends to relieve him that most barbarously they starved him to death for about Whitsontide his spirits exhausted and his body pined by famine the good old Martyr resigned his soule to God There is in Northam●ton one John Gifford for his extraction the Hogge-herds sonne of Little-Hougton for his education a Knitter ●fterward a Hose-buyer now Major of Northampton and Colonel of the Towne Regiment This man to his power Civill and Martiall assumes an Ecclesiasticall Superintendency too and orders what formes shall be used in Baptis●e the Lords Supper Buryall of the Dead and the like When therefore they came to interre the skin and bo●●s of this starved Martyr for flesh he had none the forme enjoyned by this Gifford was the same which one Brookes a London Lecturer used at the buriall of Jo●n Gough of S. Iames Dukes place within Algate in London viz. Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Here 's the Pit and in you must The World may in this see what devout Liturgies we are like to have when a Major of a Towne shall suppresse the An●ient Pious Formes and introduce rime doggerels fitter for a painted Cloth in an Ale-house then the Church of Christ Before I leave this particular Relation I must not forget to tell you one act of these Religious Reformers being at Wellingborow at the Signe of the Swan two Maid-servants making a bed some of these Rebels did sollicite them to Incontinency but the Maids refusing to hearken to their beastly sollicitations they began to offer violence and to inforce what they could not perswade they still making resistance they shot one of them dead in the place and shot the other through the wrist such Monuments of Religion and Puritie do these blessed Reformers leave at all places where they come Master Frederick Gibb Parson of Hartist in Suffolke in Morning Prayer before Sermon desired his Parishioners to give attention to one of His Majesties Declarations newly set forth with an expresse Command to have it Published in all Parish Churches thereby to rectifie the people and to wipe off those false Impressions which the Incendiaries of the Kingdome had made in them concerning the Kings Actions Intentions whereupon one Master Coleman a Parishioner being present impudently replyed unto him openly in the Church that he might be ashamed to abuse the people by Reading His Majesties Declarations unto them and therefore he would fetch him some Parliament Declarations which were a great deale better to be Published unto them while this rayling Rabshekeh reviled his Soveraign Master Gibb as it he had received the Command in that case given answers him not made no reply at all but as not heeding this snarler calls on the Congregation a second time to give attention Coleman interrupts him againe and in a scoffing manner sayes well then Sir you meane to be an obedient Servant to his Majestie Master Gibb then thinking it not onely seasonable but necessary to professe his Loyalty replyed yes Sir I am and hope to continue a faithfull Servant unto Him as long as I live and so proceeds to read the Declaration the People notwithstanding all this Incouragement from Coleman to contradict with them standing very attentive to heare it The main drift of the Kings Declaration was to assure all His loving Subje●ts That as He expected that they should make the Laws the rule of their obedience so He would make the Laws the guide of His government Master Gibb having published the Declaration Coleman stands up and most Traiterously replyed to his Parson well Sir the King neither is nor shall be Iudge of the Law what ever such prating fello●e● as you would have him after this being inraged as the rest of that Faction are that the peoples eyes should be opened or that they should being truely informed conceive of the King as he is a most just and pious Prince but still to look on him and all his actions through those false Perspectives of slander and falsehood which they hold before their eyes Coleman speeds to London and complaines to that Conventicle which call themselves a Parliament against Master Gibb for so foule an Affront put upon them by publishing the Kings Declaration presently being servilely Observ●nt to every base informer they dispatch severall Pursevants to apprehend Master Gibb he seeing the storme comming as wise men doe hides himselfe after sometime of retirement advised unto it by his friend he goes to London where by the great mediation of friends and paying fees to the summe of 30 l. he was dismissed upon engagement to be forth-comming whensoever they should call for him There is none so insolent and intolerable as a base meane man started up into Command or Authoritie we cannot give you a greater Instance then in That beggerly Captain Ven Citizen of London made Colonel Commander in chief of Windsor Castle who doth not onely assume to himselfe the propriety of his Soveraignes house dating his Letters to Iezabel his wife From our Castle at Windsor and building some additions to the Deanes Lodgings as if he meant to set up his rest there and make that his habitation when no place in that Royall Castle is fit for such a Couple but the Cole-house and even that too good for them but as if there would never come a time to call him to an account he doth use the Gentlemen and Souldiers taken by the Rebells and sent Prisoners thither with that crueltie and inhumanitie as if they were Turkes not Christians for the Gentlemen that are Prisoners there are not onely kept from Church nor permitted to receive the Sacrament neither from their owne Preachers nor from any friend whom they could procure to doe that office for them nay they were not permitted to joyne together in devotions in their private lodgings but each man a part and if this pettie Tyrant could have hindered that intercourse which every particular devout Soule injoyes with his God this Ath●●st would have hindered that too And because the sedentary Solitary Lives which they led there were prejudiciall to their healthes they earnestly entreated Ven that they might recreate themselves in the Tennis Court near the Keep and offerred to be at the charges of a Guard if those high walls and the many guards about them were not

the Castle by scaladoe They make large offers to him that should first scale the wall 20 l. to the first and so by descending summes a reward to the twentieth but all this could not prevaile with these silly wretches who were brought thither as themselves confessed like sheep to the slaughter some of them having but exchang'd the manner of their death the halter for the bullet having taken them out of Gaoles one of them being taken Prisoner had Letters Testimoniall in his hands whence he came the Letters I meane when he was burnt for a Felon being very visible to the beholders but when they found that perswasion could not prevaile with such abject low-spirited men the Commanders resolve on another course which was to make them drunke knowing that drunkennesse makes some men fight like Lyons that being sober would runne away like Hares To this purpose they fill them with strong waters even to madnesse and ready they are now for any designe and for feare Sir Walter should be valiant against his will like C●sar he was the onely man almost that came sober to the assault an imitation of the Turkish practice for certainly there can be nothing of Christianitic in it to send poore soules to Gods Judgement Seat in the very act of two grievous sins Rebellion Drunkennesse who to stupifie their Souldiers and make them insensible of their dangers give them Opium being now armed with drinke they resolve to storme the Castle on all sides and apply their scalding Ladders it being ordered by the Leaders if I may without a Solecism call them so that stood behind and did not so much as follow that when twentie were entred they should give a watch-word to the rest and that was Old Wat a word ill cholen by 〈◊〉 Earle and considering the businesse in hand little better then ominous for if I be not deceived the Hunters that beat bushes for the fearfull timoous Hare call him Old Wat. Being now Pot valiant and possessed with a borrowed courage which was to Evaporate in sleepe they divide their Forces into two Parties whereof one assaults the Middle ward defended by valiant Captain Lawrence and the greater part of the Souldiers the other assault the Upper ward which the Lady Bankes to her eternall honour be it spoken with her daughters women and five Souldiers undertooke to make good against the Rebells and did bravely performe what she undertooke for by heaving over stones hot embers they repelled the Rebells and kept them from climbing their Ladders thence to throw in that wild-fire which every Rebell had ready in his hand Being repelled and having in this Siege and this Assault lost and hurt an hundred men Old Sir Wat hearing the Kings Forces were advanced cryed and ran away crying leaving Sydenham to Command in Chief to bring off the Ordnance Ammunition and the remainder of the Army who afraid to appeare abroad kept Sanctuary in the Church till night meaning to sup and run away by Star-light but supper being ready and set on the Table an Alarme was given that the Kings Forces were comming this newes took away Sydenhams stomack all this provision was but messes of meat set before the Sepulchres of the dead he leaves his Artillery Ammunition and which with these men is something a good supper and ran away to take Boat for Poole leaving likewise at the shoare about an hundred Horse to the next Takers which next day proved good prize to the Souldiers of the Castle Thus after six weekes strict Siege this Castle the desire of the Rebells the teares of Old Sir Wat and the Key of those parts by the Loyaltie and brave resolution of this honourable Lady the valour of Captaine Lawrence and some eightie Souldiers by the losse only of two men was delivered from the bloody intentions of these mercilesse Rebels on the 4. of August 1643. Mercurius Rusticus c. XII Master Thomas Jones Batchelor in Divinitie ill-intreated by the Rebe●s in Devon A Souldier hanged at Tame on th● signe-post of the Kings head Master Wright a Minister in Cheshire Plundered and two of his Maid-servants mur●hered D●ctor Beale Doctor Martin and Doctor Ste●ne brought Prisoners from Cambridge by C●on wel and their barba●ous usage c. MAster Thomas Jones Batchelor in Divinitie and Rector of Offw●ll in the Countie of D●von having discovered that the right of Patronage of one of the Cures of Tuisord●on was in the Crowne and worth three hundred pounds per annum did in the pursuance of this Right spend a thousand pounds to recover it from ●hose who account all lawfull gaine whatsoever they can purloyne either from God or the King The pretended Patrons who had invaded this Right were much offended with Master Iones for being at so great expence to redeeme the prey out of their hands and did but watch an Opportunitie to make him know how sensible they were of this their losse This Parliament being called and these men made Members of the Lower House they quickly perceived that this wished-for opportunity was now come wherein they might pervert publique justice to private revenge quickly learning to exercise that Arbitrary unlimited power over their fellow Subjects which the prevalency of a dangerous faction had put into their hands According to the general practice since this Parliament they accuse Master Jones of some Anti-parliamentary passages in his Sermon which his Judges understood as little as his Accusers Nay perhaps it was with him as with many of his Orthodox Brethren the same men were both his Accusers and Judges However any or no accusation we know have served these mensturnes to bring Godly and Learned Ministers to the Beare-bayting of a Committee and to put them into the expensive custody of a Serjeant at Armes so it was with Master Jones they first pretended some Crimes and on these pretences they commit him prisoner to a Serjeant at Armes Having deprived him of his Libertie and put him into a consumption of his estate by the unreasonable unlimited exactions of Parliament-Gaolers they then think him reduced to such a condition as to be willing to hearken to a Composition on any termes At last vexed to an agreement he is to enjoy his Libertie and Peace on this mutuall stipulation They are to pardon him the error of his doctrine to deliver up his bayle being with two sureties Parliament men bound in a Bond of two thousand pounds and to give him two hundred pounds towards his charges Master Jones must resigne his lately recovered Cure at Tuisord●on to make way for a Clerke of their owne which to avoid farther molestation to his very great prejudice he was inforced to condescend unto After in September 1642. Master Iones riding to Taunton in Somerset-shire accompanyed by one of the Prince his servants who wore his Masters Colours was for that reason together with that Gentleman immediately after his departure from thence apprehended and like a ●elon brought backe to the Castle where he

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

the way as they went While these Gentlemen were in this miserable condition Captaine Pollard not troubled at all for so bloudy a fact barbarously committed by himselfe on an aged Gentleman and a Minster of that Gospel which they falsly pretend to maintaine but indeed deny and blaspheme in all their actions turned aside to whaddon Chase and sported himself in killing some of His Majesties Deere which he carryed along with him to Aylesbury after almost foure houres riding tyred out with tyred Jades and ●ainting with losse of blood the Prisoners were againe commanded to alight at a Town called Whitchurch within two miles of Aylesbury Here they fall on Master Tyringham afresh and Plunder him as eagerly as if he had bin new come into their hands and not touched by them before They pluck off his boots and take from him his Jerkin his Hat and Cap all the fences provided for cold and weather and the usuall fortifications against the injuries of wind and raine and so made a Pat●erne of the man wounded betweene Ierusalem and Iericho they mount him on his Spittle againe and drive on and after an houres riding in cold and darknesse at last they arrived at Aylesbury that night the Chirurgions as soon as they could be found viewed and dressed the wound but concluded unanimously that they must cut off his Arme the next day or else it would Gangreene and infallibly kill him which next day was done accordingly Master Tyringham bore the losse of his Arme with incredible resolution and courage as knowing the Justice of that Cause for which he suffered and as willing to lay downe his Life in testimony of his Loyaltie as his Brother Master Edward Tyringham one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Privy Chamber had done before him who the last Winter being imployed in His Majesties service set on by a Partee of Rebells fought valiantly but oppressed with multitudes received so many wounds that he dyed of them But it hath pleased God so to blesse the means used for this Gentlemans recovery that there are great hopes he will survive these maimes and as himself undauntedly told the Rebells to their faces Live to see them banged Amen In the fourth Weeke of this Mercury you heard of the cruell usage of Master Wiborow Parson of Pebma●sh in the Countie of Essex by the Rebells in those parts how they abused him in the Church beat him in the fields and took from him the Book of Common-Prayer having before torne another of his in pieces After this the Brownists and Anabaptists of that place with which that Country swarmes threaten to kill him Master Wiborow not da●ing to trust himselfe amongst these cruel blood-thirsty men to preserve his life was compelled to leave his Cure his Wife and Children some seven moneths since and to put himselfe under the Kings Protection hoping that his absence might be a meanes to secure his Wife and Children and prevaile with these Monsters to permit them to enjoy that which he left behinde him for their sustenance but his absence was so farre from working this good effect in them that they made use of it to eject him out of the possession of the Profits of his Parsonage and his Wife and Children out of their house exposing them harbourlesse to the wide world for taking advantage of his absence they accuse him to the pretended Parliament and frame a Bill of Falshood and Lyes against him thereby to gaine a Sequestration of his Living A businesse not of any great difficultie they being more ready to grant such illegall oppressive ejections then the People to aske them for upon the Accusation John White that fornicating Brownist sitting in the Chair M. Wiborows Living was Sequestred and the Profits of it given to one Burrows though the Cure was never neglected but supplied by M. Wiborows friends to the content and satisfaction of all moderate peaceable men yet though they had rob'd him of his livelyhood and given his Wives and Childrens bread to strangers by most unjust practices yet his hopes were that his poore Wife and Children should enjoy the accommodation of their dwelling in the Parsonage house but such is the implacable crueltie and malice of these Sectaries that on the tenth of June 1643. a Troope of the Rebels came to the Parsonage house and demanded entrance Mistresse Wiborow and her Children being alone in the house she bar'd up the doores against them and for her better safetic retired to an upper roome to which the passage was through a Trap-doore which likewise she made as fast as she could all this fortification could not keep these Rebells out they breake open the doores and make way to the ●oome where Mistresse Wiborow and her Children thought to secure themselves when they came thither three of these Rebels set their Pistolls at her brest threatning to shoot her if she and her Children would not suddenly depart the house and leave it to a new Master Mistresse Wiborow replyed That she would rather be killed within doores then perish without but withall earnestly intreated that she might enjoy so much of her husbands right as his house to shelter her and her Children who poore soules stood about their mother crying and in their naturall oratory craving compassion towards their Mother whom at every word the Rebels threaten to Pistoll but neither the earnest intreaty of the Mother nor the pittifull out-cryes of the Children could prevaile with them they remain as dease men void of all pi●ti● or bowels of compassion ●ay they violently seize on her drag her down the staires and out of the house into the yard the poore Children being almost distracted and at their wits end for feare what would become of their Mother being thus violently drawne out of the house into the yard there she found Mer ton Simpson and Cooke the Sequestrators with other attending there to see this joyfull spectacle a poore oppressed Gentlewoman her small children cruelly cast out of their own habitation by Rebels Traytors As soon as Mistresse Wiborow saw them she presented them with the Kings Proclamation against the Oppression of the Clergie by the intrusion of Factious and Schismaticall persons into the Cures and Revenues of Learned Orthodox Divines by Order of one or both pretended Houses of Parliament contrary to all Law and Justice which she hoped would have found so much obedience and respect as to restore her to her house This was so farre from mollifying these Rebells and Schismatiques that it provoked them to great insolencies at last when Mistresse Wiborow perceived that all her intreaties and her childrens teares prevailed nothing to restore her to her house she intreated the Sequestrators that in case she could not be permitted to dwell in her owne house that yet she might have some other place of accommodation provided to receive her and her children Meriton insolently replyed That he would provide his Tumbrill that is his Dung-ca●t to carry her and

may lift up pure hands undefiled with our neighbours blood though but with consent and approbation Nay that we may free our selves from the blood of all men by earnest prayer to God not to lay Innocent blood though shed by others to our charge to inflame your devotion I have as it were brought forth the bodies of these two State-Martyrs Master Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowther Citizens of Bristol and exposed them to the view of the world that so shedding some teares over their graves they may remaine an Everlasting Monument of our Innocency in the sight of God of our Just indignation against such crueltie in the fight of men and a sweet oyntment to imbalme these men to their funeralls That though with their Saviour the ignominy of whose Crosse fanctisiyd the death even of that accursed tree in their death they were numbred amongst the transgr●ssors yet Loyaltie being their Epitaph they may make their graves amongst the Honourable But because to blind the eyes of the world not to see the cruell Injustice practised on these worthy Citizens to amaze the minds of the people and to take off from the odiousenesse of so soule a Murther they did not onely in their lying Pamphlets proclame it unto the world that Master Ycomans Master Bowether and some other weiassected Members of that Citie had contrived a horrid Treason that in the barbarousnesse of it did out-doe the Powder Treason having conspired at once to ruine the Protestant Religion and to murther all those of that Citie which did adhere to the Parliament but also to mock God to that height of impietie they were growne Solemne thankes were Ordained to be given for deliverance from so dangerous a conspiracy It will not be amisse to derive this ●ragedy by way of Historicall Narration from the first to the last Scene that so the abused world may see what arts are used on that side to possesse themselves of the good opinion of men that in the mean time they may practise cruelties unheard of untill the bloody Anabaptists sprung up the most pernicious weeds that ever intested the Church or Christ When this Parliament first fate these two Gentlemen with the rest of the Kingdome rejoyced to see that day and stood at gaze as greedily as any expecting what acts of bountie what reliefe from grievances our Gracious Soveraigne through their hands would convey unto his Subjects While their endeavours were Loyall though roughly carryed while bounded within the dutie of Subjects though onely not exceeding it they were as forward to applaud them as any but after the publication of the Remonstrance by the House of Commons that appeale to the people and indeed the ground-worke of this present Rebellion by slandering the Kings Government they that went one mile with them would not be compel'd to goe two especially after the way appeared dangerous and apparently leading to open Rebellion Nullam esse Civitatem qua non improbes ●ives aliquando Imperitam Mult●●udinem semp●r babeat was the saying of the Rhodii in the Reman Senate recorded by Livy lib. 45. There is no Citie but hath sometimes some ill-affected Citizens but alwayes an Ignorant multitude perhaps this in part might be the temper of Bristol at this time but the Criticall time was now come in which men must declare themselves either for the King or against him and though many men in that Citie then were deeply Leavened with disloyall principles yet the major part of the Citie were the Kings faithfull Subjects of this partie the most eminent men were Master Ro●ers Yeomans Sheriffe of Bristol for the ye●re 1642. Master George Ba●●ber with divers others men of good esteem plentifull estates knowne integ●itie and true Children of the Church of England These men seeing the miserable Condition of those places where the Rebells bare sway and beginning to be sensible of the same bondage under Colonel Essex enter into a Consultation how to put the Citie of Bristol into the Kings possession and protection To this purpose they dispatch an Agent to the Court to informe the King that he had many good Subjects in Bristol and withall to signifie their desire to deliver up his owne Citieto himselfe if he would be pleased to send some of his Forces thither to take it The Reasons which prevailed with them to make this tender unto His Majestie were many we may reduce them to three heads First Confedence to God not to resist the King Knowing that they that doe resist shall receive unto themselves damnation and therefore resolved never to joyne themselves to the damnable Sect of the Hotbamites those State-Heretickes who accounted it their dutie to keepe the Kings Townes for the Kings use by shutting the Gates against the Kings Person The second Inducement was the frequent affronts given to His Majestie by the Rebells to the great regret of every good Subject and of these they give many Instances First Scandalous and disloyall Speeches on all occasions belched out against His Majesties Person His Protestations Declarations Proclamations indeed all his Actions Secondly Contempt of His Majesties gracious offers even to the very face of His Messenger for when in February 1642 the King sent His gracious Letters to the Citie of Bristol requiring them not to give admittance to any of the Parliament Forces promising that Hee Himselfe would not impose any on them but what they themselves should desire together with the tender of many promises of his favour given in charge to Sir Baynham Throkmo ton whom he sent unto them for that purpose vet notwithstanding at that very instant in contempt 〈◊〉 say of this great vouchsafement The Major Richard Aldworth with Browne the Sheriffe two Boute-fues in perverting that Citie with some other their Associates did send foure peeces of Ordnance to Marlberough there to be imployed against the King And though Sir Ba●nham upon information given unto him did expostulate the affront with the Major and in the Kings name commanded the stay of them and though some of the wel affected Citizens having notice of it came and threw them off their Carriages because they knew that the intention was to imploy them against the King yetover-borne by a greater number who produced the Major and Sheriffs Warrant for their conveyance without let or interruption they were inforced to give way and thither they were sent Thirdly When in the beginning of March 1642. amongst other Proclamations sent to Bristol one was concerning the Kings Royall Navic invaded and possessed by the Earle of Wa● wicks and imployed against His Majestie and His Loyall Subjefts The King by that Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Mariners and all Officers of His Navie to take imployment under the Earle or to obey His Commands though Colonel Fines then Governour of Bristol could have caused that Proclamation to be suppressed and not published yet as much as he could to dishonour the King in the eyes of His Subjects He permits it to be

Proclaimed that thence he might take occasion to blaspheme His Soveraigne for being Proclaimed on Friday the third of March the next day Saturday being the chiefe Market day when the Market was fullest that the newes might be carryed into all parts of the Country and every one learne from so desperate an example to contemne their Soveraignes Commands Fines comes in his Coach to the high Crosse attended by a Troope of Horse and after a Declaration read That the Proclamation published the day before was a Scandalous and Libellous Paper and such as deserved to be burnt by the hand of a publique Hangman he caused the Serjeant that Ploclaimed it to burne it holding Pistolls to his brest and threatning to shoot him if he did not hold them high enough fearing it seemes that so damnable so unpardonable a Treason should want witnesses Lastly As the direct end of their desire to deliver up the Citie to the Kings protection was conscience of dutie to God and their Soveraigne so the reflected end was their owne securitie and quitting themselves of those Oppressions and Grievances under which they suffered And these were many First The often repeated Taxations and Loanes of Money unto the King and Parliament as they were pleased to joyne them upon the thred-bare securitie of the Puplique Faith and if any man refused to lend on that credit which they had banckrupted long before he was threatned with Imprisonment Plundring or which was worse then both sending up to the Parliament And to these may be added the dayly drayning their purses by illegall exactions imployed for repayring the Castle building of Forts and maintaining a Garrison against the King Secondly By urging upon them new and Treasonable Votes and Protestations If not fully in words yet in the the use and interpretation of them directly opposite to the Oath of Allegiance the Oath of the Citie taken by every Citizen when he is elected into the place of a Burgesse in which they sweare in the sixth Article of that Oath not to enter into any Oath or Confederacy against the king contrary to the Lawes of the Land and likewise contrary to the Protestation recommended from the Parliament to the Subjects of this Kingdome The Oath for the tenor of words was this following IA. B. doe protest and vow in the presence of Almightie God that I will to the utmest of my power and to the hazard my t se and fortunes oppose all such Forces as shall attempt any thing against the Citie of Bristol Without the consent of the King and Parliament so to doe In which Protestation they tooke the name of the King in vaine for when they say King and Parliament they meant the two Houses without the King for if actions bee the best interpreters of the Agents words it is more then manifest that by the Protestation they intended to ingage that Citie in Rebellion against the King and that under the tye of Religion And for proofe I offer first their seconding this Protestation with another which spake more plainly wherein they were to protest with their lives and fortunes to resist Prince Rupert the Lord Generall the Earle of Forth the Lord Marquesse Hertford the Earle of Newcastle Sir Ralph Hopton and their Forces and secondly because as before the tendring of this Protestation they had received Colonel Essex to Command there for the Parliament so within 2 few dayes after the first Protestation was tendered they admitted Colonel Popham and Sir Edward Hungerford with their Regiments and afterward Colonel Fines without any oppositiog that so now being backed with so strong a power they might make the latter Protestation the interpreter of the former Upon the Petition of Mistresse Majoresse the Lady Rogers Mistresse Holsworth Miresse Vicaris with other Zealous Sisters to the number of a hundred Thirdly By difarming all such as were any wayes suspected to beare a good and loyall affection to His Majestic unlesse they would take such Protestations as should be tendered to them and having taken away such Armes as they found not satisfied with this they urge on them another Protestation protesting in the sight of God and calling him to witnesse that they had no other Armes concealed in their houses either their owne or ohers and if any man refused to take this Protestation he was instantly imprisomed as an enemy to the State and a man not to be confided in Fourthly The perpetuall scorn and obloquy to which they were exposed reproached every day as they passed the streets with names of Malignants and Papists nay as if they had beene worse then Jewes they spit at them and threaten to take a speedy course with them Fifthly The generall contempt and prophanation of Gods holy Worship and Service rending of Surplices tearing the Booke of Common Prayer breaking downe Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of their Congregations and all these Out-rages not only winked at but countenanced and incouraged by Fixes and his fellow Rebells and that they might have Like People Like Priest They discountenance or drive away the Orthodox Ministers and substitute in their places the most infamous notorious Schismaticks that they can pick out of severall Counties as Tumb's of Limster in All-Saints in Master Williamssons Cure an Orthodox and godly man Craddocke Bacon Walter Simonds and one Matthew Hazard whom though f name last yet deserves to have the precedency of all the rest as being a maine Incendia●y in this Rebellion violently egged on by his Wise whose disciple the silly man is this gave occasion of scandall to all pious godly men which honoured the Protestant Religion as it is established and made them even to abhorre the service of the Lord. Lastly because upon the poynt they were confined to Bristol not daring to goe out of the Citie for in all places where the Commands and Ordinances of the two Houses prevailed they had given a List of the names of the Malignants that durst appeare for the King to the end that if any of them came thither they might be apprehended and sent Prisoners to Taunton Barkley Castle or some other Prisons or as Delinquents sent to the Parliament It was no wonder therefore that a Citie thus robb'd of its wealth and libertie groaning under an unsupportable yoke of bondage and ●yranny should endeavour by restoring the King to His Rights to restore themselves to their former freedome which could not be done but by breaking these bonds and easting these cords from them On these weightic motives therefore they enter into a loyall consederacy to deliver up the Citie from its captivity under the Rebels into His Majesties protection and that without shedding of one drop of blood if it were possible but most certaine without any resolution to Massacre the Citizens as hath beene most falsely both Preached and Printed for Master Yeomans and Bowcher both on their Examinations and after their Condemnation both affirmed that their was not any intention of blood-shed and in

for his extraction and qualitie and likewise for his Estate to say nothing of his valour and resolution had they been Loyally imployed so it was among their chiefest cares to recover him of tho●e wounds which he received in their unchristian quarreil while therefore the Rebells army lay in Worcester which was about three weeks though then upon more strict searching his wounds in the opinion of the best Chirurgions they were not mortall yet whatsoever the Art invention either of the Physitian or Chirurgion could contribute to his recovery was not omitted when the Rebels army drew out to meet the King in their march from Shrewsbury which they did to their cost at Edge-hill the Colonel was committed to the care of his own Chirurgion then in pay under him John Anthony of London to whom as a witnesse and an assistant in the cure was joyned a Chirurgion of the Citie of Worcester Edward Marshall who though they both used all the art industry that possibly they could to effect the cure yet the difficulties every day multiplied against the means and in de●pight of their Balsomes his wounds did putrisie the flesh rot to the wonder of the Artists and the Scorne of their Art In so much that the Chirurgions after much varietie of means used much strugling with these growing-evils the cure still going backward as if their skil had bin imployed to widen those wounds which they pretended to close up were heard by many of the Citie of Worcester to confesse what Hippocrates syes every Physitian should first look after in every cure that there was S●… ri the hand of God in it that it was a peculiar judgment upon him that the cause of this putrefaction was more then natural nor were they without good grounds for this conjecture for besides the conclusions of their own Art directly thwarted experience on the severall parts of the body of their patient was a clear demonstiation those wounds in the upper parts of his body neare the vitalls and therefore more dangerous were cured long before his death but those in his thigh which were flesh-wounds asthey call them These were the Opprobria Chirargorum here the flesh did dayly rot and putrise and was cut away by degrees even to the leaving of the bones naked and stunk in so to loathsome a manner that as he was a burthen to himselfe so to his friends too and those that were about him being hardly able for the noysomenesse of the smell either to come neare him to doe the officers of necessary attendance or so much as to endure the roome where he lay so intolerable was the stench and so offensive Nor were the wounds of his body more insufferable to his friends then the wounds of his conscience to himself the gu lt of Rebellion wrought in him strong convulsions of Soule high distempers of mind yet that he might not sinke under the burthen of his wounded spirit a weight that requires more then man to support it he sent for Master Cotterell an Orthodox godly Minister and Parson of Saint Andrews in Worcester to Administer a word of comfort unto him in this his afflicted condition When Master Cotterell came unto him he found Obadiah Sedgwick that scandalous seditious Minister of Effex in private conference with the Colonel and Bread and Wine ready prepared for the Lords Supper Sedgwick having ended his discourse went to Prayers whereup in Master Cotterell offering to withdraw he was intreated by one of the Colonels servants to stay which accordingly he did Sedgwick having concluded his extemporary prayer took his leave and departed refusing to stay either to administer the Sacrament to the Colonel or to communicate with him of which refusall when Master Cotterell afterward desire to know the reason all satisfaction that was given him was That Sedgwick was not fully assured of the fitnesse due preparation of those that were to receive the Sacrament with him Desperate Hypocrisielwhatsoever he was perswaded of the preparation of the other Communicants 't is most certaine he could not be ignorant of the unfitnesse of the Colonel himselfe whom he himselfe in all probabilitie perswaded to returne with the dogge to his vomit and to justifie himselfe in that sinne of which but very lately he seemed to repent 't is more probable that that poore remainder of Conscience in Sedgwick not quite yet put away though it suffered him to betray in private a dying man to impenitency under falned pretences of what he in his own soule must need confesse to be a crying sin and inrowled by Saint Paul himself amongst those workes of the flesh which doe exclude from the kingdome of Heaven yet his heart might smite him and his conscience withstand him as it were to the face that he durst not seal that destructive counsell by delivery of the Sacrament Sedgwick being gone the Colonel willingly entertained conference with Master Cotterell to whom he made a generall confession of his sins and the grievousnesse of them professing his heartie repentance and sorrow for them But as the two pretended Houses of Parliament in their Catalogue of sinnes reckoned up in their Homily if without offence I may so call it and offered to this Nation as the subject matter of their solemre humiliation quite forgot Lying and Rebellion for some reasons best knowne to themselves so this Champion of theirs in his generall Confession made no mention of the sin of Rebellion which most nearly concern'd him and for which in all probabilitie he was verysuddenly to render an account to God a Confession most necessary both for him to make and the Minister to require before he could be thought a fit receiver of those dreadfull mysteries but after this generall Confession having received the Sacrament Master Cotterell commended him to the grace of God for that time left him and having by one or two visits after that as he thought gained some interest in the Colonel comming againe to him and finding him in a calme temper and judging it a fit opportunitie to inquire into his Conscience and found him what perswasion he now had of his taking up Armes against his Soveraigne he desired the Colonel to command his servants out of the roome that he might speake with him in private which being done and all witnesses removed but God and their own Consciences Master Cotterell prefacing his discourse with a solemne Protestation that in what he did he proposed no other end but the salvation of his soule demanded of him whether he were not sorry for drawing his sword against the King And whether he were not perswaded in his Conscience of the unlawfulnesse of it To which the Colonel replyed That he was persoeaded that it was lawfull having taken up Armes not against the King but for the King for his good to being him back to his Parliament to make him more glorious then any of his Predecessors and to redeem him from his evill Counsell rs and

thing at all for the Parliament And then to worke they fall againe with their Pole-axes and beat and bruile him in most parts of his body so that being aged no lesse then Threescore and two yeares old and being not yet perfectly recovered or a former lamenesse in one of his hippes though he were in a probable way towards it by this barbarous usage being so cruelly beaten and tugged and haled by them he is made a very Cripple irrecoverably lame without all possibilitie of recovering of his Limbes All this inhumanitie was practiced on Master Fowler in the presence of his Wife and Children the Wife in the behalfe of her Husband the Children in the behalfe of their Father humbly intreating on their knees that they would have compassion on him and not murther a peaceable man in his owne house While some of these Rebells were executing this Crueltie on his person others goe up into his Study and Chambers and take away all that was of good value and portable And having crippled the Master of the Family and rifled his house like the true Servants of that Master whom they serve the Devill they leave him but it was but for a season Now though the present sense of these sufferings could not be but very great to an aged man and one labouring under former infirmities especially to have his sufferings imbittered by the reproachfull raylings of the Rebells and the mocks and mowes of Captaine Bucks friends and Kindred who stood by jeering and clapt their hands for joy applauding the exact execution of Bucks commands given his Souldiers concerning Master Fowler yet the sad effects which followed were evidence enough how cruell his usage was First Master Fowler presently upon the Rebells departure fell into an extream bleeding which continued and could not be stanched in six houres and more by which great out-let of Spirits his strength was so much exhausted that he was not able to stand Secondly the next day after his bleeding what with the losse of so much blood and what with violence offered to his whole body the Retentive facultie was so weakned that his Urine came from him insensibly and in this wretched condition he continued very neare a month Lastly by the many contusions and knocks which he received on his head with their Pole-axes he lost his hearing which he hath not prefectly recovered unto this day And now after all this barbarous usage remaines there yet any thing else to be added to his sufferings was not their malice satisfied and these out-rages designed to be committed on him compleated yet No Captain Buck knew that it would not be lawfull alwayes to commit murther and rob those that are quiet in the Land and therefore resolved to make use of the present opportunity he was not ignorant that the wages of a faithfull servant to the Rebellion was full licence to doe any thing that can satisfie Lust private Revenge or Avarice And therefore in July last Buck himselfe not like a Captaine of Souldiers but a Ring-leader to a Rout of Rogues came to Master Fowlers house at Minchin-Hampton and most theevishly broke open the Window of his Sonnes Study and so entred the house In the Study they found rich Treasure which they did not know being indeed without a Metaphor Pearl before Swines for young M. Fowler a Practicioner it seemes in Physick had in his Study Extract of Pearle Aurum Potabilc Confections of Amber a great quantity of Compound waters a good proportion of Pearle in Boxes a Box full of Bezoar Stone with many other things of admirable use for the preservation of the life of man and of very great value all which they took and brake in pieces and trampling them under foot made them utterly unuseful either for themselves or others One of M. Fowlers daughters in a just indignation at so great waste of things so precious told Buck that he might be ashamed to spoyle things of that use and value Buck a rude untutored man as he is called her Whore and with his Pole-axe gave her a blow on the neck and struck her downe and being risen again again he strikes her downe with his Pole-axe nay to pursue the glorious victory he strikes her down a third time and had she bin able to rise from the floore questionlesse had struck her down a fourth time The compassionate mother Mistresse Fowler standing by and seeing her daughter thus barbarously used to redeem her from this cruelty resolved to expose her own person to the fury of this mad Beast and therefore interposing asked Buck whether he thought she could endure to see her child murthered before her face But as soon as Mistresse Fowler came within his reach without regard either to her Age or Sex he caught her by the Throat knocked her downe and being downe kicked her and trampled on her with his feet At last having acted what crueltie he pleased according to the Latitude of that Tacite Commission given every Captain of the Rebellion on Mistresse Fowler and her daughter he and his Rabble Plundered the House and so departed If the monstrousnesse of these barbarous and inhumane cruelties committed on this Reverend Divine his Wife and Daughter and reported in this Relation shall weaken the credit of the Relation and render the truth of it suspected let the world know that there is nothing set down in this account given unto the world but what was testified upon Oath before the Right Honourable Sir Robert Heath Knight Lord Chiefe Justice of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench on the 18. day of Aug. 1643. On the 21. of Septemb 1642. being Saing Matthew the Apostle and Evangelists day a hundred and fiftie Souldiers some from Gloucester sent from Captaine Beard being of his Company and some others from Teuabury all conspiring together and taking advantage of the peoples absence from their homes and being at a Payre that day at Ledbury two miles distant from Malverne Hills under the conduct of Captaine Scriven sonne to Seriven the Rich Iron-monger and late Major of Gloucester came to castle-Morton in the Countie of Worcester to Plunder Master Rowland Bartlets house a man so well beloved in his Country for his hospitalitie so deare to all sorts of people especially to the poore for his Charitie and those helpes which he freely bestowed on them for the recovery or the sick the lame and infirme that had not these Rebells taken the opportunitie of his Neighbours being at the Fa●re this force had been too weak to have made him the first instance of the Rebels insolency in that County by way of Plunder when they came to Castle-Morton for feare of surprizal their Horse secure the streets and high-wayes while the Pikes and Musqueteers beset the house having made good all passages that none could goe in or come out without their leave Scriven advanced towards the house M. Bartlet perceiving himselfe to be inclosed with armed men their Muskets being bent upon his

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

and where their bodies rest in honourable Sepulture when they have exchanged their Temporall for Eternall Crownes This church under the eye and immediat protection of the pretended Houses of Parliament had it's share in spoyle and prophanation as much as those Cathedralls which were more remote from them for in July last 1643 some Souldiers of weshborne and cacwoods Companies perhaps because there were no houses in westminster were quartered in the Abby church where as the rest of our Moderne Reformers they brake down the Rayl about the Altar burnt it in the place where it stood They brake downe the Organs and pawned the Pipes at severall Ale-houses for pots of Ale They put on some of the Singing-mens Surplices in contempt of that Canonicall Habite ran up and down the Church he that wore the Surplice was the Hare the rest were the Hounds To shew their Christian libertie in the use of things and that all consecration or Hallowing of things under the Gospel is but a Jewish or popish Superstition and that they are no longer to be accounted holy then that holy use to which they serve shall by the actuall use onely impart a transient holinesse to them they set Formes about the Communion Table there they eat there they drink Ale and Tobacco some of their owne Levites if my Intelligence deceive me not bearing them company and countenancing so beastly Prophanation Nor was this done once to vindicate their christian Libertie as they call Prophanation it selfe but the whole time of their abode there they made it their common table on which they usually dined and supp'd though Saint Paul calls it despising the Church of Christ and askes his Corinth●ans if they had not houses to eate and to drink in 1 Cor. 11 They did the ●fenients of nature and layd their excrements about the Altar and in most places of the Church An abomination which God did provide against bya peculiar prohibition in the Law of Moses and that in places not rendred so dreadfull by so peculiar a manner of the presence of God as in the hallowed Temples of his publique worship God would not permit the Jewes to do these offices of nature in the Camp they must have a place without the Camp and a Paddle to dig and cover it you have the Law and the reason of the Law both together they must not doe so For the Lord thy God walketh in the middest of the Campe therefore shall thy Campe be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee Deut 23.12 If God for these reasons would not endure it in the Camp how much more doth his soule abhorre such beastly uncleannesse in his House and holy Temple Nay which is the height of all Impiety they familarly kept their whores in the Church and which I tremble to write Prodigious Monsters as they are lay with them on the very Altar it selfe and did in that place commit such things as are un●●t to be done by christians There remain yet two Prosanations more of this Church not to be passed over in silence The hrst was committed by Sir Robert Harlow who breaking into Henry the seventh's Chappell brake down the Altar-stone which stood before that goodly Monument of Henry the seventh the stone was Touch-stone all of one piece ● Raritie not to be matched that we know of in any part of the world there it stood for many years not for use but only for Ornament yet it did not escape the freazy of this mans ignorant zeal for he brake it into shivers The second was committed on the 13 of December 1643. When the Careasle of John Pym as much as the Lice left of it was brought into this Church and after a Scimon preached by Stephen Marshall Arch-Flamine ot the Rebells and the Church Service Officiated by Lambart Orbaston one of the Prebends of that Church it was interi'd under the Monumentall stone of one windsor buried about 200 yeares fince in the voyd space or passage as you goe to Henry the seventh's Chappell betweene the Earle of Dovers place of buriall and the Monument of Henry the Third Founder of that Church usurp'd Ensignes of honour displayed over him T was pittic that he that in his life had bin the Author of so much bloudsned and those many calamities under which this Kingdome yet groanes and therefore deserved not onely to have his death with the transgreslours and wicked but afterward to be buried with the buriall of an Asse drawn and cast forth beyond the G●tes of the city Jer 22. 19. should after his death make hit Sepulchre amongst the Honourable and mingle his Vulgar Low● ashes with those of Kings Princes and Nobles The sixt lnstance of the Rcbells Sacrilege and Preph●●e●esse which I shall present unto the world is in the Ca●d●all Church of Exeter which was once a Monastery Founded by Athelstane the eighth King of England of the Soxon race by him conscerated to Saint Peter Edward the Confessor removing all the Monks from hence and planting them at Westminster which he had newly founded and endowed made it the Bishops See for Devon and Cornewall That Pile which we now see owes it's being to many Founders william Warlwast the third Bishop of this See aftcr it was translated from cridington or as it is now usally called Kirlon to Exeter built the Quire which now is but was intended by the Founder for the Nave or body of the Church but Peter Quivill the 13th Bishop of this See layd the foundation of that which is now the body of the Church but he prevented by death left the worke impersect John Grandesson therefore the seventeenth Bishop of this See thinking the foundation layd by his Predecessor Quivill to be faultic in Geometricall proportions the length not being answerable to the height added two Pillars more to the length of the Nave of the Church of a distance proportionable tothose layd before he closed up the end with a wall of most exquisite worke in which he built a Little Chappell and in that Chappell a Monument wherein himselfe was intombed He built likewife the two side Iles and covered the whole Fabrick with an Arch of exquisite worke and brought it to such perfection that in splendor and magnisicence it gives precedency to few Cathedrals of the kingdom and which is very remarkable though this Church was first began by King Athelstane and made many steps before it came to arrive at its perfection so that there arc numbred almost five handred yeares from the laying the first stone to the covering of the Roofe yet the wisedome and care of the severall Benefactors was so great that the most curious Surveyor must confesse that the Symmetry of the parts and the proportions of the whole are so exact as from the Foundation to the Koose had been the work not of one age onely but of one and the same hand and that the Ornaments of the Church might