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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

MERCURIVS RUSTICUS THE COVNTRYS COMPLAINT Recovnting the Sad Events of this Unparraleld WARR Angliae 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. AMOS 9. 11. I will raise up the Tabernacle of David that is falne and alose up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruines and I will build it as in the dayes of old ANNO 1647. The Preface WHen the sinnes of this Kingdome were ripe for punishment the Divine Justice permitted a great part of it to be besotted with Discontents either wholly causelesse or such as His Maj. was pleased to remeay with Grants so unmeasurably gracious as could not otherwise be justified then by thier importunity that demanded them and His Majesties Royall tendernesse of his Subjects peace and safety These grants were so far from satisfying those whose broken fortunes and boundlesse desires would not permit them to live without a Civill War that they made of them no other use then thereby to strenthen themselves to demand more till at last they broke out into most unnaturall Rebellion The people alwayes apt to cherish murmures and invectives against thier Princes and now grown wanton with the fruits of a long peace incline to Abners mind and thinke the Warre which yet they knew not but a sport Therefore with a great facility they embrace the designe and the baits to cover the Hooks with are the preservation of Religion and the vindication of liberty And howsoever they cannot reconcile their practise with Gods command which under paine of damnation forbids all Subjects to resist their King yet they are so wedded to that interest which they Challenge in Religion and Liberty that for Gods command if they cannot untie the knot they resolve to cut it Doe but assure them that the forbidden fruit will make them as Gods and they will eate it though it be forbidden doe but perswade them that to take up armes against their Soveraigne is the way to secure their Religion and Liberty and they make bold with God for once to choose their owne way for so good an end From so desperate Resolution had they had but Morall justice they might have beene kept back by the improbability of those calumnies whereby His Majestie was traduced as intending to alter Religion and infringe their Liberties Or had Religion to which they doe so Zealously pretend had that potent influence upon them it might have taught them that Religion cannot be defended by transgressing Gods commands which are the Rule of it But if nothing else yet even regard to their owne pretensions the defence of Religion and Liberty should have wrought in them a detestation of Rebellion which is so contrary to both For as an eye had to Gods dominion over us should exact obedience to his commands though never so much to our prejudice So the meditation of his infinite goodnesse ought to win it from us because his commands enjoyne us onely what is for our good if we could see it He would not have forbidden Subjects to defend Religion against their King by force of Armes but that he knew as Rebells can be no friends to Religion so it gaines love admiration by the innocent patience of those that professe it where as Blood-shed Force and Rapine the fruits of Rebellion procure Hatred or Hypocrisie And for Liberty it is for he good of Mankind to forbid the assertion of it by Subjects Armes taken up against their Prince both because that pretence would otherwise be used by those that have a designe to make the abused people their owne slaves and because Rebellion doth more violate the Subjects liberty then is morally possible for the worst Prince in times of peace to doe This truth was knowne before by speculation to a few whose endeavours to infuse it into the distempered peoples minds had the fate of Caffandraes predictions to hit the truth and want belief till these sad times have at last verified it by acostly experience That this may be more universally beneficiall you have too plentifull a harvest of Instances collected in the ensuing Relations wherein may evidently be seene that this War which the multitude was so fond of as the onely meanes to preserve Religion and Liberty hath beene the utter ruine of them both Here you shall find these great pretenders to Religion Suppressing that which themselves confesse to be Divine Truth Debarring poore prisoners the comfort of joyning their prayers together enforcing men to take Oaths of blind obedience to whatsoever they should afterwards command them turning out Clergiemen above all exception and placing most scandalous and insufficient wretches in their roomes darting from their invenomed mouthes most horrid Blasphemies against our Lord and Saviour abusing the service of God and profaning not only the Forme of it the Booke of Common Prayer which now they have utterly extirpated but even Gods owne Word the holy Bible which they pretend to reverence Here shall you behold them not onely like those Canes Sepulchrales violating the bones ashes of the dead to make the world know that they beleeve what some of their fellowes openly professe that of those sometime living Temples of the holy Chost there shall be no Resurrection but exercising their sury on the Churches of God which they have defaced with barbarous rudenesse defiled with more then beastly nastinesse as if contrary to their wont they had studyed the Booke of Maccabes to find out and out-doe the most Heathenish wickednesses therein related they have polluted the very Altar with their whoredomes Nor can these Reformers at whose doore the profanations of the Houses of God must lye make the world beleeve they are in earnest when they plead for Religion whilst they deface and demolish the places where it should be taught and practiced and put out the Eyes of the most flourishing Universities of Christendome Then for the other point the Subjects Liberty the following Narrations will plainly shew that it hath not been spared by those that would be accounted the Champions of it when the violation of it might satisfie either their Lust their Covetousnesse or their Cruelty Their Lust hath prompted them not only to

these Plunderers whose name was Bawyer was apprehended in London selling some of these goods in the very act and for this committed to Newgate as a Felon two of the Countesse's servants entring into Recognizance to give in evidence against him for the King but upon his Petition to the House of Commons it was ordered he should be discharged without paying any fees which was done accordingly and 't was but an oversight that his prosecutors had not been laid in his place and publique thanks decreed him for his zeale to the Cause M. Stevens Parson of South-Hamfield in Essex hearing that the Plunderers of that County were comming on him tooke horse and fled and so saved both himselfe and his horse for he knew that both were sought after The father being fled the children left to their owne providence bethink how to secure those little peeces of Plate which each had received from the bounty of their Godfathers and Godmothers neither time nor acquaintance could give them latitude of much choice where to hide it and thinking any place safer then their owne house they run to a poote woman their neighbour and there with her they deposite their whole Treasure When the Plunderers came and sound that the birds were flowne having intelligence or as some say but suspecting that the poor womans house might hide M. Stevens his goods they go to her house and demand them The woman denyes that she hath any of M. Stevens his goods hereupon one of the Plunderers strikes her on the head with a Club with such violence that her brains came out at her nostrils The poore woman being thus murthered the bloudy Murtherers insult over her and say that the just hand of God was upon her for lying against her knowledge and denying those parcels of M. Stevens his goods that were in her possession so usuall a thing it is with these men to blaspheme God and intitle him to all those wickednesses which they commit on others M. Edward Symmons Parson of Rayne in Essex in the Months of June and July 1642. Preached against the sin of Rebellion and Disobedience and against traducing the King slandering the footsteps of Gods Anoyn●ed and refused to promote the Civill Warre then begun by stirring up the people to contribute Money Plate and Horses the maintenance of so unnaturall so destructive a division as most of the Ministers of those parts did This as it was more remarkable in him so it was more hainously taken from him in regard of his former intimate acquaintance with M. Stephen Marshall Parson of Pinching field in Essex the great incendiary of this unhappy war and had given him the right hand of Fellowship Hereupon he was sent for to the House of Commons by a Pursevant and was told That he being an honest man but of a different judgement from the Sence and Vote of the House did more prejudice to the good Cause in hand then a hundred Knaves and therefore would suffer accordingly which saying since that time hath beene plentifully made good and verified in many particular oppressions sufferings unjustly inflicted on him and his whole family First he was imprisoned and most illegally deprived of his libertie for no other cause but because he would not contrary to the dictate of Religion and his owne conscience countenance and promote an accursed Rebellion against his gracious Soveraigne Secondly he was referi'd after to the Committee for scandalous Ministers thereby to blast his Credit and Reputation in his Ministery a most diabolicall and divelish Course and a work of him who is the accuser of the Brethr●n to defame honest Orthodox Ministers with the odious name of Scandalous and Malignants though made so neither by error in doctrine wickednesse of life or debauchnes of conversation but by the malignity of a Vote knowing that by this means such Ministers doctrines and Testimonies will be of little or no credit afterward with the vulgar for had it been Scandal in a true and proper sense which they indeavoured to take away out of the Church they would never have brought over his head so scandalous so infamous a man to be Lecturer in his Cure as they did for to the wounding of M. Simmons his soule and the indangering the soules of his Parishioners one Lemuel Tuke is appointed Lecturer in Master Simmons his Church a man by education a Weaver and that had not so much as saluted either University yet while men slept he intruded into a Cure of Soules in Nottinghamshire from which ever since the Parliament began he hath been a Non-resident for not long after the sitting of this Parliament his Parishioners framed a Bill against him to the Lower House Articling against him not onely as negligent but insufficient in his calling Nay they accuse him of no lesse then Barrettry and Battery Drunkennesse and whoredome and some such other sinnes which in the judgement of all honest men make a man truly and properly scandalous yet this man thus Articled against to the House of Commons as Scandalous is thought worthy to be substituted as a Coadjutor in M. Simmons his Cure who onely was voted Scandalous because not Rebellious so that all the world may judge what it is to be Scandalous in this new sense To honour the King and to live in obedience to the established orders of the Church Thirdly having preached that it was unlawfull to take up Armes against the King and contrary to the doctrine of the Scriptures to contribute to a Warre against Him in opposition to Lemuel Tuke who laboured to payson his People with Sedition and Rebellion affirming openly that in some Cases it was lawfull not onely to Resist but which I tremble to relate to kill the king instancing in the example of Athaliah 2 King II. yet the said Tuke is countenanced and encouraged whereas Master Simmons for asserting the Truth was summoned before the Committee there to answer as a Delinquent who was so f●rre from a Retractation that he justified the doctrine which he did so fully that one of the Committee was convicted of it yet as he himselfe did so he would have Master Simmons to withhold that Truth in unrighteousnesse for Sir Thomas Barrington who was the man confessed that it was a Truth and a Divine Truth yet not fit to be preached at all times no not by those that were intrusted with it by God himselfe no though it might be in some danger of Impeachment At last being charged to preach no more such doctrine and putting in bayle by the Committee he is permitted to returne to his charge But behold what it is to be voted a delinquent or a Scandalous Minister by the Committee it is to be put out of the protection of the Law and exposed to the fury of the people for on his returne Oath is made before a Justice of Peace that at Halstead in Essex it was concluded that an hundred men from Cogshall and Colchester side some of that

thought sufficient to secure them but yet were denyed Nay when the Sheriffe of Sussex was brought Prisoner from London to Windsor very lame though his Chirurgion offered Colonel Ven to be deposed that on the least neglect his Leg was like to Gangreene yet after he came to Windsor he was forced to lye with the rest of the Knights and Gentlemen on the ground many nights at last shewing his Leg to Ven he confessed that he never saw a more dangerous lamenesse and promised to acquaint the Earle of Essex with it and the Sheriffe himselfe being acquainted with the Earle presuming on some interest in him wrote unto him to acquaint him with his Condition and earnestly intreating him that he might be sent to London and disposed of though in a Dungeon for a weeke that he might have the assistance of his owne Physitian and Chirurgion offering to give anysecurity be at any charges to assure him of his safe Returne to render himselfe true Prisoner but neither the sense of his misery nor his earnest sollicitations could prevaile with his Excellency And if the Knights and Gentlemen who had money to bribe that compassion which they could not intreat found no better measure at their hands what then thinke you were those heavy pressures under which the poore common Souldiers groaned there were in the Castle eight poore Souldiers to whom the Sheriffe of Sussex allowed eight shillings a week yet not withstanding because they refused to take the wages of Iniquitie and serve under the Rebells Colours and fight against their Soveraigne they starved them insomuch that being released that they might not dye in the Castle comming into the aire three of them fell down dead in the streets three more recovered as farre as Eaton where a good woman for five shillings a Weeke given for their reliefe by the Sheriffe of Sussex gave them entertainment and when the Sheriffe made his happy escape he left them alive There was a poore man living neere Moore Parke whom when Prince Rupert was in those parts commanded to shew him where the Pipes lay which conveyed water to the Castle for this crime they apprehend him and commit him prisoner to the Castle where they fed him with so slender dyet that they even starved him and when upon his wives teares and lamentable cryes that she and her children were like to starve at home while her husband starved at Windsor they having no subsistance but what he got by the sweat of his browes he was released he was not able to stand on his legs and whether dead since we have no Information There was at the same time in the Castle one Lieutenant Atkinson prisoner who suffering under the same want of necessary food sent to his Father humbly petitioning for reliese his Father though a man of good estate returned answer that unlesse he would take profered Entertainment from the Parli ment he should ly● there rot● and starve and be damned for him He finding no p●t●ie from his Father where Natu●e and Religion bade him expect it petition●d the Gentlemen in the Keep for bread as many others dayly did and on his Petition had monies sent him but dyed starved two dayes after and left this just ground to the world to make this Observation That whe●e Pur tanisme prevailes it can●els all Obl●gations both of Religi●n and Natu●e and never fa●l●s to make men guilty of that ●in which is in the n●mber of those wh●ch the Scri●tu●●s tell us shall heare wrath on the end of the World the want of N●turall affection Mercurius Rusticus c. X. Master Chaldwell and his wife barbar●usly used by the Reb●ll● at Lincolne and his servan● murthered Master Le●●e Parson of Wedon-Pinkny in Northamptonshire hi●selfe and his Church infini●ely abused on the Lords day by some Rebell-Troopers of Northampton c. WIlliam Chaldmell of Thorgon●y in the County of Linco●ne Esquire and Justice of Peace being an aged Gentleman yet his Loyalty and desi●e to se●ve the King in ●is just Warres made him over-looke his infirmities so that he resolved in person to come to His assistance To this purpose he provided foure horses compleatly furnished of which the Rebells having intelligence they surprize him and seize on his horses In Februa●y 1643. some Rebell-Troopers came to M. Chaldw●lls house and demanded entrance which he denying unlesse they could shew some Commission from the King they presently broke up his hall windows and forcing his entrance apprehend his person yet his person is not all they come for they begin to plunder his goods and the first thing which they lay hold on was some Linnen lying on the Hall Table A servant of Master Chaldwels standing by unwilling to lose any thing if it might be saved takes hold on the Linnen too and intreats the Troopers to spare it Presently same cry out shoot him which was no sooner said then done for one discharging a Pistoll at him shot a Bullet into his heart and the top of his seouring-stick into his body neere it The poore man instantly fell downe dead hardly by any motion expressing the farewell of life While most stood amazed at so barbarous an act some make towards him thinking to help him but were forbid by the bloody Villaines to come neere him who were so farre from remorse for what they had done that to murther they added theft diving into the Pockets of him whom they had thus murthered and ●obbing him of his moneys Nay his wife whom they had murthered hearing of this sad accident being great with child came to see her dead Husband but was not permitted to come neare him being threatned by these Troopers that if she came neare him they should doe unto her as they had done unto her Husband shoot her dead Having done their pleasure in Master Chaldwels houese they carry him away Prisoner to Lincoln Being come thither they commit him to the Towne Gaole and lodged him there in the common Keep amongst Murtherers and Felons The day after the Lincolne-shire Rebels received the defeat before Newarke by a verball command from the Earle of Lincolne● he was removed from the Towne-Prison to the Castle in Lincolne where he was put into a ●as●ie stinking place called the Witch Hole and without any regard to his qualitie being a Gentleman of prime ●ote in his Country or to his age being an old man they permit him to stay there all night having no other bed but the Ground and no other Pillow but the hard stones The next day they vouchsafe him the favour to let him purchase a little and but a very little better accommodation by buying out some poore Prisoners out of their lodging remaining there in this disconsolate condition his wife an aged Gentlewoman came to visit him being very willing to share with him in his Misery as before she had done in his Prosperitie Having spent some time in mutuall consolation and exhorting one another patiently to beare this unjust

by as spectators and approvers of these Barbarous Impieties yet for feare left in this Schismaticall frenzy the sword in mad mens hands might mistake Sir William Waller a wary man as he is and well knowne not to be too apt to expose himselfe to danger stood all the while with his sword drawn and being asked by one of his Troopers what he meant to stand in that Posture He answered That it was to secure himselfe you know 't is written The wicked are afraid where no fear is for though the People made him an Idoll in London yet being no Popish but a Puritanicall Idoll for they have their Idolls and their Idolatry as much as the Church of Rome there was no danger to his person to be mistaken for an object of their Reformation at Chichester The same Trooper added also That if his Colonel in the Low-Countries were there and commanded in thiese he would hang up halfe a dozen of the souldiers for examples sake it no being the custome of the Low-Countries though long time hath made their enmitie inveterate and added much to the animositie of the parties to Plunder Churches it being amutuall stipulation between the Spaniard and the Hollander that what Town soever should by conguest passe from the possession of one Nation to the other though the Conquerour hid the free Plunder of the Towne yet churches with their Ornaments and whatever was conveyed into them should be invialable the church being sanctuary to what sover was under ●is Roo se and if they would have any thing thence it was to be purchased at a valuable price These good intimations of moderations from a man of lesse command but more Religion then Sir William prevailed nothing with him to restrain the outraigous madnesse of his fellow Rebells Having therefore made what spoyle they could in the Cathedrall they rush out thence and breake open a Parish Church standing on the North side of the Cathedrall called the Subdeanery there they teare the Common Prayer Bookes both those belonging to the Church and likewise those which were left there by devote persons which did usually frequent Divine Service and because many things in the Holy Bible make strongly against them one did contradict and condemne their impious practices they marked it in divers places with a black coale 't is more then probable that the 13 Chapter to the Romans did not escape their Index Expurgatorius for certainly if that be the word of God as undoubtedly it is they cannot so farre with-hold the truth in unrightenusnesse as not to read their doome in that word they shall judge them at the last day here they stole the Ministers Surplice and Hood and all the Linnen serving for the Communion and finding no more Plate but the chalice they steale that too which they brake in pieces to make a just and equall divident amongst themselves for an Engeneer of theirs Robert Prince a French-man with a wooden leg afterwards shewed the foot thereof broken off and when complaint was made of these barbarous out-rages Captain Keely replyed That he Know not whether all this were not done by Order or no. About five or six days after Sir Arther Haslerig demanded the Keyes of the chapter-house being entred the place and having intelligence by a treacherous Officer of the Church where the remainder of the Church Plate was he commanded his servants to breake downe the Wainscot round about the roome which was quickly done they having brought Crowes of Iron for that purpose along with them while they were knocking downe the Wainscot Sir Arthurs tongue was not enough to expresse his joy it was operative at his very heeles for dancing and skipping pray marke what Musick that is to which it is lawfull for a Puritan to dance he cryed out There Boyes there Boyes Hearke Hearke it Rattles it Rattles and being much importuned by some members of that Church to leave the Church but a Cup for administration of the Blessed Sacrament answer was returned by a Scotch-man standing by That they should take a wooden dish and now tell me which was farthest from a Christian either this impure Scot or that blasphemous Atheist who seeing the masty Plate and rich Ornaments wherewith the Christian Altars were adorned in the Primitive Church in indignation scorn of Christ beltched out Enquà preciosis vasis filim Maria ministratur Behold with what costly vessells the Son of Mary is served what further spoyle and indignitic they have since done to that house of God And the habitation where his honour dwelt is yet uncertaine Mercurius Rustius c. III. The Rebells defying God in his owne house their Sacrilege in stealing Church Plate and goods their irreverence towards the King by abusing his Statue their heathenish barbaritie in violating the bones and ashes of dead Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors in the Cathedral Church of Winchester c. THe next instance which I shall give of the Rebells Sacrilege and Prophanenesse is in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester which Citie as it was the Royall Seat of the Kings of the West Saxons in the time of the Heptarchy so was it the Seat of the Bishops of that people after Kenwalshus King of the West Saxons not brooking the Barbarous broken expressions of Agilbertus his Bishop divided this large Diocesse betweene Agilbertus and Wina and leaving Agilbertus to reside at Dorchester caused Wina to be Consecrated Bishop of Winchester Before we tell you by whom and in what manner this Church was robbed and spoyled of its Ornaments and beautie it will not be impertinent while it may serve as an aggravation of their impietie briefly to set downe by whom this Church was built and so richly adorned as lately we saw it This magnificent Structure which now stands was begun by Walkelinus the thirtie fifth Bishop of this See which worke left imperfect and but begun by him was but coldly prosecuted by the succeeding Bishops untill William of Wickham the magnificent Sole founder of two Saint Mary Colledges the one in Oxford commonly called New Colledge the other a Nurcery to this neare Winchester came to possesse this See He amonst many other works of Pletie built the whole Nave or body of this Church from the Quire to the West end the Chappels on the East end beyond the Quire had their severall Founders The hallowed Ornaments and Utencills of this Church being many rich and costly were the gifts of severall Benefactors who though their names perhaps are not recorded in earth have found their reward in Heaven This Church was first differenced by the name of Saint Amphibalus who received a Crowne of Martyrdome under the persecution of Dioclesian Next it exchanged this name for that of S. Peter and againe this for that of Saint Swithine the eighteenth Bishop of this See last of all it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity whose blessed name is now called upon it which Holy name though it could not but put the