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A96278	Englands Iliads in a nut-shell. Or, A briefe chronologie of the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this rebellion, to the 25. of March, 1645.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1596-1672.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1544; Thomason E1182_3; ESTC R208159	28,009	48

a comfort to my selfe that these great Saints and servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that Saint Paul who helped on this Accusation against Saint Steven did after fall under the very same himselfe Yea but here is agreat clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the meane time you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himselfe If we let him alone all men will beleive in him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the Nation Here was a causelesse Cry against Christ that the Romans will come And see how just the judgement of God was they crucified Christ for feare lest the Remans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as hee hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the meane time by Honour and dishonour by good report and evill report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this world 2 Cor. 6. 8. Some particulars also I think it not amisse to speak of And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Soveraigne He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery but on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present accompt I know Him to bee as free from this charge as any man living and I hold Him to be as sound a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdome And that he will venture His Life as far and as freely for it and I think I doe or should know both His affection to Religion and His grounds for it as fully as any man in England The second particular is concerning this great and Populous City which God blesse Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then goe to the Great Court of this Kingdome the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknowne to the many could not or would not doe Justice but at their appointment Away which may endanger many an Innocent man and pluck his blood upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my selfe The Magistrates standing stil and suffering them openly to proceed from parish to parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I begge it but many well meaning people are caught by it In Saint Stevens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the people against him and Herod went the same way when hee had killed Saint Iames yet he would not venture upon Saint Peter till he found how the other pleased the people But take heed of having your hands full of blood for there is a time best knowne to himselfe when God above other sinnes makes Inquisition for blood and when that Inquifition is on foot the Psalmist tells us That God remembers but that is not all He remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poore that is whose bloud is shed by oppression verse 9. take heed of this It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my prayers to avert it I doe heartily desire this City to remember the Prophesie that is expressed Jer. 26. 14. 15. As for me behold I am in your hand doe with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know yee for certaine that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves and upon this City and upon the Inhabitants thereof c. The third particular is the poore Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when stormes have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storme it selfe and God onely knowes whether or how it shall get out and which is worse then a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body and at every cleft prophanenesse and Irreligion is entring in while as Prosper speakes in his second Book De vitae contemptu cap. 4. Men that introduce prophanesse are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuites machinations could not ruine is fallen into danger by her owne The last particular for I am not willing to bee too long is my selfe I was born and baptized in the bosome of the Church of England established by Law in that profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to dye This is no time to dissemble with God least of all in matter of Religion and therefore I desire it may be remembred I have alwayes lived in the Protestant Religion established in England and in that I now come to dye What clamours and slanders I have endured for labouring to keep an Unisormity in the externall service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High Treason in Parliament a crime which my soule ever abhorred this Treason was charged to consist of these two parts An endeavour to subvert the Lawes of the Land and a like Endeavour to overthrow the true Protestant Religion established by Law Besides my Answers to the severall Charges I protested my innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the Barre must not be taken I can bring no witnesse of my heart and the intentions thereof therefore I must come to my Protestation not at the Bar but my Protestation at this houre and instant of my death in which I hope all men will be such charitable Christians as not to think I would dye and dissemble being instantly to give God an accompt for the truth of it I doe therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death That I never endeavoured the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this Protest of mine concerning mine innocency in these and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I did mislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many wayes and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima there is no corruption in the world so bad as that which is of the

best thing in it selfe for the beeter the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when t is mis-informed or mis-governed the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man whether I have offended him or not if he do but conceive that I have Lord doe thou forgive me and I beg forgivenesse of him And so I heartily desire you to joyne in Prayer with me O Eternall God and mercifull Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulnes of all thy mercies look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Crosse of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the bloud of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sinnes may passe over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instant full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to dye for thy honour the King's happinesse and this Churches preservation And my zeale to these far from Arrogancy be it spoken is all the sinne humane frailties excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present judgement upon me and when thou hast given me strength to beare it doe with me as seems best in thine owne eyes and carry me through death that I may look upon it in what visage soever it shall appear to me Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of bloud in this more then miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all Bloud-thirsty people but if they will not repent O Lord confound all their devices defeat and frustrate all their designes and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the Glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Lawes and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meere mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankefulnesse and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus Amen and receive my Soule into thy Bosome Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. Jan. 11. Sir Henry Gage Governour of Oxford marched thence with a party of horse and foot towards Abingdon with intention to raise a Fort at Cullom bridge but Browne having treacherous notice of the design was prepared accordingly which begat a hot skirmish wherein the Rebels lost Major Bradbury and at least 30 others slaine and on his Majesties part not above 7. common souldiers but by great misfortune Sir Hen Gage himselfe marching in the front of his men did here receive a fatal shot whereof within few hours after he dyed His Body was afterwards interred at Oxford with funebrious exequies and solemnities answerable to his merits who having done His Majesty speciall service was whilst living generally beloved and dead is still universally lamented His daily refreshed memory makes me trespasse on the Readers patience with this ELEGIE Vpon the never-enough lamented death of Sir HEN GAGE the most desired Governour of Oxford SO Titus called was The worlds delight And straight-way dy'd The envious Sisters spight Still the great favourite The darling head Unto the Fates is alwayes forfeited Our Life 's a Chase where though the whole Herd fly The goodlyest Deere is singled out to dye And as in beasts the fattest ever bleeds So amongst men he that doth bravest deeds He might have liv'd had but a coward feare Kept him securely sculking in the reare Or like some sucking Colonell whose edge Durst not advance a foot from a thick hedge Or like the wary Skippon had so sure A suit of Armes he might besieg'd endure Or like the politick Lords of different skill Who thought a Saw-pit safer or a hill Whose valour in two organs too did lye Distinct the ones in 's eare th' others in his eye Puppets of War Thy name shall be divine And happily augment the number Nine But that the Heroes and the Muses strive To owne thee dead who wert them all alive Such an exact composure was in thee Neither exceeded Mars nor Mercurie T was just though hard thou shouldst dye Governour Of th' Kings chiefe Fort of Learning and of War Thy death was truly for thy Garrison Thou dy'dst projecting her Redemption What unto Basing twice successefull spirit Was done th' hast effected here in merit The Bridge was broken downe The Fort alone GAGE was himselfe the first and the last stone Goe burne thy Faggots Browne and grieve thy Rage Lets thee out live the gentle grasp of GAGE And when thou read'st in thy Britanicus The boasted story of his death say thus The Valour I have shewne in this was Crime And GAGES Death will brand me to all Time In this moneth a faire new Ship called the John of London belonging to the East-India Merchants was brought to Bristol by the loyalty of Captain Mucknell and the rest of the Officers and Mariners of the Ship for His Majesties service wherein were 26. Peeces of Ordnance mounted 17000. l. in money besides some other good commodities For which good service the said Captaine Mucknell had the honour to be the first Knight that ever the Prince of Wales made And within a few dayes after another Ship called The Fame of London of burthen 450. Tunnes with 28. Peeces of Ordnance mounted was by Tempest forced into Dartmouth where she was seized on for His Majesties service as lawfull prize being bound for Dover or London This Ship had been abroad 4 yeares and was now returning homewards from the West-Indies laden with Bullion Oyle Couchaneille and other rich commodities to the value of 40000. l. at least Jan. 30. The Treaty began at Uxbridge wherein the candour of His Majesties reall intentions and desires of Peace was very perspicuous For His Majesty did not only arme his Commissioners or any ten of them with a very large and powerfull Commission to treat of conclude and settle a firme Peace in all His Dominions but did also by Proclamation appoint a solemne Fast on the 5. day of February