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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

be answerable to the beauty of the Structure it selfe Bishop Grandesson bestowed upon it Vessels of Gold and Vessells of Silver Bookes and all other kinds of rich furniture Copid lmmensd Immensi pretii in execeding great measure of execeding great price All which with many other things of necessary use and Publique Ornament became a prey to the Schismaticall Rebells whose sinne was so much the greater because being neither imaged by Opposition nor made insolent by conqucst Apologies that may possibly be taken up for other Rebells in other places as chichester and winchester but which was a maine aggravation of their crime Citezens within their own wall in coole blood not provoked spoyle and lay wast their Mother-Church for after this Citie now most unworthy of those priviledges and honorary rewards once purchased by their Loyaltic now forfeited by ingratitude and rebellion had once shut up their Gates against their Kings it was not long before they shut up the Gates 1ike wife of God's house denying all accusse to devout persons there to make their Prayers and Supplications so neare bordering upon Rebellon against the King is Atheisme and Contempt of God for having demanded the Keyes of the Cathedral and taken them into their own custody they presently interdict divine Service to be celcbrated so that for the space of three quarters of a yeare the Holy L turgy lay totally filenced Nor was the restrainr upon the Reading Deske only the Pulpit was made inacceslible to all Orthdex Loyall Minister and was open only to Factions Schismaticall Preachers whose Doctrine was Rebellion and their Exhortation Treason that so the people might hear nothing but what might som●n● their disloyaltic and confirm them in their unnaturall revolt from their dutie and obedience Having the Church in their possession in a most Puritanicall beastly manner they make it a common Jakes for the Exonerations of Nature sparing no place neither the Altar nor the Pulpit though this last finds a better place in their cstimation then the former yet prophaned it was may so prophaned that it remains a doubt yet undetermined ned which prophaned it most in their kinds either the common Souldiers or their Lecturers Over the Communion Table in fair letters of gold was written the holy blessed Name of Jesus this they expunge as Superstitious and execrable On each side of the Commandements the Pictures of Moses and Aaron were drawn in full proportion these they deface they teare the Books of Common-Prayers to pieces and as if this had bin too finall a contempt and despite done to that forme of Gods holy worship they use them as if they had been a second sacrifice of Curious Arts and burne them at the Alter with exceeding great Exultation and exprestions of joy They made the Church their Store-house where they kept their Ammunition and Powder and planted a Court of Guard to attend it who used the Church with the same reverence that they would an Ale-house and defiled it with tipling and taking Tobacco they broke and defaced all the glasse windows of the Church which cannot be repaired for many hundred pounds and left all those ancient Monuments being painted glasse and containing matter of Story only a miserable spectacle of commiseration to all well-affected hearts that behold them They strook off the heads of all the Statues on all monuments in the Church esperally they deface the Bishops Tombs leaving one without ahead another without a Nose one without a hand and another without an arme A sad ●mbleme of that Trunke of Baiscopacy which the accursed Atheists of these times have fancied to themselves and endeavoured a poore deformed mangled mutilated thing having neither head of Pretetion nor face of honour nor arme nor hand nor finger of power and jurisdiction they pluck down and deface the Statue of an ancient Queen the wife of Edward the Confessor the first Founder of this Church mistaking it for the Statua of the blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God So she was stiled by the haly Catholique Church many ycares before it was in danger to be voted Blasphemy in that Committee where learned Miles Corbet sate in the Chaire They brake downe the Organs and taking two or three hundred Pipes with them in a most scornefull contemptuous manner went up and downe the streets piping with them and meeting with some of the Choristers of the Church whose Surplices they had stolne before and imployed them to base servile offices scostingly told them Boyes we have ' povled your trade you must goe and sing hot Pudding Pies By the absolutenesse of their power they send forth their Warrants to take away the Lead off a Conduit and a great Cistern that stood in the middest of the Close giving plentifull supplyes of water to many hundreds of Inhabitants and by vertue of the same warrant they give their agents power to take a great quantitie of Timber which was layd up and designed for the repairing of the Church such Timber as that it will be a very hard matter to procure the like all Timber not being sit for that use and with these a great stock of Lead out of the common Store-house reserved there for the same purpose which warrants were accordingly put in execution to the full They did enter into a Consustation about taking downe the Bells and all the Lead that covered the Church to convert them into warlike Ammunition the Bells might be cast into Cannon the Lead into Bullets both would serve towards the effecting their Trayterous designes They took downe the Gates of the Close which the Deane and Chapter bad set up and kept locked every night for their securitie which Gares they imployed to help forward and strengthen their Fortifications They lay intollerable Taxes on most of the Members of the Church and whosoever refused to submit to those most unjust illegall Impositions were threstned to have their houses Plundered and their persons sent on shipboard where they must expect usage as bad as at Argier or the Gallies Doctor Burnell grave Learned man and Canon of that Church refusing to submit to their Taxations they gave command though he were at that time sick and contiued not only to his Chamber but to his bed to take him in the night and bring him away to Prison though they brought him in his bed but upon much importunitie some of the best ●anke of the Citizens being tendered his securitie to render himselfe a true prisoner for that time they 〈◊〉 him For the like re●usall they tooke Doctor Hutchenson another Canon of the Church a man of a weake and infirme body but of a vigorous knowing Soule and violently carryed him towards the Ship there to imprison him by the way as they carryed him along he was not only by the permistion but by the incouragement of those that led him Captive blasted and abused and howted at by the boyes and exposed to the affionts and revilings of the base insolent multitude at

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

into the Belfrey and locks the doores fast after him being come to the place where the Bells hang he discovers over head a little hole only big enough for a man to creep thorow and a Ladder standing there which led up unto it Master Losse goes up the Ladder and through the hole gets upon the Leads and with great difficultie draws the Ladder after him being massey and very heavy by which means he did not only deprive his pursuers of the means to come at him but with the Ladder laid over the hole baracadoed the passage against them and now being here had he had any weapon to defend himselfe he had been impregnable While Master Losse was up in the Belfrey securing of himselfe the Troopers are at the Church windowes endeavouring to wrench out the Irons barres but without any successe at last with their Pole-axes and great Tomb-stones Impiously taken from the graves of the Dead they breake open the Church doores having thus forced their entrance they r●de into the Church not remembring they were in Gods house from one end of it to another spurring and switching their horses purposely to endanger the People These barbarous out-rages did much affright the People but especially Mistresse Losse and her poore children whom it most concerned M. Losse being the onely man aymed at Mistresse Losse fell into a swound in the Church and had no shew of life in her for a long time at which the people moved with compassion interceded with the Troopers and desired them to desist putting them in mind of the place where they were a place where God met with his People and they with their God It seemes this Congregation had been better taught then to subscribe to Doctor Twist the Prolocutor of the absurd Heterogen●ous Synod his Interpretation of that Text of Scripture Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reve●ence my Sanctuary In his Pre●ace to Master Meads Book of the Apo●●acie of the latter times as if this Text enjoyned no reverence to be used towards the places of Gods publike worship they were much scandalized at this prophane irreverence and made it an argument to awe them to civill demeanour at least because of the place and withail they objected that they did much abuse themselves and dishonour their Cause by such our-ragious carriages all this would reflect on the Cause they pretended to maintain And lastly they alledged that if they had any shame in them they might be ashamed in the Lords house on the Lords day to abuse a Minister in his owne Congregation who besides the honour and reverence due to his Calling might challenge some respect from them being a Gentleman of good birth and descent In reply to so good reason being indeed but Pearle cast before Swine one breakes out with a great oath swearing wounds and blood so that all the Blasphemy is not on the Cavaliers side and saying What doe you tell me of birth and descent a plague take him and his Gentilitie ● h pe within this year to see never a Gentleman in F●●land you remember the Proverb Children and Fo●●st t●ll truth having thus despised all wholesome admonition they goe to the Belfrey they breake open the doore and come to the place where the ●els did hang and from the top of the Frames of the Bells indeavoured through the hole but now mentioned to get upon the Leades where Master Losse was but he having stop'd that paslage with the Ladder and making the best use he could of his hands and feet being all the weapons ei●her offensive or defensive which he had made good the place against them yet notwithstanding in the Resistance he was in very great danger to lose his life for they discharged their Pistols at him at least eight or nine times but by the good providence of God they miss'd their mark with their swords they wounded him in three severall parts of his body yet God be blessed the wounds were not mortall at last having received a hurt in his hand having a veine p●icked w●th one of their swords his blood flowed so fast upon the Troopers underneath him that as they brag'd there and in other places after they were gone thence they thought they had dispatched him and therefore thinking him to be a dead man they left him yet to imbalme him to his Funerall they poure out a flood of reproachfull names upon him calling him Rogue Rascall Slave Villaine Dog Devill making no stop till their master the Divell and their owne memories could suggest no more names of the same stamp At last to seale up all for feare they had not murthered him they protest with many Execrations upon themselves that if they had not now sped him which yet they hoped they had they would returne another time and have him either dead or alive At Bridstow in Devonshire there dwels a Husbandman and though I cannot tell his name yet let it not weaken the credit of the Relation who not satisfied with the Parliaments proceedings in taking up Armes against their lawfull undoubted Soueraigne stood in a seeming Neutrality at last conceiving it time to declare himselfe he openly adhered to the Kings party hereupon he was very diligently sought after and the Earle of Sta●ford sent a Troop of Horse to his house to apprehend him When they came thither they found not the good man at home but a sonne of his about ten or eleven yeares old they aske him where his Father was the childe replyed that he was not at home they threaten him and use all arts to make him discover where his Father had hid himselfe the childe being ignorant where his Father was still persisted in the same answer that he knew not where he was hereupon they threaten to hang him neither doth that prevaile at last they take the poore innocent childe and hang him up either because he would not betray his Father had he been able to satisfie their doubt or for not having the spirit of Prophecy not being able to reveale what by an ordinary way of knowledge he did not know having let him hang awhile they cut him downe not intending to hang him unto death but being cut downe they could perceive nothing discovering life in him hereupon in a barbarous way of experiment they pricke him with their swords in the back and thighs using the means leading to death to find out life at last after some long stay some small symptomes of life did appeare yet so weake that there they left him nearer the confines of death then life and whether the childe did ever recover is more than my Informer former can assure me Only courteous Reader observe from this short Narration that these bloudy Rebels spare neither the venerablenesse of the sacred Function the infirmities of old Age or the tendernesse of Youth Mercurius Rusticus c. XI The particulars of the first Siege of Corfe-Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Banks and Captaine Laurence against the Powers