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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

Religion and Loyaltie shall lift up their hands against their God in Sacrilege and against their Soveraigne in Rebellion Mercurius Rusticus c. II. The Cathedrall Church of Rochester violated the Sacrilege and prophanenesse of the Rebells under command of Sir William Waller and Sir Arthur Hasterig acted on the Cathedrall Church of Chichester c. As when the Spirit brought the Prophet Ezekiel into the Holy Temple he led him from place to place and each place entertained him with greater Abominations than the former so that the farewell to the last Vision and the invitation to the next is Turne thee yet againe and thou shalt see greater Abominations than these So having brought you in the cathedralls of this Kingdome Temples in despite of Atheists Rebells and Anabaptists of God too and having shewed you the Abomination of Desolation in one of them viz. in Canterbury the first instance of their accursed rage and having viewed that I must now lead you on as the Spirit did the Prophet from place to place and the inticement may be the same for though you have seene great prophanations in the former relation Yet you shall see greater abominations than these The next instance of the Rebells prophanenesse which I shall offer unto you is in the Cathedrall of Rochester recompenced for the finalnesse of its Revenue with the honour of its Antiquitie as boasting of Ethelbert King of Kent a common Founder to this Church with those of Canterbury and London The unhappy losse of Earnulphus History the thirtie second Bishop of this See deprives us of that Light which discovered the various condition of this Church how long in the beginning it struggled with its owne povertie and in after-ages with the injuries of Time and Warre remaining some yeares in a kind of Widow hood without the Government and Super-intendency of a Bishop till at last Gundulfus the thirtieth Bishop of this See re-edified this Church from the ground and brought it into that magnificence in which we now see it To which pious worke hee brought so good so vigorous affections that as Malmesbury records of him Praevene●at vivacitas Gundulsi omnium successorum diligeatiam Gundulphus ●lacrity in that work did so prevent the pietie of his successors that he hardly left them any place in this kind wherein to exercise their bountie Little did the over-flowing zeal of our Ancestors to the house of God like that of the old lsraelites pouring out their wealth and precious things to adorne the Tabernacle in so great measure that M●sas was sain to publish a Proclamation to restraine their liberalitie For the stuffe they had was sufficient for the work to make it and too much Exod. 36.6.7 Little I say did they thinke when they did this that what they thus bountifully gave unto God should ever while this Kingdome remained Christian become a prey to those which as Tcr●●llian speakes Gentes agunt Christs nomine have not so much as a forme but the bare usurped name of Christianitie which they fulley and pollute with those worse than heathenish crimes of Sacrilege and Prophanenesse had the ●acrilege lately committed at Canterbury been applauded by the people to gain whom no arts though never so repugnant ' pugnant either to Religion or common honesty were left unattempted certainly this Church which next stood in their way and immediatly after Canterbury tasted of their fury had beene utterly demolished and offered up a sacrifice to Popularitie But Plundering being then but a stranger in England newly arrived here from desolate Germany especially Plundering of Churches which heretofore were held inviolable Sanctuaries for offenders but much more for their owne innocent ornaments this made a generall out-cry every manderested so soule impietie nay their own partie some of them not yet so deeply leavened with their Anabaptisticall Doctrines nor given up to so reprebate a sense to believe monstrous lyes for truth did not only not approve but sparingly condemne the Fact and the generall vote of the people awakened by Doctor Pask his Letter declared it barbarous and wicked nay the dislike of such proceedings grew to so great a height that some wise men were deceived into an opinion that the Houses would punish the offenders for the present and publish an Order to restrain the like out-rages for the future indeed though some good men Members of both Houses did earnestly desire it yet by experience they quickly found how unequall they were to effect any thing in which they had not the concurrence of the heads of the Faction which ruled in both Houses but much lesse when they rowed against the stream had them for their adversaries The Rebels therefore comming to Rochester brought the same affections along with them which they expressed at Canterbury but in wisedome thought it not safe to give them the same scope here as there for the multitude though mad enough yet were not so mad nor stood yet so prepar'd to approve such heathenish practices by this means the Monuments of the dead which elsewhere they brake up and violated stood untouched Escoucheons and Armes of the Nobilitie and Gentry upbraiding eye-sorcs to broken mean Citizens and vulga● Rebells remained undefaced the Seats Seals of the Quire escaped breaking downe onely those things which were wont to stuffe up Parliament Petitions and were branded by the Leaders of the Faction for Pepery and Innovation in these they took libertie to let loose their wild zeale they brake down the Rayl about the Lords Table or Altar call it which you please and not only so but most basly reviled a now Reverend Prelate who being lately Deane of that Church had for the more uniforme and reverend receiving of the blessed Sacrament set it up with the odious name of Rogue often repeated they seized upon the Velvet covering of the holy Table and in contempt of those holy Mysteries which were Celebrated on the Table removed the Table it selfe into a lower place of the Church in this perfect disciples of that prophane Author of the book called Altare Damascenum Who in the 718P devoutly resolves thus De loco ubi consistat cur solliciti sùm quovis loco utl Angulo extra Tempus Administrationis c●ll●cari ●ossit Concerning the place where the Lords Table shall stand what need we to be sollicitous when out of the time of administration of the Sacrament it may be see aside in any place or obscure corner And to shew what Members they are of the Church of England they strowed the Pavemenet with the torn mangled leaves of the Book of common-Common-Prayer which with the Book of Homilies and the 39 Articles makes up the third Book wherein the Doctrine of the Church of England is fully contained under standing that the Deane that then was was to Preach on Sunday morning Colonel Sandys and Sir John Seatont that false Trayterous Scoe sent unto him to command him to forbeare the wearing of the Surplice and Hood to which

blush to make a free and an ingenuous acknowledgement In these severall Relations what to retract or recall of the Rebels cruelties I yet know nothing but what to adde unto them I doe The sixt weeks Mercury told you of the Plundering of Willingbo●ow in Northampton-shire by the Rebels and the taking of Master Iones Vicar of that Towne Prisoner and in tha● account which I there gave of him I left him in Captivitie at North●mpton since that Mercury went abroad some good body finding that Relat●on to come far short of th●t barbarous usage which Master Iones found from the Rebels moved either with detestation of such inhumane cruelt●e not to be bu●yed in oblivion or out of affection to his person murthered by these savage Monsters hath supplyed the former defect and enabled me to bring this Story to its sad conclusion Master Iones was a man very aged being arrived at that Terme which Moses made the usuall boundary of mans life in his life Threescore and ten and had not these bloodthi●stie men shortned his dayes by an untimely death he might have been so strong as to come to fourescore yeares and though age it self be a disease which yet few men that have it are willing to be cur'd of it pleased God to adde a casuall infirmitie to his naturall for some two yeares since by a fall he unhappily broke his leg of which he continued lame to his death When the Rebells those Locusts that devoure all the good things of the Land came to Wellingborow having ransacked the Towne they took many Prisoners and amongst the rest Master Jones all that knew him must beare him record that he was a man of a most unblameable life and conversation an able Scholler and extraordinarily gifted for Preaching of which he gave ample proofe by his Labours diligently bestowed among his Parishioners by the space of forty years having h●m in their power whom they knew to be a great meanes by his Orthodox Preaching to keepe that Towne and some parts thereabouts in Obedience when the rest of the Countrey were in Rebellion against their Soveraigne they neither reverence his Calling nor honour his age nor pittie his infirmitie but abuse him by scosse● and jeeres and compell him to goe on foot a great part of the way lame and weak as he was betweene Wellingborow and Northampton and that he might keepe pace with the rest they compell him to make more speed then his infirmitie could brooke At Wellingborow the Rebells murthered a Barber and stole away his Beare and when they could not force this reverend old man to mend his pace Lieutenant Grimes a desperate Brownist the master of this mis-rule and the chiefe agent in inflicting all this scor●e and tyranny on Master Jones but since a pr●soner in Banbury Castle to see if feare would adde to his strength forceth the Beare upon him which running betweene his legs took him upon her back and laying ande the intractablenesse of its Nature grew patient of her burden and to the astonishment of the beholders carried him quietly so that what was intended as a violence became his ease The Rebels overcome by so unusual an example of kindnesse the savage Bea●e reproving the madnesse of their fury they remove Master Io●es from off the Beare to a Horse but such a Horse as did but vary not better the condition of his transportation One of the rout observed to be extreamely active in all these insolencies and to have a hand in murthering the Barber seeing the tamenesse of the Bear as quiet under Master Iones as if she had bin accustomed to the Saddle prefumes that it was no more but up and ride and presently bestrides the Beare who as if she had been of that race that did revenge the Prophet Elis●as quarrell dismounts the bold Rider and as if she had bin rob'd of her whelps did so mangle rend and tear him with her teeth and pawes that the presumptuous wretch dyed of these hurts suddenly after Stay Reader suspend thy opinion be not too hastie I professe ingenuously the relation seemes at first blush to partake something of the Romanse or at best to be but an imitation of some Popish Legend as if we meant to implo●e the help of seyned miracles to gain credit to a partie but against all this prejudice I must oppose first the Integritic and qualitie of the Relator being beyond all exception and affirms it on his credit Secondly why may not God stop and open the mouth of the Bear now as well as the Lyons heretofore ● to revenge the indignities offered to a Minister under the Gospel by the same creature as those offered to a Prophet under the Law Or lastly why may not the blood of him that owned this Beast be required by this Beast of him that had his hand in shedding it This was not the first time that God gave commission to the Brute to execute his vengeance But I forget my selfe my businesse is to relate things done not to encounter Objections against their probability of doing To goe on therefore Having brought Master Iones to N●●thampton his entertainment there was as bad as his usage in the way thither though it were in the depth of Winter when old age needed good fortifications of Lodging and Dyet against the incursions of Cold and Wet yet they afford him nothing but a hard mat with a little straw under him and to cover him and to keep him warme nothing but one Blanket and his own wearing clothes As for his food they give him the bread of afflict on d●●ying his owne friends leave to supply him with competent dyet to sustaine nature and his growing infirmities yet to shew that Man lives not by bread onely but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God it pleased his good providence to preserve him like the young children in Daniel fed only with Pulse so that he was in good plight and seemed to want nothing though he continued in this distressed condition from Christmas to almost Easter about which time not remorse of conscience for so much cruelty practiced on a decrepid old man but an Orthodox Reverend Divine but importunitie of friends prevailed with the Rebells to release him of his imprisonment in Northampton and to remit him to a neighbour Ministers of his one M. Walters Bachelor in Divinitie Vicar of Doddington neer Wellingborow a very learned and industrious Preacher and permitted him to Officiate in his owne Cure at Easter there being but one Parish Church in the Towne but no lesse then two thousand Communicants Having licence to visit his Charge not awed by that Tyrannous usage which he had undergone Conscience of his duty doth presse him to a punctuall observance of the Orders and Canons of the Church he Celebrates Divine Service according to the Book of Common Prayer preacheth Obedience as boldly as if there had been no Rebells in Northampton-shire administreth the Sacraments with the same