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A35353	Cathedrall newes from Canterbury shewing, the Canterburian Cathedrall to bee in an abbey-like, corrupt, and rotten condition, which cals for a speedy reformation, or dissolution : vvhich dissolution is already foreshowne, and begun there, by many remarkeable passages upon that place, and the prelats there : amongst which passages of wonder is, the Archbishop of Canterburies passing-bell, rung miraculously in that cathedrall / recorded and published by Richard Culmer ...	Culmer, Richard, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing C7478; ESTC R209928	28,341	30

the old rubbish and build the Temple apace though with the sword in one hand the Trowell in the other And now the godly flock to that Cathedrall againe in such numbers that had not the Idolatrous windows in the Sermon-house bin demolished as they are the numerous Cathedrall auditors would be much annoyed with extreamity of heat Thus we see the Canterburian Babel falls a pace and Christ-Church Cathedrall in Canterburie begins to be Christ-Church indeed as that blessed Martyr Ridley wished or rather prophesied long agoe in a letter of his which is recorded in the book of Martyrs And now least that Cathedral Abbey should prove another Lichfield or Lincolne Cathedrall-Close for the enemy to fortifie and roost in The huge Citie-like gates of that Cathedrall Corporation are all taken down laid aside which was done when the Kentish Malignants began to rise against the King Parliament and Kingdom So that now when an act or Ordinance of Parliament or the Bill for the extirpation of Prelacy already passed both Houses of Parliament being signed by the King which God grant shall shortly root out all Prelacy and Cathedrall Covents then all the Cathedrall rabble at Canterbury may without knocking up their Cathedrall Porter pack away with all their Cathedrall Bagg and Baggage and Prelaticll Popish Trinkets to Lambeth Faire FINIS The Cathedrall of Canterbury once a Convent of Monkes The Citizens of Canterbury petition the Parliament against the Cathedrall there Episcopall government tyrannous Cathedrall Canons Deane Prebends Cathedrall Peticanous Singingmen Pricksong-Service Cathedrall High Altar dressed crouched to Cathedrallmeete-Service-booke-Priest Weavers Tobaccopipe-makers Taylors Butlers Servingmen Seldome-preaching Priests Huddle-Service and currycure a Cathedrall Priest The Cathedrall Sermon removed from the Sermon-house to the Popish Quire and why to get people to their Altar-worship and Piping-Service Communion Tables turned into Altars Seats and Galleries pul'd down to set up Altars A new Cathedrall Font adorned with Images and consecrated by a Lord Bishop who went round about it reading in a Booke and went up the three steps and put his head into the Font A Book called the Antiquities of Canterbury Prelates are Enemies to Preaching A Character or description of a Cathedrall Cathedrall Revenues grossely abused A Cathedrall Health drunke to Prince Rupert A Cathedrall Lasse beguiled by a Singing Man She is Arraigned for the dea h of her Childe Cathedrall ' flaunting pride The Devill the Cathedrall Landresse No Butchers meat will goe downe with a Cathedrall Prelate on All-Saints Day-Many Cathedrall Praachers but few Sermons The Prelates Tyrannous Patronage of Livings maintaines their Kingdome of darknesse Cathedrall Prelates strive to shew the Arch-bishop their forwarduesse in Popish Innovations The Prelates usher in Idolatry Idolatry ushers in the Plague The Cathedrall Altar-Glory which is then shame Cathedrall Prelates consultabout erecting Monuments of superstition and Idolatry Our Queenes mother led to Traitor Arch-bishop Beckets stone in that Cathedrall A Cathedrall Orator tels out Queene Mary that that Cathedrall is the gate of Heaven Cathedral Prelates persecutors of their Brethren They urged the reading of the prophane Book for Sabbath Sports A Cathedrall Nunrod hunting the GRAY on the Lords Day Cathedrall prayers against the Scots Cathedralists foment the Prelaticall War against the Scots Cathedrall Sermons The reall presence Preached for there The Scots and Gun-powdertraytours compared together in a Cathedrall Sermon The Arch bishops Speech in Star-chamber ecchoed in the Cathedrall at Canterbury Cathedrall Doctrine that a Pope gave Christ his name Altar Railes made of Consecrated wood Bishops Visitations stuffe The Scots tailed on at the Arch-bishops Visitation An Arch deacons Visitation speech for Altars as Gods sent at Church Cathedral cutting in the Kings presence Cathedrall Incendiaries Prelates plead for Tyranny and blind obedience Prelaticall pleading for Cathedrall piping and Quiretossed Service The Cathedrall Collicke or belliach More strange Malignant Cathedrall preaching Prelates allow consecrated Snuffers but no Extinguishers for bad Church Lights More Incendiary Cathedral preaching and malignant stuffe A Cathedrall Cooler A good preacher neere a Cathedrall a Miracle After the Cathedral Babels sins follow her plagues Cathedrall joy at false newes for Prelacy Prelacy built on a sandy foundation Flags of tryumph on the Cathedral steeple A Prelaticall fall at Canterburie Heaven points at Innocents at the blood of Innocents when it Prikes at Bishops and Cathedralls Prelates pull down their upholders The Arch-Bishop ruins his Arch-Bishoprick The Bish. new canons shot against heaven the bullet falls back on his own head Prelates pull downe King Prince and Church The King and Church can stand without a Bishop Cathedrall Quire rent and broken at a Consecration The Prelates hang out no more flags Prelates abhor singularity Lawn sleeves The Arch Bishops ominous fall noted More falls neer the Arch-Bishop in that tempest He notes them in his Diary Lambeth fall Croydon fall The Arch-Bishops hanged picture falls He feares his owne ruine The Arch-Bishop fals as low as the Tower of London 12. Bishops fal after him The high Commission Court felts Prelaticall excommunication falls The first fall of Episcopacy was at Canterburie there the Bill against the votes of Bishops in Parliament was signed And signed at arained Abby Signed at the house of the first Arch-Bishop of Canterburie that ever was and where hee was buried The finall fall and ruine of Prelacie The Arch-Biships ominous dreames The Bishops Rochet is lost The service-service-booke is lost The Arch-Bishops dead Father comes for him The Arch Bishop dreames how hee should live what death he should dye Cathedrall Images fall Images put into a cathedral pulpit and why The Prelates complain to the King for their Idols The godly cros the Prelats of Canterburie in their Popish designes The Cathedrall popish progres to the Alter in Service 〈…〉 A heavy stir about Altar service The Altar-priest like to lose his dinner A huge Massif resalutes a congying Altar Priest before the Altar The Prelates stickle for Burgesses in Parliament of their own chusing The Arch Bishops Secretary no Burgesse A Priested Cathedral Weaver votirg with Proctots and Fidlers c. for the Arch-Bishops Secretary to be Purges in Parliament A soule Prelaticall fall though Kings be neere Cathedrall Gods Altars Images service-Service-bookes Prick-songbookes Surplices Pipes and Cathedrall prick-song keep consort The Cathedrall high Altar removed with a vengea●ce A Sacke posset in a consec●aetd Cathedrall Basin An orderly Reformation begun in the Cathedral o● Canterburie Idolls pulled downe enemie vanqushed the same day Cathedrall painted Iesabell Mother of Harlots The first Arch-Bishop of Canterburie his Image first casually demolished The Bishops Myter breakes his neck A viraginous Shee Cathedrallist Prelates plead for Baal A Cathedrall qualme The grand Idolatrous Cathedrall window defaced The Proctors book a helpe to discover demolisht Images against his Wil. The Cathedrallists cry out for their great Diana More abhomina●le monuments of Idolalatry A Cardinalls Hat Crosses did Images without the Cathedrall demollished A supposed miracle of an 〈◊〉 nodding at 〈◊〉 demolishers Idolatry da 〈…〉 committed in that Cathedrall A caveat to those ignorant and superstitious people that cry out against the defacing of monuments of Iolatry The Divell St. Dunstan demolished Cathedrall ceveat dispersed Cathedra signifies a seate or chiar A Cathadrall Church is a seat-Church or a chaire-Church it being a seate or throne of a Romish-Beast called a Diocesan Bishop with his Prelaticall crew Good Cathedrall news from Canterburie Cathedrallists may be packing 〈◊〉 Babell is fallen 〈◊〉 fallen Alleluya

in the two chiefe Churches of that City there were decent and ancient Seats for the Maior and Aldermen of late those seates have been pulled downe to make Roome for the Altars on the East of those Churches to the great hinderance of the Assemblies and all this was done at the command of Doctor c. Parson of Hithe Parson of Ickham Parson of W●ll Parson of Saltwood Prebend of Canterbury Arch-Deacon c. 6. In that Cathedrall there hath been lately erected a Superstitious Font with three Ascents to it paled about with high guilded and painted iron bars having under the Cover of it a carved Image of the Holy Ghost in the forme of a Dove and round about it are placed carved Images of the twelve Apostles and foure Evangelists and of Angels and over it a Carved Image of Christ so that none can looke up in prayer there but hee shall behold those tempting Images in the place of Divine Worship against the Law of God and the Doctrine of the Church of England And all this is done at the costs of Doctor c. late Prebend there now Parson of Back-Church in London Parson of Barham in East-Kent neere Dover Parson of Bishops Bourn Lord Bishop of Rochester c. And that Font was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Oxford as it testified by a Proctor of the Arch-Bishops Ecclesiastical Court in Canterbury in a Booke lately Printed and dedicated to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and adorned with the Pictures of his Miter and Coat-Armes and of many Altars and idolatrous Monuments and of that New Cathedrall Font 7. From the over-awing greatnesse of those Cathedrall Prelates and of the Arch-Bishops Ecclesiasticall Courts there Preaching and Lectures are much decayed in that City so that two Publique Lectures are put downe and divers able though conformable Ministers have beene hindred from Preaching there And many scandalous and unable Priests have been and now are beneficed and upheld there by the Arch-Bishop and Cathedrall Prelates and lewd persons admitted to the Lords Table to the great dishonour of God and Offence of the Godly Besides many other heavy grievances in matters of Religion common to the whole Kingdome The most humble and hearty Petition of the said Inhabitants is that the premised soule-pressing grievances may bee taken into the comideration of this Honourable Assembly And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. This Petition confirmeth this Character or description of a Cathedrall Corporation A Cathedrall is a nest of Non-Residents an Epicurean Colledge of ryot and voluptuausnesse A Schoole for Complement in Religion but a scourge upon the life and practice thereof A refuge for superstition but the bane of true peity The shame of the Clergy and the scorne of the Laity But this Petition and Character is no Cathedrall newes to those that live neere the Canterburian Cathedrall the vast revenues whereof which might advance Religion Learning and an able Ministry have been so long time abused to the maintenance of Ignorance Superstition Pride Luxurie c. Cathedrall carding dicing dancing swearing drunkennesse and drabbing too are no newes No wonder to see the Sacke-bottles keepe ranke and file in their Studies besides Taverne tospotting and smoaking It is no newes to tell you that Prince Ruperts health was drunke lately in that Cathedrall It is attested to the Honourable Committee concerning plundred Ministers that Mr. c. upon the Fast day in the afternoone at the Taverne with other Gentlemen drunke about ten healths and continued there untill night where he was left with the Deane of Canterbury A Tavern-haunting Cathedrall Doctor is no wonder reeling after a Malignant meeting and being beholding to a supporter How did the Cathedrall Prelates bestirre themselves for their brave female Cathedralist who was lately delivered of a childe alone secretly in a vault in that Cathedrall calling no help a few daies after she being discovered to have had a Child after search the childe was found dead in the Vault there wanted Pope Gregories Fish-pond Shee was arraigned at the Sessions for the murder but Malignant and Prelaticall Justices left the Cathedrall should suffer with her at the gallowes so bestirred themselves that shee was acquitted though the Learned and well-affected Judge said in open Sessions that nothing but the Kings pardon could save her And another Noble and valiant Patriot then sitting on the Bench openly protested against that verdict at her Tryall How flaunting is the garbe of those Cathedrall Prelates and Prelatesses all Lady-like at least in all accoutrements of House habits c. So that I have heard it often averred upon experience that the Cathedrall pride and bravery hath infected Citie and Countrey by marriages and otherwise A most proud Cathedrall Dame there being to goe to a great meeting her Maid could not please her in Starching her Ruffe though she did it often in one day The Maid brought it to her againe at night but she in a rage threw it downe and stampt it under her feet and beate her Maid charging her to sit up and starch it but it being late and the Maid out of hope to please her went to bed leaving the Ruffe flapt together as her Mistris had stampt it The next morning the Ruffe was found starch't none knew how shee then brought it to her Mistresse who said I marry could you not have done it so before This matter was most strictly examined and it could not bee found that any knew of the starching of it though her husband bestir'd himself much to find out the truth whereupon in conclusion he threw the Ruffe into the Fire out of which itleap'd untill hee held it in the Fire with the Tonges and so consumed it in the flame so that it is famous in City and Country that the Devil was the Cathedrall Landresse On All-Saints day 1639. a Cathedral Prelate being at a Feast there was asked if hee would eate of such a dish Tush said he doe you think I le eate any Butchers meat on All-Saintsday How often have Ministers left whole Parishes unprovided on Sabbath dayes and Fast dayes to preach in that Cathedrall for Lazy Prelates who were sleepy Auditors when they should have been the Preachers themselves The Sabbath injoyed but one Sermon in that Cathedrall amongst all those Cathedrall preachers An able Orthodox Divine could not have a Living in those parts untill every Cathedrall Canon or Prebend had two or three and every Petti-Cannon one though a meer-Reading-Service-Booke-Priest This is one fruit of the Prelates Tyrannous Patronage of Livings wherby they so much advanced Popery and Prelacy and their Kingdom of darknes There are but seven Parishes in the fruitful pleasant Isle of Thanet in Kent and three of these seven the now Arch-Bishop bestowed upon His Graces young Chaplaine beside a Prebendship of Canterbury And all this no question for his professed forwardnesse in the Arch-Bishops pious designes

and Actions of those Cathedrall Prelates to support Popery Prelacy and Tyranny Why then should any stomack the fall of Prelacy and Cathedrals especially of the Canterburian Cathedrall Babell of whose sinnes you have heard a little and may see ten times more upon Record in this present Parliament you shall now heare the Beginning of her plagues And here I shall begin with strange Cathedrall newes yet such as is most true and well known to all that live in or neer Canterburie And wch the Cathedrallists themselves cannot deny though living like boares in a paddock or stie they may grunt at the noyse of it The Cathedrall Prelats at Canterbury hearing a rumour though false that the Scots had yielded to entertaine Bishops at the Pacification in the North in the yeare 1639. they were overjoyed at that newes being before in a quaking feare that having on each shoulder a steeple or two and a Cathedrall on their head they should be eased of their beloved burden by a Reformation which they feared might reach from Edenborough in Scotland to Canterburie in England well knowing that Prelacy and Cathedralls were built upon the sandy foundation of Ignorance Superstition Ambition and Covetousnesse and had only custome and humane power to uphold them And to expresse their great triumph at that newes they did then in the Summer time in the height of their Prelaticall glory set up upon the foure Pinacles of their highest Cathedrall steeple called Bell-harry steeple 4 great iron fanes or flags on which the Coate-Arms of the King Prince Church and Archbishop of Canterburie were severally guilded and painted But in the end of December following in the midst of their Cathedral Iovialities and Christmas Gamballs there was a Gamball plaid by the flag which had the Archbishops armes on it which had a tumbling cast from the top of the steeple being strucken downe by a stroake from heaven in a fearefull tempest on Innocents day early in the morning And the Archbishops arms pulld down the top of the pinacle which upheld them and were carryed partly against the wind a good distance from the steeple on which they stood and fell upon the roofe of the Cloyster in which Cloyster the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick of Cant. were carved painted on the lower side or concave of the Arch or seeling of the Cloyster which Armes in the Cloyster were dashed in peices by the Armes which fell from the pinacle of the steeple The Arms of the present Arch-Bishop of Canterburie brake downe the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick or Sea of Canterburie The fall was so violent that it brake through the leads plancks timbers and stone-Arch of the Cloyster and made an impression in the pavement of the Cloyster as if it had been done with Canon shot which impression is partly to be seene at this day though repayred And this prodigious fall of the Arch-Bishops Armes was very neer the place where that proud Prelate Thomas Becket Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and Arch Traytor was cast down headlong in that Cathedrall for his Treason and Rebellion And very neere the unparallel'd Idolatrous window in that Cathedrall But the Prelats bestir'd themselves in the morning and tooke away in all smoaking hast the broken Armes and rabbish and swept all cleane that lesse notice might be taken of that lamentable ruine And to hide the deformity of the crop-ear'd steeple and to take away the observation and remembrance of that downfall which concerned their gracious Diocesan and great Cathedral so much they would not suffer the Armes of the King Prince and Church to stand any longer on the other three pinacles but tooke them all three downe instantly Those Armes of King Prince and Church being untouched with the tempest and standing all three firme and glorious on the other pinacles of the steeple without the help or company of that tottering Prelate who had left them at a pinch of need And the Cathedrall men repaited the broken Cloyster gilding painting the Arch over head as it was before but they have made other Coate-Armes in the roome of the Armes of the Arch-Bishoprick because they would conceale that strange ruine of those Armes And they have repaired the roofe of their Idolatrous Quire which a little before the Arch-Bishops Armes fell downe was terribly rent and broken also in a wondrous tempest That very night the Bishop of Oxford came to that Cathedrall to consecrate their new brave Cathadrall Font And they mended the top of the broken pinacle but never hunge out their flaggs any more since Alas poore Cathedrall And because the new repaired pinacle was white diffring in colour from the other three they were at great cost to raise a huge Scaffold only to white over the top of one other pinacle that their Arch-Prelate might not be pointed at as singular but they were deceived for the two new whited Pinacles were seene and pointed at a far off and were said to have a paire of white lawne sleeves drawne over them as a perpetuall monument of their Arch-Prelates two broken Armes and downfall And it was then observed as wonderfully ominous foreshewing the utter downfal and ruine of Prelicie as these verses then made thereupon declare Cathedrall Church at Canterbury Hath taken mortall harmes The Quire and Cloyster do want a plaister And so doe the Arch-Bishops Armes The heavens just stroake the Prelates Armes broke And did Cathedrall maule 2. 6. 3. 9. Brought forth this signe Heaven foretells Prelates fall I have lately seene the Arch Bishop of Canterburies diary written with his own hand as he and his Secretary have confest in the Lords house in Parliament which booke Mr. Prynno found in his pocket in the Tower of London some months since and hath been often read in that House since the Bishops tryall in which booke the Arch-Bishop writes verbatins thus 1639. Decemb. 27. Friday being St. Johns day at night between 12. and 2. of the clock the next morning the greatest winde that ever I heard blow many of the watermen at Lambeth had their boates tumbled up and downe and broken to pieces as they lay on the land out of my servants went to London and durst not come home that evening the weather was so foule that night the shafts of two chimneyes as Lambath were beat down upon the roofe of his chamber and beat downe both the lead and the rafters upon his bed where had he been that night he must have perished At Croydon one of the pinacles fell from the steeple and burst downe the lead and roofe of the Church 〈◊〉 20. foote square 1633. Septemb. 19. Thursday I was translated to the Arch-Bishopprick of Canterburie 18. The day before when I went to Lambeth my Coach-horses and men suncke to the bottome of the Thames in the Ferry-boat which was overladen 1639. Tuesday Simon and Judes Eve I went into my upper Study

which hee put in execution with what speed hee could But his Parishioners at Mynster couragiously opposed his Innovations there yet he cut and defaced the Seats and set up his Altar and Railes and fell to Ducking and threatned them with the Arch-Bishop and High-Commission if they would not come up and receive the Communion kneeling before the Altar at the Raile and when they told him it grieved them that hee should make their Parith a President to all others of Popish Innovations the Young Cathedrall Doctor replyed and said that he was the Arch-Bishop of Canterburies Chiefe Chaplaine and therefore would shew his GRACE his forwardnesse in those things All which and more too divers Witnesses have testified to the Honourable Committee of Parliament for Plundered Ministers In the Yeere 1633. The Romish dressing and bowing towards the High Altar began in that Cathedrall and a while after the Plague was very bot there in many Cathedrall Houses so that the Prelates were driven from their Altar and Cathedrall too which was left in a manner desolate Their Cathedrall-Altar-Glory-cloth before mentioned was lately found out where they had laid it in that Cathedrall and is now in the hands of the Honorable Committte of Parliament for demolishing of Idolatrous monuments That Glory which is the shame of their Cathedrall is made of very rich Imbroydery of Gold and Silver the name Jehovah on the top in Gold upon a cloth of Silver and below it a semicircle of Gold and from thence glorious rayes and clouds and gleames and points of rayes direct and waved streame downewards upon the Altar as if Jehovah God himselfe were there present in glory in that Cathedrall at the Altar and all this to draw the people to looke and worship towards the Altar and thereby to usher in the breaden god of Rome and Idolatry The large patterne of that superstitious GLORY being made of papers pasted together wch is now kept with the Glory hath written on it thus Is not this circle too large if so it may best bee mended as wee conceive by inlarging the golden circle at the extremities of it and by inlarging it inward What thinke you of working the rayes without clouds If you can conceive it fitting it will much lessen the charge our feare is the Clouds will not bee well wrought and then the rayes will shew far better without them W. B. This was written on the patterne at London by a Cathedrall Doctor of Canterbury as John Rowell the Imbroiderer that made that Glory hath lately testified upon his examination taken before the truely religious Sir Robert Harley who being in the Chaire of that Committee hath beside that Glory such Idolatrous Popish Pictures and other Popish trinkets taken out of the Kings Chappell and from the Archbishop of Canterbury and else-where that a true Protestant would be astonished to behold them they are so abominable but they are all appointed to the fire And the said John Rowel testifieth that after the patterne was so written on at London it was carried to the Cathedrall at Canterbury and there the Prebendaries met and consulted about that Glory and then the patterne was written on there in answer to the former writing thus Wee conceive this Ovall-forme would doe better in a semicircle and extend the Glory more on either side These Clouds well shadowed and well wrought and pierced with raies will be most proper We conceive also that the Field should be more Azure then Silver which will soone tarnish And the Imbroiderer further testifieth that all the Prebendaries did approve of the making of that Glory for the Altar It is not long since our Queenes Mother was led by these Prelates to Arch-Bishop Thomas Beckets stone in that Cathedrall the stone on which hee fell when hee was cast downe headlong in that Cathedrall when hee was executed for his treason and rebellion and shee came out of her Sedan and bowed towards it some say she kist it as thousands of Papists have done before her and it was then said to her looke on the cracke in that stone that mouth calls to heaven for vengeance on those that shed this holy Martyrs blood a Traytour Martyr I wis a Saint fit for a Roman Calender and a Cathedrall shrine When Queen Mary her daughter came to that Cathedrall in her late journey to Dovor when she went beyond Sea into Holland shee being entertained in that Cathedrall a Cathedrall Prelate there said in his courting Oration to her that that Cathedrall Church whatsoever some said to the contrary was the gate of heaven I saw the Deane and Prebendaries then the Arch-Bishops Commissioners sitting in plena curia in the Arch-Bishops Consistory Court in that Cathedrall when divers Kentish Ministers were brought to the Bar before them and sentenced for refusing to publish the Prophane Book for Sabbath Sports and Dancings which is now justly contradicted and condemned to the fire by a late Sacred Ordinance of Parliament for the better Observation of that Day The Nimrod of that Cathedrall a mighty Hunter and Hawker too was wont very often to hunt Hares and Foxes on weeke dayes but he hunted the GRAY or Badger on the Sabbath Day about five yeers since In plaine termes thus The Deane of Canterbury hearing that one Mr. GRAY a Godly and able Minister now living in Effex had Preached against the Prelates Popish proceedings then on foot and being informed that hee was to Preach againe being a Stranger in those parts the next Sabbath the Deane that Sabbath morning rode out to find him and Hunted from Shoulden to Ham from Parish to Parish at last towards night he came to Sandwich where he had almost caught the Game hee pursued and persecuted but the GRAY was crept through a secret Muse whereupon the Deane caused the Towne Gates to be shut and Watchmen were set with Halbards at every corner but the Preacher escaped them all The persecuted Preacher went beyond the Bridge by the Wind-Mill and escaped the wrath of that Cathedrall Levi who had a Simeon with him in that Spanish Inquisition The Preacher may say Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell But the Prelate caused divers Godly men to bee brought into the Towne Hall at Sandwich where they were questioned and spoken against by him in his Prelaticall outragious fury Mr. Thomas Foach was bound over to the High Commission Because the GRAY tooke earth or burrow in his Ground But the Minister having on a coloured Suite of Mr. John Foaches now living neer Magnes Church at London-Bridge escaped along the Sea Coast by the conduct of Mr. Anthony Oldfield to Lid and so to Tenterden and so to London Many other Ministers have within few yeeres been persecuted in that Cathedrall or by some of those Cathedrall Prelates as Mr. Huntley Mr. Gardener Mr. Partridge Mr. Player Mr. Hieron and others both Ministers and People and

to see some Manuscripts which I was sending to Oxford in that Study hung my picture taken by the life and comming in I found it fallen downe upon the face and lying on the floore the string being broken by which it was hanged against the wall I am almost everyday threatned with my ruine in Parliament God grant this be no Omen This the Archbishop hath written and if any doubt of it he may see the Book which is now in Mr. Prin's custody I read in Duplessis Mistery of iniquity that when the Prelacie of Rome began to be ●●aken by Luther's thundring and some Princes joyning with him against the Pope the Image of St. Peter whose Successor the Pope falsly pretends to be standing aloft with keyes in his hand the keyes were struck out of the Images hand in a Tempest And Sir Francis Bacon in his History of Henry the 7th tels us that Philip the young King of Spaine who bare the Spread-Eagle in his Armes being in London the Gilded Eagle a lane in forme of an Eagle standing on the then Spired Steeple of the Cathedrall called Pauls in London fell downe in a Tempest and in the fall brake downe the signe of the Eagle hanging at a doore in Pauls Church-yard which was then much noted as Ominous to that Prince who not many dayes after fell from his Life and Kingdome And not long after this Parallell fall of the Arch-Bishops Armes the Arch-Bishop himselfe fell from as high as Lambeth nay from the Lords House in Parliament as low as the Tower of London for no lesse crime then High Treason And twelve other Bishops being high flowne above the high Court of Parliament in their proud Protestation did fall as low as that Tower also for their just deserts And a litle after that Episcopacie it selfe began to fall by that noble Act of Parliament against the High Commission Court by which Act the iron teeth of the Beast were knockt out and the Sting of abused Excommunication was pluckt out of his Tayle And since that which makes the fore recited fall at Canterbury more observable as predigious and betokening the ruine of Prelacie as proud Welsey Cardinall and Arch-Bishop said of the fall of his Crosier staffe at Yorke a litle before his owne fall and deserved death malum omen that is ani'l token The Kings Majesty casually passing through Canterbury in his Journey with the Queene to Dover staying a litle at Canterbury did at Canterbury and no where else in all England signe the Bill against the Votes of Bishops in Parliament which Act threw downe our Lofty Lordly Prelates from the Pinacle of their ambition And this Bill was not onely signed at Canterbury where the Armes of the Primat or prime Prelat of al England were so demolished in the Metropolitan Cathredral or prime Seat or Throne of the Beast called a Cathedrall but which is most observable it was signed at arained Abbey adjoyning to that Cathredrall And that Abbey in which the very first Bill and Act of Parliament against Bishops was signed by his Majesty was the Abbey of Austin the Monke who was the very first Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that ever was and a most superstitious persecutor and bloudy Incendiary of Church and State which is Recorded to his Litle LAUD and was buried at Canterbury in that Abbey where Episcopacy it self hath now received a deadly wound by the Royall assent to that Bill And since that Bill was signed another Bill hath passed Both Houses of Parliament whereby all that cursed prelaticall Hierarchy of Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Arch-Deacons c. is cut downe root and branch and hath its finall Doome and Down-fall Prelate remember the Pincale And as for the Canterburian Arch-Prelate whose Coate-Armes Badges of Honour were so cast downe his charge Impeachment of high Treason now brings him to a dishonourable low posture at the Bar of the highest Court of Justice where it will shortly appeare what these prodigious falls portended a sparrow not falling to the ground without the divine providence I find in the recited Diary or day-booke written with the Arch-Bishops own hand word for word thus 1628. Ian. 31. Saturday night I lay in Court I dreamed that I put off my Rochet all save one steeve and when I would have put it on againe I could not find it 1638. Feb. 12. Tuesday night I dreamed that K. C. was to be married to a Ministers Widow and that I was called up to doe it no Service-booke could be found and in mine owne booke which I had I could not find the order for Marriage 1639. Ianu 24. Friday at night I dreamed that my father who dyed 46. years since came to me and to my thinking he was as wel as ever I saw him he asked me what I did here and after some speech I asked him how long he would stay with me hee answered he would stay till he had me away with him I am not moved with dreames yet I thought fit to remember this All this may now be seene written with the Arch-Bishops owne hand in that book of his now in Mr. Prinns custodie And the Arch-Bishop himselfe being at White-Hall in his jollity and Ruffe about 5. years since told the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembrocks and Earle of Monmouth that when he was in Oxford he dreamed that he should come to the highest and greatest preferment in Church and State that ever any Clergy man did that he should be in great favour power and authority and make great changes and alterations in the Church for sundry years but yet after al this he should be hang'd at last At which the said Lords falling into a great laughter His Majesty that now is hearing it came into the room demanded of them the cause of their mirth that he might have a share of it whereunto the truly noble Earle of Pembrooke answered that the reason of their laughter was at a dream wch the Arch-Bishop of Canterburie had newly told them Whereupon the King demanded what the dream was to which the Earle replyed that it was the Arch-Bishops own dream he was best able to relate it to his Majesty upon which the King calling the Arch-Bishop to him caused him in their presence to tel the dream over again to the King himselfe But to returne to my Cathedrall newes to tell you what hath followed those observable alarums in that Cathedrall On their Candlemas day at night 1641. Those Consecrated Images about their new Cathedral Font were all demolished taken away they knew not how nor by whom that purification was observed without Candles But a few days after some of those Idols were found in that Cathedral in a Pulpit where a Sermon had not bin preached neer 20. years before But were not those Images put into that Pulpit to preach in that Cathedral touching wooden Priests and Idol-Shepheards but of that