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A92975	The severall humble petitions of D. Bastwicke. M. Burton. M. Prynne. and of Nath. VVickins, servant to the said Mr. Prynne. To the Honourable House of Parliament. Whereto is added the humble petitions of severall friends of the said Mr. Prynne, and the acknowledgmeut [sic] prescrib'd to be made by Calvin Bruen, and the rest, in the Cathedrall Church of Chester, and town-hall thereof, for visiting the said Mr. Prynne.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing S2765; Thomason E207_4; ESTC R209836	16,501	49

The severall Humble PETITIONS OF D. BASTWICKE M. BURTON M. PRYNNE And of NATH VVICKINS Servant to the said Mr PRYNNE To the Honourable house of PARLIAMENT Whereto is added the humble petitions of severall Friends of the said Mr PRYNNE and the acknowledgment prescrib'd to be made by Calvin Bruen and the rest in the Cathedrall Church of Chester and Town-Hall thereof for visiting the said Mr. PRYNNE Printed in the Yeere 1641. All flesh is Grass the best men vanity This but a shadow here before thine eye Of him whose wondrous changes clearly show That GOD not men swayes all things here below TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of VVilliam Prynne late exile and close Prisoner in the I le of Jersey In all humblenesse sheweth THat your Petitioner though not conscientious to himselfe of any voluntary or apparant offence against the Lawes of the Realme to which he ever studied to conforme himselfe through the malicious practises and persecutions of some Prelates and Church-men especially the now Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Peter Heylin Doctor in Divinity whose errors and Innovations contrary to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England and extravagancies in the high Commission and other Ecclesiasticall Courts your Petitioner for his owne reliefe being there unjustly profecuted had to his weake power oppugned hath within eight yeeres last past undergone two heavy Censures in the Starre-Chamber Court The first upon an Information there exhibited against your Petitioner by M. No● deceased then Attourney Generall for some misconstrued passages inoffensive in themselves and in your Petitioners true intention being for the most part the words of other approved Authors comprised in a Booke stiled Histriomastix written by the petitioner against common Interludes and licensed for the presse by M. Thomas Buckner houshold Chaplaine to the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury authorized by the State to license Bookes and by him exactly perused and approved both in the written and printed Copy before its publication and so confessed in the information for which authorized Booke and passages your Petitioner before the hearing of the cause was not onely imprisoned in the Tower of London without Baile of Manuprise for a whole yeares space denyed accesse to his Counsell convenient time to examine witnesses and make Breviats to instruct his Counsell the information being Generall and reciting no particular Clauses of the Booke excepted against this exhibits the onely meanes of his defence Illegally suppressed some of his Counsell Tampered with to make no justification contrary to your Petitioners instructions and desire whereby his cause was miscarried But also at the hearing by reason of those malicions and perverse glosses on the said passages which the said Heylin had collected and presented to his Majesties learned Counsell who repeated his Instructions onely your Petitioner was fined 3000 l. to his Majesty expelled the University of Oxford and Lyncolnes inne degraded from his profession of the Law wherein he never offended Set in the Pillory in the Pallace-yard at Westminster where he lost one of his Eares And two dayes after on the Pillory in Cheape-side where hee lost the other eare and had his said Lycensed Bookes there publikely burnt before his face by the Hang-man in a most disgracefull manner and adjudged after to remaine a prisoner during his life That after the said censure to defame and injure your Petitioner the more he was charged wrongfully in the Decree as censured for Perjury though not taxed for it by the Court and betweene his suff'rings in the Pillory the Bookes of his Studie twice surveyed and restored to him by order from the Lords before any fine estreated by a warrant out of the High Commission signed by the said Arch-bishop others were seised by on Crosse a messenger who carried them to his house with which your Petitioner charging the said Arch-bishop upon occasion in the open Court of Star-chamber he there publikely disavowed the same though your Petitioner can yet produce it under his owne hand promising withall that the Bookes should be restored forthwith which notwithstanding were all still detained by his meanes till they were extended and sold for your Petitioners Fyne Who shortly after by an Order out of the said Court sent to the Tower to be executed was there shut up close Prisoner and Doctor Reeves sent thither to search his Chamber for the Pamphlet which the said Arch-bishop would wrongfully have Fathered upon your Petitioner whose friends have beene unjustly prosecuted in the Exchequer and elsewhere sundry yeares for his Fine aforesaid And your Petitioner further saith that about Easter was three yeares during his imprisonment in the Tower by meanes of the said Arch-bishop a new information was exhibited in the said Court against your Petitioner and others with certaine Bookes thereto annexed Denying the Prelats Iurisdiction over other Ministers to bee Iure-divino Charging them with many errours and Innovations in Religion Vsurpation upon his Majesties Prerogative and Subjects liberty abuses and extortions in the high Commission And other Ecclesiasticall Courts suppressing Preaching And painefull Ministers without a cause Lycensing Popish Arminian and other Erroneous Bookes Against the Sabboth setting up Altars Images And Crucifixes Removing and Rayling in Communion Tables and Bowing down to them Altering the Booke of Common Prayer the Bookes for the Gunpowder Treason and late Fast in some Materiall passages in favour of Popery and Papists Which thing though very notorious and oft complained against by this Honourable house in former and late Parliaments were yet reputed Scandalous And though neither of the said Bookes was particularly charged on your Petitioner in the said information nor any witnesse produced to prove him either Authour or disperser of any of them yet by denying your Petitioner liberty to draw up his owne Answer though once a Barister at Law when as his Assigned Counsell refused to doe it by close Imprisoning your Petitioner and his Servant by debarring him Pen Inke and Paper whereby to Answer or Instruct his Counsell searching his chamber and taking away part of his Answer there found denying him Accesse to his Counsell and conference with his Co-defendants even at Counsell though joyntly charged with him Rejecting the Crosse Bill exhibited by him for his defence threatning Master Holt one of your Petitioners Assigned Counsell sent by the then Lord Keeper to the Tower to draw up your Petitioners Answer and commanding him not to signe it after it was engrossed Whereupon he refused to subscribe it contrary to his promise to your Petitioner and by refusing to accept your Petitioners Answers to the said Information signed with his owne and Master Tomlins the other of his Counsells hands though tendred by your Petitioner both at the Star chamber Office and in the open Court at the hearing the said Information for default of Answer though two Answers were thereto tendred by your Petitioner was taken Pro confesso against

maintained by way of Argument as other Orthodox writers of that Subject usually have done a parity of the said Bishop of Rome or all other Bishops or Presbitters by the word of God denying his and their supremacy over other Ministers to be by the Divine institution Thereupon a Pursevant by Authority from the high Commission Court came into your Petitioners house at Colchester in Essex in his absence And the said Pursevant assisted with the then Bayliffes and Constables of Colchester aforesaid Ransaked his said house together with his Chests and Truncks and with great violence broke open your Petitioners Study which was in his Apothecaries house and took and carried away divers of your Petitioners Bookes Writings Letters and what else the Pursevant pleased without making of restitution of them to your Petitioner And then your Petitioner was prosecuted in the said high Commission Court principally for his said Booke where after a long and charitable prosecution he was the 12. of February 1634 fined 1000li. to the King excommunicated debarred to practice Physicke the chiefest meanes of his lively-hood his said Booke ordered to be burnt That he should pay cost of suit and be imprisoned till he should make a recantation the which heavy censure was onely for the said Booke wherein your Petitioner maintained the prerogative of a King against the Papacy Whereas one Thomas Chawney of Essex lately wrote a Booke in maintenance of the Papall Religion and in defence of the Church of Rome and averres it to be a true Church the which Booke is dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury and was and is patronized and defended by the said Archbishop and the said Chawney never troubled for it After which censure declared as aforesaid all the Bishops that were then present denyed openly that they held their jurisdiction from his Majesty and affirmed that they had it from God onely and the Archbishop of Canterbury among many other Erroneous sayings uttered by him maintained the said Chawneys Booke and maintained that the Church of Rome was a true Church and that it erred not in fundamentals and he and other the said Bishops there defamed the holy Scriptures and abused reverend Master Calvin In regard whereof and for the vindicating of your Petitioners innocency in the matters for which he was most unjustly censured as aforesaid your Petitioner published in Print another Booke in Latine Intituled Apologeticus ad Presules Anglicanos expressing the truth of his proceedings and speeces of his said censure For which last mentioned Booke and his Booke called the Lettany not then in Print an information was exhibited against him and others in the Starre-chamber to which your Petitioners answer being drawn engrossed was onely subscribed by himselfe because he could get no counsell to set their hands to it your Petitioner tendred the said answer first at the Star-chamber Office and after in open Court at the Star-chamber Bar but it would not be accepted for want of counsellors hands to it contrary to former Presidents But the Court of Star-chamber tooke the said information Pro confesso and censured Your Petitioner 5000 li. fine to the King to stand in the Pillory and to loose both his eares and to be close prisoner in Lancaster castle in Cornewall all which hath beene executed upon him with great extremity to the perill of his life After all which extremity your Petitioner by what order he knoweth it not it being no part of his censure in Star-chamber was transported from the said castle To the Iland of Sylly a place so barren that it affords not ordinary necessaries where he hath beene in close duration for three yeares or more and not suffered to have any of his friends come at him his very Wife being prohibited by the Lords of the counsels order under paine of imprisonment not to set her foot upon any part of the said Iland to enquire of his wellfare So that your Petitioner hath beene exiled from his wife and divers small children 3. years and more besides the great straights and miseries which he hath sustained during the said time All which is contrary to the law of God and man and the Liberties of a free Subject and to the utter undoing of your Petitioner his Wife and children May it therefore please this Honourable Assembly to take these pressing grievances of your Petitioner into your considerations and to afford him such reliefe therein as in your grave Wisdomes shall seeme Consonant to Justice and equity and to assigne him for Counsell Master Atkins Master Ludbore Master Tomlins Master Curdon and Master Randall to assist him in this his complaint and to order that your Petitioner may take out Gratis such Copies of the said Censures Warrants and Orders and other the proceedings in the said severall Courts as shall or may any way concerne this his sad yet most just complaint with warrant from this Honourable house to bring in his witnesse And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray for your prosperities IOHN BASTWICKE TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of Henry Burton late exile and close Prisoner in Castle Cornet in the I le of Garnsey In all humblenesse sheweth THat whereas your Petitioner on the 5 of Novemb. 1636 did preach two Sermons in his owne Parish Church in S. Mathew Friday street London for the which hee was in December then next following summoned to appeare before D. Ducke one of the Commissioners for causes Ecclesiasticall at Cheswicke in the County of Middlesex where with the Register of the High Commission Coutt the said D. Ducke tendred to the Petitioner the Oath Ex Officio to answer to certaine Articles there presented which Oath the Petitioner refusing to take did then and there appeale from the said Court unto the Kings Majesty which appeale the said D. Ducke did admit and the said Register by D. Ducks direction did then and there enter in writing Loe here the shadow of a man set free From death from graue dost ask how this could bee Doubt not The vertue of CHRISTS death hath done it And powerfull prayers of his Redeem'd ones won it Notwithstanding which said appeale a speciall High Commission Court was shortly after called at London consisting of 4 or 5 Doctors where the said Commissioners proceeded illegally to suspend the Petitioner in his absence by meanes whereof as of the threatnings of the said Commissioners he was enforced to keepe his house untill a Sergeant at Armes with divers Pursevants and other armed Officers assisted by Alderman Abell then Sheriffe of London beset the Petitioners House at 11 of the Clocke at night and violently broke open his dores with Iron Crowes and the like and surprised him in his house he making no resistance at all where having first searched his study and taking away such bookes as they pleased they carried your Petitioner to prison whence the next day being the second of Febr.

by a pretended order from the Lords of the Counsell hee was conveyed to the Fleet and there kept close prisoner During which imprisonment an information was exhibited against the petitioner and others in his Majesties Court of Star-Chamber whereby he was charged inter alia with the publishing of a certaine Booke containing an Apologie for an Appeale with his said two Sermons intituled For God and the King wherein hee taught Subjects to yeeld all manner of due obedience to their lawfull King and reproved all lawlesse Innovations in Religion c. Which Information the petitioner upon his Oath under the hand of M. Holt being then of his counsell assigned by speciall order from the said Court did put in his answer wherein hee alledged such things onely as his said Counsell conceived to be materiall and pertinent for his just defence in publishing the said booke but denyed all other matters in the said Information conteined which said Answer being admitted and received in Court the petitioner being then a close prisoner not onely attended the exhibiting of Interrogatories according to the custome of that Court but withall after some universall delay did write unto the Kings Attourney to hasten them but before the examiner came the petitioner heard that his said Answer was referred to S. Iohn Bramston Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Iohn Finch then chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas and was by them wholy expunged as impertinent and Scandalous save onely the not guilty And the Petitioner understanding the answer he was to make to the Interrogatories was to be reckned as a part of his answer admitted in court but afterwards expunged as impertinent scandalous as aforesaid so as if he should then have answered the Interrogatories he shold thereby have assented to the said act of the said Iudges and so to the condemnation of his cause before the hearing wherby he should have contracted his former Oath that his said Answer was a true Answer and so should justly have brought himselfe under the guilt of wilfull perjury and his cause under just censure For that very reason he held himselfe not bound as hee conceived to answer the Interrogatories for that his said answer was so expunged and the Not Guilty as the foot so tyed to the head without the maine body and that in the Judges owne words as the Petitioner could not in any sort take or acknowledge it now for other then the Judges owne answer as may appeare upon Record in the same Court Neverthelesse the Court taking the same information Pro confesso and refusing to admit a copy of the Petitioners own true answer as also of his reasons of not answering the Interrogatories both which at his Censure he tendred to the Court desiring they might be then and there publikely read the 14. of Iune 13. Caroli Regis proceeded to censure whereby your Petitioner was Censured in a Fine of 5000. li. to his Majesty To be deprived of his Ecclesiasticall Benefice degraded from his Ministeriall function and degrees in the Vniversity and ordered to be set on the Pillory where both his eares were to be cut off confined to perpetuall close imprisonment in Lancaster Castle debarred the accesse of his wife or any other to come to him but onely his Keeper and denied the use of penne inke and paper All which except the Fine was executed accordingly And after his close imprisonment for twelve weekes in the common Gaole in the said Castle he was by what extrajudiciall order he knows not transported by the conduct of one Brian Burton appointed by the High Sheriffe of Lancaster who used your Petitioner very basely and deceitfully in that his transportation which was in the Winter season through dangerous seas to the apparant hazzard both of his health and life to he said Castle of Garnsey where hee hath remained a close prisoner and exile almost three whole yeares his wife utterly prohibited upon paine of imprisonment to set her foot upon any part of the Iland where she might but enquire how her husband did contrary to the Lawes of God and the liberties of this Kingdome May it therefore please this Honorable House to take the Petitioners sad cause into consideration and for the better manifestation of his grievance in this cause to assigne him for Counsell Master Serjeant Atkins Master Tomlins and Master Gurdon to assist him in his cause and to command that he may take out such copies Gratis out of the said severall Courts as doe or may concerne his said cause And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall daily pray for your prosperities HENRY BURTON The humble Petition of Nathanael Wickings servant to Master Prinne and late prisoner in the White-Lion in Southwarke Most humbly sheweth THat more then 3 years and a half since your Petitioner being servatn to Master William Prinne then prisoner in the Tower pending the last Information against his said Master in the Star-chamber was apprehended in the Tower by a Messenger by a warrant from the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords and by him determined close prisoner by the space of tenne weekes that none could speake with him but his Majesties Attourney General his Majesties then Solicitor who examined him three severall times upon secrets of his said Masters to extort some matter of accusation against his said Master by Dures That after tenne weekes end your Petitioner was from that close custody by warrant from the Counsell Board delivered over into the hands of Iohn Ragge a Messenger attendant upon the High Commission Court to be by him delivered to the Keeper of the Gate-house But the said Ragge carryed your Petitioner home to his owne house and there detained him two dayes and a night till some of the High-Commissioners had signed a warrant for your Petitioners commitment to the Counter in Woodstreet whereto he was carryed by the said Ragge and charged with 26 shillings as his Fees due to him for the two dayes and nights he kept your Petitioner without order That your Petitioner was after called before the High Commissioners at Lambeth and there tendred the oath Ex officio to wit to answer all such Articles as should be objected against him without ever being permitted either to see or heare them though hee desired the same And for his refusing the said Oath the Court declared him pro Confesso and by their unanimous censure imposed a Fine of 1000 lib. on him good round costs of suite excommunicated and committed him backe to remaine Sub salva arcta custodia and not at any termes to walke abroad with his Keeper untill other order should be taken by the Court. One of the said Articles to which hee could give no answer running in these words Item we obiect to you Nath. Wickins that you know or believe that the letter which you carried to the Printer to be set the first Letter upon the Booke was a very compleat Letter and so Artificially cut as