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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

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.

your Petitioner and he thereupon Fyn'd five thousand pounds to his Majesty Pillored Stigmatized on both cheekes Mutilated and dismembred in a most Barbarous manner and the small remainder of his Eares left after his first execution cut off to the hazard of his hearing and life Adjudged to perpetuall close imprisonment in the Goale of Carnarvan castle in North-wales a Nasty Dog-hole farre remote from your Petitioners Friends Which sentence was undu'ly drawn up and executed upon your Petitioner as his Attourneys Clearke informed him before it was entred into the Booke or your Petitioner could get any Copie of it to except against the same as he had just cause That immediately after the Execution of the same sentence your Petitioner sent to the said Arch-bishop to desire him to release or Baile his servant who was detained close prisoner for ten weekes space in the messengers hands and oft examined and solicited by faire promises and threatnings causlessely to accuse your Petitioner against whom they wanted evidence that so he might attend him during his soares which the said ArchBishop out of his Grace and Charity utterly refused saying that hee intended to proceed against his said servant in the High Commission where he hath ever since vexed censured and banded him from Prison to Prison onely for refusing to accuse and betray your Petitioner That after the said heavy sentence your Petitioner by an order in the said Court by way of addition to the said Censure was inhibited the use of Pen inke and Paper and all Bookes except the Bible and the Booke of Common-Prayer and some few Bookes for private Devotion and before his wounds were perfectly cured he was by order removed from the Tower to Carnarvan and some of his friends in Chester who visited him there in his passage in the presence of his Conductors who had no order to restraine any person from resorting to him were for this very cause sent for by a Messenger to appeare before the Lords of the Privy Counsell and likewise cited into the High Commission at Yorke where they were imprisoned and fined to the ruine of their estates enjoyned to make a publike Recantation in the Cathedrall Church and in the Towne-Hall of Chester The said Commissioners further decreeing that three pictures of your petitioners found in Chester should bee publikely burnt at the high Crosse there which was done accordingly That your Petitioner since his said sentence hath bin publikely reviled at and libelled against both by the high Commissioners at York and in sundry Churches both at Chester and else where in diverse licensed printed books compiled by the said Heylin and published by the Arch-Bishops privity or cōmand that sundry of his friends houses studies Bookes and writings have bin violently broken up ransacked and taken away and themselves prosecuted in the high Commission out of malice for the relation they had to your Petitioner That after your Petitioner had continued some ten weekes space close prisoner in Carnarvan hee was about three yeares since by a warrant from the Lords of the Counsell made in the summer vacation to which the said Arch-Bishops hand was first subscrib'd ordered by way of Exile to be imbarqued and transported with all privacy into one of the Castles in the I le of Iersey and his conductors thereby charged not to admit any person whatsoever but themselves onely to speake with your Petitioner in his passage Whereupon after some injuries there received by M. Griffith the Kings Atturney in those parts who endeavoured to sieze upon the furniture of his chamber for his owne use your Petitioner was imbarqued among Papists in a bruised ship-wrackt vessell full of leakes and after fourteene weekes voyage in the Winter season through dangerous stormes and seas which spoyled most of his stuffe and bedding and threatning often ship-wrack to him he arrived at the said I le and was conveyed close prisoner into Mount Orgatile castle there where the Lieutenant Governour by an other extrajudiciall Order to which the said Arch-Bishops name was first ordered to keepe your Petitioner close prisoner in a chamber fuffer none but his keepers to speake with him to intercept all letters to him to permit him neither pen Inke nor paper either to write to his friends for necessaries or to petition for reliefe and to permit him no Booke but the Bible and those aforenamed bookes without giving any order for his diet there so that being deprived of his calling and estate exiled and shut up close prisoner among strangers remote from all his friends denyed all addresse to him by person or letters he had certainely perished in his almost three yeeres close imprisonment there had not the extraordinary providence and goodnesse of God which he shall ever adore and the noble charity of those under whose custody he did remaine furnished him with such dyet and necessaries as preserved him both in health and life in this his close imprisonment and exile May it therefore please this Honourable House to take these your petitioners almost eight yeeres tragicall grievances of new and dangerous example into your most sad and just considerations that so they may not become presidents to the prejudice of posterity to grant him liberty to send for and examine all necessary witnesses to order all Clerks Registers and other officers of the Star-Chamber or elsewhere speedily and freely to grant him the copies of such orders decrees and writings as his cause shall require to release him upon Bale being now but a prisoner onely upon an extrajudiciall order of the Lords and not by Vertue of any sentence or decree in Court To grant him liberty to plead and prosecute his owne cause since counsell hath so often failed him and to give him such satisfaction and reliefe as the Justice and equity of his cause shall merit And your Petitioner shall ever pray for your safeties WILLIAM PRYNNE Man's dayes are vaine and as a flower they fade Heere 's one proclames whereon man's life is stay'd His sufferings Changes Comforts in strict thrall Shews GOD alone preserues and Gouernes all TO THE HONOURABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of Iohn Bastwicke Doctor in Physicke lately retained close Prisoner and exile in the Iland of Sylly Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner having about six yeares since set out a Booke in Latine called Elenchus Religionis Papisticae with an Addition thereunto called Elagellum Pontificis Episcoporum Latialium being thereunto provoked by one Richard Short a Papist that maintained the Popes supremacy the Masse and Papall Religion In which Booke your Petitioner for preventing all misinterpretations of his pious and good intentions therein in his Epistle to the Reader fully declared himselfe that your Petitioner ment nothing against such Bishops as acknowledged their Authority from Kings and Emperours yet because your Petitioner the better ever to show the Papall usurpation of other Princes therein onely