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A Briefe relation of certain speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber, occasioned and delivered Iune the 14th. 1637. at the censure of those three worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne, as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the sayd censure..
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A BRIEFE RELATION Of certain speciall and most materiall passages and speeches in the Starre-Chamber occasioned and delivered Iune the 1â—th 1637. at the censure of those three worthy Gentlemen Dr. BASTWICKE Mr. BVRTON and Mr. PRYNNE as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the sayd Censure Printed in the Yeere 1637. A Briefe Relation of certain speciall and most materiall passages and speeches in the Starre-Chamber occasioned and delivered Iune the 14th 1637. at the censure of those three worthy Gentlemen Dr. BASTWICKE Mr. BVRTON and Mr. PRYNNE as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the sayd Censure BEtweene eight and nine a clocke in the morning the 14. of Iune the Lords being sett in their places in the said Court of Starre-chamber and casting their eyes upon the Prisoners then at the Barr Sr. Iohn Finch chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas began to speake after this maner Sr. Iohn Finch I had thought Mr. Prynne had had no eares but me thinkes hee hath eares which caused many of the Lords to take the stricter view of him and for their better satisfaction the Vsher of the Court was commaunded to turne up his haire and shew his eares upon the sight whereof the Lords were displeased they had beene formerly no more cut off and cast out some disgracefull words of him M. Prynne To which Mr. Prynne replied My Lords there is never a one of your Honours but would be sorry to have your eares as mine are L. Keeper The Lord Keeper replied againe In good faith hee is somewhat sawcy M. Prynne I hope sayd Mr. Prynne your Honours will not be offended I pray God give you eares to heare L. Keeper The busines of the day sayd the Lord Keeper is to proceed on the Prisoners at the Barr. M. Prynne Mr. Prynne then humbly desired the Court to give him leave to make a motion or two which being graunted he mooves First that their Honours would be pleased to accept of a crosse Bill against the Prelates signed with their owne hands being that which stands with the Iustice of the Court which he humbly craved and so tendred it L. Keep r. As for your crosse Bill it is not the busines of the day Hereafter if the Court shall see just cause and that it savours not of Libelling we may accept of it for my part I have not seene it but have heard somewhat of it M. Prynne I hope your Honours will not refuse it being it is on his Majesties behalfe wee are his Majesties Subjects and therefore require the Iustice of the Court. L. Keeper But this is not the busines of the day M. Prynne Why then My Lords I have a second motion which I humbly pray your Honours to graunt which is That your Lordships will be pleased to dismisse the Prelates here now sitting from having any voyce in the censure of this cause being generally knowne to be Adversaries as being no wayes agreeable with equity or reasoâ— that they who are our Adversaries should be our Iudges Therefore wee humbly crave they may be expunged out of the Court. L. Keeper In good faith it s a sweet motion is' t not Herein you are become Libellous And if you should thus Libell all the Lords and Reverend Iudges as you doe the most Reverend Prelates by this your Plea you would have none to passe sentence upon you for your Libelling because they are parties M. Prynne Vnder correction My Lord this doth not hold your Honour need not putt that for a certainty which is an uncertainty wee have nothing to say to any of your Honours but onely to the Prelates L. Keeper Well proceed to the busines of the day Read the Information Which was read being very large and these five Bookes annexed therevnto viz. a Booke of Dr. Bastwicks written in Latin The second a little Booke intiteled Newes from Ipswich The third intiteled A Divine Tragedy recording Gods fearefull judgements on Sabbath breakers The fourth Mr. Burtons Booke intiteled An Apology of an Appeale to the Kings most Excellent Majesty with two Sermons for God and the King preached on the fifth of November last The fifth and last Dr. Bastwickes Letany The Kings Counsell being five tooke each of them a severall Booke and descanted there at the Barre upon them according to their pleasure Mr. Attorney Mr. Attorney began first with Dr. Bastwickes Latin Booke picking out here and there particular conclusions that best served for his owne ends as did all the other Counsell out of the fower other Bookes to the great abuse of the Authors as themselves there immediately complained intreating them to read the foregoing grounds upon which the sayd conclusions depended without which they could not understand the true meaning of them Ser. Next unto the Attorney Serjeant Whitfeild falls upon Reverend Mr. Burtons Booke who vented much bitternes against that unreprooveable Booke as all that read it with an honest and orthodox heart may clearely perceive swearing In good faith My Lords there is never a page in this Booke but deserves a heavier and deeper Censure then this Court can lay upon him Next followed A. B. who in like maner descanted upon the Newes from Ipswich charging it to be full of pernitious lyes and especially vindicating the honor of Mathew Wren Bishop of Norwich as being a learned pious and Reverend Father of the Church Mr. Littleton In the fourth place followes the Kings Solicitor who acts his part upon the Divine Tragedy To which part of it concerning Gods judgements on Sabbath breakers hee had little to say but onely putt it off with a scoffe saying that they sate in the Seate of God who judged those accidents which fell out upon persons suddainly strooken to be the judgement of God for Sabbath-breaking or words to the like effect but enlarged himselfe upon that passage which reflected upon that late Reverend as hee termed him and learned Professor of the Law and his Majesties faithfull Servant Mr. William Noy his Majesties late Attorney who as hee said was most shamefully abused by a slaunder layd upon him which was That it should be reported that Gods judgement fell upon him for so eagerly prosecuting that innocent person Mr. Prynne which judgement was this That he laughing at Mr. Prynne while hee was suffering upon the Pillory was strooke with an yssue of blood in his privy part which by all the art of man could never be stopped unto the day of his death a. which was soone after But the truth of this My Lords sayth hee you shall finde to be as probable as the rest for wee have here three or fower Gentlemen of good credit and ranke to testify upon oath that hee had that yssue long before and thereupon made a shew as if hee would call for them in before the Lords to witnesse the truth thereof with these particular words Make roome for the Gentlemen
That which I have to speake of next is this The Prelates find themselves exceedingly agrieved and vexed against what wee have written concerning the usurpation of their calling where indeed wee declare their calling not to be Jure Divino I make no doubt but there are some Intelligencers or Abbettors within the hearing whom I would have well to know and take notice of what I now say I here in this place make this offer to them That if I may be admitted a fayre dispute on fayre termes for my cause that I will maintaine and doe here make the challenge against all the Prelates in the Kings Dominions and against all the Prelates in Christendome let them take in the Pope and all to help them that their calling is not Iure Divino I will speake it againe I make the challeng against all the Prelates in the Kings Dominions and all Christendome to maintaine that their calling is not Iure Divino If I make it not good let me be hanged up at the Hall-Gate Whereupon the people gave a great shout The next thing that I am to speake of is this The Prelates find themselves exceedingly agrieved and vext against what I have written in point of Law concerning their Writs and Proces That the sending forth of Writs and Proces in their owne name is against all Law and Iustice and doth entrench on his Majesties Prerogative Royall and the Subjects Liberties And here now I make a second challeng against all the Lawyers in the Kingdome in way of fayre Dispute That I will maintaine the Prelates sending forth of Writs and Proces in their owne names to be against all Law and Iustice and entrencheth on his Majesties Prerogative Royall and the Subjects Liberty Least it should be forgotten I speake it againe I here challeng all the whole Society of the Law upon a fayre Dispute to maintaine That the sending forth of Writs and Proces in the Prelates owne names to be against all Law and Iustice and entrencheth on the Kings Prerogative Royall and the Subjects Liberty If I be not able to make it good let me be put to the tormentingest death they can devise Wee prayse the Lord wee feare none but God and the King Had wee respected our Liberties wee had not stood here at this time it was for the generall good and Liberties of you all that wee have now thus farre engaged our owne Liberties in this cause For did you know how deepely they have entrenched on your Liberties in point of Popery If you knew but into what times you are cast it would make you looke about you And if you did but see what changes and revolutions of persons causes and actions have beene made by one man you would more narrowly looke into your Previledges and see how farre your Liberty did lawfully extend and so maintaine it This is the second time that I have beene brought to this place who hath beene the Author of it I thinke you all well know For the first time If I could have had leave given me I could easily have cleered my self of that which was then layd to my charge As also I could have done now if I might have beene permitted to speake That Booke for which I suffered formerly especially for some particular words therein written which I quoted out of Gods Word and auncient Fathers for which notwithstanding they passed Censure on me That same Booke was twice licensed by publike Authority and the same words I then suffered for they are againe made use of and applyed in the same sence by Heylin in his Booke lately printed and dedicated to the King and no exceptions taken against them but are very well taken Aye sayd Dr. Bastwicke and there is another Booke of his licensed wherein hee rayles against us three at his pleasure Dr. Bastwicke and against all the Martyrs that suffered in Queen Maries dayes calling them Schismaticall Hereticks And there is another Booke of Pocklingtons licensed they be as full of lyes as doggs be full of fleas but were the Presses as open to us as they are to them wee would pay them and their great Master that upholds them and charge them with notorious Blasphemy Sayd Mr. Prynne You all at this present see M. Prynne there be no degrees of men exempted from suffering Here is a Reverend Divine for the Soule a Physitian for the Body and a Lawyer for the Estate I had thought they would have let alone their owne Society and not have medled with any of them And the next for ought I know may be a Bishop You see they spare none of what society or calling soever none are exempted that crosse their owne ends Gentlemen looke to your selves If all the Martyrs that suffered in Queen Maries dayes are accounted and called Schismaticall Hereticks and Factious Fellowes What shall wee looke for Yet so they are called in a Booke lately come forth under Authority And such Factious Fellowes are wee for discovering a Plott of Popery Alas poore England what will become of thee if thou looke not the sooner into thine owne Previledge and maintainest not thine owne lawfull Liberty Christian people I beseech you all stand firme and be zealous for the Cause of God and his true Religion to the shedding of your dearest blood otherwise you will bring your selves all your posterities into perpetuall bondage and slavery Now the Executioner being come to seare him and cut off his eares Mr. Prynne spake these words to him Come friend Come burne mee cut mee I feare it not I have learn'd to feare the fire of Hell and not what man can doe unto mee Come seare mee seare mee I shall beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus Which the bloody Executioner performed with extraordinary cruelty heating his Iron twice to burne one Cheeke And cut one of his eares so close that hee cut off a peice of his Cheeke At which exquisit torture hee never mooved with his body or so much as changed his countenance but still lookt up as well as he could towards heaven with a smiling countenance even to the astonishment of all the beholders And uttering assoone as the Executioner had done this heavenly sentence The more I am beate downe the more am I lift up And returning from the execution in a boate made as I heare these two verses by the way on the Two Characters branded on his Cheekes S.L. STIGMATA LAVDIS STIGMATA maxillis bajulans insignia LAVDIS Exultans remeo victama grata Deo Which one since thus Englished S.L. LAVDS SCARS Triumphant I returne my face descries LAVDS scorching SCARS Gods greatefull sacrifice Mr. Burtons heavenly and most comfortable Speech which hee made at the time of his suffering both before and while hee stood in the Pillary which was set something distant from the other double Pillary wherein Dr. Bastvvicke and Mr. Prynne stood THE night before his suffering about eight a clocke when he first