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A05581	A briefe relation of certaine speciall and most materiall passages, and speeches in the Starre-Chamber occasioned and delivered the 14th. day of Iune, 1637. At the censure of those three famous and worthy gentlemen, Dr. Bastwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne. Even so as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes, by one present at the said censure.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber.	1638 (1638)	STC 1570; ESTC S101052	21,742	33

decreed that D. Bastvvicke should loose his eares O my Noble Lords is this righteous judgement I may say as the Apostle once said What whipp a Roman I have beene a Souldier able to lead an Army into the field to fight valiantly for the honour of their Prince Now I am a Physitian able to cure Nobles Kings Princes and Emperors And to curtolize a Romans eares like a Curre O my honourable Lords is it not too base an act for so noble an assembly and for so righteous and honourable a cause The cause my Lords is great it concernes the glory of God the honour of our King whose Prerogative we labour to maintaine and to set up in a high manner in which your Honours Liberties are engag'd And doth not such a cause deserve your Lordships consideration before you proceed to Censure Your Honours may be pleased to consider that in the last cause heard and censured in this Court between St. Iames Bagge the Lord Moone wherein your Lordships tooke a great deale of paines with a great deale of patience to heare the Bills on both sides with all the Answers Depositions largely laid open before you which cause when you had fully heard some of your Honours now sitting in Court said You could not in conscience proceed to Censure till you had taken some time to recollect your selves If in a cause of that nature you could spend so much time and afterwards recollect your selves before you would passe Censure How much more should it moove your Honours to take some time in a cause wherein the glory of God the Prerogative of his Majestie your Honours dignity and the Subjects Liberty is so largely ingaged My good Lords it may fall out to be any of your Lordships cases to stand as Delinquents at this Barre as we now doe It is not unknowne to your Honours the next cause that is to succeed ours is touching a person that sometimes hath beene in greatest power in this Court And if the mutations and revolutions of persons and times be such then I doe most humbly beseech your Honours to looke on us as it may befall your selves But if all this will not prevaile with your Honours to peruse my Bookes and heare my Answer read which here I tender upon the word and oath of a Souldier a Gentleman a Scholler and a Physitian I will cloath them as I said before in Roman Buffe and disperse them throughout the Christian world that future generations may see the innocency of this cause and your Honours unjust proceedings in it all which I will doe though it cost me my life L. Keeper Mr. D. I thought you would be angrie Dr. Bast No my Lord you are mis-taken I am not angrie nor passionate all that I doe presse is that you would be pleased to peruse my Answer D. Keeper Well hold your peace Mr. Burton what say you Mr. Burton My goods Lords your Honours it should seeme doe determine to Censure us and take our cause pro confesso although we have laboured to give your Honours satisfaction in all things My Lords what you have to say against my Booke I confesse I did write it yet did I not any thing out of intent of Commotion or Sedition I delivered nothing but what my Text led me too being chosen to suite with the day namely the fifth of November the word were these c. L. Keeper M. Burton I pray stand not naming Texts of Scripture now we doe not send for you to preach but to answer to those things that are objected against you M. Burt. My Lord I have drawne up my Answer to my great paines and charges which Answer was signed with my Counsels hands and received into the Court according to the rule and Order thereof And I did not thinke to have beene called this day to a Censure but have had a legall proceeding by way of Bill and Answer L. Keeper Your Answer was impertinent M. Burt. My Answer after it was entred into the Court was referred to the Judges but by what meanes I doe not know whither it be impertinent and what cause your Lordships had to cast it out I knovv not But after it was approved of and received it was cast out as an impertinent Answer L. Finch The Iudges did you a good turne to make it impertinent for it was as Libellous as your Booke so that your Answer deserved a Censure alone L. Keeper What say you Mr. Button are you guilty or not M. Burton My Lord I desire you not onely to peruse my Booke here and there but every passage of it L. Keeper Mr. Burton time is short are you guilty or not guilty What say you to that which was read Doth it become a Minister to deliver himselfe in such a rayling and scandalous way M. Burton In my judgement and as I can proove it it was neither rayling not scandalous I conceive that a Minister hath a larger liberty then alwayes to goe in a milde straine being the Pastor of my people whom I had in charge and was to instruct I supposed it was my duety to informe them of those innovations that are crept into the Church as likewise of the danger and ill consequence of them As for my answer yee blotted out what yee would and then the rest which made best for your owne ends you would have to stand And now for your owne turnes and renounce the rest were to desert my cause which before I will doe or desert my conscience I will rather desert my body and deliver it up to your Lordships to doe with it what you will L. Keeper This is a ●lace where you should crave mercy and favour Mr. Burton and not stand upon such termes as you doe M. Burt. There wherein I have offended through humane frailty I crave of God Man pardon And I pray God that in your Sentence you may so Censure us that you may not sinne against the Lord. Thus the prisoners desiring to speake a little more for themselves were commaunded to silence And so the Lord proceeded to Censure The Lord Cottingtons Censure I Condemne these three men to loose their eares in the Pallaceyard at Westminster To be fined five thousands pounds a man to his Majestie And to perpetuall prisonment in three remote places of the Kingdome namely the Castles of Carnaruan Cornwall and Lancaster The Lord Finch added to this Censure MR. Prynne to be stigmatized in the Cheekes with two Letters S L for a Seditious Libeller To which all the Lord agreed And so the Lord Keeper concluded the Censure THE Execution of the Lords Censure in Starre-Chamber upon D. Bastwijcke M. Prynne and M. Burton in the Pallace-yard at Westminster the 30th day of Iune last 1637. at the spectation whereof the number of people was so great the place being very large that it caused admiration in all that beheld them who came with tender affections to behold those three renowned Souldiers and

A BRIEFE RELATION OF Certaine speciall and most materiall passages and speeches in the Starre-Chamber Occasioned And delivered the 14th day of Iune 1637. At the Censure of those three famous and worthy Gentlemen Dr. Bastwicke Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne EVEN SO As it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one present at the said Censure PRINTED In the yeare of God 1638. TO THE READER CHristian Reader I present you heere the Relation of such a Censure and the Execution thereof as I dare say all circumstances layd together cannot bee paralled in any age of man throughout the Christian World and I thinke I may take in even the World of Pagans and Heathens to it Which though it bee not drawne up in so eloquent a straine as it was delivered deserved nor all the Heavenly words and eloquent speeches recorded which were uttered by these Three Worthies of the Lord both in the presence of the Lords themselves at their Censure and also at the place of Execution Yet I earnestly beseech you in the bowels of Iesus Christ that you doe not in the least manner under-valu the glory and dignitie eyther of the Persons or the cause but rather lay the blame upon the rudenes and meane capacity of the Composer who is an unfeyned Wel-wisher to them Fare well A Briefe Relation OF Certaine speciall most materiall passages and Speeches in the Starre-chamber on the 14th day of Iune in the yeare 1637. At the Censure of those three vvorthy Gentlemen Dr. Bastwick Mr. Burton and Mr. Prynne BEtweene eight and nine a clocke in the morning the 14. of Iune the Lords being set in their places in the said Court of Starre-chamber and casting their eyes upon the Prisoners then at the Bar Sr. Iohn Finch chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas began to speake after this manner Sr. Iohn Finch I had thought M. 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 Usher of the Court was commanded to turne up his haire shew his eares Upon the sight wherof the Lords were displeased they had beene formerly no more cut off and cast out some disgracefull words of him To which M. Prynne replied M. Pryn. My Lords there is never a one of your Honours but would be sorry to have your eares as mine are The Lord Keeper replied againe L. Keeper In good faith hee is some what sawcy M. Pryn. I hope said M. Prynne your Honours will not be offended I pray God give you eares to heare L. Keeper The busines of the day said the Lord Keeper is to proceed on the Prisoners at the Barr. M. Pryn. M. 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. Keeper 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 wee may accept of it for my part I have not seene it but have heard somewhat of it M. Pryn. 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. Pryn. 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 way agreeable with equity or reason that they who are our Adversaries should bee 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 Reverēd Prelates by this your Plea you would have none to passe sentence upon you for you Libelling because they are parties M. Pryn. Vnder correction My Lord this doth not hold Your Honour need not put that for a certainty which is an uncertainty we 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 thereunto viz. a Booke of D. Bastwicks written in Latin The second a little Booke intituled Newes from Ipswich The third intitled A Divine Tragedy Recording Gods fearefull judgements on Sabbath-breakers The fourth Mr. Burtons Booke intituled 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 M. Attorney Mr. Attorney began first with D. Bastwickes Latin Booke picking out here there particular conclusions that best served for his owne ends so did all the other Counsell out of the former other Bookes to the great abuse of the Authors as themselves there immediately complain'd intreating them to reade the foregoing grounds upon which the said conclusions depended without which they could not understand the true meaning of them Serjeant Next unto the Attorney Serjeant Whitfeild fals upon Reverend M. 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 manner 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 M. 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 he had little to say but onely put 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 he termed him and learned Professor of the Law and his Majesties faithfull Servant M. William Noy his Majesties late Attorney who as hee said was

Servants of Iesus Christ who came with most undaunted and magnanimous courage thereunto having their way strawed with sweet hearbes from the house out of which they came to the Pillary with all the honour that could bee done unto them Dr. Bastwijcke and Mr. Burton first meeting they did close one in the others armes three times with as much expressions of love as might bee rejoycing that they met at such a place upon such an occasion that God had so highly honoured them as to call them forth to suffer for his glorious Truth Then immediately after M. Prynne came the D. and hee saluting each other as M. Burton and hee did before The D. then went up first on the Scaffold and his wife immediately following came up to him and like a loving Spouse saluted each care with a kisse and then his mouth whose tender love boldnes and cheerefullnes so wrought upon the peoples affections that they gave marvailous great showte for joy to behold it Her Husband desired her not to bee in the least maner dismay'd at his suffrings And so for a while they parted she using these words Farewell my Deerest be of good comfort I am nothing dismay'd And then the D. began to speake these words There are many that are this day Spectators of our standing here as Delinquents though not Delinquents we blesse God for it I am not conscious to my self wherein I have committed the least trespasse to take this outward shame either against my God or my King And I doe the rather speake it that you that are now beholders may take notice how farre innocency will preserve you in such a day as this is for wee come here in the strength of our God who hath mightily supported us and filled our hearts with greater comfort then our shame or contempt can bee The first occasion of my trouble was by the Prelates for writing a Booke against the Pope and the Pope of Canterbury sayd I wrote against him and therefore questioned me But if the Presses were as open to us as formerly they have been we would shatter his Kingdom about his eares But bee ye not deterred by their power neither bee affrighted at our sufferings Let none determine to turne from the wayes of the Lord but goe on fight couragiously against Gog Magog I know there be many here who have set many dayes apart for our behalfe let the Prelates take notice of it and they have sent up strong prayers to heaven for us we feele the strength and benefit of them at this time I would have you to take notice of it we have felt the strength benefit of your prayers all along this cause In a word so farre I am from base feare or caring for any thing that they can do or cast upon me that had I as much blood as would swell the Theames I would shedd it every droppe in this cause therefore be not any of you discouraged be not daunted on their power ever labouring to preserve Innocency keep peace within goe on in the strength of your God and hee will never fayle you in such a day as this As I sayd before so I say againe Had I as many lives as I have heires on my head or droppe of blood in my veines I would give them up all for this cause this plot of sending us to those remote places was first consulted and agitated by the Jesuites as I can make it plainly appeare O see what times we are fallen into that the Lords must sit to act the Iesuites plots For our owne parts wee owe no mallice to the persons of any of the Prelats but would lay our necks under their feet to doe them good as they are men but against the usurpation of their power as they are Bishops we doe professe our selves enemies till doomes day Mr. Prynne shaking the Dr. by the hand desired him that hee might speake a word or two With all my heart sayd the Doctor Te cause sayd Mr. Prynne of my standing here is for not bringing in my Answer for which my cause is taken pro confesso against mee What endeavours J used for the bringing in thereof that God and my owne conscience and my Counsell knowes whose cowardise stands upon Record to all ages For rather then J will have my cause a leading cause to deprive the subjects of that libertie which J seek to maintaine J rather expose my person to a leading example to beare this punishment And J beseech you all to take notice of their proceedings in this cause when J was served with a Subpoena into this Court J was shut up close prisoner that J could have no accesse to Counsell nor admitted pen inke or paper to draw up my answere by my Jnstructions for which J feed them twice though to no purpose yet when all was done my Answer would not be accepted into the Court though I tendered it upon my oath I appeale to all the world if this were a legall or just proceeding Our accusation is in point of Libell but supposedly against the Prelates to cleere this now I will give you a little light what the Law is in point of Libell of which profession I have sometimes beene and still professe my selfe to have some knowledge in you shall finde in case of Libell tvvo statutes The one in the second of Queene Mary The other in the seventh of Queene Elizabeth That in the second of Queene Mary the extremity and heighth of it runs thus That if a Libeller doth goe so farre and so high as to Libel against King or Queene by denomination the high and extremity of the Law is that they lay no greater fine on him then an hundred pounds vvith a moneths imprisonment And no corporall Punishment except hee doe refuse to pay his fine and then to inflict some punishment in lievve of that fine at the moneths end Neither was this Censure to be passed on him except it vvere fully prooved by tvvo vvitnesses vvho vvere to produce a certificat of their good demeanor for the credit of their report or else confessed by the Libeller You shall finde in that Statute 7. Eliz. some further addition to the former of 2. Marie and that onely in point of fine punishment and it must still reach as high as the person of King or Queen Here this statute doth set a fine of two hundred pounds the other but one This sets three moneths emprisonment the former but one So that therein onely they differ But in this they both agree namely at the end of his imprisonment to pay his fine and soo to goe free vvithout any further question But if hee refuse to pay his fine then the Court is to inflict some punishment on him correspondent to his fine Novv see the disparity between those times of theirs and ours A libeller in Queen Maries time vvas fined but an hundred pounds in Queen Elizabeth time tvvo hundred In