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A48398	The life and death of Mr. Vavasor Powell, that faithful minister and confessor of Jesus Christ wherein his eminient conversion, laborious successful ministry, excellent conversation, confession of faith, worthy sayings, choice experiences, various sufferings, and other remarkable passages in his life and at his death are faithfully recorded for publick benefit : with some elogies and epitaphs by his friends.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.; Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing L2003; Wing B418_CANCELLED	114,187	204

Word of God 2. Not only the outward Letter but the true sense and meaning of Scripture is to be accounted Scripture which appears from 1 Cor. 14 34. Epb. 5.14 Heb. 12.21 Jam. 4.5 Where some things are said to be written which in express and plain words are not written but by good and clear evidence collected thence 3. The Scriptures were written as primarily for Gods glory so also that men might be enlightned converted comforted and have Hope and Eternal life by Believing 2 Tim. 3.14 15 16. Neither do they concern or were written for the use of former Ages and Persons onely but belong to all Ages and Persons even to the end of the world Revelat. 2.3 4. The Scripture contains Milk for Babes and Meat for them that are strong 1 Cor. 3.2 Heb. 5.13 14. And though there be some dark places hard to be undetstood 2 Pet 3.16 Yet what is necessary to salvation is plain and may be understood by the simplest and unlearnedest of the true Disciples of Christ who are taught by the Spirit of God Deut. 29.29 Prov. 6 23. 8.8 9. 28.5 Mat. 13.10 1 Cor. 2.15 1 Joh. 2.20 27. whereas those that otherwise may be very learned yet have not this spirit they understand not the Scriptures but erre and wrest them to their own and others Destruction Isa 29.11 John 7.48 52. 1 Cor. 2.8 14. Mat 22.29 2 Pet. 3.16 5. This word or Scripture is the absolute certain and infallible Rule of Faith and Life or Obedience by which all Spirits Doctrines Men and works to be tryed and no other writings whatsoever though written by the most knowing and holiest of men are to be esteemed of equall authority infallibility and Divine Majesty with these Luke 16.31 1 Iohn 4.1 Isa 8.20 And the Holy Scripture next to the Spirit of God who gave it forth 2 Pet. l. 19.20 21. is she best interpreter of it self All Preaching is to be out of and according to it and nothing to be imposed upon or binding of the Consciences of any but what is contained therein or agreeable thereunto 1 Cor. 2.13 Jer. 23.28 Mat. 28.19 Act. 18.28 28.23 Neither is there any thing to be added to or taken from the Scripture upon pain of everlasting damnation Prov. 30.5 6. Gal. 3.15 Revel 22.18 19. The Principal Doctrines which are declared and I have received from the Scriptures are Concerning God There is but one true living God Deut. 6.4 John 17.3 1 Thes 1.9 c. of whom to whom and through whom are all things Rom. 11.36 1 Cor. 8.6 Eph. 4.6 The only Potentate 1 Tim. 6.15 To whom be Honour and Peace everlasting Amen 2. This God is a Spirit Eternal Immortal Invisible most abundant in goodness mercy and truth to all that love and fear him John 4.24 1 Tim. 1.17 Exod. 34.6 Neh. 9.6 and a rewarder to them that diligently seek him Heb. 11.6 But most just dreadful and terrible to those that hate him and a consuming fire to such as go on in their wickedness Mat. 1.15 Exod. 20.5 Heb. 12.29 Psal 68.21 3. This One God is distinguished into the Father the Word or Son and the Holy Spirit Mat. 3.16 17 28.19 2 Cor. 13.14 Which are not three Gods but one God 1 John 5.7 1 Cor. 12.4 5 6. The Father begetting Psal 2.7 Heb. 1.5 The Son begotten and brought up with the Father from everlasting Prov. 8.22 23 24 30. Micha 5.2 John 1.1 17.24 and the holy Spirit proceeding from both John 14.26 15.26 Gal. 4.6 Concerning the Lord Iesus Christ the Son of God The Word or the Son of God the Lord Jesus Christ is Jehovah Gen. 13.7 16. 18.1 2. 22.11 14. Exod. 19.14 with Heb. 12.27 Isa 6.1 with Iohn 12.41 Isa 45.23 with Rom. 14.10 11. The True and Mighty yea Almighty God 1 Ioh. 5 20. Isa 9.6 Tit. 2.13 Iohn 1.1 2 3. Equal and One with God Iohn 5.18 Phil. 2.6 Iohn 10.30 17.22 He knoweth and discerneth the Thoughts and Hearts of all men Mat. 9.3 4. 12.25 John 2.25 Heb. 4.12 Which evidently with many other undeniable Arguments prove him to be very God of the same Substance and Being with the Father for none but God can know the Heart 1 King 8.39 Jer. 17.10 Concerning the Holy Spirit As the Lord Christ the Son so likewise the holy Spirit is God Acts 5.3 4. 1 Cor. 6.19 20. 2 Cor. 3.17 Acts 28.25 with Isa 6.8.11 12. In the 8th verse of which Chapter the word Vs noting Father Son and Spirit as also Gen. 1.26 is called Jehovah v. 12. shewing that the Son and Spirit are the Lord Jehovah which signifies as the Greek renders it Ex. 3. ' O●● One that hath his being of himself or as is more fully rendred Rev. 1.4 8. Who is was and is to come Concerning Gods Decrees God to whom all his Works and People were known and foreseen from everlasting Acts 15.18 and who worketh all things according to the Counsel of his Will Eph. 1.11 did Determine and Ordain all things that should come to pass in time Acts 2.23 4.28 17.26 according to his own good pleasure and purpose Eph. 1.5 9. Concerning Election God of his own meer love before the foundation of the world did predestinate and Elect in Jesus Christ a certain number known only to himself as well of Angels as of Mankind to be to the praise of his Grace and to obtain Everlasting Salvation through Jesus Christ Rom. 11.5 Eph. 1.4 1 Pet. 1.2 2 Tim. 2.19 1 Tim. 5.21 Eph. 1.6 1 Thes 5.9 To whom God also in Christ hath given his grace and promised everlasting life before the world began 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 1.2 And all these that are so chosen are written in the Lambs Book of Life shall certainly be saved and cannot finally be deceived or fall away Rev. 13.8 20.15 Phil. 4.3 Luke 10.20 Rom. 8.29 30 33 38 39. Mat. 24.24 Rom. 11.7 John 6.37 c. 2. Such of Mankind as were Predestinated and Elected before time were Predestinated and Elected unto to the Adoption of Children that thorough not for nor without Real Sanctification Sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus and Belief of the Truth they might be saved Eph. 1.4 5. Rom. 8.29 30. 2 Thes 2.13 1 Pet. 1.2 Concerning Reprobation All those that were not elected to Salvation as well Angels as Men were by God for the glory of his Sovereign Power and Justice ordained of old to Condemnation or to be dealt with according to Gods Justice for and according to their sins 2 Pet. 2.3 4. Jude v. 4.6 Rom. 9.22 Prov. 16.4 Job 21.30 Jer. 6.30 Concerning Creation That God the Father Son and Spirit did make the World and all the things therein Visible and invisible for himself according to his pleasure and that very good and Man or Adam in particular Perfect and after his own Image Gen. 1 Eccles 7.29 c. Concerning the Fall of Man Some of the Angels now called

yet I was as most Youths are not only ignorant of the knowledge of God and of his son Jesus Christ and of Regeneration and other Mysteries of the Gospel and of my own miserable estate by Nature but I was also very active and forward in the persuit of the pleasures and vanities of this wicked world and justly tearmed as I was by my Companions and School-fellows Dux omnium malorum Captain or Leader of or in all evil only drunkenness I much hated looking upon it as such an unnatural thing that the most greedy silly Beasts abstain from it and I wondred that persons could delight in that which had neither true pleasure profit nor honour in it I had no esteem for the holy Scriptures nor cared at all to look into them but either Hystorical or Poetical Books Romances and the like were all my delight the Sabbath I much profaned by all sports though God was pleased to magnifie his grace so much as to make that the occasion of my Conversion For being one Lords day a stander by and beholder of those that broke the Sabbath by divers Games being then my self a Reader of Common-Prayers and in the habit of a foolish Shepheard I was ashamed to play with them yet took as much pleasure therein as if I had whereupon a Godly grave Professour of Religion one of those then called Puritans seeing me there came to me and very soberly and mildly asked me doth it become you Sir that are a Scholar and one that teacheth others to break the Lords Sabbath thus to whom I answered as those scoffers in Malachy Wherein do I break it you see me onely stand by but I do not play at all to which he replyed but you find your own pleasure herein by looking on and this God forbids in his holy Word so he opened his Bible and read these words in Esa 58.13 and perticularly that expression Not finding thy own pleasure upon the sabbath day such was the partinency of the place and the power that came with the word I was for the present silent and took it so far into consideration as to resolve never to transgress in the like kind again which resolution God enabled me to perform though as yet I was not at all convinced of my lost estate by nature nor of the want of Christ But about a year after I had a call to hear a godly excellent Preacher who in his Uses shew d that they who would go to heaven must do four sorts of services Namely hard service costly service derided service and forlorn service upon the last he did as I thought begin to put me to question whether I was such a one as was singular or did walk in that way wherein fewest walked or had performed any of those services and the more I examined my self the more I was convinced I had not which began to disquiet me much and made me go into private where in darkness I struggled not knowing what to do and was ashamed to inquire having never yet read seriously any part of the holy Scripture nor any other Godly book nor never prayed privately except by book and forms and that formally without understanding sense faith or the spirit of supplication for which things I began to be troubled but yet knew not what course to take but resolved to cast my self down before God on my knees and acknowledge I was in such estate I knew not what to do unless he would direct and help me being much discouraged by my own weakness and ignorance then by a choice providence I came to find a book written by Doctor Sibbes called the bruised Reed and by reading that I found there was incouragement for weak ones and such who had but a smoak of true desire though the fire of grace did not appear in them yet still I was like one groping in the dark till God sent a most holy sober mortified Christian to me who seeing me like a Char-coal that had been in the fire yet without light and life he pittied my condition and began to tell me what a hard work the work of conversion was it being no less then to make a stone flesh and darkness light these with many such words began to sink and to enter deep into my heart and from that time I took up the profession of Godliness although the foundation work was not laid deep enough so as to have the heart mortified for or from sin but I was disquieted within me and like a Boat tossed upon the waves that could make to no shore for safety At this time the Lord visited me with a very sore and great pain of the Tooth-ach which continued divers days and nights together in great extremity so that with the violence thereof I thought I should have been deprived of my senses or life and by another good providence I met with a little book of Mr. Perkins and in that with this expression if the pains of one little bone or tooth be so grievous for a few days what then will the pains of the whole body and soul be in hell for evermore Upon this my terrour began in Conscience to that degree that it made the other pain to seem somewhat more easie and both together put me upon crying out to God with greater sense then before and between fear and pain a troubled muddy spirit of prayer began to spring up and perceiving I had some help I pumped harder and so found at last my heart began to be inlarged with confessions and my sins were brought into remembrance for which I arraigned my self and lay in my own thoughts as a convicted and guilty person but all the while I knew not how or by whom to become guiltless or to attain pardon all this while I never looked on the Scripture nay I laid aside that book called the bruised Reed as too good for me to read and wherein I could expect no comfort But very shortly after hearing of another very famous godly Preacher I resolved to go hear him he Preached that day upon Mark 16.15 Go and Preach the Gospel to every creature He that believes and is baptized shall be saved Out of which words he shewed that as the Gospel was to be Preached to every creature so none could be saved but such as did believe in Christ which afterwards by comparing it with John 1 12. He shewed that it was to receive Christ and thereupon he encouraged all to receive Christ because he would supply all their wants strengthen them under all their weaknesses succour them against all their temptations and the like upon the urging of which motives I was much encouraged and perswaded to be willing to receive and take Christ upon his own termes but then he shewed that they who would have Christ and salvation by him must do the hardest learn the harshest part with the sweetest and suffer the sorest things which words being sutable to those that wrought the

that I resolve some things I have not power to do This day I learned in the morning three things 1. His coming into the World 2. His walking before and living in this world rightly 3. His departure out of this world also this day in the Evening the Lord shewed me kindness in some degree and I had the consideration of the state to others upon my heart yet I was convinced that I wanted more softness of Heart Though this day was somewhat painful to my body yet I had some refreshing thereon to my Soul for 1. I observed out of Heb. 12.16 Encouragement to suffer also inquiries into Beleive●s building upon the true Foundation from Math. 7.24 withal many comforts from Christs carriage between his Resurrection and Ascention from this day to the 29. I observed not much save that my heart was in an ordinary Frame not much elivated in good nor cast down with evil God moved my heart to praise him for his mercy the night before and indeed it was worthy of praise and I found a very great encouragement in my spirit to the Lord for it this day I received divers Letters from my Freinds in the Country which were very refreshing and the Lord came very seasonable into my Soul through many expressions in Psal 91. It pleased the Lord this day to draw forth and to inlarge my heart much in Prayer with many tears and from the 1. Kings and Ier. 50.20 To comfort me much in respect of the p●●●●n of sin also to consider four Lessons 1. To be think my self more of the sins I had committed 2. To confess th●m more sensibly 3. To turn from them more effectually 4. To look upon it as a work of Christ a it was to the Preists under the Law to cleanse the Sanctuary either the Churches of God of the hearts o● his People 2. Chron. 29.16 This day did God tenderly afflict me in my head yet wonderfully whilst I was at Prayer removed it I perceived it in the midle of Pr●yer departing from me I heard also from Christians in the Country which much refreshed me I observed two comfortable words from Ier. 50.33.34 51.53 For the Church of God and methought according to that Scripture Psal 102.14 I had some pleasure in the Stones and did favour the dust of Z●on and from Hos 8. I observed son Lessons 1. To take heed of leaving to take heed to the Lo d especially in an evil time 2. Of short repentance 3. Of being a Vessel of no delight in Goes sight 4. Of being giving up to sin Being the Lords day I think I may say it was a sweet day to my Soul in ●ivers ●espects This day was good to the outward man but I sound a carnal rickling of self conceitedness in some thing I had done and was doing and I was convinced that my time stole away insensible I observed that the Character of bad profession are out of Hos 10. are 1. To bring forth Fruit unto themselves 2. To have a divided Heart 3. To be worse by affliction 4. To have the evil of evil verse 14. This day I would ever remember because of my great folly in my great frowardness towards my Wife and another my Conscience reproved me for it and I was convinced from Prov. 14.17.29 What evil I did thereby Being a day of Prayer I found my heart by Gods goodness much enlarged sorrowing much for the faults of the former day I learned from Exek 10. Three duties 1. To know the time 2. To redeem it and 3. To consider how soon it may be at an end Being the day my Wife went to W. I found an inclina●ion in me to ●owardness but God restrained it and I found that Evening a continued sence and sorrow of and for my former evil I learned from Eccles 11. 1. That a man should hasten to do what good he can because of the evil that is coming upon the Earth 2. Put away evil from my Flesh This day and night following I was much troubled with temptations out of Eccles 12. I observed many things that should move to mind their mortality and that there is a time when the days will be so evil that they will not be desired also in the 9. 10. it is said twice that the Preacher sought out 1. Matter 2. Words This day I had power to repulse temptation also a consideration that the blessed and righteous man 1. Doth not go in sin presumptuosly 2. Nor continue in sin carelesly nor 3. Give way to sin con●ivingly I also considered that God in affliction doth no more to a Child of his then the Angel did to Peter Acts the 5. Smite him to awake him out of Sleep Being the Lords day I was refreshed in the morning with the presence and spirit of God in Prayer and from the consideration of the wisdome watchfulness and inweariedness of Satan in deceiving and tempting I should learn to be watch ul and careful in keeping from the same The following Week my Book being from me I did not write my observations only I remember that upon the s●atch day I had comforts both by power I had against temptations and from a Letter I had which came from several Freinds in Wales Also the last day of the week I found my heart much intent upon preaching and with tears I did both study my Sermon and pray for a blessing thereon yet had not liberty to preach it Also the following week wherein I was in wards I had not my Book only I remember 1. That I was well contented with my condition 2. Very cheerful and comfortable 3. Had a greater mind to do good 4. Free from temptation 5. Resolved to let the Lord himself bring me out in his time and way 6. When I came out was stird up to praise the Lord yet was not without temptations afterwards Some Lessons that I hope I have learned or gained more experience in since my imprisonment 1. To be more sober and serious in my carriage and to shun and loath more jesting jearing and foolish laughter vain speaking and unbeseeming behaviour 2. To prize secresie or being in secret for private Meditation Self-examination and Prayer more then before 3. I have gained more power against passion and anger besides some other corruptions and more moderation in discoursing with men of differing judgements 4. A very great and earnest desire that there may be a general Union between the Saints of God at least a forbearance towards one and other wherein they cannot agree 5. And especially a Heart really to pray for and to pardon my worst and greatest Persecutors 6. To justifie God willingly and fully in all that he hath done and to acknowledge that it is not without cause nor so much as mine iniquityes have deserved God dealing with me under the Covenant of Grace and as a Father 7. To look more at the good and gain I have received from the Lord in and by sufferings then

sooner awaked had told his Wife but he heard at some distance either a Carbine or a Pistol discarged which made him prsently conclude that his Dreams was true and was then immediately to be fulfilled Whereupon though he had opportunity enough to make an escape yet he chose to stay and to prepare himself for a Prison Therefore as soon as the Souldiers came into the house he presented himself unto them and told them he understood their design and was as willing to go along with them as they were to require him and so by them was carried to Prison which according to their Warrant was to the next Sessions Salop being 17 miles off where he was committed with several others to the custody of a Marshal From thence he was conducted to Salop where he continued Prisoner about Nine Weeks and then by an Order of the King and Council was released with the rest of his B ethren Mr. Powel being thus set at liberty thought it was his duty to improve that mercy by continuing to Preach as he had done formerly but one Sir M. P. at that time the High Sheriff of the County of Mountgomery sent to prohibit his meeting and upon Mr. Powels refusal to neglect the oppertunity of serving God among his People the High Sheriff wrote a Letter to Secretary Morice wherein he accused Mr. Powel of Sedition Rebellion and Treason and the like Crimes which though untruly Suggested yet at that time easily beleived and he doubted not but to procure power to imprison one who was represented so dangerous but before any return came so willing are some men to be doing Mr. Sheriff directed a Warrant to take Mr. Powel and make him Prisoner which was accordingly done where he was continued several Moneths all o●dinary wayes of releif by Law allowed in such Cases being wholly obstructed The Jaylor in whose hands Mr. Powel was kept was one that formerly told this story concerning himself How being one night in his Bed there appeared to him about Eleven of the Clock at Night a bright shining light and in the light a speckled Bird which bad him read Mat. 3.2 Early in the morning he got up and having no Bible of his own he went to borrow one of his Neighbours and found these words Repent for the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand Upon which he entreated Mr. Powel before he was a Prisoner to Preach and to take this Text for his Subject And then he was so affected as at the Sermon he was observed to weep and confessed afterwads to some that he was almost wrought upon But a little time wore out that Impression for at Mr. Powels coming to Prison he was so much altered from any thing of good that he not only very uncivilly used his Convincer but very often sought to trapan and ensnare his Prisoner After some Moneths stay the Sessions came and after much importunity Mr. Powel was called and instead of being released or having any just cause rendred why he should still be continued in Prison the Oaths of Supreamacy and Allegiance were tendred to him and though he urged that it was necessary he should first be cleared of that which was already charged upon him before he entred upon any new Matter especially since those Oaths were designed against the Papists who he saw were spared and of him as to any inclinableness unto Popery they had no suspicion Yet neither in this could he be heard but upon his refusal of those Oaths so arbitrary and unnecessarily tendred he was again committed unto Prison the Judge refusing to take any Bail for him till the next Sessions But he had not long continued here when upon a false information returned against him one of the Messengers of the Council Mr. Wick●m was sent down with a Warrant to bring him before the King and the Council whether he was brought within few dayes following and whilest he was waiting at the Council door a Cavilier Captain one of his own County came to Mr. Powel and upbraided him advising him to run away for that would be his best course To whom he replied before all the other Company that God had made him to stand when he and his Companions the Cavaliers had run away To which no answer was made neither by that Captain nor by any of the Company But after 6. or 7. hours waiting one of the Clerks of the Council came with a Warrant in his hands which he delivered to the Messenger to carry Mr. Powel Prisoner to the Fleet where he was detained almost two years wanting but six Weeks and for above 12. Moneths of that time in so close a Confinement that he was not suffered to go out of his Chamber Door which together with the offensive smell of a Dunghil which was just before his Window did so much impair his Health that he never after perfectly recovered it Whilest Mr. Powel was thus a Prisoner in the Fleet his Enemies could not satisfie themselves by exercising cruelty upon his Body but they also endeavoured to take away his good name and credit by spreading a Report that he was in Prison there for a great part of the Revenew of the Tythes of Wales From which Aspersion though many worthy Persons had formerly cleared him by a Book Printed in the Year 1653. called Examen Purgament Vavaseris Yet noe knowing how far such a Report might influnece to the reproach of the Gospel Mr. Powel did then write a breif Narrative concenting the proceedings of the Commissioners in Wales against the ejected Clergy and therein as knowing his own intigrity he did defy all his Enemies to prove the least Title of that Slander To which Vindication no reply was ever put nor indeed can be made since all that knew Mr. Powel must affirm this of him that very few in this Self seeking Age were more of the Primitive temper in seeking the Souls rather then the Goods of others which though pressed upon him with much importunity he hath often refused And so far was he from desiring unjustly to enrich himself that he did voluntarily quit the oppertunity of justly doing it Having now spent almost two years in the Fleet there came a sudden order for the sending away of him and Collonel Rich which without giving them so much as two hours time to provide themselves was executed upon them upon the last day of September 1663. and in the Duke of Yorks Pleasure Boat whereof Captain Lambert was Commander they were both conveyed to South-Sea Castle by Portsmouth where Mr. Powel continued about five years not being restored till the removal of the Chancellour Hide did open a Door for him as for many other Prisoners to sue for his Habeas Carpus and so at length he obtained his liberty Mr. Powel after his release out of South Sea Castle had scarce his liberty ten Moneths when passing from Bristol through some Parts of Monmouth-shire he having in that County several opportunities in divers places

and mildly desired Mr. Powel to withdraw and they would consider of it P. Sir sayth he I will but first I crave leave to speak a few words which I humbly leave to your consideration I am though your Countreyman yet a stranger haveing been not above twice before in your County and at this time but one day only and that in tran●i●n I have been taken in my lodging and committed Prisoner without any just ground that hath been yet objected There is neither Sedition Treason nor any other crime laid to my charge the ground specified in my commitment I have already shewed to be a mistake which I have rectifyed All that is pretended against me is that I preached a Sermon in Merthur in this County to a poor willing people against which Sermon there is no exception made and seeing it is so I desire you to consider and seriously to weigh whether you do well to imprison me upon such account especially since there is such a general tolleration at least connivance of such things now throughout the Nation and I my self have found it in divers other places and having heard of the moderation of you Gentlemen of this County I was emboldned so much the more to preach the word of the Lord hoping to have furtherance and no hindrance from you therein I bless God I am not ashamed of what I have done nor afraid of men having looked so many men and Death in the Face so oft and therefore the will of the Lord be done concerning me though I would desire you to consider the words of Christ with the same Judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and be sure as the Apostle saith That he that sheweth judgement without mercy shall find judgement without mercy B. If you think we wrong you you may remove your self by a Habeas Corpus P. Doctor when you have done your worst as you do I must do my best but I wish the Lord may forgive you the inury you do me and others Gentlemen if I have said any thing amiss or provoking being to speak to things suddenly I would desire that that may be no cause of any other proceedings then you intended but look into the true Cause of my sufferings and so he went out The Deputy Lieutenants had some hot discourse before Dinner about it and it was supposed the most part of them were inclining to release the Prisoner but as it seems some false Report was sent out of Monmouth-shire against him concerning some words that the Prisoner should speak a Sermon in that County which being afterwards enquired into was found false and Dr. B. himself said if that Apostate that raised the Report were in his County he would bind him to his good behaviour Yet thot with the earnest instigation of Dr. B. prevailed so far as that when the Prisoner was called again before Sun-set or a little before most of the Gentlemen were moved against the Prisoner some judged because the Dr. misrepresented a Pass●age of the Prisoner mentioned before spoken only to the Dr. viz That when he had done his worst he told them the Prisoner bid them all do their worst which he neither said nor intended it But others supposed that Wine had prevailed so far over some of them as too o● t it doth as to make them now speak for the first and fastest yea at once who had not a word in the Morning to say And thus in a great confusion the Prisoner with threatening words and strict charge given to the Taylor by some he was again remanded and recommited and in his going forth he told them Gentlemen what you have done I submit willingly to being no more troubled at it then at this Hair and so drew one of his Hairs and my Prayer shall be for you that you may find more mercy from ●od then I have found from you But that God that I serve is able to save me This meeting being ended they put the Prisoner under a new Commitment which was drawn before by the Doctor or his Clerk as some saw it in the next Room in a Statute Book Hereupon the Deputie Lieutenants it seems writ a Letter to the Lord Lieutenant Ca●bury to signify what they had done and they received an Answer from him to render them thanks to detain the Prisoner till further order Thereupon in one day viz. 30 th of Octob there were two new Commitments again upon the Prisoner One subscribed by two of the Deputie Lieutenants commanding the Prisoner to be kept in safe custody till furorders from the Deputy Lieutenants of this County who subscribed the Warrant of his ●ommitment at ●owbridge The other Commitment by five to keep him in safe custody till they did receive further orders from their Lord Lieutenant to both these Commitments Dr. B. hand is set both bearing the same date as was said before viz. October 30. 1668. Vpon the 8th day of November 1668. Sir John A. Kt. and Dr. W.B. Esq came to the Angel in C. and sent for Mr. Vavasor Powel to come to them which he did accordingly Dr. B. VVE have received an Order from the Council to tender you the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Mr. P. Gentlemen if that be your business I pray you let me return to my Prison again for I am committed already and I think it is neither regular nor usual to tender them to a Prisoner you should either before my commitment especially before presentment or indictment against me have done it or upon examination or have convicted and indicted me first and then tendred them and so the Prisoner went towards the door intending to return to the Prison B. Thereupon Dr. B. went between him and the door and said nay stay Sir you shall not be gone and so called for some of the under Officers or Deputies P. Sir though I might have continued in my Prison and not have come hither and may yet choose whetheir I stay or no yet as I was willing to shew that respect to you in coming so to express my readiness to answer any thing that may be objected against me I do not mean to depart without leave B. Come Mr. Powel Will you take the Oaths for we have an Order from some of the Council and my Lord Keeper to tender them to you P. Sir I desire to see your Order Sir J. A. Let him see it B. No he shall not see it P. Sir you may chuse but if you have such an Order it would be civility in you and some satisfaction to me to let me see it B. We might have tendred the Oaths to you at the last meeting P. For it had been more proper for you to have done it before you had committed me then either which was after my first commitment several days then or now But Dr. you have at first dealt very illegally by committing me without cause or colour of cause and so run your self into a Praemunire