Abr. Reynoldson Sr. John Gaire Ald. Adams Ald. Bunch and Major Gen. Brown who suffered a sharp and tedious Imprisonment The Right Honourable John now Lord Viscount Mordant Brother to the Earl of Peterborough who indefatigably laboured in the Kings Business being really engaged in the matters wherewith he was accused and came off but by one saving voyce at his Trial before the said Court when others not concerned at all were there condemned no sooner got his Liberty by the death of Oliver but he was as earnestly busie as before against the Rump and by Proclamation commanded to render himself by such a time or else be reputed a Traytor He now lives and hath seen some of them suffer the Reward of such and is Governour of Windsor Castle Mr. now Sr. Thomas Woodcocke a Confederate in the same Design with my Lord Mordant so wisely managed his Defence at the aforesaid Bar the same time that he was fairly acquitted by those bloudy Justices and soon after set at Liberty which by his Majesties Gracious Favours is improved into Honour Mr. Christopher Pits Brother to M. Pits of Hampshire who married the Lady Chandois I the rather mention his Noble Family because of the Nobleness of this subsequent Action He was apprehended with Mr. Garrent and other Citizens for the same business of the Lord Mordant and committed to New-gate after his Examination taken they would have made use of him having not enough against his Life as a witness against his Associates and in order thereunto brought him down to the High Court where he refused and resolutely denied to give any Evidence concerning or against the Prisoners whereupon after many vain Threats and Menaces he was by the Court sent back to Newgate there condemned to perpetual Imprisonment and fined 1000 l. which he willingly submitted to rather then be guilty of the Bloud of his Friends though a kind of forcible necessity would have seemed to warrant such an Action He continued a Prisoner but at large after Olivers death till the Coming of the General when he forsook that Station and recommenced his Freedom with the Kingdoms Mr. William Garrent who was tried before the same Court for the same business escaped as is generally believed through the want of that Evidence they relied upon from Mr Pits with much ado he was quitted and soon after set at Liberty Henry Friar who was one of those also was condemned at the said Court and was brought afterwards to West-Smithfield where in the Rounds a Gibbet was erected upon the Ladder and ready to die the Reprieve was produced and he carried back again to the Tower whence not long after he was dismist John Sumner and Oliver Allen the like the one drawn on a Hurdle to Bishopsgate and the other to Grace-Church street the places of their appointed Execution but were both there reprieved and afterwards freed Sr. George Booth now Lord Delameres who in 1659. rose against the Rump and was proclaimed Traytor with Major Gen. Egerton Col. Worden and Sr. Thomas Middleton being defeated near Northwich in Cheshire fled in disguise to Newport Pagnel and was there taken and sent Prisoner to the Tower of London and soon after his Estate was Ordered to be sequestred and sold and Preparations to be made for his Trial but upon the division of his and their fore-gotten Spoyles betwixt that Remnant at Westminster and their Commander Lambert which brought about through the Prudence and Loyalty of our Noble General the Re-admission of the Secluded Members he was set at Liberty and his Estate freed likewise which is now mounted to the Honourable Revenue of a Barony Sr. Thomas Middleton ingaged in the same Quarrel after this Defeat was forced to flee leaving his Sons to defend Chirke Castle which rendred soon after to Col. Zanchy but the happy Revolution aforesaid restored him and his Estate together I do here also leave out all Persons who condemned by Courts Martial with others that suffered or alone were afterward reprieved because it is an undertaking of so wide a circumference that is impossible without much Errour and Uncertainty particularly I passe by the Names of those who were kept so long in Durance at Exeter and were afterwards sent away to the Barbadoes for the Rising with Col. Penruddock because of the Prosixity of that Roll and I would not be partial Lastly It were an infinite Task to particularize the several Sequestrations Plunderings and Rapines committed on the Kings good Subjects the Product of which Spoyles amounted to a vast sum of Treasure and might be sister to the Publick Faith-Money as Violence and Fraud are seldom asunder But what is herein defective would indeed be redundant and therefore I refer every Particular of those sufferers to the General Day of Account when they shall receive full Recompence FINIS Courteous Reader THere is now Published the Reconciler of the Bible Inlarged wherein above three thousand seeming Contradictions throughout the Old and New Testament are fully and plainly Reconciled being a very useful Work for all such as desire to understand the Sacred Scriptures aright unto Salvation And sold by Simon Miller at the star in S. Pauls Church Yard Courteous Reader These Books following are Printed for Simon Miller or Sold by him at the Star in St. Pauls Church Yard Small Folio THe Reconciler of the Bible Enlarged wherein above Three Thousand seeming Contradictions throughout the Old and New Testament are fully and plainly reconciled A like work never yet extant and may serve for the Explanation of the most difficult Places of the Bible being useful for all such as desire to understand the Sacred Scriptures aright unto Salvation Humbly presented to the Censure of the Sons of the Prophets By J. T. and T. M. Ministers of Gods Holy Word and Sacraments Astrology restored or an Introduction to the Language of the Stars in four Books by William Ramsey Gent. 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A New Book OF LOYAL English Martyrs AND CONFESSORS Who have endured the Pains and Terrours of Death Arraignment Banishment and Imprisonment for the Maintenance of the Just and Legal Government of these Kingdoms Both in CHURCH and STATE By James Heath Gent. Psal 112.6 The Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance LONDON Printed for R. H. and are to be Sold by Simon Miller at the Star in St. Pauls Church-Yard A List of the Martyrs contained in this Volume THomas Earl of Strafford Proto-Martyr M. Yeomans of Bristol Mart. M. Bowcher of Bristol Martyr M. Tompkins of London Mart M. Chaloner of Lon. Martyr M. Kniveton Martyr William Laud L. Archbishop of Canterburie Martyr Sr. Charles Lucas Martyr Sr. George Lisle Martyr Major Pitcher Martyr Our Dread Soveraign KING CHARLES the First the Glorious Martyr Arthur L. Capel Martyr Henrie Earl of Holland Mart. M. Beaumont Minister Mart. Major Morris Martyr Cornet Blackburne Martyr Col. Eusebius Andrews Mart S. Henrie Hide Martyr M. Benson Martyr Capt. Brown Bushel Martyr M. Love Ministe Martyr Capt. Gibbons Martyr James Earl of Darbie Mart. S. Tim. Fetherston Haugh Martyr Col. Benbow Martyr Col. John Gerrard Martyr M. Vowel Martyr Col. Penruddock Martyr Col. Grove Martyr Sr. Henrie Slingsbiâ— Martyr Dr. Huit Martyr Col. Ashton Martyr M. John Bettelie Martyr M. 〈◊〉 Martyr ENGLANDS NEW BOOK of Loyal Martyrs Being a perfect Account of all those Loyal Persons that suffered the pains and Terrours of Death By colour of any Sentence during the Lateâ— Rebellion The Introduction NO sooner was the Marian Persecution ceased and the Flames thereof extinguished in which so many of the most able and faithful Assertors as well as weaker Professors of the Protestant Religion were sacrificed to the Rage and Pride of Romes Revenge by the most happy and auspicious Assumption of Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory to this Crown and Kingdom whose Blessed Influences enlivened those dying Embers of the Reformation to a most bright Profession but a strange and a new kind of Fire like a subterraneous Conflagration as indiscernably as irresistably smothered and kindled in the minds of some Factious Persons pretending to a more holy and severer Discipline of Life until the Eruption of it in the times of Arthington and Hacket the last of which deservedly suffered in the gainsaying of Corah and persecuted this but just escaped Church like Vertue betwixt two Extreams afresh The Pretence of those men was a Reformation of that which so lately had been reformed taxing it of retaining the Faeces and Dregs of Romish Superstition as being but superficially and slightly purified of those grosse corruptions which yet their own eâ—es had observed to have passed through more then 70 times 7 fires in that hot Martyrdom This Male-contented Opinion and Humour was first vented in secret whispering and murmuring against the Government which amounted in short time after to several Conventicles and Meetings of the dissatisfied Brethren as they were humbly pleased to term themselves into sundry Invectives and publick Expostulations with the Queen her Councils and Parliaments so that the Party grew so formidable that particular Lawes were made against them and the aforesaid Hacket thereupon executed For a while after this Justice the Faction slunk into Corners and hid themselves in the Dens and Retreats of their own shame till the Coming in of King James towards whom they assumed out of some confidence of his present advancement to this Crown to obtrude the same irreverend Postulata complaining among other things chiefly of the Common Prayer and of the extraordinary Power of Bishops in restrayning the Violence and Fury of their Libelling and pragmatical Books and Lectures whose main Design and aim was the same with the Complices of Corah Ye Sons of Levi take too much upon you when their Conspiracy was to take all a Truth most lamentably confirmed in these out Late Reforming Times For from that Conference that King vouchsafed their impertinencies at Hampton-Court where his Learning had the good Fortune of reducing and reclaiming one of their most able but ingenuou Champions by name D. Reynolds they never desisted from underminining the Policy and Government of the Kingdome Nor was that wise King unsensible of their Serpentine waies and Proceedings but yet was loath to discover such a fear of them as might render them confident and bold to attempt any thing You may see in his Character of them by the name of Puritan in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Prince Henry what he thought of them The Lenity and good Nature of his Son and Successor Charles the Martyr afforded them the Advantages they had long expected and waited for It is incredible what a number of Proselytes they had gained by their crosse grain'd Sanctity into how many Families they had insinuated themselves in so short a time so that now they had gain'd almost an equal Voyce in the Parliament where without Petitions or Supplications intermixed with some doubtful Menacings their ordinary style and continued to this day they brought about their long projected Device of Rebellion and Sacâ—edge Omne malum ex Aquilone the wind that first tempested the Calm and Serenity of a long Series and Tract of Peace which this Nation had enjoyed was conjured up by these evil Spirits out of the North from Scotland which had never been freed from such tumultuous Boutefews in the Clergy since their Reformation as our Zealots here but the prize of a Sedition Church-Lands was not competent enough there to the hazard as for the share the Ministers might expect as to engage and embroyl them without some Assurances and Augmentations from abroad to which how industriously and passionately many of our beginning Reformists in this Kingdom consented and contracted 't wil be impertinent to reâ—eat here being so fully cleared by subsequent Proofs of mutual Assistance by several Treaties by the Covenant by advance of Money and joynt Counsels Indeed the Scotch Nobility were mainly concerned for by an Act of Revocation passed in that Kings Reign the Church-Lands were to revert again to the right Proprietors which the Nobility were then possessed of and though the King afterwards out of some prudent Considerations had indulged them a longer tenure yet as there is no security safe enough to a covetous mind they could not rely on that Favour so that the Scotch Rebels fought for that they had sacrilegiously got and the English Rebel for what sacrilegiously he should get The Event of that unlucky War or rather Preparations to it soon inflated and pust up the Non-Conformist in England the Quarrel as the Grave Lecturers deceived and imposed on the people being thought to be the same against Bishops against the Liturgy against Ceremonies and such like but it was clearly against the Bishops-Lands against Loyalty and Obedience and against the indispensable duties of a good Conscience things more indifferent to these strict Disciplinarians then a Reverend Decency in holy Performances Their way being
was not done for the Lords stuck at it Some of which having not extinguished all the sparks of honour did by the light thereof discover the injustice of so foul a practice together with the danger might befal themselves if once disfavoured by the Grandees of that potent Faction A thing so stomacked by the Commons that after some evaporations of their heat and passion which broke out into open threats they presently drew and sent up an Ordinance to the Lords tending to dispossesse them of all power and command in their Armies But fearing this device was too weak to hold they fall upon another and a likelier project which was to bring the Lords to sit in the Commons House where they were sure they should be inconsiderable both for power and number And to effect the same with more speed and certainty they had recourse to their old Arts drew down Sir David Watkins with his general muster of subscriptions and put a petition in his hands to be rendred by him to the Houses that is themselves wherein it was required among other things that they would vigorously proceed unto the punishment of all Delinquents and that for the more quick dispatch of the publick businesses of the State the Lords would please to vote and sit together with the Commons On such uncertain terms such a ticklish Tenure do they now hold their place and power in Parliament who so officiously complied with the House of Commons in depriving the Bishops of their Votes and the Churches birth-right And this was it which helped them in that time of need For by this though stale and common Stratagem did they prevail so far upon some weak spirits that the Earls of Kent Pembroke Salisbury and Bullingbrooke the Lords North Gray of Wark and Brews a Scotchman but an English Baron and generally called the Earl of Elgin resolved to yield unto the current of so strong a stream and thought they had made a gaining voyage if by delivering the Lord Arch-Bishop to the Peoples fury they might preserve themselves in the Peoples favour And we know well both who it was and what end he came to who though he knew that the accused party was delivered him out of envy only and that he found no evil he was guilty of yet being wearied with the clamours and the Crucifiges of the common people and fearing that some tumult would be made about it delivered him unto his enemies to be put to death And for those other Lords who withdrew themselves and neither durst condemn nor protect the innocent though far the major part as it is reported it is not easie to determin whether their consciences were more tender their Collusion grosser or their courage weaker All I shall say is only this that Claudius Lysias in the Acts had been as guilty of Saint Paul's death as any of the forty who had vowed to kill him if upon notice of the Plot which was laid to murther him he had brought him down unto the people or not conveied him with a strong guard to the Court of Felix The journies end must needs be foul which such lewd and crooked waies do conduct unto And it is worth your observation that the same day the fourth of January in which they passed this bloody Ordinance as if therein they would cry quittance with his Sacred Majesty who on the same accused the six guilt Members they passed another for establishing their new Directory which in effect was nothing but a total abolition of the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and thereby shewed unto the World how little hopes they had of setling their new form of Worship if the foundation of it were not laid in blood The Bill being thus dispatched in the House of Lords if still they may be called Lords which are so over-loaded by the Common-people there wanted yet the Kings Assent to give life to it which they so far contemned they had more reason to despair of it that they never sought it They had screwed up their Ordinances to so high a pitch that never Act of Parliament was of more authority and having found the Subjects so obedient as to yield unto them in matters which concerned them in their goods and liberties it was but one step more to make trial of them whether they would submit their lives to the self-same tyranny And this they made the first experiment in this kind both of their own power and the peoples patience he being the first man as himself noted in his Speech which words are purposely omitted in Hindes Copy of it that was ever put to death by Ordinance in Parliament but was not the last as we have too sadly experienced Certain it is that by that Ordinance they then made themselves the absolute Master of the Subjects lives and left them nothing that they could call their own but ruine and destruction Just as it was observed by our Gracious Soveraign upon occasion of the Ordinance for the 20th part that the same power which robbed the Subject of the twentieth part of their Estates had by that only made a claim and entituled it self to the other nineteen when soever it should be thought expedient to hasten on the general ruin In which His Majesty proved but too true a Prophet And though perhaps some of the people were well pleased with this bloody Ordinance and ran with joy to see it put in execution yet all wise men did look upon it as the last groan or gasp of our dying liberty And let both them and those who passed it be assured of this that they who did so gladly sell the blood of their fellow Subjects seldom want Chapmen for their own in an open Market And here as it was once observed that the predominant Party of the United Provinces to bring about their ends in the death of Barnovelt subverted all those fundamental Laws of the Belgick liberty for maintenance whereof they took up Arms against Philip the Second so would I know which of those Fundamental Laws of the English Government have not been violated by these men in their whole proceedings for preservation of which Laws or rather under colour of such preservation they did bewitch the people unto that Rebellion It is a Fundamental Law of the English Government and the first Article in the Magna Charta that the Church of England shall be free and shall have her whole Rights and Priviledges inviolable yet to make way unto the condemnation of this innocent man and other the like wicked and ungodly ends the Bishops must be Voted out of their place in Parliament which most of them had held far longer in their Predecessors than any of our noble families in their Progenitors And if the Lords refuse to give way unto it as at first they did the people must come down to the House in multitudes and cry No Bishops no Bishops at the Parliament doors till by the terror of their tumults they extort it from them It