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A36804	A short view of the late troubles in England briefly setting forth, their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion, as also, some parallel thereof with the barons-wars in the time of King Henry III : but chiefly with that in France, called the Holy League, in the reign of Henry III and Henry IV, late kings of the realm : to which is added a perfect narrative of the Treaty at U[n]bridge in an.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing D2492; ESTC R18097	368,620	485

For a Conclusion In answer to the witness of God upon our solemn Appeal you say you have not so learned Christ to hang the equity of your Cause upon events We could wish that blindness had not been upon your Eyes to all those marvellous Dispensations which God hath wrought lately in England But did not you solemnly Appeal and Pray Did not we do so too And ought not we and you to think with fear and trembling of the Hand of the Great God in this Mighty and strange appearance of his but can slightly call it an event Were not both your and our expectations renewed from time to time whilst we waited on God to see which way he would manifest himself upon our Appeales And shall we after all these our Prayers Fastings Teares Expectations and solemn Appeales call these bare Events The Lord pitty you Surely we fear because it hath been a merciful and gracious deliverance to us I beseech you in the Bowels of Christ search after the mind of the Lord in it towards you and we shall help you by our Prayers that you may find it For yet if we know our Hearts at all our Bowels do in Christ yearne after the Godly in Scotland It is not unworthy of Observation likewise that as this signal dissaster to the Presbyterians did very much raise the Spirits of the Independant Grandees so did it incite them to give all possible encouragement to the rest of that Party and to all other Sectaries of whose help upon occasion they might stand in need They therefore first passed an Act Intituled An Act for the relief of Religious and peaceable People from the rigour of former Acts of Parliament in matter of Religion amongst which those of primo and 35 o Eliz. which concern the Subjects obedient repairing to Church were repealed And shortly after that another Act whereby they directed all proceedings at Law scil Writs Pleadings Patents Books of Reports and other Law Books to be in English Next they imposed a Tax of an hundred and twenty Thousand Pounds a Month for the support of their Army and not long after passed an Act declaring that their new Great Seal Engraven with a Cross and an Harp with this Circumscription The Seal of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England should be the Seal of the Parliament of that Common-wealth and be only used by order of Parliament and that it should be Treason to counterfeit the same Most certain it is that the late wonderful defeat which the Scots received at Dunbar by the English then commanded by Cromwel did not a little startle the whole Godly Party in that Nation For whereas before though it was through the advantage they made of the King's Name whom they had got thither as hath been already observed that they rais'd their Army 't is very well known that His Majesty was not permitted to have any hand in the conduct thereof no not so much as to be Personally in that part of the Realm in which it was lest his presence should have had any influence thereon in reference to his own just Rights so much did their own guilt of Disloyalty terrifie them But the case was now altered For soon after this great overthrow they sent to His Majesty earnestly desiring his presence with them and to Court him with the fairer assurance of their fidelity appointed a certain day for his Coronation which was accordingly perform'd with great Solemnity So that then standing clear with his best Subjects of that Kingdom he began to form an Army upon his own and their Interest Yet not without the assistance and Joynt-help of the Kirk-Party there which in humane reason might have been thought to his advantage In the Head whereof he entred England at Carlisle upon the Seventh of August and marcht to Worcester without any great opposition But whether there was any thing of Treachery in them that then over-perswaded His majesty to make stay there against his own judgment or whether Almighty God would not give his Blessing to the aid of those who had formerly been so false and perfidious to His Royal Father and himself is hard to say Sure we are that so great was the confluence from most parts of England to Cromwell's assistance the Presbyterians then joyning with him and divers of their Preachers Marching with him in a Military way that after a most sharp dispute at and near that City being over-powered with strength and numbers his Army was totally routed and destroy'd himself and some few others being necessitated to escape by flight It may seem strange I presume to some that I should here touch the Presbyterians so near the Quick there being some of opinion that though the most rigid of that Sect were at that time forward against the King yet that His Majesty had many Well-wishers of them in this his adventure But if I be herein censured I desire to know what this expression used by those Thirty six Presbyterian and Independant Ministers which joyn'd together in a Petition for respiting the Execution of Mr. Love one of their own coat of whom I have already given some touch doth mean viz. that in putting him to death the hopes and expectations of the Common Enemy against compliance with whom he had made open protestation at his Tryal will be heightened And that the forbearance of so putting him to death would manifest to the World that you id est the Parliament do put a difference betwixt those who offend from Principles of Enmity against God and his People and others who transgress through the mistakes of an erroneous conscience in the midst of great and various changes Again I would gladly know what construction is to be made of those words Printed in one of the news-News-books of that year viz. The Presbyterians in Lancashire and parts adjacent have not only declaimed against the late defection in Norfolk but declared against the Conjunction and Proceedings of Iockey and their young King with Middleton Ogilby and the rest of the Royal Party and are resolved to adhere to the present Government and to walk close and stedfast in the ways of Truth and Holiness ¶ Here it will not be impertinent I hope to make a little pause and contemplate the infinite goodness and mercy of God in so wonderful a preservation of the King our present Sovereign after this fatal ruine of his Army at Worcester Who though pursued and sought for with all the art and skill that these Bloody Regicides and their whole Party could devise was through the signal fidelity of some few persons of whom certain Narratives of the particular passages therein which are already made publick do make honourable mention so well secured from their fury and with such admirable contrivance and skill conducted that he Landed safely upon the Fifteenth of October following at New-Haven in France And as so strange and little less than

Plague of heresie is amongst you and you have no power to keep the sick from the whole The wolves that were wont to lie in the woods are come into your Sheep-fold and roare in the Holy Congregation O thou Shepherd of Israel why hast thou broken down the Hedge of this thy Vineyard which thy right hand hath planted the Boare of the wood and the Wilde-beast of the forest do devour Whereupon many good People beginning to whisper their Fears of that which shortly after hapned these subtile Foxes to drive their great work with the less suspition in their grand Remonstrance of the 15th of December cryed out against certain Malignants as they term'd them who had infused into the People that they meant to abolish all Church-Government and leave every Man to his own fancie for the Service and Worship of God absolving them of that obedience which they owe under God unto His Majesty acknowledging him to be intrusted with the Eclesiastical Law as well as with the Temporal to Regulate all the Members of the Church of England by such Rules of Order and Discipline as are established by Parliament And in the same Remonstrance declared That it was far from their purpose or desire to let loose the golden Reynes of Discipline and Government in the Church and leave private Persons or particular Congregations to take up what forme of Divine-service they pleased holding it requisite that there should be through the whole Realm a conformity to that Order which the Law enjoyns But to the end they might bring the work to pass by others in which they did not then think fit to shew themselves openly as their Brethren of Scotland had done the Tumultuous rabble of Sectaries were by their contrivance brought to Westminster and there violently assaulted the great Church threatning to pull down the Organs and Popish Reliques for so they called those stately Monuments of the Kings and others And after His Majesty was driven from London and that they had got his Navy Forts Magazine c. into their hands they ordered that an Assembly of Divines should meet with whom they might consult for setling of the Church-Government and Liturgy Shortly after which a Petition pretended to have been brought from Cornwall was Read in the House of Commons amongst other things desiring that the Ceremonies and Service of the Church might be abolished But notwithstanding all this left any jealousy of their intentions should so far prevail as to stagger the People whom they had hitherto deluded with their specious pretences especially being then about to raise their Rebellious Forces they declared That their prepararations of Arms was for security of Religion the safety of His Majesties Person c. And having thus form'd an Army the first work wherewith they began was to Deface the most Antient and Chief Cathedral of this Kingdom Soon after which some of their Forces in their first march from London towards Worcester broke open the Church at A●ton four miles from London defaced whatsoever was decent therein tore the Bible and Book of Common-Prayer sticking the leaves of them upon the walls with their Excrements And when their whole Army under the Command of the Earl of Essex came to Worcester the first thing they there did was the Prophanation of the Cathedral destroying the Organ breaking in pieces divers beautiful Windows wherein the Foundation of that Church was lively Historified with Painted Glass and barbarously Defacing divers fair Monuments of the Dead And as if this were not enough they brought their Horses into the body of the Church keeping fires and Courts of Guard therein making the Quire and side-isles with the Font the common places wherein they did their easements of Nature Also to make their wickedness the more compleat they rifled the Library with the Records and Evidences of the Church tore in pieces the Bibles and Service-books pertaining to the Quire putting the Surplices and other Vestments upon their Dragooners who rode about the streets with them Which shameful outrages done by the Souldiers thus early being much taken notice of and observation made of the liberty given to their seditious Preachers caused thereupon a general murmur by most People To cast a mist therefore before their Eyes for a while the Members fitting at Westminster publisht a Declaration wherein they exprest that though they had Voted the utter eradication of Episcopacy yet they intended not to extirpate the Liturgy and Common Prayer but so far to Regulate the same as might agree with the Truth of Gods word To which purpose and that it might bear a fair semblance of Reformation they brought in a Bill for an Assembly of Divines wherein they say that the Parliament doth not intend wholly to abrogate the Book of Common-Prayer and Liturgy But notwithstanding all these fine shews they gave daily Countenance to divers libellous Pamphlets and to all such Schismatical Preachers as endeavoured to deprave the same commanding Dr. Duek by an Order of the House dated Aug. 3. that he should not put by a Minister from Institution and Induction though he had scandalized the Liturgy of the Church calling the Book of Common-Prayer a great Idol After which it was not long e're they went on towards the suppressing thereof shutting up the Cathedral of St. Paul in London upon Sundays Yet that they might not be suspected in their well-wishes to the Protestant Religion they Voted that it was the design of the King's Army to destroy the Protestant Religion and to bring in Popery All which fair pretences and Votes were made by the Members at Westminster whilst their Forces in divers parts went on with such horrid practises as the like hath not been seen in this Realm since the Pagan-Danes upon their Invasions exercised their Heathenish Cruelties here Sr. William Waller their Western-General about this time entring Winchester where his Souldiers Committed the like barbarous outrages in that Cathedral as was done by the E. of Essex's Men at Worcester tearing likewise in pieces those Chests of Lead wherein were enshrin'd the Bones of divers Saxon Kings Queens devout Bishops and Confessors with which they broke in pieces the Costly Historical Windows there Besides this they battered and Defaced the Brazen Statua's of the King and that of His Royal Father K. Iames which His Majesty as a pledge of his Princely favour had given to that Church hack't and hew'd the Crown on his Head swearing that they would bring him back to the Parliament And having so done seized upon the Rich Hangings Cusheons Pulpit-Clothes and Communion-Plate spoiling or carrying away whatsoever else was of Ornament or worth The like for the most part they did soon after in the Cathedral at Chichester Nor was there any place they came to where they made not the like devastation At Sudeley in Gloucestershire the Seat of the Antient and Noble Familes of the Lords Sudley

and Chandos they broke down the Monuments made the Body of the Church a Stable for their Horses and the Chancel their Slaughter-House To the Pulpit they fastned Pegs on which they hang'd the Carcasses of Sheep Of the Communion-Table they made a Dresser or Chopping-board to cut their Meat Into the Vault where lay the Bodies of those Noble Persons they cast the Guts and Garbage of the Sheep leaving in every Corner of the Church their own loathsom Excrements At Elvaston in Derby-shire about this time Sir Iohn Gell's Souldiers after their Plunder of the Lady Stanhope's House demolished a Costly Monument newly made for Sir Iohn Stanhope entred the Vault wherein many of his Ancestors lay Interred and Triumphing over the Dead thrust their Swords into the Coffins About the beginning of March another of their Armies entred Lichfield under the Conduct of the Lord Brooke Where the Souldiers notwithstanding that Lord lost his life in the Assaulting that Cathedral upon St. Chad's Day to which Saint it was Dedicated exercised the like Barbarisms as were done at Worcester in demolishing all the Monuments pulling down the curious Carved work battering in pieces the Costly Windows and destroying the Evidences and Records belonging to that Church which being done they stabled their Horses in the Body of it kept Courts of Guard in the Cross-Ifles broke up the Pavement poluted the Quire with their Excrements every Day hunted a Cat with Hounds throughout the Church delighting themselves in the Eccho from the goodly Vaulted Roof and to add to their wickedness brought a Calf into it wrapt in Linnen carried it to the Font Sprinkled it with water and gave it a Name in scorn and derision of that Holy Sacrament of Baptism And when Prince Rupert recovered that Church by force Russel the Governour carried away the Communion Plate and Linnen with whatsoever else was of value About the same time also the like spoile and prophanation was done by Oliver Cromwell and his followers in Lincoln Minster tearing up all that beautiful Pavement in the upper part of the Quire watering their Horses at the Font. And at the same time pull'd down two of the Parish-Churches of that Antient City for the better opportunity of their Fortifications At Lestithiell also in Cornwall when the Earl of Essex was there with his Army one of his Souldiers brought a Horse into the Church led him up to the Font and made another hold him whilst he Sprinkled water on his Head and said I signe thee with the signe of the Cross in token thou shalt not be ashamed to fight against the Round-Heads at London with a deale more of such Balsphemous stuff blowing up that Church with Gunpowder at their departure I pass by the mention of Exeter Peterborough Salisbury Gloucester and divers other fair Cathedrals besides divers goodly Callegiate-Churches with many of the Chappels in the University of Combridge which tasted of their outrages about that time being so much Defaced as that they will remain to posterity for infamous badges of their barbarous impieties And that it may appear that their great Masters the Londoners did very well approve of these their doings they did by a publique Act of Common Council Order the pulling down to the ground of that goodly Monument of Christianity the Cross in West-Chepe Whereupon to make the Fact the more noto●ious it was accordingly demolished in die Inventionis S. Crucis with sound of Trumpets and noise of several Instruments as if they had obtain'd some notable Victory against the Enemies of the Christian Faith So that if we may Credit Ingulphus one of our most Antient Historiographers and other Authentick Writers touching the Danish-outrages towards the Christians in this Nation about the Year of Christ DCCCLX who speaking of their Barbarisms at Medeshampsted now called Peterborough saith Altaria omnia suffossa Monumenta omnia confracta Sanctorum Librorum Bibliothecae combusta c. And at Crouland Omnia Sanctorum sepulchra conftracta Monumenta omnia sacraque volumina sua cum corporibus Sanctorum combusta inestimabili dolore omnes consternati sunt planctusque pleatus diutissimè suctus est these wicked Men have come nothing short of the Example But to these pure Reformers Barnes and Stables are of equal esteem with Churches and Holy-Oratories and a Ditch or a Dunghill thought as fit for Purial as any Sepulcher or other place Consecrated for that purpose for Testimony whereof take Sir William Waller's Lieutenant General 's word who having received a Message from Sir Iohn Boys Governour of Dunnington-Castle for His Majesty whereby it was signified to him that the number of the Rebels Bodies which were slain in the assault of that Castle were so many that he could not give them Christian-Burial and therefore out of a Charitable Respect tendred liberty to take them off and do it elsewhere returned answer in these words That he conceived no Holiness to be in any place or Burial and that all Earth was fit for that use Against which Hethenish Principle I shall tell you what their own Mr. William Prynne hath said in his Book Intituled The Antipatby of English Lordly-prelacy Wherein complaining of Pandulphus Bishop of Norwich who perswaded K. Iohn as he saith to submit himself to Stephen Langton Arch-bishop of Canterbury and others that had interdicted the Realm he cryeth in these very words Let me inform you that during the time of this Interdict all Ecclesiastical Sacraments ceased in England except Confession and the Viaticum in extream necessity and the Baptisme of Infants so as the Bodies of Dead-men were carried out of Towns and Villages and Buried like Dogs in High-ways and Ditches without Prayers and the Ministry of Priests Whereby it is plain in Mr. Prynns opinion that Burial without Prayers and the Ministry of Priests is like the Burial of Dogs And therefore what Burial this of Sir William Waller's Lieutenant General or that which the new Directory lately establisht by Ordinance of Parliament as they call it directeth is like whereat no Ceremony shall be used or any Prayers or Reading I leave to any indifferent judgment But to return to our precious Reformers who were so hardned by the daily exercise of new out-rages that the Members at Westminster at length for their credit though fit to have a total devastation of whatsoever was comely in the Church or decent for the service of God and this to be done by an Ordinance for abolishing of superstition for that was the Title of it viz. that all representations or sculptures in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or any other place within this Kingdom shall be defaced and utterly demolished and that all Organs the frames or cases wherein they stand in all Churches and Chappels shall be utterly defaced And that the Chancel-ground of every Church or Chappel raised for any Communion-Table to stand on shall be levelled with the