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A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

Vestry-house where he questioned the Church Wardens and some others why they had brought so many of the inhabitants thither and told them That he desired but twenty or thirty of the names of the chief of the Parish to consult withall whereupon M. John Farmantle then Constable asked him What he would do with the names of those persons that he knew not then the said Crofton replyed What is that to you if I consult with the Divel to know what they are Whereupon William Turner then Constable answered him If you have so much familiarity with the Divel you are no fit Parson for us And the said Crofton replied What have you to do with that or words to that effect II. M. Sabine one of M. Croftons friends saith That a little time after M. Crofton came to preach at Aldgate asked of him By what power he came thither and he answered him By my Lord Protectors Then said M Sabine Why then observe ye not his Highness Orders concerning the dayes of Fasting and dayes of Thanksgiving and praying for his Highness M. Crofton answered him An honest man may receive a courtesie of a Thief upon the high way or words to that purpose III. Some of the parish being given to understand that M. Crofton had been at Whitehal with a Petition to his Highness desiring as they were informed to have a hearing of the businesse concerning his uncivil behaviour used towards his maid upon which two of the Common-Council men and another person went to the house of the said M. Crofton to give him an account that he had been as they understood with M. Maline and clamourd them against them upon which the said persons told him They were ready and willing to make good whatsoever they had said against him and in order thereunto were resolved to Petition his Highness for a hearing upon which the said Crofton replied The Protector was no competent Judge for that he had prejudged him already in giving away half his Pulpit to M. Simpson And further said He was an unrighteous Judge for he that shall make a nose of Wax of the Law as he hath done was an unrighteous Judge or words to that effect IV. The uncivil behaviour of the said Crofton used towards his maid servant Mary Cadman as appears by Affidavits taken before the Master of the Chancery as also the examinations of several taken before the Commissioners ordered by his Highnesse the Lord Protector to examine the same all which lie before his Highness at this present V. That whereas there was an Order granted by his Highness the Lord Protector and the Council to confirm the former Order for M. John Simpsons preaching on the Lords day in the afternoon as usual and a Lecture on one of the week daies dated the 4 of August 1657. The Churchwardens according to their duty carried the said Order to the said M. Crofton who read the same and then demanded Where they had it they answered From my Lord Protector and the Council Nay said M. Crofton you mean you had it from the Common Council and said he knew not the hand and that the Order did not concern him Notwithstanding this he having performed his morning exercise on the Lords day being the 9 of August he there continued in the Pulpit and several others with him in the Church and went not home as is usual which caused many people from several parts to flock about the Church seeing the said Crofton to keep the Pulpit and Constables staves brought to the Church out of Middlesex to guard him by the said persons to whom the staves did belong they being Constables and Headboroughs of Middlesex caused a great disturbance The Constables whose charge it was to see the peace kept and that no disturbance might arise went into the Church with one of the Churchwardens about one of the clock in a peaceable manner to know whether M. Zachary Crofton would obey his Highness and Councils Order upon which one of the Constables of Middlesex aforesaid thrust both the Constable and Churchwatden who only went to perform their duty VI. That on the next day being the 10. of August the said M. Crofton got a Warrant from a Justice of Peace to apprehend Edward Tench and Antony Finch Constables which did their duty according to his Highness and Councils Order and after the Warrant Signed and Sealed by the Justice the said Crofton did of himself interline and put in the name of one Roger Waldin who was the forementioned Churchwarden in the fifth Article and apprehended the said Waldin and carryed him before a Justice of Peace for a disturber which upon examination was found to be none A true Copy William Avery John Levet Tho. Harrison Additional Articles exhibited by the major part of the Common Council the Churchwardens and divers of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Buttolph without Aldgate against Zachary Crofton Minister there I. THat on the 16 day of August last being the Lords day the said Zachary Crofton in the publick meeting place of Aldgate in his publick Exercise or Sermon did say That Moses could prevail with the Lord by Prayer but he could not prevail neither by Prayer nor Law because that ungodly men have prevailed with the unjust Judges of this Nation who have gone contrary to their Oath tyrannically disinheriting him of his right and letting of an erroneous turbulent spirit enjoy it II. And that their sword was the Law and therefore their tyrannie was the greater whereunto Law cannot reach III. And that if that he were to plead his cause with either Gody or honest Pious or Civil Modest or Just Judges according to Law he was confident he should enjoy his right and said that the wickedness of ungodly man hath so prevailed against him with the tyrannie of unjust Judges that he is enforced to leave his right and if any of the Soules of his people be damned for ought he knew their blood would be required at the hand of the unjust Judges or the Erroneous Intruders IIII. The said Zacharie Crofton on the day and at the place above mentioned did further say I have received an order for Simpsons teaching in my Pulpit and I am here to surrender my just reentred right to Simpson contrarie to all Law right and reason and as a certain king said what I will do I will do so I am disreentred by that power that what they will do they will do contrarie to all Law right and reason V. That on the Third day of September last it being a Commanded publique day of Thanksgiving for the Victories of Dunbar and Worcester the said Zacharie Crofton would not Preach himself that day nor suffer any other to Preach that day in the Publick meeting place at Aldgate That on Munday the 21. of September last it being the day appointed according to the Annual Custom for a thanksgiving to the Lord for his Mercies to the Trained bands of Algate amongst others at

the Protector hear the foolery clamoured of my maid To which I answered I have offered and do offer to cast my credit on the verdict of twelve men amicably chosen or returned by the Sheriff but as for the Protector he is no competent judge for he hath prejudged me and that I had cause to say so there are some anong you know And if a man may not deem his Highness in some cases an incompetent judge why doth the Lord Chief Justice sit on the Bench in causes to him relating And how is he capable of being impleaded But as for the giving away the halfe of my Pulpit and saying That the Protector was an unrighteous judge and made a nose of Wax of the Law I never said or thought it For I am yet to be convinced that by any colour of law I should be interrupted in publick service or hindred from preaching twice a day to my people and that statis horis on the Sabbath And therefore unto this part I plead Not guilty and to convince me you must expect the Oath of John Wildgoss and William Jellie both accusers but have not subscribed that they may be witnesses and these men if they would swear truth must tell you these were Tho. Harrisons words not mine For they coming to my house and knowing that I would not speake with them alone brought with them Nathaniel Duckfield and Edmund Man now at rest both men fearing God and they heard what past in discourse between us And if these two Common Council-men do swear as they are desperate enough that I spake these words I shall produce Nathaniel Duckfield and one Roger Morris a Minister in North Hamptonshire who was in my house to witnesse that when I said The Lord Protector was no competent judge Thomas Harrison said What do you say the Protector is an unrighteous judge I replyed No he that is an incompetent is not alwayes an unrighteous judge He answered I will swear you said so and he now attempts to accomplish his word and when these two Common Council-men were gone away with this accuser I and my friends did bewail their wickedness that would gloss on my words and then swear I spake them but thus they make up their words to that purpose Moreover I should if not furnished to disprove them except against their testimony as incredible not onely as they are accusers in whose name the Charge is exhibited but as the one is forsworn and the other a convict lyar Unto Article the fourth Relating to the incivility pretended to be acted on the body of Mary Cadman I say it is here added to no other end save audactèr calumniaere to fasten with impudence their own slander were it true it is no crime and modesty hath been more violated by the fame then act it self if done But these men are most notoriously impudent to charge what they can prove by none save a notorious thief and liar and one that hath to many in discourse and on her oath denied it and that which she never owned till by a Justices Warrant brought to the Pye and Hoop Tavern hefore their very selves who have circumstantiated it most ridiculously and taught her and others to swear the things in which they are palpably forsworn and so proved as doth appear in the late book to you directed called Perjury the Proof of Forgery penned by a friend of mine that well knew all circumstances relating to that businesse To this therefore I plead Not guilty and will hold mine integrity until I die and not justifie these mine accusers Unto Article the fifth I say that I did say That the Order concerned not me it being directed to M. Grafton I knew not the Order to come from the Council it not being signed by the Clerk as was usual On August the 8. I gave an answer to that order which provided M. Simpson a liberty of Lecturing in my Church which answer was That I would do my duty statis horis and leave him to his liberty when I have done and I am sure Stepney would give 50 l. per. ann for such a grant On August the 9. I kept my pulpit being so advised by council and knowing that if I stept out they would seizeit and to that end Simpson preached at Creed-Church that morning The Constables out of Middlesex who had their staves were Parishioners and on their duty defending me in my right from such as had at the Fountain Tavern conspired to pull me out of the pulpit who were these very accusers and prosecuters of this charge For this I was had before the Council and acquitted and these Constables were by these men indicted for a Riot who did but their duty as was evidenced on Tuesday the first of December instant before the Lord Chief Justice where they were acquitted and the conspiracy of these men was discovered And it must not be made a scandal for a Minister to contend for his just liberty to do his duty and to have the Officers to defend him in the same against the plotted viotent assaults of his enemies Unto the four first additional Articles charging me on the Lords day August 16 in my Church and Sermon to have said 1. That Moses could prevail with the Lord in Prayer but I could neither prevail by Prayer nor Law because ungodly men have prevailed with the unjust Judges of this Nation who have gon contrary to their oath tyrannically disinheriting me of my right and letting an erronious turbulent spirit enjoy it 2. And that their sword was their Law and therefore their Tyranny was the greater whereunto law could notreach 3. And if that I were to plead my cause with either godly or honest or pious or civil modest or just Judges according to Law I were confident I should enjoy my right and said That the wickedness of ungodly men had so prevailed against me with the tyranny of unjust judges that I was inforced to leave my right and if any of the souls of my people be damned for ought I know their blood would be required at the hands of the unjust Judges or Erronious intruders I have received an order for Simpsons teaching in my pulpit and I am here to surrender my just re-entred right to Simpson contrary to all law right and reason as a certain King said what I wil do I wil do so Iam disre-entred by that power that what they wil do they wil do contrary to all law right and reason Unto this whole charge I desire it may be noted That these are the highest but querulous expressions in apprehension of of oppression in a particular case They all relate to the intrusion of Iohn Simpson into my church and are charged on that occasion to be spoken as being thereby provoked It is the observation of the preacher That oppression will make a wise man mad These men make me cry and then endeavour to have me beaten for crying His Highness grants I.

is probable that I would fetch a Similitude from a certain King that said What I will do I will do as if I knew not sic volo sic Jubeo to be a faeminine reason so that the whole is such an heap of non-sense that could I be convict I spake it I should rather be convened before you as an insufficient then a scandalous Minister but the very face of the child sheweth it to be the brat of some malicious brain For I profess before God Angels and Men that I spake them not Nay by Gods grace it hath been my care not to mingle my passionate complaints with his pure Word and therefore whatever I have done I did it distinct from my Sermon I did the 16 of August expresse a complaint against John Simpson and his confederates and expostulate with them as men of neither reason nor civility honesty or piety and they reflect what is charged on themselves upon the present Government whereas in the whole complaint I did not once mention tyrants or tyrannically disinheriting nor unjust Judges nor the sword being their Law nor indeed any thing in this whole Charge The complaint I did make I foreseeing the malicious misapprehensions and misrepresentations of it I did commit to writing communicate to some before I spake it and did read it syllabically out of the paper unto the people and I can if need be produce it But these men that have openly enveighed against the Lord Protector as * As did Iohn Simpson in Alhallows Lectures Tyrant Great man at White-hall and provoked against him an Ehuds dagger calling him † As did Wil. Iellic Juggler and one that regarded not oathes and that out of disaffection to his Highness government can put him into their room and reflect on him the complaint made against themselves who in this very case of mine have done no mean dishonour to his government as I have noted in my Right Re-entred Unto the fifth Additional Article I answer That preaching on the 3 of September was not commanded none was unto me propounded to preach that day at Aldgate and though I preached not at Aldgate yet I preached at Alhallows Barking and I am not the only man that omitted that Dayes Exercise Communis error fit jus Unto the last Additional Article I answer That there is in it a notorious falsitie for none of the neighbors desired of me that John Simpson should preach one indeed put out that querie when they desired the libertie of the Pulpit What if we chuse M. Simpson but he desired no liberty for him but with their swords by their sides they brought him into the Church and I would not let him preach nor will I let him him preach in my Pulpit one moment longer then I cannot help it and I think such as love the truth will say that the care of the souls of my people will nourish maintain and justifie this resolution And now Gentlemen I have brought out my cause before you and given a plea unto this Charge and that not meerly formal but real and true by which I doubt not but you will see that I had cause to say of it it is false and frivolous And hereupon if it come within your cognizance and the compasse of your Law I joyn issue and am ready to proceed to proof by which it will be more plainly manifest that malice against Ministry not any scandal in my life is the ground of my long vexation and present prosecution and that I have cause to say with the Psalmist Psal 56.5 What things I either did or spake They wrest them at their will And all the counsel that they take Is how to work me ill FINIS Page 3. l. 10. r. unrighteous Judge p. 5. l. 4. r. godly p. 19. l. 33. r. unjust p. 20. l. 2. r. judg p. 22. l. 16. r. violent l. 34. r. at the. l. 38. r. on p. 23. l. 5. r These p. 10. against line 4. in marg r. Hence their cry in all this contest is We will know whose is the Pulpit