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A43121	A collection of the Christian writings, labours, travels, and sufferings of that faithful and approved minister of Jesus Christ, Roger Haydock to which is added an account of his death and burial.	Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696.; Haydock, John. A brief account of the life, travels, sufferings, and death of Roger Haydock.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. Skirmisher confounded.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. A hypocrite unveiled.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1206; ESTC R25420	111,178	301

Steward to his Brother Lane ss FOr as much as Roger Haydock Heskin Fell of Copply and Thomas Catterall Gent. within the Parish of Standish within the County aforesaid and Diocess of Chester have disobeyed and contemned the Process of the Ecclesiastical Court by not appearing at Days and Times appointed to answer in a Case depending in the said Court These are therefore in his Majesty's Name straitly to Charge and Command you and every of you forthwith upon receipt hereof to Apprehend and Take the Bodies of them the said Roger Haydock Heskin Fell and Thomas Catterall and bring them forthwith before us or the one of us or any other of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within this County to find sufficient Sureties for their and every of their due Obedience to the Process Proceedings Decrees or Sentences of the Ecclesiastical Court And if they or any of them should resuse so to do That then you forthwith Convey him or them so refusing to the common Goal at Lancaster there to remain until him or them shall willingly do the same See you fail not herein at you Peril Given under our Hands and Seals at Eccleston the 21st day of March Anno Dom. 1674. Christopher Bannestre Henry Houghton In like manner was the Proceedings against Heskin Fell of Coppal Linnen-Weaver He was Apprehended the 7th of the 3d Month committed to the Goal remained Prisoner until the 12th of the 11th Month released as before The pretended Cause was about 1 s. 8 d. for Hen Hay House c. for about three Years This Thomas Catterall was no Friend It is supposed he paid what they demanded The said R. H. and H. F. belong to Blackrod-Meeting Coppul the 28th day of the 1st Month 1675. The Warrant was directed To all Mayors Bayliffs Constables Sub-constables but more especially To the Constables of Coppul Roger Haydock and Heskin Fell 's Letter to the Judge concerning their Sufferings Friend LEt not the plainness of our Stile in this our Address unto thee turn away thy Ear from hearing our just Complaint but be pleased at least to view and according to the perswasion of thy own Heart to do to us the Justice which the Law will afford us We hope as sitting in the place of Judicature thou hast not only Power but likewise a Mind to Right the Wronged and Relieve the Oppressed if Innocent which makes us having some experience of thy Clemency the more freely to lay the Nakedness of our Case before thee hoping thou wilt candidly interpret our words having an eye to the merit of our Cause We have been Prisoners at this Castle about twenty Months for refusing to take an Oath called Juramentum de ma●iti● non Committando in the Consistory Court at York which Oath we are informed though tendered by an Ecclesiastical Judge is neither Matrimonial nor Testamentary but contrary to a Statute made in the 13th Year of the Reign of the King that now is which Statute doth prohibit Bishops Chancellors and all other Ecclesiastical Ministers and Officers to Administer the Oath Ex Officio or any other c. Be pleas'd therefore to consider that the dammage we have sustained in being hindred in the prosecution of our Appeal to York from the unjust proceedings in the Consistory Court of Chester hath not been small being as we are informed Illegally forestalled and prevented by the said Oath but we leave it to thy Judicious Censure as also our Imprisonment for twenty Months or upward instead of having Right done us for our nine Months Imprisonment before the admittance of our said Appeal which hath been no small Charge and Loss unto us and upon consideration thereof we hope thou wilt see we have just ground to lay our suffering Condition before thee and to make our Grievancs known unto thee not that we seek Revenge but that our future Liberty is desired having confidence in thee that if proceeding against us be as Illegal as we are informed and have here hinted by thee our Liberty will be granted Be pleased also to view over the inclosed being a Copy of our Answer tendered to the Chancellor at York whereby thou may'st further inspect into the cause of our Sufferings and how that thus far we have suffered Innocently So having simply and in short laid our Condition before thee we leave it with thee subscribing our Names hereunto Prisoners at Lancaster-Castle Roger Haydock Heskin Fell. A Copy of my Answer tendered to the Chancellor in the Consistory Court at York the 23 d of the 2 d Month called April WHereas I am required to take the Oath called Juramentum de malitio non Committando the Substance of which I understand is to Swear that in my Appealing to York I have done nothing out of Malice c. I Answer It is several Years since I could Swear at all Swearing being expresly contrary to Christ's Command who said Swear not at all But my Yea hath been Yea and Nay Nay according to Christ's Doctrine Let your Yea be Yea and Nay Nay But I can very freely speak the Truth and if I say Nay to or deny the Truth or Yea affirming that for Truth which is a Lye I desire the same Penalty may be laid upon me which is due to them that forswear themselves I therefore affirm I have done nothing out of Malice to Ralph Briddock in Appealing to you nor is there any Malice in my Heart against him The cause why I Appealed was That I who had suffered nine Months Imprisonment in Lancaster Goal for disobeying as saith the words of my Mittimus the Process of the Ecclesiastical Court of Chester might come to Trial that the Truth might appear I knowing my self to be clear for I never saw not had knowledge of any Process And that I might be quit of the Injury done me by Ralph Briddock who sued and imprisoned me because another Man would not pay Tithes can the like be parallell'd I having no Corn of my own nor any liable within his Precincts And also of the Injustice done me by the Illegal proceedings of the Bishop's Court at Chester who decreed me guilty of Contumacy wherein I had not offended as was clear by the Records of that Court whereupon my Appeal was admitted This was the very cause of my Appealing and therefore I do defire Justice at your hands which if you do refuse to do me I Appeal to the Righteous Judge the Lord of Heaven and Earth to plead my Innocent Cause And so I rest a Friend to Truth and a Well wisher to the Souls of all People Roger Haydock Justice Bradshaw and Penington 's Warrant of Commitment Lanc. ss WHereas we whose names are subscribed two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the said County the one of us being of the Quorum having received a Certificate under the Seal of the Consistory Court of York bearing date the 23d of April 1675 declaring unto us that whereas by vertue of a certain Information

Certificate or Complaint from the Right Worshipful John Wainwright Doctor of Law Vicar General and Official Principal to the Right Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Chester to Christopher Bannestree and Henry Houghton Esqs and other his Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County directed wherein it was declared That one Roger Haydock of Coppal in the County aforesaid had contemned and disobeyed the Process of the Ecclesiastical Court by not appearing at Days and Times appointed him to answer Ralph Briddock Clerk Doctor of Divinity of a certain Cause of Tithes depending in the said Court The said Christopher Bannestre and Henry Houghton by Warrant under their Hands and Seals did Apprehend or Take or cause to be Apprehended and Taken the Body of the said Roger Haydock and committed the same to Prison viz. to the common Goal of Lancaster there to remain until he had given sufficient Surety for his due Obedience of the Process Proceedings Decrees and Sentences of the Ecclesiastical Court according to a certain Act of Parliament in that behalf made and provided And whereas afterwards the said Roger Haydock appealed to the said Consistory Court at York from the said Decree of Certifying him the said Roger Haydock to his Majesty's Justices of Peace aforesaid and complained of the Injustice Nullity and Invalidity of the said Decree and alledged he was never cited nor any lawful Certificate thereof made By vertue of which Appeal and the Admission of the same the Force and Effect of the said Decree was suspended to the Intent the said Roger Haydock might be free from all Constraint and have free Liberty and Power to Prosecute his Appeal The said Consistory Court at York did will and require the Justices aforesaid to set at Liberty the Body of the said Roger Haydock during the dependance of the said Cause in the said Court which was done accordingly And whereas afterwards the Court rightly proceeding in the said Cause of Appeal decreed the said Roger Haydock to be cited personally to appear in the said Court at a certain time and place assigned him to take and undergo his personal Oath commonly called Juramentum de malitio Committando in the said Cause and issued a Citation under the Seal of the said Court in that behalf by vertue whereof he was cited and for his Contempt and Contumacy in not appearing in the said Court at the time and place assigned him according to the Tenor of the said Citation was by the said Court propounded Contumacious and for his Contumacy in not appearing nor presenting the said Appeal by such ways and means as the Law in that behalf provides the said party appealed was desired to be dismissed from the said Appeal and the said Roger Haydock was desired to be certified to his Majesties Justices of the Peace aforesaid as by the Acts and Records of the Consistory Court aforesaid and the said Warrant and discharge in that behalf made reference being thereto had more fully and at large it appears All which the Consistory Court of York doth Certifie Inform and Signifie unto us and do require our Aid and Assistance to order and reform him the said Roger Haydock for his Contempt and Contumacy aforesaid according to the Tenor and Effect of the above-mentioned Act of Parliament made in the 27th Year of the Reign of King Henry the 8th of famous Memory containing an order for payment of Tithes We therefore in Obedience to the said Significavit and Pursuance to the said Act of Parliament do straitly Charge and Command you That you or some of you do forthwith upon receipt hereof take the Body of him the said Roger Haydock and him convey or cause to be conveyed to his Majesties common Goal at Lancaster there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until he shall find sufficient Surety to be bound by Recognizance to the Use of our Soveraign Lord the King to give due Obedience to the Process Proceedings Decrees and Sentences of the Consistory Court of York made against him as aforesaid fail not herein at your Perils Given under our Hands and Seals the 8th day of May Anno Reg. Dom. Car. Secund. Anglia c. xxvii Annoque Dom. 1675. Roger Bradshave Nicholas Penington To all Mayors Bailiffs Constables sub-Constables and to all other his Majesty's Sworn Officers but more especially to the Constables of Coppal and every of Them These Roger Haydock Heskin Fell and Alice Haydock 's Letter to the Bishop of Chester Unto thee who subscribes thy Name Ralph Chester there is a few Words upon our Minds to impart which are as followeth Friend BY thy Letter to the Jaylor and also by an Information from thee to the Judge at the last Assizes in order to Confine me with some other of my Friends to the common Goal here at Lancaster We whose names are hereunto subscribed do understand that we are Prisoners at thy Suit having so been for the space of twenty Months and upwards for the accomplishing whereof thou say'st it hath cost thee 30 l. Now Friend in a plain Stile for I may not give thee any flattering Titles not having so learned of Christ but in words of Truth and Soberness unto thee who art called a Bishop it is with me to write and that upon good Ground as also having sufficient Reasons inducing me thereunto Love to God and love to thy Soul and that my Conscience may be Clear and that by way of Query leaving it to thy serious Consideration and to the Witness of God in thy Conscience to give an Answer thereunto Whether it was not an Unchristian Act of thee to cause us to be cast into Prison for no other cause but that we who own Christ Jesus to be come who is our Priest and the Bishop of our Souls who oversees us and takes care for us and gives us freely without Money and without Price and because we cannot destroy our Faith in him nor lay waste our Testimony concerning his Coming and the free Teachings of his Spirit could not with a safe Conscience and therefore refused to pay thee Tithes knowing of a Truth that the Levitical Priesthood to which Tithes were due is changed and that Christ Jesus who is made a Priest not after the Law of a carnal Commandment but after the Power of an endless Life A Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedeck hath disannulled the Commandment as is clear from Hebrews 7 And whether thy writing to the Jaylor and incensing the Judge against us not only to infringe our Liberty but if possible deprive us of Life also be not very Unchristian Whether did ever Christ give ye any such Command that said Freely ye have received freely give Or the Apostles shew thee any such Example who said We Covet no Man's Silver Gold nor Apparel Or whether thou that hast taken upon thee the Office of a Bishop which the Apostle Paul said was a good Work be in the Practice of those things which

as it was said Neither Circumcision nor Vncircumcision availeth but a New Creature Now where this New Creature is known the Old Man with his Deeds is put off the Old Man and Old Creature put off and changed the New Man is put on and the New Creature which bears the Image of the Heavenly comes up Now where any have a foolish pity to the First Birth being bent to save its Life there is in them an averseness to the cutting off of the fore-skin of the Heart for the sake of your Blood these are like him that pitied Agag whose Life God had required they spare that which God would have cut off Therefore let no ones Eye pity not Hand spare but let the fore skin of all Hearts be cut off that all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit may be done away and that not only in the Fathers Elders young Men Brethren but in them of younger Years and less growth And concerning this let the Elders Fathers and Brethren be careful that all the fore-skins of the Hearts of Abraham's House-hold of his Children who are of the House-hold of Faith be cut off that they may all know the Circumcision And in Heart and Ear being circumcised may all keep the Law of God in keeping of which Law there is a great Reward And the more set them be careful that all be Circumcised and that the Circumcision be kept lest it becoming Uncircumcision in any and being winked at it becomes like a spreading Leprosie upon them that have been Circumcised drawing a fore-skin over their Hearts again as a covering to their Filthiness whereby their Circumcision is made Uncircumcision and their latter end worse than the beginning For it had been better saith the Apostle they had never known the way of Truth than after they had known to turn from it And Dear Friends provoke you one another and be provoked one by another to Love and to good Works Be all stedfast in the Faith speak all by one Spirit and you will speak one thing be Encouragers in what is Good a Praise to them that do Well but a Terror to Evil Doers If there be Tatlers Busy-bodies amongst you Mark such and reprove them Let none strengthen Evil Doers but appear in Judgment against their Evil Deeds for that is the way to do them Good If any hath done Evil let such Repent and do so no more but come and do their first Work lest God smite them with a Curse If any Friend be overtaken with Weakness restore such an one in the Spirit of Meekness and Love and let such a one be easie to be entreated for why should any Man despise his own Mercies It 's a Mercy from God to Offenders that Men fearing God come to them in the Love of God to tell them their Sin This Mercy David though a King rejected not when Nathan said Thou hast slain Uriah the Hittite and taken his Wife but acknowledged saying I have Sinned Nathan replied God hath taken away thy Sin thou shalt not Dye But Alas how few are of David's Mind when for their Offences they are spoken to Let all Dear Friends be Watchful and let your Light shine put not your Candle under either Bed or Bushel let not your Sleep be over it nor your Merchandizing be above it but let your Candle stand in the Candlestick and Shine giving Light over all You are Light in that part of the World so Shine that Men seeing your good Works may be occasioned to bless God on your behalf You are a City upon that Continent you cannot be hid you are the Salt of that Earth therefore season you that part of the Creation They have Eyes upon you looking for good from you their Ears are sometimes attentive to you to reap of the Good proceeding from you Good is with you for God is with you and for the Good proceeding from you they shall glorifie God Preach you Righteousness to them in a holy Life and be before them Patterns of Piety in a Godly Conversation Christ your Life your Light shining in you and through you being both your Righteousness and exceeding great Reward so do that you may convince them of their Righteousness which is a Righteousness of their own which they are going about to establish which is but as filthy Rags and as a menstruous Cloth in Comparison of Christ's Righteousness which they have rejected that so they may see and be ashamed Repent and find Mercy with the Lord that they may be healed Finally my Brethren and all Dear Friends live in Love that God who is Love may dwell in you that Grace Peace and all spiritual Blessings in heavenly things may be multiplied upon you from God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen As opportunity offers give the Salutation of my Dear Love to all Dear Friends in Frizeland at Frederickstadt Hambrough and other places upon your Continent where I have travelled and the God of my Life who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve the Gathered every where in Faithfulness and of his Infinite Love build them all up in the most holy Faith which gives Victory over the World that they may be a People to his Praise And I pray God encrease his chosen amongst you and add to your small number every where even daily such as shall be saved My love flows to the Seed in those parts my life tenderly greets God's Off-spring the Blessing of Jacob of Jesus of God the Father of Christ be upon you all and upon God's Heritage every where Amen I am your Brother Roger Haydock Warrington the 25th of the 11th Month 1686. Concerning Roger Haydock's two Imprisonments in Lancaster Goal ROgen Haydock of Coppal three Miles from Wigan in the County of Lancaster Yeoman was sued in the Bishop's Court at Chester by Ralph Briddock Priest of Standish and Bishop of Chichester He was cited as they say in the Steeple-House at Standish to appear at Chester because he appeared not having not certain knowledge of it he was judged a Contemner of the Law was apprehended the 3d day of the 3d Month 1674. committed to the Goal at Lancaster remained Prisoner until the 12th of the 11th Month following then released through an Appeal to York grounded upon the unlawfulness of their Proceedings but for want of appearing in the said Court personally when he had appealed thither was again committed to the common Goal at Lancaster and was apprehended the 2d of the 8th Month 1675. by James Worthington Constable of Coppal where he remains a Prisoner still The name of the Judge for the Bishop's Court was John Wainwright The pretended Cause was for 10 Thrave of Oates not of his own but of his Brother's John Haydock worth about 30 s. by them valued to 3 l. and something for smoak-Penny and Tithe of Hen and Geese which they pretend to be due for his Brother's Estate The said Roger Haydock is an unmarried Man and as a