boasteth himselfe to be the known Antipuritan of the county as is said and so most likely to know the puritans in the couÌ„ty yet he namethnone that seduced Enoch he teleth us of puritans about Bishops Castle pag. 99. that framedarguments to make Enoch appeare to be lunatick and thereby perhaps intimateth that by some thereabouts Enoch was seduced for it is before confessed that Enoch all his life time had his abode within two or three Miles of Bishops Castle I my selfe have dwelt within two miles of the said Towne this forty yeares for the most part I know most of the Cleargy within the Deanery of Clunne in the Diocesse of Hereford and I am confident there is not amongst them all one non-conformist neither is there any of any note that I can learne of the laity but doe conforme and particularly in that point of kneeling in the receaving of the blessed Sacrament Master Studley should doe well to make the Puritans known that they may be reformed and not conceale them and yet cast an aspersion upon the Ecclesiasticall and civill government and that meerly upon his owne imagination what may the reverend Father our present Diocesan thinke of us in this part of his Diocesses what will the world to whom we are unknowne otherwise then by report which falleth out with such prejudice in this particular by the Looking-glasse of Schisme conceave of us better then such a nest of Puritans and Non-conformists as England affordeth not the like Sect. 16. Our lately deceased Diocesan the reverend father in God Bishop Lindsel much desired to understand that part of his Diocesse tooke speciall notice of every particular minister that were Preachers at the monethly Lecture in Bishops Castle before established by the Bishop of the same Diocesse and by his owne appointment supplied the places of some that were lately dead and they are twelve in number all of them in the same Deanery of knowne conformity more particularly hee requested to be informed about this Enoch ap Evan and to speake with his father and for him I prepared my first papers by whose meanes we had very good hopes to have our neighbourhood cleared from the aspersions laid upon it by the Looking-glasse of Schisme which booke he had read and therupon untill he was enformed to the contrary conceaved that these parts had need of reformation for until he spake with some that could enforme him in the particulars concerning Enoch he did not imagine the relation to have beene so false in the chiefe points but it pleased GOD to take him out of this life before what wee wished came to passe The same reverend father delivering his opinion concerning the said booke which would not have pleased Master Studley asked a Minister of this Countrey whether he had not observed a passage in it concerning Master Studlies great and ungodly wit adding that he that said so of him did him wrong he would excuse him of the first of those if any could free him from the latter of which he can by no meanes be excused since he hath put his pen on worke to publish such scandalous slanders against the Cleargie and lay persons as affected to non-conformity seducing Enoch into his opinions and to conceale both their names and the true cause of the fact Sect. 17. We see what worke Master Studley hath made us in the Gaole at Shrewsbury now the Gaole delivery draweth neare and the Iudges are in their Circuit at the next County of Stafford adjoyning to Shropshire there they are informed of this murtherer by the reveâ—end father the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry who was so carefull not to misreport as that he required Master Studley who was his informer to lay downe in writing under his owne hand and subscription of his name the truth of the particulars receaved from the prisoner as Master Studley confesseth pag. 121. The reverend judges who ever laboured to suppresse Schisme and non-conformity being at Shrewsbury reprehended the Iustices of Peace that had not enformed them of so notorious a malefactor before they came to heare of it in a Sermon when as in â—uth the Iustices themselves that dwelt nearest to the place where the offence was committed were Ignorant that the offence was committed upon any such ground or reason as non-conformity But at the assises Enoch is severally indited for the murders by him committed upon his mother and brother upon the severall indictments he is severally araigned upon his araignments he pleadeth guilty upon which plea as you shall heare anon hee had judgement to be executed given upon him according to justice and regular proceeding though Master Studley assuring us in the word of a minister that we have a relation of such substantiall truth as he will maintaine against any person living upon the face of the earth be not ashamed on hearesay to deliver as he hath set it down pag. 135 136. that the evidence of his murders so ofteÌ„ published to the world by his free and voluntary confession might have prevented the formal proces of law by jury conviction and casting and have put him into the power of the judge for sentence of death from his owne acknowledgement and expression of his guilt but for more strength of justice and regularity of proceeding the jury found him guilty and made him lyable to sentence of death As if after Enoch had pleaded guilty it had been more for the strength of Iustice and regularity of proceeding to have tryed him by a jury of life and death The Iudges for both of them sate at his araignment were carefull to find out the cause moving Enoch to this barbarous murder and therefore after he had pleaded guilty one of the judges asked him what the cause might be moving him to kill his mother and his brother whether there were any difference or falling out betweene them Enoch answered there was some difference in reasoning betweene his brother and him about the gesture of kneeling at the Communion It was then urged by the judg that then that was the cause why he slew his brother Enoch answered no it was not being againe demanded what then might be the cause He answered the strong temptation of sinne He was further asked whether he did not desire to receive the holy Communion before his execution He answered yes he did It being then declared unto him by Baron Trevor that he might use no other gesture in that action but that which was prescribed by law and practised by the Church which was kneeling and that no Minister should deliver it him otherwise and it being so he was demanded what in that case he would doe Enoch answered hee had rather bow his body yet rather then he should not receive the Communion he would kneele This passed openly at his araignment upon fryday the Sixteenth of August The judgement to be given upon Enoch was deferred untill the next day being Saterday upon which day and before judgement
Enoch is brought to the Iudges Chamber and there privately they both examine him touching the cause moving him to commit the murder but as I heard from one of the Iudges he w … 〈◊〉 no other cause o … 〈…〉 â—hen what he had done publickely Afterwards being brought to the barre without a jury to finde him guilty he received his judgement from Sir William Iones the Iudge that for that time sate upon Life and Death Sect. 18. The Sheriffe being commanded to see execution done was directed that he should be hanged in chains in some convenient and eminent place not very far from the place where the murder was committed and therupon he is brought to Bishops Castle where Master Gervase Needham is Vicar the learned Gentleman and minister of that parish mentioned by Master Studley pag. 161. He repaireth to Enoch as he was informed by the appointment of the Iudges and conferreth with him to the end the better to prepare him for death then shortly to ensue for it was the day of his execution and this was in the presence of divers of the Cleargy and laity which conference and the passages therin before and at his death the said Master Needham presently after committed to writing and hereafter it followeth as it was by him delivered to me without change or alteration It being asked whether he was truly and unfainedly sorry for the fact whereof he stood condemned He answered that hee was so that he thought in his heart no man living had such a weight of sinne upon him or had ever done the like hainous murder that he was Iustly condemned and willing to dye for it that he was truly sensible of the sinne committed and heartily sorry that he could not be more sorry for it yet that he did confidently believe God would have mercy upon his soule desiring all to pray for him Whether he did not receive some disparagement or disgrace or injury from his brother and mother and whether he did not conceive them to be prophane and wicked people unworthy to live And whether he did not conceive his father or himselfe to be of a more undefiled unspotted conversation He answered that hee thought them all to be religious and godly and with a great sigh that his brother was ever loving and deare to him no man had a better brother then he had of him and that there was no malice nor difference betwixt them at the time he slew them onely some two dayes before they had discoursed of standing and kneeling at the Sacrament himselfe approving of standing or bowing rather but there was no high words or anger or discontentment betweene them upon that conference What might bee the grounds of his opinion for standing and bowing at the Sacrament Hee answered that hee conceived it to be our Saviours gesture at the first institution and further that it is written Behold I stand at the dore and knocke Whether hee did not thinke it Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament And whether he did not ground his action upon that in Deu. 1â— 6 7 8 9 and 10. where it iâ— written if thy brother the sonne of thy mother entice thee saying Let us go serve other Gods c. thou shalt not consent unto him c. but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him c. He heard such things and many untruths had beene reported of him but for his part he thought it no Idolatry to kneele at the Sacrament neither did he ground that action upon any such text of holy Scripture and therein hee had manifest wrong Whether he did not frequent any private meetings and conventicles in the Neighbourhood or elsewhere Or whether he did not ground that fact upon some doctrine or words he had heard at Sermons oâ— Lectures at Bishops Castle or elsewhere Or some private discourse with any of the ministry or other of his acquaintance He answered that he was never at any such meeting or conventicle neither did he in any private discourse or from any preacher heare or receive any doctrine oâ— counsell that might encourage or move him to such a fact What then might be the cause if none of these Or what end he proposed to himselfe in the action He answered that it was the temptation of sinne But being desired to explaine himselfe in those tearmes he said it was the corruption of the flesh and Sathans suggestion It being urged that our subtile adversary the easie to worke upon us is wont to propose in every temptation some matter either of profit or pleasure and sometimes even the glory of God as the end thereby the rather to deceive us and leade us into sinne He answered that hee could give no reason or ground at all why he did the act neither did he think what might be the end or issue of it being done and that he never thought of such a fact towards man woman or child till within one houre or lesse before the murder was done and that his thoughts did so rise upon him that he could not have any rest or quiet till he had done the deed Whether he intended to have murthered them both when he first laid hands on his brother He answered no surely but his mother came in to rescue his brother not yet fully dead and so wounded her also mortally and a length cut off both their heads not deliberating with himselfe upon it Whether the Devill did not then appeare to him and as some reported give the Axe into his hand violently enforcing him unto the fact He answered no there was no such matter the Devill did not then or at any other time appeare unto him Whether hee did not sometimes see a vision of the holy Ghost appearing to him in the likenesse of a Dove as was reported He answered that indeed he did conceive a thing in the likenesse of a Dove full of brightnesse to come into the Chamber in his fathers house where he then lay upon his bed in the night broad awake and that he thought it to be the holy Ghost It being urged that the spirit of God would not surely have appeared but to some speciall end in such an extraordinary manner and question being made whether hee felt himselfe thereby illuminated further in the mysteries of salvation Or in the sence of his owne sinnes more humbled Or whether it imposed any particular charge or command upon him Or revealed any secret of note unto him at the present He answered that he was not sensible of any such operations as these or the like in so much that after further discourse in this particular he said that he knew not what to thinke of it it might be the distempered worke of his braine for ought he knew to the contrary Whether he did not desire a kinsman to convey him secretly to Bishops Castle to the minister or Vicar there for he had an intent to sacrifice one head which he had privately hidden
A True relation of the Murders committed in the Parish of Clunne in the County of Salop by Enoch ap Evan upon the Bodies of his Mother and Brother with the Causes moving him thereunto Wherein is examined and refuted a certaine Booke written upon the same Subject by P. STUDLEY Entituled the Looking glasse of SCHISME Also an Appendix in further defence of this Relation wherein are examined the most material Passages added in the Second Edition of the said LOOKING-GLASSE wherby the Author vainely shâ—weth his desire to maintaine and excuse his erroneous Reports in the former Edition of his Booke By RICHAR MORE Esquire Printed by Order of a Committee of tâ—â— Honourable House of Commons now Assembled in Parliament LONDON Printed by T.B. for P. Stephens C. Meredith at the golden Lyon in Pauls Church-yard 1641. The Printer to the Reader VVHeras the ensuing treatise referreth to the Pages of the former Edition of the Looking-glasse of Schism This is to give notice that both editions for substance doe agree to the 35. pag and there beginneth the eleventh Section wherein Master Studley inserteth that violent love passion which befell Enoch the day and night before he committed these Murders which being omitted in the former edition occasioned in the second an encrease of onely foure leaves so in this small distance is likely to be found whatsoever this Relation hath reference unto after the said 35 pag. This I thought convenient to be certified in this place for the ease of such as have either of the two editions of Master Studleys booke An advertisement to the Reader touching the Ensuing Relation shewing the occasion of Printing thereof this present yeare 1641. and how hitherto suppressed Gentle Reader TO the ensuing Discourse the stile of the Prophet Isaiah Cap. 37.3 may be applyed the children came to the birth but there was no strength to bring forth This relation though at first not so intended was made ready for the Presse in the yeare 1635 â—nd being then tendered to the view of the Licencer who gave approbation for the printing of Master Studleys Looking GLASSE of Schisme it was for that time by him rejected No better acceptance could this Truth then finde Truth must rather bee supprest than the falsehood of that Glasse bee discovered The Author of the Looking-Glasse pretendeth to set forth the disobedience of Nonconformists against Royall Majesty and the laws of our Church doubtlesse Noncormitie and disobedience to just commands are to be searched out and brought forth to deserved punishment But experience teacheth that whilst that angry Author by his false glasse laboured to represent Nonconformitie to bee the onely cause of those execrable Murders committed by Enoch ap Evan hee hath thereby not convinced but hardened many that wavered and scandalized others who better knew their duties to just lawes These and other pernicious consequences of this deceitful Glasse being considered by diverse worthy members of this present Honourable Assembly in Parliament who well knowing this rejected Relation had discovered the true circumstances of these deplorable murders by diligence in examining all persons reputed to have any competent knowledge of the said Enoch and his disconsolate frinds they have now called it forth An occasion of my travell therein was obedience to the commands of those Iudges by whose sentence the murderer was condemned to die and his body to be hanged up in Chaines for shortly after the execution of that sentence the said body being to the great affront of Iustice secretly taken downe from the Gibbet and conveyed away those Iudges required my service amongst others the Iustices of that County for the discovery of the offenders And having hereby informed my selfe I did examine those circumstances of fact whereupon Master Studley had framed his pretended Looking-Glasse of Schisme and finding the falshood thereof I composed the ensuing Relation apprehending my selfe thereunto deeply obliged as well for vindication of my Neighbourhood as the satisfaction of such as desired the Truth of this accident In pursuance wherof I presented one Copy of this ensuing Relation to the Bishop of Hereford in whose Diocesse the murders were committed Another Copy I presented to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in whose Dioces the Author of the Looking-glasse then now liveth Afterwards I was moved to commend it to the Presse for more publike satisfaction The successe whereof is before related All which proceedings being likewise knowne to the forementioned worthy members in Parliament and a Comittee being assigned to take information of the complaints against refusing of Licence for printing lawful books the denyall of this Relation was particularly questioned by some of the said Committee the reasons given for the deniall being slender By the Vote of the said Comittee this Relation was ordered to bee Printed And thus Gentle Reader thou hast a plain account of what I have promised in this advertisement the uses which I conceive may be rightly made of this sad occasion I have exprest in the twentie seventh Section of this relation whereunto in reference to that vehemency which the Author of the Looking-glasse manifesteth in his answer to certaine cryminations against his booke most likely to be of his own composing I shall here adde the words of Salomon Eccles 7.9 10. Bee not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this That also of our Saviour is not to be forgotten Luke 13.4 5. those eighteene on whom the Towre of Siloam fell and slew them thinke yee that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem J tell you Nay but except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish And so I commend to thy view the relation as it was prepared for the Presse in the yeare 1635. where take notice of what followeth touching the Pages and Edition of the Looking-Glasse whereunto this relation hath reference I Desire those to whose hands this ensuing Relation may come to understand that it hath reference to the first printed Looking-GLASSE of Schisme and to the pages of that Booke which is since reprinted with some additions alterations and an answer to certaine criminations or objections of the Author of his owne framing which I take not upon me to medle with further then wherin they are contrary or contradictory to what in this of mine is set forth wherein J have set downe the ground and authority upon which it is warranted and have named the parties upon whose testimony the truth will rest as Master Erasmus Powell Vicar of Clunne who hath perused my whole Relation and hath subscribed that Coppy which J keep testifying that those things in and about which I use his name or referre my selfe to his knowledge are truly set downe by mee and received from him So hath Iohn Howels the brother in law of Enoch whom Master Studley calleth Iohn Powell in the confirmation of whose words hee confesseth the life and Truth of that History is really containd as is
a false Church as shee her selfe affirmeth nor did her husband relate such words to Master Studley or offer to affirme them upon his oath in any Court of this Kingdom as is falsely related page 50. for he saieth he will affirme upon his oath that he did not say so in the presence of Master Studley or any where else Sect. 10. In the way to Shrewsbury Gaole they take up their lodging at Powderbacke and there wee read of strange things that happened as appeareth in the Looking-glasse pag. 51 52 53 54 55 and 56 as that Enoch stared with indignation upon the Constable of the Hundred that he started up in a desperate rage and catcht at a Spit to have goared the Constable and that a most fearefull noyse is heard in the Street neere the dore of the house where Enoch lay as if it had beene the ratling of the wheeles of two or three Cartes furiously driven this noyse wakened Enoch affrighted him c. So many particulars related so many falsehoods for there was no Constable there to be goared there was indeed the Sergeants of Clunne as I said before he hath assured me that neither there nor in all the way did Enoch offer any violence to him or any in the company neither did he catch at any Spit onely he looked earnestly and gastly upon every object like a distracted man as he and the rest conceived him to be as I said before And as touching the noyse in the street one of the watchmen tould me that they saw apparently the cause of the noyse which was the running of Calves along the street by the doore of the house where Enoch was lodged neither did he come downe naked or use that exclamation all which if true had been no arguments of Puritanisme Sect. 11. And now Enoch is brought to the Gaole at Shrewsbury and he with his Mittimus delivered to the Goaler Many desire to see and to question this notorious malefactor he never that I can heare off denyed the fact to any but the cause inducing him thereunto is earnestly enquired after also Faelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas sayeth the Poet. What the opinion of the Neighbourhood was is formerly declared they that knew the course of his life and observed the dutifull respect of Enoch to his Father and Mother and the love and affection between his brother and him could imagine no reason or cause of those hainous facts but Sathans working upon his distraction and Lunacy For it was generally observed that they lovingly agreed together as is set forth in the Looking-glasse page 32 from their infant yeares and weaning from the breast of their mother to the one and thirtieth yeare of the age of the younger of them which was the yeare wherein Iohn was slaine during which time Enoch assured Master Studly engaging his truth and salvation upon it there had never fallen outanyverball quarrel no not so much as the Tearme thou had ever passed in anger from the one to the other Yet how soon after Enochs comming to Shrewsbury Goale are other causes vented if not there invented And those gathered also from Enochs confession as the other profession of love was And the causes are severall and disagreeing betweene themselves Now if the confession of Enoch had beene certaine and constant to all the cause had beene more evident but it was not at the least the relation of it sheweth it not to be so for one while Enoch assigneth one cause another time the contrary a third time he differs in assigning one and the same cause First hee gives this to bee the cause to draw the children of light out of darknesse and to declare his owne zeale to the word of God pag. 35. when he gave this reason hewaseither non compos mentis or he conceived his mother and his brother to be children of light he intended to doe them a benefit to deliver them out of darknesse by taking away their lives and this could not proceed from hatred but love what then is become of the rage and malice so often repeated and agravated by the Author of the Looking-glasse Now this was done as is beforesaid to declare his zeale to the word of God yet at another time he confesseth that he fell into those facts by sinne as page 81. Sinne and zeale to Gods word are not the same Againe he makes difference in opinion touching kneeling to be the one cause pag. 31.72.127 for we must understand that after Enoch came to Shrewsbury Goale he is there discovered to be a Puritan nay a downe-right Separatist yet as before is said he never separated himselfe from his owne parish Church within which Parish or within which hundred there was never Puritan known to be so farre as I can understand And it is confessed that Enoch read Prayers out of the Service Booke of our English Church in his fathers house in a constant course pag. 22. this is no argument of a Separatist or a Puritan He constantly receaved the Holy Communion in his owne parish Church and that reverently using the posture of kneeling as is testified by the foresaid Vicar of Clunne and the parishioners except it were at Easter next before the committing of these murders and yet then being required he bowed his knee as is before said so that in his practise he was conformable pag. 72. But saith Master Studley upon Enochs confession he differed in opinion from his mother and brother touching the gesture at the Communion they would kneele and he would sit and bow his body and for this cause onely his wrath kindled against his brother and in that wrath he slew him and yet page 123. he yeelded not that he slew his brother onely because of his kneeling Therfore Enochs confession is uncertaine contrary and contradictory I confesse to satisfie my selfe fully in this point I have spoken with and seene testified under the hands of divers both of the Clergy and Laity men in all points conformable that both going to the Goale and whiles he remained there he utterly denyed that the difference in opinion betweene his brother and him was any cause at all why he slew him and that the strong temptation of sinne was the only cause The persons who testifie this are Master Powell aforenamed Master Smith Master Needham Master Bourne Master Thonas Matthews Master Bedford al of the Cleargie besides many more of the Cleargie and Laity yea some that have beene present with Master Studley in the Gaole have assured me that to Master Studly himselfe he utterly denyed that the difference about kneeling was any cause at all but that Sinwas the cause moving him to commit those murders and so it is set downe by Master Studley in the Looking-glasse pag. 81. Sect. 12. Enochs reason for bowing and not kneeling related by Master Studly in his owne phrase for whosoever knew Enoch wil be confident it was never his will better satisfie the reader
that he was no Puritan and it is this pag. 16. For in the site and gesture of kneeling the leggs are cast behind the rest of the body and receive not that influence of nourishment spirituall at least in proportion and measure of attraction as the rest of the body doth and therefore the gestures that this vaine light and seduced man concepted to himselfe as most convenient in that Sacred act of Gods worship were either standing and bowing or sitting and bowing of the body As this gesture of bowing is singular in Enâ—ch so is the reason different from any Puritan or Non-conformist that ever I heard or read of They like not the gesture of kneeling counting it superstitius in regard it is a gesture of adoration and therein nourisheth those that are popishly affected in their opinion of transubstantiation Now Master Studley by a distinction of his maketh bowing onely to be a gesture of adoration for these are his words pag. 18. For the postures of standing of sitting of kneeling being all naturall and bodily actions without the addition of bowing which is a mentall and spirituall action and hath relation to some other nature either in the Creator or in the Creatures to whom it is directed are in themselves as they are actions bodily and naturall neither good nor evill at all and doe onely partake of goodnesse or illnesse as the motion of bowing with intention of adoration is added unto them So that by this distinction Enoch framed a gesture of adoration by his bowing which Puritans and Nonconformists distaste and so he differed from them But he that well examineth Enochs reason and Master Studleys distinction wil find apparantly they come out of one forge and indeed they are alike senselesse And I should have thought Master Studley had derided Enochs reason and had spoken ironically where he calleth it a conceipt so sublimate fine and subtill had he not compared that vaine and franticke reason to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 devices and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the depths of Sathan therein grosly abusing those places of Scripture 2 Cor. 2.11 and Rev. 2.24 for those devises and depths of Sathan there spoken of are not such as may bee discerned avoyded and derided by the shallowest judgement but such as from which good Lord deliver us Sect. 13. Other points of Puritanisme are laid to the charge of Enoch by Master Studle pag. 25. as that he disliked the Superiority of Bishops the signe of the Crosse iâ— Baptisme and such like but none of these are insisted upon onely the dislike of the gesture of kneeling in the Sacred Communion is it that makes him a Puritan yea a Separatist page 72. and for this cause he slew his Brother And though Enoch vary in his confession of the cause though he deny that to be any cause though some times he say it is not the onely cause and though he assigne another cause aâ— hath beene shewed yet Master Studly by two arguments will prove that onely for kneeling at the Sacred Communion Enoch killed his Mother and Brother The first argument is taken out of 1 Iohn 3.12 Looking-glasse pag. 124 where the text is not as Caine whâ— was of that wicked one and slew his Brother and wherefore slew he him because his own workes were evill and his Brothers righteous Here saith Master Studley the conjunction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is causall as the Learned know and referre us to the sole and total cause and not in part assignes the cause why Caine slew his Brother Therefore c. I confesse I want Logicke and therefore desired this work might have beene performed by one more able yet I want not so much reason as to see the weaknesse of this argument the cause of Caines murder is plaine so is not Enochs for that we have the word of God expresly assigning the cause which was this because his owne workes were evill and his Brothers righteous for this we have onely the confession of a sinfull wretched man which confession is uncertaine variable and contradictory so that to make this argument hold Master Studley must imply that Enochs confession apparantly variable is as true as Scripture I say no more I leave it to the Learned to Iudge Sect. 14. The second argument is pag. 127. Enoch ap Evaâ— slaies his Brother either for this cause onely that Iohn would kneele at the Communion or for some other cause But for other cause or causes he never pleaded any for himselfe but totally excluded all other causes Therefore c. I answer Enoch pleaded other causes many times to many persons yea even to Master Studley himselfe as is before expressed and did utterly deny this to bee any cause at al and therefore this Syllogisme so much bragged of by the Author that the thing affirmed remaines pregnant dilucidate and invincible is not binding but directly false Sect. 15. I should not have insisted so much upon the clearing of this wretched Enoch from being a Puritan or non-conformist for I know he was worse he was a cruell murderer of his mother and Brother nor upon the cause moving him to commit that hainous crime for I thinke and beleeve that a non-conformist may be a Subject upon which the Devill might worke since even the woâ—thy servants of God have grievously fallen as Noah David Lot Peter and others recorded in holy Scripture had not the Author of the Looking-glasse uncharitably charged his seducement and inveighing into the opinions of non-conformitie upon some Ministers or lay persons and this he is so confident of that he knoweth it to be so as surely as he knoweth it to be true that his owne soule is living within him as is expressed pag. 137 138 139 moreat large For ful satisfaction in this point I desire the reader to observe first that the said Author layeth his former grounds upon Enochs confession in his conference with him in the Goale this upon his owne conjecture discrediting Enochs flat denyall of it for so Master Studley himselfe informeth us pag. 138. 〈◊〉 he ans wered him as he had done often before and continued in that obstinacy to his death that not from man but from God he had receaved those conceipts and being particularly demanded how he came first to dislike the gestures of his betters for wisedome c. pag 75 76. as is largely set down whether by conference with any Ministers disaffected to peace and unity or by private perswasion of some of his acquaintance Or by example of any Or by reading of Schismaticall bookes Enoch answered by none of all these meanes but by reading of Gods word Doth this defamation of his brethren in the Ministers and others agree with the rules of charity or doth it proceed from a gracious inclination to solid Piety and a publicke declaration of an honest heart disposed to peace and unity pag. 96 this Master Studley bragges of but practiseth not Secondly though he