thorow the back-street there were few people there for all were in a tumult in the High-street after some Plumporridge-Priests as M. Culmer used to call them had ended their Sermons But at North gate street some women seeing him ride that day with his Cloak bag behinde him railed at him saying Oh Rogue will not you give Christ his day he was compelled to escape the dirt thrown at him to runne the Gantlet or thorow Purgatory as they call it And on Moonday-morning according to his promise to a friend he returned to Canterbury having heard nothing of their search for him the Saturday before And at North-gate-street there were few people But two women there asked him If he were Mr. Culmer which when they knew Oh Sir said they ride no further for the City-gates are shut and they are all together by the ears and some in Canterbury swore If they had taken you upon Saturday they would have stoned you to death or hanged you But being mindfull of his promise rid on to the midst of Ruttenton-lane but upon better consideration he took this as a warning from God and returned to Forditch where he wrote a Letter to excuse his not coming according to promise and then he rode to Sir James Oxendens where after Dinner the News being seconded of the Rising in Canterbury he and his Sonne being Deputy-Lieutenants sent Orders to raise the trained Bands and a Regiment came from the Wilde of Kent which quelled the Rioters who were many of them carried to Leeds Castle But when Mr. Culmer came to Canterbury at the coming in of those forces a woman in North-gate said Oh Mr Culmer there 's good quarter for you now in Canterbury But I cannot conceive for which of Mr. Culmers good works in Canterbury any there should stone him whose Ministry they enjoyed gratis for many years and where he endeavoured with the hazard of his life to quench their fires in Dover-lane and elswhere and where he hath leaped into a deep whirl-pit and dived to save life and fetched up the party from the bottom when he was Minister at Harbledown as hundreds there know being eye-witnesses thereof But in the year 1648. the Scout and the 500lb man and their Faction One and All All All proved themselves Malignants with a witnesse by their practice and actings in the Kentish Rising wherein divers of them were Commanders and were Sequestred The Scout was a Captain therein Two dayes before the Rising they summoned a meeting at Church to sign the Cavaller-Petition which when Mr. Culmer had read he earnestly disswaded them from subscribing it The Petition cried down Taxes and would have the Army disbanded c. But Mr. Culmer shewed them the necessity of Taxes to defend our selves against the enemies of our Religion lives c. and that wars were chargeable as Physick in sicknesse more chargeable than ordinary Diet and that we were in a Tempest and at such times men throw their goods overboard to save their lives and that these Taxes were not ordinary but upon necessity And that the Kings Taxes of Ship-money c. were made without a Parliament and without necessity and that these illegal pressures were taken away Then one of the chief of the Faction who after was a Commander and an Imprisoner said The Parliament hath taken a Flea out of our bosome and put in a Serpent And Mr Culmer speaking against the disbanding the Souldiers said The Wolves would make peace with the Shepherds upon condition they would hang up their Dogs The Shepherds desirous of peace hung up their Dogs but when the Dogs were gone the Wolves devoured Sheep and Shepherds too And this my father applied shewing that the Army kept us Governours and People from bloudy Wolves in Ireland Papists Atheists c. Many thereupon refused to subscribe but the All All All-man cried out Pen and Ink Then Mr Culmer left them subscribing And the next day Richard Langley of St Laurence Parish a very godly man and active for the State was set upon and put to it to flie for his life and was pursued to Mynster and murdered there upon Thourn-down But the Gentleman Cavalier that sent out the pursuers and furnished them with Horse and Pistols did afterwards cut his own wife in pieces and was hanged at Sandwich This man was a great jeerer at praying by the Spirit a contemner of publick Ordinances a great Incendiary against Mr. Culmer and came to him reviled and berogued him before hundreds of people at a publick meeting in the Tents at Mynster at a muster And Mr. Culmer being at home when the Rising began knew nothing of it or of the murder of Langley untill his servant came home and told him how matters stood and that they were arming in the street to fall upon him and that there was a Court of Guard at Ebbsfleet and at Sarr Whereupon he knowing himself unable to defend himself in his own house presently escaped out before they came to his house And night coming on he went to the River side next Ash and did swim in his cloaths over the River and having left his Boots when he took water he went without shoes on the South of the River till he was past Ebbsfleet where the Court of Guard was on the other side of the River And then he crossed the Haven again nearer Sandwich at a place called Little-joy And who it was shot at him God knoweth but he was fain to play the Dydapper and crossing the Haven again below Sandwich Mr Wade now Gentleman Usher at White-hall can tell more of this Then he travelled bare-foot on the sands to Deal where he had entertainment at Pilot Culmers house whither he came at break of day and there he had a gray Sute and refreshed himself But presently there begun a Tumult before the door against him and they swore They would hang the Round-headed Priest and the Rout increased but by means of Mr Wood a Physician there and his said Kinsman John Culmer and Mr Potter he escaped and got safe to Deal-Castle to Col. Rainsborow which was his intent when he first set out The noble Collonel used him very courteously And Mr â—â—lmer of Sandwich coming newly out of the Isle told Mr. Culmer how his friend Richard Langly lay in his bloud and that they said If they had taken him he should not have died that death and that he had no way to escape them but by swimming And that day the Collonel carried Mr Culmer aboard with him in his Long-boat and put him aboard Captain Nubery in the Hunter Frigot which was then dispatcht for London whither M Culmer came one Saturday night late And the next day he preached in his gray Pilots sute at Mr Whitakers Church called St Mary Bermonsey and incouraged the people to stand fast and cleave to the present Cause c. And when the Lord Fairfax marched into Kent he returned homeward with the Army and came safe to his
in these times may behold as in a glasse the vilenesse of their sinne and the great displeasure of God against them for it If they look into the Scripture or later Histories and daily experience We read 2 Chron 36. 14 15. And the Lord God of their Fathers sent unto them by his Messengers rising up betimes and sending them because he had compassion on his house and on his dwelling place But they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of God arose against his people till there was no remedy Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees who slow their young men with the sword in the house of their Sanctuary c. And Ahab and Jezabel persecuted the Prophets of God but dogs licked up the bloud of Ahab after he was slain and dogs did eat persecuting Jezabel The children which did mock and miscall Elisha the Prophet and Minister of God were two and fourty of them torn in pieces by wilde Bears 2 Kings 2. They were the children of Persecutors of Gods Ministers and spake their parents language The Persecutors of the Prophet Jeremiah said Come let us devise devices against Jeremiah let us smite him with the tongue Jer. 18. 18. Therefore God delivered up their children to the famine and their bloud was poured out by force of the sword Those that persecuted our Saviour the great Shepherd and did perswade people not to hear him preach saying He is mad and hath a Devil why hear ye him Joh. 10. 20. and would stone him though he spake as never man spake and did works which never man did yet they having begun to persecute him did sinne against the light of their own conscience and against the holy Ghost to make good their begun acts and hold up their reputation and did persecute him to the death What became of those persecutors Is not their judgement eternal in hell for their unpardonable sinne Alexender the Coppersmith and other Persecutors of the Apostles have their woful reward though they clamoured and articled against St Paul as a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition c. These things are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come and teach Ministers now for their comfort what Christ spake Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you for so persecuted they the Prophets that were before you And if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you But some men will not be warned by other mens harms and examples therefore they are made examples to others Our late Bishops and their Adherents are a rare and remarkable president of Gods Judgments on Persecutors of faithfull Ministers which sin made them ripe for their deserved downfall But their Persecutions ended at the beginning of the long Parliament Then the iron teeth of those beasts were knockt out and the iron yoaks which they had put on Ministers necks were all pull'd off But when the Ecclesiastical Courts were taken away the people took lawlesse liberty to themselves to put as it were a hogs yoak on Ministers necks and did persecute faithful Ministers sent unto them as sheep among wolves Oh what woorying and wearying out most precious Ministers by word and deed by tearing and tugging lyings and slanderings revilings and defraudings and withholding their maintenance by confederacy And these Persecutions especially in point of maintenance continue very great at this day all the Nation over people being encouraged hereunto for want of better Laws for Tything and of more speedy execution of justice according to the Laws that are in force Many hundreds of faithfull Ministers in England may justly write such books against their Persecutors to awaken the Christian Magistrate and warn Persecutors against whom their cries are gone up to Heaven and have brought down vengeance upon very many And their complaints and moans by words are daily heard and may be read some in print and in their Bils against thousands in the Court of Exchequer where relief is certain but so long waited for that in the mean time the poor Ministers and their families perish And oft-times the parties or witnesses or both die or the Tyth-robber breaks and runs the Countrey which is usuall before the Cause come to hearing I could shew Persecutors many very fresh examples of their sinne and of punishments on people that have lately persecuted faithfull Ministers in several Parishes as that of Mr E. K. of Dover in 1644. who came out of his seat and joyned in the hurliburly made in St James Church against Mr Vincent a godly able Minister who was sent thither by the Parliament and persecuted him otherwise But the Persecutor persecuted himself a little after by laying violent hands on himself and was a self-executioner by hanging himself This and many such bleeding examples may be produced touching the hand of God against such Persecutors enough to fill volumes But I shall now only instance in the Persecutors of Mr Richard Culmer heretofore of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge Master of Arts and now Minister of Mynster in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent whose Persecutors are now very few living in that Parish but mighty and numerous elswhere even those of the Popish Prelatical and Cavalier Party that never saw him because of his activenesse against their Cause They have printed two libellous Books against him and often articled against him and raised Persecution against him to the shedding of his bloud c. as the ensuing History shews And to have their wils against him if it be possible to ruine him they have lately petitioned against him to his Highnesse himself and since publickly boasted against him in their confidence now to prevail against him which hath caused this Apology to be published in his just defence and for vindication of the truth This man after he left the free Grammer-school at Canterbury being senior of all that School then consisting of above two hundred Scholars in the time of Mr Roger Raven the King of Schoolmasters as he was deservedly styled at his Funeral an eminent godly learned yet persecuted and silenced Minister lived about eight years a Student in Magdalen-Colledge in Cambridge And being afterwards Minister of Goodnestone in East-Kent was persecuted from thence by Arch-bishop Laud only for refusing to publish the Kings Book for Sabbath-recreations See the History of that Arch-bishops Tryal in the Index letter C. Culmer And he continued three years and seven moneths silenced before the first Parliament was called In all which time he got not one farthing by his Ministry having seven children so little that he could and did carry them all at once on his back And to adde to his Persecutions by the Prelate he was persecuted by the Patronesse Mrs P. whose Posterity hath felt some reward of Persecution who immediately upon his silencing gave his Living away to Mr A. H. who for lucre of that
Benefice did joyn in the Persecution and did publish that prophane Book in that Parish Church on the Sabbath-day in the presence of Mr Culmer and of the people there But a year after he lost his goods by fire and the next year he himself was drowned in the water And Mr D. yet living then Curate to the Bishop of Rochester at Barham did that Sabbath also publish in the Church at Goodnestone the unjust Decree of Suspension made against Mr Culmer in the Arch-bishops Ecclesiastical Court by the Arch bishops special Order and Command to Sr N. B. But a little after this the people of Barham fell to dancing on the Sabbath and a quarrel arose about a wager between two dancers and he that won the wager had his brains knockt out that Sabbath But at the first coming in of the Scots into England the persecuting Arch-bishop who a little after was beheaded at Tower-hill for Treason c. presently absolved Mr Culmer who might justly say Garamercy good Scot for his Absolution And he being at liberty to preach was presently called by Dr Robert Ausâ—in now living to be his Assistant at Harbledown near Canterbury where he preached divers years and had very many Auditors from that famous City But there also he was persecuted for his actings against drunkennesse and against prophaning the Sabbath by Crickit playing before his door to spite him which when he had reproved privately and publickly they removed that sport to a field near the Woods where they threw stones at his Sonnes whom he sent to see if they played there and upon publick reproof the Church-warden whose wise was for just cause denied the Sacrament bought boards to keep the people of Canterbury out of the Church Seats And the grandee Persecutor J. W. used to go with his crew of brawlers and railers his wife especially upon the Sabbath to the Parsonage-house and there did clamour and bawl to the Doctor to move him that Mr Culmer might preach no more there and one of them S. S. cried out saying It is a shame to speak what he hath done and being asked by the Doctor what Mr Culmer had done the only answer of the accuser was Why was he turned out of Goodnestone And being urged to speak what he could say more he could not alledge any thing else By this the Magistrate may see that some people are like a kennel of Hounds that will bark for company if one or two bark against a Minister then presently one and all right or wrong as of old they all cried Not him they all cried Crucifie him c. The upholding of the noise and cry was Oh our souls our souls will you damn our souls we cannot edifie by one we love not But when their clamours prevailed not they writ Articles against Mr Culmer as followeth That he refuseth to administer the Sacrament according to the Church of England That he raised scandals of the Parish in the Pulpit That he made differences between Neighbours That some refuse to hear him and others declare they cannot edifie by him These and only these Articles they exhibited to the Doctor who having heard all things objected against Mr Culmer gave them an answer that what they objected he found either frivolous or false And he reproved a rich widow Mrs R who being asked Why she clamoured her only Answer was that Mr Culmer had said to the Overseers of the poor that he wondered that she refused to pay her assessement of 2s 6d to the poor But the Doctor being elsewhere provided of a Benefice wholly left that place to the Patron who placed a Minister there And when they were told a little after that they had made a sorry exchange in the room of M Culmer It was answered We care not whom we have nâ—w we are rid of M. Culmer But what is become of those Persecutors of M. Culmer is famously known One of them E. Br. because M Culmer would not give him the Sacrament immediately after he had been drunk and did pursue his wife with a drawn sword did thereupon write a Petition against M. Culmer and went about the Parish to get Subscriptions to it was a little after found guilty of Felony and was burnt in the hand at the Sessions at Canterbury And you may now finde the Grandee Persecutor J. W. in the Goal at Canterbury his sonne used to thresh Corn on the Sabbath mornings for fodder And now after the death of two Ministers the third having little encouragement amongst them left them destitute And after M. Culmer lest preaching at Harbledown he preached in Canterbury and there he and other Ministers were appointed by Authority or Parliament to detect and cause to be demolished the superstitious Inscriptions and Idolatrous Monuments in the Cathedral in Canterbury And when they came to the great high priz'd most idolatrous Window in the Chappel of Thomas Becket in that Cathedral the Labourers not acting as was desired M. Culmer laid If we neglect this opportunity we may repent it and thereupon threw off his Cloak and took a whole Pike in his hand and went up a Ladder fifty six steps high and did full execution upon the Idolatrous Monuments there whereupon some stirres began a Prebends wife cried out Save the childe meaning Christ lying in the Manger pictured there and M. Culmers bloud was then threatned by some that stood without the iron grates in the body of the Church But M. John Lade then Maior of Canterbury sent a file of Musqueteers who conveyed Mr. Culmer safe home to his own house And a little after M. Culmer published a Book entituled Cathedral News from Canterbury which is a true History of the sins and plagues of that Cathedral Babel The Title page of that Book is Cathedral News from Canterbury shewing the Canterburian Cathedral to be in an. Abbey like corrupt and rotten condition which cals for a speedy Reformation or Dissolution which Dissolution is already foreshewn and begun there by many remarkable Passages upon that place and the Prelates there Recorded and published by Richard Culmer Minister of Gods Word dwelling in Canterbury heretofore of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge Master of Arts If I should hold my peace the stones would immediately cry out Luk. 19. 40. Imprimatur John White I have perused this Relation of Cathedral News and therein observe that the hand of Providence hath indeed wrought a new thing in our Israel Worthy to be lookt upon by all with a due mixture of wonder and thankefulness And therefore conceive it necessary to be published to the view of all Jo. Caryl Printed for Fulk Cliston c. But this Book being the finger in the Bile and swelling Ulcer of Prelacy and Cathedrals Immediately upon the first publishing of it the nest of Cathedral Hornets at Canterbury and their waspish Malignant Adherents flew about M. Culmers ears bombalizing and toating so loud that City and Countrey rang of their railing and libellings They presently
bed a moneth after she was married we are like to have a good band I hear either whores or with childe before marriage And upon this occasion I cannot but recount what fell out lately in a Vestry there at a Debate about putting out Apprentices it was voted by Mr Culmers adversaries and set down in the Seffe-book That such a Girl a Bastard should be Mr Culmers Apprentice But he afterward addressed himself to the Justices and desired them that such an affront might not be put on him and said further There were yet but eight bastards since his coming thither and desired he might be excused until the tenth fell The Justices smiled and ordered him another Apprentice I rehearse this because I hear the accusation against Mr Culmer is his rehearsing of a same of words of the feminine gender But the band of women never advanced nor charged but with their sharp tongues But the 500lb man with others went presently before Mr Culmer came down with his Order with a Petition to divers Peers of the Realm which were then in the Isle upon pleasure of Hawking and Hunting and lay there But when the Earl of Warwick had read their Petition against Mr Culmer he said I know Mr Culmer well he is an honest man I pray receive him according to Order If need be I have a better Living for Mr Culmer But we must not oppose Authority c. A little after a chief Parishioner of another Parish brother-in-law also to the said Curate since a sequestred Cavalier went with two of Mynster to Canterbury to a Committee of Deputy-Lieutenants and there they clamoured against Mr Culmer who was thereupon sent for to the Chequer-Inne But after they had heard him speak Sir James Oxinden said Now we have heard Mr. Culmer speak all that you have said against him falls from him as water from a tiled house And Mr. Boys of Bettishanger then Knight of the shire for Kent said their allegations were of no weight and would not prevail and he said I pray oppose him not I am confident you will never prevail against him to remove him he hath been so eminently active for the common Cause and you have nothing to alledge against him I pray receive him he is sent unto you by Authority I dare ingage for him he will be an honest quiet man amongst you if you will be quiet But he that was of another Parish said They had Scouts out against Mr. Culmer and would finde enough against him He were better leave them quietly And indeed they sent out to all places where Mr. Culmer had lived or had any dealing to find matter against him The chief thing which they then alledged against him was that he was a contentious man at Harbledowne whereupon the Committee sent to Dr Austin who is an eminent godly Minister to know the truth of matters concerning Mr Culmer at Harbledowne The Doctor returned them an answer in writing as followeth Octob. 11. 1644. Whereas I am desired to testifie what I know concerning Mr Culmers carriage and behaviour at Harbledowne especially for matters of contention between him and some there I doe hereby truely testifie that having heard all that hath any wayes been objected against him I judged it rather to proceed out of malice than from any ground of truth and the contention spoken of to have been rather out of his zeal to the cause of God than any private cause of his own And though they did alledg matters against him yet I judged them but frivolous And I have been thanked for his ministry there which many of the City of Canterbury also thought so well of as they took the pains to travell thither to enjoy it and that for many years And I also testifie That I have had much dealing with Mr Culmer for at least twelve years yet if he were now mine enemy I must say I have never found him but an honest man both in word and deed In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Name Robert Austin About that time the Committee of Deputy-Lieutenants for Kent made the Order following viz. Whereas we are informed that there is a weekly Lecture at St Johns in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent we think fit that Mr Culmer being a very well-affected man and put in by the Parliament into a Cure in the said Isle shall take his turn in preaching the said Lecture Alsford 12 June 1645. Richard Hardress Anthony Welden Robert Scot William Miller John Boys William Kenrick But after this Order and Mr Culmers preaching there that Lecture soon ceased because it seems Mr Culmers preaching was not pleasing to the Cavaller party The Minister there was afterward sequestred for malignancy and not one of the seaven Ministers of that Isle but was neuter or two pockets at the best or rather the worst at that time and could make his Mill goe with any winde But the ceasing of the Lecture did not satisfie them but their chief project was to remove Mr Culmer out of that Isle They as the event proved having a designe to raise a new Warre they knew that Isle to be a fit place for landing an Enemy There is Ramsgate alias Roman-gate where the Romans landed when they conquered this Nation And not far from thence there is at this day found after a great rayne Romane Coyn with the Title and Effigies of Romane Emperours And they considered Mr Culmers disposition activeness and resolution against them and their Cause Thereupon they procured divers to go to Sandnich to a Committee of Deputy-Lieutenants where Sir Edward Boys a Parliament man and Governour of Dover Castle was Chair-man there at least fourty in their best cloathes and with their best friends and Sollicitors did earnestly petition and clamour as for life that Mr Culmer might be removed from Mynster But Sir Edward Boys asked them What they 〈…〉 ad to object against Mr Culmer It was answered They had nothing for the present but they might have in time Non ame to Volusi nec possum dicere quare Hoc tantum possum dicere non ame tc They clamoured that they could not edifie by him and desired the Committee to pity their souls c. But Sir Edward Boys answered them saying I have known Mr Culmer many years to be an honest man and zealous for God in the worst times and a good Preacher you do ill to oppose a man sent unto you by Authority without shewing cause if he should be removed upon such opposition it would open a flood-gate to ruin all good Ministers and encourage opposition against them I am a plainman and love to deal plainly I like not these courses and untill you have matter against him I shall engage for him and engage all the friends I have in England for him against you therefore pray honest men be quiet untill you have just and sufficient cause to complain of him At another time they came to a Committee at
Family and Charge where they had plundred him of horses and other goods But in Mr. Culmers absence the Faction had got a like Priest like People and they had Service-Book worship Gloria Patri and Dominus vobiscum c. Afterwards they compelled Mr. Culmer to pay what they had lavished upon a Malignant Priest in his absence and he for peace sake gave them their demands And in his absence a grand Persecutor of his of another Parish who came to the Ale house at Mynster incensed them against him jeering and calling him The godly able orthodox Divine This man sent word to Mr Paramour at his first advance in that Rising That he never did see a Sword scarletted but he was slain at Wye and left stark naked lying in his bloud And a little after that Rising the 500lb man died And for divers years after Mr. Culmer lived peaceably without disturbance untill he entred upon the Administration of the Lords-Supper and refused to give it to all as all the Island Ministers then gave it Hinc illae lachryma Then some opposed that way publickly and a new stir began against him The Communion-Table Carpet was cut out into Breeches slanders raised Tythes detained And divers did hate him upon other grounds also because after private and publick means used by him in his Ministry to reform abuses in the Parish and that not prevailing and all others refusing to act by complaints to the Magistrate Mr. Culmer complained against divers swearers and drunkards and prophaners of the Sabbath And amongst the rest he complained of the Scouts prodigious executions And he indicted him with the consent of divers of the Parish for erecting two new Cottages there to the great prejudice of the Commonwealth and of that Parish which hath been lately charged with above 300lb a year to the poor who cannot all be imployed there and will in all likelihood if Cottages and Inmates be so increased pull the rich men out of their houses as they have done the Minister out of the Church It is not so proper I confess for a Minister to indict such men and to attend the publick Sessions with such complaints though for the common good as England finds by experience and will finde more need of and incouragements to such Indictments but in that Parish none dare act or shew themselves publickly in such things although the Parish be undone by them But I heard Mr. Culmer say He was resolved to wave the scandal and odium and prejudice that came to him by such actings seeing they were of neicessity for the common good and all others refuse to act the conceived himself to have a calling from God to do it as a Parishioner there Upon which account he conceives himself bound in conscience never to cease such endeavours for the common good though it much prejudice his private And Mr Culmer indicted the Scout for barring a common sheep-way for which he had a Verdict against him at the last Summer Sessions at Canterbury For these and other actings for the publick Mr Culmer is hated and persecuted especially now by the Scout who being no Parishioner of Mynster yet occupying Lands there to be avenged of Mr. Culmer hath detained his Tythes for three years last past and hath procured five more to joyn with him to put into the Exchequer a joynt Answer with him wherein they inserted scandalous and false Articles and did swear That Mr. Culmer is an enemy to the present State c. But the Honourable Barons of that Court ordered Mr. Culmer five pounds costs meerly for the scandal in their Answer which they ordered to be expunged Whereupon the enraged Scout and his Adherents went lately to a Justice of Peace who is a Commissioner for Ejecting of Scandalous Ministers in Kent to whom they accused Mr. Culmer as followeth viz That his breath smelt of drink one Evening That he said that Pontius was his Christen-name and Pilate his sir-name That he preached on Psal. 51. 18. and said by Sion was meant the Church and by Jerusalem the Civil State That he preached That a Toleration was better than a Persecution And when the Justice said He was sorry to hear complaints against a Minister upon such weak grounds It was replied by him that first clamoured against Mr. Culmer for want of prayers in his Christmas-holy-dayes and Trumpeter in the Riot on the Sabbath That if they above had that about a Toleration before them they would make something of it This man was lately brought in to be Parish-Clark by the Faction for his good service done against Mr. Culmer many wayes especially in being Ring-leader in that Riot and for railing at Mr Culmer at the Church-wall before and after Sermon and never going to Church elswhere only attending that evil work and affronting Mr Culmer coming and going to Church for divers years they would have no assistant to the Minister to save charges so that Mr Culmer besides praying reading expounding and preaching twice every Sabbath and catechizing constantly was constrained to name and read the Psalms to the people for this man reads very false and now he comes to Church for gain he useth when Mr Culmer is preaching on the Sabbath to make mows and Apes faces and laugh and make other ridiculous gestures in the Church to move contempt against Mr Culmer and laughter which divers godly men make great complaint of to see Gods name so taken in vain and his Ordinances and Sabbaths so prophaned which is no small Persecution of and grief to Mr Culmer But the truth is that Mr Culmer said Pontius was as his Christen-name c. And the Scout said openly at the Sessions when the Verdict was given against him Mr. Culmer you have let my purse bloud but I will let your bloud to some tune ere long I 'll warrant you But he may be silent about bloud if he look home but I forbear impertinent recriminations And in prosecution of that blood-letting one of the said Answerers endeavouring to fill up the measure of his deceased Fathers persecutions against Mr. Culmer from whom he hath detained his Tythes for above three years to a great value and who is a prophane scoffer at the Communicants calling them Mr. Culmer's Disciples And in opposition leaves the Chancel windows unrepaired so that the rain dashed into Mr Culmers face lately at that Administration and rained into the Cup and wet the bread exceedingly and the Communion Table-cloath was as wet as if it had been taken out of the water came lately alone to the said Commissioners house and offered to put in Articles against Mr Culmer but he said He had none written only he desired to see the Ordinance for the Ejecting of Scandalous Ministers which was read to him as to the Scaâ—dals therein enumerated as just causes of the Ejection of such Ministers and he answered to every Article by it self That he had nothing against Mr. Culmer touching it But in conclusion he