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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26030	Satan in Samuels mantle, or, The cruelty of Germany acted in Jersey containing the arbitrary, bloody, and tyrannical proceedings of John Mason ... against several officers and souldiers in that small place : as also his earnest endeavours to ... encourage the army in England, Jersey, and Garnzey in their rebellion against the Parliament ... / presented to the Parliament and published by Thomas Ashton.	Aston, Thomas, Sir, 1600-1645.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3992B; ESTC R28307	24,898	33

him I would not return to Jersey but decline soliciting after my place but withal requested him several times to give me a copy of the charge against me or let me see it either to pay me the moneths pay due to me as Chaplain out of an hundred and sixty pounds of Colonel Gibbons he keeps in his hands or to pay me what pay was received for my man which is my own and the debt he ows me all which amount to neer twenty pounds or to lend me some moneys upon my bill to repay it I having been long in Town living at great charges and being then in great want of money but he absolutely refused all these To return and mind your Honour of my poor wife from whom I was so suddenly snatched as before she sorrowed sadly at my departure and no marvel considering what she had heard of the malicious desires and intentions of my enemies towards me two days after I was gone shee fell into Travel was delivered but the bitterness of her throwes being seconded with the frequent consideration of what she had heard concerning me so afflicted her that she fel into a distracted condition still crying out Colonel Mason hath carryed my poor husband up to London to hang him these pains and sorrows within a fortnight brought her so weak that she expected death every moment and some of her last words were these to several persons of quality who came to visit her Colonel Mason hath broken my heart and is the only cause of my death Thus shee dyed or rather was murthered by that man of blood for 't is well known she was before he came into the Island as cheerfull hearty and as likely to live as every any one was in her condition Right Honourable do not these things affect your heart at the writing of which my heart bleeds and my eyes weep The voice of my wives blood cryes unto the Lord and to you from the ground for Justice 'T is not my Judgement alone but all who knew the passages person and place and have heard this story truly related that her blood lies at his door and I confidently believe that word will be accomplished on him or his Gen. 9. 6. Who so Adeddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Once more the blood● thirsty generation of Anabaptists were not satisfied with my being carried like a criminal out of the Island though for no reason I know yet but because I am not of that perswasion and with the death of my dear wife but they brag among themselves and conclude that questionless I am either prisoner here at London or banished or silenced for ever preaching in England and yet 't is well known blessed be the Lord who hath still raised me friends that I have preached publickly in as large and learned Churches as are in this City and am elected by a unanimous Vestry to be Minister where there is a comfortable subsistence within twenty miles of it but no marvel that they speak thus of me who amalive who derided laughed and scoffed at the innocent creature my wife when she was dead and buried But let them take heed lest Their mischief return upon their own heads and their violent dealings come down upon their own pates Psal. 7. 16. By these short passages your Honour may perceive I am robbed of my credit livelihood and wife as hopefull religious and vertuous young Gentlewoman as lived in that Island at whose burial as I am informed from thence there were more weeping eyes then had been seen on that occasion seven years before in a word of all that is dear and near unto me what remains but that they take away my life also and the lives of my poor babes which questionless they would massacre as greedily as they have their mother were we at their mercy Good Lord What would become of the poor Ministers and all the upright ones in the Nations should this generation long rule over us whose tender mercies are cruelty I shall close up the sad relation of my own sufferings with a passage of a Gentleman of very great quality to an Officer here in London concerning my wives death Present my kind love to Mr. Ashtor and if he have not heard of it before acquaint him that his wife is dead but manage the business with all the discretion you can I cannot but think that the just God will require her blood at the hands of those who would not suffer her husband to stay with her I heard she was delivered but never injoyed her self Have pity upon me have pity upon me O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me Job 19 21. Thus farre of Colonel Masons actions in less then two moneths in the Island of Jersey I shall crave leave to mind your Honour of what he acted in London 1. Mr. William Sowton a Chichester Gentleman very well known in that place and to several Members of Parliament to be a godly honest religious and ●ober person ingaged for the Parliament from the beginning of the Wars for whose service he hath set out three Dragooners and a great horse and lent a considerable sum of money as will appear by his publick bills yet unsatisfied and lost a very great estate at sea by the enemies of the Common-wealth yet Colonel Mason dismisses him of his place of Commissary and provost Marshal in Jersey which he had diligently and faithfully discharged and would not suffer him to go over to perfect his accounts untill he went thither himself which is likely to prove very much to his damage he put one Thomas Cooch into his place Mr. Sowtons Deputy to gratifie him for his intended perjury against me as will appear hereafter and all this he did by his own sole power without any order at all for no cause that ever I heard but because Mr. Sowton went not over with him into Jersey although he was at Portsmouth to have waited on him at his punctual appointed time but Colonel Mason was gone before he came thither 2. He dismisses Mr. Robert Sidney Corporal of the Horse who had adventured his life in England Scotland Ireland and reducing the Island of Jersey in the capacities of Captain of Foot and Cornet of horse had lost a considerable estate in the rebellion of Ireland a Gentleman beloved by all Officers Souldiers and others who knew him being as civil courteous loving and sweet dispositioned person as treads upon the earth of a strict and unblamable conversation a constant observer of his duty who had continued in Jersey above seven years after it was reduced which I believe no Officer besides himself did his horse being old and unfit for the States service he sold him by the Governors order and by the same order came over to buy another and to dispatch some other occasions he had the Lord visited him with so sore a sickness that he was generally supposed a dead man he was