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A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

and that as the creature could not give life no more it could not take away life But I concluded if my death might be as Sampsons the pulling downe of the English Antichristian Hierarchie the pulling downe the Devillish spirituall Courts then should I gladly sacrifice my life in the cause of the Gospell for Christ and his true English Church And now to returne backe to that from which I have a little digrest Betweene that time and the next Sessions the old Lord Major going out of his place and the new one comming in the spirit of jealousie fell into the hearts of my enemies and wrought so deeply in them that they plotted more cunningly to take my life then before they being afraid as indeed it did fall out that the Iury would learne more wit and be better advised betweene that and the next Sessions made the Commission and Bill and Iury and all voyde as if nothing at all had been done and our three London Sergeants in their Scarlet rode in thei●… Co●…ches to the Court to procure a new Commission sealed which they got upon the Lords day in the morning about Sermon time And then the new Lord Major Sir Edward Wright sent for Smith the Sergeant giving him a strict Charge to warne a Jury of speciall able men telling him that it was for a businesse of greater consequence then he tooke it to be and so it was done accordingly And now Christian Reader I will lead thee along from my Prison in Southworke to my next Sessions holden in the Guild Hall in London where were twenty Constables and each man had twenty Watchmen to attend with Bills and Halberts and a greater number to see me then at my first comming more to see me then were to see Doctor Ducke let downe and puld up with a Rope at the High Commission Court in Pauls So we ascended up into the Court and the old Iury fitting themselves to give in their Bill all joyntly did assent to give up their Bill Ignoramus But when they came into the Court supposing to begin where they left off they found it otherwise for there was a new Iury impannelled and a new Commission read and a new Charge given and the old forsworne Witnesses anew swo●…ne and the old Iury much disgraced by Stone our London Sergeant which Iury had learned more wit or wisdome in his absence then ever he would have taught them being present So the new Iury being called by their names they answered to them three and twenty were summoned to appeare and did all appeare but six of them were not called because sayd the Register they are Puritans of Quatermayns faction Then Stone the Sergeant sitting as Judge told me it was not fit I should be in the Court Then said I to my Lord Major my Lord so your proceedings be to Gods glory and the good of the Common-wealth and in a just way for my owne particular my presence shall not be hurtfull to you you have chosen a Iury of wise discreet Gentlemen I am willing to referre my selfe unto them Then sayd Sergeant Stone K●…epe him safe Messenger you must looke unto him Then I answered him againe My cause is good and I will not start though you would give me a thousand pounds Then answered my Lord Major I thinke you will not Master Quatermayn then the Iury looked upon me and when they looked upon the Witnesses how like Rogues they looked then I answered they are of the Court meaning they were of the High Commission Court So the Iury going into the Iury-roome my adversaries thought they had expunged all Puritans out of the company but they were utterly deceived for one Master Lee a Vintner at the Sunne Tavern at Criple-gate a very wise and judicious man did so debate the matter with the rest of the Iury that notwithstanding my enemies which were the enemies of the truth had cast such aspersions upon me saying that I was an Arian an Anabaptist a Separatist a Familist and the like he made them to see clearly that the Bill could not be found against mee yet notwithstanding they did not make an end that night At length the Iury being often called upon to bring in their Bill it being late in the night the Iury came forth and Sergeant Stone asked them if they were agreed they answered they were not agreed then inquiry being made how the businesse stood seven would have found the Bill and ten were against it and so the Sessions for that night ended untill the next Friday following being the sixth of November 1640. Loving Christian Reader I will put thee in minde of one thing my persecutor said he would have my life though it cost him five hundred pounds and another said that if Quatermayn were not hanged within six houres he would be hanged for him but the first hath mist of his purpose and the l●…st hath time enough to choose his Gallowes or to repent hims●… of his precipitated malice And this is the summe and substance of our second S●…ssions and I returned home to my prison againe waiting upon the Lord for my free and full deliverance in his own good time In the meane time there were three or foure Letters sent from the Lords of the Councell or the Councellor of the Lords to the Lord M●…jor and the Sergeants but what was in them I know not God in his due time I hope will reveale it Besides divers Messengers were sent to the place where I was imprisoned to see whether I were safe or no And now Christian Brother I shall lead thee to my Gayle-Delivery And this proved a Sessions of peace for when we came thither there was neither Constable nor Watchman so the Iury after some certaine time came forth and desired audience for they would give up their Bill and the three Sergeants would not receive it by reason that my Persecutor the Register of the High Commission Court was not there but at length Lathom came in and then the Iury was called and they were all agreed but one and they yeelded up the Bill and it was a Bill of Vera for one Reynolds a Waterman and Ignoramus for all the rest At which word there was a great rejoycing among the people but Lathom looked as pale as ashes then I blessed God with these two words Truth is strong and will prevaile and then divers good Christians tooke me by the middle and sayd Master Quatermayne you are sr●…ed and I said Blessed be God who is the deliverer of his people Then William Barrife who was one of the Iury was called for who would not assent with the rest of the Iury but see the hand of God in this also for he was fined fortie shillings for his absence and was glad to submit to his Brethren and intreat the favour of the Court for his fine Then I spake to my Lord Major and his Brethren saying Is it in your power to free me seeing

QVATERMAYNS CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT OR A Briefe Declaration of severall Passages between him and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY with other Commissioners of the High Commission Court at six severall appearances before them and by them directed to Doctor Featly with their severall Conferences and the Doctors Reports to the Court As also his imprisonment by vertue of a Warrant from the Lords of the Councell with ten privie Councellours hands to it With his appearance before the Lords of the Councell and his Answers to the Archbishop and the Lord Cottington concerning Conventicles and his Answer to foure Queries propounded unto him concerning the Scots As also his tryall three severall Sessions by vertue of a Commission in Oyer and Terminor at the Guild Hall London and his blessed Deliverance And lastly A Prayer and Thankesgiving in an acknowledgement of Gods mercy in his Deliverance By ROGER QUATERMAYNE LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for Roger Quatermayne and are to be sold by Samuell Satterthwaite at the signe of the Blacke Bull in Budge Rowe neare Tantlings Church 1642. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Grace Mercy and Peace from God the FATHER and from our LORD JESUS CHRIST BEloved Thinke it not strange concerning the fiery tryall which is to try you as though some strange thing had happened unto you but rejoyce in as much as you are made partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed you may be glad also with exceeding Ioy It was the counsell of the blessed Apostle Peter as you may see in the first Epistle of Peter the fourth Chapter the 12 and 13 Verses And the same Apostle giveth the reason thereof in the 14 v●…rse of the same Chapter sayth he If you be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you But sayth he in the fifteenth verse Let none of you suffer as an evill 〈◊〉 a murderer or as a busie body in other mens matters Vers. 16. But if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalfe For as the Apostle Paul sayth in the twel●… Chapter to the Hebrews vers. 6. Whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth And he layeth downe a reason why the Lord doth chastise his children and that is not for their losse but for their benefit which is that they might be partakers of his holinesse For I●… that the sufferings of this 〈◊〉 are not worthy of the glory that shall be revealed Rom 8. vers. 18. For it is an Apostolicall Injunction laid upon the Saints that every one that wi●…l live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution And indeed it is a great honour for Beleevers to be called thereunto being the proper gift of God For to you it is given not onely to doe but to suffer for his Name Vpon all these blessed Considerations Christian Reader I have made bold to present before the eyes of thy understanding a view of severall afflictions which have be●…alne me in this my Pilgrimage by those which have taken upon them the name and title of the Fathers of the Church but are indeed and in truth the enemies of Christ and his Gospel and as opposit to the power of godlinesse and the sincere wayes of the Saints as that cursed Abaddon or Apollyon of Rome is or can be as hath and doth appeare daily by their bloudy proceedings against the faithfullest Ministers and sanctifiedst and sincerest Professors that hath been and are living amongst us Witnesse their 〈◊〉 proceedings against Doctor Layton Master Peter Smart Doctor Bastwicke Master Prin and John Lilburne with divers others And lastly Concerning my selfe who had like to have suffered Ship wracke under the guidance and conduct of these Romish Pilots leading and guiding me through so many by-wayes Rocks and Sands that had not the Lord mercifully and miraculously preserved me I had been taken in their Nets and swallowed up in the pit that they had digged for me so maliciously were they bent against me as in the sequell of this Story following shall with Gods helpe more fully appeare B●…loved Christian Reader I would not have troubled thee with these few rude lines had not I be●…n solicited thereunto by many both judiciously wise and religiously honest whom I much respect as in dutie I ought they perswading me that the carriage of the businesse by Gods especiall assistance might prove to be a ground of great incouragement unto others that might in time to come be brought to the same condition and put to the same straits that I have been in Truely there is no reason why wee should be troubled or discouraged with any of their frownes or threats for the Lord hath to me and will to all his make good his promise That He will give us a mouth and a tongue to speak that the enemies shall not be able to resist You see it to be a truth in all those valiant warriours of the Lord Iesus before named with many others that I could name but that I am unwilling to be tedious Onely looke to thy Cause that it be warranted by the Word Looke to thy Conscience that it be cleansed from sinne Looke to thy heart that it be purified by faith and to thy Conversation that it be unspotted in the world and then being thus armed on the right hand and on the left goe on thou valiant man in this thy might in a strong opposition against the foolish ridiculous popish superstitious Ceremonies and deadread-Service which the blinde lame dumbe scandalous Priests and Prelates of this age so stand for and be you not discouraged from your holy duties of Religion by reason of these vile 〈◊〉 of Conventicles and the like that is cast upon it For assuredly it is and hath been the strong Arme of our God to shake this 〈◊〉 Antichristian Hierarchie and therefore for sake not the Assembly of the Saints as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 25. Through the disheartning Sermons of some Ministers among us who by their preaching formerly did promise much better service then now they performe to the Church whereby they give us just cause to suspect their fidelitie in their Masters worke and they brow beat their weake Brethren who according to their measure and the gift of God received doe labour to build up one another in their most holy faith and comfort others with the same comforts that they themselves are comforted of God But Beloved You that have tasted how sweet the Lord is in these sacred Ordinances let not goe your hold of Christ by them but follow after the Marke 〈◊〉 the prise of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus For in due time yee shall reape if you faint not therefore lift up your weake hands and strengthen your feeble knees For certainly Your redemption draw●…th nigh You shall be delivered from the power of these Antichristian Prelates and