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A92155	Angliæ ruina: or, Englands ruine represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same. Containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected, plundered, imprisoned, or banished, for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne. Whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament; with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.; Mercurius rusticus	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Griffin, Matthew, 1599?-1665. London. A generall bill of mortality, of the clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2447; ESTC R204638	175,259	292

of Bullingbrook objects that he is a man of a malignant spirit that he hath great interest in the affections of the people amongst whom he lives and therefore if inlarged and remitted home may doe much prejudice to the good Cause in hand upon these just and weightie Considerations M. Thorne is remanded to the Fleet ●nce that time he hath used the assistance of many friends drawn many Petitions humbly desiring that he might be heard or if the great affaires of State would not afford their Lordships so much leasure that he might have leave upon bayle to goe down to attend his Cure untill their Lordships should please to call for him but was so farre from obtaining his desire that he could never get so farre towards it as have his Petition read His Parishioners sensible of his oppression and their own injury being bereaved of the comfort and labours of their owne Pastor sent up a Petition subscribed with three hundred hands to the same effect that Justice might have a free uninterrupted course either to condemn or absolve him but all in vain so that for ought we yet understand he is still a Prisoner and for any thing we are yet informed to the contrary he is without hopes for enlargement though his Judges have pronounced him innocent And now would you know the true cause of all this oppression Know then that it is possible for the high Court of England to be made the instrument of private revenge for Sir Samuel Luke divers yeares since suing M. Thorne in the Star-Chamber it was M. Thornes unhappines to get the day of him an injury which Sir Samuel could never forget and did now revenge it by the help of the Earle of Bullingbrooke the Lord Saint Johns sonne and his own interest in the house This story hath beene attested by some that were both care and eye witnesses of these particulars and let me be substituted Prisoner in M. Thornes place if he for ought I know know any thing that I know this or intended to make it knowne to the World Mercurius Rusticus c. V. Warder Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Arundel agasinst Sir Edward Hungerford and his power his perfidiousnesse in breaking the Articles of Surrender his barbarous usage of the Lady her children and goods Master John Bykar a Vicars sonne murthered at Coventry Master Abraham Haynes robbed abused and unjustly committed c. ON Tuesday the second of May 1643. Sir Edward Hungerford a chiefe Commander of the Rebells in Wil●shire came with his Forces before Warder Castle in the same Countie being the Mansion house of the Lord Ar●ndel of Warder But finding the Castle strong and those that were in it resolute not to yeeld it up unlesse by force called Colonel St●ode to his helpe Both these joyned in one made a Body of 1300 or thereabout Being come before it by a Trumpete● they summon the Castle to surrender The reason pretended was because the Castle being a Receptacle of Cavaliers and Malignants both Houses of Parliament had ordered it to be searched for Men and Armes and withall by the same Trumpeter declared that if they found either Money or Plate they would seize on it for the use of the Parliament The Lady Arundel her husband being then at Oxford and since that dead there refused to deliver up the Castle and bravely replyed that she had a command from her Lord to keepe it and she would obey his command Being denyed entrance the next day being Wednesday the third of May they bring up the Cannon within Musket shot and begin the Battery and continue it from the Wednesday to the Monday following never giving any intermission to the besieged who were but 25 fighting men to make good the place against an Army of 1300. In this time they sprung two Mines the first in a vault through which Beer and Wood and other necessaries were brought into the Castle this did not much hurt it being without the foundation of the Castle The second was conveyed into the small Vaults which by reason of the intercourse betweene the severall passages to every office and almost every roome in the Castle did much shake and indanger the whole fabrick The Rebels had often rendred some unreasonable conditions to the besieged to surrender as to give the Ladies both the Mother the Daughter in Law and the women and children quarter but not the men the Ladies both infinitely scorning to sacrifice the lives of their Friends and Servants to redeem their own from the crueltie of the Rebells who had no other crime of which they could count them guilty but their fidelity and earnest endeavours to preserve them from violence and robbery choose bravely according to the Noblenesse of those Honourable Families from which they are both extracted rather to dye together then live on so dishonourable terms But now the Castle brought to this distresse the defendants few oppressed with number tired out with continuall watching and labour from Tuesday to Monday so distracted between hunger and want of rest that when the hand endeavored to administer food surprized with sleep it forgat its imployment the morsells falling from their hands while they were about to eate deluding their appeties now when it might have beene a doubt which they would first have laded their musquets withall either Powder before Bullet or Bullet before Powder had not the Maid servants valiant beyond their Sex assisted them and done that service for them Lastly now when the Rebels had brought Petars and applyed them to the Garden doore which if forced opened a free passage into the Castle and balls of wild-fire to throw in at their broken windowes and all hope of keeping the Castle was taken away now and not till now did the besieged found a Parley And though in their Diurnals at London they have told the world that they offered threescore thousand pounds to redeem themselves the Castle and that it was refused yet few men take themselves to be bound anything the more to beleeve it because they report it I would Master Case would leave preaching Treason and instruct his Disciples to put away lying and speake every man truth with his neigbbour certainly the world would not be so abused with untruths as now they are amongst which number this report was one for if they in the Castle offered so liberally how came the Rebels to agree upon Articles of Surrender so far beneath that overture for the Articles of Surrender were these First that the Ladies and all others in the Castle should have Quarter Secondly that the Ladies and servants should carry away all t●eir wearing ●pparell and that six of the S●rving men whom the Ladies should nominate should attend upon their persons whereso●ver the Rebels should dispose of the● Thirdly that all the furniture and goods in the house should be safe from Plunder and to this purpose one of the six nominated to attend the Ladies was to stay in the

these Plunderers whose name was Bawyer was apprehended in London selling some of these goods in the very act and for this committed to Newgate as a Felon two of the Countesse's servants entring into Recognizance to give in evidence against him for the King but upon his Petition to the House of Commons it was ordered he should be discharged without paying any fees which was done accordingly and 't was but an oversight that his prosecutors had not been laid in his place and publique thanks decreed him for his zeale to the Cause M. Stevens Parson of South-Hamfield in Essex hearing that the Plunderers of that County were comming on him tooke horse and fled and so saved both himselfe and his horse for he knew that both were sought after The father being fled the children left to their owne providence bethink how to secure those little peeces of Plate which each had received from the bounty of their Godfathers and Godmothers neither time nor acquaintance could give them latitude of much choice where to hide it and thinking any place safer then their owne house they run to a poote woman their neighbour and there with her they deposite their whole Treasure When the Plunderers came and sound that the birds were flowne having intelligence or as some say but suspecting that the poor womans house might hide M. Stevens his goods they go to her house and demand them The woman denyes that she hath any of M. Stevens his goods hereupon one of the Plunderers strikes her on the head with a Club with such violence that her brains came out at her nostrils The poore woman being thus murthered the bloudy Murtherers insult over her and say that the just hand of God was upon her for lying against her knowledge and denying those parcels of M. Stevens his goods that were in her possession so usuall a thing it is with these men to blaspheme God and intitle him to all those wickednesses which they commit on others M. Edward Symmons Parson of Rayne in Essex in the Months of June and July 1642. Preached against the sin of Rebellion and Disobedience and against traducing the King slandering the footsteps of Gods Anoyn●ed and refused to promote the Civill Warre then begun by stirring up the people to contribute Money Plate and Horses the maintenance of so unnaturall so destructive a division as most of the Ministers of those parts did This as it was more remarkable in him so it was more hainously taken from him in regard of his former intimate acquaintance with M. Stephen Marshall Parson of Pinching field in Essex the great incendiary of this unhappy war and had given him the right hand of Fellowship Hereupon he was sent for to the House of Commons by a Pursevant and was told That he being an honest man but of a different judgement from the Sence and Vote of the House did more prejudice to the good Cause in hand then a hundred Knaves and therefore would suffer accordingly which saying since that time hath beene plentifully made good and verified in many particular oppressions sufferings unjustly inflicted on him and his whole family First he was imprisoned and most illegally deprived of his libertie for no other cause but because he would not contrary to the dictate of Religion and his owne conscience countenance and promote an accursed Rebellion against his gracious Soveraigne Secondly he was referi'd after to the Committee for scandalous Ministers thereby to blast his Credit and Reputation in his Ministery a most diabolicall and divelish Course and a work of him who is the accuser of the Brethr●n to defame honest Orthodox Ministers with the odious name of Scandalous and Malignants though made so neither by error in doctrine wickednesse of life or debauchnes of conversation but by the malignity of a Vote knowing that by this means such Ministers doctrines and Testimonies will be of little or no credit afterward with the vulgar for had it been Scandal in a true and proper sense which they indeavoured to take away out of the Church they would never have brought over his head so scandalous so infamous a man to be Lecturer in his Cure as they did for to the wounding of M. Simmons his soule and the indangering the soules of his Parishioners one Lemuel Tuke is appointed Lecturer in Master Simmons his Church a man by education a Weaver and that had not so much as saluted either University yet while men slept he intruded into a Cure of Soules in Nottinghamshire from which ever since the Parliament began he hath been a Non-resident for not long after the sitting of this Parliament his Parishioners framed a Bill against him to the Lower House Articling against him not onely as negligent but insufficient in his calling Nay they accuse him of no lesse then Barrettry and Battery Drunkennesse and whoredome and some such other sinnes which in the judgement of all honest men make a man truly and properly scandalous yet this man thus Articled against to the House of Commons as Scandalous is thought worthy to be substituted as a Coadjutor in M. Simmons his Cure who onely was voted Scandalous because not Rebellious so that all the world may judge what it is to be Scandalous in this new sense To honour the King and to live in obedience to the established orders of the Church Thirdly having preached that it was unlawfull to take up Armes against the King and contrary to the doctrine of the Scriptures to contribute to a Warre against Him in opposition to Lemuel Tuke who laboured to payson his People with Sedition and Rebellion affirming openly that in some Cases it was lawfull not onely to Resist but which I tremble to relate to kill the king instancing in the example of Athaliah 2 King II. yet the said Tuke is countenanced and encouraged whereas Master Simmons for asserting the Truth was summoned before the Committee there to answer as a Delinquent who was so f●rre from a Retractation that he justified the doctrine which he did so fully that one of the Committee was convicted of it yet as he himselfe did so he would have Master Simmons to withhold that Truth in unrighteousnesse for Sir Thomas Barrington who was the man confessed that it was a Truth and a Divine Truth yet not fit to be preached at all times no not by those that were intrusted with it by God himselfe no though it might be in some danger of Impeachment At last being charged to preach no more such doctrine and putting in bayle by the Committee he is permitted to returne to his charge But behold what it is to be voted a delinquent or a Scandalous Minister by the Committee it is to be put out of the protection of the Law and exposed to the fury of the people for on his returne Oath is made before a Justice of Peace that at Halstead in Essex it was concluded that an hundred men from Cogshall and Colchester side some of that

being apprehended though for Felonie put in Bayle to answer the next Sessions When the time came Master Cornelius indicts these Plunderers the Bill was found by the Grand Jury upon the evidence of three or foure witnesses who were Spectators and saw them carry away the goods nay the Prisoners at the Barre not onely confessed the fact in their examination before the Justice when they were first apprehended but in the face of the Court and presence of the Jurors yet the Petty-Jury contrary to reason and their owne consciences found the Indictment against the King The Court wondring at so wilfull blindnesse cause the Statute to be read lay open the evidence and remand them back not doubting but comparing the fact with the Law the Result would be a verdict for the King they persist in their obstinacy and returne Ignoramus Being asked by the Bench how they could goe against so cleare evidence They answered in generall Because they did not thinke PLUNDERING a new name for an old Theft to be Felony by the Law but being beaten out of this starting hole though tenne are convicted yet two stand out and give this reason that they were a Malignants goods and the Parliament had given power to plunder such but when it was replyed that no such Order was produced nor was it pleaded by the Prisoners at the Barre they then professed openly that these men arraigned at the Barre were honest men that they had an In●ent to doe them favour and they would doe it Hereupon the Bench justly incensed against so willfull p●rjury binds over the Iurors to answer it the next Assiz●s and withall order M. Cornelius to indict these plunderers againe upon an other Felony he obeyes their command and the Grand Iury find it to be Billa vera but when the underSheriffe went out to impanell a Jury to try the Prisoners he could find none but Separatists who attended there that day purposely to be of the Jury and professed openly that they stayed there to save the Prisoners Happy men these that may commit Murthers robberies and thefts and yet seare no Condemnation neither at the Tribunall of God or Man It is an usuall doctrine of this Sect That God sees no sinne in his children for that name they will ingrosse to themselves though no men lesse deserve it and it seemes they are resolved to see no sinne one in another It was a wild saying of a gre●t Patriarke of theirs That the Children of God were Heteroclites because God did often save them even contrary to his owne Rules I know not how true they will find this assertion at the great day when Murther shall be Murther and Theft Theft and God that righteous Judge who without respect of persons shall render to every man according to his d●eds yet here on earth if these men may judge one another they may commit what wickednesse they list and let the raines loose to all kinds of villany and yet be saved contrary to all the rules of Law and Justice M. Archer Lecturer at the same place in his Sermon encouraged the people to take up Armes against the King but it may be objected sayes he that the Gentry gainsay this Doctrine and the Learned utterly disclaime it as erroneous and damnable but what though the Gentry and Learned as you call them dissent yet let it not Stagger your beliefe of this undouted Truth for I tell you that in my Conscience you may do it and in doing it you are so far from sinning that you will do that which is acceptable to Go● Be liberall ther●fore in contributing to this holy warre and sending forth men to fight this Battle of the Lord. This man in his Prayers and Sermons constantly cals the Parliament The Lords Annoynted but with what Oyle it is not yet determined I am sure by experience we find that it is not Oyle of Gladnesse Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. Sir Rich Mynshull's house in Buckinghamshire plundered by the Lord Brooks command The Kings picture abused A house burnt neare Hounslow by the Lord Wharto●s Souldiers M Wiborow and M. Thorne the one a Minister in Essex the other in Bedfordshire the first ill-intreated on the Lords day by the Lo S. Johns Troopers the other unjustly committed to Prison for a private revenge ON Munday the 15. of August 1642. Sir Richard Mynshull of Bourton in the County of Buckingham Knight furnished with tenne Horse and Armes began his journey into the North to wait upon the King as in the duty of a servant and subject he was bound This being discovered for they have spyes in every corner to the Lord Brooke Sir Peter Temple Sir Rich Ingoldesby Master Goodwine and others then at Aylesbury leaders of an Army raised against His Majesty It fell under consideration to make Sir Richard Mynshul a precedent to deter others from serving the King since it was not to be done but by exposing their persons to Imprisonment and their estates to plundering for the Result of that deliberation was that since they could not secure his person they would seise on his estate Nor doe they stay long before they put the sentence in execution for on Thursday the 18. of August the Lord Brooke commanding a great part of the Army came to Sir Richards house and in case he should find Resistance they bring diverse peece of Ordnance to batter the House but being come they find no opposition The first company that enters the house were under the command of one Cap Iones who either detesting the oppression or yet not fleshed in the sin which but then found footing in this Kingdom for this was the first of this kind committed in Buckinghamshire and the second in England moderated the eagernesse of the Souldiers sharpe set on the prey so that they gleaned but a little here and there this moderation renders Captaine Iones suspected for a Papist both to the Lord Brooke and the rest of the Commanders nay he is not onely voiced for a Papist but a Rumor is raised that he was bribed into this Moderation and had taken a reward to spare Sir Richards goods the Captain blasted with these reports the jealousie of him grew so high that they threaten to kill him to avoyd the sury of the Souldiers he is faine to withdraw himselfe nor d●rst he appear before a Servant of Sir Richards had made oath that he was Innocent of any such Contract And now the Lord Brooke and his Company being masters of the House the first thing on which they expresse their rage is the Kings picture which with their swords they most traiterously pierce through in divers places and not content to wound him in that representation whose person God miraculously hath and we hope will preserve from them They whet their tongues against their Soveraigne using Traiterous and scornfull language against Him by all which it is more then manifest to all the world what they would doe to the Substance if

tre●sure had bin close enough hid instead of Armes they find foure thousand pounds a rich bootie and very greedily seized upon At last Mistresse Squire finding her selfe so unexpectedly in the number and condition of Malignants robbed of so great a Summe fell into a swound and for fear she should be recal'd to pursue the inju●ie with just Clamours and Expostalations when Strong-waters were brought to relieve and comfort her surprised spirits the Rebells would not permit it to be administred unto her but left nature to the worke of its own recovery without the assistance of any borrowed help Of this foure thousand pounds eight hundred was due to a Sonne in Law of Master Squires a Creature of the Parliaments and a great friend to the Cause and therefore to redeeme the rest Master Squire freely offered to give the Parliament as those tame people call the Faction of both Houses the summe of three hundred pounds so the rest might be restored unto him but all in vaine it was judged a very high Symptome of Malignancy to hide foure thousand pounds and suffer the Holy League to be endangered for want of supplyes and therefore as a just panishment for his coldnesse and want of zeale to the good Cause in hand it was wholly taken from him without restitution for ought we yet know of a farthing and indeed what measure the Rich either of London or any other place cursed with the Tyrannie and Oppression of this Rebellion are to expect from their hands when the necessities of supplyes shall presse upon them the world may read in this Warrant directed from Nathaniel Fienn●s in the time of his raigne in Bristol to Master Gunning the younger of that Citie which for the plaine English that it speaks and because it containes a perfect discovery of their Resolutions when occasion shall serve we have here inserted BRISTOL WHereas the Citie is at this time invironed and in great and imminent danger to be swallowed up by many cruell and barbarous enemies of Papists Irish Rebells and others and most of the Inhabitants of this Citie have and all ought to take an Oath Protestation for defence thereof with their lives and fortunes These are to require you forth with to pay to my Servant Ralph Hooker to be employed for the defence of the Citie the summe of two hundred pounds which summe in respect of your estate is below the proportion required of other persons of your qualitie by an Ordinance of Parliament And if you shall refuse in this time of so great necessitie you may expect whatsoever the desp●rate resolution of Souldiers reduced un●● extream necessitie may put them to act against your persons and estates unlesse by a speedy Constitution towards their supply you shall prevent the same NATH FIENNES Given under my hand July 25. 1643 To Master Gunning the younger On Sunday morning being the ninth of July 1643. in time of Divine Service Colonel Morley the Crooked Rebell of Sussex came towards Hasting one of the Cingue Ports but in his march being discovered presently notice was given to Master Hinson Curate of All Saints who knowing that one end of the Colonels Sabbath dayes Journey was to apprehend him was compelled to breake off Divine Service in the mid'st and flye into a Wood neare at hand there to hide himselfe The Colonel being entered the Towne scattered the body of his horse into severall parts to intercept all passages out of the Towne and having secured the Ports he summons the Major and Jurats and demands the Armes of the Towne to which he found ready obedience for presently the Major Jurats sent their servants to command all the Inhabitants to deliver up their Armes which was done accordingly and one of the Jurats Fray by name furnished the Colonel with a Waggon he sent them away to Battell being a Towne in Suffex some five miles from Hasting that night some Souldiers lay in the Church where Master Hinson officiated where one Wicker a common Souldier getting up into the Pulpit preached unto his fellows and to shew the Fruits of so good doctrine going out of the Church either the Preacher or one of his Auditory stole away the Surplice Ralph Mills the honest Parish Clerke to recover it complained to their Captaine Richard Cockeram of Rye but received no other answer but this Doe not you thinke he loves a Smock as well as you Morley being now master of the Towne began to exercise his power given him for the good of the Kingdome and the preservation of the Subjects Propertie and demanded a summe of Monyes from some of the Jurats which they paid him and because they came off so readily he demanded more which they refusing he took them with him Prisoners to Battell where having stayed but a night they returne with a Warrant next day signed by Morley which they undertook to execute upon such persons as themselves had designed for Plunder and Imprisonment whereof Master Car the Parson of Saint Clements in Hasting and Master Hinson were the chiefest M. Car that Sunday was not at home being ●ed to prevent surprizall but hearing that Colonel Morley was gone to Battell and thinking the storme to be now blowne over he resolved to return to Hasting and being on the way thither he met Fray the Jurat who was one of the Combination to execute Morlyes Warrant and apprehend him as Fray was drilling M. Car along by chance one Master Breame met them and seeing M. Car so familiarly conversing with a Judas that was resolved to betray him called Master Car aside to speake with him what he said is uncertaine but in all probabilite he discovered to Master Car the danger in which he was for immediately he left Frayes company and rode back againe Fray thus unexpectedly rob'd of his prey instantly informed Colonel Morley that Master Breame had srayed away the Bird that was so neare going into the snare Morley presently sends some Troopers to apprehend Master Breame and at what summe he did redeeme this Crime is uncertaine On the Tuesday after Morlyes comming to Hasting Master Hinson returned home and that day the Jurats that Morley tooke with him being come backe summoned the rest of their Brethren unto the Towne-Hall where they acquainted them with the Contents of their new Warrant who with joynt consent promise their best endeavours to put it in execution To this purpose having picked out of the Towne a sufficient number to assist them and execute their commands and having put their names in the Warrant with their owne they bind them by the Religion and strict bond of an Oath to doe what they would have them without ever specifying any particulars wherein they intended to exercise their obedience untill they should give them in charge what they were to doe N●y not onely so but having received their commands they sweare them not to reveale what commands were layd on them to any body no not to their owne wives untill

their bodies to vex their righreous Soules instead of comforting them against the approach of death they refuse to condescend to so reasonable a request and impose on them Cradock and Fowler two Eunssaries sent to that Citie to poyson it with Schisine and Rebellion that so they might fill up the measure of their sinnes and ripen them for destruction Standing at the foot of the Tree that by and by was to beare fruit unto eternall iife it was observed by some of these Murtherers well skil'd it seems in the art Method of hanging that the Halters were too long or too short or else not ●yed fast enough some fault there was which the deaths man had directions to correct he obeying the directions of the chief Hang-man goes up takes off the halter● the people who came thither spectators of this bloody Tragedy standing at distance and not privy to the intention fondly conceited that certainly Colonel Fiennes had sent a Reprive and instantly expressed the greatnesse of their joy by the loudnesse of their Acclamations Never considering Fines his Extraction being borne and bred in a family Sworne Enemies to Monarchy and all that love it At last seeing the Guards stand fix'd and that this stay was but to make surer worke the Executioner fastning his instruments of death according to the directions given him by them whose journey-man he was The people as if strooke with thunder or blasted with lightnings stood amazed untill at last astonishment giving way to Compassion they sent out teares instead of Acclamations and exchanged their joy for lamentations All things thus made ready to offer up these Innocents sacrifices to the implacable rage of Fines and his fellow Rebells Master Rober● Yeomans is first commanded to ascend the Ladder thence to reach his Crowne of Martyrdome But remembring whose pictie it was in the middest of his sufferings to recommend his mother to the care of a Guardian being hiselfe to leave this world he first makes his addresse to his Father-in-law Master Yeomans and tels him that he had left him a Legacy viz. his Wife then great with-child and eigth small children the eldest not able to put on its owne cloathes and so with many imbracements left him and set forward in his way to Heaven And now being seated in that place of shame and Ignominy so it is in its own Nature where the goodnesse of the Cause doth not change the accursed Tree into a Theater of honour and finding himselfe made a spectacle to that Citie wherein he had lived in plentic and honour being Sheriffe but the yeare before in discharge of which office he was interiour to none of his Predecessors in bountie and magnificence which Colonel Popham and his friends by frequent experince know very well And from that sad prospect taking a view of many friends that could hardly looke through their owne teares to see him again And from thence too seeing some of a sarre different affection that rejoyeed in his sufferings and amongst them Robert Baugh the Sheeps-skin-dresser Fines his associate in the Councell of Warre in a devilish crueltie And let God that righteous judge require it at his hands stand jeering and mocking at him to his face here flesh and blood interposed which transported him to an expostulation bordering betweene Indignation and Submission saying Good God what have I done to be here But instantly sorry that humane fraileie should extort any thing from him ●ubeseeming the justice of his cause or the bravenesse of Christian resolution silencing suggestions of such ill Councellours he composed himselfe to speake something to the people His strength exhausted by long and many sufferings disabled him to speake much or loud yet willing to cleare hiselfe from that prejudice under which he lay of an intention to Massacre all that should adhere to the Two Houses which some mis-call a Parliament laying his hand upon his brest and fixing his eyes on Heaven the habitation of the God of Truth he made a solemne Protestation of his innocency from any such thought he professed his firme perswasion of the justice of that cause for the defence of which he suffered affirming that if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to the service of His Soveraigne in the same way and therefore wee may justly wonder at the frontlesse impudence of that Clement Walker that should tell the world in Print That Master Yeomans did confesse that he was convicted in conscience of the justnesse of the Parliaments Cause But they that know the man and that poore stock either of Religion or Honestie which he hath need not wonder that he that before this Parliament made it his frequent Theame to declaime against Puritans should now judging them to be the prevailing Faction to indeare himselfe unto them first embrew his hands in this Gentlemans blood and then report him falsely to posteritie as if he had recanted that Loyaltie for which and in which he professed he dyed While he was thus speaking to the people Serjeant Major Langridge and Cliston call upon the Executioner to hasten the worke Nay they did not stick to interrupt Master Yeomans in his discourse and to goad him on the sides and thighs with their Halberts bidding him to contract and make an end hereupon he desired the witnesses of his suffering to sing with him the 130 Psalme which he sung with great elevation of spirit and servency of devotion knowing that presently he should be translated from this Bochim the valley of teares where we doe not so much as sing or sigh out our Hymnes into that triumphant Quire where with Angells and Archangells and all the powers of Heaven he should sing Halclujahs Anthems of Joy for evermore Having finished the Psalme and some other Prayers and amongst the rest instanly beseeching God not to charge his death upon that Citie nor require his Innocent blood at their hands prayed for his Persecutors and adjured his friends not to harbour a thought of revenge he began againe to make some addresse to the people challenging the world there to testifie against him if he had wronged any man and beginning to apologize for his Innocency even in the very cause of his death Langridge and Cliston the chiefe Hang-man under Fines their Master knowing how much his words might prevaile with the people and that one Martyr falling quickly springs up into many Converts caused him instantly to be throwne off hardly giving him so time as in some short ejaculations to recommend his Soule to God and now there he is under the Altar and ●oynes in that shrill cry that calls loud in the cares of God How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6 10. Being thrown off and his body swinging with the fall his Brother in-law Master John Haggat an honest Gentleman and of good qualitie in the Citie put out his hand to stay it

to the providence of him who can and will bring good out of evill which is the earnest prayer of Christ-Church Cant Aug. 30.1648 Your Lorships most obliged Servant Thomas Paske What effect this just complaint wrought how it prevailed either with that Lord to whom it was addressed or with the pretended Houses of Parliament whose authority and assistance was implored to prevent further our-rage either here or elsewhere wee have too cleare testimony not only in the like sacrileges and prophanations every day acted without any the least check or restraint from the heads of this Rebellion but more especially from their Votes and Ordinances for the abolishing all remainders of Popery and Supe●stition as they call it in all which Intelligi malunt quain Audiri they would have their creatures understand more then they speake being certaine politique Litotes in which Minus dicisur plus inselligitur signifying more then the Grammaticall construction will permit and carry in them a hidden secret sense and meaning which their owne Emissaries know how to interpret and inlarge according to the full intention of the Authors But before we passe from the relation of this horr'd Sacrilege committed on the Church of canterbury I could not free my selfe from being guiltie of that great sinne of obscuring the great manifestation of Gods Justice it I should in silence passe over that most exemplary vengeance which persued to death that unfortunate Gentleman Colonel Sandys the ring-leader to that Rebellious rout which were Actors in that more then Barbarous out-rage Whether the cunning perswasions of others or his own ambition first imbarked him in this fatall undertaking is uncertaine but as himselfe confessed on his death bed to a friend kinsman of his who asked him what he meant being a Gentleman of so faire an estate to ingage himselfe in this Treason He answered That he was so farre drawn in before he was awar● that he knew not how to come ●ff without the danger of his head So usuall it is for one sinne to ingage the finner for a second having therefore once lifted up his hand against his Soveraigne the Lords Anoynted he thought the way to be secure from the pun shment of Rebellion was to persevere in his Crime and go on in Rebellion In pursuance therefore of so black designes being Colonel of a Regiment of Horse in Sept. 1642. with the rest of the Rebells Army under the Conduct of the Earle of Effex he advanced towards Worcester and making some excursions with tenne Troopes of Horse from the body of their Army at wickefield neare Worcester accidentally were met by Prince Rupert accompanied by Prince Maurice and some others Lords and Gentlemen of his Majesties Cavallry being thus by chance met the Prince glad of any opportunitie to expresse the brayenes of his resolution charged the Rebels with incomparable valour In this short but fierce Conflict Colonel Sandys was wounded and being dismounted his Horse became prisoner to the Kings Partee Being thus wounded and as then was conceived mortally he began to reflect upon himselfe and finding so little warrant in his now unblass'd conscience for his undertaking which had brought him into this condition his perplexed soule brake out into many sad expressions of remorse crying out Woe Woe to evill Counsell and happy are they that doe not take it And being put in mind by a Reverend Doctor in Divinity and Chaplaine to Prince Rupert of the haynousnesse of the sin of Rebellion he acknowledged himselfe to have fallen into that sinne and that God was just in his judgements for finding him out in his iniquitie prosessing withall his heartie sorrow and repentance for it whereupon the Doctor replyed that if he recovered perhaps the same perswasions from others or inconside●atencsse in himselfe might again ingage him in this Rebellion at which words a little lifting up his hand he prosessed He would rather have it cut off then ever again life it up against the King he freely acknowledged the justice of the Kings cause and that he had observed the blessings of God to accomany it and when the Doctor desired leave to restihe his repentance to the world he freely gave him leave asking God and the King forgivenesse praying for a blessing upon him and his proceedings In this mind he continued while Prince Rupert and the Kings Forces with him stayd in Warcester and whether after the Earles possessing himselfe of Worcester by the impetuous sollicitations of those Murtherers of Soules those Factors for hell their Schismatical Lecturers who make men twosold more the children of the devill then themselves he fell off and turned Apostate from his newly resolved Loyalty as repenting of his repentance in uncertain Those that were about him saw his weaknesse ever declining from the first houre he received his wounds must testify to the World that he had neither strength of hand to write nor so much composednesse of spirit to be the Author of that Spurious Supposititious Vindication Published in his name Oct. 11. 1642. he being whatsoever that sorgery pretends as unable to vindicate himself with his pen as his sword but if they had his heart as well as hand subscribing to that Atheisticall resolution where they thus bring him in foaming out his own thame The App●chension of death never hitherto so neerly touched me but if God shall once restore me to my former strength I shall by his helpe with as much alacritie and I hope courage endeavour to defend and maintaine with my dearest blood this so good a cause meaning this present Rebellion as ever I was at first ingaged in it If I say they had his heart as well as his hand to that Resolution I am afraid it was too evident a Symptome of a wicked man given up to a Reprobate sense which of all spirituall judgments questionlesse is the greatest and might justly call for those Torments of body which afterward as a Gangreen devoured and eate up his flesh and those pangs of Conscieace which I am afraid were but the earnest of a worse condition to insue for as the Psalmist sayes As for such as turne back unto their owne wickednesse the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquitie Psal 125.5 but I remember that of Saint Paul Judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come I Cor. 4.5 And therefore while on Supposition I write my feares positively I determine nothing not knowing whether God might not give him the grace of repentance at the last which if he did he onely I d●re say that gave the Grace knew of it concerning his eternall condition therefore I shall leave him to the judgement of that Righteous God that judgeth Righteous judgement and gives to every man according to his workes and onely informe the World in what condition the Colonel lay untill the time of his dissolution and putting off his earthly bat loathsome Tabernacle As the Colonel was amongst the Rebells a very considerable man both

Treason and steales the Kings Horses or doth any thing Plunders the Countesse of her Coach horses notwithstanding a Warrant from the Lords House to secure them And when this Warrant was produced to stave off this Parliament Horse-taker he replyed That if the Warrant had been from both Houses he would obey it as comming from the highest Authority in England sure this man was borne with Treason in his month but since it came But from the Lords he did not value it When this Warrant could not prevaile the Countesse obtaines a Warrant from the Earl of Essex to have the Horses restored unto her againe but Master Martin to over-bear all procures an Order from the House of Commons to keepe them This honourable Ladies goods were seized on though licensed to passe by the Lords and searched and allowed by the Custome-house At Pebmarsh in the same County of Essex on the Lords day divers of the Parliament Voluntiers came into the Church while the Parson Master Wiborow was in his prayer before Sermon and placed themselves neere the Pulput and when he was in his Prayer one of them struck divers times with his staffe against the Pulpit to interrupt him and while he was in his Sermon in contempt of the place where they were and the sacred action in doing they were almost as loud as the Preacher to the great disturbance of the Congregation No sooner was the Sermon ended and the Parson come out of the Pulpit as far as the Reading desk but they lay violent hands upon him rent his clothes and threaten to pull him in pieces in the Church With much intreatie they spare him there and permit him to goe into the Church-yard he is no sooner come thither but they assault him more violently then before Master Wiborow seeing the Constable who all this while stood a spectator of his hard usage calls unto him and charges him in the Kings name to keepe the Kings Peace at his request they did a little forbeare him but before he could get halfe wayes home they assault him againe and demand his Booke of Common Prayer which he used in the Church That which was found by the Parish being torne in pieces before which he refusing to deliver up unto them they wreck their fury on him They tugge and ●ale him and vow to kill him unlesse he deliver up the Booke of Common Prayer to their pleasure he stoutly refuseth Hereupon they fall upon him strike up his heeles and take it from him by force and so carry it away in triumph M. Blaker by a silenced Minister heretofore preaching at Halstead in the same County told them that to bow at the Name of Jesus was to thrust a spear into Christs side and such Ministers as signed children with the signe of the Crosse did as much as in them lay to send such children unto the Devill When the Earl of Essex and the rest went from Reading to London after the unhappy to say no more surrender to that Towne they left there a Committee consisting of none but City Captains Tradesmen these according to the authority comitted unto them summon al the able men of the Parishes thereabout to appear before them at Reading and assessed them at their pleasure In Marlow they assessed one Master Drue at 1000 l. they fell to 500 l. he refusing to pay was imprisoned but the Prison being most nastic and loathsome denyed the Accommodation of Bedding was forced to pay 300 l. Master Hor●epoole they feased at 200 l. Master Chase a man Plundered before at 40 l. twentie pound was offered but nothing will be abated of thirtie Eliot a Butcher at an hundred pound and imprisoned Cocke a Baker at 20 l. Master Furnace the Vicar not suffered to speak for himselfe because a Malignant at 10 l. and paid seven John Langley 10 l. Thomas Langley 20 l. William Langley 5 l. and Wilmot his servant 5.l John More 80 l. Haskins a Shoomaker 5 l. Cane an Inne-keeper 7 l. Rates so illegall or had they bin legall so unequally proportioned to these mens Estates that had Ship-money been still on foot it would not have drawne so much money out of their purses in fortie or fiftie years as this blew Apron Committee at Reading removed some seven or eight degrees from the Close Committee at Westminster extorted from them at one clap O that wee were but so wise as to compare our Conditions certainly then we could not but acknowledge the just wrath of God upon us for our ingratitude murmuring so much when wee had so little cause and blesse God for the returne of our former Peace though with all its grievances and those maliciously aggravated Master Gues Thorne Bachelor in Divinitie and Parson of S. C●berts in Bedford was upon Sunday in the begi●ning of August last 1642. apprehended in his Parish Church immediately after he came out of the Pulpit ha●ing preached three Sermons in the Towne that day by the Lord Saint-Johns Troopes who lay then in Bedford and in a very boysterous manner carryed away to an Inne in the Towne not permitted to go home to his house to visite his family nor any of his friends suffered to come to him the next day he was carryed away to London where when he had ly●n more then three weekes under the Messengers hands he was brought to his I ryall at the Barre in the Lords House Accusations are framed against him out of Sermons preached nine years before Witnesses are produced to prove the Articles who so well remembred what they were to say that they were faine to read their depositions out of Papers which they brought in their hands Master Thorne gives so full an answer to all the objections that the Lords pronounce themselves satisfied and him innocent onely the Lord Say disputes with him and the Earl of Bullingbrooke grumbles at him At length it is pretended that there is another witnesse in the Country that can say somewhat especially if it be written down in a Paper as it was to his fellow deponents hereupon he is committed to the Fleet there to remaine till that Witnesse can be prevailed with to find leisure to come up About three weekes after the Witnesse appeares and is sworne and contrary to the Rules of that Court is sent to be examined by a Clerke Master Thorne with much adoe obtaines a Copy of his depositions which upon a view containe no new matter but what he had before answered unto cleared hereupon he Petitions again for a sentence he is ordered to attend the House after a chargeable attendance of many dayes with his Keeper he is called the cause reviewed upon the review the Earles of Pembroke Holland Clare and divers others affirme that in their consciences they had acquitted him at the first hearing and now upon the review found nothing to alter their opinion and therefore thought it fit he should be discharged But well f●re a good neighbour at a dead list the Earl