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A89238	A magazine of scandall. Or, a heape of wickednesse of two infamous ministers, consorts, one named Thomas Fowkes of Earle Soham in Suffolk, convicted by law for killing a man, and the other named Iohn Lowes of Brandeston, who hath beene arraigned for witchcraft, and convicted by law for a common barrettor. Together with the manner how my Lord of Canterbury would put and keep them in the ministery, notwithstanding the many petitions and certificates from their parishioners, and others, presented to him, they being the head and most notorious of the scandalous ministers within the county of Suffolke, and well may be said of all England. And against whom as chiefe of the scandalous ministers the county of Suffolke have petitioned to the Parliament: and desired to bee seene by Parliament, because herein is something mentioned, which is conceived, that one of these scandalous ministers have abused the authority of the Lords in Parliament.		1642 (1642)	Wing M248; Thomason E137_17; ESTC R9987	9,689	14

Ministers against whom the County of Suffolke have petitioned AFter the former tast given of the outward comportment of these two rare birds I would that it might be a little understood of the inward matter they are indued withall I mean as touching their ability of learning and divinity for I make accompt by the former discourse that they cannot have much inward grace for they never sought for that at Lambeth faire neither do I think that any was thereto be sold therefore I will apply my selfe to the other I meane their learning because you may understand what good cause my Lord of Canterbury had so strongly to keep them in the Ministry it may be thought that it was their great learning Indeed as for that they had learning enough to preach against them that would not pay treble their tithes and to enveigh against such as they bore malice and that in many unfitting termes out of points of learning or divinity but I would know first whether they can read well or no for I am sure that neither of them can write true English yet they endeavour to read their sermons which I would not condemne if they were penned conducing to the interpretation of the Scriptures and not from any malicious spirit Scholers they are I confesse and had need to go to schoole still for one of them being demanded what Microcosmus was which by interpretation signifieth a little world answered that it was Latin for a mist or fog the demandant replyed againe it was true for it was more then a mist for sure he was in a great cloud of darknesse and one of them at another time being demanded what Plerophoria signified which signifies fulnesse of faith he answered that he did not like that word because as he thought the Papists did attribute it to the names of pictures and reliques and the demandant replied againe that hee thought he did not like that word indeed and believed that he would never be brought to like it but quid moramur in istis let us follow our text and tell you how my Lord of Canterbury would not by no meanes be informed nor perswaded to heare any thing against these two for divers of the neighbours having desired their Solicitor to present divers petitions and certificates to his Lordship against the said Fowkes and of his conviction for killing the man and also to informe him of the said Lowes how he was convicted for a common Barretor amongst many other of the foule actions of them both And it must be understood that this Fowkes was ipso facto out of his function upon his conviction untill the Lords great grace of Canterbury tooke great care to put in great good Ministers and so put him in againe and gave him a dispensation but before his dispensation the said Solicitor presented under the hands of his the Fowkes his neighbours and divers others a Certificate of his scandalous life and of his little desert both in life and doctrine which was at that time received by Master Dell his Secretary and my Lords Grace took speciall notice therof and kept it and still hath it which to any mans judgement had been enough to induce any Bishop in the Christian world not to have dispenced with a man whose hands were in blood and convicted for killing of a man which had beene much if he had received a Certificate of the said Fowkes honest life and conversation but howsoever there was something weighed well with my Lord or Master Dell or both to induce my Lord to give him a dispensation But to the Ministry my Lord did restore him by what Law or Canon none can warrant for none whose hands have beene in blood ought there to remaine which being heard and knowne to the astonishment of many well governed and able Ministers as other laymen and religious people conceived at first that my Lord of Canterbury was abused presuming hee would not have done it and thereupon at the like request of the parishioners and others the said Solicitor addressed himselfe with new petitions from time to time but now none would be accepted read or heard many of which are still to be seene And the said Master Dell his countenance was changed the Solicitor received nothing but rough speeches yea threats sometimes and told him we might have remedy in the high Commission and no answer could be had but goe to the high Commission And my Lord of Canterbury being once pressed by the same Solicitor said Away would you have me undoe a man for an unlucky blow whereas nothing was required but that he might be put ab officio but not à beneficio only ayming to have him suspended from so holy a function that with quiet minds his parishioners might come to Church to serve God without brawlings and railings on the Sabbath dayes yea in the time of receiving the Communion with which they were dayly vexed and troubled by him the said Fowkes but my Lord did excuse the matter and alledged that he had Certificate from divers of the Iudges that his cause was to be pittied and that he should kill a man in kindnesse or something to that effect as hee said which no man will ever believe that any Iudge will excuse any man after a conviction by law but it is most certaine that Master Iustice Crooke before whom he was tried never would give the least countenance either in word or writing to extenuate so foule a fact and none else could but before whom the triall was declare how the case deserved And so after many repulses and rejections the parishioners and others were forced volens nolens to cease their just complaint and so rest untill it was conceived that my Lord of Canterbury might better consider of his former passages hoping he might be humbled by his restraint in the Tower and to salve such things as before hee had done they were advised to repaire to him there and at their said request the Solicitor did repaire to him in the Tower who then seemed to incline and to give eare to their request and seemed as if hee would countermand his former dispensation so as they could procure something under Iudge Crooke his hand of the true and just desert of the fact whereupon the said Iudge being spoken withall to that purpose answered that what would my Lord of Canterbury have a better satisfaction then a conviction by law and if that were not sufficient it must be questioned whether the said Fowkes had a lawfull triall or not whereupon a little before Michaelmas last the said Solicitor againe repaired to him in the Tower and because all matters of objection might be taken away viz. the alledged certificate from the Iudges and his pretence that he did nothing but upon good grounds the said Solicitor presented him with this petition and information with an affidavit annexed herein after mentioned and there withall shewed him the exemplification under seale of the Conviction

A MAGAZINE OF SCANDALL OR A heape of wickednesse of two infamous Ministers consorts one named Thomas Fowkes of Earle Soham in Suffolk convicted by Law for killing a man and the other named Iohn Lowes of Brandeston who hath beene arraigned for witchcraft and convicted by law for a common Barrettor Together with the manner how my Lord of Canterbury would put and keep them in the Ministery notwithstanding the many Petitions and Certificates from their Parishioners and others presented to him they being the head and most notorious of the scandalous Ministers within the County of Suffolke and well may be said of all England And against whom as chiefe of the scandalous Ministers the County of Suffolke have petitioned to the Parliament And desired to bee seene by the Parliament because herein is something mentioned which is conceived that one of these scandalous Ministers have abused the authority of the Lords in Parliament And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death Levit. 24.17.21 Num. 35.18 c. Non solum lutum verum ne tange venenum Printed at London for R. H. 1642. A Magazine of Scandall IF I should goe about to declare all the devices and evill practices that could be said concerning these two namely this common Barretor and this man-killer it were an endlesse peece of worke and labour without end but having an intent to shoot at some few which the least of them are too notorious and too intolerable to be suffered in the Church of Christ I will avoid prolixity and therefore omit in particular the many vexatious troubles and suits that these two have troubled their parishioners and Neighbours in the townes about them how many they have undone and beggered to the terror of many others I will forbeare to tell you how many were every Court day tossed and tumbled at the Commissaries Court so as the common proverbe was that they had made a more beaten roade and footpath to the Commissaries Court then any market path in all the County I will not tell how many desperat deboist base and vild persons and some that have been three or foure times arraigned for felony were their dependants and went with them from Court to Court from Assizes to Assizes and from Sessions to Sessions to act accomplish and performe any unlawfull and desperat devises either by their false oathes or desperat forces and violences and many times some of them by pretence of being Bailiffs to arrest men have entred into mens houses and taken away their goods nothing escaped if it were not too hot or too heavy I will not publish in what desperat manner these two have joyned with these deboist Bailiffes Conjunctim divisim iojntly and severally in their desperat oathes to accomplish their evill ends and how they have shared in their booties which these their dependants have so unlawfully purloined I will not expresse the many wrongs suits and controversies they labour and seeke after to oppresse others and worke thereby their owne profit and advantage as namely in inquiring after broken titles and buying of them but never pay for them in hiring and entring upon any lands where there is any controversie and so to occupy the same for a very small matter or for nothing at all which is unlawfull in a Minister to occupy any temporall lands at all and if neighbors parishioners be at any controversie with his Minister for his tithes then one or both of these are the Antagonists and Champions to buy these tithes and will be sure to terrifie the poore parishioner that he must fas or nefas due or not due pay what is demanded To speake how these bend their shoulders to uphold one another in their practices and concurre and hang together it were too tedious And severally how they use their severall postures and qualities apart the first I meane the Mankiller setting all thought of his function aside as no part of his calling doth in as ample husbandlike manner as any husbandman whatsoever go to his labour when other practices faile as to ditch plowe thresh carry muck dresse his horses and especially on Sunday mornings and comes to Church with his coat full of horse haires for he keepes a teame of horses and goes by the rode to carry timber to Woodbridge and Ipswich or any other carriage as duely as any carter by the Rode whatsoever being one indeed cut out for such a purpose rather then for the place he hath beene suffered to hold being likewise of a desperate condition his hands having been in blood have threatned divers of his adversaries to hurt or wound them and to that end hath carried about him a most dangerous sharpe weapon comprehended closly in a staffe divers others he hath with violence beaten and wounded yea rather then he would be out of action he will beat his owne wife who hath had a feeling in this cause he hath so feared divers of his parish others with suits for no cause most certain it is that he hath extracted and drawn divers several great sums of money both from the able and unable rather then they would endure his vexations and upon every occasion threatens my Lord of Canterbury his warrant and great punnishments from my Lord of Canterbury and who but my Lord of Canterbury upon whose presumption he was so audacious that he durst doe any thing yea in the very act of receiving the Communion in the presence of neere a hundred persons most of them kneeling at the Railes in the Chancell where he forced them to come some of them having received the Sacrament and others ready to receive it in a most scandalous and irreligious manner railed and used most menacing speeches threatning my Lord of Canterburies warrant and therewith would fetch them up using foule tearmes and would not administer the Sacrament to the rest that sat there kneeling and ready to receive it as aforesaid but in reproching tearmes turned them away And further his impudence is so great that during the time of this present Parliament in Michaelmas tearme last and divers times since he hath confronted the authority of the Lords house of Parliament as upon the declaration the honourable house will judge one Margaret Borret widdow having gotten an order by petition from the Committee for Petitions from that honorable horse which did reflect upon this Thomas Fowkes this Fowkes to crosse that order made a most strong affidavit of which hee will never be wanting if need require and therby got an order in some sort opposing the former order but with this he must have his order as he said under the authority as well of the Lords spirituall as temporall or else is was nothing worth and so had and hath often boasted that this order from the Committee was nothing worth because it wanted the authority of the Lords spirituall and that his order had the Lords spirituall mentioned therein and the order from the Committee had