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A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

injust apostaticall illegall tyrannicall persecuting and enough of this kind toss'd like a football up and downe the Country More Must not be payed to nor prayed for and this practicall too within our observation And pray why not resisted next Though one told me upon an Item given of the Munster businesse some of them the modester belike thought it not convenient so to do By what of mine owne eares and by what of other honest mens reports I meet with beside their bookes Reader I may be well content to heare thee say as she once did in another casse The halfe is not told me And now can any man that is well in his wits how ere the matter may be blanched over to any excuse pretence or varnish whatsoever forbeare to say What meanes this bleating in mine eares §. 4. Whether the businesse late at Abingdon The Affaireslate at Abingdon considered in the County of Berks the rumour whereof hath beene upon the wing ere this no doubt unto the utmost limits of English ground contributes any farther evidence and what that is to the already just suspition comes now to be considered That the waies are so blocked up from those mens comming at any certainty of intelligence in that affaire whose habitations are remote such to be sure as either weare the same livery with themselves or otherwise whose over fond credulity will dispose to any inpression by a most lame report to speake most softly the parties delinquent thence have thrust upon the Nation in a single sheeted pamphlet must be confessed by all whose eyes have coasted on it And yet I nothing doubt but that a person of indifferent apprehension provided allwaies his affection be none other upon due perusall of that complaining Testimony for so t is styled will neede no Index for directing him to find firme bottome that may beare a ground peece of state disturbance fastened on it A peece with good leave of the Reader to begin the Account intended with first casting up how much that comes to so every way in mine opinion past reclaiming that its parents notwithstanding naturall fondnesse have cause enough to disinherit it yea never more to looke upon it as their child In earnest if one silly sheet of paper for t is no more may possibly breed bate twixt Folly Falsehood and Sedition whose share is greatest in it I thinke t is here Which is found fowly guilty of Having once but cleerely shewed how the Competitours lay their severall claymes I le leave the controversy undecided as I find it §. 5. First 1 Folly to create the expectation of a dolefull tragedy say to hang forth some Hercules Furens dyed deepe as scarlet from top to toe with the blood of next dearest relations and then to entertaine the Longing spectatour with the cruell murder of a man of straw or to demonstrate the gaping mortall wounds made on a litle finger by a merciles pin drawne from the sleeve its scabbard I aske whether the merits of such a cause may fairely plead not guilty of childish vanity or justly make complaint it is nicknamed if any chance to call it trifling and ridiculous If this be not of kin yea cosen-germane to the case in hand upon the evidence the paper mentioned it selfe gives in I 'le aske no mercy at the hands of any if so I thinke there is as little neede to feare the censure The lintell of the doore hath written on it I meane the Title Page cryes out In sad cryes of sore calamity nay inhumane dealings of officers and souldiers repeated pag. 1 that is a behaviour of them befitting bruits not men no wonder then to heare of sore calamity Whose pitty now would not this provoke Goe on your first step in the Entry the first Epistle shewes you contempt despight reproach yea sufferings and tribulations under which they are Really if so and undeserved too 't would make ones heart to ake At the other end the second epistle there you may run and read a sad complaint indeed of persecution Cruelty and blood of Brethren Whose bowels would not yearne to heare the story of one brothers plucking out as it were anothers heart and washing his hands in the very blood thereof Were this the case no marvell though they call it a darke and gloomy day as twice they do in the breath of the first roome or page you come at §. 6. But yet alas when all doth come to all Without all cause what is this saddest matter if we take their owne bare word for all View well the Testimony I wish themselves would do it and there you find upon all their most unsufferable provocations One had his hawking bag searched and t is said writings happily seditious taken out Others even for no better then calling they say comparing the Commander and his party to their very faces unto high way men for answering but as Souldiers to their petulant challenges of them upon their Orders and Commission commanded to their chambers and for their insolencies in that carriage caned by him Some at their meeting house doore by the Guard there set of souldiers it seemes and with their pistols too and in their hands belike hindred from going in And in particular one living there had a pistoll presented it may bee fixed for they say t was cocked to his breast not back when pressing in At the last and worst assault when faire meanes could do no good Reader assure thy selfe They tell you one was pulled downe from something that he stood upon Another to get out of the way stumbled over stones to his hurt A third offered to be rode over but not come at A fourth had many blowes made at him but was touched by none A fifth had his hat slashed in three or foure places which is worst of all the Commander cut divers But who and what they were what danger in their wounds where they lie under surgeon with such like weighty circumstances No not a word It was such a fray that though they write some had their clothes torne and some were haled not dragged upon the ground about the market place yet how many were slaine upon the place how many mortally wounded or how many utterly disabled we must goe some where else to be informed This is their story Reader mine account whereof I trust upon thy strictest search will passe for current most sure I am with care and conscience it hath beene called to the test this is I say their story served in with sore calamity with cruelty and blood as more thou heardest but now VVhich what it makes on the first Claimers side I le leave unto thy selfe but with presumption that some silent thoughts at least will tell thee thy paines patience have just their amends who gaping out of breath to see the mighty monster doubtlesse which a mountaine fallen in travaile would bring forth at last perceive there comes a little

much as women and Children This was the first day of June Next day they answere complaining that they could not have a lawfull hearing and that they were ill dealt with far beside their merit in the soarest manner that if any would discover their errour to them they should be ready to their duty Then they unfold a place of Daniel about the fourth beast which was by far the cruellest of them all The close of the letter was by Gods blessing they would abide by this confession of the truth But all this was thus written by the Kings appointment CAP. XXIII Two Revolters suggest a way to take the City Their counsell embraced And the City taken Rotmans desperate end The King and Cnipperdoling taken Prisoners BUt now when things within the Citie were brought unto the lowest ebbe out ran two of them One taken by the Souldiers the other upon paroll comes to the Bishop and both tell the way to take the City Oberstene and the Bishop having heard the revolters talke and the businesse duly weighed on June the 22 by parle advise the townesmen to yeeld themselves and save the starving multitude They in the presence of the King answer by Rotman yet so as to hold on their course Two dayes after about eleven a clock by night the forces drew downe silently to the Citie and by the industry of one of those revolted the forlorn having slaine the centiness get thorow the trench into the bulwark others at their heeles find a wicket open and about five hundred with some captaines and their collours threst through into the City There then the townesmen in a body made others halt that were breaking in at last with much adoe repulse them and clapping fast the gate fall on those gat in allready putting many to the sword And when a sharpe dispute held thus for two houres space the Souldiers thus shut in teare up by strength of hand the gate next to them where the guard was weake and cleere an entrance for their fellowes who instantly rush in with a mighty Ocean And when at first the townesmen stood their ground and had made good the Hall the case appearing desperate and many slaine they at the first assault cry quarter and obtaine it Here now the King and Cnipper doling both are taken prisoners Rotman past hopes of escaping that he might not fall into their hands alive Chargeth the enemies body and is ran through The city being taken halfe the plunder and the Armes the Bishop taketh to himselfe Then the Army is disbanded two Collours only kept to be his guard CAP. XXIV Another Dyet of the Empire THere followes upon this another Diet of the Empire at Wormes about the 15 day of July Therein King Ferdinand by his Legates doth propose and aske whether the Citie being now possessed course should be farther taken for the utter rooting out of the Anabaptists Adviseth also that the Princes move the Pope about the Counsell They answere what course to take with Anabaptists is provided for allready by certaine Edicts For a counsell the Pope hath more than once beene solicited thereunto by Caesar nor would they make they said any further progresse in it At the same meeting the Bishop of Munster desireth that his charge and dammage might be repaired and complaineth that the monies promised were not yet come in When no proceedings farther could be had and few Estates were present another meeting was appointed about the first day of November when there should be hearing had of the accounts and charges of the warre and resolved upon what forme of government for the time to come at Munster should be established When that day came the Legate of King Ferdinand reports the causes of the calling this Assembly namely among other things that it might be also thought on how the Citie lately taken might be henceforth setled in its old Religion Then the Bishops legate shewes them how great expences he was at throughout the war how deepely he was run in debt how though the Citie now were taken yet to prevent disturbance and all danger he was enforced to raise two Cittadels in the City and to garison them Upon all which he desireth consideration may be taken T' was answered that the Bishop was possessed allready of both the greater part of the spoiles and all the Armes yea and the Citizens goods all which indeede belong unto the Empire that it was meet to have the things being prized compared with the charge what more was wanting care should be had thereof After t was resolved that the Bishop of Munster as heretofore should be subject to the Empiretall the Nobility he restored and the Citizens also so they were not Anabaptists that were wandered unto other places for religion that the Bishop follow the decrees of the Empire in the beginning of the spring next yeare that the Legates of the Princes go to Munster take Cognizance of the Citizens conditions save the innocent demolish all the forts raised by the Anabaptists and that the Bishop also pull downe the Cittadels raised by himselfe within the Citie For the King and Cnipperdoling and Cretchting that were prisoners let him punish them without longer stay at the first opportunity according to their demerits As to that we told you was resolved on about religion the Princes of Saxony the Lantgrave of VVirtemberg and Anhalt publiquely protested their dissent the same professed the Cities also and they would not have the ancient fortifications of the City to be demolished for the new they were content CAP. XV. The King and his fellow prisoners carryed about to the Princes Debates with them THe King and his two fellow prisoners were carried up and downe unto the Princes to be looked and laughed at Through this occasion the Lantgraves Preachers get a conference with the king and the list is entred specially on these Articles Of the Kingdome of Christ The Magistrate Justification Baptisme the supper of the Lord the incarnation of Christ and marriage Wherein they went so farre by proofe of Scripture that the man for all his wrastling to make good his ground was though not fully turn'd yet bent and weakned so that at the last he almost granted all Which yet 't is thought he did in hopes to save his life For when they came the second time unto him he promised if he might be spared that he would make the Anabaptists growne so numerous in Holland Brabant England Friezland all to be still and submit in all things to the Magistrate The same men then enter disputation with his fellowes both by word and writing Of Mortification Paedobaptisme Community of goods and the kingdome of Christ CAP. XXVI The Kings discourse with the Bishop His and his fellowes Punishment WHen they were brought to Talget the King being asked by the Bishop by what authority he durst to arrogate such licence on his City and his people Askes him againe and who gave him the Rule and Government there

Concourse of the Citizens preach the Gospell and when they had some thoughts of getting him into the City the Popish Priests to prevent it give him a pretty summe of moneyes to exercise himselfe some other where He takes his leave and having veiw'd some Places where he might improve his parts a few moneths after comes back againe They angry at his returne would faine have put him off from Preaching But all in Vaine the People being taken with him Soone after he is entertained in the City by certaine of the Cheifest Citizens and when the Church was shut against him they make a Pulpit for him in the Porch without But the number of the Citizens and his hearers encreasing dayly They require the Preists to set open the Church or they would breake it up In the Nicke of this He by Advice of those the People chose theretoo dispatcheth letters into Hassia that was neere them of the Lantgraves Jurisdiction to desire that some learned Godly men might bee sent unto him there to sow the Gospell with him Two hereupon are sent from Marpurgh Upon their comming six of them get together and consult of the quickest course to set the Popish Clergy packing that the Gospell might succeed the better The best expedient found hereto was this They draw up the Popish Errors and digest them into some thirty heads Those they deliver to the (a) Or Common Councell that Ruled the City Senate with this resolution That if they did not Prove by the word of God All those waged war therewith they would submit to any punishment The senate Calls the Preists into the Court and propose the Errours whereof we spake And because they ever bare in hand their doctrine to be pure and grounded on the word of God which the Preachers now deny and offer to make good upon their lives They aske them whether they would confute by Scriptures what should be objected They thus demanded and perceiving that the Senate was in very earnest in the businesse make a short Answer That they had just nothing to defend their cause withall but whereas hitherto they did pretend their way was right and good t was from opinion and their Ignorance The Senate then since they convicted of their errors and false doctrine could say nothing for themselves but confesse their naughtinesse command them henceforth not to medleany more with taching but give way in all the Churches to these new Teachers that had unmasked their knavery On this the People too concurring with the Senate the Churches were Assigned to them respectively where to teach CAP. III. The Bishop instigated by the silenced Pricsts blocks up the City this party is surprised by the Citizens Indentures of Peace are mutually Signed THat Businesse bred ill bloud among the Preists them especially of the Cathredrall Church for the most part all of Noble Bloud They none other shift being left depart in rage applying to the Bishop of that City Whereupon Councell had it was resolved to block up all the waies that no provision might come to the City A little after the waies being all and every where beset the Bishop with those of whom I spake to promote their worke the better comes unto Tolget a little Towne some one mile distant from the City Thence letters are dispatched unto the Senate to this purpose That they forbeare their Course restore their former State or to be taken as Enemies The Bishop was Earle Francis Waldec next before him had beene Frederick owne Brother to the Archbishop of Colen But He whether because he had not well his health there or that he smelt out something not long before of his owne accord had left the Place and to live private returned him home into his Countrey They of Munster well pausing on the businesse deteine the Messenger and the night before Christs birthday about 900 Sallying forth unlooked for take both the little Towne and making good the Gates that none might scape All that were in it The Bishop as fell out was gone the day before The prisoners were forthwith brought into the City Amongst them were the eminentest of the Clergy and some also of the Nobility The Senate askes them what their pleasure is if they meane to stop the Preaching of the Gospell They freely Anlwer Their endeavors should not be wanting to promote that doctrine Hereon they strike the bargain A Copy whereof the Senate sent the Lant-grave with all beseeching for the Gospels sake and publike good to have his helping hand He sendeth some of his owne to them by whose Mediation t' was concluded that their hearts agreed and distast removed both sides should cherish peace The Gospell to be preached in six Churches all superstitious and ungodly worship turn'd packing in the Cathedrall Church no alteration to be made nor the City reckon that in any case belonging unto them This forme of their agreement was signed by the Lantgrave the Bishop and his Party the Nobility and all the people Feb. 14. the yeare of our redemption 1533. CHAP. IIII. Leiden arriveth Starteth Anabaptisme Rotman opposeth publiquely A disputation is entred Rotman revolts And the Anabaptists are banished THings thus appeased there came to Munster a certaine Holland (a) That is a mender of old Clothes Botcher one John a-Leiden an eager Anabaptist He at the first insinuating into a familiar discourse with them would use to aske the Preachers of the Gospell whither they thought that Infants duly might be baptized They saying yea He that was warped quite Crooked on the other side begins to laugh scorne thereat Which taken notice of Bernard Rotman of whom before exhorts the People in his Sermon to pray that sound doctrine might be preserved with them and kept incorrupt from fanatique Persons the Anabaptists especially who at this time did Creepe amongst them and get in peoples company whose opinion should it prevaile woe would it be not only to the state of Common-wealth but also of Religion Just then almost comes thither Herman Strapeda who being made Rotmans Colleague publikely Inveighs against Poedobaptisme His Master was one Henry Rolls whom they of Vtrecht before this time a little had punished for Anabaptisme This fellow was indeed another step to this new kind of doctrine And now the Businesse was of such a Pitch that most of all the talke about the City was of Anabaptists Though things were yet but closely Carryed For none could be admitted but who were of their Sect. And then the Authors did not openly professe these things nor teach them but by night and when others were asleepe then only were their holy exercises But the businesse coming out when very many of the Citizens were enrag'd at it crying out T' was base an upstart Tenet should be scattered privily and by night The Senate ordered That the Authors should be gone the City But they going forth return'd another way Vapouring That they had Command from God to stay and There in