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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

the right way for at this day the Blind lead the Blind and if they go on both will certainly fall into the ditch For my self I am and acknowledg it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by thought word and deed and I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my Heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any onesin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges for if they proceed upon proofe by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may by justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of the sentence lye heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Arch-Bishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance of Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes and Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows Before these S. John Baptist had his head danced off by a leud Woman and S. Cyprian Arch-Bishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience for I hope my Cause in Heaven will look of another dye than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as 't is made looks like that of the Jews against S. Paul Acts 25.3 For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of S. Stephen Acts 6.14 for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the holy place and the Temple vers 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of S. Paul and Stephen No far be that from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that S. Paul who helped on this Accusation against S. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here is a great clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself If we let him alone all men will believe in him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our Place and Nation Here was a causeless Cry against Christ that the Romans will come And see how just the judgment of God was they crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honour and dishonour by good report and evil report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this World 2 Cor. 6.8 _____ Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Sovereign He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery but on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know Him to be as free from this charge as any man living and I hold Him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdom And that he will venture His life as far and as freely for it and I think I do or should know both His affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England The second particular is concerning this great and Populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of this Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do Justice but at their appointment A way which may endanger many an Innocent man and pluck his blood upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self The Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well meaning People are caught by it In S. Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the People against him and Herod went the same way when he had kill'd S. James yet he would not venture upon S. Peter till he found how the other pleased the People But take heed of having your hands full of blood for there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes Inquisition for blood and when that Inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us That God remembers but that is not all He remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poor that is whose blood is shed by oppression verse 9. take heed of this It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my Prayers to avert it I do heartily desire this City to remember the Prophesie that is expressed Jer. 26.14.15 As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves and upon this City and upon the Inhabitants thereof c. The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out and which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body and at every cleft prophaneness and Irreligion is entering in while as Prosper spakes in his second Book De vitae contemptu cap. 4. Men that introduce prophaness are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruin is fallen into danger by her own The last particular for I am not

extorted from them at one clap O that we were but so wise as to compare our Conditions certainly then we could not but acknowledg the just wrath of God upon us for our Ingratitude murmuring so much when we had so little cause and bless God for the return of our former Peace though with all its Grievances and those maliciously aggravated Mr. Giles Thorne Batchellor in Divinity and Parson of S. Cutberts in Bedford was upon Sunday in the beginning of August last 1642. apprehended in his Parish Church immediately after he came out of the Pulpit having preached three Sermons in the Town that day by the Lord Saint-Johns Troops who lay then in Bedford and in a very boysterous manner carried away to an Inn in the Town not permitted to go home to his House to visit his Family nor any of his Friends suffered to come to him The next day he was carried away to London where when he had lain more than three Weeks under the Messengers hands he was brought to his Trial at the Bar 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 fain to read their Depositions out of Papers which they brought in their hands Mr. Thorne gives so full an Answer to all the Objections that the Lords pronounce themselves satisfied and him Innocent only the Lord Say disputes with him and the Earl of Bullingbrooke grumbles at him At length it is pretended that there is another Witness 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 remain till that Witness can be prevailed with to find leisure to come up About three Weeks after the Witness appears and is Sworn and contrary to the Rules of that Court is sent to be examined by a Clerk Mr. Thorne with much ado obtains a Copy of his Depositions which upon view contain no new Matter but what he had before answered unto and cleared Hereupon he Petitions again for a Sentence he is ordered to attend the House After a chargeable attendance of many days with his Keeper he is called the Cause reviewed upon the review the Earls of Pembroke Holland Clare and divers others affirm 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 fare a good Neighbour at a dead life The Earl 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 do much prejudice to the good Cause in hand upon these just and weighty Considerations Mr. Thorne is remanded to the Fleet Since that time he hath used the assistance of many Friends drawn many Petitions humbly desiring that he might be heard Or if the great Affairs of State would not afford their Lordships so much leisure that he might have leave upon Bail to go down to attend his Cure until their Lordships should please to call for him But was so far from obtaining his desire that he could never get so far towards it as to have his Petition read His Parishoners sensible of his Oppression and their own Injury being bereaved of the comfort and labours of their own 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 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 ●o be made the Instrument of private Revenge For Sir Sam. Luke divers years since suing Mr. Thorne in the Star Chamber it was Mr. Thornes unhappiness to get the day of him an injury which Sir Samuel could never forget and did now revenge it by the help of the Earl of Bullingbrook the Lord Saint Johns Son and his own interest in the House This story hath been attested by some that were both Ear and Eye-witnesses of these particulars and let me be substituted Prisoner in Mr. Thornes place if he for ought I know know any thing that I know this or intended to make it known to the World Mercurius Rusticus c. V. Warder Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Arundel against Sir Edward Hungerford and his power His persidiousness in breaking the Articles of Surrender His barbarous usage of the Lady her Children and Goods Mr. John Bykar a Vicars Son murthered at Coventry Mr. Abraham Haynes Robbed Abused and unjustly Committed c. ON Tuesday the second of May 1643. Sir Edward Hungerford a chief Commander of the Rebel in Wiltshire came with his Forces before Warder Castle in the same County being the Mansion-House of the Lord Arundel of Warder But finding the Castle strong and those that were in it resolute not to yield it up unless by force called Colonel Strode to his help Both these joyned in one made a Body of 1300. or thereabout Being come before it by a Trumpeter 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 Arms and withal by the same Trumpeter declared that if they found either Money or Plate they would seise 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 replied That she had a command from her Lord to keep it and she would obey his command Being denied 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 spring 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 between the several Passages to every Office and almost every Room in the Castle did much shake and indanger the whole Fabrick The Rebels had often tendered some unreasonable conditions to the Besieged to surrender as to give the Ladies both the Mother and the Daughter

persecutors to make a full return of the kindness which he found resolves rather to expose his own Person as the subject of their fury than his Kinsmans house and so he did for out he goes unto them and now having retrieved the Game they pursue him with a high advanced din and confused clamour At last when all other means to escape their fury failed he made a voluntary captivity his safety and took the Common Gaol for his Sanctuary Having thus thrown Master Honifold into Prison not so much the Ignominy of the place where they had lodged him or saciety of contempt of Gods Minister which they had cast upon him as the want of more day-light sets an end to this days Frenzie They part for the present but resolve to meet next morning and so they do a day or two are too scanty to act their boundless malice Being met their next plundering expedition is to the Countess of Rivers house at S. Osyth a rich prize There they enter the House and being entred they pull down cut in pieces and carry away her costly Hangings Beds Couches Chairs and the whole Furniture of her House rob her of her Plate and Monies They tear down her Wainscot Leads and Windows they leave not a Door nor so much as a Bar of a Window behind them The Countess with her Family forewarned of their intentions to come thither made an escape and retired to her House at Melford in Suffolk Thither within a day or two they pursue her Essex is too narrow to bound the madness of the Essex Schismaticks in Suffolk they meet with some that are as mad as themselves Few Counties the more is the pity but can yield Companions in such Outrages From thence she hardly escapes with her life she abandons her House and leaves it to the mercy of these new ministers of new Justice who not only rifle the House but make strict search for her Person And that you may guess what spiritual men they were and likewise in what danger this Honourable Person was in they express themselves in this rude unchristian language That if they found her they would try what flesh she had From whence she fled to St. Edmunds-Bury where the Gates were shut against her an hour at least at length she was suffered to lodge there that night and next day with a strong Guard she was conveyed out of Town and so keeping her self as private as she could made an escape to London Her losses at both her Houses were valued at an Hundred thousand pounds at least though some that knew the rich Furniture that adorned both affirm it to be no less than an Hundred and fifty thousand pounds besides her Parks in both places were utterly spoiled One of these Plunderers whose name was Bowyer 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 Countes'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 publick thanks decreed him for his zeal to the Cause Mr. Stevens Parson of South-Hamfield in Essex hearing that the Plunderers of that County were coming on him took Horse and fled and so saved both himself and his Horse for he knew that both were sought after The Father being fled the Children left to their own providence bethink how to secure those little pieces 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 than their own House they run to a poor Woman their Neighbour and there with her they deposite their whole Treasure When the Plunderers came and found that the Birds were flown having intelligence or as some say but suspecting that the poor Womans house might hide Mr. Stevens his Goods they go to her House and demand them The Woman denies that she hath any of Mr. 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 poor Woman being thus murthered the bloody Murtherers insult over her and say that the just hand of God was upon her for lying against her knowledg and denying those parcels of Mr. Stevens his Goods that were in her possession so usual a thing it is with these men to blaspheme God and intitle him to all those wickednesses which they commit on others Mr. 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 Anointed and refused to promote the Civil-War then begun by stirring up the People to contribute Money Plate and Horses to the maintenance of so unnatural 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 heinously taken from him in regard of his former intimate acquaintance with Mr. Stephen Marshal Parson of Finchingfield 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 judgment from the Sence and Vote of the House did more prejudice to the good Cause in hand than a hundred Knaves and therefore would suffer accordingly Which saying since that time hath been plentifully made good and verified in many particular Oppressions and Sufferings unjustly inflicted on him and his whole Family First He was Imprisoned and most illegally deprived of his Liberty for no other cause but because he would not contrary to the dictate of Religion and his own Conscience countenance and promote an accursed Rebellion against his gracious Sovereign Secondly He was referr'd after to the Committee for Scandalous Ministers thereby to blast his Credit and Reputation in his Ministery a most diabolical and divelish Course and a work of him who is the accuser of the Brethren to defame honest Orthodox Ministers with the odious name of Scandalous and Malignants though made so neither by error in Doctrin Wickedness of life or Debauchness 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 Mr. Simmons

are ready to bear Testimony to this truth Mercurius Rusticus c. XV. Master Squire of Little Saint Bartholomews London plundered of four thousand pounds Nath. Fiennes his Warrant for a Citizen of Bristol A touch of Colonel Morley 's tyranny in Sussex with the hard usage of Mr. Hinson a Minister there A Woman most unchristianly tortured to death by the Rebels at Chippingnorton c. UPon Friday the 18. of Aug. 1643. Mr. Squire of Little S. Bartholomews London having this present Rebellion upon several Rates Taxes and Loans disbursed near a Thousand pounds was sent unto for a new Sum towards the maintenance of the Holy Cause but he foreseeing that as long as their Purses were open to foment this unnatural War there would be no end of it till their Estates were exhausted and the wealthiest amongst them reduced to beggery and a morsel of bread returned a denyal yet withal professed his readiness to have supplyed them if he had been provided and his Wife to indear themselves and to shew how well affected they were to the Cause wished that all the Malignants in London were plundered and then there would be less cause to call so often on the Well-affected for so great Supplies not imagining good Woman that her Husband might be numbred shortly amongst the Malignants or that to be wealthy and not pour out all as often as the heads of this Rebellion should call for it was in their opinion high Malignity for next day notwithstanding their former complyance with the Rebels in so great a measure six men with Pistols were sent to Master Squires House under pretence to search for Arms but indeed to find out a hoard of monies which either their own Jealousie grounded on the general received opinion of his Wealth or the treachery of some that knew the House had suggested unto them After some small search though Mr. Squire thought that his Treasure had been close enough hid instead of Arms they find four thousand pounds a rich booty and very greedily seized upon At last Mistris Squire finding her self so unexpectedly in the number and condition of Malignants robbed of so great a Sum fell into a swoon and for fear she should be recall'd to pursue the Injury with just Clamors and Expostulations when Strong-waters were brought to relieve and comfort her surprised Spirits the Rebels would not permit it to be administred unto her but left Nature to the work of its own recovery without the assistance of any borrowed help Of this Four thousand pounds Eight hundred was due to a Son in Law of Mr. Squires a Creature of the Parliaments and a great Friend to the Cause and therefore to redeem the rest Mr. Squire freely offered to give the Parliament as those tame People call the Faction of both Houses the Sum of Three hundred pounds so the rest might be restored unto him but all in vain it was judged a very high Symptome of Malignity to hide Four thousand pounds and suffer the Holy League to be endangered for want of Supplies and therefore as a just punishment for his Coldness and want of Zeal 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 Tyranny and Oppression of this Rebellion are to expect from their Hands when the Necessities of Supplies shall press upon them the World may read in this Warrant directed from Nathanael Fiennes in the time of his reign in Bristol to Mr. Gunning the younger of that City which for the plain English that it speaks and because it contains a perfect discovery of their Resolutions when occasion shall serve we have here inserted BRISTOLL WHereas this City is at this time invironed and in great and imminent danger to be swallowed up by many cruel and barbarous Enemies of Papists Irish Rebels and others and most of the Inhabitants of this City have and all ought to take an Oath and Protestation for Defence thereof with their Lives and Fortunes These are to require you forthwith to pay to my Servant Ralph Hooker to be employed for the Defence of the City the Sum of Two hundred pounds which Sum in respect of your Estate is below the proportion required of other Persons of your Quality by an Ordinance of Parliament And if you shall refuse in this time of so great necessity you may expect whatsoever the desperate Resolution of Souldiers reduced unto extream necessity may put them to act against your Persons and Estates unless by a speedy Contribution towards their supply you shall prevent the same NATH FIENNES Given under my hand July 25. 1643. To Mr. Gunning the younger On Sunday morning being the ninth of July 1643. in time of Divine Service Colonel Morley the Crooked Rebel of Sussex came towards Hasting one of the Cinque Ports but in his March being discover'd presently notice was given to Mr. Hinson Curate of All Saints who knowing that one end of the Colonel's Sabbath-days Journey was to apprehend him was compelled to break off Divine Service in the mid'st and fly into a Wood near at hand there to hide himself The Colonel being entered the Town scattered the Body of his Horse into several parts to intercept all passages out of the Town and having secured the Ports he summons the Mayor and Jurats and demands the Arms of the Town to which he found ready obedience for presently the Mayor and Jurats sent their Servants to command all the Inhabitants to deliver up their Arms 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 Town in Sussex some five Miles from Hasting that night some Soldiers lay in the Church where Mr. Hinson officiated where one Wicker a common Soldier 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 Surpless Ralph Mills the honest Parish Clark to recover it complained to their Captain Richard Cockeram of Rye but received no other answer but this Do not you think he loves a Smock as well as you Morley being now Master of the Town began to exercise his power given him for the good of the Kingdom and the preservation of the Subjects property and demanded a Sum of Monies 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 return 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 Mr. Car the Parson of St. Clements in Hasting and Mr. Hinson were the chiefest Mr. Car that Sunday was not at home being

perseverance in the fear of God and the King presently a Warrant is granted for the apprehension of Mr. Chestlen on the Thursday following they rioutously assault him in his house with great Tumults armed with drawn Swords and Pistols and seizing on him in great triumph they carry him to the Court of Aldermen who now it seems are succeeded in the place of the High Commission and are to be Judges of true or false Doctrin being brought before this Lay Sanadrim whereof Pennington the pretended Lord Mayor was President and a Rabble of Schismaticks crowding in to give countenance to the business Captain Ven their Leader stands forth and accuseth Mr. Chestlen for a most dangerous seditious Preacher tho he confessed that he never heard him and that he stood a Delinquent in Parliament others objected against him that he Preached to discourage the Citizens from going to Windsor though this Sermon were preached before that treasonable design was known that the Kings Royal Castle should become Captain Ven's Royal Castle or his Country house for the recreation of his Mopsa and that the People might have full content Mr. Chestlen was there baited on every hand every Alderman had his fling at him At last having made him a publick scorn of the multitude Pennington commits him into the hands of his accusers to expose him to more abuse and to commit him to the Compter the Rabble being now made Serjeants they threaten to carry him in a Cart through the open streets to the Prison to deliver him from the fury and rage of the People his Father a known able Citizen tendered Bail of ten Thousand Pounds but it was not accepted away they carry him to the Compter and the next day being Friday he is brought to the Bar at the House of Commons where the Speaker who had been happy in the deceived worlds opinion both of his wisdom and honesty had he never known other Bar but that of the Exchequer interrogated him touching his Preaching against Brownists and Anabaptists and presently though no witness appeared though no crime were objected though no accuser appeared against him he was voted by the House of Commons to be sent Prisoner to Colchester Goal in Essex there to remain during the pleasure of the House and to pay the Charges of his conveyance thither And that Posterity may read and reading stand amazed to see how Tyrannical how unlimited an Empire these Subjects have exercised upon their fellow Subjects without any legal process or any cause shewn to doom them to Banishment and Captivity during their High and mighty pleasure we have here inserted a true and perfect Copy of the Warrant and Sub-warrant by which Mr. Chestlen was sent from hand to hand till he came to his Goal at Colchester By vertue of an Order this day made by the Commons House of Parliament these are to will and require you to take into your Custody the body of Mr. Robert Chestlen Clerk and him by your self your Deputy or Deputies according to the said Order to carry in safe custody to the Prison of Colchester Castle in Essex there to be delivered to the Goaler or Keeper of the said Prison to be kept in safe custody as his Prisoner until the pleasure of the House be made known to him to the contrary It is also ordered that the said Mr. Chestlen shall defray the Charges of his carriage to Colchester Castle aforesaid And for so doing this shall be a sufficient Warrant Dated this 28. of Octob. 1643. Henry Elsyng Cler. Parl. D.C. To John Hunt the Serjeant at Arms attending on the House of Commons his Deputy or Deputies I do appoint the Party or Parties whose name or names are subscribed to be my lawful Deputy or Deputies for the Execution of this Warrant Witness my hand this 26. day of Octob. 1643. John Hunt Serjeant at Arms. Mr. Dodson Walter Story John Hinde Gentlemen Next Morning being Saturday was this righteous sentence put in execution Thus to make way to reduce Burton a Stigmatized infamous Scismatick to his former place was Mr. Chestlen doomed to banishment and captivity in a remote place from his Father his Wife and Family into a noisome Goal where he was made a Companion to Theives and Felons in a Town where 't was little less than death to be Loyal or as themselves phrase it to be Caesars Friend A Town in which they that sent him thither could not but know that they exposed his life to the fury of an inraged Fanatick People and not long before had not only murthered Sir John Lucas his Mother and Sister together with Mr. Newcomin one of their own Ministers and for this had received publick thanks from the House of Commons for their forwardness and zeal to the service of the Parliament Lastly in a Town arrived at that high degree of madness that the Independent Church is openly practised in it and the Mayor banished one of the Town for a Malignant and a Cavalier whose name was Parsons and gave this learned reason for this exemplary peice of Justice Because it was an ominous name While Mr. Chestlen remained in this durance if any man durst visit him it was at his peril he was in danger to be Plundered and branded with the dangerous name of a Malignant They raised reports of great resort of Cavaliers to him and of Arms brought unto him insomuch that Alderman Barrington told the Committee that their Town was not in safety because of Mr. Chestlen who poor man had no other endeavour than how to free himself from the loathsom nastiness of his Prison To this end many Petitions were delivered to the House of Commons that he might be delivered from the Goal to some private house which boon after much and earnest prosecution by Mrs. Chestlen and his friends was obtained Having an Order to exchange his Goal for a private house Mr. Hammon an honest Gentleman dwelling in the Town entertained Mr. Chestlen but for his Charity incurred the hatred of the Common People for whereas before he lived beloved and in good estimation amongst his Neighbours now for harbouring Mr. Chestlen and for this and other actions being under the Jealousie of the Crime of Loyalty they call him Cavalier they threaten to call him up to the Parliament and at last were as good as their word for upon their Complaint he was sent for up to the Parliament and committed for receiving Mr. Chestlen into his house though in reason he might safely conclude that that Order of the House which gave Mr. Chestlen liberty to remove to another house did withal give that house liberty to entertain him Thus continued Mr. Chestlen in this exile and Imprisonment from October 1642. until the February following when the Kings express Warrant being sent for his release having the opportunity now and then to go abroad and take the air he left the Warrant for the Goaler to make use of for his best advantage while he came

am confident the honourable Houses of Parliament being rightly informed herein will provide against the like abuses and impieties in other places in the mean time we submit with patience to the providence of him who can and will bring good out of evil which is the earnest Prayer of Christ-Church Cant. Aug. 30 1642. Your Lordships 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 outrages either here or elsewhere we have too clear 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 Superstition as they call it in all which Intelligi malunt quam Audiri they would have their creatures understand more than they speak being certain politick Litotes in which minus dicitur plus intelligitur signifying more than the Grammatical construction will permit an carry in them a hidden secret sense and meaning which their own Emissaries know how to interpret and inlarge according to the full intention of the Authors But before we pass from the relation of this horried Sacrilege committed on the Church of Canterbury I could not free my self from being guilty of that great sin of obscuring the great manifestation of Gods Justice if I should in silence pass over that most examplary vengeance which persued to death that unfortunate Gentleman Col. Sandys the ringleader to that Rebellious rout which were Actors in that more than Barbarous outrage Whether the cunning perswasions of others or his own ambitiom first imbarked him in this fatal undertaking is uncertain but as himself confessed on his death-bed to a friend and Kinsman of his who asked him what he meant being a Gentleman of so fair an Estate to ingage himself in this Treason he answered That he was so far drawn in before he was aware that he knew not how to come off without the danger of his head So usual it is for one sin to ingage the sinner for a second having therefore once lifted up his hand against his Sovereign the Lords Anoynted he thought the way to be secure from the punishment of Rebellion was to presevere in his crime and go on in Rebellion in pursuance therefore of so black designs being Colonel of a Regiment of Horse in Sept. 1642. with the rest of the Rebels Army under the Conduct of the Earl of Essex he advanced towards Worcester and making some excursions with ten Troops of Horse from the body of their Army at Wickefeild near 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 opportunity to express the braveness 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 party Being thus wounded and as then was conceived mortally he began to reflect upon himself and finding so little warrant in his now unbiass'd conscience for his undertaking which had brought him into this condition his perplexed Soul brake out into many sad expressions of remorse crying out Woe Woe to evil Counsel and happy are they that do not take it And being put in mind by a Reverend Doctor in Divinity and Chaplain to Prince Rupert of the heinousness of the sin of Rebellion he acknowledged himself to have faln into that sin and that God was just in his Judgments for finding him out in his iniquity professing withal his hearty sorrow and repentance for it whereupon the Doctor replyed that if he recovered perhaps the same perswasions from others or inconsiderateness in himself might again ingage him in his Rebellion at which words a little lifting up his hand he professed He would rather have it cut off then ever again lift it up against the King He freely acknowledged the Justice of the Kings cause and that he had observe the blessings of God to accompany it and when the Doctor desired leave to testify his Repentance to the world he freely gave him leave asking God and the King forgivness praying for a blessing upon him and his proceedings In this mind he continued while Prince Rupert and the Kings forces with him staid in Worcester and whether after the Earls possessing himself of Worcester by the impetuous sollicitations of those Murtherers of Souls those Factors for Hell their Schismatical Lecturers who make men twofold more the Children of the Devil than themselves he fell off and turned Apostate from his newly resolved Loyalty as repenting of his Repentance is uncertain Those that were about him and saw his weakness ever declining from the first hour he received his wounds must testify to the World that he had neither strength of hand to write nor so much composedness of spirit to be the Author of that Spurious Supposititious Vindication Published in his name Oct. 11. 1642. He being whatsoever that forgery pretends as unable to vindicate himself with his Pen as his sword but if he had his heart as well as hand subscribing to that Atheistical resolution where they thus bring him in foaming out his own shame The Apprehension of death never hitherto so nearly touched me but if God shall once restore me to my former strength I shall by his help with as much alacrity and I hope courage endeavour to defend and maintain with my dearest blood this so good a cause meaning this present Rebellion as ever I was at first engaged 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 Symptom of a wretched man given up to a Reprobate sense which of all spiritual judgments questionless is the greatest and might justly call for those Torments of body which afterward as a Gangreen devoured and eat up his flesh and those pangs of Conscience which I am afraid were but the earnest of a worse condition to insue for as the Psalmist saies As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal. 125.5 but I Remember that of S. Paul Judg nothing before the time until the Lord come 1. Cor. 4.5 And therefore while on Supposition I writ my fears positively I determine nothing not knowing whether God might not give him the grace of Repentance at the last which if he did he only I dare say that gave the Grace knew of it concerning his eternal condition therefore I shall leave him to the Judgment of that Righteous God that judgeth Righteous Judgment and gives to every man according to his works and only inform the World in what condition

Gentlemen of all Orders were not only present but engaged themselves against the Rebels as much or more than Common Soldiers which they most cheerfully did by example of His sacred MAJESTY whose Royal undaunted Courage put life into every man exposing His Sacred Person to so much danger as all good men do tremble to remember His Royal Sons the two young Princes CHARLES Prince of Wales and JAMES Duke of Yorke being also in the field in very much danger if God whose cause it was had not covered their heads in the day of Battel The Rebels as they had few men of quality to lose so those they had were sensible of their guilt which then they expressed by their flight some sculking into holes and Saw-pits and others running out before they were well in the field They lost of note the Lord St. John eldest Son to the Earl of Bullingbrooke Sir Charles Essex with many inferiour Officers October the 27 th His Majesty to compleat his Victory in Keynton field drew his whole Army before Banbury but after the firing of one piece of Ordnance the Rebels submitted to His Majesties mercy which were in number about 800 Foot of the Earl of Peterboroughs and Lord Says Regiments with 10 Colours and a Troop of Horse and yeilded the Town and Castle to the King at which time the Earl of Essex with his shattered Force were crept over the River Aven into Warwick full eight Miles backward from the place where they were beaten there to secure those few he had left under the protection of the strong fituate Town and Castle leaving behind him above 20 Waggons loaded with Powder and other Ammunition November the 12 th His Maiesty after four hours fight forced the Town of Brainford where Lieutenant Colonel Quarles that commanded in chief was slain and at least 400 more of the Rebels kill'd and drowned as many taken Prisoners with little loss to His Majesties part these thus taken and kill'd were observed to be the best foot Soldiers the Rebels had November the 13 th being Sunday certain of the Rebels had come down the Thames from Kingston with 13 pieces of Ordnance which so soon as they could see they fired against Sion house and His Majesties Train of Artillery but did little or no harm Whereupon Order was presently given for drawing down some Pieces into the Meadow and to the River side against them which was accordingly done and likewise a Demy-Cannon planted near the South-end of the Town All which were so judiciously plied that they shot through their Boats and Barges and at last fired the Powder in one of them which blew up divers of the Rebels Those Rebels which escaped took them to their heels leaving behind them their mangled Boats and Barges with all their Ordnance and the remainder of their Ammunition on which His Majesty presently seised and afterwards made an honourable and safe retreat to the City of Oxford December the 5 th His Majesties Forces under the command of Lieutenant General Wilmot having his own Regiment of Horse with the Lord Grandisons and Lord Digbies and Sir William Pennimans and Colonel Blagues Regiments of Foot and Colonel Ushers and Colonel Grayes of Dragoons took the Town of Marlborough defended by Robert Ramsey a Scot and about 500 Foot Ramsey and divers of the chief Rebels brought Prisoners to Oxford all their Arms taken and four Colours On the same 5 th day the Earl of Newcastle laid siege to Tadcaster where at that time was all the strength of the Rebels in Yorkeshire excepting Hull and by several assaults on the Town from Ten of the Clock in the morning till Seven at night kill'd Cap. Lyster and about 60 more of the Rebels who found such hot service that they stole away in the night to Cawood and Selby leaving Tadcaster fortified for His Majesties service January the 19 th a great Victory was obtained by the Lord Hopton near Bodmin in the County of Cornwal where was slain in the pursuit 200 of the Rebels and 700 taken Prisoners amongst whom was Sir Shilston Colmadee and eight Colours good store of Ammunition an five excellent brass Guns and one of Iron January the 22 d. the Lord Hopton assulted Saltash forced the Town where he took Ten pieces of Ordnance 700 more Prisoners 4000 Arms and a Ship with sixteen pieces of Ordnance January the 27 th certain of the Rebels under the command of Master John Hampden to the number of 1800 Foot and seven or eight Troops of Horse with two pieces of Ordnance came before Brill and made an assault upon it But were so bravely repulsed by His Majesties forces there under the command of Sir Gilbert Gerard the then Governour thereof that they made all possible hast away His Majesties Horse having the pursuit of them for above 4 miles about 80 of them being sound dead and betwixt 40 or 50 men wounded which they had left together in a private House February the 1 st Lieutenant General King and Lieutenant Ge●eral Goring coming from Newcastle with a great Convoy of much Arms and Ammunition and being faced at Yarum with 400 Foot three Troops of Horse and two pieces of Ordnance of the Rebels fell upon them slew many took the rest of the Foot and most of the Horse Prisoners with their Ordnance and Baggage February the 2 d. Cyrencester or Cicester in Gloucester-shire was taken by his Highness Prince Rupert with the loss of less than 20 men of his Army there being above 300 of the Rebels slain and near 1200 taken Prisoners Of Colours taken one Coronet two of Dragoons and fourteen Foot Ensigns together with all their Ordnance Arms and Ammunition February the 13 th the QUEENS Majesty left the Hague and went to Sciveling And on the 16 day Her Majesty imbarked again in the Princess Royal of Great Brittain And on the Sunday after came within sight of Flamborough-head February the 20 th She cast Anchor in the Harbour of Burlington-bay And the 22 d. day following upon fight of 1000 of his excellency the Earl of Newcastle's Horse landed at Burlington Key Fibruary the 24 th in the morning four Ships and a Pinnace in the Rebels service which came over night into the Road made above 100 great shot at the houses in the Key for two hours shooting Cross-bar-shot and Bullets of twelve pound weight all of them aiming so near as they could at the house were the Queen lay Insomuch that her sacred Majesty was forced to make what hast she could out of Her Bed and to get under an hill to save Her life from the fury of those Bloody Rebels who endeavoured to Murther Her But God Almighty preserved Her Majesty both by Sea and Land March the 18 th and 19 th was a great Battel on Hopton-heath in Staffordshire wherein Gell and Brereton two cowardly Rebels were routed by His Majesties Forces under the command of the Right Honourable Spencer then Earl of Northampton in which fight