it may be an end of strife Archb. Such an Oath may this bee for any thing that I know to the contrary Quater My Lord I doe not know wherein I have offended nor any that doth accuse mee Archb. Yes there is your accuser Doctor Reeve Quater Doctor Reeve are you my accuser Doctor Reeve Yes said Doctor Reeve Quater Then put you in my Articles according to Law and I will take forth a Copy of them and shew them to my Counsell and I will advise with my Counsell and I will either demur to them if they bee illegall or else I will put in my answer upon my Oath that is as much as the Law requireth and so much I will doe and more I will not Doct. Reeve That the Court will not allow said Doctor Reeve Quater Then said I I will doe no otherwise Archb. Master Quatermayne said the Archbishop you speak like a very Rationall man and I doe admire you should bee so Rationall in one thing and come so short in another Truly I will doe you all the favour I can Nay more than the Court will allow or beare mee out in I should bee very loth you should cast your selse into danger Quater My Lord I am not willing to thrust my selfe into danger Archb. Nay said the Archbishop give mee leave to expresse my selfe Doct. Reeve Heare my Lord said Doctor Reeve Quater I will said I. Archb. I will tell you said the Archbishop the danger of not taking the Oath and I will tell you the utility and benefit of taking the Oath The danger lyeth in this that after twice or thrice admonition wee can proceede against you pro 〈◊〉 and that is as you know to take you as guilty of those things that are objected against you and then we can imprison and fine you as we shall see cause and the benefit lâ—…eth in this that after you have taken the Oath for any thing that I know to the contrary you may presently be freed Quater My Lord it is not the danger of not taking the Oath that doth dismay me nor the vtility orbenefit that doth allure me I have kept a Court in my owne Conscience before I came hither and I have sought all the Records and from the first of Genesis to the last of the Revelations I doe not find it lawfull for me to take the Oath Archb. Master Quatermayne this Court hath stood this hundred years and hath been stablisht by all the Acts of Parliament that hath been since and do you come to judge our Court and question our Authority Quater My Lord I come not to judge your Court nor to question your Authority the thing that I come to question and find is the things that are injoyned mee whether I may doe it with a good Conscience yea or no Archb. Master Quatermayne what Ministers are you acquainted with Quater Withmany both in the Citie and in the Countrey Archb. I thinke so what Minister will you make choyce of to resolve you Quater None my Lord Archb. None that is strange Quater My Lord I need none for I am already resolved besides no Minister can satisfie mee but the Word and Spirit of GOD And againe I will not insnare nor intangle any Minister to resolve me that am already resolved Archb. Nay Master Quatermayne there shall bee no Minister intangled nor insnared I will promise you Quater Not by me said I. Archb. Nor by mee nor yet by the Court What Minister doe you know that hath beene intangled or insnared Quater My Lord I doe not come to accuse Archb. Master Quatermayne then let mee appoint you to goe to a Minister Quater My Lord I will not bee refractory I will reason with any man in things that concerne GODS glory and my own good so it be within the compasse of my time place and calling Archb. Nay I will not lay any heavie charge upon you doe you know Doctor Featly Quater Yes Archb. Will you goe to him Quater Yes my Lord or to any other whom you will appoint Archb. Nay it shall bee only to him I hope hee will give you full satisfaction Quater I doe not doubt but I shall be satisfied for I am already satisfied Archb. Master Quatermayne where dwell you Quater In Mary Overis Parish Doct. Reeve In Mary Overis Parish said Doct. Reeve and why not Saint Mary Overis Parish Quater Saint Mary Overis or Saint Saviours call it what you will it hath a double Name and I care not for the Titles Archb. That is not farre from Doctor Featli's Quater If it were much farther with Gods helpe I would goe to him Archb. Doe so I pray Master Quatermayne and reason with him and let him report how hee finds you and repaire hither again Doctor Reeve The next Court day said Doct. Reeve Archb. No said the Archbishop repaire hither this day fortnight and I hope by that time you will bee resolved Quater My Lord I am already resolved Archb. By that time I hope you will bee otherwise resolved Master Quatermayne what doe you follow now Quater I follow now soliciting of Causes Archb. Oh! in the Common Law why then you know there is an Oath administred in all Courts Quater My Lord I know there is there is an Oath for the King there is an Oath between King and Subject also there is an Oath between Plaintife and Defendant and there is an Oath for clearing a mans selfe in some particulars Archb. You know in Star-Chamber there is such an Oath as this is Quater My Lord with subjection to better Judgements if you doe proceede as they doe in the Court of Request Chancery or Exchequer or Star-Châ—…mber which is in this manner the Plaintife or Informer doth first put in Bils of Articles Informations or Complaints or the like and then the Defendant taketh forth a Copy of them and carâ—…eth them to his Counsell and adviseth with his Counsell and doth after demur to them or putteth in his answer upon Oath and so will I doe here if you please or the Court to let mee see those Articles that are against me Doct. Reeve The Court will not allow of that said Doctor Reeve Archb. Who was it that came to you Mr. Quatermayne said the Archbishop Quater It was Mayle the Pursevant such a one so that he may gâ—…t money he careth not what hurt he doth Archb. Mr. Quatermayne we doe not use to have the Officers of our Court traduced or evill spoken of Quater It may be so but will you be pleased to give mee leave to prosecute against him according to Law and I will make him appeare to bee as Notorious a VVretch as liveth Archb. I with all my heart I will give you free leave to prosecute against him or any other Officer of the Court whatsoever We do not fit here to maintain any in their wickednesse Doct. Reeve You have so affronted the Court I have been the Kings Advocate almost these twenty yeeres and
answered that doth not follow he may be a wise and a judicious Gentleman and yet we may differ in our judgements in this thing Bish. of Bathe and Wells Then said the Bishop of Bathe and Wells it is like you will never take the Oath while you live Quater To whom I answered it is very like so indeed Bish. of Bathe and Wells Where is Doctor Featly's report Quater Here it is said I and gave it into their hands Bish of Bathe and Wells Then said the Bishop of Bathe and Wells the Doctor speaketh very well of you Quater I answered I hope I shall give him no cause to the contrary Bish. Wrenne Well said Bâ—…shop Wrenne Master Quatermayne take a longer time for it and informe your judgement Doct. Then said a Doctor informe your selfe with wise and judicious men such as Mr Suitt Doctor Gouge and the like Quater I answered trouble not your selfe I will goe to such as I thinke fit both wise and honest Bish. Wrenne I pray said Bishop Wrenne doe so and come hither the first day of the next Terme Quater I answered I could not come then Bish. of Bathe and Wells Then said the Bishop of Bathe and Wells why Quater I answered I was to go into the Countrey to visit my friends and that I could not return so soon Bi. Wren Well said Bishop Wren let it be the second Court day and in the meane time inform your judgement for assure your self if you do not conform your self we will take another course with you Quater I answered I would do any thing that an honest man should or ought to do or else I would suffer for it if you will convince me by Scriptures I shall willingly submit thereunto or else suffer as a Delinquent Bishop Ba. Well M. Quatermayn I hope you will between thi and the next Tearme satisfie your conscience Quatermayn I answered I am already satisfied Bish. Bath I pray M. Quatermayn come again the next Terme Pursevant Then said the Pursevant I pray M. Quatermayne take your company with you for here be an hundred and fiftie Puritants Thomas Squire How do you know that said an honest man Pursevant I know them said the Pursevant by their eyes they look upward Tho. Squire Well said the honest man there shall be three hundred the next Court day which was done accordingly as I suppose Doctor Then said a Doctor A pox a God on him if he will not take the Oath we may burn our books And this is the sum and substance of my second appearance Quater My third appearance in the High Commission Court was the eighteenth day of June 1640. at which time the Archbishop and Bishop Wren were both present together the Archbishop with a very sterne countenance spake unto me in this manner Archbishop Mr Quatermayne are you yet resolved to take the Oath Quater I answered I am not yet resolved to take it I do not find it lâ—…wfull Archbishop Then said the Archbishop It was lawfull before you were born and I will make it both Law and Justice too before I have done Quater My Lord if you do then you and I shall not differ Archb. Then said the Archbishop you were wisht to go to Doctor Featly and that he should report to the Court how he found you Quater I answered I did go according as I was directed Archb. Then said the Archbishop where is the Report Quater I answered I brought it into the Court the last Tearme Archb. Where is it read it said the Archbishop Clerke Then the Clerke read it Archb. What is the reason you are not resolved to take the Oath Did not Doctor Featly labour to informe your judgement Quater I answered he did his best endeavour Archb. You stand much upon Scripture did he not give you Scripture enough for it Quater I answered he gave me foure Scriptures Archb. Well and what do you say of those Scriptures Quater I answered it was the holy Word of God but nothing to the purpose for the lawfulnesse of the Oath taking Archb. Then I see it is not Scripture that will satisfie you Quater I answered if you do convince me by the Scriptures I will submit Archb. I pray by what rule will you be judged Quater I answered by the Law of God and of the Land Archb. What do you meane by the Law of God and the Land Quater By the Law of God I meane the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament And by the Law of the Land I meanâ—… the Stature Law of the Kingdom Archb. You are very often up with the Law pray God you are as willing to live by the Law as you are to vindicate your own cause by the Law Quater My Lord if I do not the Law is open against me Archb. Well you shâ—…ll know before I have done that our Court is both Law and Justice and that we do not sit here to keep sheep and I promise you we will not wait upon you no longer than the next Court day and therefore informe your selfe and resolve to take the Oath for I am resolved to take another course with you if you doe not Divers spake Then said divers Doctors send him away to prison you have admonished him oftentimes enough Archb. No said he I will wait upon him one Court day more A Doctor My Lord said a Doctor pray aske him if he hold not our Court and the Administration of the Oath unlawfull but the Archbishop answered nothing Doctor Then said a Doctor Doe you hold our Court and the administering the Oath unlawfull Quater To whom I answered What have you to doe to examine mee you are no Commissioner if your Court or you doe that which is unlawfull you shall answer 〈◊〉 it your sâ—…lves for my part What I doe shall be lawfull or else I will not doe it Archbishop Well said the Archbishop repaire to Doctor Featly once more and see if you can receive satisfaction from him and repaire hither againe this day 〈◊〉 and resolve before-hand to take the Oath for assure your selfe we will not have his Majesties Court so slighted and Commission â—…spected and if you doe not satisfie your selfe you shall goe another way directly Quater This is the summe and substance of my third appearance at Lambeth House and when we had done the Purseâ—… did wish they were rid of the Puritans for they were ready to be stifled with them Pursevâ—…nt Then said one of them this is the Câ—…mpion of the Puritans Doctor No said a Doctor Master Quatermayne is no Puritan he doth not fast and pray he is too fat Quater Whence we may take notice that they are convinced in their consciences that these duties of Religion ought to be performed and that those whom they call Puritans doe performe them My fourth Appearance was the twenty-fift day of June 1640. Quater I having been with Doctor Featly the second time with divers others and his occasions were
such as wee could not reason together and therefore he did report to the Archbishop that after the Terme he would doe his best endeavour to give us satisfaction which gave me good content for by this means I was preserved out of prison To the Right Honourable and most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and METROPOLITANE MAY it please your Grace I understand by my servants that Master Roger Quatermayne and Io Garbraim and divers others were at my house since the beginning of the Terme appointed as they affirmed by order of this Honourable Court to conferre with me but being this Terme to provide for a tryall at the Exchequer Barre and being Sued both in Chancery concerning a Lease pretended to be made by the Provost and Fellowes of Chelsey Colledge and in the Kings Bench for the House wherein I dwell and by occasion of these Suits inforced to attend in divers Courts I could not appoint them any time or place where they should certainly meet me But as soone as the end of the Terme shall give me some respit from these vexatious Suits I will doe my best to give them satisfaction the rather beâ—…ause I finde them all willing to be informed as they professe to me and some of them conformable in all things to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England save onely they make scruple of the Oath Ex Officio Your Graces humbly devoted DANIEL FEATLY WHen I came and appeared in the Court I being called the Report was read and the Archbishop was so impatient that he would not indure to heare it read thorow but said Archb. That Mr Quatermayne was the Ring-leader of all the Separatists Quater Notwithstanding I was one of their greatest opposits in regard of some particulars then said Archb. The Archbishop Mr Quatermayne I perceive that Doctor Featly hath no time to reason with you by which you have a long time to consider and so have we also I pray doe you resolve your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme for wee will demur no longer you stand very much upon Scripture and Law Bish. Wrenne I said Bishop Wrenne he is a great Scriptureman I warrant you my Lord Quater My Lord if you please to make proofe of mee I shall be able to answer you if you please or any other to convince me by Scriptures as I said before I shall be willing to submit or suffer Archb. Well Mr Quatermayne I pray satisfie your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme and I pray let us request one thing at your hands when you are gone that you doe not report that wee are cruell and mercilesse and oppressors of mens consciences you have found no hard measure at our hands wee have not dealt unkindly with you but it is the course of you all to raise evill reports of us though wee in obedience to his Majesties command sit to doe justice Farewell Mr Quatermayne and God speed you and informe you against the next Terme Officers Then said the Officers wee are glad we shall be rid of the Puritans I pray take thâ—…m along with you Master Quatermayne Quater I answered where one will goe with thee ten will follow mee this is the summe and substance of my fourth appearance at Lambeth House Quater And home I went accompanyed with the Saints of God 〈◊〉 my house and Mayle the Pursevant like the Devill in the first of Job went with us My fift appearance at Lambeth-House was the fifteenth day of October 1640. When I came thither the Court was Adjourned to Pauls and I asked of Medall one of the Notaries where the Court was kept and he told me it was appointed to be kept in the Convocation-House all this Terme But said he let it be kept where it will there is nothing for you to doe for you are not in the Bill this weeke nor will you be called upon this weeke Quater I answered are you certaine of it Notary And he said yes Quater So I returned home accordingly and so much for that time yet neverthelesse there was a hubbub at the Convocation-House that day although I was not there and therefore I was not the cause of the tumult Quater My sixt appearance was at the Convocation House in Pauls the 22 day of October 1640. At which time the High Commission Court was pulled downe but for as much as the whole businesse was opened before the Lords of the Counsell and answered before the Justice of Oyer and Terminer by vertue of a Commission under the great Seale of England for the Prelates use when the King went into the North I was caused to answer three severall Sessions holden in the Guild-Hall for the Citie of London all which I shall hereafter lay downe therefore I refer all till its proper time and place Quater In the next place followeth my whole businesse before the Lords of his Majesties Privie Councell First my apprehension and secondly all our proceedings Quater On Satterday which was the 24th day of October 1640. about eight of the Clock at night as I was going to my House a Messenger from the Privie Councell came unto mee with a Warrant and ten Privie Councellors hands to it and carried me away prisoner to the Catterne wheele in Southworke for his Warrant was so strict that no Bayle would be admitted of for I had neighbours that offered body for body but the Messenger durst not accept of them Truly the Messenger was in such a condition that he trembled as if he would have sunke But I blesse the Lord I was never more chearefull in all my life but there was such vild aspersions cast upon me and such false informations given to the Lords against mee and the Messengers charge so strict that he wondred to see mee so chearefull and well contented and I told him there were three things that made a man chearefull a good God a good Cause and a good Conscience and I praise God in this thing all these I have Afterwards I understood that the Lords had given him order that I should not be carried to prison for the prison would be pulled downe and I rescued from him neither that he should carry me with any tumult for feare of the like danger that might insue so upon the Lords day following as aforesaid in the afternoone I was brought to White-Hall before the Lords of the Councell and when I came thither Sir Dudly Gaveston his Clerke began to examine the Messenger whether he had found me or no Pursevant To whom he answered yes what Quatermayne yes Quatermayne said the Messenger Where is he said the Clerke Here is he said the Messenger Quater Then the Clerke looking upon me supposing I had not heard them said he is a proper tall man but before God he will be hanged all the world cannot save him I nnderhearing of him thought though all the world cannot save mee yet God can
and I was no whit discouraged by his words as knowing my hope was not in the world but in God onely There I waited certaine houres while men stared on mee and every one censured mee and condemning mee At the length I was called in before the Lords where was about sixteene or seventeene of them together and when I had stood there a pretty while the Lords looking one upon another and then upon me at last spake the Lord privie Seale to the Archbishop of Canterbury My Lord what say you to this man Archb. Then the Archbishop said this Mr Quatermayne standing here before your Lordships is such a one as will not submit to our Court nor our authoritie especially our High Commission Court neither will he subscribe to the Oath Ex Officio although I have used all means to informe his judgement and resolve his conscience and therefore I appointed him Doctor Featly to whom he himselfe was willing to goe that so he might receive information of his judgement from him and I never used him unkindly I appeale to himselfe for I never imprisoned him nor threatned him with imprisonment and yet notwithstanding he is so farre from the taking the Oath that he hath been in the Countrey in divers places both in Oxfordshire and in Barkshire and there hath drawn much people together and preached unto them and made Conventicles as I am credibly informed by divers wise and judicious Gentlemen that he hath preached and made Conventicles in the Countrey in divers places and at sundry times Archb. Master Quatermayne were you not at Farrington the latter part of this Summer Quater No my Lord I was never at Farrington in all my life Archb. I was informed that you were and that you drew much people there together and made Conventicles Quater I was never there Archb. Were you not that wayes Quater Yes my Lord though I will not take the Oath Ex Officio yet I will speake the truth in any thing that shall be demanded I was at Longworth Archb. And did you not there draw people together and make Conventicles Quater No my Lord I did not draw people together nor make Conventicles Archb. My Lords for any thing that I doe know to the contrary Master Quatermayne was the principall cause of the mutiny upon Thursday last at the Convocation House at Pauls although he was not called nor did wee intend any more to call him and therefore in as much as he doth not neither will submit to our authoritie I will have no more to doe with him but refer him to your Lordships Quater Then spake the Lord Privie Seale in this manner following Lord Privie Seale Quatermayne Quatermayne Quatermayne You keepe a fayre quarter you quarter it indeed you are a Separatist an Anabaptist a Brownist a Familist and you are Preacher to them all and they all receive quarter from you and you upon Thursday last raysed a multitude of them and made a mutiny and you pulled downe the High Commission Court and no Court of Justice can stand for you you will pull them all downe as you were the cause of the High Commission Court pulling downe the other day as we shall justly prove and you are like to suffer for it I will assure you Quater My Lords is it your pleasure that I shall speake and they all answered Yes Quater Then I turning my selfe to the Archbishop said for answer to your Lordships whereas you say I doe not submit unto your High Commission Court I thus farre submit as being bound in a band of one hundred pounds to attend your Court I have alwayes attended as I have been appointed and whereas your Lordship saith you have used all means to informe my judgement by appointing me to goe to Doctor Featly I doe acknowledge it a truth and the Doctor did take paines therein And whereas you say you used me not unkindly in not imprisoning nor threatning of me I doe not lay any hard thing to your charge But for my not taking the Oath Ex Officio my Lords I will give all your Lordships a reason thereof it is not for want of information of my judgement for my judgement is rightly informed and I doe know and will prove it that the Oath Ex Officio is contrary to the Law of God and of the Land and of the Law of Nature and therefore I neither did nor never will take it Then turning my selfe to the Lord privie Seale I answered him in this manner As for all that your Lordship hath said it is impurtenent and to no purpose it is no way proper nor appertaining unto mee at all all that your Lordship hath spoken I will reduce into two heads and answer it in two words Whereas your Lordship saith I am a Separatist a Brownist an Anabaptist and a Familist all which I doe deny and will prove the contrary and for proofe hereof if you will be pleased to call in the Messenger he shall prove that I was at Saint Georges Church and heard both Service and Sermon this day Lord of Dorset Can you make that appeare said the Lord of Dorset Quater Yes my Lord if you please to call in the Messenger he shall justifie it Lord Dorset No said the Lord of Dorset it shall suffice I thinke you speak truth Sir Francis Windebank Master Quatermayne said Sir Francis Windebank Doe you receive the Sacraments in our Church Quater Yes I receive both the Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper and all my children have been Baptised in this Church according to the 〈◊〉 of the same Lord of Dorset Can you make all this appeare to be true M Quatermayne said the Lord of Dorset Quater Yes my Lord by a thousand witnesses I will not tell a lye before your Honours for a hundred pounds Lord of Dorset I thinke you will not sayth the Lord of Dorset Quater Then I turned my selfe to my Lord Privie Seale and 〈◊〉 my second head thus That I was not nor could not be the cause of the mutiny in Pauls I will give your Lordships a just account how I spent my whole time on Thursday 〈◊〉 In the Morning when I went from my owne house I past over the Water to Bridewell to an honest man that hath some Suits in Law to advise with him the best I could for his owne good and stayed with him the space of an houre and from thence I went to Fryday Streete to a Merchant and there I continued about an houre more and from thence into CloakeLane and from thence into St Thomas Apostles and there stayed untill dinner time and from thence I with one more went to the Dagger in Fryday-street and there wee dined and our dinner cost nine pence and from thence wee walked together to Pauls-Church-yard and from thence he went about his occasions and I into Pauls to attend the High Commission Court I went alone no body with me and when I came thither there stood a
private Quater My Lord I am sure they are not publike I pray my Lord informe my judgement what a Conventicle is Aâ—…chb Why this is a Conventicle said the Archbishop when tâ—…n or twelve or more or lesse meet together to pray reade preach expound this is a Conventicle Quater My Lord I doe not so understand it Archb. No saith he my Lord Chiefe Justice I appeale to you whether this be a Conventicle or no Sir Edward Littleton But my Lord Chiefe Justice answered nothing Quater My Lord under your Lordships favour I know it is no Conventicle neither by any Statute nor Cannon Law of this Kingdome if this be a Conventicle then I will be a Conventicler while I live with Gods helpe I kept a Conventicle in my house the last Wednesday if this be a Conventicle My Lord I did never come to your Court but I set apart the day before to 〈◊〉 to God for a blessing to direct me how to carry my selfe before you Archb. I so you may in private so it be onely with your owne family Quater And no body else my Lord truly my whole family consists wholy in my wife and my selfe and therefore I must call in my neighbours to helpe me for this dutie if it be kept as it ought will require more than a man and his wife to keepe it Archb. You were at Watlington and there be many of the Scottish faction there Quater At Watlington my Lord I was borne there will you not give me leave to goe into the Countrey to visit my friends Archb. Yes but not to make Conventicles and Preach Quater My Lord you said I mâ—…ght in private and when I am there I am as at home and my Lord we alwayes did it in private and not in the publike Congregation Lord Nâ—…wborg Then said the Lord Newborg how doe you pray Mâ—… Quatermayne at such meetings Quater My Lord I will tell you how wee pray wee pray thus that the Lord will be graciously plâ—…ased out of all these combustions and confusions to bring forth a sacred Order for the establishment of the Gospell the rooting out of Popery superstition and Idolatry For the uniting of the two Kingdomes together England and Scotland in peace and setling his Majestie and his posteritie Royall in peace that so we may live under our owne Vines and Fig-trees to serve our God and to be loyall and obedient to our King and Soveraigne and loving and charitable one to another Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington the Lord the Lord and why not our Lord or Jesus Christ or God Almightie Quater My Lord I am not willing to mis-phrase the Scriptures neither am I willing to displease your Lordships therefore whether I say our Lord or God or Christ or God Almightie the Scripture will beare me out in what I say Lord Cottington The Lord the Lord what Lord doe you meane doe you meane the Lord Wentworth Quater No my Lord I doe not meane the Lord Wentworth I know him not nor am I acquainted with him but that Lord that I meane is the Lord of Heaven and Earth Lord Privie Seale The Lord said the Lord Privie Seale Doe you finde fault with the man for saying the Lord he speakâ—…th to the purpose why is not the Lord in Scriptures as well to be spoken as our Lord or Christ or God All-mightie Lord of Dorset My Lord said the Lord of Dorset you loose time the man speaketh punctually to the purpose the Lord it is the principall title that God is denominated in the Scriptures by Archb. You were at Watlington and there be of the Scotish faction Quater My Lord I know not what you meane by the Scotish faction Lord Cottington Yes said the Lord Cottington I thinke you doe and I beleeve if you were well examined you would be found one of the principall Then many of the Lords cryed out of the Scots and called them Rebells and Traytors Archb. I said Canterbury wee have proved them Traytors and Rebels Lord Cottington They must needs be Traytors and Rebells when they shall come in such hostile manner to invade his Majesties Realme and rob and spoyle his Subjects Archb. I said Canterbury and under pretence of Religion to invade the Land Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington what doe you thinke of the Scots Mr Quatermayne Quater My Lord if you examine my conscience I pray doe it by Scriptures Archb. You say right said Canterbury I never did otherwise nor will doe Lord Cottington Then said the Lord Cottington againe Master Quatermayne what doe you thinke of the Scots Quater My Lord I thinke more than I will speake Then said another Lord you heare that they be proved traytors what doe you thinke of them now Quater My Lord I have thought formerly that those things that your Lordship now sayes were not true I know not now what cause I may have to alâ—…er my thoughts Another Lord But what doe you now thinke of them Master Quatermayne Quater Then said I my Lord if they be Traytors let them suffer as Traytors Lord Master Quatermayne what doe you thinke of them Quater My Lord whatsoever I thinke I will say nothing Lord Goring Then said the Lord Goring Master Quatermayn how doe you judge of the Scots speake your mind freely you need not be so shy here is none that will wrong you Quater My Lord I cannot judge at uncertainty I heare one thing now and another â—…hing anon I hardly heare one thing twice together and therefore I will suspend my judgement Then said two or three Lords together what doe you say of the Scots speake your mind freely you heare they are proved traytors Quater My Lord you say you have already proved the Scots Traytors and I have said if they be Traytors let them suffer as Traytors and my Lord if you have proved them Traytors you doe not want my approbation for if I say they are Traytors or if I say they are not it proves them neither to be nor not to be Traytors and therefore I will say nothing Sir â—…homas Row Then said Sir Thomas Row and the Lord Goring What doe you beleeve concerning the â—…cots i Master Quatermayne Quater To whom I answered my Lord I doe beleeve all the Articles of my Creed Sir Thomas Row and Lord Goring Then said both those I thinke you doe for you seeme to be a man of judgement but doe you beleeve the Scots are Traytors Quater My Lord it was never no Article of my faith for I never found it in my Creed with that they all smiled P. S. and Arch. Then sâ—…y the Lord privie Seale and the Archbishop Well for all this wee shall prove that you were the chiefe cause of the ryot at Pauls on Thursday last and therefore Sir John Bankes I pray receive information from Master Lathom and Master Lathom goe you to Master Atturney Generall and give him instruction how he shall draw
and that as the creature could not give life no more it could not take away life But I concluded if my death might be as Sampsons the pulling downe of the English Antichristian Hierarchie the pulling downe the Devillish spirituall Courts then should I gladly sacrifice my life in the cause of the Gospell for Christ and his true English Church And now to returne backe to that from which I have a little digrest Betweene that time and the next Sessions the old Lord Major going out of his place and the new one comming in the spirit of jealousie fell into the hearts of my enemies and wrought so deeply in them that they plotted more cunningly to take my life then before they being afraid as indeed it did fall out that the Iury would learne more wit and be better advised betweene that and the next Sessions made the Commission and Bill and Iury and all voyde as if nothing at all had been done and our three London Sergeants in their Scarlet rode in theiâ—… Coâ—…ches to the Court to procure a new Commission sealed which they got upon the Lords day in the morning about Sermon time And then the new Lord Major Sir Edward Wright sent for Smith the Sergeant giving him a strict Charge to warne a Jury of speciall able men telling him that it was for a businesse of greater consequence then he tooke it to be and so it was done accordingly And now Christian Reader I will lead thee along from my Prison in Southworke to my next Sessions holden in the Guild Hall in London where were twenty Constables and each man had twenty Watchmen to attend with Bills and Halberts and a greater number to see me then at my first comming more to see me then were to see Doctor Ducke let downe and puld up with a Rope at the High Commission Court in Pauls So we ascended up into the Court and the old Iury fitting themselves to give in their Bill all joyntly did assent to give up their Bill Ignoramus But when they came into the Court supposing to begin where they left off they found it otherwise for there was a new Iury impannelled and a new Commission read and a new Charge given and the old forsworne Witnesses anew swoâ—…ne and the old Iury much disgraced by Stone our London Sergeant which Iury had learned more wit or wisdome in his absence then ever he would have taught them being present So the new Iury being called by their names they answered to them three and twenty were summoned to appeare and did all appeare but six of them were not called because sayd the Register they are Puritans of Quatermayns faction Then Stone the Sergeant sitting as Judge told me it was not fit I should be in the Court Then said I to my Lord Major my Lord so your proceedings be to Gods glory and the good of the Common-wealth and in a just way for my owne particular my presence shall not be hurtfull to you you have chosen a Iury of wise discreet Gentlemen I am willing to referre my selfe unto them Then sayd Sergeant Stone Kâ—…epe him safe Messenger you must looke unto him Then I answered him againe My cause is good and I will not start though you would give me a thousand pounds Then answered my Lord Major I thinke you will not Master Quatermayn then the Iury looked upon me and when they looked upon the Witnesses how like Rogues they looked then I answered they are of the Court meaning they were of the High Commission Court So the Iury going into the Iury-roome my adversaries thought they had expunged all Puritans out of the company but they were utterly deceived for one Master Lee a Vintner at the Sunne Tavern at Criple-gate a very wise and judicious man did so debate the matter with the rest of the Iury that notwithstanding my enemies which were the enemies of the truth had cast such aspersions upon me saying that I was an Arian an Anabaptist a Separatist a Familist and the like he made them to see clearly that the Bill could not be found against mee yet notwithstanding they did not make an end that night At length the Iury being often called upon to bring in their Bill it being late in the night the Iury came forth and Sergeant Stone asked them if they were agreed they answered they were not agreed then inquiry being made how the businesse stood seven would have found the Bill and ten were against it and so the Sessions for that night ended untill the next Friday following being the sixth of November 1640. Loving Christian Reader I will put thee in minde of one thing my persecutor said he would have my life though it cost him five hundred pounds and another said that if Quatermayn were not hanged within six houres he would be hanged for him but the first hath mist of his purpose and the lâ—…st hath time enough to choose his Gallowes or to repent himsâ—… of his precipitated malice And this is the summe and substance of our second Sâ—…ssions and I returned home to my prison againe waiting upon the Lord for my free and full deliverance in his own good time In the meane time there were three or foure Letters sent from the Lords of the Councell or the Councellor of the Lords to the Lord Mâ—…jor and the Sergeants but what was in them I know not God in his due time I hope will reveale it Besides divers Messengers were sent to the place where I was imprisoned to see whether I were safe or no And now Christian Brother I shall lead thee to my Gayle-Delivery And this proved a Sessions of peace for when we came thither there was neither Constable nor Watchman so the Iury after some certaine time came forth and desired audience for they would give up their Bill and the three Sergeants would not receive it by reason that my Persecutor the Register of the High Commission Court was not there but at length Lathom came in and then the Iury was called and they were all agreed but one and they yeelded up the Bill and it was a Bill of Vera for one Reynolds a Waterman and Ignoramus for all the rest At which word there was a great rejoycing among the people but Lathom looked as pale as ashes then I blessed God with these two words Truth is strong and will prevaile and then divers good Christians tooke me by the middle and sayd Master Quatermayne you are srâ—…ed and I said Blessed be God who is the deliverer of his people Then William Barrife who was one of the Iury was called for who would not assent with the rest of the Iury but see the hand of God in this also for he was fined fortie shillings for his absence and was glad to submit to his Brethren and intreat the favour of the Court for his fine Then I spake to my Lord Major and his Brethren saying Is it in your power to free me seeing
I am freed by the Iury And they answered No Then I asked if they had not authoritie in those Letters that they had received to free me but they answered me No Then I told them I would use meanes my selfe And thus was I most graciously delivered from the Lyon and the Beare and the uncircumcised Philistims and the Diotrephes the troubler of the people of God by their prating of many swelling words of vanitie But the Net is broken and I am delivered to God onely be the glory and to the Instruments thereof due respect and praise AMEN THE PRAYER THou oh Lord God omnipotent reigneth holy are thy wayes just are thy workes great are thy mercies dreadfull are thy judgements oh King of Saints Oh Lord who is like unto thee Thy goodnesse and mercy Oh most mightie God encompasseth us round on every side Thou oh Lord hast said Thou wilt be a wall of fire round about thy people and the glory in the midst of them Thou hâ—…st said Thou wilt be a Sunne and a Sheild to thy Servants and no good 〈◊〉 wilt thouwithhold from them that walke uprighâ—…ly before thee but grace and glory wilt thou give unto them Thy people of old beleeved in thee they called upon thy Name and were delivered Thou never â—…allen them that put their 〈◊〉 thee Oh Lord who is it then that doth know thy Name but will trust in thee Oh Lord I am thy Servaâ—…t the Sonne of thy handâ—… Thou haste broken my bands in sunder and set my feâ—…te in a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I â—…ht 〈◊〉 the wayes of thy Câ—…mmandements â—…nd so serve thee with an upright heart and a willing minde I have â—…ound by 〈◊〉 experience Oh Lord that the issuos from death are in thy hands The enemies plotted and contrived to take away the life of thy Servant and yet behold Lord thou didst most 〈◊〉 deliver him The Net was layd the Pit was digged thy servant freed and his and thine enemies ensnared and covered Oh Lord prayse waiteth for thee in Sion and unto thee shall the Vow be performed Thou hearest Prayers and therefore unto thee shall all flesh come O Lord thou haste done wondrous things Thy promises of old are faithfulnesse and truth Oh Lord what shall I render unto thee for thy great goodnesse and loving kindnesse shewed to thy Servant I will take the cup of Salvation and give prayse unto thy name Thou haste good Lord preserved mee from the Lyon and the Beare and the usurping tyrannous Philistims of the Kingdom to what end deare Father but that I should not forget the loving kindnesse of the Lord but be still mindfull of his Covenant Thy out-stretched arme hath been my defence Thy right hand Oh Lord hath the preheminence Thy right hand deare Father hath brought mightie things to â—…asse I shall not dyâ—… through the malice of the enemy but 〈◊〉 live through the goodnesse of my God to declare the loving ?…?ness of the Lord I am resolved to make my boast of thy prayse all the day long my tongue shall never cease to speake of thy goodnesse whilest I have a being for Thou bringest downe to the grave and raisest up againe Thou dost all thy workes to be had in remembrance of all that are â—…ound about thee If any Creature that ever thine â—…and hath made hath cause to magnifie thy Name and to declare thy prayse then have I much more Mine enemies did as it were cast Lots upon my Vesture and had so numbred my dayes as that they thought within six houres to take away the life of thy Servant and yet behold Lord some dead â—…me run away and others imprisoned as thine the Churches the States and Gâ—…mmon mealths enemies and yet deare Father thy Servant preserved alive to take notice of thy mercy in beleeving thy holy promise where thou sayest Thou wilt deliver the righteous out of trouble and bring the wicked in their stead Oh Lord I have found that my timâ—… are in thy hands and not in the hanâ—… of my enemies yea I â—…ve and doe finde by blessed experience oâ—… Lord that as the creature cannot give life so neither can it take life away Deare Father I received my life from thee to glorifie thy Name in the discharge of the severall actions and duties in my place and calling and should the enemies deprive mee of it to thâ—… shame and reproach of the Gospell Oh Lord thou haste forbidden it and so it is come to pâ—…sse for ever blessed be thy Nâ—…e for it Lord thou haste said that we should be brought before Princes and Rulers for thy Name sake and yet we should not feare nor take care what to speake for thou wilt gâ—… a mouth and a tongue and behold deare Lord thou haste made this promise also good to thy servant Wherein thou didst so guide him and direct him as that he did neither deny the truth nor corrupt his conscience to please the times at that time deare Father thou didst sill his heart full with joy and peace in beleeving that all things should worke together for his good when the enemies oh Lord did coop him up and appoint him as a sheepe for the slaughter â—…hen didst thou lengthen his life and prolong his dayes to tell of all thy wondrous workes I will therefore sing of thy prayse all the day long for thou haste shewed kindnesse to thy servant Thou haste multiplyed thy hand of bountie I will never forget thy free and full acts of love vouchsafed to me Deare Father I beseech thee to direct thy Servant what to doe and how to carry himselfe in this his Pilgrimage that so â—…e may glorifie thy Name and endeavour to 〈◊〉 thy people that others may by his example be incouraged to walke on constantly conscionably and faithfully in the pursuit and practise of all the duties of Christianitie Blessed Father Lord of life and glory I doe most humbly desire thee so to direct me by thy Word and Spirit that as thou hast miraculously and mercifully preserved mee from all dangers on the right hand and on the left from the malice and fury of mine enemies I may now in an humble acknowledgement of thy goodnesse walke before thee in all holy and humble subjection to thy blessed will in all things To this end I beseech thee â—…athe my soule 〈◊〉 that â—…ountaine that thou hast opened to the house of Judah and the Iohabitants of Jerusalâ—…m to wash in Make good that holy promise more and more to my soule wherein thou hast said Thou wilt wash mee from mine uâ—…cleannesse and sprinkle mee with cleane water Deare Father it is thy good pleasure that in Christ the God-head should dwell bodily that so I might be made partakers of the divine nature yea that in him all sulnesse should dwell that so I might receive grace for grace Now I besecch thee deare Father let it not be with me as with Pharoahs leane Kine that I may still feed upon the
the Bill of information Quater My Lords if you please you may make an end of the businâ—…sse without any further trouble for whatsoever I have spoken before your Lordships I will prove by sufficient witnesses Then divers of them sayd Wee have sufficient proofe Master Quatermayne that you were the cause of the Tumult you shall goe forth and if we have occasion wee will call you in againe anon Quater So I departed from them thinking by their fayre speeches and carriage I had been directly freed but it proved otherwise for in my absence the Register had informed them very falsly and wickedly and promised to prove against mee whatsoever he said Then afterwards the Messenger was called unto and was by the Lords charged to looke unto mee and keepe me safe but to use me kindly And one of the Lords said for ought I see he will maintaine any thing he hath done And so I returned againe in peace to my prison in Southwarke And this is the summe and substance of the Conference had with the Lords of the Councell And the Lords writ a Letter and sent it by another Messenger to Sergeant Greene in London I will not say as David by Uriah but I leave it to your wisdome to judge by the sequell of the Story following Upon the next day which was the twenty sixth day of October 1640. I was carryed into London to Sergeant GreenesHouse and when I came to him he did appoint me to be at the Guild Hall at two of the 〈◊〉 the same dâ—…y And when I came there there was a great preparation both Holberts Bills and Constables Staves to the number of three or foure hundred nâ—…ver the like in London seene before and three or foure thousand Auditors and Spectators and all their Conference was about me and all concluded that I should dye and many sweet and worthy Christians came to mee to comfort mee But especially Master Goodin that Reverend Divine who told mee I was not a man to be pittied and his reason was because I was able to beare my burden and those that were miserable were to be pittied Then came the Lord Major and his Brethren in Oyor and Terminor the Commission being read a Jury of Inquirie was impanelled of three and twenty men round about Doctors Commons which is the foundation of Ignoramus Schoole a Jury of life and death being in readinesse for their intent and purpose was I should have dyed before next morning the Bill was given to the Jury where in were fifteene persons more for shew onely their ayme being onely at me as by the sequell it did appeare a great number of persons were produced to take their Oaths against me which they did to the purpose as they thought Then was I had into the Court of Aldermen to be examined by Sir Christopher Clethero Sir Edward 〈◊〉 Sergeant Greene and Sergeant Fesant which examination of mine with my owne hand 〈◊〉 annexed because it is included in my Speech with the Lords of the Councell I here omit as being too tedious After my Examination I was caused to walke in the Gallery conveyed into that place as it seemed unto mee as a sheepe to the slâ—…ughter It was in such a place as I might have called long enough before I could have been heard and there was a backe way that I should have gone to execution had the Jury but found the Bill as I was informed by honest men And now I returne to the Jury for the carriage of that there were indirect courses used by all the Sergeants to informe the Jury against mee Likewise a Sergeant of the Sheriffes did most grossely abuse the Iury and hiâ—…selfe But the Iury could not agree there were many want 〈◊〉 among them that had never been of a Iury before as I have been likewise informed There were two very understanding men one Master Nicolson and Mr Mcredith that hâ—…d been Grand Iury men oftentimes before and they made it appeare plainly to the Lord Major and the Sergeants that I was every way innocent and could not be guiltie and all the Oaths that had past were to no purpose and not concerning the thing at all yet notwithstanding by the information of the Sergeants and the pressing upon them by the Officer of the Court one and twenty of them were agreed to finde the Bill But beloved Christian take notice I pray thee of the speciall hand of God and joyne with me 〈◊〉 thankes giving to the Lord for so great a Deliverance When the Iury came in Sergeant Stone who â—…ar Judge of the Court asked them if they were agreed Master Nicolson said We are not agreed we finde it ignoramus wee cannot finde Master Quatermayne guiltie with that there was a great shout in the Hall with a thousand voyces as taking it for granted I should be freed Then said the Forman of the Iury there be one and twenty of us agreed then said the Iudge you may yeeld up the Bill they are some wise men that shall stand against one and twenty Who shall speake for you said the Iudgeâ—… our Foreman said the Iury Give up your Bill said the Iudge here it is here is nothing written in it said Sergeant Stone then said the Foreman of the Iury But wee are all agreed of our Verdict How doe you finde it said Sergeant Stone Then said the Foreman A Bâ—…ll of Errour wherein the words of the Prophet aâ—…e made good Man purposeth hâ—…t God disposeth You are all agreed indeed said the Lord Major S Hen 〈◊〉 For one sayth â—…gnoramus and all the rest sayth A Bill of Errour Wherein Christian Reader 〈◊〉 give thee another hint of a speciall mercy for if the Lord Major had been willing to have had my life as I judge more charitable of him he might have bid them returne into the Iury roome and write upon the Bill and then I had been found but the Lord 〈◊〉 his heart that he appointed them a longer tim and adjourneth the Court untill the Tuesday 〈◊〉 following which was the third day of November the first day of the Parliament in the afternoone I conceive one reason my Lord Major might have the twenty-nine of October he was to leave his place and it was his wisedome not to carry the guilt of innocent bloud with him upon his conscience and peradventure he might also thinke that they would proceed no further in regard of the Parliament And this is the sum and substance of the first proceedings in this Sessions which continued untill between seven and eight a Clock at night and then to my prison againe with as much joy and peace as I could containe or hold attended on by hundreds of the Saints of God I looked on that place in the one and thirty Psalme the fifteenth Verse where the Prophet David sayth My times are in thy hands Whence I concluded thus much that if my times were in Gods hands then neither in Canterburies nor in Cottingtons hands