QVATERMAYNS CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT OR A Briefe Declaration of severall Passages between him and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY with other Commissioners of the High Commission Court at six severall appearances before them and by them directed to Doctor Featly with their severall Conferences and the Doctors Reports to the Court As also his imprisonment by vertue of a Warrant from the Lords of the Councell with ten privie Councellours hands to it With his appearance before the Lords of the Councell and his Answers to the Archbishop and the Lord Cottington concerning Conventicles and his Answer to foure Queries propounded unto him concerning the Scots As also his tryall three severall Sessions by vertue of a Commission in Oyer and Terminor at the Guild Hall London and his blessed Deliverance And lastly A Prayer and Thankesgiving in an acknowledgement of Gods mercy in his Deliverance By ROGER QUATERMAYNE LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for Roger Quatermayne and are to be sold by Samuell Satterthwaite at the signe of the Blacke Bull in Budge Rowe neare Tantlings Church 1642. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Grace Mercy and Peace from God the FATHER and from our LORD JESUS CHRIST BEloved Thinke it not strange concerning the fiery tryall which is to try you as though some strange thing had happened unto you but rejoyce in as much as you are made partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed you may be glad also with exceeding Ioy It was the counsell of the blessed Apostle Peter as you may see in the first Epistle of Peter the fourth Chapter the 12 and 13 Verses And the same Apostle giveth the reason thereof in the 14 vâ—…rse of the same Chapter sayth he If you be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you But sayth he in the fifteenth verse Let none of you suffer as an evill 〈◊〉 a murderer or as a busie body in other mens matters Vers. 16. But if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalfe For as the Apostle Paul sayth in the twelâ—… Chapter to the Hebrews vers. 6. Whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth And he layeth downe a reason why the Lord doth chastise his children and that is not for their losse but for their benefit which is that they might be partakers of his holinesse For Iâ—… that the sufferings of this 〈◊〉 are not worthy of the glory that shall be revealed Rom 8. vers. 18. For it is an Apostolicall Injunction laid upon the Saints that every one that wiâ—…l live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution And indeed it is a great honour for Beleevers to be called thereunto being the proper gift of God For to you it is given not onely to doe but to suffer for his Name Vpon all these blessed Considerations Christian Reader I have made bold to present before the eyes of thy understanding a view of severall afflictions which have beâ—…alne me in this my Pilgrimage by those which have taken upon them the name and title of the Fathers of the Church but are indeed and in truth the enemies of Christ and his Gospel and as opposit to the power of godlinesse and the sincere wayes of the Saints as that cursed Abaddon or Apollyon of Rome is or can be as hath and doth appeare daily by their bloudy proceedings against the faithfullest Ministers and sanctifiedst and sincerest Professors that hath been and are living amongst us Witnesse their 〈◊〉 proceedings against Doctor Layton Master Peter Smart Doctor Bastwicke Master Prin and John Lilburne with divers others And lastly Concerning my selfe who had like to have suffered Ship wracke under the guidance and conduct of these Romish Pilots leading and guiding me through so many by-wayes Rocks and Sands that had not the Lord mercifully and miraculously preserved me I had been taken in their Nets and swallowed up in the pit that they had digged for me so maliciously were they bent against me as in the sequell of this Story following shall with Gods helpe more fully appeare Bâ—…loved Christian Reader I would not have troubled thee with these few rude lines had not I beâ—…n solicited thereunto by many both judiciously wise and religiously honest whom I much respect as in dutie I ought they perswading me that the carriage of the businesse by Gods especiall assistance might prove to be a ground of great incouragement unto others that might in time to come be brought to the same condition and put to the same straits that I have been in Truely there is no reason why wee should be troubled or discouraged with any of their frownes or threats for the Lord hath to me and will to all his make good his promise That He will give us a mouth and a tongue to speak that the enemies shall not be able to resist You see it to be a truth in all those valiant warriours of the Lord Iesus before named with many others that I could name but that I am unwilling to be tedious Onely looke to thy Cause that it be warranted by the Word Looke to thy Conscience that it be cleansed from sinne Looke to thy heart that it be purified by faith and to thy Conversation that it be unspotted in the world and then being thus armed on the right hand and on the left goe on thou valiant man in this thy might in a strong opposition against the foolish ridiculous popish superstitious Ceremonies and deadread-Service which the blinde lame dumbe scandalous Priests and Prelates of this age so stand for and be you not discouraged from your holy duties of Religion by reason of these vile 〈◊〉 of Conventicles and the like that is cast upon it For assuredly it is and hath been the strong Arme of our God to shake this 〈◊〉 Antichristian Hierarchie and therefore for sake not the Assembly of the Saints as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 25. Through the disheartning Sermons of some Ministers among us who by their preaching formerly did promise much better service then now they performe to the Church whereby they give us just cause to suspect their fidelitie in their Masters worke and they brow beat their weake Brethren who according to their measure and the gift of God received doe labour to build up one another in their most holy faith and comfort others with the same comforts that they themselves are comforted of God But Beloved You that have tasted how sweet the Lord is in these sacred Ordinances let not goe your hold of Christ by them but follow after the Marke 〈◊〉 the prise of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus For in due time yee shall reape if you faint not therefore lift up your weake hands and strengthen your feeble knees For certainly Your redemption drawâ—…th nigh You shall be delivered from the power of these Antichristian Prelates and
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
the sincere Professors of it calling them factious seditious Cum id genus monstris their foule-mouth'd Chaplaines and their gracelesse Curates in every Sermon almost have not ceased in their Turkish Dialect to powre out their venome on the most judicious and holy Christians Neither was this their malice onely against some malignant Spirits as they cald them but even against the very power of godlinesse in any poore soule that profest it As one of their reverend Champions most wickedly said That if he had had the power that Canterbury had he would not have left one Puritan in England this day Manifold and apparent discoveries wee have had of their cruell tyranny and their Arch-pittie both on the bodies estates and precious Consriences of the deare Saints of God they have not onely undone many families in the Kingdome but have the guilt of the bloud of thousands of soules upon them which are this day in hell for want of the precious meanes of grace which should have fed their soules to life eternall I need not acquaint thee with their cruell tyranny in the persecuting of thâ—…se Worthyes of God in their High Commission Court that Hellish Inquisition of our Land thou hast here a sufficient light to see their grace in their dealings with this Worthy of God of whom I may say in another cause as the Apostle sayth of himselfe 2 Corinth 11. 5 He is not a whit behind the chiefest of these Worthyes that have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Christ Concerning the Discourse I shall say no more but onely this Reade it and if thou finde any good by it give God the glory and the Authour thankes I know Christian Reader that manifold are the temptations which thou meetest with daily in the flesh And indeed Christ tells before hand what his service will cost If any will live godly in Christ he must suffer persecution But yet be not discouraged though wee sow in teares wee shall reape in joy though wee have a nipping Autumne wee shall have a Ioyfull Spring goe on thou blessed Christian and the Lord goe with thee fight the battailes of the Lord Jesus quit thy selfe like a man be couragious for God and his Cause start not aside for all the malice of the enemies God hath whet his Sword against them and thou shalt ere long see them all dead on the shore before thee Our Fathers beleeved in him and they were delivered David and Ieremiah and Daniel and Paul and all the excellent ones of the Earth have gone this way and are now in Heaven singing Hallelujahs to all eternitie And these were for Examples to us sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 6. God never set any upon high imployment but he gives him proportionable strength He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will give an issue with the temptation that you may be able to beare The duggs and breasts of the Scripture are even bursting with promises of this kinde Open your mouth wide and he will fill it There are a kinde of people in the world who goe for professours and would thinke it a great matter to deny them the name of Christians who will be content to follow Christ while Christ is advanced in the world and seemes to be a good neighbour but when he comes to be thrust out of the Court and out of the Councell and out of esteeme with the men of the world they are afraid to follow him too close at the heeles least he should dash out their braines they will be religious and wise they must not thrust themselves into danger they say it is good sleeping in a whole skin and indeed it is no marvell to see men fall away as leaves in Autumne and perish everlastingly for they never took Christ upon his owne Conditions they never were really ingraffed into him they hung as the Ivie to the â—…ake they had a kinde of externall being in Christ but they never drew the sap and luice of spirituall life from him In a word they never had the true and genuin bloud of Christ running in their veines Yet Christian Reader let not thy heart faile neither be discouraged at this Be faithfull to the death and thou shalt have the crowne of life I will not Apologise any farther for the Authour or the Worke they both deserve thy Christian acceptation onely my prayer to the throne of grace for thee shall be That a double portion of the Authours Spirit may be powred on thee in the reading of it that thou maist be able more valiantly to stand in the Cause of Christ and fight his battailes against Gog and Magog and all the cursed enemies of Gods Church that so having fought a good fight of faith thou maist in the end receive the end of thy faith the salvation of thy soule so prayeth thine and the Authours friend CUT SIDENHAM ERRATA PAge 2. line 13. for first of Numbers read fift of Numbers page 21. line 33. for Gavaston read Carlton QVATER MAYNES CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT MY first Apprehension was on Ashwednesday in Hillary Terme the 12th day of February 1639. At which time came two Pursevants unto mee with an Attachment from the High Commission-Court under the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Nathaniel Brent and Sir John Lambe at which time I unwisely entered into Band of one hundred pounds to appeare in their Court and my first appearance was in Easter Terme the second day of the Terme being Thursday the 23th of Aprill 1640. My appearance being made I was called and presently they called for a Booke which being tendered unto mee I asked what I should doe with it they told me I must take my Oath I answered I would not take any Oath I knew no cause why I should the Officer that attended the Court opened the Booke and I said I could open it my selfe if I would reade in it Then Doctor Reeve said I must take my Oath to answer to such Articles as were in Court against mee I told him I knew of no Articles neither doe I know wherein I have offended The Doctor told me if I would take my Oath I should know I answered I would take no Oath I did not hold it lawfull Thus much betweene the Doctor and my selfe Archbishop Then said the Archbishop Master Quatermayne Master Quatermayne I heare you though you speake but softly you seeme to scruple at the Oath taking you neede not to doe it you thinke it to be an accusing Oath but it is not so it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I thinke it to bee an accusing Oath indeed Archbishop It is not so but it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I need no purging for I have not offended yet neverthelesse if you will so administer it I will take it because I find in the first of Numbers an Oath of Purgation so that it agree with other Scriptures that
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
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
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
fat and 〈◊〉 promises of the Gosâ—…ell and yet remaine a starveling to thy great dishonour and the reproach of Religion But grant 〈◊〉 beseech thee that in the use of all holy meanes I doe so plentifully injoy I may grow up to that age stature fulnesse and 〈◊〉 of thy saints in Jesus Christ that so as thy band hath and still is upon mee for good so my heart may alwayes meditate on thy Statutes and my tongue may speake of all thy wondrous workes Blessed Father I be seech thee to anatomize my heart and spiritualize my soule and see if there be any wickednesse in mee and by thy Word and 〈◊〉 it divide between the Soule and Spirit and joynts and marrow of my corruption and so separate betweene the precious and the vile that all iniquitie may be removed farre away from my person and from my Tabernacle that so O Lord for the time that is to come I may walle evenly with thee in the path that is called holy that so I may have my fruit in holinesse and at the end eternall life that being guided by thy counsell here I may at last be brought to glory Good Lord grant that I may never be of that number that doth so we to the 〈◊〉 to reapâ—… corruption but of those that doth so we to the Spirit and reape life everlasting that I may never as formerly dig broken 〈◊〉 that will hold no water but that I may drinke deeply of that fountaine of the water of life my fresh springs being found in thee that so 〈◊〉 soule may be filled with the fruits of rightcousnesse which is to the prayse of thy rich grace by faith in Christ â—…esus Deare Father I have three grand enemies to grapple with the world thâ—…â—…lesh and the Devill the least of which is too great for me to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if my weaknesse be not supported and my wants supplyed But yet I know that thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth mee I may by faith make the Devill flye overcome the world and get my owne heart purified 〈◊〉 although holy Father of my selfe being poore weake and contemptible I can doe nothing yet thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth me I can doe all things for he is the right hand of thy power and strong arme of thy salvation in and from whom thou hast received full compensation to divirâ—… justâ—…ce for the sinnes of all the Elect and in particular for mee thy unworthy servant I beseech thee 〈◊〉 Lord so long as thou hast any imployment for thy unworthy servant in this 〈◊〉 and transitoâ—…y life so long as these few broken ends of mortalitie doth remaine be thou pleased who doth all things according to the counsell of thine owne will so to uphold mee in the way of holinesse that in all thâ—… actions of my generall and speciall calling I may glorifie thy great Name 〈◊〉 my Brethren propagate the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ stop the mouths and put to silence the tongues of wicked and ungodly men for this is the will of thee my God as touching thy servant I beseech thee O Lord be not angry with poore sinfull dust and ashes and I will speake but this one time and it is in the behalfe of the generation of thy first borne whom thou from eternitie hast set thy love upon and still 〈◊〉 delight in to extend mercy to It is the Vine which thine owne hand hath planted holy holy Lord looke downe from Heavn behold and visit this Vine The straits of thy people are great but deliverance is in thine owne hands thy mercyes are thine owne I beseech thee therefore O Lord consider how deeply thine owne glory is involved in the great cause of thy Church Behold the insolency pride and subtiltiâ—… of thine enemies and looke upon the imbecilitie and weaknesse of thy people and let that auntient motive which from the beginning and 〈◊〉 ages did stirre thee up to doe good to thy people provoke thee at this time to be mercifull to thy Church because mercy 〈◊〉 thee O Lord thou hâ—…st in thy Word spoken great things of thy Servants concerning their deliverance and also gathering thy Churches from the foure Corners of the World and that thou wilt rayse up thy Jerusalem and make it the prayse of the whole Earth and is not now the time come wherein thou wilâ—… extend thy mercy to Sion O Lord is not yet the time fully come Hath shee not lyne long enough in the dust Hath not the Plowers plowed long furrowes on her bucke for a long sâ—…ason Hath not O Lord the Foxâ—… the subtill Foxes broke off her fruitfull bowes spoyled her grapes and would not let them cluster Good Lord hath not thine enemies mingled our Wine with water our silver with drosse and thy pure worship with superstitious vanities And shall they O Lord prosper that thus runne along in their wickednesse eating up thy peâ—…ple even as bread â—…vouring thy precious Saints and sacred truthes as much as in them lyeth And will not our God returne and cause the light of his countenance to shâ—…ne upon his Sanctuary Thou hast said O Lord that thou never biddest the sonnes of Iacob seeke thy face in vaine is not the time yet come that the Stone cut out of the mountaine without hands shall grow to be a Mountaine and fill the whole earth When O Lord wilt thou give the Kingdoms of the earth to the Saints of the most High When shall our Sister that hath no breast desire the sincere milke of the Gospell When Lord shall those dry bones live When deare Father shall the great River Euphrates be dryed up that thy redeemed may passe over When shall that Monarch of Rome and Hieraâ—…chy of England which makes the reall Antichrist not onely be discovered but rooted out and consumed that thy Saints may rejoyce their hearts and warme their hands at that great bonefire so long desired that the Lord Iesus Christ may raigne in his Church Deare Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Gird thy Sword upon thy thigh O thou most mightie strike thorow the loynes of thine and thy Churches enemies Root out all them that delight in superstitious vanities avenge the quarrell of thy Covenant and maintaine thine owne glory Blesse thine owne worke O Lord the great Reformation already begunne in this Kingdome yea blesse O Lord the Parliament that strong arme of flesh which thou hast sanctified and preserved to doe great things by let not our hopes be made frustrate let not the malicious purposes of thine enemies come to passe least they grow too proud O Lord Blesse the Kings Majestie with spirituall corporall and eternall Blessings that he may so comply with his Parliament that all differences may quietly be composed Religion may flourish scandalous dumb dogs removed and faithfull Pastors and Teachers planted in their roomes with those sacred Governours and government which Christ hath instituted in his Church Blesse the Queene the Prince and the rest of that royall Race Lord let thy blessing be upon all states and degrees of people as if their names were particularized before thee Good Lord cause Warres to cease in Ireland let justice and mercy meet together in that Kingdome that thy enemies may justly be punished and thy people mercifully delivered Blesse those Forces that are imployed for that service send more and prosper them also that the great good worke hoped for may be most blessedly accomplished Good Lord blesse thy blessed people of the Scots Nation by whom thou hast done so much good to this Kingdome and all others that thy poore servant is bound to pray for by dutie Religion or any band or tye of nature or grace even for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake In whom and for whom thou receivest poore sinners to mercy To whom with tâ—…ine own Majesty and God the holy Spirit three persons one onely holy wise God be rendred as is most due all honour prayse glory and thankes now hence forth and for ever AMEN FINIS Jo. Lincol now York My first Apprehension My Appearance The Conference Doctor Featly Dr Feally his report Bishop of Bathe Wells Pursevant Thomas Squire Diverâ—… spake A Doctâ—… Pursâ—…vant Officers Notary Clerke of the Coâ—…cell Privie Seale Lord privy Seale Lord of Dorset 〈◊〉 Francis Windebanke Secretary of State Friend Sir Nathaniel Brent Register Lord Newborg A Lord Sir Edward Littleton Lord Cottington Lord Privie Seale 〈◊〉 Tho. Row Sir Tho. Row and Lord Goring 〈◊〉 Generall Of Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper Said the Jury The Archbishop