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The Protestants remonstrance against Pope and Presbyter in an impartial essay upon the times or plea for moderation / by Philanglus.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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THE Protestants Remonstrance AGAINST POPE AND PRESBYTER In an Impartial Essay upon the TIMES Or PLEA for MODERATION By PHILANGLUS Bonum Publicum simulitantes pro sua Potentiae certant Salust Catil Conjurat LONDON Printed by N. T. for Walter Davis living in Amen-Corner at the lower end of Pater-Noster-Row 1681. THE Protestants Remonstrance AGAINST Pope and Presbyter Gentlemen AS the Tranquility and Welfare of Old England is a thing of universal Concern to all True Protestants so should our endeavour to preserve it be the same If the Danger be general and publick so let the Care also since the ignorant Passenger may as well expect to survive the sinking Ship and drowned Pilot as any man of an Estate how little soever it be to prosper under the Ruines of a Civil War and downfal of Monarchy Rebellion and Gaming being only fit for men that have nothing to lose 'T is a meer Lottery of State wherein are an hundred Blanks to one Prize For the miseries of a Civil War we need not any Information from the Histories of ancient Rome under Tiberius Gracchus Marius and Sylla Pompey and Caesar the Triumvirate c. Nor from the Dissentions in Florence begun by the Guelf and Ghibiline Factions Nor from the Discords of France under the Tumultuous Reigns of Henry III. and Henry IV. No we have too fresh and too sad an Example of our own late Intestine Broils which rendred this unhappy Nation little better then a Den of Thieves and Murderers for almost the space of 20 years when under the disguise of Religion they committed the greatest Impiety and under the pretence of defending their Countries Liberty enslaved it only with this difference that instead of one good King they set over us many Tyrants What Prince nay what Tyrant ever perpetrated the thousandth part of those outrages upon a People which they did till at length out of an unsatiable Ravenous humour like Beasts of Prey they fell to seclude and devour one another What Landlord was then Master of his own Hâ—use What Tenant secure of the Stock upon his Grounâ— What House-keeper could call his Furniture his own without being every hour in danger of having his very Bed taken from under him What Gentleman secure of his Horses without having them by violence forced out of his Stable nay even out of his very Coach Who could Ride in safety upon the Road without eminent danger of his Person who could follow his Lawful vocation or what Trades-man his Trade without the hazzard of an assault What Gentleman was Master of his own Child or Servant or what Shop-keeper of his Prentice when the Parliaments Army was ready to receive and reward them for their Disloyalty Nay what security had any man of his own Life Family and Estate without being in danger of Hanging Plundering Sequestring and the like Now who were the Authors of these mischiefs I shall not presume to determine only this I am sure of that the Fanaticks were no less guilty then the Papists nor can any moderate Person think of the 30 th of January with less Horrour then the 5 th of November They are both equally enemies to the Government and so alike declared by act of Parliament they had both the same need of his Majesty's most gracious Act of Oblivion Neither were the Acts of one less cruel then the other as many who writ of or lived in those times inform us I need not here acquaint you with the Papists murther of Henry the III. and Henry the VI. of France their St. Bartholomew's Massacre their Cicilian Vesper's their Irish Massacre and Rebellion their several Plots against Queen Elizabeth and King James The Gunpowder-Treason and how great a share they had in our late Civil Wars as well as of their present inhumanity against the distressed French Hugonites No there are so many Tracts written of this Subject and people are already so well acquainted with their barbarous and cruel Principles that it would be but time lost here to repeat them Wherefore I shall wholly apply this discourse to their Brethren in iniquity the Fanaticks Who are no less Culpable though less discovered to the World wherefore to take off their Holy Mask give me leave out of a small Treatise called Mercurius Rusticus or the Countries Complaint to Epitomize to you some few Barbarous proceedings of these Sectaries which were Executed upon the most Loyal Protestants by special order of Parliament As for example How Barbarously were Sir Jorn Lucas and Mr. Newcomen a Minister used by the Brownists and Anabaptists of Colchester Sir John's House Plundered his Mother Lady and Sister Committed to the Common Goal The inhumane usage of Sir William Bâ—teler in Kent his House Plundered and Servants put to exquisite torture by the Parliament Dragoons The same Party went on and Plundered Sir Hen. Audley's House in Essex as also Mr. Erazmus Lau'd a poor Minister of all his Money Cattel his own and his Wives wearing Apparel also Mr. Hongfield a Batchellor in Divinity near 70 years old of all his Furniture Cloaths Bonds Bills and Evidences and Imprisoned his Person Also Mr. Stephens Parson of Southamfeild in Essex of all his Plate and Goods beating out the brains of a Woman that hid them for him Also Imprisoned Mr. Edward Symmons Parson of Rayn in Essex and bestowed his Living upon one Lemuel Tuke by education a Weaver which the Parliament did for that Mr. Symmons had Preached a Sermon against Rebellion Lastly the said Dragoons Plundered the Countess of Rivers House at Osyth to the value in Goods and Money of an hundred thousand pounds as also threatened to take away her Life had they found her How inhumanely did the Brownist and Anibaptists of Chelmford use Mr. Michelson the Parson of that Town and a man of great worth and Learning how many Attempts did they make upon his Life how did they Plunder him of all he had and at last put him to flight leaving behind him his Wife and eight small Children to perish The same Godly Reformers also Plundered Mr. Cornelius Parson of Peldon in the same County of Essex taking from him 400 l in Money besides all his Goods and Child-bed-linnen of his Wives who look'd every hour yet had not wherewith to Cloath her Nakedness left her and when these Criminals were taken and indicted for the Theft an Ignoramus Jury though they confessed the fact acquitted them for that the Criminals were of the Brotherhood and Goods stollen belonged to a Delinquent which was the only reason they gave to the Judge Who bound them over to answer their Perjured Verdict at the next Assizes Wonder not therefore at Colledges Ignoramus Jury of the Brotherhoods On August Thursday 18 th 1642 The Lord B s then Plunders Sir Richard Minshells House at Bourton in Buckinghamshire destroying a prodigious quantity of Rich Furniture killing and selling all the Cattel on his ground burning his Corn and Hay-Ricks tearing
Castle-morton in Worcestershire was five times Plundred by these Rebels Insomuch as they boasted they had not left him worth a Groat his Wife and Children abused and himself Imprisoned How Barbarously were Mr Robert Yeomans and Mr. George Boucher Gentlemen of Bristol murthered as also Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle Shot to death in cold bloud at Colchester by the Parliaments Court of Injustice The Cathedral Churches of Canterbury Worcester and most of the other Cathedrals in England were miserably defaced and demolished by these pious Rebels In October 1642. When the Earl of Stams was in Herefordshire Captain Kirl's Troops in the ahsence of Parson Swift of Goodwich in the same County Plundered his House by the order of the said Earl and Captain they took away all his Provision of Victuals Corn and Household Stuff which were not conveyed away before they emptied his Bed and filled the Ticks with Mault they Rob'd him of his Cart and six Horses and make this part of their Theft the means to convey away the rest Mrs. Swift much affrightened thereat Taking up a young Child in her Arms thought it best to secure her self by flight which one of the Troopers perceiving he commanded her to stay or holding a Pistol to her breast threatned to Shoot her dead in this Condition and haveing her House thus Rifled next morning early she goes to Hereford and Petitions the Earl to have compassion if not on her self yet on her Ten little Infants and that he would be pleased to cause some of her Goods and Horses to be restored but the Earl would not vouchsafe so much as to read her Petition hereupon she Addresses to Captain Kirl who grants her no Restitution but only a protection for what was left and that too cost her thirty Shillings And now thinking her self secure she returns home in hopes to enjoy quietly what was left She had not been long at home but Captain Kirl sends her word that if it pleased her she might buy 4 of her 6. Horses again assuring her that she should never be Plundred more by their Forces enâ—ouraged hereby she bought 4 of her Horses for 8 pounds 10 Shillings and with this security brought home the remainder of those few Goods she had hid at her Neighbours Houses but soon after Captain Kirl sent to her for some Vessels of Cyder which having tasted and not liking instead thereof Demanded ten Bushels of Oates which not having of her own she sent him 40 s. to buy Oates Suddenly after another Captain of the Earls sends to this Mrs. Swift for Victuals and Corn who shewing him her Protection he also shewed her his Warrant and so Condemning her Protection Seizeth upon what Provision and Syder was in the House Hereupon Mrs. Swift Complains to Captain Kirle who said He disapproved of what they did but would not relieve her one jot and withal sends to her for more Oates which she not being able to send him Captain Kirl's Lieutenant two hours before on the third of December comes with a Party of Dragoons to Mr. Swifts House and demanded entrance but the doors being shut they forced them open and entred with Pistols cockt in their hands and Swords drawn Being thus entred they took all Mr. Swifts and his Wives wearing Cloaths his Books and his Childrens Cloaths they being in Bed and poor Children hanging by their Cloaths as unwilling to part with them they swung about until their hold-fasts failing they dashed them against the walls They also took away all his Servants Cloaths leaving none of them a Shirt to cover their Nakedness They Robbed also one of her little Infants lying in a Cradle nor leaving it a rag to preserve it from the cold They took away all the Linnen Iron Pewter and Brass and a fair Cupboard of Glass which they could not carry away they broke The Horses lately redeem'd they also laid hold on and threatned to carry away to Prison Mrs. Swift and her three Maids and to plunder all under their Peticoats as they said Whereupon she fled to the place where her Husband was Concealed in whose absence they fell a packing up all their plunder When amongst other things there was a Batch of Bread in the Oven this they Seized upon the ten small Children on their knees intreated but for one Loaf which they Refused not leaving one morsel to satisfie their Hunger Nay finding a small Pewter-dish which the drie Nurse had hid for the use of the poor Infant in the Cradle the Mother which Suckled it being fled Though the Nurse begg'd for it on her knees and the Child lay crying for hunger yet did they throw it to the Dogs and took away the Dish Nay they commanded upon pain of Death that the Miller should Grind them no Corn nor any of their Neighbours relieve them And all the revenge was acted only because at Ross thâ—ir Faâ—her Preached a Sermon upon this Text Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's c. Nulla Salus Bello pacem le possimus omnes Virgil. II. lib. Aeneid These are not the thousandth part of those Barbarities and Cruelties which in all Counties of England were acted by those Bloody and Merciless Sectaries who pretended to fight the Lords Battle and whose chief Reformation consisted in turning Churches into Stables and Barns into Churches In plucking down Learned Ministers and setting up Illiteral Coblers and Tinkers to Preach Gods Holy Word in their stead How were the Churches Violated and the Vniversities turned Topsie-Turvy who not being a Sectary was not then esteemed a Papist or not being a Rebel to the King was not accounted a Betrayer of his Countrey Now these tasts of Calvenistical Cruelties may be sufficient to deter any but Mad-men or Fools from splitting twice upon the same Rock unless we desire to have the same Murthers the same Roberies the same Sequestrations the same Compounding for our own Estates many times over the same waiting at Committees Doors the same Free Quarter and the same Parliament Tyrannie then which never any was greater Every little member of which long Parliament being a greater and more absolute Tyrant then any Bashaw belonging to the Turk only with this Difference that such a member could Ruin his Enemies but not assist his Friend The Taxes more heavy and Burthensome then ever any before Most of which publique Moneys were spent in Private uses and divided amongst themselves Whilst thousands of Widows and Orphans who were Ruined by their Sequestrations and Plunderings wanted Bread to put into their Mouths Thus besides other times they at once voted this Division amongst themselves of these several Sums out of the Publick Stock viz To the Lord Say 1000 l. To the Earl of Northumberland 1000 l. To Mr. Vassall 1000 l. To Mr. Henry Martin 1000 l. To Sir Rowland Wanford 5000 l. To Mr. Bacon 3000 l. To Mr. Selden 5000 l. To Sir William Strode's Family 5000 l. To Mr. Peter Hammond's Successors