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A92155	Angliæ ruina: or, Englands ruine represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same. Containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected, plundered, imprisoned, or banished, for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne. Whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament; with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.; Mercurius rusticus	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Griffin, Matthew, 1599?-1665. London. A generall bill of mortality, of the clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2447; ESTC R204638	175,259	292

was reprieved that he might repent but he was surely scourged that he might take notice there is punishment for Sacrilege and beare witnesse of that truth unto his fellowes although he found more favour then Calisthenes who attempting to burne the Temples by setting fire on the Gates was for that act himselfe burned or Alcimus who whil'st he was pulling the house of God downe was struck with a Palsie and dyed in torment Some would have thought that that remarkable judgement overtaking him so on the sudden sustlaminated their running on and that striking of him blind should have opened their eyes But let favour be shewed to the wicked yet they will not learne righteousnesse in the land of uprightnesse they will deale unjustly and will not behold the Majestie of the Lord but Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see as thou fore-toldest by thy Prophet Esay 26. 10 11 13. it should come to paile Whenother Lords besides thee have dominion over us They were not at all deterred neither left any wayes un-attempted to get downe that roofe which Ladders failed they cut the Bell-ropes which if rightly applyed might have cured their Itch to eke out their tackling till they reached it with their Pole-axes and brake downe the carved workes Psal 7. 4. Afterwards espying the rare Structure of stone-workes over the Altar admired by all travellers for the excellent artifices which was no ways guilty of superstitious workmanship they made all of it rubbish breaking up also the Rayles of which they compiled bonefires tumbling the Communion Table over and over they were also so offended with all memorialls of the dead knowing themselves in the number of those whose memories at the best shall perish as if they had never beene that not one Monument in the Church escaped undefaced no not of the Pious Benefactors whose accusation was sufficient they had done good to the Church nor those two faire Tombes of Ka herine Queen Dowag●r of Spaine the Repudiate of King H. 8. and Mary albeit Quuen of Scots It was great a crime to have beene Queenes the marble walls and guards of irons wherewith they were surrounded and incircled could not preserve them in ●epose from all their miseries but they would adde this one unto the rest to lay the Em●lemes of their honours in the dust pulling away the Hearle of black Velvet and carring away whatsoever was vendible When their unhallowed toylings had made them out of wind they took breath afresh on two pair of Organs piping with the very same about the market place lascivious Jigges whilst their Comrades daunced after them some in the Coapes others with the Surplices and downe they brake the bellowes to blow the coales of their further mischiefe and left any should ring auke for the fire they had made they left the Bells speechlesse taking out their clappers which they sold with the Brasse they flaied from the graven Stones and the Tin and Iron from other parts of the Church and Chappell 's belonging thereto which were many and richly adorned but the daughters sared no better then their Mother there was not suffered any window to remain unshattered or remarkable place in them unruined their intent being to leave those consecrated wals as a room fitted for vermine to nestle in or which was worse for Cap. Ashwell to exercise his Souldiers in where while he was in Town he made his Rendezvous and when they went away set fire on some part of the wood-work to have burnt the remainder down if it had not timely been discovered neither did the Cloysters attending scape better then those they were made to wait upon though these both in their roof and glazing might be compared with the chiefest Cathedrals the first square being beautified with the History of the Old Testament the second of the New the third shewed the whole relation of those by whom the Church was builded the fourth presented us with all the Effigies of our Kings since william the Conquerour But it seemes those unreasonable and wicked men care for Scripture and Princes and Pious Monuments all alike their wide throats were as open Sepulchers their Sacrilegious appetites being yet unsatisfied with devouring must needs swallow up the Lands appertaining to that Church to which that they might pretend the juster title they broke open the Charter-house Plundered away the great Charter all the Evidences Leases and other Writings belonging thereunto manifesting their parties desires to have all Estates of others to come and be at their Arbitrary disposalls and they unto whom in right they are due to lye as these places and persons at this day mourning in sack-cloth and ashes TO THE READER ENgland lately gloried in being Mistresse of 28 famous Cathedral Churches beautifi'd with such magnificent Structure that no Nation in Europe could equalize them and of these the Impietie and Irreligion of the Schismaticall Reformers of these times hath hardly left any one undefaced though for the present the exact relation of the particulars are not come to our hands God in his good time will wee doubt not poure downe his judgements upon the Actors of these horrid Prophanations A Catalogue of the Cathedralls in ENGLAND and WALES 1 Canterbury 2 Rochster 3 London 4 Lincolne 5 Chichester 6 Winchester 7 Salusbury 8 Exeter 9 Bath 10 Wells 11 Gloucester 12 Worcester 13 Lichfield 14 Coventry 15 Hereford 16 Ely 17 Norwich 18 Oxford 19 Peterborough 20 Bristol 21 Landaffe 22 S. Davids 23 Bangor 24 S. Asaph York province 25 York 26 Chester 27 Carlile 28 Durham Besides 1 Rippon 2 Southwell And 3 Westm. Abby A Generall Bill of Mortalitie of the Clergy of London which have been defunct by reason of the Contagious breath of the Sectaries of that Citie from the yeare 1641. to this present yeare 1647. with the severall Casualties of the same London OR A briefe Martyrologie and Catalogue of the Learned Grave Religious and painfull Ministers of the Citie of London who have been Imprisoned Plundered barbarously used and deprived of all live●●hood for themselves and their Families in these last years For their constancy in the Protestant Religion establish● in this Kingdome and their Loyaltie to their Soveraigne The Cathedrall Church of Saint Pauls the Dean Residen●●an●ies and other members of that Church Sequestred Plundered and turned out Albans Wood-street D. Wats Sequestred Plundered his wife and children turned out of doores himselfe forced to fly Alhallowes Barking D Lafield Pursivanted Imprisoned in Ely house and the Ships Sequestred and Plundered afterwards forced to flye Alhallowes Bread-street Alhallowes Great Alhallowes Hony-lane Alhallowes Lesse Alhallowes Lumbard-street M●●eston Sequestred Alhallowes Staining Alhallowes the Wall Alphase D. Hayle shamefully abused his Cap pul'd off to see if he were not a shaven Priest voted out and Andrew Hubbard D. Chambers Sequestred Andrew Undershaft 1. M Mason through vexation forced to resigne 2. M. Prichard after that Sequestred Andrew Wardrobe D. 〈◊〉 Sequestred Anne

Aldersgate D. Clewet Sequestred Anne Black-fryars Antholins Parish Austins Parish M. V●al Sequestred his bedred wife turn'd out of doors and left in the streets Bartholmew Exchange D. Grant Sequestred Bennet Fynck M. Warfield Sequestred Bennet Grace-Church M. Quel●b Sequestred Bennet Pauls wharse M. Adams Sequestred Bennet Sheerhog M. Morgan Bo●●lph Billingsgate M. King Sequestred and fore't to flye Christ-Church turn'd out and Christophers M. Hanslowe sore't to resigne Clement East-cheap M. stone shamefully abused Sequested sent Prisoner to Plimouth and Plundred Dionys Back-Church M. Hammes Sequestred and abused Dunstans East D. Childerley reviled abused and Edmonds Lumbard-street M. Paget molested silenced and Ethelborough M. Clark Sequestred Imprisoned Faiths D. Browne Sequestred and Fosters M. Ba●●y Sequestred Plundred forced to flye and Gabriel Fenchurch M. Cooke Sequestred George Botolph-lane D. Styles forced to resigne Gregories by S. Pauls D. Styles forced to resigne Hellens M. Miller turn'd out James Dukes place M. Sequestred James Garlick-hithe 1. M. Preeman Plundred and Sequestred 2. M. Anthony his Curate turn'd out John Baptist M. Walmesley Sequestred John Evangelist John Zachary M. Eldlyn Sequestred Forc't to flye and Plundred Katherine Coleman 1. D. Hill fore't to resigne 2. M. Kibbuts Sequestred Katherine Cree-Church M. Rush turn'd out Laurence Jury M. Crane Sequestred Laurence Pountney Leonard East-●neap M. Calse forc't to give up to M. Roborow Scribe to the Assembly Leonard Foster-lane M. ward forc't to flye Plundred Sequestred and Magaret Lothbury M. Tabor Plundred Imprisoned in the Kings-Bench his wife and children turn'd out of doores at midnight and he Sequestred Magaret Moses Magaret New-Fish-street M. Pory forc't to flye Plundred and Sequestred Margaret Pattons M. Megs Plundred Imprisoned in Ely house and Sequestred Mary Abchurch M. Stone Plundred sent Prisoner by Sea to Plimouth and Sequestred Mary Aldermanbury Mary Aldermary M. Browne forc't to forsake it Mary Le-bow M. Leech Sequestred and Mary Bothaw M. Proctor forced to flye and Sequest●ed Mary Cole-Church Mary Hill 1. D. Baker Sequestred Pursivanted and Imprisoned 2. M. Woodcock turn'd out and forc't to flye Mary Mounthaw M. Thrall Sequestred and shamefully abused Mary Sommerset M. cooke Sequestred Mary Stainings Mary Wool-Church M. Tireman forc't to forsake it Mary Woolnoth M. Shute molested and next to death and denyed a Funerall Sermon to be preach't by D. Holdsworth as he desired Martines Iron-monger-lane M. Sparke Sequestred and Plundred Martins Ludgate D. ●ermin Sequestred Martins Ogars D. Walton Assaulted Sequestred Plundred forc't to flye M. Mosse his Curate turn'd out Martins Outwich D. Pierce Sequestred and Martins Vintry D. Rives Sequestred Plundered and forc't to fly Mathew Fryday-street M. Chestlen violently assaulted in his house Imprisoned in the Computer thence sent to Colchester Gaole in Essex Sequestred and Plundred Moudlins Milk-street M. Jones Sequestred Maudlins Old-fish-street D. Griffith Sequestred Plundred Imprisoned in Newgate when being let out he was forced to flye Michael Ba●h●shaw D. Gifford Sequestred Michael Cornhil 1. D. Brough Sequestred Plundered wife and children turn'd out of doores His wife 2. M. wild his Curate assaulted beaten in the Church and turned out Michael Crooked-lane Michael Queene hithe M. Hill Sequestred Michael Querne M. Launes Sequestred Michael Royall M. Proctor Sequestred and forc't to flye Michael Wood-street Mildred Bread-street M. Bradshaw Sequestred Mildred Poultry M. Moden Sequestred and gone beyond sea Nicholas Acons M Bennet sequestred Nicholas Coleaby M. Chibbald Sequestred Nicholas Olaves D. Cheshire molested and forced to resigne Olaves Hart-street M. Haines Sequestred Olaves Jewry ● Tuke Sequestred plundred and Imprisoned Olaves Silver-street D. Bo●sye abused and 〈◊〉 S●perlane M. E●cop Sequestred Plundred forc't to flye wife and children turn'd out of doors Peters Cheap M. Vochier Sequestred and Peters Cornhill D. Fairfax Sequestred Plundred Imprisoned in Ely house and the ships his wife and children turn'd out of doors Peters Pauls-wharse M. Marbury Sequestred Peters Poore D. Holswerth Sequestred Plundred Imprisoned in Ely house then in the Tower Stephens Cole-man-street Stephens Walbrooke D. Howel through vexation forc't to forsake it Sequestred of all and fled Divers since turn'd out Swithins M. Owen Sequestred Thomas Apostle M. Cooper Sequestred Plunred sent Prisoner to Leads Castle in Kent Trinitie Parish M. Harrison In the 97 Parishes within the walls besides S. Pauls outed 85. Parishes without the Walls Andrew Holborne D. Hacket Sequestred Bartholmew Grear D. Westfield abused in the streets Sequestred forc'd to fly and Bartholmew Lesse Bride● Parish M. Pa●●er Sequestred Bridewell Precinct M. Browne turn'd out Botolph Aldersgate M. Booth sequestred Botolph Asgate M. Swadlin sequestred plandred imprisoned at Gresham College and Newgate his wife and children turned out of doores Botolph Bishopsgate M. Rogers Sequestred Dunstans West D. Marsh Sequestred and George Southwarke M. Sequestred Giles Cripplegate 1. D. Fuller Sequestred Plundred Imprisoned at Ely house 2. M. Hutton his Curate assaulted in the Church and Imprisoned Olaves Southwark D. Turner Sequestred Plundred fetch● up Prisoner with a Troope of Souldiers and after forc't to flye Saviou●s Southwarke Sepul hres Parish M. Pigot the Lecturer turn'd out The Temple-church D. Littleton forc't to flye and Sequestred Thomas Southwark M. Spencer Sequestred and Imprisoned Trinitie Minori●s In the 16 Parishes without the walls outed 14. In the 10 Out-Parishes Clement Danes D. Dukeson Sequestred Plundred forc't to flye Covent-Garden M Hall Sequestred and fore't to flye Giles in the Fields D. Heywood Sequestred Imprisoned in the Compter Ely house and the Ships forc't to flye his wife and children turn'd out of doores James Clarkenwell Katherine Tower Leonard Shore-ditch M. Squire Sequestred lmprisoned in Gresham College Newgate and the Kings Bench his wife and children Plundred and turn'd out of doores Martins in the Fields D. ●ray Scquestied Imprisoned Plundred forc't to flye and Mary White-chappel D. Johnson Sequestred Mazdalen Bermondley D. Pa●ke Sequestred Savoy 1. D. Balcanquel Setquestred Plundred forc't to flye and 2. M. Fuller forc't to flye In the 10 Out-Parishes cuted 9. In the adjacent Townes The Deane and all the Prebends of the Abby-Church Westminster but onely ●ambart O●banston Sequestred Magarets Westminster D. ●imberly Sequestred Limb●th D. Featley Sequestred Plundred Imprisoned and Newington M. Heatb Sequestred Hackney M. Moore Sequestred Reddrisse Islington Divers Ministers turned out Stepney D. Stampe Sequestred Plundred and forc't to flye In the adjacent Townes besides these of the Abby-Church and ●slington outed 7. The totall of the Ministers of London within the Bills of Mortalitie besides Pauls and Westminster turn'd out of their Livings by Sequestration and otherwise 115. Whereof Doctors in Divinitie above And the most of them Plundred of their Goods and their wives and children turned out of doores 40. Imprisoned in London and the Ships and in severall Gaoles and Castles in the Countrey 20. Fled to prevent Imprisonment 25. Dead in remote parts and in Prison and with griefe 22. About 40 Churches now void having no constant Minster in them Vsque quo Domine Rev 6. 10. 2 Chron. 13. 9. Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the sonnes of A●aron and the Levites and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands So that whosoever commeth to Consecrate himselfe with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of no gods 2 Chron. 36. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his Words and misused his Prophers untill the wrath of the Lord rose against his people till there was no remedy Luk. 6. 22 23. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall Sequester you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Malignant for the Sonne of Mans sake Rejoyce ye in that day and leape for joy for behold your reward is great in Heaven for according to these things did their Fathers to the Prophets Phil. 1. 28 29. In nothing be ye terrified by your Adversaries which to them is an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God For unto you the grace is given in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his sake 2 Tim 4. 3. For the time will be when they will not endure whole some Doctrine but louving itching eares shall be ape to themselves Teachers according to their owne private lusts I Pet. 4.16 17.18 If any man suffer as a Christian let him not bee ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalfe For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God And if the just man be saved with difficultte where shall the ungodly and the sinner appeare The end Dead with griefe Dead with griese Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead Dead for want of necessaries Dead with griefe Dead Dead Dead with griefe Dead with griefe Dead with griefe Dead with griefe Dead 16 Dead Dead in remote parts Dead 2 Dead in remote paris Dead in remote parts Dead 2 Dead ● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dead●

the Doctor was in the Chancell there to interre the Corpes of a Gentleman lately deceased these Souldiers rushed into the place with an intent to bury the quick with the dead to put the Doctor into the same grave which they had done for no other reason but because he used the forme prescribed by the Church at buriall of the dead had he not been powerfully rescued by his Parishioners Lastly when the glad Tydings were brought to Chelmesford that Episcopaty was voted down by the house of Commons all usuall expressions of an exulting joy were used amongst the rest Boonefires were kindled in every street but most of the fuell was violently taken from the Doctors wood-yard And now the pile raised and the fire kindled they want nothing but a Sacrifice this they resolve shall be the Doctor himself to this purpose the Separatists of the Towne assisted by two companies of Souldiers in the Evening assault him in his house seize upon his person and are ready to carry him to the fire there to throw him headlong into the middest of it but some of his friends having information of the design go and acquaint the Command●rs with the bloody intentions of their Souldiers who presently take a guard and rescue the Doctor out of their power as soone as ever they had seized on him Since that oppressed and worryed every day by these ravenous wolves he was forced to forsake his Charge as many other godly Ministers are and to fly for his life leaving his wife and eight children to the m ●cy of the Rebels who have deprived his family of all their livelyhood and exposed them to extreame want Nay they have severall times broken violently into his house under pretence to search for him and have held Pistolls cocked and Swords drawn at the breasts of his Children and Servants charging them upon their lives to reveale where the Doctor was It was lately certified from thence by a chiefe Member of that Towne and no friend of the Doctors that he finds the case there to be farre worse then he expected for while they hoped that the power being Trayterously wrested out of the Kings hand they should have shared it amongst themselves they find that either the power is fallen into their hands that are fa●re beneath them or else hath raised these men up far above them for as he writes the Town is governed by a Tinke● two Coblers two Taylors two Pedlers c. And that the World may see what a Systeme of Divinity these Coblers and Taylors are like in time to sti●ch together and what Principles they intend to Rule by I shal here set down certain preparatory prelusory Propositions which they usually Preach for Preach they doe to their infatuated Disciples and by them are received as the divine Oracles of God and you shall have them in their own● Termes viz. First That Kings are the burdens and plagues of those people or Nations over which they gove●ne Secondly That the relation of Master and Servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament but rather the contray for there we read In Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free and we are all one in Christ Thirdly That the Honours and Titles of Dukes Marques●es Earls Viscounts Lords Knights and Gentlemen are but Ethnicall and Heathenish distinctions amongst Christians Fourthly That one man should have a Thousand pounds a yeare and another not one pound perhaps not so much but must live by the sweat of his browes and must labour before he eate hath no ground neither in Nature or in Scripture Fiftly That the common people heretofore kept under blindnesse and ignorance have a long time yeelded themselves servants nay slaves to the Nobility and Gentry but God hath now opened their eyes aud discovered unto them their Christian liberty and that therefore it is now fit that the Nobility and Gentry should serve their servants or at least work for their owne maintenance and if they will not work they ought not to eate Sixtly That Learning hath alwayes been an enemy to the Gospel and that it were a happy thing if there were no Universities and all Books burnt except the Bible Seventhly That any man whom God hath as they call it Gisted may be chos●n by the Congregation for their Pastor and that imposition of hands by the Bishop and Presbyterie are mee●e Papish Innovations What more additions to these monstrous Opinions the wildnesse of such mens braines a●ist d by the cunning of the Devill and incouraged by th●●surped ●ower of these times may pro●uce we must l●ave to the discovery of time In the interim good Re●der stand amazed and wonder at this excellent pattern● of the inten●ed bl●ssed Reformation Had not God to prepare us for destruction deprived us of knowledge had he not closed our eyes that we should not see an● hardned our hearts that we should not understand were we not a people as the Proph●t speaks forsaken and meted out for destruction it could not be but that Mankind would rise up against this Generation of Vipers and their Protecto●s and sw●ep them away to use the Metaphor of the holy Ghost with the beesome of destruction who if a while connived at will prove moths fretting to the destruction both of Church and State for in this Modell you may see the Babel which is now in building and the budding forth of those Brambles out of which if not timely quenched will come forth a fire as it is in Jothams Parable which will devoure the Cedars of Lebanon The same godly Reformers which plundered Master Laud before mentioned came afterwards to Master Cornelius Parson of Peldon in the same County of Essex whom they rob of all his goods within doores and without they spared not his Library nor his Wives Child-bed Linnen though the was great with Child and in danger by the fright she took at their comming to have occasion to make use of them before her due time they plunder him to the value of foure hundred pounds a very great summe in a poore Clergie-mans purse especially as these times goe For reliefe of his losse he sends his servant to the Major of Colchester a famous Justiciary as you may remember the last W●eke in the relation of Master Laud and Master Honifields cases having made his Complaint and accused the Plunderers by name the Major knew that some body deserved Commitment but had the ill luck to be mistaken in the person and therefore instead of the Plunderers he commits Master Cornelius his man to the Gaole where he is lodged for a Malignant untill his Master plundered of his man too came and put in Bayle that his servant should be forthcomming to answer to all objections the next Sessions Master Cornelius knowing that he should in vaine expect Justice where he found Oppression from the Major goes to Master Gardner a Justice of Peace not farre off who grants his Warrant for apprehension of the parties who

sends her word that if it pleased her she might buy foure of her owne six horses againe assuring her by his Fathers Servant and Tenant that she should not fear being Plundred of them any more by the Earle of Stamfords forces while they were in those parts Encouraged by these promises she was content to buy her own and deposited eight pound ten shill for foure of her horses and now conceiving the storme to be blown over and all danger past and placing much confidence in her purchas'd Protection she cauleth all her goods secured in her neighbours houses to be brought home and since it could not be better rejoyced that she had not lost all She had not enjoyed these thoughts long but Captaine Kirle sent unto her for some vessels of Cyder whereof having tasted but not liking it since he could not have drinke for himselfe he would have Provender for his Horse and therefore instead of Cyder he demands ten busnels of Oates Mistresse Swift fearing that the denyall might give some ground of a Quarrell sent him word that her Husband had not two bushels of Oates in a yeare for ●ythe nor did they s●w any on their Gleabe both which were most true yet to show how willing she was to her p●wer to comply with him that the Messenger might not returne emptie she sent him sortie shillings to buy Oates Suddenly after the Captaine of Goo●r●ge-Castle sends to Master Swifts house for Victuall and Corne Mistresse Swift instantly repaires to him and shewes him her Protection He to answer shew with shew shewes her his Warrant and so without any regard to her Protection seizeth upon that provision which was in the house together with the Cyder which Captaine Kirle refused Hereupon Mistresse Swift writes to Captaine Kirle complaining of this injury and the affront done to him in sleighting his Protection But before the Messenger could return with an Answer to her Letter some from the Castle come a second time to Plunder the house and they did what they came for Presently after comes a Letter from Captaine Kirle in Answer to Mistresse Swifts telling her that the Earl of Stamford did by no means approve of the injuries done unto her and withall by word of mouth sends to her for more Oates She perceiving that as long as she gave they would never leave asking resolved to be drill'd no more the returne not answering expectation on the third of December two houres before day Captaine kir●es Lieutenant attended by a considerable number of Horse and Dragoones comes to M. Swifts house and demands entrance but the doores being kept shut against them and not able to force them they broke down two Iron Barres in a Stone window and so with Swords drawne and Pistols cocked they enter the house Being entred they take all Master Swift and his wives apparell his Bookes and his Childrens clothes they being in bed and those poore children that hung by their clothes unwilling to part with them they swung them about untill their hold-●ast failing they dashed them against the wals They took away all his Servants clothes and made so cleane work with one that they left him not a Shirt to cover his nakednesse There was one of the Children an Infant lying in the Cradle they rob'd that and left not the little poore soule a rag to defend it from the cold They took away all the Iron Pewter and Brasse and a very fair Cupboard of Glasses which they could not carry away they broke to pieces and the foure Horses lately redeemed are with them lawfull prize againe and left nothing of all the goods but a few stooles for his wife children and servants to sit downe and bemoane their distressed condition Having taken away all and being gone Mistresse Swift in compassion to her poore Infant in the Cradle took it up almost starved with cold and wrapped it in a Petti-coat which she tooke off from her selfe and now hoped that having nothing to lose would be a better protection for their persons then that which she purchased of Captaine kirle for 30 shill But as if Jobs Messengers would never make an end her three Maid-servants whom they of the Castle had compelled to carry the Poultry to the Castle return and tell their Mistresse that they in the Castle said that they had a Warrant to seize upon Mistresse Swift and bring her into the Castle and that they would make her three ●aid-servants wait on her there threatning to Plunder all under the petti-coat and other uncivill immodest words not fit for them to speak or me to write Hereupon Mistresse Swift fled to the place where her Husband for ●eare of the Rebells had withdrawn himselfe she had not beene gone two houres but they come from the Castle and bring with him three Teemes to carry away what was before designed for Plunder but wanted meanes of conveyance When they came amongst other things there was a batch of bread hot in the Oven this they seize on ten Children on their knees intreat but for one loafe and at last with much importunitie obtained it but before the Children had eaten it they took even that one loafe away and left them destitute of a morsell of bread amongst ten Children Ransacking every corner of the house that nothing might be left behind they find a small Pewter dish in which the dry Nurse had put Pap to feed the poore Infant the mother which gave it suck being fled to save her life this they seize on too The Nurse intreats for Gods sake that they would spare that pleading that in the Mothers absence it was all the sustenance which was or could be provided to sustaine the life of the Child on her knees intreated to shew mercy unto the Child that knew not the right hand from the left a motive which prevailed with God himselfe though justly incensed against Nineveh But to shew what bowels of compassion and mercy are to be expected in Sectaries and how far they are from being Disciples to him who sayes Be ye mercifull as your Father which is in heaven is mercifull They transgresse that precept of our Saviour in the Letter and take away the Childrens meat and give it unto dogs for throwing the Pap to the dogs they put up the dish as lawfull prize Master Swifts eldest sonne a youth seeing this barbarous crueltie demanded of them a reason of this so hard usage They replyed that his Father was a Traytour to the King and Parliament and added that they would keepe them so short that they should eate the very fle●h from their armes and to make good their word they threaten the ●iller that if he ground any Corne for these Children they would grind him in his ●wne Mill and not contented with this they goe to Master Swifts next neighbour whose daughter was his Servant and take him Prisoner they examine him upon oath what goods of M. Swifts he had in his custody he professing that he

into the Belfrey and locks the doores fast after him being come to the place where the Bells hang he discovers over head a little hole only big enough for a man to creep thorow and a Ladder standing there which led up unto it Master Losse goes up the Ladder and through the hole gets upon the Leads and with great difficultie draws the Ladder after him being massey and very heavy by which means he did not only deprive his pursuers of the means to come at him but with the Ladder laid over the hole baracadoed the passage against them and now being here had he had any weapon to defend himselfe he had been impregnable While Master Losse was up in the Belfrey securing of himselfe the Troopers are at the Church windowes endeavouring to wrench out the Irons barres but without any successe at last with their Pole-axes and great Tomb-stones Impiously taken from the graves of the Dead they breake open the Church doores having thus forced their entrance they r●de into the Church not remembring they were in Gods house from one end of it to another spurring and switching their horses purposely to endanger the People These barbarous out-rages did much affright the People but especially Mistresse Losse and her poore children whom it most concerned M. Losse being the onely man aymed at Mistresse Losse fell into a swound in the Church and had no shew of life in her for a long time at which the people moved with compassion interceded with the Troopers and desired them to desist putting them in mind of the place where they were a place where God met with his People and they with their God It seemes this Congregation had been better taught then to subscribe to Doctor Twist the Prolocutor of the absurd Heterogen●ous Synod his Interpretation of that Text of Scripture Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reve●ence my Sanctuary In his Pre●ace to Master Meads Book of the Apo●●acie of the latter times as if this Text enjoyned no reverence to be used towards the places of Gods publike worship they were much scandalized at this prophane irreverence and made it an argument to awe them to civill demeanour at least because of the place and withail they objected that they did much abuse themselves and dishonour their Cause by such our-ragious carriages all this would reflect on the Cause they pretended to maintain And lastly they alledged that if they had any shame in them they might be ashamed in the Lords house on the Lords day to abuse a Minister in his owne Congregation who besides the honour and reverence due to his Calling might challenge some respect from them being a Gentleman of good birth and descent In reply to so good reason being indeed but Pearle cast before Swine one breakes out with a great oath swearing wounds and blood so that all the Blasphemy is not on the Cavaliers side and saying What doe you tell me of birth and descent a plague take him and his Gentilitie ● h pe within this year to see never a Gentleman in F●●land you remember the Proverb Children and Fo●●st t●ll truth having thus despised all wholesome admonition they goe to the Belfrey they breake open the doore and come to the place where the ●els did hang and from the top of the Frames of the Bells indeavoured through the hole but now mentioned to get upon the Leades where Master Losse was but he having stop'd that paslage with the Ladder and making the best use he could of his hands and feet being all the weapons ei●her offensive or defensive which he had made good the place against them yet notwithstanding in the Resistance he was in very great danger to lose his life for they discharged their Pistols at him at least eight or nine times but by the good providence of God they miss'd their mark with their swords they wounded him in three severall parts of his body yet God be blessed the wounds were not mortall at last having received a hurt in his hand having a veine p●icked w●th one of their swords his blood flowed so fast upon the Troopers underneath him that as they brag'd there and in other places after they were gone thence they thought they had dispatched him and therefore thinking him to be a dead man they left him yet to imbalme him to his Funerall they poure out a flood of reproachfull names upon him calling him Rogue Rascall Slave Villaine Dog Devill making no stop till their master the Divell and their owne memories could suggest no more names of the same stamp At last to seale up all for feare they had not murthered him they protest with many Execrations upon themselves that if they had not now sped him which yet they hoped they had they would returne another time and have him either dead or alive At Bridstow in Devonshire there dwels a Husbandman and though I cannot tell his name yet let it not weaken the credit of the Relation who not satisfied with the Parliaments proceedings in taking up Armes against their lawfull undoubted Soueraigne stood in a seeming Neutrality at last conceiving it time to declare himselfe he openly adhered to the Kings party hereupon he was very diligently sought after and the Earle of Sta●ford sent a Troop of Horse to his house to apprehend him When they came thither they found not the good man at home but a sonne of his about ten or eleven yeares old they aske him where his Father was the childe replyed that he was not at home they threaten him and use all arts to make him discover where his Father had hid himselfe the childe being ignorant where his Father was still persisted in the same answer that he knew not where he was hereupon they threaten to hang him neither doth that prevaile at last they take the poore innocent childe and hang him up either because he would not betray his Father had he been able to satisfie their doubt or for not having the spirit of Prophecy not being able to reveale what by an ordinary way of knowledge he did not know having let him hang awhile they cut him downe not intending to hang him unto death but being cut downe they could perceive nothing discovering life in him hereupon in a barbarous way of experiment they pricke him with their swords in the back and thighs using the means leading to death to find out life at last after some long stay some small symptomes of life did appeare yet so weake that there they left him nearer the confines of death then life and whether the childe did ever recover is more than my Informer former can assure me Only courteous Reader observe from this short Narration that these bloudy Rebels spare neither the venerablenesse of the sacred Function the infirmities of old Age or the tendernesse of Youth Mercurius Rusticus c. XI The particulars of the first Siege of Corfe-Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Banks and Captaine Laurence against the Powers