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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30710	A narrative of the proceedings of the commissioners appointed by O. Cromwell, for ejecting scandalous and ignorant ministers, in the case of Walter Bushnell, clerk, Vicar of Box in the county of Wilts wherein is shewed that both commissioners, ministers, clerk, witnesses have acted as unjustly even as was possible for men to do by such a power, and all under the pretence of godliness and reformation.	Bushnell, Walter, 1609-1667.; Chambers, Humphrey, 1598 or 9-1662. Answer of Humphrey Chambers ... to the charge of Walter Bushnell.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6256; ESTC R6388	126,592	274

A NARRATIVE Of the Proceedings of the COMMISSIONERS Appointed by O. Cromwell For EJECTING Scandalous and Ignorant MINISTERS In the Case of Walter Bushnell Clerk Vicar of Box in the County of Wilts WHEREIN IS SHEWED That both Commissioners Ministers Clerk Witnesses have acted as unjustly even as was possible for Men to do by such a Power and all under the pretence of Godliness and Reformation Thou shalt not raise or receive a false report Exod. 23.1 Si falsus testis perit qui injuratus testimonium dicit Deut. 19 16 ad 21. Quid nostris qui iurati testimonum dicunt fict● Et si 〈◊〉 testis perit quid judici iniquo obveniet ● Printed for R. Clavell at the Stags-head in S. Pauls church yard 16●● To the Honorable Sir Anthony Ashlie-Cooper Knight and Baronet And John Earnly Esq Knights of the Shire for the County of Wilts As also to the Honorable the Citizens and Burgesses returned for this present Parliament for the respective City and Burroughs of the same County Renowned Gent. I Am not so short-sighted but that I foresee to what exceptions and censures I expose my self both by publishing such a Discourse as this at such a time as this as likewise that I shou'd so far imbolden my self as to prefix your honored Names to the Dedication As first it may be looked upon as a very unhandsome attempt to give it no worse a word in me to be unseasonably ripping up old sores and out of some private animosity to be blowing up those coals which I should cover kindling that fire which I should quench at such a time when as all men should contend for unity and concord and strive who should be the forwardest to forget and forgive injuries from the Command and Example of both our God and our King As 2. it may be looked upon as a very great if not an unpardonable presumption in me to present a discourse of such a Subject as this unto your Honored selves whose utmost and unwearyed care hath been and may it still continue to be so to compose the desperate divisions and to close up the even mortal wounds of our languishing both Church and State Be pleased therefore to hear my Apology as well as my charge For the first I conceive it to be a duty incumbent upon every man and necessarily so to vindicate by wayes lawful and just his own reputation when it shall be grosly defamed or notoriously slandered otherwise all infamous reports would be taken for truths by our silence we confessing our own guilt and acknowledging both the truth of the charge and the justice of that power which hath rendred us as scandalous This being as I humbly conceive rationally premised will be I believe as easily condescended unto and then I shall take the boldness to add that pure Necessity enforced me to this Publication For so it was that some of the Commissioners Ministers witnesses and others who have eaten my bread bel●ke thinking that they had not yet enough undone me have and still do upon all opportunities offered or sought report me to the world for such a one so scandalous so ignorant as altogether unfit either to return to mine own living or to be admited to any other and that whatever there might be wanting of power in them to inflict such a sentence on me yet there wanted not crime enough in me to deserve it In short they stand it out in asserting their own justice and godliness and would have the world believe that I am altogether such as they have laboured to represent me to the world Now the design of this Narrative is to let the world know that these Commissioners and Ministers whom I shall name by and by have been as unjust towards me as they were incompetent in Law And beside that their Commission was derived from an usurping power and Tyrannical that their Actings by that power were far more vile and odious then their Ordinance gave them license unto And for the 2. That I make my Application to your honored selves it was not only for this because you are the worthy Representatives of that County where these things were transacted and so no doubt would be most ready to appear in the behalf of any one whose trust you have undertaken so far forth as justice and equity were on his side But also for this reason because I have heard that some of those who have not done me the least wrong have in a kind of menacing manner reported it That they would acquaint your Honorable Court with the Depositions which were taken against me Which should they have done I could expect no other from them but that they should act after their old fashion and if so considering the conditions of those Commissioners Ministers Clerks Witnesses and how they had dealt with me before they might have presented me to the world as a person notoriously infamous Had the Nobles of Jezreel that were his Judges or the sons of Belial that were the witnesses against him been the only reporters of the story of Naboth none would have said that Naboth had been put to death unjustly I have therefore presum'd to publish to the world a report of their proceedings in my case even as they were tracing of them from day to day from the first to the last and all along keeping my self so close to that Copy of the Depositions which I received from their Clerk as that I have not willingly left out altered or added so much as one word unto them Beside which if you please to read this Narrative over or but a few lines in my precautions to the Reader you shall find me charging them both Commissioners Ministers and Witnesses with such crimes which are not only odious in men as Christians but with such which were looked upon as vile and odious by the more civil sort of Heathens And yet I have not charged them with a syllable which I am not able by proofs to make good upon them And now let them publ●sh their Depositions when or present them to whom they please I wish that they may present them to your Honorable Court having a confidence that there we shall find such Judges who are both wise and just If they present the same which I here mention which were all I could get from their Clerk you have here answers unto them If they present other Depositions those will be matter of charge against none but themselves And here I cannot but wonder that such men as these should presume so far as to talk of acquainting this honorable Court with their proceedings or indeed dare to think of Parliaments but with trembling or expect any thing from them but punishment since these very men as to my business then acted by that power and were very zealous for that power and were very bitter against those that did not own that power as they would have them One of their chiefest Articles against me