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A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

the memorable fight at Newberrie-Wash the said Zacharie Crofton was requested by the inhabitants of Aldgate Parish who had been Souldiers in that fight to give leave to M. John Simpson to Preach them a Sermon in the publique meeting place at Aldgate but the said M. Crofton would not give leave so the said inhabitants were forced to have their Sermon at Katherine Creed-Church a Neighbour Church A true Copy William Avery John Levet Thomas Harrison I am a Man and so subject to infirmities and hard it will be to pass through the sieve of envy and rake of malice and have the whole course of my life reviewed by revengeful foes and not something of guilt found which may be charged and must not be denied but yet though as a man I have been surprised with some failings yet this I have to say That as a Minister I have by Gods grace for more then fourteen years exercised this holy calling not onely without the least clamor and charge of scandal but with the fame and repute of a godly man among such as are godly both Ministers and people to the evidence of this I crave that your Clerk may read these annexed Certificates from the people and Ministers among whom I lived in the Countrey before I came to London Newcastle in Staffordshire WHereas we are given to understand that it is most wickedly and maliciously reported that Mr. Zachariah Crofton our late Minister now Preacher at James Garlick-hill in London was in the time he lived amongst us known to be a Malignant and Scandalous man in life and conversation and was for his Malignancy and Scandal from us removed We do hereby certifie and declare to all men that he was never charged with nor amongst us so much as suspected of malignancy but well known for his integrity to the Parliament of England and that as to his carriage amongst us he was not onely painful and faithful in preaching to us the word of truth in soundness to the profit and good of many a soul amongst us and in the Countrey about us but also cleer from all scandal in his conversation and well reputed among us for his piety and never was from among us removed upon the account of malignancy or scandal in witness hereof we have set our hands the twentieth of August 1653. John Hill Major Joseph Sond Minister of Newcastle Tho. Lawton Walter Bagnall Richard Orine Schoolmaster Randle Bagnal Aldermen Richard Bagnal Aldermen Randolph Shaw Aldermen Richard Heath Aldermen Richard Bowker Aldermen Ralph Keeling Aldermen Thomas Bagnall Thomas Low Bailiffe Thomas Harrison Richard Harrison Richard B●lton Randolph Lovet William Bret Richard Bradshaw Thomas Shaw William Waklate Mathew Pain Tho. Wood John Brooks John Harrison James Tarbuck John Burgis Georg Richardson Gilbert Hill Matthew Rock Thomas Knight William Harrison John Butler Church-warden Richard Cook Samuel Bagnal John Jennings John Harrison Richard Harrison Matthew Bowcar William Beard Sept. 16. 1653. WEE whose names are subscribed being Inhabitans in the Parish of Wenbury in the County of Chester do hereby certifie to all those whom it may concern that Mr. Zachary Crofton was Minister in the said Parish from September 1649 for the space of two years and upward all which time with diligence and godly zeal he did Preach unto us the Word of Truth Administer the Sacraments and Catechize the yonger sort of Christians His Doctrine was pure and Orthodox so far as we are able to judge his Conversation honest and such as became the Gospel of Christ his Reputation with the Ministry and godly Christians in the County was unspotted his Company desired and since his departure hence to London his absence very much lamented all which we shall further testifie as occasion shall be offered John Massie Nicholas Wilson Thomas Morris Richard Savage William Hall Hugh Hall Richard Lewis Ralph Yeavison Peter Jackson John Fisher John Barrow Thomas Brees Richard Heighfeild Randal Ankars George Hall Thomas Gray Edward Hamnet Robert Tricket Hugh Massie Jonathan Ball James Barnit Thomas Caldecot John Savadge John Sproston Jo. Broster Ludim John Vernon Henry Woolrich William Wollrich Thomas Colesacks John Wilkison Thomas Wolam Richard Jackson William Howpar Thomas Tensh George Bennifield Thomas Gray Thomas Spencer William Manwaring Edward Palin Joseph Palin Ar. Cartwright George Starkey William Cudworth Fench Yeaman Thomas French Ralph Preese William Rogers Thomas Rogers William Milliton Richard Rogers Randle Hare John Daxon William Wicksteed John Twis John Lunt John Woolrich November the 5th 1657. WE the Ministers of the Gospel in the County of Chester and parts adjacent do upon our personal knowledg of M. Zachary Crofton now Minister of Bottolphs Aldgate London certifie That he lived and constantly exercised his Ministry among us for many years together during which time he was highly esteemed by our selves and such as feared God among us and that as well for the Grace of God in him witnessed by his holy and unblameable conversation among us his Sober and Modest behaviour in his own Parish and Family as for his abilities for faithfulness and constant diligence in the work of the Ministry and that in all the time he lived in our Country he was never stained with the least blemish of Malignancy or Scandal or Immodesty either in reference to himself or family And Parsons Minister of Wem Tho. Porter Minist of Whitchurch Sam. Cole Pastor of Wybunbury Edw. Burghal Minister of Acton Sam. Fisher Minister at Thornton Iames Marbury Minister of Davenham George Mainwairing Minister of Malpas Richad Jackson Minister at Namptwich Mat. Jenkyn Pastor at Grefford Ran. Sillito Pastor of Church-Lawton Ri. Steel Minister of Hanmer Flint Nat. Lancaster Pastor of Tarperly John Glendole Pastor of Peters in Chester John Pemberton Pastor of Johns in Chester Sam. Clark Minister of Taruin Thomas Edge Minister of Goostree Josias Clarke Pastor of Tatenhall William Keyes Aylmore Houghton Minister of Preeze And since Providence cast my Ministry into this City such hath been my course of life known to my brethren in the Ministry with whom I have conferred and intimately associated as that they are pleased to give of it this ensuing Testimony LONDON April the 10. 1657. WHereas M. Zacharie Crofton Minister of the Gospel of Buttolphs Algate London hath for several years last past had his abode and exercised his Ministrie in this Citie by means whereof we whose names are under written with many others have had the opportunitie to know him his ministrie and Conversation These are to certifie all whom it may concern that upon our Personal knowledg and long experience we Judg him to be a truly Godly man an eminently able painful faithful and Zealous dispencer of the Gospel In whose hand God hath exceedingly prospered his own work for the conversion consolation strengthening establishment and edification of very many Souls to eternal life So that he is we know very much in and dear to the hearts of Gods People in this City And as for

MALICE Against MINISTRY MANIFESTED By the Plain and Modest PLEA and DEFENCE OF ZACH. CROFTON Minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London Unto the False and Frivolous Charge of Tho. Harrison and John Levet against him exhibited unto the Commissioners for the Ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers c. within the City of London In which you have His Past Credit Attested Present Plea demurred Particular Articles duly and distinctly answered Acts 26.2 I think my self happy King Aggrippa because I shall this day answer before thee of all things whereof I am accused by the Iewes Neque tu bonus Poeta esses si preter legem carminis caneres Neque ego Civilis Praetor essem si preterquam quod leges permittunt tibi gratificarer Themi ad Sim. London Printed for James Nathal and are to be sold at his house in the Minories next door to the Dolphin and at Book-sellers Shops 1657. To the Right Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for the Ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers c. within the City of London Right Worshipful and Reverend Sirs THIS ensuing plea is to you presented not as a Book which begs your Patronage nor yet to prejudge the cause before you depending or in the least to supersede your proceedings but to acquaint you with the real truth to facilitate your debates and answer the desire of some among you whom if I did not mistake I heard in my last appearance before you say They expected my answer in writing which now you have and this Epistle is to apologise this publick approach unto you unto which I have been constrained By your multitude to whom one Copie could be little advantage and transcription is a burden I cannot bear and I believe your Clerks would find very heavy By the clamors of mine enemies who have loudly said They had laid in before you a Charge by which they should discover me to be the vilest Minister in England even more vile then those Centuries silenced by the late Committee for plundered Ministers and therefore did provoke my friends to perswade me to run away and have since my appearance clamored that I cover my guilt by denying your cognisance and demur to your jurisdiction because I dare not plead to the charge hereby the world may see the charge though detecting some infirmities is not so criminal and although I would not represent you arbitrary who are bound up to a law and therefore by advice of Counsel learned in law I have demurred yet I had a full answer ready on which I dare join issue By the pragmatick readiness of some over-busie spirits to be printing the passages of last dayes proceedings which was by a Printer of my acquaintance providentially prevented lastly I have made thus bold to entreat a speedy result of your present debate that if within your cognisance we may proceed to triall if not you will please judicially to declare it so and not keep it in deck and me and my people under suspitious delayes mine accusers have said it shal be Lady-day before it be by you decided but I hope you will consider the great work of God upon my hands and one way or other set me at libertie and if as mine accusers blaze abroad the charge be to be returned to his Highness and Councel whose cognisance I cannot but believe it is much below I crave that you will please with the charge to return this plea that if possible by it their prejudice against me may be removed and I and my people by their favor be restored to our Sabbaths liberty in our own Church and erroneous John Simpson be removed from among us the which if you or any of you could obtain in our behalf our restored peace and order the advancement of Gods truth and ordinances should be your blessing and I should be no more suspected of disaffection to the present Government then I was before his intrusion Worthy Sirs I will hold you no longer save to tell you I doubt not but you see how ready Satan is to make use of you who are piously intended to reform the Ministrie unto the ruine of this holy function and how ever it may fare with me I hope it will make you cautious what charge and by what kind of persons is laid against a Minister and if I have offended in coming a little out of my way to meet you with this answer I pray remember you stept something out of your way to call him hither who is From my Study in Covent-Garden in the Parish of Butolphs-Aldgate this 8. of December 1657. Your humble Orator expecting your piety and justice ZACH. CROFTON MALICE against MINISTRIE MANIFESTED By The modest Plea and Defence of ZACH. CROFTON unto the false and frivolous Charge against him exhibited unto the Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers within the City of London by John Levet and Tho. Harrison and other their anti-ministerial Confederates in the Parish of Botolphs Aldgate as it was prepared and purposed to be declared at the Guild-hall on Wednesday the 2 of Decemb 1657 I Am here convened before you under the Notion of a Scandalous man in life and conversation and on that account to be ejected out of the Ministry The Ministrie of the Gospel I know to be so sacred a Function of approach to God as that Holinesse should adorn the subjects of it A Ministers practice I well know is so obvious to the peoples view that he that is prophane must needs unprofitably preach the Word of Holiness it hath ever been a Petition in my Lerany From an ignorant and profane Ministry the scandal of Christianity Good Lord deliver us And on that account I have in my late A Book so called Right Re-entred declared to all the world and told mine enemies I am so zealous for a pious Ministry that let me but have just Judges judicial Process and faithful Witness and if I be found guilty of a scandalous conversation let me be cast out as unsavory salt for though I cannot bear recrimination as the answer of my Right yet I desire not to retain forfeited priviledges the forfeiture being regularly demanded Hereupon the enemies of my Ministry having loudly clamoured that I was a person vile and scandalous and that they may audactèr calumniare reproach with impudence not doubting but that though they miss their design they may with so much impudence make some dirt to stick To this end they have exhibited a charge in sundry Articles against me unto which I now appear to give this ensuing answer Articles exhibited against Mr. Zachary Crofton of Buttolphs Aldgate London To his Highness the Lord Protector and Council by John Levet of the said Parish I. AT his first coming into the Parish some difference fell betwixt him and the Inhabitants wherupon the Church Wardens and some others went up to him in the