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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

may lift up pure hands undefiled with our neighbours blood though but with consent and approbation Nay that we may free our selves from the blood of all men by earnest prayer to God not to lay Innocent blood though shed by others to our charge to inflame your devotion I have as it were brought forth the bodies of these two State-Martyrs Master Robert Yeomans and Master George Bowther Citizens of Bristol and exposed them to the view of the world that so shedding some teares over their graves they may remaine an Everlasting Monument of our Innocency in the sight of God of our Just indignation against such crueltie in the fight of men and a sweet oyntment to imbalme these men to their funeralls That though with their Saviour the ignominy of whose Crosse fanctisiyd the death even of that accursed tree in their death they were numbred amongst the transgr●ssors yet Loyaltie being their Epitaph they may make their graves amongst the Honourable But because to blind the eyes of the world not to see the cruell Injustice practised on these worthy Citizens to amaze the minds of the people and to take off from the odiousenesse of so soule a Murther they did not onely in their lying Pamphlets proclame it unto the world that Master Ycomans Master Bowether and some other weiassected Members of that Citie had contrived a horrid Treason that in the barbarousnesse of it did out-doe the Powder Treason having conspired at once to ruine the Protestant Religion and to murther all those of that Citie which did adhere to the Parliament but also to mock God to that height of impietie they were growne Solemne thankes were Ordained to be given for deliverance from so dangerous a conspiracy It will not be amisse to derive this ●ragedy by way of Historicall Narration from the first to the last Scene that so the abused world may see what arts are used on that side to possesse themselves of the good opinion of men that in the mean time they may practise cruelties unheard of untill the bloody Anabaptists sprung up the most pernicious weeds that ever intested the Church or Christ When this Parliament first fate these two Gentlemen with the rest of the Kingdome rejoyced to see that day and stood at gaze as greedily as any expecting what acts of bountie what reliefe from grievances our Gracious Soveraigne through their hands would convey unto his Subjects While their endeavours were Loyall though roughly carryed while bounded within the dutie of Subjects though onely not exceeding it they were as forward to applaud them as any but after the publication of the Remonstrance by the House of Commons that appeale to the people and indeed the ground-worke of this present Rebellion by slandering the Kings Government they that went one mile with them would not be compel'd to goe two especially after the way appeared dangerous and apparently leading to open Rebellion Nullam esse Civitatem qua non improbes ●ives aliquando Imperitam Mult●●udinem semp●r babeat was the saying of the Rhodii in the Reman Senate recorded by Livy lib. 45. There is no Citie but hath sometimes some ill-affected Citizens but alwayes an Ignorant multitude perhaps this in part might be the temper of Bristol at this time but the Criticall time was now come in which men must declare themselves either for the King or against him and though many men in that Citie then were deeply Leavened with disloyall principles yet the major part of the Citie were the Kings faithfull Subjects of this partie the most eminent men were Master Ro●ers Yeomans Sheriffe of Bristol for the ye●re 1642. Master George Ba●●ber with divers others men of good esteem plentifull estates knowne integ●itie and true Children of the Church of England These men seeing the miserable Condition of those places where the Rebells bare sway and beginning to be sensible of the same bondage under Colonel Essex enter into a Consultation how to put the Citie of Bristol into the Kings possession and protection To this purpose they dispatch an Agent to the Court to informe the King that he had many good Subjects in Bristol and withall to signifie their desire to deliver up his owne Citieto himselfe if he would be pleased to send some of his Forces thither to take it The Reasons which prevailed with them to make this tender unto His Majestie were many we may reduce them to three heads First Confedence to God not to resist the King Knowing that they that doe resist shall receive unto themselves damnation and therefore resolved never to joyne themselves to the damnable Sect of the Hotbamites those State-Heretickes who accounted it their dutie to keepe the Kings Townes for the Kings use by shutting the Gates against the Kings Person The second Inducement was the frequent affronts given to His Majestie by the Rebells to the great regret of every good Subject and of these they give many Instances First Scandalous and disloyall Speeches on all occasions belched out against His Majesties Person His Protestations Declarations Proclamations indeed all his Actions Secondly Contempt of His Majesties gracious offers even to the very face of His Messenger for when in February 1642 the King sent His gracious Letters to the Citie of Bristol requiring them not to give admittance to any of the Parliament Forces promising that Hee Himselfe would not impose any on them but what they themselves should desire together with the tender of many promises of his favour given in charge to Sir Baynham Throkmo ton whom he sent unto them for that purpose vet notwithstanding at that very instant in contempt 〈◊〉 say of this great vouchsafement The Major Richard Aldworth with Browne the Sheriffe two Boute-fues in perverting that Citie with some other their Associates did send foure peeces of Ordnance to Marlberough there to be imployed against the King And though Sir Ba●nham upon information given unto him did expostulate the affront with the Major and in the Kings name commanded the stay of them and though some of the wel affected Citizens having notice of it came and threw them off their Carriages because they knew that the intention was to imploy them against the King yetover-borne by a greater number who produced the Major and Sheriffs Warrant for their conveyance without let or interruption they were inforced to give way and thither they were sent Thirdly When in the beginning of March 1642. amongst other Proclamations sent to Bristol one was concerning the Kings Royall Navic invaded and possessed by the Earle of Wa● wicks and imployed against His Majestie and His Loyall Subjefts The King by that Proclamation forbidding all Sea-men and Mariners and all Officers of His Navie to take imployment under the Earle or to obey His Commands though Colonel Fines then Governour of Bristol could have caused that Proclamation to be suppressed and not published yet as much as he could to dishonour the King in the eyes of His Subjects He permits it to be

Proclaimed that thence he might take occasion to blaspheme His Soveraigne for being Proclaimed on Friday the third of March the next day Saturday being the chiefe Market day when the Market was fullest that the newes might be carryed into all parts of the Country and every one learne from so desperate an example to contemne their Soveraignes Commands Fines comes in his Coach to the high Crosse attended by a Troope of Horse and after a Declaration read That the Proclamation published the day before was a Scandalous and Libellous Paper and such as deserved to be burnt by the hand of a publique Hangman he caused the Serjeant that Ploclaimed it to burne it holding Pistolls to his brest and threatning to shoot him if he did not hold them high enough fearing it seemes that so damnable so unpardonable a Treason should want witnesses Lastly As the direct end of their desire to deliver up the Citie to the Kings protection was conscience of dutie to God and their Soveraigne so the reflected end was their owne securitie and quitting themselves of those Oppressions and Grievances under which they suffered And these were many First The often repeated Taxations and Loanes of Money unto the King and Parliament as they were pleased to joyne them upon the thred-bare securitie of the Puplique Faith and if any man refused to lend on that credit which they had banckrupted long before he was threatned with Imprisonment Plundring or which was worse then both sending up to the Parliament And to these may be added the dayly drayning their purses by illegall exactions imployed for repayring the Castle building of Forts and maintaining a Garrison against the King Secondly By urging upon them new and Treasonable Votes and Protestations If not fully in words yet in the the use and interpretation of them directly opposite to the Oath of Allegiance the Oath of the Citie taken by every Citizen when he is elected into the place of a Burgesse in which they sweare in the sixth Article of that Oath not to enter into any Oath or Confederacy against the king contrary to the Lawes of the Land and likewise contrary to the Protestation recommended from the Parliament to the Subjects of this Kingdome The Oath for the tenor of words was this following IA. B. doe protest and vow in the presence of Almightie God that I will to the utmest of my power and to the hazard my t se and fortunes oppose all such Forces as shall attempt any thing against the Citie of Bristol Without the consent of the King and Parliament so to doe In which Protestation they tooke the name of the King in vaine for when they say King and Parliament they meant the two Houses without the King for if actions bee the best interpreters of the Agents words it is more then manifest that by the Protestation they intended to ingage that Citie in Rebellion against the King and that under the tye of Religion And for proofe I offer first their seconding this Protestation with another which spake more plainly wherein they were to protest with their lives and fortunes to resist Prince Rupert the Lord Generall the Earle of Forth the Lord Marquesse Hertford the Earle of Newcastle Sir Ralph Hopton and their Forces and secondly because as before the tendring of this Protestation they had received Colonel Essex to Command there for the Parliament so within 2 few dayes after the first Protestation was tendered they admitted Colonel Popham and Sir Edward Hungerford with their Regiments and afterward Colonel Fines without any oppositiog that so now being backed with so strong a power they might make the latter Protestation the interpreter of the former Upon the Petition of Mistresse Majoresse the Lady Rogers Mistresse Holsworth Miresse Vicaris with other Zealous Sisters to the number of a hundred Thirdly By difarming all such as were any wayes suspected to beare a good and loyall affection to His Majestic unlesse they would take such Protestations as should be tendered to them and having taken away such Armes as they found not satisfied with this they urge on them another Protestation protesting in the sight of God and calling him to witnesse that they had no other Armes concealed in their houses either their owne or ohers and if any man refused to take this Protestation he was instantly imprisomed as an enemy to the State and a man not to be confided in Fourthly The perpetuall scorn and obloquy to which they were exposed reproached every day as they passed the streets with names of Malignants and Papists nay as if they had beene worse then Jewes they spit at them and threaten to take a speedy course with them Fifthly The generall contempt and prophanation of Gods holy Worship and Service rending of Surplices tearing the Booke of Common Prayer breaking downe Organs exterminating the whole Liturgy out of their Congregations and all these Out-rages not only winked at but countenanced and incouraged by Fixes and his fellow Rebells and that they might have Like People Like Priest They discountenance or drive away the Orthodox Ministers and substitute in their places the most infamous notorious Schismaticks that they can pick out of severall Counties as Tumb's of Limster in All-Saints in Master Williamssons Cure an Orthodox and godly man Craddocke Bacon Walter Simonds and one Matthew Hazard whom though f name last yet deserves to have the precedency of all the rest as being a maine Incendia●y in this Rebellion violently egged on by his Wise whose disciple the silly man is this gave occasion of scandall to all pious godly men which honoured the Protestant Religion as it is established and made them even to abhorre the service of the Lord. Lastly because upon the poynt they were confined to Bristol not daring to goe out of the Citie for in all places where the Commands and Ordinances of the two Houses prevailed they had given a List of the names of the Malignants that durst appeare for the King to the end that if any of them came thither they might be apprehended and sent Prisoners to Taunton Barkley Castle or some other Prisons or as Delinquents sent to the Parliament It was no wonder therefore that a Citie thus robb'd of its wealth and libertie groaning under an unsupportable yoke of bondage and ●yranny should endeavour by restoring the King to His Rights to restore themselves to their former freedome which could not be done but by breaking these bonds and easting these cords from them On these weightic motives therefore they enter into a loyall consederacy to deliver up the Citie from its captivity under the Rebels into His Majesties protection and that without shedding of one drop of blood if it were possible but most certaine without any resolution to Massacre the Citizens as hath beene most falsely both Preached and Printed for Master Yeomans and Bowcher both on their Examinations and after their Condemnation both affirmed that their was not any intention of blood-shed and in

the Examinations of Master Yeomans and others taken before the Councell of Warre at Bristol sent up by Master Clement Walker Usher of the Exchequer but since Advocate to that Congregation of Murtherers that adjudged these Innocents to death and Ordered by the House of Commons Die Luna 22 Maii 1643. to be Printed we thus read pag. 3. The King bad also assured us and given charge to Prince Rupert that no violence should be used to any which 2 doe believe was his full intent the 〈◊〉 for that I heare there came a Proclamation to that effect Where 't is observable that Walker a man that had his hands stained with his owne Wives blood before he dipped them so deepe in these Martyrs though in that contrived Confession of Master Yeomans he brings him in professing his Conviction in conscience of the justnesse of the Parliaments Cause when 't is knowne that if he would have recanted and contributed towards this unnaturall Warre he and Master Bowcher both might have saved their lives yet he dares not so to murther his fame after his person by charging upon him so bloody a Crime as an intention to Massacre his fellow Citizens 'T is therefore cenfessed on all hands That Master Yeomans Master Bowcher and others had an intention to cast out the Rebells and to deliver Bristol into the Kings possession resolving to secure the person of the Governour and some others of the chiefest Rebells but not to kill them To this purpose a Commission is obtained and sent to Master Robert Yeomans to rayse Forces and constitute Commanders for the Kings service Master George Bowcher contrives a Protestation to be taken by all that joyned themselves to this Association fully expressing the latitude of their intentions in that undertaking The Protestation is extant in Master Bowchers Examination taken by Walker on the 10 of March 1642 and published in the Booke before mentioned and is attested upder his owne hand which I have seene and was Written nor long before his death The Protestation was this IDee voluntarily protest before Almightie God upon the Faith of a christian That I will to the ulmost of my power and with the bazard of my life and fortunes defend my Dread Soveraigne Lord King Charles His Rights crown and Dignitie against all Force and Forces which are or shall be raysed within His Majesties Dominions without His Royall Assent Authoritie and Command Which was the summe of this pretended horrid Treason After communication of Counsells and many Messages interchanged betweene Oxford and Bristol drawing some of Colonel Essex his Commanders into the Combination who loathed and condemned themselves in their owne imployment it was resolved that upon-Monday the seventh of March 1642. Prince Rupert with a parte● of the Kings Forces should face the Citie on Durdan Downe distant not a full mile from the Citie and for the Association in the Citie their taske was to make good two Ports Proome-gate and New-gate who having seized on the Guards were to open the Gares and to signifie the accomplishment of the designe to the Kings Forces to make their approach by the Ringing of Saint Johns and Saint Michaels Bells Prince Rupert a vigilant and valiant Prince comes that Monday night to the place appoynted expecting the next morning by five of the clocke the signall to be given and the Ports opened unto him but that night whether by negligence amongst their owne or vigilancy of the Rebels is uncertaine the Combination was discovered and Master Yeomans Master Bowcher and divers others were that night apprehended in their houses having some armed men with them and were instantly committed to safe custody which bring signified to the Prince he immediately withdrew his Forces and marched away And now having them in their power they clap Irons on them tye them head and feet together commit them close Prisoners deprive them of all comfort to be administred by their Wives or Children or Friends and used them with that barbarousnesse and inhumanitie as cannot be imagined could be practised by one Christian upon another and after seventie six dayes hard Imprisonment oftest examination barbarous insulting overthem especially by Nathaniel Fines they were brought to their tryall at a Councel of War where Articles being exhibited against them by Advocate Walker they received Sentence of death what the Articles exhibited against M. Yeomans were may be collected out of the Sentence it selfe as we find it in pag. 4. of the before mentioned Booke of M. Yeomans his examinations published by command of the House of Commons which for satifaction of such as shall cast a compassionate eye on this sad story we have here inserted The Judgement upon Robert Yeomans UPon due consideration of the Articles exhibited on May 8. by Clement Walker Esquire Advocate to this Councell of Warre against Robert Yeomans and others the late Conspirators in this Citie and upon due hearing of the Answers and defence of the said Robert to the severall Articles and also upon examination and proofes before them taken upon Oath It is unanimously adjudged by this Court That the said Robert Yeomans is guiltie of trayterous intelligence and correspondency with the Enemy and of a trayterous and wicked conspiracy to betray this Towne into the hands of the Enemy and thereupon this Court doth adjudge and paste Sentence of death upon him as a Traytor and Conspirator and accordingly doth order That the said Roberts Yeomans shall be re●●rned to the place of his former Imprisonment and from thence be brought before the maine Court of Guard there to be hanged by the neck till he dye Nath. Fines Richard Cole Wal. White James Ford Joh. Clifton Joh. Chamneys Tho. Hippesly Martin Husbands Tho. Raulins Rich. Hippesly Tho. Eyre Tho. Goodere James Hean Tho Wallis Will. Bowel Robert Baugh To this bloody Sentence I have added the names of that bloody Conspiracy of Murtherers that gave it that their names and memory may stinke with posteritie and be loathsome to all Generations that shall hereafter read and bemoane the condition of their predecessour that groaned under the tyranny of a prevayling Faction of Br●wnists and Ana●aptists Mister Robert Yeomans being thus most unjustly condemned May 8. on the 22 of the same Moneth Master George Bowcher was called before Fines and the rest of that Rebellious crew which called themselves a Councell of Warre and that you may ghesse at the whole by some William Bowel was a Pedant and from whipping of boyes was made an unrighteous Judge of men James Heane a drunken Atturney and Robert Baugh a Sheep-skinne dresser who in the times of peace durst not come neare Master Yeomans but uncovered at a distance as his duty was now pluck'd off Master Yeomans his Hat commanding him to stand bare before him the Articles exhibited by Walker their Advocate were seven Recorded under Master Bowchers owne hand whereof the maine and first they insisted on was 1. First That he had framed a Protestation to defend the King

His Crowne and Dignitie against c. The Pro●… which you heard before 2. Secondly That he had raysed Men and provided Armes and Ammunition of all forts Crowe● of 〈◊〉 Pickaxes Axes and ●●on wedges with Torches and Linkes to further the Designe of suppressing the court of Guard at Froome-gate 3. Thirdly That he conspired with others to let in Prince Ruperr a forraigne Prince as they stiled him who being entred the Citie should put to death and plunder all the Inhabitants of that Citie that came not out to assist and joyne with them 4. Fourthly That be did undertake to give Prince Rupert a signall when he should make his approaches to the Citie by Ringing Saint Johns and Saint Michaels Bells 5. Fifthly That he certified Prince Rupe●t that the Designe of giving him entrance into the Towne was discovered and advised him to retreat 6. Sixtly That he forced a open the croud doore being a buriall place under the Quire under Saint John Baptist Church with an intention to use it for a Prison to secure such as sould make resistance whether they were of the Guard or others while they were in pursuance of their Designe Lastly That he had Looks and other Provisions to cleanup the passages at Saint Johns-gate in case any of the Parliament Horse should rush in upon them while the worke was in doing These Articles though maliciously expressed and a● gravated yet for the matter of them were drawne either from his owne Confessions or Depositions of others and upon these at the Lady Rogers her house he received the like Sentence of death as Master Yeomans had done before When the report of so illegall proceedings arrived 〈◊〉 Court though at first few men did thinke that their bold insoleney would goe on to put the Sentence in execution yet at last considering that they were in the hands not of honourable enemies but of Rebells and of Rebells that were Sectaries and which was more then both Rebellious Sectaries at the devotion of Master Fints who did command in chiefe and had strong influence on the rest The Earle of Forth Lord Lieutenant of all His Majesties Forces resolved to write unto Fines and that by way of Threat Pari p●ná exactá at hostes à superb● insolenti supplicio temperarent as Diodorus Siculus reports of Phi●ometus in the like case that by the menace of the like punishment on the Prisoners here he might stave them off from their intended crueltie on the Kings good Subjects there for thus he writes Patrick Earl of Forth Lord Etterick and Lord Lieutenant of all His Majesties Forces I Having beene informed that lately at a court of warre you have condemned to death Robert Yeomans late Sheriffs of the Citie of Bristol who hath His Majesties Commission for raysing a Regiment for his service William Yeomans his Brother George Bowcher and Edward Dacres all for expressing their Loyaltie to His Majestie and endeavouring his service according to their Allegiance and that you intend to proceed speedily against divers others in the like manner Doe thereso e signifie unto you That I intend speedily to put Master George Master Stevens Captaine Huntly and others taken in Rebellion against His Majestie at Cyrencester into the somecondition Do further advertise you That if you offer by that unjust judgement to Execute any of them you have so condemned that those now in custody here especially Master George Master Stevens and Captaine Huntly must expect no favour or mercy Given under my hand at Oxford this 16 of May 1643 To the Commander in Chiefe and the Councell of Warre in the Citie of Bristol FORTH Having received this Letter by a Drum and knowing the the great advantage they had by the meannesse and basenesse of the Prisoners in the Kings hands put in the ballance with those of the Kings in their hands while Earles Barons and the flower of the Nobilitie and Gentry were exposed to blew Aprons and Broome-men Fines knowing this advantage returnes this insolent Answer Nathaniel Fiennes Governour and the Councell of Warre in the City of Bristol HAving received a writing from your Lordship wherein it is declared That upon information of our late proceedings against Robert Yeomans William Yeomans others you intend speed'y to put Master George Master Stevens Captaine Huntly and others into the same condition We are well assured That neither your Lordship nor any mortall man can put them into the same condition for whether they live or dye they will alwayes be accounted true and honest men faithfull to their King and Country and as in a faire and open way have alwayes prosecuted that Cause which in their judgement guided by the judgement of the Highest Court they held the Justest Whereas the Conspirators of this Citie must both in life and death carry perpetually with them the brand of Treachery and Conspiracy And if Robert Yeomans had made use of his Commission in an open way be should be put into no worse condition then others in the like kind bad beene But the Law of Nature amongst all men and the Law of Armes amongst all Souldiers maketh a difference betweene open Enemies and secrei Spyes and Conspirators And if you shall not make the like distinction we doe sgnifie unto you That we shall not onely proceed to the execution of the persons already condemned but also of divers others of the Conspirators unto whom we had some thoughts of extending mercy And doe advertise you That if by any inhumane and unsouldier-like sentence you shall proceed to the execution of the persons by you named or any other of our friends in your custody that have beene taken in faire and open way of warre then Sir Walter Pye Sir William Crofts colonel Connesby and divers others taken in open Rebellion and actuall Warre against the king and kingdome whom we have here in custody must expect no favour or mercy And by Gods blessing upon our just Cause we have pawnes enough for our friends securitie without taking in any that have gotten out of our reach and power although divers of yours of no mean qualitie and condition have beene freely released by us Given under our hands this 18 day of May 1643 Nath. Fiennes President Clement Walker c. To Patrick Earl of Forth Lord Lieut. General When this tooke no effect the King gracious as he is and full of goodnesse His bowels yearning over the destruction of His worst Subjects takes the condition of these that suffer for him into his pious consideration and since Fines swaying the rest remained obstinare the King by a Trumpeter sends His Letter to the Major Aldermen and Sheriffs of Bristol commanding them to rayse the power of the Citie and imploy it to the resecue of these men designed for slaughter Thus He writes CHARLES R. TRustie and Welbeloved We greet you well Whereas We are informed That by the power and Authority of certain Factions and Rebellious Persons in that Our Citie of

their bodies to vex their righreous Soules instead of comforting them against the approach of death they refuse to condescend to so reasonable a request and impose on them Cradock and Fowler two Eunssaries sent to that Citie to poyson it with Schisine and Rebellion that so they might fill up the measure of their sinnes and ripen them for destruction Standing at the foot of the Tree that by and by was to beare fruit unto eternall iife it was observed by some of these Murtherers well skil'd it seems in the art Method of hanging that the Halters were too long or too short or else not ●yed fast enough some fault there was which the deaths man had directions to correct he obeying the directions of the chief Hang-man goes up takes off the halter● the people who came thither spectators of this bloody Tragedy standing at distance and not privy to the intention fondly conceited that certainly Colonel Fiennes had sent a Reprive and instantly expressed the greatnesse of their joy by the loudnesse of their Acclamations Never considering Fines his Extraction being borne and bred in a family Sworne Enemies to Monarchy and all that love it At last seeing the Guards stand fix'd and that this stay was but to make surer worke the Executioner fastning his instruments of death according to the directions given him by them whose journey-man he was The people as if strooke with thunder or blasted with lightnings stood amazed untill at last astonishment giving way to Compassion they sent out teares instead of Acclamations and exchanged their joy for lamentations All things thus made ready to offer up these Innocents sacrifices to the implacable rage of Fines and his fellow Rebells Master Rober● Yeomans is first commanded to ascend the Ladder thence to reach his Crowne of Martyrdome But remembring whose pictie it was in the middest of his sufferings to recommend his mother to the care of a Guardian being hiselfe to leave this world he first makes his addresse to his Father-in-law Master Yeomans and tels him that he had left him a Legacy viz. his Wife then great with-child and eigth small children the eldest not able to put on its owne cloathes and so with many imbracements left him and set forward in his way to Heaven And now being seated in that place of shame and Ignominy so it is in its own Nature where the goodnesse of the Cause doth not change the accursed Tree into a Theater of honour and finding himselfe made a spectacle to that Citie wherein he had lived in plentic and honour being Sheriffe but the yeare before in discharge of which office he was interiour to none of his Predecessors in bountie and magnificence which Colonel Popham and his friends by frequent experince know very well And from that sad prospect taking a view of many friends that could hardly looke through their owne teares to see him again And from thence too seeing some of a sarre different affection that rejoyeed in his sufferings and amongst them Robert Baugh the Sheeps-skin-dresser Fines his associate in the Councell of Warre in a devilish crueltie And let God that righteous judge require it at his hands stand jeering and mocking at him to his face here flesh and blood interposed which transported him to an expostulation bordering betweene Indignation and Submission saying Good God what have I done to be here But instantly sorry that humane fraileie should extort any thing from him ●ubeseeming the justice of his cause or the bravenesse of Christian resolution silencing suggestions of such ill Councellours he composed himselfe to speake something to the people His strength exhausted by long and many sufferings disabled him to speake much or loud yet willing to cleare hiselfe from that prejudice under which he lay of an intention to Massacre all that should adhere to the Two Houses which some mis-call a Parliament laying his hand upon his brest and fixing his eyes on Heaven the habitation of the God of Truth he made a solemne Protestation of his innocency from any such thought he professed his firme perswasion of the justice of that cause for the defence of which he suffered affirming that if he had more lives he would sacrifice them all to the service of His Soveraigne in the same way and therefore wee may justly wonder at the frontlesse impudence of that Clement Walker that should tell the world in Print That Master Yeomans did confesse that he was convicted in conscience of the justnesse of the Parliaments Cause But they that know the man and that poore stock either of Religion or Honestie which he hath need not wonder that he that before this Parliament made it his frequent Theame to declaime against Puritans should now judging them to be the prevailing Faction to indeare himselfe unto them first embrew his hands in this Gentlemans blood and then report him falsely to posteritie as if he had recanted that Loyaltie for which and in which he professed he dyed While he was thus speaking to the people Serjeant Major Langridge and Cliston call upon the Executioner to hasten the worke Nay they did not stick to interrupt Master Yeomans in his discourse and to goad him on the sides and thighs with their Halberts bidding him to contract and make an end hereupon he desired the witnesses of his suffering to sing with him the 130 Psalme which he sung with great elevation of spirit and servency of devotion knowing that presently he should be translated from this Bochim the valley of teares where we doe not so much as sing or sigh out our Hymnes into that triumphant Quire where with Angells and Archangells and all the powers of Heaven he should sing Halclujahs Anthems of Joy for evermore Having finished the Psalme and some other Prayers and amongst the rest instanly beseeching God not to charge his death upon that Citie nor require his Innocent blood at their hands prayed for his Persecutors and adjured his friends not to harbour a thought of revenge he began againe to make some addresse to the people challenging the world there to testifie against him if he had wronged any man and beginning to apologize for his Innocency even in the very cause of his death Langridge and Cliston the chiefe Hang-man under Fines their Master knowing how much his words might prevaile with the people and that one Martyr falling quickly springs up into many Converts caused him instantly to be throwne off hardly giving him so time as in some short ejaculations to recommend his Soule to God and now there he is under the Altar and ●oynes in that shrill cry that calls loud in the cares of God How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth Rev. 6 10. Being thrown off and his body swinging with the fall his Brother in-law Master John Haggat an honest Gentleman and of good qualitie in the Citie put out his hand to stay it

houses amongst which two were most famous far exceeding all the rest viz. Christ-Church Et hujus pertinacissimus amulus as Learned cambden speakes the eager rivall of Christ-Church Saint Augustines This Church by the injury of Sacrilege and time two greedy devourers lyes almost buried in its own Ruines presenting nothing else to the eye of the beholders but a sad spectacle how spacious ample a structure it once was when now a piece of it hath the honour to be stiled though seldome imploy'd as the Kings House But Christ-Church placed as it were in the Navel of the City rayseth it self to so great a Majestie and Statelinesse that Krasmus a man not too much taken with magnificence in this kind I am sure not doting on it sayes that this doth present it self with so Majestick State VI procul etians intuentibus religionem incutiat that it occasions that devotion which should be used there and strikes a sensible impression of Religion in their hearts that behold it though a far off and at a distance This Church built in old time as Beda sayes by the faithfull and beleeving Romans and by King Ethelbert given to Augustine in processe of time needed the like pietie to susport it as at first built it works of that nature in those dayes did not long lye neglected for want of Benefactors Lanfranke therefore the thirtie third Arch-Bishop of this Sea whether more famous for repairing of decayed Churches as this of Canterbury Rochester and S. Albans or his indefatigable pains in correcting the corrupt translations of the Holy Bible scattered every where through the Kingdom in his dayes is uncertain William Corbet or as others will have it Gorbois the thirtie sixth Arch-Bishop of the same Sea reedified the Quire and the upper part of this Church and the pietie of succeeding Bishops built joyned the Nave or body to the Quire and brought it to this magnificence and splendor in which wee now see it But what out forefathers thought Religion to build up we their degenerous posterity think Pietie to pull downe so that while some leading Atheists enemies to God and his Religion and reprobate to every good work are busie to Vote cry down Episcopacy with the Sacred Hierarchy Root Branch their Emissaries incouraged and set on by them first deface these Churches and in the next place will utterly ruine them ' that so the places where God is worshipped being demolished the revenue that maintaines the worship may become a prey to these Sacrilegious Cormorants But my God shall make them like a wheele Now how the Rebells behaved themselves in their first attempt in this kind on the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury under the conduct of Colonel Sandys I cannot better expresse then in the passionate elegancy of Reverend Doctor Pas●e one of the Prebends and at the time Sub-deane of that Church to the Earle of Holland the most ingratefull and most unthankfull of men My ever honoured Lord Did it not conduce unto the Publique I should not preume to interrupt your Lordships weightie affaires but the long experience of your Lordships 〈◊〉 for Religion and vigilancy for your universitie of Cambridge hath assured me of your Lordships Patronage of our whole Church in generall and as the case new stands of this Mother Church in particular 〈◊〉 spected P●… but have found much trouble from the Troopers sent among 〈◊〉 with what barbarousnesse they have 〈◊〉 themselves at Rochester and in other parts of this Countie I leave to the Relation of others and beg your Lordships patience onely to be informed what hath happened here with us and wherein I am more neerly concerned by mine Office in the absence of the Deane Colonel Sandys arriving here with his Troopers on Friday night presently casued a 〈◊〉 Watch and Sentinells to be set both upon the Church and upon our severall honses to the great affright of all the Inhabitants 〈◊〉 this done Serjeant Major Cockaine came to me and in the name of the Parliament demanded to see the Armes of the Church and the store Powder of the countie which I presently shewed him when her possessed himselfe of the Keyes and kept them in his owne custody the next morning wee were excluded the Church might not be permitted to enter for the performance of our Divine Exercises but about eight of the clock Sir Michael Livesey attended with many Souldiers came unto our Officers and commanded them to deliver up t●e keyes of the Church to one of their Company which they did and thereupon bee departed when the Souldiers entring the Church and Quire Giant-like began a fight with God himselfe overthrew the Communion-Table toare the Velvet-Cloth from before it defaced the goodly Screene or Tabernack-worke violated the Monuments of the dead spoyled the Organs brake downe the ancient Rayles and Seats with the brazen Eagle which did support the Bible forced open the Cupboards of the Singing-men rent some of their Surplices Gommes and Bibles and carryed away others mangled all our Service-Books and Books of Common-Prayer bestrowing tbe whole Pavement with the leaves thereof a misereble spectacle to all good eyes but as if all this had b●ene too little to satisfie the sury of some indiscreet Zealots among them for many did abhorre what was done already they further exercised their malice upon the Arras hanging in the Quire representing the whole Story of our Saviour wherein observing divers figures of Cbrist I tremble to expresse their blasphemies One said That here is Christ and swore that he would stab him Another said here is Christ and swore that he would rip up his bowells which they did accordingly so farre as the figures were capable thereof besides many other villanies And not content therewith finding another statue of christ in the Frontis●iece of the South-Gate they discharged against it fortie shot at the least trium●hing much when they did hit it in the head or face as if they were resolved to crucisie him againe in his Figure whom they could not hurt in truth nor had their fury beeme thus stopped threatning the ruins of the whole Fabrick had not the Colonel with some others come to the reliese and rescue the Tumults appeased they presently d●parted for Dover from whence we expect them this day and are much afraid that as they have already vilisied our persons and offered extreame indignitie to one of our Brethren so they will Plunder our houses at their returne unlesse the care of the Major the Colonel and some Members of the House of Commons Sir Edward Masters and captaine Nut now with us who have promised to present their knowledge to that Honourable House doe prevent the same Your Lordship will be pleased to pardon my hastie expressions which proceed from a grieved heart and I am confident the honourable Houses of Parliament being rightly informed herein will proceed against the like abuses and impieties in other places in the meane time we submit with patience

for his extraction and qualitie and likewise for his Estate to say nothing of his valour and resolution had they been Loyally imployed so it was among their chiefest cares to recover him of tho●e wounds which he received in their unchristian quarreil while therefore the Rebells army lay in Worcester which was about three weeks though then upon more strict searching his wounds in the opinion of the best Chirurgions they were not mortall yet whatsoever the Art invention either of the Physitian or Chirurgion could contribute to his recovery was not omitted when the Rebels army drew out to meet the King in their march from Shrewsbury which they did to their cost at Edge-hill the Colonel was committed to the care of his own Chirurgion then in pay under him John Anthony of London to whom as a witnesse and an assistant in the cure was joyned a Chirurgion of the Citie of Worcester Edward Marshall who though they both used all the art industry that possibly they could to effect the cure yet the difficulties every day multiplied against the means and in de●pight of their Balsomes his wounds did putrisie the flesh rot to the wonder of the Artists and the Scorne of their Art In so much that the Chirurgions after much varietie of means used much strugling with these growing-evils the cure still going backward as if their skil had bin imployed to widen those wounds which they pretended to close up were heard by many of the Citie of Worcester to confesse what Hippocrates syes every Physitian should first look after in every cure that there was S●… ri the hand of God in it that it was a peculiar judgment upon him that the cause of this putrefaction was more then natural nor were they without good grounds for this conjecture for besides the conclusions of their own Art directly thwarted experience on the severall parts of the body of their patient was a clear demonstiation those wounds in the upper parts of his body neare the vitalls and therefore more dangerous were cured long before his death but those in his thigh which were flesh-wounds asthey call them These were the Opprobria Chirargorum here the flesh did dayly rot and putrise and was cut away by degrees even to the leaving of the bones naked and stunk in so to loathsome a manner that as he was a burthen to himselfe so to his friends too and those that were about him being hardly able for the noysomenesse of the smell either to come neare him to doe the officers of necessary attendance or so much as to endure the roome where he lay so intolerable was the stench and so offensive Nor were the wounds of his body more insufferable to his friends then the wounds of his conscience to himself the gu lt of Rebellion wrought in him strong convulsions of Soule high distempers of mind yet that he might not sinke under the burthen of his wounded spirit a weight that requires more then man to support it he sent for Master Cotterell an Orthodox godly Minister and Parson of Saint Andrews in Worcester to Administer a word of comfort unto him in this his afflicted condition When Master Cotterell came unto him he found Obadiah Sedgwick that scandalous seditious Minister of Effex in private conference with the Colonel and Bread and Wine ready prepared for the Lords Supper Sedgwick having ended his discourse went to Prayers whereup in Master Cotterell offering to withdraw he was intreated by one of the Colonels servants to stay which accordingly he did Sedgwick having concluded his extemporary prayer took his leave and departed refusing to stay either to administer the Sacrament to the Colonel or to communicate with him of which refusall when Master Cotterell afterward desire to know the reason all satisfaction that was given him was That Sedgwick was not fully assured of the fitnesse due preparation of those that were to receive the Sacrament with him Desperate Hypocrisielwhatsoever he was perswaded of the preparation of the other Communicants 't is most certaine he could not be ignorant of the unfitnesse of the Colonel himselfe whom he himselfe in all probabilitie perswaded to returne with the dogge to his vomit and to justifie himselfe in that sinne of which but very lately he seemed to repent 't is more probable that that poore remainder of Conscience in Sedgwick not quite yet put away though it suffered him to betray in private a dying man to impenitency under falned pretences of what he in his own soule must need confesse to be a crying sin and inrowled by Saint Paul himself amongst those workes of the flesh which doe exclude from the kingdome of Heaven yet his heart might smite him and his conscience withstand him as it were to the face that he durst not seal that destructive counsell by delivery of the Sacrament Sedgwick being gone the Colonel willingly entertained conference with Master Cotterell to whom he made a generall confession of his sins and the grievousnesse of them professing his heartie repentance and sorrow for them But as the two pretended Houses of Parliament in their Catalogue of sinnes reckoned up in their Homily if without offence I may so call it and offered to this Nation as the subject matter of their solemre humiliation quite forgot Lying and Rebellion for some reasons best knowne to themselves so this Champion of theirs in his generall Confession made no mention of the sin of Rebellion which most nearly concern'd him and for which in all probabilitie he was verysuddenly to render an account to God a Confession most necessary both for him to make and the Minister to require before he could be thought a fit receiver of those dreadfull mysteries but after this generall Confession having received the Sacrament Master Cotterell commended him to the grace of God for that time left him and having by one or two visits after that as he thought gained some interest in the Colonel comming againe to him and finding him in a calme temper and judging it a fit opportunitie to inquire into his Conscience and found him what perswasion he now had of his taking up Armes against his Soveraigne he desired the Colonel to command his servants out of the roome that he might speake with him in private which being done and all witnesses removed but God and their own Consciences Master Cotterell prefacing his discourse with a solemne Protestation that in what he did he proposed no other end but the salvation of his soule demanded of him whether he were not sorry for drawing his sword against the King And whether he were not perswaded in his Conscience of the unlawfulnesse of it To which the Colonel replyed That he was persoeaded that it was lawfull having taken up Armes not against the King but for the King for his good to being him back to his Parliament to make him more glorious then any of his Predecessors and to redeem him from his evill Counsell rs and

this answer That if they would expect any Sermon from him they must permit him to appeare in such Ornaments as the Church and his degree required and accordingly did so afterwards Sandys and Seaton Comming ming towards the Church and hearing the Organs Seaton started back and in the usuall blessing of some of his Country cryed A Devill these Bag-pipes perhaps he never read so ●arre as Davids Psalmes where-it is written Praise God upon the Strings and Pipe Psal 150.4 or if he had it is more then probable that it had beene all one to him however this served them both as a pre●ence to cloake their Irreligion and refusall to joyne with that true Protestant Congregation While the Rebells were pulling downe the Rayles about the Communion-Table one of the Prebends of the Church Master Larken interposed and attempted to stay their madnesse by reason and perswasion but he quickly found that he did not onely prophane Reason by urging it to Saint pauls absurd unreasonable wicked men men made up of incongruities but that he did it to the hazard of his life for one of the Rebells instead of returning a reasonable answer discharged a Pistoll or Carbine at him to have murdered him at the very Altar but by the good providence of God he mist his marke Thus having done some spoyle that they might render themselves not altogether unprofitable to their partie and not daring for the present to doe any more for feare of losing that party which they hoped to gaine for that season they left the Church but into what further outragious Impicties their Schismaticall fury hath since transported them or what else they have practised on this Church to compleat their Monstrous Reformation is not yet made knowne unto us The third Instance which I shall give of the Rebells Sacrilege and Prophanenesse is in the Cathedrall church of Chichester Successor in the honour of being the feat of the Bishops Residence to Sealsey● for wilfrd Arch-Bishop of Yorke being driven into Exile by ●gfrid King of Northumberland retiring himselfe into Suffex and finding the South Saxons wholely given up to Idolatry his spirit like Saint Pauls at Atbens was stirred with in him and knowing the unprofitable servants doome that buried his Talent he Preached unto them the Gospel of Christ and Edelwalch King of those parts not long before converted to the Faith by the perswasions of wolfbere King of the Mer●ians● willing that the same saving-knowledge which he himself had imbraced should be imparted to his people seconaed the pious endeavours of wilfrid and therefore amongst other acts of bountie he gave the Arch bishop Sea●ey for the place of his ●sfidence Not long after Cedwilla Conquering Edilwatch built here a Monastery to the honour as Mamesbury sayes of S. Peter and erected the Episcopall Chaire where it stood fixt the succession of 22 Bishop or as others say reckoning wilfrid Arch-bishop of Yorke for the first the succession of 23 Bishops from the yeare 711. to the raigne of William the Conquerour 1070. at which time Stiganeus translated his Chaire from Sealesey to Chichester and so became the last Bishop of Scalesey and the first of chichester where the Eepiscopall power did flourish ever since untill now in these last and worst dayes wherein while the heads of a Rebellious Schismaticall Faction Vote down the Sacred Function and Order of Bishops their Emissaries are mad to deface if not utterly to demolish their Churches To this purpose the Rebels under the Conduct of Sir william waller entring the Citie of chichester on innocents day 1642 the next day their first businesse was to Plunder the Cathedrall Church the Marshall therfore and some other Officers having entred the Church went into the Vestry there they seize upon the Vestments and Ornaments of the Church together with the Conseerated Place serving for the Altar Administration of the Lords Supper they left not so much as a Cushion for tht Pulpit nor a Chalice for the Blessed Sacrament the Commanders having in person executed the covetoms part of Sacriledge they leave the destructive spoyling part to be finished by the Common mon Souldiers brake downe the Organs and dashing the Pipes with their Pole-axes scoffingly said Harke how the Organs goe They breake the Rayle about the Communion Table which was done with that fury that the Table it selfe escaped not their madnesse but tasted of the same fare with the Rayl and was broken in pieces by them At the East end of the Quite did hang a very fair Table wherein were written the ●en Commandements with the Pictures of Moles and Aaron on each side of the Table possessed with a zeale but not like that of Moses they pull downe the Table and breake it into small shivers 'T was no wonder that they should break the Commandements in their representation that had before broken them all over in their Substance and Sanction they force open all the locks either of doores or desks wherein the Singing-men layd up their Common-Prayer Books their Singing-Books their Gowns and Surplices they sent the Books in pieces and scatter the torne leaves all over the Church even to the covering of the Pavement but against the Gownes and Surplices their anger was not so hot these were not amongst the Anathemata but might be reserved to seculiar uses in the South crosse I le on the one side the History of the Churches Foundation was very artificially pourtrayed with the Pictures of the Kings of England on the other side over against them are the Pictures of the Bishops as well of Scalsey as Chichester began by Robert Sherborn the 37 Bishop of that See and the Series brought down by him to his own times at his own Charges who as he made that of the Psalmist Dil●xi decorum domus tui domins Lord I have loved the beautie of thy house his Imprease and Motto so he made it his worke and endeavour These Monuments they deface and mangle with their hands and swords as high as they could reach and to shew their love and Zeale to the Protestant Religion established in the Church of England one of those Misereants picked out the eyes of King Edward the sixt's Picture saying That all this mischiefe came from him when he established the Books of Common-Prayer On the Tuesday following they had a solemne Thanks giving for their successe in gaining that Citie Men of cauterized Consciences and given upto a Reproba●tesense thus not onely to take the Name of God in vaine but damnably to Blaspheme it as if he were the Patron of Rapine Blood and Sacrilege After the Sermon was ended as men not inspired by the holy Spirit of which they so much boast but possessed and transported by a Batchanalian fury they ran up and downe the Church with their swords drawne defacing the Monuments of the dead hacking and hewing the Seats and Stalls scratching and scraping the painted walls Sir William Waller and the rest of the Commanders standing

by as spectators and approvers of these Barbarous Impieties yet for feare left in this Schismaticall frenzy the sword in mad mens hands might mistake Sir William Waller a wary man as he is and well knowne not to be too apt to expose himselfe to danger stood all the while with his sword drawn and being asked by one of his Troopers what he meant to stand in that Posture He answered That it was to secure himselfe you know 't is written The wicked are afraid where no fear is for though the People made him an Idoll in London yet being no Popish but a Puritanicall Idoll for they have their Idolls and their Idolatry as much as the Church of Rome there was no danger to his person to be mistaken for an object of their Reformation at Chichester The same Trooper added also That if his Colonel in the Low-Countries were there and commanded in thiese he would hang up halfe a dozen of the souldiers for examples sake it no being the custome of the Low-Countries though long time hath made their enmitie inveterate and added much to the animositie of the parties to Plunder Churches it being amutuall stipulation between the Spaniard and the Hollander that what Town soever should by conguest passe from the possession of one Nation to the other though the Conquerour hid the free Plunder of the Towne yet churches with their Ornaments and whatever was conveyed into them should be invialable the church being sanctuary to what sover was under ●is Roo se and if they would have any thing thence it was to be purchased at a valuable price These good intimations of moderations from a man of lesse command but more Religion then Sir William prevailed nothing with him to restrain the outraigous madnesse of his fellow Rebells Having therefore made what spoyle they could in the Cathedrall they rush out thence and breake open a Parish Church standing on the North side of the Cathedrall called the Subdeanery there they teare the Common Prayer Bookes both those belonging to the Church and likewise those which were left there by devote persons which did usually frequent Divine Service and because many things in the Holy Bible make strongly against them one did contradict and condemne their impious practices they marked it in divers places with a black coale 't is more then probable that the 13 Chapter to the Romans did not escape their Index Expurgatorius for certainly if that be the word of God as undoubtedly it is they cannot so farre with-hold the truth in unrightenusnesse as not to read their doome in that word they shall judge them at the last day here they stole the Ministers Surplice and Hood and all the Linnen serving for the Communion and finding no more Plate but the chalice they steale that too which they brake in pieces to make a just and equall divident amongst themselves for an Engeneer of theirs Robert Prince a French-man with a wooden leg afterwards shewed the foot thereof broken off and when complaint was made of these barbarous out-rages Captain Keely replyed That he Know not whether all this were not done by Order or no. About five or six days after Sir Arther Haslerig demanded the Keyes of the chapter-house being entred the place and having intelligence by a treacherous Officer of the Church where the remainder of the Church Plate was he commanded his servants to breake downe the Wainscot round about the roome which was quickly done they having brought Crowes of Iron for that purpose along with them while they were knocking downe the Wainscot Sir Arthurs tongue was not enough to expresse his joy it was operative at his very heeles for dancing and skipping pray marke what Musick that is to which it is lawfull for a Puritan to dance he cryed out There Boyes there Boyes Hearke Hearke it Rattles it Rattles and being much importuned by some members of that Church to leave the Church but a Cup for administration of the Blessed Sacrament answer was returned by a Scotch-man standing by That they should take a wooden dish and now tell me which was farthest from a Christian either this impure Scot or that blasphemous Atheist who seeing the masty Plate and rich Ornaments wherewith the Christian Altars were adorned in the Primitive Church in indignation scorn of Christ beltched out Enquà preciosis vasis filim Maria ministratur Behold with what costly vessells the Son of Mary is served what further spoyle and indignitic they have since done to that house of God And the habitation where his honour dwelt is yet uncertaine Mercurius Rustius c. III. The Rebells defying God in his owne house their Sacrilege in stealing Church Plate and goods their irreverence towards the King by abusing his Statue their heathenish barbaritie in violating the bones and ashes of dead Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors in the Cathedral Church of Winchester c. THe next instance which I shall give of the Rebells Sacrilege and Prophanenesse is in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester which Citie as it was the Royall Seat of the Kings of the West Saxons in the time of the Heptarchy so was it the Seat of the Bishops of that people after Kenwalshus King of the West Saxons not brooking the Barbarous broken expressions of Agilbertus his Bishop divided this large Diocesse betweene Agilbertus and Wina and leaving Agilbertus to reside at Dorchester caused Wina to be Consecrated Bishop of Winchester Before we tell you by whom and in what manner this Church was robbed and spoyled of its Ornaments and beautie it will not be impertinent while it may serve as an aggravation of their impietie briefly to set downe by whom this Church was built and so richly adorned as lately we saw it This magnificent Structure which now stands was begun by Walkelinus the thirtie fifth Bishop of this See which worke left imperfect and but begun by him was but coldly prosecuted by the succeeding Bishops untill William of Wickham the magnificent Sole founder of two Saint Mary Colledges the one in Oxford commonly called New Colledge the other a Nurcery to this neare Winchester came to possesse this See He amonst many other works of Pletie built the whole Nave or body of this Church from the Quire to the West end the Chappels on the East end beyond the Quire had their severall Founders The hallowed Ornaments and Utencills of this Church being many rich and costly were the gifts of severall Benefactors who though their names perhaps are not recorded in earth have found their reward in Heaven This Church was first differenced by the name of Saint Amphibalus who received a Crowne of Martyrdome under the persecution of Dioclesian Next it exchanged this name for that of S. Peter and againe this for that of Saint Swithine the eighteenth Bishop of this See last of all it was dedicated to the Holy Trinity whose blessed name is now called upon it which Holy name though it could not but put the

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