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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

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

blush to make a free and an ingenuous acknowledgement In these severall Relations what to retract or recall of the Rebels cruelties I yet know nothing but what to adde unto them I doe The sixt weeks Mercury told you of the Plundering of Willingbo●ow in Northampton-shire by the Rebels and the taking of Master Iones Vicar of that Towne Prisoner and in tha● account which I there gave of him I left him in Captivitie at North●mpton since that Mercury went abroad some good body finding that Relat●on to come far short of th●t barbarous usage which Master Iones found from the Rebels moved either with detestation of such inhumane cruelt●e not to be bu●yed in oblivion or out of affection to his person murthered by these savage Monsters hath supplyed the former defect and enabled me to bring this Story to its sad conclusion Master Iones was a man very aged being arrived at that Terme which Moses made the usuall boundary of mans life in his life Threescore and ten and had not these bloodthi●stie men shortned his dayes by an untimely death he might have been so strong as to come to fourescore yeares and though age it self be a disease which yet few men that have it are willing to be cur'd of it pleased God to adde a casuall infirmitie to his naturall for some two yeares since by a fall he unhappily broke his leg of which he continued lame to his death When the Rebells those Locusts that devoure all the good things of the Land came to Wellingborow having ransacked the Towne they took many Prisoners and amongst the rest Master Jones all that knew him must beare him record that he was a man of a most unblameable life and conversation an able Scholler and extraordinarily gifted for Preaching of which he gave ample proofe by his Labours diligently bestowed among his Parishioners by the space of forty years having h●m in their power whom they knew to be a great meanes by his Orthodox Preaching to keepe that Towne and some parts thereabouts in Obedience when the rest of the Countrey were in Rebellion against their Soveraigne they neither reverence his Calling nor honour his age nor pittie his infirmitie but abuse him by scosse● and jeeres and compell him to goe on foot a great part of the way lame and weak as he was betweene Wellingborow and Northampton and that he might keepe pace with the rest they compell him to make more speed then his infirmitie could brooke At Wellingborow the Rebells murthered a Barber and stole away his Beare and when they could not force this reverend old man to mend his pace Lieutenant Grimes a desperate Brownist the master of this mis-rule and the chiefe agent in inflicting all this scor●e and tyranny on Master Jones but since a pr●soner in Banbury Castle to see if feare would adde to his strength forceth the Beare upon him which running betweene his legs took him upon her back and laying ande the intractablenesse of its Nature grew patient of her burden and to the astonishment of the beholders carried him quietly so that what was intended as a violence became his ease The Rebels overcome by so unusual an example of kindnesse the savage Bea●e reproving the madnesse of their fury they remove Master Io●es from off the Beare to a Horse but such a Horse as did but vary not better the condition of his transportation One of the rout observed to be extreamely active in all these insolencies and to have a hand in murthering the Barber seeing the tamenesse of the Bear as quiet under Master Iones as if she had bin accustomed to the Saddle prefumes that it was no more but up and ride and presently bestrides the Beare who as if she had been of that race that did revenge the Prophet Elis●as quarrell dismounts the bold Rider and as if she had bin rob'd of her whelps did so mangle rend and tear him with her teeth and pawes that the presumptuous wretch dyed of these hurts suddenly after Stay Reader suspend thy opinion be not too hastie I professe ingenuously the relation seemes at first blush to partake something of the Romanse or at best to be but an imitation of some Popish Legend as if we meant to implo●e the help of seyned miracles to gain credit to a partie but against all this prejudice I must oppose first the Integritic and qualitie of the Relator being beyond all exception and affirms it on his credit Secondly why may not God stop and open the mouth of the Bear now as well as the Lyons heretofore ● to revenge the indignities offered to a Minister under the Gospel by the same creature as those offered to a Prophet under the Law Or lastly why may not the blood of him that owned this Beast be required by this Beast of him that had his hand in shedding it This was not the first time that God gave commission to the Brute to execute his vengeance But I forget my selfe my businesse is to relate things done not to encounter Objections against their probability of doing To goe on therefore Having brought Master Iones to N●●thampton his entertainment there was as bad as his usage in the way thither though it were in the depth of Winter when old age needed good fortifications of Lodging and Dyet against the incursions of Cold and Wet yet they afford him nothing but a hard mat with a little straw under him and to cover him and to keep him warme nothing but one Blanket and his own wearing clothes As for his food they give him the bread of afflict on d●●ying his owne friends leave to supply him with competent dyet to sustaine nature and his growing infirmities yet to shew that Man lives not by bread onely but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God it pleased his good providence to preserve him like the young children in Daniel fed only with Pulse so that he was in good plight and seemed to want nothing though he continued in this distressed condition from Christmas to almost Easter about which time not remorse of conscience for so much cruelty practiced on a decrepid old man but an Orthodox Reverend Divine but importunitie of friends prevailed with the Rebells to release him of his imprisonment in Northampton and to remit him to a neighbour Ministers of his one M. Walters Bachelor in Divinitie Vicar of Doddington neer Wellingborow a very learned and industrious Preacher and permitted him to Officiate in his owne Cure at Easter there being but one Parish Church in the Towne but no lesse then two thousand Communicants Having licence to visit his Charge not awed by that Tyrannous usage which he had undergone Conscience of his duty doth presse him to a punctuall observance of the Orders and Canons of the Church he Celebrates Divine Service according to the Book of Common Prayer preacheth Obedience as boldly as if there had been no Rebells in Northampton-shire administreth the Sacraments with the same

Reverence Decency and Devotion as if there had been no Puritans in Wellingborow Nor doth the undaunted old man remit any thing enjoyned by Canon or Rubrick This constancy of his so incen●ed the Schismaticall Puritanicall partie of the Towne that complaint is made at Northampton that M. Jones is the same man he was as much a true Son and Minister of the Church of England as ever Upon this information he is apprehended in Easter week and carryed Prisoner to Northampton a second time where they use him with more inhumanity if it be possible then before they will not permit his wife to visit him and kept him so short in h●s dyet not suffering his wife or friends to relieve him that most barbarously they starved him to death for about Whitsontide his spirits exhausted and his body pined by famine the good old Martyr resigned his soule to God There is in Northam●ton one John Gifford for his extraction the Hogge-herds sonne of Little-Hougton for his education a Knitter ●fterward a Hose-buyer now Major of Northampton and Colonel of the Towne Regiment This man to his power Civill and Martiall assumes an Ecclesiasticall Superintendency too and orders what formes shall be used in Baptis●e the Lords Supper Buryall of the Dead and the like When therefore they came to interre the skin and bo●●s of this starved Martyr for flesh he had none the forme enjoyned by this Gifford was the same which one Brookes a London Lecturer used at the buriall of Jo●n Gough of S. Iames Dukes place within Algate in London viz. Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Here 's the Pit and in you must The World may in this see what devout Liturgies we are like to have when a Major of a Towne shall suppresse the An●ient Pious Formes and introduce rime doggerels fitter for a painted Cloth in an Ale-house then the Church of Christ Before I leave this particular Relation I must not forget to tell you one act of these Religious Reformers being at Wellingborow at the Signe of the Swan two Maid-servants making a bed some of these Rebels did sollicite them to Incontinency but the Maids refusing to hearken to their beastly sollicitations they began to offer violence and to inforce what they could not perswade they still making resistance they shot one of them dead in the place and shot the other through the wrist such Monuments of Religion and Puritie do these blessed Reformers leave at all places where they come Master Frederick Gibb Parson of Hartist in Suffolke in Morning Prayer before Sermon desired his Parishioners to give attention to one of His Majesties Declarations newly set forth with an expresse Command to have it Published in all Parish Churches thereby to rectifie the people and to wipe off those false Impressions which the Incendiaries of the Kingdome had made in them concerning the Kings Actions Intentions whereupon one Master Coleman a Parishioner being present impudently replyed unto him openly in the Church that he might be ashamed to abuse the people by Reading His Majesties Declarations unto them and therefore he would fetch him some Parliament Declarations which were a great deale better to be Published unto them while this rayling Rabshekeh reviled his Soveraign Master Gibb as it he had received the Command in that case given answers him not made no reply at all but as not heeding this snarler calls on the Congregation a second time to give attention Coleman interrupts him againe and in a scoffing manner sayes well then Sir you meane to be an obedient Servant to his Majestie Master Gibb then thinking it not onely seasonable but necessary to professe his Loyalty replyed yes Sir I am and hope to continue a faithfull Servant unto Him as long as I live and so proceeds to read the Declaration the People notwithstanding all this Incouragement from Coleman to contradict with them standing very attentive to heare it The main drift of the Kings Declaration was to assure all His loving Subje●ts That as He expected that they should make the Laws the rule of their obedience so He would make the Laws the guide of His government Master Gibb having published the Declaration Coleman stands up and most Traiterously replyed to his Parson well Sir the King neither is nor shall be Iudge of the Law what ever such prating fello●e● as you would have him after this being inraged as the rest of that Faction are that the peoples eyes should be opened or that they should being truely informed conceive of the King as he is a most just and pious Prince but still to look on him and all his actions through those false Perspectives of slander and falsehood which they hold before their eyes Coleman speeds to London and complaines to that Conventicle which call themselves a Parliament against Master Gibb for so foule an Affront put upon them by publishing the Kings Declaration presently being servilely Observ●nt to every base informer they dispatch severall Pursevants to apprehend Master Gibb he seeing the storme comming as wise men doe hides himselfe after sometime of retirement advised unto it by his friend he goes to London where by the great mediation of friends and paying fees to the summe of 30 l. he was dismissed upon engagement to be forth-comming whensoever they should call for him There is none so insolent and intolerable as a base meane man started up into Command or Authoritie we cannot give you a greater Instance then in That beggerly Captain Ven Citizen of London made Colonel Commander in chief of Windsor Castle who doth not onely assume to himselfe the propriety of his Soveraignes house dating his Letters to Iezabel his wife From our Castle at Windsor and building some additions to the Deanes Lodgings as if he meant to set up his rest there and make that his habitation when no place in that Royall Castle is fit for such a Couple but the Cole-house and even that too good for them but as if there would never come a time to call him to an account he doth use the Gentlemen and Souldiers taken by the Rebells and sent Prisoners thither with that crueltie and inhumanitie as if they were Turkes not Christians for the Gentlemen that are Prisoners there are not onely kept from Church nor permitted to receive the Sacrament neither from their owne Preachers nor from any friend whom they could procure to doe that office for them nay they were not permitted to joyne together in devotions in their private lodgings but each man a part and if this pettie Tyrant could have hindered that intercourse which every particular devout Soule injoyes with his God this Ath●●st would have hindered that too And because the sedentary Solitary Lives which they led there were prejudiciall to their healthes they earnestly entreated Ven that they might recreate themselves in the Tennis Court near the Keep and offerred to be at the charges of a Guard if those high walls and the many guards about them were not