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A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

it become honest and upright Christians Sons of Sion Testim pag. 4. l. 31 32 33. to pretend an exact Relation for preventing false reports with acouched obligation on mens consciences at least their brethrens to credit none but theirs and that too in a businesse of such moment wherein all Authority on one hand is concerned and some private persons on the other upon a tender point Reputation of the dearest kind conscience piety what not and yet to be so grossly partiall to the eye of every Reader as on their owne behalfe to put downe pence for pounds or better and on Authorities neither pence nor pounds at all Whom will not such proceedings put in mind of the people that made lies their refuge and under falsehood hid themselves Believe it 't is the easiest taske after this rate to justify the wicked and condemne the righteous with abundant plausibility that may be thought on Nere did the womb of Newgate deliver a viler wretch than by this method of procedure might die a Martyr and leave the blackest brand of Persecutor on his most upright judge that passed the sentence on him Surely the 9th Commandement but well considered and awfully received would have marred that claime that lyes so fairely now or foulely rather for falsehood in that paper §. 10. We are come at last unto the last Pretender that is Sedition 3 Sedition To pronounce it as the Soule that animates the whole would both prejudge the tryall and looke too like a passing ore those bounds then set when first the Champions were usherd in to play the prize Let the Reader only take that hint and pursue it further at his owne discretion Not to insist upon the plagues they threaten such as faithfully will serve the state Epist 2.8 If Scornes and raylings slanders and black censures upon Authority it selfe if these not cypherd but in words at length In vile revilings of Authority not single but in companies not once but oftentimes belched out may commence Sedition that Paper sure enough hath done all its exercise and is as well fitted for the faculty as a vagabond for the Stockes What think ye where it saies the souldiers had Orders from their Lord in the first leafe and one whom They call M. Gen. Bridges in the last Tush this is nothing take it by whole sale for t is not fit to be retayled Apostates Persecutors Traytors like Judas and a Sodomitish generation and this no further off than the two Epistles is the greeting which they give our Powers He that can find a fitter name than what I give this language shall quickly have me his disciple but whosoever thinketh their dark profession at the close of all against an actuall rising then both reason enough for seeking out another name and a sufficient security on their parts for keeping of the peace must give me leave to enter my dissent Most sure I am the blessed saints of God recorded in the holy Scriptures are not the Patrons of this ranting talke No we may learne from them it hath another father than that Spirit of holinesse meeknesse and humility which lodged in their bosomes If this be newes to any Reader let him remember what their character is who despise dominions Judg. 8.2 Pet. 2.10 Rom. 13.1 2 3 c. speake evill of dignities and resist the powers whereto the margent will assist him Let him withall consider sadly oh that themselves would do it to whom that Prophecy holdeth out the finger which telleth us In the last dayes perillous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their owne selves disobedient to parents despisers of others that are good 2 Tim. 3.1.2 3 c. Traytors heady high-minded and which is the misery all this under a forme of godlinesse but without the power and much more like it Believe it all the paint and varnish in the world improved by the rarest Artist for setting of such a rate of carriage as spirituall and divine will have alike successe with every wise and sober Christian to the greatest paines for washing white the Ethiopians skin which is proverbially called Labour in vaine No No with such a one as their complaining Testimony cannot be taken for a new Booke of Martyrs so neither is he able to shift of his saddest feares that such a spirit as breathes therein will do its best to prove himselfe no bastard to his Progenitors beyond the Seas Although it be his earnest suite at the throne of grace that an Almighty hand may dispossesse it of its hold in gracious hearts and plucking them as brands out of the burning frustrate its hopes and his owne feares together §. 11 By this time 2 By a just Narrative of the Author touching Reader supposing now thou hast as litle mind as I my selfe to medle in these Rivals quarrell thou art expecting a just compendium of that Affaire at Abingdon And I must professe there is so litle pleasure to me in the worke that were I not herein without a complement devoted to thy service a meere review of what is past already would bid me supersede all further information But for thy sake untill they please who wrote upon the place all passages worthy observation to gratify their Country with so small a Curtesy as the making publique of their notes I will attempt the pushing of the pikes to let thee share in part of that exact intelligence freely bestowed on me then absent as fell out though often there and alwaies living within six miles distance of the place by persons and my honoured freinds of Piety and Prudence Spectators of the Businesse Mr Pendarves Mr Pendarves his death late pastour to the Adversaries of Infant-Baptisme in that Towne having yeelded up the Ghost some weekes before at London and changed his many quarrels here for everlasting peace I am so perswaded from that intimacy some yeares agoe betwixt us in our fathers kingdome after some hot debates twixt his surviving freinds about his bodies resting place on earth was brought at last by water in a chest like those for sugar fild up with sand and lodged at a Grocers there to deposite the remaines of death where the service of his life had beene devoted This brought of persons of the same complexion with him in religious matters out of their respect unto his memory from most parts of the Nation and some the remotest a number of both sexes both far and neere very considerable The State tooke Item of the inconveniences the concourse of so great a people where disaffection to our present peace apparently predominates might start at such an opportunity Knowne to the state and prudently to prevent the worst assigne eight troops of horse under command to Major Generall Bridges to take up quarters at the very Juncture in Wallingford a Towne within the same County and upon the same river seven miles below the place forenamed All things prepared for

earnest to goe through with their businesse This was a Trouble to the Senate and somewhat did amaze them and therefore to prevent disturbance and farther danger the Preachers both of the Gospell and of Anabaptisme are commanded their appearance at the Court and some learned men together with them Then Rotman which he had conceal'd till now shewes himselfe and condemneth Paedobaptisme as a wicked and accursed thing But Herman Busch especially did so make good the other side before the Senate That they were by Publike Order Commanded forthwith to depart the City Yet when they Pleaded that they could not safely passe the Bishops Countrey The Senate both procured them publike faith and also gave provision for their Journey But they who long before resolved not to stirre a foot step privily aside into their owne Associates and lie close a while CAP. V. The Lantgrave sendeth Preachers A fresh debate appointed And the termes rejected by the Anabaptists MEane time the Senate e're they might againe appeare above board shut all the Churches up save onely one For it was feared least the Anabaptists whose number dayly did encrease should with their speakers Tumble out the Preachers of the Gospell from the Church Then in the moneth of November the Lantgrave at entreaty of the Senate sent them two Teachers Theodorique Fabrice and John Melsinger And this perceiving the disturbance startled also at the danger goes home againe The other vigorously admonished the Citizens to keepe a jealous eye upon the Anabaptists Doctrine After which rate he held untill the Anabaptists getting uppermost turned the others out of Towne as you shall here anon And that nothing might be wanting he drawes up a forme of doctrine Church-government to the Content both of the Senate and the People Then with the Senates leave Peter Wirtem begins to Teach againe But a few Sermons hardly over by Rotmans Instigation the Anabaptists cast him out Who now growing feircer challenge Fabrice and others to a disputation The Senate likeing it it was thought meete to have the businesse managed from holy Scriptures and other writings suting with them some honest learned men as moderators to be joyned who upon due Cognizance of the opinions and Arguments of either side should determine what they determined to be ratifyed So as at last dissentions laid aside peace might be restored to the Church But as for those Tearms Rotman and his fellowes would none of them When therefore they refused Publique Test they began to fall into a Generall contempt To wash off which staine they find another more compendious Course CHAP. VI. Popular Tumults And open Insurrection by Anabaptists A skirmish and agreement ONe of them like a man inspired runs through the City and cryes out Repent and be baptized or else the wrath of God will overwhelme you Here first began the vulgar Tumults And all that were baptized againe cryed out as he and in his Posture Many ensnared by their owne simplicity men otherwise Honest for that they feared the wrath of God whereof these made such noyse come in unto them and others too to save their stakes For the truth is the Anabaptists dealing coursly with their Adversaries did fairly turne them out of all This was about Decembers end And now againe these peepe out of their holes of whom I spake before Who with an outcry hurrying to the market place together command all not bapts'zd to be put to death as Pagans and ungodly wretches Then seiz'd they on the Magazine and Hall laying violent hands on many The others to defend themselves and theirs make good another Certaine Place within the City by nature fortifyed surprizing very many of theirs This skirmish against the Anabaptists that kept the Hall and fenced it round held till on giving Mutuall Hostages They came to Termes where by it was provided That every man should keepe his owne Religion goe home and live at peace CHAP. VII Anabaptists send to confederates abroad The City fills with them Poedobaptists mastered Anabaptists rule And fire the suburbs Banish dissenters And seize their estates ROtman the while and Bernard Cnipperdoling the very fore-man of that Gangue although they gave their good word unto this agreement yet by their secret letters to the Neighbour Townes encouraged all them of their stamp That bidding adeiu to whatsoever they had they should Post-hast be with them there looke what they left behind they should enjoy with Tenfold Interest Such ample and magnificent promises set on their way to Munster both men and women in the greatest Number with certaine expectation of enjoying greater matters The poorer sort especially that had not to live at home The Townes-men cheifly those of faire Estates perceiving how the City fild with strangers with as much Covenience as they Could withdrew themselves leaving behind the Anabaptists and the multitude This was about Shrove Tuesday in the moneth of February 1534. When the other Party had beene weakened thus The Anabaptists forme a new Senate of their owne Creatures all and Create a Consuls also Like our Mayors but they were too Cnipperdoling for one Within few dayes they set upon St Maurice Church in the suburbs and fire both it and all the building neare it Then rob they all the Chnrches and tare downe the inside of the Cheifest By and by they run on heapes through all the streets and first they cry Repent but quickly after depart from hence immediately ye wicked ones except you meane to lay your lives at stake Withall they are strait in Armes together and whosoever were not of their sect without more adoe they thrust them out of towne without respect to either sex or Age. So as indeed some women great with Child miscarried in this tumultuous and precipitant banishment Immediatly they seize on their Estates they had turned out And notwithstanding this befell the day before the Bishop did beseige the City yet of the multitude that were faine to leave it some falling into the Bishops hands were reckoned enemies others in danger of their lives and among the rest two Preachers of the Gospell He of whom I spake before Peter Wirtem being himselfe in danger was saved by the Mediation of the Lantgrave Others of the Townsmen that were good men troubled at this to see that if they left the City they were forced to run on present danger abroad upon compulsion in a manner and against their will did stay behind CHAP. VIII Community commanded All bookes burnt but the Bible A Smith jests on them and payes dearly for it ABout this time the fore-man of the Prophets for that 's the Title they do arrogate unto themselves John Matthew gave command that whatsoever Gold silver Moveables any man enjoyed on paine of death he should bring forth among them And for this Use there was a publique house appointed The people much amazed with the rigor of this Order Obey'd Nor was it safe for any man to fayle or to defraud them of

any part For there were two Girles posses'd with Spirits of Divination that discovered whatsoever fraud had beene committed Nor did they onely bring their owne Goods thus together but theirs also whom they had turned out of Towne they did convert to their owne use This done the selfe same Prophet did command that no man henceforth keepe any other booke about him but the holy Bible all others must be brought forth and abolished This was commanded as he said from heaven And thereupon Books in great Number heap'd together were all consumed with fire it happened that a smith about that time one Hubert Truteling had broake some Jest upon the selfe-named Prophets which being knowne they call the people and command the Souldiers to be present Instantly they accuse the fellow and sentence him to die The people were exceedingly astonished at the businesse But the fore-prophet whom I nam'd before layes violent hands on the poore wretch and with a speare stabd him lying flat on the ground yet without Mortall wound although he fell upon him with a mighty force Then he Commands him to be carried to another Place where snaching up a Gun from a young man by him with a Bullet shoots him through lying all along The fellow for all this not dying presently he tells them that it was reveald from heaven unto him that his time to dye was not yet come and God had shewne him mercy But a few dayes after the poore man ends his life That being knowne the Prophet all in hast catcheth up a long-sized speare and running madly through the City Cryes out that God the Father had commanded him to beat off the enemy from the City Approaching to the Campe a certaine Souldier that engaged him ran him through And though the error of his predictions was this other time discovered also yet had his Comrade Prophets so befool'd the men and put so faire a dresse upon the businesse to the vulgar that he was much desired and some Calamity presag'd impendent on them from the losse of such a Worthy personage But John at Leiden next Prophet to him bad them take heart t' was long agoe reveal'd to him that he should come to such an end And for the wife he left she should be his Within two daies of Easter they run into the Churches and set all the Bells in every Place a ringing Shortly after Cnipperdoling prophesyeth That those which were of the highest forme must be tumbled downe and others from the ba●●st bench and very dunghill be exalted Then bids he them demolish all the Churches protesting seriously that he had such command from God They all are at his beck and with their utmost diligence put in execution the Command he cals from heaven At the selfe same time almost Iohn at Leiden gives the sword to Cnipperdoling and makes him Hangman for such was Gods pleasure that He before who bare the greatest office and was Confull now take the meanest and be Hangman He far from unwilling with thanks accepts the office put upon him CAP. IX The Bishop craves aid of neighbour Princes and obtaines it The City stormed But Without successe WHen now the Bishop for some Moneths had beene himselfe at all the Charge of war against them Herman Archbishop of Colen and John Prince of Clev● sent ayd of money armes and some troopes of horse and foote The Archbishop of Colen goes also to the Campe himselfe to give advice And not long after they assault the City in certaine Places But when no hopes remained of taking it by storme they built seven fortresses to stop all Passage and Place some Colours of foote and troops of horse in every of them for winter quarters And to the end the siege and warre might be carryed on which equally concern'd them all the Bishop of Munster craves ayde of all the Princes and the Cities in the Province of Rhene as being next unto him For this there was a meeting called at Confluence about the 13th of December 1534. For Germany in the whole hath six divisions Franconia Bononia Suevia Saxony the tract of Rhene and Burgundy Within these limits of auncient course were reckoned all the Princes and the Cities one or other at Imperiall dyets At this day is division of the upper and the lower Saxony then also is there lower Germany Westphalia and Austria so that at present tenne Countries doe make up the Empire CAP. X. Leiden dreames three-dayes Creates Twelve Governours Proposes new Doctrins Leading Anabaptists seized by some well affected Who loose their lives for it AFter the fruitles storme John a-Leiden takes him to his rest and falls a dreaming three whole dayes space together When he awakes speaks not a word but makes signes for paper and therein Assignes twelve men some well descended in the Number to be over all affaires and as in Israell steere the whole For this He tells them is the heavenly Fathers pleasure And now when by the twelve a stirrup thus was made him to the Kingdome he falls proposing certaine Tenets to the Preachers and requires their confutation of them by the Scriptures where if they fayld he would referre them to the People for their approbation and establishment Of those this was the Creame That men were not obliged to one onely wife but if they pleased might marry many which when their Teachers did oppose He calls them with the Twelve unto the hall At their appearance there he puts off his Cloake and threw it with a new Testament on the ground by those as signes he sweares The Doctrine he had broached was revealed from heaven to him therefore sharply threatens them with the frownes of God upon them if they do not bid it welcome At last they jumpe and it was a full three daies worke for the Preachers Sermons to talke of Marriage He quickly gets him three wives one the great Prophets John Mathew of whom I speake before This leading case others were not long behind So as t' was reckoned for a credit to be often married But now some Citizens that could by no meanes brooke this trade by a token given through the City get all that loved the Gospell to a meeting at the Hall Then they lay hold upon the Prophet Cnipperdoling and all the Teachers The Rable at first notice of it run to Armes rescue the Prisoners and with cruell torments slew some fifty for tying some to Trees and stakes they shot them through The ring-leading Prophet making acclamation That he that would do God good service should discharge upon them first Others had other ends CAP. XI A new prophet declares that John a-Leiden must be King T is done Cnipperdoling playing Rex is put in prison ABout the 24 fourth of Juneup starts a new Prophet by trade a Goldsmith He having cal'd the People to the Hall declare it as the will and pleasure of the heavenly father that John a-Leiden should be Lord of all the world and that he marching