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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55771	Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ...	Price, Evan.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3332; ESTC R9214	10,406	15

And that he knew no way better to get a discovery of them both in Lancashire and Cheshire than to labour with the said Evan Price who being poor might by a good reward be brought to discover these and more having been so imployed amongst them which if he would then get the Judges to assure him of pardon and any reward he would desire If by this means they prevailed not then get some trusty friend that could act his part with a Phanaticks tongue to go to him as from Capt. Hogsons Wife Mr. Marsdens Wife his Brother Gamaliel and David Lombies Wife and Mr. Roots Wife and Joshua Bailey and his Wife with description of the place of their habitation and in case they could not get one that knew them and the place of their abode with certain tokens from them then to condole and lament his condition and perswade him to endure and so get what he could from him that way then leave this following Declaration with him and presently seize him therewith and so procure him to make a discovery to save his own neck The Declaration word for word was as followeth A Door of Hope opened in the Valley of Achor ●●e Title for the Mourners of Sion out of the North sent abroad to revive the Prisoners of Hope and awaken the dead Witnesses of the Lamb to prepare themselves to meet him in his Remnant on Mount Sion in judgment against the Mount of Esau and mystical Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth VVHereas several thousands of us 〈◊〉 Pre●●●e poor low worms and despised servants of our Lord King JESUS after earnest seeking of the face of our God by prayer supplications and conferences together with the Word and Prophecies of the Scripture as we were able in an obscure manner to understand the Lord's mind and our own duties especially the Work of our Day and Generation we are by inward compulsion of the Spirit of God we trust carried on to declare and make known our hearts so far as at present we are able to the Lords people and all others in the three Nations that love the Name of God Truth Peace their own posterity and the welfare of their Country That we are deeply affected with ●ounds and incensed at the daily Blasphemies which we hear against the Name of God his Son Gospel Tabernacle and those who worship therein At the most horrible-wickedness unheard-of openly committed in the Land and countenanced by those in Authority if not tolerated by Law yea much of it openly in Stage-Plays acted besides the common sins of Adultery Drunkenness Swearing Stealing and what not At the common Superstitious and Idolatrous wayes of Worship set up in the Nations with compulsion of the free-born Natives to complyance therewith and the sad Sufferings of such as for Conscience-sake towards God cannot by Imprisonments Excommunications Confiscations of Goods and Banishment from Countries and Relations At the loud cryes not only of the Saints in most Prisons of the Nation but also of the Innocent Blood of our dear Christian Brethren and natural Friends Neighbours and Relations unjustly taken away under pretence of Plots and Treasons like Naboth ensnared by the like trappanning-spirit as Jezebel used so that these as the Souls under the Altar do cry for vengeance in our ears to revenge their blood that the violence done to their flesh may be upon Babylon At the lamentable cryes of the Poor of the Land for want of Imployment through the decay of Trading by means of Excise Customs Monthly-Taxes Poll-money Chimney-money Gift-money and Subsidy-money all which is laid out in abundance but nothing brought in as if the curse which the Prophet speaks of were upon it or 't were put into bags with holes Hag. 1.6 Mal. 2.2 6. The swarming-in of Jesuites Priests and outlandish Papists to infect the minds of our Neighbours and in time to cut our throats if the Lord in mercy do not timely prevent them so invading our Country with such Idolatry as cost the Nation so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate and stopping the mouths of almost all godly Protestant able Ministers especially such as cannot in conscience comply with the Popes Canons in our Episcopal Devotions thereby making way for Antichrist the Pope if not at last to bring in the Turks upon us yet to bring us back into Romes Jurisdiction there to meet him and mock the Lord Jesus that gave himself for us And now though we cannot say that we are sufficiently sensible and humbled for our own sins which made way for these abominations yet in measure we desire to take shame † † O that there w●● such an● heart in them Deut 5 29 to our selves especially such of us as have defiled our garments in chusing of us new gods by being instrumental to bring these things to pass by our backslidings and revolts from the Lord to help the wicked and ungodly as Jehosaphat did Ahab 2 Chron. 19.2 and weaken the hands of our godly Brethren who in the wisdom of the Spirit foresaw the event and gave us warning betimes but now we desire no longer to abound in sinfull compliance as to stand by and behold our Brethren carried captives left we our selves be the first that may justly follow after Obad. 10.11 But we beg the Lord to abound in pardoning grace and give us hearts to manifest repentance by our returns to and zeal for the Lord and to help the Poor and Needy against the Mighty and not delight our selves in our own fulness and their miseries any longer but quit our selves like men seeing there is no remedy but death and destruction threatned or at least to live in a worse condition than slavery for such as desire to live morally in the Nation much more godly in Christ Jesus And we being taught by Grace and Nature to use all lawful means to defend our Lives Liberties Relations and Estates also satisfied from the Word of God that the use of Temporal Weapons of War is a lawful means of God's own institution in its time and that by the use thereof in the hands of Saints as one means the Kingdoms of this world must fall before they become the Kingdoms of our Lord of his Christ and having seen the Lord own them so evidently already We declare our selves of a ready mind when the Lord shall form and call us out thereby to hazard our lives and all that is or may be dear or near unto us for the reviving of the Good Old Cause And though we be perswaded we need not use Arguments to our Brethren who are called chosen and faithful in the Nation for assistance herein for we know they love not their lives unto the death but will follow the Lamb through the greatest difficulties Yet to our civil Neighbours and dear Country-men that would rather dye like Men than live worse than Slaves in their own native Land as many do who want

food and raiment which Slaves have in strange Lands We say Break your Plowshares into Swords Joel 3.10 and fight for your Lives your Wives Children and Houses Neh. 4.11 12. and come forth to help the Lord against the mighty with us who for satisfaction to all do declare ●●ter That we thus are resolved and shall As much as in us lieth labour to remove the aforesaid Grievances We shall to our power press after Purity of Life Doctrine and Reformation of Church-discipline according to the Word of God and the example of best reformed Churches as some of us long since have entred and as the rest of 〈◊〉 now enter into a solemn League and Covenant to pursue We are ready to stand up with lives and estates to maintain uphold and defend both Magistracy and Ministry for perfecting the foresaid Work of Reformation whether Monarchical or Commonwealth We declare that we shall secure the Lives and Estates of all that oppose us not herein as our own and that as well those who shall be passive as active herein to accomplish the aforesaid good ends We declare our selves void of a spirit of revenge for any wrong done to us nor seek we the blood of any but such as in an hostile way stand to oppose us and such as are guilty of innocent blood in the Land nor shall any other damage come by us to those who have been our greatest persecutors provided they manifest due and timely repentance We declare in the sight of God Angels and Men That having obtained our ends in these Islands we desire not to rest or sit still but be till we die acting for the destruction of Gog and Magog Pope and Turk with all their adherents preparing for Christs Kingdom to be set up at his coming by magnifying him as King and Law giver of Saints and Nations the conversion of the Jews with the fulness of the Gentiles which we pray God for aid and assistanc● in and let all that love the Lord Jesus Christ say Amen Even so com● quickly Rev. 22.20 And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying Come up hither Rev. 11.12 And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying The Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever ver 15. That about a fortnight after the Assizes Mr. Spencer the then present High-Sheriff came to the Goalers house and sent for me from the Prison assuring me of the reward Mr. Mosely and the Judges had promised me viz. a thousand pound in money or the tenth part of their estates against whom I should swear And in further confirmation thereof shewed me two Letters one from the Duke of Albemarle the other from Sir Henry Bennet whose Names he shewed me and my own Name also mentioned in the said Letters telling me withal that the Lord Delamere and Sir Rich. Horton were in the List But when he saw Rewards and Promises would not work with me he sorely threatned me with Death which he said would certainly befal me Many forged and indirect wayes were used to take away my Life at least my Ears in revenge For when Mr. Mosely saw all other wayes fail the better to uphold his own credit would at last transcribing those two Letters he gave to the Judges like my hand having got some Letters of mine perswade the Deputy-Lieutenants and others to whom he shewed them that I was the Writer and Forger of those Letters and so would have fathered the villany upon me but being compared with my hand-writing cleared my innocency the more to many that before suspected me Also there was one Enoch Eller of Manchester a Barber who by Justice Mosely was procured to swear with me had I undertaken it against any of the persons designed for destruction as himself confessed who had also sworn against me but God prevented him by detecting the like villanous contrivance and perjury against eight innocent persons who by Mr. Mosely's instigation he swore against but was convicted of his Perjury before Judge Turner the Summer Assizes 1664. being constrained to flee the Country to save his ears These my Sufferings and the grounds thereof being made publick and coming to the ears of some principally designed against the Lord Delamere sent particularly to receive information of the truth thereof from me which I did give him under my hand and seal attested before Justice Porter and transcribed by his Clerk and particularly of the proceedings aforesaid with Mr. Mosely the Deputy-Lieutenants the Judges and of their naming him to me in the chamber in particular amongst the rest that were designed against Which Information as I was informed the Lord Delamere transferred with a Complaint to London And that the return he had from thence thereupon was to this purpose viz. That the Judges denied they either mentioned or so much as heard his Name mentioned at that time or that ever they saw his Name in any List in relation to this business Thereupon the Lord Delamere and others concerned in the Report demanded my further Evidence seeing the Judges denied it But not being otherwise able to make out what was spoken by them to me in private before Justice Mosely I was threatned of all sides both by the Judges and others to be set upon the Pillory which probably had befaln me had not God by his providence brought it to light by Mr. Mosely's own confession to Dr. Fife at Mr. Greens a Tavern in Manchester four o● five persons being present who did there acknowledge to them that th● Lord Delamere was named to me by the Judges in their chamber This further confirmation coming to the Lord Delamere he was pleased the better to vindicate himself and to detect such vile practices to enter his Action in some of the Courts of Justice against Mr. Mosely bu● as I was informed had his proceedings stopt by Letters from London Mr. Mosely being enjoyned to make his Submission and ask him forgiveness Thereupon the Lord Delamere enjoyned Justice Mosely to set m● free which he did accordingly by his Agents Justice Har●ly and Mr. Haward before Judg Twisden in his chamber the Lent Assizes 64. following But afterwards Aug. 65. Sir Roger Bradshaw one of my former malicious adversaries meeting me near Wiggen stayed me and told me he would send me to Goal thereupon without any cause shewed took me to an Alehouse and commanded six or seven of his men to strip me under pretence of searching me for Letters though before in his presence I opened my clothes emptied and turned my pockets his said men used me very barbarously and robbed me of about 20 s. and though they could find nothing they pretended to seek for yet did Sir Roger detain me there as 〈◊〉 Prisoner about 14 dayes without any legal proceeding by Examination Warrant or Mittimus c. After Sir Roger with Mr. Holt tendred th● Oath of Allegiance to me and upon the refusing thereof sent me to the Common-Goal at Lancaster where I was kept in most cruel sort for several months lying in a cold open Room all Winter long and four Lock● turned upon me neither could I by any means procure a place to lie dry in Hereupon on the 16th of March 65. I drew up a Narrative of my former Sufferings and the grounds of them by Mr. Mosely's means then my latter by Sir Roger Bradshaws cruel and barbarous usage with a Petition to Judge Ransford the then Judge of the Assizes beseeching him to tende● the same to the King so eminently concerned therein which was read to the Judge the principal heads confirmed by some persons of quality as I was told which the Judge gave to Sir Roger to make his Exception● against either me or it which though I after urged him to in open Cour● where in the face of the Country I laid open their wicked carriages he could not do Only he said I had refused to take the Oath and that Mr. Mosely whom he set forth to be a very worthy Gentleman was for the present absent whom I had greatly abused in my Narrative And therefore desired I might be bound over to the next Assizes to answer Mr. Mosely for the injury I had done him which was done accordingly and I continued Prisoner til the next Assizes when with much ado I procured liberty to appear in the Court by a Petition to Judge Turner Mr. Mosely being present making no reply at all hereupon the Judg ordered me to be set at liberty Thus was the snare broken and I escaped THE END