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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

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-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