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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

Rebells in mind whose possession and house it was did not at all afford it patronage and protection from their accursed rage and madnesse The Rebells under the Conduct of Sir William Waller fate downe before the Citie of Winchester on Tuesday the 12 of December 1642. about twelve of the clock and entred the City that afternoon between two and three being Masters of the City they instantly fall upon the Close under a pretence to learch for Cavaliers They seize upon the Prebends Horses and demand their persons with many threatning words That night they brake into some of the Prebends Houses such houses as they were directed unto by their Brethren the Seditious Schismaticks of the City and Plundered their goods But the Castle not yet surrendred into the Rebels hands something awed their insolency which being the next day delivered up to their power did not only take away the restraint which was upon them but incouraged them without check or controule to rob and defie both God and all good men Wednesday therefore and Wednesday night being spent in Plundring the Citie and Close on Thursday morning between nine and ten of the clock houres set apart for better imployments and therefore purposely in probabilitie chosen by them being resolved to prophane every thing that was C●nonicall violently break open the Cathedrall Church and being c●rred to let in the Tyde they presently open the great West doores where the Barbarous Souldiers stood ready nay greedy to rob God and pollute his Temple The doores being open as if they meant to invade God himselfe as well as his prossession they enter the Church with Colours flying their Drums beating their Matches fired and that all might have their part in so horrid an attempt some of their Troops of Horse also accompanied them in their march and rode up through the body of the Church and Quire untill they came to the Altar there they begin their work they rudely pluck done the Table and break the Rayle And afterwards carrying it to an Ale-house they set it on fire and in that fire burnt the Books of Common Prayer and all the Singing books belonging to the Quire they throw down the Organs and breake the Stories of the Old and New Testament curiously cut out in carved work beautified with Colours and set round about the top of the Stalls of the Quire from hence they turne to the Monuments of the dead some they utterly demolish others they deface They begin with Bishop Fox his Chappell which they utterly deface they break all the glasse Windows of this Chappel not because they had any Pictures in them either of Patriarch Prophet Apo●●le or Saint but because they were of painted coloured-glasse They demolish and over-turne the Monuments of Cardinall Beaufort sonne to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Katberine Swinsort Founder of the Hospitall of Saint Crosse neare Winchester who fate Bishop of this see fortie three years They deface the Monument of William of Wainslet Bishop likewise of Winchester Lord Chancellour of England and the Magnificent Founder of Magdalen College in Oxford which Monument in a gratefull pietie being lately beautified by some that have or lately had relation to that foundation made these Rebels more eager upon it to deface it but while that College the unparalleld example of his bountie stands in despight of the malice of these inhumane Rebels William of W●inslet cannot want a more lasting Monument to transmit his memory to posterity from hence they goeito Queen Maries Chappel so called because in it she was married to King Philip of Spaine here they brake the Communion Table in pieces the Velvet Chaire Whereon she fate when she was married They attempted to deface the Monument of the late Lord ●reasurer the Earle of Portland but being in Brasse their violence made finall impression on it therefore they leave that and turne to his Fathers Monument which being of Stone was more obnoxious to their fury here mistaking a Judge for a Bishop led into the error by the resemblance or counterfeit of a square Cap on the head of the Statua they strike off not onely the Cap but the head too of the Statua and so leave it Amongst other Acts of Bountie and Pietie done by Richard Fox the fiftie seventh Bishop of this Sc● he covered the Quire the Presbytery and the ●sles adjoyning with a goodly Vault and new glazed all the windowes of that part of the Church and caused the bones of such Kings Princes and Prelases as had beene buried in this Church and lay dispersed and sca●tered in severall parts of the Cathedrall to be collected and put into severall Chests of Lead with inscriptions on each Chest whose bones lodged in them These Chests to preserve them from rude and prophane hands he caused to be placed on the top of a wall of exquisite workmanship built by him to inclose the Presbytery there never to be removed as a man might thinke but by the last Tr●●pe did rest the bones of many Kings Queens as of Alfredus Edwardus Seni●n ●adredus the brother of Athelstane Edw●●us C●●●tus tus Hardicanutus Emma the Mother and Edward the Confessor her Sonne kinigliss●s the first founder of the Cathedrall of Winchester Egbert who abolishing the Heptarchy of the Saxons was the first English Monarch william Ruf●s and diverse others with these in the Chests were deposited the bones of many G●dly Bishops and Confessors as of Birinus Hedda Swithinus Frithestanus Saint Elphegus the Confessor Stigandus wina and others Had not the barbarous inhumane impietie of these Schismaticks and Rebells ●hewed the contrary we could not have imagined that any thing but the like Pietie that here inshrined them or a Resurrection should ever have disturbed the repose of these venerable yet not Popish Reliques But these Monsters of men to whom nothing is holy nothing is Sacred did not stick to prophane and violate these Cabinets of the dead and to scatter their bones all over the pavement of the Church for on the North side of the Quire they threw down the Chests wherein were deposited the bones of the Bishops the like they did to the bones of William Rufus of Queene Emma of Hardicanutus and Edward the Confessor and were going on to practise the like impietie or the bones of all the rest of the west Saxon Kings But the Out-cry of the people deresting so great inhumanitie caused some of their Commanders more compassionate to these ancient Monuments of the dead then the rest to come in amongst them and to restraine their madnes But that dive●●sh malice which was not permitted to rage and over flow to the spurning trampling on the bones of all did ●atiate itselfe even to a prodigious kind of wantonne●le on those which were already in their power And therefore as it they meant if it had been possible to make these bones contract a Pesthume guile by being now made passive Instruments of more then heathenith

of Bullingbrook objects that he is a man of a malignant spirit that he hath great interest in the affections of the people amongst whom he lives and therefore if inlarged and remitted home may doe much prejudice to the good Cause in hand upon these just and weightie Considerations M. Thorne is remanded to the Fleet ●nce that time he hath used the assistance of many friends drawn many Petitions humbly desiring that he might be heard or if the great affaires of State would not afford their Lordships so much leasure that he might have leave upon bayle to goe down to attend his Cure untill their Lordships should please to call for him but was so farre from obtaining his desire that he could never get so farre towards it as have his Petition read His Parishioners sensible of his oppression and their own injury being bereaved of the comfort and labours of their owne Pastor sent up a Petition subscribed with three hundred hands to the same effect that Justice might have a free uninterrupted course either to condemn or absolve him but all in vain so that for ought we yet understand he is still a Prisoner and for any thing we are yet informed to the contrary he is without hopes for enlargement though his Judges have pronounced him innocent And now would you know the true cause of all this oppression Know then that it is possible for the high Court of England to be made the instrument of private revenge for Sir Samuel Luke divers yeares since suing M. Thorne in the Star-Chamber it was M. Thornes unhappines to get the day of him an injury which Sir Samuel could never forget and did now revenge it by the help of the Earle of Bullingbrooke the Lord Saint Johns sonne and his own interest in the house This story hath beene attested by some that were both care and eye witnesses of these particulars and let me be substituted Prisoner in M. Thornes place if he for ought I know know any thing that I know this or intended to make it knowne to the World Mercurius Rusticus c. V. Warder Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Arundel agasinst Sir Edward Hungerford and his power his perfidiousnesse in breaking the Articles of Surrender his barbarous usage of the Lady her children and goods Master John Bykar a Vicars sonne murthered at Coventry Master Abraham Haynes robbed abused and unjustly committed c. ON Tuesday the second of May 1643. Sir Edward Hungerford a chiefe Commander of the Rebells in Wil●shire came with his Forces before Warder Castle in the same Countie being the Mansion house of the Lord Ar●ndel of Warder But finding the Castle strong and those that were in it resolute not to yeeld it up unlesse by force called Colonel St●ode to his helpe Both these joyned in one made a Body of 1300 or thereabout Being come before it by a Trumpete● they summon the Castle to surrender The reason pretended was because the Castle being a Receptacle of Cavaliers and Malignants both Houses of Parliament had ordered it to be searched for Men and Armes and withall by the same Trumpeter declared that if they found either Money or Plate they would seize on it for the use of the Parliament The Lady Arundel her husband being then at Oxford and since that dead there refused to deliver up the Castle and bravely replyed that she had a command from her Lord to keepe it and she would obey his command Being denyed entrance the next day being Wednesday the third of May they bring up the Cannon within Musket shot and begin the Battery and continue it from the Wednesday to the Monday following never giving any intermission to the besieged who were but 25 fighting men to make good the place against an Army of 1300. In this time they sprung two Mines the first in a vault through which Beer and Wood and other necessaries were brought into the Castle this did not much hurt it being without the foundation of the Castle The second was conveyed into the small Vaults which by reason of the intercourse betweene the severall passages to every office and almost every roome in the Castle did much shake and indanger the whole fabrick The Rebels had often rendred some unreasonable conditions to the besieged to surrender as to give the Ladies both the Mother the Daughter in Law and the women and children quarter but not the men the Ladies both infinitely scorning to sacrifice the lives of their Friends and Servants to redeem their own from the crueltie of the Rebells who had no other crime of which they could count them guilty but their fidelity and earnest endeavours to preserve them from violence and robbery choose bravely according to the Noblenesse of those Honourable Families from which they are both extracted rather to dye together then live on so dishonourable terms But now the Castle brought to this distresse the defendants few oppressed with number tired out with continuall watching and labour from Tuesday to Monday so distracted between hunger and want of rest that when the hand endeavored to administer food surprized with sleep it forgat its imployment the morsells falling from their hands while they were about to eate deluding their appeties now when it might have beene a doubt which they would first have laded their musquets withall either Powder before Bullet or Bullet before Powder had not the Maid servants valiant beyond their Sex assisted them and done that service for them Lastly now when the Rebels had brought Petars and applyed them to the Garden doore which if forced opened a free passage into the Castle and balls of wild-fire to throw in at their broken windowes and all hope of keeping the Castle was taken away now and not till now did the besieged found a Parley And though in their Diurnals at London they have told the world that they offered threescore thousand pounds to redeem themselves the Castle and that it was refused yet few men take themselves to be bound anything the more to beleeve it because they report it I would Master Case would leave preaching Treason and instruct his Disciples to put away lying and speake every man truth with his neigbbour certainly the world would not be so abused with untruths as now they are amongst which number this report was one for if they in the Castle offered so liberally how came the Rebels to agree upon Articles of Surrender so far beneath that overture for the Articles of Surrender were these First that the Ladies and all others in the Castle should have Quarter Secondly that the Ladies and servants should carry away all t●eir wearing ●pparell and that six of the S●rving men whom the Ladies should nominate should attend upon their persons whereso●ver the Rebels should dispose of the● Thirdly that all the furniture and goods in the house should be safe from Plunder and to this purpose one of the six nominated to attend the Ladies was to stay in the

Sacrilege and prophanenefse those Windowes which they could not reach with their Swords Muskets or Rests they brake to pieces by throwing at them the bones of Kings Queens Bishops Confessors and Saints So that the spoyle done on the Windowes will not be repaired for a thousand pounds nor did the Living find better measure from them then the dead for whereas our Dread Severaigne that now is the best of Kings was graciously pleased as a pledge of his Princely favour to this Church to honour it with the gift of his owne Statua together with the Statua of his deare Father King James of ever blessed memory both of massy Brasse both which statua's were erected at the front of the entrance into the Quire These Atheisticall Rebells as if they would not have so much of the Militia to remaine with the King as the bare Image and representation of a Sword by his side They break off the Swords from the sides of both the statua's they breake the Crosse from off the Globe in the hand of the Statua of our gracious Soveraign now living and with their Swords hacked and hewed the Crown on the head of it Swearing They would bring Him back to His Parliement A most flagitious crime and such as that for the like S. Cbrysustome Hom● Adpopulum Antioch with many teares complaines he much feared the Citie of Antioch the Metropolis and head as he calls it of the East would have been destroyed from the face of the earth for when in a Tumult the Seditious Citizens of Antioch had done the like affront to Theodetius the Empetour in overturning his Statua's how doth that holy Bishop bemoane 〈◊〉 how doth he bewaile that Citie 〈◊〉 which fearing the severe effects of the abused Emperours just indignation of a Populous Citie a Mother boasting of a Numerous Iss●e was on the sudden become a widdow left desolate and for saken of her Inhabitants some out of the sense and horror of the guilt abandoning the Citie and flying into the deslote Wildernesse others lurking in holes and confining themselves to the darke corners of their own houses thereby hoping to escape the vengeance due to so Disloyall so Trayterous a Fact because of this foul injury offered the EmpeTours Statua He as that Father speakes was wronged that was the Supreme head of all men and had no equall on Earth But what wonder is it that these miscreants should offer such scornfull indignities to the Representation of his Reyall Person and the Emblems of his Sacred power when the heads of this damnable Rebellion who set these their Agents on work offer worse affronts to his Sacred Person himself and by their Rebellious Votes and illegall Ordinances daily strike at Substones of that power of which the Crowne the Sword and Scepter are but Emblemes and shadowes which yet not withstanding ought to have been venerable and awefull to these men in respect of their Relation After all this as it what they had already done were all too little they go on in their horrible wickednesle they seize upon all the Communion Plate the Bibles and Service-Books Rich hangings large Cushions of Velvet all the Pulpit-Clothes some where of were of Cloth of Silver some of Cloth of Gold They brake up the Muniment house and take away the Common Seale of the Church supposing it to be Silver and a faire piece of guilt Plate given by Bishop Cotton They teare the Evidences of their Lands and cancell their Charter in ● word what ever they found in the Church of any value and portable they take it with them what was neither they either deface or destroy it And now having Ransacked the Church having desied God in his own house and the King in his own Statua having violated the Urns of the dead having abused the bones scattered the ashes of deseased Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors they returne in Triumph bearing their spoyles with them The Troopers because they were most conspicuous ride through the streets in surplices With such Hoods and Tippers as they found and that they might boast to the world how glorious a Victory they had archieved they hold out their Trepbies to all spectators for the Troopers thus clad in the Priests Vestments rode carrying Common Prayer Books in one hand and some broken Organ Pipes together with the mangled pieces of Carved worke but now mentioned containing some Histories of both Testaments in the other In all this giving too just occasion to all good Christians to complaine with the Psalmist O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance ● by holy Temples have they defiled The dead bodies of thy Servants have they abused and scattered their bones as one beweth wood upon the earth● Help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy Name Psal 79. Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. The Rebells Prophanation and horrible abuse of the Abby Church of Westminster Together with their severall Out rages and Abominations committed on the Cathedrall church of Exeter c. IF in the Catalogue of Plundered Cathedralls we in●owle the now Collegiat Church of Westminster I hope I shall not be thought to make my discou●se no more of kin to my Title then Mountaine doth some of his ●ssayes For if we looke backe on the various condition of this Church no place set apart for Religions Persons having so often shifted its owners we shall find that among it many changes it had the honour of a Bishops See On the dissolution of the Abbies amongst the rest Henry the Eighth suppressed this Monastery and in the place thereof founded a Deancry An●●,1536 And two yeares after added a Bishoprick to the De●ne●y The Bishop sate here but nine yeares and againe resigned his dilapidated Revenue into the hands of a Deanes Middlesex which was the Diocesse of the Bishoprick being devolved to London yet though this Bishoprick of westminster as it relates to the Saxons was but of moderne Erection yet in the time of the Ancient B●itons it was no lesse then the See of the Arch-Bishop of London and therefore it is more then probable that that record which tells us that the Arch-bishop of London See was planted in Saint Peters in cornhill was either corrupted or mistaken for S. Peters in ●horney for Sic olim●spinis as Learned Cambden and other Antiquaries affirm from the great crop of thorns which heretofore grew there that which we now call westminster was then called Thorney This Church so famous for it's Antiquitie so admired for it's Elegancy of Structure especially by the addition of Henry the seventh's Chappel a Pile of that polished magnificence Vt omn●m Elegantiam in illo acerva●am dicas as if Art and Bountie had conspired to rayse it to a wonder of the world Lastly a Church so venerable as being once the seat of an Arch-Bishop and a Bishop and now a long time the place where the Kings of England receive their sacred Vnction and Crowns at their C ronation