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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

had none they charge him to take his daughter away from M. Swifts service or else they threaten to Plunder him and to make sure worke they make him give them securitie to obey all their commands terrified with this the neighbours stand a● farre off and pi●●ie the distressed Condition of these persecuted Children but dare not come or send to their reliese by this meanes the Children and Servants had no sustenance hardly any thing to cover them from Fryday six a clocke at night untill Saturday twelve at night untill at last the neighbours moved with the lamentable cryes and complaints of the Children and Servants one of the neighbours over-looking all difficulties and shewing that he durst be Charitable in despite of these Monsters ventured in and brought them some provision And if the World would know what it was that so exasperated these Rebels against this Gentleman the E. of Stamford a man that is not bound to give an account of all his actions gave two reasons for it first because he had bought armes and conveyed them into Munmouth-shire which under his Lordships good favour was not so and secondly because not long before he Preached a Sermon in Rosse upon that Text Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars in which his Lordship said he had spoken Treason in endeavouring to give Caesar more then his due these two Crimes cost Master Swift no lesse then 300 l. About Feb. 1642. the Duke of Vendosme being to return home into France but resolving first to take his leave of the King at Oxford obtained a Passe from the close Committee that he might be free from any ●et or molestation in his journey but notwithstanding this Passe in his Returne from Oxford he was searched and Plundered at Vxbridge by that worthy Knight Sir Samuel Luke who was sent by his Excellency from Windsor with a Troope of Horse for that purpose That France by experience might know that Theeves Rob as confidently in the Townes of England as in the woods of Ardenna or any Forrest in France About December 1642. the Colonels Waller Browne and others marching from Aylesbury to Windsor thence by Newbury to Winchester their Souldiers in their March Plundered every Minister within five miles of the Road without distinction whether of their owne party or of the other whether they subscribed for Episcopacy Presbytery or Independency whether they wore a Surplice or refused it onely if they did not they afforded them the lesse bootie Those that were Considers whose Irregularitie and Non-Conformitie armed them with confidence to appeare Petitioned the House of Commons for Reliefe and satisfaction it being taken into Consideration that this was not according to their new Phrase to weaken the wicked but the Religious and such who stood wel-affected to the Parliament hereupon slandering the Cavaliers with the fact which their owne Souldiers had done and to make the foolish Citizens bleed free there was an Order drawne up and published That in regard the Petitioners were wel-affected men and Plundered by the Cavaliers that there should be a generall Collection made for them the next Fast day and that the Preachers should exhort the People and Pray to God to enlarge the Peoples hearts bountifully to relieve the Petitioners But winchester being surprized and the Lord Grandison taken Prisoner Colonel Browne in a Letter to famous Isaack Pennington magnifies the Victory and inlarged the glory of it very much by that Circumstance of taking that Noble Lord Prisoner but which did much eclipse the honour obtained that day in the Letter he addes that by the treachery of Colonel Vr●ey he was escaped little Isaack had hardly so much patience as to read out the Letter but he Summons his M●rmidons and gives an A arme to his Red-contes the Messengers of his fury and sends them instantly to Plunder Mistresse Vrri●s lodging It was no sooner said then done they being as swift to act misch●efe as Isaack was ready to command it what they had in charge they performe faithfully and Plunder her of no more but all Mistresse Vrrey presently gives notice to her Husband what measure she found in the Citie while he was in their Service in the Country the Colonel upon the Information hastens to London to expostulate for this Injury and for redresse complaines to the House against the Ring-leader Browne and Rout-Master little Isaack upon hearing both parties the House quits Colonel Vrrey from any conspiracy with my Lord Grandison or connivance at his escape and for reparation of his losses they order him 400 l. to be paid him out of the Monies collected the last Fast day for the Plundered Ministers who by this meanes were Plundered twice and so one order begetting another they order that a new collection shall be made for the Petitioners the next Fast day nor was this the first debt by many that have beene paid by the abused Charitie of London the great Tax-bearing Mule as one justly calls it There is one Bea●e dwelling at Hasely as I take it in Oxfordshire a man much devoted to the proceedings of the two Houses of Parliament yet it was his chance to fall into their hands who weaken the wicked some of the Rebells under the command of the Earle of Essex Plundered him of two Horses upon complaint made unto the Earl he gives Beal command to attend him at Tame and there he should have them again according to the directions given him by the Earle accompanied by his Brother he comes to Tame hoping to have his Horses restored being come thither Bcale is apprehended and committed to Prison and his Horse together with that which his Brother rode on are both seized for the Earles use nor can either Man or Horse be released unlesse he will pay down 20 l. in ready mony having continued in Prison foure daies at last his Mother for fear if she had rode she might have been Prisoner for her Horses sake as her Sonne was comes to Tame on foot and brings 20 l. with her to redeeme her Son out of Prison upon receipt of the Money being a debt so justly due and so truely paid his Excellency released him out or his Imprisonment and restored him the two worst Horses of the foure and wisely kept the two best for himselfe which with a very little helpe may serve to explaine the mystery of his Motto CAVE ADSUM i.e. where I come looke well to your Money and Horses Mercurius Rusticus c. IX Master Jones Vicar of Wellingborow starved to death in Pri●on at Northampton A Barber and a Maid-servant murthered by the Rebells at Wellingborow Captain Ven● ab●se of Windsor castle and his barbarous usag● of Pris●ners there c. VVHen I first entred on this Worke it was a pro●ise solemnly made not to abuse the World with salthoods or uncertainties but to use all Candour and Integritie and if any thing should chance to passe which upon better information should appeare false I should not

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