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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

upon it which Holy name though it could not but put the Rebels in mind whose possession and House it was did not at all afford it patronage and protection from their accursed rage and madness The Rebels under the Conduct of Sir William Waller sate down before the City of Winchester on Tuesday the 12. of December 1642. about twelve of the Clock and entered the City that afternoon between two and three being Masters of the City they instantly fall upon the Close under a pretence to search for Cavaliers They seize upon the Prebends Horses and demand their Persons with many threatning words That night they break 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 controul to rob and defi●e both God and all good men Wednesday therefore and Wednesday night being spent in Plundering the City and Close on Thursday Morning between nine and ten of the Clock hours set apart for better imployments and therefore purposely in probability chosen by them being resolved to prophane every thing that was Canonical they violently break open the Cathedral Church and being entred to let in the Tyde they presently open the great West doors where the Barbarous Soldiers stood ready nay greedy to rob God and pollute his Temple The doors being open as if they meant to invade God himself as well as his possession 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 until they came to the Altar there they begin their work they rudely pluck down the Table and break the Rail 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 Organ and break 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 turn to the Monument of the Dead some they utterly demolish others they deface They begin with Bishop Fox his Chappel which they utterly deface the break all the glass windows of this Chappel not because they had any Pictures in them either of Patriarch Prophet Apostle or Saint but because they were of painted Coloured Glass they demolish and overturn the Monuments of Cardinal Beaufort Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Katharine Swinfort founder of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester who sate Bishop of this See forty three years They deface the Monument of William of Wainflet Bishop likewise of Winchester Lord Chancellor of England and the Magnificent Founder of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford which Monument in a grateful Piety 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 Colledge the unparralleld example of his bounty stands in despight of the malice of these inhuman Rebels William of Wainflet cannot want a more lasting Monument to transmit his memory to Posterity from hence they go into Queen Maries Chappel so called because in it she was Married to King Philip of Spain here they brake the Communion Table in pieces and the Velvet Chair whereon she sate when she was Married They attempted to deface the Monument of the late Lord Treasurer the Earl of Portland but being in Brass their violence made small impression on it therefore they leave that and turn to his Fathers Monument which being of Stone was more obnoxious to their fury here mistaking a Judg for a Bishop led into the error by the resemblance or counterfeit of a Square cap on the head of the Statue they strike off not only the Cap but the head too of the Statue and so leave it Amongst other acts of Bounty and Piety done by Richard Fox the fifty seventh Bishop of this See he covered the Quire the Presbytery and the Iles adjoyning with a goodly vault and new glased all the Windows of that part of the Church and caused the bones of such Kings Princes and Prelates as had been Buried in this Church and lay dispersed and scattered in several parts of the Cathedral to be collected and put into several 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 think but by the last Trump did rest the bones of many Kings and Queens as of Alfredus Edwardus Senior Eadredus the Brother of Athelstane Edwinus Canutus Hardecanutus Emma the Mother and Edward the Confessor her Son Kiniglissus the first founder of the Cathedral of Winchester Egbert who abolishing the Heptarchy of the Saxons was the first English Monarch William Rufus and divers others with these in the Chests were deposited the bones of many Godly Bishops and Confessors as of Birinus Hedda Swithinus Frithestanus S. Elphegus the Confessor Stigandus Wina and others Had not the barbarous Inhuman impiety of these Schismaticks and Rebels shewed the contrary we could not have imagined that any thing but the like Piety 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 Queen Emma of Hardecanutus and Edward the Confessor and were going on to practise the like impiety on the bones of all the rest of the West Saxon Kings But the Outcry of the People detesting so great inhumanity caused some of their Commanders more Compassionate to these Ancient Monuments of the dead then the Rest to come in amongst them and to restrain their madness But that devilish malice which was not permitted to rage and overflow to the spurning and trampling on the bones of all did satiate it self even to a prodigious kind of wantonness on those which were already in their power And therefore as if they meant if it had been possible to make these bones contract a Posthume guilt by being

or me to write Hereupon Mistris Swift fled to the place where her Husband for fear of the Rebels had withdrawn himself She had not been gone two hours but they come from the Castle and bring with them three Teems to carry away what was before designed for Plunder but wanted means of conveyance When they came amongst other things there was a Batch of Bread hot in the Oven this they seize on Ten Children on their knees intreat but for one Loaf and at last with much importunity obtained it but before the children had eaten it they took even that one Loaf away and left them destitute of a morsel of Bread amongst ten Children Ransacking every corner of the house that nothing might be left behind they find a small Pewter dish in which the dry Nurse had put Pap to feed the poor Infant the Mother which gave it suck being fled to save her Life this they seize on too The Nurse intreats for Gods sake that they would spare that pleading that in the Mothers absence it was all the sustenance which was or could be provided to sustain the life of the Child and on her knees intreated to shew mercy unto the Child that knew not the right hand from the left a motive which prevailed with God himself though justly incensed against Nineveh But to shew what Bowels of Compassion and Mercy are to be expected in Sectaries and how far they are from being Disciples to him who says Be ye merciful as your Father which is in heaven is merciful They transgress that precept of our Saviour in the Letter and take away the Childrens meat and give it unto dogs for throwing the Pap to the dogs they put up the dish as lawful prize Master Swifts eldest son a youth seeing this barbarous cruelty demanded of them a reason of this so hard usage they replyed That his Father was a Traitor to the King and Parliament and added that they would keep them so short that they should eat the very Flesh from their Arms and to make good their word they threaten the Miller that if he ground any Corn for these Children they would grind him in his own Mill and not contented with this they go to Mr. Swifts next Neighbour whose daughter was his Servant and take him Prisoner they examine him upon oath what goods of Mr. Swifts he had in his custody he professing that he had none they charge him to take his daughter away from Mr. Swifts service or else they threaten to Plunder him and to make sure work they make him give them security to obey all their commands terrified with this the Neighbours stand afar off and pity the distressed Condition of these persecuted Children but dare not come or send to their relief by this means the Children and Servants had no sustenance hardly any thing to cover them from Friday six a clock at night until Saturday twelve at night until 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 Earl 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 arms and conveyed them into Monmouth-shire which under his Lordships good favour was not so and secondly because not 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 than his due these two Crimes cost Mr. Swift no less than 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 Pass from the close Committee that he might be free from any let or molestation in his journey but notwithstanding this Pass in his return from Oxford he was searched and plundered at Uxbridge by that worthy Knight Sir Samuel Luke who was sent by his Excellency from Windsor with a Troop of Horse for that purpose That France by experience might know that Thieves rob as confidently in the Towns of England as in the woods of Ardenna or any Forrest in France About December 1642. the Collonels Waller Brown and others marching from Ailesbury to Windsor and thence by Newbury to Winchester their Soldiers in the March Plundered every Minister within five miles of the Road without distinction whether of their own party or of the other whether they subscribed for Episcopacy Presbytery or Independency whether they wore a Surpless or refused it only if they did not they afforded them the less booty Those that were Confiders whose Irregularity and Non-Conformity armed them with confidence to appear Petitioned the House of Commons for Relief and satisfaction it being taken into Consideration that this was not according to their new Phrase to weaken the wicked but the Righteous and such who stood well affected to the Parliament hereupon slandering the Cavaliers with the fact which their own Soldiers had done and to make the foolish Citizens bleed free there was an Order drawn up and published That in regard the Petitioners were well-affected men and Plundered by the Cavaliers that there should be a general 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 Collonel Brown in a Letter to famous Isaac 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 honor obtained that day in the Letter he adds that by the Treachery of Colonel Urrey he was escaped little Isaac had hardly so much patience as to read out the Letter but he summons his Mirmidons and gives an Alarm to his Red-coats the Messengers of his Fury and sends them instantly to plunder Mistris Urries Lodging it was no sooner said than done they being as swift to act mischief as Isaac was ready to command it what they had in charge they perform faithfully and Plunder her of no more but all Mistris Urrey presently gives notice to her Husband what measure she found in the City while he was in their Service in the Country the Colonel upon the Information hastens to London to expostulate for this Injury and for redress complains to the House against the Ring-leader Brown and Rout-master little Isaac upon hearing both Parties the House quits Colonel Urrey 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

now made passive Instruments of more than heathenish Sacrilege and prophaneness those Windows 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 spoil done on the Windows will not be repaired for a Thousand Pounds nor did the Living find better measure from them than the dead for whereas our Dread Sovereign that now is the best of King was gratiously pleased as a pledg of his princely favour to this Church to honour it with the gift of his own Statue together with the Statue of his dear Father King James of ever blessed memory both of massy brass both which Statues were erected at the front of the entrance into the Quire These Atheistical Rebels as if they would not have so much of the Militia to remain with the King as the bare Image and representation of of a Sword by his side They break off the Swords from the sides of both the Statues they break the Cross from off the Globe in the hand of the Statue of our gratious Sovereign now living and with their Swords hacked and hewed the Crown on the headof it swearing they would bring him back to his Parliament A most flagitious crime and such as that for the like S. Chrysostome Hom 2. ad populum Antioch With many tears complains he much feared the City 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 Theodosius the Emperour in overturning his Statutes How doth that holy Bishop bemoan how doth he bewail that City which fearing the severe effects of the abused Emperours just Indignation of a Populous City a Mother boasting of a Numerous Issue was on the sudden become a Widow left desolate and forsaken of her Inhabitants some out of the sense and horror of the guilt abandoning the City and flying into the desolate Wilderness others lurking in holes and confining themselves to the dark corners of their own houses thereby hoping to escape the vengeance due to so disloyal so Traiterous a fact because of this foul injury offered the Emperours Statue He as that Father speaks was wronged that was the sepreme head of all men and had no equal on Earth But what wonder is it that these miscreants should offer such scornful indignities to the Representation of his Royal 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 Rebellions Votes and Illegal Ordinances daily strike at the Substance of that power of which the Crown the Sword and Scepter are but Emblems and shadows which yet notwithstanding ought to have been venerable and aweful to these men in respect of their Relation After all this as if what they had already done were all too little they goonin their horrible wickedness they seize upon all the Communion Plate the Bibles and Service-books rich Hangings large Cushions of velvet all the Pulpit-Clothes some whereof were of Cloth of Silver some of Cloth of Gold They break up the Muniment House and take away the common Seal of the Church supposing it to be Silver and a fair piece of gilt Plate given by Bishop Cotton they tear the Evidences of their Lands and cancel their Charter in a 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 defied God in his own house and the King in his own Statue having violated the Urns of the dead having abused the bones and scattered the Ashes of deceased Monarchs Bishops Saints and Confessors they return in Triumph bearing their spoils with them The Troopers because they were most conspicuous ride through the streets in Surplesses with such Hoods and Tippets as they found and that they might boast to the World how glorious a victory they had atchieved they hold out their Trophies 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 work but now mentioned containing some Histories of both Testaments in the other In all this giving too just occasion to all good Christians to complain with the Psalmist O God the Heathen are come into thine Inheritance Thy holy Temples have they defiled The dead Bodies of thy Servants have they abused and scattered their bones as one heweth wood upon the Earth Help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy Name Psal. 79. Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. The Rebels prophanation and horrible abuse of the Abby Church of Westminster Together with their several outrages and abominations committed on the Cathedral Church of Exeter c. IF in the Catalogue of Plundered Cathedrals we inroul the now Collegiat Church of Westminster I hope I shall not be thought to make my discourse no more of kin to my Title than Mountain doth some of his Essaies for if we look back on the various condition of this Church no place set apart for Religious Persons having so often shifted its owners we shall find that amongst many changes it had the honour of a Bishops Sec. On the dissolution of the Abbies amongst the rest Henry the Eighth suppressed this Monastery and in the place thereof founded a Deanery Anno 1536. And two years after added a Bishoprick to the Deanery The Bishop sate here but nine Years and again resigned his dilapidated Revenue into the hands of a Dean Middlesex which was the Diocess of the Bishoprick being devolved to London yet though this Bishoprick of Westminster as it relates to the Saxons was but of modern Erection yet in the time of the Ancient Britains it was no less than the See of the Arch-Bishop of London and therefore it is more than probable that that record which tells us that the Arch-Bishop of Londons See was planted in S. Peters in Cornhil was either corrupted or mistaken for S Peters in Thorney for Sic olim à 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 its Antiquity so admired for its Elegancy of Structure especially by the addition of Henry the Seventh's Chappel a Pile of that polished magnificence ut omnem Elegantiam in illo acervatam dicas as if art and bounty had conspired to raise 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 Unction and Crowns