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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

me home to my owne Country On the M●nday morning I found out one of the Kings store-houses and therein about threescore thousand pound of Cheese and about two tunne of Bisket which served the whole Army untill Corne was grinded and other provisions made But here was not an end of my troubles for the time I stayed in Newcastle which was about three moneths and more though under the shelter of the Scots Army my wife and selfe continually reviled and abused by the malignant people of the Town of whom I could not get provisions and necessaries for my family for my money without the Authority and command of the Scots or seldome goe abroad without the company of some of the Scots Gentlemen divers of whom gave me notice that they over-heard divers Malignant people of the Towne threaten to wash their hands in my heart blood and others saying whether peace or warre I should be sure to be knockt on the head such was the madnesse of the Malignants against me in that place neither would any there or in the Country pay me any thing they were owing me So about beginning of December when I could be no longer usefull to the publike good or yet to my selfe in my owne affaires I declared to his Excellence Generall Lesley and such of the Lords as were then in Newcastle my urgent necessity to repaire to London to the Parliament for remedy of my many grievances and there being no passage by land for me but through the Kings souldiers I came to London by Sea about the latter end of December and repaired to Westminster where I had walked but a little in the Hall untill I was carried away by some friends assuring me that there was no safety for mee to appeare so publike as yet and that my adversaries who walked in Westminster Hall as Sir Iohn Marloe and others of Newcastle fugitives from the Scots would be sure to lay hold of me and that as yet I was not cleere of the Scots businesse for all the treaty then in agitation some of my friends advising me to remove into Holland untill the Scots Treaty were fully finished and an act of oblivion passed till when I could not be secure from the danger of our Lawes so that I continued privately in London about eight moneths in some hazard before the act of oblivion was passed being resolved not to goe out of the Kingdome untill I had remedy of my heavy losses and grievances which as yet I have found no time for though I have sought to purchase it with my blood in the service of the state and still am ready to wade through difficulties and hazards to procure peace and truth Judgement and Justice to my native Country Divers other passages in my troubles I doe willingly reserve to a calmer Season because as yet the times will not beare them By these already mentioned it may appeare that I have suffred somthing for God and my Country and have borne a large share in the heat of the day even to many extremities to my selfe and family without any publike support in a sincking condition to the hazard of life losse of my estate of which I have not had the benefit of one hundred pound these five yeeres compleat in December next friends in this cause all forsaking me my name and credit racked with reproaches whereof my God whom I serve and suffer for I am confident will in his good itme cleare me and make mine innocency breake out as the light and my Judgement as the noone day I appeale to this ungratefull and appostate age whether it be reason that one who has borne the heate of the day for the common good of both Kingdomes should be left to sincke under the burthens of their good it being not for the honour of my Countrey to leave mee and mine under insupportable burthens of worldy necessities and distresses wherein I have spent my selfe and without timely assistance I and mine must necessarily perish Divers other passages have slipped my memory about the rage and madnesse of mine enemies extending from the countrey to Court distaste of me and the Kings notice and rebukes of friends about me so ●s none of them durst owne me or afford me common courtesie or 〈…〉 me but in the language of mine adversaries also the first messenger the Scots Lords sent to the King at Yorke after Newburne fight at his returne told me there was great enquirie at Court after me and further in midst of all my greatest troubles and pursuite of the Lord Traquire as I should be willing to forget the unkinde and unchristian dealings of my friends in spreading the reproaches of my adversaries striking at my very life deepewounds from friends so may I not here forget to record the Noble respects of the Scottish Lords in their ample testimonie of my fidelitie to my countrey and carriage amongst them which I sent into England for the satisfaction of my friends mis-informed a Copie whereof attested under the hands of divers Gentlemen and Merchants in Edenborough I have annexed for conclusion VVEe undersubscribers understanding that John Fenwick of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Kingdome of England Merchant since his comming into this Kingdome of Scotland hath undergone many vise and slander us calumnies and reproaches as that hee hath beene a chiefe Incendiarte in these late broyles inci●ing the Nobilitie of this Kingdome to invade England and to use all as enemies that were not of our minde in Religion and that hee sought a Captaines place and did beare armes against the King at Dunse and servea in a troope of Horse when hee could not get à Captaines place and doing many ill offices against his Countrey According to our Christian dutie have beene moved to testifie to all whom it may concerne that the said John Fenwicke during his abide in this Kingdome of Scotland now about eight moneths bath behaved himselfe as becomes a good Christian a loyall Subject to his Soveraigne and a loving Countreyman of his native Nation for ought that ever wee have heard from him seene or observed in him in all his carriage amongst us And wee doe verily believe all the foresaid calumnies to be very false malicious and scandalous and injuriously insinuated against him by ill affected persons and doe conceive of him as one that hath deserved better of his Countrey-men In witnesse whereof wee have subscribed these presents with our Hands At EDENB. the 30. Octob. 1639. Subscribed by Earles Argyle Rothes Lothian Lyndsey And The Lord Balmirinoe Witnesses that this is a true Copie John Meyne Robert Keith Thomas Levingston Alexand. Dickson John Lowrie The Originall of this Copy I sent into England for satisfaction of friends mis-informed Novemb. 1639. FINIS Nota This fire brake out in the evening of that day after their consultations were ended wherin many antient Records were burnt up and consumed Nota Herein I have been many yeers the Subject of the admiration of friends and the object of the enemie● madnes and rage in that they could never make mee stoope Note I had to doe with others aswell as Covenanters * Note They were not Knighted till afterward for their good service against the Scots Nota My returne was about the 8. of Ianuary by comparing the Date of Secretary Windebancks letters you may see how ripe the plot was for execution Note Here that Newcastle was begun to be fortified for the King against the Scots Nota Some men carried away pieces of her cloaths and made as much of them as if they were holy reliques This was a bold affront the Parliament then ●itting Nota. This hundred-fold is not meant of temporall things as many understand it but is meant of a hundredfold more of Gods presence and communication of his fulnesse even in this life and in time of our sufferings especially yea as much as our leaking vessels can hold untill wee come to eternity when our cup shall overflow continually Note At this time of the restraint of libertie I composed these meditations Psal. 102. which I published lately under this Title of Zions Ioy in her King comming in his Glorye

Commons House of Parliament The humble Petition of IOHN FENVVICK Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner hath been bred a Merchant in divers forraigne Countries many yeeres and so lived a Merchant in his native countrey some eightene yeeres in which time his imployments of shipping sea and land-men and divers manufactures of this Kingdome have not been unprofitable to the Commonweale nor unfruitfull to his Majestie affording to his Treasurie three foure and five hundred pounds per annum fifteen or sixteen yeeres as the Custome-house books will shew And amongst other nations your Petitioner had commerce with the Scottish nation some fifteen yeeres or more in exchange of monies buying and selling and shipping goods and merchandi●e to and from thence and there being no restraint of commerce Your Petitioner went into Scotland about 26 Decemb. 1638. and brought a ship laden with Wheat of the Earle of Winton a papist as he had done a few moneths before and with whom he had dealing divers veeres before your Petitioner comming home to Newcastle was pursued as a Covenanter by divers illaffected persons in the Magistracie and a Warrant sent forth by Sir Alexander Davison Sir Iob. Marloe to the Constables who watched your Petitioner his house three dayes to apprehend him for no other cause but correspondence with the Scots which your Petitioner in regard of his trading could not avoid And your Petitioner being informed by some of good quallitie that they had a malicious plot for your petitioners life and when no friends durst intercede for him your petitioner was forced to returne back into Scotland where both privately he was watched excepted out of the peace at Barwick by the Earle of A●●nd●●● when no man else was excluded and publikely pursued in the Parliament there by the Lord Traquaire his Majesties Commissioner by the instigation as hee believeth of his adversaries at Court and in Newcastle as may appeare by the Letters of Secretary Windebanck hereunto annexed And further humbly sheweth that a little after your petitioner was thus most in●uriously driven from his countrey family and friends and all his affai●es struck de●d in an ●nstant to his utter undoing the aforesaid Sir Iohn Marloe and Sir Alexander Davison with Sir Thomas Ryd●le junior Master Ralph Co●ke and Ralph ●●wes under pretence of a Commission from his Majestie which they refused to produce most illegally molested your petitioner his wife examined her and her friends and severall times did search your petitioners house and tooke away writings at their pleasures and sundry times imprisoned your petitioners wife and at last drove her from her family and succour of friends into Scotland for her safetie where she was forced to abide untill the pacification at Barwicke and then returned to Newcastle And lastly upon the newes of the Scottish armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick then Maior of Newcastle by his officer brought your petitioner his wife out of the countrey far beyond his jurisdiction to Newcastle where she was searched and examined by Sir Iohn Beaumont a Commander under my Lord Conway and Sir Ioh. Marloe and a guard of 12 Musketeers set upon her threatning her life so as she was forced to escape a private way by water into the countrey By which injurious dealing your petitioner hath been sore damnified in his liberty estate and credit which is a Merchants livelihood to the dissipation of his family and losse of all friends and priviledges of a subject to possesse his right and his debts at home and abroad in forraigne parts no man to this three yeeres past paying him or will yet pay him any thing without suit of law which in regard of his long troubles and many losses he is wholly unable to prosecute untill by the justice of this assembly he be righted and repaired of his great losses and dammages of above foure thousand pounds as he hopeth to make good Most humbly prayeth this Honourable Assembly to take into consideration your Petitioner h●s sad ●ondition and to afford him redresse of his grievous wrongs and repaire of his heavie losses and da●mages sustained by the injustice and illegall molestations of the above named persons his long and heavie adversaries And your Petitioner shall daily pray c. This Petition was first presented by the Earle of Roches and the rest of the Sc●●● Commissioners at the Treaty of pacification about ult. De●emb 1640. but found no time of remedy And in June 1642. at the next Treaty by the Earls of Lothian and Lindsey and the Lord Balmirinoe and the rest of the Commissioners from Scotland againe recommended and referred to Col Fir● to be taken into consideration in Parliament upon first opportunity but hitherto the great distractions of the kingdome hath pre●●●ted SECRETARY WINDEBANCKS Letter to Sir Iacob Ashley presented at a Committee about Newcastle businesse Mr. Miles Corbet in the chaire May 28. 1642. By Sir Thomas Rydle Junior and Sir ●o Marloe in Justification of their good Service to the King pleading that it was good Service then and how they sought to take mee but could not accomplish it HIs Majestie hath commanded me to give you notice of an Information lately come to him from a very good hand that one John Fenwicke a Merchant and one Betleston a Tanner both of the Towne of Newcastle have lately bin in Scotland and subscribed to the Covenant and carried with them t 〈…〉 〈…〉 es of divers others which will doe the like this being a most notorious and base Treachery especially in an English Subject and of most pernicious consequence if it should spread further His Majestie is pleased to recommend the strict Examination of it to your eare and commands that if these find you not at Newcastle you immediately repaire thither and advise with Mr. Marlay of that Towne what course is fittest to bee taken to come to a cleare and certaine knowledge of the truth hereof You are likewise to call to your Asistance Sir William Bellasys a very able Gentleman and of exceeding good affection to his Majesties Service and if upon examination you shall find Fenwick and Bitlestone guilty of this charge you are by His Majesties expresse Command to Commit them immediatly to Prison there to remaine close untill his Majesties pleasure shal be further known and you are further to examine strictly what names they carryed with them into Scotland to become Covenanters and to certifie me with all speed what you shall find herein that so this dangerous correspondence and practise may bee discovered and prevented and that place of importance secured upon which the Covenanters have a speciall eye and in the preservation whereof consists the safety of all these Northerne parts You see what diligence and dexterity the weight of this businesse requires and how great a trust is laid upon you and I doubt not but you will consider it and governe your selfe accordingly I have received two dispatches from you and immediately after the first came to my

Majestie and signes of Gods presence as ever I saw in any publique Assembly where Job served some ancient and white haired men to water their cheeks and wipe off the teares with one hand while they held up the other hand in token of assent to the Covenant as their custome was Now all this yeere in England mens cares and mouthes were exceedingly taken up in listning after and speaking of newes and discourses of the Scots affaires And my correspondence with the Scots as a Merchan● for at least 15 or 16. yeeres before being generally knowne in Newcastle my adversaries begun to set watches for to trap mee about the Scots and my Friends began to forwarne mee of it at last about the 15. of Decemb. 1638. Mr. Robert Anderson an Alderman of the town and my good Friend came to me privately and told mee Now your Enemies have got their desire they have long looked for they have got Witnesses sworne against you of such things about the Scots as will undo you and so wished me to look to my selfe I thanked him for his love but I regarded not much their malice being so well accustomed to it nor did I so much as speake of it to any not to my wife till after the plot broke out The same day another Gentleman of good quality gave mee the the like warning but I will spare his Name because hee is yet living and now a sufferer under the Marquesse of Newcastle And upon 25. December after being a time of much profanenes and excesse in Newcastle I tooke that time to ride into Northumberland and Barwick where I had moneyes owing me and so into Scotland there being no restraint of commerce with the Scots and bargained with the aforesaid Earle of Winton for another Barkes lading of wheate but before I got home to Newcastle a Warrant was sent out to apprehend me by Mr. Alexander Daveson and Mr. Iohn Marloe * and the Constastable watched my house three daies before I came but comming home late about ten of the clocke at night they missed of their purpose Observe here Gods providence over mee for I knew nothing of this dangerous plot to apprehend me but was stayed by the way about businesse and relying on the Moones light stayed by the way somewhat the longer But being come home late I found my wife in a very sad posture and was not sit downe untill some friends came in and gave me notice of the danger assuring me that the plot was of such extent as my life was strucke at and that there was no abiding in the Kingdom for me some advising me to goe for France some for Holland and some for Scotland none of my friends daring to be seene in it or interpose their interest to stop their violence no not so much as for two dayes safely in my house to order and settle my affaires both at home and abroad all struck dead in one instant Well I saw there was now no dallying provided for my escape in the morning early where I passed the Guard and the Gate with some difficultie and passing along in sight of the Towne of Newcastle God made me weepe over it the second time as is expressed in the Epistle Dedicatory with many sad thoughts of the place and of my Wife and Children I had left in a disconsolate condition amongst my enemies So rode into the Country where I stayed among Friends some 8 dayes using meanes to see if the businesse could be accommodated but all meanes failing and the businesse carryed so high as none of my friends durst meddle in it I took my leave of them in a sad condition and took my way for Scotland I had not been above eight dayes in Edenborough untill I was watched by the Lord Traquire then Lord Treasurer of Scotland and had the whole power there for the King giving out threats against mee in severall places that the Kings Dominions should not hold me long so as I was forced to lurck very privately that winter in Edenborough and the Country in a disguised manner and so wee returne to what they were doing in Newcastle My Adversaries having missed of their purpose of mee fell withall violence upon my wife and friends with much inhumane usuage of one of her Sex as is set forth in my Petition to the Parliament hereunto annexed wherein Mr. Alexander Daveson Major Mr. Iohn Marley Mr Thomas Rydle Town Clerke Mr. Ralph Ceck Alderman and Ralph ●●ows the Clerke of their Commission from the King for that businesse were the chiefe actors It would be too tedious to relate the molestations of my poore wife and friends and examinations about me and of the imprisonment of others meerely for my cause but my wife especially for correspondence with me till at last they were plotting her life too for that very thing and so hunted her as she durst not come in her owne house for a week together or see her children but through a glasse window that they might not see her and so at last forced her to escape into the country where none of my friends durst keepe her two nights together but conveyed her into Scotland to me where she abode untill after the pacification at Barwick and then about the end of October 1639. she returned to Newcastle great with child but I being excepted out of the pacification by the Earle of Arundale who treated on the Kings part I was forced to abide in Scotland to expect a calmer season but how calme it proved I shall tell you presently after I have told you a little more of my wifes troubles The unfound peace with Scotland being broken quickly the next Summer produced new preparation to warre on both sides and upon the newes of the Scots armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick the Maior sent his officer into the countrey out of his jurisdiction and brought in my wife where she was searched examined and divers papers taken away and a guard of about a doozen Musquetiers set upon her well the Scots approach with their armie and her aboad in Newcastle was so troublesome on both sides to her and our adversaries as 't is hard to say whethe rs feares were greatest her sex may excuse her flight with her children unfit to be left amongst such monsters of men and women as Newcastle now was full of all sorts from all quarters to fight with the Scots Reade more of this in a little Tract I published two yeeres agoe entituled The Downfall of the Hierarchy Well being got away by water into the countrey she found cold entertainment all being afraid of trouble by her untill the Scots armie came neer to Newburn and then there was flying indeed to purpose the swiftest flight was the greatest honour to the Newcastilian new dubd knights a good Boat a paire of Oares a good Horse especially that would carrie two men was more worth then the valour or honour of new knighthood Surely Vicar