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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

him we may justly receive at his hands heavier Judgments than these yet our Innocence will plead Not Guilty to the face of any Man who shall object against us any Civil Misdemeanors whereby we can more justly be deprived of our Fellowships than any free Subject in England of his fee Simple if they please to say he is guilty of Misdemeanors And as it hath pleased our gracious Master whose Ministers we are to make us examples though but of suffering to the rest of our Brethren So we hope he will continue unto us his grace of humilation under his mighty hand as an earnest of his exalting us in due time And in the interim that he will lay no more upon us than he shall be pleased to strengthen our infirmities to bear And that he will still preserve unto us a good conscience that whereas our persecutors speak evil of us as of evil doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse our good conversation in Christ. FINIS Mercurius Belgicus OR A briefe Chronology of the Battels Sieges Conflicts and other most remakable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion to the 25 th of March 1646. Together with A Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides CICERO Incerti sunt exitus pugnarum Marsque esi communis qui saepe spoliantem jam exultantem evertit perculit ab abjecto Printed in the Year 1685. The Preface Readers YOU have here a canded and impartial Epitomy of an unnatural War Subjects banding against their lawful Prince Brother against Brother and Father against Son Read but the said ensuing Story and therein consider the number and quality of Persons slain the destruction of Houses and Families the desolation of Cities and Towns the increase of Widows and Orphans the Tyranny and inhumanity of our new Legislators over their own Fellow-Subjects and you will easily conclude of these as Cicero did of Sylla's time Nemo illo invito nec bona nec patriam nec vitam retinere potueirt In earnest it may well be wondred whence these men have their minds God nor man nor Nature ever made them thus To be short the Reader may here see the flux and reflux of Fortune de la Guerre now this party flourisheth and that goes down anon that flourisheth and this goes down as if the guilt of our sins were drawing a heavy Judgment from Heaven upon this Land and these Rebels were ordained for the instruments of it But let us hope for better And particularly that God in the richness of his mercy will look down upon these macerated Kingdoms and periodize these distractions That Religion may again flourish in its purity maugre the Plots and impieties of all Seditiaries and Schismaticks That His Sacred Majesty may be re-established in His just Rights and Prerogatives that Parliaments may move in their own and known Centre the Ancient Laws of the Land re-inforced and freed from fellow-subjects Tyranny and Arbitration and the Subject re-estated in his Ancient Liberties freed from Murder Rapine and Plunder which that we may quickly see let it be the Subject of ever good Christian Prayer Memorable OCCURRENCES since the beginning of this REBELLION Anno Dom. 1641. IN December 1641. The House of Commons published a Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom therein setting forth all the errors of his Majesties Government a meer design to alienate the affection of his Subjects from him The tenth of January following his Majesty with the Queen Prince and Duke of Yorke left White-hall and went to Hampton Court to avoid the danger of those frequent tumults then hazarding the safety of his Royal Person February the 23 d. the Queens Majesty took shipping at Dover having been driven before from White-hall by the frequent tumults of the Rebels And soon after His Majesty went to New-market and from thence to Yorke where after the Rebels had Guards for three Months before the Gentry of the Country raised a Guard for his Majesties Person Anno Dom. 1642. MAY the 20 th it was voted by both Houses That the King intended to levie War against the Parliament which they did on purpose to excuse themselves for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty as appeared within few days after July the second the Kings ship called the Providence Landed in the Creek of Kenningham near Hull till which time His Majesty had not a Barrel of Powder nor any Arms or Ammunition whatsoever July the 12 th the pretended two Houses Voted that the Earl of Essex should be General of their Army and that they would live and die with him August the first the Earl of Essex caused all the men then raised being in number about 10000 to be committed to Officers and divided into Regiments which men had been raising ever since the 12 th of July 1642. at which time he was made General of the Rebels August the sixth the Earl of Bedford having fruitlessely besieged the Lord Marquess of Hertford in Sherburn Castle for four days before retreated to Yevell the Noble Marquess sallied after him and with a small number fell on that great body of the Rebels Kill'd above 140 whereof 9 Commanders took divers Prisoners and routed the rest so as he marched away and after divided his small Forces going himself into Wales and Sir Ralph now Lord Hopton into Cornwall of both which there followed so good an effect August the 22 d. His Majesty set up his Standard Royal at Nottingham for raising of Forces to suppress the Rebels then marching against him September the 23 d. Prince RUPERT with about 11 Troops of Horse gave a great overthrow to the Rebels in Wikefield near Worcester where Colonel Sands that commanded in chief received his mortal wound Major Douglas a Scot and divers other Captains and Officers slain and drowned Captain Wingate a Member of the House of Commons with four Coronets taken and two more torn in pieces This body of the Rebels was observed to be the flower of their Cavalry October the 23 d. was that signal great battel fought between Keynton and Edg-hill by his Majesties Army and that of the Rebels led by the Earl of Essex wherein the Rebels lost above 70 Colours of Coronets and Ensigns and His Majesty but only 16 Ensigns and not one Coronet The exact number that were slain on both sides in this Battel is not known But it is certain that the Rebels lost above three for one Men of eminence of his Majesties Forces who were slain in the Battel were the two Noble and valiant Lords Robert Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England and George Lord D. Aubigney Brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshal to His Majesty with some other worthy Centlemen and Soldiers but besides these three named there was not one Noble Man or Knight kill'd which was an extraordinary mercy of Almighty God considering what a glorious sight of Princes Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons Knights and

continue the Spoil until the next Day-light failed them until Wednesday night In this time they carry away the Wealth of the Town to Northampton and other places sparing none but those whose Tongues are framed to Shiboleth men of their own Faction whether they were active against them or stood Neuters By which Essay those Luke-warm men who stand Pendulous equally poised between Rebellion and Loyalty and know not which side to lean unto may guess what measure they are like to receive from the Rebels hands if ever they come to have them in their power In the Town two men especially suffer under these Free-booters Mr. Gray and Mr. Fisher from the first being Clerk of the Peace they take away the Commissions of Peace the Sessions Rolls together with his own Evidences and Leases all his Houshold-stuff even to his very Bed-cords leaving but one Sheet for his Wife and five Children His Wheat and other Corn they give to their Horses what they did not eat they threw into the Streets and trampled it in the dirt From the other they took Goods and other things amounting to a very great Sum And to compleat their wickedness to their Oppression they add Scorn for having taken away all that they could in derision they affix Protections in writing under Colonel Norwich his hand at his and some others doors forbidding any man to Plunder Generally what they could not carry away they spoil so that the Loss sustained by the Town is valued at Six thousand pounds They took Mr. Neile Prisoner and some Forty more amongst them they took the Vicar Master Jones a grave and learned man but lame and very sickly and having Plundered him of all he had they mount him on a poor Jade with a Halter instead of a Bridle the rest they tie two and two together and drive them before them to Northampton Mr. Gray as I told you was the day before led Prisoner to Welby from thence to Northampton where his Prison cannot afford him protection from the fury and rage of the Soldiers to make way to his death they threaten to pull down the House where he was confined And the Commissioners finding that he could not remain there with any safety were constrained to send him away Prisoner to London Being come thither Articles are framed and exhibited against him which being examined at a Committee and no proof at all made he was Voted to be discharged his Imprisonment yet to delude Justice and the Petition of Right the Chair-man could never find a time to make his Report to the House so that he remained a Prisoner for a long time On the 28. of January 1642. the Castle of Sudely upon Composition was delivered up to the Rebels there were Articles agreed on and sworn to but as he spake truly Children were deceived with Apples and Men with Oaths the Rebels as they swear to Articles for their advantage so they break them as easily for their advantage and make Perjury an easie uninterrupted passage to Theft and Robbery for these Rebels brake as many Articles as they swore unto they plunder not only the Castle the Seat and House of the Lord Chandois and Winchcombe a neighbouring Village to the utter undoing the poor Inhabitants but in defence of the Protestant Religion and vindication of the Honor of God they profane his House There is in the Castle a goodly fair Church here they dig up the Graves and disturb the ashes of the dead they break down the ancient Monuments of the Chandoses and instead thereof leave a prodigious Monument of their Sacrilegious profaneness for each part of the Church they find a peculiar way to profane it the lower part of it they make their Stable the Chancel their Slaughter-house Unto the Pulpit which of all other places in probability might have escaped their Impiety they fasten pegs to hang the Carcasses of the slaughtered Sheep the Communion-Table according to their own Language they make their Dresser or Chopping-board to cut out their meat into the Vault wherein lay the Bodies of the Chandoses an ancient and honorable Family they cast the guts and garbage mingling the loathsom Intrals of Beasts with those Bones and Ashes which did there rest in hope of a joyful Resurrection The Nave or Body of the Church was all covered with the dung and blood of Beasts and which was if it be possible a degree beyond these Profanations in contempt of God and his holy Temple they defile each part and corner both of Church and Chancel with their own Excrements and going away left nothing behind them in the Church besides Walls and Seats but a stinking Memory that part of the Parliament Army raised for the defence of Religion had been there Let that railing Rabshekah or jeering Sanballet I mean the Author of the ridiculous Pamphlet intituled One Argument more against the Cavaliers read this Story and then tell me which are most guilty of prophanation of Churches the Cavaliers or the Round-heads which were most profaned either St. Mary Maudlins in Oxford or the Church at Sudly Castle and yet this Dog sticks not with Shimei to bark at his Sovereign and blaspheme his Piety as if the Rebels brought from Cyrencester had been Quartered in this Church by his approbation who to expiate that guilt gave an hundred an fifty pounds to adorn and beautifie that Church The truth is there was a fault in the Commanders for lodging them in Churches who if they had had their due had been hanged for Rebellion their carcasses exposed to the Fowls of the air and the Beasts of the field that the Ravens of the valleys might have had their due portion and never suffered them to come so near the Church as to have the priviledge of Christian Burial in the Church-yard So even so let all the Kings enemies perish O Lord and let all the people say Amen In Saint Maries Church in Warwick and the Chappel commonly called the Earls Chappel adjoyning to the Choire of that Church are divers fair Monuments of the Beauchamps anciently Earls of that place which Family long flourishing there had been great Benefactors and Beautifiers of that Church whereof Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Earl Marshal of England and one of the Founders of the most noble Order of the Garter in the Reign of King Edward the Third built the Choire now standing in the midst whereof is his Monument and adorned the Windows with the Pictures of Himself his Wife and Children which were many upon the Surcoats of the Men were their Arms skilfully depicted the Women having the like and Mantles over which were the Arms of their Matches their Husbands being the prime Nobility of those times The like Portraitures in Glass but much more rich and costly were in that stately Chappel before-mentioned In this stood the Monument of Earl Richard being Brass gilt and in the Opinion of judicious observant Travellers esteemed the rarest Piece erected for any Subject

in the Christian World but such is the barbarousness of the pretenders to Reformation that upon Wednesday the 14. of this instant June the Souldiers by the appointment and encouragement of one whom in these degenerous Times wherein the dregs of the People are made Commanders for the advancement of Rebellion men call Colonel Purefey a man of a mean desperate Fortune but by the means of the late Lord Brooke chosen Burgess of Parliament for Warwick and who had the greatest Influence in seducing that unhappy Lord to this desperate Rebellion in which he miserably perished did beat down and deface those Monuments of Antiquity and not content with this by the same Command they break down the Cross in the Market-place not leaving one stone upon another Purefey all the while standing by animating and encouraging them until they had finished their so barbarous Work In which the World may observe that these men are the sworn Enemies not only of pretended Superstition but of the Ensigns of Nobility and Gentry that if their Diana I mean their Parity may take effect Posterity may forget and not read the distinction of Noble from ignoble in these venerable Monuments of ancient Nobility there being in these Windows something indeed to instruct a Herauld nothing to offend the weakest Christian. Mercurius Rusticus c. VII Doctor Cox barbarously used by the Earl of Stamford at Exeter contrary to the Law of Arms. The unheard-of Cruelties committed by the Lord Grey of Groby and his Souldiers on the person house goods and servants of Master Nowell in Rutlandshire Dr. Bargrave ill intreated by Col. Sands in Kent c. AFter the great and happy Defeat given by the Victorious Sir Ralph Hopton to the Devonshire Forces at Starton it pleased the Commanders of His Majesties Forces to entertain thoughts of Clemency towards the remainder of the Rebels To testifie to the World therefore that there was nothing more in their desires than a Thrift of Christian Blood and withal to heap coles of fire upon their heads to conquer them by kindness whom they had often conquered by the sword by their Letters they signifie their readiness to close up those wide rents between them by a Treaty And that a Message of Peace might be well suited with a Messenger they sent the Letters by Dr. Cox Doctor of Divinity who attended by a Trumpeter came to Exeter that Sunday in the After-noon The Trumpeter as the manner is gave the Town warning as soon as he came within sight of the Guard and presently an Officer came to receive him who blind-folding him with a Handkerchief pinn'd over his Eyes conducted him through the City unto the Earl of Stamfords House having admittance there the Doctor takes off his Handkerchief but accidentally did not dispose of the pin that fastned it but still kept it in his Hand the Earl had no sooner set his eyes upon the Doctor but presently he reviles him and calls him all the reproachful Names he could imagine and swore that he would hang him instantly but first to extort a confession from him he offers a Knife or Dagger to his Breast demanding an answer to some Interrogatories the Doctor not affrighted with such rough usage replies very discreetly That he had received commands to deliver certain Letters from the Commanders of the Cornish to those of the Devonshire Army but that he had no Commission to satisfie any different and by-demands this denial to answer together with after dinner inflamed the Earl and put him into a new fit of Railing and for variety sake he did intermix the opprobrious names with many menaces and offers of stabbing him In the end seeing that this harsh welcome could effect nothing nor awe the Doctor to make any discovery he demands the Letters the Doctor that he might clear his hands and so dive into his Pockets suddenly put the Pin which he held in his hands between his lips hereupon one Baxter a Serjeant-Major of the City observing the motion of his hand but not perceiving what it conveyed to his mouth cryed out What doth the rogue eat there he swallows Papers of Intelligence With this the Earl forgetting the Gravity and serious Deportment of a Peer of the Kingdom of England began in an antick manner to leap and skip and frisk crying out Treason Treason he comes to betray the City Courage my brave blades and so turning to the Doctor he set his Dagger again to his Breast and demanded what it was that he had put into his mouth The Doctor mildly and softly putting his hands to his lips took the Pin thence and shewing it to his Lordship said It is a Pin my Lord. The Serjeant-Major thinking to intercept the supposed Intelligence going down the Doctors throat instantly flies to him took him by the throat and griped him so hard that he had almost strangled him The Earl himself most unworthily crying out Cut the Villains throat cut it nor did he command another what he would not do himself for with his own hands he offered his Knife thrice at the Doctors throat to cut it but the Doctor still put it by God who is a present help in trouble restrained the Earl and delivered the Doctor out of his hands Nor was it his hap to suffer from Honorable hands only the standers by are not idle but follow so leading an example as if he had been sent for from Cornwall to Exeter on no other errand than to be made the City scorn and the subject whereon their wanton insolency should vent it self every one in the Room had a fling at him some with their fists beat him about the head others scratch his face one with his fingers boars his ears to his extream torment another with his fingers rakes in his mouth hoping there to find some Papers of Intelligence one tears his hair another forces his hand down his throat and the thing for which they make this strict search is Intelligence some scrole of Intelligence Sure there is much want of Intelligence in their own heads that made such strict inquisition for it in another mans Well this pursuit of Intelligence so long they continue and so eagerly that the Doctor fainting under so barbarous usage was ready to give up the Ghost and for fear he should dye under their hands they leave him a sad emblem of that entertainment which the Messengers of Peace find from the men of this Generation Let that rebellious City remember and tremble at that condolement of our Saviour over the like sin O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee I am unwilling to go on and read her destiny and therefore shall return to the story Having in this unchristian manner insulted long enough upon the Doctor they divert their rage and spend the rest of their Fury on the Trumpeter and having either before in part breathed out their madness or not thinking the poor Trumpeter so

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