Puritans who thereby became the Patrons of their Country and were sure to be chosen to the next Parliament where they might joyne with their brethren the Scots who if they made a War were assured that the King should not be able to resist them for they being sure to be chosen in Parliament let them know that they would not assist the King against them Court When they got at last to be the prevailing party in Parliament what did they A. They called to an acount all persons who had pressed strict Conformity and countenanced those that refused it witness Dr. Cozens and Smart Bastwicke and Burton who came triumphantly to London and were ordered reparations for their services and sufferings Court How did they proceed A. They setled a Commitee for Religion who appointed a Subcommittee to prepare matters for their Cognizance where was CONFORMISTS Bishop Williams Doctor Hacket Bishop Vsher Doctor Holdsworth Bishop Morton Bishop Hall Doctor Prideaux Doctor Ward Doctor Browning Doctor Featly NONCONFORMISTS Doctor Burgess Mr. White Mr. Marshall Mr. Caryl Mr. Calamy Mr. Hill Mr. Newcomen Doctor Twisse C. But this meeting was only a pretence while the House carried on higher designes against Deans and Chapters root and branch for whom Doctor Hacket made a Speech in the behalf of the Church against whom Dr. Burgesse made a speech in behalfe of the faction L. C. N. Yes and they began to pull down the Bishops step by step First From the Lords House 2. From all civil power and then they pull down those Courts that kept them in Order all this while viz. the Star-Chamber and the High commission N. O. I observed that the poor Bishops went down first in their reputation and esteem they not suffering them to be called right honourable nor to have precedency N. M. And to make sure work the Rabble were stirred up against them to the danger of their lives and strange Petitions procured in so much that the poor men were in a streight to keep the House was dangerous to leave it at this time was unworthy C. What did they do N. They were trepanned by Bishop Williams to a Remonstrance for which they were all committed to the Tower and Impeached of High Treason and now the Bishops were safe in the Tower the Bill against them passed the House and they were for ever excluded the House C. Now the King could not help the Church the Bishops were secured the severe Courts against the Factions were down how did the people appear N. Q. Their restraint being removed they broke out to an excess of Riot in Petitioning Preaching Rayling a Company of Fanaticks in Southwark crying that the Law of Uniformity was the Law of Bishops and so to be repealed the Citizens crying to your Tents O Israel Court Having now almost destroyed the Church Government Discipline and Worship what do they not endeavour to set up their own way N. H. Yes by all meanes but by degrees that the Kingdome might not perceive it but think they were easing it all this while C. How did they contrive to set up their new Government N. H. They called an Assembly of that way 〈…〉 Gouge Mr. Calamy Mr. Caryl Dr. Spurslaw Tho. Goodwyn Phil. Nie c. who proposed to the Parliament the new Church Government and Directory who thereupon abolished the ancient Church Government Worship and Discipline and took a Solemn Oath as they of Scotland had done before every one in his place to stand by this new way which Oath they Imposed upon the Kingdome C. What do they Impose any thing K. C. O yes there are none more severe in Imposing upon others than those that would have liberty themselves Court Where was the King all this while L. B. N. Being not able to reach the Church but through him they having made him as odious as they could to the people by ripping up all the faults of Government in a remonstrance and having frighted him away with the fury of the incensed multitude that were in open War with him that the World may see that there are no Innovators in the Church but such as are Traytors to the State Court It was very strange the whole House of Commons should go along with them in these enormities N. H. The honest Gentlemen could not help it for they were overawed by the rude rabble who came to the House in whole multitudes with Petitions remonstrances grievances about Religion Liberties and rights to which was added all that prevailes with men of force or flattery of craft or terrour Court Now Ireland was all in a Rebellion Scotland was up in Armes and they in England practised they after some Treaties with the King and Disputations with his Divines alter Church Government and settle that Discipline which they had contended for these 120. years L. B C. When it was established did the people submit to it N. H. No for they looked upon it as a yoake which neither they nor their fathers could bear Court How did they propagate it H. J. They sequestred all the Orthodox Clergy and setled in their places such men as were ready to advance their new project th 〈…〉 who complained so much when a dozen Ministers were 〈…〉 made nothing to silence five or six hundred at a time L. H. Yet for all this the new Government was not owned for there arose other factions innumerable who though they differed among themselves yet agreed in this viz. that they would have no Government but that every one according to his own conscience might do what was good in his own eyes as the Presbyterians cryed formerly so the Independents cried now that Christians should have liberty of Conscience to do according to the best light afforded them Court It pleased God to let them set up what they so long looked for that the World might see what they are and what is their way and what is the dreadful consequence of that way when it doth prevaile their pretences before they had the Government in their own hands were such as rendred them very amiable and made them the darling of the people their practices when they had it made them the most odious of Mankind L. B. C. The people would never believe their mischeif untill they saw their practice and providence let them take a turn upon our stage to see how they would behave themselves untill they went off Odium humani generis L. H. When they had suppressed the Orthodox Clergy alienated their maintenance overcome their Friends and put him to death who they knew must otherwise avenge on them these abominations for these people had the face too before the world to lay violent hands upon the Lords Annointed they made an Act wherein it was not lawful for an Orthodox man by any meanes to exercise his Ministry being made uncapable either of performing the duty or of enjoyning the maintenance of a Minister either as Chaplain Tutor Schoolmaster Curate Vicar or Pastor L. H.
Oxford he called upon his Father the Duke of York and having in his bosome the Indenture of Consederacy his Father as they sat at Dinner espyed it and asked what it was to whom his Son answering that it was nothing that concerned him by S. George saith his Father but I will see it and so snatched it from him and reading the Contents called for his Horse to ride to his Majesty now at Windsor whether his Son was before him asking pardon when the old Man knocked at Door The King not coming the Lords at Oxford suspected themselves discovered and so they stand upon their guards set up a mock King Richard one Magdalen very like him who they pretended so escaped out of Prison send to the King of France always ready to assist the Rebels of the King of England they raise an Army pursue King Henry now unprovided to London what became of them think ye why they are amazed and sometimes would do one thing sometimes another and at last nothing they march up and down they knew not whether until at Cirencester the very Townsmen were able to overthrow them so weak is guile and feare their counterfeit King is hanged the Lords are beheaded the whole Army by a rumour is dispersed in which Rebellion 916. Lords and Gentlemen perished and 16000. Families brought to a morsel of Bread the Abbot of Westminster upon the News fell suddainly between his Monastery and his House into a dead Palsey and shortly after miserably ended his life And another who had contrived to lay an Iron with three sharp pikes standing upright in the Kings Bed that when he laid Himself down he might thrust himself through with them came to this sad end a String was tyed about his neck and privy Members and so he was hanged up with a great Stone upon his Belly that broke his back bone Yet men cannot be quiet for Owen Glendover upon a private grudge between himselfe and the Lord Grey of Ruthen and a publick ambition to be Prince of Wales in the divided times of England raised all Wales and the borders of England and with the advantage of a Scots Invasion at the same time and the French Auxiliaries prospered a while but that 's well that ends well Owen is at last as all Traytors abandoned by his Followers the people are altered in their Resolutions Owen himself was famished in the Woods and Wales made desolate But at the same time Treason had all the faire and promising circumstances imaginable for the unhappy King had not only France and Scotland our old friends and Wales to deale with but the Percies of Northumberland and Worcester and Henry Hotspur who upon some private discontents enter in a leagure offensive and desentive with Glendover and an Indenture Tripartite wherein all Wales were asligned to Glendover all England South and East of Trent to the Earle of March and the rest to Northumberland a formidable design but comes to nothing Henry Hotspur is slain their Army is defeated 6000. of them left dead upon the place the chief of them are executed and 7016. Families undone in this undertaking Northumberland and others who had been pardoned ingratefully engaging again upon Yorks-wold Downes against his Soveraign where he was surprized by the Earle of Westmerland in this manner The Earle sends to know their Grievances which when they sent him he alloweth of and promiseth to joyne with them seemeth to pitty their Souldiers and his own and perswadeth them to disband as he would do himself which they no sooner do but he arresteth the chief of them who were executed at York and Durham where Northumbarland after he had wandred up and down Scotland Wales France about a year was slain likewise and 13000. Families of the Revolt were upon this sad occasion exterminated and rooted out of England Such dreadful consequence of Rebellion as awed the Lords and Commons to peace and allegiance all King Henry the Fifths Reign and the first sixteen years of Henry the Sixths § 14. When the Duke of York now aspiring to the Crown takes his opportunity to whisper and suggest to the people that the King was weak and easie the Queen was of a malignant spirit the Privy Councel was ill inclined wherewith the Common people were possessed when one Mortimer the Dukes Agent promiseth them a Reformation of all abuses freedome from Taxes who styling himself Captain Mend-all marcheth to Blackheath there exerciseth them sends their grievances to the Parliament complaining that the Kings Revenue is lavished away that he burdeneth the people that he takes their Commodities from them by his Purveyors and their Estates by his Courtiers that legal proceedings were stopped by Letters from above that extraordinary fees were exacted that freedome of Elections were denyed and Parliament men chosen by Court Letters that the faithful Counsellors the Dukes of York Exceter Buckingham Norfolk were discountenanced by the undue practices of some corrupt Courtiers and their Favourites The Parliament countenanceth them the Privy Counsel receiveth their Petition and if any plot ever prospered this was like to be one Yet see how the King though never so generally hated so considerable a thing is Royalty under the greatest disadvantages gathereth an Army of 15000. the Rebells defeat him come to London command the City to provide them Horse and Armes and other Necessaries behead the Lord Say and Sir James Cromer carry all before them when on a sudden some old Souldiers from the Tower surprize them the Rebells look about them and consider their danger are weary of their service and upon the Kings pardon submit and leave Jack Cade to shift for himself who fled away in a disguise and Proclamation being made that whosoever should bring him dead or alive should have a thousand Markes for his paines a while after was attached by one Eden and making resistance in a Garden at Hothfield in Sussex was there slain his Body was brought to London beheaded Quartered his Head set upon London Bridge his Quarters dispersed in divers places in Kent and his Followers to the number of 500. arraigned to the utter ruine of 4000. Families who perished in this gain-saying of Kore as did the Prentices and Commons of London of whom 2000. died in a commotion the year following the Duke of York flieth to Ireland Owen Teuther and divers Welsh Gentlemen are beheaded and the King who had usurped the Throne never prospered and the Duke of York slain at Wakefield and his Head put over the great Hall of York § 15. Edward the 4th is Crowned but with cares and troubles for the Kingdome was in a Combustion King Henry was at the Head of 40000. to try it with him for that Crown seconded both by the French and Scots but see the fate of Rebellion the Armies approach each other the Lord Fauconbridge gives the Archers direction upon a signal given by him to shoot every Man a flight Arrow
Earle of Northumberland President of the North Parts collecteth it by force but he is murthered an insurrection is made and in defence of their Liberties the people would give the King Battle what followed Liberty No the multitude is discomfited by the Earle of Surrey their Leader with many of his accomplices hanged drawn and quarted at Yorke and 3564. Families turned upon this occasion out of doors to the wide World This device failing one worth two of it is thought upon by the Countesse of Burgundy and that is that one Perkin VVorbecke should counterfeit Richard the younger Son of Edward the 4th who was now dead and could not be shewed to the people as the Earle of VVarwicke was and being Brother to the Queen could not be prejudiced in his right by her this Perkin is entertained by the King of France flocked to by the English Malecontents the people of England generally respect him Sir Rob. Clifford and Rob. Barley are sent to attend him the Lord Fitzwater Sir Simon Montford Sir Tho. Thwaits Doctor Richford Doctor Sutton Doctor VVorsky conspired with him he gets an Army marrieth the Earl of Huntleyes Daughter and engageth the King of Scots in his Quarrel he goeth to Ireland landeth in Cornwall with very considerable Forces Doth he prosper no his Confederates are discovered by King Henryes espialls in Flanders and executed particularly Sir VVilliam Stanley Sir Simon Montford c. an hundred and sixty of his Followers were hanged drawn and quartered in London and along the Sea-Coast Scotland is laid waste his friends leave him he submits to the Kings mercy and upon his attempt to escape out of the Tower three times was hanged drawn and quartered at Tyburn and Edward Earle of VVarwicke for his sake is beheaded In these troublesome times the people refuse to pay their Subsidies and in Cornwall they rise under one Flammocke a Lawyer and Joseph a Smith and draw a formidable Company towards London upon Black-heath do they now ease themselves and their fellow subjects no they are invironed by the Kings Forces three thousand of them perish upon the place my Lord Audley Flammocke and Joseph were hanged drawn and quartered their Estates bestowed among the Courtiers and some hundreds of Families bound to curse them to this day To which we may adde the dismal end of VVillford another pretender set up by an Augustin Frier who was hanged drawn and quartered and made an example to rash and inconsiderable Traytors for the following Generations as were Sir James Tyrrell Sir John Windam the Earle of Suffolke and others in the following year to the ruine of many Families who rued their Treasons many years after § 18. In the 8th year of King Henry the 8th there happened in London an Insurrection against strangers especially Artificers who exercised Handicraft and vented Wares to the great dammage of the Kings Subjects the Prentices and others assembled cryed up Privileges Privileges what was the end of it twelve of them were hanged and four hundred more drawn in their shirts with Ropes and Halters about their Necks to Westminster to submit to the Kings mercy as VVeakely did many of all Professions hearken to the enthusiasmes of the holy Maid of Kent who would needs perswade men that King Henry could not continue long who lived to hang her and to ruine five hundred of her Complices But Religion is altered and Treason that hereto served the Interest of Men is now hallowed and become the cause of God K. Henry sets forth injunctions for translating the Lords Prayer the Creed the ten Commandments into the English Tongue and requiring all Parsons and Curates to teach them so translated to their Parishioners this Innovation was not to be endured twenty thousand assemble at Lincolne and forty thousand at York taking Armes as they said for the faith of Christ and deliverance of the Holy Church now oppressed sixty thousand in Lancashire 15000. at Hull indeed all the Kingdome here is a general Plot and this Plot for Conscience sake but doth God blesse it or doth the spreading nature of it prevaile nothing lesse for thirteen of the Ringleaders at Lincolne 300. of the chief at York and the Northern parts 60. of the principal at Hull were hanged drawn and quartered and the rest undone by the Lords Derby Shrewsbury Pembrooke and others to the number of 6000. Families besides the Lords Darcey and Husley both executed Sir Rob. Constable who was hanged in Chaines at Hull and Sir Jo. Bulmers Laly who was burned in Smith-field Henry Marquesse of Exeter H. Lord Mountacute Sir Nicolas Carew Sir VVill. Nevill who came all to miserable ends upon the same score § 19. But the Reformation of Religion proceedeth in King Edward the Sixths dayes and the people are more and more enraged for Conscience sike the Kings Commissioners were stabbed the multitude arme themselves and commit many outrages they increase to the number of 50000. a terrible number they declare for Religion against Inclosures Lawyers Courts c. besiege rich Cities as Exeter Norwich c. but to what end they are defeated before those Cities most of them slain upon the place 500. of them were executed at London and as many with their Ringleaders hanged up and down the Country But there was a Prophecy that the time should come when there should be no King when the Nobility and Gentry should be destroyed when the kingdome should be ruled by four Governours elected by the Commons c. and now sure was that time Up must Ombler a Gentleman and Dale a Parish Clerk with 5000. more to fulfill this Prophecy but was this Prophecy fulfilled no such matter they found to their sorrow a King Nobility Gentry and a Government that brought them to Justice executed sevenscore of them and brought 600. Families deeply engaged in the Rebellion to a morsel of Bread The King I mean Edward the Sixth is a dying and Religion is like to die with him for the glory of God the preservation of the Gospel the Ladies Mary and Elizabeth are put by their known right and the Lady Jane Grey set next his Majesty in the Royal Succession the King makes his Will the Privy Councel confirme it the Mayor and Aldermen swear Allegiance to the Lady Jane who is proclaimed Queen the Privy Councel refuse Queen Mary they sent an Army against her under the Duke of Northumberland but see the end of it the Privy Councel notwithstanding their protestations to the Duke of Northumberland relent and proclaime Queen Mary the Earle of Huntington entrusted by the said Duke with four thousand men deserts him the people all over the Kingdome discountenance him six Ships ordered to Intercept the Lady Mary he revolts to her yea the Duke of Northumberland himself is glad to proclaime her Queen Jane and the said Duke are arraigned and executed § 19. Queen Mary altereth Religion again the Earle of Suffolk Sir Tho. Wyat and others for