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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32788	Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London : begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.	Chestlin.	1681 (1681)	Wing C3786; ESTC R23249	54,531	40

Engine and name of Parliament to cover their Fanatical Combination and Conspiracy which they have been so long contriving to raise to its height by these means following By incorporating themselves into a Church as distinct from the Church of England as the Papists have been they have set up an upstart Ministery of Lecturers they made publick collections of Monies for their silenced Ministers under pretence of poor Ministers they have had their Feoffees intrusted with great sums of Monies raised among themselves for furtherance of their designs witness the plot of buying out of Impropriations to plant in men of their own Tribe to whom St. Antholins in London was the Nursery they had their mutual intelligence throughout the whole Kingdom and ingrossed almost all the inland Trade to men of their Faction they took up a canting language to themselves which they called the Language of Canaan abusing phrase of Scripture thereby to understand one another to colour their seditious practises they had their Emissaries whereof simple Robin the Bible-Carrier was one or Scouts to give notice where men of their Tribe preached so that not any one of their Ministers could come to London from the farthest parts of England but found entertainment in the City for whose Randevouz a Widow whom Alderman Pennington Marryed kept an Ordinary in White-Friars where many of them lodged in Doctor Prestons days and when any of these preached in any place in London or thereabouts they wanted not a crowd of followers And as these were busie in the Church so their close Committe-Masters in those days were not idle in the State much correspondency held with the Brethren of Scotland and before any Wars began in either Nation Mr. Hamden went yearly into Scotland as I have heard some of his Neighbours in Buckinghamshire say they had their Counsel Tables sitting in several parts of the Kingdom Knightly's House in Northamptonshire Lord Sayes House wherein was a room and passage which his servants were prohibited to come near where great noises and talkings have been heard to the admiration of some who lived in the House yet could never discern their Lords Companions that in King James's days a great Mistriss of the Faction who afterwards changed her House to come to Black-Fryars to live under the Gospel as they called their Lecturing Parishes whose House was much frequented by Lord Say and the Earl of Warwick Mr. Pym c. could say That their party was then strong enough to pull the Kings Crown from his head but the Gospel would not suffer them but not long after the Gospel was put into a posture of War when so many Military yards in London Westminster and Southwarke and other places about sixteen years since grew into much request whither Lord Brooke much resorted whom I have seen entertained there with whole Vollies of Muskets that Fanatical Goliah armed cap à pe yet shot in the eye which himself bragg'd should see the Millenary fools Paradise begin in his life-time and all Sectaries in London on a suddain entred themselves and drew on others to be listed in those Artillery-Gardens to exercise feates of Arms for pastime as some were drawn in against a time of need was the Reason given by some Brethren of those days which it should seem onely themselves foresaw better than other men and as their designes ripened Captain Forster a Vintner behind the Exchange was employed by the City-Faction to send over sea for Skippon a confiding Brother to the Cause to be Captain of the London Artillery Garden who was since this Parliament made Major General of the City Rebels flamming the rest of the Londoners that a Stranger was sent for to prevent emulation among the City-Captains upon an election a fair preparatory for the invasion of the Scots to force the King to call a Parliament which all men were made so much to long for because the Faction had plotted to pack it for their designs This made the Earl of Warwick write from York to his Friends in Essex about the Election of Knights and Burgesses for this Parliament alledging That the Game was well begun Mr. Pym rode a Circuit into divers Counties to promote Elections of men of the Faction and Sectaries went from place to place to cry down the nomination of any who belonged to the Kings Service and to give Votes for men of the new Religion and notorious opposers of the King or the Clergy whose names the Faction had privately before listed whereby divers Citizers and Lawyers were chosen for Burgesses in Parliament by those Incorporations which they never had any relation to nor knowledge of but by some rebellious opposing Moses and Aaaron the King or the Priest witness Mr. Bagshaw and Mr. White two Lawyers chosen for Southwarke the one a Feoffeeman censured in the Star-Chamber the other a Seditious Law-Reader against Bishops not long before like the four Burgesses of London chosen upon four such grounds Alderman Soame for his imprisonment in denying of Ship-money Vassall for his obstinacy against Customs Craddock for the Cause of New-England Alderman Pennington for his known zeal by his keeping a fasting Sabboth throughout his Shrivalty Lecturers also came thrusting into Elections of the Clergy wherein they had nothing to do as having not whence to pay Subsidies for men into the Convocation with whom came some Citizens to Christ-Church in London to hear how the Plot took in the Election but having no hopes to pack up a Convocation they made a Rendevouz of many Scandalous and Schismatical Lecturers and such as Doctor Burgesse whom guilt made Parliament-Converts and Vassals at Mr. Calamies House in Aldermanbury till strengthned into a new Assembly at Westminster as a Counter Convocation or Conventicle from whence the Faction in Parliament received informations concerning Religion and hereby did they communicate their intelligence and designs with directions how these their Ministers might by degrees prepare the people for their work that I have heard their Auditors say that by the Sundays Sermon or a Lecture they could learn not onely what was done the week before but also what was to be done in Parliament the week following besides the information which their Pulpits gave the people for coming in tumults to the House for Justice from a Juncto of these Ministers came that insolent order of directions thrown into Church-wardens houses by unknown hands how to take the first Protestation from one of these Clubs came the S●nectymnuan Libels which got the Authors round sums of Money to make their Religion shine in the world ut ipse MarcionT Evangelico aliquando credidit cum pecuniam in primo calore fidei contulit Reformers in Luthers time did not so if Scoperus the Emperors Secretary said true at a Diet at Ausburgh Nor may we forget how the Faction in London packed up a new Common-Councel removing ancient grave men to foist in young and mean fellows but zealous for the Cause not an Office in