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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

in the Protestation to abolish Popery of which in their opinion wearing the Surpless was a part Many attempts they made upon the Doctor and his Curate affronting them both in officiating Divine Service and administration of the Sacraments but they being countenanced by a considerable part in the Town the Sectaries could not effect what they desired until at last in the Months of June July and August 1642. they were animated by the coming of the Forces raised in Essex Suffolk and Norfolk For as they raised each Company it was sent to Chelmsford the common Rendezvouz and there staied until they were made up three hundred or four hundred and so sent to London In all the time of their stay there the Doctor lay at the mercy of the Soldiers who egg'd on by the Brownists and Anabaptists of the Town used his House as their Quarter consumed his provisions for his Family and commanded there as Lords Amongst many Outrages committed by the Soldiers Three are most remarkable First Upon a Fast Day they send a Command to the Doctor that he should not pray for the Bishops nor so much as make mention of them in his Lips nor use the Book of Common-Prayer if he did they threaten to pull him out of the Pulpit and tear him in pieces The Doctor not intimidated by their Threat gives order to his Curate to read the Prayers appointed which accordingly he did The Soldiers right bred being Volunteers of Colchester and Ipswich and rightly designed too for my Lord Sayes's own Regiment fit Soldiers for such a Leader irreverently fit with their Hats on make a noise to drown the Curates voice nay they call to him to come out of his Calves Coope meaning the Reading-Desk and make an end of his Pottage The Curate remembring that advice of our Saviour Not to cast Pearls before Swine nor holy things to Dogs gives over reading unwilling to expose the holy Worship of God to so foul Contempt and Scorn Having thus silenced the Curate their Commanders looking on they violently take the Sacred Bible to tear it but being reproved for it by Sergeant Major Bamfeild then present they exchange the Bible for the Book of Common-Prayer Having it in their power in solemn Triumph they carry it into the Streets and that which holy Martyrs inspired by the Holy Ghost composed and sealed the truth and sanctity of it with their dearest Blood these Savage Miscreants rent in pieces Some of the leaves they tread under feet some they cast into the Kennel some they pissed upon and some they fixed on the end of their Clubs and Cudgels and in a Triumphant manner marched with them up and down the Town Secondly About a Week after when the Doctor was in the Chancel there to Interr the Corps of a Gentleman lately deceased these Soldiers rushed into the place with an intent to bury the quick with the dead to put the Doctor into the same Grave which they had done for no other reason but because he used the Form prescribed by the Church at burial of the Dead had he not been powerfully rescued by his Parishoners Lastly When the glad Tydings were brought to Chelmsford that Episcopacy was voted down by the House of Commons all usual expressions of an exulting joy were used amongst the rest Bonfires were kindled in every street but most of the Fuel was violently taken from the Doctor 's Wood-yard And now the pile raised and the fire kindled they want nothing but a Sacrifice this they resolve shall be the Doctor himself To this purpose the Separatists of the Town assisted by two Companies of Soldiers in the Evening assault him in his House seise upon his Person and are ready to carry him to the Fire there to throw him headlong into the midst of it But some of his Friends having information of the design go and acquaint the Commanders with the bloody intentions of their Souldiers who presently take a Guard and rescue the Doctor out of their power as soon as ever they had seized on him Since that oppressed and worried every day by these ravenous Wolves he was forced to forsake his Charge as many other godly Ministers are and to fly for his Life leaving his Wife and eight Children to the mercy of the Rebels who have deprived his Family of all their Livelihood and exposed them to extream want Nay they have several times broken violently into his House under pretence to search for him and have held Pistols cocked and Swords drawn at the Breasts of his Children and Servants charging them upon their Lives to reveal where the Doctor was It was lately certified from thence by a chief Member of that Town and no friend of the Doctors that he finds the case there to be far worse than he expected for while they hoped that the power being Traiterously wrested out of the King's hand they should have shared it amongst themselves they find that either the power is fallen into their hands that are far beneath them or else hath raised these men up far above them for as he writes The Town is governed by a Tinker two Coblers two Taylors two Pedlers c. And that the World may see what a Systeme of Divinity these Coblers and Taylors are like in time to stitch together and what Principles they intend to Rule by I shall here set down certain preparatory prelusory Propositions which they usually Preach for Preach they do to their infatuated Disciples and by them are received as the Divine Oracles of God And you shall have them in their own Terms viz. First That Kings are the Burdens and Plagues of those People or Nations over which they Govern Secondly That the relation of Master and Servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament but rather the contrary For there we read In Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free and we are all one in Christ. Thirdly That the Honours and Titles of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Lords Knights and Gentlemen are but Ethnical and Heathenish distinctions amongst Christians Fourthly That one man should have a Thousand Pounds a Year and another not one Pound perhaps not so much but must live by the sweat of his Brows and must Labour before he eat hath no ground neither in Nature or in Scripture Fifthly That the Common People heretofore kept under Blindness and Ignorance have a long time yielded themselves Sorvants nay Slaves to the Nobility and Gentry But God hath now opened their Eyes and discovered unto them their Christian Liberty And that therefore it is now fit that the Nobility and Gentry should serve their Servants or at least Work for their own Maintenance and if they will not Work they ought not to Eat Sixthly That Learning hath always been an enemy to the Gospel and that it were a happy thing if there were no Universities and all Books burnt except the Bible Seventhly That any man whom God hath as they call it Gifted may be

Malignant as the Doctor though they used him bad enough yet they express not so keen a malice against him as against the Doctor Having satiated themselves by cumulating Injury upon Injury upon them they are both commanded to an outward Room here they are assaulted by fresh Furies for they had not staid long there but two Aldermen renew the same Insolencies and act the Injuries all over again and the very dregs of the People animated by their example bear them Company After this the Earl commits them to Prison and being brought into the Room where they were to lodge they were stript naked and their Cloaths narrowly searched and though after all this scrutiny nothing could be found yet Intelligence is the thing the Earl looks after and Intelligence he will have if it be to be had And though the World never took his Lordship for a Physitian yet he prescribes two Vomits where his Honour had his Simples I know not but the Composition was of a green colour divided into two Draughts put into two Bowls these the Earl commands to be administred to the Doctor and the Trumpeter that so they may vomit up those supposed Papers of Intelligence which Serjeant-Major Baxter thought they had swallowed the Doctor the chief Patient begins first whom instantly they ply with Posset-drink having likewise some infusion in it to provoke and help on the Potion taken all night long did they keep the Doctor at this Exercise though they saw that what came from him came with great difficulty and torment yet they gave not off till at last it drew Blood from him all the return that was made into the Basin was very exactly strained to see if there were any rag of Intelligence but there was none but in case it should work both ways though his Lordship had many about him wonderous fit for such Imployment yet whom he placed Sentinel for the Postern if any Intelligence should chance to escape that way my intelligence fails me This Inhumane usage brought the Doctor so low that in three days he was not able to receive any Sustenance In this his extremity and weakness he had many visits from the people of the Town who like Jobs comforters revile him instead of pitying him and the third night as he lay very sick and weak in his Bed there came into his Chamber a man very likely to prove the Messenger of death unto him his name was Doune Lieutenant to Captain White who presently asking for the Jesuite and calling him Rogue and as many base names as himself deserved offered to lay violent hands upon him but one of the Soldiers abhorring so barbarous Cruelty in meer mercy to a dying Man as he had reason to judge him interposing restrained him from acting those Murderous thoughts which he brought with him After the Doctor had remained Prisoner five or six days and having recovered so much strength as to hold out another worrying he was with an ill intention in some brought before the Council of War where upon the Doctors complaint of the hard usage he had undergon some of the prime Gentry being ashamed of the Cruelties acted on him being a Messenger and in that regard by the Law of Arms ought to be priviledged from all Affronts much more from such violent Outrages Sir John Northcoote indeavoured to palliate the business and to take off from the odiousness of it by alledging the Contents of the Letters which indeed being for some Preparatories and Overtures of Peace might inrage these men that were Enemies unto it To which the Doctor replyed that under favour that could be no ground nor yet excuse for their savage usage of him because they had beaten him and almost murdered him in the Earl of Stamfords presence before they knew the Contents of the Letters or read so much as one syllable of them or indeed received them the violent Serjeant-Major seizing on him before he could deliver them This so unanswerable a return put the Knight to his Italian shrug and rejoyned no more but I know not That After a Week and more Imprisonment the Earl commands the Doctor to be carryed aboard the Hope of Toptham where the stench and noysom smell of the Ship had almost poyson'd him The Doctors Wife hearing of her Husbands Imprisonment came to Exeter to see him but before she came her Husband being Shipt for London on much intreaty she obtained leave to go on Ship-board to see him but on her return she was Imprisoned till her Husband being under Sail she had liberty to go away After ten days being at Sea the Doctor arrived at London where he was long detained Prisoner at the Lord Peters his House in Aldersgate-street The Lord Gray with some other Rebels under his Conduct came to Mr. Nowels House Brother to the Lord Nowel that now is demanding his Person prisoner and his Arms for the use of the Parliament Master Nowell modestly replyed That he knew not wherein he had offended that he should forfeit his Liberty or Goods to the Justice of the Parliament his House was his Castle his Arms were his Defence and his Liberty was precious unto him so that he could not satisfie their demands in any thing Hereupon they plant a Cannon very near the House so near that the Fire of it took hold of an Out-house that was thatched this House though burnt down was not of any great consequence Therefore they discharge again and beat down a beam of his Dwelling-house but hurt no man within it and making a third shot they beat down a Chimney and the fall of it bruised the foot of one of his Servants At last finding that Mr. Nowel was resolved to make good his house against them notwithstanding their Cannon Battery and would not deliver up his Person to Captivity nor his House to their Plunder they fire six of his Neighbors Houses in one of which there was a Woman in Labor by which means the Neighbors were compelled to expose her to a probable by snatching her from a certain destruction for in the midst of her Throws and Pangs of Child-birth they were fain to carry her in a Chair out into the Streets having a while sported and warmed themselves at those Flames at which the poor Inhabitants wept and wrung their Hands they threaten that unless Mr. Nowel will yield himself Prisoner and deliver up his House to their pleasure they will not only fire his House but will not leave a House unburnt in the whole Parish This so affrighted the poor Inhabitants his Neighbors that Men Women and Children come with tears and earnestly beseech him to surrender himself rather than suffer them to be ruined and utterly spoiled before his face Overcome at last not by the Rebels Ordnance but by that which spake louder in his Ears the pitiful complaints and out-cries of his Neighbors he founds a Parley the result of which was First That the Rebels should see the Fire quenched Secondly That

at their Coronation and where their bodies rest in honourable Sepulture when they have exchanged their Temporal for Eternal Crowns This Church under the eye and immediate protection of the pretended Houses of Parliament had its share in spoil and prophanation as much as those Cathedrals which were more remote from them for in July last 1643. some Soldiers of Weshborne and Catwoods Companies perhaps because there were no Houses in Westminster were quartered in the Abby Church where as the rest of our Modern Reformers they brake down the Rail abut the Altar and burnt it in the place where it stood they brake down the Organ and pawned the Pipes at several Ale-houses for Pots of Ale They put on some of the singing mens Surplesses and in contempt of that Canonical Habit ran up and down the Church he that wore the Surpless was the Hare the rest were the Hounds To shew their Christian Liberty in the use of things and that all Consecration or Hallowing of things under de Gospel is but a Jewish or Popish Superstition and that they are no longer to be accounted holy than that holy use to which they serve shall by the actual use only impart a transient holiness to them they set Forms about the Communion Table there they eat and there they drink Ale and Tobacco some of their own Levites if my Intelligence deceive me not bearing them company and countenancing so beastly Prophanation Nor was this done once to vindicate their Christian Liberty as they call Prophanation it self but the whole time of their abode there they made it their common Table on which they usually dined and supp'd though S. Paul calls it despising the Church of Christ and asks his Corinthians if they had not houses to eat and to drink in 1 Cor. 11. They did the easements of nature and laid their Excrements about the Altar and in most places of the Church An abomination which God did provide against by a peculiar prohibition in the Law of Moses and that in places not rendred so dreadful by so peculiar a manner of the presence of God as in the hallowed Temples of his publick worship God would not permit the Jews to do these offices of nature in the Camp they must have a place without the Camp and a Paddle to dig and cover it you have the Law and the reason of the Law both together they must not do so For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of the Camp therefore shall thy Camp be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee and turn away from thee Deut. 23.12 If God for these reasons would not endure it in the Camp how much more doth his Soul abhor such beastly uncleanness in his House and holy Temple Nay which is the height of all Impiety they familiarly kept their whores in the Church and which I tremble to write Prodigious Monsters as they are lay with them on the very Altar it self and did in that place commit such things as are unfit to be done by Christians These remain yet two Prophanations more of this Church not to be passed over insilence The first was committed by Sir Robert Harlow who breaking into Henry the Seventh's Chappel brake down the Altar-stone which stood before that goodly Monument of Henry the 7. the stone was Touch-stone all of one piece a Rarity not to be matched that we know off in any part of the World there it stood for many years not for use but only for Ornament yet it did not escape the frenzy of this mans ignorant 〈◊〉 for he break it into shivers The second was committed on the 13. of December 1643. When the Carcass of John Pym as much as the lice left of it was brought into this Church and after a Sermon Preached by Stephen Marshall Arch-Flamen of the Rebels and the Church Service Officiated by Lambart Orbaston one of the Prebends of that Church is was interr'd under the Monumental stone of one Windsor Buried about 200 years since in the voyd space or passage as you go to Henry the Seventh's Chappel between the Earl of Dovers place of Burial and the Monument of Henry the Third Founder of that Church usurp'd Ensigns of honour displayed over him 'T was pitty that he that in his life had been the Author of so much bloodshed and those many calamities under which this Kingdom yet groans and therefore deserved not only to have his death with the transgressours and wicked but afterward to be Buried with the Burial of an Ass drawn and cast forth beyond the Gates of the City Jer. 22.19 should after his death make his Sepulchre amongst the Honourable and mingle his Vulgar Lowzy ashes with those of Kings Princes and Nobles The sixth Instance of the Rebels Sacrilege and Prophaneness which I shall present unto the World is in the Cathedral Church of Exeter which was once a Monastery founded by Athelstane the Eighth King of England of the Saxon Race and by him Consecrated to S. Peter Edward the Confessor removing all the Monks from hence and planting them at Westminster which he had newly founded and endowed made it the Bishops See for Devon and Cornwal That Pile which we now see owes its being to many founders William Warlwast the third Bishop of this See after it was translated from Cridington or as it is now usually called Kir●on to Exeter built the Quire which now is but was intended by the Founder for the Nave or Body of the Church but Peter Quivil the 13 th Bishop of this See laid the Foundation of that which is now the body of the Church but he prevented by death left the work imperfect John Grandesson therefore the seventeenth Bishop of this See thinking the Foundation laid by his Predecessor Quivil to be faulty in Geometrical proportions the length not being answerable to the height added two Pillars more to the length of the Nave of the Church of a distance proportionable to those laid before he closed up the end with a Wall of most Exquisite work in which he built a little Chappel and in that Chappel a Monument wherein himself was intombed He built likewise the two side Iles and covered the whole Fabrick with an Arch of Exquisite work and brought it to such perfection that in splendour and magnificence it gives precedency to few Cathedrals of the Kingdom and which is very remarkable though this Church was first began by King Athelstane and made many steps before it came to arrive at its perfection so that there are numbered almost five hundred years from the laying the first stone to the covering of the Roof yet the wisdom and care of the several Benefactors was so great that the most curious Surveyor must confess that the Symmetry of the parts and the proportions of the whole are so exact as from the Foundation to the Roof had been the work not of one age only but of one and the same hand and that the Ornaments of

May the 30 th The Rebels attempted to cross the River Charwell at Gosworth-bridge but were gallantly repulsed by a small party of His Majesties Forces that had the guard of that pass May the 31 st Waller attemping to pass Isis at Newbridg and being then repulsed retired to Abingdon where he to revenge himself demolished Abingdon Cross defaced the Church burnt all the Tables and Chess-boards in Abingdon and Plundered most of the People of their goods June the 1 st The Rebels did attempt in several places at once to cross the river Charwell but could speed at none being still beaten off with great loss and particularly at Gosworth-bridg where they lost above 100 men June the 3 d. His Majesty perceiving the Rebels intention to besiege Oxford left a sufficient strength for defence thereof and to disburthen the City of unnecessary force marched with the rest of his Army this evening towards Worcester June the 4 th the Earl of Essex perceiving the Kings Forces drawn away passed Charwell with his Army and hearing of His Majesties departure from Oxford hastned after but upon Campsfield near Woodstock there fell upon his Army such a prodigious and violent storm of hail and rain accompanied with such terrible thunder and lightening for the space of two hours that some of them took occasion to say that the Conjurers at Oxford had engaged all their Familiars to work them a despight there being some hail as big as Nutmegs Others more nearly touched with an apprehension of the wickedness of their actions confessed that they suffered the violence of Heaven No such storm being seen at Oxford nor in any the adjacent Villages But the besotted Rebels contemning this presage from Heaven went on to their own ruin June the 5 th The Earl of Essex went this day as far as Chipping-Norton after the King June the 6 th But unwilling to lose his labour any longer returned to Burford where he deputed Sir William Waller to proceed in the adventure of King-catching that himself might have the sole honour of taking in Lestithiell June the 11 th Dudley Castle which had been gallantly defended by Lieutenant Col. Beaumont for three weeks before was relieved and the siege raised by His Majesties Forces sent from Worcester who took two Colours of the Rebels horse two Majors of Foot two Captains three Lieutenants kill'd about 100 in the fight and took above 50 common Soldiers Prisoners without any considerable loss on His Majesties part June the 12 th Col. Gage with some forces from Oxford took in Borstall house a Garrison of the Rebels in Buckinghamshire June the 18 th His Majesty in Worcestershire having intelligence that the Rebels Armies were now severed whilst Sir William Waller to get before the King ran into Staffordshire resolved to reinforce himself with the Regiments left at Oxford and encounter Sir William to which end he returned and came this day to Witney June the 20 th His Highness Prince Rupert being then in Lancashire clearing the County Colonel Shuttleworth with 400 Rebels came to beat up some of his quarters and fell in at Blackburne Where that vigilant Commander Sir Charles Lucas was so ready for him that he killed and took above 100 of the Rebels making the rest run for their lives June the 22 d. Sir William Waller having run himself out of breath gave over the pursuit of the King the rather for that His Majesty was provided for him Whereupon His Majesty directed his march towards the Rebels associated Counties and came this night to Buckingham where he received the joyful newes of His Queens safe delivery of the Princess Henrietta who was born at Exeter the 16 th of this month June the 25 th Sir Charles Lucas hearing Colonel Shuttleworth had gathered 300 horse and 100 Dragoons at Colne on the Borders of Yoreshire marched to him and fell on with such skill and courage that he totally routed all the Rebels both horse and Dragoons had execution for three miles wounded Shuttleworth himself who with very few others escaped all the rest Sir Charles killed and took and brought their Colours with the Prisoners to Prince Rupert June the 26 th Waller to recruit his weary Army from the Garrisons of Gloucester Warwick Coventry Northampton and Kenelmworth-castle had this day a rendezvouz in Keinton field whereof the King having notice turned his march towards him and quartered this night at Brackley June the 28 th This day the King coming before Banbury found Waller drawn up in Battalia Westward from the Town on the side of Crouch hill taking advantage of the hills bogs and ditches June the 29 th His Majesty discerning that Waller would not come into the plain nor could be assaulted as he lay but with much disadvantage removed somewhat Northwards to see if thereby he could draw him from his station which succeeded accordingly for Waller likewise advanced on the other side the River whereupon the King at Cropready marched further off the River leaving the Bridg in hope to draw them over which Waller greedily apprehending as an advantage put over 2000 horse and a great body of foot with 14 pieces of Cannon The Rebels being thus divided were immediately charged by the Kings Rear the brave Earl of Clevelands horse and Sir Bernard Astleys foot routing all that had past the Bridg whilst the Earl of Northampton charged the rest of the Rebels horse that were fording over In this fight were slain at least 300 Rebels and many of them taken Prisoners with their 14 pieces there were slain on His Majesties part two gallant Knights Sir William Butler and Sir William Clarke and not above 14 common Soldiers besides and so much for Wallers Army this Summer July the 3 d. The King having thus defeated one of the Rebels Armies bent Westwards after the other and came this day to Evesham to refresh his Soldiers after their hard duty from whence he sent to Westminster his message for Peace of the 4 th of July In the beginning of this month his Highness Prince Rupert marched out of Lancashire with a considerable Army for the relief of Yorke which had been two months besieged by an aggregate body of Rebels consisting of the Earl of Manchesters Army the Lord Fairfax and the Rebellious Scots under command of Lesley The Prince had no sooner relieved Yorke but drew forth after the Rebels and in Marstone Moore there began a terrible fight wherein his Highness had at first much the better took the Rebels Ordnance and many of them Prisoners insomuch that Lesley and the Lord Fairfax thinking all had been lost fled many miles from the place where the Battel was fought and never came to the remainder of their Armies till two days after the fight but in conclusion whether by fate which attends the event of War or by neglect I know not the fortune of the day turned and the Rebels recovered their lost Ordnance and took some of the Princes baggage and with it