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A92975	The severall humble petitions of D. Bastwicke. M. Burton. M. Prynne. and of Nath. VVickins, servant to the said Mr. Prynne. To the Honourable House of Parliament. Whereto is added the humble petitions of severall friends of the said Mr. Prynne, and the acknowledgmeut [sic] prescrib'd to be made by Calvin Bruen, and the rest, in the Cathedrall Church of Chester, and town-hall thereof, for visiting the said Mr. Prynne.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing S2765; Thomason E207_4; ESTC R209836	16,501	49

by a pretended order from the Lords of the Counsell hee was conveyed to the Fleet and there kept close prisoner During which imprisonment an information was exhibited against the petitioner and others in his Majesties Court of Star-Chamber whereby he was charged inter alia with the publishing of a certaine Booke containing an Apologie for an Appeale with his said two Sermons intituled For God and the King wherein hee taught Subjects to yeeld all manner of due obedience to their lawfull King and reproved all lawlesse Innovations in Religion c. Which Information the petitioner upon his Oath under the hand of M. Holt being then of his counsell assigned by speciall order from the said Court did put in his answer wherein hee alledged such things onely as his said Counsell conceived to be materiall and pertinent for his just defence in publishing the said booke but denyed all other matters in the said Information conteined which said Answer being admitted and received in Court the petitioner being then a close prisoner not onely attended the exhibiting of Interrogatories according to the custome of that Court but withall after some universall delay did write unto the Kings Attourney to hasten them but before the examiner came the petitioner heard that his said Answer was referred to S. Iohn Bramston Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Iohn Finch then chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas and was by them wholy expunged as impertinent and Scandalous save onely the not guilty And the Petitioner understanding the answer he was to make to the Interrogatories was to be reckned as a part of his answer admitted in court but afterwards expunged as impertinent scandalous as aforesaid so as if he should then have answered the Interrogatories he shold thereby have assented to the said act of the said Iudges and so to the condemnation of his cause before the hearing wherby he should have contracted his former Oath that his said Answer was a true Answer and so should justly have brought himselfe under the guilt of wilfull perjury and his cause under just censure For that very reason he held himselfe not bound as hee conceived to answer the Interrogatories for that his said answer was so expunged and the Not Guilty as the foot so tyed to the head without the maine body and that in the Judges owne words as the Petitioner could not in any sort take or acknowledge it now for other then the Judges owne answer as may appeare upon Record in the same Court Neverthelesse the Court taking the same information Pro confesso and refusing to admit a copy of the Petitioners own true answer as also of his reasons of not answering the Interrogatories both which at his Censure he tendred to the Court desiring they might be then and there publikely read the 14. of Iune 13. Caroli Regis proceeded to censure whereby your Petitioner was Censured in a Fine of 5000. li. to his Majesty To be deprived of his Ecclesiasticall Benefice degraded from his Ministeriall function and degrees in the Vniversity and ordered to be set on the Pillory where both his eares were to be cut off confined to perpetuall close imprisonment in Lancaster Castle debarred the accesse of his wife or any other to come to him but onely his Keeper and denied the use of penne inke and paper All which except the Fine was executed accordingly And after his close imprisonment for twelve weekes in the common Gaole in the said Castle he was by what extrajudiciall order he knows not transported by the conduct of one Brian Burton appointed by the High Sheriffe of Lancaster who used your Petitioner very basely and deceitfully in that his transportation which was in the Winter season through dangerous seas to the apparant hazzard both of his health and life to he said Castle of Garnsey where hee hath remained a close prisoner and exile almost three whole yeares his wife utterly prohibited upon paine of imprisonment to set her foot upon any part of the Iland where she might but enquire how her husband did contrary to the Lawes of God and the liberties of this Kingdome May it therefore please this Honorable House to take the Petitioners sad cause into consideration and for the better manifestation of his grievance in this cause to assigne him for Counsell Master Serjeant Atkins Master Tomlins and Master Gurdon to assist him in his cause and to command that he may take out such copies Gratis out of the said severall Courts as doe or may concerne his said cause And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall daily pray for your prosperities HENRY BURTON The humble Petition of Nathanael Wickings servant to Master Prinne and late prisoner in the White-Lion in Southwarke Most humbly sheweth THat more then 3 years and a half since your Petitioner being servatn to Master William Prinne then prisoner in the Tower pending the last Information against his said Master in the Star-chamber was apprehended in the Tower by a Messenger by a warrant from the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Lords and by him determined close prisoner by the space of tenne weekes that none could speake with him but his Majesties Attourney General his Majesties then Solicitor who examined him three severall times upon secrets of his said Masters to extort some matter of accusation against his said Master by Dures That after tenne weekes end your Petitioner was from that close custody by warrant from the Counsell Board delivered over into the hands of Iohn Ragge a Messenger attendant upon the High Commission Court to be by him delivered to the Keeper of the Gate-house But the said Ragge carryed your Petitioner home to his owne house and there detained him two dayes and a night till some of the High-Commissioners had signed a warrant for your Petitioners commitment to the Counter in Woodstreet whereto he was carryed by the said Ragge and charged with 26 shillings as his Fees due to him for the two dayes and nights he kept your Petitioner without order That your Petitioner was after called before the High Commissioners at Lambeth and there tendred the oath Ex officio to wit to answer all such Articles as should be objected against him without ever being permitted either to see or heare them though hee desired the same And for his refusing the said Oath the Court declared him pro Confesso and by their unanimous censure imposed a Fine of 1000 lib. on him good round costs of suite excommunicated and committed him backe to remaine Sub salva arcta custodia and not at any termes to walke abroad with his Keeper untill other order should be taken by the Court. One of the said Articles to which hee could give no answer running in these words Item we obiect to you Nath. Wickins that you know or believe that the letter which you carried to the Printer to be set the first Letter upon the Booke was a very compleat Letter and so Artificially cut as

your Petitioner and he thereupon Fyn'd five thousand pounds to his Majesty Pillored Stigmatized on both cheekes Mutilated and dismembred in a most Barbarous manner and the small remainder of his Eares left after his first execution cut off to the hazard of his hearing and life Adjudged to perpetuall close imprisonment in the Goale of Carnarvan castle in North-wales a Nasty Dog-hole farre remote from your Petitioners Friends Which sentence was undu'ly drawn up and executed upon your Petitioner as his Attourneys Clearke informed him before it was entred into the Booke or your Petitioner could get any Copie of it to except against the same as he had just cause That immediately after the Execution of the same sentence your Petitioner sent to the said Arch-bishop to desire him to release or Baile his servant who was detained close prisoner for ten weekes space in the messengers hands and oft examined and solicited by faire promises and threatnings causlessely to accuse your Petitioner against whom they wanted evidence that so he might attend him during his soares which the said ArchBishop out of his Grace and Charity utterly refused saying that hee intended to proceed against his said servant in the High Commission where he hath ever since vexed censured and banded him from Prison to Prison onely for refusing to accuse and betray your Petitioner That after the said heavy sentence your Petitioner by an order in the said Court by way of addition to the said Censure was inhibited the use of Pen inke and Paper and all Bookes except the Bible and the Booke of Common-Prayer and some few Bookes for private Devotion and before his wounds were perfectly cured he was by order removed from the Tower to Carnarvan and some of his friends in Chester who visited him there in his passage in the presence of his Conductors who had no order to restraine any person from resorting to him were for this very cause sent for by a Messenger to appeare before the Lords of the Privy Counsell and likewise cited into the High Commission at Yorke where they were imprisoned and fined to the ruine of their estates enjoyned to make a publike Recantation in the Cathedrall Church and in the Towne-Hall of Chester The said Commissioners further decreeing that three pictures of your petitioners found in Chester should bee publikely burnt at the high Crosse there which was done accordingly That your Petitioner since his said sentence hath bin publikely reviled at and libelled against both by the high Commissioners at York and in sundry Churches both at Chester and else where in diverse licensed printed books compiled by the said Heylin and published by the Arch-Bishops privity or cōmand that sundry of his friends houses studies Bookes and writings have bin violently broken up ransacked and taken away and themselves prosecuted in the high Commission out of malice for the relation they had to your Petitioner That after your Petitioner had continued some ten weekes space close prisoner in Carnarvan hee was about three yeares since by a warrant from the Lords of the Counsell made in the summer vacation to which the said Arch-Bishops hand was first subscrib'd ordered by way of Exile to be imbarqued and transported with all privacy into one of the Castles in the I le of Iersey and his conductors thereby charged not to admit any person whatsoever but themselves onely to speake with your Petitioner in his passage Whereupon after some injuries there received by M. Griffith the Kings Atturney in those parts who endeavoured to sieze upon the furniture of his chamber for his owne use your Petitioner was imbarqued among Papists in a bruised ship-wrackt vessell full of leakes and after fourteene weekes voyage in the Winter season through dangerous stormes and seas which spoyled most of his stuffe and bedding and threatning often ship-wrack to him he arrived at the said I le and was conveyed close prisoner into Mount Orgatile castle there where the Lieutenant Governour by an other extrajudiciall Order to which the said Arch-Bishops name was first ordered to keepe your Petitioner close prisoner in a chamber fuffer none but his keepers to speake with him to intercept all letters to him to permit him neither pen Inke nor paper either to write to his friends for necessaries or to petition for reliefe and to permit him no Booke but the Bible and those aforenamed bookes without giving any order for his diet there so that being deprived of his calling and estate exiled and shut up close prisoner among strangers remote from all his friends denyed all addresse to him by person or letters he had certainely perished in his almost three yeeres close imprisonment there had not the extraordinary providence and goodnesse of God which he shall ever adore and the noble charity of those under whose custody he did remaine furnished him with such dyet and necessaries as preserved him both in health and life in this his close imprisonment and exile May it therefore please this Honourable House to take these your petitioners almost eight yeeres tragicall grievances of new and dangerous example into your most sad and just considerations that so they may not become presidents to the prejudice of posterity to grant him liberty to send for and examine all necessary witnesses to order all Clerks Registers and other officers of the Star-Chamber or elsewhere speedily and freely to grant him the copies of such orders decrees and writings as his cause shall require to release him upon Bale being now but a prisoner onely upon an extrajudiciall order of the Lords and not by Vertue of any sentence or decree in Court To grant him liberty to plead and prosecute his owne cause since counsell hath so often failed him and to give him such satisfaction and reliefe as the Justice and equity of his cause shall merit And your Petitioner shall ever pray for your safeties WILLIAM PRYNNE Man's dayes are vaine and as a flower they fade Heere 's one proclames whereon man's life is stay'd His sufferings Changes Comforts in strict thrall Shews GOD alone preserues and Gouernes all TO THE HONOURABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of Iohn Bastwicke Doctor in Physicke lately retained close Prisoner and exile in the Iland of Sylly Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner having about six yeares since set out a Booke in Latine called Elenchus Religionis Papisticae with an Addition thereunto called Elagellum Pontificis Episcoporum Latialium being thereunto provoked by one Richard Short a Papist that maintained the Popes supremacy the Masse and Papall Religion In which Booke your Petitioner for preventing all misinterpretations of his pious and good intentions therein in his Epistle to the Reader fully declared himselfe that your Petitioner ment nothing against such Bishops as acknowledged their Authority from Kings and Emperours yet because your Petitioner the better ever to show the Papall usurpation of other Princes therein onely

Acknowledgement made After which your Petitioner was constrained to pay 30. pound to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Sugar-loaves to his Servant Mr. Holford for Composition of his said Fine of 30. pound so that by reason of all the premisses your Petitioner hath expended at least the summe of 100. pound and suffered damages to the value of 200. pound in his Trade and Reputation May it please this Honourable House to take these your Petitioners Grievances together with the jurisdiction of the said High-Commission Court into your just and Honourable Considerations and to afford your Petitioner such Reliefe for his losses and damages as the Justice and Equity of this Cause shall require And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. PETER JUICE TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament THE HVMBLE PETITION OF PETER LEIGH of the City of CHESTER Grocer and RICHARD GOLBORNE of CHESTER aforesaid Gentleman Sheweth THAT your Petitioners though peaceable and conformable to the Lawes of the Realme and Doctrine and Discipline by Law established in the Church of England were about three yeares since with William Trafford Deceased Arrested by Roger Blanckhard chiefe Pursuivant for the High Commission at Yorke for Visiting Mr. William Prynne in his Journy to Carnarvan Castle which they conceived they might Lawfully doe being his friends and there being no order to the contrary who upon their said Arrest tooke of each of your Petitioners 3 pound a peece for his sees and severall Bonds of your Petitioners for the appearance at the said High-Commission at Yorke within a short time after which they did accordingly and were committed to the said Blanchards custody until such time as they entred into Bonds to stand to the Order of the same Court And upon your Petitioners appearance divers Articles were exhibited against them in the said Court and the visiting of the said William Prynne they confessed but denyed all miscariages or misdemeanors charged against them and averred that they accompanied him onely in the presence of his Keepers And your Petitioners and the said Deceased were to their great charge forced to attend at Yorke one of them above a Month and the other 3 weekes after they had Answeres to the same Articles before Sentence and at last they were constrained to pay great summes of money for Fees and costs of Suit on both sides Doctor Matershed the Kings Advocate and the Proctors against them receiving great summes of money of them which with the Pursuivants Fees amounted to aboue sixty pound And your Petitioner Peter Leigh was fined 200 li. to the Kings Majesty and your other Petitioner 300 li. and the said William Trafford 150 li. and for the same cause and not any witnesse examined against any of them were enjoyned to make an acknowledgement which before they would not do in regard the same was against their consciences and the Lawes of this Realme as they beleeved They were forced to flee into other Countries and leave their Wives and Children Trades and Professions And in their absence the Pursuivants of the said Court came to their Houses with Warrants or intimations which they caused to be published in your Petitioners Parish Churches in Chester aforesaid and did so affright their Wives that they being with Child did soone after miscarry And your Petitioners and William Trafford using all meanes for their freedome could not prevaile but their fines were Estreated and their Bonds returned into the Exchequer as forfeited whereupon at last that they might have some accesse and favour to and with the Arch-Bishop of Canturbury who as they were informed had onely power to relieve them They payd Doctor Merricke one of the Advocates of the High-Commission Court at Canterbury that they might have accesse to his Lordship 35 li. at severall times They presented his Lordship also with two Butts of the best Sacke and gave one Mr. Holford one of his Attendants 12 li. and other Gratuities to other of his Servants to the value of 20 li. more All which were bestowed on the said Arch-Bishop and his Servants by the advice and direction of the said Doctor Merricke and after the acceptance thereof the said Arch Bishop was content to take and did take for your Petitioners and the said Traffords fines 240 li. more which they payd accordingly and were forced to pay 40 li. more for fees in London and at Yorke concerning the said businesse by which said expence troubles and neglect of their owne Occasions your Petitioners for their parts have beene damnified above 1000 li. and their estates almost thereby wholly mined They being enforced to flee and wander into strange Countries for about foure moneths together your Petitioner Peter Leigh then being a Tradesman who dealt for above 4000 li. per annum and then much indebted had his Shop shut up for above 3 moneths together for feare of having his goods seized for his forfited Bond and fine aforesaid And your Petitioner Golborne thereby was so ruined in his Estate that he for a long time after with his Wife and Children lived upon the Benevolence of his Friends and now is constrained to live in Service being disabled for want of moneyes to goe on in that course wherein formerly he was imployed May it therfore please this Honourable Assemblie to take your Petitioners distressed estate into your grave Considerations and to weigh their pretended Offences and their severe and heavie punishments together and to afford them such Reliefe for the great wrongs done unto them and their Estates and Families by the Commissioners and Officers of the said High Commission who have so rent and torne them in their Estates as aforesaid and by those who are the Authours of their Grievances and Oppressions who have made a prey of them by taking such Gratuities and summes of money of them as aforesaid when they or some of them were the Incendiaries of their Troubles and Vexations and the Authors and procurers of their so heavie punishments as in your grave Wisdomes shall seem convenient That so other his Majesties Subjects for the time future may not be so grievously oppressed at mans pleasure And your Petitioners shall pray c. PETER LEIGH RICHARD GOLBORNE TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The humble Petition of Calvin Bruen of the City of Chester Sheweth THAT your Petitioner though every way conformable to the Laws of this Realm and Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England and of a peaceable disposition about 3 yeares since was Arrested by Robert Blanchard Pursuivant for the High-Commissioners at Yorke who took of him for his Arrest 3 pounds and a Bond for his appearance at Yorke the 28. of September 1637. being the Faire time at Chester on which day your Petitioner received a Copie of a Warrant from the Lords of his Majesties privie Counsell for his appearance before them with speed The which Copie your Petitioner shewed to the