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A92155	Angliæ ruina: or, Englands ruine represented in the barbarous, and sacrilegious outrages of the sectaries of this kingdome, committed upon the lives, consciences and estates of all His Maj: loyal subjects in generall; but more particularly upon the churches, colledges, clergie, and scholars of the same. Containing two briefe catalogues of such heads and fellowes of colledges in the University of Cambridge, and other learned and pious divines, within the city of London, as have been ejected, plundered, imprisoned, or banished, for their constancie in the Protestant religion, and loyalty to their soveraigne. Whereunto is added, a chronologie of the time and place of all the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other remarkable passages which have happened betwixt His Majesty and the Parliament; with a catalogue of such persons of quality, as have been slain on either party, from Novemb. 3. 1640 till the 25. of March, 1647.; Mercurius rusticus	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Griffin, Matthew, 1599?-1665. London. A generall bill of mortality, of the clergie of London, which have beene defunct by reason of the contagious breath of the sectaries of that city, from the yeere 1641. to this present yeere 1647. with the several casualties of the same.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2447; ESTC R204638	175,259	292

the Doctor was in the Chancell there to interre the Corpes of a Gentleman lately deceased these Souldiers 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 forme prescribed by the Church at buriall of the dead had he not been powerfully rescued by his Parishioners Lastly when the glad Tydings were brought to Chelmesford that Episcopaty was voted down by the house of Commons all usuall expressions of an exulting joy were used amongst the rest Boonefires were kindled in every street but most of the fuell was violently taken from the Doctors 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 Towne assisted by two companies of Souldiers in the Evening assault him in his house seize upon his person and are ready to carry him to the fire there to throw him headlong into the middest of it but some of his friends having information of the design go and acquaint the Command●rs with the bloody intentions of their Souldiers who presently take a guard and rescue the Doctor out of their power as soone as ever they had seized on him Since that oppressed and worryed 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 m ●cy of the Rebels who have deprived his family of all their livelyhood and exposed them to extreame want Nay they have severall times broken violently into his house under pretence to search for him and have held Pistolls cocked and Swords drawn at the breasts of his Children and Servants charging them upon their lives to reveale where the Doctor was It was lately certified from thence by a chiefe Member of that Towne and no friend of the Doctors that he finds the case there to be farre worse then he expected for while they hoped that the power being Trayterously wrested out of the Kings hand they should have shared it amongst themselves they find that either the power is fallen into their hands that are fa●re beneath them or else hath raised these men up far above them for as he writes the Town is governed by a Tinke● 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 sti●ch together and what Principles they intend to Rule by I shal here set down certain preparatory prelusory Propositions which they usually Preach for Preach they doe to their infatuated Disciples and by them are received as the divine Oracles of God and you shall have them in their own● Termes viz. First That Kings are the burdens and plagues of those people or Nations over which they gove●ne Secondly That the relation of Master and Servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament but rather the contray 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 Marques●es Earls Viscounts Lords Knights and Gentlemen are but Ethnicall and Heathenish distinctions amongst Christians Fourthly That one man should have a Thousand pounds a yeare and another not one pound perhaps not so much but must live by the sweat of his browes and must labour before he eate hath no ground neither in Nature or in Scripture Fiftly That the common people heretofore kept under blindnesse and ignorance have a long time yeelded themselves servants nay slaves to the Nobility and Gentry but God hath now opened their eyes aud 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 owne maintenance and if they will not work they ought not to eate Sixtly That Learning hath alwayes 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 Gisted may be chos●n by the Congregation for their Pastor and that imposition of hands by the Bishop and Presbyterie are mee●e Papish Innovations What more additions to these monstrous Opinions the wildnesse of such mens braines a●ist d by the cunning of the Devill and incouraged by th●●surped ●ower of these times may pro●uce we must l●ave to the discovery of time In the interim good Re●der stand amazed and wonder at this excellent pattern● of the inten●ed bl●ssed Reformation Had not God to prepare us for destruction deprived us of knowledge had he not closed our eyes that we should not see an● hardned our hearts that we should not understand were we not a people as the Proph●t speaks forsaken and meted out for destruction it could not be but that Mankind would rise up against this Generation of Vipers and their Protecto●s and sw●ep them away to use the Metaphor of the holy Ghost with the beesome of destruction who if a while connived at will prove moths fretting to the destruction both of Church and State for in this Modell you may see the Babel which is now in building and the budding forth of those Brambles out of which if not timely quenched will come forth a fire as it is in Jothams Parable which will devoure the Cedars of Lebanon The same godly Reformers which plundered Master Laud before mentioned came afterwards to Master Cornelius Parson of Peldon in the same County of Essex whom they rob of all his goods within doores and without they spared not his Library nor his Wives Child-bed Linnen though the was great with Child and in danger by the fright she took at their comming to have occasion to make use of them before her due time they plunder him to the value of foure hundred pounds a very great summe in a poore Clergie-mans purse especially as these times goe For reliefe of his losse he sends his servant to the Major of Colchester a famous Justiciary as you may remember the last W●eke in the relation of Master Laud and Master Honifields cases having made his Complaint and accused the Plunderers by name the Major knew that some body deserved Commitment but had the ill luck to be mistaken in the person and therefore instead of the Plunderers he commits Master Cornelius his man to the Gaole where he is lodged for a Malignant untill his Master plundered of his man too came and put in Bayle that his servant should be forthcomming to answer to all objections the next Sessions Master Cornelius knowing that he should in vaine expect Justice where he found Oppression from the Major goes to Master Gardner a Justice of Peace not farre off who grants his Warrant for apprehension of the parties who

they had Him in their power that expresse such malice on his shadow having at first entrance violated their loyaltie to their King according to His Majesties frequent predictions their fellow Subjects cannot expect Justice at their hands now all is lawfull prize that comes to hand Money Plate Jewels many fuits of Rich Hangings Linnen Bedding they Plunder from the Cabinet to the Larder and make cleane worke as they goe leaving no booty for a second Plunder And though that house were but one yet in that one they Plundered three Sir Richard having dis-robed two houses one in Essex the other in London thinking to secure all in this third while these things were in doing the Lord Brook with other Commanders commands the Wine-seller to be broke up but in a saucy imitation of greatnesse they will not drinke without a Taster yet not being confident enough professedly to owne Regall observances for prevention of danger a pretence was made that the Wine was Poysoned and one of Sir Rich. servants is compelled a Pistol set to his breast to begin and lead the way that if there were any danger the experiment might be made in him he having gain'd a Cup of Wine by their dissembled State they follow freely and drinke very liberally to the good successe of their designes without ever scrupling whether drinking so did not come within the nature of a health And indeed it was an oversight that Casui●t Prin was not consulted in the Case the Cup often goes round at last some inspired with the spirit of Wine Prophesie that Sir Richards Treasure was buryed in the Seller presently they fall to digging and instead of Treasure find a Mine of Bottles they drinke up the Wine and in indignation break the bottles from hence to coole the Wine they goe to the Beere Seller and in both what they could not drinke they break the vessells and let runne on the ground after this they breake open his Library and the place where he kept his Evidences they seize on all the Bills Bonds Deeds Evidences Writings and Bookes which they find whether Sir Richards or his friends some of these they take away with them some they teare in pieces some they binde in bundles and make them serve instead of fuell both to heat Ovens and to rost meat for their supper and would by no means suffer any of them to be redeemed though large summes of mony were offered for them the house it self escapes not their fury wanting Ladders to come at the Lead they supply this defect with the Rackes broken downe from the Stables they rip up the Lead and carry it away they teare downe the wals of the houses with Spades and Mattocks they dig up the lower roomes hoping there to find more Treasure they breake the Windowes Doores Wainscot Seelings Glasse they take away all Iron Barres Casements Locks Keyes and Hinges They break open his Wooll-house and Barns and empty and all they enter the Dove-house and like vermine destroy the Pigeons onely one of these vermine falling from the holes brake his back and dyed thereof and because they could not carry away his house covertly they indeavour to fire it to this purpose they leave matches burning in the mats but were discovered From his house they issue our into his ground there they lay all common they break up his rales and fences of his Sheep what they did not eate they sold Sheep worth 20 ● for twelve pence Lambs worth 10 ● for six pence and the reasons why the rates of their market were so low were first they were a Malignant and Traytors goods so they styled Sir Richard Secondly they were sold to their Brethren and therefore must afford good Penniworths The rest of the Stocke they runne their swords or Pikes into most of them and spoyled them Nor was Plunder the only thing they looked after blood is in their thoughts First they send a Troop of horse to pursue Sir Richard and threaten to cut him as small as hearbes to the Pot they clap a strong guard on Sir Richards Lady deny her a bed to lye on though the neighbours earnestly intreated Some there were among them who poore Soules affrighted with these barbarous Insolencies fled into the field and hid themselves in growing Hempe and there lay on the ground almost 20 houres without meat or any sustenance so that what with fright and dampnesse of the earth some of them contracted dangerous sicknesses and hardly escaped with life The Torrour which fell upon the Country there about was so great that the neighbouring Justice of Peace durst not grant his Warrant to search after any of Sir Richards goods though earnestly intreated to it and the neighbours were so ill used and threatned to extort confession from them where Sir Richard was or where any of his goods were conveyed that some sounded for fear some fell mad and some dyed Certaine it is their carria●e was so barbarous that it inforced M. Jo. Crew one of the Company to professe his dislike and to tell the Lord Brookes and the rest That they being Law-makers should not be Law-breakers nor make such precedents as would discover their intentions and render them odious unto the Country since that knowing Sir Richard to have put himselfe for preservation of his Life under his Majesties Protection they have caused his Pond heads to be digged downe and have destroyed all his Fish they have cut downe his woods and seized on all his Lands or made them utterly unprofitable unto him for they will not suffer any Bayliffe or servant of his to take any care of his estate but have often sent parties of horse to seize on them or kill them At a place called Kings-harbour neare Hounslow-he●th three Souldiers under the Command of the Lord ●ha●ton came into a house to drinke going away they of the house demand money for their drinke so unexpected an affront did so incense the Souldiers that one of them told his Companions he would show them how they see houses on fire in Ireland and so put his Carbine into the Thatch and discharged it let the house on fire and departed The Generall ESSEX returning from London came by as the house was on fire complaint is made unto him that the owner of the house was undone but all in vaine his excellency was not at leasure to doe Justice The Countesse of Rivers who as you heard in the second Weekes Relation was Plundered to the value of an hundred thousand or an hundred and fiftie thousand pound finding her aboad here unsafe having lost her goods and her person in danger to secure her selfe resolved for a time to abandon her Country and rather expose her selfe to the hazard of Travell then commit her selfe to that protection which the contemned Laws now affords To this purpose she obtained a Passe to goe beyond Seas While she was in preparing for her voyage Master Martin Plunder-master Generall he that so familiarly speaks

threaten Rape but with violence to attempt it and to wound and murther those upon whom they could not effect their beastly purpose To satisfie their Covetousnesse they have unmercifully robbed of their fortunes and exposed to the extremest want not only those that were their opposites and able to hurt them but those whose sexe age and condition might have melted stones into pitty women children the sicke the aged women in labour and even those of their owne party Their Cruelty hath not contented it selfe with the murther of those they hated but as if they had beene the professed Schollers of that inhumane monster whose Maxime was Perimat Tyrannus lenis in regno meo mors impetratur they have insulted over the persons and lives of their fellows Subjects with most exquisite Tortures whipt some to Death and starved others they have made it a Crime in some that they were neighbours to those whom they persecuted for Loyalty punished others for shewing them mercy As if they would tell you that they are not inferior to the worst of all the Primitive persecutors Dioclesian by whose command as Eusebius lib. 10. Chap. 8. reporteth all charity was forbidden to those in Prison yea even to those whom they were bound to pittie by the Law of Nature their kindred c. Nay more so farre hath their malice transcended all bounds that they have done mischief where they were not invited by any benefit to themselves or any other only for the delight they tooke in doing it burning houses spoyling goods destroying Books Evidences and Publique Records to the prejudice of Posterity the disturbance of Pessessions the obstruction of Justice and the impairing of Learning only to make themselves Sport They have by breaking Articles of surrender by offering savage force to the persons of messengers for Treaty and to the goods houses of forraine Ambassadors broken the Sacred Lawes and disturbed the Commerce of N●tions In a word these new Physitians of State have proved such Saltimbancoes to the Common wealth by their recipes prescribed such drugs as have purged the Body Politique of all its Treasure and left nothing but Melancholly behind This truth clearly appears in the late London Accompt from which single Citie they have draind 17. Millions and it can be no small Proportion therest of the Kingdome beares to it Consider next how they dispose of the Kingdomes Treasure in voting every Active Member a Benja part no lesse then 89000l in three dayes whilst some of those that hazarded their lives in their Service are forced to starve in the streets and lye three dayes unburied ere their Masters would vote them a Winding sheete But these heavy burthens must dwell upon our shoulders for we cannot but imagine their swelling greatnesse must be maintained If so then which way the supplies must be raised Tacitus will truly tell us AErarium ambitione exhaustum per scelera supplendum erit Treasure spent Ambitiously must be supplyed by wickednesse To the Intelligible Common wealths man Verbum sat nay halfe a word is sufficient 'T was a sad Omen to this Kingdome to have the Sunne Eclipsed that very houre this Parlia began And though it was not visible here yet the effects have not beene clouded from our Eyes But let the afflicted comfort themselves Post nubila Phaebus Eclipses are never perpetuall No age was ever blest with a more pious Prince or brought forth more crooked natures to perplex a righteous soule His easie Inclinations gave their dark practices confidence to appeare in the light and through whose yeelding clemencie thinking like the Sunne by attracting vapours to disperse them they with the help of a Northern Fag condenst into a cloud that first darkned then rain'd blood over all the Land and what number or power was not able to overthrow Treachery or Bribery did on a suddaine ruine And now in the close of all miseries behold an action detestable beyond Expression a misfortune which heightned with accumulated Injuries deserves to be looked upon with a compassionate Eye and a bleeding heart Is it not a most sorrowfull object to see a king set forth to Sale to behold Majesty to become Merchandize and Soveraignty sold for Silver To see a Prince weighed in a Treacherous and persidious Ballance made to turne which way Coyne shall move the Beame to deliver him up for the same cause Aristides was banished Justus quia justus and at length to Crucifie him betweene two Theeves O high Ingratitude to ruine so great a Benefactor when they found his hands bound up from usuall tenders Doubtlesse they are worse enemies that surprize by Ambush then those that fight in open field We read that Wealth may choak as well as a Halter and Judas his Bribe was the cause he became his owne Executioner Time may manifest to the world some noted issue for sure both parties cannot but become Bankrupts as well those which buy deare as those that sell cheape But this being an action beyond president the rehearsall whereof is enough to make the most innocent and patient pen criminall I le forbeare to trace it any further but leave it to a vindictive Iustice stigmatiz'd with that brand Cicero stamps upon such another Perditissimi est hominis fallere cum qui laesus non effet nifi credidisset None but the most villanous of Mankind will deceive him that had beene safe but for trusting But though I decline them yet may I not leave my injured Soveraigne in His Sufferings without letting the world know how sad and weighty they are his Infelicities sinking a deeper Impression because throwne from so high a Spire heretofore enjoying what Majesty could present and now doom'd to imbrace what the worst of miseries will impose And surely the Consideration hereof cannot but presse them the closer together This conditions strips him of those ordinary Consolations every Peasant may enjoy robs him of all those Comforts that are deare unto his Soule His Royall Consort Children and Friends The last of which the Devills charity extended to allow Job and which if they shall deny him from whom their former Comforts flow'd they deserve to be branded with the Character of unpresidented Impiety And that nothing might be wanting to fill up the measure of their Iniquity behold another of their unparallel'd impieties whereat Posterity will stand agast such an one as will justifie all the barbarous acts that the most savage Persecutors of the Church were ever guilty of Yea such a one as the Lords of the Inquisition yea the Turk himselfe would not have denied an ordinary Christian nor our Lawes the worst of Malefactors That a King of his Greatnesse and piety should be denyed a Spirituall Minister to assist him in his Devotions and to direct him in point of Conscience If ever there was such a thing as Implicite Faith they are the greatest Assertors of it that would enforce not only their owne fellow Subjects but even their Soveraigne King