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land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

one of the Doctors made it a request to Cromwell that he might stay a little to put up some linnen Cromwell denied him the favour and whether in a jeer or simple malice told him That it was not in his Commission having now prepared a shew to entertain the People in Triumph they lead them Captives towards London where the People were before-hand informed what Captives Colonel Cromwell was bringing In the Villages as they passed from Cambridg to London the People were called by some of their Agents to come and abuse and revile them When they came to London being to bring their Prisoners to the Tower no other way would serve their turn but from Shoreditch through Bartholomew-Fair when the Concourse was as thick as the Negotiation of Buyers and Sellers and the warning of the Beadles of the Faction that use to give notice to their Party could make it they lead these Captives leisurely through the midst of the Fair as they pass along they are entertained with Exclamations Reproaches Scorns and Curses and considering the prejudice raised in the City of them it was Gods great mercy that they found no worse usage from them having brought them to the Tower the People there use them with no less Incivility within the Walls than the People did without calling them Papists Arminians and I know not what After some time Imprisonment there they were removed to the Lord Peters House in Aldersgate-street and though they often Petitioned to be heard and brought to judgment yet they could obtain neither a Trial nor enlargement unless to free their Bodies they should ensnare their Souls by loans of Monies to be imployed against the King or taking impious Oaths or Covenants at last after almost a years imprisonment on Friday the 11. of August 1643. by order from the Faction that call themselves a Parliament they were removed from thence and all put on Ship-board in a Ship called the Prosperous Sail or the Prosperous Sailer lying before Wapping They went by Coach from Aldersgate-street to Billingsgate in the way to the Common Stairs there to take water one was over-heard to say These look like honest men and he was not a jot mistaken however for bearing testimomy of the truth he incurr'd the censure of a Malignant and was in danger to be committed but another looking these grave learned Divines in the face reviled them saying That they did not look like Christians and Prayed that they might break their Necks as they went down the Stairs to take water This harsh usage they found by land but yet they found far worse by water being come on ship-board they were instantly put under Hatches where the Decks were so low that they could not stand upright and yet were denied stools to sit on or so much as a burden of straw to lie on Into this Little Ease in a small Ship they crowd no less than four score Prisoners of Quality and that they might stifle one another having no more breath than what they sucked from one anothers mouths most malitiously and certainly to a murtherous intent they stop up all the small Auger holes and all other inlets which might relieve them with fresh air an act of such horrid barbarism that nor age nor story nor Rebellion can parallel But O Lord God to whom Vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self O let the vengeance of thy Servants blood that hath been shed in this land be openly shewed upon these worse than Heathen Salvages in our sight O let the sorrowful sighing of thy Prisoners come before thee according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die Mercurius Rusticus c. XIII Mr. Anthony Tyringham a Minister wounded and most inhumanely used by the Rebels in Buckinghamshire Mrs. Wiborow the Parsons Wife of Pebmarsh in Essex and her Children exposed to great extremity by the Sectaries of that County A lively pattern of ingratitude acted by a schismatical Smith at Dalham in Suffolk c. MAster Anthony Tyringham Parson of Tyringham in Buckinghamshire having business at Maidsmorton at his return came to Buckingham where he met with two of his Nephews The Uncle and his Nephews glad of so happy a meeting after some stay to congratulate the good chance and to refresh themselves set forward in their journey and passed in peace without danger until they came near Stony-Stratford where a party of Dragooners coming from Alesbury surprized them and instantly scarce asking them from whence they came searched and disarmed them which was no difficult atchievment there being but one sword amongst all three The Rebels take from them their Horses their Coats and Mony superfluous things as they conceived for men designed to captivity for having spoiled them of their Horses Mony and Garments they send them with a strong guard Prisoners to Ailesbury while the rest of the Party lurking about Stony-Stratford stayed there to expect some fresh Booty And that in this we do not slander these great Champions of the Subjects Liberties and Properties the issue will acquaint us for presently after to shew that all was Fish which came to net they seized upon a poor Bone-lace man and a Shoomaker robbed them of what they had and in the same manner sent them away Prisoners to Ailesbury The Guard of Dragooners having brought their three Prisoners about a mile and a half on the way towards Ailesbury commanded them again to alight The first Plunder was for the Captain or Commanders or else a share was set apart Anathema for the support of the publick Cause these men to whose trust they were committed now intend to plunder for themselves And first they command Mr. Tyringham to put off his Cassock who being not sudden in obeying the command nor over-hasty to untye his Girdle to disrobe himself of the distinctive Garment of his Profession though now a Cassock contracted into the Compendium of a Gippo is become the Garb of the Reformers one of the Dragoons to quicken him cut him through the hat into the Head with the Sword taken from one of his Nephews and with another blow cut him over the fingers Mr. Tyringham wondring at so barbarous usage without any provocation came toward him that had thus wounded him and desired him to hold his hands pleading that he was a Clergie-man a Prisoner and disarmed the cowardly Villain either fearing the approach of a disarmed man or willing to lay hold on any advantage to expose the Prisoners to the fury of his fellows cried out Shoot the Rogues for they intend to resist the word was no sooner given but a Musquets was instantly discharged at one of Mr. Tyringhams Nephews but the Musqueteer missing his mark another of the Rebels with his Sword aimed righter and ran him into the shoulder a Musquet was presented to the other Nephew but Gods providence restrained the murtherous intention of the Rebel that he did not give fire Thus exercising