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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

from Alders-gate-street to Billinsgate in the way to the Common Stair there to take water one was over-heard to say these looke like honest men and he was not a jot mistaken however for bearing testimony to the truth he incur'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 looke like Christians and prayed that they might breake their necks as they went downe the Stairs to take water This harsh usage they found by land but yet they found farre 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 denyed stooles to sit on or so much as a burden of straw to lye on Into this Little Ease in a small ship they crowd no lesse then fourescore Prisoners of qualitie and that they might stifle one another having no more breath then what they sucked from one anothers mouths most maliciously and certainly to a murtherous intent they stop up all the small Auger holes all other in lets which might relieve them with fresh aire an act of such horrid barbarisme that nor Age nor Story nor Rebellion can parallel But O Lord God to whom Vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth show thy selfe O let the vengeance of thy Servants blood that hath beene shed in this land be openly snewed upon these worse then Heathen Salvages in our sight O let the sorrowfull sighing of thy prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou those that are appoynted to dye Mercurius Rusticus c. XIII Master Anthony Tyringham a Minister wounded and most inhumanely used by the Rebells in Buckinghamshire Mistresse Wiborow the Parsons wife of Pebmarth in Essex and her children exposed to great extremity by the Sectaries of that Countie A lively patterne of ingratitude acted by a Schisma●●call Smith at Dalham in Suffolke c. MAster Anthony Tyringham Parson of Tyringham in Buckingham-shire having businesse at Maids-morton at his returne came to Buckingham where he met with two of his Nephewes The Uncle and his Nephewes 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 untill they came neare Stony-Stratford where a partee of Diagooners comming from Aylesbury surprized them and instantly scarce asking them from whence they came searched and disarmed them which was no difficult a●chievement there being but one Sword amongst all three The Rebels take from them their Horses their Coats and Money superfluous things as they conceived for men designed to captivitie for having spoyled them of their Horses Money and Garments they send them with a strong guard Prisoners to Aylesbury while the rest of the Partee lurking about Stony-Stratford stayed there to expect some fresh bootie And that in this we doe not slander these great Champions of the Subjects Liberties and Properties the issue will acquit us for presently after to shew that all was Fish which came to Net they seized upon a poore Bone-lace-man a Shoomaker robbed them of what they had in the same manner sent them away prisoners to A●lisbury The guard of Dragooners having brought their ● prisoners about a mile and a half on the way towards Alisbury 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 Publique Cause these men to whose trust they were committed now intend to plunder for themselves And first they command Master Tyringham to put off his Cassocke who being not sudden in obeying the Command nor over-hasty to untye his girdle to dis●oabe himselfe 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 Master Tyringham wondring at so barbarous usage without any provocation came towards him that had thus wounded him and desired him to hold his hands pleading that he was a Clergy-man a prisoner and disarmed the cowardly villaine 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 cryed out Shoot the rogues for they intend to resist the word was no sooner given but a Musquet was instantly discharged at one of M. Tyringhams nephews but the Musqueteere missing his mark another of the Rebels with his sword aymed righter and ran him into the shoulder a Musquet was presented to the other nephew but Gods providence restrained the murtherous intention of the Rebell that he did not give fire Thus exercising their pleasure upon disarmed wounded men they rob M. Tyringham of his Cassocke rifle all their pockets and take from them what they please and to palliate their cruelty they send two Dragooners back to tell their Captains and their companies that the prisoners committed to their custody and conduct made resistance Upon this false alarum given presently the Captains and their Companies make up to them to assist a strong Guard against three disarmed and of them two wounded men being come where they were they encompasse them about and without any examination of the businesse presuming the suggestion to be undoubted truth one of the Rebels Captain Pollard by name with a full blow strikes at Master Tryingham and with his sword cuts his Arme and Cub●-bones crosse the elbow almost asunder M. Tyringham almost three●core years of age within two bore this barbarous usage with undaunted courage and hearing this bloudy villaine called Captaine Pollard in a pleasant indignation expressed the sense of the injury but thus That now he had made him a Pollard indeed A Metaphor easily understood by Wood-men who usually call a Tree whose limbs or branches are lopped off a Pollard M. Tyringhams Arme thus miserably wounded and hanging dangling from his shoulder without any government from the nerves or sinews one of his nephews having a mourning Riband tendred it to his Uncle to bind up his Arme but the Rebels will not permit it though M. Tyringhem intreat the favor to have his wounds bound up and the very spectacle before their eyes was argument enough to extort this mercy from them yet they remaine inexorable nor would they be perswaded untill a long time after having now made sure worke with their prisoners and rendred them so far unable to resist th●t some were hardly able to sit the jades on which they were mounted they againe set forward for Ailesbury The Dragooners horses on which they were set being tyred made the way very tedious especially to M. Tyringham who lost much bloud all

and Peace setled in the Body of the Kingdome doe they think the wisedome of the State will ever change our holy Churches into their prophane Barnes and Stables our Pulpits into Tubs our Linnen Ephods into their Aprons our Lyturgy into their extemporary Enthusiasmes our Learned Pastors into their ignorant Hirelings and our Apostolicall Hierarchy into their Apostaticall Anarchie But I will restraine my selfe and confine my discourse Soone after this Sermon seven Articles were preferred against the Doctor to the Committee for Plundered Ministers by three Mechanicks who had formerly been indicted for Brownists at the Sessions for the Countie of Surr●y but after long attendance the Doct. was acquirred of the●● yet at length these Sectaries wrought so powerfully that the Doctor must be committed to Prison how unjustly soever 't was enough that he was a Doctor and maintained the Religion established in the Church of England And accordingly on the 30 of Septemb. 1643. he is committed to Peter-house his own house Library and goods being frist seized on and his estate Sequestred The Sunday after his commitment and for divers other Lords days he preach●● to his fellow-prisoners but after a while he was prohibited by Isaac Pennington the pretended Major of London And though Sir George Sands Sir John Butter Master Nevile and other Prisoners of qualitie Petitioned that he might continue his so doing yet it would not be granted See how this unjust imprisonment is relished by a Forraine Divine in these words I Am sorry to hear of the close Imprisonment of that worthy Doctor Featley What He who is and ever hath bin so stout a Champion for Religion to be soused by the Reformers thereof But let not the Disciple thinke it strange when his Master suffered so much crueltie from the great Rabbins of Israel Yours from my heart J.S. After the Doctor had beene many moneths stifled up in Prison and having a Certificate from his Physitian that he could not live long if he had not some fresh aire he Petitioned these soule-enthralling tyrants and at last obtained leave to go to Chelsey Colledge for six weeks upon good bayle to recover his health but it pleased God to take him out of this world upon the 17 day or April 1645. being the very last day of the six weekes limited for his returne During his sicknesse he gave himselfe wholly to Divine Meditations often bewayling with teares the present state of the Church of England he made a Confession of his Faith to Doctor Leo and the Dutch Ambassadours Chap-laines saying That the doctrine which he had alwayes Preached and the Bookes which he had ●riated against Anabaptists and other Sectaris were agreeable to Gods Word And that he would scale the Protestant Religion as it was established and confirmed by the Acts of three Pious Princes with his blood And being asked by some that came to visit him what he thought of the Covenant he said it was a damnable and execrable Oath made purposely to insnare poore soules and full of malice and Treason against our gracious Soveraigne And said he For church-Government a thing now much controverted I dare boldly affirme that the Hierarchie of Bishops is most agreeable to the World of God as being of Apostolicall institution the taking away where of is damnable and that by consequence both the presbyterian independent Governments are absurd and erroneous neither of them being ever heard of in the church of God till of late at Geneva ● nor is there so much as any colour for them in holy writ It is evident said he that as the ● riects in the Old Testament were above the Levites so in the Now the Apostles were above the Disciples and that the seven Angels of the seven Churches in the Apocalypse were seven Bishops and that Polycarpus was Bishop of Smyrna and Timotheus of Ephesus And for the Laitie no pregnant proofe can be produced that they ever medled with the Priests Function or had any power to or daine Ministers And these things said he I intended to have published to the world if God had spared me longer life which I might through his goodnesse have enjoyed had I not been unjustly imprisoned which he severall times reiterated to his friends Anon after he prayed thus Lord strike throuth the reynes of them that rise against the church and king and let them be as chasse before the wind and as stubble before the fire let them be scattered at Partridges upon the mountaines and let the breath of the Lord consume them but upon our gracious Soveraigne and his posterit●e let the Crowne flourish This said he is the heartie and earnest Prayer of a poore sick creature With which and other such spirituall ejaculations he expired Mercurius Rusticus c. XIX The Murther of Master Robert Yeomans and M. George Bowcher Citizens of Bristol by Nathaniel Fiennes second s●nne to the Lord Say and the rest of his Accomplices c. THe care that God tooke to preserve the Land of his people undefiled by Innocent blood was very great and therefore did provide not onely when the Murtherer was knowne that he that thed mans blood by man his blood should be shed againe according to that command Te shall not pollute the Land where yeare for blood it desileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed the ein but by the blood of him that shed it Namb. 35.33 But likewise where the Murtherer was not knowne that the Innocent blood shed in the Land might not be charged upon them and therefore in the 21 of Deut. God prescribes an Expiation for Murther when the Murtherer was not knowne for if a man were found slaine in the field The Elders of the Citie next to the slaine man were to take an Heiser and strike off his ●ec ke in a rough valley and shall wash their hands over the Heiser and say Our hands have not shed this blood Neither have our eyes seene t Be mercifull O Lord unto thy people Israel whom thou bast redeemed and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israels charge and the blood shall be forgiven them so shall thou put away the guilt of Innocent blood from among you vers 6 7 8 c In which law it is plaine that the guilt of Innocent blood may cleave to our hands though our hands have not shed it and the way to wash our hands cleane from that guilt is to protest against the shedding it to deny our consent to it being done and as much as in us lyes to bring the punishment of Innocent blood upon the heads of those that shed it without this we contract anothers guilt and communicate in his sinnes The Innocent blood shall not be forgiven us When therefore God to whom appertaine the issues of Life shall come and make Inquisition for blood and the murthered shall cry out with Job O earth cover not thou my blood Job 16-18 That then we

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

into the Belfrey and locks the doores fast after him being come to the place where the Bells hang he discovers over head a little hole only big enough for a man to creep thorow and a Ladder standing there which led up unto it Master Losse goes up the Ladder and through the hole gets upon the Leads and with great difficultie draws the Ladder after him being massey and very heavy by which means he did not only deprive his pursuers of the means to come at him but with the Ladder laid over the hole baracadoed the passage against them and now being here had he had any weapon to defend himselfe he had been impregnable While Master Losse was up in the Belfrey securing of himselfe the Troopers are at the Church windowes endeavouring to wrench out the Irons barres but without any successe at last with their Pole-axes and great Tomb-stones Impiously taken from the graves of the Dead they breake open the Church doores having thus forced their entrance they r●de into the Church not remembring they were in Gods house from one end of it to another spurring and switching their horses purposely to endanger the People These barbarous out-rages did much affright the People but especially Mistresse Losse and her poore children whom it most concerned M. Losse being the onely man aymed at Mistresse Losse fell into a swound in the Church and had no shew of life in her for a long time at which the people moved with compassion interceded with the Troopers and desired them to desist putting them in mind of the place where they were a place where God met with his People and they with their God It seemes this Congregation had been better taught then to subscribe to Doctor Twist the Prolocutor of the absurd Heterogen●ous Synod his Interpretation of that Text of Scripture Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reve●ence my Sanctuary In his Pre●ace to Master Meads Book of the Apo●●acie of the latter times as if this Text enjoyned no reverence to be used towards the places of Gods publike worship they were much scandalized at this prophane irreverence and made it an argument to awe them to civill demeanour at least because of the place and withail they objected that they did much abuse themselves and dishonour their Cause by such our-ragious carriages all this would reflect on the Cause they pretended to maintain And lastly they alledged that if they had any shame in them they might be ashamed in the Lords house on the Lords day to abuse a Minister in his owne Congregation who besides the honour and reverence due to his Calling might challenge some respect from them being a Gentleman of good birth and descent In reply to so good reason being indeed but Pearle cast before Swine one breakes out with a great oath swearing wounds and blood so that all the Blasphemy is not on the Cavaliers side and saying What doe you tell me of birth and descent a plague take him and his Gentilitie ● h pe within this year to see never a Gentleman in f●●F●●land you remember the Proverb Children and Fo●●st t●ll truth having thus despised all wholesome admonition they goe to the Belfrey they breake open the doore and come to the place where the ●els did hang and from the top of the Frames of the Bells indeavoured through the hole but now mentioned to get upon the Leades where Master Losse was but he having stop'd that paslage with the Ladder and making the best use he could of his hands and feet being all the weapons ei●her offensive or defensive which he had made good the place against them yet notwithstanding in the Resistance he was in very great danger to lose his life for they discharged their Pistols at him at least eight or nine times but by the good providence of God they miss'd their mark with their swords they wounded him in three severall parts of his body yet God be blessed the wounds were not mortall at last having received a hurt in his hand having a veine p●icked w●th one of their swords his blood flowed so fast upon the Troopers underneath him that as they brag'd there and in other places after they were gone thence they thought they had dispatched him and therefore thinking him to be a dead man they left him yet to imbalme him to his Funerall they poure out a flood of reproachfull names upon him calling him Rogue Rascall Slave Villaine Dog Devill making no stop till their master the Divell and their owne memories could suggest no more names of the same stamp At last to seale up all for feare they had not murthered him they protest with many Execrations upon themselves that if they had not now sped him which yet they hoped they had they would returne another time and have him either dead or alive At Bridstow in Devonshire there dwels a Husbandman and though I cannot tell his name yet let it not weaken the credit of the Relation who not satisfied with the Parliaments proceedings in taking up Armes against their lawfull undoubted Soueraigne stood in a seeming Neutrality at last conceiving it time to declare himselfe he openly adhered to the Kings party hereupon he was very diligently sought after and the Earle of Sta●ford sent a Troop of Horse to his house to apprehend him When they came thither they found not the good man at home but a sonne of his about ten or eleven yeares old they aske him where his Father was the childe replyed that he was not at home they threaten him and use all arts to make him discover where his Father had hid himselfe the childe being ignorant where his Father was still persisted in the same answer that he knew not where he was hereupon they threaten to hang him neither doth that prevaile at last they take the poore innocent childe and hang him up either because he would not betray his Father had he been able to satisfie their doubt or for not having the spirit of Prophecy not being able to reveale what by an ordinary way of knowledge he did not know having let him hang awhile they cut him downe not intending to hang him unto death but being cut downe they could perceive nothing discovering life in him hereupon in a barbarous way of experiment they pricke him with their swords in the back and thighs using the means leading to death to find out life at last after some long stay some small symptomes of life did appeare yet so weake that there they left him nearer the confines of death then life and whether the childe did ever recover is more than my Informer former can assure me Only courteous Reader observe from this short Narration that these bloudy Rebels spare neither the venerablenesse of the sacred Function the infirmities of old Age or the tendernesse of Youth Mercurius Rusticus c. XI The particulars of the first Siege of Corfe-Castle gallantly defended by the Lady Banks and Captaine Laurence against the Powers