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Eye-salve for England, or, The grand trappan detected in a plain and faithful narrative of the horrid and unheard-of designs of some justices and deputy-lieutenants in Lancashire treacherously to ensnare the lives and estates of many persons of quality in that county, as also, in the counties of York and Chester / by Evan Price ...
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Price, Evan.
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And that he knew no way better to get a discovery of them both in Lancashire and Cheshire than to labour with the said Evan Price who being poor might by a good reward be brought to discover these and more having been so imployed amongst them which if he would then get the Judges to assure him of pardon and any reward he would desire If by this means they prevailed not then get some trusty friend that could act his part with a Phanaticks tongue to go to him as from Capt. Hogsons Wife Mr. Marsdens Wife his Brother Gamaliel and David Lombies Wife and Mr. Roots Wife and Joshua Bailey and his Wife with description of the place of their habitation and in case they could not get one that knew them and the place of their abode with certain tokens from them then to condole and lament his condition and perswade him to endure and so get what he could from him that way then leave this following Declaration with him and presently seize him therewith and so procure him to make a discovery to save his own neck The Declaration word for word was as followeth A Door of Hope opened in the Valley of Achor â—â—e Title for the Mourners of Sion out of the North sent abroad to revive the Prisoners of Hope and awaken the dead Witnesses of the Lamb to prepare themselves to meet him in his Remnant on Mount Sion in judgment against the Mount of Esau and mystical Babylon the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth VVHereas several thousands of us 〈◊〉 Preâ—â—â—e poor low worms and despised servants of our Lord King JESUS after earnest seeking of the face of our God by prayer supplications and conferences together with the Word and Prophecies of the Scripture as we were able in an obscure manner to understand the Lord's mind and our own duties especially the Work of our Day and Generation we are by inward compulsion of the Spirit of God we trust carried on to declare and make known our hearts so far as at present we are able to the Lords people and all others in the three Nations that love the Name of God Truth Peace their own posterity and the welfare of their Country That we are deeply affected with â—ounds and incensed at the daily Blasphemies which we hear against the Name of God his Son Gospel Tabernacle and those who worship therein At the most horrible-wickedness unheard-of openly committed in the Land and countenanced by those in Authority if not tolerated by Law yea much of it openly in Stage-Plays acted besides the common sins of Adultery Drunkenness Swearing Stealing and what not At the common Superstitious and Idolatrous wayes of Worship set up in the Nations with compulsion of the free-born Natives to complyance therewith and the sad Sufferings of such as for Conscience-sake towards God cannot by Imprisonments Excommunications Confiscations of Goods and Banishment from Countries and Relations At the loud cryes not only of the Saints in most Prisons of the Nation but also of the Innocent Blood of our dear Christian Brethren and natural Friends Neighbours and Relations unjustly taken away under pretence of Plots and Treasons like Naboth ensnared by the like trappanning-spirit as Jezebel used so that these as the Souls under the Altar do cry for vengeance in our ears to revenge their blood that the violence done to their flesh may be upon Babylon At the lamentable cryes of the Poor of the Land for want of Imployment through the decay of Trading by means of Excise Customs Monthly-Taxes Poll-money Chimney-money Gift-money and Subsidy-money all which is laid out in abundance but nothing brought in as if the curse which the Prophet speaks of were upon it or 't were put into bags with holes Hag. 1.6 Mal. 2.2 6. The swarming-in of Jesuites Priests and outlandish Papists to infect the minds of our Neighbours and in time to cut our throats if the Lord in mercy do not timely prevent them so invading our Country with such Idolatry as cost the Nation so much Blood and Treasure to extirpate and stopping the mouths of almost all godly Protestant able Ministers especially such as cannot in conscience comply with the Popes Canons in our Episcopal Devotions thereby making way for Antichrist the Pope if not at last to bring in the Turks upon us yet to bring us back into Romes Jurisdiction there to meet him and mock the Lord Jesus that gave himself for us And now though we cannot say that we are sufficiently sensible and humbled for our own sins which made way for these abominations yet in measure we desire to take shame ††O that there wâ—â— such anâ— heart in them Deut 5 29 to our selves especially such of us as have defiled our garments in chusing of us new gods by being instrumental to bring these things to pass by our backslidings and revolts from the Lord to help the wicked and ungodly as Jehosaphat did Ahab 2 Chron. 19.2 and weaken the hands of our godly Brethren who in the wisdom of the Spirit foresaw the event and gave us warning betimes but now we desire no longer to abound in sinfull compliance as to stand by and behold our Brethren carried captives left we our selves be the first that may justly follow after Obad. 10.11 But we beg the Lord to abound in pardoning grace and give us hearts to manifest repentance by our returns to and zeal for the Lord and to help the Poor and Needy against the Mighty and not delight our selves in our own fulness and their miseries any longer but quit our selves like men seeing there is no remedy but death and destruction threatned or at least to live in a worse condition than slavery for such as desire to live morally in the Nation much more godly in Christ Jesus And we being taught by Grace and Nature to use all lawful means to defend our Lives Liberties Relations and Estates also satisfied from the Word of God that the use of Temporal Weapons of War is a lawful means of God's own institution in its time and that by the use thereof in the hands of Saints as one means the Kingdoms of this world must fall before they become the Kingdoms of our Lord of his Christ and having seen the Lord own them so evidently already We declare our selves of a ready mind when the Lord shall form and call us out thereby to hazard our lives and all that is or may be dear or near unto us for the reviving of the Good Old Cause And though we be perswaded we need not use Arguments to our Brethren who are called chosen and faithful in the Nation for assistance herein for we know they love not their lives unto the death but will follow the Lamb through the greatest difficulties Yet to our civil Neighbours and dear Country-men that would rather dye like Men than live worse than Slaves in their own native Land as many do who want
of such potent mighty politick persons notwithstanding their flattery threats smiles and frowns to overcome me I likewise desire the prayers of all Saints that may hear hereof to the Lord that he would vouchsafe me his grace still to stand fast and go through whatsoever he shall call me to do or suffer for his Name sake Now committing my self to the protection of Israels Preserver and this Intelligence to Englands Watchmen waiting for Sions Redemption at whose breasts I suck consolation to which nourishment if thou hast it not I desire thy conversion who in my own esteem am the worst of her Off spring E. P. The NARRATIVE THat upon the 22d of February 1663 Mr. Nich. Mosely one of the Justices of Peace for the County of Lancaster My firâ—â— seisur◠〈◊〉 Mr Mâ—â— at Maâ—chesteâ— came to me Evan Price as I was at work with my Master Roger Mareland Clothworker in Manchester and desired me to go and drink my mornings-draught at Mr. Johnsons the Kings-head-Tavern where after some talk with me alone he told me that he came to me by Authority from the King and that if I would take the counsel to do the King a piece of service it was now in his power to make me whilst he lived which was in brief to be a Witness and swear against such men as were to him discovered to be in a Plot against the King and for which I should have as a reward either a thousand pounds in money * Thy mâ—ney periâ—â— with the Acts 8. or the tenth part of such mens Estates as I should evidence against and that further Evidence would be procured to joyn with me herein Which motion I utterly rejected hating as I told him to take Bribes to shed Blood Whereupon his countenance changed and being very wrathful he threatned with many protestations that he would hang me if I so withstood his Motion and Authority and thereupon laid hands upon me searching my pockets and sent for a Constable The Constables name is Joh. Brâ—bands charging him to bring me to Justice Lightbound's house where they examined me about a pretended Plot but finding nothing charged the Constable to secure me that night in the Dungeon and bring me the next day to Berry before the Deputy-Lieutenants sending for my Master with whom I wrought to finde something against me but he cleared me upon his Oath that I had kept constantly to my work with him for divers months before Being brought the next day to Berry before the Deputy-Lieutenants and examined four several times before them no Accuser appearing against me all departing away but Sir Robert Bradshaw Mr. Holl and Mr. Mosely they made my Mittimus and sent me to Lancaster Goal without Bail or Mainprize Being at Lancaster Mr. Mosely at the Assizes following came to me several times with his former temptations enlarging his proffers and withal told me that I should find the Judges themselves would confirm the same to me thereupon forthwith bringing me to the Judges in their Chamber viz. Judge Turner and Twisden who told me they had received several Letters and Papers which Mr. Mosely as they said had given them mentioning a Combination of five thousand persons of the Independants Presbyterians Anabaptists and Fifth-Monarchy-men in Lancashire and Cheshire to make Insurrection against the King and his Government and the Names of forty or fifty of the principal Contrivers thereof against whom my evidence was required the Judges naming most of them to me and amongst the rest the Lord Delamere as chief assuring me that what Mr. Mosely had promised should be made good if I would serve the King therein as desired which I still refusing was returned to Prison again and continued there above a twelve-month after The Letters and Papers above-mentioned by the Judges direction were put into the hands of Justice Hartly to be transcribed which he did at the Ship-Tavern in Lancaster that Assize and so Copies thereof were spread abroad into many hands in both Counties the extract of which Letters and the whole of the Trappanning-Declaration as Providence brought to hand take as followeth The first Letter is directed from Wakefield by an unknown hand no name thereto dated Febr. 6. 1663. and therein saith That though Cheshire Lancashire like Pilate would wash their hands in innocency from the late Plot yet it may be found otherwise for as they were guilty first against his Father in that Rebellion so may they be in the last that now is our Sovereign Lord and King for it may not be doubted but the Presbyterians Independants and Anabaptists in those two Counties to the number of five thousand were levened with the Fifth-Monarchy Spirit and about Manchester Warrington and Stopford five hundred The chiefest Agents and Trustees in both Counties as his first Letter mentions were these viz. the Lord Delamere Mr. Eaton his Chaplain Colonel Duckenfield Col. Croxon Col. Venables Major Traverse Lieut. Smith Mr. John Crew of Vtkinton Mr. Henry Bradshaw and Mr. Jones of Marpool the late Mr. Sam. Eaton Mr. Bruton James Fitton and Hugh Gandy these fourteen for Cheshire were the chief Engagers and Agents for the rest with purse and persons to their power And in Lancashire nineteen viz. Col. Birch Col. West Col. Sawrey the late Major Wiggan Major Ridg Major Porter Major Edge Mr. Tho. Birch Mr. Edw. Gathorn Mr. Angier Mr. Newcomb Mr. Harrison Mr. Jones Mr. Robert Birch Mr. Yates all six old pretended Preachers Mr. Ditchfield Mr. Greenwood an Apothecary in Lancashire Mr. Jolly and Sergeant William Booth These were all that were named in the first Letter save one Evan Price that was a Messenger between them to carry Letters and Intelligence against whom the Informer would appear at the Assizes if the said Evan being secured did refuse to discover the fore-named persons but if the said Evan would be drawn by any reward to accuse such men then give and grant him the tenth part of each mans estate that he should so accuse but if he would not then threaten and fright him to it The second Letter was dated at Lancaster without name with some reasons why yet he would not be known to him confirming the first and adding the Names following viz. In Cheshire William Barret Thomas Partington Major Bonnell Lieut. Bancraft and William Brown In Lancashire Major Robinson Capt. James Howorth near Charley Mr. Sharpless Sir Rich. Houghton of Houghton Tower and Dr. Fife made privy to it but unwilling to engage in action but the Lady Sarah Mr. Eatons chief Disciple did engage to supply with Moneys Mr. Harrison of the File-Country Mr. Howbrook Shopkeeper in Manchester And moreover that the Phanaticks in York-shire were grown more numerous and unanimous in their designs and resolutions to avenge their Brethrens blood or be hanged after them many who formerly dissented now complied And that it required diligence in him and all his Majesties faithful Subjects to stir themselves to prevent the danger