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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

A party of Rebels near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire were routed by His Majesties Forces who slew Captain Watson their Commander in chief with Captain Hard-staffe and divers others and took 60 Prisoners but more Horses and good store of Arms. In this action His Majesty lost Captain Sares only of Note and three Troopers Feb. 26 th His Majesty sent a ninth Letter to Westminster to desire an Answer of his former Letters still pressing for Peace Feb. 16 th The strong Castle of Corf which had been lately relieved was delivered into the hands of the Rebels by the Treachery and perfidiousness of one Lieutenant Colonel Pitman March the 2 d. A party of His Majesties Forces from Oxford entred the Town of Abbington seised upon the Ordnance and Magazin yet for want of a sufficient supply were forced to retreat with some Prisoners and few slain on either side March the 12 th The Lord Hopton being much overpowered by the Rebels in the West was necessitated to accept of Conditions for the disbanding his Army c. March the 21 st the Lord Ashley commanding a Brigade of horse and foot from Worcester-shire which were intended for Oxford were set upon by an aggregate body of the Rebels on the edg of Gloucestershire and defeated the foot most taken with my Lord himself and some of the horse the remainder escaped and got to Oxford Thus had His Majesty two Armies defeated in less than a fortnight yet we are confident when Almighty God hath sufficiently punish'd the sins of this Nation he will in his good time restore a pious King to his just rights and his bleeding Kingdoms to peace and union in despight of all Sectaries and Opponents March the 23 d. His Majesty never weary in acting any thing tending to Peace sent his tenth Message to this effect That in case he might have the faith of his two houses of Parliament for the preservation of his Honour person and estate and that liberty might be given to all those that do and have adhered to His Majesty to enjoy their Estates without any sequestration or being compelled to take any Oaths not enjoined by Law he would then disband his forces dismantle his Garrisons return to and reside with his two Houses of Parliament c. And could more be offered by or expected from a Gracious King If the Ears of the Parliament continue deaf to so reasonable a motion the World will easily perceive their intentions are not conform to their often professions And His Majesty will be abundantly cleared before God and man for any ensuing miseries that shall by want of an Accommodation befal these Kingdoms whereunto God of his goodness afford Peace and Truth Reader THere remains now nothing to compleat this short sad story but a Catalogue of the Persons of Note slain in these last four years not to speak of those many thousands of inferiour Rank which may well challenge even from an adamantine heart the tribute of a bleeding eye the rather since there 's hardly any story can parallel these calamities which if truly resented will exact from all good Christians an earnest and continual supplication that Almighty God would please to avert his anger from us and set a period to these distractions A Catalogue of the Names of all or the most part of the Lords Knights and men of Quality slain or Executed by Law-Martial on both sides since the beginning of this Unnatural War to the 25 th of March 1646. On His Majesties part slain EArl of Lindsey Earl of Northampton Earl of Carnarvon Earl of Sunderland Farl of Litchsield Earl of Kingstone Marquess de Vieuville a French man Lord Viscount Faulkland Lord d' Aubigny Lord John Steward Lord Grandison Lord Cary eldest Son to the E. of Monmouth An Outlandish Lord slain at Nottingham who was a near kinsman to the Prince of Orange Sir Edmon Verney Sir Bevill Grenvile Sir Nicholas Slannyng Sir Richard Lawdy Sir Ingram Hopton Sir William Butler Sir William Clark Sir Thomas Metham Sir Anthony Maunsell Sir Anthony St. Leger Sir Henry Gage Sir John Girlington Sir William Mainwaring Sir John Digby Sir William Crofts Sir John Smith Sir Thomas Gardiner and his Brother Sir Peter Brown Sir Thomas Dallison Sir Bernard Ashley Sir Richard Crane Sir Richard Hutton Sir Gilbert Gerard. Sir William Wentworth Sir Cha. Blunt by Mutiny Sir Jo. Scudamore in a Duel Colonel Blague Col. Windebank Sir Job Cademan Executed by Martial Law The first for Treachery the second for Cowardise and the third Beheaded at Bristol for killing an Officer there Col. Howard Col. Lunsford Col. Trevanian Col. Morgan Col. Eure. Col. Cavendish Col. Townley Col. Herne Col. Ferdinando Stanhop and Col. Stanhop Sons to the Earl of Chesterfield Col. Marrow Col. Prideaux Col. Mynne Col. Mannyng Col. Slaughter Col. Bernard Col. S. George Col. Taylor Col. Bawd Col. Carnaby Col. Bentall Lieut. Col. Markham Master Sackvile Son to the Earl of Dorset Persons of Note slain on the Parliaments part where the Reader may observe that as His Majesty had on his side ten Gentlemen at least for every one on their side it must by consequence follow that he must lose many more of Note than they THe Lord S. John eldest Son to the E. of Bullingbrook Lord Brook Sir Charles Essex Sir William Fairfax Sir Charles Fairfax Sir John Meldrum Major Gen. Crawford Col. John Hampden one of the 5. Members Col. Sands Col. Armyne Col. Thornton Col. Lister Col. Meldrum Col. Malevory Col. Cockeram Lieutenant Col. Stanley Lieut. Col. Quarles Lieut. Col. Harrington Lieut. Col. Gurdon Major Dowglas Doctor Scudamore Executed on the Parliaments side by Law-Martial not to speak of the E. of Strafford and the Arch-Bishop of Cant. Sir Alexander Carew At LONDON Sir John Hotham and his Son At LONDON Master Tomkins At LONDON Master Chaloner At LONDON Master Bourchier At BRISTOLL Master Yomans At BRISTOLL FINIS THE TABLE OF Mercurius Rusticus ARcher Preaches Rebellion up and Gentry and Learning down pag. 35 Articles of Surrender broken 49 51 65 76 Sir Henry Audley Plundered 13 14 B. Doctor Bargrave Plundered 79. c. dies of grief 81 Barnard an ungrateful Schismatick 145 Sir Tho. Barrington for bids the Preaching of Divine Truth 20 21 Master Bartlets house five times Plundered 186 c. Doctor Beale Doctor Martin Doctor Sterne imprisoned and barbarously used on Ship-board 132 Beale a Rebel Plundered by the Rebels 91 A Bear more merciful than the Rebels 94 Bible abused 213. Blasphemy 43 123 124 Sir Wllliam Boteler Plundered 7. His Steward tortured 10 Bowlstrodes Prayer 157 Sir Wil. Brooke stormes a Gally-pot 9 John Brown tortured 3 Burton intruded into Mr. Chestlins Living 177 Master Bykar Murthered because he was a Parsons Son 57 C Sir Ralph Canterills man Tortured 149 Cathedral Churches Prophaned and abused at Canterbury 119. Rochester 136. Chichester 139. Winchester 146 c. Westminster 154. Exeter 158 159 Mr. Chaldwel and his Wife barbarously used and his Servant Murthered 104

Gentlemen of all Orders were not only present but engaged themselves against the Rebels as much or more than Common Soldiers which they most cheerfully did by example of His sacred MAJESTY whose Royal undaunted Courage put life into every man exposing His Sacred Person to so much danger as all good men do tremble to remember His Royal Sons the two young Princes CHARLES Prince of Wales and JAMES Duke of Yorke being also in the field in very much danger if God whose cause it was had not covered their heads in the day of Battel The Rebels as they had few men of quality to lose so those they had were sensible of their guilt which then they expressed by their flight some sculking into holes and Saw-pits and others running out before they were well in the field They lost of note the Lord St. John eldest Son to the Earl of Bullingbrooke Sir Charles Essex with many inferiour Officers October the 27 th His Majesty to compleat his Victory in Keynton field drew his whole Army before Banbury but after the firing of one piece of Ordnance the Rebels submitted to His Majesties mercy which were in number about 800 Foot of the Earl of Peterboroughs and Lord Says Regiments with 10 Colours and a Troop of Horse and yeilded the Town and Castle to the King at which time the Earl of Essex with his shattered Force were crept over the River Aven into Warwick full eight Miles backward from the place where they were beaten there to secure those few he had left under the protection of the strong fituate Town and Castle leaving behind him above 20 Waggons loaded with Powder and other Ammunition November the 12 th His Maiesty after four hours fight forced the Town of Brainford where Lieutenant Colonel Quarles that commanded in chief was slain and at least 400 more of the Rebels kill'd and drowned as many taken Prisoners with little loss to His Majesties part these thus taken and kill'd were observed to be the best foot Soldiers the Rebels had November the 13 th being Sunday certain of the Rebels had come down the Thames from Kingston with 13 pieces of Ordnance which so soon as they could see they fired against Sion house and His Majesties Train of Artillery but did little or no harm Whereupon Order was presently given for drawing down some Pieces into the Meadow and to the River side against them which was accordingly done and likewise a Demy-Cannon planted near the South-end of the Town All which were so judiciously plied that they shot through their Boats and Barges and at last fired the Powder in one of them which blew up divers of the Rebels Those Rebels which escaped took them to their heels leaving behind them their mangled Boats and Barges with all their Ordnance and the remainder of their Ammunition on which His Majesty presently seised and afterwards made an honourable and safe retreat to the City of Oxford December the 5 th His Majesties Forces under the command of Lieutenant General Wilmot having his own Regiment of Horse with the Lord Grandisons and Lord Digbies and Sir William Pennimans and Colonel Blagues Regiments of Foot and Colonel Ushers and Colonel Grayes of Dragoons took the Town of Marlborough defended by Robert Ramsey a Scot and about 500 Foot Ramsey and divers of the chief Rebels brought Prisoners to Oxford all their Arms taken and four Colours On the same 5 th day the Earl of Newcastle laid siege to Tadcaster where at that time was all the strength of the Rebels in Yorkeshire excepting Hull and by several assaults on the Town from Ten of the Clock in the morning till Seven at night kill'd Cap. Lyster and about 60 more of the Rebels who found such hot service that they stole away in the night to Cawood and Selby leaving Tadcaster fortified for His Majesties service January the 19 th a great Victory was obtained by the Lord Hopton near Bodmin in the County of Cornwal where was slain in the pursuit 200 of the Rebels and 700 taken Prisoners amongst whom was Sir Shilston Colmadee and eight Colours good store of Ammunition an five excellent brass Guns and one of Iron January the 22 d. the Lord Hopton assulted Saltash forced the Town where he took Ten pieces of Ordnance 700 more Prisoners 4000 Arms and a Ship with sixteen pieces of Ordnance January the 27 th certain of the Rebels under the command of Master John Hampden to the number of 1800 Foot and seven or eight Troops of Horse with two pieces of Ordnance came before Brill and made an assault upon it But were so bravely repulsed by His Majesties forces there under the command of Sir Gilbert Gerard the then Governour thereof that they made all possible hast away His Majesties Horse having the pursuit of them for above 4 miles about 80 of them being sound dead and betwixt 40 or 50 men wounded which they had left together in a private House February the 1 st Lieutenant General King and Lieutenant Ge●eral Goring coming from Newcastle with a great Convoy of much Arms and Ammunition and being faced at Yarum with 400 Foot three Troops of Horse and two pieces of Ordnance of the Rebels fell upon them slew many took the rest of the Foot and most of the Horse Prisoners with their Ordnance and Baggage February the 2 d. Cyrencester or Cicester in Gloucester-shire was taken by his Highness Prince Rupert with the loss of less than 20 men of his Army there being above 300 of the Rebels slain and near 1200 taken Prisoners Of Colours taken one Coronet two of Dragoons and fourteen Foot Ensigns together with all their Ordnance Arms and Ammunition February the 13 th the QUEENS Majesty left the Hague and went to Sciveling And on the 16 day Her Majesty imbarked again in the Princess Royal of Great Brittain And on the Sunday after came within sight of Flamborough-head February the 20 th She cast Anchor in the Harbour of Burlington-bay And the 22 d. day following upon fight of 1000 of his excellency the Earl of Newcastle's Horse landed at Burlington Key Fibruary the 24 th in the morning four Ships and a Pinnace in the Rebels service which came over night into the Road made above 100 great shot at the houses in the Key for two hours shooting Cross-bar-shot and Bullets of twelve pound weight all of them aiming so near as they could at the house were the Queen lay Insomuch that her sacred Majesty was forced to make what hast she could out of Her Bed and to get under an hill to save Her life from the fury of those Bloody Rebels who endeavoured to Murther Her But God Almighty preserved Her Majesty both by Sea and Land March the 18 th and 19 th was a great Battel on Hopton-heath in Staffordshire wherein Gell and Brereton two cowardly Rebels were routed by His Majesties Forces under the command of the Right Honourable Spencer then Earl of Northampton in which fight

took 2000 Prisoners with all the Horse Arms and Ammunition which either the Rebels found in the Town or brought thither with them Hereupon the Rebels deserted the Town of Hallifax and presently after Sir Hugh Cholmely fell upon Beverly and took it for his Majesty July the 5 th Master Tomkins and Master Challoner were most barbarously Murthered by the Rebels in London for their Fidelity to his Majesty And the same fifth day there was a fight on Landsdown-hill betwixt His Majesties Forces under the command of the Marquess of Hartford and the Rebels under Sir William Waller who after 11 hours fight stuck their lighted matches in the hedges and ran quite away leaving behind them above 500 Musquets 14 barrels of Powder a whole Stand of Pikes with good store of all sorts of Arms. Their Foot were absolutely routed and all dispersed his loss of Officers and horse was great many hundreds of his men were killed His Majesties forces having the pillage of the field And here was that most valiant Knight Sir Bevill Greenvill unfortunately slain in the Front of his men with some others of less Quality The 13 th of July about four a Clock in the Afternoon the King and Queens Majesty met at Edge-hill where the Rebels had received their main overthrow and the same day and hour His Majesties Forces under the Command of the Lord Wilmot Lieutenant General of the Horse the Earl of Carnarvon the Earl of Crawford and the Lord Biron obtained another great and strange victory upon Round-way-down with 1500 horse and two smal pieces of Cannon only wherewith they totally routed the Rebels Army under the Command of the old-beaten Soldier Sir William Waller consisting of above 2500 Foot and 2000 Horse besides 500 Dragoons with 8 pieces of Brass Ordnance slew 600 of them in the place took above 900 Prisoners all their Cannon Arms Ammunition Waggons Baggage and Victual 28 Foot-Ensigns 9 Cornets and left not one Rebel but what was either killed taken Prisoner or narrowly escaped Upon the 24 th of July his Highness Prince Rupert having joyned his Forces to his Brothers and the whole body of their strength being brought together they sate down before Bristol and began their Batteries And the 26 day with unexpressible valour they gained the Out-works and the 27 day following the City and Castle was delivered up to His sacred Majesty with all the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition At this siege were slain on His Majesties part Sir Nicolas Slanning one of the Lunsfords with some few others and that valiant Lord the Lord Grandison did here receive a wound August the 3 d. Corf-castle in the Isle of Purbecke which had been so often before besieged by Sir Walter Earle but had always beaten off the Rebels and killed their Cannoniers was once more fallen upon by the Rebels who were so bravely received by Captain Laurence that 60 of them were kill'd in the place the rest hearing of the most valiant Earl of Carnarvons approach ran away Soon after the Earl of Carnarvon Summoned Dorchester which was thereupon delivered up to his Lordship with all the Arms Ammunition and Cannon which were disposed of for His Majesties use About the 9 th of August the Castle and Isle of Portland were reduced again under His Majesties command And the Town and Haven of Weymouth and Melcombe submitted to His Majesty August the 20 th Colonel Jo. Digby defeated the Rebels of Biddeford and Barnstable killed 100 of their Foot took 211 Officers and common Soldiers Prisoners most of which were miserably wounded two pieces of Ordnance six barrels of Powder 400 weight of Bullet 200 and a half of Match and above 300 Arms besides all the Foot-Officers horses Pursued their horse to the very works of Biddeford and returned victoriously without the loss of more than one man not one of the rest of his Soldiers being so much as hurt all that day Upon the 2 d. and 3 d of September the Towns of Biddeford Appleford and Barnstable delivered up their several Garrisons to His Majesty Upon the same 3 d. of September Prince Maurice gave a very hot assault upon the City of Exeter and battered the Walls whereupon the Rebels desired Parley but refusing the conditions the assault was afterwards eagerly pursued and the next day after won the great Sconce turned the Ordnance there against the Town Whereupon the Rebels craved to be admitted unto those conditions which before they rejected and obtained the same delivered up the Town and Castle to the Prince his Highness with all the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition after it had been blockt up and besieged about six weeks September the 17 th the Rebels Army stealing out of Gloucestershire towards London surprised part of a new raised Regiment of His Majesties horse at Cirencester but were overtaken by Prince Rupert with His Majesties horse near Auburne in Wiltshire where he gave them two charges the one by a commanded Party under Colonel Urrey the other by the Queens Regiment commanded by the Lord Iermin who performed it so well on the Rebels whole Army that many great bodies of Foot were routed and many of them slain in the place without any loss to His Majesties Forces save two common Soldiers killed and the Marquess de la Vienville taken Prisoner who was afterwards Murthered by the Rebels in cold Blood and the Lord Digby and Lord Iermyn lightly wounded by which two charges the Rebels Army was so retarded that His Majesty had time to overtake them with his Foot and on Wednesday after the 20 th of this month upon an Hill near Newberry and Enborne-heath His Majesty fought with the Rebels who were seated in the most advantageous place imaginable yet in despight of all their Cannon Foot and Horse His Majesty beat them from their ground gained the Hill and one piece of their brass Ordnance and quickly routed all their horse upon the Heath The most that were killed in this fight of His Majesties Forces exceeded not the number of 300 though above 600 of the Rebels were slain and a very great number wounded In this fight were slain the most Noble and valiant Earl of Carnarvon the Earl of Sunderland the Lord Viscount Faulkland Col. Morgan Captain William Symcots with some other Gentlemen and Commanders After this fight the Rebels were further pursued and routed again so as they fled into Reading where they durst not stay but left the Town for His Majesty September the 25 th That pernicious confederacy called the National covenant was taken by the Members of the House of Commons at Westminster in S. Margarets Church October the 18 th the Pince of Harcourt Lord Ambassadour Extraordinary from the French King and Queen Regent after he had been most barbarously used in his passage by the Rebels came safe into Oxford where he had entertainment more suitable to the worth of so great a Personage In this month of October His Majesties Forces under the command of the Lord Widdrington

Sir Charles Lucas Col. Porter and Col. Tillier Prisoners In this Battel were slain on His Majesties part the Lord Cary Sir Thomas Metham Col. Ewer Col. Townley with some others of note and about 1500 common Soldiers On the Rebels part were slain Sir Charles Fairfax younger son to the Lord Fairfax with many other of their Commanders and at least 3000 common Soldiers This done the Rebels rally and sit down again before Yorke which was valiantly defended for three weeks after by Sir Tho. Glenham and then delivered upon honourable conditions to march away with Arms Bag and Baggage which conditions were most persidiously broken by the Rebels July the 6 th The Lord Hopton routed 350 of the Rebels near Warmister which were pursued above 20 miles by Sir Francis Dodington July the 15 th The King came to Bath with his Army which day the Queens Majesty arrived safe at Brest in Britanny notwithstanding 50 great shot made at her by Batty the Rebels Vice-Admiral July the 23 d. The King made His speech to the Summersetshire men on Kings-moore who came in to His Majesties assistance very cheerfully July the 31 st Middleton the Scot furiously assaulted Denington Castle and received a most shameful repulse leaving dead behind him one Col. eight Captains one Sergeant Major with many inferiour Officers and Soldiers August the 1 st His Majesty with his Army passed into Cornwal over Tamar at Polton bridg in pursuit of the Earl of Essex whom he had now chased through Devonshire August the 25 th The King gained from the Rebels the Castle of Lestithiel where their Army lay strongly encamped and in it took Col. Butler and some others Prisoners August the 30 th The Rebels horse in the night passed between His Majesties Quarters and fled towards Plymouth August the 31 st The Rebels Foot making towards Foy were beaten from five pieces of their Ordnance September the 2 d. The Rebels being deserted by their General the Earl of Essex who with the Lord Roberts fled to Plymouth in a Cock-boat the night past this day yeilded up to His Majesty all their Train of Artillery viz. 49 pieces of fair brass Ordnance 200 and odd barrels of Gunpowder with match ball c. proportionable above 700 Carriages and betwixt eight and 9000 Arms. His Majesty out of his wonted Clemency granting them their lives September the 5 th His Majesty having obtained so compleat a victory over the Rebels did as formerly after the defeat of Waller from Tavestock send his second message of Peace to Wistminster In the beginning of this month His Majesties forces in Scotland under the command of his Excellency James Lord Marquess of Montrosse and General Major Mackdonald who not long before landed in that Kingdom with 1000 Irish obtained a great victory over the Rebels there upon Newbigging Moore near S. Johns Town where were kill'd above 1200 Rebels among which was the Laird of Rires and some others of note and seven brass Pieces taken this done His Majesties forces pursued them to S. Johns Town and took it and therein and in the battel took 2000 of the Rebels Prisoners with two pieces of Ordnance more all their Arms Ammunition and Baggage and this done with the loss of not above 60 men on His Majesties part The Rebels in this battel were commanded by the Earl of Tullibairne the Lord Drummond the Lord Elcho and Sir James Scot of Rossy their word was Jesus no Quarter And within a fortnight after this success his Excellency the Marquess of Montrosse and Major Gen. Mackdonald obtained a second victory over another body of Rebels in that Kingdom commanded by the Lord Forbes Burly and others near Aberdeen wherein the Marquess kill'd and took Prisoners at least 1000 with three pieces of Cannon and all their baggage without any considerable loss on His Majesties part among the Prisoners taken by the Marquess there was Sir William Forbes of Craigyvar and John Forbes of Boynly with others of note And soon after the Marquess took the Town of Aberdeen with all the Ordnance Ammunition and Arms and many of the fugitive Rebels therein September the 11 th The Garrison of Basing after 18 weeks siege wherein the Rebels lost many hundreds of their men was relieved from Oxford by Sir Henry Gage Septemb. the 12 th Ilfercombe in Devonshire rendered to General Goring for His Majesty September the 17 th Barnstaple in Devonshire that had revolted upon the Earl of Essex this approach submitted to His Majesty and obtained from him their second pardon September the 23 d. Col. John Fines having besieged the Castle of Banbury above a month before hired his men to storm it in five places in all which they were shamefully beaten off with great loss October the 7 th in the night Sir Richard Greenvile took the Town of Saltash by storming wherein 400 Rebels were kill'd and at least 300 taken Prisoners with their Arms this Town had been quitted by His Majesties forces not long before without any considerable loss October the 25 th The Earl of Northampton and Sir Henry Gage raised the siege of Banbury Castle fell upon Col. John Fines his flying Troops slew about 60 of them took above 100 Prisoners with about 200 horses one piece of Ordnance all their Ammunition and many Arms. October the 27 th The Rebels having thus lost two of their Armies called the third under the Earl of Manchesters command out of the Associated Counties and forced other Regiments out of London to withstand the King who was now advanced to Newberry with part of his Army where the Rebels apprehending a great advantage in regard that the rest of His Majesties forces were not come up fell upon His Majesties quarters but were beaten off with the slaughter of above 1000 of their men whereof Major Urrey with some other of their prime Commanders were part with the loss of Sir Anthony St. Leager and less than 100 others on His Majesties side who had the pillage of the field here the valiant Earl of Cleveland was casually taken Prisoner having his horse first kill'd under him November the 6 th His Majesty had his rendezvouz on Bullington-green betwixt Wallingford and Oxford November the 9 th His Army came to Dennington Castle which since His Majesties marching thence had been again besieged by the Rebels and raised the siege the Rebels not daring to withstand his Army November the 17 th The King having some days expected the Rebels who it seems were loth to hazard the last stake advanced towards them to Hungerford upon whose approach the Rebels left the field Whereupon His Majesty sent Sir Henry Gage with a party to supply the wants ef Basing that had been besieged all this Summer by five Colonels and their Regiments but the Rebels had raised the siege before his approach November the 19 th Monmouth that had lately been betrayed by Kirle was bravely regained by the Lord Herbert and Ragland wherein was taken the Rebels whole

false Perspectives of slander and falsehood which they hold before their eyes Coleman speeds to London and complains to that Conventicle which call themselves a Parliament against Mr. Gibb for so foul an Affront put upon them by Publishing the Kings Declaration presently being servilely Observant to every base informer they dispatch several Pursevants to apprehend Mr. Gibb he seeing the Storm coming as wise men do hides himself after some time of retirement advised unto it by his friend he goes to London where by the great mediation of friends and paying fees to the sum of 30 l. he was dismissed upon engagement to be forth-coming whensoever they should call for him There is none so insolent and intolerable as a base mean man started up into command or authority we cannot give you a greater instance than in that beggarly Captain Ven Citizen of London made Colonel and Commander in chief of Windsor-Castle who doth not only assume to himself the propriety of his Sovereigns house dating his Letters to Jezabel his Wife From our Castle at Windsor and building some additions to the Deans lodgings as if he meant to set up his rest there and make that his habitation when no place in that Royal Castle is fit for such a Couple but the Cole-house and even that too good for them but as if there would never come a time to call him to an account he doth use the Gentlemen and Soldiers taken by the Rebels and sent Prisoners thither with that cruelty and inhumanity as if they were Turks not Christians for the Gentlemen that are Prisoners there are not only kept from Church nor permitted to receive the Sacrament neither from their own Preachers nor from any friend whom they could procure to do that office for them nay they were not permitted to joyn together in devotions in their private lodgings but each man a part and if this petty Tyrant could have hindred that intercourse which every particular devout Soul injoys with his God this Atheist would have hindered that too And because the sedentary Solitary Lives which they led there were prejudicial to their healths they earnestly entreated Ven that they might recreate themselves in the Tennis-Court near the Keep and offered to be at the charges of a Guard if those high walls and the many guards about them were not thought sufficient to secure them but yet were denied Nay when the Sheriff of Sussex was brought Prisoner from London to Windsor very lame though his Chirurgion offered Colonel Ven to be deposed that on the least neglect his Leg was like to gangreen yet after he came to Windsor he was forced to lie with the rest of the Knights and Gentlemen on the ground many nights at last shewing his leg to Ven he confessed that he never saw a more dangerous lameness and promised to acquaint the Earl of Essex with it and the Sheriff himself being acquainted with the Earl presuming on some interest in him wrote unto him to acquaint him with his condition and earnestly entreating him that he might be sent to London and disposed of though in a Dungeon for a week that he might have the assistance of his own Physitian and Chirurgion offering to give any security and be at any charges to assure him of his safe return to render himself true Prisoner but neither the sense of his misery nor his earnest sollicitations could prevail with his Excellency And if the Knights and Gentlemen who had money to bribe that compassion which they could not intreat found no better measure at their hands what then think you were those heavy pressures under which the poor common Soldiers groaned there were in the Castle eight poor Soldiers to whom the Sheriff of Sussex allowed eight shillings a week yet notwithstanding because they refused to take the wages of Iniquity and serve under the Rebels Colours and fight against their Sovereign they starved them insomuch that being released that they might not die in the Castle coming into the air three of them fell down dead in the streets three more recovered as far as Eaton where a good Woman for five shillings a week given for their relief by the Sheriff of Sussex gave them entertainment and when the Sheriff made his happy escape he left them alive There was a poor man living near Moore Park whom when Prince Rupert was in those parts commanded to shew him where the Pipes lay which conveyed water to the Castle for this crime they apprehend him and commit him Prisoner to the Castle where they fed him with so slender diet that they even starved him and when upon his Wives tears and lamentable cries that she and her Children were like to starve at home while her Husband starved at Windsor they having no subsistence but what he got by the sweat of his browes he was released he was not able to stand on his legs and whether dead since we have no information There was at the same time in the Castle one Lieutenant Atkinson Prisoner who suffering under the same want of necessary food sent to his Father humbly petitioning for relief his Father though a man of good estate returned answer that unless he would take profered Entertainment from the Parliament he should lie there rot and starve and be damn'd for him He finding no pity from his Father where Nature and Religion bade him expect it petitioned the Gentlemen in the Keep for bread as many others daily did and on his Petition had monies sent him but died starved two daies after and left this just ground to the World to make this Observation That where Puritanism prevails it cancels all Obligations both of Religion and Nature and never fails to make men guilty of that sin which is in the number of those which the Scripture tells us shall heap wrath on the end of the World the want of natural affection Mercurius Rusticus c. X. Master Chaldwel and his Wife barbarously used by the Rebels at Lincoln and his Servant Murthered Mr. Losse Parson of Wedon Pinkney in Northampton-shire himself and the Church infinitely abused on the Lords day by some Rebel-Troopers of Northampton c. WIlliam Chaldwell of Thorgonby in the County of Lincoln Esquire and Justice of Peace being an aged Gentleman yet his Loyalty and desire to serve the King in his just Wars made him over-look his infirmities so that he resolved in person to come to his assistance To this purpose he provided four horses compleatly furnished of which the Rebels having intelligence they surprize him and seize on his horses In February 1643. some Rebel-Troopers came to Mr. Chaldwells House and demanded entrance which he denying unless they could shew some Commission from the King they presently broke up his Hall windows and forcing his entrance apprehend his Person yet his Person is not all they come for they begin to plunder his Goods and the first thing which they lay hold on was some Linnen lying on the Hall