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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

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●●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

being apprehended though for Felonie put in Bayle to answer the next Sessions When the time came Master Cornelius indicts these Plunderers the Bill was found by the Grand Jury upon the evidence of three or foure witnesses who were Spectators and saw them carry away the goods nay the Prisoners at the Barre not onely confessed the fact in their examination before the Justice when they were first apprehended but in the face of the Court and presence of the Jurors yet the Petty-Jury contrary to reason and their owne consciences found the Indictment against the King The Court wondring at so wilfull blindnesse cause the Statute to be read lay open the evidence and remand them back not doubting but comparing the fact with the Law the Result would be a verdict for the King they persist in their obstinacy and returne Ignoramus Being asked by the Bench how they could goe against so cleare evidence They answered in generall Because they did not thinke PLUNDERING a new name for an old Theft to be Felony by the Law but being beaten out of this starting hole though tenne are convicted yet two stand out and give this reason that they were a Malignants goods and the Parliament had given power to plunder such but when it was replyed that no such Order was produced nor was it pleaded by the Prisoners at the Barre they then professed openly that these men arraigned at the Barre were honest men that they had an In●ent to doe them favour and they would doe it Hereupon the Bench justly incensed against so willfull p●rjury binds over the Iurors to answer it the next Assiz●s and withall order M. Cornelius to indict these plunderers againe upon an other Felony he obeyes their command and the Grand Iury find it to be Billa vera but when the underSheriffe went out to impanell a Jury to try the Prisoners he could find none but Separatists who attended there that day purposely to be of the Jury and professed openly that they stayed there to save the Prisoners Happy men these that may commit Murthers robberies and thefts and yet seare no Condemnation neither at the Tribunall of God or Man It is an usuall doctrine of this Sect That God sees no sinne in his children for that name they will ingrosse to themselves though no men lesse deserve it and it seemes they are resolved to see no sinne one in another It was a wild saying of a gre●t Patriarke of theirs That the Children of God were Heteroclites because God did often save them even contrary to his owne Rules I know not how true they will find this assertion at the great day when Murther shall be Murther and Theft Theft and God that righteous Judge who without respect of persons shall render to every man according to his d●eds yet here on earth if these men may judge one another they may commit what wickednesse they list and let the raines loose to all kinds of villany and yet be saved contrary to all the rules of Law and Justice M. Archer Lecturer at the same place in his Sermon encouraged the people to take up Armes against the King but it may be objected sayes he that the Gentry gainsay this Doctrine and the Learned utterly disclaime it as erroneous and damnable but what though the Gentry and Learned as you call them dissent yet let it not Stagger your beliefe of this undouted Truth for I tell you that in my Conscience you may do it and in doing it you are so far from sinning that you will do that which is acceptable to Go● Be liberall ther●fore in contributing to this holy warre and sending forth men to fight this Battle of the Lord. This man in his Prayers and Sermons constantly cals the Parliament The Lords Annoynted but with what Oyle it is not yet determined I am sure by experience we find that it is not Oyle of Gladnesse Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. Sir Rich Mynshull's house in Buckinghamshire plundered by the Lord Brooks command The Kings picture abused A house burnt neare Hounslow by the Lord Wharto●s Souldiers M Wiborow and M. Thorne the one a Minister in Essex the other in Bedfordshire the first ill-intreated on the Lords day by the Lo S. Johns Troopers the other unjustly committed to Prison for a private revenge ON Munday the 15. of August 1642. Sir Richard Mynshull of Bourton in the County of Buckingham Knight furnished with tenne Horse and Armes began his journey into the North to wait upon the King as in the duty of a servant and subject he was bound This being discovered for they have spyes in every corner to the Lord Brooke Sir Peter Temple Sir Rich Ingoldesby Master Goodwine and others then at Aylesbury leaders of an Army raised against His Majesty It fell under consideration to make Sir Richard Mynshul a precedent to deter others from serving the King since it was not to be done but by exposing their persons to Imprisonment and their estates to plundering for the Result of that deliberation was that since they could not secure his person they would seise on his estate Nor doe they stay long before they put the sentence in execution for on Thursday the 18. of August the Lord Brooke commanding a great part of the Army came to Sir Richards house and in case he should find Resistance they bring diverse peece of Ordnance to batter the House but being come they find no opposition The first company that enters the house were under the command of one Cap Iones who either detesting the oppression or yet not fleshed in the sin which but then found footing in this Kingdom for this was the first of this kind committed in Buckinghamshire and the second in England moderated the eagernesse of the Souldiers sharpe set on the prey so that they gleaned but a little here and there this moderation renders Captaine Iones suspected for a Papist both to the Lord Brooke and the rest of the Commanders nay he is not onely voiced for a Papist but a Rumor is raised that he was bribed into this Moderation and had taken a reward to spare Sir Richards goods the Captain blasted with these reports the jealousie of him grew so high that they threaten to kill him to avoyd the sury of the Souldiers he is faine to withdraw himselfe nor d●rst he appear before a Servant of Sir Richards had made oath that he was Innocent of any such Contract And now the Lord Brooke and his Company being masters of the House the first thing on which they expresse their rage is the Kings picture which with their swords they most traiterously pierce through in divers places and not content to wound him in that representation whose person God miraculously hath and we hope will preserve from them They whet their tongues against their Soveraigne using Traiterous and scornfull language against Him by all which it is more then manifest to all the world what they would doe to the Substance if

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

are knowne most to imitate Exod. 21. To steale a Man was death by the Law of Moses nay the Romans that saw by no other Light but that dimme Sparke of Nature discerned the equitie of this Law as is apparent in their Lex Fabia de Plagiarii● and though these men blanch the Inhumanitie pretending that they rob the Mother to inrich the Church to bring them up in the true Religion it were worth the while to aske if they would vouchsafe an answer what they mean by the true Religion if they mean the Protestant or to speake more properly the Religion of the Church of England 't is apparent they persecute that but suppose which wee doe not grant that they did bereave Parents of their Children to that purpose to bring them up in the true Religion yet cannot a good Intention warrant an unlawfull act not ought they to doe evill that good may come of it nor doe wee find either that the Church was ever pleased with such accessions or that God did give a blessing to such unwarrantable zeal When Sesibutus King of Aragon in the yeare 600 prevailed against the Sarazins and in a better zeal then this but not according to knowledge compelled his Captives to be baptized he quickly found his errour by the want of Gods blessing upon his indeavours nay Gods dislike was so visible in the successe that the Church of God observing it determined That the children of Infidells not having the use and exercise of right Reason should not be baptized Invitis Parentibus contrary to the consent of the Parents And the fourth Councell of T●ledo Cap. 56 dis-allowing the inconsiderate zeale of Sesibutus forbad to compell any man to the faith under the sensure of Anathema determined withal that to baptize children without the consent of the parents is all one as to compel men of full age to be baptized The same determination is cited and approved by the Canonist Dist 45. Cap. De Judaeis and were it but consistent with the nature of this worke it were easy to decry this Jesuiticall Turkish practice by most impregnable arguments both in the Schoolemen and Casuists but I must leave this to men of the sacred Function and onely beg leave to inferre that if it be not lawfull to baptize the Children of Jewes Infidels or Hereticks without consent of their Parents though without Baptisine when it may be had there is no entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven certainly it must be farre more unlawfull being baptized to take them from their parents to season their tender yeares with dangerous principles leading to Profanesse Brownisme Anabaptisme and Rebellion A just indignation against so barbarous practice hath transported me in this argument farther then I intended though not so farre as the haynousnesse of the Fact deserves therefore if any man desires to be more fully satisfyed of the power and interest which Parents have over and in their Children being an Inheritance given them of the Lord as the Prophet David and the possession of their Parents as Aristotle in his Politicks and the great violation of Justice in relation of the Lawes of God nature and men in dispoyling their Parents of them let him have recourse to that learned and Elegant discourse of Petrus AErod●us Chiefe Justice or President of Aniou in his Booke de Patris Potestate who being robbed of his Sonne stolne from him by the Jesuits to plant him as a hopefull Impe in their Societie and not able to rescue him out their power though he implored and had the King of Spain's assistance for thither he was carried pursues his Sonne with Arguments and Labours to recall him to his Obedience by laying before him his dutie Artificially Collected and strongly applyed from the Lawes Divine Naturall and Morall and therefore to him I remit him and turne my discourse into its proper chanell On Friday the 12 of May 1643. M. John Bykar sonne to the Vicar of Dun-Church was with his Father in Law one of the High Constables of Warwick shire at the market at Coventry Being in a house in the City he rece●ved some rude affronts from a Souldier of th●t Garri●o● He being a very civill man of good moder●tion and it seems well instructed not to answer a fool●●n his ●olly or being reviled to answer againe withdrew himselfe from the place to decline the insolent madnesse of the Souldiers and free himself from his provocations being come into the streets secure as he thought from all violence he was suddenly run through the body and falling downe dyed instantly His offence was for as yet wee can heare of no others that he was a Parsons sonne so inveterate malice to that function and all depending on it doe these Rebels beare And therefore if in this Relation you meet with frequent mention of Affronts Oppressions Plundering and ●urthers of the Ministers of the Gospel doe not attribute it to any partiality as if the Relator were more querulous for them then others but to a serious desire to proportion his labors in a just measure to the merit of each mans case Master Abraham Haynes of London in September last travelling into Shrop-shire to visit his daughter and some other friends being benighted was forced to take up his lodging in a little Village some eight miles short of his daughters house After supper his Host in a seeming way of curtesie comes to visit his guest and brings with him two or three of his Neighbours whereof the Constable was one to beare him company After a little discourse they will needs perswade him that he is a Malignant a hard word in those parts before this Parliament began but however it served the Constables turne well enough to lay hold on him having seized on him they search him under pretence that he carryed Letters of dangerous consequence but searching they find what they sought for his Mony 14 l. he had about him this as good b●otie they take from him and for ●eare he should run away from his Mony that night they set a strong watch upon him Next morning very early they carry him before a Parliament man residing about two miles distant from that place who most Committee-man like out of the abundance of his Justice though no crime were objected nor any thing found about him to render him lyable to restraint but only the sin of ●aving 14 l. or because he was guilty of the Constables affirming him to be a Malignant he commits him to his former guardians by them to be conveyed to London M. Haynes unwilling to come so near his journeys end yet not arrive there tenders bayle Gentlemen of the best rank and quality in the Country but it will not be accepted he desires to have leave but to send a Messenger to his daughter where he was that day expected but it will not be granted Away they carry him they mount him and his man upon two poor Jades while my Host and M.

a time to make his report to the House so that he remained a Prisoner for a long time On the 28 of January 1642 the Castle of Sudley upon composition was delivered up to the Rebels there were Articles agreed on and sworne to but as he spake truely Children were deceived with Apples and Men with Oaths the Rebells as they sweare to Articles for their advantage so they break them as easily for their advantage and make Perjury an easie uninterrupted passage to Theft robbery for these Rebells brake as many Articles as they swore unto they Plunder not only the Castel the Seat and house of the Lord Chandoi● and Winchcombe a neighbouring Village to the utter undoing the poore Inhabitants but in defence of the Protestant Religion and vindication of the honour of God they prophane his House There is in the Castle a goodly faire Church here they dig up the graves and disturbe the ashes of the dead they breake down the ancient Monuments of the Chandoses and instead thereof leave a prodigious monument of their sacrilegious prophanenesse for each part of the Church they find a peculiar way to prophane it the lower part of it they make their Stable the Chancell their Slaughter-house Unto the Pulpit which of all other places in probability might have escaped their impiety they fasten pegs to hang the Carcasles of the slaughtered Sheep the Communion-Table according to their owne language they make their Dresser or Chopping-board to cut out their meat into the Vault wherein lay the bodies of the Chandose● an Ancient and honourable Family they cast the guts and garbage mingling the loathsome Intralls of beasts with those bones and ashes which did there rest in hope of a joyfull Resurrection The Nave or body of the Church was all covered with the dung blood of beasts which was if it be possible a degree beyond these prophanations in contempt of God and his holy Temple they defile each part and corner both of Church and Chancell with their owne excrements and going away left nothing behind them in the Church besides walls and Seats but a stinking memory that part of the Parliament Army raysed for the defence of Religion had been there Let that rayling R●bsh●kah or jeering Sanballat I meane the Author of the ridiculous Pamphlet intituled One Argument more against the Cavaliers read this Story and then tell me which are most guiltie of prophanation of Churches the Cavaliers or the Roundheads which were most prophaned either Saint Mary Maudlins in Oxford or the Church at Sudley Castle and yet this dog sticks not with Shimei to ba●ke at his Soveraigne and blaspheme his Pietie as if the Rebels brought from Cy●encester had beene Quartered in this Church by his approbation who to expiate that guilt gave an hundred and fiftie pounds to adorn and beautifie that Church The truth is there was a fault in the Commanders for lodging them in Churches who if they had had their due had been hanged for Rebellion their Carcasses exposed to the F●wles of the aire and the Beasts of the Field that the Ravens of the valleys might have had their due portion and never suffered them to come so neere the Church as to have the priviledge of Christian buriall in the Church-yard So even so let all the Kings Enemies perish O Lord and let all the people say Amen In Saint Maries Church in Warwick and the Chappel commonly called the Earles Chappel● adjoyning to the Quire of that Church are divers faire Monuments of the Beuchamps anciently Earles of that place which Family long flourishing there had bin great Benefactors beautifiers of that Church whereof Thomas Beuchamp Earle of Warwick and Earl Marshall of England and one of the Founders of the most noble Order of the Garter in the Raigne of King Edward the third built the Quire now standing in the midst whereof is his Monument ado●ned the windowes with the Pictures of himselfe his wife and children which were many upon the Sur-coats of the men were their Armes skilfully depicted the women having the like and Man●les over which were the Armes of their Matches their Husbands being the prime Nobility of those times the like portraitures in glasse but much more rich and costly were in that stately Chappell before mentioned In this stood the Monument of Earle Richard being Brasse gilt and in the opinion of judicious observant Travellers esteemed the rarest Piece erected for any Subject in the Christian World but such is the barbarousnesse of the pretenders to Reformation that upon Wednesday the 14. of this instant June the Souldiers by the appointment and encouragement of one whom in these degenerous times wherin the dregs of the people are made Commanders for the advancement of Rebellion men call Colonel Puresey a man of a meane desperate fortune but by the meanes of the late Lord Brooke chosen Burgesse of Parliament for Warwick who had the greatest influence in seducing that unhappy Lord to this desperate Rebellion in which he miserably perished did beat down and deface those Monuments of Antiquitie and not content with this by the same Command they breake downe the Crosse in the market place not leaving one Stone upon another Purefey all the while standing by animating and incouraging them untill they had finished their so barbarous work In which the World may observe that these men are the sworne Enemies not onely of pretended Superstition but of the Ensignes of Nobilitie and Gentry that if their Diana I mean their Parity may take effect posterity may forget and not read the distinction of Noble from ignoble in these venerable monuments of ancient Nobility there being in these windowes something ●●deed to instruct a Herald nothing to oftend the weakest Christian Mercurius Rusticus c. VII Doctor Cox barbarously used by the Earle of Stamford at Exeter contrary to the Law of Armes The unheard of cruelties committed by the Lord Grey of Groby and his Souldiers on the person house goods and servants of Master Nowel in Rutland-shire Doctor Bargrave ill intreated by Col. Sands in Kent c. AFter the great and happy defeat given by the victorious Sir Ralph Hopton to the Devon-shire forces at Starton it pleased the Commanders of His Majesties Forces to entertaine thoughts of Clemency towards the remainder of the Rebels To testify to the world therefore that there was nothing more in their desires then a Thrift of Christian blood and withall to heap Coales of fire upon their heads to conquer them by kindnesse whom they had often conquered by the Sword by their Letters they signifie their readinesse to close up those wide ●ents betweene them by a Treaty And that a Message of Peace might be well suited with a Messenger they sent the Letters by Doctor Cox Doctor of Divinitie who attended by a Trumpeter came to Exeter that Sunday in the afternoone The Trumpeter as the manner is gave the Towne warning as soon as he came within sight

Plots and Policies of Sir Walter Earle and his Adhereats c. THere is in the ●●●e of Purbecke a strong Castle called Corffe-Castle seated on a very sleep Hill in the fracture of a Hill in the very midst of it being 8 miles in length running from the East end of the Pentrsu●a to the West and though it stand between the two ends of this fracture so that it may 〈◊〉 to lose much advantage of its naturall and artificiall 〈◊〉 as commanded ●●o thence being in height equall to if not over-looking the tops of the highest Towers of the Castle yet the structure of the Castle is so strong the ascent so s●●●p the walls so massie and thicke that it is one of the imp●●gnablest Forts of the Kingdome and of very gre● concernment in respect of its command over the 〈◊〉 and the ●laces about it This Castle is now the Possession and Inheritance of the Right Honourable Sir John Ba●ks Chie●e Justice of the Common Pleas and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councell who receiving commands from the King to attend Him at York Yorke in Easter Terme 1641. had leave from the two Houses to obey those commands After the unhappy difference● between the King and the two Houses or rather between the King and the Faction in both Houses grew high it being generally feared that the sword would decide the controversie the Lady Ranks a vertuous and prudent Lady resolved with her children and fan●ly to retire to this Castle there to shelter themselves from the storme which she saw comming which accordingly she did there she and her Family remained in peace all the Winter and a great part of the Spring untill May 1643. about which time the Rebels under the command of Sir Walter Earle Sir Thomas T●enchard and others had possessed themselves of Dorchester L●me Melcome Weym●●th Warham and Poole Portland Castle being treacherously delivered to the Rebels only Corffe Castle remaining in obedience to the King but the Rebels knowing how much it concerned them to adde this Castle to their other Garrisons to make all the Sea-coast wholly for them and thinking it more seizable to gaine it by Treachery then open Hostility resolved to lay hold on an opportunity comming on to see if they could become Masters of it There is an ancient usage that the Major Barons as they call them of Corffe Castle accompanied by the Gentry of the Island have permission from the Lord of the Castle on May-day to coarse a Stagge which every yeare is performed with much solemnity and great concourse of People On this day some Troopes of Horse from Dorchester and other places came into the Island intending to find other game then to hunt the Stagge their businesse being suddenly to surprize the gentlemen in the hunting and to take the Castle the news of their comming disperst the Hunters and spoiled the sport for that day and made the Lady ●anks to give order for the safe custody of the Castle gates and to keep them shut against all commers The Troopers having mist their prey on the Hills the Gentlemen having withdrawne themselve some of them came to the Castle under a pretence to see it but entrance being denyed them the Common Souldiers used threatning language casting out words implying some intentions to take the Castle but the Commanders who better knew how to conceale their resolutions utterly disavowed any such thought denying that they had any such Commission however the ●ady Banks very wisely and like her selfe hence tooke occasion to call in a Guard to assist her not knowing how soone the might have occasion to make use of them it being now more then probable that the Rebels had a designe upon the Castle The taking in this guard as it secured her at home so it rendred her suspected abroad from thence forward there was a watchfull and vigilant eye to servey all her actions whatsoever she sends out or sends for in is suspected her ordinary provisions for her family are by same multiplyed reported to be more then double what indeed they were as if she had now an intention to Victuall and Man the castle against the Forces of the two Houses of Parliament presently Letters are sent from the Committees of Poole to demand the foure small peeces in the Castle and the present was because the Islanders conceived strange jealousies that the Peeces were mounted and put on their Carriages hereupon the Lady Banks dispatched Messengers to Dorchester and to Poole to intreat the Commissioners that the small Peeces might remaine in the Castle for her own defence and to take away the ground of the Islanders jealousies she caused the Peeces to be taken off their Carriages againe hereupon a promise was made that they sould be left to her possession but there passed not many dayes before forty Sea-men they in the Castle not suspecting any such thing came very early in the morning to demand the Peaces the Lady in Person early as it was goes to the Gates and desires to see their War●●●● they 〈…〉 the hands of some of the Commissioners but in stead of delivering them though at that time there were but five men in the Castle yet these five assisted by the Maid-servants at their Ladies Command mount these peeces on their Carriages againe and lading one of them they gave fire which small Thunder so affrighted the Sea-men that they all quitted the place and ran away They being gone by beat of Drum she summons help into the Castle and upon the Alarme given a very considerable guard of Tenants and friends came in to her assistance there being withall some fifty Armes brought into the Castle from severall parts of the Island This guard was kept in the Castle about a weeke during this time many threatning Letters were sent unto the Lady telling her what great Forces sould be sent to fetch them if the would not by faire meanes be perswaded to deliver them and to deprive her of her Auxiliaries all or most of them being neighbours thereabouts they threaten that if they oppose the delivery of them they would fire their house presently their wives come to the Castle there they weep w●ing their hands and with clamorous Oratory perswade their Husbands to come home and not by saving others to expose their owne houses to spoile and ruine nay to reduce the Castle into a distressed condition they did not only intercept two hundred weight of powder provided against a siege but they interdict them the Liberty of Common-markets Proclamation is made at Warham a Market-Towne hard by that no Beere Beefe or other provision should be sold to the Lady Banks or for her use-strict watches are kept that no Messenger or intelligence shall passe into or out of the Castle being thus distressed all meanes of victualling the Castle being taken away and being but slenderly furnished for a siege either with ammunition or with victual at last they came to a Treary of

their Cart-whips that her body in many places was cut so deep as if she had been lanced with Knives the torment being so great as much as her straight bounds would give leave she cast her selfe on the ground so to shelter her selfe from their stripes but in a most barbarous manner they dragged her along insomuch that her legs and feet were so to torne by the stony rough wayes that her flesh was worne off in many places to the very bones at last having farre exceeded the number of stripes limited by God himselfe in the Law of Moses though given by the hand of Justice Forty stripes be may give him and not excced Deut. 25. 3. they left her a Lamentable spectacle of their crueltie in this miserable condition lay this poore soule for some few dayes and since dyed of those wounds which she received from them The blood of this innocent mingled with the rest shed by their hands crying loud with them under the Altar Rev. 6. 10. How long O Lord holy and true doest thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on carth Mercurius Rusticus c. XVI Burton Prinne and Bastwick three Arch-Schismatiques unjustly freed from a just censure The committing and removing of Master Chestlen from S. Matthews Friday-street to make way for Burton contrary to all Law and Equity c. AFter that bold affront offered and that without checke or controule to publique Justice and the knowne Lawes of the Land in those Triumphant Reductions of that Triumvirat of seditious Schismatiques Burton Bastwick and Prinne from their severall Confinements It was no hard matter for the world to ghesse what measure the obedient Sonnes of the Church of England might expect when that spurious degenerous Brood which most undutifully cast dirt in their mothers face and in their scurrilous Libellous Pamphlets proclaimed her a Harlot became the darlings both of the heads of the Faction in Parliament and the people And though it seemed good to the heads of the Faction by restoring these Turbulent men to brave that Authority by which they were justly censured yet being restored all were not thought to be of equall concernment As for Bastwicke if any man laboring under any lndisposition besides that to the present established Government had a mind to be a Patient and put himselfe into the hands of a mad man he might doe as he pleased at his owne perill every man was left to the liberty of his owne choice So for ●rinne if any man desired to retaine him of his Counsell it was lawfull for the Client to give and him to receive his Fee but all this was but voluntary no man was const rained to be a Patient to the one nor a Client to the other for the intended Rebellion might well goe forward though Bastwicke never wrote an Apothecaries Bill or Prinne pleaded at the Barre But for Burton a maine Engine to promote the design in hand it concerned them to restore him not only to a Liberty of the exercise of his Calling at large but likewise to invest him in his former Cure in particular from which by the just sentence of Law he was ejected To this purpose no arts were left unattempted by the under-Agents for the heads of this rebellion to restore Burton to his Parsonage of Saint Matthewes in Friday-street London by unjust molestations they endeavour to weary out Master Chestlen that succeeded him but not immediately in it to relinquish his cure and make way for this Trumpet of sedition That so what was not feazable in Law might yet be effected by horrible in justice and oppression First therefore some of Master Chestlens Parishioners but Burtons old disciples levened with his schismaticall doctrine deny to pay him his Tythes or any other accustomed duties nor are they content with their owne denyall but by earnest perswasions other means they labour to draw other men into the like obstinacy and perversenesse nor did they stick openly to professe that they did this that by unjust vexations they might weary out Master Chestlen and make way for Burton hereupon the Ecclesiastical Court being suppressed which otherwise have cognizance of the Causes of Tythes of London nor can there any prohibition be justly granted as Coram non Judice The Statute onely enabling the Lord Major to be Judge if the person grieved thinke fit to appleale unto him but no way disabling the Ordinary or abolishing his power Master Chestlen petitioned as the Statute in that case provides the Lord Major that then was Sir Edmund Wright To the hearing before the Lord Major came Little I saac Pennington no wayes interested in the cause but only to give countenance to Master Chestlens Parishioners being there he openly reviled Master Chestlen calling him Saucie Jack brazen fac'd fellow and the like nay he threatened the Judge thinking by this to stave him off from doing Justice who bravely scorning the threats of so contemptible a Mushrome in a just indignation replyed What shall I be afraid to doe Justice and indeed the event shewed that he was not afraid for upon a full hearing of the Cause the Lord Maior gave sentence for Master Chestlen and ordered the Parishioners to pay their Tythes Tillat a Linnen Draper one of the Citizens that was sued refused to obey the Lord Maiors Decree and therfore the time limited in the Decree being expired the Lord Maior according to the power given him by the Statute of the 37 of H 8. committed Tillat to prison without baile or mainprize until he did submit to the sentence as the Statute gives him power But see the Justice of the great pretenders to the maintenance of the Lawes of the Land Tillat had not stood committed many dayes before two of the House of Commons as the Keeper of Newgate sayes in the name of the House of Commons command him to be set at liberty which accordingly was done though he were in upon Execution and the debt not satisfied every man wondring at but no man daring to question so illegall an action When this way tooke no effect they joyned their purses to vex him with an Action of Ejectment threatning to spend five hundred pounds but they would out him of his Living but presently deserted those intentions as not seizable After this they slander him for preaching Popery and Arminiasme which unjust scand●ll so prevailed in the City that he could not passe the streets without affronts and jeeres put upon him they dislwade his Parishioners from hearing him telling them that they would be damned if they lived under his Ministery they branded them with the name of Malignants if they frequented their own Church and procured them to be deeply taxed in all Sessements In a word that nothing might be wanting to their owne malice and M. Chestlens vexation they threw menacing Libels into his house laid wait in the Pewes of his Church while others provoked him to expresse himselfe in the great differences of the

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