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A41150	Christ ruling in midst of His enemies, or, Some first fruits of the churches deliverance budding forth out of the crosse and sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres sufferer, and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ : together with secretarie Windebanks letters to Sir. Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle ... : wherein also the reader shall find in severall passages, publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great designe of Christ, for setting up of His kingdome, and the ruine of antichrist / by Lievtenant Collonel John Fenwicke.	Fenwicke, John, Sir, 1579-1658?; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir J. Ashley.; Windebank, Francis, Sir, 1582-1646. Secretary Windebancks letter to Sir A. Davison.	1643 (1643)	Wing F719; ESTC R13870	22,886	32

to my God often strangely preserved from that deadly infection was it that thou grudged me thy corrupt ayre to breath in that thou sought my life and pursued my wife and mee both as traytors till thou drove us out of the kingdome God made mee require thy malice with the like pitie as before that morning I escaped thy malicious designe against me as I passed the gates in the darke of the morning and being a little passed from the walls the towne being still in my sight God made me weepe over thee the second time in the same manner as before and with ruminating and reasonings within me upon the same words of Christ over Jerusalem and how soone after was the bloody sword drawne which has wasted thee not a little and well if the worst be not yet behinde What hast thou got now by all thy discourteous and harsh dealings with mee who has ever sought thy good I have served thee divers yeeres in a publique office wherein though I could doe thee little good the streame run so strong against mee yet I have sometimes kept out some evils from over-spreading thee untill thou began to stretch out thy necke against God in the Scottish Cause and then ever since how 〈◊〉 an inundation of all evills overwhelmed thee and God I feare left thee to some fatall fall Repent repent O Newcastle lest the Lord depart from thee and send a revenging sword to avenge his quarrell against thee if so take heed of what was threatned to a wicked Citie Afflicton shall not come the second time which the Lord avert and give thee a heart to repent and turne to him that has long smitten thee that hee may repent him of the evill which otherwise will befall thee For all the strength and power of man wherein thou still dost boast and glory I have thought it my dutie to present thee with a briefe view of thy harsh usage of mee and mine to see if at any time God may give thee an heart to repent which should be to mee greater joy then to see thee laid desolate when these papers I now send thee shall be as a flying roll through thy streets and dolefull habitations filling your fainting hearts with errors and shrikings to think of all your wickednesses and amongst the rest your bloodie plots and practises against one that has ever sought your good John Fenwick To the READER Courteous Reader I Had beene silent concerning my selfe in this evill time had not the importunity of some friends and the unthankefulnesse of this apostate age imposed a necessitie upon mee of publishing somewhat to the world of my late troubles and sufferings to many extremities these five yeeres compleat 〈…〉 about the great worke of God begun in Scotland finding by others as well as in mine owne opinion that I have suffered much by my silence The stormes and tempests of this troubled time having tossed mens wearyed minds out of their right course and motion and the many buffets and blowes in these common calamities upon this kingdome have so malld the heads and dulled the spirits of men that they have almost lost their hearing and understanding and as slow to remember what they have heard and known of former sufferings the new sufferings wearying out the old so that a necessitie is laid upon mee to publish somewhat to the world of my late troubles for these reasons First my dutie to God to declare his mercies in midst of mine enemies malice in thankfulnesse of minde and spirit to leave it to posteritie as it is expressed Psal. 102. this shall be written for the generations to come Secondly if God bring out good to my Countrey out of these troubles the world may see that I have suffered somewhat for it Thirdly Being called out to the field in the publike service of the State from the first going out of our armies and having lost some blood in this cause already in Keynton-field where God gave me I may say a new life being sore wounded and stript and left for dead upon the ground among the dead almost an houre senslesse and being still resolved to be prodig all of my blood if God assist me in this his cleare and undoubted cause wherein the bloody sword makes no difference but my lot may be to fall as soone as another my children may be somewhat comforted from my former deliverances to trust the same God who hath strengthened me with resolution rather to die honourably then live a sordid life in slavery and when they shall enjoy their precious priviledges and find them dyed in their fathers blood they will more prise them and be more carefull to preserve them in their integrity to the generation following as their ●●st inheritance that still God may have his due honour and glory and a constant succession of faithfull servants to the worlds end Fourthly having lost my whole estate in these late troubles and not enjoying the benifit of 100l of mine owne at home or in f●●raigne parts in five yeeres time and spent my selfe further in the publique service and not able to provide for my children if God shall call mee before things be settled I leave to them I hope hereby a title and ininterest in the publique good whereby they may bolaly and justly challenge a share from that rule of common equitie That those that have borne the hea● of the day and tasted deeply of the sowre ought drinke of the sweet and be comforted with the coole waters of repast and rest it not being for the honour of my Countrey to leave mine to sincke under my burthens for the publique good wherein I have spent my selfe without the least publique support Good Reader beare with my plaine and simple stile my desire being to speake in plainnesse to the weakest capacitie not curious to studie words and sentences quaint termes or elegance but that plainnesse and simplicate may set forth truth in her owne proper colours without dimnesse or obscuritie if any thing here may adde the least strength or courage in thee to prosecute this great worke of Christs Kingdome give God the praise if any thing beare the character of my weaknesse and infirmitie burie it in that love that suffers all things and thinks no evill and remember in thy prayers Thy Servant for the Kingdome of Christ Iohn Fenwicke Epitaphium in hoc tenebroso mortalitatis tempore ab Authore scriptum ac posteris relictum THe Lord 's my Life he lengths my dayes My tongue my pen shall spread his praise From dangers great by sea by land From pestilence from enemies hand From fruits of sinne from hellish feares From folly of my tender yeeres He has preserv'd and heard my cry Assuredly if death draw nigh Christ my Joy shall soone destroy Both death and sinne which mee annoy And bring me safe into his barne In season as a ricke of Corne I. F. TO THE HONOURABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the

CHRIST Ruling in midst of his ENEMIES OR Some first Fruits of the CHURCHES DELIVERANCE Budding forth out of the Crosse and Sufferings and some remarkable deliverances of a twentie yeeres Sufferer and now a Souldier of Jesus Christ Together With Secretarie Windebanks Letters to Sr Jacob Ashley and the Maior of Newcastle through which the violent prosecutions of the common adversaries to exile and banishment are very transparent Wherein also the Reader shall find in severall passages publike and particular some notable encouragements to wade through difficulties for the advancing of the great Designe of Christ for setting up of His Kingdome and the ruine of Antichrist By Lievtenant Collonel JOHN FENWICKE Apoc. 7. 14. These are they that come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe and Chapt. 12. 11. And they overcame by the blood of the Lambe and by the word of his testimony and they loved not their lives to the death LONDON Printed for Benjamin Allen in Popes-head Alley 1643. The Epistle DEDICATORY TO NEWCASTLE upon Tyne NEWCASTLE though not the place of my birth or much of my breeding for I have herein been more beholden to other parts of the world yet none may challenge from mee more interest in this Dedication Newcastle famous for thy mocking and misusing of Christs Messengers and ill entertainment of his Servants ever since our Reformation witnesse that famous Knox great Reformer of Scotland his Sermons preached there witnesse learned Vdall thy faithful Monitor whose innocent blood cryes yet from the ground whom for writing against the Prelates thou prosecuted as a Traytor to bonds imprisonment and sentence of death under which he died before execution witnesse Reverend Balmford whom in like manner thou expulsed though thou couldst not touch his life thou pricked his sides as well as Christs in his hearers with the reproach of Balmfordian Faction and Schisme witnesse Alder Jennison Murton all godly Ministers expulsed by thee witnesse others of Christs servants ill entertained of thee yet alive to witnesse all that is alledged against thee and much more and last of all hee that sends these things unto thee his wife and children who have received their birth and breathing in thee make up that long and blacke roll of bitter things writ against thee from heaven O Newcastle how hath God dealt with thee by his divine waterings of his Word many yeeres how has God spoke aloud to thee by his judgements and forewarnings of ruine and desolation after thou hadst refused all instructions from his Word and Messengers hast thou forgot how loud God spake to thee in that great plague Anno 1636. when there died in half a yeere about seven thousand which made thee almost desolate thy streets growne greene with grasse thy treasurie wasted thy trading departed as thou never yet recovered it thy wounds increased thy madnesse thou wentest not to heaven for a perfect cure What thinkst thou was the meaning of that strange fire brake out none ever knew how in thy secret chamber of thy Townes house or Common hall where the next yeere after that great plague thy Rulers like Wolves of the evening were lurking all that day in plotting the new project about Coals Salt to devoure thy poore inhabitants and also new devices to suppresse sound preaching and strave your soules How is it after many more warnings too large to recite that thou art still hardned and the cry of thy sinnes like Sodome is come up to heaven in thee is found the blood of the Prophets the blood of the Saints oppressed banished and hunted to death in thee is found the blood of thy inhabitants oppressed and impoverished by unlimitted authoritie and arbytrarie government so court-like as an Aple is like an Orange In thee is found the uncleanesse of Sodome Adulteries and Fornications in thy Rulers houses thy filthinesse in thy skirts transparent to strangers round about thee in thee found drunkennesse and excesse with melodie to see the Church laid desolate in thee is found the two grand sins that will sincke a whole state a whole kingdome without repentance and reformation superstition in worship and oppression in government which has brought upon this Land that bloodie sword which now threatens to devoure thee I meane thy wicked Magistracie and Rulers who have wrested all thy power into their own hands and all that wicked crue of their confederacie O Newcastle when wilt thou learne the dialect of heaven speaking loud in thine eares O Newcastle Newcastle wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jer. 13. 27. If thou wilt not hearken to heavens counsell heare thy sentence Thou art defiled with blood and cannot be cleansed but by the blood of them that shed it Numb. 35. 33. O Newcastle what shall I say to thee what hath inraged thee against him that writes this complaint against thee whom have I wronged of you bring forth your evidences and plead your cause I hope ere long wee shall have a faire and free hearing and just proceedings not at the barre of your Court Law of hanging Excom. imprisonment and banishment but at a bar of right judgement I have ever sought thy good in spiritualls and temperalls even to my owne hurt and losse I have seene sometimes thy plagues a farre off and wept insecret for thee as the place of my habitation though my Meseck and Kedar the place of my sorrow and never of my joy how oft have I assayed to have left thee in thy rebellion against God but heavens counsels did not favour mine when the great plague began Anno 1636. Consider what might be Gods mind to make mee one day weepe bitterly over thee riding alone about a mile from the towne with many sad thoughts and when I lookt up and see Newcastle before mee my heart burst out with grief with the same words bo●●ing within me wherewith the Lord Jesus wept over Jerualem O Newcastle Newcastle would God thou in thy dayes had remembred the things belonging to thy peace often revolving these thoughts with me but when I came to the next words with many reasonings within mee shall they be hid from thine eyes shall thy habitations be laid desolate My heart was like to burst within mee for a good space assuring my selfe to heare ill newes for I had been in the Countrey and comming to towne I heard presently of the increase of the plague and that the night before some six and thirty died of it and from thence it daily increased to foure hundred a weeke till it had swept away about seven thousand at least in seven or eight moneths time O Newcastle before thou hadst recovered this blowe which I mourned to see comming upon thee what ailed thee to begin to plot the ruine of me and my wife and children I had seen many habitations laid desolate though I returned safely to my owne with all my family praise

Commons House of Parliament The humble Petition of IOHN FENVVICK Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner hath been bred a Merchant in divers forraigne Countries many yeeres and so lived a Merchant in his native countrey some eightene yeeres in which time his imployments of shipping sea and land-men and divers manufactures of this Kingdome have not been unprofitable to the Commonweale nor unfruitfull to his Majestie affording to his Treasurie three foure and five hundred pounds per annum fifteen or sixteen yeeres as the Custome-house books will shew And amongst other nations your Petitioner had commerce with the Scottish nation some fifteen yeeres or more in exchange of monies buying and selling and shipping goods and merchandi●e to and from thence and there being no restraint of commerce Your Petitioner went into Scotland about 26 Decemb. 1638. and brought a ship laden with Wheat of the Earle of Winton a papist as he had done a few moneths before and with whom he had dealing divers veeres before your Petitioner comming home to Newcastle was pursued as a Covenanter by divers illaffected persons in the Magistracie and a Warrant sent forth by Sir Alexander Davison Sir Iob. Marloe to the Constables who watched your Petitioner his house three dayes to apprehend him for no other cause but correspondence with the Scots which your Petitioner in regard of his trading could not avoid And your Petitioner being informed by some of good quallitie that they had a malicious plot for your petitioners life and when no friends durst intercede for him your petitioner was forced to returne back into Scotland where both privately he was watched excepted out of the peace at Barwick by the Earle of A●●nd●●● when no man else was excluded and publikely pursued in the Parliament there by the Lord Traquaire his Majesties Commissioner by the instigation as hee believeth of his adversaries at Court and in Newcastle as may appeare by the Letters of Secretary Windebanck hereunto annexed And further humbly sheweth that a little after your petitioner was thus most in●uriously driven from his countrey family and friends and all his affai●es struck de●d in an ●nstant to his utter undoing the aforesaid Sir Iohn Marloe and Sir Alexander Davison with Sir Thomas Ryd●le junior Master Ralph Co●ke and Ralph ●●wes under pretence of a Commission from his Majestie which they refused to produce most illegally molested your petitioner his wife examined her and her friends and severall times did search your petitioners house and tooke away writings at their pleasures and sundry times imprisoned your petitioners wife and at last drove her from her family and succour of friends into Scotland for her safetie where she was forced to abide untill the pacification at Barwicke and then returned to Newcastle And lastly upon the newes of the Scottish armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick then Maior of Newcastle by his officer brought your petitioner his wife out of the countrey far beyond his jurisdiction to Newcastle where she was searched and examined by Sir Iohn Beaumont a Commander under my Lord Conway and Sir Ioh. Marloe and a guard of 12 Musketeers set upon her threatning her life so as she was forced to escape a private way by water into the countrey By which injurious dealing your petitioner hath been sore damnified in his liberty estate and credit which is a Merchants livelihood to the dissipation of his family and losse of all friends and priviledges of a subject to possesse his right and his debts at home and abroad in forraigne parts no man to this three yeeres past paying him or will yet pay him any thing without suit of law which in regard of his long troubles and many losses he is wholly unable to prosecute untill by the justice of this assembly he be righted and repaired of his great losses and dammages of above foure thousand pounds as he hopeth to make good Most humbly prayeth this Honourable Assembly to take into consideration your Petitioner h●s sad ●ondition and to afford him redresse of his grievous wrongs and repaire of his heavie losses and da●mages sustained by the injustice and illegall molestations of the above named persons his long and heavie adversaries And your Petitioner shall daily pray c. This Petition was first presented by the Earle of Roches and the rest of the Sc●●● Commissioners at the Treaty of pacification about ult. De●emb 1640. but found no time of remedy And in June 1642. at the next Treaty by the Earls of Lothian and Lindsey and the Lord Balmirinoe and the rest of the Commissioners from Scotland againe recommended and referred to Col Fir● to be taken into consideration in Parliament upon first opportunity but hitherto the great distractions of the kingdome hath pre●●●ted SECRETARY WINDEBANCKS Letter to Sir Iacob Ashley presented at a Committee about Newcastle businesse Mr. Miles Corbet in the chaire May 28. 1642. By Sir Thomas Rydle Junior and Sir ●o Marloe in Justification of their good Service to the King pleading that it was good Service then and how they sought to take mee but could not accomplish it HIs Majestie hath commanded me to give you notice of an Information lately come to him from a very good hand that one John Fenwicke a Merchant and one Betleston a Tanner both of the Towne of Newcastle have lately bin in Scotland and subscribed to the Covenant and carried with them t 〈…〉 〈…〉 es of divers others which will doe the like this being a most notorious and base Treachery especially in an English Subject and of most pernicious consequence if it should spread further His Majestie is pleased to recommend the strict Examination of it to your eare and commands that if these find you not at Newcastle you immediately repaire thither and advise with Mr. Marlay of that Towne what course is fittest to bee taken to come to a cleare and certaine knowledge of the truth hereof You are likewise to call to your Asistance Sir William Bellasys a very able Gentleman and of exceeding good affection to his Majesties Service and if upon examination you shall find Fenwick and Bitlestone guilty of this charge you are by His Majesties expresse Command to Commit them immediatly to Prison there to remaine close untill his Majesties pleasure shal be further known and you are further to examine strictly what names they carryed with them into Scotland to become Covenanters and to certifie me with all speed what you shall find herein that so this dangerous correspondence and practise may bee discovered and prevented and that place of importance secured upon which the Covenanters have a speciall eye and in the preservation whereof consists the safety of all these Northerne parts You see what diligence and dexterity the weight of this businesse requires and how great a trust is laid upon you and I doubt not but you will consider it and governe your selfe accordingly I have received two dispatches from you and immediately after the first came to my

Majestie and signes of Gods presence as ever I saw in any publique Assembly where Job served some ancient and white haired men to water their cheeks and wipe off the teares with one hand while they held up the other hand in token of assent to the Covenant as their custome was Now all this yeere in England mens cares and mouthes were exceedingly taken up in listning after and speaking of newes and discourses of the Scots affaires And my correspondence with the Scots as a Merchan● for at least 15 or 16. yeeres before being generally knowne in Newcastle my adversaries begun to set watches for to trap mee about the Scots and my Friends began to forwarne mee of it at last about the 15. of Decemb. 1638. Mr. Robert Anderson an Alderman of the town and my good Friend came to me privately and told mee Now your Enemies have got their desire they have long looked for they have got Witnesses sworne against you of such things about the Scots as will undo you and so wished me to look to my selfe I thanked him for his love but I regarded not much their malice being so well accustomed to it nor did I so much as speake of it to any not to my wife till after the plot broke out The same day another Gentleman of good quality gave mee the the like warning but I will spare his Name because hee is yet living and now a sufferer under the Marquesse of Newcastle And upon 25. December after being a time of much profanenes and excesse in Newcastle I tooke that time to ride into Northumberland and Barwick where I had moneyes owing me and so into Scotland there being no restraint of commerce with the Scots and bargained with the aforesaid Earle of Winton for another Barkes lading of wheate but before I got home to Newcastle a Warrant was sent out to apprehend me by Mr. Alexander Daveson and Mr. Iohn Marloe * and the Constastable watched my house three daies before I came but comming home late about ten of the clocke at night they missed of their purpose Observe here Gods providence over mee for I knew nothing of this dangerous plot to apprehend me but was stayed by the way about businesse and relying on the Moones light stayed by the way somewhat the longer But being come home late I found my wife in a very sad posture and was not sit downe untill some friends came in and gave me notice of the danger assuring me that the plot was of such extent as my life was strucke at and that there was no abiding in the Kingdom for me some advising me to goe for France some for Holland and some for Scotland none of my friends daring to be seene in it or interpose their interest to stop their violence no not so much as for two dayes safely in my house to order and settle my affaires both at home and abroad all struck dead in one instant Well I saw there was now no dallying provided for my escape in the morning early where I passed the Guard and the Gate with some difficultie and passing along in sight of the Towne of Newcastle God made me weepe over it the second time as is expressed in the Epistle Dedicatory with many sad thoughts of the place and of my Wife and Children I had left in a disconsolate condition amongst my enemies So rode into the Country where I stayed among Friends some 8 dayes using meanes to see if the businesse could be accommodated but all meanes failing and the businesse carryed so high as none of my friends durst meddle in it I took my leave of them in a sad condition and took my way for Scotland I had not been above eight dayes in Edenborough untill I was watched by the Lord Traquire then Lord Treasurer of Scotland and had the whole power there for the King giving out threats against mee in severall places that the Kings Dominions should not hold me long so as I was forced to lurck very privately that winter in Edenborough and the Country in a disguised manner and so wee returne to what they were doing in Newcastle My Adversaries having missed of their purpose of mee fell withall violence upon my wife and friends with much inhumane usuage of one of her Sex as is set forth in my Petition to the Parliament hereunto annexed wherein Mr. Alexander Daveson Major Mr. Iohn Marley Mr Thomas Rydle Town Clerke Mr. Ralph Ceck Alderman and Ralph ●●ows the Clerke of their Commission from the King for that businesse were the chiefe actors It would be too tedious to relate the molestations of my poore wife and friends and examinations about me and of the imprisonment of others meerely for my cause but my wife especially for correspondence with me till at last they were plotting her life too for that very thing and so hunted her as she durst not come in her owne house for a week together or see her children but through a glasse window that they might not see her and so at last forced her to escape into the country where none of my friends durst keepe her two nights together but conveyed her into Scotland to me where she abode untill after the pacification at Barwick and then about the end of October 1639. she returned to Newcastle great with child but I being excepted out of the pacification by the Earle of Arundale who treated on the Kings part I was forced to abide in Scotland to expect a calmer season but how calme it proved I shall tell you presently after I have told you a little more of my wifes troubles The unfound peace with Scotland being broken quickly the next Summer produced new preparation to warre on both sides and upon the newes of the Scots armie advancing into England Master Robert Bewick the Maior sent his officer into the countrey out of his jurisdiction and brought in my wife where she was searched examined and divers papers taken away and a guard of about a doozen Musquetiers set upon her well the Scots approach with their armie and her aboad in Newcastle was so troublesome on both sides to her and our adversaries as 't is hard to say whethe rs feares were greatest her sex may excuse her flight with her children unfit to be left amongst such monsters of men and women as Newcastle now was full of all sorts from all quarters to fight with the Scots Reade more of this in a little Tract I published two yeeres agoe entituled The Downfall of the Hierarchy Well being got away by water into the countrey she found cold entertainment all being afraid of trouble by her untill the Scots armie came neer to Newburn and then there was flying indeed to purpose the swiftest flight was the greatest honour to the Newcastilian new dubd knights a good Boat a paire of Oares a good Horse especially that would carrie two men was more worth then the valour or honour of new knighthood Surely Vicar

mercifull This wee have seene now in part fullfilled in England wee see how often we have been upon Pacifications with the King and none will hold Christ has some designe in this worke that every one sees not it would seeme to mee that it must not end in these three Kingdomes if we would never so saine make a peace for our selves no art of man can sement it if God lay no peace for England till the power of Rome bee abolished Nay untill his designe be accomplished and Christs Kingdome advanced that is the great designe he is about till that bee in some measure accomplished our troubles will not be ended and then he will require our help to deliver his forraigne churches and helpe to spread his Kingdome and Dominion to the ends of the earth Now having related some passages along to the Pacification Scotland being seemingly secured a Parliament and a Nationall Assembly granted to settle and confirm all both in Religion and Liberties I have yet somewhat to impart both of my further troubles and of Gods mercies for in their peace my troubles broke out into a new flame and fire First I was excluded out of that pacification when never a man in England or Scotland but my selfe was exempted and here by the way I cannot without ingratitude which my very nature abhorres but give no●ice to the world of the noble favours I received of the Scottish Lords still engraven in a thankefull mind to be recorded to posterity And in the first place falls in the memory of my honourable faithfull but ah now deceased Friend and Noble Earle of Rothes who upon all occasions shewed a tender affection towards me in all my troubles and to whose memory and posterity I shall whlles I five owe the poore abilities in me in thankfullnesse of mind and duty When the peace neare Barwicke was towards a conclusion being at dinner with this noble Lord the Earle of Rothes among divers Lords and commanders in his Tent a Dunse law he was pleased after much other discourse about the conclusion of the Treaty to speake after his wonted familiar manner come Iohn what wouldst thou have done for thee speake and it shall be done I return'd his Lordship thankes for all his Noble courtesies and this as the greatest Saying my Lord my onely desire is that I may be included in your peace and be free'd from all molestations about your cause that I may goe home in peace as you doe My Lord answered it shall bee done Iohn making no doubt of it but to bee short when the Treaty was ended this Noble Lord told me he was sorry for mee hee could not procure my liberty for that the Earl of drundale who treated with them on the Kings part had excepted me out of that peace and that not only by my name but to make sure worke because my eldest brother was then in Scotland also by this designation of that Fenwicke whose wife was with him in Scotland and for my brother and some other English men that were there they might returne for England bringing but a Certificate under my Lord Rothes hand that they had not sworne and subscribed the Scottish Covenant So as I was glad to be content to wait for clearer weather for my returne Both the Armies being now drawne out of the field all the expectations of a firme peace were suddenly blowne away in the Kings refusall to come into Scotland to his Parliament as in the Treaty it was expected if not promised and sending the Earl of Traquire as his Commssioner to sit both in the Church Assembly and in the Parliament Well all the time of the Assembly which about a month and more I went almost daily to the Assembly with divers Gentlemen of our Nation that came into Scotland to see the Assembly and Parliament and I sate in the Assembly by the favour I had very neere the said Lord Traquire who often gave mee great lookes but never a word he knew me well by face for I had not long before my trouble rid post in his company to London as I remember two severall times But the Assembly being ended where he sate onely as a Church-man it seemes and the Parliament begun upon the second or third day of the Parliament he sent for me in the Kings name by a Messenger of the Privie Counsell in the open market place which messenger carryed me to the Kings House called Holy Rose House accompanied with Mr. Robert Hamilton and Mr. Forthwicke sent by noble friends from the Parliament House to see what should become of mee where I was welcome and well-baited by Traquire and his Associates divers Scottish Earles and Lords belonging to the Court with all revilings and reproaches of Treason and treachery the then Court language Nay said Traquire thy Life cannot satisfie the wrongs thou hast done his Majestie by possessing his Subjects of Scotland with an ill opinion of his Government and fomenting the late divisions and doing many ill Offices yea that sufficed not but he further charged me that I had got many of his Majesties honest Subjects moneyes into my hands and had bought Land in Scotland purposing to dwell there but swore that Scotland should not shelter me To which I replyed his Lordship was mis-informed the contrary was well knowne to divers of the best quality in Scotland and so Traquire fell into discourse with the Lord Roxborow and the Lord Dalyell and th' other Lords then one of the Gentlemen sent from the Parliament along with mee tells mee in the eare that hee thought I would be sent to prison which I thanke God did not daunt mee then begun Traquire againe to aske me what made me leave my countrey he was sure I might enjoy my Religion in England with as much libertie as in Scotland To which I boldly answred expecting nothing but extremitie I resolved not to goe to prison for nothing that if I should lose my life for it I must affirme that I could never enjoy my Religion with peace under King Charles his government When thus the Earle of Traquire saw my resolution and considered how the Parliament tooke notice of me by sending two Gentlemen along with me and the people of Edenborough readie to rise to riscue me he called one of the Gentlemen Master Borthwick aside and talked with him a prettie space after which Master Borthwick returned to mee saying I have brought your release for this time but my Lord Traquire sweares he will have about with you ere two dayes be ended and that he would send post to Newcastle to get more matter against me Now I found out the drift of this his sending for mee by a messenger of the counsell to get me out of Edenborough downe to the Kings house without the liberties of the Citie was to horse mee away to Barwicke where there were more men attending to receive me and carry me to the King for within three or foure daies these

men came from Barwicke to Edenborough and to my chamber three or foure times to looke for me and spoke with my wife who perceived by their wyles and discourse what they were and knew one of them to have been a servant to Sir Iohn Marley my chiefe adversarie which men were observed to lurke in Edenborough about the Castle then surrendered to the King and Generall Ruthven and his men possessing it but missing of me being advised to absent my selfe out of Edenborugh from under Traquires power they grew weary of attending and returned for England After a few dayes I returned to Edenburgh privately where my wife told me how I was watched for and the men then still in towne I was glad to keepe close When thus they found their wyles would not worke their ends the Lord Traquire made a publike Declaration in Parliament against me declaring that he had a designe upon me by Commission from his Majestie expecting it seemes the Parliament should deliver mee up into his hands but that failed him too for a noble Lord sent me presently notice of it and wished me to keepe out of his way so I was glad to keepe more close then before yet after supper being then darke I went out to my noble friend the Earle of Rothes who told mee what had passed from Traquire that day and that my noble friends the Lords in Parliament were resolved to protect me if I should be in danger yet rather advised mee to keepe me out of Traquires way and to absent my selfe out of Edenburgh inviting mee most courteously to his house in Fife for my shelter and withall if any danger should befall me before I could remove out of Edenburgh my wife being there and about to returne for England by Vertue of the late peace and being also great with childe was in a sort necessitated to undergoe some hazard to preserve the priviledges that one forraigne born cannot enjoy by our laws My noble Lord Rothes bid me cry out in his name for helpe and he would warrant me enough to rescue me which was a noble courtesie in my extremitie deserves of mee and mine never to beforgotten Whereupon I dispatched my wife and eldest sonne away for England accompanying them a part of the way into Tividale where I heard there was no safetie for me from Traquires sconts so I betooke mee over the cold snowie mountaines towards the Irish sea and comming to Lanerick a dayes journey on the west of Edenburgh a Gentleman of my acquaintance before in the armie came to visit me assuring mee that place was scarce safe for me to lodge in because of a neer dwelling enemie Sir Iohn Deyell who being lately come from Edenburgh from Traquire the Kings Commissioner had threatened to watch those parts for me and that hee would be glad to drive a cart to teare me in pieces and also had in his hearing declared that the Lord Traquire thinking that hee had frighted mee out of Scotland did sweare that no countrey should hold me long and that there were watches for mee both in France and Holland These were that Gentlemans owne words whose advice I followed and removed thence the next morning himselfe accompanying me that dayes journey and so I rode to Dwyne and Ayre upon the west sea in which parts I spent that Winter untill the Lord Traquire was gone to Court after which I saw him no more for then the ill bottomed peace quickly fell to pieces and new preparations on the Kings part and on the Scottish both appeared and then againe I appeared in Edenburgh where I found the Citie in great feares of being fired from the Castle and many other distractions Thus I continued in Edenburgh most part untill the time of the Scots armie comming into England under whose wings and conduct I returned to my countrey and to Newcastle where wee entred upon the Sabbath day after God had scattered our enemies in the skirmish at Newburne whereof I have by me a briefe relation I keepe amongst other monuments of Christs victories and may have a time if God continue life to record them to posteritie Here by the way I must not omit to tell you how some of my adversaries in Newcastle Sir Iohn Marloe and others that had profered large summes of money for men to come into Scotland to apprehend me and others who that morning before the skirmish made me their melodie in their cups and pots and drunke my confusion and vowed my death as I was credibly enformed were some layd low in the dust and the rest some glad to give two or three peeces for a paire of Oares to fly some by water and some by land whiles the Souldiers returned to Newcastle with bloody heads and some without hands crying to the People of Newcastle flie for your lives naked Divels have destroyed us fie fie for a guide to Dur●am cry others that were strangers all the Priests and Blacke-coats fled as fast as they could but meanely mounted when Vicar Alvey himselfe in great hast got on horse backe behind a Country man as before the next bout if the Scots come againe he may perhaps learne to foot it after my friend Windebancke into France and learne to dance and sing Alas poore Vicar whither wilt thou goe The Army comming after forenoone Sermon on the Sabath day towards Newcastle being in great want of Victuals pitched on the South side of the Towne his Excellency Generall Lesley accompanied with the Lords and divers Gentlemen rode into Newcastle about noon where they were met upon the bridge by the Major and some few Aldermen who were not so nimble at flight as Sir Marloe Sir Daveson and Sir Ridles and others that were conscious of their guilt of their good service against the Scots for which they got the honour of Knighthood at Newcastle and Barwicke though Sir Marloe some say came hardly by his and had well nigh missed if some others merits had not surmounted his the Boyes say that Cuckold luck has raised his fortunes from a Tap-house and et cetera to a Carpet Knight O tempora O mores VVell we being entred Newcastle after dinner I had the honour to Usher his Excellence and the Lords to the great Church where Mr. Alexander Henderson preached and Mr. Andrew Cant at Alihollowes where the Organs and Sackbuts and Cornets were strucke breathlesse with the fright of their Vicals and other of their best friends flight on Friday at night before after Newburne fight in token of mourning that they should neuer meet againe for not long after the breach of the Scots Covenant in the Scottish Souldiers did blow them down both root and branch with their Altar and Raylings Service-book and Fonts and all such fopperies as the honest Scots Lads found without a Warrant or Salvo-guard from their King Jesus who sent them out The Army being in great straits for Victualls I studied how to gratifie the honest Souldiers who had conducted

me home to my owne Country On the M●nday morning I found out one of the Kings store-houses and therein about threescore thousand pound of Cheese and about two tunne of Bisket which served the whole Army untill Corne was grinded and other provisions made But here was not an end of my troubles for the time I stayed in Newcastle which was about three moneths and more though under the shelter of the Scots Army my wife and selfe continually reviled and abused by the malignant people of the Town of whom I could not get provisions and necessaries for my family for my money without the Authority and command of the Scots or seldome goe abroad without the company of some of the Scots Gentlemen divers of whom gave me notice that they over-heard divers Malignant people of the Towne threaten to wash their hands in my heart blood and others saying whether peace or warre I should be sure to be knockt on the head such was the madnesse of the Malignants against me in that place neither would any there or in the Country pay me any thing they were owing me So about beginning of December when I could be no longer usefull to the publike good or yet to my selfe in my owne affaires I declared to his Excellence Generall Lesley and such of the Lords as were then in Newcastle my urgent necessity to repaire to London to the Parliament for remedy of my many grievances and there being no passage by land for me but through the Kings souldiers I came to London by Sea about the latter end of December and repaired to Westminster where I had walked but a little in the Hall untill I was carried away by some friends assuring me that there was no safety for mee to appeare so publike as yet and that my adversaries who walked in Westminster Hall as Sir Iohn Marloe and others of Newcastle fugitives from the Scots would be sure to lay hold of me and that as yet I was not cleere of the Scots businesse for all the treaty then in agitation some of my friends advising me to remove into Holland untill the Scots Treaty were fully finished and an act of oblivion passed till when I could not be secure from the danger of our Lawes so that I continued privately in London about eight moneths in some hazard before the act of oblivion was passed being resolved not to goe out of the Kingdome untill I had remedy of my heavy losses and grievances which as yet I have found no time for though I have sought to purchase it with my blood in the service of the state and still am ready to wade through difficulties and hazards to procure peace and truth Judgement and Justice to my native Country Divers other passages in my troubles I doe willingly reserve to a calmer Season because as yet the times will not beare them By these already mentioned it may appeare that I have suffred somthing for God and my Country and have borne a large share in the heat of the day even to many extremities to my selfe and family without any publike support in a sincking condition to the hazard of life losse of my estate of which I have not had the benefit of one hundred pound these five yeeres compleat in December next friends in this cause all forsaking me my name and credit racked with reproaches whereof my God whom I serve and suffer for I am confident will in his good itme cleare me and make mine innocency breake out as the light and my Judgement as the noone day I appeale to this ungratefull and appostate age whether it be reason that one who has borne the heate of the day for the common good of both Kingdomes should be left to sincke under the burthens of their good it being not for the honour of my Countrey to leave mee and mine under insupportable burthens of worldy necessities and distresses wherein I have spent my selfe and without timely assistance I and mine must necessarily perish Divers other passages have slipped my memory about the rage and madnesse of mine enemies extending from the countrey to Court distaste of me and the Kings notice and rebukes of friends about me so ●s none of them durst owne me or afford me common courtesie or 〈…〉 me but in the language of mine adversaries also the first messenger the Scots Lords sent to the King at Yorke after Newburne fight at his returne told me there was great enquirie at Court after me and further in midst of all my greatest troubles and pursuite of the Lord Traquire as I should be willing to forget the unkinde and unchristian dealings of my friends in spreading the reproaches of my adversaries striking at my very life deepewounds from friends so may I not here forget to record the Noble respects of the Scottish Lords in their ample testimonie of my fidelitie to my countrey and carriage amongst them which I sent into England for the satisfaction of my friends mis-informed a Copie whereof attested under the hands of divers Gentlemen and Merchants in Edenborough I have annexed for conclusion VVEe undersubscribers understanding that John Fenwick of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Kingdome of England Merchant since his comming into this Kingdome of Scotland hath undergone many vise and slander us calumnies and reproaches as that hee hath beene a chiefe Incendiarte in these late broyles inci●ing the Nobilitie of this Kingdome to invade England and to use all as enemies that were not of our minde in Religion and that hee sought a Captaines place and did beare armes against the King at Dunse and servea in a troope of Horse when hee could not get à Captaines place and doing many ill offices against his Countrey According to our Christian dutie have beene moved to testifie to all whom it may concerne that the said John Fenwicke during his abide in this Kingdome of Scotland now about eight moneths bath behaved himselfe as becomes a good Christian a loyall Subject to his Soveraigne and a loving Countreyman of his native Nation for ought that ever wee have heard from him seene or observed in him in all his carriage amongst us And wee doe verily believe all the foresaid calumnies to be very false malicious and scandalous and injuriously insinuated against him by ill affected persons and doe conceive of him as one that hath deserved better of his Countrey-men In witnesse whereof wee have subscribed these presents with our Hands At EDENB. the 30. Octob. 1639. Subscribed by Earles Argyle Rothes Lothian Lyndsey And The Lord Balmirinoe Witnesses that this is a true Copie John Meyne Robert Keith Thomas Levingston Alexand. Dickson John Lowrie The Originall of this Copy I sent into England for satisfaction of friends mis-informed Novemb. 1639. FINIS Nota This fire brake out in the evening of that day after their consultations were ended wherin many antient Records were burnt up and consumed Nota Herein I have been many yeers the Subject of the admiration of friends and the object of the enemie● madnes and rage in that they could never make mee stoope Note I had to doe with others aswell as Covenanters * Note They were not Knighted till afterward for their good service against the Scots Nota My returne was about the 8. of Ianuary by comparing the Date of Secretary Windebancks letters you may see how ripe the plot was for execution Note Here that Newcastle was begun to be fortified for the King against the Scots Nota Some men carried away pieces of her cloaths and made as much of them as if they were holy reliques This was a bold affront the Parliament then ●itting Nota. This hundred-fold is not meant of temporall things as many understand it but is meant of a hundredfold more of Gods presence and communication of his fulnesse even in this life and in time of our sufferings especially yea as much as our leaking vessels can hold untill wee come to eternity when our cup shall overflow continually Note At this time of the restraint of libertie I composed these meditations Psal. 102. which I published lately under this Title of Zions Ioy in her King comming in his Glorye