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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

in the Protestation to abolish Popery of which in their opinion wearing the Surpless was a part Many attempts they made upon the Doctor and his Curate affronting them both in officiating Divine Service and administration of the Sacraments but they being countenanced by a considerable part in the Town the Sectaries could not effect what they desired until at last in the Months of June July and August 1642. they were animated by the coming of the Forces raised in Essex Suffolk and Norfolk For as they raised each Company it was sent to Chelmsford the common Rendezvouz and there staied until they were made up three hundred or four hundred and so sent to London In all the time of their stay there the Doctor lay at the mercy of the Soldiers who egg'd on by the Brownists and Anabaptists of the Town used his House as their Quarter consumed his provisions for his Family and commanded there as Lords Amongst many Outrages committed by the Soldiers Three are most remarkable First Upon a Fast Day they send a Command to the Doctor that he should not pray for the Bishops nor so much as make mention of them in his Lips nor use the Book of Common-Prayer if he did they threaten to pull him out of the Pulpit and tear him in pieces The Doctor not intimidated by their Threat gives order to his Curate to read the Prayers appointed which accordingly he did The Soldiers right bred being Volunteers of Colchester and Ipswich and rightly designed too for my Lord Sayes's own Regiment fit Soldiers for such a Leader irreverently fit with their Hats on make a noise to drown the Curates voice nay they call to him to come out of his Calves Coope meaning the Reading-Desk and make an end of his Pottage The Curate remembring that advice of our Saviour Not to cast Pearls before Swine nor holy things to Dogs gives over reading unwilling to expose the holy Worship of God to so foul Contempt and Scorn Having thus silenced the Curate their Commanders looking on they violently take the Sacred Bible to tear it but being reproved for it by Sergeant Major Bamfeild then present they exchange the Bible for the Book of Common-Prayer Having it in their power in solemn Triumph they carry it into the Streets and that which holy Martyrs inspired by the Holy Ghost composed and sealed the truth and sanctity of it with their dearest Blood these Savage Miscreants rent in pieces Some of the leaves they tread under feet some they cast into the Kennel some they pissed upon and some they fixed on the end of their Clubs and Cudgels and in a Triumphant manner marched with them up and down the Town Secondly About a Week after when the Doctor was in the Chancel there to Interr the Corps of a Gentleman lately deceased these Soldiers rushed into the place with an intent to bury the quick with the dead to put the Doctor into the same Grave which they had done for no other reason but because he used the Form prescribed by the Church at burial of the Dead had he not been powerfully rescued by his Parishoners Lastly When the glad Tydings were brought to Chelmsford that Episcopacy was voted down by the House of Commons all usual expressions of an exulting joy were used amongst the rest Bonfires were kindled in every street but most of the Fuel was violently taken from the Doctor 's Wood-yard And now the pile raised and the fire kindled they want nothing but a Sacrifice this they resolve shall be the Doctor himself To this purpose the Separatists of the Town assisted by two Companies of Soldiers in the Evening assault him in his House seise upon his Person and are ready to carry him to the Fire there to throw him headlong into the midst of it But some of his Friends having information of the design go and acquaint the Commanders with the bloody intentions of their Souldiers who presently take a Guard and rescue the Doctor out of their power as soon as ever they had seized on him Since that oppressed and worried every day by these ravenous Wolves he was forced to forsake his Charge as many other godly Ministers are and to fly for his Life leaving his Wife and eight Children to the mercy of the Rebels who have deprived his Family of all their Livelihood and exposed them to extream want Nay they have several times broken violently into his House under pretence to search for him and have held Pistols cocked and Swords drawn at the Breasts of his Children and Servants charging them upon their Lives to reveal where the Doctor was It was lately certified from thence by a chief Member of that Town and no friend of the Doctors that he finds the case there to be far worse than he expected for while they hoped that the power being Traiterously wrested out of the King's hand they should have shared it amongst themselves they find that either the power is fallen into their hands that are far beneath them or else hath raised these men up far above them for as he writes The Town is governed by a Tinker two Coblers two Taylors two Pedlers c. And that the World may see what a Systeme of Divinity these Coblers and Taylors are like in time to stitch together and what Principles they intend to Rule by I shall here set down certain preparatory prelusory Propositions which they usually Preach for Preach they do to their infatuated Disciples and by them are received as the Divine Oracles of God And you shall have them in their own Terms viz. First That Kings are the Burdens and Plagues of those People or Nations over which they Govern Secondly That the relation of Master and Servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament but rather the contrary For there we read In Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free and we are all one in Christ. Thirdly That the Honours and Titles of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Lords Knights and Gentlemen are but Ethnical and Heathenish distinctions amongst Christians Fourthly That one man should have a Thousand Pounds a Year and another not one Pound perhaps not so much but must live by the sweat of his Brows and must Labour before he eat hath no ground neither in Nature or in Scripture Fifthly That the Common People heretofore kept under Blindness and Ignorance have a long time yielded themselves Sorvants nay Slaves to the Nobility and Gentry But God hath now opened their Eyes and discovered unto them their Christian Liberty And that therefore it is now fit that the Nobility and Gentry should serve their Servants or at least Work for their own Maintenance and if they will not Work they ought not to Eat Sixthly That Learning hath always been an enemy to the Gospel and that it were a happy thing if there were no Universities and all Books burnt except the Bible Seventhly That any man whom God hath as they call it Gifted may be

him we may justly receive at his hands heavier Judgments than these yet our Innocence will plead Not Guilty to the face of any Man who shall object against us any Civil Misdemeanors whereby we can more justly be deprived of our Fellowships than any free Subject in England of his fee Simple if they please to say he is guilty of Misdemeanors And as it hath pleased our gracious Master whose Ministers we are to make us examples though but of suffering to the rest of our Brethren So we hope he will continue unto us his grace of humilation under his mighty hand as an earnest of his exalting us in due time And in the interim that he will lay no more upon us than he shall be pleased to strengthen our infirmities to bear And that he will still preserve unto us a good conscience that whereas our persecutors speak evil of us as of evil doers they may be ashamed that falsly accuse our good conversation in Christ. FINIS Mercurius Belgicus OR A briefe Chronology of the Battels Sieges Conflicts and other most remakable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion to the 25 th of March 1646. Together with A Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides CICERO Incerti sunt exitus pugnarum Marsque esi communis qui saepe spoliantem jam exultantem evertit perculit ab abjecto Printed in the Year 1685. The Preface Readers YOU have here a canded and impartial Epitomy of an unnatural War Subjects banding against their lawful Prince Brother against Brother and Father against Son Read but the said ensuing Story and therein consider the number and quality of Persons slain the destruction of Houses and Families the desolation of Cities and Towns the increase of Widows and Orphans the Tyranny and inhumanity of our new Legislators over their own Fellow-Subjects and you will easily conclude of these as Cicero did of Sylla's time Nemo illo invito nec bona nec patriam nec vitam retinere potueirt In earnest it may well be wondred whence these men have their minds God nor man nor Nature ever made them thus To be short the Reader may here see the flux and reflux of Fortune de la Guerre now this party flourisheth and that goes down anon that flourisheth and this goes down as if the guilt of our sins were drawing a heavy Judgment from Heaven upon this Land and these Rebels were ordained for the instruments of it But let us hope for better And particularly that God in the richness of his mercy will look down upon these macerated Kingdoms and periodize these distractions That Religion may again flourish in its purity maugre the Plots and impieties of all Seditiaries and Schismaticks That His Sacred Majesty may be re-established in His just Rights and Prerogatives that Parliaments may move in their own and known Centre the Ancient Laws of the Land re-inforced and freed from fellow-subjects Tyranny and Arbitration and the Subject re-estated in his Ancient Liberties freed from Murder Rapine and Plunder which that we may quickly see let it be the Subject of ever good Christian Prayer Memorable OCCURRENCES since the beginning of this REBELLION Anno Dom. 1641. IN December 1641. The House of Commons published a Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom therein setting forth all the errors of his Majesties Government a meer design to alienate the affection of his Subjects from him The tenth of January following his Majesty with the Queen Prince and Duke of Yorke left White-hall and went to Hampton Court to avoid the danger of those frequent tumults then hazarding the safety of his Royal Person February the 23 d. the Queens Majesty took shipping at Dover having been driven before from White-hall by the frequent tumults of the Rebels And soon after His Majesty went to New-market and from thence to Yorke where after the Rebels had Guards for three Months before the Gentry of the Country raised a Guard for his Majesties Person Anno Dom. 1642. MAY the 20 th it was voted by both Houses That the King intended to levie War against the Parliament which they did on purpose to excuse themselves for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty as appeared within few days after July the second the Kings ship called the Providence Landed in the Creek of Kenningham near Hull till which time His Majesty had not a Barrel of Powder nor any Arms or Ammunition whatsoever July the 12 th the pretended two Houses Voted that the Earl of Essex should be General of their Army and that they would live and die with him August the first the Earl of Essex caused all the men then raised being in number about 10000 to be committed to Officers and divided into Regiments which men had been raising ever since the 12 th of July 1642. at which time he was made General of the Rebels August the sixth the Earl of Bedford having fruitlessely besieged the Lord Marquess of Hertford in Sherburn Castle for four days before retreated to Yevell the Noble Marquess sallied after him and with a small number fell on that great body of the Rebels Kill'd above 140 whereof 9 Commanders took divers Prisoners and routed the rest so as he marched away and after divided his small Forces going himself into Wales and Sir Ralph now Lord Hopton into Cornwall of both which there followed so good an effect August the 22 d. His Majesty set up his Standard Royal at Nottingham for raising of Forces to suppress the Rebels then marching against him September the 23 d. Prince RUPERT with about 11 Troops of Horse gave a great overthrow to the Rebels in Wikefield near Worcester where Colonel Sands that commanded in chief received his mortal wound Major Douglas a Scot and divers other Captains and Officers slain and drowned Captain Wingate a Member of the House of Commons with four Coronets taken and two more torn in pieces This body of the Rebels was observed to be the flower of their Cavalry October the 23 d. was that signal great battel fought between Keynton and Edg-hill by his Majesties Army and that of the Rebels led by the Earl of Essex wherein the Rebels lost above 70 Colours of Coronets and Ensigns and His Majesty but only 16 Ensigns and not one Coronet The exact number that were slain on both sides in this Battel is not known But it is certain that the Rebels lost above three for one Men of eminence of his Majesties Forces who were slain in the Battel were the two Noble and valiant Lords Robert Earl of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlain of England and George Lord D. Aubigney Brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshal to His Majesty with some other worthy Centlemen and Soldiers but besides these three named there was not one Noble Man or Knight kill'd which was an extraordinary mercy of Almighty God considering what a glorious sight of Princes Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons Knights and

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

upon it which Holy name though it could not but put the Rebels in mind whose possession and House it was did not at all afford it patronage and protection from their accursed rage and madness The Rebels under the Conduct of Sir William Waller sate down before the City of Winchester on Tuesday the 12. of December 1642. about twelve of the Clock and entered the City that afternoon between two and three being Masters of the City they instantly fall upon the Close under a pretence to search for Cavaliers They seize upon the Prebends Horses and demand their Persons with many threatning words That night they break into some of the Prebends Houses such Houses as they were directed unto by their Brethren the Seditious Schismaticks of the City and Plundered their goods But the Castle not yet surrendred into the Rebels hands something awed their insolency which being the next day delivered up to their power did not only take away the Restraint which was upon them but incouraged them without check or controul to rob and defi●e both God and all good men Wednesday therefore and Wednesday night being spent in Plundering the City and Close on Thursday Morning between nine and ten of the Clock hours set apart for better imployments and therefore purposely in probability chosen by them being resolved to prophane every thing that was Canonical they violently break open the Cathedral Church and being entred to let in the Tyde they presently open the great West doors where the Barbarous Soldiers stood ready nay greedy to rob God and pollute his Temple The doors being open as if they meant to invade God himself as well as his possession they enter the Church with Colours flying their Drums beating their Matches fired and that all might have their part in so horrid an attempt some of their Troops of Horse also accompanied them in their march and rode up through the body of the Church and Quire until they came to the Altar there they begin their work they rudely pluck down the Table and break the Rail and afterwards carrying it to an Ale-house they set it on fire and in that fire burnt the Books of Common-Prayer and all the Singing Books belonging to the Quire they throw down the Organ and break the Stories of the Old and New Testament curiously cut out in carved work beautified with Colours and set round about the top of the Stalls of the Quire from hence they turn to the Monument of the Dead some they utterly demolish others they deface They begin with Bishop Fox his Chappel which they utterly deface the break all the glass windows of this Chappel not because they had any Pictures in them either of Patriarch Prophet Apostle or Saint but because they were of painted Coloured Glass they demolish and overturn the Monuments of Cardinal Beaufort Son to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster by Katharine Swinfort founder of the Hospital of S. Cross near Winchester who sate Bishop of this See forty three years They deface the Monument of William of Wainflet Bishop likewise of Winchester Lord Chancellor of England and the Magnificent Founder of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford which Monument in a grateful Piety being lately beautified by some that have or lately had Relation to that Foundation made these Rebels more eager upon it to deface it but while that Colledge the unparralleld example of his bounty stands in despight of the malice of these inhuman Rebels William of Wainflet cannot want a more lasting Monument to transmit his memory to Posterity from hence they go into Queen Maries Chappel so called because in it she was Married to King Philip of Spain here they brake the Communion Table in pieces and the Velvet Chair whereon she sate when she was Married They attempted to deface the Monument of the late Lord Treasurer the Earl of Portland but being in Brass their violence made small impression on it therefore they leave that and turn to his Fathers Monument which being of Stone was more obnoxious to their fury here mistaking a Judg for a Bishop led into the error by the resemblance or counterfeit of a Square cap on the head of the Statue they strike off not only the Cap but the head too of the Statue and so leave it Amongst other acts of Bounty and Piety done by Richard Fox the fifty seventh Bishop of this See he covered the Quire the Presbytery and the Iles adjoyning with a goodly vault and new glased all the Windows of that part of the Church and caused the bones of such Kings Princes and Prelates as had been Buried in this Church and lay dispersed and scattered in several parts of the Cathedral to be collected and put into several Chests of lead with inscriptions on each Chest whose bones lodged in them These Chests to preserve them from rude and prophane hands he caused to be placed on the top of a Wall of exquisite workmanship built by him to inclose the Presbytery there never to be removed as a man might think but by the last Trump did rest the bones of many Kings and Queens as of Alfredus Edwardus Senior Eadredus the Brother of Athelstane Edwinus Canutus Hardecanutus Emma the Mother and Edward the Confessor her Son Kiniglissus the first founder of the Cathedral of Winchester Egbert who abolishing the Heptarchy of the Saxons was the first English Monarch William Rufus and divers others with these in the Chests were deposited the bones of many Godly Bishops and Confessors as of Birinus Hedda Swithinus Frithestanus S. Elphegus the Confessor Stigandus Wina and others Had not the barbarous Inhuman impiety of these Schismaticks and Rebels shewed the contrary we could not have imagined that any thing but the like Piety that here inshrined them or a Resurrection should ever have disturbed the repose of these venerable yet not Popish Reliques But these monsters of men to whom nothing is holy nothing is Sacred did not stick to prophane and violate these Cabinets of the dead and to scatter their bones all over the pavement of the Church for on the North side of the Quire they threw down the Chests wherein were deposited the bones of the Bishops the like they did to the bones of William Rufus of Queen Emma of Hardecanutus and Edward the Confessor and were going on to practise the like impiety on the bones of all the rest of the West Saxon Kings But the Outcry of the People detesting so great inhumanity caused some of their Commanders more Compassionate to these Ancient Monuments of the dead then the Rest to come in amongst them and to restrain their madness But that devilish malice which was not permitted to rage and overflow to the spurning and trampling on the bones of all did satiate it self even to a prodigious kind of wantonness on those which were already in their power And therefore as if they meant if it had been possible to make these bones contract a Posthume guilt by being

chosen by the Congregation for their Pastor And that Imposition of Hands by the Bishop and Presbytery are meer Popish Innovations What more additions to these monstrous Opinions the wildness of such mens Brains assisted by the cunning of the Devil and incouraged by the usurped power of these Times may produce we must leave to the discovery of Time In the interim good Reader stand amazed and wonder at this excellent pattern of the intended blessed Reformation Had not God to prepare us for destruction deprived us of Knowledg had he not closed our Eyes that we should not see and hardned our Hearts that we should not understand were we not a people as the Prophet speaks forsaken and meted out for destruction it could not be but that Mankind would rise up against this Generation of Vipers and their Protectors and sweep them away to use the Metaphor of the Holy Ghost with the beesom of destruction who if a while connived at will prove Moths fretting to the destruction both of Church and State For in this Model you may see the Babel which is now in building and the budding forth of those Brambles out of which if not timely quenched will come forth a Fire as it is in Jothams Parable which will devour the Cedars of Lebanon The same godly Reformers which plundred Master Laud before mentioned came afterwards to Master Cornelius Parson of Peldon in the same County of Essex whom they rob of all his goods within doors and without They spared not his Library nor his Wives Child-bed Linnen though she was great with Child and in danger by the fright she took at their coming to have occasion to make use of them before her due time they plunder him to the value of Four hundred pounds a very great sum in a poor Clergy-mans purse especially as these Times go For relief of his Loss he sends his Servant to the Mayor of Colchester a famous Justiciary as you may remember the last Week in the relation of Mr. Laud and Mr. Honifields Cases having made his Complaint and accused the plunderers by name the Mayor knew that some body deserved Commitment but had the ill luck to be mistaken in the person and therefore instead of the plunderers he Commits Master Cornelius his man to the Gaol where he is lodged for a Malignant until his Master plundred of his Man too came and put in Bail that his Servant should be forth-coming to answer to all Objections the next Sessions Master Cornelius knowing that he should in vain expect Justice where he found Oppression from the Mayor goes to Mr. Gardner a Justice of Peace not far off who grants his Warrant for apprehension of the parties Who being apprehended though for Felony put in Bail to answer the next Sessions When the time came Mr. Cornelius indicts these plunderers the Bill was found by the Grand-Jury upon the evidence of three or four Witnesses who were Spectators and saw them carry away the Goods Nay the prisoners at the Bar not only 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 own Consciences found the Indictment against the King The Court wondring at so wilful blindness 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 return Ignoramus Being asked by the Bench how they could go against so clear Evidence They answered in general Because they did not think PLUNDERING a new name for an old Theft to be Felony by the Law But being beaten out of this starting hole though ten 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 replied That no such Order was produced nor was it pleaded by the Prisoners at the Bar they then professed openly that these men arraigned at the Bar were honest men that they had an Intent to do them favour and they would do it Hereupon the Bench justly incensed against so wilful perjury binds over the Jurors to answer it the next Assizes And withal order Mr. Cornelius to Indict these plunderers again upon another Felony he obeys their command and the Grand-Jury find it to be Billa vera But when the Under-Sheriff went out to Impanel 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 staied there to save the prisoners Happy men these that may commit Murthers Robberies and Thefts and yet fear no Condemnation neither at the Tribunal of God or Man It is an usual doctrine of this Sect That God sees no sin in his Children for that name they will ingross to themselves though no men less deserve it and it seems they are resolved to see no sin one in another It was a wild saying of a great Patriarch of theirs That the Children of God were Heteroclites because God did often save them even contrary to his own 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 Judg who without respect of persons shall render to every man according to his deeds yet here on Earth if these men may judg one another they may commit what wickedness they list and let the Rains loose to all kinds of Villany and yet be saved contrary to all the Rules of Law and Justice Mr. Archer Lecturer at the same place in his Sermon encouraged the people to take up Arms against the King but it may be objected says he that the Gentry gainsay this Doctrine and the Learned utterly disclaim it as Erroneous and Damnable but what though the Gentry and Learned as you call them dissent yet let it not Stagger your belief of this undoubted 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 God Be liberal therefore in contributing to this holy War and sending forth men to fight this Battel of the Lord. This man in his Prayers and Sermons constantly calls the Parliament The Lords Anointed but with what Oyl it is not yet determinated I am sure by experience we find that it is not Oyl of Gladness Mercurius Rusticus c. IV. Sir Rich. Minshul 's House in Buckinghamshire plundered by the Lord Brooks command The Kings Picture abused A House burnt near Hounslow by the Lord Wharton 's Souldiers Mr. Wiborow and Mr. Thorn the one a Minister in Essex the other in Bedfordshire the first ill-intreated on the Lords Day by the Lord S. John 's Troopers the other unjustly committed to

Prison for a private revenge ON Monday the 15 of August 1642. Sir Richard Mynshul of Bourton in the County of Buckingham Knight furnished with ten Horse and Arms 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 spies in every corner to the Lord Brook Sir Peter Temple Sir Rich. Ingoldsby 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 do they stay long before they put the sentence in execution For on Thursday the 18 of Aug. the Lord Brook commanding a great part of the Army came to Sir Richard's House and in case he should find Resistance they bring divers pieces 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 Captain Jones 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 eagerness of the Soldiers sharp set on the prey so that they gleaned but a little here and there this moderation renders Captain Jones suspected for a Papist both to the Lord Brook and the rest of the Commanders Nay he is not only voiced for a Papist but a Rumour is raised that he was Bribed into this Moderation and had taken a reward to spare Sir Richard's Goods The Captain blasted with these reports the jealousie of him grew so high that they threaten to kill him To avoid the fury of the Soldiers he is fain to withdraw himself nor durst he appear before a Servant of Sir Richards had made Oath that he was Innocent of any such Contract And now the Lord Brook and his Company being masters of the House the first thing on which they express 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 Sovereign using Traiterous and scornful Language against him By all which it is more than manifest to all the World what they would do to the Substance if they had him in their power that express such malice on his shadow Having at first entrance violated their Loyalty to their King according to his Majesties frequent predictions their fellow Subjects cannot expect Justice at their hands Now all is lawful prize that comes to hand Money Plate Jewels many suits of rich Hangings Linnen Bedding they plunder from the Cabinet to the Larder and make clean work as they go leaving no Booty for a second plunder And though that House were but one yet in that one they plundered three Sir Richard having disrobed 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 greatness they will not drink without a Taster yet not being confident enough professedly to own Regal observances for prevention of danger a pretence was made that the Wine was poisoned and one of Sir Richard's 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 gained a cup of Wine by their dissembled State they follow freely and drink very liberally to the good success of their designs without ever scrupling whether drinking so did not come within the nature of a a Health And indeed 't was an oversight that Casuist Prin was not consulted in the Case the Cup often gone round at last some inspired with the Spirit of Wine prophesied that Sir Richard's Treasure was buried in the Cellar presently they fall to digging and instead of Treasure find a Mine of Bottles they drink up the Wine and in indignation break the Bottles From hence to cool the Wine they go to the Beer-Seller and in both what they could not drink they break the Vessels and let run on the ground After this they break open the Library and the place where he kept his Evidences They seise on all the Bills Bonds Deeds Evidences Writings and Books which they find whether Sir Richard's or his Friends some of these they take away with them some they tear in pieces some they bind in bundles and make them serve instead of Fuel both to heat Ovens and to roast Meat for their Supper and would by no means suffer any of them to be redeemed though large sums of Money 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 Racks broken down from the Stables they rip up the Lead and carry it away they tear down the walls of the Houses with Spades and Mattocks they dig up the lower Rooms hoping there to find more Treasure They break the Windows Doors Wainscot Seelings Glass they take away all Iron Bars Casements Locks Keys and Hinges They break open his Wool-house and Barns and empty all They enter the Dove-house and like Vermine destroy the Pidgeons onely one of these Vermine falling from the Holes brake his Back and died 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 out into his Grounds there they lay all common they break up his Rales and Fences Of his Sheep what they did not eat they sold Sheep worth 20 s. for 12 d. Lambs worth 10 s. for 6 d. and the reasons why the rates of their market were so low were first they were a Malignant and a Traitors Goods so they stiled Sir Richard Secondly They were sold to their Brethren and therefore must afford good Penniworths The rest of the Stock they run their Swords or Pikes into most of them and spoiled 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 Herbs to the Pot They clap a strong Guard on Sir Richard's Lady deny her a Bed to lie on though the Neighbours earnestly intreated to kill them if they can find them Who poor Souls affrighted with these barbarous Insolencies fled into the Field and hid themselves in