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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69467	A perfect declaration of the barbarous and cruell practises committed by Prince Robert, the Cavalliers, and others in His Majesties army, from the time of the Kings going from his Parliament untill this present day ... together with the new oaths and blasphemous speeches they doe daily invent ... : also, a justification of Prince Robert his cruelties ... / collected by R. Andrewes ...	Andrewes, R., 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3154; ESTC R557	8,341	10

Souldiers fl 〈…〉 into the Thames for safety where the Cavalliers shot at them till they were drowned amongst which was one Captaine Lacy a stout and Valliant man they tooke five of the Earl of Essex his Souldiers prisoners and tyed their hands and forced them into the River and a Trooper rod into the water after them and forced them into the depth where they were drowned And when the fight began at Brainford they placed ten of the Earl of Essex his Souldiers whom they had formerly taken prisoners at Kynton pinioned in the front of their men at a breast-worke to receive the bullets that came from Collonell Hollis his Regiment but such was the providence of God that none of them were hurt though shot through the cloathes in many places when they had possessed themselves of the towne first they dranke and wasted the Beere and wine in the severall Innes and other places and that which they could not drinke they let it out upon the ground They likewise pistolled to death one Francis who lived at Vxbridge because he said he was for the King and Parliament just as he came out of his Inne riding home to his wife and children But one of the most inhumane actions that they did at Brainford was the pillaging of one Mr. Pierce a Brewer who not only tooke away all his beere and his cheife brewer but ten or twelve stout horses and not being contented therewith they came into his house and drove his wife forth thereof into the high way she being in her smock with her child in her armes though she had laine in but a week who suddenly dyed after it and had like to have fired his house such was their crueltie and inhumane actions at this poore Towne Also his next neighbour one Master Smith a servant to the King being one of his guard and well knowne to some of them had much a doe to preserve his house from pillaging his life and his wives from pistolling and his house from firing for they shot divers times at it but yet mist it thanks be given to God And at their flying away from thence they tooke from the inhabitants their money Linnen wollen bedding wearing apparrell horses cowes swine henns c. and all manner of victualls also Pewter brasse Iron-pots and kettells and all manner of grocery chanlery and appothecary ware and many of the feather beds which they could not beare away they cut the tikes into peeces and scattered the feathers in the fields and streets And to be short they made spoile and hovocke of all things that were worth any thing in the towne sparing neither rich not poore but either spoiled or carried with them all things from the costliest jewells apparrell and hangings of many Gentlemen of great quallity even to the poore alms-women and the poor beggars that begs at the townes end And when they had used the towne in this manner they defaced the houses and set one of fire of purpose to have burnt downe the said towne though afterwards it was happily quenched by an inhabitant Nay their insolency and cruelty appeared yet greater for they set drawne swords and Pistolls cockt to men and womens breasts threatning them with death if they brought not out all their money and that they would cut of their noses and pluck out their eyes calling them Parliament dogs Round-headed Rogues beatting laming and wounding them tying others with ropes and 〈◊〉 and being stript to the shirts were carried away prisoners and as one was leading towards O●tland being very thrifty he stooped to take a litle water in his hat to drinke they most cruelly beate him and bruised him for offering to doe it When they came to Kingston they used the like violence to that towne as they did to Brainford except to some few that were of the Malignant party and therein they shewed more humanity at this town● then I have heard of before or since for at other places they made no destinction of any All is fish that comes to net to them for neither Carrier nor Trava●ler man nor horse shall scape them for they have robbed divers men especially two while I was an eye-witnesse namely one Mr. Sparkes a Draper and one Mr. Thomas a Book-seller of Bristoll they tooke from the first all his money and his sword from the other his watch his mony and his sword being threatned with their lives and looked every hour when they would kill them but they esaped with their lives th●y search all men u●der pretence for conveying lette●s bu● instead of letters they take away their mony rings Yet such is the heathenish barbarousnesse of this accursed generation that I cannot without some prejudice to my precedent discourse and likewise injury to the indifferent Reader conclude this Tragicall story without speaking a word no more concerning these unhumane creatures whose practise is far worse then the heathenish Turkes or Caniballs for they are not contented with the exercise of all the bloody cruelty that all the malice in the world if it were contracted within the breasts of these furies of hell could devise in murthering and most cruelly handling men women little Infants c. but that the generation to come might have every way cause to curse them they endeavour to usher into this Kingdome the miserable calamity of famine for they now begin daily to burne houses fire Towns and Villages destroy the Corne both in the field and in the barne cut downe and destroy the woods and plants which the earth is bringing forth drive away all manner of Cattell both of Horse Oxen Sheep and other Cattell making no distinction of fat or leane barren or those that are great with young but drive them all away that they light on both out of Bucking-shire Bark-shire and a great part of Oxford-shire and other places carrying them into such Towns where they are quartered and these that they cannot eate they kill and destroy and cast into the dirt or to the dogs These are those cursed Ismaell 〈…〉 which do not only dishonour and abuse God his Annoynted by their oaths and blasphemies would if it were possible pull God out of heaven for they make it a common saying amongst them We will drinke and be drunke whore and be damned and will not be beholding to God to save us And that they had rather be in hell with their Comrades then in heaven with the Round-heads And they have such new invented oaths imprications and healths ●o full of wickednesse and blasphemy that the like were never heard of before amongst other Turkes or Pagans for it is usuall amongst them to say The Divell that made us damme us and damme mee and ram me into the mouth of a Canon and shoote me nine miles into hell c. They make proclamations amongst themselves that if any Gentleman or souldier that can invent new oaths to damme destroy Py 〈…〉 and his Adherents shall have 100. l. for so doing They drink a health to King Charls in whom they live move and have our being And although their being is in him that is but a mortall man they at another time will wish him without being in whom they say their being consists for when they were upon their hot march toward London in the expectation of the fruition of plentifull and rich treasure where they placed their summum bonum His Majestie sleeping something long one morning which hindered them of an houres march they wished that hee might sleepe a whole fortnight together that they might the more eagerly pursue their bloody intentions and drunk healths to his confusion and the confusion of our Saviour Christ himselfe and his Gospell if his Majesty concluded of a Peace without their consent or privity They do boast that the King cannot stir a quarter of a mile without their knowledg but they do watch him as a cat doth watch a mouse they have a perpetuall eye over him and his actions and so powerfull they are with his Majestie that if his Majestie resolve to have a thought of Peace and to come to his Parliament they presently have their agents about his Majestie that they can presently alter and change his minde like a weather-cock They likewise drunke the destruction and confusion of these worthy Gentlemen who stand up for the King and Country calling them Traytors vowing to be avenged especially of them and of the City of London the County of Essex and also of Kent as namely The Lord Kimbolton now Earle of Manchester Sir Arthur Hasting Master Denzell Hollis Master Iohn Pym Master Stroud Master Iohn Hampden Sir Iohn Hotham The Earle of Essex The Earle of Warwick Isaac Penington Lord Major of London Serjeant Major Generall Skippon Colonell Iohn Ven. Sheriffe Fouke Colonell Manwayring And the whole burthen of their songs at the drinking of their healths is And for Round-heads we will have none But hang them all up one by one Therefore what outrages and cruelties will not these Sonnes of Belial commit against the Creature seeing all that they can invent will not satisfie their malice but as much as in them lyes doe abuse the Creator and the sacred person of our Saviour Christ himselfe Here would I faine make an end for as the consideration of these inhumanities and barbarous cruelties cannot but pirce the hardest heart that hath any love or regard to his native country for it makes my pen weary in writing these sad and pensive lynes to thinke that such horrid wicked practices should be acted in this land and by our owne nation which was first hatched in hell and by the working of the divill were afterwards practised in Ireland amongst the Rebells and from thence by the example of those Rebells together with their ayde and assistance is now daily acted in England FINIS