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A26729	Querela Cantabrigiensis, or, A remonstrance by way of apologie for the banished members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge by some of the said sufferers.	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1647 (1647)	Wing B1010; ESTC R13166	25,424	48

thinke they can stop the noise of all these just complaints with their usuall grinning objection that sundry of our Students are in the Kings Army making that to be their crime to which if their owne innate Loyaltie did not draw them yet their haughty and heathenish usage would of necessity drive them For who had not rather fall upon the bed of honour and assert with his dearest blood his Religion Loyaltie and Liberty then live a slave under them to set his surviving foot-steps upon the graves and ashes of expired Loyaltie Nobility Gentry Clergie and Civility it selfe And now to tell how they have prophaned and abused our severall Chappels though our pens flowed as fast with vineger and gall as our eyes doe with teares yet were it impossible sufficiently to be expressed when as multitudes of enraged Souldiers let loose to reforme have to me downe all carved worke not respecting the very Monuments of the dead And have ruined a beautifull carved structure in the Universitie Church though indeed that was not done without direction from a great one as appeared after upon complaint made to him which stood us in a great summe of money and had not one jot of Imagery or statue worke about it And when that Reverend man the then Vice-Chancelour told them mildly That they might be better imployed they returned him such Language as we are asham'd here to express Nor was it any whit strange to find whole Bands of Soldiers training and excercising in the Royall Chappell of King Henry the sixth Nay even the Commanders themselves being commanded to shew their new Major Generall * how well they understood their trade chose that place to trayne in whether in policy to conceale their Mysterie or out of feare to betray their ignorance or on purpose to shew their Soldiers how little Gods house was to be regarded let the world conjecture And one who calls himselfe John Dowsing and by vertue of a pretended Commission goes about the Country like a Bedlam breaking glosse windowes having battered and beaten downe all our painted glasse not only in our Chappels but contrary to Order in our publique Schools Colledge Halls Libraries and Chambers mistaking perhaps the Liberall Artes for Saints wth they in end in time to pull down too and having against an Order defaced and digged up the floors of our Chappels many of which had lien so for two or three hundred yeares together not regarding the dust of our founders and predecessors who likely were buried there compelled us by armed Souldiers to pay forty shillings a Colledge for not mending what hee had spoyled and defaced or forthwith to goe to Prison We shall need to use no more instances then these two to shew that neither place person nor thing hath any reverence or respect amongst them * A Fellow of one of our Colledges was violently pluckt from the Communion as hee was ready to receive that holy Sacrament before the solemne Election of a Master of that Colledge and thrown into Gaole to the great disturbance of the Election And at another * Colledge the Communion-Plate was most sacrilegiously seized upon and taken away from the very Communion Table notwithstanding it was upon a former Plunder restored to the said Colledge by an Order from the Close Committee of the 18. of September 1643. under the hands of the Earle of Pembrooke Earle of Denbigh Lord Say Lord Howard Sir William Waller and Master Pym And yet all these actions of theirs were but preparatory Pils to dispose our whole Body for its finall purge of Reformation when ever they should please to think it sick of us And that is this last act which is none of the least arguments of this our sad complaint For although wee were seldome in any freedome for any time neere these three yeares from some Protestation Oath Association Vow and Covenant c. menaced upon us yet this last onely brought with it the fatall doome of our finall extirpation though wee must have leave to wonder that all Liberty of Conscience should be denied us by them who lately pleaded nothing else against the established Ecclesiasticall lawes and now pretend partly to fight for the same But indeed the Covenant was not the true cause but the pretence onely for our Ejection for that is the word of Art for this newly invented Mystery as appeares by severall writs issued out under hand and seale without mention of refusing the Covenant The thing was absolutely determined by a perentptory decree to plant a new University for propagating at least if not inventing a new Religion And to that end the Old one must be removed at least so much of it for the present as might hinder this great designe onely some meanes and plausible pretences were yet wanting The first that was attempted was to summon all those that were absent to return within ten dayes But then they were so far to seek for reason of Ejection as that after almost halfe ten dayes more study all they could insert in their writ was For opposing the Proceedings of Parliament and other Scandalous Actions in the University Their tongues thereby testifying their mindes though perhaps out of incogitancy which are so furiously set upon their great worke of Reformation as to punish the opposing of Scandalous Actions with the losse of all a mans livelyhood Whether they were ashamed of the phrase or not we know not but they had very good reason to be ashamed of the Act being so different from all shew of Justice as to enjoyne impossibilities in commanding men to returne within twelve dayes after issuing the summons which at that time were above two hundred miles distant and had two Armies to passe through all the waies or enjoyning them to be resident at Cambridge whom themselves at the same time kept fast prisoners at London And yet for non appearance for no man knowes any other cause these must be ejected But though this be not so plausible yet they have a sure reserve their Solemne League and Covenant which comming from their deare Brethren of Scotland they thinke no penalty too great for refusall of it And this because it carries in its frontispice a pretence of Reformation comes not alone but though without any visible Order accompanied with a new Legislative fangle called An Oath of discovery but indeed was an Oath of Treachery a wild unlimited devise to call whom they would before them and make them accuse their nearest and dearest Friends Benefactors Tutors and Masters and betray the Members and Acts of their severall Societies manifestly contrary to our Peaceable Statutes formerly sworne unto by us which provide against all faction and sedition which these men only hunt after Viz. Non revelabis aliquod secretum Collegii Non malum aut damnum inferes Collegio aut cuilibet Sociorum And apparently reviving the Oath Ex Offishio as their Commissioners spell it abolished this

Querela Cantabrigiensis OR A REMONSTRANCE By way of APOLOGIE For the banished Members of the late flourishing UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE By some of the said sufferers S. MATTH. 10. 17 18. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councils and they will scourge you in their Synagogues And yee shall be brought before Governours c. Basil Magn Epist. 79. Eustach Episc. Sebastiae {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Anno Dom. 1647. AN ADVERTISEMENT To every indifferent Reader Christian Brethren and Fellow-Subjects IT is a memorable saying of an ancient Heathen Moralist Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent And the like may be said concerning sorrowes when they come once to over-charge the heart they stupifie it and obstruct those passages by which it should ease it selfe of them This hath been our particular case Our being deprived of our livelyhoods for how small a Trifle this ensuing Remonstrance will manifest hath filled our hearts with sorrow But when wee considered not onely the hand from whence this oppression cometh even that which pretexdeth to the infallible weild of the Sword of Justice but withall that through our sides such a fatall stroke is given to one of the most famous Vniversities of Christendome this sad prospect did so farre surcharge us with griefe that it cast us for a long time into a fit of Musing till at last the fire being kindled we spake with our tongue And now that the string of our tongue is untyed our earnest desire is that none of these its sorrowfull expressions may be mis-interpreted by any And to that end wee have prefixed this advertisement to prevent three mistakes which are all we can possibly imagine the malice of our greatest enemies can any way phancy against this our Remonstrance I. The first is That perhaps it may be groundlesse because we have not therein set down the expresse words either of those Protections by which we might securely have expected an Indempnity or of those Orders by which we suffered To which wee answer That the reason hereof was partly to avoid tediousnesse and therefore we gave onely some short hints in the margent And partly because being dispersed wee could not possibly have the true Copies of all of them by us And to publish any thing that was but supposititious could not consist with our constant endeavour still to maintaine the truth notwithstanding whatsoever difficulties to the contrary But yet to prevent all mistakes as neere as we can wee have here inserted the true Copies of such as wee had by us whereby the indifferent Reader will not onely guesse at the rest but also easily imagine what rigour and malice there was used in the execution of them which we assure him are as much or more then he can possibly phancie For they being to deale with an Vniversity which then had a reverend esteeme over the whole Kingdome must counterfeit Jacobs voice as much as possibly he could in their Orders though their hands were farre rougher then Esaus in the execution of them And accordingly though now it is too apparent it was but onely in mockery we had sent us these two following Protections Die Sabbati 4. Mar. 1642. THe Earle of Holland Chancellour of the University of Cambridge having this day represented in the House the present condition of the said University The Lords in Parliament apprehending that through the publique distractions and by reason of great multitudes of Souldiers resorting from severall places to the Towne of Cambridge some disturbance might happen to the quiet and studies of the Scholars For preventing therefore of any such mischiefe have thought fit to declare the esteeme and care they have of that ancient and noble Seminary of Learning And have accordingly Ordered That no person or persons whatsoever shall presume to offer any outrage or violence either by themselves or others unto any the Colledges Chappels Libraries Schooles or other buildings belonging to the said University or to any the Scholars or publique Ministers thereof Nor plunder purloyne deface spoyle or take away any the Bookes goods chattels or houshold-stuffe of or belonging to the said University or any Colledge there or to any Scholar or publique Minister thereof under any colour or pretence whatsoever as they will answer the contrary to this House at their utmost perils And that Divine Service may be quietly performed and executed throughout all the said University according to the settlement of the Church of England without any trouble let or disturbance untill the pleasure of the Parliament be further signified Provided neverthelesse that this Protection shall not extend to stop any due course of Law or proceeding of Parliament that may or might have had its course if this Protection had not been granted And herein ready obedience is to be given by all such whom this doth or may concerne as they will answer the contrary at their perils Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum THese are to will require and command you and every of you to forbeare under any pretence whatsoever to prejudice or offer any dammage to the University of Cambridge or to any the Schooles Colledges Halls Libraries Chappels or other places belonging to the said University by plundering the same or any part thereof in any kind whatsoever Hereof faile not as you will answer the contrary at your perils Given under my hand and seale the 7. day of March 1642. Essex To all Colonels Lieutenant-Colonels Captaines and all other officers and Souldiers of the Army under any command These indeed were our Protections but they were blasted in the bud by this following Warrant THese are to authorize you to enter into the houses of all Papists Malignants and other persons whatsoever that have or shall refuse to appeare at Musters or to contribute according to the Propositions of both Houses of Parliament or refuse to enter into the Association And to seize upon all such Horses Armes and Ammunition as shall be found in their custodies and to apprehend their said persons and them to be brought before mee or any one of the Deputy-Lievtenants of the County and in case of Resistance to force the same Commanding all Mayors Sheriffes Captaines Trained-Bands and other inferiour Officers whatsoever to be aiding and assisting to Colonel Coke herein Dated Feb. 23. 1642. Gray of Wark To Col. Coke Lieutenant-Col Brildon or any other of his Officers This Warrant was issued out the more suddenly and prosecuted the more violently in regard that our Protections were then in procuring But the rigorous prosecution of this made those to be of little or no use more then the name unlesse it was to shut the Stable doore after the Steed was stolne For under pretence of Papists Malignants c. there was scarce a Scholar in all the Vniversity which escaped examination And left our Colledge-Chappels Libraries or Treasuries or even the privatest Cabinet therein or in any of our Chambers or Studies should perchance have been