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
Committee 14 pieces of Ordnance with store of Arms and Ammunition 30 Officers and common Soldiers proportionable whereby South-Wales is much secured November the 23 d. The King having thus victoriously defeated two of their Armies and driven away the third came to Oxford to entertain an overture of Peace certain Propositions being the same day come thither from London having disposed of his Army to their Winter Quarters November the 26 th A Vote passed by the members of the House of Commons at Westminster for the utter abolishing and taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer with intention to set up a new device to be called a Directory in its room December the 13 th His Majesty out of his wonted desire of Peace sent the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster for a Treaty as the best expedient for Peace About the middle of this month Helmsley Castle in Yorkeshire which had been gallantly defended during 16 weeks siege by Capt. Jordan Crosland and some others was delivered up to the Rebels under command of the Lord Fairfax upon honourable conditions to march away the Governour and Officers with their horses and Arms the rest without Arms. In this siege the Defendants amongst others made one remarkable salley wherein they took Sergeant Major General Forbs a Scot Prisoner with divers others here did Sir T. Fairfax also receive a shot in the Shoulder from the Castle December the 22 d. Colonel Eyre with some horse from Newarke took two Troops of horse at Upton belonging to the Rebels of Nottingham brought the Men Colours Horses and Arms all safe to Newarke December the 23 d. Sir Alexander Carew was beheaded on Tower-hill by Martial Law for intending to deliver up the Island at Plymouth to His Majesty he was observed to be most violent against His Majesty in the beginning of this Rebellion but it should seem he had of late some disposition to be a convert which made his fellow Members think fit to dispatch him to another World December the 24. Sir William Vaughan Governour of Shrawarden Castle for His Majesty fell on a party of Rebels at Welch Poole cammanded by Sir John Price kill'd some wounded others took 47 Prisoners 64 horse and many Arms. December the 28 th A party of the Lord Gorings Forces took Master Blakes house at Pinnel near Calne in Wiltshire and in it 59 Rebels but more Arms. December the 31 st The Members at Westminster Voted Sir Thomas Fairfax to be their new General cashiering the Earl of Essex with whom they had formerly sworn to live and die January the 1 st Young Hotham was beheaded on Tower-hill and Sir John Hotham his Father the morrow after both by Martial Law Here the Reader may take notice of a special mark of Gods judgment for the 23 April 1642. when old Hotham denied His Majesty admittance into Hull he held up his hands and prayed God never to prosper him or hiis posterity if he were not His Majesties Loyal Subject And now see both Father and Son adjudged by their fellow Members and condemned by their own beloved Marshal Law for intending to deliver up Hull to His Majesty The same first of January the Lord Astley took Lypyate House in Gloucestershire and in it 45 Prisoners with all their Arms Victuals and Ammunition Soon after this Sir Marmaduke Langdale totally routed Col. Ludlowes Regiment of horse at Salisbury took five Rebel-Captains Prisoners besides under-Officers and 80 common Soldiers 150 Horse and Arms with there Colours Ludlow himself hardly escaping January the 10 th The Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was beheaded on Tower-hill It would be too long here where we aim at brevity to set down the particulars of his imprisonments the preposterous proceedings against him in his Trial and his pious magnanimity at the time of his death his Sermon on the Scaffold whereof here follows a true copy will satisfie the World that he died innocently and which is more that His Majesty hath been unjustly accused of an inclination to Popery Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and it set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked to Jesus the author and finisher of my Faith He best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Cross a death of shame but the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red-Sea and my feet are now upon the very brink of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sour Herbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sour Herbs as well as the Lambe And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand which gathereth them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me than what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red-Sea for I have the weakness and infirmities of flesh and blood plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour ut transiret Calix iste that this Cup of red Wine might pass from me But if not Gods will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good People that when Gods Servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Aegyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same Waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of Blood as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor will I the imaginations which the People are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the truth of God to follow the bleating of Jereboams Calf in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see
a window in Cover Town with 5 common Soldiers only on His Majesties part The other in the beginning of July 1643. about which time Col. now Lord Jermyn with those Forces that guarded Her Majesty out of the North assisted by Col. Hastings now Lord Lowghborough took Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire by assault wherein there was taken Col. Houghton the Governour with all the inferiour Officers above 400 common Soldiers 8 pieces of Ordnance and good store of Ammunition and this done without any considerable loss The End Mercurius Belgicus OR Memorable Occurrences in Anno 1645. MARCH the 25 th 1645. The Lord Goring routed a party of the Rebels horse at Pitmaster neer Taunton in Summersetshire slew Major Roy that commanded them took 100 horse and Arms and about 50 Prisoners April the 1 st Major General Sir John Digby with a brigade of horse and Dragoons beat up the Rebels Quarters at and about Wincaunton took 100 Prisoners 2 Colours 300 horse and as many Arms without any considerable loss on His Majesties part April the 5 th A party of the Lord Gorings horse routed Colonel Pophams Regiment in Wiltshire kill'd 40 of them took Major Car that commanded them with at least 120 Prisoners with their horses and Arms. April the 14 th the siege of High-archall in Shropshire which had been continued by the Rebels for the space of 17 days was raised by themselves during this siege the defendants commanded by Sir Vincent Corbet and Capt. Armorer in several sallies kill'd and took at least 500 Rebels and 4 pieces of Ordnance April the 19 th A party of His Majesties Forces from Newark took the Fort at Nottingham Bridg by Scalado took some 50 Rebels in it besides an Ensign and 10 others kill'd and drowned 30 horse 200 Arms and 5 pieces of Ordnance Thâ—â— Fort His Majesties Forces held about 11 days and then quitted it without any loss April the 22 d. Col. Masseyes Forces were totally routed by Prince Rupert at Ledbury in Hereford-shire where above 100 of them were slain Major Backhouse and neer 400 Prisoners taken whereof 27 Officers besides many hundred of Arms with all their Baggage and this done with the loss of but 5 common Soldiers only on His Majesties part April the 23 d. Major General Laughorne lying at the siege of Newcastle Emblin in Carmarden-shire was totally defeated by His Majesties Forces commanded by Col. now Lord Gerard who kill'd 200 of his men on the place took neer 500 Prisoners with all their Arms Ordnance and Baggage with the loss only of about 26 men on His Majesties part and some hurt April the 24 th Col. Cromwell the Independent General routed a party of 200 of His Majesties horse neer Oxford and no sooner summoned Blechington house but 't was delivered up to him by Col. Windebank the Governour who was soon after Condemned therefore by a Counsel of War and executed at Oxford accordingly April the 30 th Cromwell assaulted His Majesties Garrison of Farrington commanded as then by Lieutenant Colonel Burges who defended the place with such gallantry that Cromwell was repulsed with the loss of neer 200 men besides what were wounded a Captain and some others also taken Prisoners May the 7 th The Lord Goring routed a strong party of Cromwells horse near New-bridge betwixt Oxford-shire and Barkshire kill'd and wounded at least 80 took Major Bethell that commanded in chief Prisoner with divers common Soldiers and 2 Colours In the beginning of this month that unheard-of cruelty was put in practise in and about London by certain persons men and women appointed and authorized to inveigle and intice Children from their Parents and without their knowledge and so convey them on Shipboard to be sold and transported to new Plantations the Lord knows where This so much discontented the People that the houses at Westminster were glad to disavow the thing and forthwith make an order against it May the 11 th His Majesties Forces made a gallant sally from Scarborougb Castle wounded Sir John Meldrum that commanded the siege whereof he not long after dyed slew Colonel Cockeram Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Major Dent Captain Piercy and 50 others whereof most Commanders and took divers Prisoners On His Majesties part were only slain Capt. Gower and some 4 common Soldiers Soon after Capt. Zachary that commanded one of the Ships in the harbour of the Rebels Received a shot from the Castle whereof he dyed May the 15 th Hawkesley house a Garrison of the Rebels in Worcester-shire was surrendred to His Majesty the Governour Captain Gouge and 80 Soldiers submitting to mercy and the house afterwards slighted This done His Majesty with his Army marched towards Chester which had been long besieged by Sir William Bruerton but before His Majesty came within 20 miles of it the Rebels raised their siege May the 26 th Massey took Evesholme in Worcestershire a Garrison of His Majesties by storm and in it Col. Leg the Governour and some 300 common Soldiers with the loss only of about 20 men kill'd but more wounded May the 30 th His Majesties Army sate down before Leicester and the morrow morning early took it by storm and in it the whole Committee Sir Robert Pye and many hundred Prisoners many horses much Powder Arms and Ordnance and great store of wealth In the assault on His Majesties part were slain Col. St. George and about 80 others but of the Rebels about 120. The same day the Rebels quitted their several Garrisons of Bagworth Colehorton Kirby-bellows and Burleigh Whilst His Majesties Army was thus busied at Leicest Sir Thomas Fairfax the Rebels new General lay some 15 days blocking up of Oxford though fruitlessly for by several Sallies thence he lost many of his men some kill'd others taken Prisoners and not a small number running away so that he raised his siege thence the beginning of June And June 4. he assaulted Borstall house commanded by Sir William Campion for His Majesty but was beaten off with the loss of 300 of his men the brave Garrison losing but one man and 4 hurt June the 6 th there fell a strange hail storm in that part of Licestershire which is in and about Loughborough some of the Hailstones were as big as small hens eggs and the least as big as musquet bullets it destroyed the Corn and did much hurt in that part of the Country were it fell June the 9 th His Majesties Forces encountred a body of Rebels near Stokesey in Shorp-shire but being over-powred were forced to retreat with the loss of Sir William Croft a gallant Gentleman and some others June the 14 th Was that fatal Battle at Naesby-Down in Northamptonshire where His Majesties Army till then victorious was now by the incertainty of War much worsted his foot Ordnance and Baggage most lost In this battel Sir Peter Brown Sir Thomas Dallison Gol. Bawd Major Wilson and Capt. Thorold on His Majesties part were slain the whole number on both sides slain
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
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 defiâ—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
would more inhumanly have abused a flourishing University than these pretended advancers of Religion and Learning have done it being a constant custom if not also the Law of Nations in the fiercest encounters of the most enraged parties to exempt and priviledge Scholars from if not protect them by their Martial proceedings To begin therefore with the first occasiion as we conceive from whence they pretended any cause of this rage and persecution against us though the meer conscience of so sensless a Rebellion cryed up only by the illiterate herd might afford reason enough for them to look asquint upon all Scholars quâ tales The contribution of a small pittance of Money to our Sovereigns extream necessity before any War was thought on by us is made to be our unpardonable crime though not then prohibited by any Order or Ordinance which added to the tenderness of our consciences in refusing their wicked confederacy commonly called the Covenant by the help of their Legislative Engine has bereaved us of all and cast us from our livelyhoods maintenance and Colledges For when His Sacred Majesty whom they made to be the first Grand Delinquent and whose Crown-Revenues and Estate together with his Towns Ships and Magazines they sequestred and seized on deigned by His Royal Letters to acquaint His poor University with His strange wants even of sustenance for his very houshold Our hearts burned within us to hear our living Founder whom we expected to be made by that time a great and glorious King as was promised him should almost starve while we had bread on our Table Whereupon out of our poverty a small and inconsiderable sum of Money was collected and tendered as a Testimony not only of our Loyalty to him as King or of our gratitude as our most gracious and bountiful Protector and Benefactor but also of our Charity to him as a Christian then in extream want and necessity We hope our Persecutors will Pardon us this expression seeing our Metaphysicks may with less danger of Treason abstract Charles from King than their bullets and this was the first flower out of which they suck'd all their venom which shortly after they disgorged upon us Hereupon his Sacred Majesty knowing well how eager that party was in revenging the least seeming provocation and being informed of that Cloud which was then hanging over us and ours for that action of Humanity Loyalty and Christianâ—ty out of his care and tenderness proffered to secure our Colledge Plate if we were content to deposite it in his hands which their intended Revenge had already swallowed without any Grace so much as of the publick faith and therefore wrote his most gracious Letters to us to take an exact survey of it not only for the weight but also of the form of every piece together with the Names Arms and Mottoes of the respective Donors that if perhaps his Majesty could not preserve it entire as it was he might restore it hereafter in the same weight and form and with the same marks All which he graciously insured upon his Royal word It behoved not us to refuse protection from that hand to which God for that end had entrusted a Scepter especially considering the concurrence of Actions about that time It is not unknown to most part of this Kingdom that not long before this the zealous Brethren of Essex and Suffolk had packt themselves together in a Religious Rout to give the first Essay of a Popular Reformation How happily this work did thrive in their hands has been already published to the Kingdom and the ruines of the two magnificent houses of the Countess Rivers with many other Gentlemens houses of quality are still dismal witnesses So that having found the sweet of their labours the Reformers would in all likelyhood have prosecuted the great work as far as Cambridge for a less prize than our University thanks be to God and our good Benefactors And we had good reason to fear the increase of their Army if they had come near us seeing the inferiour part of the Town had provided Arms and yet had no Commanders and some that durst discharge a Musquet made it their practice to terrifie us and disturb our Studies by shooting in at our windows And therefore lest our Plate should become a bait to have our Liberties rifled our Colledge pulled down and perhaps our Throats cut we thought it our wisest course to secure all by securing that in His Majesties gracious hands Upon these reasons which no judicious man will esteem otherwise than weighty we endeavoured to convey away some part of our Plate about the beginning of August 1642. which by the way was before either His Majesty Standard was erected or his Proclamation issued out to that end However many of us and others have suffered for it as fomenters of this War But within a few dayes after see how the just grounds of our fears concentred one Master Cromwell Burgess for the Town of Cambridge and then newly turn'd a man of War was sent down by his Masters above at the invitation of his Masters below as himself confessed to gather what strength he could to stop all passages that no Plate might be sent But his designs being frustrated and his opinion as of an active subtile man thereby somewhat shaken and endangered he hath ever since bent himself to work what revenge and mischief he could against us In pursuit whereof before that month was expired down he comes again in a terrible manner with what Forces he could draw together and surrounds divers Colledges while we were at our devotion in our several Chappels taking away Prisoners several Doctors of Divinity Heads of Colledges viz. D. Beale Master of S. Johns Colledge D. Martin Master of Queens Colledge and D. Sterne Master of Jesus Colledge men of such eminent worth and abilities as render them above the reach of our commendation and these he carryes with him to London in triumph And though there was an express Order from the Lords House for their imprisonment in the Tower which met them at Tottenham-high-crosse wherein notwithstanding there was no Crime expressed yet were they led captive through Bartholmew-fair and so as far as Temple-bar and back through the City to Prison in the Tower on purpose that they might be houted at or stoned by the Rable-rout Since which time now about three years together they have been hurryed up and down from one Prison to another at excessive and unreasonable charges and fees exacted from them far beyond their abilities to defray having all their goods Plundered and their Masterships and Livings taken from them which should preserve them from famishing And though in all this time there was never any Accusation brought much less proved against any of them yet have they suffered intolerable imprisonment ever since both by Land and Water especially that in the Ship where for ten days togetheâ— they with many other Gentlemen of great rank were kept
their new Major General how well they understood their trade chose that place to train in whether in policy to conceal their Mistery or out of fear 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 himself John Dowsing and by vertue of a pretended Commission goes about the Country like a Bedlam breaking glass windows having battered and beaten down all our painted glass not only in our Chappels but contrary to Order in our publick Schools College-Halls Libraries and Chambers mistaking perhaps the Liberal Arts for Saints which they intend in time to pull down too and having against an Order defaced and digged up the floors of our Chappels many of which had lain so for two or three hundred years together not regarding the dust of our founders and predecessors who likely were Buried there compelled us by armed Soldiers to pay forty shillings a College for not mending what he had spoiled and defaced or forthwith to go to Prison We shall need to use no more instances than these two to shew that neither place person nor thing hath any reverence or respect amongst them A Fellow of one of our Colleges was violently pluckt from the Communion as he was ready to receive that holy Sacrament before the solemn Election of a Master of that College and thrown into Goal to the great disturbance of the Election And at another * College the Communion Plate was sacrilegiously seised upon and taken away from the very Communion Table notwithstanding it was upon a former Plunder restored to the said College by an Order from the Close Committee of the 18. of Septemb. 1643. under the hands of the Earl of Pembroke Earl of Denbigh Lord Say Lord Howard Sir Wil. Waller and Mr. Pym. And yet all these actions of theirs were but preparatory Pills to dispose our whole Body for its final 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 we were seldom in any freedom for any time near these three years from some Protestation Oath Association Vow and Covenant c. menaced upon us yet this last only brought with it the fatal doom of our final extirpation though we must have leave to wonder that all Liberty of Conscience should be denied us by them who latety pleaded nothing else against the established Ecclesiastical Laws and now pretended partly to fight for the same But indeed the Covenant was not the true cause but the pretence only for our Ejection for that is the word of Art for this newly invented Mistery as appears by several writs issued out under hand and seal without mention of refusing the Covenant The thing was absolutely determined by a peremptory 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 design Only some means and plausible pretences were yet wanting The first that was attempted was to summon all those that were absent to return within ten days But then they were so far to seek for reasons of Ejection as that after almost half ten days 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 minds though perhaps out of incogitancy which are so furiously set upon their great work of Reformation as to punish the opposing Scandalous Actions with the loss 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 enjoyn impossibilities in commanding men to return within twelve days after issuing the summons which at that time were above two hundred miles distant and had two Armies to pass through all the ways 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 knows any other cause these must be Ejected But though this be not so plausible yet they have a sure reserve their Solemn League and Covenant which coming from their dear Brethren of Scotland they think no penalty too great for refusal of it And this because it carries in its frontispiece a pretence of Rrformation 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 device 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 several Societies manifestly contrary to our Peaceable Statutes formerly sworn 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 present Parliament to accuse our selves For what is it else to accuse our own Societies and Corporations whereof our selves are parts and members And though we would not any whit derogate from the Oath Ex Officio as it is used this day in most Christian Kingdoms and Common-wealths nay even in Scotland and Geneva and may be of excellent use if not stretched beyond the due limits of Law yet this Oath of Discovery all we think except one or two refused perceiving that thereby the design of a second Century was to be promoted for they finding no accusation or crime objected against any of us where with to colour their ugly purposes which they had already plotted in private against us and yet their Covenant must be for Reformation they resolved to shrive us with an Auricular Confession sanctified to the Cause that so we might help them out with their malice which was otherwise like to be born blind though hitherto it hath been Eagle-eyed over our most venial slips And forthwith upon refusal of this Oath was their Solemn League and Covenant urged upon us We cannot but signifie by the way that seeing it must be tendered to the University as their Printed instructions told us we hoped it should have been to the whole body Statuteably assembled either to admit of or otherwise humbly to shew reasons of denial but they were wise enough to foresee what entertainment such stuff was like to find from all the Learned men of so famous an Unversity and were not willing it should be blasted with their Universal refusal And therefore contrary to our hopes a selected number of particular
took 2000 Prisoners with all the Horse Arms and Ammunition which either the Rebels found in the Town or brought thither with them Hereupon the Rebels deserted the Town of Hallifax and presently after Sir Hugh Cholmely fell upon Beverly and took it for his Majesty July the 5 th Master Tomkins and Master Challoner were most barbarously Murthered by the Rebels in London for their Fidelity to his Majesty And the same fifth day there was a fight on Landsdown-hill betwixt His Majesties Forces under the command of the Marquess of Hartford and the Rebels under Sir William Waller who after 11 hours fight stuck their lighted matches in the hedges and ran quite away leaving behind them above 500 Musquets 14 barrels of Powder a whole Stand of Pikes with good store of all sorts of Arms. Their Foot were absolutely routed and all dispersed his loss of Officers and horse was great many hundreds of his men were killed His Majesties forces having the pillage of the field And here was that most valiant Knight Sir Bevill Greenvill unfortunately slain in the Front of his men with some others of less Quality The 13 th of July about four a Clock in the Afternoon the King and Queens Majesty met at Edge-hill where the Rebels had received their main overthrow and the same day and hour His Majesties Forces under the Command of the Lord Wilmot Lieutenant General of the Horse the Earl of Carnarvon the Earl of Crawford and the Lord Biron obtained another great and strange victory upon Round-way-down with 1500 horse and two smal pieces of Cannon only wherewith they totally routed the Rebels Army under the Command of the old-beaten Soldier Sir William Waller consisting of above 2500 Foot and 2000 Horse besides 500 Dragoons with 8 pieces of Brass Ordnance slew 600 of them in the place took above 900 Prisoners all their Cannon Arms Ammunition Waggons Baggage and Victual 28 Foot-Ensigns 9 Cornets and left not one Rebel but what was either killed taken Prisoner or narrowly escaped Upon the 24 th of July his Highness Prince Rupert having joyned his Forces to his Brothers and the whole body of their strength being brought together they sate down before Bristol and began their Batteries And the 26 day with unexpressible valour they gained the Out-works and the 27 day following the City and Castle was delivered up to His sacred Majesty with all the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition At this siege were slain on His Majesties part Sir Nicolas Slanning one of the Lunsfords with some few others and that valiant Lord the Lord Grandison did here receive a wound August the 3 d. Corf-castle in the Isle of Purbecke which had been so often before besieged by Sir Walter Earle but had always beaten off the Rebels and killed their Cannoniers was once more fallen upon by the Rebels who were so bravely received by Captain Laurence that 60 of them were kill'd in the place the rest hearing of the most valiant Earl of Carnarvons approach ran away Soon after the Earl of Carnarvon Summoned Dorchester which was thereupon delivered up to his Lordship with all the Arms Ammunition and Cannon which were disposed of for His Majesties use About the 9 th of August the Castle and Isle of Portland were reduced again under His Majesties command And the Town and Haven of Weymouth and Melcombe submitted to His Majesty August the 20 th Colonel Jo. Digby defeated the Rebels of Biddeford and Barnstable killed 100 of their Foot took 211 Officers and common Soldiers Prisoners most of which were miserably wounded two pieces of Ordnance six barrels of Powder 400 weight of Bullet 200 and a half of Match and above 300 Arms besides all the Foot-Officers horses Pursued their horse to the very works of Biddeford and returned victoriously without the loss of more than one man not one of the rest of his Soldiers being so much as hurt all that day Upon the 2 d. and 3 d of September the Towns of Biddeford Appleford and Barnstable delivered up their several Garrisons to His Majesty Upon the same 3 d. of September Prince Maurice gave a very hot assault upon the City of Exeter and battered the Walls whereupon the Rebels desired Parley but refusing the conditions the assault was afterwards eagerly pursued and the next day after won the great Sconce turned the Ordnance there against the Town Whereupon the Rebels craved to be admitted unto those conditions which before they rejected and obtained the same delivered up the Town and Castle to the Prince his Highness with all the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition after it had been blockt up and besieged about six weeks September the 17 th the Rebels Army stealing out of Gloucestershire towards London surprised part of a new raised Regiment of His Majesties horse at Cirencester but were overtaken by Prince Rupert with His Majesties horse near Auburne in Wiltshire where he gave them two charges the one by a commanded Party under Colonel Urrey the other by the Queens Regiment commanded by the Lord Iermin who performed it so well on the Rebels whole Army that many great bodies of Foot were routed and many of them slain in the place without any loss to His Majesties Forces save two common Soldiers killed and the Marquess de la Vienville taken Prisoner who was afterwards Murthered by the Rebels in cold Blood and the Lord Digby and Lord Iermyn lightly wounded by which two charges the Rebels Army was so retarded that His Majesty had time to overtake them with his Foot and on Wednesday after the 20 th of this month upon an Hill near Newberry and Enborne-heath His Majesty fought with the Rebels who were seated in the most advantageous place imaginable yet in despight of all their Cannon Foot and Horse His Majesty beat them from their ground gained the Hill and one piece of their brass Ordnance and quickly routed all their horse upon the Heath The most that were killed in this fight of His Majesties Forces exceeded not the number of 300 though above 600 of the Rebels were slain and a very great number wounded In this fight were slain the most Noble and valiant Earl of Carnarvon the Earl of Sunderland the Lord Viscount Faulkland Col. Morgan Captain William Symcots with some other Gentlemen and Commanders After this fight the Rebels were further pursued and routed again so as they fled into Reading where they durst not stay but left the Town for His Majesty September the 25 th That pernicious confederacy called the National covenant was taken by the Members of the House of Commons at Westminster in S. Margarets Church October the 18 th the Pince of Harcourt Lord Ambassadour Extraordinary from the French King and Queen Regent after he had been most barbarously used in his passage by the Rebels came safe into Oxford where he had entertainment more suitable to the worth of so great a Personage In this month of October His Majesties Forces under the command of the Lord Widdrington
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