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

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

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

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