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A parish looking-glasse for persecutors of ministers ... or, The persecuted ministers apologie published by Richard Culmer ... in defence of his father, Richard Culmer ...
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Culmer, Richard, 17th cent.
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Wing C7482; ESTC R17172
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published in print two lying Libels against him One called The Razing of the Record or An Order to forbid any Thankâ—sgiving for the Canterbury News published by Richard Culmer Printed at Oxford in the year 1644. The other entituled Antidetum Culmerianum or Animadversions upon a late Pamphlet entituled Cathedral News from Canterbury Oxford Printed by H. Hall 1644. These Libels of private concernment M. Culmer thought fit to answer only with scorn and contempt amidst so many publick differences being confident that no wise man would believe that which no man doth avow or set his name to They publish in the Libels That he was famous in Cambridge for foot-ball playing and swimming but never thought to be cut out for a Mercury But he gave some specimen to the contrary in many publick Acts in the University I name only that in print in the Book called Lacryma Cantabrigienses upon the death of Queen Anne viz. Cyxthia Lucisluo conjungitur aurea Phoebo Phoebeo in terris conjux fuit Anna Jacobo Ecclipsin patitur Phoebe Sic deficit Anna Phoebus in Orbe micat Sic 〈…〉 lendet in Vrbe Jacobus Luna praeest undis Lachrymas tulit Anna Britannis Sol radiis undas siccat Splendore Jacobus Richard Culmer Col. Mag. And that report in the Libel touching his pulling out the spigots in the Colledge-cellar at Cambridge and his escape and running away and expulsion from the University is a meer forgery as many now living that were of that Colledge can testifie That also is a meer slander touching Richard Pising of Canterbury who is yet living there and can witnesse the contrary to that which the Libellers publisheth against M. Culmer And as touching that which they record touching M. Culmers being cast into the Fleet It was a crying persecution and injury done to him by the Archâ—bishop which the other Lords knew well and therefore released him upon their next sitting within five dayes But M. B. may thank Sir J. F. for his head And may thank his own prating tongue first and last for all his trouble then Many other silly fictions they invented and published in those railing Libels as that M. Culmer tied a rope about his fathers Cows horns to let himself down the Cliff in Thanet to reach Daws By such feigned Stories the Cathedrallists endeavoured to confute that true real History written by M. Culmer which caused them to gnaw their tongues for pain and to put so much Gall in their Ink in their pretended Confutation of his Book by those forgeries which are falsly called Culmerianum Antidotum Being deadly poyson to take away the life of his good Name and Reputation But I am confident that these ensuing Testimonials which are not forged but real under so many Names of worth will be a general Antidote and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} against all infection and prejudice to M. Culmers good Name and Reputation from those pestilent Libels whose Authors are De terra incognita of the unknown Land and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} namelesse But these Testimonials are not namelesse Civit. Cant. ss. WE the Maior and Aldermen of the City of Canterbury and other Inhabitants there at the request of Richard Culmer of the said City Clerk who hath lived in or near the said City for many years last past do hereby certifie That the said Richard Culmer is a man of exemplary Life and Conversation and an able and diligent Preacher of Gods Word In Testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names this tenth day of August Anno Dom. 1642. Cleve Carter Maior Avery Sabin James Master wil wbiting John Stanly John Lade William Bridge Danicl Masterson John Terry John Watson George Knot John Pollen Paul Pettit Vispasian Harris Peter Pyard Richard Juxon Themas Player George Yong Roger Sympson William Cullen Francis Maplesden George Milles Edward Norden Thomas Kingsford Thomas Trusser John Sympson Walter Mond John Routh Edward Master John Nutt William Man Edward Berry John James Henry James Giles Master Nicholas knight Henry White Allen Epps John Bix William Russel William Jones William Master Robert Beak George Nichels William Cullen Sen. William Glover Matthew Spencer John Woodware Richard Hardris Christopher Harslet Edmond Crisp Thomas Den Robert Lade Edward Engeham Edmona Randolph Edward Aldy Rector of St Andrews in Canterbury James Nicholson Philip Delme Thomas Ventris Rector Sanctae Margaretae John Player Thomas Courthop John Lee Michael Page William Taylour Thomas Ventris This is a true Copy of the Original remaining in the Assembly Henry Roborough Scriba Adoniram Bifield Scriba John Wallis To the Honourable Committee of Parliament for Plundered Ministers Honourable Sirs VVE are bold to move you in the behalf of Mr Richard Culmer a Minister who lives in Canterbury The Burgesses Maior and Principal Inhabitants whereof do give a very good Testimony of him under their hands in writing whom we also know to be as they testifie of him And we further testifie That he hath been a very forward advancer of the Common Cause by his Ministry and otherwise from the beginning of these distractions And was long suspended for not publishing the Book for Sabbath sports But now is altogether unprovided of a setled Ministry Our earnest request is That he may be taken into your consideration and provided for somewhere in these parts We are very unwilling such men should be discouraged or that the ill-affected should point at them as unregarded So we humbly take leave and remain Octob 9. 1643. Your Loving Friends to be commanded John Lade Maior James Oxinden John Boys William Man Michael Lewsie Ri. Hardres Edward Scot Thomas Westrow Mark Dixwell Edward Boys John Boys This is a true Copy of the Original remaining in the Assembly Henry Roborough Scriba Adoniram Bifield Scriba John Wallis To the Honourable the Committee appointed by the Parliament for Plundered Ministers Gentlemen I Do herewith present unto you M. Richard Culmer a Minister of Canterbury who though I cannot properly say he hath been plundered yet hath lost much for not publishing the Book for Sabbath sports And I have had personal experience from the first of these distractions of his fidelity and great activenesse in the Common Cause And now seeing a Testimonial under the hands of the Burgesses for Canterbury and of the Maior and many well-affected chief Inhabitants there That he is a man of exemplary life and an able and diligent Preacher And seeing also Letters directed to you in his behalf from many of the Deputy-Lieutenants of Kent And for asmuch as I am certified that the Archdeacon of Canterbury hath deserted his Cure at Ickham near Sandwich in Kent My earnest request to you is That Mr Culmer may by your Order officiate that Cure and be setled in it if the Archdeacon shall be removed out of it And I am the rather willing to move you on Mr Culmers behalf for that I know the House of Lords taking him into special
Benefice did joyn in the Persecution and did publish that prophane Book in that Parish Church on the Sabbath-day in the presence of Mr Culmer and of the people there But a year after he lost his goods by fire and the next year he himself was drowned in the water And Mr D. yet living then Curate to the Bishop of Rochester at Barham did that Sabbath also publish in the Church at Goodnestone the unjust Decree of Suspension made against Mr Culmer in the Arch-bishops Ecclesiastical Court by the Arch bishops special Order and Command to Sr N. B. But a little after this the people of Barham fell to dancing on the Sabbath and a quarrel arose about a wager between two dancers and he that won the wager had his brains knockt out that Sabbath But at the first coming in of the Scots into England the persecuting Arch-bishop who a little after was beheaded at Tower-hill for Treason c. presently absolved Mr Culmer who might justly say Garamercy good Scot for his Absolution And he being at liberty to preach was presently called by Dr Robert Ausâ—in now living to be his Assistant at Harbledown near Canterbury where he preached divers years and had very many Auditors from that famous City But there also he was persecuted for his actings against drunkennesse and against prophaning the Sabbath by Crickit playing before his door to spite him which when he had reproved privately and publickly they removed that sport to a field near the Woods where they threw stones at his Sonnes whom he sent to see if they played there and upon publick reproof the Church-warden whose wise was for just cause denied the Sacrament bought boards to keep the people of Canterbury out of the Church Seats And the grandee Persecutor J. W. used to go with his crew of brawlers and railers his wife especially upon the Sabbath to the Parsonage-house and there did clamour and bawl to the Doctor to move him that Mr Culmer might preach no more there and one of them S. S. cried out saying It is a shame to speak what he hath done and being asked by the Doctor what Mr Culmer had done the only answer of the accuser was Why was he turned out of Goodnestone And being urged to speak what he could say more he could not alledge any thing else By this the Magistrate may see that some people are like a kennel of Hounds that will bark for company if one or two bark against a Minister then presently one and all right or wrong as of old they all cried Not him they all cried Crucifie him c. The upholding of the noise and cry was Oh our souls our souls will you damn our souls we cannot edifie by one we love not But when their clamours prevailed not they writ Articles against Mr Culmer as followeth That he refuseth to administer the Sacrament according to the Church of England That he raised scandals of the Parish in the Pulpit That he made differences between Neighbours That some refuse to hear him and others declare they cannot edifie by him These and only these Articles they exhibited to the Doctor who having heard all things objected against Mr Culmer gave them an answer that what they objected he found either frivolous or false And he reproved a rich widow Mrs R who being asked Why she clamoured her only Answer was that Mr Culmer had said to the Overseers of the poor that he wondered that she refused to pay her assessement of 2s 6d to the poor But the Doctor being elsewhere provided of a Benefice wholly left that place to the Patron who placed a Minister there And when they were told a little after that they had made a sorry exchange in the room of M Culmer It was answered We care not whom we have nâ—w we are rid of M. Culmer But what is become of those Persecutors of M. Culmer is famously known One of them E. Br. because M Culmer would not give him the Sacrament immediately after he had been drunk and did pursue his wife with a drawn sword did thereupon write a Petition against M. Culmer and went about the Parish to get Subscriptions to it was a little after found guilty of Felony and was burnt in the hand at the Sessions at Canterbury And you may now finde the Grandee Persecutor J. W. in the Goal at Canterbury his sonne used to thresh Corn on the Sabbath mornings for fodder And now after the death of two Ministers the third having little encouragement amongst them left them destitute And after M. Culmer lest preaching at Harbledown he preached in Canterbury and there he and other Ministers were appointed by Authority or Parliament to detect and cause to be demolished the superstitious Inscriptions and Idolatrous Monuments in the Cathedral in Canterbury And when they came to the great high priz'd most idolatrous Window in the Chappel of Thomas Becket in that Cathedral the Labourers not acting as was desired M. Culmer laid If we neglect this opportunity we may repent it and thereupon threw off his Cloak and took a whole Pike in his hand and went up a Ladder fifty six steps high and did full execution upon the Idolatrous Monuments there whereupon some stirres began a Prebends wife cried out Save the childe meaning Christ lying in the Manger pictured there and M. Culmers bloud was then threatned by some that stood without the iron grates in the body of the Church But M. John Lade then Maior of Canterbury sent a file of Musqueteers who conveyed Mr. Culmer safe home to his own house And a little after M. Culmer published a Book entituled Cathedral News from Canterbury which is a true History of the sins and plagues of that Cathedral Babel The Title page of that Book is Cathedral News from Canterbury shewing the Canterburian Cathedral to be in an. Abbey like corrupt and rotten condition which cals for a speedy Reformation or Dissolution which Dissolution is already foreshewn and begun there by many remarkable Passages upon that place and the Prelates there Recorded and published by Richard Culmer Minister of Gods Word dwelling in Canterbury heretofore of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge Master of Arts If I should hold my peace the stones would immediately cry out Luk. 19. 40. Imprimatur John White I have perused this Relation of Cathedral News and therein observe that the hand of Providence hath indeed wrought a new thing in our Israel Worthy to be lookt upon by all with a due mixture of wonder and thankefulness And therefore conceive it necessary to be published to the view of all Jo. Caryl Printed for Fulk Cliston c. But this Book being the finger in the Bile and swelling Ulcer of Prelacy and Cathedrals Immediately upon the first publishing of it the nest of Cathedral Hornets at Canterbury and their waspish Malignant Adherents flew about M. Culmers ears bombalizing and toating so loud that City and Countrey rang of their railing and libellings They presently