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A58041	Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.	Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.; Barwick, John, 1612-1664. Querela Cantabrigiensis.; Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681. Mercurius Belgicus.	1685 (1685)	Wing R2449; ESTC R35156	215,463	414

his Soul and the indangering the Souls of his Parishoners one Lemuel Tuke is appointed Lecturer in Master Simmons his Church a man by education a Weaver and that had not so much as saluted either University yet while men slept he intruded into a Cure of Souls in Nottinghamshire from which ever since 〈◊〉 the Parliament began he hath been a Nonresident for not long after the sitting of this Parliament his Parishoners framed a Bill against him to the Lower House Articling against him not only as negligent but insufficient in his calling Nay they accuse him of no less than Barretry and Battery Drunkenness and Whordom and some such other sins which in the judgment of all honest men make a man truly and properly scandalous yet this man thus Articled against to the House of Commons as Scandalous is thought worthy to be substituted as a Coadjutor in Mr. Simmons his Cure who only was voted Scandalous because not Rebellious so that all the World may judge what it is to be scandalous in this new sense To honour the King and to live in obedience to the established orders of the Church Thirdly having preached that it was unlawful to take up Arms against the King and contrary to the Doctrine of the Scriptures to contribute to a War against him in opposition to Lemuel Tuke who laboured to poison his People with Sedition and Rebellion affirming openly that in some Cases it was lawful not only to Resist but which I tremble to relate to kill the King instancing in the example of Athaliah 2 King 11. yet the said Tuke is countenanced and encouraged whereas Master Simmons for asserting the Truth was summoned before the Committee there to answer as a Delinquent who was so far from a Retractation that he justified the Doctrine which he did so fully that one of the Committee was convicted of it yet as he himself did so he would have Master Simmons to withold that Truth in unrighteousness for Sir Thomas Barrington who was the man confessed that it was a Truth and a Divine Truth yet not fit to be preached at all times no not by those that were intrusted with it by God himself no though it might be in some danger of Impeachment At last being charged to preach no more such Doctrine and putting in bail by the Committee he is permitted to return to his charge But behold what it is to be voted a Delinquent or a scandalous Minister by the Committee it is to be put out of the protection of the Law and exposed to the fury of the people for on his return Oath is made before a Justice of Peace that at Halstead in Essex it was concluded that an hundred men from Cogshall and Colchester side some of that Crew that plundered Sir John Lucas his house should suddenly surprize Mr. Simmons in his house Plunder his goods and cut off his person as one not fit to live because he was as they said against the Parliament But by the good providence of God this Conspiracy was discovered and prevented Fourthly they oppressed him in his State for after his return home seeing the necessity of opposing that inundation of wickedness which was overflowing his Charge and pressed earnestly in conscience according to his duty and place to labour to undermine that throne of Satan which by the Luxation of the nerves and sinews of Government was like to be set up both there and in all parts of the Kingdom he bent himself in his Sermon chiefly against the prevailing sins of the time as Lying and Slandering Rebellion and Treason Pride and Oppression Malice and Cruelty yet these Sermons by his malicious enemies were interpreted little better than Libells against the Parliament and upon Information given he was sent for up three or four times to the Lower House to his very great charge and trouble tho when he came to London he was never called to answer to the Accusation And because he refused to contribute voluntarily to the maintenance of the Rebellion his malicious Neighbours resolved to extort it from him in a seeming legal way for in the rates made for the Royal Subsidy they raised him far beyond his just proportion and therefore in the first rate they seized him twice as much and in the second almost thrice as much as themselves and contrived their business so cunningly that they caused him to be sent for up to the Parliament while these things were in doing and returned rates in to the Exchequer in his absence that so he might not have the opportunity by complaint of a just grievance to relieve himself Lastly having by most unjust vexations exhausted his Estate and drained his purse without hearing his defence indeed without further summoning him to appear they sequester his Parsonage and Glebe and Tyth and put one Robert Atkins a stranger into Cure and as they put his Livelyhood into a strangers hands so they put his life into the power of his Enemies who are authorized to apprehend him and carry him Prisoner to Cambridg but upon Intimation given he withdrew himself and leaving all to the mercy of his Enemies was forced by flight to secure his Person And here by the way give me leave to observe one thing to the Courteous Reader and it is the Reason which was alledged in the sequestration of Mr. Simmons his Parsonage and indeed is generally used in all these sequestrations and it is For the better supply of an able and godly man in the said Church I would they could tell us where we should find these two Epithites Able and Godly to meet in any one of those which they have substituted in the Revenues and imployments of those Orthodox Divines which they have banished from their Cures and families do but survey the new Plantations which they have made and you will think that Jereboams Priests were risen again from the dead the lowest and basest of the People for while honest learned and conscientious men could not suffer themselves to be made the base instruments to corrupt and seduce the Ignorant multitudes to comply with the reasonable practices of the heads of this Rebellion it was necessary to seek out and invite such of the Clergy into their Party whom either want of Merit or want of Honesty had left destitute of Means and when Orthodox Men are displaced or driven away and such Trencher Chaplains put in their places we may easily guess what work is in hand even the alteration of the Government For while they are so earnest both to Preach and Print that other Forms of Government are God's Ordinance as well as Monarchy they will in time go on to undervalue Monarchy in comparison of the rest But to leave my Diversion and to return to Mr. Simmons His Living Sequestrated and his Person exposed to the licence of his veriest Enemies but he withdrawing himself from this Storm and being out of their reach they reek their malice on his poor Wife and

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 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

away nor well to stay for fear one was slain The Boar of the two a man would think the valianter Creature seeing the ill success of the Sow to cast her Litter before her time durst not advance The most advantageous part for their Batteries was the Church which they without fear of prophanation used not only as their Rampart but their Rendezvouz of the Surpless they made two Shirts for two Soldiers they broke down the Organs and made the Pipes serve for Cases to hold their Powder and Shot and not being furnished with Musket-Bullets they cut off the Lead of the Church and roll'd it up and shoot it without ever casting it in a mould Sir Walter and the Commanders were earnest to press forward the Soldiers but as prodigal as they were of the blood of their common Soldiers they were sparing enough of their own It was a general Observation that valiant Sir Walter never willingly exposed himself to any hazard for being by chance endangered with a Bullet shot through his Coat afterwards he put on a Bears skin and to the eternal honor of this Knights valour be it recorded for fear of Musket-shot for other they had none he was seen to creep on all four on the sides of the Hill to keep himself out of danger This base Cowardise in the Assailants added Courage and Resolution to the Defendants therefore not compell'd by want but rather to brave the Rebels they sallyed out and brought in eight Cows and a Bull into the Castle without the loss of a Man or a Man wounded At another time five Boys fetcht in four Cows They that stood on the Hills called to one in a House in the Valley crying Shoot Anthony but Anthony thought it good to sleep in a whole skin and durst not look out so that afterward it grew into a Proverbial Jeer from the Defendants to the Assailants Shoot Anthony The Rebels having spent much time and Ammunition and some men and yet being as far from hopes of taking the Castle as the first day they came thither At last the Earl of Warwick sends them a supply of an hundred and fifty Mariners with several Cart-loads of Petarrs Granadoes and other Warlike Provision with Scaling-ladders to assault the Castle by Scaladoe They make large offers to him that should first scale the Wall 20 l. to the first and so by descending sums a reward to the twentieth but all this could not prevail with these silly Wretches who were brought thither as themselves confessed like Sheep to the slaughter some of them having but exchang'd the manner of their death the Halter for the Bullet having taken them out of Goals one of them being taken Prisoner had Letters Testimonial in his hands whence he came the Letters I mean when he was burnt for a Felon being very visible to the beholders but when they found that perswasion could not prevail with such abject low spirited men the Commanders resolve on another course which was to make them Drunk knowing that Drunkenness makes some men fight like Lions that being sober would run away like Hares To this purpose they fill them with strong Waters even to Madness and ready they are now for any Design and for fear Sir Walter should be valiant against his will like Caesar he was the only man almost that came sober to the assault an imitation of the Turkish practice for certainly there can be nothing of Christianity in it to send poor Souls to Gods Judgment Seat in the very act of two grievous Sins Rebellion and Drunkenness who to stupifie their Soldiers and make them insensible of their dangers give them Opium being now armed with drink they resolve to storm the Castle on all sides and apply their Scaling-ladders it being ordered by the Leaders if I may without a Solecism call them so that stood behind and did not so much as follow that when 20 were entered they should give a watch-word to the rest and that was Old Wat a word ill chosen by Sir Watt. Earle and considering the business in hand little better than ominous for if I be not deceived the Hunters that beat Bushes for the fearful timerous Hare call him Old Watt. Being now Pot-valiant and possessed with a borrowed Courage which was to evaporate in sleep they divide their Forces into two Parties whereof one assaults the middle Ward defended by valiant Captain Lawrence and the greater part of the Soldiers the other assault the upper Ward which the Lady Bankes to her Eternal Honor be it spoken with her Daughters Women and five Soldiers undertook to make good against the Rebels and did bravely perform what she undertook for by heaving over Stones and hot Embers they repelled the Rebels and kept them from climing their Ladders thence to throw in that Wild-fire which every Rebel had ready in his hand Being repelled and having in this Siege and this Assault lost and hurt an hundred men Old Sir Watt hearing that the Kings Forces were advanced cryed and ran away crying leaving Sydenham to Command in Chief to bring off the Ordnance Ammunition and the remainder of the Army who afraid to appear abroad kept Sanctuary in the Church till night meaning to Sup and run away by Star-light but Supper being ready and set on the Table an Alarm was given that the Kings Forces were coming this News took away Sydenhams Stomack all this Provision was but messes of Meat set before the Sepulchres of the dead he leaves his Artillery Ammunition and which with these men is something a good Supper and ran away to take Boat for Poole leaving likewise at the shore about an hundred Horse to the next Takers which next day proved good prize to the Soldiers of the Castle Thus after six Weeks strict Siege this Castle the desire of the Rebels the Tears of Old Sir Watt and the Key of those parts by the Loyalty and brave Resolution of this Honorable Lady the valour of Captain Lawrence and some eighty Soldiers by the loss only of two men was delivered from the Bloody Intentions of these Merciless Rebels on the fourth of August 1643. Mercurius Rusticus c. XII Mr. Thomas Jones Bachelour in Divinity ill intreated by the Rebels in Devon A Soldier hanged at Thame on the Sign-post of the Kings Head Mr. Wright a Minister in Cheshire plundered and two of his Maid-Servants murthered Doctor Beale Doctor Martin and Doctor Sterne brought Prisoners from Cambridg by Cromwel and their barbarous usage c. MAster Thomas Jones Bachelor in Divinity and Rector of Offwel in the County of Devon having discover'd that the right of Patronage of one of the cures of Tuifordton was in the Crown and worth three hundred Pounds per annum did in the pursuance of his Right spend a Thousand Pounds to recover it from those who account all lawful gain whatsoever they can purloin either from God or the King The pretended Patrons who had invaded this Right were much offended with Mr.