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
put him in the strong hold a place provided for the most desperate Malefactors affirming they would soon return to take further order with him There he remained till one a clock being then removed to another Chamber They now return to their fellows who were searching Sir John Lucas's house some twenty of them rush'd into the Ladies Chamber laid hands upon her set a sword to her breast requiring her to tell where the Arms and Cavaliers were The Horse and Arms are soon found and seized on by the Mayor who sends the Arms to the Town-Hall the Horse to an Inn to be there kept on Sir John Lucas's cost till they could be sent to the Parliament The People lay hands on Sir John Lucas his Lady and Sister and carry them attended with swords guns and halberts to the common Goal Last of all they bring forth his Mother with the like or greater insolency who being faint and breathless hardly obtained leave to rest herself in a Shop by the way yet this leave was no sooner obtained but the rest of that rude rabble threatned to pull down the house unless they thrust her out being by this means forced to depart from thence A Countryman whom the Alarm had summoned to this work espies her and pressing with his Horse through the crowd struck at her head with his sword so heartily that if an Halbert had not crossed the blow both her sorrows and her journey had there found an end Two Gentlewomen one of which had long been sick by flight escaped their fury but their most well-wishing neighbours dared not to be known to receive them into their house the people threatning to burn that house that gave them entertainment Having secured the Master they now begin to plunder the house all is prize that comes to hand money plate jewels linnen woollen brass pewter c. A few hours disrobe the house of that rich furniture that had adorned it many years The Mayor and Aldermen standing by all this while but either not able or not willing to conjure down the Devil which themselves had raised up All the servants they could meet with they bring to prison they lay hands on John Brown one who had been a servant to the family from the time of Sir John Lucas's Grandfather they bind him to a tree set a Musquet to his breast and a sword to his throat and tie lighted matches between his fingers and John Furley a young pragmatical boy examines him concerning his Masters intentions Horses Money c. but especially concerning Mr. Newcomin whether he had not given an Oath of secrecy Whether he were not to ride a great Horse whether he were not habited in a Buff Jerkin and Velvet Coat c. Fear easily prompts the old man to answer what he thought would give content Out of his Examination the Mayor frames an Information against Sir John and Mr. Newcomin not forgetting to relate the good service he had done the Horse and Arms he had taken but withal implying how miserably the house was plundered by the zealous people adding in his Letters and that very truly that he could do no more than a Child among them with these Letters he presently dispatcheth a Post to the House of Commons About one a clock a new Alarm is raised that 200 armed Horsemen are discovered in a Vault at Sir John Lucas's That they had killed nine men already and were issuing forth to destroy the Town The shops are shut up in an instant and the multitUde throng down thither to take or kill these Cavaliers And because they find none there they now spend their rage upon the house they batter down the doors and walls beat down the windows tear his Evidences deface his Walks and Gardens do any thing that may do mischief From thence they go to his Park pull down his Pales kill his Deer drive away his Cattel And to shew that their rage will know no bounds and that nothing is so sacred or venerable which they dare not to violate they break into S. Giles his Church open the Vault where his Ancestours were buried and with Pistols Swords and Halberts transfix the Coffins of the dead And now the Mayors care begins to shew it self he sets a guard upon the house that no hurt should be done unto it yet that Guard suffered 100 l. worth of corn which at first was neglected as contemptible luggage to be carried out and the most of it to their own houses Another Guard he sets upon the Prison lest the Prisoners should be assaulted by the people who were so much incensed against them though it had been fit to set some honest men to guard them from those Guardians who were as forward as the people to drink their blood On Thursday comes down Sir Thomas Barrington and Mr. Grimston as a Committee from the House who comming into the market place before the prison-door the Town Hall not able to receive the least part of the multitude there published two Orders from the House one wherein Sir John Lucas and his adherents were praclaimed guilty of high Treason for intending to assist the King Another wherein thanks were given the People for the good service they had done yet they were told withal that their Act of Plundering was against the sense of the House Some of the agents in that work produced a printed Order of Parliament not heard of before among honest men by which they justified what they had done Sir Thomas Barrington replyed that it was a false and feigned Order contrived by the malignant party to render the House odious and very lovingly besought the people to do so no more And indeed the next weeks Diurnal tells us that upon occasion of the outragious plundering in Essex It was Ordered that thenceforward none should Plunder but those that were authorized by the House to do it Friday was designed for the carrying up of the Traytors Sir John Lucas and Newcomin for whom there was one Messenger come from the Black Rod and another from the Serjeant at Arms for the Ladieswere declared no Prisoners after they had layn in the common Goal four days When the time of their departure was come many thousands of people were gathered together both of Town and Country a Drum being struck up to give them warning The Coaches are come and the Prisoners called forth only Mr. Newcomin they dared not carry forth as yet because the people threatned to tear him in pieces as assuredly they had done had not Mr. Grimston's care been very great who placeing a Court of Guard on each side of Sir Thomas Barrington's Coach from the Prison door brought him forth unexpectedly and put him into the Coach the people then not daring to strike or stone him lest the mischief intended on him should light on Sir Thomas Barrington The Coach being guarded thus a mile out of Town they passed on suffering no other strokes but those of the tongue bitter Curses
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
material Temples of God by breaking down Organs burning Rails and defacing the Monuments of the Dead but will ye go about to destroy the Spiritual Temple of the Holy Ghost not fearing that dreadful Sentence of the Apostle He that destroyeth the Temple of God him shall God destroy Could they not be content to tear the Book of Common Prayer in pieces and scatter the leaves all about the Church but will they also rend and dilacerate the living Members of Christs mystical Body Will they charge the Cannon with murthering Shot to destroy and dissipate whole Assemblies of Gods Servants met together upon his own Day to Worship him in his own House Do they think that their bare opposition to Popery will save them If that alone would give a Man a good Title to Heaven not only the Socinians Libertines Familists Antinomians and other damnable Hereticks but even the Jews and Turks would snatch Heaven from them and take it by force for these are as vehement Opposers of Popery as they are And howsoever the violent Opposition to Popish Superstition is all the Religion some of them have yet are they not at so deadly fewd with Papists as they would bear the World in hand for they shake hands with them in many of their Tenets and Practices both of them condemn our English Liturgy and profess Recusancy both of them Idolize their Teachers c. Who hath bewitched them that they should believe Bedlam shall be so far enlarged and the Spirit of Frenzy possess Old England that they should have the like success here as their cousin-germans the Anabaptists had at Munster though we envy them not their high preferment in the end After these fits of Convulsion are over and Peace setled in the Body of the Kingdom do they think the wisdom of the State will ever change our Holy Churches into their prophane Barns and Stables our Pulpits into their Tubs our linnen Ephods into their Aprons our Liturgy into their extemporary Enthusiasms our Learned Pastors into their ignorant Hirelings and our Apostolical Hierarchy into their Apostolical Anarchy But I will restrain my self and confine my Discourse Soon after this Sermon seven Articles were preferred against the Doctor to the Committee for Plundered Ministers by three Mechanicks who had formerly been Indicted for Brownists at the Sessions for the County of Surrey but after long attendance the Doctor was acquitted of them Yet at length these Sectaries wrought so powerfully that the Doctor must be committed to Prison how unjustly soever 't was enough that he was a Doctor and maintained the Religion established in the Church of England And accordingly on the 30 th of September 1643. he is committed to Peter-house his own House Library and Goods being first seized on and his Estate sequestred The Sunday after his commitment and for divers other Lords-days he Preached to his Fellow-Prisoners but after a while he was prohibited by Isaac-Pennington the pretended Mayor of London And though Sir George Sands Sir John Butler Master Nevile and other Prisoners of Quality Petitioned that he might continue his so doing yet it would not be granted See how this unjust Imprisonment is relished by a Forein Divine in these very words I Am sorry to hear of the close Imprisonment of that worthy Dr. Featly What He who is and ever hath been so stout a Champion for Religion to be so used by the Reformers thereof But let not the Disciple think it strange when his Master suffered so much cruelty from the great Rabbins of Israel Yours from my heart J. S. After the Doctor had been many Months stifled up in Prison and having a Certificate from his Physitian that he could not live long if he had not some fresh Air he Petitioned these Soul-enthralling Tyrants and at last obtained leave to go to Chelsey-Colledge for six Weeks upon good Bail to recover his Health but it pleased God to take him out of this World upon the 17. day of April 1645. being the very last day of the six Weeks limited for his return During his Sickness he gave himself wholly to Divine Meditations often bewailing with Tears the present state of the Church of England he made a Confession of his Faith to Doctor Leo and the Dutch Ambassadors Chaplain saying That the Doctrine which he had always Preached and the Books which he had always Printed against Anabaptists and other Sectaries were agreeable to Gods Word and that he would Seal the Protestant Religion as it was established and confirmed by the Acts of three Pious Princes with his Blood And being asked by some that came to visit him What he thought of the Covenant he said It was a damnable and execrable Oath made purposely to insnare poor Souls and full of Malice and Treason against our Gracious Soveraign And said he For Church-Government a thing now much controverted I dare boldly affirm That the Hierarchy of Bishops is most agreeable to the Word of God as being of Apostolical Institution the taking away whereof is damnable and that by consequence both the Presbyterian and Independent Governments are absurd and erroneous neither of them being ever heard of in the Church of God till of late at Geneva nor is there so much as any colour for them in Holy Writ It is evident said he that as the Priests in the Old Testament were above the Levites so in the New the Apostles were above the Disciples and that the seven Angels of the seven Churches in the Apocalypse were seven Bishops and that Polycarpus was Bishop of Smyrna and Timotheus of Ephesus And for the Laity no pregnant proof can be produced That they ever medled with the Priests Function or had any Power to ordain Ministers And these things said he I intended to have published to the World if God had spared me longer life which I might through his goodness have enjoyed had I not been unjustly Imprisoned which he several times reiterated to his Friends Anon after he Prayed thus Lord strike through the reins of them that rise against the Church and King and let them be as chaff before the Wind and as stubble before the Fire let them be scattered as Patridges upon the Mountains and let the breath of the Lord consume them but upon our Gracious Soveraign and his Posterity let the Crown flourish This said he is the hearty and earnest Prayer of a poor sick Creature With which and other such spiritual Ejaculations he expired FINIS MERCURIUS RUSTICUS OR The Countries Complaint of the Sacrileges Prophanations and Plunderings Committed by the SCHISMATIQUES ON THE Cathedral Churches of this Kingdom MATTH xxi 13. My House shall be called the House of Prayer but ye have made it a Den of Thieves LONDON Printed in the Year 1685. The Preface THE Author of the French History relating that horrid Rebellion of the Holy League in France the Prototype of the present Rebellion in England gives this definition or Character of one of those Zealots
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
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
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.
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
Chelmsford well governed 25. and taught 26 Mr. Chestlen unjustly ejected and Imprisoned 170 Child hanged for not betraying his Father 112 Children taken from their Parents 54 Church Prophaned 67 110 193. Colchester 1. their justice 14 Mr. Cornelius Plundered 33 Dr. Cox most inhumanely used against the Law of Arms. 71 D Mr. Dalton Plundered and his Wife hardly used 144 Darke a Rebel makes his Servants plough on the Fast day without reproof 127 The Dead violated 67 69 105 147 Divine Service disturbed 29 42 108 192. E Sir Walter Earles creeping valour 12C Evidences and Books destroyed 39 Embassadour Robbed 90 F Father starves his Son because he will not be a Rebel 101 Fear of Cruelty makes some run mad others die 41 Dr. Featley Persecuted to Death 193 Nath. Fiennes his Warrant 160 Mr. Flint murthered 65 Mr. Flower Lamed and Imprisoned his house Plundered his Wife and Children barbarously used 181 182 G Gentry to be rooted out 111 Giffords form of Burial 97 Mr. Gibb persecuted for Loyalty 98 99 A Goose strained at a Mare swallowed 191 Mr. Gray plundered and imprisoned 59 H Sir Arthur Haslerig 's dance 143 Mr. Haynes robbed and imprisoned 57 58 Sir Tho. Hides compliance with the Rebels rewarded 155 Mr. Hinson imprisoned and inhumanly used 165 Mr. Honifold plundered imprisoned and rudely hanled 14 House Burnt to pay a reckoning 41 Mr. Hutchinson and Mr Hiliard imprisoned on Ship-board 161 I Infant robbed 131 Mr. Jones imprisoned 92. famished 97 Mr. Jones another persecuted 125 126 Jury perjured 34 The Justice of the Earl of Essex 42 K The Kings Picture abused 38 129. and his Statue 149 Kirles Cruelty 84 L Mr. Laud plundered for his name sake 13 Mr. Losse barbarously used 108 Sir John Lucas plundered and imprisoned his Mother Wife and Family abused 1 M Dr. Martin imprisoned and inhumanly used on Ship-board 132 Mercy forbidden to be shewed 88 Dr. Michelson persecuted and most inhumanly handled for Loyalty and his Wife and Children undone 27 Sir Richard Minshull plundered 36 17 N Mr. Newcomin rudely handled and imprisoned 2 Mr. Nowel plundered and imprisoned 78 O Oath of implicit Obedience 48 P Parliaments Justice 12 46 47 58 67 171 Parliament the Lords Anointed how 36 Prisoner's forbidden their Devotions 100 Pyms lowzie ashes 156 R Rape threatned 16. attempted 78. with Murder 98 Reading taxed 44 Rebels lay their own Robberies on the Cavalliers and cozen the Londoners 90 Countess of Rivers plundered 15 41 Robber released by the Commons 16 S Col. Sandes a cruel plunderer 7. his Travels 79. indicted of Rape ib. his Repentance Relapse and miserable Death 131 A Scot defends the stealing of a Chalice and holds a wooden dish good enough for the Sacrament 143 Servent Treacherous 1 A Soldier hanged for Loyalty 129 Soldiers made drunk to bring them on 122 Soldier brags of cruelty 191 Spoil of goods 38 51 Mr. Squire plundered of 4000 l. 159 Mr. Swift plundered his Wife and Children barbarously used 83 84 Mr. Stevens his neighbour murthered for concealing his goods 17 Mr. Simons sequestered and persecuted for Loyalty and a scandalous man put in his place 18 T Thanks given for Sedition 5 Mr. Thorne unjustly imprisoned 45 Treason preached and encouraged 17 Mr. Tyringham wounded and inhumanly used 136 V Mr. Udal and his Wife cruelly used 153 154 Vens traitenous sauciness and cruelty 100 W Wellingborow plundered 59 Whoredom on the Altar 154 Mr. Wiborow abused 42. and his Wife and Children 139 140 Women in labour cruelly used 77 Woman whipt to death 167 Mr. Wright plundered and his servants murthered 132 THE TABLE OF Querela Cantabrigiensis A ANcient Coins plundered 191 Ash and Good two Camp-Chaplains eject and banish whom they please 202 B Mr. Baldero imprisoned to satisfie his Conscience 246 Banishment 201 Bishop of Exeter deprived and banished 184 Book of Common Prayer torn in St. Maries Church 190 Bridges broken down 193 C Cambridge made a Rendezvouz to ruin the University 185 Chappels abused 196 197 Colleges defaced 193 194. made a Prison 193 Dr. Collins deprived of his places 184 Dr. Comber and Dr. Cosin deprived 185 Covenant with Hell 204. a cause of Persecution like the six Articles 205. The number of the Beast ibid. Cromwels malice to the University 182 Curd a confiding Taylor 192 D Doctors of Divinity carried Prisoners to London in triumph 182. designed to be sold for slaves to Argiers 183 E Ejection of those for absence who had not time given to return or were kept Prisoners at London 198 F Fellow of a College pluck'd from the Communion to hinder an Election 197 Fortune a decayed Hatter Plunder-master General 192 G Goods and Books taken from Scholars 192 H Dr. Holdsworth deprived and imprisoned 185 Homes a lubberly Scottish Major trampled in the kennel by a Chamber-maid 195 St. Johns College Fellows there ejected 202 Jordan a small sneaking Captain his Tyranny 190 L Dr. Lany deprived 185 M Earl of Manchesters Chaplain will not resolve mens Consciences 246. his Warrants 201 Materials for College building taken away 193 Meat taken from College Tables 191 Musquets shot against Scholars windows 182 G Oath of discovery Treacherous perjury 199 200 P Dr. Pask deprived 185. Pictures burnt 192 Mr. Power not suffered to preach Ad Clerum 189 Q Queens College extirpated Root and Branch 202 Regent house besieged to force the Congregation to confer a Degree upon an unworthy man 188 Rents taken from Colleges 191 S Scholars thrust out of their Beds 191. knock'd down for relieving Prisoners 195 Soldiers Quartered in Colleges 194 195 T Taxes imposed on the University by the Town 165 Training in Kings College Chappel 196 197 V Vice-chancelor and Heads kept Prisoners in the Consistory 186 University their Contribution to the King justified 179 W Walks Woods and Orchards of Colleges cut down 192 Dr. Wards Loyalty to death 187 Whores kept in Colleges by the Rebels 194 * Mark It was not for scandalous acts but for opposing Vid Mercur. Rustic 2. This particular appeareth by a Paper delivered into the Registers Office under the hands if not also upon the Oaths of Master Christopher Terne and Master Anthony Walker both of S. Johns Colledge who had Musquets several times discharged in at their windows as also divers others Alex. Rigby the Lawyer Vide Declar. of the Parl. at Oxf. Mar. 19. 1643. On Good Fiday Mar. 30. 1643. * Imperator Valens Grammaticos Sophistas Legum Professores qui per vigliti annos probe munere docendi suncti sunt annumerari honorari cum iis qui ex vicaria sint principis dignitate jubet inter Comites Greg. Tho. losan Syntag. lib. 19. c. 1. § 8. ubi citat l. uni de Professor qui in urbe Constantinop lib. 12. C. tit 1. juncta rub gl M. Power Lord Gray of Warke See the Preface M. Cromwell Jordan So at S. Johns College * So was Jo. Bullock of S. Johns * So at S. Johns College whence they took in Ancient Coyn's to the value of 22. l. according to weight Fortune Parrell Curd So at Jesus College Clare-Hall S. Johns Trin. Kings Garret Hostle and 2. at Queens * Kings College S. Johns Coll. Pembr Hall Pembr Hall Mistris Cumbers maid Homes M. Cromwell D. Ward * Master Pawson of Sidney College though since he hath proved himself an arrant honest man and is rewarded for it with a fellowship in S. Johns Kings Coll. Crawford See the Pref. * Master Pawson of Sidney College though since he hath proved himself an arrant honest man and is rewarded for it with a fellowship in S. Johns S. Johns See Pref. * M. Ash and M. Good Queens Coll. * See Mr. Fox Act. and Mon. Vol. 2. p. 443. Edit London 1631. Mr. Geast Mr. Baldero
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