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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

these days were fulfilled that prophecy of our Saviour John 16.2 The time is coming whosoever doth the greatest Mischief will think he serveth God But observe the wages that divine Justice repayed one of them for their work which may testifie how he accepted of the same When they had demolished the Choire the East-end was the next they aimed at where one espying in the roof right over the Communion-Table our Saviour pourtraied coming in glory with his holy Angels and at the 4. corners 4. Evangelists none of which they will endure as knowing how opposite they are unto them he charged his Musquet to shatter them down but by the rebound of his own shot was struck blind If he did his God good thereby he did himself an ill turn his wickedness falling on his own pate He laid a long while in a woful condition and never recovered his former sight His life by Gods mercy was repreived that he might repent but he was surely scourged that he might take notice there is punishment for Sacrilege and bear witness of that truth unto his fellows although he found more savour than Calisthenes who attempting to burn the temples by setting fire on the Gates was for that act himself burned or Alcimus who whilst he was pulling the house of God down was struck with a Palsie and dyed in torment Some would have thought that that remarkable judgment overtaking him so on the sudden sufflaminated their running on and that striking of him blind should have opened their eyes But let favour be shewed to the wicked yet they will not learn righteousness in the land of uprightness will they deal unjustly and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord But Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see as thou foretoldest by thy Prophet Esay 26.10.11.13 it should come to pass When other Lords besides thee have dominion over us They were not at all deterred neither left any ways unattempted to get down that roof which ladders failed they cut the Bell-ropes wich if rightly applyed might have curred their itch to eke out their tackling till they reached it with their Poleaxes and brake down the carved works Psal. 7.4 Afterwards espying the rare structure of Stone-works over the Altar admired by all travellers for the excellent artifices which was no ways guilty of superstitious workmanship they made all of it rubbish breaking up also the rails of which they compiled bone-fires tumbling the Communion-Table over and over they were also so offended with all memorials of the dead knowing themselves in the number of those whose memories at the best shall perish as if they had never been that not one Monument in the Church escaped undefaced no not of the pious benefactors whose accusation was sufficient they had done good to the Church not those two fair Tombs of Katharine Queen Dowager of Spain the Repudiate of King Henry the 8 th and Mary albeit Queen of Scots It was so great a crime to have been Queens the marble walls and guards of irons wherewith they were surrounded and incircled could not preserve them in repose from all their miseries but they would add this one unto the rest to lay the Emblems of their honours in the dust pulling away the herse of black velvet and carrying away whatsoever was vendible When their unhallowed toylings had made them out of wind they took breath afresh on two pair of Organs piping with the very same about the Market place lascivious Jiggs whilst their Comrades danced after them some in the Coaps others with the Surplices and down they brake the Bellows to blow the coals of their further mischief and left any should ring auke for the fire they had make they left the Bells speechless taking out their clappers which they sold with the Brass they flaied from the graven stones and the Tin and Iron from other parts of the Church and Chappels belonging thereto which were many and richly adorned but the Daughters faired no better than their Mother there was not suffered any window to remain unshattered or remarkable place in them unruined their intent being to leave those consecrated walls as a room fitted for vermin to nestle in or which was worse for Cap. Ashwell to exercise his Soldiers in where while he was in town he made his Rendezvous and when they went away set fire on some part of the wood-work to have burnt the remainder down if it had not timely been discovered Neither did the Cloysters attending scape better than those they were made to wait upon though these both in their roof and glazing might be compared with the chiefest Cathedrals the first square being beautified with the History of the Old Testament the second of the New the third shewed the whole relation of those by whom the Church was builded the fourth presented us with all the Effigies of our Kings since William the Conquerour But it seems those unreasonable and wicked men care for scripture and Princes and Pious Monuments all alike their wide throats were as open Sepuclhres their Sacrilegious appetites being yet unsatisfied with devouring must needs swallow up the Lands appertaining to that Church to whith that they might pretend the juster title they broke open the Charter-house Plundered away the great Charter all the Evidences leases and other writings belonging thereunto manifesting their parties desires to have all Estates of others to come and be at their arbitrary disposals and they unto whom in right they are due to lie as these places and Persons at this day Mourning in Sack-cloth and Ashes Querela Cantabrigiensis OR A REMONSTRANCE By way of APOLOGIE For the banished Members of the late flourishing UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE By some of the said Sufferers S. MATTH 10.17 18. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councils and they will scourge you in their Synagogues And ye shall be brought before Governors c. Basil. Magn. Epist. 79. Eustach Episc. Sebastiae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed in the Year 1685. AN ADVERTISEMENT To every indifferent Reader Christian Brethren and Fellow Subjects IT is a memorable saying of an ancient Heathen Moralist Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent And the like may be said concerning sorrows when they come once to overcharge the heart they stupifie it and obstruct those passages by which it should ease it selfe of them This hath been our particular case Our being deprived of our livelyhoods for how small a trifle this insuing Remonstrance will manifest hath filled our hearts with sorrow But when we considered not onely the hand foom whence this oppression cometh even that which pretendeth to the infallible weild of the sword of Justice but withal that through our sides such a fatal stroke is given to one of the most famous Universities of Christendom this sad prospect did so far surcharge us with grief that it cast us for a long time into a fit of Musing till at last the fire being kindled

Table A Servant of Mr. Chaldwells standing by unwilling to lose any thing if it might be saved takes hold on the Linnen too and intreats the Troopers to spare it Presently some cry out Shoot him which was no sooner said than done for one dscharging a Pistol at him shot a Bullet into his heart and the top of his scouring-stick into his Body near it The poor man instantly fell down dead hardly by any motion expressing the fare-well of life While most stood amazed at so barbarous an act some make towards him thinking to help him but were forbid by these bloody Villains to come near him who were so far from remorse for what they had done that tomurther they added Theft diving into the Pockets of him whom they had thus murthered and robbing him of his moneys Nay his Wife whom they had murthered hearing of this sad accident being great with child came to see her dead Husband but was not permitted to come near him being threatned by these Troopers that if she came near him they would do unto her as they had done unto her Husband shoot her dead Having done their pleasure in Mr. Chaldwell's House they carry him away Prisoner to Lincoln Being come thither they commit him to the Town Goal and lodged him there in the common Keep amongst Murtherers and Felons The day after the Lincoln-shire Rebels received the defeat before Newarke by a verbal command from the Earl of Lincolne he was removed from the Town Prison to the Castle in Lincolne where he was put into a nasty stinking place called the Witch-hole and without any regard to his Quality being a Gentleman of prime note in his Country or to his age being an old man they permit him to stay there all night having no other bed but the Ground and no other pillow but the hard stones The next day they vouchsafe him the favour to let him purchase a little and but a very little better accommodation by buying out some poor Prisoners out of their lodging remaining there in this disconsolate condition his Wife an aged Gentlewoman came to visit him being very willing to share with him in his Misery as before she had done in his Prosperity Having spent some time in mutual consolation and exhorting one another patiently to bear this unjust oppression hoping that they might enjoy one anothers society in so mean a condition without the envy of their oppressors but even this contented misery did not last long for the next day after the Rebels lost Grantham by the Kings recovering that Town out of their possession the Governour of Lincoln Welden by name inraged and not knowing where to reek his malice safer than on this poor old Gentleman comes up to the Castle and most imperiously commands that Chaldwell should come before him the Messenger that was sent to command his appearance returned with this answer That Mr. Chaldwell laboured under some indisposition that he was in bed and his Wife with him the Governour not satisfied with so reasonable an answer snatched a cudgel out of a Soldiers hand and swears that he would make the old rascal rise in this fury away he goes to Mr. Chaldwell's Chamber and rushing in in a menacing way shakes his cudgel at him and holding it upon his head threatned to bastinado him if he did not rise presently the good old Gentlewoman his Wife prognosticating by the rough message sent her Husband that there was a storm coming forsook her bed and stood by it in her Night-gown but bare-legged there to interpose and plead for her Husband if occasion served and now finding more inhumanity than her fear at first suggested in an humble manner she beseeched the Governour to use her Husband like a Gentleman not like a dog to be awed by a cudgel The Goververnour impatient of any mediation though from a Wife and though backed with never so much reason commands his Soldiers to take her away which they did in so rude and boisterous a manner that they dragged her down the Stairs pulled her dressing off her head and at last thrust her out of the Castle Being thus violently snatched from her dear Husband and fearing he might suffer as much violence within as she did in being thrust out of the Castle she sits down on a stone at the Castle-gate where the winter blasts fann'd her gray hair a sad spectacle to all that passed by and knew who she was Many there were that pitied her distress and would willingly have received her into their houses but durst not 't is a Crime to shew mercy where the Rebels intend cruelty At last having sate there long full of tears and sorrow baffled with cold winds and weather a sister of Mr. Stutts the Apothecary and the God of mercy restore it an hundred fold into her bosome sends her a Petticoat for they thrust her out with no cloaths on but her Night-gown to fence her against the extremity of the cold But to let this charitable Gentlewoman know that the rewards of mercy are to be expected in another World and that here to do good and for that to suffer evil is the recompence of this World that very after-noon her Brothers house was plundered and all their Goods seized on so that they needed a return of that compassion in the evening which they shewed to others in the morning Welden the Governour having compelled the good old Gentleman to rise out of his bed notwithstanding his present infirmity sends him from his poor lodging which he had lately purchased to the common Dungeon where he had neither light nor air but what the Grate afforded The place was of such condition that there being three Prisoners with him in the same room but one of four must lie down at once the rest must stand and yet in this little ease as was testified by a Letter under his own hand he remained eleven or twelve nights without Bed Chair or Stool and in that time for four or five nights he was not permitted to go forth to do the Offices of nature a command being given that if he offered to stir forth they should beat out his brains Thus much and divers other particulars were signified to the Commissioners at Newarke when the Ammunition came from thence At which time Information was given that Mr. Chaldwell was then in a condition not much better than what you have heard here related and whether their barbarous cruelties and inhumanity have not set an end to his sufferings by Death is uncertain On Sunday the second of July 1643. in the afternoon ten or twelve Troopers under the command of Captain Samuel came from Northampton to Wedon Pinkney in the same County and coming thither in Prayer-time they came into the Church one of them being Horse-keeper as it was reported to Sir Richard Samuel Father to the Captain came up to the reading Pew where Mr. Losse Parson of that Parish was officiating Divine Service and commanded him

made that they should be left to her possession But there passed not many days before forty Sea-men they in the Castle not suspecting any such thing came very early in the Morning to demand the Pieces the Lady in Person early as it was goes to the Gates and desires to see their Warrant they produced one under the hands of some of the Commissioners but instead of delivering them though at that time there were but five Men in the Castle yet these five assisted by the Maid-servants at their Ladies Command mount these Pieces on their Carriages again and lading one of them they gave fire which small Thunder so affrighted the Sea-men that they all quitted the place and ran away They being gone by beat of Drum she summons help into the Castle and upon the Alarm given a very considerable Guard of Tenants and Friends came in to her assistance there being withal some fifty Arms brought into the Castle from several parts of the Island this Guard was kept in the Castle about a Week during this time many threatning Letters were sent unto the Lady telling her what great Forces should be sent to fetch them if she would not by fair means be perswaded to deliver them and to deprive her of her Auxiliaries all or most of them being Neighbors thereabouts they threaten that if they oppose the delivery of them they would fire their Houses presently their Wives come to the Castle there they weep and wring their hands and with clamorous Oratory perswade their Husbands to come home and not by saving others to expose their own Houses to spoil and ruine nay to reduce the Castle into a distressed condition they did not only intercept two hundred weight of Powder provided against a Siege but they interdict them the liberty of Common-Markets Proclamation is made at Warham a Market-Town hard by that no Beer Beef or other provision should be sold to the Lady Banks or for her use strict Watches are kept that no Messenger or Intelligence shall pass into or out of the Castle Being thus distressed all means of Victualling the Castle being taken away and being but slenderly furnished for a Siege either with Ammunition or with Victual at last they came to a Treaty of Composition of which the result was That the Lady Banks should deliver up those four small Pieces the biggest carrying not above a three pound Bullet and that the Rebels should permit her to enjoy the Castle and Arms in it in peace and quietness And though this wise Lady knew too well to rest satisfied or secured in these promises their often breach of Faith having sufficiently instructed her what she might expect from them yet she was glad of this opportunity to strengthen her self even by that means by which many in the World thought she had done her self much prejudice for the Rebels being now possessed of their Guns presumed the Castle to be theirs as sure as if they had actually possessed it Now it was no more but ask and have hereupon they grow remiss in their Watches negligent in their Observations not heeding what was brought in nor taking care as before to intercept Supplies which might enable them to hold out against a Siege and the Lady making good use of this remisness laid hold on the present opportunity and as much as the time would permit furnish'd the Castle with Provisions of all sorts In this Interval there was brought in an hundred and half of Powder and a quantity of Match proportionable And understanding that the Kings Forces under the Conduct of Prince Maurice and the Marquess Hertford were advancing towards Blanford she by her Messenger made her address to them to signifie unto them the present Condition in which they were the great Consequence of the place desiring their assistance and in particular that they would be pleased to take into their serious consideration to send some Commanders thither to take the Charge of the Castle hereupon they send Captain Laurence son of Sir Edward Laurence a Gentleman of that Island to Command in Chief but he coming without a Commission could not command moneys or provisions to be brought in until it was too late There was likewise in the Castle one Captain Bond an old Soldier whom I should deprive of his due honor not to mention him having a share in the honor of this Resistance The first time the Rebels faced the Castle they brought a Body of between two and three hundred Horse and Foot and two Pieces of Ordnance and from the Hills played on the Castle fired four houses in the Town and then summoned the Castle but receiving a denial for that time they left it But on the three and twentieth of June the Sagacious Knight Sir Walter Earle that hath the gift of discerning Treasons and might have made up his nine and thirty Treasons forty by reckoning in his own accompanyed by Captain Sidenham Captain Henry Jarvis Captain Skuts son of that Arch-Traytor Skut of Pool with a Body of between five and six hundred came and possessed themselves of the Town taking the opportunity of a Misty morning that they might find no resistance from the Castle They brought with them to the Siege a Demy-Canon a Culverin and two Sacres with these and their small Shot they played on the Castle on all Quarters of it with good observation of Advantages making their Battery strongest where they thought the Castle weakest And to bind the Soldiers by tye of Conscience to an eager prosecution of the Siege they administer them an Oath and mutually binde themselves to most unchristian Resolutions That if they found the Defendants obstinate not to yield they would maintain the Siege to Victory and then deny Quarter unto all killing without mercy Men Women and Children As to bring on their own Soldiers they abused them with falshoods telling them That the Castle stood in a Level yet with good advantages of approach that there were but forty Men in the Castle whereof twenty were for them that there was rich Booty and the like So during the Siege they used all base unworthy means to corrupt the Defendants to betray the Castle into their hands the better sort they endeavor to corrupt with Bribes to the rest they offer double Pay and the whole Plunder of the Castle when all these Arts took no effect then they fall to Stratagems and Engines To make their approaches to the Wall with more safety they make two Engines one they call the Sow the other the Boar being made with boards lined with Wool to dead the shot The first that moved forward was the Sow but not being Musket proof she cast nine of eleven of her Farrow for the Musketiers from the Castle were so good marks-men at their Legs the only part of all their Bodies left without defence that nine ran away as well as their broken and battered Legs would give them leave and of the two which knew neither how to run

the right way for at this day the Blind lead the Blind and if they go on both will certainly fall into the ditch For my self I am and acknowledg it in all humility a most grievous sinner many ways by thought word and deed and I cannot doubt but that God hath mercy in store for me a poor penitent as well as for other sinners I have now upon this sad occasion ransacked every corner of my Heart and yet I thank God I have not found among the many any onesin which deserves death by any known Law of this Kingdom And yet hereby I charge nothing upon my Judges for if they proceed upon proofe by valuable witnesses I or any other innocent may by justly condemned And I thank God though the weight of the sentence lye heavy upon me I am as quiet within as ever I was in my life And though I am not only the first Arch-Bishop but the first man that ever died by an Ordinance of Parliament yet some of my Predecessors have gone this way though not by this means For Elphegus was hurried away and lost his head by the Danes and Simon Sudbury in the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows Before these S. John Baptist had his head danced off by a leud Woman and S. Cyprian Arch-Bishop of Carthage submitted his head to a persecuting Sword Many examples great and good and they teach me patience for I hope my Cause in Heaven will look of another dye than the colour that is put upon it here And some comfort it is to me not only that I go the way of these great men in their several Generations but also that my Charge as foul as 't is made looks like that of the Jews against S. Paul Acts 25.3 For he was accused for the Law and the Temple i. e. Religion And like that of S. Stephen Acts 6.14 for breaking the Ordinances which Moses gave i. e. Law and Religion the holy place and the Temple vers 13. But you will say do I then compare my self with the integrity of S. Paul and Stephen No far be that from me I only raise a comfort to my self that these great Saints and Servants of God were laid at in their times as I am now And it is memorable that S. Paul who helped on this Accusation against S. Stephen did after fall under the very same himself Yea but here is a great clamour that I would have brought in Popery I shall answer that more fully by and by In the mean time you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself If we let him alone all men will believe in him Et venient Romani and the Romans will come and take away both our Place and Nation Here was a causeless Cry against Christ that the Romans will come And see how just the judgment of God was they crucified Christ for fear lest the Romans should come and his death was it which brought in the Romans upon them God punishing them with that which they most feared and I pray God this clamour of Venient Romani of which I have given no cause help not to bring them in for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation as he hath now upon the Sects and Divisions that are amongst us In the mean time by Honour and dishonour by good report and evil report as a deceiver and yet true am I passing through this World 2 Cor. 6.8 _____ Some particulars also I think it not amiss to speak of And first this I shall be bold to speak of the King our gracious Sovereign He hath been much traduced also for bringing in of Popery but on my Conscience of which I shall give God a very present account I know Him to be as free from this charge as any man living and I hold Him to be as found a Protestant according to the Religion by Law established as any man in this Kingdom And that he will venture His life as far and as freely for it and I think I do or should know both His affection to Religion and his grounds for it as fully as any man in England The second particular is concerning this great and Populous City which God bless Here hath been of late a fashion taken up to gather hands and then go to the Great Court of this Kingdom the Parliament and clamour for Justice as if that great and wise Court before whom the Causes come which are unknown to the many could not or would not do Justice but at their appointment A way which may endanger many an Innocent man and pluck his blood upon their own heads and perhaps upon the Cities also And this hath been lately practised against my self The Magistrates standing still and suffering them openly to proceed from Parish to Parish without check God forgive the setters of this with all my heart I beg it but many well meaning People are caught by it In S. Stephens case when nothing else would serve they stirred up the People against him and Herod went the same way when he had kill'd S. James yet he would not venture upon S. Peter till he found how the other pleased the People But take heed of having your hands full of blood for there is a time best known to himself when God above other sins makes Inquisition for blood and when that Inquisition is on foot the Psalmist tells us That God remembers but that is not all He remembers and forgets not the complaint of the poor that is whose blood is shed by oppression verse 9. take heed of this It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but then especially when he is making Inquisition for blood And with my Prayers to avert it I do heartily desire this City to remember the Prophesie that is expressed Jer. 26.14.15 As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you But know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon your selves and upon this City and upon the Inhabitants thereof c. The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other neighbouring Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out and which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body and at every cleft prophaneness and Irreligion is entering in while as Prosper spakes in his second Book De vitae contemptu cap. 4. Men that introduce prophaness are cloaked over with the name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the Substance and dwell too much in Opinion and that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruin is fallen into danger by her own The last particular for I am not