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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

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

Jones for being at so great expence to redeem the prey out of their hands and did but watch an opportunity to make him know how sensible they were of this their loss This Parliament being called and these men made Members of the Lower House they quickly perceived that this wished-for opportunity was now come wherein they might pervert publick Justice to private revenge quickly learning to exercise that Arbitrary unlimited power over their fellow Subjects which the prevalence of a dangerous Faction had put in their hands According to the general practice since this Parliament they accuse Mr. Jones of some Anti-parliamentary passages in his Sermons which his Judges understood as little as his Accusers Nay perhaps it was with him as with many of his Orthodox Brethren the same men were both his Accusers and Judges However any or no accusation we know have served these mens turns to bring Godly and Learned Ministers to the Bear-baiting of a Committee and to put them into the expensive custody of a Serjeant at Arms so it was with Mr. Jones they first pretended some Crimes and on these pretences they commit him Prisoner to a Serjeant at Arms. Having deprived him of his Liberty and put him into a consumption of his Estate by the unreasonable unlimited exactions of Parliament Goalers they then think him reduced to such a condition as to be willing to hearken to a Composition on any terms At last vexed to an agreement he is to enjoy his Liberty and Peace on this mutual stipulation They are to pardon him the errour of his Doctrine to deliver up his bail being with two Sureties Parliament men bound in a Bond of two thousand pounds and to give two hundred pounds towards his charges Mr. Jones must resign his lately recovered Cure of Tuifordton to make way for a Clerk of their own which to avoid farther molestation to his very great prejudice he was inforced to condescend unto After in September 1642. Mr. Jones riding to Taunton in Somersetshire accompanied by one of the Prince's Servants who wore his Masters Colours was for that reason together with that Gentleman immediately after his departure from thence apprehended and like a Felon brought back to the Castle where he remained Prisoner three weeks and could not be released without the earnest solicitation of his friends and his Wives humble and often petitioning the Earle of Bedford In November last suffering under continual molestations and out of all hope to live peaceably at home he resolved to put himself under the protection of Sir Ralph Hoptons Army then in Cornwal To this purpose he furnished three Horses and Arms proportionable and set forward to deliver them up to his Majesties service but unhappily in the way thither he was intercepted by the Earl of Stamfords Forces under the command of Captain Gould taken Prisoner robb'd to the value of 80 l. the Plunderers leaving him not so much as a boot to ride in By these he is led Captive to Liskard in Cornwal where they kept him three days in which time he and another Minister with him with his servant had but one pint of Beer for their sustinence being kept without either fire or light and for one night had their hands bound behind them and had been still kept in the like bondage had not God in mercy rescued them by Sir Ralph Hopton after the famous Battle of Liskard During the time of their imprisonment they offer them Conditions on which they may purchase their liberty viz. to pay three hundred pound to take an Oath never any more to assist the King with Horse Arms or Money But being delivered on far better terms he was not long after imprisoned for giving God publick thanks for his deliverance Afterwards seeing that Religion it self was but abused being made the Cloak of these mens Hypocrisie and Treasons and that they did fast but to strife and debate he did not observe the Fast every last Wednesday in the Month with that strict observation as was expected from him by that Faction hereupon some of them put him in mind of it Good Friday coming on presently upon the last Wednesday in April he desired his Neighbours and Parishoners to keep that ancient Fast injoyned by the Church in Commemoration of the bitter Death and Passion of Christ and the better to invite them to that days solemn Humiliation he preached to them twice that day Though Sermons be all their Religion yet two Sermons on Good Friday received and practised by all Churches in all Ages till of late a Jewish observation of one day hath shouldred out the religious observation of all other days he was convented before the Sessions where Edmund Prideaux a Parliament man and a pretender to this Law prest this his Obedience to the Church most violently against him malitiously affirming that he did it to affront the Parliament and to advance Popish Superstition and Innovation and that therefore He see what it is to be a Parliament man would make him an Example to the World and as the times then were God as he threatned Israel provoking us by foolish people was like enough to have done it had not Mr. Jones prevented him by withdrawing himself and so declined the evil intended against him Yet we may not omit one thing though it were so heinous a Crime in Mr. Jones not to observe one of their Wednesdays Fasts yet Mr. Darke Minister of Musbury in the same County and a man of that Faction could command his men to follow the Plough that day and yet was never thought fit of a Reprehension nor so much as a Brotherly Admonition and no wonder for tho heretofore Actions did Qualifie persons and denominate them by the Sectaries new Divinity they make Persons to Qualifie Actions those things which are sins in others lose their Nature and their Name in a Child of God and they will take it very ill from you not to be so reputed though living in the most notorious scandalous sins that defile the Soul and lay wast the Conscience of man But to return to our story From the beginning of this Parliament till God by the glorious and no less than miraculous Victories of Sir Ralph Hopton restored some Peace to that miserably distracted Country Mr. Jones was not permitted to live quietly at his own dwelling they threaten to hang him and burn his house which they plundered no less than seven times and not content with this they threaten to carry away his aged Father Prisoner being no less than 86 years of age and had been as good as their word for in mischief they seldom fail of their promises had not the Women of the Parish in detestation of so great barbarism rescued him out of their hands And after that memorable defeat of the Rebels at Stratton in the edge of Cornwal by the brave Sir Ralph Hopton Mr. Jones returned to his own house fearing no danger from the fitters of that broken Army but