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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

in Law and the Women and Children Quarter but not the Men the Ladies both infinitely scorning to Sacrifice the Lives of their Friends and Servants to redeem their own from the cruelty of the Rebels who had no other crime of which they could count them guilty but their fidelity and earnest endeavours to preserve them from Violence and Robbery chose bravely according to the Nobleness of those Honourable Families from which they are both extracted rather to die together than Live on so dishonourable terms But now the Castle brought to this distress the Defendants few oppressed with number tired out with continual watching and labour from Tuesday to Monday so distracted between Hunger and want of rest that when the hand endeavoured to administer Food surprized with sleep it forgat its imployment the morsels falling from their hands while they were about to eat deluding their Appetites now when it might have been a doubt which they would first have laded their Musquets withal either Powder before Bullet or Bullet before Powder had not the Maid-servants valiant beyond their Sex assisted them and done that service for them Lastly Now when the Rebels had brought Petarrs and applied them to the Garden Door which if forced opened a free passage into the Castle and Balls of wildfire to throw in at their VVindows and all hope of keeping the Castle was taken away now and not till now did the Besieged found a Parley And though in their Diurnals at London they have told the VVorld that they offered Threescore thousand pounds to redeem themselves and the Castle and that it was refused yet few men take themselves to be bound any thing the more to believe it because they report it I would Mr. Case would leave preaching treason and instruct his Disciples to put away Lying and speak every man truth with his Neighbour Certainly the World would not be so abused with untruths as now they are Amongst which number this report was one for if they in the Castle offered so liberally how came the Rebels to agree upon Articles of Surrender so far beneath that Overture For the Articles of Surrender were these First That the Ladies and all others in the Castle should have Quarter Secondly That the Ladies and Servants should carry away all their Wearing Apparel and that six of the Serving Men whom the Ladies should nominate stould attend upon their Persons wheresoever the Rebels should dispose of them Thirdly That all the Furniture and Goods in the House should be safe from Plunder and to this purpose one of the six nominated to attend the Ladies was to stay in the Castle and take an Inventory of all in the House of which the Commanders were to have one Copy and the Ladies another But being on these terms Masters of the Castle and all within it 't is true they observe the first Article and spare the lives of all the Besieged though they had slain in the defence at least 60 of the Rebels But for the other two they observe them not in any part As soon as they enter the Castle they first seise upon the several Trunks and Packs which they of the Castle 〈◊〉 making up and left neither the Ladies or Servants any other wearing clothes but what was on their backs There was in the Castle amongst many rich ones one extraordinary Chimney-piece valued at two thousand pounds this they utterly def●ce and beat down all the carved works thereof with their Pole-Axes There were likewise rare Pictures the work of the most curious Pencils that were known to these latter times of the VVorld and such that if Apelles himself had he been now alive needed not to blush to own for his These in a wild fury they break and tear in pieces a loss that neither cost nor Art can repair Having thus given them a taste what performance of Articles they were to expect from them they barbarously lead the Ladies and the young Ladies children two Sons and a Daughter Prisoners to Shaftsbury some four or five miles from Warder VVhile they are there Prisoners to mitigate their Sorrows in triumph they bring five Cart-loads of their richest Hangings and other Furniture through Shaftsbury towards Dorchester and since that contrary to their promise and faith given both by Sir Edward Hungerford and Strode they have Plundered the whole Castle So little use was there of the Inventory we told you of unless to let the VVorld know what my Lord Arundel lost and what these Rebels gained This havock they made within the Castle Without they burn all the Out-houses they pull up the Pales of two Parks one of Red Deer the other of Fallow what they did not kill they let loose to the world for the next taker In the Parks they burn three Tenements and two Lodges they cut down all the Trees about the House and Grounds Oaks and Elms such as few places could boast of the like whose goodly bushy advanced heads drew the eyes of Travellers on the Plains to gaze on them these they sold for Four-pence Six-pence or Twelve-pence a piece that were worth three four or five Pound a Tree The Fruit-trees they pluck up by the Roots extending their malice to commit spoil on that that God by a special Law protected from destruction even in the Land of his Curse the Land of Canaan For so we read When thou shalt besiege a City thou shalt not destroy the Trees thereof by forcing an Ax against them for thou mayst eat of them and thou shalt not cut them down to employ them in the Siege only the Trees which thou knowest that they be not Trees for Meat thou shalt destroy Deut. 20.19 20. Nay that which escaped destruction in the Deluge cannot escape the hands of these children of the Apollyon the destroyer They dig up the heads of twelve great Ponds some of five or six Acres apiece and destroy all the Fish They sell Carps of two foot long for two-pence and three-pence apiece They send out the Fish by Cart loads so that the Country could not spend them Nay as if the present Generation were too narrow an Object for their rage they plunder Posterity and destroy the Nurseries to the greater Ponds They drive away and sell their Horses Kine and other Cattle And having left nothing either in the Air or Water they dig under the Earth the Castle was served with Water brought two Miles by a Conduit of Lead And intending rather mischief to the Kings Friends than profit to themselves they cut up the Pipe and fold it as these mens Wives in North-Wiltshire do Bone-lace at Six-pence a Yard making that waste for a poor inconsiderable Sum which two thousand pounds will not make good They that have the unhappy occasion to sum up these losses value them at no less than an hundred thousand pounds And though this loss were very great not to be parallel'd by any except that of the Countess of Rivers yet there was something

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

in the Protestation to abolish Popery of which in their opinion wearing the Surpless was a part Many attempts they made upon the Doctor and his Curate affronting them both in officiating Divine Service and administration of the Sacraments but they being countenanced by a considerable part in the Town the Sectaries could not effect what they desired until at last in the Months of June July and August 1642. they were animated by the coming of the Forces raised in Essex Suffolk and Norfolk For as they raised each Company it was sent to Chelmsford the common Rendezvouz and there staied until they were made up three hundred or four hundred and so sent to London In all the time of their stay there the Doctor lay at the mercy of the Soldiers who egg'd on by the Brownists and Anabaptists of the Town used his House as their Quarter consumed his provisions for his Family and commanded there as Lords Amongst many Outrages committed by the Soldiers Three are most remarkable First Upon a Fast Day they send a Command to the Doctor that he should not pray for the Bishops nor so much as make mention of them in his Lips nor use the Book of Common-Prayer if he did they threaten to pull him out of the Pulpit and tear him in pieces The Doctor not intimidated by their Threat gives order to his Curate to read the Prayers appointed which accordingly he did The Soldiers right bred being Volunteers of Colchester and Ipswich and rightly designed too for my Lord Sayes's own Regiment fit Soldiers for such a Leader irreverently fit with their Hats on make a noise to drown the Curates voice nay they call to him to come out of his Calves Coope meaning the Reading-Desk and make an end of his Pottage The Curate remembring that advice of our Saviour Not to cast Pearls before Swine nor holy things to Dogs gives over reading unwilling to expose the holy Worship of God to so foul Contempt and Scorn Having thus silenced the Curate their Commanders looking on they violently take the Sacred Bible to tear it but being reproved for it by Sergeant Major Bamfeild then present they exchange the Bible for the Book of Common-Prayer Having it in their power in solemn Triumph they carry it into the Streets and that which holy Martyrs inspired by the Holy Ghost composed and sealed the truth and sanctity of it with their dearest Blood these Savage Miscreants rent in pieces Some of the leaves they tread under feet some they cast into the Kennel some they pissed upon and some they fixed on the end of their Clubs and Cudgels and in a Triumphant manner marched with them up and down the Town Secondly About a Week after when the Doctor was in the Chancel there to Interr the Corps of a Gentleman lately deceased these Soldiers rushed into the place with an intent to bury the quick with the dead to put the Doctor into the same Grave which they had done for no other reason but because he used the Form prescribed by the Church at burial of the Dead had he not been powerfully rescued by his Parishoners Lastly When the glad Tydings were brought to Chelmsford that Episcopacy was voted down by the House of Commons all usual expressions of an exulting joy were used amongst the rest Bonfires were kindled in every street but most of the Fuel was violently taken from the Doctor 's Wood-yard And now the pile raised and the fire kindled they want nothing but a Sacrifice this they resolve shall be the Doctor himself To this purpose the Separatists of the Town assisted by two Companies of Soldiers in the Evening assault him in his House seise upon his Person and are ready to carry him to the Fire there to throw him headlong into the midst of it But some of his Friends having information of the design go and acquaint the Commanders with the bloody intentions of their Souldiers who presently take a Guard and rescue the Doctor out of their power as soon as ever they had seized on him Since that oppressed and worried every day by these ravenous Wolves he was forced to forsake his Charge as many other godly Ministers are and to fly for his Life leaving his Wife and eight Children to the mercy of the Rebels who have deprived his Family of all their Livelihood and exposed them to extream want Nay they have several times broken violently into his House under pretence to search for him and have held Pistols cocked and Swords drawn at the Breasts of his Children and Servants charging them upon their Lives to reveal where the Doctor was It was lately certified from thence by a chief Member of that Town and no friend of the Doctors that he finds the case there to be far worse than he expected for while they hoped that the power being Traiterously wrested out of the King's hand they should have shared it amongst themselves they find that either the power is fallen into their hands that are far beneath them or else hath raised these men up far above them for as he writes The Town is governed by a Tinker two Coblers two Taylors two Pedlers c. And that the World may see what a Systeme of Divinity these Coblers and Taylors are like in time to stitch together and what Principles they intend to Rule by I shall here set down certain preparatory prelusory Propositions which they usually Preach for Preach they do to their infatuated Disciples and by them are received as the Divine Oracles of God And you shall have them in their own Terms viz. First That Kings are the Burdens and Plagues of those People or Nations over which they Govern Secondly That the relation of Master and Servant hath no ground or warrant in the New Testament but rather the contrary For there we read In Christ Jesus there is neither bond nor free and we are all one in Christ. Thirdly That the Honours and Titles of Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Lords Knights and Gentlemen are but Ethnical and Heathenish distinctions amongst Christians Fourthly That one man should have a Thousand Pounds a Year and another not one Pound perhaps not so much but must live by the sweat of his Brows and must Labour before he eat hath no ground neither in Nature or in Scripture Fifthly That the Common People heretofore kept under Blindness and Ignorance have a long time yielded themselves Sorvants nay Slaves to the Nobility and Gentry But God hath now opened their Eyes and discovered unto them their Christian Liberty And that therefore it is now fit that the Nobility and Gentry should serve their Servants or at least Work for their own Maintenance and if they will not Work they ought not to Eat Sixthly That Learning hath always been an enemy to the Gospel and that it were a happy thing if there were no Universities and all Books burnt except the Bible Seventhly That any man whom God hath as they call it Gifted may be

false Perspectives of slander and falsehood which they hold before their eyes Coleman speeds to London and complains to that Conventicle which call themselves a Parliament against Mr. Gibb for so foul an Affront put upon them by Publishing the Kings Declaration presently being servilely Observant to every base informer they dispatch several Pursevants to apprehend Mr. Gibb he seeing the Storm coming as wise men do hides himself after some time of retirement advised unto it by his friend he goes to London where by the great mediation of friends and paying fees to the sum of 30 l. he was dismissed upon engagement to be forth-coming whensoever they should call for him There is none so insolent and intolerable as a base mean man started up into command or authority we cannot give you a greater instance than in that beggarly Captain Ven Citizen of London made Colonel and Commander in chief of Windsor-Castle who doth not only assume to himself the propriety of his Sovereigns house dating his Letters to Jezabel his Wife From our Castle at Windsor and building some additions to the Deans lodgings as if he meant to set up his rest there and make that his habitation when no place in that Royal Castle is fit for such a Couple but the Cole-house and even that too good for them but as if there would never come a time to call him to an account he doth use the Gentlemen and Soldiers taken by the Rebels and sent Prisoners thither with that cruelty and inhumanity as if they were Turks not Christians for the Gentlemen that are Prisoners there are not only kept from Church nor permitted to receive the Sacrament neither from their own Preachers nor from any friend whom they could procure to do that office for them nay they were not permitted to joyn together in devotions in their private lodgings but each man a part and if this petty Tyrant could have hindred that intercourse which every particular devout Soul injoys with his God this Atheist would have hindered that too And because the sedentary Solitary Lives which they led there were prejudicial to their healths they earnestly entreated Ven that they might recreate themselves in the Tennis-Court near the Keep and offered to be at the charges of a Guard if those high walls and the many guards about them were not thought sufficient to secure them but yet were denied Nay when the Sheriff of Sussex was brought Prisoner from London to Windsor very lame though his Chirurgion offered Colonel Ven to be deposed that on the least neglect his Leg was like to gangreen yet after he came to Windsor he was forced to lie with the rest of the Knights and Gentlemen on the ground many nights at last shewing his leg to Ven he confessed that he never saw a more dangerous lameness and promised to acquaint the Earl of Essex with it and the Sheriff himself being acquainted with the Earl presuming on some interest in him wrote unto him to acquaint him with his condition and earnestly entreating him that he might be sent to London and disposed of though in a Dungeon for a week that he might have the assistance of his own Physitian and Chirurgion offering to give any security and be at any charges to assure him of his safe return to render himself true Prisoner but neither the sense of his misery nor his earnest sollicitations could prevail with his Excellency And if the Knights and Gentlemen who had money to bribe that compassion which they could not intreat found no better measure at their hands what then think you were those heavy pressures under which the poor common Soldiers groaned there were in the Castle eight poor Soldiers to whom the Sheriff of Sussex allowed eight shillings a week yet notwithstanding because they refused to take the wages of Iniquity and serve under the Rebels Colours and fight against their Sovereign they starved them insomuch that being released that they might not die in the Castle coming into the air three of them fell down dead in the streets three more recovered as far as Eaton where a good Woman for five shillings a week given for their relief by the Sheriff of Sussex gave them entertainment and when the Sheriff made his happy escape he left them alive There was a poor man living near Moore Park whom when Prince Rupert was in those parts commanded to shew him where the Pipes lay which conveyed water to the Castle for this crime they apprehend him and commit him Prisoner to the Castle where they fed him with so slender diet that they even starved him and when upon his Wives tears and lamentable cries that she and her Children were like to starve at home while her Husband starved at Windsor they having no subsistence but what he got by the sweat of his browes he was released he was not able to stand on his legs and whether dead since we have no information There was at the same time in the Castle one Lieutenant Atkinson Prisoner who suffering under the same want of necessary food sent to his Father humbly petitioning for relief his Father though a man of good estate returned answer that unless he would take profered Entertainment from the Parliament he should lie there rot and starve and be damn'd for him He finding no pity from his Father where Nature and Religion bade him expect it petitioned the Gentlemen in the Keep for bread as many others daily did and on his Petition had monies sent him but died starved two daies after and left this just ground to the World to make this Observation That where Puritanism prevails it cancels all Obligations both of Religion and Nature and never fails to make men guilty of that sin which is in the number of those which the Scripture tells us shall heap wrath on the end of the World the want of natural affection Mercurius Rusticus c. X. Master Chaldwel and his Wife barbarously used by the Rebels at Lincoln and his Servant Murthered Mr. Losse Parson of Wedon Pinkney in Northampton-shire himself and the Church infinitely abused on the Lords day by some Rebel-Troopers of Northampton c. WIlliam Chaldwell of Thorgonby in the County of Lincoln Esquire and Justice of Peace being an aged Gentleman yet his Loyalty and desire to serve the King in his just Wars made him over-look his infirmities so that he resolved in person to come to his assistance To this purpose he provided four horses compleatly furnished of which the Rebels having intelligence they surprize him and seize on his horses In February 1643. some Rebel-Troopers came to Mr. Chaldwells House and demanded entrance which he denying unless they could shew some Commission from the King they presently broke up his Hall windows and forcing his entrance apprehend his Person yet his Person is not all they come for they begin to plunder his Goods and the first thing which they lay hold on was some Linnen lying on the Hall

four Troopers of the Rebels Horse came to his house searched it very narrowly for him insomuch that he heard them swear how cruelly they would use that Cavaliering Priest if they could meet with him when they were nearer him than they were aware of had they known it there being but an Inch board between him and them at which time missing of the intended Prey they wreck their malice on his houshold-stuff what they could not carry away they spoil Beds Bed-steads Hangings all are torn and spoiled They plunder the Maid-servants and that of their Smocks and exchange in their very presence their lousie Shirts for their clean Linnen Hereupon Mr. Jones finding by experience that there was no safety out of one of the Kings Armies the only Protection which the King is able for the present to afford his good Subjects he put himself under the Protection of Sir Ralph Hoptons Army where he now remains While the Rebels Army lay at Tame sending out parties by chance they lighted on some of the Kings Souldiers and amongst them there was one who touched in Conscience for so grievous a Sin as lifting up his hand against his lawful Sovereign the Lords anointed forsook the Rebels Army and was entertained in his Majesties pay and being in their power they resolve instantly to hang him but with such Circumstances as in the murther of the Subject they evidently manifest their malitious rebellious hearts towards their Sovereign Nothing will serve to hang him on but the sign-post of the Kings Head in Tame the ppor man being ready to be thrown from the Ladder prayed very fervently and cried out Lord Jesus receive my Soul The Rebels standing about him instead of joyning with him in his Devotions made a confused noise and laughed at him They that had so little mercy for his Soul were not likely to draw out any bowels of Compassion towards his body No they will not only murther him but murther him by a lingring Torment they will not afford him the favour of a running knot quickly to obstruct the Throat and totally deprive him of breath but the halter is tyed so fast that he hanged gasping for breath not drawing so much as to maintain life nor so little as suddenly to lose it having in this torment hanged a while a barbarous inhuman Villain stept to him and fearing he should give up his vexed Ghost too soon he puts his hands under his feet and lifted him up to give him some scope of Respiration but even in this unchristian usage of a poor wretch he did not forget to Blaspheme his Lord and King for having lifted him up he turned the dying mans face towards the sign it self of the Kings Head and jeeringly said Nay Sir you must speak one word with the King before you go you are blindfold and he cannot see and by and by you shall both come down together Let the World if it can now give us a parallel of so undutiful so high a contempt of Regal Authority or tell us whether any of the several Spawns of Hell but only an Atheistical Puritan could possibly commit such devilish Cruelties against his fellow Subject or belch out such venome against his Sovereign Amongst those many Sins which call for our publick humiliation and our earnest zeal to purge the land from the guilt which hath polluted it certainly Contempt and Scorn of so good so gracious a King is none of the least On Monday the 29. of May 1643. a Boy of five or six years of age attended by a youth was comming to Oxford to his Father an Officer in the Kings Army passing through Buckinghamshire he fell into the hands of some Troopers of Colonel Goodwins Regiment who not only pillaged him of the Cloaths which he brought with him but took his doublet off his back and would have taken away his hat and boots if the Youth that attended on him had not very earnestly intercede for them to save them For one of the Company more tender-hearted than the rest moved with the Childs cries and affrightment and with the Youths earnest entreaty prevailed with the rest not to rob the Child of these necessary fences from the injury of wind and weather Yet tho they spare him these things they rob him of his Horse and leave the poor Child to a tedious long Journey on foot This barbarism to a poor Child far from his friends almost distracted with fear so prevailed with some that they made Colonel Goodwin and Sir Robert Pye acquainted with it hoping to find them sensible of so cruel practices on a poor Child but these great Professors and Champions of Religion only laughed at the relation without giving any redress to the Childs injuries This want of Justice in the Commanders animated the Soldiers to prosecute their Villanies to a greater height for that night they came to the place where the Child lay and the poor Soul being in bed fast asleep his innocent rest not disturbed with the injuries of the day they dived into his and his attendants pockets robbed them of all their monies and left them either to borrow more or beg for sustenance in their Journey to Oxford Captain Duckenfield a Commander of the Rebels in Cheshire came to Mr. Wright's House Parson of Wemslow in that County a man of four score years of age of a very honest Life and Conversation and eminent for his Hospitality amongst his Neighbors The Captain and his followers enter the House by violence killed two of his Maid-Servants wounded others and in all probability had murthered Mr. Wright himself had not his Neighbors that loved him well rescued him out of their hands The Crime objected against him was Loyalty and that amongst Rebels is Crime enough for this he is forced to live an exile from his own habitation and hath absented himself from his house now twelve months The same Rebels came to one Mr. John Leech his house in the same County as I take it they enter his house by violence they kill one of his Maid-Servants for endeavouring to keep the door shut against them and took away Mr. Leech Prisoner There was a Gentlewoman in the house come thither but two days before who seeing so barbarous Cruelty practised upon Innocents for no other fault but living in Peace and Obedience was so affrighted that for some time she remained almost distracted When the rebellious City of London first delivered up it self the servile instrument to execute the illegal Commands of the heads of the Faction in Parliament a Troop of factious Citizens under the command of Colonel Cromwell came to the University of Cambridge and there seized on the Persons of Doctor Beal Doctor Martin and Doctor Sterne men of known Integrity Exemplary lives profound learning and heads of several Colledges in that famous University having them in their Custody they use them with all possible scorn and contempt especially Cromwell behaving himself most insolently towards them and when

and Colonel Henderson a Scot received a defeat near Horn-castle in Lincolnshire by the Rebels under the command of Manchester Cromwel and Fairfax there were taken Prisoners near 600 of His Majesties forces Sir Ingram Hopton and some few others slain not without some considerable loss to the Rebels it cannot be said that in any other Battel since this Rebellion but this that His Majesties forces made a dishonourable retreat where the fault was I cannot say November the 11 th an Ordinance for authorizing the counterfeit great Seal November the 21 st Sir William Armine and others sent by the Houses at Westminster arrived at Edenborough with Articles of accord and advance Mony to hasten the Scots Invasion November the 27 th the Kings Messenger Hang'd at London for discharging his duty in serving His Majesties Writ December the 4 th Hawarden-castle surrendred to His Majesties Forces December the 8 th John Pym died de morbo pediculoso at Derby house in Westminster in which place the medley Scots and others sit and hatch their contrivances for support of the present Rebellion December the 12 th Becston Castle assaulted and taken for His Majesty December the 21 st Lapley house taken by Captain Heavenningham for His Majesty December the 28 th Colonel Nathaniel Fines one of the first that appeared in this Rebellion was in a Court of War at S. Albans by his fellow Rebels sentenced to be Hanged for a Coward December the 29 th The stately Screen of copper richly gilt set up by King Henry the seventh in his Chappel at Westminster was by order of the House reformed That is broken down and sold to Tinkers Anno Dom. 1644. JAnuary the 16 th The perfidious Scots contrary to the solemn Pacification invaded this Kingdom January the 22 d. The Members of Parliament assembled at Oxford according to His Majesties Proclamation March the 2 d. The Scots came over the River of Tyne General King pursuing their rear forced them into Sunderland whereupon the Marquess of Newcastle sent for Sir Charles Lucas out of Yorkeshire who had been Ordered to stay there to fortifie Doncaster March the 13 th Hopton Castle in Shropshire taken by Col. Woodhouse for His Majesty March the 18 th Wardour Castle in Wiltshire after long siege was taken by Sir Francis Dodington for His Majesty March the 22 d. Newarke after three weeks siege was happily relieved by his Highness Prince Rupert in which action the Rebels forces there were totally defeated all their Arms and Ammunition consisting of 4000 Musquets 11 pieces of brass Ordnance 2 Mortar pieces and about 50 barrels of Powder c. were taken And soon after Lincoln Sleeford and Gainsborough were quitted by the Rebels and many pieces of Ordnance with good store of Arms left behind them March the 23 d. Sturton Castle in Staffordshire rendred to Sir Gilbert Gerard Governour of Worcester for His Majesty March the 24 th The Scots being much provoked to come out of Sunderland came to Bowdon-hill whence with great loss they were forced back into their Trenches but next morning they came with many of their horse and foot on the Marquess of Newcastles Rear and had so disordered it that the whole Army was endangered but Sir Charles Lucas who was then in the right Wing hasted to the Rear and with his own Regiment fell upon the Rebels Lanciers and routed them which made the rest fly from pursuing their advantage March the 24 th Apley house in Shropshire Garrisoned by the Rebels was taken by His Majesties Forces commanded by Col. Ellis April the 3 d. Longford house in Shropshire rendred to his Highness Prince Rupert wherein was taken 100 Musquets c. and about the same time Tongue-castle in the same County was likewise surrendred to his Highness April the 13 th The Rebels from Gloucester assaulted Newent then a Garrison commanded by Colonel Mynne but were gallantly repulsed and pursued leaving behind them two pieces of their Cannon and many dead bodies before the Works April the 17 th The Queens Majesty began her Journey from Oxford into the West April the 17 th Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire a Castle of Sir Robert Harleys after three weeks siege and the loss of 7 or 8 men summoned and rendred at mercy only to Sir Michael Woodhouse wherein was taken 67 men 100 Arms two Barrels of Powder some Plate and a whole years provision April the 17 th Dunfreize in Scotland taken in by the Marquess of Montross c. for His Majesty with all the Ordnance Arms and Ammunition April the 22 d. Stutcombe in Dorsetshire assaulted and entred by the force of his Highness Prince Maurice wherein was taken 5 Captains and 16 other Officers 114 Soldiers with all their Arms 6 Colours one piece of Cannon and two Murtherers good store of Ammunition and one Seditious Lecturer May the 6 th His Majesties Forces in Latham house in Lancashire made amongst divers others a most remarkable sally wherein they killed many of the besiegers in their trenches and continued the execution to the park side and slew near 300 Rebels took 3 great pieces of Ordnance having since the 10. of April then last taken 7 of their Cannon besides one Mortar-piece many Colours and killed above 600 of them May the 12 th The Rebels from Plymouth assaulting Mount-Edgcombe house in Cornwal which was only defended by thirty Musquettiers were bravely repulsed and eighty of them killed in the place May the 24 th The Rebels having formed 2. Armies consisting for the most part of the London Trained-bands and Auxiliaries under the command of the Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller this day joyned about Blewbury in Berkeshire and bent their course towards Abingdon May the 25 th Prince Rupert assaulted and took Stopford a strong Garrison of the Rebels in Cheshire together with all their Cannon most of their Arms and Ammunition and about 800 of them Prisoners Hereupon Latham house after at least 18 weeks siege was timely relieved by his Highness Prince Ruperts approch into those parts May the 28 th His Highness Prince Rupert summoned Bolton the Geneva of Lancashire as the Brethren call it the first Town in that County and consequently in England that put in execution the Militia as the readiest means to ruin the Kingdom But they out of a zealous confidince Hanged one of the Princes Captains which they had not long before taken Prisoner whereupon the Prince stormed the Town and in the two attempt took it wherein were kill'd at least 800 Rebels 600 Prisoners taken with all their Colours Ordnance Arms and Ammunition The justice of which act was foreseen by Mr. Booker who about this time had noted it in his Almanack thus Authores dissentionum sanguinis profusionum absque dubio mercede sua mulctabuntur May the 29 th The Rebels Armies severed The Earl of Essex marching from Abingdon to Islip with purpose to distress Ozford on the North part as Waller at Abingdon on the South part

and the Muses strive To own thee dead who wert them all alive Such an exact composure was in thee Neither exceeding Mars nor Mercury T was just tho hard thou shouldst dye Governour Of th' Kings chief Fort of Learning and of War Thy death was truly for thy Garrison Thou dy'dst projecting her Redemption What unto Basing twice successeful spirit Was done th' hast effected here in merit The Bridg was broken down The Fort alone GAGE was himself the first and the last stone Go burn thy Faggots Brown and grieve thy Rage Lets thee out-live the gentle grasp of GAGE And when thou read'st in thy Britanicus The boasted story of his death say thus The Valour I have shewn in this was Crime And GAGES Death will brand me to all Time In this month a fair new Ship called the John of London belonging to the East-India Merchants was brought to Bristol by the Loyalty of Capt. Mucknell and the rest of the Officers and Mariners of the Ship for His Majesties service wherein were 26 pieces of Ordnance mounted 17000. l. in Mony besides some other good Commodities For which good service the said Captain Mucknell had the honour to be the first Knight that ever the Prince of Wales made And within a few days after another Ship called the Fame of London of burthen 450 Tuns with 28 pieces of Ordnance mounted was by Tempest forced into Dartmouth where she was seised on for His Majesties service as lawful prize being bound for Dover or London The Ship had been abroad 4 years and was now returning homewards from the West-Indies laden with Bullion Oyl Couchaneille and other rich Commodities to the value of 40000 l. at least January the 30 th The Treaty began at Uxbridg wherein the candour of His Majesties reall intentions and desires of Peace was very perspicuous For His Majesty did not only Arm his Commissioners or any ten of them with a very large and powerful Commission to treat of conclude and settle a firm Peace in all His Dominions but did also by Proclamation appoint a solemn Fast on the 5 th day of February then next for a blessing on that Treaty with a Form of Common-Prayer set forth by His Majesties special Command to be used in all Churhes and Chappels within this Kingdom One of which Prayers drawn by His Majesties special direction and dictate I here afford the Reader The Prayer O Most merciful Father Lord God of Peace and Truth we a People sorely afflicted by the scourge of an unnatural War do here earnestly beseech Thee to command a Blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obduarte hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens blood for whom Christ himself hath shed His. Or if the guilt our great sins cause this Treaty to break off in vain Lord let the Truth clearly appear who those men are which under pretence of the Publick good do pursue their own private ends that this People may be no longer so blindly miserable as not to see at least in this their Day the things that belong unto their Peace Grant this gracious God for his sake who is our Peace it self even Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen February the 9 th Sir Walter Hastings Governour of Portland Castle for His Majesty took the great Fort at Weymouth and within two day after Sir Lewis Dives took the middle Fort and Town of Weymouth and in a skirmish there slew Major Sydenham a forward Rebel with some others This Town and Forts were not many days held by His Majesties Forces but were as unfortunatey lost as happily gained Febru●ry the 15 th Rowdon house neer Chippenham in Wiltshire after 9 days siege was taken by His Majesties Forces and in it 120 good Horse above 200 Foot with their Arms and provisions Col. Stevens the Mock-sheriff of Gloucestershire six Captains and above 20 inferiour Officers all at mercy February the 20 th The Lord Macguire an Irish Baron was executed by the common hangman at Tyburn by command of the Members at Westminster In the History of which execution recorded in many of their own Pamphlets written then and upon that subject the Reader may observe two Questions asked by Mr. Gibbs one of the Sheriffs of London and answered by that Lord the very instant before his death The first was Whether he knew of any Commission the King had granted to the Irish Rebels for the commotion they had raised in their Country he answered That he never knew nor heard of any The second was Whether there was not some agreement made by the Irish Commissioners before the Rebellion first brake out with the Recusants of England He answered That to his knowledg there was never an one in England either Catholick or Protestant that knew of it but one and he was an Irish man and a Protestant and he came to the knowledg of it but by chance not at he was an actor in it Out of which and out of that delivered by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury on the Scaffold immediately before his death the World may evidently see His Majestly irrefragably cleared by two acts of the Rebels own cruelty from two of the most scandalous aspersions by which the malice of these forging Rebels hath from time to time endeavcured to make His sacred Majesty odious to His People Salutem ex inimicis nostris may the King well say seeing his Enemies actions turned to his justification quite contrary to their intendments The first was an imagined inclination in His Majesty to Popery The second a pretended commissionating of the Irish Rebellion In the first the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury In this the Lord Macguire both at their very dying hours have rendred His Majesty as innocent as the Rebels intended him odious I say innocent because we know the worst of Rebels cannot but credit those Persons especially testifying at such time when they were immediately after to give an account of all their actions to the knower of all hearts Nor can any one believe but the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury who was daily conversant with His Majesty in matters of Religion must needs know the very depth of his heart therein And the Lord Macguire who was privy to the first motion of the Irish Rebellion must likewise of necessity have known of the Kings Commission if any such thing had been February the 22 d. The Treaty at Uxbridg was broken up though His Majesty sent a particular message and his Commissioners did earnestly desire that the same might be continued In this Treaty His Majesties Commissioners condescended much but those of Westminster would abate nothing of the rigour of their first unheard-of Propositions which was the cause the Treaty took no better effect February the 22 d. The Town of Shrewsbury was by treachery in the night delivered to Col. Mitton the Rebellious Governour of Wem Here you may see the Rebels Master-piece in hatching this treacherous Plot