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A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

the sincere Professors of it calling them factious seditious Cum id genus monstris their foule-mouth'd Chaplaines and their gracelesse Curates in every Sermon almost have not ceased in their Turkish Dialect to powre out their venome on the most judicious and holy Christians Neither was this their malice onely against some malignant Spirits as they cald them but even against the very power of godlinesse in any poore soule that profest it As one of their reverend Champions most wickedly said That if he had had the power that Canterbury had he would not have left one Puritan in England this day Manifold and apparent discoveries wee have had of their cruell tyranny and their Arch-pittie both on the bodies estates and precious Consriences of the deare Saints of God they have not onely undone many families in the Kingdome but have the guilt of the bloud of thousands of soules upon them which are this day in hell for want of the precious meanes of grace which should have fed their soules to life eternall I need not acquaint thee with their cruell tyranny in the persecuting of th●…se Worthyes of God in their High Commission Court that Hellish Inquisition of our Land thou hast here a sufficient light to see their grace in their dealings with this Worthy of God of whom I may say in another cause as the Apostle sayth of himselfe 2 Corinth 11. 5 He is not a whit behind the chiefest of these Worthyes that have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Christ Concerning the Discourse I shall say no more but onely this Reade it and if thou finde any good by it give God the glory and the Authour thankes I know Christian Reader that manifold are the temptations which thou meetest with daily in the flesh And indeed Christ tells before hand what his service will cost If any will live godly in Christ he must suffer persecution But yet be not discouraged though wee sow in teares wee shall reape in joy though wee have a nipping Autumne wee shall have a Ioyfull Spring goe on thou blessed Christian and the Lord goe with thee fight the battailes of the Lord Jesus quit thy selfe like a man be couragious for God and his Cause start not aside for all the malice of the enemies God hath whet his Sword against them and thou shalt ere long see them all dead on the shore before thee Our Fathers beleeved in him and they were delivered David and Ieremiah and Daniel and Paul and all the excellent ones of the Earth have gone this way and are now in Heaven singing Hallelujahs to all eternitie And these were for Examples to us sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 6. God never set any upon high imployment but he gives him proportionable strength He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will give an issue with the temptation that you may be able to beare The duggs and breasts of the Scripture are even bursting with promises of this kinde Open your mouth wide and he will fill it There are a kinde of people in the world who goe for professours and would thinke it a great matter to deny them the name of Christians who will be content to follow Christ while Christ is advanced in the world and seemes to be a good neighbour but when he comes to be thrust out of the Court and out of the Councell and out of esteeme with the men of the world they are afraid to follow him too close at the heeles least he should dash out their braines they will be religious and wise they must not thrust themselves into danger they say it is good sleeping in a whole skin and indeed it is no marvell to see men fall away as leaves in Autumne and perish everlastingly for they never took Christ upon his owne Conditions they never were really ingraffed into him they hung as the Ivie to the ●…ake they had a kinde of externall being in Christ but they never drew the sap and luice of spirituall life from him In a word they never had the true and genuin bloud of Christ running in their veines Yet Christian Reader let not thy heart faile neither be discouraged at this Be faithfull to the death and thou shalt have the crowne of life I will not Apologise any farther for the Authour or the Worke they both deserve thy Christian acceptation onely my prayer to the throne of grace for thee shall be That a double portion of the Authours Spirit may be powred on thee in the reading of it that thou maist be able more valiantly to stand in the Cause of Christ and fight his battailes against Gog and Magog and all the cursed enemies of Gods Church that so having fought a good fight of faith thou maist in the end receive the end of thy faith the salvation of thy soule so prayeth thine and the Authours friend CUT SIDENHAM ERRATA PAge 2. line 13. for first of Numbers read fift of Numbers page 21. line 33. for Gavaston read Carlton QVATER MAYNES CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT MY first Apprehension was on Ashwednesday in Hillary Terme the 12th day of February 1639. At which time came two Pursevants unto mee with an Attachment from the High Commission-Court under the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Nathaniel Brent and Sir John Lambe at which time I unwisely entered into Band of one hundred pounds to appeare in their Court and my first appearance was in Easter Terme the second day of the Terme being Thursday the 23th of Aprill 1640. My appearance being made I was called and presently they called for a Booke which being tendered unto mee I asked what I should doe with it they told me I must take my Oath I answered I would not take any Oath I knew no cause why I should the Officer that attended the Court opened the Booke and I said I could open it my selfe if I would reade in it Then Doctor Reeve said I must take my Oath to answer to such Articles as were in Court against mee I told him I knew of no Articles neither doe I know wherein I have offended The Doctor told me if I would take my Oath I should know I answered I would take no Oath I did not hold it lawfull Thus much betweene the Doctor and my selfe Archbishop Then said the Archbishop Master Quatermayne Master Quatermayne I heare you though you speake but softly you seeme to scruple at the Oath taking you neede not to doe it you thinke it to be an accusing Oath but it is not so it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I thinke it to bee an accusing Oath indeed Archbishop It is not so but it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I need no purging for I have not offended yet neverthelesse if you will so administer it I will take it because I find in the first of Numbers an Oath of Purgation so that it agree with other Scriptures that

and that as the creature could not give life no more it could not take away life But I concluded if my death might be as Sampsons the pulling downe of the English Antichristian Hierarchie the pulling downe the Devillish spirituall Courts then should I gladly sacrifice my life in the cause of the Gospell for Christ and his true English Church And now to returne backe to that from which I have a little digrest Betweene that time and the next Sessions the old Lord Major going out of his place and the new one comming in the spirit of jealousie fell into the hearts of my enemies and wrought so deeply in them that they plotted more cunningly to take my life then before they being afraid as indeed it did fall out that the Iury would learne more wit and be better advised betweene that and the next Sessions made the Commission and Bill and Iury and all voyde as if nothing at all had been done and our three London Sergeants in their Scarlet rode in thei●… Co●…ches to the Court to procure a new Commission sealed which they got upon the Lords day in the morning about Sermon time And then the new Lord Major Sir Edward Wright sent for Smith the Sergeant giving him a strict Charge to warne a Jury of speciall able men telling him that it was for a businesse of greater consequence then he tooke it to be and so it was done accordingly And now Christian Reader I will lead thee along from my Prison in Southworke to my next Sessions holden in the Guild Hall in London where were twenty Constables and each man had twenty Watchmen to attend with Bills and Halberts and a greater number to see me then at my first comming more to see me then were to see Doctor Ducke let downe and puld up with a Rope at the High Commission Court in Pauls So we ascended up into the Court and the old Iury fitting themselves to give in their Bill all joyntly did assent to give up their Bill Ignoramus But when they came into the Court supposing to begin where they left off they found it otherwise for there was a new Iury impannelled and a new Commission read and a new Charge given and the old forsworne Witnesses anew swo●…ne and the old Iury much disgraced by Stone our London Sergeant which Iury had learned more wit or wisdome in his absence then ever he would have taught them being present So the new Iury being called by their names they answered to them three and twenty were summoned to appeare and did all appeare but six of them were not called because sayd the Register they are Puritans of Quatermayns faction Then Stone the Sergeant sitting as Judge told me it was not fit I should be in the Court Then said I to my Lord Major my Lord so your proceedings be to Gods glory and the good of the Common-wealth and in a just way for my owne particular my presence shall not be hurtfull to you you have chosen a Iury of wise discreet Gentlemen I am willing to referre my selfe unto them Then sayd Sergeant Stone K●…epe him safe Messenger you must looke unto him Then I answered him againe My cause is good and I will not start though you would give me a thousand pounds Then answered my Lord Major I thinke you will not Master Quatermayn then the Iury looked upon me and when they looked upon the Witnesses how like Rogues they looked then I answered they are of the Court meaning they were of the High Commission Court So the Iury going into the Iury-roome my adversaries thought they had expunged all Puritans out of the company but they were utterly deceived for one Master Lee a Vintner at the Sunne Tavern at Criple-gate a very wise and judicious man did so debate the matter with the rest of the Iury that notwithstanding my enemies which were the enemies of the truth had cast such aspersions upon me saying that I was an Arian an Anabaptist a Separatist a Familist and the like he made them to see clearly that the Bill could not be found against mee yet notwithstanding they did not make an end that night At length the Iury being often called upon to bring in their Bill it being late in the night the Iury came forth and Sergeant Stone asked them if they were agreed they answered they were not agreed then inquiry being made how the businesse stood seven would have found the Bill and ten were against it and so the Sessions for that night ended untill the next Friday following being the sixth of November 1640. Loving Christian Reader I will put thee in minde of one thing my persecutor said he would have my life though it cost him five hundred pounds and another said that if Quatermayn were not hanged within six houres he would be hanged for him but the first hath mist of his purpose and the l●…st hath time enough to choose his Gallowes or to repent hims●… of his precipitated malice And this is the summe and substance of our second S●…ssions and I returned home to my prison againe waiting upon the Lord for my free and full deliverance in his own good time In the meane time there were three or foure Letters sent from the Lords of the Councell or the Councellor of the Lords to the Lord M●…jor and the Sergeants but what was in them I know not God in his due time I hope will reveale it Besides divers Messengers were sent to the place where I was imprisoned to see whether I were safe or no And now Christian Brother I shall lead thee to my Gayle-Delivery And this proved a Sessions of peace for when we came thither there was neither Constable nor Watchman so the Iury after some certaine time came forth and desired audience for they would give up their Bill and the three Sergeants would not receive it by reason that my Persecutor the Register of the High Commission Court was not there but at length Lathom came in and then the Iury was called and they were all agreed but one and they yeelded up the Bill and it was a Bill of Vera for one Reynolds a Waterman and Ignoramus for all the rest At which word there was a great rejoycing among the people but Lathom looked as pale as ashes then I blessed God with these two words Truth is strong and will prevaile and then divers good Christians tooke me by the middle and sayd Master Quatermayne you are sr●…ed and I said Blessed be God who is the deliverer of his people Then William Barrife who was one of the Iury was called for who would not assent with the rest of the Iury but see the hand of God in this also for he was fined fortie shillings for his absence and was glad to submit to his Brethren and intreat the favour of the Court for his fine Then I spake to my Lord Major and his Brethren saying Is it in your power to free me seeing