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A80846	Malice against ministry manifested by the plain and modest plea and defence of Zach. Crofton minister of the Gospel at Buttolphs Aldgate London unto the false and frivolons [sic] charge of Tho. Harrison, and John Levet against him exhibited unto the commissioners for the ejection of ignorant, scandalous and insufficient ministers, &c. within the City of London. In which you have his past credit attested. Present plea demurred. Particular articles duly and distinctly answered.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6996; Thomason E931_5; ESTC R207660	20,753	32

the Protector hear the foolery clamoured of my maid To which I answered I have offered and do offer to cast my credit on the verdict of twelve men amicably chosen or returned by the Sheriff but as for the Protector he is no competent judge for he hath prejudged me and that I had cause to say so there are some anong you know And if a man may not deem his Highness in some cases an incompetent judge why doth the Lord Chief Justice sit on the Bench in causes to him relating And how is he capable of being impleaded But as for the giving away the halfe of my Pulpit and saying That the Protector was an unrighteous judge and made a nose of Wax of the Law I never said or thought it For I am yet to be convinced that by any colour of law I should be interrupted in publick service or hindred from preaching twice a day to my people and that statis horis on the Sabbath And therefore unto this part I plead Not guilty and to convince me you must expect the Oath of John Wildgoss and William Jellie both accusers but have not subscribed that they may be witnesses and these men if they would swear truth must tell you these were Tho. Harrisons words not mine For they coming to my house and knowing that I would not speake with them alone brought with them Nathaniel Duckfield and Edmund Man now at rest both men fearing God and they heard what past in discourse between us And if these two Common Council-men do swear as they are desperate enough that I spake these words I shall produce Nathaniel Duckfield and one Roger Morris a Minister in North Hamptonshire who was in my house to witnesse that when I said The Lord Protector was no competent judge Thomas Harrison said What do you say the Protector is an unrighteous judge I replyed No he that is an incompetent is not alwayes an unrighteous judge He answered I will swear you said so and he now attempts to accomplish his word and when these two Common Council-men were gone away with this accuser I and my friends did bewail their wickedness that would gloss on my words and then swear I spake them but thus they make up their words to that purpose Moreover I should if not furnished to disprove them except against their testimony as incredible not onely as they are accusers in whose name the Charge is exhibited but as the one is forsworn and the other a convict lyar Unto Article the fourth Relating to the incivility pretended to be acted on the body of Mary Cadman I say it is here added to no other end save audactèr calumniaere to fasten with impudence their own slander were it true it is no crime and modesty hath been more violated by the fame then act it self if done But these men are most notoriously impudent to charge what they can prove by none save a notorious thief and liar and one that hath to many in discourse and on her oath denied it and that which she never owned till by a Justices Warrant brought to the Pye and Hoop Tavern hefore their very selves who have circumstantiated it most ridiculously and taught her and others to swear the things in which they are palpably forsworn and so proved as doth appear in the late book to you directed called Perjury the Proof of Forgery penned by a friend of mine that well knew all circumstances relating to that businesse To this therefore I plead Not guilty and will hold mine integrity until I die and not justifie these mine accusers Unto Article the fifth I say that I did say That the Order concerned not me it being directed to M. Grafton I knew not the Order to come from the Council it not being signed by the Clerk as was usual On August the 8. I gave an answer to that order which provided M. Simpson a liberty of Lecturing in my Church which answer was That I would do my duty statis horis and leave him to his liberty when I have done and I am sure Stepney would give 50 l. per. ann for such a grant On August the 9. I kept my pulpit being so advised by council and knowing that if I stept out they would seizeit and to that end Simpson preached at Creed-Church that morning The Constables out of Middlesex who had their staves were Parishioners and on their duty defending me in my right from such as had at the Fountain Tavern conspired to pull me out of the pulpit who were these very accusers and prosecuters of this charge For this I was had before the Council and acquitted and these Constables were by these men indicted for a Riot who did but their duty as was evidenced on Tuesday the first of December instant before the Lord Chief Justice where they were acquitted and the conspiracy of these men was discovered And it must not be made a scandal for a Minister to contend for his just liberty to do his duty and to have the Officers to defend him in the same against the plotted viotent assaults of his enemies Unto the four first additional Articles charging me on the Lords day August 16 in my Church and Sermon to have said 1. That Moses could prevail with the Lord in Prayer but I could neither prevail by Prayer nor Law because ungodly men have prevailed with the unjust Judges of this Nation who have gon contrary to their oath tyrannically disinheriting me of my right and letting an erronious turbulent spirit enjoy it 2. And that their sword was their Law and therefore their Tyranny was the greater whereunto law could notreach 3. And if that I were to plead my cause with either godly or honest or pious or civil modest or just Judges according to Law I were confident I should enjoy my right and said That the wickedness of ungodly men had so prevailed against me with the tyranny of unjust judges that I was inforced to leave my right and if any of the souls of my people be damned for ought I know their blood would be required at the hands of the unjust Judges or Erronious intruders I have received an order for Simpsons teaching in my pulpit and I am here to surrender my just re-entred right to Simpson contrary to all law right and reason as a certain King said what I wil do I wil do so Iam disre-entred by that power that what they wil do they wil do contrary to all law right and reason Unto this whole charge I desire it may be noted That these are the highest but querulous expressions in apprehension of of oppression in a particular case They all relate to the intrusion of Iohn Simpson into my church and are charged on that occasion to be spoken as being thereby provoked It is the observation of the preacher That oppression will make a wise man mad These men make me cry and then endeavour to have me beaten for crying His Highness grants I.

the memorable fight at Newberrie-Wash the said Zacharie Crofton was requested by the inhabitants of Aldgate Parish who had been Souldiers in that fight to give leave to M. John Simpson to Preach them a Sermon in the publique meeting place at Aldgate but the said M. Crofton would not give leave so the said inhabitants were forced to have their Sermon at Katherine Creed-Church a Neighbour Church A true Copy William Avery John Levet Thomas Harrison I am a Man and so subject to infirmities and hard it will be to pass through the sieve of envy and rake of malice and have the whole course of my life reviewed by revengeful foes and not something of guilt found which may be charged and must not be denied but yet though as a man I have been surprised with some failings yet this I have to say That as a Minister I have by Gods grace for more then fourteen years exercised this holy calling not onely without the least clamor and charge of scandal but with the fame and repute of a godly man among such as are godly both Ministers and people to the evidence of this I crave that your Clerk may read these annexed Certificates from the people and Ministers among whom I lived in the Countrey before I came to London Newcastle in Staffordshire WHereas we are given to understand that it is most wickedly and maliciously reported that Mr. Zachariah Crofton our late Minister now Preacher at James Garlick-hill in London was in the time he lived amongst us known to be a Malignant and Scandalous man in life and conversation and was for his Malignancy and Scandal from us removed We do hereby certifie and declare to all men that he was never charged with nor amongst us so much as suspected of malignancy but well known for his integrity to the Parliament of England and that as to his carriage amongst us he was not onely painful and faithful in preaching to us the word of truth in soundness to the profit and good of many a soul amongst us and in the Countrey about us but also cleer from all scandal in his conversation and well reputed among us for his piety and never was from among us removed upon the account of malignancy or scandal in witness hereof we have set our hands the twentieth of August 1653. John Hill Major Joseph Sond Minister of Newcastle Tho. Lawton Walter Bagnall Richard Orine Schoolmaster Randle Bagnal Aldermen Richard Bagnal Aldermen Randolph Shaw Aldermen Richard Heath Aldermen Richard Bowker Aldermen Ralph Keeling Aldermen Thomas Bagnall Thomas Low Bailiffe Thomas Harrison Richard Harrison Richard B●lton Randolph Lovet William Bret Richard Bradshaw Thomas Shaw William Waklate Mathew Pain Tho. Wood John Brooks John Harrison James Tarbuck John Burgis Georg Richardson Gilbert Hill Matthew Rock Thomas Knight William Harrison John Butler Church-warden Richard Cook Samuel Bagnal John Jennings John Harrison Richard Harrison Matthew Bowcar William Beard Sept. 16. 1653. WEE whose names are subscribed being Inhabitans in the Parish of Wenbury in the County of Chester do hereby certifie to all those whom it may concern that Mr. Zachary Crofton was Minister in the said Parish from September 1649 for the space of two years and upward all which time with diligence and godly zeal he did Preach unto us the Word of Truth Administer the Sacraments and Catechize the yonger sort of Christians His Doctrine was pure and Orthodox so far as we are able to judge his Conversation honest and such as became the Gospel of Christ his Reputation with the Ministry and godly Christians in the County was unspotted his Company desired and since his departure hence to London his absence very much lamented all which we shall further testifie as occasion shall be offered John Massie Nicholas Wilson Thomas Morris Richard Savage William Hall Hugh Hall Richard Lewis Ralph Yeavison Peter Jackson John Fisher John Barrow Thomas Brees Richard Heighfeild Randal Ankars George Hall Thomas Gray Edward Hamnet Robert Tricket Hugh Massie Jonathan Ball James Barnit Thomas Caldecot John Savadge John Sproston Jo. Broster Ludim John Vernon Henry Woolrich William Wollrich Thomas Colesacks John Wilkison Thomas Wolam Richard Jackson William Howpar Thomas Tensh George Bennifield Thomas Gray Thomas Spencer William Manwaring Edward Palin Joseph Palin Ar. Cartwright George Starkey William Cudworth Fench Yeaman Thomas French Ralph Preese William Rogers Thomas Rogers William Milliton Richard Rogers Randle Hare John Daxon William Wicksteed John Twis John Lunt John Woolrich November the 5th 1657. WE the Ministers of the Gospel in the County of Chester and parts adjacent do upon our personal knowledg of M. Zachary Crofton now Minister of Bottolphs Aldgate London certifie That he lived and constantly exercised his Ministry among us for many years together during which time he was highly esteemed by our selves and such as feared God among us and that as well for the Grace of God in him witnessed by his holy and unblameable conversation among us his Sober and Modest behaviour in his own Parish and Family as for his abilities for faithfulness and constant diligence in the work of the Ministry and that in all the time he lived in our Country he was never stained with the least blemish of Malignancy or Scandal or Immodesty either in reference to himself or family And Parsons Minister of Wem Tho. Porter Minist of Whitchurch Sam. Cole Pastor of Wybunbury Edw. Burghal Minister of Acton Sam. Fisher Minister at Thornton Iames Marbury Minister of Davenham George Mainwairing Minister of Malpas Richad Jackson Minister at Namptwich Mat. Jenkyn Pastor at Grefford Ran. Sillito Pastor of Church-Lawton Ri. Steel Minister of Hanmer Flint Nat. Lancaster Pastor of Tarperly John Glendole Pastor of Peters in Chester John Pemberton Pastor of Johns in Chester Sam. Clark Minister of Taruin Thomas Edge Minister of Goostree Josias Clarke Pastor of Tatenhall William Keyes Aylmore Houghton Minister of Preeze And since Providence cast my Ministry into this City such hath been my course of life known to my brethren in the Ministry with whom I have conferred and intimately associated as that they are pleased to give of it this ensuing Testimony LONDON April the 10. 1657. WHereas M. Zacharie Crofton Minister of the Gospel of Buttolphs Algate London hath for several years last past had his abode and exercised his Ministrie in this Citie by means whereof we whose names are under written with many others have had the opportunitie to know him his ministrie and Conversation These are to certifie all whom it may concern that upon our Personal knowledg and long experience we Judg him to be a truly Godly man an eminently able painful faithful and Zealous dispencer of the Gospel In whose hand God hath exceedingly prospered his own work for the conversion consolation strengthening establishment and edification of very many Souls to eternal life So that he is we know very much in and dear to the hearts of Gods People in this City And as for