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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.

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 Frivolous 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 Acts 26.2 I think my self happy King Aggrippa because I shall this day answer before thee of all things whereof I am accused by the Iewes Neque tu bonus Poeta esses si preter legem carminis caneres Neque ego Civilis Praetor essem si preterquam quod leges permittunt tibi gratificarer Themi ad Sim. London Printed for James Nathal and are to be sold at his house in the Minories next door to the Dolphin and at Book-sellers Shops 1657. To the Right Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for the Ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers c. within the City of London Right Worshipful and Reverend Sirs THIS ensuing plea is to you presented not as a Book which begs your Patronage nor yet to prejudge the cause before you depending or in the least to supersede your proceedings but to acquaint you with the real truth to facilitate your debates and answer the desire of some among you whom if I did not mistake I heard in my last appearance before you say They expected my answer in writing which now you have and this Epistle is to apologise this publick approach unto you unto which I have been constrained By your multitude to whom one Copie could be little advantage and transcription is a burden I cannot bear and I believe your Clerks would find very heavy By the clamors of mine enemies who have loudly said They had laid in before you a Charge by which they should discover me to be the vilest Minister in England even more vile then those Centuries silenced by the late Committee for plundered Ministers and therefore did provoke my friends to perswade me to run away and have since my appearance clamored that I cover my guilt by denying your cognisance and demur to your jurisdiction because I dare not plead to the charge hereby the world may see the charge though detecting some infirmities is not so criminal and although I would not represent you arbitrary who are bound up to a law and therefore by advice of Counsel learned in law I have demurred yet I had a full answer ready on which I dare join issue By the pragmatick readiness of some over-busie spirits to be printing the passages of last dayes proceedings which was by a Printer of my acquaintance providentially prevented lastly I have made thus bold to entreat a speedy result of your present debate that if within your cognisance we may proceed to triall if not you will please judicially to declare it so and not keep it in deck and me and my people under suspitious delayes mine accusers have said it shal be Lady-day before it be by you decided but I hope you will consider the great work of God upon my hands and one way or other set me at libertie and if as mine accusers blaze abroad the charge be to be returned to his Highness and Councel whose cognisance I cannot but believe it is much below I crave that you will please with the charge to return this plea that if possible by it their prejudice against me may be removed and I and my people by their favor be restored to our Sabbaths liberty in our own Church and erroneous John Simpson be removed from among us the which if you or any of you could obtain in our behalf our restored peace and order the advancement of Gods truth and ordinances should be your blessing and I should be no more suspected of disaffection to the present Government then I was before his intrusion Worthy Sirs I will hold you no longer save to tell you I doubt not but you see how ready Satan is to make use of you who are piously intended to reform the Ministrie unto the ruine of this holy function and how ever it may fare with me I hope it will make you cautious what charge and by what kind of persons is laid against a Minister and if I have offended in coming a little out of my way to meet you with this answer I pray remember you stept something out of your way to call him hither who is From my Study in Covent-Garden in the Parish of Butolphs-Aldgate this 8. of December 1657. Your humble Orator expecting your piety and justice ZACH. CROFTON MALICE against MINISTRIE MANIFESTED By The modest Plea and Defence of ZACH. CROFTON unto the false and frivolous Charge against him exhibited unto the Worshipful and Reverend The Commissioners for ejection of Ignorant Scandalous and Insufficient Ministers within the City of London by John Levet and Tho. Harrison and other their anti-ministerial Confederates in the Parish of Botolphs Aldgate as it was prepared and purposed to be declared at the Guild-hall on Wednesday the 2 of Decemb 1657 I Am here convened before you under the Notion of a Scandalous man in life and conversation and on that account to be ejected out of the Ministry The Ministrie of the Gospel I know to be so sacred a Function of approach to God as that Holinesse should adorn the subjects of it A Ministers practice I well know is so obvious to the peoples view that he that is prophane must needs unprofitably preach the Word of Holiness it hath ever been a Petition in my Lerany From an ignorant and profane Ministry the scandal of Christianity Good Lord deliver us And on that account I have in my late A Book so called Right Re-entred declared to all the world and told mine enemies I am so zealous for a pious Ministry that let me but have just Judges judicial Process and faithful Witness and if I be found guilty of a scandalous conversation let me be cast out as unsavory salt for though I cannot bear recrimination as the answer of my Right yet I desire not to retain forfeited priviledges the forfeiture being regularly demanded Hereupon the enemies of my Ministry having loudly clamoured that I was a person vile and scandalous and that they may audactèr calumniare reproach with impudence not doubting but that though they miss their design they may with so much impudence make some dirt to stick To this end they have exhibited a charge in sundry Articles against me unto which I now appear to give this ensuing answer Articles exhibited against Mr. Zachary Crofton of Buttolphs Aldgate London To his Highness the Lord Protector and Council by John Levet of the said Parish I. AT his first coming into the Parish some difference fell betwixt him and the Inhabitants wherupon the Church Wardens and some others went up to him in the