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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

Committee 14 pieces of Ordnance with store of Arms and Ammunition 30 Officers and common Soldiers proportionable whereby South-Wales is much secured November the 23 d. The King having thus victoriously defeated two of their Armies and driven away the third came to Oxford to entertain an overture of Peace certain Propositions being the same day come thither from London having disposed of his Army to their Winter Quarters November the 26 th A Vote passed by the members of the House of Commons at Westminster for the utter abolishing and taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer with intention to set up a new device to be called a Directory in its room December the 13 th His Majesty out of his wonted desire of Peace sent the Duke of Richmond and Earl of Southampton to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster for a Treaty as the best expedient for Peace About the middle of this month Helmsley Castle in Yorkeshire which had been gallantly defended during 16 weeks siege by Capt. Jordan Crosland and some others was delivered up to the Rebels under command of the Lord Fairfax upon honourable conditions to march away the Governour and Officers with their horses and Arms the rest without Arms. In this siege the Defendants amongst others made one remarkable salley wherein they took Sergeant Major General Forbs a Scot Prisoner with divers others here did Sir T. Fairfax also receive a shot in the Shoulder from the Castle December the 22 d. Colonel Eyre with some horse from Newarke took two Troops of horse at Upton belonging to the Rebels of Nottingham brought the Men Colours Horses and Arms all safe to Newarke December the 23 d. Sir Alexander Carew was beheaded on Tower-hill by Martial Law for intending to deliver up the Island at Plymouth to His Majesty he was observed to be most violent against His Majesty in the beginning of this Rebellion but it should seem he had of late some disposition to be a convert which made his fellow Members think fit to dispatch him to another World December the 24. Sir William Vaughan Governour of Shrawarden Castle for His Majesty fell on a party of Rebels at Welch Poole cammanded by Sir John Price kill'd some wounded others took 47 Prisoners 64 horse and many Arms. December the 28 th A party of the Lord Gorings Forces took Master Blakes house at Pinnel near Calne in Wiltshire and in it 59 Rebels but more Arms. December the 31 st The Members at Westminster Voted Sir Thomas Fairfax to be their new General cashiering the Earl of Essex with whom they had formerly sworn to live and die January the 1 st Young Hotham was beheaded on Tower-hill and Sir John Hotham his Father the morrow after both by Martial Law Here the Reader may take notice of a special mark of Gods judgment for the 23 April 1642. when old Hotham denied His Majesty admittance into Hull he held up his hands and prayed God never to prosper him or hiis posterity if he were not His Majesties Loyal Subject And now see both Father and Son adjudged by their fellow Members and condemned by their own beloved Marshal Law for intending to deliver up Hull to His Majesty The same first of January the Lord Astley took Lypyate House in Gloucestershire and in it 45 Prisoners with all their Arms Victuals and Ammunition Soon after this Sir Marmaduke Langdale totally routed Col. Ludlowes Regiment of horse at Salisbury took five Rebel-Captains Prisoners besides under-Officers and 80 common Soldiers 150 Horse and Arms with there Colours Ludlow himself hardly escaping January the 10 th The Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was beheaded on Tower-hill It would be too long here where we aim at brevity to set down the particulars of his imprisonments the preposterous proceedings against him in his Trial and his pious magnanimity at the time of his death his Sermon on the Scaffold whereof here follows a true copy will satisfie the World that he died innocently and which is more that His Majesty hath been unjustly accused of an inclination to Popery Good People THis is an uncomfortable time to Preach yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture Heb. 12.2 Let us run with patience that race which is set before us Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despising the shame and it set down at the right hand of the Throne of God I have been long in my Race and how I have looked to Jesus the author and finisher of my Faith He best knows I am now come to the end of my Race and here I find the Cross a death of shame but the shame must be despised or no coming to the right hand of God Jesus despised the shame for me and God forbid but I should despise the shame for Him I am going apace as you see towards the Red-Sea and my feet are now upon the very brink of it an Argument I hope that God is bringing me into the Land of promise for that was the way through which he led his People But before they came to it He instituted a Passeover for them a Lamb it was but it must be eaten with sour Herbs I shall obey and labour to digest the sour Herbs as well as the Lambe And I shall remember it is the Lords Passeover I shall not think of the Herbs nor be angry with the hand which gathereth them but look up only to him who instituted that and governs these For men can have no more power over me than what is given them from above I am not in love with this passage through the Red-Sea for I have the weakness and infirmities of flesh and blood plentifully in me And I have prayed with my Saviour ut transiret Calix iste that this Cup of red Wine might pass from me But if not Gods will not mine be done and I shall most willingly drink of this Cup as deep as he pleases and enter this Sea yea and pass through it in the way that he shall lead me But I would have it remembred Good People that when Gods Servants were in this boisterous Sea and Aaron among them the Aegyptians which persecuted them and did in a manner drive them into that Sea were drowned in the same Waters while they were in pursuit of them I know my God whom I serve is as able to deliver me from this Sea of Blood as he was to deliver the three Children from the Furnace and I most humbly thank my Saviour for it my Resolution is now as theirs was then They would not worship the Image the King had set up nor will I the imaginations which the People are setting up nor will I forsake the Temple and the truth of God to follow the bleating of Jereboams Calf in Dan and in Bethel And as for this People they are at this day miserably misled God of his mercy open their Eyes that they may see

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